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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

his forest-worship exhausts all the conceptions our ancestors had formed of deity and its dwellingplace; it was only the principal one. here and there a god may haunt a mountain-top, a cave of the rock, a river; but the grand general worship of the people has its seat in the grovc^ and nowhere could it have found a worthier (see suppl. at a time when rude beginnings were all that there was of the builder's art, the human mind must have been roused to a higher devotion by the sight of lofty trees under an open sky, than it could^ feel inside the stunted structures reared by unskilful liands. when long afterwards the architecture peculiar to the teutons reached its 1 to the lat. lucus would correspond a goth, liuhs, and this is confirmed by the ohg. wi, as. icdh. the en<,d. lea, ley has acqu

ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

e the universal constant is change, a thing which is perfected cannot stand and so, another expansion occurs and a new universe is formed. this process continues ad infinitum. all creatures on the wheel of life evolve gradually, as do the souls which inhabit these forms. all life springs from the dark mother, babalon, for she is the life giver, nurturer, sustainer. the role of satan is architect, builder and destroyer. both work interdependently to achieve balance, harmony and consistent change. they define, compliment and complete one another. life is an expression of both order and chaos. it consists of a continuous series of good and bad experiences which appear to follow a pattern. this is true regardless of age, irrespective of our race or religious convictions. when life goes well, o

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

, myself; a ship, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb to commit; healing hnz between nyb 63 abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451) nwdb) dregs, roll; faeces (globular; dung llg fed nwz the nose m+wx fervour hmyx hwhy in briah yh w)w yh dwy briah fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39) gs beaver, builder hnwb prophet )ybn 64 shine, glow: the sphere of venus (see s.b. 75) hgwn justice: a title of geburah nyd a sigh, groan, deep breath hxn) the golden waters (i.r.q. 996; cf. 97) bhz ym prophecy h)wbn serenity hnwg stocks ds 65 adonai: my lord (referred to malkuth; cf. 155& 361) ynd) weasels and other terrible animals myxw) palace, temple, mansion lkyh shone, gloried, praised llh silence! sh

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

t their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. much, if not all, of the attacks upon thomas lake harris and his worthy successor "respiro" is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. when a sculptor sees a block of marble he things "how beautiful a statue is hidden in this! i have only to knock off the chips, and it will appear" this being achieved, the builder comes along, and says "io will burn this, and get lime for my mortar" there are more builders than sculptors in england. 327 this is the magic mirror of the soul; if you see god in everything, it is because you are god and have made the universe in your image; if you see sex in everything, and think of sex as something unclean, it is because you are a sexual maniac. true, it is, of course

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

probationer. o thou lord of harmony! master of the right will, thou who hast brought unto us the divine seeds of self-knowledge- we, the humble servants of the children of thy voice, we call on thee to lead us out of our ignorance! chorus of three other probationers. we call thee, o thrice holy! first probationer. o thou, divine worker! master of all that is divine! herald of all that is coming! builder of our house! holy art thou, thou that knowest the supreme mysteries! chorus. we call thee, o thrice holy! first probationer. o thou, all good, we call thee! virgo. 1["rising] not good alone, brethren! but all complete in the perfect equilibrium. fr. gemini. ay, the balance must be kept even. sister, let us invoke the lord of knowledge! virgo. he gave unto you, children of his voice, the 9

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

exists simply because we have been too much engrossed with the form, and too much occupied with our prison, and if disruption has set in, it is only in order that the life may build for itself new forms and thereby evolve. the work of the destroyer is as much the work of god as that of the constructor, and the great god of destruction has to smash and rend the forms in order that the work of the builder may become possible, and the spirit able more adequately to express itself. to many of us these ideas may seem novel, fantastic, and untenable. yet even if they are only hypotheses, they may prove interesting and give us a possible clue to the mystery. we see civilisations disrupted, we see the religious fabrics tottering, we see philosophies successfully attacked, we see the foundations o

atom; and through the form we have the love, or attractive quality manifesting. this can also be expressed in the recognition that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before ever there was creation, goes on to say that when "he appointed the foundations of the earth, then i was by him as the master worker or builder" students would do well to study this

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ng a divine septenary. the synthetic ray which blends them all is the great love-wisdom ray, for verily and indeed "god is love" this ray is the indigo ray, and is the blending ray. it is the one which will, at the end of the greater cycle, absorb the others in the achievement of synthetic perfection. it is the manifestation of the second aspect of logoic life. it is this aspect, that of the form-builder, that makes this solar system of ours the most concrete of the three major systems. the love or wisdom aspect demonstrates through the building of the form, for "god is love" and in that god of love we "live and move and have our being" and will to the end of aeonian manifestation (c) the seven planes of divine manifestation, or the seven major planes of our system, are but the seven subpl

rust subject and its intricacy. 1. the great word, as sounded by the logos of the solar system, and communicated to him by his superior. 2. three words committed by the solar logos to each of the three logoi as follows: a. the sacred sound a to shiva, he who embodies the spirit or will aspect. it is the word through which god the father works. b. the sound u to vishnu, god the son. he is the form-builder and provides the body which the spirit must occupy, thereby making divine incarnation possible. a is the life sound, u is the form sound. c. the sound m to brahma, who, in his work of energy-provider, links in active intelligence, spirit and form, or the self and not-self. it might here be pointed out that much information anent the three departments of the hierarchy of our planet will com

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

roughout the system. lastly, all work with fire. fire internal, inherent and latent; fire radiatory and emanative; fire generated, assimilated and radiated; fire vivifying stimulating, and destroying; fire transmitted, reflected, and absorbed; fire, the basis of all life; fire, the essence of all existence; fire, the means of development, and the impulse behind all evolutionary process; fire, the builder, the preserver and the constructor; fire, the originator, the process and the goal; fire the purifier and the consumer. the god of fire and the fire of god interacting upon each other, till all fires blend and blaze and till all that exists, is passed through the fire from a solar system to an ant and emerges as a triple perfection. fire then passes out from the ring-pass-not as perfected

partnership became an accomplished fact, and evolution hastened forward with renewed impetus. these three major senses (if i might so describe them) are very definitely allied, each with one of the three logoi: hearing the recognition of the fourfold word, the activity of matter, the third logos- 114- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust touch the recognition of the sevenfold form builder, the gathering together of forms, their approximation and interrelation, the second logos. the law of attraction between the self and the not-self begins to work. sight the recognition of totality, the synthesis of all, the realisation of the one in many, the first logos. the law of synthesis, operating between all forms which the self occupies, and the recognition of the essential unity o

full display. we should ponder upon the relationship (a necessarily close relationship) between the fifth deva hierarchy and the fifth logoic principle, and we should also bear in mind that viewing the- 236- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust whole matter from the angle of vision of a heavenly man the devas are a corporate part of his nature, and he is a manasaputra, a creative builder, and the fivefold aspect of brahma. the sumtotal of manas is pure deva essence, and it is only as union is made between this fivefold third aspect and the other two aspects that what we understand as man whether heavenly man or human comes into being. the devas are united with these other two factors and the result is: a. a solar logos. b. a heavenly man. c. a human being. this is a great

ll gradually get a broad general idea of how this system of ours (the thought-form of the logos, was gradually built up, how it is controlled and held together, and- 340- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust how numerous and intricate are the interrelations. certain fundamental hypotheses are assumed, which must form the background for all we would say. we must assume first that a builder, or some creative mind, is working to bring about an ordered production, and is seeking to manifest through a demonstrable objective. the objective universe is but the product of some subjective mind. next we must posit that the material for the building of this universe lay ready to the hand of the builder, and that this material itself is the fruit of some previous system, all that is le

n ordered production, and is seeking to manifest through a demonstrable objective. the objective universe is but the product of some subjective mind. next we must posit that the material for the building of this universe lay ready to the hand of the builder, and that this material itself is the fruit of some previous system, all that is left of some past consummated product. given, therefore, the builder and the material, we must next accede to the proposition that this builder proceeds with his building under some definite laws that guide his choice of material, that control the form that he erects, and that indicate to him the process to be followed in the consummating of his idea. we must not forget that three great symbols stand, in the mind of the logos, for each of his three systems

affected, and disintegration sets in. the five types of pralaya which concern the human unit are as follows (1) the period of pralaya between two incarnations. this is of a triple nature and affects the substance of the three vehicles, physical, astral and mental, reducing the form to its primitive substance, and dissipating its atomic structure. the energy of the second aspect (that of the form-builder) is withdrawn by the will of the ego, and the atoms composing the form become dissociated from each other, and are resolved into the reservoir of essence to be re-collected again when the hour strikes. this condition is brought about gradually by stages of which we are aware: the first stage is the withdrawal of the life force in the etheric vehicle from the threefold (dense, liquid and ga

relationships, of the galvanizing power of the unifying life, and the attractive power of one unit upon another, be it atom, man, or solar system. it involves an understanding of all forms, form purposes, and form relationships; it concerns the building processes in man himself, and in the solar system; and it necessitates the development of those powers within man which will make him a conscious builder, a solar pitri of a coming cycle. this is one of the great revelations at initiation: the unveiling to the initiate of the particular- 521- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust cosmic centre whence emanates the type of force or energy which he, the initiate, will be concerned with when he becomes in due course of time a solar pitri, or divine manasaputra to coming humanity

put into circumstances which are insurmountable, once he has reached the point where he has intelligently put himself on the side of evolution, or of god. prior to that he may, and will, be driven by the gales of circumstance; the press of group and racial karma will force him into situations necessary for the process of awakening him to his own innate possibilities. once he becomes the conscious builder himself, seeking to control the forces and builders of his lower nature, and to construct the temple of solomon, then he is no longer subject to the earlier conditions. he becomes a ruler, a builder, and a transmitter, until the time comes when he is one with the solar angels, and the work of human evolution is accomplished. what has been said above is very superficial, and only that has b

n when it has fulfilled its mission. the average man is often the victim of his own thought forms. he constructs them, but is neither strong enough to send them out to do their work, nor wise enough to dissipate them when required. this has brought about the thick swirling fog of half-formed, semi-vitalised forms in which eighty five percent of the human race is surrounded. in his work as thought builder, man has to show forth the characteristics of the logos, the great architect or builder of the universe. he has to parallel his work as: the one who conceives the idea. the one who clothes the idea in matter. the one who energises the idea, and thus enables the form to preserve its outline and perform its mission. the one who in time and space through desire and love, directs that thought

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ng to him the fact that the sons of god, revealed or unrevealed, are everywhere to be found- 226- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the spiritual intelligence. the inner ruler the word made flesh. the soul. the second aspect. the aum. the self-conscious entity the second person. the thinker. the christ. god in incarnation. the observer, perceiver. the self the son of mind. the form builder. the higher self. t he divine manasaputra. f orce. the son of god. the agnishvattva the dweller in the body. these and many other terms will be found scattered throughout the scriptures and literature of the world. in no book, however, is the nature of the soul, whether macrocosmic (the cosmic christ, or microcosmic (the individual christ, so wonderfully portrayed as in the bhagavad gita a

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

e physical plane. again he seeks to aid in the materialising of the divine plan on the physical plane. he knows that all forms are the product of energy rightly used and directed. with full knowledge of his divine sonship and a potent mind realisation of all that that term conveys, he focusses his forces in the vital body and becomes a focal point for the transmission of divine energy and hence a builder in union with the building energies of the cosmos. he carries the energy of illumined thought and sanctified desire down into the body of ether, and so works with intelligent devotion. you ask for a clearer definition of the "midway" spot. for the probationer it is the emotional plane, the kurukshetra, or the plane of illusion, where land (physical nature) and water (emotional nature) meet

the creator (human or divine) and true conformity to the pattern may be substantial and unbreakable. this is true of a universe, a kingdom in nature, or a thought-form created by a human thinker. in all form-building the technique of construction remains basically the same, and the rules and realizations may be summed up in the following aphoristic phrases. let the creator know himself to be the builder, and not the building. let him desist from dealing with the raw material on the physical plane, and let him study the- 159- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust pattern and the blue prints, acting as the agent of the divine mind. let him use two energies and work with three laws. these are the dynamic energy of purpose, conforming to the plan, and the magnetic energy of des

forms; it is the light which causes the emergence into consciousness of the race of heterogeneous shapes which aggregates of atoms can assume. 4. this type of energy which produces the shapes and forms and coherent organisms in all the kingdoms of nature is not the life principle. the life principle will remain undiscovered and unrecognized until such time as the soul or qualifying principle, the builder of the forms is studied, recognized and in its turn investigated. 5. this is only possible as man steps forth into a fuller conscious possession of his divine heritage, and working as a soul and in control of his mechanism (physical, emotional, and mental) can work consciously en rapport with the soul in all forms. this will be possible only as the race grasps the above hypothesis, and rec

r interpretations to those individuals who have the internal equipment which will enable them to understand. i. ascertain the formula which will confine the lives within the ensphering wall. all forms in nature, as we well know, are made up of myriads of tiny lives, holding a certain measure of awareness, of rhythm, and of coherency according to the force of the law of attraction, utilized by the builder of the form. this is true both of the macrocosm and of the infinite world of microcosmic lives, which are contained within the greater whole. embryo solar systems, coming into being under the impulse of divine thought, are at first fluidic and nebulous, are shifting in outline and are held together loosely by the central nucleus of energy another way of expressing the embodied idea. as tim

the man as he attempts to master the technique of the magical work and so become a creator of forms in his own little sphere. all have to work out the true significance of the rule, for god works under the law of his being, and this law demonstrates to us as the laws of nature. the ideas of ordered activity and of a conscious and purposeful goal are bound up in the phrase we are considering. the builder of any form is first of all a controller of lives and the arbiter of the destinies of certain entities. in this thought we have light thrown upon the subject of free will and upon the law of cause and effect. it must not be forgotten however that the mystery of causes lies hid in past universes all, in their day, the "forms indwelt by god. for us there can be no such thing as pure cause, b

ground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and again the tearer down of forms. the broken forms hold not the power to satisfy. the soul's own form is now the great desire, and thus there comes the entering of the playground of the mind. but in these dreams and fantasies, at times a vision comes a vision of a folded lotus flower, close petalled, tightly sealed, lacking aroma yet, but bathed in cold blue light. orange and blue in som

the furnace in order finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into the far country, resulting in the welcome to the father's home; pain is the illusion of the father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the building of the temple. the uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. that peace, that light and that liberation, with the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all the sons of men. with the problem of limitation is closely linked that of liberation. into the pris

nd requirement is detachment. the worker in white magic must hold himself free as much as he can from identifying himself with that which he has created or has attempted to create. the secret for all aspirants is to cultivate the attitude of the onlooker and of the silent watcher, and, may i emphasize the word silent. much true magical work comes to naught because of the failure of the worker and builder in matter to keep silent. by premature speech and too much talk, he slays that which he has attempted to create, the child of his thought is still-born. all workers in the field of the world should recognize the need for silent detachment and the work before every student who reads these instructions must consist in cultivating a detached attitude. it is a mental detachment which enables t

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

y sensed. i seek in various ways to convey through the symbol of words the significance of the soul. the soul is therefore the son of god, the product of the marriage of spirit and matter. the soul is an expression of the mind of god, for mind and intellect are terms expressing the cosmic principle of intelligent love, a love which produces an appearance through the nature of mind and thus is the builder of the separate forms or appearances. the soul also, through the quality of love, produces the fusion of appearance and of quality, of awareness and of form. c. the soul is (and here words limit and distort) a unit of light, coloured by a particular ray vibration; it is a vibrating centre of energy found within the appearance or form of its entire ray life. it is one of seven groups of mil

t. in him was life. within his light we walk- 46- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust his symbol is the thunder, the word that cycles down the ages. some of the names of this ray lord which convey his purpose are as follows: the displayer of glory the lord of eternal love the cosmic magnet the giver of wisdom the radiance in the form the master builder the conferrer of names the great geometrician the one who hides the life the cosmic mystery the light bringer the son of god incarnate the cosmic christ the legend tells us that the six brothers summarise his qualities in the following aphorisms: 1. send forth the word and speak the radiant love of god. make all men hear. quality..love divine. 2. let the glory of the lord shine forth. let

nature. they are as follows: the keeper of the records. the lord of memory- 48- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the unifier of the lower four the interpreter of that which is seen the lord of balance the divine separator the discriminating essential life the one who produces alliance the three-sided triangle the illuminator of the lotus the builder of the foundation the forerunner of the light the one who veils and yet reveals the dispenser of time the lord of space the universal mind the threefold wick the great architect of the universe and many others terms which indicate relation to light, to time, to space, to the manifested logos, to matter and to the "power which evokes the form" if all these names are studied in connection wi

her in the east the custodian of the seventh plan the invoker of wrath the keeper of the magical word the temple guardian the representative of god the one who lifts to life the lord of death the one who feeds the sacred fire the whirling sphere the sword of the initiator- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the divine alchemical worker the builder of the square the orienting force the fiery unifier the key to the mystery the expression of the will the revealer of beauty this ray lord has a peculiar power on earth and on the physical plane of divine manifestation. his usefulness to his six brothers is therefore apparent. he makes their work appear. he is the most active of all the rays in this world period, and is never out of manife

tructural unity and their geometrical perfection. the grand geometrician comes thus to the forefront and makes the work of the builders possible. upon figure and form, number and sequences will the temple be built, and so embrace and express the glory of the lord. the second ray is the ray of the master- 101- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust builder. ray iii constitutes the aggregate of the active building forces, and the great architect, with his builders, organises the material, starts the work of construction, and eventually (as the evolutionary cycle proceeds upon its way) materialises the idea and purpose of god the father, under the guidance of god the son. yet these three are as much a unity as is a human being who conceives an

ons of fire. 2. the atlantean race .s ixth ray .t he devotion of the lords of love. 3. the aryan race. third ray .t he activity of the men of mind. 4. the coming race .f ourth ray .t he vision of the units of light. 5. the final race. first ray. the will of the lords of sacrifice. the two earlier races were governed by the second and seventh rays, respectively, and embody the activity of the form builder and the constructive energy of the magical organiser. the reader must bear in mind, as he studies these major ray cycles, that they cover inconceivably long periods of time, and produce two effects which must be considered. first, the ray energies, five in number, play upon the human kingdom itself, and in the course of the ages raise man from the dead to life; they lift him out of the dar

he medium of the universe as a whole. the grand geometrician of the universe works through this seventh ray, and thus sets his seal upon all form life, particularly in the mineral world. this the masonic fraternity has always known, and this concept it has perpetuated symbolically in the great world cathedrals, which embody the glory of the mineral world and are the sign of the work of the master builder of the universe. when the great work is consummated we shall see the temple of god, the solar system, organised objectively and subjectively; its courts and holy places will then be accessible to the- 231- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust sons of men, who will work then without limitation, and will have free access to all parts of the

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

hidden in humanity down the ages; of the historical christ, concealed within the form of jesus; or of the individual christ, hidden within the ordinary man. for always the routine is the same the journey, the new birth, the experience of life, the service to be rendered, the death to be endured, and then the resurrection into more extended service. joseph's name means "he who shall add; he was a builder, a carpenter, a worker in the building trade, one who adds stone to stone, or beam to beam. he is the symbol of the building-creative aspect of god the father. in these three people, joseph, the infant jesus, and mary, we have the- 44- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust divine triplicity symbolised and represented, god the father, god the son and god the holy spirit, or m

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

nd strongly built, but am a prisoner within my building. my light is hidden. only my word goes forth. around me lie the waters. can i return from whence i- 21- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust came? is the word strong enough to open wide the door? what shall i do' the answer came 'build now an ark translucent, which can reveal the light, o builder of the ark. and by that light you shall reveal the lighted way. the power to build anew, the right use of the word, and the using of the light, these will release the blessed one, deep hidden in the ark" ray three "the blessed one gathered force. he hid himself behind a veil. he rolled himself within that veil, and deeply hid his face. naught could be seen but that which veiled, and active

he story of the evolution of consciousness and not the story of the evolution of form. this latter evolution is implicit in the other and of secondary importance from the occult angle. consciousness is literally the reaction of active intelligence to the pattern. today, it is as if we were responding consciously and with an increasingly intelligent purpose to the design as laid down by the master builder upon the tracing board. as yet we do not and cannot enter into that cosmic mind and vibrate in conscious unison with the divine idea nor grasp the plan as it is sensed and seen by the cosmic thinker. we have to work with the design, with the pattern, and with the plan, for we are only as yet in process of being initiated into that plan and we are not aware of the true significance of those

the field of religion, he works in collaboration with the second and sixth ray disciples. in the field of government he labours, building those forms which will enable the first ray activity to be expressed. in the field of business, he cooperates with third ray energies and the executives of the plan. in the field of science, he aids and assists the fifth ray workers. he is the expression of the builder, and the creator, bringing into outer manifestation god's plan- 230- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust he begins, however, with himself, and seeks to bring into expression the plan of his soul in his own setting and worldly situation. until he can do this, he is unable to stand in the east within the pentagram. it is occultly said th

the whole object of the senses is to reveal the not-self, and to enable the self therefore to differentiate between the real and the unreal. extract 3 these three major senses (if i might so describe them) are very definitely allied, each with one of the three logoi: hearing the recognition of the fourfold word, the activity of matter, the third logos. touch the recognition of the sevenfold form builder, the gathering together of forms, their approximation and interrelation, the second logos. the law of attraction between the self and the not-self begins to work. sight the recognition of totality, the synthesis of all, the realisation of the one in many, the first logos. the law of synthesis, operating between all forms which the self occupies, and the recognition of the essential unity o

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

which you may build for the great ones. they are not yet ready and would constitute poor stones in the building and weak links in your work. you must build for the future. i have spoken to you thus at length because your work as a building cooperator can now begin. symbolically, i say to you: look for those who have blended head and heart and above whose foreheads shines the mystic symbol of the builder. that you may integrate more freely and more fully in the work of the great white lodge and enter into a closer fellowship and relationship with the builders of the new age is the earnest wish and prayer of your friend, your brother and your teacher. july 1935 brother of old: there has been for you lately (as for so many) a time of testing; yet it has been at the same time a condition of c

ground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and again the tearer down of forms. the broken forms hold not the power to satisfy. the- 522- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust soul's own form is now the great desire, and thus there comes the entering of the playground of the mind. but in these dreams and fantasies, at times a vision comes a vision of a folded lotus flower, close petalled, tightly sealed, l

the furnace in order finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into the far country, resulting in the welcome to the father's home; pain is the illusion of the father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the building of the temple. the uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. that peace, that light and that liberation, within the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all the sons of men. from the old commentary- 524- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 19

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ccompanying culture, religions, policies, governments and educational processes. thus is history made. history is after all only the record of humanity's cyclic reaction to some inflowing divine energy, to some inspired leader, or to some avatar. an avatar is at present usually a representative of the second divine aspect, that of love-wisdom, the love of god. he will manifest as the saviour, the builder, the preserver; humanity is not yet sufficiently developed or adequately oriented to the life of the spirit to bear easily the impact of an avatar who would express the dynamic will of god. for us as yet (and this is our limitation) an avatar is one who preserves, develops, builds, protects, shields and succours the spiritual impulses by which men live; that which brings him into manifesta

o the "centre where the will of god is known (shamballa, christ is subjecting himself at this time to an unique process of training. of this training, his thirty years of work in the carpenter's shop in palestine has ever been the hitherto unrecognised symbol. the word "carpenter" is significant of building, of construction, and means (in its derivation) someone who is an artificer in timber or a builder of wooden houses. this is the true meaning of the biblical story of christ's being crucified upon the cross of wood or the tree. it is related in reality to the decision made by christ in the garden of gethsemane to take over the building or reconstruction work in aquarius, and thus complete the task which he attempted to do in the piscean age. he and his disciples and the new group of wor

strate within himself, during the aquarian age and after his reappearance, certain major fused and blended dualities. it would profit us to study them and know which they are: 1. the fusion of the second divine aspect of love and the first divine aspect of will the- 52- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust will-to-good. 2. the fusion of love and wisdom, enabling him to be the builder of the new age and civilisation. 3. the fusion of piscean energy, generated during the past two thousand years of christ's spiritual activity and the aquarian energies to be generated and active on earth during the next two thousand years, or two thousand five hundred. it is for this process of fusion and all that it entails that he now subjects himself to training. when this is completed

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ans with very little hate and with the minimum of persecution and of resentment; she stands steadily for peace, no matter what the people may believe under the influence of national propaganda and the theories of the newspapers. her motto, esoterically stated, is, as you know "i carve the paths" this will be true eventually in the spiritual as well as in the literal sense. rome was the great road builder and road maker of europe in the far distant past; today the british race (who are largely re-incarnated romans and hence the friendly feeling which basically exists between the two countries in spite of outward appearance) are the original railroad makers. this is all upon the material side. upon the spiritual side, as i told you in an earlier book, the whole field of religion will be re-i

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the planetary life or logos. this energy is the dynamic incentive at the heart of every form and the sustained expression of the intention of sanat kumara an intention working out as the planetary purpose which is known only to him. the second centre is created by the ray of love-wisdom; this is the basic energy which brought into being the entire manifested universe, for it is the energy of the builder aspect. to it we give as far as humanity is concerned the name of hierarchy, for it is the controlling factor of the great chain of hierarchy. the prime activity of this centre is related to the unfolding consciousness of the planet, and therefore of all forms of life within or upon the planet; it is not related to the life aspect in any sense. the task of the "units of energy" who constit

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onnected from zodiacal signs (s.d. i. 730) 16. the following five statements are basic 1. each of the primordial seven, the first seven rays, forming the manifesting logos, is again sevenfold. 2. as the seven colours of the solar spectrum correspond to the seven rays or hierarchies so each of these is sub-divided into seven. 3. each of these hierarchies furnishes the essence (the soul) and is the builder of one of the seven kingdoms in nature the three elemental kingdoms, the mineral, vegetable, animal and kingdom of spiritual man. 4. each hierarchy furnishes the aura of one of the seven principles in man with its specific colour. 5. each of these hierarchies is the ruler of one of the sacred planets. thus astrology came into existence and has a strictly scientific basis (s.d. iii. 482) 17

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onveying vast implications. the very simplicity of this great natural law veils the far-reaching significances of its normal working. it says the following things quite simply, and i enumerate them because the breaking down of a paragraph into its clear and simple statements is a sound way to arrive at understanding: 1. when the soul controls the form involved, there is health. 2. the soul is the builder of the form, the constructive force in manifestation. 3. this is true of both the microcosm and the macrocosm. 4. the results are wholeness, right relation and correct activity. 5. when the soul is not in control, and the forces of the form nature are therefore the controlling- 360- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust factors, there will be

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e has begun to recognise and to interpret even though in an elementary fashion compared to what he will recognise at the ninth initiation the destroying aspect of the will as it expresses itself through the law of sacrifice. now, for the first time (as a result of destruction, he can begin to grasp the essential building aspect of this same will and to appreciate his future function as a creative builder. the building here to be carried forward, i would remind you, is not the building which is distinctive of the second divine aspect that of love-wisdom. it is strictly connected with that of the first aspect of purpose, power or will; it deals with the processes which precede the actual creative building, the drawing up of the blueprints (if i may use such a term "within the confines of sha

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of the mind in two ways: responsiveness to buddhic or intuitional impression and an act of the creative imagination. c. a process of energy gathering or of force absorption. in order that the needed energies are confined within a mental ring-pass-not, prior to the later process of visualisation and projection. d. a period of clear thinking anent process and intention. so that the dedicated bridge-builder may clearly perceive what is being done. e. the steady preservation of tension without undue physical strain upon the brain cells. when this has been accomplished there will be found to be present a focal point of mental energy which previously had been nonexistent; the mind will be held steady in the light, and there will- 319- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the init

on. up to this point the activity has been of a mental nature. the creative imagination has been relatively quiescent; the disciple has been occupied within the mind and upon mental levels, and has "looked neither up nor down" but now the right point of tension has been reached; the reservoir or pool of needed energy has been restrained within the carefully delimited ring-pass-not, and the bridge-builder is ready for the next step. he therefore proceeds at this point to construct the blue print of the work to be done, by drawing upon the imagination and its faculties as they are to be found upon the highest level of his astral or sensitive vehicle. this does not relate to the emotions. imagination is, as you know, the lowest aspect of the intuition, and this fact must be remembered at all

. visualisation is the process whereby the creative imagination is rendered active and becomes responsive to and attracted by the point of tension upon the mental plane. at this stage the disciple is occupied with two energies: one, quiescent and held within a ring-pass-not, but at a point of extreme tension, and the other active, picture-forming, outgoing and responsive to the mind of the bridge-builder. in this connection it should be remembered that the second aspect of the divine trinity is the form-building aspect, and thus, under the law of analogy, it is the second aspect of the personality and the second aspect of the spiritual triad which are becoming creatively active. the disciple is now proceeding with the second stage of- 320- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays a

ealing entirely with the will aspect. this necessitates a higher process of alignment and the evocation of a divine aspect hitherto relatively quiescent, except in so far as the will finds its reflection in the activity of the sacrifice petals of the egoic lotus, plus its distorted shadow in the mind nature. this consequently posits a fairly high stage of spiritual unfoldment upon the part of the builder of the antahkarana; it means that there are indications of it (to say the least) between the mind, the sacrifice petals and the atmic principle. this may be simply the most tenuous thread imaginable, a thousand times finer than a gossamer web, but it must inevitably be present. when, from the angle of the esotericist, this is a tangible fact, you will then have the following direct contact

m that point to work dynamically. perhaps the word that would best express its- 333- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust mode of work is inspiration. the father inspires response from the material aspect, or from the mother if you like that symbolism, but it accomplishes this by remaining immovably itself. from the point where he is, the builder (human or divine) works, not by the law of attraction, as does the second ray, but by the law of synthesis, by a fiat of the will, based on a clearly formulated purpose and programme. you will see, therefore, that the first ray personality has to ascertain (as in fact do all disciples) which aspect he himself is of a particular ray. it is not possible for any disciple who has not taken the

be attempted. e. then follows the preservation of a point of tension. 2. visualisation. a. the use of the creative imagination or the picture-making faculty. b. response to intuitional or buddhic impression. c. preoccupation with two energies: the energy held at a point of tension within the previously created ring-pass-not. the active picture-forming energy brought into action by the mind of the builder. 3. projection. a. the calling in of the will through the method appropriate to the ray of the disciple, the soul ray. b. the simultaneous preservation of three lines of thought: awareness of the blended personality and soul- 336- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust awareness of the point of focussed tension. awareness of the ray

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, and i was far from her, and the enemy knew that she was alone and gave to her, and she ate of the tree of which she had been told not to eat. 3 then she gave also to me to eat. chapter 8. 1 'and god was wroth with us, and the lord came into paradise and called me in a terrible voice and said "adam, where art thou? and why hidest thou from my face? shall the house be able to hide itself from its builder" and he saith to me "since thou hast abandoned my covenant, i have brought upon thy body seventy-two strokes; the trouble of the first stroke is a pain of the eyes, the second stroke an affection of the hearing, and likewise in turn all the strokes shall befall thee' chapter 9. 1 as he said this to his sons, adam groaned sore and said 'what shall i do? i am in great distress' 2 and eve wep

hen god appeared in paradise, mounted on the chariot of his cherubim with the angels proceeding before him and singing hymns of praises, all the plants of paradise, both of your father's lot and mine, broke out into flowers. 4 and the throne of god was fixed where the tree of life was. chapter 23. 1 and god called adam saying "adam, where art thou? can the house be hidden from the presence of its builder? 2 "then your father answered "it is not because we think not to be found by thee, lord, that we hide, but i was afraid, because i am naked, and i was ashamed before thy might (my) master" 3 god saith to him "who showed thee that thou art naked, unless thou hast forsaken my commandment, which i delivered thee to keep (it" 4 then adam called to mind the word which i spake to him (saying "i

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l, in so far as it is connected, in one of its aspects, with human reproduction? but its chief symbolism refers to cosmogony "agni, in the condition of akta, or anointed, is suggestive of christ" remarks prof. jolly "maya, mary, his mother; twastri, st. joseph, the carpenter of the bible" in the rig veda, viswakarman is the highest and oldest of the gods and their "father" he is the "carpenter or builder" because god is called even by the monotheists "the architect of the universe" still, the original idea is purely metaphysical, and had no connection with the later phallicism[[vol. 2, page] 102 the secret doctrine. 16. how are the (real) manushyas born? the manus with minds, how are they made (a) the fathers (barhishad) call to their help their own fire (the kavyavahana, electric fire, wh

, page] 194 the secret doctrine. earth" taaroa, the creative power, the chief god "put man to sleep for long years, for several lives" which means racial periods, and is a reference to his mental sleep, as shown elsewhere. during that time the deity pulled an ivi (bone) out of man and she became a woman* nevertheless, whatever the allegory may mean, even its exoteric meaning necessitates a divine builder of man "a progenitor" do we then believe in such "supernatural" beings? we say, no. occultism has never believed in anything, whether animate or inanimate, outside nature. nor are we cosmolators or polytheists for believing in "heavenly man" and divine men, for we have the accumulated testimony of the ages, with its unvarying evidence on every essential point, to support us in this; the wi

sula, as well as with india. the statues discovered by the french at tel-loh (dating from at latest b.c. 4,000) were made of the extremely hard stone known as diorite, and the inscriptions on them stated the diorite to have been brought from mazan- i.e, the sinaitic peninsula, which was then ruled by the pharaohs. the statues are known to resemble in general style the diorite statue, kephren, the builder of the second pyramid, while, according to mr. petrie, the unit of measurement marked on the plan of the city, which one of the tel-loh figures holds on his lap, is the same as that employed by the pyramid builders. teak wood has been found at mugheir, or ur of the chaldees, although that wood is an indian special product; add to this that an ancient babylonian list of clothing mentions si

ut one hundred, creuzer thinks. they are called "builders" and occultism calls them the initiators, who, initiating some pelasgians, thus laid the foundation stone of true masonry. herodotus associates the cyclops with perseus "the son of an assyrian demon (i. vi. p. 54. raoul rochette found that palaemonius, the cyclops, to whom a sanctuary was raised "was the tyrian hercules" anyhow, he was the builder of the sacred columns of gadir, covered with mysterious characters to which apollonius of tyana was the only one in his age to possess the key; and with figures which may still be found on the walls of ellora, the gigantic ruins of the temple of viswakarma "the builder and artificer of the gods[[vol. 2, page] 346 the secret doctrine. called mad stones (see his "dieu et les dieux" p. 587 "t

hey preferred to keep silent. again, let the reader read the hindu "fables" as the orientalists call them, and remember the allegory of visvakarma, the creative power, the great architect of the world, called in the veda "the all-seeing god" who "sacrifices himself to himself (the spiritual egos of mortals are his own essence, one with him, therefore. remember that he is called deva vardhika "the builder of the gods" and that it is he who ties (the sun) surya, his son-in-law, on his lathe, in the exoteric allegory; on the swastika, in esoteric tradition, as on earth he is the hierophant initiator, and cuts away a portion of his brightness. visvakarma, remember again, is the son of yoga-siddha, i.e, the holy power of yoga, and the fabricator of the "fiery weapon" the magic agneyastra. the n

ntinued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 704 the secret doctrine. this "power" is hokhmah or (chochmah) the wisdom and the word. we shall probably be told that by this term "worlds" the stars, heavenly bodies, etc, were meant. but apart from the fact that "stars" were not known as "worlds" to the ignorant editors of the epistles, if even they must have been known to paul, who was an initiate("a master-builder, we can quote on this point an eminent theologian, cardinal wiseman. in vol. i, p. 309, of his work treating of the indefinite period of the six days- or shall we say "too definite- period of the six days of creation and the 6,000 years, he confesses that we are in total darkness upon the meaning of that statement of st. paul, unless we are permitted to suppose that allusion is made in it

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one of the seven creators called elohim, and we, the "messenger of the primordial sons of life and light (b) the "elementary germs" with which he fills sien-tchan (the "universe) from tien-sin (the "heaven of mind" literally, or that which is absolute) are the atoms of science and the monads of leibnitz[[footnote(s "fohat" has several meanings (see stanza v, commentary et infra. he is called the "builder of the builders" the force that he personifies having formed our septenary chain[[vol. 1, page] 140 the secret doctrine. stanza vi- continued. 3. of the seven (elements- first one manifested, six concealed; two manifested- five concealed; three manifested- four concealed; four produced- three hidden; four and one tsan (fraction) revealed- two and one half concealed; six to be manifested- o

on of the primeval evolution of spirit-matter and its real essence that the student has to depend for the further elucidation in his mind of the occult cosmogony, and for the only sure clue which can guide his subsequent studies. in sober truth, as just shown, every "spirit" so-called is either a disembodied or a future man. as from the highest archangel (dhyan chohan) down to the last conscious "builder (the inferior class of spiritual entities, all such are men, having lived aeons ago, in other manvantaras, on this or other spheres; so the inferior, semi-intelligent and non-intelligent elementals- are all future men. that fact alone- that a spirit is endowed with intelligence- is a proof to the occultist that that being must have been a man, and acquired his knowledge and intelligence th

e civilization of a dense and cultivated people, who must have of necessity occupied a widely extended area. on the back of these images is to be found the 'ansated cross' and the same modified to the outlines of the human form. a full description, with plate showing the land, with the thickly planted statues, also with copies of the images, is to be found in the january number 1870 of the london builder "in the 'naturalist' published at salem, massachusetts, in one of the early numbers, is to be found a description of some very ancient and curious carving on the crest walls of the mountains of south america, older by far, it is averred, than the races now living. the strangeness of these tracings is in that they exhibit the outlines of a man stretched out on a cross* by a series of drawin

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st, sit quietly and gaze intently at it, willing it to move. if you can imagine a beam coming out of your eyes and converging on it, pushing it, so much the better. after a few seconds of this, the straw should begin to move. sometimes it can get up enough steam to turn completely on its axis, but that is not necessary. the little gadget you have just played with is nothing more than a confidence builder. back in the 1970's during the fake energy crisis, there was some nonsensical talk about harnessing this power to do things with serious machinery, but of course nothing ever came of that. can you imagine lots of people doing nothing but staring at little rotor things to try to generate power? even ralph nader isn't that nuts. but now that you know in a very concrete way that you can get r

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as been depicted under countless names in the civilisationsand cultures which have followed. these deities throughout the world may seem to be54an unfathomable tidal wave of names, but they are overwhelmingly different names forthe same two figures. another deity widely used in satanism for the sacrifice ofchildren today is kronos, the king of the cyclops in greek legend. he was known asthe tower builder and is almost certainly another version of nimrod, the builder of thebiblical tower of babel.15the reason the reptile bloodlines are involved in such unspeakable ritual andpractice today, is quite simply because they always have been. when you follow thesebloodlines across history, you find they use the same rituals and sacrifice to the samedeities, right to the present day. another passag

me, it would appear, as the racefrom mars. thus we have the scandinavian races, which were installed by thephoenicians and other peoples of the same bloodstock and general location. it is alsothe origin of the aryan master race nonsense which obsessed the nazis and the secretsocieties which created them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it has been later symbolised, a peacock or an eagle.29 evidence hasemerged in re

ces are, literally, sacrifices to the gods,the reptilians, and they have been happening for thousands of years. the mass sacrificeof people by the aztecs in central america, and so many others, were to provide foodfor the physical reptilians and crossbreeds who eat the bodies and drink the blood, andenergy nourishment for the non-physical reptilians of the lower fourth dimension. philschneider, a builder of us underground bases, told the writer and researcher, alexchristopher, that when children reached the point where they could not work anymorein the slave conditions underground, they were consumed by the reptilians. they preferyoung children because they are not contaminated like adults. hard to accept isnt it?im sure your mind is screaming nonsense at you because who wants to face a tr

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healing her child of a fatal scorpion bite, the use of a specific word of power caused the poison to be expelled from the body and the lifeforce to return. other legends and myths also refer to the use of such words of power. the words of power produced a three dimensional pattern which would resonate with the aether to produce a desired effect or reality in matter or energy. edward leedskalnin, builder of the famous coral castle in homestead, florida claimed he had rediscovered how the egyptians built the pyramids. we must take him seriously because he left the entire castle as a physical proof of his ability to move large stones without the use of equipment. neighbors said he 'sang' to the stones, but there was never an eyewitness to testify to this technique. perhaps he discovered the

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, male and female aspects are represented by the two flanking pillars of mercy and severity. it may seem strange to uninstructed thought that the title of mercy should be given to the male or positive pillar, and that of severity to the female pillar; but when it is realised that the dynamic male type of force is the stimulator of upbuilding and evolution, and that the female type of force is the builder of forms, it will be seen that the nomenclature is apt; for form, although it is the builder and organiser, is also the limiter; each form that is built must in turn be outgrown, lose its mystical qabala page 84 usefulness, and so become a hindrance to evolving life, and therefore the bringerin of dissolution and decay, which lead on to death. the father is the giver of life; but the mothe

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

us phases of primeval matter. khnemu worked with ptah in carrying out the work of creation ordered by thoth, and is therefore one of the oldest divinities of egypt; his name means "to mould "to model" his connexion with the primeval water caused him to be regarded as the chief god of the inundation and lord of the cataract at elephantine. he dwelt in annu, but he was lord of elephantine, and "the builder of men, the maker of the gods, and the father from the beginning" elsewhere he is said to be ari enti-s qemam unenet sa xeperu tef maker of things which are, creator of what shall be, the beginning of beings, father tefu ma ma of fathers, and mother of mothers. he supported the heaven upon its four pillars in the beginning, and earth, air, sea, and sky are his handiwork. he is depicted in

osiris, the scribe [1. ani's speech forms the text of chapter xxxb. as numbered by m. naville (todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 43. 2. the four gods of the cardinal points, mestha, hapi, tuamautef, and qebhsennuf (see naville, todtenbuch einleitung, p. 164. some copies read "thou art my ka within my body, the god khnemu (i.e "moulder, who uniteth (or formeth) and strengtheneth my limbs" khnemu was called "builder of men, maker of the gods, the father from the beginning; creator of things which are" etc. 4 british museum papyrus no. 9901 has "place of happiness to which thou goest with me" 5 a class of divine beings. 6 i.e "the great god, lord of amenta" 7. this sentence appears to be unfinished; see the egyptian text, p. 12] p. 259 plate iii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod15.htm (3 of 4 [

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ridge as a means of passage for the soul from this earth to eternity must have been known also to the ancients for in the cult of demeter, the goddess of death, at eleusis, where her mysteries were gone through, in order to pass at once after death into elyisium, there was an order of bridge priestesses; and the goddess bore the name of the lady of the bridge. in rome also the priest was a bridge-builder pontifex, as he undertook the charge of souls. in austria and parts of germany it is still supposed that children s souls are led up the rainbow to heaven. both in england and among the chinese it is regarded as a sin to point with the finger at the bow. with us no trace of the idea that it is a bridge of souls remains. probably this was thought to be a heathen belief and was accordingly f

ds, charms, and divinations; he also invented boats and was the first to sail. his brother first built walls with bricks, and their descendants in the second generation seem to have completed the invention of houses by the addition of courts, porticos, and crypts. they are called aletae and titans, and in their time began animal husbandry and hunting with dogs. from the titans descended amynus, a builder, and magus, who taught men to construct villages and tend flocks, and of these two were begotten misor (perhaps mizraim, whose name signifies well-freed, and sydic, whose name denotes the just; these discovered the use of salt. from misor descended taautus (thoth, athothis, or hermes trismegistus, who invented letters; and from sydic descended the dioscuri, or cabiri, or corybantes, or sam

exodus club, which grew in 1904 into the church of new thought, one of the first metaphysical churches to use that name. as the pastor of the church, she was recognized as one of the leading figures of the emerging new thought movement, which had developed out of the independent christian scientists of the previous decade. in 1901 she wrote the most important statement of her mature position, the builder and the plan. she addressed the first meeting of the international new thought league in 1899 in boston. that organization was a precursor to the international new thought alliance, founded in 1914. she continued to lead her church until her death on october 22, 1921, in chicago, but it dissolved soon after her passing. she was cremated, and her ashes were buried in chicago. sources: geste

. she addressed the first meeting of the international new thought league in 1899 in boston. that organization was a precursor to the international new thought alliance, founded in 1914. she continued to lead her church until her death on october 22, 1921, in chicago, but it dissolved soon after her passing. she was cremated, and her ashes were buried in chicago. sources: gestefeld, ursula n. the builder and the plan. chicago: exodus publishing, 1901. jesuitism in christian science. chicago: the author, 1888. the science of the christ. chicago: the author, 1889. a statement of christian science. chicago: the author, 1888. ghadiali, dinshah pestanj (1873.1966) dinshah pestanji ghadiali, an indian american, pioneered vegetarianism and chromotherapy (healing with color) in twentieth- century

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disappointed spiritualist complained that the new motor could not even turn a coffee mill. andrew jackson davis visited the new motor at high rock and expressed the belief that the design was the work of spirits of a mechanical turn of mind, but that the machine was of no practical value. the new motor was finally smashed by a mob at randolph, new york, where it had been taken. in all it cost its builder some two thousand dollars. in common fairness to the spiritualists it must be said that spear was widely recognized as a kind and honest man who had championed many liberal reforms. his earlier experience of spirit messages was remarkable, resulting in a healing ministry. it seems that he was deceived by misleading communications from the association of electricizers (which supposedly incl

the eighteenth century b.c.e. devoted chiefly to tales of magic and enchantment. the beginning and ending are missing, yet much of the subject matter has survived. alfred wiedemann, in his book popular literature of ancient egypt (1902, describes these tales of magic and enchantment as follows: the papyrus tells how kheops.the king whom notices of greek writers have made universally famous as the builder of the great pyramid of gizeh.commands stories of magic to be told to him. the first of these, of which the conclusion only remains, is supposed to have occurred in the reign of king t eser of the third dynasty. the next, which is complete, belongs to the reign of nebka, a somewhat earlier king. in those days it came to the ears of a great nobleman that his faithless wife was in the habit

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y of adocentyn might thus be seen, both as the ideal egyptian society before its fall, and as the ideal pattern of its future and universal renovation. the author of picatrix also states, at the beginning of the passage quoted above, that hermes trismegistus built a temple to the sun, within which he presided invisibly, though this sun temple is not explicitly connected with his city. hermes as a builder of a temple to the sun could also connect in the mind of the pious reader of pimander (by which i mean, of course, the fourteen treatises of the corpus hermeticum which ficino included under that title) and of the asclepius, with the many passages on the sun in those works. for example, in the corpus hermeticum v it is stated that the sun is supreme among the gods of heaven2; in the corpus

author, using platonic terminology, compares the sun to the good and its rays to the influx of the intelligible splendour.3 and in the list of the gods of egypt in the asclepius the sun ranks as far greater than one of the planets.4 he is above the thirty-six horoscopes in the list of gods, and the thirty-six are above the spheres of the planets. to find hermes trismegistus in the picatrix as the builder of a temple of the sun, would thus accord perfectly with the teaching of that holy priscus theologus in the pimander and in the asclepius. when marsilio ficino began to dabble in his magic, which included a tentative use of talismans, there were plenty of mediaeval authorities which he might have used who give lists of talismanic images, amongst them peter of abano, who usts the decan imag

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ical of the twentyfour hours of the day, which we are taught to divide into three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of god and a distressed worthy brother; eight for our usual vocations; and eight for refreshment and sleep. common gavel. the common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons to break off the corners of rough stones, the better to fit them for the builder's use, but we as free and accepted masons are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. second section. the badge of a mason. the lamb has in all ages been deemed an

make our prayer. amen. master: from time immemorial it has been the custom of masons to assemble with the family and friends of a departed brother to honor his memory and to voice their sympathy to those whom he loved and who loved him. the message we bring is one of the triumph of life over death, the victory of hope over despair. masonry has come down from the far past. it used the tools of the builder's trade as emblems and symbols to teach masons how to build character and moral stature. it teaches service togod, to a brother, to all mankind. it seeks constantly to build the temple of the soul and thus to fit maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (66 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:56 am] us for that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. masonry is a

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told of initiates having overcome the law of gravitation in order to rise in the air at certain times for a definite purpose while still in the dense body. initiates are also taught how to suspend the law of levitation when they are in their soul bodies, and how to pass through the nine strata of the earth. it is said that jesus was the son of a carpenter, but the greek word is tekton, and means builder; arche is the greek name of primordial matter. it is also said that jesus was a carpenter (tekton) himself. it is true, he was a tekton, builder or mason, a son of god, the grand archetekton. at the age of thirty-three, when he had taken the three-times-three (9) degrees of mystic masonry, he descended to the center of the earth. so does every other tekton, mason or phree messen (child of

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ion, watches his actions and the whole process of construction and sees the house gradually take shape and reach completion. but it lacks the proper understanding of what he is doing and of what is the ultimate purpose in his mind. let us now suppose that the dog were unable to see the carpenter or to hear the noise made by his hammer and other tools. then it would be in the same relation to this builder, as humanity at large is to the architect of the universe and the forces which work under his command. for the dog would then see only the materials coming together slowly and taking shape, finally forming a finished structure. humanity also sees the silent growth of plant, of beast and of bird, but is unable to understand what causes this physical growth and the changes in the visible uni

soil their hands by actual work in the temple of humanity. the latter are not true temple-builders and would be unable to gain inspiration from the sight of that wonderful temple described by manson in "the servant in the house" the author calls him "man-son" this may mean that he regards him as the son of man, but it may also be that he meant mason, for the servant in the house was also a temple-builder. it is wonderful what insight the author of the play must have had when he planned the scene where his servant, the workman in love with his work, tells the worldly minded churchman, who is full of platitudes and as vile as a whited sepulcher, of the temple which he, the workman, built. this conception is a mystic gem and we append it for the reader's meditation "i am afraid you may not co

g thing "when you enter it you hear a sound--a sound as of some mighty poem chanted. listen long enough and you will hear that it is made up of the beating of human hearts, of the nameless music of men's souls, that is, if you have ears. if you have eyes you will presently see the church itself, a looming mystery of many shapes and shadows leaping sheer from floor to dome, the work of no ordinary builder "the pillars of it go up like the brawny trunks of heroes; the sweet human flesh of men and women is molded about its bulwarks, strong, impregnable. the faces of little children laugh out from every cornerstone; the terrible spans and arches of it are the joined hands of comrades; and up in the heights and spaces are inscribed the numberless musings of all the dreamers in the world. it is

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

e the conditions for its next appearance upon an earthly plane. so soon as through a succession of births and deaths it had perfected itself, it entered into a state of nirvana. it was absorbed into the great universal soul. nothing is ever lost "many a house of life hath held me--seeking ever him who wrought these prisons of the senses, sorrow fraught; sore was my ceaseless strife! but now, thou builder of this tabernacle--thou! i know thee. never shalt thou build again these walls of pain, nor raise the roof-tree of deceits, nor lay fresh rafters on the clay; broken thy house is, and the ridge-pole split! delusion fashioned it! safe pass i thence--deliverance to obtain"[60 [60] edwin arnold, the light of asia. regarding the opinions of the ancients on the subject of the eternity of matte

GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought a religious nature, the accuracy and skill of a scholar, a sureness and delicacy of insight at once sympathetic and critical, the soul of a poet, and a patience as untiring as it is rewarding; qualities rare indeed, and still more rarely blended'109[109. fort newton was also editor of the american masonic journal the builder, and, given that he saw waite in such a fight, it is not surprising that he should reprint waite's review and asked him to contribute to its columns. waite's first contribution, a three part study entitled 'some deeper aspects of masonic symbolism, was reprinted and used as a set lecture in a reading course for lodges in iowa and, as a copy of the builders was given to every newly-made mas

adition in freemasonry (rider, 1937) shadows of life and thought, being a retrospective review in the form of memoirs (selwyn and blount, 1938 (chapter 17, and passim (2) contributions to periodicals ars quatuor coronatorum 1902 comment on e. j. castle 'the reception (initiation) of a templar' vol. 15, pp. 170-2 the british mail 1890 'freemasonry, vol. 20, new series, no. 172, march, pp. 20-1 the builder 1915 'master building, vol. 1, pp. 240-1 (reprinted from the occult review) 1916 criticism of 'the great work, vol. 2 'some deeper aspects of masonic symbolism, vol. 2, pp. 107-9; 144-6; 175-6 1917 'discourse on the fellowcraft degree, vol. 3, pp. 334-5 1918 note on the origin of co-masonry, vol. 4, p. 112 1920 'london morning post's attack on freemasonry, vol. 6, p. 333 1921 'emblematic f

perpetuation of the temple through three distinct channels, 13 february, sancta maria preceptory 1912 'some deeper intimations in the grade of knight of the holy sepulchre, 29 january, lily of the valley conclave 'some inner meanings of rosicrucian grades, 11 march, s.r.i.a. study group 1914 'some deeper aspects of symbolism in the craft grades; 11 february, holden lodge no. 2496 (printed in the builder with an altered title) 1921 'robert fludd and freemasonry, 29 september, manchester association for masonic research (printed in transaction 'masonic -tradition and the royal arch, 28 february, somerset masters' lodge no. 3746 (printed in transactions) 1922 'the mystical quest in freemasonry' 16 september, mid-kent masters' lodge 3173 (printed in emblematic freemasonry) 1923 'the second bi

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

r pressure from the church, closed the order of templars and gave their possessions to the knights of st. john in jerusalem, the activities of the templars did not cease. the great majority of the templars took refuge in freemasonic lodges that were operating in europe at that time. the leader of the templars, mabeignac, with a few other members, found refuge in scotland under the guise of a wall builder under the name of mac benach. the scottish king, robert the bruce, welcomed them and allowed them to exercise great influence over the masonic lodges in scotland. as a result, scottish lodges gained great importance from the point of view of their craft and their ideas. today freemasons use the name mac benach with respect. scottish masons, who inherited the templars' heritage, returned it

confused masonry with the fight against the temporal power of the pope."132 masonry began its struggle against religion in italy by means of another secret society that it founded and controlled. this society was known as the "carbonari" this society, first heard of in naples at the beginning of the nineteenth century, took its name from charcoal burners. as the masons used the emblem of the wall-builder and expressed their ideas with symbols, so the carbonari adopted the emblem of the charcoal burner. but, the society global freemasonry dje djf the masonic war against religion had ulterior objectives. the members of the society sought to initiate a political program, first in italy, and then in france, to destroy the influence of the church, establish a new government and secularize all s

GNOSTIC CATECHISM

of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought a religious nature, the accuracy and skill of a scholar, a sureness and delicacy of insight at once sympathetic and critical, the soul of a poet, and a patience as untiring as it is rewarding; qualities rare indeed, and still more rarely blended'109[109. fort newton was also editor of the american masonic journal the builder, and, given that he saw waite in such a fight, it is not surprising that he should reprint waite's review and asked him to contribute to its columns. waite's first contribution, a three part study entitled 'some deeper aspects of masonic symbolism, was reprinted and used as a set lecture in a reading course for lodges in iowa and, as a copy of the builders was given to every newly-made mas

adition in freemasonry (rider, 1937) shadows of life and thought, being a retrospective review in the form of memoirs (selwyn and blount, 1938 (chapter 17, and passim (2) contributions to periodicals ars quatuor coronatorum 1902 comment on e. j. castle 'the reception (initiation) of a templar' vol. 15, pp. 170-2 the british mail 1890 'freemasonry, vol. 20, new series, no. 172, march, pp. 20-1 the builder 1915 'master building, vol. 1, pp. 240-1 (reprinted from the occult review) 1916 criticism of 'the great work, vol. 2 'some deeper aspects of masonic symbolism, vol. 2, pp. 107-9; 144-6; 175-6 1917 'discourse on the fellowcraft degree, vol. 3, pp. 334-5 1918 note on the origin of co-masonry, vol. 4, p. 112 1920 'london morning post's attack on freemasonry, vol. 6, p. 333 1921 'emblematic f

perpetuation of the temple through three distinct channels, 13 february, sancta maria preceptory 1912 'some deeper intimations in the grade of knight of the holy sepulchre, 29 january, lily of the valley conclave 'some inner meanings of rosicrucian grades, 11 march, s.r.i.a. study group 1914 'some deeper aspects of symbolism in the craft grades; 11 february, holden lodge no. 2496 (printed in the builder with an altered title) 1921 'robert fludd and freemasonry, 29 september, manchester association for masonic research (printed in transaction 'masonic -tradition and the royal arch, 28 february, somerset masters' lodge no. 3746 (printed in transactions) 1922 'the mystical quest in freemasonry' 16 september, mid-kent masters' lodge 3173 (printed in emblematic freemasonry) 1923 'the second bi

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

inds of fine work.15 like some long-lost twin of viracocha, the white and bearded andean deity, quetzalcoatl was depicted as having brought to mexico all the skills and sciences necessary to create a civilized life, thus ushering in a golden age.16 he was believed, for example, to have introduced the knowledge of writing to central america, to have invented the calendar, and to have been a master builder who taught the people the secrets of 11 not only obviously related but specifically related. votan, for example, was often referred to as the grandson of quetzalcoatl. itzamana and kukulkan were sometimes confused by the indians who transmitted their legends to spanish chroniclers shortly after the conquest. see fair gods and stone faces, p. 100. 12 mysteries of the mexican pyramids, p. 34

pp. 163-7. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 293 khufu khufu khnum-khufu year seventeen20 it was all very convenient. right at the end of a costly and otherwise fruitless digging season, just when a major archaeological discovery was needed to legitimize the expenses he had run up, vyse had stumbled upon the find of the decade the first incontrovertible proof that khufu had indeed been the builder of the hitherto anonymous great pyramid. one would have thought that a discovery of this nature would have settled conclusively any lingering doubts over the ownership and purpose of that enigmatic monument. but the doubts remained, largely because, from the beginning, a certain smell hung over vyse s evidence: 1 it was odd that the marks were the only signs of the name khufu ever found an

s john ward affirmed that the great sphinx must be numberless years older even than the pyramids. and as late as 1904 wallis budge, the respected keeper of egyptian antiquities at the british museum, had no hesitation in making this unequivocal assertion: the oldest and finest human-headed lion statue is the famous sphinx at giza. this marvellous object was in existence in the days of khafre, the builder of the second pyramid, and was, most probably, very old even at that early period. the sphinx was thought to be connected in some way with foreigners or with a foreign religion which dated from predynastic times.26 between the beginning and the end of the twentieth century, however, egyptologists views about the antiquity of the sphinx changed dramatically. today there is not a single orth

way that could be true. the people of that region would not have had the technology, the governing institutions or even the will to build such a structure thousands of years before khafre s reign. 28 when i first started to research this issue, i had assumed, as hawass appeared to claim, that some incontrovertible new evidence must have been found which had settled the identity of the monument s builder. this was not the case. indeed there are only three contextual reasons why the construction of the anonymous, uninscribed and enigmatic 23 gaston maspero, the passing of empires, new york, 1900. 24 see chapter thirty-five. 25 for a general summary of these views see john ward, pyramids and progress, london, 1900, pp. 38-42. 26 the gods of the egyptians, volume i, pp. 471-2 and volume ii, p

o an earlier restoration of the monument one undertaken during the fourth dynasty by khafre. this explanation, which bears the obvious implication that the sphinx must already have been old in khafre s time, is rejected by modern egyptologists. with their usual telepathic like-mindedness they now agree that thutmosis put the cartouche on to the stela to recognize that khafra had been the original builder (and not a mere restorer. since there had only ever been this single cartouche and since the texts on either side of it were missing when the stela was excavated, is it not a little premature to come to such hard-and-fast conclusions? what sort of science is it that allows the mere presence of the cartouche of a fourth dynasty pharaoh (on a stele erected by an eighteenth dynasty pharaoh) t

iest of heliopolis, whose other titles were sage, sorcerer, astronomer and doctor.16 15 humanity.15 tradition had it that its architect was the legendary imhotep, great of magic, a high priest of heliopolis, whose other titles were sage, sorcerer, astronomer and doctor.16 16 ibid, p. 158. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 351 saqqara. we shall have more to say about the step-pyramid and its builder in a later chapter, but on this occasion i had not come to saqqara to see it. my sole objective was to spend a few moments in the burial chamber of the nearby pyramid of unas, a fifth dynasty pharaoh who had reigned from 2356 to 2323 bc.17 the walls of this chamber, which i had visited several times before, were inscribed from floor to ceiling with the most ancient of the pyramid texts, an

(b) that it is the cenotaph of seti i is the only attribution accepted by egyptologists. on close inspection, however, it rests on the circumstantial evidence of the cartouches and inscriptions which prove nothing. indeed part of this evidence appears to contradict frankfort s case. the ostracon bearing the legend seti is serviceable to osiris sounds less like praise for the works of an original builder than praise for a restorer who had renovated, and perhaps added to, an ancient structure identified with the first time god osiris. and another awkward little matter has also been overlooked. the south and north transverse chambers, which contain seti i s detailed decorations and inscriptions, lie outside the twenty-foot-thick enclosure wall which so adamantly defines the huge, undecorated

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

kill a lamh or a hack cock on the stone, just as at frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, ds. no. 185. at arta a thousand masons wrought at a bridge: all that they raised in the day rushed down at night. then sounded the archangel's voice from heaven' unless ye dig theveinto a child of nutn, the masonry shall not stand; yet no orphan nor stranger shall ye bury, but the master-builder's wife' when the wife came to the workmen, the master pretended his ring had dropt into the foundation, and the woman offered to fetch it out, then swiftly they set to work to icall her in; dying, she pronounced a curse on the bridge, that it should tremble like a flower-stalk (tommaseo's canti pop. 3, 178. still more touching is a servian legend on the building of scutari: for three years

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the first little church was finished, the giant flung his hammer through the air: wherever it alighted, the next building was to begin. it came to the ground five miles off, and there was erected the second church, on completing which the giant flung the hammer once more, and where it fell, at the same distance of five miles, he built the third chapel. in the one at sachsenheim a huge rib of the builder is preserved (mone s anz. 8,63. the following legends come from westphalia: above nettelstadt-on-the-hill stands the hiinenbrink, where hiines lived of old, and kept on friendly terms with their fellows on the stell (2^ miles farther. when the one set were baking, and the other wanted a loaf done at the same time, they just pitched it over see suppl. a hiine living at hilverdingsen on the

111. it is not as smiths, like the cyclops, that giants are described in german legend, and the forging of arms is reserved for dwarfs. once in our hero-legend the giant asprian forges shoes (roth. 2029; also the giant vade makes his son velint learn smithwork, first with mimir, then with dwarfs. as for smidr in the on. language, it does not mean faber, but artificer in general, and particularly builder; and to be accom plished builders is a main characteristic of giants, the authors of those colossal structures of antiquity (p. 534. on the nine giantpillars near miltenberg the common folk still see the handmarks of the giants who intended therewith to build a bridge over the main (deut. sag. no. 19. the most notable instance occurs in the edda itself. a iotunn had come to the ases, profe

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d them. in the fourth dynasty the king s role was redefined as being the son of ra, the deputy of the sun god on earth. sneferu, the first king of the fourth dynasty, was one of egypt s greatest builders. three pyramids were completed in his reign, each with two temples for the funerary cult of the king. later literary tradition was favorable to sneferu but not to his successor khufu (cheops, the builder of the great pyramid at giza (see under kings and princes and magicians in deities, themes, and concepts. writing in the fifth century bce, the greek historian herodotus reported a legend that king khufu had been cursed by the gods for closing down their temples to divert resources to his pyramid. archaeological evidence suggests an element of truth to this tradition. local temples seem to

mass migration known as the sea peoples. the same enemies in even greater numbers faced rameses iii (c. 1184 1153 bce, the second king of the twentieth dynasty. he defeated them by sea and land in battles that are recorded on the walls of his fortresslike mortuary temple at medinet habu. this whole temple is a monument to the triumph of order over chaos, but rameses iii was the last great temple builder of the new kingdom. temples and kings throughout the new kingdom much of the wealth generated by the empire and by the exploitation of egyptian and nubian gold fields was spent on building and endowing temples. all over the country the small, mainly mud-brick, temples that had been common in earlier periods were replaced by large stone structures whose walls were carved with hieroglyphic t

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

men have at first misinterpreted and finally emasculated, materialized, besotted them. it does not require a new revelation. let every man be a revelation unto himself. let once man's immortal spirit take possession of the temple of his body, drive out the money-changers and every unclean thing, and his own divine humanity will redeem him, for when he is thus at one with himself he will know the "builder of the temple" q. this is pure altruism, i confess. a. it is. and if only one fellow of the t.s. out of ten would practice it ours would be a body of elect indeed. but there are those among the outsiders who will always refuse to see the essential difference between theosophy and the theosophical society, the idea and its imperfect embodiment. such would visit every sin and shortcoming of

art one, and thy unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. thou art one, and no thought of mine can fix for thee a limit, or define thee. thou art, but not as one existent, for the understanding and vision of mortals cannot attain to thy existence, nor determine for thee the where, the how and the why in short, our deity is the eternal, incessantly evolving, not creating, builder of the universe; that universe itself unfolding out of its own essence, not being made. it is a sphere, without circumference, in its symbolism, which has but one ever-acting attribute embracing all other existing or thinkable attributes-itself. it is the one law, giving the impulse to manifested, eternal, and immutable laws, within that never-manifesting, because absolute law, which in it

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

et that more people are going to know who mr. spock is, than who know who lugh is. the star trek universe has a high fantasy content, and seemingly few points of contact with our everyday worlds of experience. yet star trek is a modern, mythic reflection of our psychology. the characters embody specific qualities- spock is logical, sulu is a often portrayed as a martial figure, scotty is a master builder, and kirk is an arbitrator, forever seeking resolution of conflict through peaceful means. as we get into the star trek universe, we find greater depth and subtlety. we find that the universe has its own rules which the characters are subject to, and is internally consistent. each episode, we may find that we are being given insights into the personal world of a key character. like our eve

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

st what joseph curwen looked like; and he decided to make a second search of the house in olney court to see if there might not be some trace of the ancient features beneath peeling coats of later paint or layers of mouldy wall-paper. early in august that search took place, and ward went carefully over the walls of every room sizeable enough to have been by any possibility the library of the evil builder. he paid especial attention to the large panels of such overmantels as still remained; and was keenly excited after about an hour, when on a broad area above the fireplace in a spacious ground-floor room he became certain that the surface brought out by the peeling of several coats of paint was sensibly darker than any ordinary interior paint or the wood beneath it was likely to have been

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what will tfaey have to offer in the place of the departed, expired religion? what will they answer, these pretended monotheists, these worshipers and jwrado-servants of the one living grod, to their creator? how will they account for this long persecution of those who were the true followers of the grand megahstor, the supreme great master of the rosicrucians, the rirst of masons "for he is the builder and architect of the temple (rf the universe; he is the verbum sapienii "every one knows" wrote the great manichaean of the third cen- tury, faustus "that the evai^eb were written neither hy jesus christ, 64 "hie altogether mystic ccdoring (rf chrisuajiity harmotuzed with the eweme rule* of life mtd opinion, and it it not improbable that jcsiu and john the baptift were in- itiated inta the

eator who calls inert matter into life, through his vivi^tng spirit, and, therefore, is called the ancient of the world. abatur is the 'father' who creates the first adam, who creates in his turn the second. abatur opens a gate and walks to the dark water (chaos, and looking down into it, the darkness refiects the image of himself. and lo! a son is formed the logos or demiurge; fetahu, who is the builder of the material world, is called into existence. according to the gnostic dogma, this was the metatron, the archangel gabriel, or mes- senger of life; or, as the biblical allegoiy has it, the androgynous adam- kadmon ag^n, the son who, with his father's spirit, produces the anointed, or adam before his fall. when svayambh, the 'lord who exists through himself' feela impelled to manifest hi

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

to the great earth, profaned by sin, partaking of that reddest (but that most transcendently lucent) sacrament, which is to be the new light of a new world? is not the very name of the intercommunicating high-priest that of the factor of this mystic, glorious, spirit-trodden, invisible bridge? whence do we derive the word pontifex, or pontifex maximns (the great, or the highest, bridge-maker, or builder, elicited in direct translation from the two latin words pons and facio in the earliest pre-christian theologies, and become pontiff in the roman and the christian sense pontiff from pontifex? it is surely this meaning that of fabricator or maker of the bridge between things sensible and things spiritual, the nature of religious rites. 119 between body and spirit, between this world and th

l, half fish or reptile, but called by mr. hodgson, of newcastle-upon-tyne, a basilisk, appear together on a mitliraic sculptured slab of the roman period, found in the north of england. what is more remarkable still, the star and crescent, or sun and moon, also appear, the whole being enclosed in what has been called the fire-triangle, or triangle with its face upwards. 134 the rosicrucians. the builder, london architectural journal, of june 6th, 1863, has some valuable observations on geometrical and other symbols. in regard to the word alhambra, we may associate another word appropriated to druidical stones in england men-amber. a famous logan-stone, commonly called men-amber, is in the parish of sethney, near pendennis, cornwall. it is 11 feet long, 4 feet deep, and 6 feet wide. from t

the twenty-first. myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in its many disguises. ne of the targums says that ayh a serpent, tempted adam, or the first man, and not hwj, eve, his wife. here we have the object of adoration of the ophites the female generative power the destroying, regenerating power among the ophites, and, indeed, the gnostics generally. the serpent was called the megalistor, or great builder of the universe (maia, or bhuddist illusion. here again we recognise, under another name (ophites, the cyclopes, or the builders of the circular temples at stonehenge and everywhere else. mr. payne knight has repeated an observation of stukeley, that the original name of the temple at abury was the snake s head. and he adds, it is remarkable that the remains of a similar circle of stones (

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ek were taken. it was a quarter of a mile off, down-hill. in a pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. it lay there just as the giants of the old forgotten time left it when they were called hence; to remain for thousands of years an eloquent rebuke to such as are prone to think slightingly of the men who have lived before them. this enormous block lies there squared and ready for the builder's hands, a solid mass 14 feet by 17 feet wide and 70 feet long. one could use the same words almost to describe the massive unfinished stone statues left in the quarries on easter island. something sudden terminated the work of easter island and baalbek. i do not say that it was the very same something, but the epoch is certainly of the same order of time and there are elements in common

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

del, each of its parts has no freedom of choice. similarly, most contemporary scientists will tell you that the physical universe is exactly like the toy train, and that every action of each part in the universe is determined entirely by preceding events in the universe. they will even insist that there is no other model. reality is made solely of a universe and a toy train within it; there is no builder, no engineer who designs and builds the toy train. alongside this view, there is a branch of modern science called quantum mechanics. this branch acknowledges that the theory we just presented is incorrect, and that there is in fact an element of complete freedom in the physical universe where particles of atoms do not behave mechanically, but choose how to behave. i am using the word choo

e and reaching the actual level of the creator. r e g a i n i n g c o n s c i o u s n e s s 143 at such a point we can say that they are of one mind, in adhesion, or equivalence of form. to be exact, the blueprint appears at the very first contact with spirituality. this is because each spiritual degree is a complete structure of ten sefirot. the substance of the building, its structure, even its builder, all become known with the appearance of the very first picture. after admission to the spiritual world, one becomes better and better acquainted with its structure because spirituality is built solely with one s consent to every step in the process. the consent pertains to one s intention to bestow, the altruistic intention. one s independence and free choice, one s place of work, are in

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

of attainment, and the rav is on a higher level. the disciple has a connection and a special relation to that teacher. thanks to that connection, the disciple can gradually resemble the rav and ultimately become a rav on his own. a disciple is a person who can learn from a higher degree, or rav, and be like him. if, for example, you want to learn how to be a construction worker, you ll turn to a builder to teach you. if man s primary desire is to learn to be like someone else, you can call him a disciple, and the person from whom he studies is called a rav. these things can change because during the spiritual maturing of man, while in the midst of studies, there are spiritual ups and downs. at one time, the student considers self a disciple, another time a friend, and sometimes even a rav

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

significance of the columns presided over by the three principal officers, we must recall the occult teaching of the great divine trinity of father, son and holy ghost, or shiva, vishnu and brahma. in their unity they are one universal god in whom everything exists, whether it be animate or inanimate, for there is nothing but that. but in their separate appearances, the holy ghost is the maker or builder of the outer world, and the son is the life in all beings, the glight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world h. every material object in the world is part of the being of god the holy ghost in this large sense, and every life or consciousness is part of the consciousness of god the son, who is the manifested solar logos. behind these, invisible and beyond all imagining, is the

is my home. h he has realized the first part of that quotation, but not quite yet the second; he feels as though he were merely a visitor to these mundane regions where most people settle themselves and make themselves at home, yet he is not definitely established in spiritual work. when he has cast off the three fetters of self-centredness, doubt and superstition, he is called kutichaka, the hut-builder; he is now no longer a wanderer, unsettled in both worlds, for he has found for himself a definite place and work on the buddhic plane. when this is achieved a mark is given to him, typified in masonic and biblical phraseology as a white stone, upon which a new name is written- the true name of the ego. 752. the hindu term for the man who takes the third great step is hamsa, the swan; and

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ity of agade in asia minor was peopled by their descendants. 220. these, then, had held for a long time the sea-board of asia minor and the islands of cyprus and crete, and all the trade of that part of the world was carried in their vessels. a fine civilization was gradually built up in crete, which endured for thousands of years. the name of minos will ever be remembered as its founder or chief builder, and he was of these elder greeks, even before 10,000. b.c(*op. cit, pp. 309-10) 221. recent discoveries in crete 222. it is only since the year 1900 that, largely owing to the work of sir arthur evans, the modern world has come to know something about the cretan civilization, and to realize that in age and splendour it compared even with the grandeur of ancient egypt. but even now, though

h king solomon on more than one occasion referred to his brother of tyre on points of detail) together with the s s, and although the w s were given in hebrew, for the most part their meaning remained the same. king solomon himself seems to have been largely responsible for our ceremony of raising; he it was who, at the instance of hiram abiff, changed the legend of osiris into that of the master builder who attempted to escape by the s, n, and e. g s and was s n because he would not divulge the s s of a m.m. the name of the original master builder was not of course given as now, for he himself assisted in the construction of the legend; neither was there any fatality connected with the actual building of the holy temple. the insertion of the present name was the work of rehoboam, when he

ve always sat in the chair of king solomon, while the two wardens occupy those of hiram king of tyre and hiram abiff. thus there is a very real truth behind our masonic tradition. 290. the original traditional history as adapted by king solomon contained much more of the legend of osiris, and was altogether more coherent and reasonable than it is to-day; for there was a resurrection of the master-builder as well as a death, and the search of isis for the body of osiris was reflected in the search of certain craftsmen for the body of the master. but this was rather in the nature of a verbal charge than apiece of ritual working, and it was therefore more likely to become distorted in the course of ages. this is exactly what took place. the ceremonies were handed down from age to age with ver

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

er of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. he was known as an expert in the study of the tarot and cabala, and was said to have been asked by the inner school to reinterpret the ageless wisdom for the western audience. bota s name originated from the greek term meaning holy of holies, and referring to the metaphysical building of one s inner temple.members of bota regard jesus as a carpenter, a builder, and a teacher of the inner spiritual life. 36 builders of the adytum bota is viewed by its members as a mystery school following the western interpretation of ancient wisdom. followers are taught mastery of their physical environment and development of the mental capacities, as well as provided with answers to such metaphysical questions as the nature of immortality. its teachings are bas

LIBER ALEPH

part, to the conscious will. in the slave-ages this is a truth universal, or well night to it; for in such times are men compelled to uniformity by the constraint of necessity herself. yea, of old it was a continual siege of every man of every clan, of every environment; and to relax guard was then self-murder, or also treachery. so then no man might chose his way, until he were hunter, fighter, builder; not any woman, but she must first be breeder. now in the growth of states by organisation came, stepping stealthily, a certain security against the grossest perils, so that a few men could be spared from toil to cultivate wisdom, and this was first provided by the selection of a caste pontifical. by this device came the alliance of king and priest, strength and cunning fortifying each the

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

the gods, midgard (central-enclosure) for humans, and utgardar (outer-enclosures) for the jotnar (the last, however, is found only in connection with utgarda-loki. within asgard was valholl. what makes asgard an enclosure is the wall around it, which an elaborate story in gylfaginning seems to address. the gods had established midgard and deities, themes, and concepts 61 had built valholl when a builder came to them and offered to build a fortress so secure that giants could not get through it. he offered to do the job in a year and a half against a payment of freyja, the sun, and the moon. the gods thought they had cut a great deal when they got him to agree to do the job within half a year with only the help of his horse svadilfari. they were mistaken, and when three days were left it a

reat deal when they got him to agree to do the job within half a year with only the help of his horse svadilfari. they were mistaken, and when three days were left it appeared all but certain that the wall would be completed. the gods blamed loki and threatened him. loki changed himself into a mare and distracted svadilfari. the wall was never completed, and when thor returned he killed the giant builder. loki subsequently gave birth to sleipnir. references and further reading: the medieval and folklore analogues to the story of the construction of the wall were long ago pointed out by c. w. von sydow, gstudier i finnsagnen och beslaktade byggmastarsagner, h fataburen, 1907: 65.78, 199.218; and 1908: 19.27; lotte motz fs discussion, gsnorri fs story of the cheated mason and its folklore pa

story of thor fs visit to geirrod. often it is loki whose actions set the complications of a story in motion: for example, he is stuck to thjazi and agrees to deliver idun and her apples; he is starved by geirrod and agrees to deliver thor without his weapons. sometimes when things go wrong the asir assume it is loki fs fault even when no blame has entered the story, as in the story of the master builder of the wall around asgard. but in that story and others, he is willing to fix things; for example, he causes the six precious objects of the gods to be made in connection with replacing sif fs hair, which he had mysteriously cut off (these six objects, made by dwarfs, are sif fs golden headpiece, odin fs spear gungnir and his ring draupnir, thor fs hammer, and frey fs boar gullinborsti and

o be made in connection with replacing sif fs hair, which he had mysteriously cut off (these six objects, made by dwarfs, are sif fs golden headpiece, odin fs spear gungnir and his ring draupnir, thor fs hammer, and frey fs boar gullinborsti and his ship skidbladnir) not infrequently loki sacrifices his honor (or worse) to help the asir, as when he changes himself into a mare to seduce the master builder fs horse and bears a foal from it, not something that would enhance a man fs reputation in the hyper-masculine society that was medieval iceland. similarly, dressing as the handmaiden of freyja (that is, of thor very reluctantly in drag) would leave him deities, themes, and concepts 217 this stone found in cumbria depicts a bound figure, perhaps loki (axel poignant archive) panel from the

norri mentions niflhel, and he appears to be paraphrasing and expanding the stanza from vafthrudnismal. well behaved persons, he says, will be with alfodr, gbut evil men will go to hel and thence to niflhel; that is down in the ninth world. h the confusion between niflheim and niflhel is neatly summed up by variation in the manuscripts of snorri fs edda. in describing the fate of the giant master builder of the wall around asgard, two of the four main manuscripts say that thor bashed the giant fs head and sent him to niflheim, and the other two say that thor sent him to niflhel. see also ginnunga gap; hel njord god, member of the vanir group. according to snorri fs gylfaginning njord lives in heaven at noatun (boathouse; he rules the motion of the wind and stills the sea and fire; he shoul

sir, and so forth, and sleipnir is included as the best of horses. snorri agreed; in gylfaginning snorri has a little list of the horses of the asir, which he begins with sleipnir. gsleipnir is best; odin owns him; he has eight legs. h later snorri quotes grimnismal, stanza 44, and this prompts gangleri to ask about sleipnir. har responds with the story of the building of asgard. the giant master builder has agreed to do the work only with the help of his horse, svadilfari. if he succeeds in meeting the deadline, the gods must pay him freyja, the sun, and the moon. three days before the deadline the work is nearly complete, and loki, who the gods say advised them to make the deal, must act. he changes himself into a mare and distracts svadilfari, and without the horse the work cannot be fi

to do the work only with the help of his horse, svadilfari. if he succeeds in meeting the deadline, the gods must pay him freyja, the sun, and the moon. three days before the deadline the work is nearly complete, and loki, who the gods say advised them to make the deal, must act. he changes himself into a mare and distracts svadilfari, and without the horse the work cannot be finished. the master builder goes into a giant rage, thus revealing himself as a giant, and the gods call on thor to kill him. not much later loki bears a gray eight-legged foal, the best of horses among the gods. this 274 norse mythology story is alluded to in hyndluljod, stanza 40, which is part of the gshort voluspa, h although in this stanza it is not absolutely clear that loki played the female role: loki sired t

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ture "34 it is significant that the "royal art" is said to have had a divine source, while the source of skill in "creating habitations" and of "the sciences geometry and architecture" is seen as the study of nature. we can sum up this interpretation of these essays which introduce the antients' constitutions thus: there are two disciplines in freemasonry: the "royal art" or "the mystery; and the builder's craft. the former was taught to adam by the deity immediately after the fall in order to enable mankind to regain the edenic state in which he was conscious of the divine presence, and this is the essence of masonic teaching. the latter, which has to do with the making of physical structures and was learned from man's study of nature, is peripheral to the central masonic teaching. initia

MAGIC AND SPELLS

portal is not currently able to transport creatures (usually because it has a limited number of uses, and they are currently exhausted it has a weak aura strong or weak, a portal radiates transmutation magic. the analyze portal spell can reveal even more about a portal. portal operation creatures who touch or pass through the area of the portal are instantly teleported to the locale the portal's builder has specified (the teleportation effect is similar to teleport without error cast by a 17th-level caster, except that interplanar travel is possible) it is not possible to poke one's head through a portal to see what's on the other side. a portal can only transport creatures that can fit through the portal's physical dimensions. if a solid object blocks the destination, the portal does not

cation as close as possible to the original destination. a suitable location has a" surface strong enough to support the user and enough space to hold the user. unattended objects cannot pass though a portal. fpr example, a character can carry any number or arrows through a portal' but he cannot fire an arrow through a portal. an unattended object that hits a portal simply bounces off. unless the builder has preset some limit, any number of creatures can pass through a portal each round. a creature using a portal can take along up to 850 pounds of gear. in this case, gear is anything a creature carries or touches. if two or more creatures touchthe same piece of equipment, it counts against both creatures' weight limits. t. magic keyed portals portal builders often restrict access to their

rt spell description (page 264 of the player's handbook) and roll 1d20+80 as on the "false destination" line. 41-50 nothing happens. the portal does not function. 51-100 the portal.functions normally. building a portal any character of at least 17th level can build a portal if she knows the create portal feat and either the teleportation circle or gate spell. the portal can lead to any locale the builder has personally visited at least once. the portal fails if the builder chooses a destination that cannot safely hold her (such as inside a solid object or into thin air. the portal also fails if the destination is a locale where astral travel is blocked (see the teleport spell description. base cost: the builder must spend 50,000 gp on raw materials to create a single, continuously active o

the builder must spend 50,000 gp on raw materials to create a single, continuously active one-way portal covering an area up to 10 feet in radius (about 300 square feet. the market value of a portal is twice its cost in raw materials. crafting a portal requires one day for each 1,000 gp in its market price, and 1/25 of the market price in xp (one hundred days and 4,000 xp for the base portal. the builder can create a second portal at the destination point, making a two-way portal, for half price (25,000 gp, fifty days, 2,000 xp larger and smaller portals: a portal can be crafted as small as 1 square. foot (about a 6-inch radius, but this does not reduce the cost. the smallest portal usable by a medium-size creature is 12 square feet magic (roughly a 2-foot radius. small creatures can use p

imes per day or more is just as expensive as a continuously active portal. portals usable less than once per day can be created by using the appropriate fraction. for example, a portal usable once per four days effectively has 1/4 a use per day, costs 2,500 gp in materials, and 200 xp. the minimum cost of a limited-use portal is 1,000 gp and 80 xp for a portal usable once per ten days (the portal builder can choose to have a portal operate even less often-once a year, for instance-but this does not reduce the cost or xp expenditure any further) each activation of a limited-use portal lasts 1 round. once activated, a limited-use portal can transport as many creatures as can touch it that round. spells of faer n almost every faith of faer n harbors secret divine spells, prayers and invocatio

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

y fashioned bodies the seeds of living things. the darkness below, receiving the hammer of the word, was fashioned into an orderly universe. the elements separated into strata and each brought forth living creatures. the supreme being--the mind--male and female, brought forth the word; and the word, suspended between light and darkness, was delivered of another mind called the workman, the master-builder, or the maker of things "in this manner it was accomplished, o hermes: the word moving like a breath through space called forth the fire by the friction of its motion. therefore, the fire is called the son of striving. the workman passed as a whirlwind through the universe, causing the substances to vibrate and glow with its friction, the son of striving thus formed seven governors, the sp

imself was an initiate of the sacred schools and consequently obligated to preserve inviolate the secrets of the ancient orders. the theory advanced by herodotus and now generally accepted that the pyramid was the tomb of the pharaoh cheops cannot be substantiated. in fact, manetho, eratosthenes, and diodorus siculus all differ from herodotus--as well as from each other--regarding the name of the builder of this supreme edifice. the sepulchral vault, which, according to the lepsius law of pyramid construction, should have been finished at the same time as the monument or sooner, was never completed. there is no proof that the building was erected by the egyptians, for the elaborate carvings with which the burial chambers of egyptian royalty are almost invariably ornamented are entirely lac

ffigies of jesus christ, the virgin mary, and the twelve apostles. from an old print, courtesy of carl oscar borg. upon the twelve phalanges of the fingers, appear the likenesses of the apostles, each bearing its own appropriate symbol. in the case of those who suffered martyrdom the symbol signifies the instrument of death. thus, the symbol of st. andrew is a cross; of st. thomas, a javelin or a builder's square; of st. james the less, a club; of st philip, a cross; of st. bartholomew, a large knife or scimitar; of st. matthew, a sword or spear (sometimes a purse; of st. simon, a club or saw; of st. matthias, an axe; and of st. judas, a halbert. the apostles whose symbols do not elate to their martyrdom are st. peter, who carries two crossed keys, one gold and one silver; st. james the gr

pirituality; the branches of the tree are the separate parts of the divine constitution and may be likened to the individuality; and the leaves--because of their ephemeral nature--correspond to the personality, which partakes of none of the permanence of its divine source. next: the hiramic legend sacred texts esoteric index previous next the hiramic legend p. 77 when solomon--the beloved of god, builder of the everlasting house, and grand master of the lodge of jerusalem--ascended the throne of his father david he consecrated his life to the erection of a temple to god and a palace for the kings of israel. david's faithful friend, hiram, king of tyre, hearing that a son of david sat upon the throne of israel, sent messages of congratulation and offers of assistance to the new ruler. in hi

f solomon's temple does not in every particular parallel the scriptural version, especially in those portions relating to chiram abiff. according to the biblical account, this master workman returned to his own country; in the masonic allegory he is foully murdered. on this point a. e. waite, in his new encyclop dia of freemasonry, makes the following explanatory comment "the legend of the master-builder is the great allegory of masonry. it happens that his figurative story is grounded on the fact of a personality mentioned in holy scripture, but this historical background is of the accidents and not the essence; the significance is in the allegory and not in any point of history which may lie behind it" chiram, as master of the builders, divided his workmen into three groups, which were t

d, and after admitting their guilt were duly executed. parties of three were then sent out by king solomon, and one of these groups discovered the newly made grave marked by the evergreen sprig. after the entered apprentices and the fellow- craftsmen had failed to resurrect their master from the dead he was finally raised by the master mason with the "strong grip of a lion's paw" to the initiated builder the name chiram abiff signifies "my father, the universal spirit, one in essence, three in aspect" thus the murdered master is a type of the cosmic martyr--the crucified spirit of good, the dying god--whose mystery is celebrated throughout the world. among the manuscripts of dr. sigismund bastrom, the initiated rosicrucian, appears the following extract from von welling concerning the true

reme, the superior, and the inferior spheres of the pythagoreans. at the gate of the inferior sphere (the underworld, or dwelling place of mortal creatures) stands the guardian of hades--the three--headed dog cerberus, who is analogous to the three murderers of the hiramic legend. according to this symbolic interpretation of the triune spirit, chiram is the third, or incarnating, part- the master builder who through all ages erects living temples of flesh and blood as shrines of the most high. chiram comes forth as a flower and is cut down; he dies at the gates of matter; he is buried in the elements of creation, but--like thor--he swings his mighty hammer in the fields of space, sets the primordial atoms in motion, and establishes order out of chaos. as the potentiality of cosmic power wi

es waiting for man by the elaborate ritualism of life to transmute potentiality into divine potency. as the sense perceptions of the individual increase, however, man gains ever greater control over his various parts, and the spirit of life within gradually attains freedom. the three murderers represent the laws of the inferior world--birth, growth, and decay--which ever frustrate the plan of the builder. to the average individual, physical birch actually signifies the death of chiram, and physical death the resurrection of chiram. to the initiate, however, the resurrection of the spiritual nature is accomplished without the intervention of physical death. the curious symbols found in the base of cleopatra's needle now standing in central park, new york, were interpreted as being of first

building is actually the tomb or embodiment of the creative ideal of which its material dimensions are but the shadow. moreover, the hiramic legend may be considered to embody the vicissitudes of philosophy itself. as institutions for the dissemination of ethical culture, the pagan mysteries were the architects of civilization. their power and dignity were personified in chiram abiff--the master builder--but they eventually fell a victim to the onslaughts of that recurrent trio of state, church, and mob. they were desecrated by the state, jealous of their wealth and power; by the early church, fearful of their wisdom; and by the rabble or soldiery incited by both state and church. as chiram when raised from his grave whispers the master mason's word which was lost through his untimely dea

MEANING OF MASONRY

ries previously, had been employed in connection with the medieval building guilds, but it gave to them a far fuller meaning and a far wider scope. it has always been the custom for trade guilds, and even for modern friendly societies, to spiritualize their trades, and to make the tools of their trade point some simple moral. no trade, perhaps, lends itself more readily to such treatment than the builder's trade; but wherever a great industry has flourished, there you will find traces of that industry becoming allegorized, and of the allegory being employed for the simple moral instruction of those who were operative members of the industry. i am acquainted, for instance, with an egyptian ceremonial system, some 5,000 years old, which taught precisely the same things as masonry does, but i

t of which we human beings have been created, the" mother-earth" from which we have all sprung and to which we must all undoubtedly return. man was made, the scriptures teach, out of the dust of the ground, and it is that ground, that earth or fundamental substance of his being, which requires to be" measured" in the sense of investigating and understanding its nature and properties. no competent builder erects a structure without first satisfying himself about the nature of the materials with which he proposes to build, and in the speculative or spiritual and" royal" art of masonry no mason can properly build the temple of his own soul without first understanding the nature of the raw material he h as to work upon. geometry, therefore, is synonymous with self knowledge, the understanding

nderstand the external symbols and allegories of it (2) the square, resting upon the sacred volume, is the symbol of the human soul as it was generated out of the divine word which underlies it. that soul was created" square" perfect, and like everything which proceeded from the creator's hand was originally pronounced" very good" though invested with freedom of choice and capacity for error. the builder's square, however, used as a craft symbol, is really an approximation of a triangle with its apex downwards and base upwards, which is a very ancient symbol of the soul and psychic constitution of man and is known as the water triangle (3) the compasses interlaced with the square are the symbol of the spirit of the soul, its functional energy or fire. of itself the soul would be a mere ine

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

icked earth-children, and thus destroy themand all life (p. 301)maori legendsmaori legends mention how an enraged hero, called tawhaki, stamped his foot on the earth cracking it.(see p. 303)children of adamdonnelly relates these children of adam to the human stages of development:atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation189 appendix b: book abstracts abel kept the flocks (pastoral)cain builder of the first city (architecture)tubel cain the metallurgist (technology)jabal erected tents and kept cattle (agriculture)jubal made musical instruments (art and culture)more than one godand the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever (gen-esis 3:22)come le

MORALS AND DOGMA

rgotten_ work. the _real_ conquerors, creators, and eternal proprietors of every great and civilized land are all the heroic souls that ever were in it, each in his degree: all the men that ever felled a forest-tree or drained a marsh, or contrived a wise scheme, or did or said a true or valiant thing therein. genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the almighty founder and world-builder himself. all work is noble: a life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god. the almighty maker is not like one who, in old immemorial ages, having made his machine of a universe, sits ever since, and sees it _go. out of that belief comes atheism. the faith in an invisible, unnameable, directing deity, present everywhere in all that we see, and work, and suffer, is the essence of all fa

led themselves under the name of _brethren masons [this name _fr res ma ons_ in the french, adopted by way of secret reference to the builders of the second temple, was corrupted in english into _free_-masons, as _pythagore de crotone_ was into peter _gower_ of _groton_ in england _khairum_ or _khur-um (a name mis-rendered into _hiram) from an artificer in brass and other metals, became the chief builder of the _haikal kadosh, the holy house, of the temple, the ?e; and the words _bonai_ and _banaim_ yet appear in the masonic degrees, meaning builder and builders "the trowel of the templars is quadruple, and the triangular plates of it are arranged in the form of a cross, making the kabalistic pantacle known by the name of the cross of the east. the knight of the east, and the knight of the

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

gst the celestials, in which his disloyal partner was the first to join, with unconcealed merriment. aphrodite greatly preferred ares to her husband, and this preference naturally gave rise to much jealousy on the part of hephastus, and caused them great unhappiness. hephastus appears to have been an indispensable member of the olympic assembly, where he plays the part of smith, armourer, chariot-builder &c. as already mentioned, he constructed the palaces where the gods resided, fashioned the golden shoes with which they trod the air or water, built for them their wonderful chariots, and shod with brass the horses of celestial breed, which conveyed these glittering equipages over land and sea. he also made the tripods which moved of themselves in and out of the celestial halls, formed for

nder the care of chiron, to join him in the perilous expedition. none refused the invitation, all feeling honoured at being allowed the privilege of taking part in so noble and heroic an undertaking. jason now applied to argos, one of the cleverest ship-builders of his time, who, under the guidance of pallas-athene, built for him a splendid fifty-oared galley, which was called the argo, after the builder. in the upper deck of the vessel the goddess had imbedded a board from the speaking oak of the oracle of zeus at dodona, which ever retained its powers of prophecy. the exterior of the ship was ornamented with magnificent carvings, and the whole vessel was so strongly built that it defied the power of the winds and waves, and was, nevertheless, so light that the heroes, when necessary, wer

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

a high priest. in the louvre there are seated statues of goudea, who was both a patesi, meaning a governor representing the gods, and an architect. the architects seem to have been inspired by the gods they served.3 the books of i kings (5:13 ff and 7:13, 14) and ii chronicles (2:14 and 4:11) inform us that in judea during the construction of the temple of jerusalem, under the direction of master builder hiram of tyre and adoniram, solomon had 70,000 men to carry loads and 80,000 to carve the stones from the mountains, not to mention those who had managed each job, who numbered about 3,300 and gave orders to the workers. though we have no actual historical information on the subject, this story reveals that among the artisans busy on the construction of the temple there was a professional

f the eastern ramparts of carcassone are attributed to the visigoths for very plausible reasons. and finally, there are saint marcel near chalon and saint martin of autun, two important buildings connected to the memory of king gontran and queen brunhilde.2 the last of the gallo-roman provincial leaders may well have been a bishop of cahors, saint didier or gery, who died in 654. he won fame as a builder and was regarded by his contemporaries as having rediscovered the ancient mechanical system for producing large cut stones, which had been abandoned during the final years of the empire. in addition to his cathedral, he repaired or built part of the ramparts of cahors, erected bridges across the lot river, and built an episcopal palace and various religious establishments. the collegia and

nce were the members of the collegia of builders, keepers of the secrets of the original collegia in rome that were subsequently enriched with eastern traditions. it was the lessons provided by these byzantine collegia that formed the basis of the indigenous schools in various parts of the empire. outside the byzantine empire, this influence is particularly noticeable in the regions where similar builder's associations existed: the middle east; the parts of italy not under lombard control* and those former kingdoms of the burgundians and visigoths in which roman institutions had not disappeared. we will soon see how it was in these same regions that romanesque art first bloomed. finally, there is one important fact that produced its own ramifications: the still-thriving byzantine collegia

salem "honored him greatly, giving to him and his heirs a large private income inside the castle and ensuring that his wife and children, who had been sent to the land of the pagans, were freed."14 the useless precautions of the saracens and the honors bestowed by king amaury on this "carpenter" show that this title must have concerned a man of a certain high social standing, most likely a master builder. hugues plagon, the second continuer of guillaume de tyr, writes that in 1253 the saracens of damascus came to acre, destroyed doc and ricordane and captured sidon "and slew eight hundred men and more, and took prisoners, including masons as well as other folk, some four hundred persons."15 this quote from a contemporary underscores the regard held for the masons on the part of the crusade

ast building that displayed all the appearances of a former monastery inside. this monastery, according to tradition, had belonged to the templars, which explains why rue saint paul was called rue des templiers in 1824, in the alignment map of the city" 98 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages this old rue des francs-masons bears proof that in moissac there once existed builder craftsmen benefiting from exemptions; from this it is hardly an audacious jump to connect their origin to the benedictines and templars. the introduction of the templars into builders associations the last interaction the templars had with the builders associations was their own introduction into these groups following the destruction of the order. certain authors have taken this even furt

and adam ravier (known as de moret, and carpenters robert focuchier and philippe milon to see to the construction of the masonry of the three chapels in the alley between said church and the hostel of said priest. p the mention of remon du temple, sworn master mason, must be singled out. this master, better described as an architect and sculptor, practiced between 1363 and 1404. he was the master builder of notre dame in paris and built the famous beauvais college on rue des carmes. his seal depicted a shield bearing a hammer flanked by a square and trowel, with both crowned and flanked by fleurs de iys.24 while working on the louvre and performing construction miracles there, he drew the recognition of charles v, who called him his "beloved sergeant of arms and mason* at this time there c

e, master mason and bourgeois of paris (april 22, 1600; anne le roy, his first wife (september 30, 1597; jean fessart, master mason and bourgeois of paris (16; elisabeth davy, his wife (march 26, 1639; louis le rambert, keeper of the king's marble and bourgeois of paris (august 12, 1614; madeleine maillard, his wife (september 21, 1610; francois angoulvant, lord of launay and gasserant and master builder of locks for the king's buildings (december 18, 1603; charles prevost, master mason and bourgeois of paris (16; fleurie le gendre, his wife (april 3, 1606; guillaume cheron, master mason and bourgeois of paris (n.d; antoinette du chaume, his wife (april 9, 1608* paul lacroix added another name to this list: nicolas the younger, mason (december 13, 1608).27* for more on the epitaph records

louis vii gave the bakers of pontoise a monopoly on the making of bread and in so doing put them under the authority of a master he had chosen. the master was often a king's officer whose domestic duties had some connection to the corporation in question. he might be the head of the corresponding mason corporations in france 149 service in the royal domicile. thus the masons were under the master builder of masonry and the carpenters under the king's master carpenter.4 the corporative organization in paris according to the livre des metiers the drafting of the establissements des mestiers de paris, known as the livre des metiers, in 1268 under the direction of etienne boileau, provost of the king, sheds full light on the corporative organization.5 with the creation of this book in mind, et

unities, but only brotherhoods. these also remained the sole professional organizations of the francs metiers. when both groups coexisted, as was the case in paris, they were no less distinct. they sometimes shared the same directors, but ordinarily their management and resources were clearly separate. moreover, membership in the brotherhood was obligatory, as was membership in the community. the builder brotherhoods of paris in the same city, mainly paris, a trade would often engender several brotherhoods, who sometimes had different patrons. this was a result of the distance separating some artisans from others. another consequence was that not all craftsmen were subject to the same statutes. in paris, some were connected to the community and placed under jurisdiction of the king's provo

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

when her mother learns of her fate, her tears create three new rivers. forlorn fisherman when v in m inen learned of aino s death, his consolation was to go fishing on the sea. there he landed a beautiful fishy fish i never saw the like of! he drew his knife to cut it up, but it flipped out of the boat and revealed itself to be aino, turned into a mermaid. sea voyager v in m inen was a great boat builder and sea voyager. although his mother was the daughter of the air, he was born in the sea and his name derives from v in river mouth. forging the sampo by akseli gallen kalela (1865 1931) drowning maid when aino drowns she becomes a mermaid, the wave-wife s watery maid, ahto s peerless cbild. as she drowns she identifies herself with the sea the waters are her blood and the fish her flesh

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

the teacher will find it necessary to "bring down the subject" to the level of the student. in order for the teacher to shape his teachings to the capacity of the student, he must assess exactly who it is he is teaching. this assessment is at the very beginning of the line, so to speak, and is a slight protrusion from the point. it is called kav hamidah (the measuring line) or amat habinyan (the builder s rod, because, though it is short, like a builder s rod or a measuring line, nevertheless, all the measurements of the building are done with it. in the same way, the kav hamidah (measuring line) is the ability of the teacher to "measure" and "assess" the student before the actual line of explanation itself. he must measure and assess the capability and intellectual level of the student

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

phs by the sages of the earliest epoch of the world. simplified and vulgarized in later days, its symbols furnished letters to the art of writing, characters to the word, and to occult philosophy its mysterious signs and pantacles. this book, attributed by the hebrews to enoch, seventh master of the world after adam; by the egyptians to hermes trismegistus; by the greeks to cadmus, the mysterious builder of the holy city: this book was the symbolical summary of primitive tradition, called subsequently kabalah or cabala, meaning reception. the tradition in question rests altogether on the one dogma of magic: the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible. now the ancients, observing that equilibrium is the universal law in physics, and is consequent on the apparent oppositi

RUBY TABLET OF SET

fe the lie that is osiris and the aberrations that followed him. you have left footprints in stone upon the face of gebb. h gi am sekhmet, and my flame honors you whose courage did not falter. you raised the black flame in your life, and it ignites you still. your brilliance is as a thousand stars. h gi am nepthys, and my flame honors you, master of the night. you sit in conference with ptah, the builder of your worlds. you toast the aeon with set, and embrace him as friend. timeless are the words you hear, and the glories see. h celebrant: garise beloved brother. the rites have been accomplished. h shadow: gi am ready to depart. let anubis appear. h invocation to anubis celebrant: hbehold anubis, the opener of the way. you hold the keys to the netherworld. your keen eye lets no one unwort

tes, although brighter. the shaft rising through the center of the card, and the seven concurrent elliptical blue rings, is of the same blood red as set's ankh. the three-eyed goat is gone, and in its stead is the figure of a man dressed in black. his clothing is extremely form-fitting, after the fashion of a leotard or nylon stocking. in physical appearance he closely resembles a modern day body builder. a black cape with a lining of the same color as set's headgear hangs about his shoulders. the horns that protrude from the temporal areas of his head are much like the horns of the goat that he replaces, and brown in color. in his right hand he holds a trident equal in length to the man himself. this trident is a bluish-white, which it achieves due to its intense heat. the man is totally

back and forth along the 3k length of the boardwalk. i felt i would know when the right time had arrived.(5) for the results of the experiment to make sense, it's worth my while to tell the reader what i encountered during my run. as i made my way (initially, in an easterly direction, i came across the following items in order of appearance: an olympic-sized swimming pool; a second playground; a builder's fence, made of redwoodcoloured slats of wood and wire; various piers and breakers along the waters edge (initially, to my right; two snack facilities; various apartment buildings and other dwellings to the left of me (north side of the boardwalk and beach; tennis courts; a small lighthouse; and at the easterly limit of the boardwalk, a rowing club. dotted along the water's edge were grou

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

be japanese are almost one and the same; shinto has been referred to as the religion of japaneseness. for example, shinto, through the kami, emphasizes living a life in harmony with nature. this cultural value is carried out in architectural styles and in the design of japanese homes, which are built to capture the beauty and harmony of the natural world. japanese home building codes require the builder to include a garden and to position windows so that the occupants can look out on it. formal gardens in japan, in effect, become an expression of shinto. similarly, shinto urges its followers to lead simple and unadorned lives. this belief is reflected in the size of japanese homes. the average home size in japan (including apartments) is about 800 square feet (74 square meters. in the uni

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

the left arm suddenly and with spirit, as soon as the two motions are accomplished" 84 codex magica page from a rosicrucian manual. in the center is an egyptian statue of pharaoh amenhotep iv giving the hand and arm sign later adapted by freemasonry. for he's a jolly good fellow 85 enclosure walls of pyramid with statue of pharaoh netjerykhet djoser. statue of cheops, or khufu, thought to be the builder of the great pyramid of giza in egypt (photo: from the riddle of the pyramids, by kurt mendelssohn) 86 codex magica statue of high priest kai, discovered recently by archaeologists in giza, egypt. colorful portrait of egyptian ruler, wep-em-nefret for he's a jolly good fellow 87 88 codex magica illuminati servant pat robertson, founder of cbn and the 700 club, giving his, by now, notorious

pecially the masonic lodges of israel. it is a sign of high rank and is said to invoke good fortune on the part of the user. the sign is often given publicly at the beginning, or commencement of a project to enhance success. promoter sidney shlenker, here giving the sign of the ram, was in the news back in 1992, shlenker, a jewish wheeler-dealer and owner of a professional basketball team, was co-builder of memphis, tennessee's massive new great pyramid of the americas. newly chosen palestinian leader mahmoud abbas, successor to the late plo chief yasser arafat, gives the cabalistic sign with his hands to indicate expectation of success and to invoke good fortune. it is thus apparent that abbas is a servant to the jewish illuminati who only pretends to represent palestinian interests (u.s

lodge's great architect (false god) to create the heavens and the earth. in reality, the letter "g" represents gnosticism, the core doctrine of masonry, and the generative process (sex act. masonry is, as daniel notes, a sex cult. however, english freemasonry (the united lodge of britain) substitutes a human arm wielding a hammer in place of the "g" this arm and hammer represents the mason as the builder, as "man at work" creating the heavens and the earth. thus, man becomes god. the arm and hammer is of socialist/communist origins. the same symbol is found on a bestselling brand of baking soda. noted communist financier and oil corporation ceo armand hammer was given his name in honor of the communist movement. note, too, that the arm and hammer symbol inside the square and compass is con

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ents. an individual cannot blame his or her parents, church, schooling, or any other person or event for making him or her the way he or she is. in ignorance, one may have made oneself unhappy, but with conscious awareness that person can make himself or herself a happy, productive individual. because individuals create their own reality, they can therefore change it. seth s belief in mind as the builder expands the concept of human personality in a unique way. since thoughts and emotions are believed to create reality, then dreams, too, have a separate reality. when individuals dream of themselves, they are seeing a fragment of their own personality, such as the probable self identified by seth. according to the spirit entity, each individual has a counterpart in other systems of reality

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

enomena to put on a show for him. price and his assistant had just shared a lunch with mr. and mrs. smith when a glass candlestick struck an iron stove near the investigator s head and splashed him with splinters. a mothball came tumbling down the stairwell, followed by a number of pebbles. price busied himself for the next several days with interviewing the surviving daughters of henry bull, the builder of the rectory, and as many former servants as had remained in the village. the eldest of the three surviving daughters told of seeing the nun appear at a lawn party on a sunny july afternoon. she had approached the phantom and tried to engage it in conversation, but it had disappeared as she had drawn near to it. the sisters swore that the entire family had often seen the nun and that the

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

aith. 11:8 by faith abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. 11:9 by faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with isaac and jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 11:10 for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] god. 11:11 through faith also sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 11:12 therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 11:13 these all died in fai

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

it is the unmanifest in its entirety, and the veil that barred it from the bosom of god was the veil of human flesh surrounding it during life. therefore, each birth and death is a complete round of incarnation that returns the acquired measure of life experience back to the unmanifest. the human ego is like a worm that burrows and lives in the wooden handle of a carpenter's plane that the master builder uses to shape its great work. human identity is the worm. human function is the fulfillment of divine purpose. the human body is the plane. when the plane breaks or wears out, the builder does not fashion another lovingly around the worm. only the incredible conceit of the worm could imagine such a thing. no, the builder casts the broken plane-and the silly vain worm-into its fire and make

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

ew subsidiary degrees which may be said to arise out of the craft- as, for example, the honorable degree of mark master mason. that which is applied more specially to the working implements of masonry belongs to our entire building symbolism, whether it is concerned with the erection by the candidate in his own personality of an edifice or "superstructure perfect in its parts and honorable to the builder" or, in the mark degree, with a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, or again with solomon's temple spiritualized in the legend of the master degree. a system of morality it comes about in this manner that masonry is described elsewhere as "a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" i want to tell you, among other things which call for consi

te's own work, wherein he is taught how he should build himself. the method of instruction is practical within its own measures, but as it is so familiar and open, it is not, properly speaking, the subject-matter of a secret order. there is, secondly, a building myth, and the manner in which it is put forward involves the candidate taking part in a dramatic scene, wherein he represents the master-builder of masonry. there is, thirdly, a masonic quest, connected with the notion of a secret word communicated as an essential part of the master-degree in building. this is perhaps the most important and strangest of the three elements; but the quest after the word is not finished in the third degree. the first degree let us look for a moment at the degree of entered apprentice, and how things s

now, it may be observed that in delineating these intimations of our symbolism, i seem already to have departed from the mystery of building with which i opened the conference; but i have, been actually considering various sidelights thereon. it may be understood, further, that i am not claiming to deal with a symbolism that is perfect in all its pats, however honorable it may be otherwise to the builder. in the course of such researches as i have been enabled to make into the instituted mysteries of different ages and countries, i have never met with one which was in entire harmony with itself. we must be content with what we have, just as it is necessary to tolerate the peculiar conventions of language under which the craft degrees have passed into expression, artificial and sometimes co

and you know, that the master degree is one of death and resurrection of a certain kind, and among its remarkable characteristics there is a return to building symbolism, but this time in the form of a legend. it is no longer an erection of the candidate's own house- house of the body, house of the mind, and house of the moral law. we are taken to the temple of solomon and are told how the master-builder suffered martyrdom rather than betray the mysteries which had been placed in his keeping. manifestly, the lesson which is drawn in the degree is a veil of something much deeper, and about which there is no real intimation. it is assuredly an instruction for the candidates that they must keep the secrets of the masonic order secretly, but such a covenant has reference only to the official a

l of something much deeper, and about which there is no real intimation. it is assuredly an instruction for the candidates that they must keep the secrets of the masonic order secretly, but such a covenant has reference only to the official and external side. the bare recitation of the legend would have been sufficient to enforce this; but observe that the candidate assumes the part of the master-builder and suffers within or in him- as a testimony of personal faith and honor in respect to his engagements. but thereafter he rises, and it is this which gives a peculiar characteristic to the descriptive title of the degree. it is one of raising and of reunion with companions- almost as if he had been released from earthly life and had entered into the true land of the living. the keynote is

on each candidate; and if every neophyte shaped his future course both in and out of masonry, as though this were the case actually, i feel that the royal art would be other than it now is and that our individual lives would differ. part iii recurring to the legend of the third degree, the pivot upon which it revolves is the existence of a building secret, represented as a master-word, which the builder died to preserve. owing to his untimely death, the word was lost, and it has always been recognized in masonry that the temple, unfinished at the moment of the untoward event, remained with its operations suspended and was completed later on by those who obviously did not possess the word or key. the tradition has descended to us and, as i have said, we are still on the quest. now what doe

re perpetuated through centuries, owing to the idolatry of israel at the foot of mount horeb in the wilderness of sinai, and illustrated by the breaking of the tables of stone on which the law was inscribed; so does speculative masonry intimate that the holy house, which was planned and begun after one manner, was completed after another and a word of death was substituted for a word of life. the builder i shall not need to tell you that beneath such veils of allegory and amidst such illustrations of symbolism, the master-builder signifies a principle and not a person, historical or otherwise. he signifies indeed more than a single principle, for in the world of mystic intimations through which we are now moving, the question "who is the master" would be answered by many voices. but generi

to the state of eve in paradise, when, she had become infected by the serpent. to sum up as regards the sources, the lost word in masonry is derived from a kabalistic thesis of imperfection in the divine name jehovah, by which the true pronunciation- that is to say, the true meaning- is lost. it was the life of the house of doctrine, represented by the temple planned of old in israel. the master-builder is the spirit, secret or life of the doctrine; and it is the quest of this that every mason takes upon himself in the ceremony of the third degree, so that the house, which in the words of another masonic degree, is now, for want of territory, built only in the heart "a superstructure perfect in its parts and honorable to the builder" craft masonry but if these are the sources of craft mas

ature among the latin-writing scholars had not merely a scholastic basis. they believed that the texts of the secret tradition showed plainly, out of the mouth of israel itself, that the messiah had come. this is the first fact. the second i have mentioned already, namely, that although, the central event of the third degree is the candidate's raising, it is not said in the legend that the master-builder rose, thus suggesting that something remains to come after, which might at once complete the legend and conclude the quest. the third fact is that in a rather early and important high degree of the philosophical kind, now almost unknown, the master-builder of the third degree rises as christ, and so completes the dismembered divine name, by insertion of the hebrew letter shin, this produci

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

should contain supplies are opened, there cometh forth therefrom nothing but wind. everything is in a state of ruin. my mind hath remembered, going back to former time, when i had an advocate, to the time of the gods, and of the ibis-god, and of the chief kher-heb priest i-em-hetep,[fn#172] the son of ptah of his southern wall [fn#166] tcheser was a king of the iiird dynasty, and is famous as the builder of the step pyramid at sakkarah. his tomb was discovered by mr. j. garstang at bet khallaf in upper egypt in 1901 [fn#167] i.e, the people who were in front of, that is, to the south of egypt, or the population of the country which lies between dakkah and aswan [fn#168] the ancient egyptian name for elephantine island, which appears to have gained this name because it resembled an elephant

et the minerals (or, precious stones [lie] under each other [and they have done so] from olden time, and no man hath worked them in order to build the houses of the god, or to restore those which have fallen into ruin, or to hew out shrines for the gods of the south and of the north, or to do what he ought to do for his lord, notwithstanding that i am the lord and the creator [fn#190] he was the "builder of men, maker of the gods, the father who was from the beginning, the maker of things which are, the creator of things which shall be, the source of things which exist, father of fathers, mother of mothers, father of the fathers of the gods and goddesses, lord of created things, maker of heaven, earth, tuat, water and mountains (lanzone, dizionario, p. 957 "i am [he] who created himself, n

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

literally, s acrifices to the 'gods, the reptilians, and they have been happening for thousands of years. the mass sacrifice of people by the aztecs in central america, and so many others, were to provide food for, the physical reptilians and crossbreeds who eat the bodies and drink the blood, and energy nourishment, for the non-physical reptilians of the lower fourth dimension. phil schneider, a builder of us underground bases, told the writer and researcher, alex christopher, that when children reached the point where they could not work anymore in the slave conditions underground, they were consumed by the reptilians. they prefer young children because they are not contaminated like adults. hard to accept isn't it? i'm sure your mind is screaming 'nonsense' at you because who wants to f

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

tchcraft crimes, practically everyone knew who was who, and the destruction of the little people was easy. then the town witches' turn came. these were easy, too, for they were the people who lived well and were worth looting. the majority were exterminated by various forms of torture. but they were also the people most valuable to the community, the people who made things, the blacksmith and the builder among others, the farmers who grew the food. the nobles probably protected those whom they could, but many nobles were themselves attacked and convicted, as was the duchess of gloucester and margery jourdemain, the witch of eye. it is said that king edward iii saved one witch from certain torture at that famous incident to which the origin of the order of the garter was ascribed. he was da

WILLIAM WESCOTT THE CHALDEAN ORACLES OF ZOROASTER TRANSLATION

eflection into the "second mind" representative of the divine power in the empyraean world which is identified with the second great triad of divine powers, known as the intelligible and at the same time intellectual triad: the thereal world comprises the dual third triad denominated intellectual: while the fourth or 2 of 13 elementary world is governed by hypezokos, or flower of fire, the actual builder of the world. chald an scheme. the intelligibles the paternal depth world of supra-mundane light the first mind_ the intelligible triad pater: mater or potentia: mens_ the second mind_ intelligibles and intellectuals iynges in the synoches empyraean world teletarch (the third mind) three cosmagogi intellectuals (intellectual guides inflexible) in the three amilicti ethereal world (implacab

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

s number shall be the glyph hieratic to unlock the fort ress of the aeon; captain is he of all the hosts of mars, and ra hoor khuit cro wned king in that palace of force and fire. set, the beast, for ayin; thoth, al astor the logos, for yod; apis, perdurabo, for vau; and hoor hoorpakraat, bapho met, for zain; foursquare, mystic, wonderful, as cherubs shall i that am one th rough these four be the builder and warder thereof. and the scarlet woman shall bear her cup therein, bestriding her beast& iacchaiion shall stand with his rod, to wige that beast therewith. for he hast the wand of death& the beast the cup of death, but the beast h ath the wand of life& the scarlet woman the chalice of life. now pe joineth& guardeth the victory& the splendor, the frontiers of the kingdom of truth& it is

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

d this number shall be the glyph hieratic to unlock the fortress of the aeon; captain is he of all the hosts of mars, and ra hoor khuit crowned king in that palace of force and fire. set, the beast, for ayin; thoth, alastor the logos, for yod; apis, perdurabo, for vau; and hoor hoorpakraat, baphomet, for zain; foursquare, mystic, wonderful, as cherubs shall i that am one through these four be the builder and warder thereof. and the scarlet woman shall bear her cup therein, bestriding her beast& iacchaiion shall stand with his rod, to wige that beast therewith. for he hast the wand of death& the beast the cup of death, but the beast hath the wand of life& the scarlet woman the chalice of life. now pe joineth& guardeth the victory& the splendor, the frontiers of the kingdom of truth& it is t

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

at thy will may be done "come unto us for we all draw nigh unto thee. lo! we clothe this thy son in a shining robe of glory (she puts the robe on postulant and points to the cross on the floor) sh "the last shall be the first; and the lowest, the highest. yea, malkuth shall be exalted unto the throne of kether and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy. for behold! the stone which the builder rejected, the same shall become the chief cornerstone. the cross of suffering is transmuted with the keystone of the arch; and raised thereon above the earth, the son shall offer that which he hath received and peradventure then may behold the face of his father (the postulant must fold up the cross into a cube and kneel thereon, supported by sh and kg. postulant holds his crystal in both

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

07 an egg hcyb chain; flaming arrow qz the shield (or star) of david (the hexagram) dwd ngm 108 2x2 3x3x3: hence used as the number of beads on a rosary by some sects the ears mynz) the fruit of a deep valley lxnh yb)b a wall cyx to force, do wrong to smx to love very much nnx to shut up, obstruct msx the middle ycx to measure out, share; a decree, statute; tall (masc; task; boundary (cf. 113) qx builders mynwb leader gyhnm 109 lightning zqb quiet hxwnm music nwgn circle; sphere lwg( small +q 110 father of faith hnwm)h b) the roof of a [bridal] canopy( gthe artificial roof of heaven, under which the promises of marriage are delivered h) hpwxh gg resemblance, likeness, image nwymd to embrace qbx at the end of the days; the right hand nymy a sign, flag, standard sn kinsmen, nation, populace;

ineffabilis; and many other sentences. see crowley, coll. works vol. i. appendix) y r n y enemy r( evil; friend (r 271 earth (ch (whence glow, mean h (r) in these words, as follows (see 256, hrym) rm)l 272 earth)(r) to consume; to injure; brutish r(b a great blow hbr hkm the evening; to grow dark; to exchange, pawn; poplar, willow; desert; arabia; sweet, pleasant; raven br( 273 the stone that the builders rejected (ps. 118:22) mynwbh ws)m nb) the hidden light zwng rw) four (br) rebuked r(g took away (rg 274 paths mykrd 275 pleasant abode h)n hryd the river of justice nyd r)y? scripture (perh. lit. gscratched h) w+rs evil h(r 276 a cithara rwnk the moon (cf. 218 )rhys 277 to sow, propagate; seed, semen (rz favour, benevolence )w(r 278 the world of mevetbau: the natural world (referred to ne

ings 10:14) aleister crowley (rabbi battiscombe gunn fs transliteration) ylwrq ry+syl) ommo satan: the gevil triad h of satan-typhon, apophras, and besz. lit. gthe dimness of satan h, scil. gveil h) nts wmm( the name jesus hw#hy m# his secret place (ps. 18:11, his covering wrts your god *mkyhl) 667 the oil for lighting rw)ml nm# 668 a female merchant trxs the ears *mynz) to shut up, obstruct *msx builders *mynwb 670 deprecating, entreating rt( kinsmen, nation, populace; with, by, near *m( 671 bearing fruit yrp h#w( the gate: a title of malkuth)(rt taro (cf. 216, 224& 280 (r)t adonai: my lord (spelt in full :y:n:d) he is one god: a name of god *myhl )wh dx) aum (thus in s.s; cf. 47 *m) 672 the lord god: the divine name of binah *myhl) hwhy 674) a merchant trxws 676 resplendent ccwntm doves

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e seen. it might here be well to point out that, working as members of that hierarchy are a great number of beings called angels by the christian, and devas by the oriental. many of them have passed through the human stage long ages ago, and work now in the ranks of the great evolution parallel to the human, and which is called the deva evolution. this evolution comprises among other factors, the builders of the objective planet and the forces which produce, through those builders, every form familiar and unfamiliar. the devas who co-operate with the hierarchical effort, concern themselves, therefore, with the form aspect, whilst the other members of the hierarchy are occupied with the development of consciousness within the form. chapter v the three departments of the hierarchy we have al

ence. first. they are sounded by some fully self-conscious entity, and this invariably takes place after a period of deliberation or meditation wherein the purpose in toto is visualised- 88- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust second. they affect the deva kingdom and produce the creation of forms. this effect is dual in character a. the devas on the evolutionary path, the great builders of the solar system, and those under them who have passed the human stage respond to the sound of the word, and with conscious realisation collaborate with the one who has breathed it forth, and thus the work is carried out. b. the devas on the involutionary arc, the lesser builders, who have not passed through the human stage, also respond to the sound, but unconsciously, or perforce, an

of the seven planes of our solar system. they are committed not to human entities, but to the seven great devas or raja-lords who are the ensouling lives of a plane; hence in the various initiations their collaboration is necessary, before these key words can be committed to the initiate. 4. forty-nine words related to the forty-nine subplanes or fires. these again are committed to the forty-nine builders of the sacred fires. the above two groups of words are in the jurisdiction of the third aspect, and are given out by brahma. 5. there are again five great words with signs which come under the department of vishnu, or god the son, and are breathed out by him. by their means the five kingdoms of nature on the evolutionary arc came into being: a. the mineral kingdom. b. the vegetable kingdo

ual in nature, but the inherent triplicity of electricity is as yet but a matter for speculation for modern science. the fact that it is triple is demonstrated to the initiate at the first initiation, and the secret of how to balance forces on the physical plane, and thereby produce equilibrium, is revealed to him at the first initiation. this secret likewise puts him in touch with certain of the builders on the physical plane that is, on the etheric levels and he can then produce physical plane phenomena should he deem it wise. this he seldom does, as the results gained thereby are practically unimportant and he wastes not energy in this manner. the workers with the involutionary forces, the brothers of darkness, employ this method for the startling and the enthralling of the unwary. not

onsideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby that army works within the veils of maya. this rule refers to the work of occult investigation, which must be pursued at some time or another by all who seek initiation. though it is not safe for the uninitiated to tamper with the parallel evolution of the devas, yet it is necessary and safe to investigate the procedure pursued by the builders, the methods followed by them, in reproducing from the archetype, via the etheric that which we call physical manifestation; their sounds must be somewhat theoretically cognised, and the sounds whereby they are swept into activity considered. this involves, therefore, the organised study, by all applicants, of: 1. the purpose of sound. 2. the esoteric meaning of words, of grammar, and of

initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chohan. lord, master, a chief. in this book it refers to those adepts who have gone on and taken the sixth initiation. deva (or angel. a god. in sanskrit a resplendent deity. a deva is a celestial being, whether good, bad, or indifferent. devas are divided into many groups, and are called not only angels and archangels, but lesser and greater builders. egoic groups. on the third subplane of the fifth plane, the mental, are found the causal bodies of the individual men and women. these bodies, which are the expression of the ego, or of the individualised self-consciousness, are gathered together into groups according to the ray or quality of the particular ego involved. elementals. the spirits of the elements; the creatures involved in

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e fire, when the threefold apex likewise burns, then the two triangles the greater and the lesser merge into one flame, which burneth up the whole. stanza ii "aum" said the mighty one, and sounded forth the word. the sevenfold waves of matter resolved themselves, and varied forms appeared. each took its place, each in the sphere ordained. they waited for the sacred flood to enter and to fill. the builders responded to the sacred sound. in musical collaboration they attended to the work. they built in many spheres, beginning with the third. upon this plane their work commenced. they built the sheath of atma and strung it to its primary- 13- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust "aum" said the mighty one "let now the work proceed. let the builders of the air continue with the

e sacred sound. in musical collaboration they attended to the work. they built in many spheres, beginning with the third. upon this plane their work commenced. they built the sheath of atma and strung it to its primary- 13- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust "aum" said the mighty one "let now the work proceed. let the builders of the air continue with the plan" the deva-lord and builders upon the plane of air worked with the forms within that sphere which is reckoned mainly theirs. they wrought for union, each in his group assigned. the moulds grew fast beneath their hands. the sacred plane of juncture, the fourth great plane, became the sphere within the greater circle which marked the goal for man "aum" said the mighty one, he breathed forth to the fifth, the plane whic

goal for man "aum" said the mighty one, he breathed forth to the fifth, the plane which is the burning-ground, the meeting place for fire. this time a cosmic note is heard beneath the sound systemic. the fire within, the fire without, meet with the fire ascending. the guardians of the cosmic fire, the devas of fohatic heat, watched o'er the forms that formless stood, waiting a point in time. the builders of a lesser grade, devas who work with matter, wrought at the forms. they stood in fourfold order. upon the threefold levels in empty silence stood the forms. they vibrated, they responded to the key, yet useless stood and uninhabited "aum" said the mighty one "let the waters too bring forth" the builders of the watery sphere, the denizens of moisture, produced the forms that move within

the key, yet useless stood and uninhabited "aum" said the mighty one "let the waters too bring forth" the builders of the watery sphere, the denizens of moisture, produced the forms that move within the kingdom of varuna. they grew and multiplied. in constant flux they swayed. each ebb of cosmic motion increased the endless flow. the ripple of the forms was seen "aum" said the mighty one "let the builders deal with matter" the molten solidified. the solid forms were built. the crust cooled. the rocks congealed. the builders wrought in tumult to produce the forms of maya. when the rocky strata were completed the work stood in completion. the builders of the lowest grade announced the work was finished. forth from the rocky strata emerged the covering next. the builders of the second agreed

ade announced the work was finished. forth from the rocky strata emerged the covering next. the builders of the second agreed the work was done. the first and second on the upward way stood forth in fourfold form. the inner five was somewhat seen by those whose sight was keen "aum" said the mighty one, and gathered in his breath. the spark within the peopling third impelled to further growth. the builders of the lowest forms, manipulating densest maya, merged their production with the forms built by the watery ones. matter and water merged produced the third in time. ascension thus progressed. the builders worked in union. they called the guardians of the fiery zone. matter and water mixed with fire, the inner spark within the form were blended all together- 14- a treatise on cosmic fire c

ll begin with man and his etheric body. the etheric body has been described as a network, permeated with fire, or as a web, animated with golden light. it is spoken of in the bible as the "golden bowl" it is a composition of that matter of the physical plane which we call etheric, and its shape is brought about by the fine interlacing strands of this matter being built by the action of the lesser builders into the form or mould upon which later the dense physical body can be moulded. under the law of attraction, the denser matter of the physical plane is made to cohere to this vitalised form, and is gradually built up around it, and within it, until the interpenetration is so complete that the two forms make but one unit; the pranic emanations of the etheric body itself play upon the dense

ded. d. by the transmutation of the violet into the blue. this we cannot enlarge on. we simply make the statement, and leave its working out to those students whose karma permits and whose intuition suffices- 74- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust e. by the withdrawal of the life, the form should gradually dissipate. the reflex action here is interesting to note, for the greater builders and devas who are the active agents during manifestation, and who hold the form in coherent shape, transmuting, applying and circulating the pranic emanations, likewise lose their attraction to the matter of the form, and turn their attention elsewhere. on the path of out-breathing (whether human, planetary or logoic) these building devas (on the same ray as the unit desiring manifestatio

who is the sumtotal of the elemental essences in process of involution. he holds a position (in relation to a heavenly man) analogous to that held by the different elementals that go to the make-up of man's three bodies, physical, astral and mental, and he is like all manifesting beings threefold in his nature, but involutionary. therefore, man and devas (differentiating the devas from the lesser builders) form the soul of a heavenly man. other lives form his body, and it is with body and soul that we are concerned in these two divisions of our thesis on fire. one group manifests the fire of matter, the other group the fire of mind, for the devas are the personification of the active universal mind, even though man is considered manasic in a different sense. man bridges in essence; the dev

ter, will parallel all the processes on the major planes. this is easily to be seen on the mental plane, for instance, in connection with man. theoretically, the absorption of all faculty by the causal body, and the discontinuance of all enforced objectivity in the three worlds at the close of the synthesising period is conceded. on the other planes it is not so obvious. on the buddhic plane, the builders on the evolutionary arc, or a large part of the deva evolution, undergo a paralleling synthesis. on the physical plane a mysterious synthesis in connection with the "spirit of the earth" is undergone, and the first three ethers are related to him in a way as yet little understood. we might sum it up thus: first, the balancing of electrical phenomena, or the achievement of synthesis in con

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magic to be wrought- 2- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust rule nine condensation next ensues. the fire and waters meet, the form swells and grows. let the magician set his form upon the proper path. rule ten as the waters bathe the form created, they are absorbed and used. the form increases in its strength; let the magician thus continue until the work suffices. let the outer builders cease their labors then, and let the inner workers enter on their cycle. rule eleven three things the worker with the law must now accomplish. first, ascertain the formula which will confine the lives within the ensphering wall; next, pronounce the words which will tell them what to do and where to carry that which has been made; and finally, utter forth the mystic phrase which will save

substance, the lesson of this epoch will be grasped. other lessons will be left but this one passes. matter and substance together work out the way of darkness. substance and purpose blended indicate the way of light" rule ten as the waters bathe the form created, they are absorbed and used. the form increases in its strength; let the magician thus continue until the work suffices. let the outer builders cease their labours then, and let the inner workers enter on their cycle. thought-form building. the centres, energies, and rays. astral energy and fear. the right use of energy. the present age and the future. the founding of the hierarchy. the new group of world servers. astrology and the energies. thought-form building in rule ten two facts about the form are stated, which are true of

which are true of all forms, and three strong injunctions are given in the following terms: the facts are- 156- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the form absorbs and uses the waters in which it is immersed. 2. as a result it grows in strength. the three injunctions are: 1. let the magician go on building his form until its adequate potency is assured. 2. then let the "outer builders" cease from labour. 3. let the "inner builders" enter on their cycle. we have seen how, in the process of thought-form building, the time came when the form had to be oriented in the right direction and set upon the proper path in order to carry out its creator's will and purpose. this takes place fairly early in the work and after the process of orientation the work of building proceeds

the building. let him desist from dealing with the raw material on the physical plane, and let him study the- 159- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust pattern and the blue prints, acting as the agent of the divine mind. let him use two energies and work with three laws. these are the dynamic energy of purpose, conforming to the plan, and the magnetic energy of desire, drawing the builders to the centre of endeavour. let these three laws hold sway, the law of synthetic limitation, of vibratory interplay, and of active precipitation. the one concerns the life, the second concerns the building, and the third produces manifested existence. let him deal first with the outer builders, sending his call to the periphery of his circle of influence. let him set the waters of living

hold sway, the law of synthetic limitation, of vibratory interplay, and of active precipitation. the one concerns the life, the second concerns the building, and the third produces manifested existence. let him deal first with the outer builders, sending his call to the periphery of his circle of influence. let him set the waters of living substance in motion by his idea and impulse, bending the builders to his purpose and plan. let him build with judgment and with skill, preserving always the "stool of the director" and coming not down into close contact with his thought-form. let him project, in time and space, his form through visualization, meditation and skill in action, and so produce that which his will commands, his love desires, and his need creates. let him withdraw the builders

him build with judgment and with skill, preserving always the "stool of the director" and coming not down into close contact with his thought-form. let him project, in time and space, his form through visualization, meditation and skill in action, and so produce that which his will commands, his love desires, and his need creates. let him withdraw the builders of the outer form, and let the inner builders of dynamic force push it forth into manifestation. through the eye of the creator are these inner builders brought to functioning, directed action. through the word of the creator were the outer builders guided. through the ear of the creator the volume of the greater word vibrates through the waters of space. let him remember the order of creative work. the waters of space respond to the

dynamic force push it forth into manifestation. through the eye of the creator are these inner builders brought to functioning, directed action. through the word of the creator were the outer builders guided. through the ear of the creator the volume of the greater word vibrates through the waters of space. let him remember the order of creative work. the waters of space respond to the word. the builders build. the cycle of creation ends and the form is adequate in manifestation. the cycle of performance succeeds and depends for its duration on the potency of the inner builders, who constitute the subjective form and transmit the vitalising life. let him remember that the cessation of the form ensues when purpose is achieved, or when impotency of will produces failure of functioning in th

of graded lives) to vitalisation and stimulation from higher centres of energy. some of the factors that the disciple has to learn to recognize as his particular series of lives unfolds falls into two main groups, each of them bringing his form aspect under seven types of energy, or influences. there is first the group of forces which concerns purely the form side, that are the work of the outer builders, and which are the predominant factors right up to the stage of the probationary path. these are the forces inherent in matter itself; they deal with the body nature and might be listed as follows- 161- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. physical forces. these are due to the life of the cells which constitute the body. this cell life is responsive to the cell life of

gregation of races to be carried forward under the great evolutionary plan. these three might be described as the quality of the cell forces operating entirely on the physical plane which produce a peculiar type of physical body, the magnetic attraction between two physical bodies, and the racial types. these three factors guide the manu of the race as he builds a new race and impresses the outer builders with his ideas. they also guide a master of the wisdom as he builds his physical body at will for the carrying forward of his work in any time or place. these emanations should, in measure, be understood somewhat by all those engaged in forming organisations and groups for active service in the world. what, should the disciple ask himself, should be the vibratory quality of the cells of t

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trust- 367- a treatise on white mandcopyright 1998 lucis trust esoteric psychology- volume i a treatise on the seven rays volume i by alice a. bailey copyright 1962 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1990 by lucis trust synopsis of a treatise on the seven rays volume i section one i. introductory remarks ii. certain questions and answers iii. ten basic propositions section two i. the seven creative builders the seven rays ii. the rays and the kingdoms in nature iii. the rays and man iv. some tabulations on the rays volume ii i. the egoic ray ii. the ray of the personality i ii. humanity today volume iii i. the zodiac and the rays- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. the nature of esoteric astrology iii. the science of triangles iv. the sacred and non-sacred planets v. the three major constella

own unfoldment and his own personal fate, and all aspirants who become accepted disciples have to master the technique of disinterestedness. their eyes have also to be lifted away from the group of workers and from the hierarchy which they constitute and to be fixed on wider horizons and vaster realms of activity. they great creative plan, its laws and technique of unfoldment, and the work of the builders of the universe was dealt with; emerging out of the mass of imparted facts, and underlying all the teaching, was the idea of a great life with its own psychology and ideas. it was an attempt to give a synthetic picture of the unfolding mind of god as it works out its plans through the lesser sons of mind. in symbolism and archaic phrases it veiled the truths and principles which lie at th

n the ascendant and five less potent. every group can consequently be a creative centre and produce that which is an expression of the controlling energies and of the directed thought of the thinkers in the group. from the standpoint of those who see and guide, therefore, every group is constructing something that is relatively tangible and governed by certain building laws. the great work of the builders proceeds steadily. often that which is built is inchoate, futile and without form or purpose, and of no use to either gods or men. but the race as a whole is now coming into an era wherein the mind is becoming a potent factor; many are learning to hold the mind steady in the light, and consequently are receptive to ideas hitherto unrecognised. if a group of minds can be so drawn together

an is a psychic entity, a life who, through radiatory influence, has built a form, coloured it with his own psychic quality and thus presented an appearance to the environing world which will persist for as long a time as he lives in form. this statement covers also the life story and the qualified appearance of any one of the seven rays. god, ray, life, and man are all psychological entities and builders of forms. therefore a- 19- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust great psychological life is appearing through the medium of a solar system. seven psychological lives, qualified by seven types of force, are appearing through the medium of the seven planets. each planetary life repeats the same technique of manifestation life-quality-appea

anations came forth from the central vortex and actively repeated the earlier process in all its details- 20- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust they too came into manifestation and in the work of expressing active life, qualified by love and limited by an outward phenomenal appearance, they swept into a secondary activity and became the seven builders, the seven sources of life and the seven rishis of all the ancient scriptures. they are the original psychic entities, imbued with the capacity to express love (which involves the concept of duality, for the loving and the loved, the desiring and the desired, must here be posited) and to emerge from subjective being into objective becoming. we call these seven by various names, as follows

press upon all that is found within his body of manifestation. advanced esotericists debate as to whether mars is, or is not, the planet through which he manifests. you must remember that only a few of the planets are the bodies of expression of the lords of the rays. there are ten "planets of expression (to use the term employed by the ancient rishis, and only seven ray lives are regarded as the builders of the system. the great mystery, which is finally revealed in the higher initiations, is the relation of a ray to a planet. therefore seek not full information at this time. the influence of this sixth lord is now passing out. 7. the lord of ceremonial order or magic is now coming into power and is slowly but surely making his pressure felt. his influence is most potent upon the physical

n: spiritualism of "phenomena" the fourth ray is essentially the refiner, the producer of perfection within the form, and the prime manipulator of the energies of god in such a way that the temple of the lord is indeed known in its true nature as that which "houses" the light. thus the shekinah will shine forth within the secret place of the temple in its full glory. such is the work of the seven builders. this ray is expressive primarily on the first the formless planes, counting from below upwards, and its true purpose cannot emerge until the soul is awakened and consciousness is adequately recording the known. the planes or manifested spheres of expression are influenced in manifestation in a numerical order: ray i. will or power. plane of divinity. ray ii .l ove-wisdom .p lane of the m

form or appearance. this work goes on primarily on etheric levels and involves physical energy. this is the true magical work. i should like to point out that when the fourth ray and the seventh ray come into incarnation together, we shall have a most peculiar period of revelation and of light-bringing. it is said of this time that then "the temple of the lord will take on an added glory and the builders will rejoice together" this will be the high moment of the masonic work- 37- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust spiritually understood. the lost word will then be recovered and uttered for all to hear, and the master will arise and walk among his builders in the full light of the glory which shines from the east. the spiritualising of

magnetic force the new forms will come into being which will permit of purer ray types, and thus of more truly expressive appearances. a great deal of the destructive energy extant in the world today is due to the presence on the astral plane of a first ray disciple of the planetary logos. his work it is to clear the way for the manifestation of these other four major disciples, who are primarily builders; they will enter on their work when the task of the wreckers of form has been accomplished. i should like here to give a suggestion, for it is necessary that some of the methods of the hierarchy should begin to be understood. the work of what in the west is called "the christ principle" is to build the forms for the expression of quality and life. that is the characteristic work of the se

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e rhythm of the times. note the pulsation in the heart of that which is divine. retire into the silence and attune yourself unto the whole. then venture forth. establish the right rhythm; bring order to the forms of life which must express the plan of deity' for this blessed one release is found in work. he must display his knowledge of the plan by the sounding of those words which will evoke the builders of the forms and thus create the new" it might be of value, if here were summarized in more simple and less occult terms, the significance of the above esoteric stanzas, to express their true meaning in a few succinct and terse phrases. the stanzas are of no use unless they convey to the ray types among the students of this treatise some useful meaning, whereby they can live more truly. t

expresses itself through the various ray types in the following manner: ray one dynamic one-pointedness. destructive energy. power realised selfishly. lovelessness. isolation, a longing for power and authority. desire to dominate. expressed strength and self-will, leading to a dynamic use of energy for the furtherance of the plan. the use of destructive forces in order to prepare the way for the builders. the will to power in order to cooperate. power realised as the major weapon of love- 24- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust identification with the rhythm of the whole. the cessation of isolation. ray two the power to build for selfish ends. capacity to sense the whole and to remain apart. the cultivation of a separative spirit. the

ur aryan race, and is today going forward very rapidly. for the individual aspirant, the work has always been possible right down the ages, and it is the major task undertaken by disciples at this time. it might be added here that the new group of world servers is composed of those who are engaged in this work for the race, and every person who builds his bridge joins this group of occult "bridge-builders. there is, therefore, something symbolic about the work of our modern bridge builders who join the chasms and span the waters and thus give concrete evidence of the work being done today by advanced humanity. it now becomes possible to consider the process whereby a man bridges the gulf or gap (speaking symbolically) which exists between the personal lower self and the higher self, as the

necessity for self-control, for tolerance and for unselfishness. but these are elementary stages and should be taken for granted by all students of this treatise. such students are presumably occupied not only with the establishment of the character aspect of discipleship, but with the more abstruse and difficult requirements for those whose goal is initiation. it is with the work of the "bridge-builders" that we are concerned. first, let it be stated that the real building of the antaskarana only takes place when the disciple is beginning to be definitely focussed upon mental levels, and when therefore his mind is intelligently and consciously functioning. he must begin at this stage to have some more exact idea than has hitherto been the case as to the distinctions existing between the

er world of light divine. let the word triumphant go forth 'i mastered energy for i am energy itself. the master and the mastered are but one" ray six "let all desire cease. let aspiration end. the search is over. let the soul realise that it has reached the goal, and from that gateway to eternal life and cosmic peace, let the word sound 'i am the seeker and the sought. i rest" ray seven "let the builders cease their work. the temple is completed. let the soul enter into its heritage and from the holy place command all work to end. then in the silence subsequent, let him chant forth the word .the creative work is over. l, the creator, am. naught else remains but me" ii. the seven laws of soul or group life we come now to a section of our study of the soul and its life which is of real mome

ew forces flowing into the personality to be later used creatively, will be seen in all three bodies. thus the true server comes into possession of his instruments for service, and thenceforth creative work in accordance with the plan can go forward on all three planes. thus has god, in his wisdom, chosen to limit himself, and the work of evolution proceeds solely through the medium of his chosen builders and under the direction on this planet of those men whose lives are being transformed through soul contact and creative service, and who constitute the planetary hierarchy. when alignment has been effected, when the at-one-ment has been more constantly made, and when the antaskarana (the bridge connecting the higher and the lower) is in definite process of construction, the true nature of

less proceeds. a few souls come into incarnation of their own free will and accord; they work with clear knowledge and proceed to the task of the day. they are the key people in any age, and the determining factors, psychologically, in any historical period. it is they who set the pace and do the pioneering work. they focus in themselves both the hatred and the love of the world; they work as the builders or as the destroyers, and they return eventually to their own place, carrying with them the spoils of victory in the shape of the freedom which they have won for themselves or for others. they bear the scars, psychologically speaking, which have been given to them by opposing workers, and they bear also the assurance that they have carried forward the task to which they have been assigned

ily cooperating. in this latter category we can find ourselves if we so desire and if we are willing to make the necessary sacrifices. b. a group composed of aspirants and world-conscious men and women, who are working unconsciously under the guidance of the planetary hierarchy. there are many such, particularly in high places today, who are fulfilling the part of destroyers of the old form or of builders of the new. they are not conscious of any inner synthetic plan, but are selflessly occupied in meeting world need as best they can, with playing parts in the national dramas, or with persistently working in the field of education. the first group is in touch with the planetary hierarchy and it works, if we might so express it, under hierarchical inspiration. the second is in closer touch

nd known for what they are by a sufficient number of people. the work of the great first ray influences is rapidly and materially changing all this, and- 436- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust out of the lessons learnt, the structure of the new civilisation can become possible. the work of the second ray masters is now intensifying, and the builders of the new civilisation working, through the religious organisations, the educational systems of every country and the great army of thinking men and women everywhere can definitely begin to make their presence felt. it is in this department primarily that the work of the new group of world servers can be noted and can be developed. the question may be raised whether we are omitting to re

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

u have all developed as i foresaw, though one or two of the group are learning more slowly than the rest whilst one member of my group has unexpectedly leaped ahead. your work is being steadily consolidated and, as you lay the foundations deep and begin the superstructure, you must guard the original idea and the initial thoughtform from all possible deterioration. the difficulty of the spiritual builders and the architects of the plan only really begins when that which they are constructing becomes public property and subject, therefore, to criticism and outer help. then the task of preserving the original purity of idea and of purpose becomes onerous. be prepared for expansion of the work. but expand according to plan and not according to emergency, for you are building in collaboration

e architects of the plan only really begins when that which they are constructing becomes public property and subject, therefore, to criticism and outer help. then the task of preserving the original purity of idea and of purpose becomes onerous. be prepared for expansion of the work. but expand according to plan and not according to emergency, for you are building in collaboration with the inner builders and the two structures must be counterparts. ponder on this, yet be not rigid on non-essentials. take the tensity of your inner pressure off the work for awhile, my brother. the momentum at this time is adequate to carry the plans forward. therefore, hold steady, brood deeply but drive not. january 1936- 121- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust brother of mine

definitely the vibration of a second ray group at this time. it matters not what group you choose but it does matter that in some second ray group you aid yourself by forcing the emergence of your second ray characteristics. this is not suggested because you, as an individual, are of such importance or that second ray groups exist in order to help people like you. they do not. but the work of the builders is being called for on every side today and second ray aspirants are needed to direct this work and to strengthen the hands of the builders. ponder on this. what is it that, up to date, has prevented your sincere desire to serve from coming to fruition? my brother, you have as yet done no service that will carry over into the future because it has been done at the sacrifice of yourself, t

eadier although in line with the law. they learn through application to the work of building and through incorporation into the form of that which is built. they grow through appreciation of and joy in the forms built and the work accomplished. the devas build and humanity breaks and through the shattering of the forms man learns through discontent. thus is acquiescence in the work of the greater builders achieved. pain is that upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the feet of the logos; pain is the following of the line of the greatest resistance and thereby reaching the summit of the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form and the reaching of the inner fire; pain is the cold of isolation which leads to the warmth of the central sun; pain is the burning in the furnace in

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

de of humanity. for thousands of years, if history is to be believed, the wealthy landowners, the institutional heads of tribes, the feudal lords, the slave owners, merchants or business executives have been in power; they exploited the poor; they searched for the maximum output at the minimum cost. it is no new story. in the middle ages, the exploited workmen, the skilled craftsmen and cathedral builders began to form guilds and lodges for mutual protection, for joint discussion and frequently to promote the finest type of craftsmanship. these groups grew in power as the centuries slipped by yet the position of the employed man, woman or child remained deplorable. with invention of machinery and the inauguration of the machine age during the 18th and 19th centuries, the condition of the l

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

his is the true meaning of the biblical story of christ's being crucified upon the cross of wood or the tree. it is related in reality to the decision made by christ in the garden of gethsemane to take over the building or reconstruction work in aquarius, and thus complete the task which he attempted to do in the piscean age. he and his disciples and the new group of world servers are the pledged builders of the new civilisation, the new "house of humanity" the preparatory work he is now doing will fit him to demonstrate in wisdom (and not only through love) the nature of the hierarchical plans, wise constructive measures, wise choice of builders and correct methods of construction. it is apparent, therefore, that this greatest of the sons of god, the christ, representative of humanity and

which the spiritual energy and principle of spiritual life can make their presence felt in the world, under the direction of the christ in visible presence? such a body now exists, with its members in every land. relatively they are few and far between, but steadily their numbers are increasing, and increasingly their message will be felt. in them is vested a spirit of construction; they are the builders of the new age; to them is given the work of preserving the spirit of truth, and the reorganising of the thoughts of men so that the racial mind is controlled and brought into that meditative and reflective condition which will permit it to recognise the next unfoldment of divinity, which christ will inaugurate. for the last ten years, this new group of world servers has been reorganised

ly cooperating. in this latter category we can find ourselves if we so desire, and if we are willing to make the necessary sacrifices. 2. a group composed of aspirants and world conscious men and women, who are working unconsciously under the guidance of the spiritual hierarchy. there are many such, particularly in high places today, who are fulfilling the part of destroyers of the old form or of builders of the new. they are not conscious of any inner synthetic plan, but are selflessly occupied in meeting world need as best they may, with playing parts of importance in national dramas, or with working persistently in the field of education. the first group is in touch with the spiritual hierarchy to some extent and to a large extent where true disciples are concerned; its members work und

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

they will have a tendency to destroy, as they build, through a wrong direction of energy, through over-emphasis of energy in some particular direction, or through misuse of energy in work with themselves or others. many first ray people have the tendency to pride themselves on this and hide behind a plea that, being upon the first ray, a destructive tendency is unavoidable. such is not the case. builders, such as second ray people always are, have to learn to destroy, when prompted by group love and acting under- 5- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust the will or first ray aspect. destroyers have to learn to build, acting ever under the impulse of group love and utilising the power of attachment in a detached manner. both groups, builders and destroyers, must ever work fro

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

oal of humanity. 9. the fifth creative hierarchy (also numbered 8) is on the verge of liberation. it is peculiarly connected with the tenth creative hierarchy, with the constellation capricorn and with the human personality which veils and temporarily hides the christ principle behind both form and mind. eight is, under some numerical systems, regarded as the number of the christ. 10. the greater builders and the lesser builders, working on the second and third planes of our solar system, have their activities reflected in the work of the lunar lords and the elemental- 22- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust lives. 11. you will note that the human hierarchy (on chart 9-iv-4) is assigned no particular element as it has to fuse and synthesi

chart is drawn up in relation only to the fourth creative hierarchy, the human. it is not drawn in relation to the other planetary manifestations (the chart has been compiled from the very limited stock of knowledge that has thus far been revealed on the subject, and it is as correct as possible under the circumstances) each of the seven hierarchies of beings, found within the twelve, who are the builders or the attractive agents are (in their degree) intermediaries; all embody one of the types of force emanating from the seven constellations. their intermediary work, therefore, is dual: 1. they are the mediators between spirit and matter. 2. they are the transmitters of force from sources extraneous to the solar system to forms within the solar system. each of these groups of beings is li

pon our planet which has merited our planet being called the "star of suffering" there is a karmic link between the animal kingdom and the fifth creative hierarchy of the earlier system which makes itself felt in man in the necessary crucifixion of the animal physical nature, particularly along sex lines. we must remember that the hierarchies work under the law of attraction; it is the law of the builders- 23- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust this first (sixth) hierarchy has for its type of energy the first aspect of the sixth type of cosmic electricity, and wields special power, therefore, in conjunction with the lowest fire, or "fire by friction" as it makes itself felt on the sixth plane. these lives are called "the burning sons of

y is concerned is on human attainment and achieving the point of balance before the other attainments become possible. it is also peculiarly instructive to study the rulers of this sign. from the angle of orthodox astrology, venus rules libra, whilst esoterically speaking uranus rules. saturn is the ruler in this sign of that stupendous creative hierarchy which is one of the three major groups of builders, forming part of the third aspect of divinity; their goal is the giving of form to the sons of mind and thereby offering opportunity for sacrifice and service. a study of the relation of this hierarchy to that of the human egos, the fourth creative hierarchy, will prove most illuminating and is handled somewhat in my earlier treatise on cosmic fire. the nature and purpose of the three rul

this is the esoteric ruler. the significance of this is similar to that of the orthodox ruler. the moon (or fourth ray energy) is here seen as an expression of first ray energy, manifesting through vulcan. the moon rules the form and it is the will of god to manifest through the medium of form. 3. jupiter. this is the hierarchical ruler and rules the second creative hierarchy, that of the divine builders of our planetary manifestation (see the tabulation re the hierarchies) this is the seventh creative hierarchy as well as the second, if the five unmanifesting hierarchies are counted; in the significance of two and seven much of the mystery underlying these hierarchies will be revealed. through these three planetary rulers the energies of the fourth ray pour, governing the mind through me

1998 lucis trust (s.d. iii. 459) 27 "saturn governs the devotional faculties. mercury governs the intellectual faculties. jupiter governs the sympathetic faculties. the sun governs the governing faculties. mars governs the selfish faculties. venus governs the tenacious faculties. moon governs the instinctual faculties (s.d. iii. 463) 28 "the seven angels who preside over the seven planets are the builders of the universe. they are the natural guardians of the seven regions of our planetary system (s.d. iii. 115) 29 "the seven builders graft the divine and the beneficent forces on to the gross material nature of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms every second round (s.d. iii. 162; note, i) 30 "the seven planetary spirits or angels. are identical with the dhyan chohans of the esoteric doctri

gy copyright 1998 lucis trust the first one given above will be regarded as accurate for this world period and will be the basis of our astrological teaching. the informing lives of the seven sacred planets are called by the following names: 1. the seven planetary logoi. 2. the seven spirits before the throne. 3. the seven kumaras. 4. the seven solar deities. 5. the primordial seven. 6. the seven builders. 7. the seven intellectual breaths. 8. the seven manus. 9. the flames. 10. lords of love, knowledge and sacrifice. the words for the signs of the zodiac from the angle of form. natural order. retrogression through signs. pisces through the signs to aries 1. pisces. and the word said: go forth into matter. 2. aquarius. and the word said: let desire in form be ruler. 3. capricorn. and the w

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

parsons. there were two others; gertrude, who married a mr. gurney leatham, and my father's youngest brother, lee la trobe-bateman, who is the only one now remaining alive. my grandmother was anne fairbairn, daughter of sir william fairbairn and niece of sir peter fairbairn. my great-grandfather, sir william, was, i believe, a partner of watts (of steam engine fame) and one of the first railroad builders in the victorian era. through my grandfather's mother (whose maiden name was la trobe, i come from french huguenot stock and the la trobes of baltimore are, therefore, related to me, though i have never looked them up. charles la trobe, my great-great-uncle, was among the first governors of australia and another la trobe was the first governor of maryland. edward la trobe, still another b

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

nsciousness of that body in which the human being moves and lives along sound or unsound lines; we are dealing with the world body in which a human being lives. owing to this, we come up against another great natural law which can be expressed simply as follows: law vi when the building energies of the soul are active in the body, then there is health, clean interplay and right activity. when the builders are the lunar lords and those who work under the control of the moon and at the behest of the lower personal self, then you have disease, ill health and death. this is a profoundly simple rule, but it gives the clue to the causes of disease and to the reason for an established immortality; it will be understood with great clarity and comprehension in a few years' time and will then supers

mation, if they are carefully studied and logically extended. d. by the transmutation of the violet into the blue. this we cannot enlarge on. we simply make the statement, and leave its working out to those students whose karma permits and whose intuition suffices. e. by the withdrawal of the life, the form should gradually dissipate. the reflex action here is interesting to note, for the greater builders and devas who are the active agents during manifestation, and who hold the form in coherent shape, transmuting, applying and circulating the pranic emanations, likewise lose their attraction to the matter of the form, and turn their attention elsewhere. on the path of out-breathing (whether human, planetary or logoic) these building devas (on the same ray as the unit desiring manifestatio

needed energy within the needed centre. let that centre correspond to the centre which has need. let the two synchronise and together augment force. thus shall the waiting form be balanced in its work. thus shall the two and the one, under right direction, heal. law vi when the building energies of the soul are active in the body, then there is health, clean interplay and right activity. when the builders are the lunar lords and those who work under the control of the moon and at the behest of the lower personal self, then you have disease, ill health and death. law vii when life or energy flows unimpeded and through right direction to its precipitation (the related gland, then the form responds and ill health disappears- 315- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyr

healer soul energy focussed in the head centre and the energy of the "needed centre" plus the energy of the centre which controls the point of friction in the patient's body is responsible for the healing, providing it is the destiny of the patient to be healed. law vi when the building energies of the soul are active in the body, then there is health, clean interplay and right activity. when the builders are the lunar lords and those who work under the control of the moon and at the behest of the lower. personal self, then you have disease and ill health and death. this is a most interesting law, because it deals basically with causes, primarily with causes over which the average person has no conscious control, and because it occultly gives a picture in miniature or microcosmically of th

, the constructive force in manifestation. 3. this is true of both the microcosm and the macrocosm. 4. the results are wholeness, right relation and correct activity. 5. when the soul is not in control, and the forces of the form nature are therefore the controlling- 360- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust factors, there will be ill health. 6. the builders of the form are the "lunar lords" the physical, astral and mental elementals. 7. these, in their triple totality, compose the personality. 8. they are occultly under the direction of the moon, the symbol of form, called often the "mother of the form" 9. the emanation coming from the moon has in it the seeds of death and disease, because the moon is a "dead planet" it all comes back again

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

4. the use by the hierarchy of the destroyer aspect of divinity, the first ray, in such a manner that it is in fact a creative factor and one which, in the last analysis, not only releases the life from its previous limitations, but also calls in under the law of balance the building activity of the second ray. the work of destruction is now practically accomplished and over, and the work of the builders is beginning. 5. the new group of world servers has been created as an intermediate body between the hierarchy and the general public. this group is divided into two lesser groups: a. those disciples and workers who are already integrated into some one of the ashrams. b. intelligent and humanitarian aspirants and workers in world affairs and in all departments. these two groups unitedly f

important task of destruction, plus the enunciation of principles. they are preparing the way for the first organised body of disciples and initiates who coming from certain ashrams will proceed with the next phase of the work. second. the stage of the first real externalisation upon a large and organised scale will succeed upon the above endeavours. these disciples and initiates will be the real builders of the new world, of the new civilisation; they will assume leadership in most countries and take high office in all departments of human life. this they will do by the free choice of the people and by virtue of their advanced and proven merit. by this means, gradually the hierarchy will take over the control upon the physical plane subjectively as well as objectively of the direction of

one which is engrossing the attention of all the ashrams at this time; disciples in the first ray ashram, in the second ray ashram and in the seventh ray ashram are peculiarly active along these lines, for the destruction of evil is the work of the first ray, and in so destroying its effects purity is achieved; the fostering of good then becomes possible and is the work of the second ray, of the builders; and the bringing of spiritual energy into contact with substance, and consequently with matter, is the unique work of the seventh ray because it is now in manifestation. the rays which are active and in manifestation at this time and in this cycle are there in conformity to the plan and in preparation for the externalisation of the hierarchy and the reappearance of the christ. these rays

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

for they are built by the power of thought and due process of educating the public consciousness until that consciousness becomes confirmed conviction and demonstrates as an immovable public opinion. this sense of synthesis is one of the things which the new esoteric schools will develop in their students and neophytes, for it will be the people trained interiorly in these schools who will be the builders of the new world and the trainers of future public opinion. the labels and the names whereby these schools may call themselves mean but little. many will proclaim themselves as esoteric schools and will communicate nothing of a truly esoteric nature. they will but attract to themselves the gullible and the foolish. there are many such functioning in this manner today. others may refrain f

ponsible for the creative work upon the outer field must begin with the esoteric work. i am writing here for disciples, some of whom are members of my ashram, and for the new group of world servers; these are responsible for carrying forward the work as planned. the two groups of triangles already formed are in reality building a thoughtform anent this work which will evoke response from the true builders. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that this creative work, with its intelligent and practical purposes and its ability when rightly functioning to unite the exoteric and the esoteric workers in one spiritual undertaking, originates in reality in shamballa itself and was grasped as to intent and purpose by masters upon the first and second rays, though primarily the second ray discip

na, supervise the gradual evolutionary impartation of that will (which is now theirs) to all the forms through which they function in any particular planet for which they have assumed responsibility. this definitely involves working with the soul aspect and with the unfoldment of conscious responsiveness and sensitive reaction to all the higher impressions. second: these masters are the directing builders and creators eventually of all forms of planetary life forms embodying qualities and intentions as yet undreamed of by us. they have developed in themselves a perfected synthesis of the two energies of atma-buddhi, or of spiritual will and spiritual love, completely unified and energetically active in a comprehensive condition seldom attained by any other group of masters in training. it

, and also the necessity for self-control, for tolerance and for unselfishness. but these are elementary stages and should be taken forgranted by the students. such students should be occupied not only with the establishment of the character aspect of discipleship, but with the more abstruse and difficult requirements for those whose eventual goal is initiation. it is with the work of the "bridge-builders" that we are concerned. first, let me assure you that the real building of the antahkarana takes place only when the disciple is beginning to be definitely focussed upon mental levels, and when therefore his mind is intelligently and consciously functioning. he must begin at this stage to have some more exact idea than has hitherto been the case as to the distinctions existing between the

, in the sense that he is the initiator. humanity, being the most highly developed evolutionary product upon our planet, reacts to these initiations; they produce world events, and those stupendous points of crisis which (up to date) have worked destructively where the form aspect is concerned, but which have developed into those stages of sensitive unfoldment and progression when the work of the builders (the second divine aspect) is added to and takes advantage of the liberty or release brought about by the destroyer (the first aspect. there are always these two phases. through the past civilisations and their eventual catastrophic destruction, the planetary logos has gradually prepared the ground or planetary field for the "planting of the germ of will" the nurturing of which is a futur

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

he son of mind, the soul, the intermediary between the father and mother. the esoteric ruler is the moon, veiling vulcan. the moon rules the form and we are again reminded that it is the will of god to manifest through the form. vulcan is an expression of first ray energy, while the moon exerts fourth ray energy; jupiter is the hierarchical ruler representing the second creative hierarchy (divine builders of earth's planetary manifestation, and brings in second ray energy. the tibetan points out that mercury, saturn and venus rule the three decanates and he reminds us that when a man is on the reversed wheel of the disciple (counterclockwise) he will enter the sign through the influence of venus, while the average man will enter under the rulership of mercury. this is an example of how we

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

eriod, are the transformations of the earliest representatives of the animal kingdom found in the sediments of the primary epoch. there was a time when all those above enumerated "antediluvian" monsters appeared as filamentoid infusoria without shell or crust, with neither nerves, muscles, organs nor sex, and reproduced their kind by gemmation: as do microscopical animals also, the architects and builders of our mountain ranges, agreeably to the teachings of science. why not man in this case? why should he not have followed the same law in his growth, i.e, gradual condensation? every unprejudiced person would prefer to believe that primeval humanity had at first an ethereal- or, if so preferred, a huge filamentoid, jelly-like form, evolved by gods or natural "forces" which grew, condensed

of the living fauna, and, among the vertebrates, especially, in the increasing resemblance to man. man is the end towards which all animal creation has tended from the first appearance of the first palaeozoic fishes* just so; but "the palaeozoic fishes" being at the lower curve of the arc of the evolution of forms, this round began with astral man, the reflection of the dhyan chohans, called the "builders" man is the alpha and the omega of objective creation. as said in "isis unveiled "all things had their origin in spirit- evolution having originally begun from above and proceeding downwards, instead of the reverse, as taught in the darwinian theory* therefore, the tendency spoken of by the eminent naturalist above quoted, is one inherent in every atom. only, were one to apply it to both

to another generation and race down to the days of moses, and which found an objective form in those antediluvian giants, those terrible sorcerers and magicians, of whom the roman church has preserved such vivid and at the same time distorted legends. one who has read and studied the commentaries on the archaic doctrine, will easily recognise in some atlanteans, the prototypes of the nimrods, the builders of the tower of babel, the hamites, and all these tutti quanti of "accursed memory" as theological literature expresses it: of those, in short, who have furnished posterity with the orthodox types of satan. and this leads us naturally to inquire into the religious ethics of these early races, mythical as these may be. what was the religion of the third and fourth races? in the common acce

antigua de la nueva espana of 1885, in which a native of cholula, a centenarian, accounts for the building of the great pyramid of cholula, by saying as follows "in the beginning, before the light of the sun had been created, this land (cholula) was in obscurity and darkness. but immediately after the light of the sun arose in the east, there appeared gigantic men. who built the said pyramid, its builders being scattered after that to all parts of the earth "a great deal of the central american history is taken up with the doings of an ancient race of giants called quinanes" says the author of "atlantis (p. 204[[vol. 2, page] 277 the giants. are giants a fiction? here, again, we come into collision with science. the latter denies, so far, that man has ever been much larger than the average

ent, i.e, passed from the passive and quiescent, into the active state of self-consciousness. when this is recognised, the true meaning of krishna becomes comprehensible. but see mr. subba row's excellent lecture on the bhagavatgita("theosophist" april 1887, p. 444[[vol. 2, page] 319 degeneration of mankind. ing, while their pastoral brethren enjoyed wondrous powers as their birthright, they, the builders, could now obtain theirs only gradually; even these being generally used for power over physical nature and selfish and unholy purposes. civilization has ever developed the physical and the intellectual at the cost of the psychic and spiritual. the command and the guidance over his own psychic nature, which foolish men now associate with the supernatural, were with early humanity innate a

mazd (ahura-mazda. they are also the angels of the stars of the christians- the stary-azatas of the zoroastrians- or again the seven planets (including the sun) of every religion* the epithet "the shining having efficacious eyes- proves it. this on the physical and sidereal planes. on the spiritual, they are the divine powers of ahura-mazda; but on the astral or psychic plane again, they are the "builders" the "watchers" the pitar (fathers, and the first preceptors of mankind. when mortals shall have become sufficiently spiritualised, there will be no more need of forcing them into a correct comprehension of ancient wisdom. men will know then, that there never yet was a great world-reformer, whose name has passed into our generation, who (a) was not a direct emanation of the logos (under w

, ten and seven chaldean anedots[[footnote(s* the amshaspends are six- if ormazd, their chief and logos, is excluded. but in the secret doctrine he is the seventh and highest, just as phtah is the seventh kabir among the kabiri[[vol. 2, page] 366 the secret doctrine. ten and seven sephiroth, etc, etc. one and all have been derived from the primitive dhyan-chohans of the esoteric doctrine, or the "builders" of the stanzas (book i. from manu, thot-hermes, oannes-dagon, and edris-enoch, down to plato and panadores, all tell us of seven divine dynasties, of seven lemurian, and seven atlantean divisions of the earth; of the seven primitive and dual gods who descend from their celestial abode* and reign on earth, teaching mankind astronomy, architecture, and all the other sciences that have come

ual connection on earth (as daksha did, when he saw that his manasaputras would not people the earth? and then comes a long break in this chapter vi. of genesis, between verses 4 and 5. for surely, it was not in or through the wickedness of the "mighty men. men of renown, among whom is placed nimrod the "mighty hunter before the lord" that "god saw that the wickedness of man was great" nor in the builders of babel, for this was after the deluge; but in the progeny of the giants who produced monstra quaedam de genere giganteo, monsters from whence sprang the lower races of men, now represented on earth by a few miserable dying-out tribes and the huge anthropoid apes. and if we are taken to task by theologians, whether protestant or roman catholic, we have only to refer them to their own lit

brother to the carnac of bretagne, the latter carnac meaning the serpent's mount. the dracontia once covered the surface of the globe, and these temples were sacred to the dragon, only because it was the symbol of the sun, which, in its turn, was the symbol of the highest god- the phoenician elon or elion, whom abraham recognised as el elion* besides the surname of serpents, they were called the "builders" the "architects; for the immense grandeur of their temples and monuments was such that even now the pulverised remains of them "frighten the mathematical calculations of our modern engineers" says taliesin* de bourbourg hints that the chiefs of the name of votan, the quetzo-cohuatl, or serpent deity of the mexicans, are the descendants of ham and canaan "i am hivim" they say "being a hiv

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

lone the one form of existence stretched boundless, infinite, causeless, in dreamless sleep; and life pulsated unconscious in universal space, throughout that all-presence which is sensed by the opened eye of the dangma. 9. but where was the dangma when the alaya of the universe was in paramartha and the great wheel was anupadaka[[vol. 1, page] 28 the secret doctrine. stanza ii. 1. where were the builders, the luminous sons of manvantaric dawn. in the unknown darkness in their ah-hi paranishpanna. the producers of form from no-form- the root of the world- the devamatri and svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being. 2. where was silence? where the ears to sense it? no, there was neither silence nor sound; naught save ceaseless eternal breath, which knows itself not. 3. the hour had not ye

escend from the primordial seven, we who are born from the primordial flame, have learnt from our fathers. 3. from the effulgency of light- the ray of the ever-darkness- sprung in space the re-awakened energies; the one from the egg, the six, and the five. then the three, the one, the four, the one, the five- the twice seven the sum total. and these are the essences, the flames, the elements, the builders, the numbers, the arupa, the rupa, and the force of divine man- the sum total. and from the divine man emanated the forms, the sparks, the sacred animals, and the messengers of the sacred fathers within the holy four. 4. this was the army of the voice- the divine mother of the seven. the sparks of the seven are subject to, and the servants of, the first, the second, the third, the fourth

ead between the silent watcher and his shadow becomes more strong and radiant with every change. the morning sun-light has changed into noon-day glory. 7. this is thy present wheel, said the flame to the spark. thou art myself, my image, and my shadow. i have clothed myself in thee, and thou art my vahan to the day "be with us" when thou shalt re-become myself and others, thyself and me. then the builders, having donned their first clothing, descend on radiant earth and reign over men- who are themselves. thus ends this portion of the archaic narrative, dark, confused, almost incomprehensible. an attempt will now be made to throw light into this darkness, to make sense out of this apparent non-sense[[vol. 1, page] 35 stanza i. commentaries on the seven stanzas and their terms, according to

ne with the universal spirit (svayambhu* the svabhavat in the highest aspect. the mystery in the hierarchy of the anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal spirit-soul, and the lower rung the manushi-buddha; and even every soul-endowed man is an anupadaka in a latent state. hence, when speaking of the universe in its formless, eternal, or absolute condition, before it was fashioned by the "builders- the expression "the universe was anupadaka (see part ii "primordial substance[[footnote(s* vajra- diamond-holder. in tibetan dorjesempa; sempa meaning the soul, its adamantine quality referring to its indestructibility in the hereafter. the explanation with regard to the "anupadaka" given in the kala chakra, the first in the gyu(t) division of the kanjur, is half esoteric. it has misled

niversal consciousness as taught by the vedantins and some adwaitees) appeared, has, in his death and history generally, himself presented the eternal history of spirit- a history which every man has to accomplish in himself, in order to exist as spirit- philosophy of history. sibree's english translation, p. 340[[vol. 1, page] 53 the state of paranirvana. stanza ii. commentary. 1. where were the builders, the luminous sons of manvantaric dawn (a. in the unknown darkness in their ah-hi (chohanic, dhyani-buddhic) paranishpanna, the producers of form (rupa) from no-form (arupa, the root of the world- the devamatri* and svabhavat, rested in the bliss of non-being (b (a) the "builders" the "sons of manvantaric dawn" are the real creators of the universe; and in this doctrine, which deals only

who is kala-hansa, and the ray, the hansa-vahana. as to the strange symbol chosen, it is equally suggestive; the true mystic significance being the idea of a universal matrix, figured by the primordial waters of the "deep" or the opening for the reception, and subsequently for the issue, of that one ray (the logos, which contains in itself the other seven procreative rays or powers (the logoi or builders. hence the choice by the rosecroix of the aquatic fowl- whether swan or pelican* with seven young ones for a symbol, modified and adapted to the religion of every country. en-soph is called the "fiery soul of the pelican" in the book of numbers (see part ii "the hidden deity and its symbols and glyphs) appearing with every manvantara as narayan, or swayambhuva (the[[footnote(s* whether th

or "the one number- stanza iv- continued (2) learn what we, who descend from the primordial seven, we, who are born from the primordial flame, have learned from our fathers (a (a) this is explained in book ii, and this name "primordial flame" corroborates what is said in the first paragraph of the preceding commentary on stanza iv. the distinction between the "primordial" and the subsequent seven builders is this: the former are the ray and direct emanation of the first "sacred four" the tetraktis, that is, the eternally self-existent one (eternal in essence note well, not in manifestation, and distinct from the universal one. latent, during pralaya, and active, during manvantara, the "primordial" proceed from "father- mother (spirit-hyle, or ilus; whereas the other manifested quaternary a

her to multiply- stanza iv- continued. 3. from the effulgency of light- the ray of the ever-darkness- sprung in space the re-awakened energies (dhyan chohans: the one from the egg, the six and the five (a; then the three, the one[[vol. 1, page] 89 the vehicle of the universe. the four, the one, the five- the twice seven, the sum total (b. and these are: the essences, the flames, the elements, the builders, the numbers, the arupa (formless, the rupa (with bodies, and the force or divine man- the sum total. and from the divine man emanated the forms, the sparks, the sacred animals, and the messengers of the sacred fathers (the pitris) within the holy four (a) this relates to the sacred science of the numerals: so sacred, indeed, and so important in the study of occultism that the subject can

invisible tablets of the astral light "the great picture-gallery of eternity- a faithful record of every act, and even thought, of man, of all that was, is, or ever will be, in the phenomenal universe. as said in "isis" this divine and unseen canvas is the book of life. as it is the lipika who project into objectivity from the passive universal mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the "builders" reconstruct the kosmos after every pralaya, it is they who stand parallel to the seven angels of the presence, whom the christians recognise in the seven "planetary spirits" or the "spirits of the stars" for thus it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the eternal ideation- or, as called by plato, the "divine thought" the eternal record is no fantastic dream, for we meet with the sam

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leases will include submissions from users like you. for some of us, the time has come to mobilize. if you have an interest in assisting in this process- we all have strengths to bring to the table. email: occult.digital.mobilization@gmail.com complacency serves the old gods. the book of tokens* 22 meditations on the ageless wisdom commentary by paul foster case fourth edition published, 1968, by builders of the adytum 5105 north figueroa street los angeles, california 90042 copyright, 1934 by paul foster case copyright 1960 by builders of the adytum, 1968 by builders of the adytum copyright under the international convention in great britain, canada, the united states and in all countries which are members of the international convention and the international copyright union and which are

copyright under the international convention in great britain, canada, the united states and in all countries which are members of the international convention and the international copyright union and which are signatory to the copyright conventions of montevideo, mexico, rio de janeiro, buenos aires and havana, all rights reserved. new and revised edition printed in the united states of america builders of the adytum 5105 north figueroa st. los angeles, california, 90042 u. s. a preface* these unusual and beautiful qabalistic meditations were inspirationally written by the recognized world authority on tarot and qabalah, dr. paul foster case. because of having attained both inner and outer initiation into the most advanced grades of adeptship in the western mystery training system, he wa

eys represent the symbolic powers of consciousness in pictorial form, used by initiates for the transmutation of personality and the attainment of union with god. comment has been reduced to such explanation as seems required to make certain qabalistic terms intelligible to the uninitiated. paragraphs of the comment are numbered the same as the paragraphs of the text. dr. paul foster case founded builders of the adytum, a non-profit organization, in order to assure the survival and extension of the hermetic sciences, which the book of t o k e n s the adepts who had gone before him placed in his care. the modesty of this great soul is revealed by the fact that he rarely thought to put his signature to the voluminous writings and lessons on ageless wisdom which he left to posterity in the ca

rs of the adytum, a non-profit organization, in order to assure the survival and extension of the hermetic sciences, which the book of t o k e n s the adepts who had gone before him placed in his care. the modesty of this great soul is revealed by the fact that he rarely thought to put his signature to the voluminous writings and lessons on ageless wisdom which he left to posterity in the care of builders of the adytum. dr. case entered into his life's work at a very early age, due to his recall of past lives as a qabalistic initiate and adept his mission: to translate, enlarge and extend hitherto secret techniques of tarot and qabalah (esoteric teachings of the ageless wisdom) into terms understandable to and usable by the modern mind; to assure that this and coming generations would have

ng completed, he withdrew from his physical vehicle on march 2, 1954. it is our profound privilege and grave responsibility to carry on the great work which dr. case left in our care. correspondence lessons on occult psychology, tarot, holy qabalah, spiritual alchemy, etc, as well as books, pamphlets, qabalistic tree of life diagrams and tarot keys are available to interested aspirants. write to: builders of the adytum 5105 north figueroa street los angeles, california 90042 to you, who are about to be touched by the ineffable via the book of tokens, may light be extended upon you. in l. v. x (light, the grand chapter, builders, of the adytum the book of tokens contents* prologos 3 aleph 5 beth 17 gimel 29 daleth 39 heh 49 vav 63 zain 73 cheth 81 teth 89 yod 97 kaph 105 lamed 113 mem 119 n

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rum asserts pythagoras derived from the cabbalists 1586-1652 pietro della valle. travelled extensively in the levant (1614-26, bringing back with him to italy egyptian mummies and coptic manuscripts. 1586-1588 giordano bruno university teacher at wittenberg, preaching the coming of a magical reform movement politically associated with henry of navarre. bruno described german scholars as being the builders of the temple of wisdom, eulogising martin luther at his former university. the inquisition claimed at bruno s trial, that he intended to form a new sect under the name of "giordanisti, appealing particularly to the lutherans in germany 1586 alleged meeting at luneburg (hanover) between the representatives of the king of navarre, the king of denmark and the queen of england, on 27th july

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ted states. then you have the illuminati levels, which you will not see mentioned in any freemasons guidebook. those are the people who actually run the show and they are the agents of the all-seeing eye cult. world freemasonry is a massive pyramid of manipulation. it was not always like this. it is said that freemasonry was once a society that was exclusive to those who worked as stonemasons and builders on the churches and cathedrals. it was then called masonry. their lodges were like trade organisations some historians claim, and their secrecy and rituals were designed to protect their profession from unskilled outsiders. most of the masons' work came from the catholic church, ruled from rome. the immense wealth of the church, most of it stolen directly or indirectly, paid for the const

ree houses to buy one. and on the front of the leaflet they have the nerve to claim "the national westminster bank. we're here to make life easier. imagine the transformation that would occur if people only had to repay the capital (with no interest) on their house over a period of 25 to 30 years. the cost of a mortgage and a basic human right (a home) would plummet immediately by two-thirds. the builders would still get paid because they are paid from the capital price. the suppliers of the materials would still get paid for the same reason. the only person who would not make the killing of today would be the banker who currently makes a fortune from every house purchase. builders go out of business and people sleep in the streets to allow a few bankers to grow fatter and richer, and ever

ridians and blood is subject to influence by the planets, as is our body in general. some highly significant astrological events have already occurred like the uranus-neptune alignments in 1993 and the effects of pluto in 1995 which are speeding the awakening of those who are ready. the year 2000 coincides with the highest point of the upwards cycle of the orion constellation to which the pyramid builders apparently aligned their geometry, and it was in the 11th millennium bc, within the window period suggested for great geological upheavals on the earth, that orion reached the lowest point of its cycle. astrological events affect earthquakes and weather systems because of the vibrational change they create on earth, as does collective human thought. also on may 5th 2000, the sun and the p

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rica, say there were two inca empires. the first established their headquarters at cuzco in the andes mountains and, after they fled to a mountain-top sanctuary (machu picchu) in the wake of devastating land upheavals, they returned to cuzco to start a second culture. this would push back the original inca empire to the time of the atlantean-lemurian cataclysms and before, and lead us to the true builders of the fantastic structures that conventional history cannot explain. all over the world in every native culture, you will find stories of a great flood and incredible geological upheavals. there is no doubt that an unimaginable catastrophe or, more likely, catastrophes were visited upon the earth between approximately 11000 and 5000bc. the geological and biological evidence is overwhelmi

or lemuria going back between 12,000 and 70,000 years. he saw how it was the centre of a global empire that included atlantis. in his book, the children of mu (be books, albuquerque, new mexico, first published in 1931, he shows how the various racial types on mu, including blue-eyed blonds, peopled the world.15 these lemurian races went east to become the mayans of central america and the other builders of the fantastic structures of the american continent. they went west to people asia, china, india, and elsewhere, and created colonies in what became egypt and sumer. all genetic and cultural roads, he says, lead back to lemuria-mu, the "motherland, and the very advanced civilisation that existed tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of years before today's "modern" society

stonehenge and avebury were built with the same astonishing precision that you find with the giza pyramids and other breathtaking structures across the sumerian and former atlantean-lemurian empire. whoever designed stonehenge must have had a very advanced knowledge of mathematics and astronomy. geoffrey of monmouth, the 12th-century historian, wrote in histories of the kings of britain that the builders of the original stonehenge were "giants" from north africa.27 the aryans of sumer and egypt were a tall people because they came from the very tall nordics and the reptilians, which are almost always described as very tall. this fits with the emerging themes of this book and certainly the official version of stonehenge is utterly ludicrous. as john a. keel points out in our haunted planet

ted in britain in this same period. we do have to be careful here as dates are increasingly, and often dramatically, re-assessed. the sumerians were heading back to where the pre-cataclysmic atlanteans once had a major colony, and some of these famous structures of the british isles and elsewhere may have already been in place long before they returned. either of these explanations, the atlantean builders or the sumerian empire, would account for where the knowledge came from to align them so exactly to the cycles of the sun, moon, and star systems, as well as in relationship to each other via the geometrical energy grid. waddell explains in his book, the phoenician origins of britons, scots and anglo saxons (christian book club, california, 1924, how he found sumerian markings on one of t

waddell explains in his book, the phoenician origins of britons, scots and anglo saxons (christian book club, california, 1924, how he found sumerian markings on one of the stones at stonehenge and on other stones around the british isles, including some in scotland.29 professor alexander thorn, emeritus professor of engineering science at oxford university from 1945 to 1961, discovered that the builders of stonehenge knew of "pythagorean" geometric and mathematical principles thousands of years before pythagoras was born.30 the same was true of those who built the giza pyramids. now we can see why. the greek genius pythagoras, which means "i am the python" or "i am the serpent",31 and all the famous greek mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, doctors, and so on, inherited their knowl

inspired by the sumerians and the earlier atlanteans and lemurians and was based almost entirely on their stories and myths under different names. all over the ancient world you find the same recurring stories of the serpent gods. throughout the sumer empire the people worshipped serpent gods and as the reverend john bathhurst deane wrote in his book, the worship of the serpent..one of [the] five builders of thebes [in egypt] was named after the serpent-god of the phoenicians, ofhion..the first altar erected to cyclops at athens was to 'ops, the serpent deity..the symbolic worship of the serpent was so common in greece that justin martyr accuses the greeks of introducing it into the mysteries of all their gods."6 the hebrew serpents i have mentioned that in hebrew myth, the biblical "nefil

with the idea of a setian afterlife as well as a solar one. the great pyramid had a special air shaft for the king's akh to fly to the star alpha draconis, which is the star of set in the constellation of the thigh (today's 'big dipper."25 alpha draconis is the alleged base of the "draco" reptilian "royalty. it was known to the egyptians as thurban, an arabic word meaning dragon, and the pyramid builders aligned their structures with thurban/alpha draconis, which was the pole star around 3000bc. the hyksos tribe, who invaded and ruled egypt from around 1785-1580 bc, were set worshippers and they placed their capital at avaris on an ancient site of set worship. they represented set with an ass head. a line of set-worshipping priests from tanis eventually became the royal line of pharaohs

pecially their own role in humanity's suppression, and the esoteric knowledge that would allow the people to understand the magnitude of their own power and potential. john a. keel, in his book our haunted planet says that they chose religion as the "battleground" on which to conquer the human mind..the para-human serpent people of the past are still among us. they were probably worshipped by the builders of stonehenge and the forgotten ridge-making cultures of south america..in some parts of the world the serpent people successfully posed as gods and imitated the techniques of the super-intelligence [god. this led to the formation of pagan religions centered on human sacrifices. the conflict, so far as man himself was concerned, became one of religions and races. whole civilizations based

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ed hu and from this, very appropriately i would suggest,we get the term, hu-man. the winged-disc symbol of the sumerians, which is found allover the ancient world, was normally featured with two serpents. the symbolism of theserpent and its association with ancient gods abounds throughout the world. thereverend john bathhurst deane in his book the worship of the serpent,3 wrote..one of (the) five builders of thebes (in egypt) was named after the serpent-god of thephoenicians, ofhion. the first altar erected to cyclops at athens, was to ops, theserpent-deity. the symbolic worship of the serpent was so common in greece, that justinmartyr accuses the greeks of introducing it into the mysteries of all their gods. thechinese. are said to be superstitious in choosing a plot of ground to erect a

a minutes drive from the scene of dianas crash.on the other side of the crash scene is the eiffel tower, another gigantic obelisk indisguise. the washington monument in washington dc is a colossal obelisk. thedome (from a greek word meaning place of the gods) draws in and harnesses energy,as does the pyramid. so often you find that the great cathedrals are built around amassive dome because their builders and designers understood the power of geometryto focus energy in one spot. the vast golden dome on the islamic shrine on templemount in jerusalem, the dome of st peters at the v atican in rome, and the church ofsanta maria which dominates the skyline of florence, are obvious examples of this.look around the major brotherhood cities and you will find they have at least one355major domed bu

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ometry 5.3.1 pi pi (n, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is a transcendental or irrational number. this means that it is a number which cannot be defined as the ratio of two whole numbers and the resultant division is a non-terminating number. pi is approximately equal to 3.14159. pi is built into the geometry of the great pyramid in egypt with amazing accuracy and proves the builders were technologically advanced enough to signal later civilizations that advanced technologists were on the earth long ago. 5.3.2 the golden mean (phi) the golden mean or golden ratio, referred to by the greek letter phi is another transcendental or irrational number. this number was also built into the geometry of the great pyramid. the golden mean occurs naturally in nature such as the s

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y bon beliefs and practices were absorbed into tibetan buddhism, giving it a unique, magickal character. book of shadows: a collection of rituals, prayers, charms, and other magickal information compiled by a witch (q.v) or group of witches. it varies from coven (q.v) to coven. the books of shadows of gerald b. gardner (q.v.)and alex sanders (q.v) serve as the guides for their followers. b.o.t.a; builders of the adytum: an american mystical/magickal order/organization still in existence to this day, founded by paul foster case. paul foster case was a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v. the b.o.t.a. was the first organization to present a deck of tarot (q.v) cards with the g.d. correspondences of hebrew letters to each major arcana (q.v) card. breaks: refers to interr

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etter than devils, as some schools of transcendental thought appear to do. 22. the whole question of the angels,archons,and elementals is a very vexed and very important one in occultism, because its practical application to magic is immediate. christian thought can tolerate with an effort the idea of archangels, but the ministering spirits, the messengers who are flames of fire, and the heavenly builders, are alien to its theology; god, alone and in an instant, made the heavens and earth. the great architect of the universe is also the bricklayer. not so does esoteric science. the initiate knows the legions of spiritual beings who are agents of god's will and the vehicles of creative activity. it is through these that he works, by the grace of their ruling archangel. but an archangel cann

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es of intelligent and organised evil. the great faiths of the ancient world all had their evil gods as well as their beneficent deities, and they did not call these evil gods devils. in hinduism we have shiva and kali; in the egyptian system we have set and besz and typhon; in the grecian pantheon there are pluto and hecate. all the other faiths, also, have their angelic choirs, their archons, or builders, and all the hierarchy of heaven. protestant christianity alone has forgotten its angiology, the creator has to be both architect of the universe and bricklayer, forming man from the dust of the ground without assistance. if we refer to paradise lost, however, we shall find that milton was familiar with both divine and infernal hierarchies, and that these were graded and charted according

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icult to understand" already fourteen centuries before our era.[1] antiquity of chapter lxiv. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (4 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:54 am] the rubric on the coffin of queen menthu-hetep, which ascribes the chapter to hesep-ti, states that "this chapter was found in the foundations beneath the hennu boat by the foreman of the builders in the time of the king of the north and south, hesep-ti, triumphant;[2] the nebseni papyrus says that this chapter was found in the city of khemennu (hermopolis) on a block of ironstone) written in letters of lapis-lazuli, under the feet of the god;[3] and the turin papyrus (xxvith dynasty or later) adds that the name of the finder was heru-ta-ta-f, the son of khufu or cheops,[4] the sec

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ficant power struggle developed. his former wife, the president of the corporation, and the entire board of trustees resigned and left the community. those remaining reestablished relations with kieninger. stelle and adelphi reunited, the headquarters moved to texas, and kieninger was named chairman of the board. however, in 1986, kieninger was again forced out and founded a shortlived group, the builders of the nation of god. a short time later kieninger was accepted back at adelphi and at that point adelphi and stelle went their separate ways. adelphi continues with its program of building a city on an island in the pacific ocean. the adelphi organization publishes a newsletter, adelphi quarterly, and can be reached at po box 2423, quinlan, tx 75474. website: http//www.adelphi.com. sourc

that buguet cheated. in mysterious psychic forces (1907, he stated that buguet, having allowed me to experiment with him, let me conduct my researches for five weeks before i detected his fraudulent methods and mechanism. while i was pushing my investigation a little farther i saw with my own eyes buguet s prepared negatives. buguet was but one prominent example of fraudulent psychic photography. builders of the adytum the builders of the adytum (bota) is a western magical group in the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it was founded by paul foster case, an authority on tarot and the qabalah, who had been among the small group of american members of the golden dawn. basic to the bota is the qabalah, which is viewed as the ancient mystical wisdom of the hebrews that has be

an authority on tarot and the qabalah, who had been among the small group of american members of the golden dawn. basic to the bota is the qabalah, which is viewed as the ancient mystical wisdom of the hebrews that has been adapted to modern life. case believed that the ancient hebrew prophets and even jesus were versed in the qabalistic wisdom. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. builders of the adytum 227 the qabalah (also spelled kabala or kabbalah) describes the emanation of the cosmos from the transcendent god. the resultant structure is pictured in a diagram called the tree of life. the tree of life is a picture of both the objective world and the landscape of the human psyche. the major realms of the cosmos are described in ten realms called sephirots. the sephirots

ring the basics of bota teachings, especially the work with the tarot. sources: case, paul foster. the book of tokens. los angeles: b.o.t.a, 1947. the tarot. richmond, va: macoy publishing, 1947. the true and invisible rosicrucian order. the author, 1928. davies, ann. thoughts on the tarot. burbank, calif: candlelight press, 1983. frazer, felix j. parallel paths to the unseen worlds. los angeles: builders of the adytum, 1967. bull, titus (1871.1946) new york physician. he was a member of the american association for the advancement of science and the director of the james h. hyslop foundation for the treatment of cases of obsession by psychic methods. bull was a close friend of the distinguished psychic researcher james h. hyslop (1854.1920. hyslop had already concluded that some individua

raceable, its records are of a scanty nature, and so crossed by the trails of other mystical brotherhoods that disentanglement is an extremely difficult process. the ancient legend of its foundation at the time of the building of the temple at jerusalem is manifestly mythical. if one might hazard an opinion, it would seem that at a very early epoch in the history of civilization, a caste arose of builders in stone, who jealously guarded the secret of their craft. where such a caste of operative masons might have arisen is altogether a separate question, but it must obviously have been in a country where working in stone was one of the principal arts. it is free daist communion encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 604 also almost certain that this early brotherhood must have b

erning bodies all the regular lodges and variant rites throughout the world have arisen, so that modern masonry may truthfully be said to be of british origin. to say that continental masonry is the offspring of the british lodges is not to say that no masonic lodges existed in france and germany before the formation of the english grand lodge, but underscores the break between the masonry of the builders of the medieval architectual wonders and the speculative masonry of the seventeenth century. all of the modern speculative lodges in europe date from the inception of the english central body. however, the continental masonry possesses many rites that differ entirely from those found in the british craft. in germany, which existed at this time as a number of independent states, it was sai

ame imperator of the isis-urania temple outer order. crowley eventually founded his own order (the a a) in 1905, using material he had first encountered in the golden dawn. the golden dawn continued to fragment as leadership of the various branches changed hands and new orders were formed. several golden dawn offshoots are still in existence; possibly the most substantive is the los angeles.based builders of the adytum. in addition several new groups have organized, in part to offer an alternative to the magic practiced in those groups that derive from aleister crowley. sources: colquhoun, ithell. the sword of wisdom: macgregor mathers and the golden dawn. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1975. gilbert, robert a. the golden dawn: twilight of the magicians. wellingborough, england: aquarian p

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e founded and led the alpha et omega lodge, though the days of its glory were already in the past. never possessing a large membership, the hogd ended its days in the 1920s splintered into various factions. among moina s notable actions as the leader of one faction was the expulsion of one of the order s american members, paul foster case, who would later found a golden dawnlike organization, the builders of the adytum. moina mathers passed away in london on july 25, 1928. sources: colquhoun, ithell. sword of wisdom: macgregor mathers and the golden dawn. new york: putnam, 1975. greer, mary k. the women of the golden dawn: rebels and priestesses. rochester, vt: park street press, 1995. howe, ellic. the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887.1923. york

lind passage; an ascending corridor leads to what is called the queen s chamber, containing two-dead end shafts, and eventually to the grand gallery, 100 feet long and 30 feet high, and the king s chamber, containing an empty sarcophagus. it is thought that it originally contained a mummy, rifled by tomb robbers who surmounted the granite plugs, false passages and other precautions of the pyramid builders. occult speculations regarding the great pyramid have arisen mainly around its construction, dimensions, and possible use. it is certainly a remarkable engineering feat, and it has been suggested that it could have been achieved only by supernormal techniques, such as levitating the great blocks of stone by mysterious occult force. however, tomb paintings, tool marks on stone, and quarry

s departure. a number, including the entire board of trustees and kieninger s ex-wife, left the community. those remaining reconciled with kieninger. the headquarters of the stelle group was moved to texas in 1982, and kieninger was named chairman of the board for life. however, by 1986 new problems had emerged, and kieninger was forced out again. he resigned and founded another organization, the builders of the nation, in dallas. a short time later he again assumed control of the adelphi organization, and the texas and illinois groups separated. stella maris gnostic church encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1492 as of the mid-1990s, the members of the stelle group are concentrating on applying lemurian philosophy to their daily lives. the group is currently led by tim wilh

mmer day (june 24. it is clear that stonehenge had special astronomical significance, since, in addition to the marking of the summer solstice by the heel stone, the center of the great circle indicated the orbits of sun and moon, and holes were positioned for posts to mark these orbits. the whole construction indicates remarkable astronomical and mathematical knowledge on the part of the ancient builders. like the pyramids of ancient egypt, stonehenge and similar monuments also involved considerable engineering skill in mining and transporting the huge stones. prior to modern archaeological investigations, stonehenge was surrounded by confusing legends of origin and use. radiocarbon dating has now established a date of around 2000 b.c.e. for the first monument, the second a few centuries

nstantinople, where his eminent talents brought him under the notice of the emperor justinian. in 529 a.d. justinian built a splendid church on the temple hill, in honour of the virgin mary, and in the writings of procopius there is a full and detailed account of the edifice. the historian relates that the fourth part of the ground required for the building was wanting towards the south-east; the builders therefore laid their foundations on the sloping ground, and constructed a series of arched vaults, in order to raise the ground to the level of the other parts of the enclosure. this account is eminently descriptive of the subterranean vaults at the south-east portion of the haram, and, according to [an authority, the stone-work of these vaults certainly belongs to the age of justinian (s

nt deck to date to come out of the ogd was that produced by arthur edward waite in collaboration with pamela coleman-smith. it was released in 1910 to accompany waite s the key to the tarot (later reissued as the pictorial key to the tarot) and went on to become the most popular deck for divinatory purposes in the twentieth century. paul foster case (1884.1954, an ogd member who later founded the builders of the adytum, developed a deck, based in large part upon the waite-smith cards, in collaboration with jessie burns parks. the deck was published in 1931. finally, in 1938, aleister crowley (1875.1947, who left the ogd and published many of its secrets, began a collaboration with freda harris to embody the thelemic magick of the ordo templi orientis. they used both the ogd and waite-smith

temple of luxor in egypt was built, have been spoken fluently through an english girl who normally knows nothing about the ancient tongue. howard hulme of brighton, sussex, the translator of the egyptian phrases, after a preliminary test by mail which resulted in an unexpected but correct egyptian answer, had also heard lady nona speak. after an amazing dialogue in the dead tongue of the pyramid builders, nona cleared up many points of pronunciation, gave her own earth name and explained the full meaning of some of her previous language tests. in the early 1980s, dr. william h. kautz also announced a computer-based project at the research center for applied intuition (of which he is founder and director) involving the preparation of a translation and lexicon of the rosemary egyptian langu

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ta. doreal was unique in his depiction of the lemurians as evil and dangerous. as sh a s t a s legends continued to expand, it was said that the mountain s interior housed two magnificent lemurian cities, il e t h e l e m e and yaktayvia. the latter, some said, was the s o u rce of beautiful bell sounds, which some had professed to hear emanating from the mountain. the yaktayvians are master bell builders. all the while, occult pilgrims we re arriving in growing numbers to the are a; many would stay. some claimed to have seen and communicated with lemurians and other extraord i n a ry beings. others re p o rt e d ufo sightings on the mountain. be l i e ve r s explained the phenomena as lemurian aircraft or visiting extraterrestrial spacecraft calling on their friends inside the mountain. a

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sired for my spouse, and have become a lover of her form. and i prayed. that she might be sent to abide with me, and work with me, that i might know what i lacked, and what was acceptable to god: for she knew and understood, and would guide me soberly in my work and would keep me in her charge.1 the genealogy of wisdom which has been quoted earlier comes in this speech; and the list of the german builders of the temple of wisdom ends with a resounding eulogy of martin luther, as was inevitable in an address to luther's university.2 it was a marvellous speech, in the course of which he brought in the deus pater, the mens, dwelling in light inaccessible, but who could be seen in his shadows and vestiges, in the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds, and ending with the suggestion that

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found until ages later when hiram "the widow's son" was reborn as lazarus and became the friend and pupil of the lion of judah, who raised him from death through initiation. when the hammer was found it had the shape of a cross, and the disc had become a rose. therefore hiram took his place among the immortals under the new and symbolical name christian rosenkreuz. he founded the order of temple-builders which bears his name; in that order aspiring souls are still instructed how to fuse the base metals and make the white stone. the symbology of the foregoing will be explained in the following chapters. part v the mystery of melchisedec among all the characters mentioned in the bible none is more mysterious than melchisedec; said to be without father, mother, or earthly kin, and holding th

s of seth with their retinue, the churchmen, must finally merge and be unified in the kingdom of christ. we have already seen how hiram abiff, the widow's son, left his father, the lucifer spirit samael, after the baptism of fire in the molten sea, and how he received the mission to prepare the way for the kingdom among the sons of cain, his brethren, by developing their arts and crafts as temple builders--masons- and teaching them the preparation of the philosopher's stone or molten sea. thus also the physically negative sons of seth must learn to leave their father, jehovah, and naturally the first to take the step must be a great soul. as the superlative skill of the sons of cain was focused in hiram abiff at the time of his baptism of fire, so the sublime spirituality of the sons of se

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nted by the letter 'g, the generative principle" this term "generative principle" is code for the sex act. sex act in columns- broken and unbroken the broken column is utilized by the eastern star and freemasonry. it contains many levels of meanings. the initiate is told that the broken column signifies an early death. the mason learns later on that columns represent gods[ joseph fort newton, the builders: a story and study of masonry, cedar rapids, iowa, the torch press, 1914, p. 9] a different hidden meaning for the broken column is learned later on by the mason "in egyptian mythology, isis is sometimes pictured weeping over the broken column, which conceals the body of her husband, osiris, while behind her stands horus, or time, pouring ambrosia over her hair" isis was both virgin and m

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es a sunbeam. padma devi means the lotus, or the deity of generation. it is thought by many writers that these gigantic structures were erected by the cushite conquerors of egypt, who invaded and civilized the country, as emblems of the female deity whom they worshipped. certainly the magnitude of these monuments and the ingenuity displayed in their construction indicate the intelligence of their builders and the exalted character of the deity adored. the great pyramid is in the form of a square, each side of whose base is seven hundred and fifty-five feet, and covers an area of nearly fourteen acres. an able writer in describing the pyramids says that the first thing which impresses one is the uniform precision and systematic design apparent in their architecture. they all have their side

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attain it he.mustfirst be installed as aknighttemplar (which was dulydoneon 8 may 1902 inkingedward vii preceptory, no. 173),andhefeltthatitwouldalso be advisable to receivetheearly grandriteof47260; for, as he noted in his diary,'obscureornot,47260 means at least 44<rituals whichcannot failofmaterial for my paper against the timewheni shall unsay all that has tillnowbeen 'saidas to the symbolic builders (13october1902. to obtain his44degrees, however, hemustfirst travel to scotland 'which he did early in february 1903. his visit didnotbegin well:'myprojected journey to scotland .tookplace by themidnighttrain on friday and ,i, reached kilmarnock intheearly morning, asmightwell havebeen expected, in drenching rain.'itwas afternoon before hemethis host, colonel spence 'comingfromthe station

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selves descendants of the ancient egyptians, chal255 deans, magi and gymnosophists; and this is probably true" this yearning for along-anddistinguished-ancestry was present, too, in the latter-day rosicrucians of the hermetic orderofthe golden dawn, as it was in all the occult movements and secret brotherhoods of the last century, whether respectable freemasons claiming spiritual descent from the builders of king solomon's temple or madame blavatsky with her dubious claims for a theosophical wisdom born in lost ages.itwas possibly partofthe more general desire for respectability that characterized english occultists and distinguished them from the illuminati of the continent, who worked as much for political subversion as for spiritual enlightenment. such a path of revolution was abhorrent

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rom antiquity we have some proofs of very early astronomic observations made by all these ancient nations.theold greek and roman authors refer the source of astronomy variously to egypt, to chaldea, and to persia, and the papyri recently discovered in egypt also show astronomical allusions; while of course the pyramids of egypt and the towers of babylonia have led students to postulate that their builders possessed a deep astronomic knowledge. modern researches into sanscrit literature have also led students of eastern lore to the belief that the inhabitants of india in the earliest times must have made long and accurate observations of the heavenly bodies. according to isaac meyer there is a reason to think that the akkadian observations of the stars date back to about 4310b.c.,when the v

ct of essenes should have been considered as a conspicuous prototype of the brotherhood of freemasons, for the notable features of our association are the culture of brotherly love, relief and truth; that is to say, charity and benevolence with universal tolerance; the performance of ceremonials, which include most solemn oaths to keep secret themodesof recognition; and an extensive ritual use of builders' terms and material things as symbols of moral and spiritual truths. mutual instruction and familiar pleasant intercourse between the members have been always encouraged with a view to brotherly love and happiness; matrimony, conviviality, and all healthy enjoyments are recognised as proper; and there is no inter255 ference whatever with the domestic life of the brethren, nor with their m

e side- as if a recognised ritual performance: i find no authority whatever for this statement. mr a. e. waite, the poet, tells us, inthe secret tradition,that 'the essenes remaind the depositories of the christ255 mystery in the eastern world, and are actually that hidden sodality from which masonry derives through the knights templar, not by the identification of the chivalry with the operative builders,butthrough the descent of a vital principle from onetothe other' this is but a poetic phantasy. christian ginsburg, a thoroughly competent modern hebrew scholar, in his published workthe essenes,1864,summarises almost all previous authorities, which are non-masonic, and makes no assertions of the use of secret words, signs, or attitudes. no useful purpose would be serviced by quoting from

om's monument unto this day, ii samuel, xviii, 18.thejewish historian josephus said it was standing 'in the king's dale' in his time. absalom was buriedina pit and a heap of stones was255 raised over his grave; this is perhaps the earliest mention of a funeral cairn. there are well known references to symbolic stones bothinthe old and new testaments. in the 118th psalm we read:'thestone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner' this is considered as prophetic of jesus as the christ who was rejected by the jewsbutbecame the head stone of the church. jesus quoted these words in matthew, xxii, and adds:'hethat falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces,buton whomsoever it shall fall it will scatter him as dust' st peter calls jesus, in his first epistleii,4, a precio

nce, becausean essay ontheancient mysteries 273we still see in egyptian ruins the works of men who must have possessed such great knowledge and such vast powers, that we moderns are forced to confess that we are ignorant of how they erected such pyramids and temple buildings, and some of our engineers doubt if we could erect such structures even now withourmodern machinery. we recognise that such builders of religious monuments must have had a science and arts of their own, which have been lost to the world, and we can only suppose that men with such giant intellects must have had equally notable religious conceptions and exalted ideas of the universe and its creator, god.inthe times of the ancient egyptian dynasties, the priest255 hood was the dominant power, and not the military. each ph

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eive the early grand rite of 47 which he felt would be of some use to him 'so far as cyclopaedias and masonic historians are concerned, this rite is utterly unknown, nor have 1 so much as met with the sequence of its grades. obscure or not, 47 means at least 44 rituals which cannot fail of material for my paper against the time when i shall unsay all that has till now been said as to the symbolic builders 69[69. his visit did not begin well 'my projected journey to scotland. took place by the midnight train on friday and i reached kilmarnock in the early morning, as might well have been expected, amidst drenching rain'70[70. and it was afternoon before he met his host, colonel spence 'coming from the station through a sea of mud. spence did not impress him 'as being of any particular attai

tely with each other. coburn, however, still recognized waite's preeminence in the field of esoteric research and continued to recommend waite's writings to his own followers107[107. relations with other american freemasons were to prove more satisfactory to waite. in july 1915 waite had published a fulsome review, under the title of 'master building'108[108, of dr. joseph fort newton's book, the builders: a story and study of masonry (1914. this was only just for fort newton had referred to waite in glowing terms as a 'master of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought a religious nature, the accuracy and skill of a scholar, a sureness and delicacy of insight at once sympathetic and critical, the soul of a poet, and a patience as untiring as it is rewa

printed in 1916 and 1917. many of them are in the library of the united grand lodge of england. 106[106] the five were waite himself, g. barrett-dobb, e. b. florence, h. j. lloyd and b. h. springett 107[107] e. g. coburn's paper 'the kabbalah, for the lancashire college of the s.r.i.a. lists fourteen books in its bibliography- two are by waite 108[108] the occult review for july 1915 109[109] the builders, pp. 55-6 grand lodge of iowa, waite's name and ideas were rapidly made known to a far greater number of masons in america than was ever the case in england. this, in fact, is still the case for the builders has remained constantly in print and waite has thus remained constantly before american freemasons. so great was the esteem in which waite was held that, shortly after fort newton's m

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le of man's creation, the miracle of protein, the miracle of smell and taste, the miracle of microworld, the secrets of dna. the author's childrens books are: wonders of allah's creation, the world of animals, the glory in the heavens, wonderful creatures, let's learn our islam, the miracles in our bodies, the world of our little friends: the ants, honeybees that build perfect combs, skillful dam builders: beavers. the author's other works on quranic topics include: the basic concepts in the qur'an, the moral values of the qur'an, quick grasp of faith 1-2-3, ever thought about the truth, crude understanding of disbelief, devoted to allah, abandoning the society of ignorance, the real home of believers: paradise, knowledge of the qur'an, qur'an index, emigrating for the cause of allah, the

the only kingdom in europe that did not recognize the authority of the catholic church in the fourteenth century, scotland. there, they reorganized under the protection of the scottish king, robert the bruce. some time later, they found a convenient method of disguise by which to continue their clandestine existence: they infiltrated the most important guild in the medieval british isles the wall builders' lodge, and eventually, they fully seized control of these lodges.7 the wall-builders' lodge changed its name, at the beginning of the modern era, calling itself the "masonic lodge" the scottish rite is the oldest branch of masonry, and dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth century, to those templars who took refuge in scotland. and, the names given to the highest degrees in scott

of france and the pope in 1307, the order went underground, gl the inside story on the kabbalah but its influence continued, and in a more radical and determined way. as we said earlier, a significant number of templars escaped arrest and appealed to the king of scotland, the only european kingdom at that time that had not accepted the authority of the pope. in scotland, they infiltrated the wall-builders' guild and, in time, took it over. the guilds adopted the traditions of the templars, and thus, the masonic seed was planted in scotland. still, to this day, the mainline of masonry is the "ancient and accepted scottish rite" as we investigated in detail in the new masonic order, from the beginnings of the fourteenth century it is possible to detect traces of the templars and some jews as

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eive the early grand rite of 47 which he felt would be of some use to him 'so far as cyclopaedias and masonic historians are concerned, this rite is utterly unknown, nor have 1 so much as met with the sequence of its grades. obscure or not, 47 means at least 44 rituals which cannot fail of material for my paper against the time when i shall unsay all that has till now been said as to the symbolic builders 69[69. his visit did not begin well 'my projected journey to scotland. took place by the midnight train on friday and i reached kilmarnock in the early morning, as might well have been expected, amidst drenching rain'70[70. and it was afternoon before he met his host, colonel spence 'coming from the station through a sea of mud. spence did not impress him 'as being of any particular attai

tely with each other. coburn, however, still recognized waite's preeminence in the field of esoteric research and continued to recommend waite's writings to his own followers107[107. relations with other american freemasons were to prove more satisfactory to waite. in july 1915 waite had published a fulsome review, under the title of 'master building'108[108, of dr. joseph fort newton's book, the builders: a story and study of masonry (1914. this was only just for fort newton had referred to waite in glowing terms as a 'master of the vast literature and lore of his subject, to the study of which he brought a religious nature, the accuracy and skill of a scholar, a sureness and delicacy of insight at once sympathetic and critical, the soul of a poet, and a patience as untiring as it is rewa

printed in 1916 and 1917. many of them are in the library of the united grand lodge of england. 106[106] the five were waite himself, g. barrett-dobb, e. b. florence, h. j. lloyd and b. h. springett 107[107] e. g. coburn's paper 'the kabbalah, for the lancashire college of the s.r.i.a. lists fourteen books in its bibliography- two are by waite 108[108] the occult review for july 1915 109[109] the builders, pp. 55-6 grand lodge of iowa, waite's name and ideas were rapidly made known to a far greater number of masons in america than was ever the case in england. this, in fact, is still the case for the builders has remained constantly in print and waite has thus remained constantly before american freemasons. so great was the esteem in which waite was held that, shortly after fort newton's m

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pidity, they elected not to continue on with their own development but to return and incarnate on earth to assist the lost souls of our planet. they are virginal in the sense that while they are incarnated in human bodies they were not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits from beyond earth. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, the gnostic handbook page 94 and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women;

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our universe by the fall or alpha event, they elected to postpone their own development and return and incarnate on earth so as to assist the lost adamic peoples. they are virginal in the sense that while they are incarnated in human bodies they are not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits. throughout history they have reincarnated as teachers, leaders, warriors and priests, they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch, and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these

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was true that they had been masters in the manipulation of stone, and many monuments in the cuzco area were indisputably their work. it seemed, however, that some of the more remarkable structures routinely attributed to them could have been erected by earlier civilizations; the evidence suggested that the incas had often functioned as the restorers of these structures rather than their original builders. the same appeared to be true of the highly developed system of roads connecting the far-flung parts of the inca empire. the reader will recall that these roads took the form of parallel highways running north to south, one along the coast and the other through the andes. all in all more than 15,000 miles of surfaced tracks had been in regular and efficient use before the time of the span

he result of guesswork and subjective assumptions. since it was known that the incas had made intensive use of sacsayhuaman i could easily understand why it had been assumed that they had built it. but there was no obvious or necessary connection between these two propositions. the incas could just as well have found the structures already in place and moved into them. if so, who had the original builders been? the viracochas, said the ancient myths, the bearded, white-skinned strangers, the shining ones, the faithful soldiers. as we travelled i continued to study the accounts of the spanish adventurers and ethnographers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who had faithfully recorded the ancient, pre-contact traditions of the peruvian indians. what was particularly noticeable about

o means ornate. by way of contrast certain ceremonial areas were engineered to an infinitely higher graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 65 standard and incorporated giant blocks similar to those i had seen at sacsayhuaman. one smoothly polished polygonal monolith was around twelve feet long by five feet wide by five feet thick and could not have weighed less than 200 tons. how had the ancient builders managed to get it up here? machu picchu. there were dozens of others like it too, and they were all arranged in the familiar jigsaw puzzle walls of interlocking angles. on one block i was graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 66 able to count a total of thirty-three angles, every one intermeshed faultlessly with a matching angle on an adjoining block. there were massive polygons and per

hey were still properly made. on suriqui island, in a small village close to the lakeshore, i found two elderly indians making a boat from bundled totora rushes. the elegant craft, which appeared to be nearly complete, was approximately fifteen feet long. it was wide amidships, but narrow at either end with a high curving prow and stern. i sat down for a while to watch. the more senior of the two builders, who wore a brown felt hat over a curious peaked woollen cap, repeatedly braced his bare left foot against the side of the vessel to give additional leverage as he pulled and tightened the cords that held the bundles of reeds in place. from time to time i noticed that he rubbed a length of cord against his own perspiring brow thus moistening it to increase its adhesion. the boat, surround

d hills and empty windswept plains. road to tiahuanaco. after returning from suriqui to the mainland we drove our hired jeep across those plains, raising a cloud of dust. our route took us through the towns of puccarani and laha, populated by stolid aymara indians who walked slowly in the narrow cobbled streets and sat placidly in the little sunlit plazas. were these people the descendants of the builders of tiahuanaco, as the scholars insisted? or were the legends right? had the ancient city been the work of foreigners with godlike powers who had settled here, long ages ago? 6 thor heyerdahl, the ra expeditions, book club associates, london, 1972, pp. 43, 295. 7 ibid, p. 43. 8 ibid, p. 295. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 77 chapter 10 the city at the gate of the sun the early spa

, it measured roughly 690 feet on each side which meant that it was a hulking piece of architecture and the dominant edifice of tiahuanaco. i walked towards it now, and spent some time strolling around it and clambering over it. originally it had been a clean-sided step-pyramid of earth faced with large andesite blocks. in the centuries since the conquest, however, it had been used as a quarry by builders from as far away as la paz, with the result that only about ten per cent of its superb facing blocks now remained. what clues, what evidence, had those nameless thieves carried off with them? as i climbed up the broken sides and around the deep grassy troughs in the top of the akapana, i realized that the true function of the pyramid was probably never going to be understood. all that was

ve you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamoured of the light of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice and divided and scattered its builders to all parts of the earth.18 it was this story, almost but not quite the biblical account of the tower of babel (which was itself a reworking of a far older mesopotamian tradition, that had brought me to cholula. the central american and middle eastern tales were obviously closely related. indeed, the similarities were unmissable, but there were also differences far too significant to be

o that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it was named babel, therefore, because there yahweh confused the language of the whole earth. it was from there that yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.19 the verse which most interested me suggested very clearly that the ancient builders of the tower of babel had set out to create a lasting monument to themselves so that their name would not be forgotten even if their civilization and language were. was it possible that the same considerations could have applied at cholula? only a handful of monuments in mexico were thought by archaeologists to be more than 2000 years old. cholula was definitely one of them. indeed no one

a very long period of time two thousand years or so, at a conservative estimate. in other words it was a collective project, created by an inter-generational labour force drawn from the many different cultures, olmec, teotihuacan, toltec, zapotec, mixtec, cholulan and aztec, that had passed through cholula since the dawn of civilization in mexico.22 though it was not known who had been the first builders here, as far as it had been possible to establish the earliest major edifice on the site consisted of a tall conical pyramid, shaped like an upturned bucket, flattened at the summit where a temple had stood. much later a second, similar structure was imposed on top of this primordial mound, i.e. a second inverted bucket of clay, and compacted stone was placed directly over the first, rais

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en, struk (brushwood) daran versocht, den ort to dempen, konden nicht; de olden seden' auimam qiiaeri, men scholde eiu kat edder hunt dariii drenken' als diser gebleven, wert it mit der hchte togeslagen (easily stopt up, neocor. 2, 340. conf. in chap. xxxvi. inserting the shrewmouse into the ash. built in alive. 1143 are laying tlie fouudatiou-stone of a new building, shall die within a year; the builders, to avert the calamity, kill a lamh or a hack cock on the stone, just as at frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, ds. no. 185. at arta a thousand masons wrought at a bridge: all that they raised in the day rushed down at night. then sounded the archangel's voice from heaven' unless ye dig theveinto a child of nutn, the masonry shall not stand; yet no orphan nor strang

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offer to build, repair, and improve the material structure; physicians and scientists ask for means of assisting, and so on. it is a notable fact that all of the egyptian and other oriental temples of our order in the americas, as in europe, have been built and decorated by the voluntary services, as far as possible, of the members. all a work of love! and what wonderful rewards have come to "the builders" in most cases! also, those who cannot serve contribute in some way, perhaps financially, or by gifts that will help in research, in mechanical processes. they are anxious to make some sacrifice, contribute some part of their blessings, and thereby become a part of the order other than a student member. naturally there is no thought of reward, special advancement, or sureness of progress

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e put together at saqqara, so the mound had to become higher to be visible above the great enclosure walls. a mound was also found as the focal point of some early temples, such as at hierakonpolis. such mounds may represent the primeval mound that features in egyptian creation myths (see deities, themes, and concepts, but there is no written evidence from this period to confirm this. the pyramid builders the man in charge of building the pyramid complex of djoser was an official named imhotep. at this period, literacy was mainly confined to such officials and their households. many of these officials served as part-time priests in the cult places of deities and deceased kings.16 imhotep, who was a priest of the sun god at heliopolis, was later credited with writing a book of wisdom. this

s and further reading: f. k nel. la n pe et le scorpion: un monographie sur la d sse serket. paris: 1984. p. vernus. the gods of ancient egypt. translated by jane marie todd. london and new york: 1998, 35. primary sources: pt 308, 362, 555; btw; true name; pbm 9997+ 10309; magical statue texts; metternich stela seshat (sechat) seshat was the goddess who measured and recorded the world. as lady of builders she was the patroness of architecture, astronomy, and mathematics. known as she who is foremost in the library, seshat was an assistant or female counterpart of thoth, the god of wisdom and knowledge. she and thoth fixed the length of a king s reign by inscribing his name on the leaves of the ished tree at heliopolis. seshat usually wears a panther skin, a symbol of priestly office. she s

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fact in egyptian architecture; but when he set his funeral monument on the rocky platform in the mountain of tchesert it is more than probable that either he or his architect had in mind the rocky platform on which the great pyramids of giza stand, and it seems as if he built it on a massive rectangular base, so that it might appear conspicuous and imposing from a distance. like the earlier royal builders of pyramids, menthu-hetep built a funeral temple in connexion with his pyramid, and established an order of priests, who were to perform the services and ceremonies connected with his worship, and he allowed the ladies of his court to be buried round about it, just as did the kings of old who reigned at memphis. the great feature of menthu-hetep's monument, which has no parallel in the ol

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innumerable honeycomb arrangements of enormous extent as well as smaller separate structures. the general shape of these things tended to be conical, pyramidal, or terraced; though there were many perfect cylinders, perfect cubes, clusters of cubes, and other rectangular forms, and a peculiar sprinkling of angled edifices whose five-pointed ground plan roughly suggested modern fortifications. the builders had made constant and expert use of the principle of the arch, and domes had probably existed in the city s heyday. the whole tangle was monstrously weathered, and the glacial surface from which the towers projected was strewn with fallen blocks and immemorial debris. where the glaciation was transparent we could see the lower parts of the gigantic piles, and we noticed the ice-preserved

ely the reason-shaking realization which the reader of these pages has doubtless long ago anticipated. i can scarcely bear to write it down in black and white even now, but perhaps that will not be necessary. the things once rearing and dwelling in this frightful masonry in the age of dinosaurs were not indeed dinosaurs, but far worse. mere dinosaurs were new and almost brainless objects- but the builders of the city were wise and old, and had left certain traces in rocks even then laid down well nigh a thousand million years- rocks laid down before the true life of earth had advanced beyond plastic groups of cells- rocks laid down before the true life of earth had existed at all. they were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths

ngs or portrayed by any beings. the mad author of the necronomicon had nervously tried to swear that none had been bred on this planet, and that only drugged dreamers had even conceived them. formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes- viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells- rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile- slaves of suggestion, builders of cities- more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative! great god! what madness made even those blasphemous old ones willing to use and carve such things? and now, when danforth and i saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unkno

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circumcision "in the cathedral of saragossa" says a writer on the inquisition "is the tomb of a famous inquisitor. six pillars surround the tomb; to each u dunned a moor, as preparatory to being burned. on this st. poix ingenuously observes 'if ever the jack ketch of any country should be rich enough to have a splendid tomb, this might serve as an ercellent modd* to make it complete, howevw, the builders of the tomb ought not to have omitted a bas-relief of the famous hone which was burnt for sorcery and witchcraft. granger tdls the story, describing it as having occurred in his time. the poor animal "had been taught to tell the spots upon cards, and the hour of the day by the watch. horse and owner were both indicted by the sacred oflice fdevil, and both were burned

that abraham was bom at kamarina or una, a city of soothsayers, and invented astronomy' josephus claims the same birthplace for terab, abraham's father. the tower of babel was built as much by the direct descendants of shem as by those of the 'accursed' ham and canaan, for the people in those days were 'one' and the "whole earth was of one language; babel was simply an astrological tower, and its builders were astrologers and adepts of the primitive wisdom-religion, or again what we term secret doctrine. the berosian sibyl says: before the tower, zeni-an, titan, and ya- petoathes governed the earth. zeru-an wished to be supreme, but his two brothers resisted, when their sister, astlik, intervened and appeased them. it was agreed tiiat zeru-an should rule, but bis male children should be pu

toiy notes which accompany the scheme, the names of cer- inthus (the disciple of simon magus, of menonder, and of certain other gnostics, whose names are not to be met with in the patristic writings, are often mentioned; such as par'ba (ferho, for instance* the author of the scheme claims, moreover, for his sect the greatest antiquity, bringing forward as a proof that their 'iorefathers' were the builders of all the 'dracontia' temples, even of those beyond 'the great waters' he asserts that the 'just one' who was the mouth- piece of the eternal aeon (christos, himself sent his disciples into the world, placing them under the double protection of sige (silence, the logos, and ophis, the agathodaimon. the author alludes, no doubt, to the favorite expression of jesus "be wise as serpents, an

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-living, inextinguishable fire, to be found at some period of the world s history, there is abundant tradition. this view is fortified by the statements of diodorus, who writes that cheops, or chemis, who founded the principal pyramid, and cephren, or cephrenus, who built the next to it, were neither buried here, but that they were deposited elsewhere. cheops, cephrenus, and mycerinus, the mighty builders of these super-gigantic monuments, of which it is said that they look as if intended to resist the waste of the ages, and, as in a front of supernatural and sublime submission, to await, in the undulation of time (as in the waves of centuries, the expected revolution of nature, and the new and recommencing series of existence, surely had in view something grander, something still more uni

s. the groups on p. 218 supply new changes in the tower fig. 63. druidical stone in persia. fig. 64. druidical circle at darab, in arabia. or upright, and furnish evidence how it passed into the christian times, and became the steeple. when thus fig. 65. kit s cotty-house, kent. fig. 66. ancient british coin, mentioned by camden. changed and reproduced, according to the architectural ideas of the builders of the different countries where the same memorial pillar was raised, it assumed in time the pecu214 the rosicrucians. liarities of the gothic or pointed style. the steeples of the churches, the figures of which we give on p. 218, indicate the fig. 68. fig. 69. england: st. michael s mount, mount s bay, cornwall. dragon, horns, or fires (moloch or baal) british channel, dragonmouth (galil

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the walls of noble chadel, unfailing, unfading. now, from the spire of opal and ruby, i addressed my worthy disciples, resounding, the story of my wanderings in the arcane wilderness of caverns, bored out by primeval beasts, winding like serpents through the earth's foundations, telling again the deeds and thoughts of mine and of the new path, the new victory "my shedim, noble race, bright ones, builders of the hidden spires of deep chadel, who have stamped down upon the walls of heaven and nourished the dream of tomorrow with blood shed in battle and libations spilt from the sword-blade of your false brothers' blood, long days and nights have passed since once we contested the field before the gates of heaven and fought in most mortal conflict against a foe to whom, like us, death had be

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breast, as it is now worn. 235. the square is usually considered to represent morality, the level equality, and the plumb-rule uprightness or justice. it will be seen that in this case the term gsquare h is applied exclusively to the tool, and not to the geometrical figure. in his masonic encyclopaedia, kenning mentions that the square was often seen in churches as an emblem of the old operative builders, and that upon an early metal square found near limerick, in ireland, the following words and the date 1517 are inscribed: 236. i strive to live with love and care 237. upon the level, by the square. 238. this seems to show that our speculative inter-pretations were already known at the early date mentioned. 239. there is also a translation from an ancient persian inscription, which runs:

e i.p.m. in england was formerly a square on a quadrant, but it is now the forty-seventh proposition of euclid fs book i, engraved on a silver plate suspended within a square. in the united states it is a pair of compasses extended to sixty degrees on the fourth part of a circle, with a sun in the centre. the proposition is of course well known, and a practical application of it is widely used by builders, in laying out walls at right angles to each other and in other work, in the form of a triangle having its sides in the ratio 3: 4: 5, the first two sides of which are invariably at right angles. plutarch says that a triangle of this kind was frequently employed by the egyptian priests, who regarded it as a symbol of the universal trinity, osiris and isis being the two sides at right angl

the special duty of the mark mason; while the work of the mark master is to find in those under his charge talents as yet unsuspected even by their possessors, and to draw them out under his kindly and fostering care. 744. at the same time the neophyte is taught by the ritual the necessity of humility and patience. he makes a k c s c, a beautiful and excellent piece of work, but one for which the builders are not yet ready, and consequently it has for the present to be thrown aside. the candidate in his disappointment feels at first that his life-work has been wasted; but he is exhorted to exhibit patience and fortitude, and in due course the time comes when his work can be accepted and utilized. such experience is inevitable in the life of one who is striving to serve humanity; the studen

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nitiation. the fifth initiation and beyond. chapter iii the cretan mysteries the unity of the mysteries. life in ancient crete. the cretan race. recent discoveries in crete. worship in crete. the throne room. the three columns. models of shrines. the altar objects. various symbols. the statuettes. chapter iv the jewish mysteries the jewish line of descent. the jewish migrations. the prophets. the builders of k.s.t. the recasting of the rituals. the mingling of traditions. the transmission of the new rites. the essenes and the christ. kabbalism. the spiritualization of the temple. the loss of the divine name. chapter v the greek mysteries the eleusinian mysteries. the origin of the greek mysteries. the gods of greece. the officials. the lesser mysteries. the greater mysteries. the myths of

hypothesis being in no way contradicted by existing records. bro. r. f. gould affirms that if we can assume the symbolism (or ceremonial) of masonry to be older than 1717, there is practically no limit whatever to the age that can be assigned to it(*concise history of freemasonry, by r. r gould, p. 55; but many other writers look for the origin of our mysteries no further back than the mediaeval builders. amongst this school there is a tendency, also very natural when such a theory of origin is held, to deny the validity of the higher degrees, and to declare, in accordance with the solemn act of union between the two grand lodges of the freemasons of england, in december, 1813, that pure antient masonry consists of three degrees and no more, viz, those of the entered apprentice, the fello

a higher plane through a kind of shaft which they had opened. it was in this way that ezekiel saw the vision of the four kings of the elements. these great ones can be seen clearly only with the sight of the spiritual or nirvanic plane; it does not appear that ezekiel had touched that exalted level directly, but he became aware of it in his ecstasy as though looking up to it from below. 273. the builders of k. s. t. 274. something both of the inner powers and of the egyptian rituals had been faithfully handed down from generation to generation from the days of moses until king solomon came to the throne of his father david. there is some truth in the tradition preserved in the bible, although there are exaggerations and mistakes in the accounts which have come down to us, and much of the

iverse itself. it is impossible exactly to estimate the influence of any given line of tradition. we cannot say more than that some of the pythagorean teachings, probably transmitted along several mutually-interacting lines of descent, became mingled with the masonry of the middle ages and formed part of the inner instruction that was associated with the ceremonies handed down among the operative builders from jewish sources. these were preserved under binding pledges of secrecy, and emerged in speculative masonry after the reformation, thus forming part of our present masonic system. 403. other greek mysteries 404. another line of tradition is that of the mysteries of dionysus (or as the romans called him, bacchus, which approached more closely to the egyptian scheme of initiation than th

se are often utilized by the great ones behind in order to impress upon the people certain characteristics which are necessary for their evolution. 432. the principles of this inner science of building were taught in the ancient mysteries, and the temples of the different faiths were planned by the priests with full knowledge of the hidden side of what they were doing; it was for this reason that builders were always associated with temples and temple-worship, and the secrets of building were carefully guarded as part of the teaching of the mysteries. thus the confusion between speculative and operative, which was purposely effected at the breaking-up of the roman empire, presented no difficulties to the powers behind, since those two aspects had always worked in close association, and it

e craft degrees were deliberately confused with operative building, and were thus transmitted, although in secrecy, in the outer world, but the higher instruction still belonged only to the few, and was handed down in far deeper secrecy still, being introduced from time to time into the heart of various mystical schools, which were much more exclusive in their choice of members than the operative builders. 481. with the craft degrees were associated the kernel of those ceremonies which we now attach to the honourable degree of mark master mason, connected, as always, with the 2, and the supreme order of the holy royal arch of jerusalem, worked in conjunction with the 3. our present rituals for these are not therefore necessarily ancient, for all have been subjected to much modern recasting

ystical ideas of the celtic church. 501. operative masonry in the middle ages 502. the temporary custodians 503. in a complete study of mediaeval operative masonry it would be necessary to include a treatise upon the various schools of mediaeval architecture and the tendencies, national and economic, which influenced their creation and development. in this book we are concerned with the operative builders only in so far as they were the temporary custodians of the speculative science of the mysteries; but the study of architecture is of considerable value to the mason; for it is the physical-plane reflection of mighty ideas in the inner worlds, and by the study of architecture certain of the laws of spiritual building may by analogy be reached and understood. 504. as masons, our speculativ

ardy, where originated the style called romanesque, which eventually spread all over europe. according to tradition, the college of architects from rome removed during the last days of the empire to the safe refuge offered by the little republic of comum, once the home of pliny, and made its retreat upon the lovely island still known as isola comacina in lake como in northern italy(*the cathedral builders, leader scott; pp. 11, 140) in a.d. 568 the surrounding country fell into the hands of the lombards or longobards, so-called from their long beards and uncouth appearance, whose original home had been in the lower basin of the elbe; and although at first they were detested by the italians, with surprising rapidity they developed enthusiasm for the arts and refinement of the land they had

of the land they had conquered(*history of art, h. b. cotterill, vol. i, p. 232) 510. the first mention in contemporary records of the celebrated comacine masters, who were descended from that roman college, occurs in the code of the lombard king rothares (643, in which they figure as master masons with power to make contracts for building works and to employ workmen and labourers(*the cathedral builders, p. 5) they are mentioned also in the memoratorio of king luitprand in 713(*ibid, p. 24) when they received the privileges of freemen in the lombard state. to their creative genius romanesque architecture is due; and in all probability they adapted the traditional roman methods to the requirements of their lombard masters. it is clear from the edict that they were highly-skilled architect

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that for the devout buddhist the real hell is life itself. although buddha himself was profoundly antispeculative and antimetaphysical, many of his later followers were not. particularly after buddhism split into theravada (southern buddhism, found today in sri lanka and southeast asia) and mahayana (northern buddhism, found today in korea, japan, and taiwan, metaphysical speculation flowered in builders of the adytum 35 mahayana buddhism. various forms of devotional buddhism also developed within the mahayana fold. devotional buddhism focused on different bodhisattvas (enlightened souls who delayed the final stages of their nirvana so that they could stay around and help ordinary mortals) who, like the great gods and goddesses of later hinduism, could help their devotees. the notion of h

s, 1979. conze, edward. buddhist thought in india. 1962. reprint, ann arbor: university of michigan press, 1967. evans-wentz,w.y, ed. the tibetan book of the dead. 3rd ed. london: oxford university press, 1960. rahula,walpola. what the buddha taught. 1959. 2nd expanded edition, new york: evergreen, 1974. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951; new york:macmillan, 1987. builders of the adytum the builders of the adytum (bota) was established in 1922 by paul foster case (1884 1954, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. he was known as an expert in the study of the tarot and cabala, and was said to have been asked by the inner school to reinterpret the ageless wisdom for the western audience. bota s name originated from the greek term meaning holy of h

the tarot, the use of symbols, and other techniques. it is believed that a transformed personality will empower the individual to change his environment and bring it closer to the heart s desire. new affiliates of the inner mystery school standing behind bota are referred to as associate members, and receive graded lessons on the order s teachings. they may become members, that is to say working builders, and may affiliate with active chapters around the united states, canada, and a number of other countries around the world. upon receiving advanced instruction, they may participate in the esoteric activity of bota. the headquarters of bota, which is located in los angeles, is governed by the grand chapter, consisting of four initiates called grand chiefs. the prolocutor general and presi

e core of the fraternity. see also magic and magical groups for further reading: melton, j. gordon. the encyclopedia of american religion. detroit, mi: gale research, 5th ed, 1996. the path of light. philadelphia: fraternity of light, 1974. fraternity of the hidden light fraternity of the hidden light is the english name of the fraternity known as fraternitas l. v. x. occulta. very similar to the builders of the adytum, it originated from the american section of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd. it is claimed that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the head and three officers of the ogd reorganized the order as a mystery school dedicated to the return of the new age or age of aquarius. this tradition has been inherited by the present heads of the fraternity, assuming a m

neopaganism. its headquarters were located in suburban detroit, michigan, where its periodical, liber venifica, was published. see also church of satan for further reading: parker, john. at the heart of darkness: witchcraft, black magic and satanism today. new york: citadel, 1993. ordo lux kethri the ordo lux kethri was formed in 1982 by april schadler bishop and michael albion macdonald, of the builders of the adytum. the order, which is also known as the order of the kethric light, is depicted as a fraternal order, and is similar to the rosicrucian one. among its teachings are the cabala, alchemy, ritual magic, and hermetic meditation, including the techniques of visualization and astral travel of franz bardon. for further reading: bardon, franz. the practice of magical evocation. wuppe

ster crowley writes the book of the law (said to have been dictated to crowley by a disembodied spirit, one of the most important of modern magical treatises, and the basis of all thelemic magic. 1907 aleister crowley founds his own organization, the astrum argentinum( silver star. 1909 aleister crowley begins publication of the equinox semiannually (until 1913) in order to spread his ideas. 1922 builders of the adytum (b.o.t.a, a mystery school based on the cabala, is established by paul foster case. dion fortune (violet mary firth) organizes the community of the inner light, later the fraternity of the inner light, one of the organizations with a direct influence on gerald gardner. 1939 in england, gerald b. gardner establishes the kernel of what will become modern wicca. 1948 our lady o

resence of satanism in the united states centered upon the sexual abuse of children in satanic rituals is initiated by the publication of michelle remembers. 1981 the oxford golden dawn occult society is founded by frater katon shu al, then a member of the typhonian branch of the ordo templi orientis. 1982 the ordo lux kethri is formed by april schadler bishop and michael albion macdonald, of the builders of the adytum. the first spate of rumors that the procter and gamble trademark a circle containing a side view of a man-in-the-moon face looking out over a field of 13 stars is a satanic symbol. other surges take place at the grassroots level in 1985, 1991, 1995, and 1999. in the wake of a young man s suicide, his mother brings a lawsuit against his school, at which he had been involved i

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not relate to the real business of free-masonry, dermott introduces a distinction between the "mysteries of the craft" and operative masonry. after a long digression which denigrates authors of masonic exposures, dermott returns to the subject of masonry: certain it is. that free-masonry has been from the creation (though not under that name; that it was a divine gift from god; that cain and the builders of his city were strangers to the secret mystery of masonry; that there were but four masons in the world when the deluge happened, that one of the four, even the second son of noah, was not master of the art; that neither nimrod, nor any of his bricklayers, knew any thing of the matter, and that there were but very few masters of the art (even) at solomon's temple; whereby it plainly app

that there were but very few masters of the art (even) at solomon's temple; whereby it plainly appears, that the whole mystery was communicated to very few at that time; that at solomon's temple (and not before) it received the name free-masonry, because the masons at jerusalem and tyre were the greatest cabalists then in the world; that the mystery has been, for the most part, practised amongst builders since solomon's time. this paragraph also includes a footnote which defines "cabalists" as "people skilled in the cabala i.e. tradition, their secret science of expounding divine mysteries &c."31 writing some fifty years later, in 1807 shortly before the union of the grand lodges, thomas harper, then the deputy grand master of the antients, published the seventh edition of ahiman rezon. t

he deity immediately after the fall in order to enable mankind to regain the edenic state in which he was conscious of the divine presence, and this is the essence of masonic teaching. the latter, which has to do with the making of physical structures and was learned from man's study of nature, is peripheral to the central masonic teaching. initially these two disciplines were quite separate. the builders at cain's city of enoch and at nimrod's tower of babel are said not to have been practitioners of the "royal art" as a result of the teachings of the "cabalists" at solomon's temple, builders have been practicing the "royal art" under the name of "free-masonry" ever since. this analysis certainly suggests that among the members of the antient grand lodge there was a mystical, and probably

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sos were carried in the eleusinian mysteries, especially the lesser degrees. bacchus, representing the soul of the mundane sphere, was capable of an infinite multiplicity of form and designations. dionysos apparently was his solar aspect. the dionysiac architects constituted an ancient secret society, in principles and doctrines much like the modern freemasonic order. they were an organization of builders bound together by their secret knowledge of the relationship between the earthly and the divine sciences of architectonics. they were supposedly employed by king solomon in the building of his temple, although they were not jews, nor did they worship the god of the jews, being followers of bacchus and dionysos. the dionysiac architects erected many of the great monuments of antiquity. the

tings, is an allegorical exposition of great philosophic and mystic truths, and its hidden meaning may be comprehended only by those who have been "raised" into the presence of the true mind. next: the initiation of the pyramid sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 41 the initiation of the pyramid supreme among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects and builders, the great pyramid of gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the great pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of ete

tians, for the elaborate carvings with which the burial chambers of egyptian royalty are almost invariably ornamented are entirely lacking and it embodies none of the elements of their architecture or decoration, such as inscriptions, images, cartouches, paintings, and other distinctive features associated with dynastic mortuary art. the only hieroglyphics to be found within the pyramid are a few builders' marks sealed up in the chambers of construction, first opened by howard vyse. these apparently were painted upon the stones before they were set in position, for in a number of instances the marks were either inverted or disfigured by the operation of fitting the blocks together. while egyptologists have attempted to identify the crude dabs of paint as cartouches of cheops, it is almost

ray down the descending passage into the pit. the actual building of the pyramid was accomplished in the period of from ten to fifteen years immediately preceding this date. while such figures doubtless will evoke the ridicule of modern egyptologists, they are based upon an exhaustive study of the principles of sidereal mechanics as incorporated into the structure of the pyramid by its initiated builders. if the casing stones were in position at the beginning of the ninth century, the socalled erosion marks upon the outside were not due to water. the theory also that the salt upon the interior stones of the pyramid is evidence that the building was once submerged is weakened by the scientific fact that this kind of stone is subject to exudations of salt. while the building may have been s

e well is merely a rough hole and the grotto an irregular chamber, without any evidence of the architectural precision with which the remainder of the structure was erected. the diameter of the well also precludes the possibility of its having been dug downward; it must have been gouged out from below, and the grotto was necessary to supply air to the thieves. it is inconceivable that the pyramid builders would break one of their own ramp stones and leave its broken surface and a gaping hole in the side wall of their otherwise perfect gallery. if the well is a robbers' hole, it may explain why the pyramid was empty when caliph al mamoun entered it and what happened to the missing coffer lid. a careful examination of the so-called unfinished subterranean chamber, which must have been the ba

re built will yet be found, i feel convinced, ample information as to their uses. a good diamond drill with two or three hundred feet of rods is what is wanted to test this, and the solidarity of the pyramids at the same time (see the solution of the pyramid problem) mr. ballard's theory of extensive underground apartments and quarries brings up an important problem in architectonics. the pyramid builders were too farsighted to endanger the permanence of the great pyramid by placing over five million tons of limestone and granite on any but a solid foundation. it is therefore reasonably certain that such chambers or passageways as may exist beneath the building are relatively insignificant, like those within the body of the structure, which occupy less than one sixteenhundredth of the cubi

with its branches below and its roots at the apex. from this inverted tree the divine wisdom is disseminated by streaming down the diverging sides and radiating throughout the world. the size of the capstone of the great pyramid cannot be accurately determined, for, while most investigators have assumed that it was once in place, no vestige of it now remains. there is a curious tendency among the builders of great religious edifices to leave their creations unfinished, thereby signifying that god alone is complete. the capstone--if it existed--was itself a miniature pyramid, the apex of which again would be capped by a smaller block of similar shape, and so on ad infinitum. the capstone therefore is the epitome of the entire structure. thus, the pyramid may be likened to the universe and t

ticularly the eleusinian rites. since the dawn of time, the truers of stone and the hewers of wood have constituted a divinely overshadowed caste. as civilization spread slowly over the earth, cities were built and deserted; monuments were erected to heroes at present unknown; temples were built to gods who lie broken in the dust of the nations they inspired. research has proved not only that the builders of these cities and monuments and the sculptors who chiseled out the inscrutable faces of the gods were masters of their crafts, but that in the world today there are none to equal them. the profound knowledge of mathematics and astronomy embodied in ancient architecture, and the equally profound knowledge of anatomy revealed in greek statuary, prove that the fashioners of both were maste

their crafts, but that in the world today there are none to equal them. the profound knowledge of mathematics and astronomy embodied in ancient architecture, and the equally profound knowledge of anatomy revealed in greek statuary, prove that the fashioners of both were master minds, deeply cultured in the wisdom which constituted the arcana of the mysteries .thus was established the guild of the builders, progenitors of modern freemasons. when employed to build palaces, temples or combs, or to carve statues for the wealthy, those initiated architects and artists concealed in their works the secret doctrine, so that now, long after their bones have returned to dust, the world realizes that those first artisans were indeed duly initiated and worthy to receive the wages of master masons. the

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reality that lies behind the veil of outward symbol. anyone, of course, can understand the simpler meaning of our symbols, especially with the help of the explanatory lectures; but he may still miss the meaning of the scheme as a vital hole. it is absurd to think that a vast organization like masonry was ordained merely to teach to grown-up men of the world the symbolical meaning of a few simple builders' tools, or to impress upon us such masonry elementary virtues as temperance and justice--the children in every village school are t aught such things; or to enforce such simple principles of morals as brotherly love, which every church and every religion teaches; or as relief, which is practised quite as much by non-masons as by us; or of truth, which every infant learns upon its mother's

ey discern the masonic system to be something deeper than a code of elementary morality such as all men are expected to observe whether formally masons or not. they reflect that the phenomenal growth of the craft is scarcely accountable for upon the supposition that modern speculative masonry perpetuates nothing more than the private associations that once existed in connection with the operative builders' trade. they recognize that there can be no peculiar virtue or interest in continuing to imitate the customs of ancient trade-guilds for the mere sake of so doing; or of keeping on foot a costly organization for teaching men the elementary symbolism of a few building tools, supplemented by a considerable amount of social conviviality. upon a little thought it becomes pretty obvious that o

he art of the practical stone-mason provided, thenceforward it became dedicated to purposes that are wholly spiritual, religious and philosophic. perhaps the chief evidence of the transformation thus effected was the incorporation of the central legend and traditional history comprised in our third degree. obviously that legend can have had no relation to, or practical bearing upon, the operative builders' trade. i will ask you to reflect that no building of stone, no temple or other edifice capable of being built with hands, has remained unfinished through the death of any professional architect such as hiram abiff is popularly supposed to have been. the principles of architecture, the genuine secrets of the building trade, are not and never have been lost; they are thoroughly well known

h all material edifices are but the types and symbols it is the temple of the collective body of humanity itself; of which the great initiate st. paul said" know ye not that ye are the temple of god" a perfect humanity was the great temple which, in the counsels of the most high, was intended to be reared in the mystical holy city, of which the local jerusalem was the type. the three great master-builders, solomon and the two hirams, are a triad corresponding after a manner with the holy trinity of the christian religion; hiram abiff being the chief architect, he" by whom all things were made" and" in whom (as st. paul said, using masonic language) the whole building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the lord" the material of this mystical temple was the souls of men, at

one of common brick and stone, but of the" unhewn stone" or incorruptible raw material of which the creator fashioned the human organism. the jerusalem in which it was built was not the geographical one in palestine, but the eternal" city of peace" in the heavens; not, as st. paul says" the jerusalem which now is, but the jerusalem above, which is the mother of us all" like the greek demeter. its builders were not three human personages resident in the levant, but the divine energy considered in its three constituent principles spoken of in our instruction lectures as wisdom, strength and beauty, which as" pillars of his work" run through and form the metaphysical warp and basis of all created things. these three metaphysical principles may be defined in modern terms as life-essence (or th

tainment of mastership, and they exhibit the process of initiation carried to the highest conceivable degree of attainment. the new testament is full of passages in masonic terminology and there is not a little irony in the failure by modern masons to recognize its supreme importance and relevancy to their lodge proceedings and in the fact that in so doing they may be likening themselves to those builders of whom it is written that they rejected the chief corner stone. they would learn further that the grand master and exemplar of masonry, hiram abiff, is but a figure of the great master and exemplar and saviour of the world, the divine architect by whom all things were made, without whom is nothing that hath been made, and whose life is the light of men. if, in the words of the masonic hy

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

beingscould be invited to participate in the life of a city, by means of the spiritual art of astrology.ovason then goes on to give one reason why the city was constructed according tosuch specific designs and dates. he speaks of the presence or existence of angelicbeings, or overlords, who are being invoked to literally take part in the terrestrial oper-ations of mankind. the masonic fathers and builders of the city referred to these enti-ties by their latin term, cosmocrates: the leader of these mighty beings was due to take over the direction of western civilizationin 1881 caused considerable excitement in the esoteric circles of washington d.c, and theoccult world in general. the very word capitol derives from caput draconis, meaning the head and tail of thedragon. we feel that ovason'

ars to earth, and lifeforce).the crop circles do indeed feature sacred symbolism, but that does not of itself meanthat they are formed by sacred persons or entities. the circle is sacred but is used indoodles in the crops120atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation any number of common and banal ways. moreover, sacred symbolism has been con-sistently used by the creators of cities, the builders of universities, and in cathedralsand churches for centuries, yet these are some of the most adroitly exploitative edi-fices of the alien bloodkin. unfortunately, just because a symbol is known to havemagical properties does not mean that only one side can use it. it is also somewhatsimplistic and irrational to expect the aliens to use patently negative symbolism thatwould openly betray t

stop to listen. some teach thegreat mysteries with words, others teach with their eyes:the mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of amature man is that he wants to live humbly for one (william stekel) a cosmically sane man living quietly in society, is worth more than a million screamers forreform (v ernon howard)i would sooner take instruction from the builders of the temple of luxor, than from the cre-ators of napalm (anthony west)w e are here to learn to love each other. i don t know what the others are here for (w. h.auden) the high priests and priestesses within the adepts of the rose have (from pre-dilu-vian days) closely monitored and counteracted the machinations of their nemesis. inthe sixteenth century, they sensed the colossal rip in t

icant word, themeaning of which has been lost for many generations. and like the prospector who unknowingly tram-ples over valuable ore, we have used this word over and over without realizing the scope and depth ofits meaning. this is the word illi or illium, the name of troy, and the name of one of the oldest epics inthe world. from it is derived the word civilization, for the illi were the city builders and the illi wholived in certain cities were the civilli.etymology connecting to the illiciviliza tionciviliancapitol originally meaning, head of the illi, or chief hill.hill from the high place of the illi. the illi always resided on the peaks.islands/isles another chosen refuge of the illi (see skilly, heiligoland, ille in france, illium ingreece, elephantine, nile, laaland, sicilly, et

cmythology in which they demonstrate their worldly power by spilling human blood at a predeter-mined locale.the inscription below the pyramid is novus ordo seclorum, latin for the new order of theages. taking the first and last letters of each inscription, and the first letter of the middle word,ordo, in the second inscription, the letter are m-a-s-o-n. masons, in the original sense of theword as builders and stonemasons, built the great pyramid. the eye of the pyramid on the great seal is the eye of god, which watches and pierces the heart.who knows its name? call it love, creation, conspiracy, says the egyptian book of coming forthby day, better known as the egyptian book of the dead. the death theme continues with the pyra-mid itself. the greek origin of the word pyramid derives from fi

ntral and south america, the naga stands for one who is wise. the [buddhist philosopher] nagarjuna of india, for example, is shown with an aura, or halo, of sevenserpents which is an indication of a very high degree of initiation. the symbolism of the seven serpents,usually cobras, are also on masonic aprons or certain systems in the buddhist ruins of cambodia(ankhor) and ceylon. the great temple-builders of the famous ankhor wat were considered to be thesemi-divine khmers. the avenue leading to the temple is lined with the seven-headed naga. and evenin mexico, we find the naga which becomes nagal. in china, the naga is given the form of thedragon and has a direct association with the emperor and is known as the son of heaven. while inegypt the same association is termed king-initiate. the

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

s story, like the flood, has many parallels outside of the bible. the aztec people of mexico say that at one time giants of deformed stature once possessed the land. arrogant were these giants, who endeavored to build a tower so as to reach the heavens. when the lord of heaven looked upon the haughty ambition of the earth-dwellers, he sent down his minions to confound them. this action caused the builders of the tower to go their separate ways and disperse across the earth. and then there s the savior. a character who, similar to the flood, seems like an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream- yet a pleasant dream this time. the wanderer, the civilizer, the magician, the chosen one, the incarnated god, the sacrificed. he was all of these things. typical of the west, the most famous s

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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 ancient egyptians _thoth_ or _phtha_ is represented on the oldest monuments carrying in his hand the _crux ansata, or _ankh [a tau cross, with a ring or circle over it. he is so seen on the double tablet of shufu and noh shufu, builders of the greatest of the pyramids, at wady meghara, in the peninsula of sinai. it was the hieroglyphic for _life, and with a triangle prefixed meant _life-giving. to us therefore it is the symbol of _life--of that life that emanated from the deity, and of that eternal life for which all hope; through our faith in god's infinite goodness. the rose was anciently sacred to aurora and the sun

visible for him, this a supreme god had prescribed. for the primeval man, in whom dwelt thought, this universe was all a temple, life everywhere a worship. duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. to work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ploughers, spinners and builders, inventors, and men of science, poets, advocates, and writers, all stand upon one common level, and form one grand, innumerable host, marching ever onward since the beginning of the world: each entitled to our sympathy and respect, each a man and our brother. it was well to give the earth to man as a dark mass, whereon to labor. it was well to provide rude and unsightly materials in the o

sequestered forests; for he is invisible, and fills the universe as its soul, and liveth not in any temple! light and darkness are the world's eternal ways. god is the principle of everything that exists, and the father of all beings. he is eternal, immovable and self-existent. there are no bounds to his power. at one glance he sees the past, the present, and the future; and the procession of the builders of the pyramids, with us and our remotest descendants, is now passing before him. he reads our thoughts before they are known to ourselves. he rules the movements of the universe and all events and revolutions are the creatures of his will. for he is the infinite mind and supreme intelligence. in the beginning man had the word, and that word was from god: and out of the living power which

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ou back from the life you desire, you will find more and more that the need for the ritual will gradually recede< that will be the time when you can achieve your desires without the need for a magical working of any kind. your powers will be absoluhe contents preface vii introduction 1 part 1: the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages 1 the ancient corporations: colleges of builders in rome 4 2 the collegia and the barbarian invasions 18 3 ecclesiastical and monastic associations 34 4 secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 51 5 the crusades and the templars 62 6 the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 81 7 the templars and the parisian builders 102 part 2. from the art of building to the art of thinking 8 mason corporations in france 146

ilders in rome 4 2 the collegia and the barbarian invasions 18 3 ecclesiastical and monastic associations 34 4 secular brotherhoods: the germanic and anglo-saxon guilds 51 5 the crusades and the templars 62 6 the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 81 7 the templars and the parisian builders 102 part 2. from the art of building to the art of thinking 8 mason corporations in france 146 9 builders corporations in italy, germany, and switzerland 168 10 the corporative masonry of great britain 180 11 universal freemasonry 205 12 speculative freemasonry 221 13 the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 247 conclusion 270 notes 278 index 293 preface i state with all modesty, and without presuming to underestimate the value of preceding works on the subject, that to date there has been no

irth of a new discipline, which we might call masonology. nevertheless, operative freemasonry, which preceded this modern freemasonry* and which is its source, has not been the beneficiary of such extensive examination. those who have dealt with the origins of [the term operative freemasonry as used throughout this book refers to freemasonry in its original form, as represented by brotherhoods of builders. it is opposed in this study by the term speculative freemasonry, having to do with those organizations that emerged in the seventeenth century divorced from the worker and the meaning of his tradition and made up of "accepted" masons. throughout this book and especially in part 2, the author strives to make a strong distinction between speculative freemasonry and the operative freemasonr

rt unexplored. introduction behold the days come, oracle of the eternal. i will set my law within them and write it on their hearts. behold the days come that city shall be built. jeremiah 31:33-38 to find the origins of freemasonry, it is important first to isolate its original characteristics, which can be found in the institutions from which it appears to have emerged: 1. it was a professional builders or, more precisely, construction organization; the long-ago vocation of mason does not correspond directly to the modern specialization, but included an extensive knowledge of architecture. the organization was represented hierarchically. 2. the organization extended beyond a strictly professional framework. its members considered themselves brothers and provided mutual assistance. 3. the

religious, and philosophical that have conditioned these events. from a chronological perspective, the most certain sources of freemasonry have emerged as the following: 1. the roman collegia, the remnants of which remained in the west following invasions and survived in the east as institutions discovered by the crusaders at the end of the eleventh century. 2. the ecclesiastical associations of builders formed by the bishops of the early middle ages, especially the benedictines, the cistercians, and the templars. 3. trade-based freemasonry, which was born under the aegis of these associations and followed the form of lay brotherhoods or guilds. the history of freemasonry and its origins will form the first part of this book. in the second part, we will study the evolution of the professi

the effective and ultimate cause of these objectives, however different from one another they may appear in the various stages of their evolution. this is an exemplary illustration of an important truth: faith lives only through works and works are worth only the faith that moves them. part 1 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages 1 the ancient corporations: colleges of builders in rome the religious character of the ancient corporations the corporative organization of labor goes back to distant antiquity, and associations of builders are among the most ancient. when humans abandoned the nomadic lifestyle, they formed builders associations to erect durable shelters, protective ramparts, and temples in which to worship their gods. architecture became an art a diff

oes back to distant antiquity, and associations of builders are among the most ancient. when humans abandoned the nomadic lifestyle, they formed builders associations to erect durable shelters, protective ramparts, and temples in which to worship their gods. architecture became an art a difficult one demanding unique empirical knowledge prior to the development of the exact sciences. in some ways builders created the first aristocracy of jealous exclusivity whose services were indispensable to the gradually forming states. the association proved necessary because isolated individuals were incapable of erecting large structures by themselves and because this work required extensive general, technical, and artistic knowledge. here it is necessary to make an important, preliminary observation

ious basis. for the people of antiquity, every action of life was commingled with religion. humans considered themselves the playthings of higher powers without whose help it was impossible to succeed at anything. work was notably invested with a sacred nature. oswald wirth, in les mysteres de l'art royal, translated this religious sentiment with great skill: the ancient corporations: colleges of builders in rome 5 the hunter sacrificed to the guardian spirit of the animal he sought to kill, just as prior to chopping down a tree, the carpenter won the approval of the hamadryad. the quarryman, in turn, would have felt he had committed a sacrilege if he began cutting into rock without beforehand obtaining the consent of mother earth, whom he was mutilating. this is not the entire story, beca

ected between the humble mortal and the god who worked through him, using him as an intermediary, therefore deifying the human through work. each trade exalted its tutelary deity. rich in imagination, the ancients were able to poeticize the actions of daily life and give their professional occupations a celestial aura. thus were born the mysteries of the different trades.1 the cult of the ancient builders must have been of a distinct scope, for the noblest object of their labor was the construction of temples in which the gods were worshipped. in addition, human dwellings had religious significance. rituals were an indispensable part of their construction. among the romans the home was the temple of the lares gods. this was true for all ancient peoples and still survives in the traditional

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sight is by swimming the length and width of the river. this is to say that through contemplation and analysis on the given explanations, one may have a flash of insight into the concept and consequently develop it into an innovation. this is clearly apparent from the following famous story of archimedes. the king commissioned archimedes to weigh the royal throne in order to determine whether its builders had pilfered gold while constructing it. archimedes, who was the greatest mathematician of his time, analyzed the problem over and over again without success. one day, he was about to bathe. as he sat in the tub he noticed the displacement of water and suddenly the solution flashed into his mind. it all came together for him in a sudden intuitive flash. he jumped out of the tub and ran do

necessary prerequisite to analysis. however, concentration, by itself, is only an empty vessel. only when this vessel is filled by analysis can there be a flash of intuitive understanding and insight into the subject) this may be illustrated by the well known story of archimedes. as mentioned in part one, the king commissioned archimedes to weigh the royal throne in order to determine whether the builders had pilfered gold in its construction. archimedes, who was the greatest mathematician of his time, repeatedly analyzed the problem without success. one day, he was about to bathe. as sat in the tub he noticed the displacement of water and suddenly the solution flashed into his mind. it all came together for him. he jumped out of the tub and ran down the streets of athens, stark naked, yel

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necessary prerequisite to analysis. however, concentration, by itself, is only an empty vessel. only when this vessel is filled by analysis can there be a flash of intuitive understanding and insight into the subject) this may be illustrated by the well known story of archimedes. as mentioned in part one, the king commissioned archimedes to weigh the royal throne in order to determine whether the builders had pilfered gold in its construction. archimedes, who was the greatest mathematician of his time, repeatedly analyzed the problem without success. one day, he was about to bathe. as sat in the tub he noticed the displacement of water and suddenly the solution flashed into his mind. it all came together for him. he jumped out of the tub and ran down the streets of athens, stark naked, yel

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

r understood as my personal "dance" with the unconscious, the process of magical initiation, the golden dawn system, and the western mystery tradition. in the earlier part of 1969, i had had a brief, albeit intoxicating, exposure to jungian analysis in san francisco. in the latter part of 1969, by way of a powerful and unusual synchronicity, i had been told about a los angeles organization called builders of the adytum which had been founded by paul foster case (who i was to much later find out had been a participant in a golden dawn temple of the earlier 1900s. it took a full year for these connections to ripen before i embarked upon case's excellent correspondence lessons in a committed way. his work introduced me to an exciting and enriching world of the symbolism of tarot, qabalah, and

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ructure is 'built' as proposed, then the manifestation of an abstract idea will be real. what is indicated on a blueprint, any blueprint, is abstract and symbolic, and does not exist until whatever is thusly shown is actually constructed. that is why the blueprint for the coming into being of xem is a prophecy of what can be and not a prophecy of what will be. it all depends upon the elect as the builders of their structure. it is up to us to create the realm of xem as well as to become xem.ff before we can utilize the correct principles, we must, of course, become aware of them. the climate that you speak of, anubis, can be considered as an attitude, or a way. this way is a positive, aware state from/in which we will be able to detect the changes you speak of, as more keys are added. howe

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

to anatomy. the rest served as a book of herb and mineral recipes for various ailments or illnesses. egyptian architecture and building techniques have also been very influential. the pyramidal shape has been adopted by modern architects, including the egyptian-inspired entrance to the louvre museum in paris, france. egyptians, like mesopotamians, made use of canals for irrigation and became dam builders in order to control some of the unwanted flooding of the nile river. both of these influenced modern engineering. art was also influenced through colorful and often realistic tomb decorations. this was especially true during the rule of akhenaten when a style called amarna art was popular. the art during this period was surprisingly modern; it had a very natural look instead of the stiff

catholic world religions: almanac 147 christianity church) in rome. leonardo s fresco, or wall painting, in milan, italy, called the last supper is equally famous for its depiction of christ and his disciples. it was not until the sixteenth century that western painting began to move away from christian themes. architecture was also strongly influenced by christianity. during the late middle ages builders began designing and building gothic (a style of architecture) churches that feature soaring vaults and pointed arches that make the faithful look heavenward. western music also was heavily influenced by christianity. much of the work of the german composer johann sebastian bach (1685 1750, for example, was created for church services. from literature to architecture to music, western art

SEPHER HA BAHIR

t is thus written [regarding god (genesis 14:19, owner of heaven and earth. when it goes, it is like it is thrown (zarka. following it is treasure (segulah. it is at the head of all letters. 91. why is [this accent] at the end of a word, and not at the beginning? this teaches us that this crown rises higher and higher. it is included and crowned, as it is written (psalm 118:22, the stone that the builders rejected has become the head cornerstone. it ascend to the place from which it was graven, as it is written (genesis 49:24, from there is the shepherd, the stone of israel. 92. he also said: what is the reason that we place blue wool in the tzitzit? and why are there 32 [threads? what is this like? a king had a beautiful garden, and in it were 32 paths. he placed a watchman over them to s

ce, as it is written (esther 9:30, words of peace and truth. it is likewise written (2 kings 20:19, for peace and truth will be in my days. this is the meaning of the verse (isaiah 58:14, i will feed you with the inheritance of jacob your father. this is a complete inheritance (nachalah, comprising kindness, terror, truth and peace. it is therefore written (psalm 118:22, the stone despised by the builders has become the chief cornerstone. this is the stone that was despised by abraham and isaac, the builders of the world, and that then became the chief cornerstone. 191. and why did they despise it? is it not written (genesis 26:5, because abraham hearkened to my voice, and kept my watch, my commandments, my decrees, and my torahs. what is the meaning of my watch? it refers to what the attr

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ims are the souls that would aspire, and can only fear. i see its dim shapelessness going before the men of blood, and marshalling their way. robespierre passed me with his furtive step. those eyes of horror were gnawing into his heart. i looked down upon their senate; the grim phantom sat cowering on its floor. it hath taken up its abode in the city of dread. and what in truth are these would-be builders of a new world? like the students who have vainly struggled after our supreme science, they have attempted what is beyond their power; they have passed from this solid earth of usages and forms into the land of shadow, and its loathsome keeper has seized them as its prey. i looked into the tyrant's shuddering soul, as it trembled past me. there, amidst the ruins of a thousand systems whic

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flask became as if depleted of air. and i placed it under the stone, and (the spirit) girded himself up, and lifted it up top of the flask. and the flask went up the steps, carrying the stone, and laid it down at the end of the entrance of the temple. and i solomon, beholding the stone raised aloft and placed on a foundation, said "truly the scripture is fulfilled, which says 'the stone which the builders rejected on trial, that same is become the head of the corner' for this it is not mine to grant, but god's, that the demon should be strong enough to lift up so great a stone and deposit it in the place i wished" 124. and ephippas led the demon of the red sea with the column. and they both took the column and raised it aloft from the earth. and i outwitted these two spirits, so that they

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

e basis of the world and give birth thereto. one might say otherwise that it was like a cubical stone or altar, for its extremity was concealed in the depth, while its surface or summit rose above the chaos. it was the central point in the immensity of the world, the cornerstone [zohar, pt. i, folio 231a; ii, 511; job xxxviii, 6, the tried stone, the sure foundation, but also that stone which the builders rejected" but what, really, in the christian meaning, is the cornerstone? isaias said (isa. 28, verse 16 "therefore thus saith the lord god: behold i will lay a stone in the foundations of sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. he that believeth, let him not hasten" the corner stone is jesus christ "the stone which the builders rejected (cf. ps

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

ave away to medieval grimoires and perhaps the last practicing setian, the 8th century abulfaiz dhu l nun, changed his name to thuban the black (thuban being the name of the star alpha draconis. thuban as pir, or chief of his order, was called king or lord of the fish the fish being a typhonic animal. thuban was third in teaching succession after daud of tai and maaruf karkhi (in the order of the builders. thuban founded the malamati, or blameworthy, order of sufi, which has certain similarities with freemasonry. the masonic pillar of the temple boaz (the black pillar) may be albuazz, a form of thubans name abulfaiz. the fourth blooming began in the middle of the nineteenth century, when western occultism began to focus seriously on archaeological data coming from egypt. particularly impor

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

me ministers, chancellors, etc, as well as some corporate ceos, financiers, media moguls, and others. these are major players, but again, they are dupes because there is a secret, invisible, arcane or hidden "inner circle" which works behind the scenes and tells these major players what to do. this higher level of the illuminati elite have historically thought of themselves as 30 codex magica the builders. there is even a classic masonic textbook by this very title. the builders believe that jehovah god did adam and eve a disservice by driving them out of the garden. they rankle at the fact that nimrod, the king of babylon, was confounded in building the tower of babel, and they are seized with rage over the destruction of their temple in jerusalem. indeed, the builders are angered that ev

cians. like the hindu god who represents them, it is the fondest desire of these wicked, nihilistic men that they become the destroyer of worlds.4 and then, from the burned out carcass, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, is to come the new city of glory, the kingdom of the illuminati, ruled by their godman king and his master, satan. this is the ultimate, all-consuming, repugnant goal of the builders, to undo what god has done, to defile and utterly destroy planet earth and to rebuild it in their image. the prophetic scriptures tell us that this grandiose plan the great work of the illuminati will never fully come to fruition. the kingdom shall not become the province of the rebellious illuminati and their dark, occult master, satan. here is almighty god's glorious declaration of how

inated, he is crafted into a man of education, sophistication, discipline, and culture. he reaches upward toward spiritual perfection. he is then a perfect ashlar stone. in many pagan religions this concept of the rough vs. perfect ashlar was taught. in freemasonry, it is heavily emphasized. the pyramid's structure is fitted only with perfect ashlar stones, it is said, meticulously chosen by "the builders" who watch for flaws and reject the rough, or imperfect ashlar. likewise, the higher level masons discover that the pyramid reflects, or parallels, the new world order (novus ordo seclorum) they and their illuminized superiors are building under the watchful eye of the great architect of the universe, whose secret and sacred name, the royal arch mason learns, is jahbuhlun. the builders (t

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of pleasing the spirit of the departed and to stamp upon the ground to frighten away evil spirits. m delving deeper steiger, brad. medicine power. new york: doubleday, 1974. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. burial mounds rising out of the earth in ohio, minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, and other states are the huge earthworks of the mysterious mound builders. the earthworks, also known as effigy mounds because of their bird and animal shapes, are scattered throughout the midwest and were apparently raised by the same unknown people. along with skeletal remains, the earthworks contain weapons, pottery, and numerous other artifacts, thus indicating that the mound builders believed that the dead buried in these earthworks were beginning a journe

scioto river, there is a mound consisting of a circle and square, constructed with great geometric accuracy. in native american pictography, the ring or circle is generally an emblem of the sun, the stars, and the great spirit, the divine being. the oval also represents the creator or the act of creation. the square designates the four cardinal directions. if it is assumed that the ancient mound builders had similar religious philosophies, then some insight may be gained into their beliefs about destiny and life after death. one of the largest of the effigy mounds is a huge bird earthwork that is located on the mendota hospital grounds near madison, wisconsin. the bird is six feet high with a wingspread of 624 feet. a panther mound at buffalo lake in marquette county, wisconsin, is 575 fe

ngspread of 624 feet. a panther mound at buffalo lake in marquette county, wisconsin, is 575 feet in length, including its remarkably long tail. the largest of all earthworks yet discovered is cahokia mound (c. 1000) near st. louis, missouri, which is 998 feet long, 721 feet wide, and 99 feet high. archaeologists have also discovered 45 mounds of smaller dimensions in the same area. who the mound builders were and why they stopped constructing their massive earthworks may never be known. there is nothing to point to their destruction by enemies or catastrophes. the most likely theory of their destiny is that their descendants were eventually absorbed into the native american tribes t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries

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on this planet. the darwinian theory of evolution remains a fascinating, yet unproved, hypothesis, simply because the elusive missing link remains undiscovered. the alleged link between humans and their anthropoid cousins may have been provided by visitors from another world. some believe that not only did the ancient astronauts carefully guide the evolution of humankind, they also assisted early builders in erecting great monuments as testimony to their presence. for instance, there is the cheops pyramid, the tallest structure in antiquity, which, discounting a number of skyscrapers in the united states, still ranks as the ninth tallest architectural marvel in the world today. it has been estimated that more than 2,300,000 stone blocks of an average weight of two and one-half tons went in

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who was said to have designed the magnificent temple according to the precepts of the great architect of the universe. although hiram is mentioned in biblical accounts as a master of the arts of construction, the rites of freemasonry extend beyond the bible and fashion a parallel myth, portraying hiram as a primary figure in the creation of the temple. according to masonic tradition, the ancient builders of solomon fs temple created the rites still practiced in modern lodges, with the various degrees of initiation and their secret symbols and handshakes. while the free and accepted order of freemasons is the oldest fraternity in the world, it doesn ft really extend back to the stone masons working on solomon fs temple. nor does it date even farther back to those who labored on the egyptia

this path through life have discovered the joy of living. they will tend to find their opportunities on the lighter side of life, in circulating and socializing. an artistic environment is best for the three personalities as they are always seeking expression through writing, speaking, or art. the negative polarity for the number three personality is to become superficial. 4.these people are the builders, those who start with a firm foundation and build something of lasting importance. people who are gfours h serve patiently and dependably and are capable of great achievements. they do the job at hand, striving to perfect the form of the task before them. the opposite polarity for the four personality is to become distant and removed from others. 5. those with the number five as their des

f the discipline. as ancient megaliths are studied, a greater appreciation for the skills and knowledge of prehistoric civilizations comes forth. missing pieces of the puzzle of human development remain, however, fueling more speculation and theories. perhaps survivors from vanished civilizations passed knowledge on to inhabitants of distant lands. as the old myths sometimes suggest, the megalith builders themselves may have known magic secrets of levitation and of transforming and reassembling solid materials. ufo enthusiasts argue that visitors from outer space may have directed the erecting of megaliths, particularly since so many megalithic sites were devised with the intention of viewing and charting the skies above. ancient megaliths are generally divided into five categories: 1. ali

tumulus, an earthen mound that covers a chambered grave. the third field, kerlescan, has 13 rows of aligned megaliths that form the shape of a barrel. the megaliths of carnac first underwent radio-carbon dating techniques in 1959. at that time it was expected the results would show the megaliths were erected during the first or second century b.c.e, for it was generally believed that the megalith builders had come from the eastern mediterranean region from egypt, or mycea (a civilization that preceded ancient greece. the radiocarbon test, however, pushed the megalith builders back as far as 4650 b.c.e. all previous theories about the origins of the brittany megaliths were undermined. the structures originated with pre-roman and pre-celtic civilizations, and they were older than similar str

ite of the dolmen, mound, and well and placed the image of the black virgin in the church fs crypt. the duke of aquitania burned the first church in 743; vikings destroyed the second in 858. the third and fourth churches were burned in 962 and 1020, and the first of the cathedrals was destroyed by fire in 1194. each time the place of worship was burned or crumbled, faithful christian townspeople, builders, and architects appeared to rebuild the structure. but the identity of the master builders who constructed the majestic chartres cathedral that stands there today remains unknown. m delving deeper images of chartres cathedral [online] http//www.bluffton.edu/ sullivanm/chartreswest/ centralportal.html. westwood, jennifer, ed. mysterious places. new york: galahad books, 1987. cursuses and l

ey knew the circumference of earth and derived standard units of measure from earth fs circumference. the ratio of the pyramid fs height to its perimeter, argued taylor, is the same as the polar radius to earth fs circumference, 2. he viewed that equation, embodied in the pyramid, as an expression of the wisdom of ancients. it was the biblical god, concluded taylor, who had instructed the pyramid builders, just as god had instructed noah to build the ark. astronomer charles piazzi smyth conducted studies at the pyramid and came up with another startling conclusion, expressed in his book our inheritance in the great pyramid (1980. he claimed the pyramid was also an expression of time. through his studies, smyth devised a measurement called the pyramid inch.an ancient measurement within one

ed civilization of atlantis built the pyramids not long after 10,500 b.c.e, just prior to the time when their own homeland was destroyed by a natural or human catastrophe. lerner, while searching for evidence of cayce fs prophecies, discovered, as have so many researchers before him, that there exist many intriguing possibilities to further broaden the mystery, and the achievement, of the pyramid builders. m delving deeper de camp, l. sprague. the ancient engineers. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. harpur, james, and jennifer westwood. the atlas of legendary places. new york: konecky& konecky, 1997. hays, h. r. in the beginnings. new york: g. p. putnam fs sons, 1963. hodges, henry. technology in the ancient world. new york: alfred a. knopf, 1970. the sphinx the sphinx at giza faces due east

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 268 places of mystery and power pyramids and the sphinx in cairo, egypt (the library of congress) reign, and since pharaohs were viewed as godkings, the association of khafre and hamachis is plausible. tools and pottery discovered around the sphinx are associated with the fourth dynasty, when each of the pyramid builders of giza ruled. nevertheless, the dating of the sphinx remains a source of controversy, and even in ancient times, some sources dated it as preceding the pyramids. in greek mythology developed over two thousand years after the egyptian use of hieroglyphics, a sphinx was a half-woman, half-lion creature that guarded the gates of thebes, an ancient egyptian city. a scourge fell upon the land

tain from the european continent. subsequent studies have revealed that stonehenge was built in waves of construction spanning several centuries. smaller stones were brought to the site around 2600 b.c.e. and the largest stones arrived around 2100 b.c.e. the last work on the site dates from around 1800 b.c.e. though information has come forth about when stonehenge was erected, the identity of its builders remains unknown.and where the stones came from and how they were moved into place, are yet other matters to be investigated. the sarcens likely came from marlborough downs, a quarry site about 18 miles northeast of stonehenge. how the stones could be moved from by a prehistoric people without the aid of the wheel or a pulley system is not known. the most common theory of how prehistoric p

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l the folktales2424horrible, pretty or comic2424which were current. from this medley shakespeare drew his inspirationwith far-reaching results.the theory that the fairies began as the neolithic folk is supported by the irish tradition of thetuatha-da-danann, who are the same as the english and continental fairy-folk. they were "greatnecromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all arts as builders, poets and musicians.[18] they werealso great horse-breeders, stabling their horses in caves in the hills. when the milesians, who seem to have the god of the witcheschapter ii. the worshippers19been the people of the bronze-age, invaded ireland they endeavoured to exterminate the tuatha, but bydegrees the two races learned to live peaceably side by side.with this theory in view it is wor

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sical qabalah musical notes for hebrew letters copyright o 1996 by thom parrott t he musical correspondences for the hebrew letters in "the musical qabalah come from the golden dawn notebooks of allan bennett. among bennett's students were dion fortune and aleister crowley. paul foster case applied these correspondences to form a system of invocation and healing which is still being taught by the builders of the adytum (bota. in the golden dawn system, four scales of color are used, each one assigned to the twelve astrological signs, the seven ancient planets, and the three most ancient elements. in western music, the scale is divided into twelve semi-tones. bennett assigned the twelve semi-tones of the chromatic scale (chroma is greek for "color) to the twelve signs, beginning with the no

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an mounds (there are hundreds of them scattered throughout north america) are laid out and constructed with the same kind of mathematical precision found in the pyramids of egypt. while it is known that the indians were still adding to some of the mounds in the south when the europeans first arrived, other mounds seem to be considerably older. some are built in the form of elephants. what did the builders use for a model? others are in the shape of sea serpents. these forms can only be seen from the air. to plan and build such mountains of shaped earth required technical skills beyond the simple nomadic woods indians. currently there is a revival in diffusionism, a popular scientific concept of the 1920s which asserted that many of the puzzling artifacts and ancient constructions found thr

earlier culture almost identical to the culture which constructed the great mounds of great britain. the latter were joined by straight tracks or "leys" which formed a complicated grid system. i wondered if a similar ley grid may not have once existed in west virginia and i studied aerial photos and old maps looking for such a system. there are tiny traces. here and there, but modern fanners and builders have destroyed most of the old artifacts, just as they had destroyed a great many of the mounds, stone towers, etc, that stood on this continent when the first europeans arrived. had woody been stopped on a cross-point of some old ley network? the only clue lies in mr. cold's uncharacteristic selection for a name. in his study of the british leys, the view over atlantis, john michell stat

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escore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; 5:16 beside the chief of solomon s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. 5:17 and the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 5:18 and solomon s builders and hiram s builders did hew [them] and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. 6:1 and it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of israel were come out of the land of egypt, in the fourth year of solomon s reign over israel, in the month zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the lord. 6:2 a

e lord. 12:10 and it was [so] when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the lord. 12:11 and they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the lord: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the lord, 12:12 and to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair [it] 12:13 howbeit there were not made for the house of the lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money [tha

st, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: 22:5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the lord: and let them give it to the doers of the work which [is] in the house of the lord, to repair the breaches of the house, 22:6 unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. 22:7 howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. 22:8 and hilkiah the high priest said unto shaphan the scribe, i have found the book of the law in the house of the lord. and hilkiah gave the book to shaphan, and he read it. 22:9 and shaphan

at kept the doors had gathered of the hand of manasseh and ephraim, and of all the remnant of israel, and of all judah and benjamin; and they returned to jerusalem. 34:10 and they put [it] in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the lord, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the lord, to repair and amend the house: 34:11 even to the artificers and builders gave they [it] to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of judah had destroyed. 34:12 and the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them [were] jahath and obadiah, the levites, of the sons of merari; and zechariah and meshullam, of the sons of the kohathites, to set [it] forward; and [other of] the levites, all that could skill of in

ere come out of the captivity unto jerusalem; and appointed the levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the lord. 3:9 then stood jeshua [with] his sons and his brethren, kadmiel and his sons, the sons of judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of god: the sons of henadad [with] their sons and their brethren the levites. 3:10 and when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the levites the sons of asaph with cymbals, to praise the lord, after the ordinance of david king of israel. 3:11 and they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the lord; because [he is] good, for his mercy [endureth] for ever toward israel. and all the people shout

ammonite [was] by him, and he said, even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. 4:4 hear, o our god; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: 4:5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders. 4:6 so built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. 4:7 but it came to pass [that] when sanballat, and tobiah, and the arabians, and the ammonites, and the ashdodites, heard that the walls of jerusalem were made up [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, 4:8 and conspired all of them toge

th [that] the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers [were] behind all the house of judah. 4:17 they which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded [every one] with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other [hand] held a weapon. 4:18 for the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and [so] builded. and he that sounded the trumpet [was] by me. 4:19 and i said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, the work [is] great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. 4:20 in what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our god shall fight

but live, and declare the works of the lord. 118:18 the lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. 118:19 open to me the gates of righteousness: i will go into them [and] i will praise the lord: 118:20 this gate of the lord, into which the righteous shall enter. 118:21 i will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. 118:22 the stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner. 118:23 this is the lord s doing; it [is] marvellous in our eyes. 118:24 this [is] the day [which] the lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 118:25 save now, i beseech thee, o lord: o lord, i beseech thee, send now prosperity. 118:26 blessed [be] he that cometh in the name of the lord: we have blessed you out of the house of th

und again, saith the lord god. 27:1 the word of the lord came again unto me, saying, 27:2 now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for tyrus; 27:3 and say unto tyrus, o thou that art situate at the entry of the sea [which art] a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the lord god; o tyrus, thou hast said, i [am] of perfect beauty. 27:4 thy borders [are] in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 27:5 they have made all thy [ship] boards of fir trees of senir: they have taken cedars from lebanon to make masts for thee. 27:6 [of] the oaks of bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the ashurites have made thy benches [of] ivory [brought] out of the isles of chittim. 27:7 fine linen with broidered work from egypt was that which thou spreadest forth

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same manner. unless, therefore, we suppose the persians to have been so inconsistent as to erect temples in direct contradiction to the first principles of their own religion, and decorate them with symbols and images, which they held to be impious and abominable, we cannot suppose them to be the authors of these buildings. neither can we suppose the parthians, or later persians, to have been the builders of them; for both the style of workmanship in the figures, and the forms of the letters in the inscriptions, denote a much higher antiquity, as will appear evidently to any one who will take the trouble of comparing the drawings published by le bruyn and niebuhr with the coins of the arsacid and sassanid. almost all the symbolical figures are to be found repeated upon different phoenician

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m to enclose holy relics within the altar, which assumed a box shape with a stone slab for a top. in 517 the council of epaone in burgundy forbad the consecration of any but stone altars. in ancient babylon altars had square tops and were made of sun-dried bricks. in ancient egypt they were of black stone in the shapes of a cube or a truncated cone (magically, a form of the truncated pyramid. the builders of stonehenge traveled many miles to harvest the blue stones, presumably because of their enhanced power to retain spiritual energy, and these stones were cut into roughly oblong shapes away from the site of the circle. this is significant because the bible explicitly states that the stones of solomon's temple were cut some distance from the site of the temple. naturally square stones wer

sumably because of their enhanced power to retain spiritual energy, and these stones were cut into roughly oblong shapes away from the site of the circle. this is significant because the bible explicitly states that the stones of solomon's temple were cut some distance from the site of the temple. naturally square stones were considered of greater power than stones squared by human hands, and the builders of these holy places did not wish their gods to witness the shaping of the stones. when the parallel sides of the cube are united, the three reciprocating rays that define the point of self in relation to the universe emerge: the essential duality in creation is action-reception. the two squares in the octagram are therefore the squares of active materiality and receptive materiality. whe

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ey knew during life. those advanced enough to turn their backs on material existence-but who have not evolved enough to escape the astral levels-live on the third plane, where they build their own cities and establish their own societies. these cities of the third plane are said to persist in the same way that the cities of our world continue from generation to generation of their inhabitants and builders. this is the summerland, so similar in many respects to the descriptions of the land of fairy, and fairies have indeed always been mythically linked with the human dead. the second astral plane is inhabited by dogmatic religious believers, and the first plane by intellectuals. there are two particular forms of astral inhabitants that are cast off from the souls of the dead as they finally

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lt writers have been collected together for the first time in appendix b. it is fascinating to compare the words of levi with those of papus; of s.l. macgregor mathers, the leader of the golden dawn, with those of aleister crowley, his former student and the self-proclaimed great beast of the apocalypse; of helena p. blavatsky, the leader of the theosophists, with paul foster case, the founder of builders of the adytum; of p.d. ouspensky, the disillusioned former pupil of the mystic gurdjieff, with frater achad, a rebellious student of crowley. even in modern times, tetragrammaton continues to exert a powerful fascination over magicians working in the western tradition of ceremonial magic. contemporary kabbalists and occultists discover in the arrangement of the four letters of the ineffab

(ibid, pp. 55-6) appendix b: commentaries on tetragrammaton paul foster case a circle enclosing a cross is a mathematical symbol of the name of names, ihvh, because every circle corresponds numerically to the number 22, and every cross to the number 4. thus the circle enclosing the cross represents 22 plus 4, or 26, the value of ihvh, the unutterable name [the book of tokens [i9341 [los angeles: builders of the adytum, 19681, pp. 94-5) to commemorate this fourfold manifestation of life, the divine names in many languages are four-lettered. this is particularly true in hebrew, and of the divine names in that language the most important is the tetragrammaton, ihvh. each letter of this name represents one of the four aspects of life called "elements" 1 stands for fire; the first h for water;

phirah malkuth, attributed to earth (ibid, pp. 189-90) the master-key to the hebrew wisdom is the "name" translated "lord" in the authorized version of the bible, and "jehovah in the revised versions. it is not really a name at 254 tetragrammaton all, but rather a verbal, numerical and geometrical formula. in roman letters corresponding to hebrew it is spelled ihvh (the tarot [i9471 [los angeles: builders of the adytum, 19901, p. 3) e. m. butler a great and almost impenetrable mystery had indeed gradually grown up round the name which to us seems the most familiar of all, even though its pronunciation has shifted in our own day: jehovah or jahweh. represented by the letters jhvh (yod he vau he, it seems at first to have been openly spoken. but a time came when, possibly owing to the myster

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as levi and john michell believed is connected to mercury, also has this three to five relationship because each face has three sides and the pyramid itself has five corners, if the apex is included. this apex or cap-stone has been shrouded in mystery and written about by many intrigued by its meaning. this pinnacle stone is, according to case, another symbol for christ, the stone rejected by the builders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious apparitions in the form of a light "which local bedouins see at certain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members

e element and seed of fire (ibid, p. 106. interestingly, the two words in greek, fire and light, when added together, also equal 2080. recall that the affirmation attributed to hod on the pattern on the trestleboard is "i look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the eternal splendor of the limitless light" it has been demonstrated that the dimensions of the pyramid show that the builders who constructed it had an accurate knowledge of the earth and its solar system, and those interested in this fascinating study should refer to the careful explanations of these measurements in john michell's works. repeatedly we see that there are many parallels revealed by the magical numbers of mercury that relate to christ, both as the alchemical stone and also in reference to this pyr

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