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work within the order and between members only. however, the grip, step, and grand word may be exchanged between members of various golden dawn orders the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of the following: heat and dryness fire heat and moisture air cold and dryness earth cold and moisture water there are twelve zodiacal signs, and they are: 1 aries, the ram a 2 taurus, the bull _b 3 gemini, the twins c 4 cancer, the crab d 5 leo, the lion e 6 virgo, the virgin f 7 libra, the scales g 8 scorpio, the scorpion h 9 sagittarius, the archer i 10 capricorn, the goat j 11 aquarius, the water-bearer k 12 pisces, the fishes l these twelve signs are distributed among the four triplicities, or sets of three signs, each attributed to one of the four elements. they represent the

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he zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve leaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, symbolized by the letter heh, the first of the single letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse while in chris

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; en uxanum bra sva vis, at hann qvas vi3, ok fell nisr dausr (dealt the ox such a blow, that he gave a groan and fell down dead; islend. sog. 2, 348. conf. vigaglumssaga, cap. 9. at a formal duel the victor slew a hull with the same weapons that had vanquished his foe: j?a var leiddr fram grdc^ungr mikill ok gamall, var];at kallat hlotnaut]?at skyldi sa hoggva er sigr hefsi (then was led forth a bull mickle and old, it was called blot-neat, that should he hew who victory had, egilss. p. 506. conf, kormakssaga p. 214-8. sacrifice of cotvs, sa^m. 141. fornm. sog. 2, 138. the greek ckarofji^r (as the name shows, 100 oxen) consisted at first of a large number of neat, but very soon of other beasts also. the indians too had sacrifices of a hundred; holzmann 3, 193^ boars, pigs (see suppl. in t

s distorted into loeofed (ara, altare, ohg. kotapetti (gods'-bed, lectus, pulvinar templi, graff 3, 51; with which compare brunhild's bed and the like, also the lat. lectisternium 'ad altare s. kiliani, quod vulgo lectus dicitur' lang reg. 1, 239. 255 (a.d. 1160-5 (see suppl. gptoves. 69 as that of tlic nunien and the image itself (see supj. hariic seems unconnected with the 0. lat. haruga, amga, bull of sacrifice, whence hanispex, anispex. the gk re/iew? however also means the sacred grove, ii. 8, 48. 23, 148. re'/xei'o? rdf^ov, ii. 20, 184. lastly, synonymous with haruc is the ohg. j^aro, gen. parawes, as. hcaro, gen. bearwes, which betoken lucus^ and arbor, a sacred u, grove or a tree; tet bearwe, kemble. 1, 255. ox. harr (arbor, ssem. 109; harri (nemus) 86^ 87^ qui ad aras sacrificati^

but other expressions concrete and abstract: goth. ermanaricus (airmanareiks, ohg. irmanrih, as. eormenric, on. lormunrekr, where the u agrees with that in the national name hermundurus; ohg. irmandegan, irmandeo, irmanperaht, irmanfrit, irminolt, irmandrut, irmangart, irmansuint &c. attention is claimed by the names of certain animals and plants: the on. lormungandr is a snake, and lormunrekr a bull, the as. eormenwyrt and eormenleaf is said to be a mallow, which i also 1 pertz 1. 200. 300. 2, 290. 463. 481; the abbas irmino of charles the great's time is known well enough now; and a female name larmin is met with in deeds. zo2 heroes, find written geormenwyrt, geormenleaf. authorities for irmangot, irmandiot, os. irminthiod, irminman, irmansul &c &c, have been given above, p. 118. a vil

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the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. in december 1484, the bull of pope innocent vii was published, appointing heinrich kramer and jakob sprenger as inquisitors against witchcraft and heresy. these two clerics wrote the malleus maleficarum, the notorious hammer of the witches, which described in lurid detail the tortures that could be used to obtain confessions from suspected witches. in it, they adopted the policy that it was better to kill an innocent p

ius, gemini, virgo and pisces- mark the time when the seasons are about to change. those born under them are correspondingly versatile and ready to compromise. zodiacal colours and associations aries, the ram: 21 march to 20 april. colour: red. a cardinal fire sign, for all matters of the self and of identity, for rituals of innovation, courage assertiveness and action. ruled by mars. taurus, the bull: 21 april to 21 may. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus. gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. r

ABRAMELIN2

sen: from chaldaic, chvsn, chosen= strong, vigorous, powerful. saraph: from hebrew, shrp= to burn, or devour with fire. proxosos: perhaps from greek, prox, proxokos= a kid. habhi: from chaidee, chba, or hebrew, chbh= hidden. acuar: from hebrew, akr= a tiller of the earth. tirana: perhaps from hebrew, thrn= the mast of a ship, also an apple tree. alluph: from hebrew, alvp= a leader, a duke; also a bull, from his leading the herd. nercamay: perhaps from hebrew, nor= a boy, and chmh a companion. nilen: perhaps from nilus, latin, or neilos, greek= the river nile. morel: perhaps from hebrew, mrh= to rebel. traci: from greek, trachus, etc= harsh, rude. enaia: perhaps from hebrew, onih= poor, afflicted. mulach: probably the same as moloch, from hebrew,mlk, to rule. malutens: perhaps from hebrew

nt of astrological considerations, because the matter is relegated to a higher plane than this' and one wherein the laws of physical nature do not obtain. but certainly when working with the rays of the sun, we shall more easily find his occult force of heat attainable when he himself is producing that effect upon the earth, i.e, when he is in the sign of the lion; while when he is in that of the bull' his force will be rather that of germination, etc, when in the northern hemisphere. and the same with the other planets. also if working by the indian tatwas, we shall find it necessary to consider the position of the moon, the time in the day, and the course of the tatwa in the period of five gharis. of the sacred magic 112 course abraharn could not make the experiments of rabbin moses succ

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nd name what information you require (in the second book, the remarks given concerning this chapter are evidently far more applicable to the third chapter, and i have therefore given them there instead of here (e) no. b is an acrostic of c f squares. allup from hebrew alup= a doctor, teacher, leader, ie, a person who at the same time leads and instructs his following. hence also this word means a bull as the leader of the herd. uriel, hebrew auriel= light of god, is the well-known name of one of the archangels. pulla in latin means both a fowl, and also light friable earth; but is probably here derivable rather from the hebrew plh, meaning to classify or arrange. no. c is an acrostic of g e squares. melammed is evidently from hebrew mlmd= a stimulus or spur to exertion. no. d is an acrosti

. negot= perhaps heb. nhg, he leads. eraso= probably greek, sec. pers. sing. from eromai for eiromai, to demand or interrogate. garag= perhaps from heb. gro, to diminish. omare, perhaps greek, an assembly or synthesis. togen= perhaps from greek toge, why or wherefore when used in an adverbial sense. no. g is a square of b g squares. nasi= hebrew nsi= my banner or symbol. apis= the egyptian sacred bull. sipa perhaps from sph= hebrew to consume. isan= perhaps from heb. ishn= to sleep. no. h is a square of c f squares. gohen should perhaps be cohen= a jewish priest. orare, latin= to pray. hasah, heb. hsh= to keep silence. eraro perhaps from heb. arr to curse. nehog= perhaps heb. nhg= to lead. no. i is a gnomonic square of j squares out of c f squares. admon- perhaps from heb. dmo= tears but a

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ten squares of the sephirotic cross also stand for the ace and small cards of the suit represented by the element of the lesser angle. thus wands are attributed to the d angle, pentacles to the b angle, etc. the kerubic squares are allotted, as their name implies, to the four kerubim whose emblems follow the order of the letters of tetragrammaton: y h lion e eagle h king queen w h (final) man k bull b prince princess these last are of the suit corresponding to the element of the lesser angle as explained above, viz: wands to d and y; cups to c and h; swords to a and w; pentacles to b and h final. it was previously shown how the squares of the servient part of each lesser angle were given a double attribution to the letters of the name. they were seen to be ruled by a letter governing the

ey are divided into a 3, a 4, a 5, as 27 in oipteaapdoce they may be said to symbolize the triad of the supernals, the tetrad of the elements, and the o. again. in the commencing triad of the linea spiritus sancti of each tablet, it may be said that: oro will be symbolical of the voice of the man kerub. mph will be symbolical of the cry of the eagle kerub. mor will be symbolical of the low of the bull kerub. oip will be symbolical of the roar of the lion kerub. there are various ways of looking at the pyramids prior to undertaking the practical work of using them as the symbol for skrying in the spirit-vision. s.r.m.d. suggests a useful mode of meditation which elaborates in a most illuminating way the ordinary attributions. he says: thou mayest regard the upper triangle (no. 2) as represe

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netary realm, the zonei, and was depicted as wearing horns, a symbol familiar to the witches as representative of their god. the horn shaped crown is illustrative of the crescent phases of the moon, and were symbolic of divinity in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull. they also represent sexual power. the fact that, in ancient sumeria and egypt, horns were solely representative of evil gods, but of many different deities, was used by the christian church in their attempt to eradicate pagan faiths. it was a simple enough symbol to identify with the author of evil, satan, which the church depicted as a half-animal, half-human creature with horns, claws, and

re consumed. i came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called mesopotamia by the greeks. when i was only a youth, travelling alone in the mountains to the east, called masshu by the people who live there, i came upon a grey rock carved with three strange symbols. it stood as high as a man, and as wide around as a bull. it was firmly in the ground, and i could not move it. thinking no more of the carvings, save that they might be the work of a king to mark some ancient victory over an enemy, i built a fire at its foot to protect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nine

s weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, making them as gods, so that he who beholds them shall perish and, that, with their bodies reared up none might turn them back. she summoned the viper, the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son the son of magick told him t

t will once more rule the earth! and this is his seal: and there are four spirits of the spaces, and they come upon the wind, and they are things of the wind, and of fire. and the first comes from the north, and is called ustur, and has a human shape. and he is the most ancient of the four, and a great lord of the world. and the second comes from the east, and is called sed and has the shape of a bull, but with a human face, and is very mighty. and the third comes from the south, and is called lamas, and is of the shape of a lion, but with a human head, and governs those things of the flame and the burning wind. and the fourth comes from the west, and is called nattig, and is of the shape of an eagle, but with a human body, having only the face and wings of an eagle, with an eagle's claws

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at the symbols are interchanged, enthusiasm being represented as the sinuous snake, scepticism as the goat of the sabbath. in other words, a state is reached in which destruction is as much joy as creation (compare chapter 46) beyond that is a still deeper state of mind, which is that. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 109 [113] 52 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-beta the bull-baiting fourscore and eleven books wrote i; in each did i expound the great work fully, from the beginning even unto the end thereof. then at last came certain men unto me, saying: o master! expound thou the great work unto us, o master! and i held my peace. o generation of gossipers! who shall deliver you from the wrath that is fallen upon you? o babblers, prattlers, talkers, loquacious ones

ks do not, we think, refer to the ninety-one chapters of this little masterpiece, or even to the numerous volumes he has penned, but rather to the fact that 91 is the number of amen, implying the completeness of his work. in the last paragraph is a paranomasia "to chew the red rag" is a phrase for to talk aimlessly and persistently, while it is notorious that a red cloth will excite the rage of a bull. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 111 [115] 53 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-gamma the dowser once round the meadow. brother, does the hazel twig dip? twice round the orchard. brother, does the hazel twig dip? thrice round the paddock, highly, lowly, wily, holy, dip, dip, dip! then neighed the horse in the paddock-and lo! its wings. for whoso findeth the spring ben

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purson lion-faced man riding a bear, carrying a viper. trumpeter with him. 24 23 \ya aim man with 3 heads a serpent s, a man s (having two stars on his brow, and a calf s. rides on viper and bears firebrand. 25 26 \yb bim dragon with 3 heads a dog s, man s, and gryphon s. 26 29$ twrtca asteroth hurtful angel or infernal dragon, like berot, with a viper [breath bad. 28 32! yadmsa asmoday 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, goose s feet. rides, with lance and banner, on a dragon. 29 35= cwjrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. clx. magical images of col. clix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied b

lix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied by many musicians. 18 12& yrfyc sitri leapard s head and gryphon s wings. 19 15$ cwgyla eligos a knight with a lance and banner, with a serpent. 20 18$ ytab bathin a strong man with a serpent s tail, on a pale horse. 22 21% and# aram marax human-faced bull. 24 24= rbn naberius a black crane with a sore throat he flutters. 25 27% and= wwnyr ronove a monster [probably a dolphin. 26 30= canrwp forneus sea monster. 28 33 [ug gaap like a guide. to be kings. 29 36& cwlwfcy stolas raven. table of correspondences 29 clxi. goetic demons &c. by night (ascendant. clxii. magical images of col. clxi. 15 37= nap phenex child-voices phoenix. 16 40 \war raum c

ight (ascendant. clxii. magical images of col. clxi. 15 37= nap phenex child-voices phoenix. 16 40 \war raum crow. 17 43 ]wnbc sabnock soldier with lion s head rides pale horse. 18 46% wrpyb bifrons monster. 19 49$ lkwrk crocell angel. 20 52 ]wla alloces soldier with red leonine face and flaming eyes; rides great horse. 22 55& bwarwa orobas horse. 24 58# wa amy flaming fire. 25 61! and# gaz zagan bull with gryphon s wings. 26 64$ rwah haures leopard. 28 67 ]wdma amdusias (1) unicorn (2) dilatory bandmaster. 29 70& rac seere beautiful man on winged horse. clxiii. goetic demons &c. by night (succedent. clxiv. magical images of col. clxiii. 15 38 [lah halphas stock-dove with sore throat. 16 41$ rwlkwp focalor man with gryphon s wings. 17 44= c shax stcck-dove with sore throat. 18 47$ lawa uva

28 68! laylb belial two beautiful angels sitting in chariot of fire. 29 71$ lafnd dantalion man with many countenances, all men s and women s, carries a book in right hand. clxv. goetic demons &c. by night (cadent. clxvi. magical images of col. clxv. 15 39 [lam malphas crow with sore throat. 16 42$ rapw vepar mermaid. 17 45$ and! anyw vin lion on black horse carrying viper. 18 48# tnguh haagenti bull with gryphon s wings. 19 51 \lub balam 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, flaming eyes. rides bear, carries goshawk. 20 54$ and \rwm murmur warrior with ducal crown rides gryphon. trumpeters. 22 57# wcw oso leopard. 24 60$ lwpn napula lion with gryphon s wings. 25 63= rdna andras angel with raven s head. rides black wolf, carries sharp sword. 26 66= rwamyk kimaris warrior on black horse

r table of correspondences 37 line 15. p line 16. v line 17. line 18. m and n line 19. s and t line 20. w line 22. o line 24. line 25. u line 26. x line 28. z line 29. y see the handbook of geomancy, the equinox i: 2, p. 137.8 col. l. the catholic seven deadly sins in square brackets. col. lvii. egyptian quarters. cols. lvii, lix &c. beth elohim gives- michael, leo, and south to c and y. gabrial, bull, and north to b and h. raphael, man, and west to e and. uriel, eagle, and east to d and w. col. lxix. sattvas, h rajas, and f tamas g in a close analogy col. lxxix, line 13. add (3321) ttrc tumhcrbdc [shadbarshehmoth sharthathan, the spirt of the spirits of the moon. the final is counted as 700, as are the final\ s in col. lxxviii, line 13.9 col. lxxxv. line 6. or lamcj. line 9. or laynpz. co

en banner bearing a white cross. below a fair youth rises from a sacrophagus in the attitude of the god shu supporting the firmament. on his left a fair woman, her arms giving the sign of water an inverted c on the breast. on his right a dark man giving the sign of fire an upright b on the forehead. line 32. an ellipse, composed of 400 lesser circles. at the corners of the card a man, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. within the circles a naked shining figure in the sign of earth right foot advanced, fight hand advanced and raised, left hand lowered and thrown back. the hands grip each a ray of dazzling light, spiril, the right hand being dextro- and the left hand l vo-rotary. a red scarf conceals the fact of male genital organs, and suggests by its shape the letter k. such is the conventional

. 470) to be the greek name for heru-khuti, horus of the two horizons, who represented the sun from sunrise to sunset. line 13: chomse also spelt khons or khensu. in one legend (cited by budge, op. cit. i, 448) he is said to be the son of the cat goddess bast who was also associated with the moon (to complicate matters bast has solar aspects in some accounts. lines 16, 32-bis: ahapshi is the apis bull (gd coptic spelling. ameshet is amset (or mestha, one of the children of horus. line 17: the rekti goddesses and merti goddesses both appear to have been specific titles or epiphets of isis and nephthys. line 19: pasht (according to budge, op. cit. i, 517) is pekh or pekhit, a minor lioness goddess. mau is onomatopoeic egyptian for cat and appears to have been an epiphet of ra. line 22: ma is

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he long strings of formidable words which roar and moan through so many conjurations have a real effect in exalting the consciousness of the magician to the proper pitch- that they should do so is no more extraordinary than music of any kind should do so. magicians have not confined themselves to the use of the human voice. the panpipe with its seven stops, corresponding to the seven planets, the bull-roarer, the tom-tom, and even the violin, have all been used, as well as many others, of which the 69 most important is the bell<therion. most bells jar and repel, though this is used not so much for actual conjuration as to mark stages in the ce

tings in suitable soil is an analogous operation. weh addenda: the serpent is the phallus. the vessel and the seething are likewise sub rosa> the second the magical beetles of liber legis (see part iv) 98 one word of warning is perhaps necessary for the beginner. the victim must be in perfect health- or its energy may be as it were poisoned. it must also not be too large<sacrifice (e.g) of a bull is sufficient for a large number of people; hence it is commonly made in public ceremonies, and in some initiations, e.g. that of a king, who needs force for his whole kingdom. or again, in the consecration of a temple. see lord dunsany "the blessing of pan- a noble and most notable prophecy of life's fair future> the amount of energy disengaged is almost unimaginably great, and out of all an

ets out of order. the telephone people make no claim that it always works and always works right< divination, with equal modesty, admits that "it often goes wrong; but it works well enough, all things considered. the science is in its infancy. all we can do is our best. we no more pretend to infallibility than the mining expert who considers himself in luck if he hits the bull's eye four times in ten" the error of all dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his "literally-inspired word of god" to the newest german professor with his single-track explanation of the universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretching a probably excellent theory to include all the facts and the fables, until it bursts like the overblown b

vani (all forms of sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sakti: 15 :men thu :shiva: 16 :asar ameshet apis :shiva (sacred bull: 17 :various twin dieties, rehkt :various twin and hybrid: merti, etc: deities: 18 :kephra: 19 :ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet,:vishnu (nara-singh avatar: mau, sekhmet: 20 :isis (as virgin :the gopi girls, the lord of: yoga: 21 :amoun-ra :brahma, indra: 22 :ma :yama :23 :tum athph auramoth (as water):soma (apas: asar (as hanged man: hekar, isis: 24 :merti goddesses, typhon :kundalini: apep, khe

ckal, twin :moly, anhalonium lewinii: serpents: 9 :elephant:(banyan) mandrake, damiana: yohimba: 10 :sphinx :willow, lily, ivy :11 :eagle or man (cherub of air.:aspen: 12 :swallow, ibis, ape, twin :vervain, herb mercury: serpents: marjolane, palm: 13 :dog :almond, mugwort, hazel (as moon. moonworth: ranunculus: 14 :sparrow, dove, swan :myrtle, rose, clover: 15 :ram, owl :tiger lily, geranium: 16 :bull (cherub of earth :mallow: 17 :magpie, hybrids :hybrids, orchids: 18 :crab, turtle, sphinx :lotus: 19 :lion (cherub of fire :sunflower: 20 :virgin, anchorite, any :snowdrop, lily, narcissus: solitary person or animal: 21 :eagle :hyssop, oak, poplar, fig: 22 :elephant :aloe :23 :eagle-snake-scorpion :lotus, all water plants (cherub of water: 24 :scorpion, beetle, lobster or :cactus: crayfish, w

:rush: dog: 26 :goat, ass :indian hemp, orchis root: thistle: 27 :horse, bear, wolf :absinthe, rue: 28 :man or eagle (cherub of air:(olive) cocoanut: peacock: 29 :fish, dolphin, crayfish :unicellular organisms, opium: beetle: 30 :lion, sparrowhawk :sunflower, laurel, heliotrope :31 :lion (cherub of fire :red poppy, hibiscus, nettle: 32 :crocodile :ash, cypress, hellebore, yew: nightshade :32 bis :bull (cherub of earth :oak, ivy :31 bis :sphinx (if sworded and :almond in flower: crowned: weh note: lines 11, 16, 28& 32 bis corrected as to element; original had typos of fire, air, fire and water respectively. 313& 314 table i: xl: xli :key scale: precious stones: magical weapons: 0: 1 :diamond :swastika or fylfat cross: crown: 2 :star ruby, turquoise :lingam, the inner robe of: glory: 3 :star

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s huge brass spurs together, tightened his waist with its buda sash, and then, with an impudence nought could abash shrugged his hump-shoulder, to tell the beholder, for twenty such knaves he should laugh but the bolder; and so, with his sword-hilt gallantly jutting, and dexter hand on his haunch abutting, went the little man, sir ausbruch, strutting" it's not the least bit like tokay; rather the bull's blood its neighbor, or any rough strong red wine like rioja. curious, though, his making him a hunchbacked dwarf; there must be something in this deep down. i wonder what (ask jung) magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 204 47 but hermes trismegistus is not content with any such fugues as the astronomer, however cunning and colossal his organ; his third degree demands

letters. 2. it must be printed in big black type in the dictionary chosen for reference (nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. the oxford pocket dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "basic english- and [i suppose] oxonians. no proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher, a harness bull; or xantippe, a shrew, a lady. x-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "r ntgenrays, and they give "r ntgenogram "you never can tell" participles, plurals and the like are not "words" unless printed as such in big black type. e.g. nuttall's "juttingly" is a word "jutting" is not, being in smaller type "soaking" is in small type, but also in big type as a noun; so it is a word) 3. the dictio

resource, subtlety and even low cunning. it can be played by more than two players, but the more there are, the more the element of chance comes in; and this is hateful to really fine players and diminishes the excitement. the rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseballgame or a bull-fight. and what the tartarus-tophet-jehanna has all this to do with education, and the great work? this, child! h.g.wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. too true "erbert! but i threap that a pakeha with such xerotes as his will chowter with an arsis of ischonophony, beyond aught that an

n it. if you stick to your greetings and adorations and all such mnemonics, you are not likely to go very far wrong. wands: this obviously a pure question of will. you will find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of difficulty confront you; and the way in which you deal with them is most carefully watched. the best advice that i can give is to remember that there is little need of the bull-at-a-gate method, though that must always be ready in reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. elastic strength. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 273 warfare shows us. that seems to cover your question more or less; but don't forget that it depends on yourself how much of the dramatic quality colours your path. i suppose i have been lucky to have had the use of

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ven mara the great arch-devil, with his three daughters the arch-temptresses appeared, he remained still. now it is useless for the beginner to take so formidable a vow; he 77 has not yet attained the strength which can defy mara. let him estimate his strength, and take a vow which is within it, but only just within it. thus milo began by carrying a new-born calf; and day by day as it grew into a bull, his strength was found sufficient. again let it be said that liber iii is a most admirable method for the beginner<oath, cuts his arm sharply with a razor. this is better than flagellation because it can be done in public, without attra

form. and it will be very easy for him to extend that power, and to lower the portcullis. let him remember, too that there is a difference not only in the frequency of thoughts- but in their intensity. the worst of all is of course the ego, which is almost omnipresent 78 and almost irresistible, although so deeply-seated that in normal thought one may not always be aware of it. buddha, taking the bull by the horns, made this idea the first to be attacked. each must decide for himself whether this is a wise course to pursue. but it certainly seems easier to strip off first the things which can easily be done without<ego an unwise first choice to attack are those who confuse it with a sense of private property. many petty thieves use denial of th

ief; taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef. i went to taffy's house; taffy was in bed. i took a carving knife, and cut off taffy's head. taffy is merely short for taphthatharath, the spirit of mercury and the god of welshmen or thieves "my house" is of course equivalent to "my magick circle" note that beth, the letter of mercury and "the magus" means "a house" the beef is a symbol of the bull, apis the redeemer. this is therefore that which is written "oh my god, disguise thy glory! come as a thief, and let us steal away the sacraments" in the following verse we find that taffy is "in bed" owing to the operation of the sacrament. the great task of the alchemist has been accomplished; the mercury is fixed. one can then take the holy dagger, and separate the caput mortuum from the e

ics are better eating than presbyterians. yet these points and their kind are the only ones which have any importance at the time when the events occur. nero did not consider what unborn posterity might think of him; it is difficult to credit cannibals with the calculation that the recital of their exploits will induce pious old ladies to replenish their larder. very few people have ever "seen" a bull-fight. one set of people goes for excitement, another set for the perverse excitement which real or simulated horror affords. very few people know that blood freshly 94 spilled in the sunlight is perhaps the most beautiful colour that is to be found in nature. it is a notorious fact that it is practically impossible to get a reliable description of what occurs at a spiritualistic "seance" the

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h mlw( kerubim: the angelic choir of yesod (the four creatures; gthe wings of the wind h) mybwrk four h(br) wild beasts bwr( passing over rbw( 279 leprosy wrygs 280 7 40: the squares of the walls of the vault (see 5= 6 ritual. the letters of judgment: the 5 letters with a final form (s. d. 5:28) c p n m k taro (cf. 216, 224& 671 (r+ a record (ch) nwrkd archangel of malkuth nwpldns citizenship ry( bull; victim; offering rp terror pr 281 a crown; ashes rp) attire; adorned r)p 282 aralim, mighty ones: the angelic choir of binah myl)r) spirit of lives myyx xwr beasts, cattle ry(b hebrew (the people, not the language; see 682) yrb( 283 pure gold (lit. genclosed gold h; cf. 87) rwgs bhz of a memorial (see 964) nwrkz that goes on foot mylgr 284 crown, diadem: a title of malkuth hr( the small area

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these bid woe begone. the good man sick? he needs no doctor-don. time's come when silence's book is best to con. 26 the ta khu hexagram earth of lingam- ta khu: the great accumulation; quit thy private virtue when state needeth it. peril; move not, but look within thine heart. then, with due care, be ready for the start. now, with good horse, well trained, play hard thy part! block even the young bull's horns! he's safer so. castrate the boar- its teeth will gently show. then rule the stars- good fortune aid thine art! 27 the i hexagram earth of fire- i: nourishment; the matter and the mode, demand that thought should indicate the road. suffice thyself; else- how thy jaw shall quiver! look neither down nor up, the sages say. ill nourished, action merely means affray. but lo! below thee ble

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t with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. by the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god-man, etc) whose value in greek should be a=1, i=10, f=6, a=1, s=200, s=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see "liber 418) protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. al i,8 "the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs" the old comment 8. here beings the text. khabs is the secret light or l.v.x; the khu is the magical entity of a man. i find later (sun in virgo, an vii) that khabs means star. in which chase cf. v.5. the doctrine here taught

obvious on quite rational grounds that this must be the case. my discrimination between artichokes and arsenic puts me at the mercy of a million circumstances, from my cook to my wife. al i,24 "i am nuit, and my word is six and fifty" the old comment 24. nu= 6+ 50= 56. the new comment one must observe the special significance of these numbers, not only conjoined, but separate. for 6, vau, is the bull; and 50, nun, the scorpion. but 6 is also the number of the sun, our star. the n of nu is therefore the dragon "infinite space- and v is "the infinite stars" thereof. the ith is the honorific termination representing her fulfilment of creative force "i" being the inmost force, and "th" its extension. the dragon in current symbolism refers to the north or hollow of heaven; thus to the womb of

heal disease that he must not know his subject, from anatomy to pathology; or bid him undertake to remove an appendix from a valued archbishop the first time he takes scalpel in hand. but love is an art no less than rembrandt's, a science no less than lister's. the mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. the animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape's or the bull's. yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. he is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. it is, indeed for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dignity of man or of the majesty of the god within him. so is the guzzling and the swilling of the savage as he crams his enemy's raw liver into his mouth, or tilts th

ss the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of the of matter and spirit in son of god, fertilized our doctrine. by the dove- or bull, swan &c. the doctrine of the regenerate incorruptible body. another sacrifice love is the magical crucifixion &c, as shall stain formula: sex as the key to the magical the tomb life "the tomb- the formula. death as temple of love the key to life "the tomb- the coffin or grave. another king horus (ra-hoor-khuit) the osiris (jesus &c) shall reign crowned child. the dying king (see fraser) and

things intend? it sounds as though the scribe had protested violently in his mind against the chapter, and was especially aggrieved at the first paragraph of this verse, which, taken at its face value, promises a phenomenon impossible in literature. the second phrase may then be a contemptuous slap at the scribe who was perhaps thinking "well, it seems otherwise to me, for one" and the hit was a bull's eye; for i was a mere liar when i thought it. i was so enraged at having engaged myself on such an adventure, so hated "the hand and the pen" which i pledged to transcribe sentiments so repugnant to mine, such a jargon of absurdities and vulgarities as seemed to me displayed in many parts of this third chapter, that i would have gone to almost any length, short of deliberate breach of my th

ment this might have been done, of course, in several ways. i chose that which seemed most practical. so far i have noticed nothing remarkable. al iii,74 "there is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son" the old comment 74. perhaps refers to the addition of the name to 418. but khephra is the sun at midnight in the north. now in the north is taurus, the bull, apis the redeemer, the son. the new comment i suspect some deeper and more startling arcanum than the old comment indicates; but i have not yet discovered it. an xvi, sol in capricorn. al iii,75 "the ending of the words is the word abrahadabra. the book of the law is written and concealed. aum. ha" the old comment 75. the ending of the words is the ending of the work- abrahadabra. the books

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e infinitely great. the clash of these produces a finite positive idea which happens (see tycarb29 for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher s thesis) to be light, rwa. this word rwa is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. a is the egg of matter; w is, the bull, or energy-motion; and r is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of rwa thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of rwa is this analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundum. it will be noticed that every number and letter has its correspondence in

in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. icqus= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 2 3 3 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111 \yhla awh dja, he is one god [la, aleph, an ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning. as the lightning ligheneth out of the east even unto the west, so shall be the coming of the son of man. 45 sa, ruin, destruction, sudden death. scil, of the personality in samadhi. lpa, thick darkness. cf. st. john of the cross, who describes these phenomena in great detail \ua, the hindu aum or om.46 llwhm, mad the destruction of reason by illum

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which means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59 consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60 how vain, indeed, are human calculations! the autobiography of a flea, p. 136. 412. table-thing.61 ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear. the ring and the book, i. 17. this pebble-thing, o the boy-thing. calverly, the cock and the bull. 442. caird.62 see his hegel. 446. says huxley.63 see ethics and evolution. 459. igdrasil.64 the otz chiim of the scandinavians. 467. ladies league.65 mrs. j.s. crowley says: the ladies league was formed for the promotion and defence of the reformed faith of the church of england (the capitals are hers) i think we may accept this statement. she probably knows, and has no obvious reasons for m

i now refer. meditation is then the means; but only the supreme means. the agony column of the times is the supreme means of meeting with the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing a straw, who was at the soir e of the carlton club last monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cowelephant desiring her bull in the jungles of ceylon. meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have the opportunity. in any case what the easterns call onepointedness is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. and iron will-power is a still earlier qualification. by meditation i do not mean merely thinking about anythin

is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. and the spirit of the path met him. it was a young girl of two and twenty years, and she warned him that without the serpent5 his ways were but as wool cast into the dyer s vat. two-and-twenty scales had the serpent, and every scale was a path, and every path w

suggler,3 a riddler: for he said, thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but him-self only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler mocks him and cries: four fool s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried: one for the fool, seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the

nance? then they brought him the sword and bade him smite withal: but he said: if countenance behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. and they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a star, and they all vanished in that light; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried, before the wheel, the axle. so he chained the sun,2 and slew the bull, and exhausted the air, breathing it deep into his lungs: then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had made his home, will he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other bull, and he broke the arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time

s thereof in trust to be divided among their servitors; as the right cornea, to aphlek; the left, to urnbal; mighty spirits are they, and bold! to the archdevil rama,3 the right ear and its parts; to the archangel umumatis, the left ear and its parts; the teeth to two-and-thirty letters of the sixfold name: one to the air, and fifteen to the rain and the ram, and ten to the virgin, and six to the bull; the mouth to the archangels alalal and bikarak, lip and lip; the tongue to that devil of all devils yehowou.4 ho, devil! canst thou speak? 1 col. olcott, the theosophist. 2? the spirt of motor-cars. 3 vishnu, the preserver. 4 jehova. appendix ii 122 amen. the pharynx to mahabonisbash, the great angel; to seven-and-thirty myriads of legions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to

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rallel lines about 45 degrees from the horizontal, upper to the left and lower to the right. the lion is green on white with gold accents, tail arched upward in a crescent and tipped in gold. the eye is red and the tongue extends in red as well. there are black accents about the edges of the mane and below the chin. at the lower left, framed by the serpent to left and below, is an assyrian winged bull, flank view and facing right. the fore quarters stand on a silver sphere, while the hind quarters stand on a gold cube in parallel projection with the full face to the lower left. the assyrian king's head is crowned and bearded as usual and colored in orange and and gold over yellow. there are two silver horns issuing from the back of the head and angling upward just above and past the temple

and facing right. the fore quarters stand on a silver sphere, while the hind quarters stand on a gold cube in parallel projection with the full face to the lower left. the assyrian king's head is crowned and bearded as usual and colored in orange and and gold over yellow. there are two silver horns issuing from the back of the head and angling upward just above and past the temples- the horns are bull-like otherwise, and are only slightly curved. the wings form a bundle, more tucked under the back of the hair like a newspaper under an elbow than naturally rooted. these wings show only on the facing side, are blue and gold on white and have the usual shape for an assyrian bull otherwise. they are fully as thick as the body and extend above it. the fore quarters are leonine in red and gold o

le, more tucked under the back of the hair like a newspaper under an elbow than naturally rooted. these wings show only on the facing side, are blue and gold on white and have the usual shape for an assyrian bull otherwise. they are fully as thick as the body and extend above it. the fore quarters are leonine in red and gold over orange. the hind quarters are taurian in gray brown over white. the bull is male, with a taurian tail hanging down below the hooves. the hind hooves are gold. the "saddle" of the bull is done in orange plates on gold. across the bottom and on the left side is a predominantly red-orange serpent with yellow scutes divided by orange. the scales on the back are represented in red dots on orange and defined by silver and red. eye in blue. teeth dog-like in blue with bl

eth sir lionel the warder of the marches" so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull's. 90 moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working "he slayeth sir merlin the wizard" yet our brother perardua- and by now he was right skilful at the athanor- determined to attain to that higher projection of our art. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will ha

rs have been opened, and time has swept away as a mighty wind the embattled castles of kings with the mud-daubed 178 huts of shepherds. merodach has gone, and so has ea, and no longer doth istar flame in the night, or cast down her kisses on the sparkling goblets in the palace of belshazzar. isis, dark-veiled, hath departed, and nu no longer uplifteth the sun-bark with the breath of dawn. o amen, bull fair of face, where is thy glory? thebes is in ruins! o lord of joy, o mighty one of diadems! the sekhet crown has fallen from thy brow, and the strength of thy life hath departed, and thine eyes are as the shrouded shadows of night. olympus is but a barren hill, and asgard a land of sullen dreams. alone in the desert of years still crouches the sphinx, unanswered, unanswerable, inscrutable

s, and shall step out past the morning and the night in the manliness of might, to the conquest of thyself, and to the usurpation of the throne of god! 215 the king the king is the undying one; he is the life and the master of life; he is the great living image of the sun, the sun, and the begetter of the sun. he is the divine child, the god-begotten one, and the begetter of god. he is the potent bull, the jewelled snake, the fierce lion. he is the monarch of the lofty mountains, and the lord of the woods and forests, the indweller of the globes of flame. as a royal eagle he soars through the heavens, and as a great dragon he churns up the waters of the deep. he holds the past between his hands as a casket of precious stones, the future lies before him clear as a mirror of burnished silver

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hb:resh hb:bet, in "the sword of song" for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher's thesis) to be light, hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph. this word hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. hb:aleph is the egg of matter; hb:yod is taurus, the bull, or energy-motion; and hb:resh is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph is thus analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundom. it will be noticed that ever

scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. iota chi theta upsilon sigma= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111. achd hva alhim "he is one god" alp, aleph, and ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning "as the lightning lighteneth out of the east even unto the west, so shall be the coming of the son of man" an allusion to the descent of shiva upon shakti in samahdi. the roman a shows the same through the shape of the pentagram, which it imitates. asn, ruin, destruction, sudden death "scil, of the personality in samadhi. apl, thick darkness "cf" s

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ist with dews of terror: surely the bitterness of death is past. and i turned me to the south and lo! a great lion as wounded and perplexed. he cried: i have conquered! let the sons of earth keep silence; for my name is become as that of death! when will men learn the mysteries of creation? how much more those of the dissolution (and the pang of fire? i turned me to the west and there was a great bull; white with horns of white and black and gold. his mouth was scarlet and his eyes as sapphire stones. with a great sword he shore the skies asunder, and amid the silver flashes of the steel grew lightnings and deep clouds of indigo. 7 he spake: it is finished! my mother hath unveiled herself! my sister hath violated herself! the life of things hath disclosed its mystery. the work of the moon

p.m. the cry of the 25th aethyr, which is called vti there is nothing in the stone but the pale gold of the rosy cross. now there comes an angel with bright wings, that is the angel of the 25th aire. and all the aire is a dark olive about 21 him, like an alexandrite stone. he bears a pitcher or amphora. and now there comes another angel upon a white horse, and yet again another angel upon a black bull. and now there comes a lion and swallows the two latter angels up. the first angel goes to the lion and closes his mouth. and behind them are arrayed a great company of angels with silver spears, like a forest. and the angel says: blow, all ye trumpets, for i will loose my hands from the mouth of the lion, and his roaring shall enkindle the worlds. then the trumpets blow, and the wind rises a

d the voice be still. now all is gone from the stone. ain el hajel "november" 26, 1909. 2-3.25 p.m. the cry of the 23rd aethyr, which is called tor. in the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaselessly. and now there is a spider's web of silver covering the whole of the stone. behind the spider's web is a star of twelve rays; and behind that again, a black bull, furiously pawing up the ground. the flames from his mouth increase and whirl, and he cries: behold the mystery of toil, o thou who art taken in the toils of mystery. for i who trample the earth thereby make whirlpools in the air; be comforted, therefore, for though i be black, in the roof of my mouth is the sign of the beetle. bent are the backs of my brethren, yet shall they gore the lion w

who art taken in the toils of mystery. for i who trample the earth thereby make whirlpools in the air; be comforted, therefore, for though i be black, in the roof of my mouth is the sign of the beetle. bent are the backs of my brethren, yet shall they gore the lion with their horns. have i not the wings of the eagle, and the face of the man? and now he is turned into one of those winged assyrian bull-men. and he sayeth: the spade of the husbandman is the sceptre of the king. all the heavens beneath me, they serve me. they are my fields and my gardens and my orchards and my pastures. 29 glory be unto thee, who didst set thy feet in the north; whose forehead is pierced with the sharp points of the diamonds in thy crown; whose heart is pierced with the spear of thine own fecundity. thou art

rose and the cross, for the cross is extended unto the uttermost end beyond space and time and being and knowledge and delight! glory unto the rose that is the minute point of its center! even as we say; glory unto the rose that is nuit the circumference of all, and glory unto the cross that is the heart of the rose! 31 therefore do i cry aloud, and my scream is the treble as the bellowing of the bull is the bass. peace in the highest and peace in the lowest and peace in the midst thereof! peace in the eight quarters, peace in the ten points of the pentagram! peace in the twelve rays of the seal of solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings of the hammer of thor! behold! i blaze upon thee (the eagle is gone; it is only a flaming rosy cross of white brilliance) i catch thee up into

ght quarters, peace in the ten points of the pentagram! peace in the twelve rays of the seal of solomon, and peace in the four and thirty whirlings of the hammer of thor! behold! i blaze upon thee (the eagle is gone; it is only a flaming rosy cross of white brilliance) i catch thee up into rapture. falutli, falutli. o it dies, it dies. bou saada. 3 these are intended to show symbolically that the bull is the same as the eagle "november" 28, 1909. 9.30-10.15 a.m. the cry of the 22nd aethyr, which is called lin there comes first into the stone the mysterious table of forty-nine squares. it is surrounded by an innumerable company of angels; these angels are of all kinds- some brilliant and flashing as gods, down to elemental creatures. the light comes and goes on the tablet; and now it is ste

or turn aside, for he hath made the link that is not to be broken, nay, not by the malice of the four great princes of evil of the world, nor by chorozon, that mighty devil, nor by the wrath of god, nor by the affliction and feebleness of the soul. yet with this assurance be not thou content; for though thou hast the wings of the eagle, they are vain, except they be joined to the shoulders of the bull. now, therefore, i send forth a shaft of my light, even as a ladder let down from the heaven upon the earth, and by this black cross of themis that i hold before thine eyes, do i swear unto thee that the path shall be open henceforth for evermore. there is a clash of a myriad silver cymbals, and silence. and then three times a note is struck upon a bell, which sounds like my holy tibetan bell

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e expertness of mechanical skill."you who hold more skill and more power than your great english predecessor, robertus de fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal 'the arcana which are in the adytum of god-nourished silence' to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the brethren of the rosy cross towards the limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe."john bull, in the course of a long review by mr. herbert vivian""the author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. for pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. i was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast and i was moved to so mu

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the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grevious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, 211 i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i career, pointing my flaming way with the spasm of night for a spear! o moon! o secret sweet! chalcedony clouds of caresses about the flame of our feet, the night of our terrible tresses! is it a wonder, then, if the people are mad with blindness, and nothing is stranger to me

established doth the hierophant in the following words raise the candidate to his feet "rise, newly obligated neophyte in the 0 =0 grade of the order of the g. d. in the outer. place the candidate in the northern part of the hall, the place of the greatest symbolic darkness" the candidate is then placed in the north, the place of the greatest symbolic darkness, the invisible station of taaur the bull of earth. but therein dwelleth ahapshi the rescuer of matter, osiris in the sign of the spring. that as the earth emergeth from the darkness and the barrenness of winter, so the candidate may thus affirm the commencement of his emancipation from the darkness of ignorance. the hierophant and hiereus return to their thrones, therefore it is not arouerist but osiris himself that addresseth the c

air, art thou purified- pass thou on" illustration on page 267 approximated below. hb:taw_ hb:shin_ hb:qof tablet of air_ lamp/ dais pentacle_ h fan. lights shaded_ black white_ kerux hegemon_ tablet of earth_ fan_ hell_ eden/ salt salt/ red lamp) o_ cup_ hiereus_ diagram 20. arrangement of the temple for the 32nd path in the 2= 9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heaven; in the depths of the earth

ped by diamond crosses. there is a glory about the left outer half of this circle, and wings extend as noted. below the top circle is a calvary cross. the top arm of this cross shows the sword that defines the sephiroth on usual depictions of the tree of life. to the left of this top arm are two large heads topped by hebrew letters, and there is another pair to the right. left to right these are: bull(hb:heh, man(hb:vau, eagle(hb:heh) and lion(hb:yod. all these face left. the cross arm is bare, except for the serpent described below. the lower arm is obscured by drawings: top to bottom; a circle, a male head and torso leaning forward with arms hanging, a circle, a female head and arms clasping the next element to be described. in the hands of the female figure there is a large ringed circl

ck by the wrath of heaven, and also the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary rituals of the 1= 10, 2= 9, 3= 8, and 4= 7 grades. in many cases the candidate, it is to be feared, can never have realised the necessity of this destruction of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the bull, eagle, man and lion under the dazzling lash of the spirit. and we find that though these rituals enabled p. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his nephesh by the qliphoth- his passions and emotions being stirred up by a continuous pageant of 293 naked gods; his ruach by the phantom of dead words- by the duality of the

eizing the fawn betwixt his gleaming teeth, shook him till the fleecy clouds above were as a ram's skin flecked with blood. 304 "then thrill upon thrill rushed through me, and i fell down and knelt upon the flat roof of the temple. and presently as i knelt, i perceived other suns rising around me, one in the north, and one in the south, and one in the west. and the one in the north was as a great bull blowing blood and flame from its nostrils; and the one in the south was as an eagle plucking forth the entrails of a nubian slave; and the one in the west was as a man swallowing the ocean "and whilst i watched these suns rising around me, behold, though i knew it not, a fifth sun had arisen beneath where i was standing, and it was as a great wheel of revolving lightnings. and gazing at the w

e that i shot upwards past my skull like an arrow from a bended bow. and swerving down, i played around the head of the great image and kissed it on the lips. but through for many minutes did i fly about that immense head, the countenance thereof was ever cloudy as a mountain seen through a storm of snow; yet nevertheless could i distinguish that the head was like an assyrian clean-shaven, like a bull, a hawk, an egyptian and myself "intoxicated with rapture, i fluttered about the lips and then entered the great mouth "up! up! i rise. i am in a chamber with two square pillars and an eye. i bathe in the light of this eye and the intense brilliancy of the whole room, which swallows me up "bigger and bigger do i grow. i fill the room. i emerge from the top of the mighty head, and kissing once

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sk. these are defined by a thin white ring, black circle and thicker white ring with lettering. in the center of each of these smaller circles, on a black field, is a head of a cherub. the top has a lion head facing left, yod above head. the bottom has a human head with neck and start of chest, facing forward, vau above head. the left has an eagle head facing left, hay above head. the right has a bull headfacing forward, hay above head. all four have two wings extending from the bottom and arched around the sides within the inner circle, like laurels. the lettering in the wide rings on these four circles arcs across the top of each. over the lion "neqva qvam vacuum. over the bull "legis jvgvm. over the human "dei gloria intacta. over the eagle "libertas evangelii. the outer white ring of t

the great work "nequaquam vaccum"26 shows that "before abraham was, i am" the eagle and hb:heh with the cup represent the blood shed for the remission of sins, and the chalice of the stoistes "libertas evangelii" shows free-will. the man with hb:vau and the dagger shows the "last result" hb:vau is taurus, the redemption. the dagger is the means. for "dei gloria intacta" is the end of all. and the bull with h and chain shows the burial and the earth, life and labour which accomplish all these things "legis jugum" shows destiny balancing free-will. 230 in the midst is hb:shin and the incense: now incense requires air, fire, water and earth for its being: thus the whole table is shown in hb:shin as the combination and centre of all, being the glory of the vast countenance. all this is brillia

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their desolation, that outroarest the winds; i swear to thee by the gleaming sandals of the stars, to climb beyond the summits of the mountains, and rend thy robe of purple thunders with a sword of silvery light. 12. o thou fat of an hundred fortresses of iron, crimson as the blades of a million murderous swords; i swear to thee by the smoke-wreath of the volcano, to open the secret shrine of thy bull's breast, and tear out as an augur the heart of thine all-pervading mystery. 13. o thou silver axle of the wheel of being, thrust through the wings of time by the still hand of space; i swear to thee by the twelve spokes of thy unity, to become unto thee as the rim thereof, so that i may clothe me majestically in the robe that has no seam. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all

vastness of thine abyss, and sink beneath the waveless depths of thy glory: o thou god my god! 8. o thou mighty god, make me as a white ram that is athirst in a sun- scorched desert of bitterness; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may seek the deep waters of thy wisdom, and plunge into the whiteness of thine effulgence: o thou god my god! 9. o thou mighty god, make me as a thunder-smitten bull that is drunk upon the vintage of thy blood; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may bellow through the universe thy power, and trample the nectar-sweet grapes of thine essence: o thou god my god! 10. o thou mighty god, make me as a black eunuch of song that is twin- voiced, yet dumb in either tongue; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may hush my melody in thy silence, and swell i

the deciduous moon; tend me as a drop of dew in thy breast, so that the dragon of thy gluttonous hate may devour me with its mouth of adamant. 7. o thou effulgence of burning love, who pursueth the dawn as a youth pursueth a rose-lipped maiden; rend me with the fierce kisses of thy mouth, so that in the battle of our lips i may be drenched by the snow pure fountains of thy bliss. 8. o thou black bull in a field of white girls, whose foaming flanks are as starry night ravished in the fierce arms of noon; shake forth the purple horns of my passion, so that i may dissolve as a crown of fire in the bewilderment of thine ecstasy. 9. o thou dread arbiter of all men, the hem of whose broidered skirt crimsoneth the white battlements of space; bare me the starry nipple of thy breast, so that the m

ho art not the emperor or eternal time; nor the warrior shout that rocketh the byss of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; raise me in the unity of thy might, and suckle me at the swol'n breasts of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 7. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the golden bull of the heavens; nor the crimsoned fountain of the lusts of men: o thou who reclinest not upon the waggon of night; nor restest thine hand upon the handle of the plough! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; urge me in the unity of thy might, and drench me with the red vintage of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 8

r of thy name. 6. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou opalescent orb of shattered sunsets; thou pearly boss on the shield of light; thou tawny priest at the mass of lust: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou chalcedony cloudland of light; o thou poppy-petal floating upon the snowstorm! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till my frenzied words rush through the souls of men, like a blood-red bull through a white heard of terror-stricken kine, at the glory and splendour of thy name. 7. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou unimperilled flight of joyous laughter; thou eunuch glaive-armed before joy's veil; thou dreadful insatiable one: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou lofty gathering-point of bliss; o thou bridal-bed of murmuring rapture! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till

e expertness of mechanical skill "you who hold more skill and more power than your great english predecessor, robertus de fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal 'the arcana which are in the adytum of god-nourished silence' to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the brethren of the rosy cross towards the limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe":john bull" in the course of a long review by mr. herbert vivian "the author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. for pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. i was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast and i was moved to so mu

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ain a truth. i see, inscrutable simplicity! crushed like a blind-worm by the heel of all i am, perceive, and feel, my truth was but the partial pang that chanced to strike me as i sang. marsyas. in the beginning, violence marks the extinction of the sense. anguish and rapture rack the soul. these are disruptions of control. self-poised, a brooding hawk, there hangs in the still air the adept. the bull on the firm earth goes not so smooth! so the first fine ecstatic pangs pass; balance comes. olympas. how wonderful are these tall avenues of truth! marsyas. so the first flash of light and terror is seen as shadow, known as error. next, light comes as light; as it grows the sense of peace still steadier glows; and the fierce lust, that linked the soul to its god, attains a chaste control. int

r juggler were some kind of magician who could enter their thick skulls and steal their sorry thoughts, whilst all the time he is at the old game of picking their greasy pockets. miracles are but the clouds that cloak the dreamy eyes of ignorant men. therefore let us once and for all thunder forth: there are no miracles for those who wake; miracles are for the dreamers, and wonders are as bottled bull's-eyes in a bun-shop for penniless children. beauty alone exists for the adept. everywhere there is loveliness_ in the poppy and in the dunghill upon which it blows; in the palace of marble and in the huts of sunbaked mud which squat without its walls. for him the glades of the forests laugh with joy, and so do the gutters of our slums. all is beautiful, and flame-shod he speeds over earth an

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ery life; his being was the mahalingam of the first, beyond life and death the generator from nothingness. his armour was the primal water of chaos. the infinite moon-like curve of his body; the flashing swiftness of his word, that was the word that formulated that which was beyond chaos and cosmos; the might of him, greater than that of the elephant and of the lion and of the tortoise and of the bull fabled in indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the name; the glory of him, that was even as that of the sun which is before all and beyond all suns, of which the stars are little sparks struck off as he battled in the infinite against the infinite- all these points the great white spirit noted and appreciated. this is certainly the person, thought he, to do my business for me

us therefore mention that the chief points, a few out of a score, that have struck us are- the custom of the mark sacred stone; the universality of horus worship; the startling identity of hieroglyphics, all over the world, with the egyptian; and the symbolism of the great pyramid, and its use as a temple of initiation. a few others, however, do not understand. on p. 80 dr. churchward traces the "bull roarer" back to egypt. but we can find no proofs of these ever having been used there. in australia, as he states, they were used, and so also in new zealand and new guinea and over most of europe; in sussex, country boys to this day use them as toys. again, the egyptian throwing-stick (p. 67) is not a boomerang at all; it was made of thick rounded wood and will not return when thrown. it is

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prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to'sfeet- a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome goal firm as an old bull-elephant! 78 the broad stair winds; he follows it; dark is the way; the air is blind; black, black the blackness of the pit, the light long blotted out behind! his sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force, of some dread

re expertness of mechanical skill "you who hold more skill and more power than your great english predecessor, robertus de fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal 'the arcana which are in he adytum of god-nourished silence' to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the brethren of the rosy cross towards the limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe":john bull" in the course of a long review by mr. herbert vivian "the author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. for pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. i was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast and i was moved to so mu

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ire and ireland and other places that one has 6 never heard of. but then it dropped off to zero. i had received about 30 cuttings altogether. then other people began to send me cuttings in a friendly way, and messrs. romeike and curtice maintained a silence and immobility which would have done credit to a first- rate mahatma. they missed, for example, little things like an editorial par. in "john bull" a full page in "the sketch" the "daily news" a page and a quarter in "the nation" half a column in the "daily mail [i hear you ask "how can they make such oversights? perhaps the post office is to blame] well, if the post office is to blame, i can't answer your other question "how can they do it" and if it is by "oversight" or "clerical error" or "absence of mind" i am in a similar position

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o the lips and laughed as the storms of death abated, the storms of the grievious graft by the swing of her soul unsated. wherefore reborn as i am by a stream profane and foul, in the reign of a tortured lamb, in the realm of a sexless owl, i am set apart from the rest by meed of the mystic rune that reads in peril and pest the ambrosial moon- the moon! for under the tawny star that shines in the bull above i can rein the riotous car of galloping, galloping love; and straight to the steady ray of the lion-heart lord i career, pointing my flaming way with the spasm of night for a spear! o moon! o secret sweet! chalcedony clouds of caresses about the flame of our feet, the night of our terrible tresses! is it a wonder, then, if the people are mad with blindness, and nothing is stranger to me

e expertness of mechanical skill "you who hold more skill and more power than your great english predecessor, robertus de fluctibus, you have not feared to reveal 'the arcana which are in the adytum of god-nourished silence' to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the brethren of the rosy cross towards the limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe "john bull" in the course of a long review by mr. herbert vivian "the author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. for pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. i was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast and i was moved to so mu

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nges both men gave and took a great deal of punishment. in a sense, it was bad boxing. the tenth round showed joe marie awake at last. he led repeatedly, and thrice got home on the white man's face. ida was rubbing her body against edgar's like a cat. 122 "he is like a black leopard" she purred "is anything in the world so beautiful as that lithe black body "i have seen blood in the sunlight on a bull's shoulder" replied rolles "i love to see the pure animal beat the mere brute. white men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report "ida! my ida! could you see your nostrils twitching! i can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing "i hate you" she said "in everything you see "yo

ed one glance at her. she would not see it "i love him passionately, indeed i do. oh, i love him, i love him" she threw herself on the broad chest of the boxer and hid 140 her face. his long arms wound convulsively round her. his eyes seemed to start from his head; foam gathered on his dry lips; he could not speak. the breath came through his dilated nostrils hot and fierce; one would have said a bull in the arena. she disengaged herself "you see, he wants to marry me. i love him! i want to be with him for ever. but" the great fighter was limp in his chair "it is difficult" she went on "there are complications. my mother" edgar rolles detected the false note in her voice. he understood. he was angry, angry at his implication in such an affair. his teeth snapped "yes" he said, though he wan

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much more recent and refers to the basic organizational grouping of thirteen witches-six couples and a leader, or eleven priests, a high priest and high priestess. 2 to distinguish between beneficial and harmful magic, it had little effect on the treatment of the witches themselves. from being a joyous religion, witchcraft was changed overnight when, in 1484, pope innocent viii put his seal on e bull.t at condemned witches as heretics for interfering with fertility. from now on terror would invade the life ofanyone suspected of working miracles. in 1486, two members of the inquisition, with the full approval of the pope, wrote an ha publis ed the boo malleus male.ficarum, which described in considerable det 11 methods of discovering and punishing witches and ways m which magic could be ha

book, which by. 1520 had run to fourteen editions, confirmed popular misconceptions and hostility towards witchcraft and was to influe ce public opinion in europe until after the reformation (protestants were even greater witch-haters than their predecessors. one of the first countries to declare war on witches had been france, where they .were burnt at the stake several decades before the papal bull. at that time whole villages still followed the old religion and even the priests, who were mostly drawn from the peasant class, were only outwardly christian. having tried to stamp out witchcraft by persuasion, the clergy, backed by civil law, overcame it by force-the same fate as had befallen the ancient religions of egypt and of the aztecs. ill england tolerance had prevailed until the arr

ox. birds: swan and stork. metal: tin. colours: purple, mauve, sea-green. 152 arms the ram. 22 march to 21 april. lucky stones: ruby, bloodstone, diamond. lucky numbers: aries, seven; mars, nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: gorse, wild rose, thistle. trees: holly, thorn, chestnut. animals: ram, tiger, leopard. bird: magpie. metal: iron. colours: bright green, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for both taurus and venus. lucky day: friday. flowers: lily-of-the-valley, violet, rose, myrtle. trees: almond, apple, walnut, ash, sycamore. animal: bull. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: all shades of blue, indigo, soft rose. gemini the twins. 22 may to 21 june. lucky stones: aga

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

sanguine; sensation; calm, imperturbable virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness, practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation, hoarding of resources (including information) season: yule time of day: midnight direction: north wind: boreas colour: green symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of anima mundi) spirits: gnomes under gob (friendly& easy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

em for the grasp and inner retention of the symbols and formulas which embody the knowledge whereby- 97- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust they can eventually work. these formulas are based upon nine symbols which are now recognised: 1. the cross in its varying forms. 2. the lotus. 3. the triangle. 4. the cube. 5. the sphere and the point. 6. eight animal forms, the goat, the bull, the elephant, the man, the dragon, the bear, the lion, and the dog. 7. the line. 8. certain signs of the zodiac, hence the need for the study of astrology. 9. the cup, or the holy grail. all these symbols allied, interwoven, or taken in part, are combined to express one or other of the seven secrets. the initiate has to recognise them by sight as well as to hear them, and by an effort of the

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s. d, ii, 257. e. to endow him with human affections and aspirations. s. d, ii, 257. f. they give to men intelligence and consciousness. s. d, i, 204 254 88: alignment: see letters on occult meditation, pp. 1-7. 255 89: the pineal gland. the third eye. s. d, iii, 548. 1. goal of evolution to develop the inner vision. 2. the occult significance of the eye. s. d, iii, 577. 3. the "eye of taurus the bull (compare bull's-eye) the constellation of taurus was called the mother of revelation and the interpreter of the divine voice. s. d, i, 721. 4. the organs of inner vision: a. the exoteric organ..pineal gland..physical. b. the esoteric organ..the third eye..etheric. note: students must be careful to distinguish between the third eye and the pineal gland. see s. d, ii, 308 "the third eye is dead

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s of power he can enter into samadhi and be withdrawn from his body, carrying the light with him. in this way the greater light (the three fused and blended) illuminates the three worlds of man's endeavours and "the light is thrown upward" and illuminates all the spheres of man's conscious and unconscious experience. this is spoken of in the occult writings of the masters in these words "then the bull of god carries the light in his forehead, and his eye transmits the radiance; his head, with magnetic force, resembles the blazing sun, and from the lotus of the head, the path of light issues. it enters into the greater being, producing a living fire. the bull of god sees the solar angel, and knows that angel to be the light wherein he walks" then the work of the four proceeds. the four are

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

third initiation. 4. the precious jewels .e goic consciousness and achievement. the fourth initiation. the correspondences of fire, heat and pressure in the evolution of the human being are self-evident, and their work can be seen paralleling that in the mineral kingdom. the mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by taurus, and there is a symbolic relation between the "eye" in the head of the bull, the third eye, the light in the head, and the diamond. the consciousness of the buddha has been called the "diamond-eye" we have been technical, and much has been given which seems to have no bearing upon the psychological development of man. but to understand the rays and their bearing on life as a whole, it is necessary that man should grasp the fact that he is only a small fraction of tha

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

for us. in the rocky structure of the cave, the mineral kingdom appears. the fodder and the hay, naturally there, symbolise the vegetable kingdom. the ox and the ass represent the animal nature, but they represent also far more than that. the ox stood for that form of worship which should have been passing off the earth at the time christ came. there were still many to be found who worshipped the bull, which was the worship prevalent in the age when our sun was passing through the age of taurus, the bull, and which was preserved at that time in the mysteries of mithras and of egypt. the sign immediately preceding the christian era was that of aries, the ram or lamb, and this is symbolised for us in the sheepfolds which surrounded bethlehem- 45- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 luci

le with the sign scorpio, the serpent, and it is therefore frequently used in this connection when considering the fixed cross of the cosmic saviour. scorpio is the serpent of illusion from which the christ nature finally frees us, and it is to the illusory wiles of this serpent scorpio that adam succumbed in the garden of eden. the "face of the ox" is the biblical symbol for the sign taurus, the bull, which was the religion immediately antedating the jewish revelation, and which found its exponents in egypt and in the mithraic mysteries. upon this fixed cross all the world saviours, not excepting the christ of the west, have been eternally crucified, as reminders to man of the divine intent based upon the divine sacrifice. the early fathers recognised this truth, and realised that the sto

on the necessity for the purification by blood. this teaching of purification through the blood of bulls and of rams (or lambs) was part of the ancient mysteries, and was inherited by us primarily from the mysteries of mithra. these mysteries, in their turn, inherited the teaching, and thus formulated their doctrine, which christianity absorbed. when the sun was in the zodiacal sign of taurus the bull, the sacrifice of the bull was offered as a forecast of that which christ came later to reveal. when the sun passed (in the precession of the equinoxes) into the next sign, that of aries the ram, we find the lamb was sacrificed and the scapegoat sent into the wilderness. christ was born into the next sign, pisces the fishes, and it is for this reason that we eat fish on good friday, in commem

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estioned your capacity to make progress in this life. it was, however, your karmic due to have this opportunity offered to you. the doubt in my mind arose from my knowledge of the two tendencies in you which have hitherto held you back from the lighted way. one is a stubborn determination to go your own way and handle situations as you choose, e'en when others suffer through your so doing. you go bull-headed through life, knocking down and hurting as you go. this you know full well. you stop not to right or to adjust wrong action, e'en when you recognise it as wrong. the second is a tendency of thought and action which must be cleaned up before you can pass through the doors of purification which hide the door of initiation. more about this hindering activity i need not say, for you know w

illumination upon the way of service. your soul ray is, as you know, the second ray of love-wisdom and your personality ray is that of will or power. but your astrological sign has been one of the major factors in constituting your life problem. however, this has been a blessing in disguise, for the problems that it has brought and the difficulties which you have encountered under the sign of the bull are fitting you for the scorpio experience in your next life the greatest experience upon the path. your mental body is on the fourth ray. hence the conflict and hence, at the same time, the deep-seated love of harmony. these have warred together in your life. i would have you note this. it is possible to love harmony so much that you will fight to get it and struggle to achieve it; in this w

ight to get it and struggle to achieve it; in this way you enter into a world of glamour from which it is oft difficult to emerge. your fourth ray attributes connect you closely to several of your co-disciples. i would suggest that you avail yourself of this relationship by an intensification of rapport. your astral body is on the sixth ray and this intensifies your taurian tendencies for, as the bull rushes straight forward seeing only that which lies directly ahead, so does the sixth ray fanatic. when, however, this aptitude is applied to the path of service, much progress can be made. herein lies a hint to you. your physical body is upon the third ray but so strong is your personality ray, the first (for you are an integrated personality, that it colours the nature, type and quality of

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

ation of the passage of the sun through the signs of the zodiac. yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colours jewish history. the fact that christ was the teacher of the new period into which the sun was entering, the period of pisces, is forgotten, but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology

nations, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. this sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the aquarian age to humanity. this the church has ignored and yet their ecclesiastics cannot explain away the fact that the jews demonstrated their liking for the taurian worship of the bull in the golden calf, that the jewish dispensation used the symbol of the scapegoat or ram in the age of aries, the ram, and that the christian emphasises the fish in the piscean era, the christian era. christ came to bring to an end the jewish dispensation which should have climaxed and passed away as a religion with the movement of the sun out of aries into pisces. he, therefore, presented hi

aring away the sins of the people, and thus originating the doctrine of the vicarious at-one-ment. it was st. paul who was responsible for this emphasis. a paralleling instance of a similar distortion was also of jewish origin and appeared in the early stages of the cycle of aries, the ram. we are told that the children of israel fell down and worshipped the golden calf, the symbol of taurus, the bull; this was the preceding astronomical cycle. these are astronomical cycles and not a presented astrology. in the early stages of aries, the teaching reverted to that of taurus and in the early stages of pisces, it reverted to that of aries and thus set the seal of retrogression upon the teaching which now controls so many orthodox christians. buddha answered the questions posited in his time b

ius, the fifth age, is coming into power. in gemini, its symbolical sign of the two pillars set its seal upon- 68- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust the masonic fraternity of the time and the two pillars of jachin and boaz to give them their jewish names which are, of course, not their real names came into being approximately eight thousand years ago. then came taurus, the bull, wherein mithra came as the world teacher and instituted the mysteries of mithras with an (apparent) worship of the bull. next followed aries the ram, which saw the start of the jewish dispensation which is of importance to the jews and unfortunately of importance to the christian religion, but of no importance to the untold millions in the other parts of the world; during this cycle came the

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

ndividuals the first great crisis in scorpio upon the path of discipleship is determining in its effect upon the future. in considering great britain, we note first that the ruling sign is gemini from the standpoint of the soul of the people, and that taurus governs the material outer form of the nation; it is this factor that has led her people to appear before the world under the symbol of john bull, expressive of the british personality. it has been thought by certain astrologers that britain is ruled by aries, and this is true of it, as far as that small part which is called england is concerned; but i am dealing with the empire as a whole and not with a fraction of it. it is the gemini influence that has led to the constant movement and restlessness of the british people; which has le

e taurian influence in the states and consequently you have the attitude of frequent misunderstanding which exists between the two powers. they are very close to each other and the welfare of each means much to each of them, so much so that the tendency to misinterpretation of each other's actions and motives is not aided by the fluidity of gemini. nevertheless, the arrogance and self-will of the bull must give way to the fluid understanding of the inclusive gemini consciousness, and this is a hard thing for the british temperament at this time to grasp. they are so sure of their rectitude and so convinced of their wisdom that they are apt to forget that good intentions are oft offset by bad methods. the british are just and wise, but their self-sufficient technique and their blindness to

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

s in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers) and beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. it is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and duality can be inferred from them. 1. the two horns of the ram in aries. 2. the two horns of the bull in taurus. 3. the figures of the twins in gemini (two lines. 4. the two claws of the crab in cancer. 5. the two scales of the balance in libra. 6. the two parallel lines of force in aquarius. 7. the two fishes in pisces- 34- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust these seven constellations are, therefore, closely related to six of the seven sac

n he has been slain e'en though he knew it not the man climbs down and feels his way (with pain and many tears) on to another cross a cross of blinding light, of fiery pain, of bitter woe, and yet the cross of liberation. it is a stationary cross, fixed in the heavens, and guarded by the angel. behind the cross, another cross appears, but that he may not reach (the angel guards the way) until the bull has rent and torn the man, and then the light shines forth; until the serpent dread has wrestled with the man and brought him to his knees, and then the lifting up into the light; until the lion has been tamed, the secret of the sphinx revealed, and then the revelation of the inner light; until the man has lifted up his water-pot and joined the ranks of those who are the water-bearers, and th

.s aturn. saturn. gemini, the twins .m ercury .v enus. ii. love-wisdom .v irgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon (veiling a planet. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. conflict sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. leo, the lion. sun. sun. v. concrete science. sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. aquarius, the watercarrier. uranus. jupiter. virgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon. vi. idealism. devotion .s agittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. ar

ncer, combined with that of aries, produces the pull into incarnation upon the physical plane. 2. regeneration in which the growing influence of the fixed cross, playing upon the mutable cross, produces those interior changes which eventually lead to 3. reorientation or the great cycle of repolarisation which takes place through the influence of libra (the cardinal cross) and the "swerving of the bull in mid-career" as it is called in the ancient books. this process of reorientation leads to a passage around the wheel in which, steadily and persistently, the inner subjective man comes into outer manifested expression and- 65- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the personality recedes into the background. finally, there come twelve lives

oss. by the word "influencing" i here refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses to our planet. ponder on this and remember also that our sun is travelling through space (carrying our solar system along in its sphere of influence) around our own central and conditioning star which it has been rightly presumed exists in the constellation taurus, the bull, being found in the pleiades. at the same time it appears, from the standpoint of our planet, to be passing through the twelve signs of the zodiac; this is a symbol macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic centralised point of view of the individual human being, the microcosm. it is interesting to compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected with the lesser and the greater zodi

but with these we will not deal as we are confining our attention to humanity. aquarius, as you know, is one of the arms of the fixed cross. this cross is outstandingly the cross of discipleship and of the three major initiations in connection with which it might be pointed out that: 1. in taurus desire is transmuted into aspiration, darkness gives place to light and illumination, the eye of the bull is opened which is the spiritual third eye, or the "single eye" of the new testament "if thine eye be single" said the christ "thy whole body shall be full of light" this single eye takes the place of the two eyes of the personal self. the attention of the man becomes focussed upon spiritual attainment. he treads the path of discipleship. 2. in leo the self-centred man becomes eventually the

rn out-thrust like a single spear upon his brow instead of the two horns of the scavenging goat. it is interesting to study the three signs in which the animals have horns: aries, the downturned horns of the ram, signifying the coming into manifestation, the involutionary cycle and the experience of the cardinal cross as it expresses the will-to-manifest of god. taurus, the up-turned horns of the bull with the circle below, depicting the push of man, the bull of god, towards the goal of illumination and the emergence of the soul from bondage with the two horns (duality) protecting the "eye of light" in the centre of the bull's forehead; this is "the single eye" of the new testament which makes the "whole body to be full of light" then capricorn, the goat, related particularly and closely t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

is is an astronomical fact at this time and has nothing to do with astrology. the influence, however, of the sign through which the sun may be passing at any particular world period is irrefutable and i can prove it to you here and now. prior to the jewish dispensation when moses was leading the children of israel out of egypt the sun was in the sign taurus. it was passing through the sign of the bull. we then had the appearance on earth of the mithraic mysteries which centered around the sacrifice of the sacred bull. the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness which so aroused the anger of moses when he descended from the mount of the lord and found them falling down before the golden calf was that they had reverted to a past and obsolete religion which they should have left behin

d obsolete religion which they should have left behind. the jewish dispensation itself was governed by the sign of aries, the ram, through which the sun was passing for the next 2,000 years. then we have the appearance of the scapegoat in jewish history. we have the bible story of the ram caught in the thicket and all this was due to the influence of the passing of the sun through the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram. something apart from the findings of academic astrology, which even at present could only touch a very few people, produced these natural reactions. some influence, emanating from the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram produced the symbology which conditioned the religious life of the people of that era. this becomes still more apparent when the sun transitted i

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

nd in the others the will-to-evil. energy per se is entirely impersonal. the group, therefore, which "serves as aquarius indicates" is the hierarchy; the group which is "speeded upon the upward way" is the new group of world servers. this group is ruled by taurus, and to it that divine taurian energy brings "illumination and the attainment of the vision" this group is, figuratively speaking, the "bull, rushing forward upon a straight line with its one eye fixed upon the goal and beaming light" but what is that goal? it is not the goal of- 151- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust self-illumination, for that lies far behind; it is the goal of providing a centre of light within the world of men and of holding up the vision to the son

ot because it is jewish, but because it is old and reactionary and has not followed the evolutionary passage of the sun through the zodiac. that passage should and does symbolise human evolution, and just as the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness was their reverting to a dispensation and religious ritual which had passed and gone (the religion of the people in the time of taurus, the bull, symbolised by their falling down and worshipping the golden calf, so today modern masonry is in line to do the same; and the ancient usages and forms, consistent and right in the jewish dispensation, are now obsolete and should be abrogated. it is equally true of the jewish race that in the rejection of the christ as the messiah they have remained, metaphorically and practically, in the sign

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

pose of this study (foreword) the nature of discipleship astrological connotations the world disciple today key thoughts hercules the disciple- the myth elaboration of the myth labor i the capture of the man-eating mares the myth the meaning of the myth the sign the three initial impulses in aries the sign of the mind constellations in aries the crux of the test labor ii the capture of the cretan bull the myth the meaning of the labor four symbolic words the story of the labor the theme of illumination the theme of sex significance of the constellations nature of the tests the disciple and sex labor iii- part 1 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the myth the nature of the test- 1- the symbols labor iii- part 2 gathering the golden apples of the hesperides the field of the labor

ople of that land, released from fear, welcomed the deliverer, acclaiming hercules as savior of the land. but abderis lay dead.the teacher turned to hercules and said "labor the first is ended; the task is done, but badly done. learn the true lesson of this task and then pass on to further service to your fellowmen. go forth into the country guarded by the second gate and find and take the sacred bull into the holy place" the tibetan (djwhal khul) the meaning of the myth in combining this astrological and symbolic story with the everyday life and tests of modern discipleship, we shall tell the story of the task which hercules undertook, and- 20- the labours of hercules the test to which king eurystheus subjected him; and then we shall study [29] the significance of the sign in which it too

eap character. sow character and reap destiny" the two keywords of the sign aries are (from esoteric astrology, volume iii of a treatise on the seven rays, p. 108. received three years after a.a.b. gave the hercules lectures in new york) 1 "and the word said: let form again be sought (the man. 2 "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule (the initiate [38] labor ii the capture of the cretan bull (taurus, april 21st- may 20th) the myth the presiding one spoke to the teacher of the man whose light shone forth among the sons of men, who are the sons of god "where is the man who stood with power before the gods, received their gifts and entered through the first wide open gate to labor at his task "he rests, oh, great presiding one, and ponders on his failure, and mourns for abderis, and

g with dispatch" the second gate stood open wide and, from the light which veiled the distant scene, a voice emerged and said "pass through the gate. proceed upon thy way. perform thy labor and return to me, reporting on the deed" alone and sad, conscious of need and worn with deep distress, hercules slowly passed between the pillars of the gate into the light which shines where stands the sacred bull. on the horizon rose the island fair where dwelt the bull, and where adventurous men could enter that vast maze which lured them to bewilderment, the maze of minos, king of crete, the keeper of the bull. crossing the ocean to the sunlit isle (though how we are not told) hercules entered on his task to seek and find the bull, and lead it to the holy place where dwell the one-eyed men. from pla

the island fair where dwelt the bull, and where adventurous men could enter that vast maze which lured them to bewilderment, the maze of minos, king of crete, the keeper of the bull. crossing the ocean to the sunlit isle (though how we are not told) hercules entered on his task to seek and find the bull, and lead it to the holy place where dwell the one-eyed men. from place to place he chased the bull, led by the gleaming [40] star which shone upon the forehead of the bull, a bright lamp in a dark place. this light- 26- the labours of hercules moving as moved the bull, led him. from place to place. alone, he sought the bull; alone he chased it to its lair; alone he captured it and mounted on its back. around him stood the sisters seven, urging him on his way and, in the shining light, he r

d by the gleaming [40] star which shone upon the forehead of the bull, a bright lamp in a dark place. this light- 26- the labours of hercules moving as moved the bull, led him. from place to place. alone, he sought the bull; alone he chased it to its lair; alone he captured it and mounted on its back. around him stood the sisters seven, urging him on his way and, in the shining light, he rode the bull across the glimmering water to the isle of crete unto the land where dwelt the cyclops three. these three great sons of god awaited his return, watching his progress through the waves. he rode the bull as if it were a horse, and with the sisters singing as he went, drew near unto the land "he comes with strength, said brontes, and went to meet him on the shore "he rides in light" said sterope

e waves. he rode the bull as if it were a horse, and with the sisters singing as he went, drew near unto the land "he comes with strength, said brontes, and went to meet him on the shore "he rides in light" said steropes "his inner light will brighter be" then fanned the light to sudden flame "he comes with speed" said arges "he is riding through the waves" hercules nearer drew, urging the sacred bull upon the way, throwing the light upon the trail which led from crete unto the temple of the lord, within the city of the oneeyed men. upon the mainland, at the water's edge, these three men stood and grasped the bull, taking it thus away from hercules "what hast thou here" said brontes, arresting hercules upon the way "the sacred bull, oh, holy one "who art thou? tell us now thy name" said st

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

thers. binah is the supernal mother, aima. malkuth is the inferior mother, the bride of the mikroprosopos. daath or knowledge is the union of chokmah and binah, of wisdom and understanding. merkabah was the chariot throne of god of the vision of ezekiel mentioned in his chapters i. and x; it rested on wheels and was carried by four cherubim, the sacred animal forms, which resembled the man, lion, bull and eagle, which were related to the four quarters of the world, and to four types of humanity. the four letters yod, h, vau, h, or as we say ihvh, of the name we call jehovah, are allotted and distributed by the kabalistic doctrine among the sephiroth in a peculiar manner, forming the mysterious conception of the tetragrammaton, that awful name of divine majesty which might never be uttered

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

ept can process. in addition, the sacrifice of the cross is a doorway to freedom without the restriction of the law. the man and the dagger explain the final result. w is b, the tarot card being the hierophant. the dagger is the tool through which the adept/hierophant must cut through the restriction of the true will. 8 dei inacta gloria, the "unsullied glory of god" is the end of all things. the bull and chains are life, work, labor, burial, and earth. legis jugum, the "yoke of the law" is the balance between destiny and free will "it is appointed once for a man to be born and once for a man to die" c and incense are in the middle of the altar. this is the glory of arik anpin. the altar is a symbol of flashing and brilliance. it is equilibrated in itself and therefore a fitting recipient

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

e all striving to supplant each other. indeed, the tendency of events is to give the highest place to the most excellent and the most deserving. for the present state of things is passing away, and a new world is about to be created, and one planet is devouring another spiritually, until only the strongest survive. let me tell you allegorically that you must put into the heavenly balance the ram, bull, cancer, scorpion, and goat. in the other scale of the balance you must place the twins, the archer, the water vbearer, and the virgin. then let the lion jump into the virgin s lap, which will cause the other scale to kick the beam. thereupon, let the signs of the zodiac enter into opposition to the pleiads, and when all the colours of the world have shewn themselves, let there be a conjuncti

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

s and the attraction to the moon, as shown by the liquid portion of the globe ever striving to raise itself towards its parent. this is the meaning of the sentence that "the mother-water arose and disappeared in the moon, which had lifted her, which had given her birth[[footnote(s* but see the difficulties suggested later, in the works of various geologists, against this theory. compare sir r. s. bull's article in "nature (dec. 1, 1881, and also what the american geologists say[[vol. 2, page] 65 divine will becomes eros. 10. when they (the rupas) were destroyed, mother-earth remained bare* she asked to be dried (a (a) the time for its incrustation had arrived. the waters had separated and the process was started. it was the beginning of a new life. this is what one key divulges to us. anot

their lives in profitless ceremonial worship based on blind faith- a hint now ignored by the orthodox brahmins- and forthwith the former become a-suras. the first and mind-born sons of the deity refuse to create progeny, and are cursed by brahma to be born as men. they are hurled down to earth, which, later on, is transformed, in theological dogma, into the infernal regions. ahriman destroys the bull created by ormazd- which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the "germ of sorrow- and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil. typhon cuts osiris into fourteen pieces, in order to prevent his peopling the worl

kabalists and symbologists who disfigured pymander- prominent among them the bishop of ayre, francois de tours, in the 16th century- divide the elements in this way- the four elements formed from divine substances and the spirits of the salts of nature represented by[[diagram. st. matthew. angel-man. water (jesus-christ, angel-man, mikael) a[[diagram. st. mark .the lion. fire e- y. st. luke. the bull. earth i- o. st. john. the eagle. air[[footnote(s* to those who would inquire "what has hydrogen to do with air or oxygena[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 115 sons of yoga. h, the quintessence[[hephlox, flamma-virgo (virgin oil, flamma durissima, virgo, lucis aeterna mater. the first race of men were, then, simply the images, the astral doubles, of their fathers, who were the

ence the perversion in the order of the elements, in order to make them dovetail with the order of the gospels, and to identify the angel-man with christ. with the chaldees, the egyptians, from whom moses adopted the chroub (cherubs in their animal form, and the ophites; with all these, the angels, the planets, and the elements, were symbolized mystically and alchemically by the lion (mikael; the bull (uriel; the dragon (raphael; the eagle (gabriel; the bear (thot-sabaoth; the dog (erataoth; the mule (uriel or thartharaoth. all these have a qualificative meaning[[vol. 2, page] 116 the secret doctrine. puranic text. yoga here is the same as dhyana, which word is again synonymous with yoga in the tibetan text, where the "sons of yoga" are called "sons of dhyana" or of that abstract meditatio

l's tomb in england, draghedanum sepulcrum. in languedoc the meteoric fires and will-o'-the-wisps are called dragg, and in bretagne dreag, wraie (or wraith, the castle of drogheda in ireland meaning the devil's castle[[vol. 2, page] 207 kircher's dragon. of the third race. when, therefore, we are gravely asked by roman catholic writers to credit christopher scherer's and father kircher's cock-and-bull stories of their having seen with their own eyes living fiery and flying dragons, respectively in 1619 and 1669, we may be allowed to regard their assertions as either dreams or fibs* nor shall we regard otherwise than as a poetical license that other story told of petrarch, who, while following one day his laura in the woods and passing near a cave, is credited with having found a dragon, wh

at present* even wilson admits that rama and ravana were personages founded on historical facts-"the traditions of southern india uniformly ascribing its civilization and the settlement of civilized hindus (the fifth race) to the conquest of lanka by rama (vishnu purana, iii, p. 318- the victory of the "sons of god" over the atlantean sorcerers, says the true tradition[[vol. 2, page] 225 cock and bull hypotheses. two races, the third and fourth, and how long after did the various tribes of the fifth begin their strife, the wars between good and evil? we are assured by the orientalists that chronology is both hopelessly mixed and absurdly exaggerated in the puranas and other hindu scriptures. we feel quite prepared to agree with the accusation. yet, if aryan writers did allow their chronolo

ch existing prejudices will have to give way and disappear very soon before the light of new discoveries. already dr. weber's and mr. max muller's favourite theories- namely, that writing was not known in india, even in the days of panini; that the hindus had all their arts and sciences- even to the zodiac and their architecture (ferguson- from the macedonian greeks; these and other such cock-and-bull hypotheses, are threatened with ruin. it is the ghost of old chaldea that comes to the rescue of truth. in his third hibbert[[footnote(s* thus we are shown one hero, to give an instance, first born as the "unrighteous but valiant monarch (purusha) of the daityas, hiranyakasipu, slain by the avatar nara-sinha (man-lion. then he was born as ravana, the giant king of lanka, and killed by rama; a

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

en symbols. to begin with, the whole pantheon of mysterious objects* every one of them having some definite occult meaning, extracted from the allegorical "churning of the ocean" by the hindu gods. besides amrita, the water of life or immortality "surabhi" the "cow of plenty" called "the fountain of milk and curds" was extracted from this "sea of milk" hence the universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the productive, the other the generative power in nature: symbols connected with both the solar and the cosmic deities. the specific properties, for occult purposes, of the "fourteen precious things" being explained only at the fourth initiation, cannot be given here; but the following may be remarked. in the "satapatha brahmana" it is stated that the churning of the "ocean of milk" took

tra volume. the "builders" are the representatives of the first "mind-born" entities, therefore of the primeval rishi-prajapati: also of the seven great gods of egypt, of which osiris is the chief: of the seven amshaspends of the zoroastrians, with[[footnote(s* the angels recognised by the roman catholic church who correspond to these "faces" were with the ophites- dragon- raphael; lion- michael; bull, or ox- uriel; and eagle- gabriel. the four keep company with the four evangelists, and preface the gospels[[vol. 1, page] 128 the secret doctrine. ormazd at their head: or the "seven spirits of the face: the seven sephiroth separated from the first triad, etc, etc* they build or rather rebuild every "system" after the "night" the second group of the builders is the architect of our planetary

igion[[vol. 1, page] 135 the soul's pilgrimage. is identical with the former, though the verb "be" in this sense, might be still better replaced with either of the two words "remain" or "rest-with-us" as it refers to that long period of rest which is called paranirvana. as in the exoteric interpretation of the egyptian rites the soul of every defunct person- from the hierophant down to the sacred bull apis- became an osiris, was osirified, though the secret doctrine had always taught, that the real osirification was the lot of every monad only after 3,000 cycles of existences; so in the present case. the "monad" born of the nature and the very essence of the "seven (its highest principle becoming immediately enshrined in the seventh cosmic element, has to perform its septenary gyration thr

l calculations, has now fallen into the depths of degradation: it is old cooks and fortune-tellers who read their future to servant-girls in search of husbands, by means of the white of an egg in a glass. nevertheless, even christians have to this day their sacred birds; for instance, the dove, the symbol of the holy ghost. nor have they neglected the sacred animals. the evangelical zoolatry- the bull, the eagle, the lion, and the angel (in reality the cherub, or seraph, the fiery-winged serpent, is as much pagan as that of the egyptians or the chaldeans. these four animals are, in reality, the symbols of the four elements, and of the four lower principles in man. nevertheless, they correspond physically and materially to the four constellations that form, so to speak, the suite or cortege

the water found in connection with the solar gods. the god khnoom- the moist power- water, as thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a throne enshrined in a lotus (saitic epoch, serapeum. the god bes stands on a lotus, ready to devour his progeny (ibid, abydos) thot, the god of mystery and wisdom, the sacred scribe of amenti, wearing the solar disc as head gear, sits with a bull's head (the sacred bull of mendes being a form of thot) and a human body, on a full blown lotus (ivth dynasty) finally it is the goddess hiquet, under her shape of a frog, who rests on the lotus, thus showing her connection with water. and it is this frog-symbol, undeniably the most ancient of their egyptian deities, from whose unpoetical shape the egyptologists have been vainly trying to unr

during the daily solar and lunar phenomena, and was otherwise connected with the god and goddess of light[[vol. 1, page] 390 the secret doctrine "the basic idea underlying the religious philosophy of the hebrews was that god contained all things within himself; and that man was his image, man including woman. the place of the man and woman with the hebrews was among the egyptians occupied by the bull and the cow, sacred to osiris and isis* who were represented, respectively, by a man having a bull's head, and a woman having the head of a cow, which symbols were worshipped. notoriously osiris was the sun and the river nile, the tropical year of 365 days, which number is the value of the word neilos, and the bull, as he was also the principle of fire and of life-giving force, while isis was

ferred to ignore the higher hierarchies, and have made of some of them (zodiacal constellations and planetary gods) their patriarchs, thus euhemerizing the[[footnote(s* a caricatured and dwarfed vedantin notion of parabrahmam containing within itself the whole universe as being that boundless universe itself, and there existing nothing outside of itself* just as they are to this day in india, the bull of siva and the cow representing several sakti- goddesses* hence the worship of the moon by the hebrews "male and female, created he them[[vol. 1, page] 391 the time periods. purely theosophical idea and dragging it down to the level of sinful humanity (see section "holy of holies" in the "symbolism" of book ii) the mss. from which the above is extracted explains very clearly to what hierarch

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gold. she is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. if ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. she rules from 20 degree sagittarius to 20 degree capricorn. water of earth the queen of gnomes. xix. the prince of the chariot of earth king of pentacles a winged kingly figure seated in a chariot drawn by a bull. he bears as a crest the symbol of the book t page 9 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 head of the winged bull. beneath the chariot is land, with many flowers. in the one hand he bears an orb of gold held downwards, and in the other a sceptre surmounted by an orb and cross. increase of matter. increases good or evil, solidifies; practically applies things. steady; relia

ch fairies winged, whirling hair, nimbi, drawn sword and sickle dark dark princess medusa's head silver altar, smoke, clouds, drawn sword lightbrown blue pentacles king winged stag's head light-brown horse, ripe cornland, sceptre with hexagram, pentacle as zelator adept dark dark queen winged goat's head barren land, fan, light one side only, sceptre with cube, orb of gold dark dark prince winged bull's flowery land, bull, sceptre with orb and dark- dark book t page 10 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 of the thirty-six decans here follow the descriptions of the smaller cards of the four suits, thirty-six in number, answering unto the thirty-six decans of the zodiac. commencing from the sign aries, the "central" decans of each sign follow the order of the days of the

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

form is that of the hideous demon-headed ravens issueing from a volcano, also called getzphiel. the sixth palace containeth hod, whereunto are referred the samael or deceivers [jugglers, whose form is that of a dull demon-headed, dog-like monsters. the seventh palace containeth yesod and malkuth. unto yesod are referred the gamaliel, or obscene ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, linked together. thereunto are also referred nachashiel, evil serpents, and obriel. thereunto belongeth the blind dragon-force. unto malkuth is attributed lilith, the evil woman, afterwards changing to a black, monkey-like demon. the name of the serpent, nachash, hath the same number as that of the messiah, who will root out the qliphoth from the world. these are the evil chiefs: 1. keth

BOOK OF PLEASURE

nd commonsense to do so, whatever the state of affairs in your mind. nature eventually denies that which it affirms: through permanent association with the same moral code we help desire to transgress. desire of those things denied, the more you restrict the more you sin, but desire equally desires preservation of moral instinct, so desire is its own conflict (and weakly enough. have no fear, the bull of earth has long had nothing to do with your unclean conscience, your stagnant ideas of morality. the microbe alone would seem without fear* the elemental morality or fear of displeasing. the complexity of the belief (know thyself. the nature of belief equals all possibilities ultimately true by identification through culture to an idea of time, so what is not timely is not true, and what is

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

pitchforks, poles and broomsticks; riding them like hobby-horses. they would leap high in the air as they danced, to show the crops how high to grow. a harmless enough form of sympathetic magick. but the church claimed not only that they were working against the crops, but that they actually flew through the air on their poles. surely the work of the devil! in 1484 pope innocent viii produced his bull against witches. two years later two infamous german monks, heinrich institoris kramer and jakob sprenger, produced their incredible concoction of anti-witchery, the malleus maleficarum (the witch hammer. in this book definite instructions were given for the prosecution of witches. however, when the book was submitted to the theological faculty of the university of cologne the appointed censo

fuge or retreat. battle: internal conflict. bells: fulfillment of plans; joy. bicycle: hard work will bring plans to fruition; also see transportation. birds: usually transcendence from one state of being to another. birth: transition to new phase, or new 86/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft aspect, of self. bridge: overcoming difficulties; a change. broom: the ability to sweep or clean up. bull: animal nature; stubbornness. burial: end of a phase; time to take a new direction. candle: constancy. cane or crutch: the need of support. capital (city or town: the center. also see cities. castle: ambition. cave: a place of retreat or refuge; a need for time to think and meditate. circle: totality; perfection; infinity; the all; the collective unconsciousness. cities: gatherings of conscio

here are some other herbs, together with their local names, so that the next time you come across an old recipe calling for, say, the tongue of a horse and the eye of a cat, youll know what was really meant. lesson ten: herbalism/ 149 wiccan name adder's mouth adder's meat adder's tongue ass's ear bear's ear bear's foot beehive beggar's tick bird's eye bird's tongue black boy resin bloody fingers bull's eyes bull's foot calf's snout catgut cat's eye cat's foot cat's foot/paw cat's milk chicken toe common name stitch wort dogstooth violet comfrey auricula stinking hellbore snail plant cockhold false hellebore european ash foxglove marsh marigold coltsfoot toadflax hoary pea star scabious canada snake root ground ivy wartwort crawley root latin name stellaria media^ microstylis ophioglossiod

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e in my following, in order that i may pass by thee in peace" 10. the god baferkheftiu, ram-headed (see p. 111. 11. the god iu-her-aptesu, who holds a lasso in each hand (see p. 111. p. 107 click to view the kingdom of seker. p. 109 12. the god an-at, wearing a feather of maat (see p. 111. 13. the god abui, with his head turned behind him; he is provided with a shade (see p. 111. 14. the god amu, bull-headed (see p. 107. 15. the god set, bull-headed (see p. 107. 16. the god sent-nef-amentiu (see p. 107. 17. the god hetep-neteru (see p. 107. of these eight gods it is said "they stand by at the annihilation of the dead in the tuat, and their work is to burn up with fire the bodies of the dead by the flames from their mouths in the course of every day" 18. a goddess, standing upright, with he

e, and there is heard the click to view the circle aakebi. sound of the voices of [those who are] shut in this circle, which is like unto the sound of men who lament when their souls cry out to ra. the name of this circle is as-neteru" 4. this circle, which is called aakebi, is entered through a door with the name of tes-sheta-thehen-neteru, and in it are seated p. 175 1. the image of ka-amentet, bull-headed. 2. the image of ba-neteru, ram-headed. 3. the image of rem-neteru, ram-headed. each of these is seated as before. the text reads "those who are in this picture are [seated] upon their instruments for weaving, which are set firmly on their sand, according to the mystery which horns made. this god crieth out to their souls in whatsoever regions they are, and there is heard the sound of

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

h, root of fire. the eagle corresponds to mind, to the element of water, to briah, the creative world, to the first heh in i h v h, and to the sephirah [189] t h e book of t o k e n s binah, the root of water. the man corresponds to the third aspect, truth or law, to the element of air, to yetzirah, the formative world, to vav in i h vh, and to the sephirah tiphareth, attributed to air. the ox or bull corresponds to the fourth aspect, love, to the element of earth, to assiah, the material world, to the final heh in i h v h, and to the sephirah malkuth, attributed to earth. according to the qabalah, the life-power differentiates itself into ten lights of emanation, the sephiroth, and as each sephirah is regarded as including all the others, the total number in each world is 100, or 400 for

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

the victim's chest and which took three days to kill them- rather than confess, for if he had, his property would have been taken from his descendants. high-ranking practitioners of magick who attempted to conjure demons were usually male, and included both popes and royalty. they generally escaped censure, however. the folk religion of the countryside was an easier target. in december 1484, the bull of pope innocent vii was published, appointing heinrich kramer and jakob sprenger as inquisitors against witchcraft and heresy. these two clerics wrote the malleus maleficarum, the notorious hammer of the witches, which described in lurid detail the tortures that could be used to obtain confessions from suspected witches. in it, they adopted the policy that it was better to kill an innocent p

mark the time when the seasons are about to change. those born under them are correspondingly versatile and ready to compromise. zodiacal colours and associations [symbol -sym01] aries, the ram: 21 march to 20 april. colour: red. a cardinal fire sign, for all matters of the self and of identity, for rituals of innovation, courage assertiveness and action. ruled by mars [symbol- sym02] taurus, the bull: 21 april to 21 may. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus [symbol- sym03] gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-dis

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

an to split up. 24,000 bc "black venus" figurine unearthed near the czech village of dolni vestonice in 1924. also one at willendorf. 11 cm tall. discovered in 1908. oldest paleolithic sculptures? oldest known portrayals of women? 100 small statuettes have been found. 6500 bc catal huyuk, neolithic site in turkey (central anatolia) flourished..at catul huyuk the goddess images were shown with the bull horns emerging from her womb (june campbell pg 41) 4242 bce earliest recorded date in history (in ancient egypt. egyptian calendar which is regulated by sun and moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 bce astrology begins in mesopotamia. sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. the sun, moon and 5 visible planets are used. astrological knowledge is recorded i

antique forbade the friars to practice alchemy 1314 destruction of the knights templar 1316? ramon llull dies; peter de abano dies 1316/17 "sefer yetzirah "i" parma de rossi, 1390, foll. 36b-38b. italian writing. 1316 1329 friar odoric despatched to the east; in western india soon after 1321; spent three years in china between the opening of 1323 and the close of 1328. 1317 pope john xxii's papal bull against alchemical counterfeit spondet quas non exhibent. cistercians ban alchemy. 1323 joseph gikatilla dies 1323 dominicans in france prohibit the teaching of alchemy at the university of paris, and demand the burning of alchemical writings 1325 na prous bonnet(boneta) condemned as a beguin follower of peter john olivi 1326 pope john xxii condemned peter john olivi's interpretation of pover

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

mentary the yellow emperor may have been based on a real ruler of 2697 2598 b.c. poet and author brian p. katz describes his reign and appearance in mythology: the development of time-telling devices, compasses, calendars, and coinage are all attributed to him. in one depiction, huang ti [the yellow emperor] is seen as monstrous: he has an iron head, a bronze brow, hair like swords, the body of a bull, and six arms with eight fingers each.2 the father and son pair of kun and yu are typical of the early mythological gods in their willingness to help people. noted sinologists jan and yvonne walls write: characteristic of classical chinese myths is their rather dominant concern with some of the universal themes the creation and maintenance of natural and cultural orders, disruptions and chall

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

es many forms. if you are being held captive, one way to escape is to start a diversion. it may be an argument or a fight among fellow prisoners. once the trouble starts, everyone's attention, including that of the guards, focuses on the incident. this gives you the opportunity to slip away unseen. the bullfighter's technique is another obvious form of diversion as he focuses the attention of the bull on his cape, so allowing himself to avoid injury. in the world of propaganda and public mind manipulation, we are constantly being subjected to this. accusations of anti-semitism against new world order investigators is a classic example of diversion. you concentrate attention on the psychological fascism 355 issue of the messenger's alleged racism and divert attention from what he or she is

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

n sign for the man element in menes' name in the egyptian and indus valley inscriptions (manj and manja) reads also dialectically min."18 the sumerians, egyptians, and minoans also used identical systems for their calendars and their concepts of astronomy were identical. the most famous story of minoan crete is that of the son of king minos. his son was said to be the minotaur, the half man, half bull, which defended the labyrinth under the palace at knossos according to legend. how interesting, therefore, that nar-am, the son of menes, was known as the "strong wild bull".19 his name, nar-am, consisted of nar, meaning strong or mighty in both sumerian and egyptian, and am, meaning wild bull. naram is also depicted in egypt as a wild bull and it could well be that it was this son of menes (

iterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atlantis revisited 55 laws direct from zeus (another story constantly repeated around the world and used for the make-believe moses) and menes established laws said to have come from zagg. the son of minos was a bull-man or minotaur. the son of menes was known as "the strong wild bull".21 can even the most padlocked of academic minds still go on ignoring the fact that menes was minos? i suspect they can. in doing so they hold together the house of cards that scams people into missing a truth, as we shall explore, which is critical to understanding the so-called unexplainable "mysteries" of the past and, m

i he calls tiamat, the sea-dragon in mesopotamian accounts. these queens, he suggests, were commonly represented as mermaids (amphibious/sirius, and were often called ladies of the lake (see http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html. throughout the lands settled by the former atlantean-lemurian peoples you find the worship of the serpent goddess and her serpent son, who is often symbolised as a bull. james churchward reveals from ancient tablets and artwork that lemurians worshipped the goddess called "queen moo, and that lemuria/mu was called the "motherland. around the mediterranean the priest-kings were known as the "children of the serpent goddess".2 in this same region, temples and mystery schools were created in her name, most notably the temple of artemis/diana at ephesus in turke

at, as temple points out, the ancient egyptian word and hieroglyph for goddess also means serpent, and their hieroglyph for sirius also means tooth. thus the stories of the "serpent's tooth" can be read as the "goddess sirius. the egyptian word for tooth also means dog and, more specifically, dog-god and one hundred.7 the minoan civilisation on crete, part of the sumer empire, was another serpent-bull culture. they called its line of aryan "minos" kings the sons of the serpent goddess because, once again, the aryan line is the purest of the reptilian hybrids. these were the serpent kings who ruled atlantis and the later sumer empire. ancient crete, as with other connected centres, was famous for its labyrinth, a word meaning "house of the double axe" or "house of the serpent goddess".8 gre

alder, the son of the serpent cult leaders, wodan and el. balder is the same guy as the biblical "abel, waddell says, and the edda refers to him as epli, which equates with the hebrew e-b-l, and his sumerian title was ibil or bal (the hebrew baal, says waddell. baal worship would therefore be serpent worship. another name for balder was egil and this is almost identical to egel, the hebrew for "a bull calf" and the "golden calf" worshipped in the old testament.39 "golden calf" worship= serpent worship? balder was symbolised as a bull or steer and became the "steer god" of israel or isra- el. he is referred to in the edda as the "steer of eden. balder is also called "the young hydra. in greek mythology, the hydra is a nine-headed serpent monster with poisonous breath and when one head was s

"st michael" is told in different versions in many cultures. the hebrew old testament has cain killing his "brother" abel and bringing the first death into the world. the new testament has st michael defeating satan, lucifer, or the "great dragon. in egypt we have the wolf-headed set or seth killed by horus, the son of asar or osiris. in india, cain is lord gan who fought "the great deva" or "the bull, one of the balder (abel) titles in the edda. the king arthur legends have sir gawain slaying the green man. as i have said, the chaldeans called the balder/abel character tammuz. he was their "established son" and the "son of god" who died for humanity. tammuz was also closely associated with the theme of the serpent and the bloodline of the "dragon kings. hecate, another version of el or he

sited ephesus in the summer of 2000 and on a hill high above the ancient ruins is a building that is claimed to have been the home of..mary, mother of "jesus. another goddess worshipped by the amazons was cybele, the mother goddess of all asia minor (turkey; she was taken to rome from phrygia, the "land of the lions" and the serpent cult. rituals to her included baptism in the blood of the sacred bull, who represented her dying consort attis, of whom jesus was a carbon copy. her temple in rome stood on the site of today's st peter's basilica until the 4th century ad when the christian church took over. in fact, a priest of cybele called montanus or "mountain man" identified the deity attis with jesus. some montanists were locked in their churches by christians in asia minor and burned aliv

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e expansion of the babylonian brotherhood accelerated on the politicaland financial fronts, also.vital to this expansion was another branch of the reptilian full-bloods andcrossbreeds who made their way over land and many centuries to new troy -london -via italy, switzerland, germany and the netherlands. these were nimrod worshippersand, appropriately, the very name of italy derives from the word bull -a nimrodsymbol.once again they travelled under the heading of phoenicians and they settled in thenorth of italy in 466 ad in what is now v enice. these phoenicians then became knownas v enetians. they built a powerful maritime (of course) and financial empire whichwas based on lending people money that does not exist and charging them interest on it.this is another common theme of the babylo

assination. the writer, robert antonwilson, says in his book the cosmic trigger, that downards theory is the mostabsurd, the most incredible, the most ridiculous illuminati theory of them all. thismakes me even more certain that downard must definitely be on to something. my ownresearch supports this, too.kennedy was killed on november 22nd 1963. this date was the anniversary of theorder or papal bull by pope clement v for the knights templar to be subjected totorture by the dominican inquisition. it was issued on november 22nd 1307. novemberis also the 11th month and if you add that to 22, again you have 33. john and jackiekennedy left fort worth on the morning of november 22nd 1963 and the plane came toa stop at gate 28 at love field airport in dallas. the number 28 is assigned the nameb

circle or le cerde which has a number ofbritish establishment figures in its ranks. le cerde is an offshoot of the even more elitesafari club, which was set up by count alexander de maranches, the director duringthe 1970s of the french service for external documentation and espionage. it was thesafari club which arranged for the alliance between a french intelligence front-439company called group bull and the computer giant honeywell which is, you will besurprised to know, the worlds biggest manufacturer of landmines. this alliancesupplied landmines to both sides in the bosnian conflict. the safari club began as aconsortium of the secret police of the shah of iran called sa v ak, saddam hussein iniraq, anwar sadat of egypt and saudi arabian intelligence. it has been involved incountless co

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3. joe and i believe that these experiments mean we have the embryonic basis for a true space drive. figure 7.3.1-4. correlation of dan davidson's gravity wheel experiment with joe parr's 7.4 astronomical correlations with great pyramid there are numerous relationships of the great pyramid to various astronomical bodies. the two main constellations which are related to the pyramid are taurus (the bull) and orion (the hunter. both these constellations are in the same portion of the sky. taurus is located just above orion. 7 .4.1 the taurus/pleiades connection the star alcyone in the constellation taurus marks the foundation setting (i.e, when construction was initiated on the great pyramid) date of the great pyramid.6 alcyone is one of the brightest stars in the pleiades, which is part of t

DEMONIC BIBLE

of the world. he bringeth forth good familiars, and under his government there be 22 legions of spirits, partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of thrones. his mark, seal, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and

nd ethics in all their parts. if desired he maketh men invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent. he can discover treasures and recover things lost. he ruleth over 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (32) asmoday- the thirty-second spirit is asmoday, or asmodai. he is a great king, strong, and powerful. he appeareth with three heads, whereof the first is like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram; he hath also the tail of a serpent, and from his mouth issue flames of fire. his feet are webbed like those of a goose. he sitteth upon an infernal dragon, and beareth in his hand a lance with a banner. he is first and choicest under the power of amaymon, he goeth before all other. when the exorcist hath a mind to call him, let it be abroad, a

rfectly. his office is to procure the love of woman, and to tell things past, present, and to come. he also procureth friendship between friends and foes. he was of the order of potestates or powers. he governeth 37 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, to be made and worn before thee, etc (48) haagenti- the forty-eighth spirit is haagenti. he is a president, appearing in the form of a mighty bull with gryphon s wings. this is at first, but after, at the command of the exorcist he putteth on human shape. his office is to make men wise, and to instruct them in divers things; also to transmute all metals into gold; and to change wine into water, and water into wine. he governeth 33 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (49) crocell- the forty-ninth spirit is crocell, or crokel. h

weapon in his hand. his office is to teach the arts of philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, cheiromancy, and pyromancy, in all their parts, and perfectly. he hath under his power 20 legions of spirits. his seal, or mark, is thus made, etc (51) balam- the fifty-first spirit is balam or balaam. he is a terrible, great, and powerful king. he appeareth with three heads: the first is like that of a bull; the second is like that of a man; the third is like that of a ram. he hath the tail of a serpent, and flaming eyes. he rideth upon a furious bear, and carrieth a boshawk upon his fist. he speaketh with a hoarse voice, giving true answers of things past, present, and to come. he maketh men to go invisible, and also to be witty. he governeth 40 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (52) al

ong; appearing in the form of a. lion with gryphon s wings. his office is to make men knowing in allhandcrafts and professions, also in philosophy, and other sciences. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal or character is thus made, and thou shalt wear it as aforesaid, etc (61) zagan- the sixty-first spirit is zagan. he is a great king and president, appearing at first in the form of a bull with gryphon s wings; but after a while he putteth on human shape. he maketh men witty. he can turn wine into water, and blood into wine, also water into wine. he can turn all metals into coin of the dominion that metal is of. he can even make fools wise. he governeth 33 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (62) volac, or valak, or valu, or valac- the sixty-second spirit is volac, or

DIABOLUS

on his journeys through the underworld, and was able to master the chaotic force of apep, a serpent of darkness. set is known in the book of the dead as having legions of devils, known as seba as well as smaiu, who obey his commands. it seems also that there were a group of rebels who were of set and were defeated early on. set is mentioned in the egyptian book of the dead as having the skin of a bull. in the eleventh section of the tuat called reenqerrtaptkhatu, set is in the form of a serpent and called set-heh meaning the eternal set. when osiris came again, typhon plotted with seventy-two comrades, and with aso, the queen of ethiopia, to slay him -the egyptian book of the dead, e.a. wallis budge set is primarily regarded the same as the greek typhon, a serpent like daemon-god who is a

the storm demon who is called also kharebutu the fourfold fiend. in the gnosis of set who overcame the serpent for apep to become him presents a powerful gnosis for the aspiring sorcerer. apep also bore the name of rerek, a monster serpent form of set who had many helpers being serpents, noxious creatures and demons. it is further connected that thoth was said to have gotten the knife to slay the bull from set, thus making parallel the name of smain with set, being violence. one specific dwelling place of set was called set amentet3 which is the mountain of the underworld, which is a cemetery in the desert on the west banks of the nile. set is also closely connected with a former death-god called seker, who was later merged with osiris and became something rather different in nature. in th

rpents are later presented in the persian descriptions of the adversary, firstly a symbol of ahriman was a hawk attacking a sparrow and the twin serpents appearing from an ahrimanic kiss on the shoulders of the king zohak, who later became azi dahaka, the storm demon. while these similarities cannot be assumed to be directly related, they are by all instances interesting. the constellation of the bull or bull s thigh is related to set. often called bull of double brilliance, this is perhaps the brightest constellation around the north celestial pole otherwise known as the great bear or little dipper. the mummified hawk that is called the lord of the south is connected with set in this aspect. this is the seker god who early on was considered close to set before his transformation in accord

slumber for three thousand years. unconscious, ahriman would not awaken for any reason. numerous demons and shadows tried to awaken ahriman by telling of their deeds, nothing would stir him to consciousness. after three thousand years the whore came unto ahriman and said to him- arise o our father, for in the battle to come i shall let loose so much affliction on the righteous man and the toiling bull that, because of my deeds, they will not be fit to live. i shall take away their dignity, i shall afflict the water, i shall afflict the earth, i shall afflict the fire, i shall afflict the plants, i shall afflict all the creation which ohrmazd has created. here we see that az has knowledge and control over the elements and that which the natural order observes as correct. she wishes to chang

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the minor arcana (q.v. some occultists believe that the tarot has an egyptian origin. others claim an eastern or middle eastern origin. the first tarot deck known to exist is the griginnior deck of italy, in the 15th century. tau: greek for the letter "t" and a cross with the horizontal bar at the top of the vertical line. the shape of a traditional ceremonial/ritual magician's robe. taurus "the bull" in astrology (q.v, the second sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and earth (q.v) and is ruled by the planet venus (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color red-orange. keywords include: stubbornness, patience, perseverance, deliberately, practically, obstinately, possesively, reliably. telekinesis: 1) from the greek "tel

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n topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is only another version of the bull of mithra which does the same thing, the only difference being that the ancient initiate was literally "washed in blood" and the modern one takes it metaphorically. autres temps autres mours. 9. if we approach those whom we elect to call pagans, both ancient and modern, in a reverent and sympathetic spirit, knowing that allah and brahma and amen ra are but other [page 88] names for that which

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swer came back "colonel y. will be at your next lecture "very well" i said "that shall be my sign. if colonel y. is there, i will tell him, and if not, i shall leave the affair to take its course" the day duly arrived when i was to give a public lecture at a certain town. i arrived at the hall in due course, and the first thing i saw was colonel y. going up the stairs! so i determined to take the bull by the horns, and immediately after the lecture i went straight to him and said "i have got a message for you "i know you have" he replied "for i have been told to expect it" it appears that he was sitting in his quarters one evening with his two dogs. they suddenly became disturbed and began to investigate something that wasn't there. he heard a voice saying distinctly to his inner ear that

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

ut egypt. the great influence of the annu school of priests even in the time of unas is proved by the following passage from the text in his pyramid "o god, thy annu is unas; o god, thy annu is unas. o ra, annu is unas, thy annu is unas, o ra. the mother of unas is annu, the father of unas is annu; unas himself is annu, and was born in annu"[2] elsewhere we are told that unas "cometh to the great bull which cometh forth from annu,[3] and that he uttereth words of magical import in annu"[4] in annu the god tmu produced the gods shu and tefnut,[5] and in annu dwelt the great and oldest company of the gods, tmu, shu, tefnut, seb, nut, osiris, isis, set and nephthys.[6] the abode of the blessed in heaven was called[7] annu, and it was asserted that the souls of [1 annu, the metropolis of the t

ot is beneath his feet, his gods are over him, his ur i are [seated (504) upon his brow, the serpent guides of unas are in front of him, and the spirit of the flame looketh upon [his [1. pyramid of teta, 1. 327; ibid, t. v, p. 50. 2. see maspero, recueil, t. iv, p. 59, t. v, p. 50; and revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xii, p. 128] p. lxxx soul. the (505) powers of unas protect him; unas is a bull in heaven, he directeth his steps where he will, he liveth upon the form which (506) each god taketh upon himself, and be eateth the flesh of those who come to fill their bellies with the magical charms ill the lake of fire. unas is (507) equipped with power against the shining spirits thereof, and he riseth up in the form of the mighty one, the lord of those who dwell in power. unas hath tak

sky, and the sweat rusheth to my face even as in the time of summer" then said isis unto ra "o tell me thy name, holy father, for whosoever shall be delivered by thy name shall live [and ra said "i have made the heavens and the earth, i have ordered the mountains, i have created all that is above them, i have made the water, i have made to come into being the great and wide sea, i have made the 'bull of p. xci legend of ra and isis. his mother' from whom spring the delights of love. i have made the heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i hav

ue fran aise au caire, t. i, p. 594 ff, and pll. 25-27. 3 a district of thebes on the east bank of the nile, the modern karnak. 4 see within, p: xcvii. 5. 6# neter netra. m. maspero translates "dieu exer ant sa fonction de dieu, dieu en activit de service" or "dieu d isant] p. cvi conception.[1] he is the prince of princes, the mightiest of the mighty, he is greater than the gods, he is the young bull with sharp pointed horns, and he protecteth the world in his great name 'eternity cometh with its power and bringing therewith the bounds) of everlastingness' he is the firstborn god, the god who existed from the beginning, the governor of the world by reason of his strength, the terrible one of the two lion-gods,[2] the aged one, the form of khepera which existeth in all the gods, the lion o

eth unto those who love him the whole earth, and they are under the protection of his face. when he goeth forth he worketh unopposed, and no man can make of none effect that which he hath done. his name is gracious, and the love of him is sweet; and at the dawn all people make supplication unto him through his mighty power and terrible strength, and every god lieth in fear of him. he is the young bull that destroyeth the wicked, and his strong arm fighteth against his foes. through him did the earth come into being in the beginning. he is the soul which shineth through his divine eyes,[3] he is the being endowed with power and the maker of all that hath come into being, and he ordered the world, and he cannot be known. he is the king who maketh kings to reign, and he directeth the world in

ich it was to utter when it reached the top. as given in the pyramid of unas it reads as follows-"hail to thee, o daughter of amenta, mistress of peteru) of heaven, thou gift of thoth, thou mistress of the two sides of the ladder, open a way to unas, let unas pass. hail to thee, o nau, who art [seated] upon the brink of the lake of kha, open thou a way to unas, let unas pass. hail to thee, o thou bull of four horns, thou who hast one horn to the west, and one to the east, and one to the north, and one to the south. let unas pass, for he is a being from the purified amenta, who goeth forth from the country of baqta. hail to thee, o sekhet-hetep, hail to thee, and to the fields which are in thee, the fields of unas are in thee, for pure offerings are in thee [1. i.e, the field of peace. 2. r

olds a sceptre on the top of which are the emblems of power, life, and stability; from the back of his neck hangs the menat (see p. 1, note 2.[2] ptah formed at memphis the chief member of the triad ptah-sekhet and nefer-tmu. in many texts the god ptah is often joined to the god seker whose individual attributes it is not easy to describe; seker is the egyptian name of the incarnation of the apis bull at memphis. that seker was a the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (1 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] solar god is quite clear, but whether he "closed" the day or the night is not certain. originally his festival was celebrated in the evening, wherefrom it appears that he represented some form of the night sun; but in later times the ceremony of drawin

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we most observe that the special kingdom of the gnomes is at the north; that of the salamanders at the south; that of the sylphs at the east; and that of the undines at the west. they influence the four temperaments of men (i. e, the gnomes, the melancholic; the salamanders, the sanguine; the undines, the phlegmatic; and the sylphs, the bilious. their signs are as follows: the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes, and we command them with the sword; of the lion for the salamanders, and we command them with the forked wand, or the magic trident; of the eagle for the sylphs, and we command them with the holy pentacles; finally with aquarius for the undines, and we evoke them with the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are, gob for the gnomes, djiu for the salamanders, paralda f

per adam jotchavah! aquila errans, imperet tibi dominus per alas tauri. serpens, imperet tibi dominus tetragrammaton per angelum et leonem! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael! fluat u dor per spiritum eloim. maneat terra per adam lot-chavah. fiat firmamentum per lahuvehu-zebaoth. fiat judicium per ignen in virtute michaels. 8 angel with the dead eyes, obey or flow away with this holy water. winged bull labor or return to earth; if thou art not willing that i prick thee with this sword. chained eagle, obey this sign, or withdraw before this breath. moving serpent, crawl at my feet, or be tormented by this sacred fire and be dissipated with the perfumes i burn therein. let the water return to water! let a fire burn! let air circulate! let earth fall upon the earth, by virtue of the pentagram

, and returneth again from the sky to the earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest be to me the mirror of the living god in his works, the fountain of life, and the cleansing of sinners. amen. 8. dregs of matter, the lord commandeth thee by the living and devoted serpent. cherub, the lord command thee by adam jol-havah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull. serpent, the lord commands thee by the tetragram, the angel and lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, anael. the water floweth by the spirit of eloim. the earth remaineth by adam jot-havah. the firmament was made by iahuvehu-zebaoth. judgment is made by fire in the strength of michael. 9. dogme et rituel de la haute magie. two volumes. paris: g. balliere, 1856. 10. thine art, malchut (the kingdom

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expects every man to do his duty "the opportunity was mine. i'm sorry i didn't know of your little arrangement, but next time i'll bear it in mind" i may remark parenthetically that such "arrangements" are carried out oftener than most folks suppose. for instance, i happen to know of a certainty that it was understood when the party went out from fort yates, in december, 18 go, to arrest sitting bull, excuse was to be found for shooting him while "resisting arrest" and it was accordingly so done. but geronimo having been accepted as a prisoner, that was the end of it. we held him that day and night, and then, by gracious! if he didn't break away again. more than that, he came back several nights later with several of his best, or rather worst, warriors, entered our camp, went to the tent

odge at elmira, new york, voted a subscription to look after the confederate prisoners who were masons and were detained in the federal prison at that place. x tried by fire t may be doubted whether one person out of ten, if asked to name the time when the war for the union was nearest to failure, would give the correct answer. some would say it was directly after the disastrous federal defeat at bull run, at the beginning of the struggle. but such persons forget that at that time both sides were in the flush of patriotic enthusiasm, and the result of the union defeat was to intensify the resolution of the north to press the war to a decisive triumph. it may seem to others that the staggering blows administered by general robert e. lee to the army of the potomac during the repeated campaig

own camp. not another word was said by him, nor did 'he look around to see whether i was acting upon his hint. in fact, it was unnecessary, for i should have been an idiot had i not `caught on' and improved the opportunity that i may say was not wholly unexpected. safely within the stretch of timber and some distance beyond, i had little trouble in making my way to our own lines" at the battle of bull run, july 2 i, 18 6 i, edwin cole, a private of the seventy-first regiment of new york volunteers, was severely wounded and taken prisoner. after a short stay in richmond he was removed to the city of new orleans, when brother fellows, then grand master of masons in louisiana, provided him and eight of his fellowprisoners, who were craftsmen, with clothing, with medical attendance and with ev

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wess, called la belle-fleur. he was three years old in 1613. louis gaufridi is said to have baptized him, in a field near paris. an exorcised sorceress claimed to have held the little antichrist on her knees. she said that his bearing was proud and that even then he spoke many languages. but he had talons in the place of feet. his father is shown in the figure of a bird, with four feet, a tail, a bull s head much flattened, horns, and black shaggy hair. he will mark his own with a seal representing this in miniature. michaelis added that things execrable will be around him. he will destroy rome and the pope with the help of the jews. he will resuscitate the dead, and, at the age of 30 will reign with lucifer, the seven-headed dragon. after a reign of three years, christ will slay him. many

publication of several massive works on mariology, especially the eminently successful glories of mary (1876) by alphonsus liguori, which became one of the most highly circulated books on mary in modern times. through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the role of mary in theology and her place in the devotional life of the church has increased significantly. in 1854, pope leo ix issued the bull defining the doctrine of the immaculate conception. over the next century, there were to be numerous papal encyclicals on mary that would culminate in 1950 with pope pius xii s definition of the assumption of mary (that at the end of her life she was taken body and soul into heaven) as dogma. integral to this expansion of theological and devotional interest in mary are a set of apparitions th

nth, in the cranaus quarter, there was a certain house that no one would inhabit, because it was haunted by a specter. a man named arignote, well versed in the lore of egyptian magical books, shut himself in the house to pass the night and began to read peacefully in the court. soon the specter made its appearance, and in order to frighten arignote, it first took the form of a dog, then that of a bull, and finally that of a lion. but arignote was not at all disturbed. he admonished the specter by a magic spell that he found in his books, and he commanded it to go to a corner of the court, where it disappeared. on the following day the spot to which the specter had retreated was dug up, and a skeleton was found. when it was properly buried, the ghost was not seen again. this anecdote is an

d and wife. he is mentioned in the book of tobit ca. 250 b.c.e, where he attempts to cause trouble between the ashtabula poltergeist encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 94 tobias and his wife, sarah. jewish legends claim that asmodeus was the result of a union between the woman naamah and a fallen angel. asmodeus was often represented in magical texts as having three heads.a man, a bull, and a ram, riding a dragon, and carrying a spear. directions for evoking this demon are contained in the well-known magical textbook the magus; or, celestial intelligencer by francis barrett (1801. sources: barrett, francis. the magus. london, 1801. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. aspidomancy a little-known form of divination practiced in the indies. according to the sev

he planets represent the various facets of one s psyche, and aspects between them indicate how these facets conflict or work together) this sign rules the head and face. as the first sign, the key phrase for aries is i am, representing the birth of awareness. taurus, the second sign of the zodiac, is a fixed earth sign. it is a negative, feminine sign, ruled by the planet venus. its symbol is the bull, and its glyph is said to represent a bull s head and horns. it takes its name from the greek word for bull. a sign known for its stubbornness, it is the source of our expressions bullheaded and stubborn as a bull. taurus is associated with the throat and neck. people with a taurus sun sign, although they often have beautiful voices, are also prone to sore throats, thyroid irregularities, and

destinies of individuals and nations, while natural astrology predicts changes of weather and the influence of the stars upon natural things. the characters used in astrology to denote the 12 signs represent natural objects, but they have also a hieroglyphic or esoteric meaning that has been lost. the figure of aries represents the head and horns of a ram; that of taurus, the head and horns of a bull; that of leo, the head and mane of a lion; that of gemini, two persons standing together; and so on. the physical or astronomical reasons for the adoption of these figures is explained by the abbe pluche in his histoire du ciel (1739.41, and charles f. dupuis, in his abrege de l origine de tous les cultes (1798, endeavors to establish the principles of an astro-mythology by tracing the progre

ong them a distinct class of medicine men, whose duty it was to discover whose magic had caused the death of anyone. among the central tribes, unlike many others, magic was not made a means of profit or emolument. women were often sternly forbidden to go near the places where the men performed their magical ceremonies. to frighten them away from such spots, the men invented an instrument called a bull-roarer .a thin slip of wood swung at the end of a string that makes a screaming, whistling noise, which was believed to be the voice of the great spirit. aborigines also preserved long oval pieces of wood, which they call churingas. since the spirits of their ancestors were thought to reside within, these were kept concealed in the most secret manner. sympathetic magic is integral to aborigin

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rs of magic lamps. the tetragram, symbolic of the four elements, was used in the conjuration of the elementary spirits.sylphs of the air, undines of the water, and the fire salamanders and gnomes of the earth. in alchemy it represented the magical elements salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth; in mystic philosophy, the ideas spirit, matter, motion, and rest; in hieroglyphs, the man, eagle, lion, and bull. the pentagram, the sign of the microcosm, was held to be the most powerful means of conjuration in any rite. it might represent good as well as evil, for with one point in the ascendant it was the sign of christ, and with two points in the ascendant it was the sign of satan. by the use of the pentagram in these positions, the powers of light or darkness were evoked. the pentagram was said to

undines should follow. fire is exorcised by casting salt, incense, white resin, camphor, and sulphur therein, and by thrice pronouncing the three names of the genii of fire: michael, samael, and anael, and then by reciting the prayer of the salamanders. the earth is exorcised by the sprinkling of water, by breathing, by fire, and by the prayer of the gnomes. their signs are the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes who are commanded with the magic sword; of the lion for the salamanders, who are commanded with the forked rod, or magic trident; of the eagle for the sylphs, who are ruled by the holy pentacles; and finally, of aquarius for the undines, who are evoked by the cup of libations. their respective sovereigns are gob for the gnomes, djin for the salamanders, paralda for the sylphs

raresearch, 1978. mopses, order of the a secret association founded in germany in the eighteenth century, spreading through holland, belgium, and france. it was popularly believed to be a black magic order, replacing the satanic goat with a dog as an object of worship. however, it seems clear that it was really a somewhat whimsical crypto- masonic order, founded partially in reaction to the papal bull of pope clement xii on april 24, 1738, which condemned freemasonry. immediately after their establishment, they departed from masonic tradition by admitting females to membership and to all the offices, except that of grand master, which was for life. they did, however, create a new office of grand mistress, elected every six months. the ceremonies were a unique variation on masonic ritual, w

ave been similar when palladino performed the same feat. in fact the thread was seen as it made a glass of water dance. slowly and cautiously, a sitter drew the thick, white thread to himself. it resisted, then snapped and disappeared with a nervous shock to the medium. ernesto bozzano observed such threads 20 times in the same year. juliette bisson detected them with the medium eva c. dr. jorgen bull, of oslo, found them instrumental in an invisible state in producing direct writing on wax tablets in the presence of lujza linczegh ignath. in some of the excellent photographs obtained by dr. t. glen hamilton with mary m. of winnipeg, slight threads can be seen reaching up to a bell fixed high above the curtain. a movement (paranormal) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1066

resurrection to a future life of happiness and felicity. briefly the story of mithra is as follows. mithra sprang to being in the gloom of a cavern from the heart of a rock, seen by none but humble shepherds. he grew in strength and courage, excelling all, and used his powers to rid the world of evil. of all his deeds of prowess, however, the one upon which the cult centered was the slaying of a bull, itself possessed of divine potentialities. from the spinal cord of the bull sprang the wheat of the human race s daily bread, from its blood the vine, source of the sacred drink of the mysteries, and from its seed all the different species of useful animals. after this beneficent deed, mithra ruled in the heavens, yet still kept watch over human beings, granting the petitions asked in his na

cent deed, mithra ruled in the heavens, yet still kept watch over human beings, granting the petitions asked in his name. those who followed him, who were initiated into his mysteries, passed under his divine protection, especially after death, when he would rescue their souls from the powers of darkness. in addition, when the earth failed in her life-sustaining powers, mithra would slay a divine bull and give to all abundant life and happiness. among mithra s worshipers were slaves and soldiers, high officials and dignitaries, who worshipped in temples, mithraeums as they were called, built underground or in caves and grottoes in the depths of dark forests, symbolizing the birthplace of their god. the rites in which they participated were of magical significance and an oath of silence was

the victim or by psychotherapeutic means, would logically seek and find another subject, but if it is convinced of the error of its ways, the danger is eliminated. work of this kind was done in the temple of light in kansas city in 1910. hyslop was impressed with the importance of this cure and established the james j. hyslop foundation for the treatment of obsession in new york. physician titus bull served as its director. the systematic practice of curing obsession through such means was soon taken up by dr. and mrs. carl wickland in their psychopathic institute of chicago. the patient was brought to mrs. wickland, who operated as a medium. she went into trance. her controls influenced the obsessing spirit to step into mrs. wickland s body. if the obsessor was unwilling it was forced to

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

that of hideous demonheaded rams issuing from a volcano. also, they are called laypxg, getzephiel. 10 the sixth palace containeth dwh whereunto are referred the lams or jugglers whose form is that of dull yellow demon-headed monsters like dogs. the seventh palace containeth dwsy and twklm. unto dwsy are referred the laylmg (gamaliel) or obscene ones, whose forms are those of corrupting loathsome bull-men linked together. thereunto are also referred the laycjn (nachashiel, the evil serpents, and the a'briel layrbu. hereunto also belongeth the (blind) dragon-force. unto twklm is attributed tylyl, evil woman, with the appearance of a beautiful woman, but then changing into a black, monkey-looking demon. the name of the serpent cjn (nachash) has the same number as that of hycm the messiah; wh

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ure out of victorian folklore, a mysterious man or being of violent disposition and a strange ability to jump great distances. stories about him were first told in suburban london in september 1837. some victims described him as a man wearing a flowing cloak and glaring at his victims with glowing eyes. it was claimed that he shot flames from his mouth. others said he disguised himself as a white bull or bear, while at least one witness claimed he wore polished steel armor, with red shoes( credulity, 1838. some reports suggested that the attacker was not acting alone. many of the attacks were on women and were seemingly sexual in nature (he ripped their clothes, though apparently they did not involve actual rape. london police, who took the reports seriously, investigated them but made no

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this man also built a temple to the sun, and he knew how to hide himself from all so that no one could see him, although he was within it. it was he, too, who in the east of egypt constructed a city twelve miles miliaria) long within which he constructed a castle which had four gates in each of its four parts. on the eastern gate he placed the form of an eagle; on the western gate, the form of a bull; on the southern gate the form of a lion, and on the northern gate he constructed the form of a dog. into these images he introduced spirits which spoke with voices, nor could anyone enter the gates of the city except by their permission. there he planted trees in the midst of which was a great tree which bore the fruit of all generation. on the summit of the castle he caused to be raised a t

ion on the dignity of man. the edition is dated may, 1487, but this date has been questioned. in the apology, he defended his condemned propositions. this publication naturally involved him in fresh difficulties, and bishops with inquisitorial powers were appointed to deal with his case. in july, 1487, pico made a formal submission and retraction to the commission, and in august the pope issued a bull condemning all the theses and forbidding their publication, but exculpating pico because of his submission. nevertheless, when pico fled to france, papal nuncios were sent after him to obtain his arrest, and he was for a time imprisoned at vincennes, though his case was viewed with a good deal of sympathy in france, both in court and in university circles amongst whom his use of the teachings

he christianity foretold by hebrew and gentile prophets has arrived, represented by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with the story of io, turned into a cow by

attempts to inform religious rites, images, ceremonial with magic, with the further suggestion that priests will be able to do miracles with it. agrippa is carrying to extreme lengths, or perhaps to their logical conclusion, the points which were at issue in the pico controversy. garcia's case that there is no connection between magia and cabala and christianity was lost when the sacred egyptian bull, pope alexander vi, gave his blessing to pico. ficino's gentle, artistic, subjective, psychiatric magic, pico's intensely pious and contemplative cabalist magic, are quite innocent of the terrible power implications of agrippa's magic. but they laid the foundations of this edifice, which is the direct result of the prisca theologia, which was always a prisca magia, and particularly of the all

ay. daedalus made statues which moved through the action of weights or of mercury. however i do not hold that to be true which william of paris writes, namely that it is possible to make a head which speaks with a human voice, as albertus magnus is said to have done. it seems to me possible to make a certain imitation of the voice by means of reeds conducting the air, as in the case of the bronze bull made by' agrippa, de occult, phil, ii, i. agrippa's source for the use of the mathematical sciences in magic may be picatrix. 6+ g.b. 147 renaissance magic and science phalaris which could roar. this art however cannot produce marvellous effects save by means of local motions and weights and pulleys or by using a vacuum, as in pneumatic and hydraulic apparatuses, or by applying forces to the

the hare of timidity. let us no longer carry in our breast the argo of avarice, the cup of insobriety, the balance of iniquity, the cancer of slowness, the capricorn of deception. let not the scorpio of fraud come near us, nor the centaur of animal affection, the altar of superstition, the crown of pride, the fish of unworthy silence. may the twtns of indecent familiarity fall with them, and the bull of concern for mean things, the ram of inconsiderateness, the lion of tyranny, the aquarius of dissoluteness, the virgin of fruitless conversation, and the sagittarius of detraction' in the nova de universis phihsophia, ferrara, 1591, and venice, 1593. see above, p. 182. on patrizi's publication of the stobaeus fragments, see scott, i, p. 40. 2 the anthologium of stobaeus, compiled circa a.d

8, pp. 134-6. 259 giordano bruno and the cabala tremely strange religion which he expounds under extremely strange allegories. the hebrews, continues bruno after his exposition of the cabalist system, derived their wisdom from the egyptians, and he then takes a story out of plutarch's de hide et osiride to symbolise hebrew corruption of egyptian wisdom, when the egyptians were made to turn "their bull opin or apin (the apis bull) into an ass, which then became for them a symbol of wisdom.1 the ass, in short, symbolises all negative theology, whether cabalist or pseudo-dionysian and christian,2 but bruno has a new, or rather an old egyptian, cabala, which is his religion and which is expounded in l'asino cillenico del nolano, the dialogue which follows the first part of the work. one of the

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iac, bees and honey. listen "the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious [ibid] note that masonry also identifies itself with the pagans who divine the future by studying the entrails of a bull. you consistently see the symbol of the bees and their beehive throughout freemasonry. christianity does not use this symbol "purity" and "salvation" are depicted by the honey. purity is depicted within the bible as either jesus himself or

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lame, and his wheels as burning fire. 16 kether is also called the white head, the long face, macroprosopos, and adam qadmon or adam illaah- the supernal or primordial or heavenly adam. the remaining sephiroth are the short face. in the angelic order, kether is represented by the beasts of ezekiel, the holy living creatures of the chariot-throne, namely the four kerubim- the eagle, man, lion, and bull- which represent the four elements air (smell, water (taste, fire (sight, and earth (touch. also it includes in its mysterious nature the four letters of tetragrammaton as follows: y (lion, h (man, v (eagle, and h (bull. but as in itself kether is also the shekinah (the glory of god, in it is hidden the shin (w, which symbolizes spirit. as the ain soph is represented by the closed eye, so is

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es the emblem of divinity and power"[28 [28] ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, vol. i, p. 311. mithras--the savior, the great persian deity which was worshipped as the "preserver" was both female and male. among the representations of this divinity which appear in the townley collection in the british museum, is one in which it is figured in its female character, in the act of killing the bull. the divinity baal was both female and male. the god of the jews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin wi

that the sun was female [37] tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii, p. 272. the fact that among the persians the moon as well as the sun was at a certain period regarded as a source of procreative energy and as influencing the generative processes, is shown by various passages in the avestas. in the khordah avesta, praise is offered to "the moon which contains the seed of cattle, to the only begotten bull, to the bull of many kinds" perhaps the most widely diffused and universally adored representation of the ancient female deity in egypt was the virgin neit or neith, the athene of the greeks and the minerva of the romans. her name signifies "i came from myself" this deity represents not only creative power, but abstract intelligence, wisdom or light. her temple at sais was the largest in egyp

om whom the above is quoted, to suggest that both accounts may have been of egyptian origin [130] barlow, symbolism, p. 127. the titles "lamb "anointed" etc, which were applied to christ, all appear attached to former in- carnations of the sun, the first named standing for the sun in aries. the effigies of a crucified savior found in ireland and scotland in connection with the figure of a lamb, a bull, or an elephant, the latter of which is not a native of those countries, shows that they do not represent christ, but a crucified sun-god worshipped by the inhabitants of the british islands ages before the birth of the great judean philosopher and teacher. it is plain that crishna of india and the persian mithra furnished the copy for the jesus of the romish church, all of whom mean one and

ina" the same may be said with reference to the representations on the walls of the catacombs. crishna, who was the equinoctial sun in aries, appeared 2160 years after the first buddha, who was the equinoctial sun in taurus. according to plutarch they were both modern gods when compared with the deities which gave names to the planets. buddha, or the sun in taurus, was worshipped in the form of a bull. crishna, or the sun in aries, was adored under the figure of a ram with a man's head. the true significance of these figures was the fructifying sun or reproductive energy as manifested in animal life, and this meaning to those who worshipped them was identical with the carved figures on the caves of india, the lares and penates of the romans, and the stone pillars or crosses in the market-p

profit of l15,000 a year from the temple. on the brechin tower in ireland are two arches one within the other in relief. at the top of the arch is a crucifix, and about midway from top to bottom on either side are two figures which, according to romanist christians, represent the virgin mary and st. john. at the bottom of the outer arch are two couchant beasts, the one an elephant and the other a bull. the figure on the cross has a parthian coronet. the appearance of a crucifix on the towers of britain and ireland has in the past led many writers to ascribe to these singular structures a christian origin. to the critical observer, however, the first question which presents itself is whence comes the elephant--an animal not found within these countries--and again why should these beasts hav

of the incarnations; that crishna was of later date; that, at the era of the birth of christ, eight of them had appeared on the earth, and that the other two were expected to follow before the end of the caliyug, or of the present age" with reference to the fact that the hindoo god originally represented wisdom or the logos, the same writer says "then here is divine wisdom incarnate, of whom the bull of the zodiac was the emblem. here he is the protagonos, or first begotten, the god or goddess mhtis of the greeks, being, perhaps, both male and female. buddha, or the wise, if the word were not merely the name of a doctrine, seems to have been an appellation taken by several persons, or one person incarnate at several periods, and from this circumstance much confusion has arisen"[172 [172]

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ass on to the allegorical representations of deity in the tetrad, or quadripartiteform,and first the cherubim; they are described by ezekiel in sublime language,butthey are curiously enough not described either in exodus, where they are noted as made by moses, nor in the book of kings, where their formation by solomon is described. distinct mention is made of the several faces of a man, a lion, a bull and an eagle; these obvious types of know, dare, bear and aspire are beautifully combined in the ideal sphynx of egypt: a perfect symbol of what man must do to be comparable with the omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence of god, typi255 fied by the same emblems. now the four elements of the sphynx are equally applicable to the expression of god in the natural forces of the earth the four

sphynx of egypt: a perfect symbol of what man must do to be comparable with the omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence of god, typi255 fied by the same emblems. now the four elements of the sphynx are equally applicable to the expression of god in the natural forces of the earth the four-parted action of the astral light working in heat, light, magnetism and electricity: the man is light, the bull heat, the lion's grip is the attraction of the magnet, and the eagle's wings are types of the far-reaching flashes of the electric fluid. ezekiel's additional imagery of the wheel has supplied the enigma of the wheel of past ellus, intimately connected with the156themagical masontetrad of god; hisrota, the latin word for which is also torah, the hebrew 'law, and taro the mystical keys of the

s. each ofthese twelve signs has been assigned to a definite son of jacob, but without much authority; the rosicrucian ritual has one form of allotment, the hermetic g.d. society had a different one, and several printed books contain other varied schemes of distribution. the bible tells us that four of the tribes had definite standards; for judah a lion, for reuben a man by a river, for ephraim a bull, and for dan an eagle and serpent.thestations of these four tribes were at the east, south, west and north of the camp. these are again repre255 sented in the four cherubim of the mercy seatinthe tabernacle, where there are similar zodiacal signs of leo a lion, aquarius a man, taurus a bull, and scorpio, poisonous as a serpent. the other signs and sons of jacob also have similarities, but of

ly spoken of askesil;in the peshito version of syria the word found is[yutha;the hebrew wordinjobix,9, isash;butin job xxxviii, 31, the word iskimah.theorion of the greeks was a giant and a mighty hunter; he has been associated with osiris of egypt, and with nimrod, whowasalso a great hunter. according to maunder, orion was chasing the seven doves, the pleiades, when he became confronted with the bull; or according to lempriere orion was shot while in the sea by diana, who then in sorrow placed him among the stars.theconstellation orion is perhaps the most obvious group of stars visible in the northern hemisphere: four great stars at the corners of a trapezium, three stars for a belt to the hero, and three stars for his sword; three stars close together above suggest his head.thethree brig

n number. c. w. king, in his work upon the gnostics, looks upon these as the active thoughts of god. the evil being ahriman also prod255 uced a numerous progeny of wicked spirits, but he was cast down by ormuzd from his high estate. he is comparable to the christian ideal of satan as the devil. ormuzd, the creator, formed the world and set life upon it; the same zend word meant both 'life' and a 'bull, which was the persian symbol of this world. ahriman destroyed the first world-being,butfrom its elements ormuzd formed the first human pair; these were tempted by ahriman (or arimanes) and fell, and so their descendants were ever after exposed to the malice of ahriman, the evil being, as the great tempter. this scheme of thought obviously led to the idea that a saving grace must be put into

the old eboracum; housesteads, the old borcovicum near hadrian's wall, and at rochester, the old vindobala, near elsdon, both in northum255 berland.thebritish museum has secured a very perfect bas255 relief from asia.ingermany at saalburg, oster-burken, heddernheim, etc. at merida in spain and patrae in greece.themost constant design is that called tauroctonia, which represents mithras slaying a bull by stabbing, and he is wearing a pointed, so-called phrygian cap.thecentral act of worship was probably the annual slaying of a bull in commemoration of the great and symbolic slaying of the world-bull by this world saviour.themithraic temples were always small, and where devotees were numerous many were constructed; classicalresemblances of freemasonry to mithra 249authors call these places

recognition of the value of the sun's light and heat (b) mithras and the sun stand together, clasping each250themagical masonother's right hands (c) mithras mounting the solar chariot with four white horses and ascending (d) mithras and the sun together at a banquet with men standing around.thechristian fathers especially condemned these scenes and destroyed all copies of them. s. mithras and the bull. this is no earthly bull,butis the goshurun or heavenly bull of the avesta (many scenes.)thebull in a boat upon the water, for ahriman has sent a deluge upon the world.thebull coming out of the gable end of a house on fire; in one example two figures are setting this house on fire (saarburg) the taking of the bull; the bull at large, grazing in a field; mithra seizes it by its horns, leaps up

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eadfastly follow that path of spiritual purity which alone willleadhimto the divine light. now astrology points out that the signs of the zodiac partake of the nature of the elements, and that the four most important periods in the year are the respective entries of the sun into the four signs of taurus, leo, scorpio and aquarius, which are represented in the hebrew cherubim with the heads of the bull, the lion, the eagle (for the eagle replaces the scorpion, unless the symbolism is intended to be of destructive nature, and the man. for when the sun enters the sign of the bull, in april, he stirs up the earth to vegetation, and the ancients said that this showed that the sign of the bull especiallyhad an earthly operation. in the lion, in july, the fiery heat is mostthe symbolism of the 4

r form is that of hideous demon255 headed ravens issuing from a volcano, also called getzphiel. the sixth palace containeth hod, whereunto are referred the samael or deceivers (jugglers, whose form is that of dull, demon- headed, dog-like monsters. the seventh palace containeth yesod and malkuth. unto yesod are referred the gamaliel, or obscene ones, whose forms are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, linkedtheqliphoth of the qabalah 29together. thereunto are also referred nachashiel, evil ser255 pents, and obriel. thereunto belongeth the blind dragon255force.unto malkuth is attributed lilith, the evil woman, and the appearance is that of a woman, at first beautiful but afterwards changing to a black, monkey-like demon. the name of the serpent, nachash, hath the same number as that of

nacle was pitched in the midst, and immediately surroundingitare the tents of levi. at a distance towards the four cardinal points are the standards of the twelve tribes erected there. on the east, judah=the kerubic sign of the lion, with issachar=(qo )and zebulon=(11).on the south, reuben=the kerubic sign of the man, aquarius, with simeon),and gad('y).on the west, ephraim=the kerubic sign of the bull, with manasseh( n) and benjamin (t);and on the north, dan=the kerubic sign of the eagle(tl),with asher=)and naphtali (ji.l7).save the kerubic emblems the arrangement seems at first very confused,butwhen we notice the maternal ancestors of the tribes, this confusion disperses, and we notice that at the east are three tribes descended from leah,42 the sorcererand his apprenticeviz.judah,issacha

packs a tiger, in others a dog, attacks him from behind).itsignifiesfolly, expiation. 21. the universe.within a flowery wreath is a female figure nude save for a light scarf. she represents nature and the divine presence therein. in each hand she should bear a wand.atthe four angles of the card are the four cherubic animals of the apocalypse. above, the eagle and the man; below, the lion and the bull.itrepresentscompletion, reward.thus the whole series of the twenty-two trumps will give a connected sentence which is capable of being read thus: the humanwill(1)enlightened byscience(2) and manifested byaction(3) should find itsrealisation(4) in deeds ofmercyandbeneficence(5. thewise disposition(6) of this will give himvictory(7) throughequilibrium(8) andprudence(9, over thethetarot 61fluctu

the ritual his own qualifications and titles to command the spirits. the next chapters contain the words of exorcism. this is the 'book of the overthrowing of apophi, the enemy of unnefer, life, strength, health, triumphant. to be recited in a temple of amen ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands (i.e. of upper and lower egypt typified by the dual crown of the pharaohs) at the head of the apis bull, in the course of each day. the hymns mainly consist of a beautiful and poetic celebration of the glories and the victory of ra. in an old rituale romanum, which is one of the treasures in my library, is a formula of exorcism which opens with the recitation of the psalm 'lift up your heads, 0 ye gates! and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors! and the king of glory shall come in.'itseems almos

eric teaching on the zodiac 183remember whatthelecturer told us then, that this point is continually moving backward round the zodiac. whatever we take asourgiven sign which the sun occupies at the vernal equinox, atthatpoint of time 2,000 years later the sun will occupy the previous sign.thusabout 4,000 years before christ thesunat the vernal equinox was in the signoftaurus, and then we find the bull-god everywhere; and the bull was the sign which was everywhere worshipped,the bull-headed god of assyria, of egypt; and in the egyptian hieroglyphics there are many examples of the bull-headed god; and i think invariably you will find that these hieroglyphics either belong to the time of the hyksos or earlier, or else if they are of later date that they are obviously copies of earlier inscrip

painted, or whether they were copies fromearlier hieroglyphics;forof course in ancientegyptthere was just about as much copying or earlier work as there is now. we get houses built now in the tudor style or gothic style, or what not. so the egyptians at the time of rameses, or especially in the later weak, degenerated ramesides, copied the hieroglyphics of their great predeces255 sors. well, the bull symbol in the course of time,andabout the period when moses was born, gives way to the symbol before it, aries. moving backward through the signs, the sun atthevernal equinox occupies the sign of aries, and then the lamb or the ram comes to be worshipped allover the world. and whenisay 'worship ,idonotmean literally, but that the lamb or ram symbol is taken as the glyph of the supreme god;and

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al records, we see that the pagan cult that influenced the israelites was that of ancient egypt. an important evidence in support of this conclusion is that the golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than sufficient ev- fj the inside story on the kabbalah another ancient egyptian idol: hathor, the golden calf. idence to prove that the feast proclaimed was related to sun worship 23 the influence of the egyptian pagan r

lace it with the naturalist philosophy and a humanist model for human life. the most significant force behind this struggle was not this or that thinker, but the masonic organization, of which so many thinkers, ideologues and political leaders were members. this fact was recognized and expressed by several christians of the time. pope leo xiii, the leader of the world's catholics, issued a famous bull in 1884, entitled humanum genus in which he made many important dff the theory of evolution revisited statements about masonry and its activities. he wrote: at this period, however, the partisans of evil seems to be combining together, and to be struggling with united vehemence, led on or assisted by that strongly organized and widespread association called the freemasons. no longer making an

become grand master mason of the london grand lodge in 1722 by 1739, dashwood was on the homeward leg of his journey. on his way, he stopped in florence to see the abbe nicolini, and it was there that he met lady mary wortley montagu [who] would eventually join. dashwood in the divan club..unfortunately things were not going well for freemasonry in italy. pope clement xii had recently issued the bull in eminenti apostalatus specula, unleashing the inquisition against the lodges. by early 1740, the pontiff was dead, and dashwood went to rome for the conclave that would elect the new pope. there he playfully assumed the identity of cardinal ottiboni, one of the chief persecutors of the masons, and lampooned him publicly in a scurrilous mock ritual. the "chapter-room" is the key to understan

blished commensurate with a world-view such a religion will unite human beings in the universe. this is masonry. this religion will be passed from heart to heart. the temples of this religion will be temples of humanity. among the hymns sung in this temple may be beethoven's 9th symphony, the most noble musical composition that ever sprang from the human spirit. instead of the meat and blood of a bull in the ceremonies of mithras, we celebrate this birth by eating bread and drinking red wine. here we unite in a common faith that has the character of a communion. in a new year, i want to baptize this holy struggle of ours and bring it to an end: eat one more piece of bread, brothers, you are the missionaries of this religion, let those saints who share this bread be friends. brothers, to be

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nspiration which causes the magician to obtain knowledge. he may take a body that is astral/aeriel or human, and bring earthly secrets and divine ones (self-introspection. purson is an angelick ruler who brings good servitors, and has 22 legions of spirits whom are partly order of thrones and order of virtues. u marax marax is a great earl and president. he appears in the mirror and the mind as a bull like figure with a human face. marax is a spirit of astronomy whom may inspire learning in this area. he is also a witchcraft spirit of wort cunning and herbalism who governs 30 legions of spirits and gives excellent familiars. 46 v ipos ipos is an earl and might prince, who appears as an angel with a lions head. ipos is a spirit of divination and self-development, assisting and inspiring com

techniques which crystallize areas of ones surroundings to give a stronger appearance of time slowing. foras is a spirit to invoke in areas of one stimulating a discipline to exercise and physically challenge the self towards improvement. 51 f asmoday asmoday is a great king, being a fountain source of sabbatic/luciferian witchcraft and primal sorcery. asmodai appears as a demon with three heads bull, a man and a ram, also a tail of a serpent and spits flames. his feet are webbed as a goose and sits upon an infernal dragon. asmoday appears with a lance and spear, the color of the flag on the banner is crimson with a black dragon upon it. he is the choice power under amaymon. this powerful daemon inspires astronomy, geometry and earthly arts. asmodai also inspires invincibility by the deve

speaks in an egyptian manner, which is not easily understandable but the sorcerer may rely on the impulses or instinctual voices instead of any tongue spoken. uvall brings the love of woman and is a divinatory spirit. he was of the order of potestates or powers and governs 37 legions of spirits. 60 v haagenti haagenti is a president, who governs 33 legions of spirits. he appears in the form of a bull with wings, but will take human shape at the command of the sorcerer. haagenti makes men wise by wisdom brought on various subjects, generally within an initiatory context. it is said haagenti makes water from wine, water into wine which represents that this spirit may bring simplified meanings of difficult initiatory concepts, that of the art of sorcery. it is said he may transmute metals in

furcas teaches the arts of cheiromancy (palmistry, pyromancy (the art of fire) and logic/philosophy. this spirit governs 20 legions and is very useful to the sorcerer on the ensorcelling of the spirits of fire, being the elementals of set-an or azazel. y balam balam is the fifty-first spirit known also as balaam. he is considered a terrible and great king. he appears with three heads, one being a bull which drops blackened blood as it speaks, which is always a speaking in tongues speech, the other head is that of a ram and the third is the head of a young man, who has no hair. balam has the tail of a serpent with fiery eyes. he comes forth on a large black bear, who is aggressive, and carries a hawk upon his fist. he speaks in a very harsh voice. balaam is a darkened angel, who when the hu

kened blood as it speaks, which is always a speaking in tongues speech, the other head is that of a ram and the third is the head of a young man, who has no hair. balam has the tail of a serpent with fiery eyes. he comes forth on a large black bear, who is aggressive, and carries a hawk upon his fist. he speaks in a very harsh voice. balaam is a darkened angel, who when the human head speaks, the bull head hisses and speaks in tongues. he is a divinatory spirit, who reveals answers of the past and present and that which may come. he also teaches astral invisibility and how one may project by dreams. balam governs 40 legions of spirits. 62 z alloces alloces/alocas is the fifty-second spirit who is a duke, who appears in the form of a soldier who rides a great horse. his face is beast like a

instructs the sorcerer on crafts of which they hold interest. in a beneficial sense, the sorcerer may send forth vapula to quietly assist through unknown inspiration for a loved one to learn something quickly, that their brain will gain in associations with this spirit. vapula governs 36 legions of spirits. 9 zagan zagan is the sixty-first spirit who is a great king and president. he appears as a bull with wings but will appear at the request of the magician as a man. he instructs men on wit and intellect, how to make associations within their own natural environment and how to quietly listen and think/comprehend before speaking. this spirit also transforms wine into water and blood into wine, being a vampyric shade which initiates into the mysteries of immortality and blood. he also instr

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ed into a 3, a 4, and a 5- as in oip teaa pdoce- they may be said to symbolize the triad of the supernals, the tetrad of the elements, and the pentagram. again, in the commencing triad of the linea spiritus sancti of each tablet, it may be said that: oro will be symbolical of the voice of the man kerub. mph will be symbolical of the cry of the eagle kerub. mor will be symbolical of the low of the bull kerub. oip will be symbolical of the roar of the lion kerub. the adept will soon realize that there are numerous methods of working with the pyramids. thou will surely discover that each pyramid is an entire world. this thou mayest discover through scrying in the spirit vision. thou mayest regard the upper triangle (no. 2) as representing a force acting downwards. on the contrary, the lower t

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the gods, and descriptions of the forms which an adept officer builds upon as a focus of force are given in another paper. the invisible stations these are: 1. the stations of the kerubim. 2. the stations of the children of horus. 3. the stations of the evil one. 4. the station of harpocrates. 5. the stations of isis, nephthys, and aroueris. 1. the kerubim: the stations of the man, the lion, the bull and the eagle are at the four cardinal points without the hall, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple. they are placed according to the winds beyond the stations of hierophant, 15 dadouchos, hiereus, and stolistes and in this order do their symbols appear in all warrants of temple. the kerub of m formulates behind the throne of hierophant. she has a young girl's countenance and f

ht. the action of the lion kerub is through the flaming o of e of which the egyptian name is labo-ae. the kerub of n has the face and form of a great eagle with large and glistening wings and he formulates behind the throne of hiereus. he is a power of the great god tho-om mo-oo, and his operation is by the sign of h, which is called in egyptian szlae-ee. the kerub of l has the face and form of a bull with heavy and darkening wings. he formulates behind the throne of stolistes and he is a power of the great god ahaphshi and his operation is by the sign b, called ta-aur in egyptian. 2. the children of horus: between the invisible stations of the kerubim are those of the four vice-gerants of the elements and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the fou

nts and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant; for the body of a warrant, authorizing the formation and establishment of a temple, represents the temple itself of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of the rivers. ameshet (man-headed) is placed in the northeast, between the man and the bull. ameshet or amesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invoked by the letters. tou-mathaph, jackal-headed, is placed in the southeast between the man and the lion. tmo-oumathu or tmoumathv. ahephi, ape-faced, is placed in the southwest between the lion and the eagle. ahephi or ahaphix. kabexnuv, hawk-faced, is placed in the northwest, between the eagle

eshet or amesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invoked by the letters. tou-mathaph, jackal-headed, is placed in the southeast between the man and the lion. tmo-oumathu or tmoumathv. ahephi, ape-faced, is placed in the southwest between the lion and the eagle. ahephi or ahaphix. kabexnuv, hawk-faced, is placed in the northwest, between the eagle and the bull. kabexnuv or dabexnjemouv. 3. the station of the evil one: this station is in the place of dwsy and is called the station of the evil one, the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuser, and punisher of the brethren, and in egypt is represented mostly with the head of a waterdragon, the body of a lion or leopard, and the hind parts of a water-horse. he is the administrator of the power of t

reen with ruby, flame-blue, and emerald green. the kerub of n is formed behind the hiereus and is a power of the great god toum or tmu. it has the face and form of a great eagle with large and glistening wings. the colors are mostly blue and orange with some green. the kerub of lis in the north behind the seat of the stolistes. it is a power of the great god ahapshi and has the face and form of a bull with heavy darkening wings. the colors are black, green, red, with some white. these forms are not described in detail. we are to imagine them there as great stabilizing forces whose forms vary according to circumstances. 3. the children of horus: these have their invisible stations in the corners of the hall. they are the guardians of the viscera of the human being- every part of whom comes

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ke pantacle, go to the north, shake thrice, and circumambulate in the path of a, saying "stoop not down into that darkly splendid world where in gloom, delighting in unintelligible images, a black, ever rolling abyss, ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void" step 9 reaching the north, shake pantacle thrice and with it make invoking earth pentagram and trace the sign of the head of the bull. say "mor dial hctga. in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtower of the north. step 10 go to the center altar and face east. replace pantacle. take incense, go west of altar, face east, raise it, and trace the active equilibrating spirit pentagram. say "exarp, bitom" trace the passive equilibrating spirit pentagram, saying "hcoma, nanta

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

im, when the gods dwelt on earth: anu, lord of the firmament, enlil, the enforcer of divine decisions, ishtar, 1 the epic of gilgamesh, penguin classics, london, 1988, p. 61. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 185 goddess of war and sexual love and ea, lord of the waters, man s natural friend and protector. in those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour. enlil heard the clamour and he said to the gods in council, the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel. so the gods agreed to exterminate mankind. 2 ea, however, took pity on utnapishtim. speaking through the reed wall of the king s house he told him of the imminent catastrophe and instructed him t

et s mill, p. 59. 16 ibid; sacred science, p. 179. 17 oxford dictionary of the christian church, oxford university press, 1988, p. 514. 18 sacred science, p. 177. 19 genesis: 22:13 20 jerusalem bible, chronological table, p. 343. 21 king james bible, franklin, computerized first edition. 22 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 20. 23 ibid, p. 133. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 438 the bull which spanned the period between 4380 and 2200 bc.24 it was during this precessional epoch, when the sun on the vernal equinox rose in the constellation of taurus, that the bull-cult of minoan crete flourished.25 and during this epoch, too, the civilization of dynastic egypt burst upon the historical scene, fully formed, apparently without antecedents. readers must judge whether it is a coinc

i looked down the slope of the giza plateau towards the great leonine body of the sphinx. khafre, the fourth dynasty pharaoh believed by egyptologists to have carved the monument out of bedrock around 2500 bc, had been a monarch of the age of taurus. for almost 1800 years before his reign, and more than 300 years after it, the sun on the vernal equinox rose unfailingly in the constellation of the bull. it follows that if a monarch at such a time had set out to create an equinoctial marker at giza, he would have had every reason to have it carved in the form of a bull, and none whatsoever to have it carved in the form of a lion. indeed, and it was obvious, there was only one epoch when the celestial symbolism of a leonine equinoctial marker would have been appropriate. that epoch was, of co

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

the astral plane in the same way that you leave your physical body on the physical plane when you travel to any of the aethyrs. you must be able to travel in the mental body in order to enter the 23rd aethyr, tor. also, as a preparation for tor, you are advised to carefully study the formula of kal. as soon as you enter tor you will see symbols of power and generative energy. crowley saw a black bull, furiously pawing up the ground with flames shooting from its mouth. this was the apis bull of ancient egypt which represented generative energy. whatever you see or hear, simply take mental note of it and continue into the aethyr. the three governors of this region are: ronoamb roh-noh-ah-meh-beh onizimp ohnee- zodee-em-peh zaxanin zod-ahtz-ah-neeen the aethyr of tor contains the labor that

that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. thou shalt keep not back one drop. aleister crowley, liber cheth crowley taught a key element of his magick using allusions to what he called babalon and the beast. he described babalon as a beautiful naked young girl who is riding upon a beast who is of ten (but not always) described as a bull or bull-like. the pair of babalon and the beast is ascribed to the tarot path of strength, atu xi, which crowley renamed lust. the re are some arguments about atu xi( for example, many popular tarot cards use this position for justice and place strength in atu viii) but crowley, right or wrong, is at least consistent. he places babalon and the beast in atu xi because they appear together in t

ou. see a black ray of light flecked with yellow emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the sustaining angels of earth has entered your cup. step 5. hold the talisman of fire of earth high above your cup and say, may the desiring angels of earth come t o me n ow. tho s e wh o r e g a in what they maintain; by the power of niaom (nee-ah-oh-meh) and the bull god apis, the lust of the blood, do i command you. see a black ray of light flecked with red emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the desiring angels of earth has entered your cup. step 6. hold the talisman of earth of water high above the cup and say, 333 may the cohesive angels of water come to me now. those who hold true to what they renew; b

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

em pedibus conculcasse se adorasse cuaholiim, illi genua jlectendo. pueros tactu stricasse et fascinasse, adeo quod mortui fuerunt. audivi a sacris quibusdam theologis, has mulieres quae lamiae nuncupantur tactu vel visu posse nocere etiam usque ad mortem fascinando homines seu pueros ac bestias, cum habeant animas infectas, quas daemoni voverunf' between 1816 and 1334 pope john xxii had issued a bull without date, ordering the property of convicted sorcerers to be confiscated like that of heretics. what was then done by inquisitors and judges soldan has subjected to a minute investigation (pp. 160 210, and i need only single out one or two facts. alfousus de spina in his fortalitium fidei (written about 1458) lib. 5 informs us* quia nimium abundant tales perversae mulieres in delphinatu e

rymer 2, 934 old ed. the same charge is commonly brought against the later witches. dr. hartlieb in 1446 mentions ^abjuring god and giving oneself up to three devils' superst. h, cap. 34. for four centuries, beginning with the 14th; what with the priestly inquisition, with the formality of the canon and civil law process simultaneously introduced in the courts, and to crown all, with innocent 8's bull of 1484 (mb. 16, 245-7, as well as the malleus maleficarum- and the tortures of the criminal court; the prosecutions and condemnations of witches multiplied at an unheard-of rate, and countless victims fell in almost every part of europe. the earlier mid. ages had known of magicians and witches only in the milder senses, as legendary elvish beings, peopling the domain of vulgar belief, or eve

medere, et propter hoc ipsam incenderit, vel carnem ejus ad comedendum dederit, capitis sententia punietur' lex both. 379' uullus praesumat aldiam alienam aut ancillam quasi strigam occidere, quod christianis mentihus nullatenus est credendum nee possibile est ut homiuem mulier vivum intrinsecus possit comedere' how the wisdom of charles and eothar shines by the side of innocent's blind barbarous bull! those' sagae combustae' in westphalia, if the statement be worth believing, were hardly condemned by the courts, but more likely sacrificed by the mob to such heathenish superstition as the laws quoted were trying to stem. in our own day the common folk in england, france and belgium take it upon themselves to throw suspected witches into fire or the pond (horst's zauberbibl. 6, 368. 372-4

eguard against the entrance of evil. precisely such was the etruscan usage ace. to varro ^oppida condebant in latio, etrusco ritu, multa, id est, junctis bobus, tauro et vacca, interiore aratro circamagebant sulcum. hoc faciebant religionis cansa die auspicate, ut fossa et muro essent munita; terram unde exscalpserant fossam vocabant, et introrsum factum murum, postea quod fiebat orbis, urbs' the bull and cow were white, ov. fast. 4, 825 on the pomoerium of romulus: inde premens stivara signavit moenia sulco, alba jugnm rtiveo cum bove vacca tulit. in the comitium a vaulted chamber was built, and stocked with the firstlings of all natiiral products that sustain man's life, fest. sub v. mundus. nieb. 1, 251. some superstitious rites, apparently of great antiquity, are practised on such diff

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

and water, of his flesh the earth, of his bones the mountains, of his teeth and broken bones the rocks and crags. then they took his skull and made of it the sky, and the sparks from muspellsheim that floated about free they fixed in the sky, so as to give light to all. the earth was round, and encircled by deep sea, 4 on 1 in the zend system, the firs man proceeds from the haunch of the primeval bull kayomer. 2 ymir, i.e, orgelmir, begot thru&gelmir, and he bergelmir. 3 the meaning of mffr has not been ascertained; elsewhere it stands for culeus, tuba, here it is supposed to be a mill-chest. the ohg. ludara f. means a cradle (graff 2, 201) as well as pannus, involucrum (swaddling-baiid, and this would fit remarkably well, as some accounts of the deluge do make the rescued child float in i

s seem to have been specially due to the whirlpool (80/09, as the black lamb (or goat) to the fossegrim; arid the passages quoted from agathias on pp. 47, 100, about the alamanns offering horses to the rivers and ravines, are to the same purpose. the iliad 21, 131 says of the skamander: co brf sr)9a troxet? lepevere ravpov, cool&gt? s ev sivrjat kaoiere (lo, to the river this long time many a bull have ye hallowed, many a whole-hoofed horse have ye dropped alive in his eddies; and pausan. viii. 7,2: to be ap^awv kaoiecrav e? ttjv aeivrjv (a water in argolis, conn, with o7i/o9) tco tioa-ei^wvl ittttovs ol apyeloi, icekoo-jjievovs &gt;%d\ivols. horace, od. 3, 13: fons bandusiae, non sine floribus eras donaberis haedo (see suppl. it is pretty well known, that even before the introduct

hree principal causes. either they stood connected with particular gods, and to some extent in their service, as the boar belongs to fro, the wolf and raven to wuotan; or there lies at the basis the metamorphosis of a higher being into some animal shape, on the strength of which the whole species comes to be invested with a halo of honour. that is how we may in some instances have to take a bear, bull, cow or snake, presupposing an in carnation, though our mythology may have long ceased to reach so far back as to give a full account of it. then, bordering close upon such a lowering of the god into the animal, comes the penal degradation of m&lt;an into a beast, the old doctrine of transmigration, in which we discover a third reason for the consecration of animals, though it does not wa

out of the sea-waves, pott 2, 407. still more natural is the identification of horse and ship. oxen. 665 opere plumario a regina augliae ei misso, quod fastu superbiae quadriga bourn ferebat/ chapeaville 2, 69 (an. 1129. a chariot drawn by four white oxen in lorraine occurs in scheffer s haltaus, p. 251. in plutarch s marius cap. 23 is the well-known story of the cimbrians swearing over a brazen bull, by which the mecklenburgers account for the bull s head in their arms (mascov i, 13. at hvitabser the people worshipped an osc (fornald. sog. 1, 253, at upsal a cow (i, 254. 260-6. 270-2; see suppl. whilst among horses the stallion is more honoured than the mare, among neat the cow seems to take the lead. kine were yoked to the car of nerthus [and two milch- kine to the ark of jehovah. the b

nic name for the rainbow is mavra= black cow [eng. the b. c. has trodden on his foot, of sorrow, esp. bereavement] 666 teees and animals. as. hryfter, hroser, but wlio can tell whether rinde cortex was not once aspirated too? evpatrrj, the name of one quarter of the earth, must surely also mean earth (evpela the broad, and on p. 338 i made a guess that euro-pa, whom zeus courted in the shape of a bull, must herself have been thought of as a cow, like lo; it was not the earth took name from her, but she from the earth. on the worship of cows and oxen by the indians, egypt ians and eomans, i refer to a. w. schlegel s learned treatise.1 the israelites also made a burnt-offering of a red heifer (goth, kalbo) upon which never came yoke/ numb. 19, 2 (see suppl. the boar and the lie-goat were hol

a dairymaid at immeneich there came a great snake into the cowshed every morning and evening at milking-time, and wore a great crown on its head. the girl 1 mhg. tmfc, gen. iinkes, ms. 2, 209 b. 206: from copper one divideth gold with an unke s ashes; hence an alchymist was called unken-brenner (felix malleolus de nobilitate et rusticitate, cap. 30. by unke is properly meant the rana portentosa (bull-frog, but often snake or reptile in general. like the weasel, it is called caressingly mumelein, muemal, aunty. schm. 2, 576. 2 down to the recurring formula: ding, iss auch brocken (thing, eat crumbs too; friss auch mocken, nicht lauter schlappes (not only slops) mone s anz. 8, 530; friss auch brocken, nicht lauter briihe! ibid. 6, 175. 3 a similar story of the king of snakes from liibbenau

ant that dwarfs bred as maggots; in exactly the same way bees are said to have sprung from the putrefaction of a bullock s body: apes nascuntur ex bubulo corpore putrefacto/ yarro, 2, 5; amissas reparari ventribus bubulis recentibus cum fimo obrutis/ plin. 11, 20 (23; conf. virg. georg. 4, 284-558. ov. met. 15, 364. to this circumstance some have ascribed the resemblance between apis bee and apis bull, though the first has a short a, and the last a long. what seems more important for us is the celebrated discovery of a golden bullock s -head amongst many hundred golden bees in the tomb of the frankish king childeric at doornik (repres. in eccard s fr. or. 1, 39. 40. natural history informs us that clouds of bees fall upon the sweet juice of the ash-tree; and from the life-tree yggdrasil th

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

75 at this time a script known as demotic was introduced to write texts in the contemporary form of the egyptian language. it soon replaced hieratic for most purposes. persians and greeks in 525 bce the persian king, cambyses, conquered egypt and executed most of the egyptian royal family. it is probably only a legend that cambyses showed his contempt for egyptian gods by stabbing the sacred apis bull (see deities, themes, and concepts. the persians did not try to impose their own religion on egypt, and they were willing to honor egyptian deities. the innovative reliefs in the temple of hibis in the western desert were mainly carved under darius i, one of the persian kings who made up the twenty-seventh dynasty (see figure 33. the reliefs include some very unusual forms of deities. these f

es of ptolemy who has preserved egypt in every temple. in the decree, ptolemy refers to slaughtering rebels just as ra and horus, son of osiris, had slaughtered those who rebelled against them in the first time. the memphis decree is best known from the copies in greek and two forms of egyptian on the rosetta stone (see figure 10).81 among the cults supported by the ptolemies was that of the apis bull, who lived in a special enclosure at the temple of ptah. when an apis bull died, it was mummified and given a funeral as elaborate and expensive as that of a king. a papyrus of the first century bce summarizes the rituals to be performed, including mythological dramas. the conflict between horus and seth and the victory of ra over apophis were acted out on boats on the lake of the temple of p

hological dramas. the conflict between horus and seth and the victory of ra over apophis were acted out on boats on the lake of the temple of ptah. this is typical of the way in which egyptian rituals lifted events out of ordinary time and made them part of the whole sequence of mythological history. two young women, preferably twin sisters, played the roles of isis and nephthys to mourn the apis bull as if he had been osiris himself. versions of the types of laments that they sang have survived in the bremner-rhind papyrus and other sources.82 the laments are notable for their emotional intensity. osiris is mourned not just as a king but as a beloved husband and brother. anthropologist claude l vi-strauss has pointed out that although poetry is notoriously difficult to translate from one

because my heart longed to see what i have created. he gives a vivid description of the symptoms of snake bite. he feels colder than water and hotter than fire; he is drenched with sweat and has lost his sight. isis claims that she can help if ra will tell her his name. ra describes himself by many phrases that define his role as creator. he is the one who created the physical world, he made the bull for the cow so sex came into being. he is the one who causes the nile to flood. he is the one who divided the year into seasons and the day into hours. he ends by proclaiming that he is called khepri 70 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 13. votive bronze statuette of isis with her son, horus the child (cleveland museum of art, bequest of harley c. lee and elizabeth k. lee, 1993. 110) in t

ter tales loosely based on the osiris myth make sexual jealousy a motive for the falling out between the two brothers. some egyptologists have argued that osiris was originally a god of the dead rather than a god who died,33 but once the concept of osiris s death was established, a slayer had to be identified. many egyptian texts imply that seth took the form of a dangerous animal, such as a wild bull, a wild ass, or a crocodile, to kill his brother in a lonely place. the pyramid texts and the coffin texts allude to osiris being cast down or trampled and his body thrown in the nile. in later times it was often stated that osiris died by drowning. being a god, osiris probably had to be killed in several different ways to render him permanently dead. a belief developed that the attack on osi

underworld. osiris is not resurrected in the sense of returning to life as an individual on earth. he enters into a new kind of existence in a separate realm that most beings can only reach by dying. in some accounts seth is punished by being forced to carry the body of osiris to its final resting place. while performing this humiliating task, seth can be envisaged as a boat, a carrying chair, a bull, or an ox. even after osiris became ruler of the dead, his corpse was preserved in a tomb, where it remained a source of great power. in a parallel tradition, the disputants are horus and seth. various deities put the case for each side. osiris is sometimes represented as sending messages from the underworld to support his son s case. osiris ominously reminds the other gods that only he can c

ed in new life. 40. in this story the disk seems to be the solar disk, but in other versions it is a lunar aspect of thoth, who is born from the union of horus and seth. 41. a spell from the harris magical papyrus (bm 10042) refers to isis weeping on the riverbank after horus has had sex with her. this myth may have arisen through the common identification of horus with the fertility god min, the bull of his mother (see min in deities, themes, and concepts) 42. the myth is in the new kingdom papyrus sallier ix. this seems to be the earliest example of a myth devised to explain the animal-headed divine forms common in egyptian art. plutarch angrily dismisses the story that horus beheaded his mother as a ridiculous lie. 43. see the hymns to osiris translated by m. lichtheim in maat in egypti

HEAVEN HELL

e word of sa the gate opened, the flames which swept between the walls ceased, and the warders of the passage and the guardian gods withdrew their opposition. in this division a serious obstacle had to be overcome. immediately in the fair way of the course of afu-ra is a group of eight gods, called faiu-neteru, who bear on their shoulders a long pole-like object, each end of which terminates in a bull's head. this object is, p. 126 intended to represent the long tunnel in the earth, each end of which was guarded by a bull, through which, according to one tradition, the night-sun passed on his journey from the place of sunset to the place of sunrise. at intervals on the tunnel are seated seven gods called neteru-amiu, i.e, the "gods who are within" and they are intended to represent the gua

being towed through an inferior tuat, and to being absorbed by the earth-god. the text which refers to this remarkable scene tells us that afu-ra addresses the eight gods who support the "boat of the earth" and declares that he who is in it is "holy" and in reply the being or beings ennurkha-ta) say "praised be the ba" i.e, the ram-headed form of osiris, which the god has taken "which the double bull has swallowed (or, absorbed; let the god be at peace with that which he hath created" the gods also say "praised be ra, whose ba hath set himself in order with the earth-god" thus it is quite clear that the "boat of the earth" is the abode of the "earth-god" to the right of afu-ra, as he passes through this division or hour, are the twelve "holy gods who are in the tuat" each in his shrine, w

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

, or only knew of through hearsay. our journals were, and still are, boycotted; our literary works ignored; and to this day no one seems even to feel quite certain whether the theosophists are a kind of serpent-and-devil worshipers, or simply "esoteric buddhists"-whatever that may mean. it was useless for us to go on denying, day after day and year after year, every kind of inconceivable cock-and-bull stories about us; for, no sooner was one disposed of, than another, a still more absurd and malicious one, was born out of the ashes of the first. unfortunately, human nature is so constituted that any good said of a person is immediately forgotten and never repeated. but one has only to utter a slander, or to start a story-no matter how absurd, false, or incredible it may be, if only it is c

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ges and ravines of problematical depth intersect the way, and the crude wooden bridges always seem of dubious safety. when the road dips again there are stretches of marshland that one instinctively dislikes, and indeed almost fears at evening when unseen whippoorwills chatter and the fireflies come out in abnormal profusion to dance to the raucous, creepily insistent rhythms of stridently piping bull-frogs. the thin, shining line of the miskatonic's upper reaches has an oddly serpent-like suggestion as it winds close to the feet of the domed hills among which it rises. as the hills draw nearer, one heeds their wooded sides more than their stone-crowned tops. those sides loom up so darkly and precipitously that one wishes they would keep their distance, but there is no road by which to esc

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

d vast dinosaurs roamed the tropical steppes of europe and asia. we had previously clung to a desperate alternative and insisted- each to himself- that the omnipresence of the five-pointed motifs meant only some cultural or religious exaltation of the archaean natural object which had so patently embodied the quality of five-pointedness; as the decorative motifs of minoan crete exalted the sacred bull, those of egypt the scarabaeus, those of rome the wolf and the eagle, and those of various savage tribes some chosen totem animal. but this lone refuge was now stripped from us, and we were forced to face definitely 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 th

HP LOVECRAFT THE UNNAMABLE

the chest, and some less severe cuts or gougings in the back. i was not so seriously hurt, but was covered with welts and contusions of the most bewildering character, including the print of a split hoof. it was plain that manton knew more than i, but he told nothing to the puzzled and interested physicians till he had learned what our injuries were. then he said we were the victims of a vicious bull- though the animal was a difficult thing to place and account for. after the doctors and nurses had left, i whispered an awe struck question "good god, manton, but what was it? those scars- was it like that" and i was too dazed to exult when he whispered back a thing i had half expected "no- it wasn't that way at all. it was everywhere- a gelatin- a slime yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

in the name of the pale woman below the hill, youthfully dead and ever-living, i am bound to your wisdom and power. great oak, birch, elder, thorn, holly, ash, growing creatures of green coat and root, spirits who guard you and carry forth your lives, by pact and oath i am sealed to you as friend, brother (or sister) and pupil, guardian and receiver. owl, hound, wolf and fox, badger and toad and bull, goose and raven, serpent and hare, horse, swine and stag, beasts of the land and air, and unseen places, by pact and oath i am sealed to you as friend, brother (or sister) and pupil, guardian and receiver. i shed my blood for you; from my left hand i shed it, i bind myself to the land and your spirit. support me, protect me, shelter me on the witching way the hidden road to wisdom let your p

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

the conjuration by offering the bow of mahazhael as a sign bestowing empowerment upon the assembled body of the covine. all brethren should silently pace the circle widdershins to bind the rite. finally all may conjoin in a binding salutation: all hail to the thrice-great clan of azha-qayin! hail to the dragon-masked lord of albion s field! hail to jabal, jubal and tubal-cain, by the horns of the bull, the harp of the minstrel, and the hammer-knell s hymn to fire. hail to the king held high on the elder tree, to the lords and ladies of the meadow, to the good folk of the blood-acre. hail to the thrice-great wanderer, whose faith doth lie beneath his heel. thrice blessed, thrice cursed, thrice cunning be! in the name of our lady. so mote it be! aotinvocation of the adversary by akhtya seker

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

wax, to be subsequently thrust through with pins and melted, no doubt; or by sending him a devil enclosed in a ring, or in various other ways. consequently in several bulls he anathematised sorcerers, denounced their ill-deeds, excited the inquisitors against them, and so gave ecclesiastical authorisation to the reality of the belief in magical forces. indeed, the general expressions used in the bull super illius specula might be applied to the actions of dame alice and her party. he says of certain persons that "they sacrifice to demons and adore them. making or causing to be made images, rings &c, with which they draw the evil spirits by their magical art, obtain responses from them, and demand their help in performing their evil designs" 1 heresy and sorcery were now identified, and th

n with two horses, which turn'd as the ships had done, northward, and immediately after it came a strange frightful creature, which they concluded to be some kind of serpent, having a head like a snake, and a knotted bunch or bulk at the other end, something resembling a snail's house. this monster came swiftly behind the chariot and gave it a sudden violent blow, then out of the chariot leaped a bull and a dog, which follow'd him [the bull, and seem'd to bait him. these also went northwards, as the former had done, the bull first, holding p. 153 his head downwards, then the dog, and then the chariot, till all sunk down one after another about the same place, and just in the same manner as the former. these meteors being vanished, there were several appearances like ships and other things

ISIS UNVEILED

and a new ritual of exorcam was published in rome, paris, and other catholic capitals. des mous- aeaux, writing under the immediate patronage of father ventura, the general of the theatines of rome, even favors us with lengthy extracts b m this famous ritual, and explains the reason why it was enforced again. it was in consequence of the revival of magic under the name of modem spiritualism" the bull of pope innocent viii is exhumed and translated for the benefit of des mousseaux's readers "we have heard" exclaims the sovereign pontiff "that a great number of persons of both sexes have feared not to enter into rdations with the spirits of hell; and that, by their practice of sorcery. they strike with sterility the conjugal bed, destroy the germs of humanity in the bosom of the mother, and

iet minonim, ii, year 1221, j 34, 19, ed. of l. wadding 1732i iaica vadingo: alaina miraixii di franceteo d^ainti, boma, 1711; j. bolkndui; atla iaiiet,octuln(aiibkcudes.fraiunscocoiife8ac>i);uiddemmoisis unveiled bare-faced impostor, and by the rest a sorcerer, who worked magic in confederacy with the devil! neither the she-bear, nor the es^e, nor yet the bull that pythagoras is said to have persuaded to give up eating beans, were alleged to have answered with human voices; while st. benedict's "black raven" whom he called "brother" argues with him, and croaks his answers like a bom casuist. when the sunt offers him one-half of a poisoned loaf, the raven grows indignant and reproacites him in latin as though he had just graduated at the propaganda!

al ezprestion in magic, adopted by the cbristlan clergy. 166. annan ftiiuiu, pp. 291-296, etc, etc: pari^ 1851-2. digitizecoy google isis unveiled where b ra tliou mrt thrown wiati t vndtan tpiril bt put lofii^d. amm exoreuwi rf wattr "cmtutc of the water, in the nvde of the ahni^ty god, the fstber, the scm, tua the h0i7 ghort. be tatreiud. i ftdjure thee in the name of the l mb [the nukgidmi nyt bull at at ptr auu tmirh, d the liunb tlmt trod upon the b "l^ and the aqtic, and ihio cniihea under hu toot the lion and the bodia. thniugfa 'hokbmad (wcstl god of wudom, and the power d rva'k hokhmael [spirit d the h0i7 ghort] may the ^lirits of matter [bad ipirits] recede be- fore it. amtri" exonim qf wattr (and adut "creatnre (d the water. i ezorciw thee .hy tkt ikrtt name* which are netxali

, holding to the doctrine of the pre-existence of souls in the worid of emanations "each soul separately appears before the holy king, dressed in a sublime form, with the features in which it is to appear in this worid. it is from this sublime form that the image proceeds* then it goes on to say that the types or forms of these faces "are four in number those of the angel or man, of the lion, the bull, and the eagle" furthermore, we may well express our wonder that irenaeus should not have re-enforced his argument for the four gospels by citing the whole pantheon of the four-armed hindfi gods! ezekiel in representing his four animals, now called cherubim, as ^jrpes of the four symbolical beings which in his visions support the throne of jehovah, had not tar to go for his models. the chalda

re-enforced his argument for the four gospels by citing the whole pantheon of the four-armed hindfi gods! ezekiel in representing his four animals, now called cherubim, as ^jrpes of the four symbolical beings which in his visions support the throne of jehovah, had not tar to go for his models. the chaldaeo- babylonian protecting genii were familiar to him; the sed, alaph or kiritb (cherubim, the bull, with the human face; the nergal, human- headed lion; ustur, the sphinz-man; and the nattig, with its eagle's head" the religion of the masters the idolatrous babylonians and assyrians was transferred almost bodily into the revealed scripture of the captives, and from thence came into christianity. already we find ezekiel addressed by the ukeness of the glory of the lord "as son of man" this

wings, two expanded, two folded. the eyes denote that the god sees in sleep, and sleeps in waking; the position of the wings that he flies in rest, and rests in flying* the identity of saturn with siva is corroborated still more when we consider the emblem of the latter, the damaru, which is an hour-glass, to show the progress of time, represented by this god in his capacity of a destroyer, llie bull nandi, the vdaotia of siva, and the most sacred f. corj: aiteimt frafmenu. p. 15; d. 1832. digitizecoy google 236 isis unveiled emblem of this god, is reproduced in the egyptian apis, and in the bull created by ormazd and killed by ahriman. the religion of zoroaster, entirely based upon the 'secret doctrine* is found held by the people of eritene [in bactria; it was the religion of the persia

d emblem of this god, is reproduced in the egyptian apis, and in the bull created by ormazd and killed by ahriman. the religion of zoroaster, entirely based upon the 'secret doctrine* is found held by the people of eritene [in bactria; it was the religion of the persians when they con- quered the assyrians. from thence it is easy to trace the introduction of this emblem of lite represented by the bull, in every religious system. the college of the magians had accepted it with the change of dynasty? daniel is described as a rabbi, the chief of the babylonian astrologers and magi" therefore we see the assyrian uttle bulls and the attributes of siva reappearing under a hardly modified form in the cherubs of the talmudistie jews, as we have traced the bull apis in the sphinxes or cherubs of th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

e fleur-de-lis. in the early armorial bearings of the frankish kings, the lilies are represented as insects, sembed (seeded, or spotted, on the blue field. these are, in their origin, the scarab ei of the orientals; they were dignified by the egyptians as the emblems of the enlightened. if the reader examines carefully the sculpture in the british museum representing the mithraic sacrifice of the bull, with its mystic accompaniments (no. 14, grand central saloon, he will perceive the scarab uis, or crab, playing a peculiar part in the particulars of the grand rite so strangely typified, and also so remotely. the motto placed under the lilies, which are the arms of france, runs as follows: lilia non laborant, neque nent. this is also (as all know) the legend, or motto, accompanying the roya

e following is the recognitory mark or talisman of the ophidi: f. the scarabaeus, bee, ass, typhon, basilisk, saint-basil, the town of basle (basil, or bale, in switzerland (of this place it may be remarked, that the appropriate cognisance is a basilisk, or a snake, the mythic horse, or hippocampus, of neptune, the lion, winged (or natural, the pegasus, or winged horse, the python, the hydra, the bull (osiris, the cow (or io, are mythological ideas which have each a family connection. all the above signify an identical myth. this we shall presently show conclusively, and connect them all with the worship of fire. our readers have no doubt often wondered to see on the table-monuments in christian cathedrals a creature resembling a dog, or generally like some four-footed animal, trampled by

nothing of cadmus nor saint george, those names of great renown, survives them but their names; but shonke one serpent kills, t other defies, and in this wall, as in a fortress, lies. see weever s ancient funeral monuments. he calls the place burnt pelham, and he says: in the wall of this church lieth a most ancient monument: a stone wherein is figured a man, and about him an eagle, a lion, and a bull, having all wings, and a fourth of the shape of an angell, as if they should represent the four evangelists: under the feet of the man is a crosse flourie. the being represented cross-legged is not always a proof of the deceased having had the merit either of having been a crusader, or having made a pilgrimage to the holy sepulchre. i have' seen at milton, in yorkshire, two figures of the she

ty; whereas, by the tuath-de-danaans, it was accounted sacred, and its maintenance enjoined by the ordinances of the state, as it is still in the zend books, which remain after zoroaster. o brien's round towers of ireland, 1834, p. 359. i apprehend the word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a crocodile; c, gorgon's head; d, hawk (wisdom; e, feathers (soul. the first and strongest conviction

corresponding to the rays of his crown, are the seven vowels, the elements of his name. the usual triple s.s.s. and bar, and the name cnoubic are the reverse of this gnostic gem. it is a beautiful intaglio on a pale plasma of the finest quality, extremely convex, as it has been found on examination. in the ophic planetary group (origen in celsum, vi. 25) michael is figured as a lion, suriel as a bull, raphael as a serpent, gabriel as an eagle, thautabaoth as a bear, eratsaoth as a dog, ouriel as an ass. emanations are supposed to pass through the seven planetary regions, signified by these chald an names, on their way to this world. it was through these seven planetary spiritual regions, or spheres, filled with their various orders of angels, that the gnostics mythed the saviour jesus chr

heads of the cobras in the friezes of the egyptian court in the crystal palace are coloured on 208 the rosicrucians. the right, white, on the left, red. these imply masculine and feminine, ideas. fig. 42. fig. 43. fig. 44. the accompanying figure is the winged human-headed lion. it comes from the nineveh gallery. it may be fig. 45. fig. 46. pyramid fig. 47. tower or tor. recognised as the winged bull, and also as the winged lion of st. mark. fig. 48. tower. fig. 49. tower of babel. the lion, bull, eagle, man, are the symbols of the evangelists; the man, or angel, standing for babylonian mythic tors. 209 st. matthew, the lion for st. mark, the bull for st. luke, and the eagle for st. john. in these strange fig. 50. pyramid. fig. 51. scarab us. fig. 52. egyptian colossus. aspects the evange

f baptism of a peculiar kind. the phrygian cap, ever after this first inauguration, has stood as the sign of the enlightened. the heroic figures in most gnostic gems, which we give in our illustrations, have caps of this kind. the sacrificer in the sculptured group of the mithraic sacrifice, among the marbles in the british museum, has a phrygian cap on his head, whilst in the act of striking the bull with the poniard meaning the office of the immolating priest. the bonnet conique is the mitre of the doge of venice. besides the bonnet rouge, the pope s mitre nay, all mitres or conical head-coverings have their name from the terms mithradic, or mithraic. the origin of this whole class of names is mittra, or mithra. the cap of the grenadier, the shape of which is alike all over europe, is re

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

ronounced (caplice& snell 1988: 4.9. here we have a special interest in determinatives denoting stars, constellations, planets, and other gheavenly phenomena h. generally, mul sumerian estar f, akkadian kakkabu was used for all of these (figure 1. in transliteration, different cuneiform signs with the same phonetic value are marked with different subscript. e.g. gu estring, cord f, and gu4 eoxen, bull f; these originally denoted frequency of the sign. many scientists follow the assyriological tradition, using accent marks for the indices 2 and 3, so gu2= gu ethroat f, and gu3= gu evoice f. 11 figure 1. some determinatives in cuneiform. sumerian dingir (akkadian ilu) means egod/goddess f; mul, akkadian kakkabu, means estar f. dingir has come from a pictogram depicting a star, and if we look

e end of cuneiform cultures he was considered the eldest of the planetary gods, thus his cult proliferated although he never played a great role in mythology. this archetypal place in the pantheon could be the reason why in the main parts of mesopotamia there never were alternative moongods (though there were some in the periphery, e.g. among the hittites and aramaic. sin was depicted as a horned bull (qarnu) and a efruit that grows by itself f (enbu .a ina ram ni.u ibbanu; a reference to the belief that the moon regenerates itself after each waning. gamong the astral deities, the moon-god was considered to be the most gentle and reliable, intimately connected with the fertility and fruitfulness of man and beast h (leick 1998: 152.153. and moon fs moving is really clear and simple to obser

d into jewish magical texts, where michael. as the earlier ninurta/nabu. occurs as ehealer f and is connected to mercury (parpola las, n.196. the cult of nabu lasted until the 2nd c ad, later he became identified with apollo. 25 figure 10. most widespread variants of mercury in cuneiform: muludu.idim.gu4.ud and mulna-bu-u2. the full name of mercury is muludu.idim.gu4.ud (g139bis) estar of the sun bull f or estar of the white bull f, in connection with the earlier name of marduk amar.utu ecalf of sun f. akkadians translated it .i u ejump f or .a i u ejumpy f. both names suit the edarting f mercury. from this developed the greek transcription (gossmann 1950: 24. earlier, instead of gu4, gud has been read. a shorter variant of the same name is mulgu4.ud (g79. an interesting expression is mul2

KETAB E SIYAH

that deep-nurtured flame, which is named 'destiny. tarry not, my brave brothers, for the rallying clarion shall not be sounded twice" his words did rage like fire across the host before me as he came to stand at my side, like a great king's likeness, a triumphal statue to honour victory, wrought of precious stones and gold yet black as starless night. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a bull of bronze, burning with an incandescence from an inner furnace of solar flame. his bellow was the roar of conflagration, of heat and destruction, consuming forest and city alike, and he spoke with a voice of power these words to my less audacious brethren "behold me! know me! i am moloch. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, telling

that deep-nurtured flame, which is named 'destiny. tarry not, my brave brothers, for the rallying clarion shall not be sounded twice" his words did rage like fire across the host before me as he came to stand at my side, like a great king's likeness, a triumphal statue to honour victory, wrought of precious stones and gold yet black as starless night. then from my brothers' midst, came another, a bull of bronze, burning with an incandescence from an inner furnace of solar flame. his bellow was the roar of conflagration, of heat and destruction, consuming forest and city alike, and he spoke with a voice of power these words to my less audacious brethren: 106 "behold me! know me! i am moloch. i know, as in your hearts you know, that our most worthy brother, satanael who stands before you, te

and arrayed in the scales of giants. thus did the hosts of chadel arrive to relieve the beleaguered nephilim. ishtar and moloch leading at the head, descended in most terrible guise. ishtar appeared with a lion's head and in six hands held six spears with keen and barbed heads. ever has it been the shedim's way to assume some awesome form for battle. moloch was himself unchanged yet, as a flaming bull, was no less dreadful and after came a multitude of armoured warriors. comprehending then that all was lost the elohim gave up a great cry and made to flee but rising into the air they found themselves amongst my hosts and were hurled down by the charge 284 into the ever-hungry sea. thrusting to this side and that soon, upon each of ishtar's inclement spears hung transfixed seven elohim. yet

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

e fire: salamanders these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera. the kerubim are the living powers of tetragrammaton on the material plane and the presidents of the four elements. they operate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolized and attributed: kerub of air man aquarius kerub of fire lion leo kerub of earth bull taurus kerub of water eagle scorpio tetragrammaton means 'four-lettered name' and refers to the unpronounceable name of god symbolized by 'jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offering for the sacrifice of animals symbolizes the qlippoth, or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and

nd crystals, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualizing the symbols of a bull--a virgin--a goat which stand for kerubic earth--mutable earth--cardinal earth. for the above ideas consult a simple astrology manual. make notes of the ideas and pictures which arise in your mind. the four worlds of the qabalah are: atziluth, archetypal pure diety twlyxa briah, creative archangelic hayrb yetzirah, formative angelic hryxy assiah, action matter, man, shells, demons hycu the te

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

site occurs: as good as the ripe fruit is at its end, so is it bitter and hard during its ripening. b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 42 the same occurs in the animal world: an animal s mental capacity is limited in maturity, but while it grows, its limitations are inconspicuous compared to those of a human child. for example, a one-day-old calf has all the properties of a fully grown bull. then, it practically stops developing, which makes it opposite to human beings, who acquire intelligence in the prime of life, but are utterly helpless and pitiful in the first years of life. the difference is so striking that by looking at a newborn calf and a newborn baby, one who is unfamiliar with the ways of our world would conclude that nothing worthwhile will come from a human baby, w

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

hey are conducted, that have appeared and that will appear are only measures and changes in the values of the will to receive. 9 36 from chaos to harmony humans are not only a slightly more evolved living creature; they are fundamentally different from the animate degree. at birth, a human being is a helpless being. but as we grow, we rise above all other creations. a newly born calf and a mature bull are distinguished primarily by their sizes, not by their wisdom. a human infant, however, is practically powerless and totally helpless. but gradually, over many years, it grows and evolves. hence, a young animal s development is very different from that of a human toddler. our sages put it this way: a day-old calf is called an ox. 10 it means that as soon as a calf is born, it is considered

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ull power was a really splendid light, equal to several big electric arcs put together. it was however, capable of being dimmed down gradually, and could be used at various degrees of power. each of the brn. brought to this ceremony a private light of his own, which was practically a dark lantern. it was a rather clumsy-looking bog of blue earthenware, but it had a tube corresponding to that of a bull fs-eye lantern, so that it could shoot out a powerful pencil of light which stood out clearly in the incense-laden air. each person fs ray of light was different, corresponding to one of those from the altar in the centre. another feature which is quite foreign to our modern ideas was the presence of two attendant acolytes at the ceremony- a boy and a girl of about twelve years of age, most b

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

horus, who represented the divine child, was the glowing rose and gold of the eternal love which is perfect wisdom. 67. animal deities 68. the egyptians also followed the ancient practice of regarding certain animals as mirroring various aspects of the divine, because of their outstanding qualities. thus they took the intelligence of the ape, the clear-sightedness of the hawk, the strength of the bull, and so on, and attributed the quality to some particular aspect of the deity. they carefully bred certain animals as perfect representatives of their species, and kept them apart as symbols of those divine qualities. such were the apis bulls, and the cats of bast or pasht. these animals were regarded not exactly as sacred, but as objectified examples of the qualities. in the beginning the cr

of eyes round about them four(*ezekiel, i, 9, 10, 13, 15-18) 80. this symbolism is strange; but it has its meaning, and any investigator who has ever had the privilege of seeing the mighty four will at once recognize that s. john and the prophet ezekiel had seen them too, however inadequate are their descriptions. the beast with the face of a man stands for the physical body (earth; the ox or the bull (as in the case of the bull of mithra and the apis bull) typifies the emotional or astral body (water; the lion symbolizes the will or the mental aspect (air; and the soaring eagle is taken to indicate the spiritual side of man s nature (fire. the egyptian forms were a little different; but the same four elements and their rulers are depicted in that ancient symbolism, which indeed we find in

rowel; now used in the rhymed ritual of the royal order of scotland. 1737 baron scheffer, first grand master of sweden, received the three s. john's degrees in paris, and also two scottish degrees. chevalier ramsay's famous oration in paris gave an impetus to high-degree movement in france. 1738 anderson's book of constitutions (second edition) published. first condemnation of freemasons by papal bull in eminente. duc d'antin succeeded lord derwentwater as grand master of france. a master's lodge established in boston. 1740 an itinerant peddler of the royal arch degree is said to have propagated it in ireland, claiming that it was practiced in york and london. rise of scots lodges in all parts of france. many rituals existed, exceedingly diverse in character. chief theme the recovery of a

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

inform her chief minister that she is about to undertake a journey to the underworld, and instructs him to appeal to the gods in heaven to intervene should it become necessary to retrieve her from her sister s realm.as it turns out, ishtar is unable to return. because inanna/ishtar is the goddess of sex and therefore the goddess of fertility, her absence from the earth is immediately noticed: no bull mounted a cow, no donkey impregnated a jenny. no young man impregnated a girl. the young man slept in his private room. the girl slept in the company of her friends. in order to reactivate the natural forces of life and reproduction, the gods in heaven are forced to come to inanna/ishtar s aid. the ancient mesopotamians also told several variants of another, more upbeat, story of descent to t

hat merlin the magician was the offspring of such a union. this notion of semidemonic children was useful for explaining such phenomena as deformed babies. incubi were sometimes referred to as demon lovers. also, some writers asserted that succubi were the same as the wood nymphs of european folklore. mortals who willingly responded to the seductive wiles of these beings risked damnation. a papal bull issued by pope innocent viii in 1484, for instance, asserted that: many persons of both sexes, forgetful of their own salvation, have abused incubi and succubi (kramer and sprenger 1970 [1486, xliii xlv. some of the church fathers, such as st. anthony, asserted that demons would take the form of seductive naked women who would try to lure him away from his devotions. these experiences were la

h a notion. the bible also provided legitimation for the witch-hunts, through such assertions as exodus 22:18, you shall not allow a witch to live. initially, witches were executed merely for the harm they supposedly wreaked on their victims. by the fourteenth century, entering into a contract with satan had become an important part of the charges leveled against witches. for example, in his 1484 bull, summis desiderantes affectibus, after recounting a long list of dark deeds attributed to witches, pope innocent viii adds that witches also deny with sacrilegious lips the faith they received in holy baptism; and that, at the instigation of the enemy of mankind, they do not fear to commit and perpetrate many other abominable offences p 203 204 pact with the devil and crimes, at the risk of t

LIBER 777

death r 6 vishu-hari-krishna-rama buddha r 7[[bhavani, etc] the gods r 8 hanuman analysis into 4 elements a 9 ganesha, vishnu (kurm avatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 hanuman, vishnu (as parasa-rama) yellow k 13 chandra (as) loathsomeness of food p 14 lalita (sexual aspect of sakti) dark blue k 15 shiva bloody corpse i 16 shiva (sacred bull) beaten and scattered corpse i 17 various twin and hybrid deities white k 18[[krishna] worm-eaten corpse i 19 vishnu (nara-singh avatar) gnawed by wild beasts corpse i 20 the gopi girls, the lord of yoga bloated corpse i 21 brahma, indra liberality r 22 yama hacked in pieces corpse i 23 soma [apas] water k 24 kundalini[[yama] skeleton corpse i 25 vishnu (horse-avatar) limited aperture k 26 li

y[[pomegranate, all cereals] 11 eagle, man (cherub of d[[ox] aspen 12 swallow, ibis, ape[[twin serpents, fish, hybrids] vervain, herb mercury, major-lane, palm[[lime or linden] 13 dog[[stork, camel] almond, mugwort, hazel (as, moonwort, ranunculus[[alder, pomegranate] 14 sparrow, dove[[swan, sow, birds generally] myrtle, rose, clover[[fig, peach, apple] 15 ram, owl tiger lily, geranium[[olive] 16 bull (cherub of e[[all beasts of burden] mallow[[all giant trees] 17 magpie, hybrids[[parrot, zebra, penguin] hybrids, orchids 18 crab, turtle, sphinx[[whale, all beasts of transport] lotus 19 lion (cherub of b[[cat, tiger, serpent, woman] sunflower 20 virgin, anchorite, any solitary person or animal[[rhinoceros] snowdrop, lily, narcissus[[mistletoe] 21 eagle[[praying mantis] hyssop, oak, poplar

yohimba] 27 horse, bear, wolf[[boar] absinthe, rue 28 man or eagle (cherub of d, peacock [olive, cocoanut 29 fish, dolphin[[beetle, dog, jackal] unicellular organisms, opium[[mangrove] 30 lion, sparrowhawk[[leopard] sunflower, laural, heliotrop[[nut, galangal] 31 lion (cherub of b) red poppy, hibiscus, nettle[[all scarlet flowers] 32 crocodile ash, cypress, hellebore, yew, nightshade[[elm] 32 bis bull (cherub of e) oak, ivy[[cereals] 31 bis sphinx (if sworded and crowned) almond in flower table of correspondences 12 xl* precious stones. xli. magical weapons. clxxxvii. magical formul (see col. xli) 0[[star sapphire, black diamond[[no attribution possible] lastal. m. m 1 diamond swastika or fylfot cross, crown[[the lamp. 2 star ruby, turquoise lingam, the inner robe of glory[[the word] viaov

purson lion-faced man riding a bear, carrying a viper. trumpeter with him. 24 23 \ya aim man with 3 heads a serpent s, a man s (having two stars on his brow, and a calf s. rides on viper and bears firebrand. 25 26 \yb bim dragon with 3 heads a dog s, man s, and gryphon s. 26 29$ twrtca asteroth hurtful angel or infernal dragon, like berot, with a viper [breath bad. 28 32! yadmsa asmoday 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, goose s feet. rides, with lance and banner, on a dragon. 29 35= cwjrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. clx. magical images of col. clix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied b

lix. 15 3& wgacw vassago like agares. 16 6$ rplaw valefor lion with ass s head, bellowing 17 9! wmyap paimon crowned king on dromedary, accompanied by many musicians. 18 12& yrfyc sitri leapard s head and gryphon s wings. 19 15$ cwgyla eligos a knight with a lance and banner, with a serpent. 20 18$ ytab bathin a strong man with a serpent s tail, on a pale horse. 22 21% and# aram marax human-faced bull. 24 24= rbn naberius a black crane with a sore throat he flutters. 25 27% and= wwnyr ronove a monster [probably a dolphin. 26 30= canrwp forneus sea monster. 28 33 [ug gaap like a guide. to be kings. 29 36& cwlwfcy stolas raven. table v (continued) 29 clxi. goetic demons &c. by night (ascendant. clxii. magical images of col. clxi. 15 37= nap phenex child-voices phoe nix. 16 40 \war raum crow

ght (ascendant. clxii. magical images of col. clxi. 15 37= nap phenex child-voices phoe nix. 16 40 \war raum crow. 17 43 ]wnbc sabnock soldier with lion s head rides pale horse. 18 46% wrpyb bifrons monster. 19 49$ lkwrk crocell angel. 20 52 ]wla alloces soldier with red leonine face and flaming eyes; rides great horse. 22 55& bwarwa orobas horse. 24 58# wa amy flaming fire. 25 61! and# gaz zagan bull with gryphon s wings. 26 64$ rwah haures leopard. 28 67 ]wdma amdusias (1) unicorn (2) dilatory bandmaster. 29 70& rac seere beautiful man on winged horse. clxiii. goetic demons &c. by night (succedent. clxiv. magical images of col. clxiii. 15 38 [lah halphas stock-dove with sore throat. 16 41$ rwlkwp focalor man with gryphon s wings. 17 44= c shax stcck-dove with sore throat. 18 47$ lawa uva

28 68! laylb belial two beautiful angels sitting in chariot of fire. 29 71$ lafnd dantalion man with many countenances, all men s and women s, carries a book in right hand. clxv. goetic demons &c. by night (cadent. clxvi. magical images of col. clxv. 15 39 [lam malphas crow with sore throat. 16 42$ rapw vepar mermaid. 17 45$ and! anyw vin lion on black horse carrying viper. 18 48# tnguh haagenti bull with gryphon s wings. 19 51 \lub balam 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, flaming eyes. rides bear, carries goshawk. 20 54$ and \rwm murmur warrior with ducal crown rides gryphon. trumpeters. 22 57# wcw oso leopard. 24 60$ lwpn napula lion with gryphon s wings. 25 63= rdna andras angel with raven s head. rides black wolf, carries sharp sword. 26 66= rwamyk kimaris warrior on black horse

LIBER ALEPH

given unto me to understand the heart of her mystery, wherefore, o my son, by right of the great love that i bear unto thee, i will inform thee thereof. i liber aleph vel cxi 152 eu de natura s#inu (of the nature of the sphinx) irstly, this sphinx is a symbol of the coition of our lady babalon with me the beast in its wholeness. for as i am of the lion and the dragon, so is she of the man and the bull, in our natures, but the converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish them. this then is the adept, who doth wi

e converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish them. this then is the adept, who doth will with solid energy as the bull, doh dare with fierce courage as the lion, doth know with swift intelligence as the man, and doth keep silence with soaring subtilty as the eagle or dragon. moreover, this sphinx is an eidolon of the law, for the bull is life, the lion is light, the man is liberty, the serpent love. now then his sphinx, being perfect in true balance, yet taketh the aspect of the feminine principle that so she

gnification of this mystery is hat the adept must be whole, himself, containing all things in true proportion, before he maketh himself bride of the one universal transcendental, in its most secret virtue. and now herefore, o my son, comprehending this mystery by thine intelligence, i will write further unto thee of these your beasts of power. f the book of wisdom or folly 153 ef de tauro (of the bull) oncerning the bull, this is thy will, constant and unwearied, whose letter is vau, which is six, the number of he sun. he is therefore the force and the substance of thy being; but besides this, he is the hierophant in the taro, as if this were said .that thy will leadeth thee unto the shrine of light. and in the rites of mithras the bull is slain, and his blood poured upon the initiate, to

is vau, which is six, the number of he sun. he is therefore the force and the substance of thy being; but besides this, he is the hierophant in the taro, as if this were said .that thy will leadeth thee unto the shrine of light. and in the rites of mithras the bull is slain, and his blood poured upon the initiate, to endow him with that will and that power of work. also in the land of hind is the bull sacred to shiva, that is god among that folk, and is unto hem the destroyer of all things that be opposed to him. and his god is also the phallus, for this will operateth through love even as it is written in our own law. yet again, apis he bull of khem hath kephra the beetle upon his tongue, which signifieth that it is by this will, and by this work, that the sun cometh unto dawn from midnig

by this work, that the sun cometh unto dawn from midnight. all these symbols are most similar in their nature, save as the slaves of the slave-gods have read their own formula into the simplicity of truth. for there is naught so plain that ignorance and malice may not confuse and misinterpret it, even as the bat is dazzled and bewildered by the light of the sun. see then that thou understand this bull in terms of the law of this our on of life. c liber aleph vel cxi 154 ec de leone (of the lion) f this, lion, o my son, be it said that this is the courage of thy manhood, leaping upon all things, and seizing hem for their prey. his letter is teth, whose implication is a serpent, and the number thereof nine, whereof is aub, the secret fire of obeah. also nine is of jesod, uniting change with

s the fierceness of the night of the stars, and their necessity; whence also is she true symbol of thine own hunger of attainment, the passion of thy light to dare all for its fulfilling. it is then the possession of this quality which determineth thy manhood; for without it thou art not impelled to magick, and thy will is but the slave s endurance and patience under the lash. for this cause, the bull being of osiris, was it necessary for the masters of the aeons to incarnate me as more especially a lion, and my word is first of all a word of enlightenment and of emancipation of the will, giving to every man a sprint within himself to determine his will, that he may do that will, and no more another.s. arise therefore, o my son, arm thyself, haste to the battle! l liber aleph vel cxi 156 e

ed. for this cause also is its letter nun, which in our rota is the trump death; and nun hath the value of fifty, the number of the gates of understanding. t liber aleph vel cxi 158 #b de quattuor virtutibus s#inu (of the four powers of the sphinx) ee now our sphinx, with what subtility and art is she made whole! here is thy light, the lion, the necessity of thy nature, fortified by thy life, the bull, the power of works, and guided by thy liberty, the man, the wit to adapt action to environment. these are three virtues in one, necessary to all proper motion, as i may say in a figure, the lust of the archer, the propulsive force of his arm, and the equilibrating and directing control of his eye. of these three if one fail, he mark is not hit. but hold! is not a fourth element essential in

LIBER ARARITA

ere like men, o lord, they were like men, o lord, they were even like unto men. i saw thee in these. 7. i saw the ravens of death, that flew with hoarse cries upon the carrion earth. i saw thee in these. 8. i saw the lying spirits like frogs upon the earth, and upon the water, and upon the treacherous metal that corrodeth all things and abideth not. i saw thee in these. 9. i saw the obscene ones, bull-men linked in the abyss of putrefaction, that gnawed each other fs tounges for pain. i saw thee in these. 4 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 10. i saw the woman. o my god, i beheld the image thereof, even as a lovely shape that concealeth a black monkey, even as a figure that draweth with her hands small images of men down into hell. i saw her from the head to the navel a woman, from the navel to t

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

at court? plenty, in the last resort. letters from his suzerain! hermes. you are high in favour then? psyche. ay, that needs not to be sworn; i am his own daughter born. hermes. in thy blood the spark divine of olympus? psyche. even in mine! hermes. hark, then! at the hour of fears when the lordly lion rears in mid-heaven his bulk of bane violently vivid, shakes his mane majestical, and snake and bull lamp the horizon, and the full fire of the moon tops heaven, and spurs the stars, while mars ruddily burns, liber cccxxxv 26 and venus glows, and jupiter ramps through the sky astride of her, then, unattended, let the king press on the little secret spring that guards the garden, and entering lay once his hand upon him, even while in the white arms of his heaven he swoons to sleep. that dread

LIBER CCXLII AHA

ain a truth. i see, inscrutable simplicity! crushed like a blind-worm by the heel of all i am, perceive, and feel, my truth was but the partial pang that chanced to strike me as i sang. marsyas. in the beginning, violence marks the extinction of the sense. anguish and rapture rack the soul. these are disruptions of control. self-poised, a brooding hawk, there hangs in the still air the adept. the bull on the firm earth goes not so smooth! so the first fine ecstatic pangs pass; balance comes. olympas. how wonderful are these tall avenues of truth! aha! 17 marsyas. so the first flash of light and terror is seen as shadow, known as error. next, light comes as light; as it grows the sense of peace still steadier glows; and the fierce lust, that linked the soul to its god, attains a chaste cont

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

prison bars. beneath him, hark! the marvel sounds! the beast that questeth horribly. as if a thirty couple hounds are in his belly questeth he. beneath him? heareth he aright? he leaps to.sfeet.a wonder shews: steep dips a stairway from the light to what obscurity god knows. still never a tremor shakes his soul (god praise thee, knight of adamant; he plungers to that gruesome goal firm as an old bull-elephant! the broad stair winds; he follows it; dark is the way; the air is blind; black, black the blackness of the pit, the light long blotted out behind! liber cxcvii 70 his sword sweeps out; his keen glance peers for some shape glimmering through the gloom: naught, naught in all that void appears; more still, more silent than the tomb! ye now the good knight is aware of some black force

LIBER CXX

rone of our lady ahathoor. i utter the words of my father tum; the handmaid of seb is constrained, and all are bowed in fear before me. they glorify me in their hymns; divine hair of seb is the name wherein they do invoke me to protect the earth, who am its lord and god. the god seb refreshing me maketh his. as mine own. the dwellers in amun bow down their heads unto me for i am their lord, their bull. i am more powerful than the lord of time; i shall enjoy the pleasures of love, and gain the mastery over millions of years (he then resumeth the throne of ra, as the might of god, saying "the light is mine; its rays consume me: i have made a secret door into the house of ra and tum, of khephra and of ahathoor. i am thy theban, o mentu the prophet ankh-af-na-khonsu (rising he moveth to the we

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

seven branches. the stalls had been retained; and at each knight fs hand burned a taper of rose-coloured wax, and a bouquet of roses was before him. in the centre of the nave was a great cross.a gcalvary cross of ten squares, h measuring, say, six feet by five.painted in red upon a white board, at whose edges were rings through which passed gilt staves. at each corner was a banner, bearing lion, bull, eagle and man, and from the top of their staves sprang a canopy of blue, wherein were figured in gold the twelve emblems of the zodiac. knights and dames being installed, suddenly a bell tinkled in the architrave. instantly all rose. the doors opened at a trumpet 18 liber dcccxi peal from without, and a herald advanced, followed by the high priest and priestess. the high priest was a man of

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

of osiris, when first i beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the ibis-headed one charmed away the strife. 16. i remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kissed abide. 17. there is none other beside thee in the whole universe of love. 18. my god, i love thee, o thou goat with gilded horns! 19. thou beautiful bull ofapis! thou beautiful serpent of apep! thou beautiful child of the pregnant goddess! 20. thou hast stirred in thy sleep, o ancient sorrow of years! thou hast raised thine head to strike, and all is dissolved into the abyss of glory. 21. an end to the letters of the words! an end to the sevenfold speech. 22. resolve me the wonder of it all into the figure of a gaunt swift camel striding over

LIBER LVII

iber lviii great. the clash of these produces a finite positive idea which happens (see tycarb29 for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher.s thesis) to be light, rwa. this word rwa is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. a is the egg of matter; w is b, the bull, or energy-motion; and r is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of rwa thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of rwa is this analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundum. it will be noticed that every number and letter has its .correspondence. i

h in the tarot bears a crosshandled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer. icqus= jesus christ, son of god, saviour. 108. chiefly interesting because 108= 2 2 3 3 3= the square of 2 playing with the cube of 3. hence the buddhists hailed it with acclamation, and make their rosaries of this number of beads. 111 \yhla awh dja .he is one god [la, aleph, an ox, a thousand. the redeeming bull. by shape the swastika, and so the lightning .as the lightning ligheneth out of the east even unto the west, so shall be the coming of the son of man..46 an allusion to the descent of shiva upon shakti in samadhi. the roman a shows the same through the shape of the pentagram, which it imitates. sa, ruin, destruction, sudden death. scil, of the personality in samadhi. lpa, thick darkness. cf

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ich means fish, and very aptly symbolises christ. ring and book (the pope, ll. 89, 90. 395. dharma.59.consult the tripitaka. 409. i cannot trace the chain.60..how vain, indeed, are human calculations..the autobiography of a flea, p. 136. 412. table-thing.61..ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear..the ring and the book, i. 17 .this pebble-thing, o. the boy-thing .calverly, the cock and the bull. 442. caird.62.see his .hegel. 446. says huxley.63.see .ethics and evolu-tion. 459. igdrasil.64.the otz chiim of the scandinavians. 467. ladies league.65.mrs. j.s. crowley says .the ladies. league was formed for the promotion and defence of the reformed faith of the church of england (the capitals are hers) i think we may accept this statement. she probably knows, and has no obvious reasons f

is their constant study. it was at his 119th year,1 the star suaconch2 being in the sign of the lion, that our father set out from his castle of ug3 to attain the quintessence or philosophical tincture. the way being dark and the golden dawn at hand, he did call forth four servants to keep him in the midst of the way, and the lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. on the bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the eagle and the man. but his back was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. and the spirit of the path met him. it was a young girl of two and twenty years, and she warned him that without the serpent5 his ways were but as wool cast into the dyer.s vat. two-and-twenty scales had the serpent, and every scale was a path, and every path w

suggler,3 a riddler: for he said .thou hast beasts: i will give thee weapons one for one. for the lion did our father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his eagle a cup of ever flowing water: for his man the suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of all his bargains, for it could not strike other, but himself only, while for a curious coin he bartered his good bull. alas for our father! now the suggler mocks him and cries .four fool.s bargains hast thou made, and thou art fit to go forth and meet a fool4 for thy mate. but our father counted thrice seven and cried .one for the fool. seeing 1 3, the number of g. 2, the number of the card g. 2 the equality of three and eight is attributed to binah, a high grade of theurgic attainment. 3 scil. juggler, the

nance? then they brought him the sword and bade him smite withal: but he said: if countenance behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. and they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a star, and they all vanished in that light; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried .before the wheel, the axle. so he chained the sun,2 and slew the bull, and exhausted the air, breathing it deep into his lungs: then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had made his home, will he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other bull, and he broke the arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time

s thereof in trust to be divided among their servitors; as the right cornea, to aphlek; the left, to urnbal;.mighty spirits are they, and bold! to the archdevil rama,3 the right ear and its parts; to the archangel umumatis, the left ear and its parts; the teeth to two-and-thirty letters of the sixfold name: one to the air, and fifteen to the rain and the ram, and ten to the virgin, and six to the bull; the mouth to the archangels alalal and bikarak, lip and lip; the tongue to that devil of all devils yehowou.4 ho, devil! canst thou speak? 1 col. olcott, the theosophist. 2? the spirt of motor-cars. 3 vishnu, the preserver. 4 jehova. sedes profunda paimonis. oculi nox secreta. portae silentium partitio. 90 appendix ii the pharynx to mahabonisbash, the great angel; to seven-and-thirty myriads

i now refer. meditation is then the means; but only the supreme means. the agony column of the times is the supreme means of meeting with the gentleman in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing a straw, who was at the soir e of the carlton club last monday night; no doubt! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cowelephant desiring her bull in the jungles of ceylon. meditation is not within the reach of every one; not all possess the ability; very few indeed (in the west at least) have the opportunity. in any case what the easterns call .onepointedness. is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. and iron will-power is a still earlier qualification. by meditation i do not mean merely .thinking about. any

LIBER LXXVIII

ed by a cube, and in the other an orb of gold. she is impetuous, kind; timid, rather charming; great-hearted; intelligent, melancholy; truthful, yet of many moods. if ill dignified she is undecided, capricious, changeable, foolish. she rules from 20 i to 20 j. c of e the queen of gnomes. xix the prince of the chariot of earth king of pentacles a winged kingly figure seated in a chariot drawn by a bull. he bears as a crest the symbol of the head of the winged bull. beneath the chariot is land, with many flowers. in one hand he bears an orb of gold held downwards, and in the other a sceptre surmounted by an orb and cross. increase of matter. increases good or evil, solidifies; practically applies things. steady; reliable. if ill dignified he is selfish, animal and material: stupid. in either

with spray, turtle from cup winged brown horse, driving clouds, drawn sword head of man severed, cumulus clouds, drawn sword arch fairies winged, whirling hair, nimbi, drawn sword and sickle silver altar, smoke, clouds, drawn sword light-brown horse, ripe cornland, sceptre with hexagram, pentacle as zelator adept barren land, fan, light one side only, sceptre with cube, orb of gold flowerly land, bull, sceptre with orb and cross, orb held downward grass, flowers, grove of trees, sceptre with disk, pentacle like that in ace crests winged black horse fs head leopard fs head, winged lion fs head, winged tiger fs head peacock with opened fan ibis eagle swan winged hexagram winged child fs head winged angel fs head medusa fs head winged stag fs head winged goat fs head winged bull fs head winge

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

see, i know that i am dreaming, so they must be very silly children, don.t you think? there are people in the dream too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. there is only one, for there never could be any one like him. i call him my fairy prince. he rides a horse with beautiful wings like a swan, or sometimes a strange creature like a lion or a bull, with a woman.s face and breasts, and she has unfathomable eyes. my fairy prince is a dark boy, very comely; i think every one must love him, and yet every one is afraid. he looks through one just as if one had no clothes on in the garden of god, and he had made one, and one could do nothing except in the mirror of his mind. he never laughs or frowns or smiles; because, whatever he sees, he s

at the prince called for some splendid strong creatures to guard us. there was an eagle that flew, and beat his wings, and tore and bit at everything that came near; and there was a lion that roared terribly, and his breath was a flame, and burnt up the things, so that there was a great cloud; and rain fell gently and purely, so that he really did the things good by fighting them. and there was a bull that tossed them on his horns, so that they changed into butterflies; and there was a man who kept telling everybody to be quiet and not make a noise. so we came at last in the next house of the palace. it was a great dome of violet, and in the centre the moon shone. she was a full moon, and yet she looked like a woman quite, quite young. yet her hair was silver, and finer than spiders. webs

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. gbut what of the great tao? for one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the stone of the philosophers. by solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for those afraid of physical pain, by repose for the restless, and toil for the idle, by bull-fights for the humanitarian, and the care of little children for the callous, by rituals for the rational, and by philosophy for the credulous, shall these men, while thien tao; or, the synagogue of satan 11 yet unbalanced, seek to attain to unity with the great tao. but for those whose intellect is purified and co-ordinated, for those whose bodies are in health, and whose passions are at onc

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

eth sir lionel the warder of the marches. so now indeed he had wrought the first matter to a pitch of excellence beyond the human; for without trouble was his tincture thus beautiful. first, it had the crown and horns of alexander the mighty king; also it had wings of fine sapphire; its fore part was like the lion, whereby indeed it partook of the highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull fs. moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working. he slayeth sir merlin the wizard. yet our brother perardua.and by now he was right skilful at the athanor!.determined to attain to that higher projection. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will have it, a fiery

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

fablot that is going on inside. the verse says that it was an old woman who denied entry, and that she was afraid of the wrath of odin. deities, themes, and concepts 53 this would appear to associate a cult of the elves explicitly with the gods. kormaks saga, chapter 22, has the prophetess thordis give advice to thorvard, who was wounded in a duel with kormak and seeks to be healed. he must get a bull slain by kormak, pour its blood on a hill inhabited by elves, and prepare a feast for them out of the slaughtered meat. although the word alfablot is not used, this too looks like a sacrifice to the elves. certainly there is a vast difference between a ceremony held indoors, as in the swedish alfablot mentioned by sighvatr, and sacrificial acts undertaken in nature, as the thirteenth-century

welfth-century latin life of olaf tryggvason, now lost, by the icelandic monk gunnlaug leifsson. it is set before the conversion of iceland to christianity at the farmstead of sidu-hall, a leading chieftain who later was to be among those who advanced the cause of the conversion. the prophet thorhall has foreseen that a prophet is to die at the sacrifice of the winter nights, but sidu- hall has a bull named prophet slaughtered. thorhall then decrees that none should leave the house at night, but when there are three mighty knocks on the 96 norse mythology figures found all over scandinavia are believed to represent valkyries or disir (the art archive/historiska museet stockholm/dagli orti) door, sidu-hall fs son thidrandi opens it and goes outside. he is attacked by nine women in black rid

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent of wisdom--the sacred crocodile. 85 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds, part ii the dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol--the lotus blossom--the scandinavian world tree, yggdrasil--the sprig of acacia--the juice of the grape--the magical powers of the mandrake. 93 stones, metals, and gems prehistoric monuments--the tablets of the law--the holy grail--the ages of the world- talismanic jewels--zodiacal and planetary sto

growing upon that tree was sacred to him. at certain seasons, according to the positions of the sun, moon, and stars, the arch-druid climbed the oak tree and cut the mistletoe with a golden sickle consecrated for that service. the parasitic growth was caught in white cloths provided for the purpose, lest it touch the earth and be polluted by terrestrial vibrations. usually a sacrifice of a white bull was made under the tree. the druids were initiates of a secret school that existed in their midst. this school, which closely resembled the bacchic and eleusinian mysteries of greece or the egyptian rites of isis and osiris, is justly designated the druidic mysteries. there has been much speculation concerning the secret wisdom that the druids claimed to possess. their secret teachings were n

re we have origins in abundance for the freemason's eye and 'its nunquam dormio" the reader must nor confuse the persian mithra with the vedic mitra. according to alexander wilder "the mithraic rites superseded the mysteries of bacchus, and became the foundation of the gnostic system, which for many centuries prevailed in asia, egypt, and even the remote west" click to enlarge mithras slaying the bull. from lundy's monumental christianity. the most famous sculpturings and reliefs of this prototokos show mithras kneeling upon the recumbent form of a great bull, into whose throat he is driving a sword. the slaying of the bull signifies that the rays of the sun, symbolized by the sword, release at the vernal equinox the vital essences of the earth--the blood of the bull- which, pouring from t

the sword, release at the vernal equinox the vital essences of the earth--the blood of the bull- which, pouring from the wound made by the sun god, fertilize the seeds of living things. dogs were held sacred to the cult of mithras, being symbolic of sincerity and trustworthiness. the mithraics used the serpent a an emblem of ahriman, the spirit of evil, and water rats were held sacred to him. the bull is esoterically the constellation of taurus; the serpent, its opposite in the zodiac, scorpio; the sun, mithras, entering into the side of the bull, slays the celestial creature and nourishes the universe with its blood. click to enlarge the birth of mithras. from montfaucon's antiquities mithras was born out of a rock, which, breaking open, permitted him to emerge. this occurred in the darkn

us''a god i am such as i show to thee, the starry heavens are my head, my trunk the sea, earth forms my feet, mine ears the air supplies, the sun's far-darting, brilliant rays, mine eyes" several unsatisfactory attempts have been made to etymologize the word serapis. godfrey higgins notes that soros was the name given by the egyptians to a stone coffin, and apis was osiris incarnate in the sacred bull. these two words combined result in soros-apis or sor-apis "the tomb of the bull" but it is improbable that the egyptians would worship a coffin in the form of a man. several ancient authors, including macrobius, have affirmed that serapis was a name for the sun, because his image so often had a halo of light about its head. in his oration upon the sovereign sun, julian speaks of the deity in

eory, however, regarding the origin of the name serapis is that which traces its derivation from the compound osiris-apis. at one time the egyptians believed that the dead were absorbed into the nature of osiris, the god of the dead. while marked similarity exists between osiris- apis and serapis, the theory advanced by egyptologists that serapis is merely a name given to the dead apis, or sacred bull of egypt, is untenable in view of the transcendent wisdom possessed by the egyptian priestcraft, who, in all probability, used the god to symbolize the soul of the world (anima mundi. the material body of nature was called apis; the soul which escaped from the body at death but was enmeshed with the form during physical life was designated serapis. c. w. king believes serapis to be a deity of

ul which escaped from the body at death but was enmeshed with the form during physical life was designated serapis. c. w. king believes serapis to be a deity of brahmanic extraction, his name being the grecianized form of ser-adah or sri-pa, two titles ascribed to yama, the hindu god of death. this appears reasonable, especially since there is a legend to the effect that serapis, in the form of a bull, was driven by bacchus from india to egypt. the priority of the hindu mysteries would further substantiate such a theory. among other meanings suggested for the word serapis are "the sacred bull "the sun in taurus "the soul of osiris "the sacred serpent" and "the retiring of the bull" the last appellation has reference to the ceremony of drowning the sacred apis in the waters of the nile ever

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ult was in fact based upon traditional witch beliefs, but strung together in a way reminiscent of the accounts of the religious rites that the church had chosen to believe were celebrated by the recently defunct heresies of the past two centuries. joan of arc was burned a witch and consorter with the faeries in 1431, and in 1484 pope innocent viii formally declared war on all "witches" in a papal bull. this was closely followed by the inquisitors kramer and sprenger producing their infamous handbook on witch finding, the mallens maleficarum, or witches hammer, in 1486, a book incidentally used by protestant and catholic witch hunters alike. the sixteenth century saw a great revitalization of interest in the past in the form of the renaissance. scholars began to study the antiquities of the

ogy. greek, roman, norse, celtic whichever you wish. a very good lead in these matters can be provided by finding out your astrological birth sign and planet and looking up the legends that surround them. for instance, if you are an artist or craftsman born under the sign of taurus, you may well decide on the name of daedalus, being that of the wizard-craftsman of king minos, leader of the cretan bull cult, thus linking with taurus the bull. or, alternatively, if you are a female witch born under taurus, ruled by venus, you may decide that the name "ariadne" daughter of king minos and theseus' bride, would be suitable, especially as she is indeed a form of aradia, one of the chief spirit powers of the witch world. a third method which can yield results is the numerological one. add up all

entacle of protection which you are wearing around your neck, close your eyes and sprinkle a few grains of salt from the disc on the ground outside the west of your circle. chant the spell. as you do, feel the earth begin to tremble and rock beneath your feet, ever more powerfully, increasing in magnitude and finally thunderously splitting asunder, gaping open before you in a yawning chasm! black bull of the north, horned one, dark ruler of mountains and all that lies beneath them. prince of the powers of earth, be present we pray thee, and guard this circle from all perils approaching from the north! finally, return to the centre of the circle, and facing east, standing with your legs wide apart, extend your arms on either side of you and close your eyes; then chanting the sealing words "

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agnificence or mercy. the key of solomon page 124 the spirits of gedulah are the chaschmalim, or the lucid ones. their empire is that of beneficence; they correspond to the imagination. they have for adversaries the gamchicoth or the disturbers of souls. the chief or guide of these demons is ashtaroth or astarte, the impure venus of the syrians, whom they represent with the head of an ass or of a bull, and the breasts of a woman. the fifth number is five. the fifth sephira is geburah or justice. the spirits of geburah are the seraphim, or the spirits burning with zeal. their empire is that of the chastisement of crimes. they correspond to the faculty of comparing and of choosing. they have for adversaries the golab or incindiaries, genii of wrath and sedition, whose chief is asmodeus, whom

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of the world. he bringeth forth good familiars, and under his government there be 22 legions of spirits, partly of the order of virtues and partly of the order of thrones. his mark, seal, or character is this, unto the which he oweth obedience, and which thou shalt wear in time of action, etc (21) marax- the twenty-first spirit is marax. he is a great earl and president. he appeareth like a great bull with a man s face. his office is to make men very knowing in astronomy, and all other liberal sciences; also he can give good familiars, and wise, knowing the virtues of herbs and stones which be precious. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which must be made and worn as aforesaid, etc (22) ipos- the twenty-second spirit is lpos. he is an earl, and a mighty prince, and

nd ethics in all their parts. if desired he maketh men invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent. he can discover treasures and recover things lost. he ruleth over 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (32) asmoday- the thirty-second spirit is asmoday, or asmodai. he is a great king, strong, and powerful. he appeareth with three heads, whereof the first is like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram; he hath also the tail of a serpent, and from his mouth issue flames of fire. his feet are webbed like those of a goose. he sitteth upon an infernal dragon, and beareth in his hand a lance with a banner. he is first and choicest under the power of amaymon, he goeth before all other. when the exorcist hath a mind to call him, let it be abroad, a

ectly.21 his office is to procure the love of woman, and to tell things past, present, and to come. he also procureth friendship between friends and foes. he was of the order of potestates or powers. he governeth 37 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, to be made and worn before thee, etc (48) haagenti- the forty-eighth spirit is haagenti. he is a president, appearing in the form of a mighty bull with gryphon s wings. this is at first, but after, at the command of the exorcist he putteth on human shape. his office is to make men wise, and to instruct them in divers things; also to transmute all metals into gold; and to change wine into water, and water into wine. he governeth 33 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (49) crocell- the forty-ninth spirit is crocell, or crokel. h

astrology, rhetoric, logic, cheiromancy, and pyromancy, in all their parts, and perfectly. he hath under his power 20 legions of spirits. his seal, or mark, is thus made, etc. 21 he can nowadays converse in sound though colloquial coptic.-ed (51) balam- the fifty-first spirit is balam or balaam. he is a terrible, great, and powerful king. he appeareth with three heads: the first is like that of a bull; the second is like that of a man; the third is like that of a ram. he hath the tail of a serpent, and flaming eyes. he rideth upon a furious bear, and carrieth a boshawk upon his fist. he speaketh with a hoarse voice, giving true answers of things past, present, and to come. he maketh men to go invisible, and also to be witty. he governeth 40 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (52) al

ng; appearing in the form of a. lion with gryphon s wings. his office is to make men knowing in all handcrafts and professions, also in philosophy, and other sciences. he governeth 36 legions of spirits, and his seal or character is thus made, and thou shalt wear it as aforesaid, etc (61) zagan- the sixty-first spirit is zagan. he is a great king and president, appearing at first in the form of a bull with gryphon s wings; but after a while he putteth on human shape. he maketh men witty. he can turn wine into water, and blood into wine, also water into wine. he can turn all metals into coin of the dominion that metal is of. he can even make fools wise. he governeth 33 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (62) volac, or valak, or valu, or valac- the sixty-second spirit is volac, or

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all express the lightning flash of sight" asmodeus -god of sorcery- an ancient daemon with his roots in persia and later in palestine. asmodeus is mentioned frequently in hebrew texts. the goetia of solomon the king gives a description of the form which asmodeus takes when appearing before the sorcerer: three headed (a connection with hecate, being the tripled nature of the moon, a ram, human and bull, asmodeus rides upon a dragon, vomits fire and carries a spear. the association of asmodeus with witchcraft beyond the triple mooned nature is that the daemon is said to be the child of tubal- cain and naamah, given life by the reverse aspects associated with witchcraft and demonology. these 'reverse aspects' refer to his title as a "demon of impurity (the book of the sacred magick of abramel

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th in a land called vril-ya. these beings, known as the ana,were forced into the inner earth because of earth changes, specifically a flood, which destroyed theircivilization thousands of years before the biblical cataclysmthe ana had the ability to fly with wingsattached to their bodies (p. 13)ezekiels visionthe figures descending from a cloud with four faces, likened by the prophet to a lion, a bull, an eagleand a man (see ezekiel 23. 14-15)such sculptures were found in sargons palace in assyria. they were later purchased by john d rock-efeller (see p. 21.)the rock of behistuna giant sculpture carved so that it projected a near 3-d image from a cliff face 300 feet above theground. a tall figure raises his hand toward ten standing men, and two others behind him. a god in aflying disk hove

world. interestingly the celtic tribe tuatha de danaan, did retreat into thesidhe, the portals to the underworld.hathorthe cow goddess. the word galaxy meant mothers milk and refers to the milky way in particular.hathor was therefore connected with the milky way.the beehiveoften used as a cryptic representation of the pleiades in the constellation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13 by his wisdom he hath cut rahab to pieces (see p. 90.)merthe hebrews called the planet tiamat, or mot, or rahab, by the name of mer. those from this planetwere the original mer-men, half-man, half-fish, or reptile.an or marduk or nibiruin 1982, the space telescope iras (infra

e-heads were not a product of the ancient chinese civiliza-tion, but were transmitted from the west, said li, adding the exchange ability of the ancients mighthave surpassed our imagination.li showed pictures of the mace-heads, found in gansu, shaanxi and xinjiang in northwest china. theyare made of stone, jade or bronze, and are in the shape of balls, peaches, oblates, pentagrams, sheep-heads or bull-heads. some of them even carry colored drawings. their shapes and functions are surpris-ingly similar to those of ancient egypt, said noted. the mace was a special instrument indicating statusand authority. egypt has the earliest and the most mace-head relics in the world. in addition, a largenumber of mace-heads have been discovered in the near east, mesopotamia and the prairie of eurasia.bu

am not. above me, andabove all the other demigods, including indra and candra, is the one supreme master and controller. thepartial manifestations of his personality are brahma, visnu and siva, who are in charge of the creation,maintenance and annihilation of this universe. he is like the two threads that form the length andbreadth of a woven cloth. the entire world is controlled by him just as a bull is controlled by a rope inits nose (bhagavata purana 6.3.12) his position is between the living beings (jiva-tattva) and the supreme lord, vishnu (vishnu-tattva, inthe category of his own, shiva-tattva. shiva is usually depicted in painting and sculpture as white or ash-colored, with a blue neck (from hold-ing in his throat the poison thrown up at the churning of the cosmic ocean, which threa

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nt of fire and air with regards to initiation. mercury hod adramalech samael (smal: sheoliel+ molebriel+ afluxriel+ libridiel deceivers [jugglers of skulls, whose forms are that of a dull demon-headed, dog-like beasts. the moon yesod lilith gamaliel (gmlial: gedebriel+ materiel+ lapreziel+ idexriel+ alephriel+ labraeziel gamaliel, or the obscene ones, whose form are those of corrupting, loathsome bull-men, joined together. these demons are also called nachashiel, evil serpents, and obriel. the spirits of this sphere are of the blind dragon-force called leviathan or 56 ourabourus. in qlippothic workings, this sphere relates to lilith. the earth malkuth nahemah nahemoth (nhmath: nobrexiel+ heteriel+ molidiel+ a'ainiel+ thauhedriel lilith, the evil woman, who has many forms, changes afterward

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there was something else about magic that violated and troubled my computer-like mind. magic's arbitrary nature. while reviewing medieval grimoires, one is struck by the countless strange requirements for a given spell. you have to say these incantations, at this time of year, facing that direction. a modern aspirant to the magical arts will find himself saying things like "the testicle of a wild bull! where the hell am i gonna get that" oh, but don't forget that you have to cut that bull's balls off at midnight, and only in february, or that spell is a big no-go. this may sound like an absurd exaggeration, unworthy of being included in an objective analysis of magic, but this is exactly the kind of stuff one finds while perusing texts about magic written greater than a century ago. one ca

stances. who came up with these rules? and who enforces my command when the recipe is executed properly? because these are the questions that would occur first to a programmer; who, or what, is the "program" that enforces my will once the spell has executed properly? why does this "program" respond to my commands at all? and who the hell was looking over my shoulder to make sure i crept upon that bull on a february night? my feet sporting top-of-the-line running shoes, my trembling hands wielding a knife, and my eyes blazing with emasculating menace. this force looking over my shoulder, and executing my commands, i'll call the "magical program" if one delves in to only a couple books about magic and the occult, they come away believing that magic is terribly inflexible; these rules, as arb

levision screen. a ritual tool of lesser importance (i think) is the pentacle. this is usually a wooden or clay disk, the size of a dinner plate, and has a pentagram drawn upon it. the pentacle is essentially a spiritual shield. this implement corresponds to the element of earth. earth, whose symbol is a downward pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it s center, is associated with the bull, the north, earthy colors like green and brown, and arch-angel uriel. the ritual tool pentacle should not be confused with the talismanic pentacles that are used to bind spirits and energies to. before being used in ritual, all ritual tools undergo a ceremony of consecration, which is a ritual where that tool is magically activated. the four animals assigned to the first four elements (lion,e

orth, earthy colors like green and brown, and arch-angel uriel. the ritual tool pentacle should not be confused with the talismanic pentacles that are used to bind spirits and energies to. before being used in ritual, all ritual tools undergo a ceremony of consecration, which is a ritual where that tool is magically activated. the four animals assigned to the first four elements (lion,eagle,human,bull) also appear in the bible. ezekiel remarks on four living beings that came upon him instantly in a cloud [ezekiel 1:10, as for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. later on in the bible [revelation 4:7, nearly the exact same animals

s "the soul travelers" 84 it is said that king solomon once had power over asmodeus, and forced him to help build solomon s temple. asmodeus is said to be frustrated and under the dominion of arch-angel raphael. this fallen angel is called the demon of the wounding spear, and is often depicted having 3 heads and riding a dragon. one of his heads is that of a ram, one of a human, and the last of a bull. he is often called the god of the witches, the god of sorcery, the god of the circle, and sometimes called the serpent. asmodeus is responsible for many of humanity s scientific achievements, and has long taught sorcery, mathematics, and the arts. asmodeus, also called aeshma, asmodai, and chashmodai is considered a prime initiator in magic, which further connects him to lucifer and baphomet

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mething which may add to their own arcana of belief. in the yatuk dinoih, the lines of persian sorcery and vampyrism are close, as connected with the adversary form of ahriman. an early ritual described in "sacrifices in greek and roman religion and early judaism" by royden keith yeikes describes a persian blood ritual known as 'taurobolium, which holds a connection to mithris and the lore of the bull. in this ritual, the practitioner slays a bull on a platform, which has many holes in the wood. the blood then pours upon the individual. symbolically, the sacrifice of the wolf to ahriman is symbolic only. no blood of an animal or human should ever be used. the wolves would be shadow forms created by the sorcerer who is becoming like ahriman. the use of blood to call the dead is an old pract

ments- human skull, rib bones (baciph ashara, human bone necklace in ashes, evocation dagger, thigh bone trumpet (kangling. circle placed in middle of room, surrounded with the implements of death and azrail. incense- frankinsense, necromancy oil. the main instrument of which the fetish would be consecrated further is the horned brazilian mask of belial. i call it such as it was made from a large bull/cow skull, clayed formed a demon visage, five horns which make an averse pentagram, a third eye and teeth made of crystals. at the top of the fetish there is a place for a large machete to be held, from which the blade is a bit rusty- held in by a back of snake skin. this has been an ongoing work to awaken the spirit within, a join in union with a new famulus bound within. holding the kanglin

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ll remained adepts whom disorganizing principles bound to the ancient mysteries. because true masonry, unemasculated, bore the banners of freedom and equal rights, and was in rebellion against temporal and spiritual tyranny, its lodges were proscribed in 1735, by an edict of the states of holland. in 1737, louis xv. forbade them in france. in 1738, pope clement xii. issued against them his famous bull of excommunication, which was renewed by benedict xiv; and in 1743 the council of berne also proscribed them. the title of the bull of clement is "the condemnation of the society of conventicles _de liberi muratari, or of the freemasons, under the penalty of _ipso facto_ excommunication, the absolution from which is reserved to the pope alone, except at the point of death" and by it all bisho

and governed the sublunary world. in this degree, unknown for a hundred years to those who have practised it, these emblems reproduced refer to these old doctrines. the lamb, the yellow hangings strewed with stars, the seven columns, candlesticks, and seals all recall them to us. the lion was the symbol of athom-re, the great god of upper egypt; the hawk, of ra or phre; the eagle, of mendes; the bull, of apis; and three of these are seen under the platform on which our altar stands. the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law, and wishing to teach them that they sprang from his bosom, and to point out to them the way that they should go [the books which the first hermes, the same with enoch, had written on the mysteries of divi

and secret god himself. these three hundred and sixty-five intelligences compose altogether the fullness or _plenitude[[greek? a] of the divine emanations. with the ophites, a sect of the gnostics, there were seven inferior spirits [inferior to ialdabaoth, the demiourgos or actual creator _micha l, suri l, rapha l, gabriel, thauthabaoth, erataoth, and _athaniel, the genii of the stars called the bull, the dog, the lion, the bear, the serpent, the eagle, and the ass that formerly figured in the constellation cancer, and symbolized respectively by those animals; as _ialdabaoth, iao, adona, elo, ora, and _astapha_ were the genii of saturn, the moon, the sun, jupiter, venus, and mercury. the word appears in all these creeds. it is the _ormuzd_ of zoroaster, the _ainsoph_ of the kabalah, the

phon, his brother, slew him when the sun was in the sign of the scorpion, that is to say, at the autumnal equinox. they had been rival claimants, says synesius, for the throne of egypt, as light and darkness contend ever for the empire of the world. plutarch adds, that at the time when osiris was slain, the moon was at its full; and therefore it was in the sign opposite the scorpion, that is, the bull, the sign of the vernal equinox. plutarch assures us that it was to represent these events and details that isis established the mysteries, in which they were reproduced by images, symbols, and a religious ceremonial, whereby they were imitated: and in which lessons of piety were given, and consolations under the misfortunes that afflict us here below. those who instituted these mysteries mea

sos-orpheus descended to the shades to recover the lost virgin of the zodiac, to bring back his mother to the sky as thyone; or what has the same meaning, to consummate his eventful marriage with persephone, thereby securing, like the nuptials of his father with semele or dana, the perpetuity of nature. his under-earth office is the depression of the year, the wintry aspect in the alternations of bull and serpent, whose united series makes up the continuity of time, and in which, physically speaking, the stern and dark are ever the parents of the beautiful and bright. it was this aspect, sombre for the moment, but bright by anticipation, which was contemplated in the mysteries: the human sufferer was consoled by witnessing the severer trials of the gods; and the vicissitudes of life and de

hich, physically speaking, the stern and dark are ever the parents of the beautiful and bright. it was this aspect, sombre for the moment, but bright by anticipation, which was contemplated in the mysteries: the human sufferer was consoled by witnessing the severer trials of the gods; and the vicissitudes of life and death, expressed by apposite symbols, such as the sacrifice or submersion of the bull, the extinction and re-illumination of the torch, excited corresponding emotions of alternate grief and joy, that play of passion which was present at the origin of nature, and which accompanies all her changes. the greater eleusini; were celebrated in the month bo dromion, when the seed was buried in the ground, and when the year, verging to its decline, disposes the mind to serious reflecti

symbol was borrowed from the egyptians, who also consecrated the egg to osiris, germ of light, himself born, says diodorus, from that famous egg. in thebes, in upper egypt, he was represented as emitting it from his mouth, and causing to issue from it the first principle of heat and light, or the fire-god, vulcan, or phtha. we find this egg even in japan, between the horns of the famous mithriac bull, whose attributes osiris, apis, and bacchus all borrowed. orpheus, author of the grecian mysteries, which he carried from egypt to greece, consecrated this symbol: and taught that matter, uncreated and informous, existed from all eternity, unorganized, as chaos; containing in itself the principles of all existences confused and intermingled, light with darkness, the dry with the humid, heat w

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ntifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. through the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god- man, etc) whose value in greek should be a= 1, i= 10, f =6, a= 1, s =200,5=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see liber 418, protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. he declares himself, in this verse 7, the "minister of hoor-paar kraat" hoor-paar-kraat, or harpocrates, the "babe in the egg of blue, is not merely the god of silence in the conventional sense. he represents the higher self, the holy guardian angel. the connection is with the symboli

l disease that he must not know his subject, from anatomy to pathology; or bid him undertake to remove an appendix from a valued archbishop the first time he takes his scalpel in hand. but love is an art no less than rembrandt's, a science no less than lister's. the mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. the animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape's or the bull's. yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. he is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. it is, indeed for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dignity of man or of the majesty of the god within him. so is the guzzling and the swilling of the savage as he crams his enemy's raw liver into his mouth, or tilts th

ave no clue to her name. the lust& worship of the snake the might and worthiness of hadit within men; also the cult of the spermato- zoon the "holy ghost" or "satan" indwelling. the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of god and beast the union of aiwaz and the beast in aleister crowley pan as god& goat; mary, etc, as mother of the son of god, fer tilized by the dove or bull, swan, etc. shall mingle in the globed priest the identification of matterandspiritinour doctrine the doctrine of the re generate incorruptible body. another sacrifice shall stain the tomb loveis the magical formula: sex as the key to life 'the tomb" the temple of love. crucifixion, etc, as the magical formula. death as the key to life 'the tomb" the coffin or grave. another king shall reign

impossible in literature (as if al were literature! what is meant by the verse is that no matter who reads the book shall find at least one point of affinity with it; and this point shall seem beautiful. there are also, of course, technical meanings) the second phrase may then be a contemptuous slap at the scribe who was perhaps thinking "well, it seems otherwise to me, for one, and the hit was a bull's eye; for i was a mere liar when i thought it. i was so enraged at having engaged myself on such an adventure, so hated "the hand and the pen" which i pledged to transcribe sentiments so repugnant to mine, such a jargon of absurdities and vulgarities as seemed to me displayed in many parts of this third chapter, that i would have gone to almost any length, short of deliberate breach of my th

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f her sons on mount cithaeron. during the long period of their mother's captivity the babes had grown into page 33 sturdy youths, and, as they listened angrily to the story of her wrongs, they became all impatience to avenge them. setting off at once to thebes they succeeded in possessing themselves of the town, and after slaying the cruel lycus they bound dirce by the hair to the horns of a wild bull, which dragged her hither and thither until she expired. her mangled body was cast into the fount near thebes, which still bears her name. amphion became king of thebes in his uncle's stead. he was a friend of the muses, and devoted to music and poetry. his brother, zethus, was famous for his skill in archery, and was passionately fond of the chase. it is said that when amphion wished to incl

id that when amphion wished to inclose the town of thebes with walls and towers, he had but to play a sweet melody on the lyre, given to him by hermes, and the huge stones began to move, and obediently fitted themselves together. the punishment of dirce at the hands of amphion and zethus forms the subject of the world-renowned marble group in the museum at naples, known by the name of the farnese bull. in sculpture amphion is always represented with a lyre; zethus with a club. leda, whose affections zeus won under the form of a swan, was the daughter of thestius, king of atolia. her twin-sons, castor and (polydeuces or) pollux,[15] were [34]renowned for their tender attachment to each other. they were also famous for their physical accomplishments, castor being the most expert charioteer o

n alternate days. the page 34 dioscuri received divine honours throughout greece, and were worshipped with special reverence at sparta. europa was the beautiful daughter of agenor, king of phoenicia. she was one day gathering flowers with her companions in a meadow near the sea-shore, when zeus, charmed with her great beauty, and wishing to win her love, transformed himself into a beautiful white bull, and trotted quietly up to the princess, so as not to alarm her. surprised at the gentleness of the animal, and admiring its beauty, as it lay placidly on the grass, she caressed it, crowned it with flowers, and, at last, playfully seated herself on its back. hardly had she done so than the disguised god bounded away with his lovely burden, and swam across the sea with her to the island of cr

s in a manner worthy of his great reputation. dadalus constructed for the king the world-renowned labyrinth, which was an immense building, full of intricate passages, intersecting each other in such a manner, that even dadalus himself is said, upon one occasion, to have nearly lost his way in it; and it was in this building the king placed the minotaur, a monster with the head and shoulders of a bull and the body of a man. page 244 in the course of time the great artist became weary of his long exile, more especially as the king, under the guise of friendship, kept him almost a prisoner. he therefore resolved to make his escape, and for this purpose ingeniously contrived wings for himself and his young son icarus, whom he diligently trained how to use them. having awaited a favourable opp

, with which she [243]presented him; whereupon he ascended to the summit of a neighbouring hill, and commenced to rattle them violently. the shrill noise of these instruments was so intolerable to the birds that they rose into the air in terror, upon which he aimed at them with his arrows, destroying them in great numbers, whilst such as escaped his darts flew away, never to return. 7. the cretan bull..the seventh labour of heracles was to capture the cretan bull. minos, king of crete, having vowed to sacrifice to poseidon any animal which should first appear out of the sea, the god caused a magnificent bull to emerge from the waves in order to test the sincerity of the cretan king, who, in making this vow, had alleged that he possessed no animal, among his own herds, worthy the acceptance

endid animal sent by poseidon, and eager to possess it, minos placed it among his herds, and substituted as a sacrifice one of his own bulls. hereupon poseidon, in order to punish the cupidity of minos, caused the animal to become mad, and commit such great havoc in the island as to endanger the safety of the inhabitants. when heracles, therefore, arrived in crete for the purpose of capturing the bull, minos, far from opposing his design, gladly gave him permission to do so. the hero not only succeeded in securing the animal, but tamed him so effectually that he rode on his back right across the sea as far as the peloponnesus. he now delivered him up to eurystheus, who at once set him at liberty, after which he became as ferocious and wild as before, roamed all over greece into arcadia, an

eded to calydon, where he wooed the beautiful deianeira, daughter of oeneus, king of atolia; but he encountered a formidable rival in achelous, the river-god, and it was agreed that their claims should be decided by single combat. trusting to his power of assuming various forms at will, achelous felt confident of success; but this availed him nothing, for having at last transformed himself into a bull, his mighty adversary broke off one of his horns, and compelled him to acknowledge himself defeated. after passing three happy years with deianeira an unfortunate accident occurred, which for a time marred their felicity. heracles was one day present at a banquet given by oeneus, when, by a sudden swing of his hand, he had the misfortune to strike on the head a youth of noble birth, who, acco

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

, as well as with the defense of travelers against the assaults of criminals, noble or common, who infested the roads at this time. the hospitallers were established in avignon in 1177. saint benezet, who left his name on the bridge made famous by song* was one of the most renowned of these pontiff friars. the construction of regional bridges such as those of bompas (which earned a congratulatory bull from pope clement iii in 1189 and franchises from the counts of toulouse in 1203 and 1237, lourmarin, malemort (the name of which brings to mind the dangers faced by travelers crossing the durance, mirabeau, and pont saint esprit is attributed to them "in 1277 the community of bompas, whose prior was one [this refers to the bridge of avignon. trans] ecclesiastical and monastic associations 47

the right of asylum, the right of franchise, and fiscal privileges. the privileges of the temple: asylum and franchise like the majority of religious orders, the templars had the privilege of asylum, meaning that they could protect those individuals who sought refuge in their domains from any legal proceedings against them. one of the oldest legal documents that offers evidence of this is a papal bull from innocent iii dating from 1200 and stating that those who used violence against the colleagues and liegemen of the temple who had entered into an area under god's truce as preached by the church would be excommunicated "the bible of the lord of berze" a poem composed during the early years of the thirteenth century, expresses it as follows: dare not strike one of its knights its sargents

n those areas under their jurisdiction. interestingly, the crafts and trade exemptions recognized by the abbeys were often retained by the cities following their 96 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages own emancipation. thus as far as the templar commanderies were concerned, their privileges and exemptions remained unchanged after the abolition of the order. in fact, a bull issued by clement v on may 2, 1312, decreed that all the properties, rights, and privileges of the templars would pass into the hands of the hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem (who went on to become the knights of rhodes and the stillexisting order of the knights of malta. this bull was applicable in all christian countries and ratified by many kings, including philip the fair. the privi

erous lay craftsmen, masons, carpenters, and other tradesmen had come to reside there. inside this huge domain, the templars ruled as masters. as was the case for such orders throughout the christian world, the order was sovereign both spiritually and temporally. with regard to the spiritual, just like the order of saint john of jerusalem, the templars answered directly to the holy see. the papal bull omne datum optimum, issued on march 23, 1139, by pope innocent ii and confirmed in 1162 by alexander iii, immediately transferred the affairs of the order to the holy see and removed them from the authority of the patriarch of jerusalem and the prelates of other countries. it also gave the order complete authority to institute priests and chaplains to serve its churches* shortly afterward, an

mne datum optimum, issued on march 23, 1139, by pope innocent ii and confirmed in 1162 by alexander iii, immediately transferred the affairs of the order to the holy see and removed them from the authority of the patriarch of jerusalem and the prelates of other countries. it also gave the order complete authority to institute priests and chaplains to serve its churches* shortly afterward, another bull, this one issued by gregory viii in 1188, declared that the templars did not have to acknowledge the supremacy of any bishop other than the pope. this enabled them to avoid the pastoral authority of the bishop in paris. by virtue of these privileges, the order not only was spared the necessity of episcopal visits, but it also assumed visitation and jurisdictional rights over the dependent par

ures of trades exercised inside its censive territory did not disappear with the order's dissolution; instead, they survived up to the time of the french revolution and tradition has maintained remnants of them even into the present. the survival of templar communities and their franchises after the dissolution of the order the templar order was abolished by pope clement v on march 22, 1312. in a bull issued on may 2 of that same year, he decreed that all templar properties, with the rights and privileges granted their owners, would be transferred to the possession of the hospitallers of saint john of jerusalem. philip the fair ratified this transfer in france on august 24, 1312* the hospitallers, who were known as the knights of rhodes since 1309 and later the knights of malta (1530, were

f the temple on the rue saint martin, we find the church of saint nicolas des champs, which is also dedicated to saint john the baptist. a church dedicated to saint nicholas had already been built on this spot at the beginning of the twelfth century, before the arrival of the templars. the parish district was always under the jurisdiction of saint martin des champs, a priory of the cluny order. a bull from around 1119 issued by calixtus ii mentions a parish saint nicolas chapel that was separate from the convent church.21 with respect to the administration of justice, the parish territory was divided between the priory of saint martin and the temple another example of the closeness of templar and benedictine neighbors in the city itself. an agreement concluded in 1292 confirmed the rights

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

zif page 2 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 stones in ye elevenfold configuration. first thou shalt raise up ye four cardinal stones and these shall mark ye direction of ye four winds as they howleth through their seasons. to ye north set ye the stone of great coldness that shall form ye gate of ye winter-wind engraving thereupon the sigil of the earth-bull thus: taurus sigil in ye south (at a space of five paces from ye stone of ye north, thou shalt raise a stone of fierceheat, through which ye summer winds bloweth and make upon ye stone ye mark of ye lion-serpent thus: leo sigil ye stone of whirling-air shall be set in ye east where ye first equinox riseth and shall be graven with ye sign of he that beareth ye waters, thus: aquarius sigil ye g

page 12 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 his globes have diverse names and appeareth in many forms. the first is gomory, who appeareth like a camel with a crown of gold upon his head. he commandeth twenty-six legions of infernal spirits and giveth the knowledge of all magical jewels and talismans. the second splrit is zagan, who appeareth like a great bull, or a king terrible in aspect. thirtythree legions bow before him and he teacheth the mysteries of the sea. the third is called sytry, who taketh the form of a great prince. he hath sixty legions and telleth the secrets of time yet to come. eligor is the fourth spirit; he appeareth like a red man with a crown of iron upon his head. he commandeth likewise sixty legions and giveth the knowledge

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

e air shu, father of the goddess nut, can be identified by his ostrich plume. he is usually shown holding nut and geb, the sky and the earth, apart. ankh the ankh was the symbol of life and whoever possessed it had the power to give or take life from lesser persons. only gods, kings, and queens had the authority to hold an ankh. god of the western desert ha, the god of the western desert, wears a bull s tail from his waist. this was part of the egyptian royal regalia, signifying power and fertility. symbol of rebirth shu s staff is in the form of a snake. because snakes have the ability to slough off their skins, they became a symbol of rebirth with lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he

y that the gods created the warrior enkidu to be a comrade equal to him in strength. they fought each other furiously on their first encounter, then became very close companions and went together to the great forest to kill humbaba, the great evil. on his return, the goddess ishtar, seeing his beauty, asked gilgamesh to marry her, but he refused. furious, she demanded that her father anu create a bull of heaven to ravage the land. but enkidu and gilgamesh struck it dead. at that, the gods decided that one of the heroes must pay and enkidu fell ill and died. weeping, gilgamesh set out to find utnapishtim, the ancestor of mankind, to ask him why we must all die. he traveled beyond the ends of the earth to find him and on his way back found a plant that returned youth to the old. but as he st

the ocean in search of utnapishtim, the mortal survivor of the great flood, whom he hopes will tell him the meaning of life. gilgamesh this colossal statue dates from the eighth century bce and shows gilgamesh in royal regalia, carrying a lion and a serpentheaded staff. these are both references to episodes in the story of his journey beyond the ocean to find out why humans must die. enkidu this bull-headed figure is enkidu, the only creature to equal gilgamesh in strength. he was created from mud and spit, had a rough and hairy body, and grew up in the forest with the animals, knowing nothing of mankind. the gods who created gilgamesh gave him a perfect body. shamash, the sun god, gave him beauty, and adad, the storm god, gave him courage. until the gods created enkidu to curb his arroga

ted from mud and spit, had a rough and hairy body, and grew up in the forest with the animals, knowing nothing of mankind. the gods who created gilgamesh gave him a perfect body. shamash, the sun god, gave him beauty, and adad, the storm god, gave him courage. until the gods created enkidu to curb his arrogance and be his companion, no one could surpass his strength. after killing humbaba and the bull of heaven, the god anu said that either enkidu or gilgamesh must die as a punishment. the gods ea and enlil agreed so, despite the pleas of shamash the sun god (to whom the heroes had sacrificed the bull s heart, enkidu was marked for death. he fell ill, forewarned of death by a dream in which he was seized by a black bird and taken down to the house of dust the palace of erishkegal, the quee

as. he was said to be the son of ahura mazda one of the seven divinities created by ahura mazda to oppose the demons created by ahriman. he was a god of order; but in the need to maintain order, became a god of war and warriors. he was seen as a more approachable god one who in a sense mediated between the pure goodness of ahura mazda and the pure evil of ahriman. his shrines depict him slaying a bull, a ritual act thought to ensure new life in the renewed creation; worshippers bathed in the blood from sacrificed bulls. the mystery cult of mithras as practiced in the roman empire was solely for men; it was an ascetic cult that emphasized truth and right living, holding out in return the promise of life after death. this roman statue shows the god mithras slaying the bull. the end of all th

as the golden ass. although apuleius presents the story as an allegory of the soul (psyche) in search of love (cupid, and sets the story in the world of the roman gods, it is recognizably a version of a fairy tale widely distributed in the indo-european tradition, known to folklorists as the search for the lost husband or the animal bridegroom. variants include beauty and the beast and the black bull of norroway; over 60 versions have been recorded from italian oral tradition. cupid and psyche 35 sleeping beauty psyche s sleep here is a reminder of the deathly sleep that came upon her when she opened the box of beauty from the underworld (see above. in true fairy-tale style, she could only be woken by her true love, cupid. psyche and charon by john roddam spencer-stanhope (1829 1908) grie

her heraclitus wrote, the lord whose oracle is in delphi neither declares nor conceals, but gives a sign. apollo even the swan sings of you. as it lands upon the banks of the river peneus. the sweet-singing bard sings of you first and last with his high-tuned lyre. hail lord! hear my song. homeric hymn to apollo this greek votive relief dating from the 5th century bce shows a family sacrificing a bull to asclepius and his daughter hygeia. asclepius asclepius was the son of apollo and the nymph coronis. but coronis took a human lover, ischys, and, in a fit of anger, apollo killed her. he soon repented and told hermes (mercury) to rescue his unborn child from her womb. apollo then entrusted the child, asclepius, to cheiron (see box, who educated him, and he grew up to be the god of health an

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two bulls in one heap, covering it with an oxhide. whatever bones there were he covered with the other skin and put it down between them, offering jove [zeus] the choice of either part for himself. jupiter, although he didn t act with divine forethought, nor as a god who ought to foresee everything, was deceived by prometheus sine we have started to believe the tale! and thinking each part was a bull, shoe the bones fo r his half. and so after this, in solemn rites and sacrifices, when the flesh of victims has been consumed, they burn with fire the remaining parts which are the gods. but, to come back to the subject, jupiter, when he realized what had been done, in anger took fire from mortals, lest the favour of prometheus should seem to have more weight than the power of the gods, and t

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

silent. h g-d told them to be silent since it was not proper that they awaken the face of the ox, inasmuch as they would later sin [by worshipping] the [golden] calf. they thereby unhitched one of the four animals of the chariot.21 it would not be proper for the jewish people to invoke the power signified by the ox when they themselves would misuse this manifestation later on. in the zodiac, the bull (taurus) follows the ram (aires. the exodus took place in the month of nisan, the zodiacal sign of which is aires. the passover sacrifice was a ram; by sacrificing it, the jewish people subdued the astrological power ascendent at that time. the mixed multitude, seeing that the sign of aires had been overcome, thought to invoke the next icon, the bull.22 by abusing the ox, the jewish people ne

t they try to invoke that very power, g-d fs gevurah, to judge the egyptians. 18 this array may be seen, inter alia, in the standard editions of the zohar, volume 2, p. 270a. 19 tikunei zohar 55 (89a. 20 zohar 2:36a, based on isaiah 19:22. 21 shemot rabbah 43:8. 22 the egyptians worshipped the ram-headed god khnum as the creator. he was also one of the gods of the nile. there was also an egyptian bull-god, apis, an incarnation of the creation-god ptah. gthe priests at memphis kept a real bull that was thoguht be the god fs living image. the bull lived in luxurious accomodations near the temple of ptah, and at regular festivals the egyptian upper classes were allowed to come and view the bull. when the bull died, it was mummified in a solemn ceremony and buried in underground catacombs h (p

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

pillars may be dispensed with but formulated in the imagination as present. he may find it very uskful to paint flashing angelic tablets according to the instructions found elsewhere, as well as the banners of tvhe east and west, pla&g these in the appropriate cardinal quarters of his improvised temple. if he is able to obtain small plaster-casts of the heads of the kerubirn- the lion, the eagle, bull and man- and place these in the proper stations, they will be found together with the tablets to impart a considerable amount of magical vitality and atmosphere to the temple. what actually they do bestow is rather subtle, and perhaps indefinable. they are not absolute essentials, however, and may be dispensed with. but since magic works by the intervention of symbol and emblem, the surroundi

lead them to the perfect day, when the glory of this world passes and a great light shines over the splendid sea" book one <99> book one first knowledge lecture 1. the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of: heat and dryness fire a heat and moisture air a cold and d yness earth b cold and moisture water v 2. the signs of the zodiac are twelve: 1. aries, the ram 2. taurus, the bull 3. gemini, the twins 4. cancer, the crab 5 .leo, the lion 6. virgo, the virgin 7. libra, the scales 8. scorpio, the scorpion 9. sagittarius, the archer 10. capricorn, the goat 11. aquarius, the water-bearer 12. pisces, the fishes these twelve signs are distributedamong the four triplicities or sets of three signs, each being attributed to one of the four elements, and they represent the

lecture 6 1 these are the essential spiritual beings called upon to praise god in the 'benedicite omnia opera' the kerubim are the living powers of tetragrammaton on the material plane and the presidents of the four elements. they operate through the fixed or kerubic signs of the zodiac and are thus symbolised and attributed- kerub of air-man-aquarius zv.5 kerub of fire-lion-leo q kerub of earth-bull-taurus w kerub of water-eagle-scorpio tll or. tetragrammaton means four-lettered name and refers to the <121> unpronounceable name of god symbolised by jehovah. the laver of water of purification refers to the waters of binah, the female power reflected in the waters of creation. the altar of burnt offmmnfgo r the sacrifice of animals syrnbolises the qlippoth or evil demons of the plane conti

nd crystals, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualising the symbols of a bull-a virgin-a goat-which stand for kerubic earthmutable earth-cardinal earth. for the above terms consult a simple astrology manual. make notes of the ideas and pictures which arise in your mind. the four worlds of the qabalah are <125> atziluth, archetypal-pure deity. nl??ll briah, creative-archangelic. 7n'lx yetzirah, formative-angelic. 71'y' assiah, action-matter, man, shells, demons. 7'wy th

he zodiac. they are over the universe as a king upon his throne, and they are in the revolution of the year as a king traversing his dominions, and they are in the heart of man as a king in warfare. and the twelve loaves are the images of those ideas, and are the outer petals of the rose; while within are the four archangels ruling over the four quarters, and the kerubic emblems of the lion, man, bull and eagle. around the great central lamp which is an image of the sun, is the great mother of heaven, syrnbolised by the letter heh, the first of the simple letters, and by its number 5, the pentagram, malkah the bride, ruling in her kingdom malkuth, crowned with a crown of twelve stars. these twelve circles further represent the 12 foundations of the holy city of the apocalypse, while in chr

y go round) 0 lord of the universe- thou art above all things and thy name is in all things; and before thee, the shadows of night roll back and the darkness hasteth away. kenu (barring the way with salt and banner of west) the priest with the mask of the ox, spake and said "thou canst not pass the gate of the northern heaven, unless thou canst tell me my name" heg satem, in the abode of shu, the bull of earth, is thy name. thou art kephra, the sun at night 'the "mother letters1'are given as relating to the primary elements appropriate to each quarter, i.e. aleph, east; shin, south; mem, west; and all three together in the north to symbolize the physical universe which manifests by their union, the combined elements. p.m. theoricus ritual 159 kerux in what signs and symbols do ye come? heg

who awaits them in the s. heg. the seraphim in the vision of isaiah are described as having six wings-'with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly."that is, his synthesis is to be found in the hexagram and in the idea of the seven, more especially dominating the planetary region. but the kerubim of ezekiel have each 4 faces- those of the lion, the bull, the man and the eagle <173> counterchanged with each other by revolution, whence the symbolic forms of the wheels beside them, wherein was the spirit; and with two of the wings they covered their bodies and two were stretched upwards one to another. so the synthesis of the kerubim is found in the revolving cross, in the pentagram, and in the idea of one spirit dominating the four elements. b

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

for him before his existence, and so he hath prepared a place in heaven for him,while he is yet upon the face of the earth. he hath given him a world for use, a heaven forcontemplation. so man planteth, that from the seed, in due time he may reap, end which it groweth,let us behold the beauties of the firmament, for in any sign there is growing strength. my zodiacalmeasure is that of taurus, the bull: in which are found the glorious pleiades, hyades, orion, sirius,aldebaran and procyon.conductor and companions proceed to celebrant, whose five lights have been lit.celebrant,5th sign: man in his inception and before partaking of the tree of knowledge was his maker222sprototype: other creatures grovel in the earth and have their senses intent upon it, the creature man isreared up toward heav

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

be the grain. you are called to be king of air, water, earth and fire; but to reign over these four living creatures of symbolism, it is necessary to conquer and enchain them. he who aspires to be a sage and to know the great enigma of nature must be the heir and despoiler of the sphinx: his the human head, in order to possess speech; his the eagle's wings, in order to scale the heights; his the bull's flanks, in order to furrow the depths; his the lion's talons, to make a way on the right and the left, before and behind. you therefore who seek initiation, are you learned as faust? are you insensible as job? no, is it not so? but you may become like unto both if you choose. have you overcome the vortices of vague thoughts? are you without indecision or capriciousness? do you consent to pl

we shall complete our indications of the characteristics of the great arcanum, and of the means of recovering this tremendous power' here let us add a few words on the four magical elements and elementary spirits. the magical elements are: in alchemy, salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth; in kabalah, the macroprosopus, the microprosopus and the two mothers; in hieroglyphics, the man, eagle, lion and bull; in old physics, according to vulgar names and notions, air, water, earth and fire. but in magical science we know that water is not ordinary water, fire is not simply fire, etc. these expressions conceal a more recondite meaning. modern science has decomposed the four elements of the ancients and reduced them to a number of so-called simple bodies. that which is simple, however, is the primi

scenes which succeed one another in this wonderful prophetic epic are so many pantacles, the keys of which are the ternary, the quaternary, the septenary and the duodenary. its hieroglyphic figures are analogous to those of the book of hermes or the genesis of enoch, to make use of a tentative title which expresses merely the personal opinion of the erudite william postel. the cherub, or symbolic bull, which moses placed at the gate of the edenic world, bearing a fiery sword, is a sphinx, having a bull's body and a human head; it is the antique assyrian sphinx, and the combat and victory of mithras were its hieroglyphic analysis. now, this armed sphinx represents the law of mystery which watches at the door of initiation to warn away the profane. voltaire, who knew nothing of all this, was

of the edenic world, bearing a fiery sword, is a sphinx, having a bull's body and a human head; it is the antique assyrian sphinx, and the combat and victory of mithras were its hieroglyphic analysis. now, this armed sphinx represents the law of mystery which watches at the door of initiation to warn away the profane. voltaire, who knew nothing of all this, was highly diverted at the notion of a bull brandishing a sword. what would he have said had he visited the ruins of memphis and thebes, and what would the echo of past ages which slumbers in the tombs of rameses have replied to those light sarcasms so much relished in france? the mosaic cherub represents also the great magical mystery, of which the elements are expressed by the septenary, without, however, giving the final word. this

e of which is a fact, which has a movement conformed to calculations having the great magical arcanum for their ascending and scale. this universal arcanum, the final and eternal secret of transcendent initiation, is represented in the tarot by a naked girl, who touches the earth only by one foot, has a magnetic rod in each hand, and seems to be running in a crown held up by an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion. fundamentally, the figure is analogous to the cherub of jekeskiel, of which a representation is given, and to the indian symbol of adda-nari, which again is analogous to the adonai of jekeskiel, who is vulgarly called ezekiel. the comprehension of this figure is the key of all occult sciences. readers of my book must already understand it philosophically if they are at all familia

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

must be consecrated separately, saying: over the salt may wisdom abide in this salt, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from all corruption, by hochmael and in the virtue of ruach-hochmael! may the phantoms of hyle depart herefrom; that it may become a heavenly salt, salt of the earth and earth of salt; that it may feed the threshing ox, and strengthen our hope with the horns of the flying bull! amen. 30 the ritual of transcendental magic over the ash may this ash return unto the fount of living waters; may it become a fertile earth; may it bring forth the tree of life, by the three names which are netsah, hod, and jesod, in the beginning and in the end, by alpha and omega, which arc in the spirit of azoth! amen. mingling the water, salt and ash in the salt of eternal wisdom, in the

dens! amen. it must be borne in mind that the special kingdom of gnomes is at the north, that of salamanders at the south, that of sylphs at the east, and that of undines at the west. these beings influence the four temperaments of man; that is to say, the gnomes affect the melancholy, salamanders the sanguine, undines the phlegmatic and sylphs the bilious. their signs are: the hieroglyphs of the bull for the gnomes, who are commanded with the sword; those of the lion for salamanders, who are commanded with the bifurcated rod or magic trident; those of the eagle for the sylphs, who are commanded by the holy pantacles; finally, those of the water-carrier for undines, who are commanded by the cup of libations. their 32 the ritual of transcendental magic respective sovereigns are gob for the

d with powdered loadstone. then, holding the pantacle of solomon in one hand and taking up successively the sword, rod and cup, the conjuration of the four should be recited with a loud voice, after the following manner: caput mortuum, the lord command thee by the living and votive serpent! cherub, the lord command thee by adam jotchabah! wandering eagle, the lord command thee by the wings of the bull! serpent, the lord tetragrammaton command thee by the angel and the lion! michael, gabriel, raphael, and anael! flow moisture, by the spirit of eloim. earth, be established by adam jotchabah. spread, firmament, by jahubehu, zebaoth. fulfil, judgment, by fire in the virtue of michael. angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water! work, winged bull, or revert to the earth, u

for jupiter a crown and a scythe for saturn. the reverse must bear the sign of solomon, that is, the six-pointed star composed of two superposed triangles; in the centre there is placed a human figure for the talismans of the sun, a chalice for those of the moon, a dog's head for those of mercury, an eagle's for those of jupiter, a lion's head for those of mars, a dove's for those of venus, and a bull's or goat's for those 46 the ritual of transcendental magic of saturn. the names of the seven angels must be added in hebrew, in arabic or in magical characters like those of the alphabet of trithemius. the two triangles of solomon may be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we have observed in our gdoctrine h

god of lamartine and victor cousin, the god of spinoza and plato, the god of the primitive gnostic schools; the christ also of the dissident priesthood. this last qualification, ascribed to the goat of black magic, will not astonish students of religious antiquities who are acquainted with the phases of symbolism and doctrine in their various transformations, whether in india, egypt or judea. the bull, the dog and the goat are the three symbolical animals of hermetic magic, resuming all the traditions of egypt and india. the bull represents the earth or salt of the philosophers; the dog is hermanubis, the mercury of the sages. otherwise, fluid, air and water; the goat represents fire and is at the same time the symbol of generation. two goats, one pure and one impure, were consecrated in j

, for the honour of humanity, that it has never worshipped dogs and goats any more than lambs or pigeons. in the hieroglyphic orders, why not a goat as much as a lamb? on the sacred stones of gnostic christians of the basilidean sect there are representations of christ under the diverse figures of kabalistic animals. sometimes a bird, at others a lion, and again a serpent with the head of lion or bull; but in all cases he bears invariably the same attributes of light, even as our goat, which cannot be confounded with fabulous images of satan, owing to the sign of the pentagram. let us affirm categorically, to combat the remnants of manichaeanism which are appearing sporadically among christians, that as a superior personality and the sabbath of the sorcerers 83 power satan does not exist

ters designed according to the zodiacal constellations by ancient astrologers: each of them represents the name of a genius, be he good or evil. it is known that the signs of the zodiac correspond to various celestial influences and consequently signify an annual alternative of good or evil. the names of the genii designated by the above characters are: for the ram, sataaran and sarahiel; for the bull, bagdal, and araziel; for the twins, sagras and saraiel; for the crab, rahdar and. phakiel; for the lion, sagham and seratiel; for the virgin, iadara and schaltiel; for the balance, grasgarben and hadakiel; for the scorpion, riehol and saissaiel; for the archer, vhnori and saritaiel; for the goat, sagdalon and semakiel; for the water- bearer, ssakmakile; for the fishes, rasamasa and vacabiel

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

clean, and served up by pleasant children like enchanted puppets. what food they extract from us is conveyed to their homes by secret paths, as some skillful women do [convey] the pith of milk from their neighbour's cows into their own cheese-hold, through a hairtedder, at a great distance by art magic, or by drawing [from] a spigot fastened in a post, which will bring milk [from] as far off as a bull will be heard to roar. the cheese made of the secret commonwealth 25 the remaining milk of a cow thus strained will swim in water like cork. the method [which] they take to recover their milk is a bitter chiding of the suspected enchanters, charging by a counter-charm to give them back their own, in god['s, or [in] their master's name- but a little of the mother's dung stroked on the calve's

RUBY TABLET OF SET

u whose words are truth, i invoke, i greet thy presence, o ra-hoor-khuit! unity uttermost showed! i adore the might of thy breath, supreme and terrible god, who makest the gods and death to tremble before thee- i, i adore thee! appear on the throne of ra! open the ways of the khu! lighten the ways of the ka! the ways of the khabs run through to stir me or still me! aum! let it fill me! the sacred bull mentu was the god of the city of ani, capital of the iv uast (thebes) nome of upper egypt [see #ii-49. ankh-f-n-khonsu is the priest commemorated by the stele of revealing. his name means"[he whose] life [is] in khonsu (the moon-god of thebes and son of amon and mut" crowley believed himself to be a reincarnation of this priest. 38. so that thy light is in me& its red flame is as a sword in m

t; its new title will be the priest of set. magic moon xensu was worshipped with great honour at thebes. the name is derived from the root 'khens, to travel, to move about. xensu, the moon god of later times, occupied a very important position as the 'messenger' of the great gods, and the 'traveler' who journeyed through the sky under the form of the moon. as the new moon he is likened to a fiery bull, and he caused to shine upon the earth the beautiful light of the crescent moon, and through his agency women conceived, cattle became fertile, the germ grew in the egg, and all nostrils and throats were filled with fresh air. xensu. the space-traveling messenger who carries the words of the gods throughout the universe. as is the case with all among the elect who have acquired the name of an

o all who can see, the tarot too must become alive with these lessons. ptah is therefore entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring this life. the third scepter is a visible sign indicating by whose authority ptah is charged with this task. set: quite well done, ptah. do you understand why ptah is frequently not seen in a moving posture? why is his animal aspect most frequently seen as an apis bull? ptah: both of these representations have also been misunderstood for too long. many did, and still do, believe this to mean that ptah makes no progress. set: yes, but this is easily countered by the mastery of your being. ptah: i agree, yet the myth persists. these attitudes of seeming immovability actually reflects the singleness of purpose, not venturing down tributaries, but instead prefe

l that is above them. i have made the water; i have made the heavens; i have stretched out the two horizons like curtains, and i have placed the souls of the gods within them. i am he who, if he opens his eyes, does make the light; and, if he closes them, darkness comes into being. i have made the hours; i have created the days; i bring forward the festivals of the year. i have created the sacred bull from whose loins spring the delights of love. i make the fire of life, and i provide food in houses. i am xepera [mother (or father] we speak for the child, and we say: i have fashioned my mouth, and i speak my name. my name is (name. this is my word of power. i have spoken my name, and i become. out of the primeval matter which has been from the beginning, i have been called forth. i shall b

the gong [as the last sound emissions of the storm decay, the synthesizer operator deactivates the tesla coil and retunes the synthesizer to the bells of chaos. perform the closing fugue and purification. deactivate the black flame] so it is done! footnotes 1 see the rites of yuggoth [v2- c32.l- 1 for more description of these technical/magical tools] black mass comments (by rosemary webb, i) the bull of ombos pylon, with magistra linda reynolds and priest ronald barrett, participated in a black mass the saturday before memorial day xxv. the black mass was cocelebrated by setian rosemary webb and setian adrian carrico. we based this text on a previous black mass that the pylon had performed a few years earlier, and the texts in #6a and #6l. we also examined the structure of the catholic ma

ith memory and special purpose cpus. of course, with such a large, redundant network, some links have less traffic than others- the "quiet cable" where we do our work undisturbed. each band in the cyberworld sky can be thought of as one of the possible communications paths. classification: v2- c3t- 1 author: rosemary webb i, don webb ii (computer graphics by michael rigby ii) date: march 24, xxv, bull of ombos pylon html revision: dec 24, 1998 ce subject: cyberspace reading list: 15 the data sea is a mass of fragmented, currently unused memory. it is a visual representation of uncollected garbage in virtual memory. as a program runs, it uses memory space. after a program completes its run, its unneeded memory becomes available for other programs to use- if the other program happens to need

ory to do its work. efforts to control or destroy a worm simply cause it to move on, hide on disk drives, spawn children, or aggressively defend itself. a properly constructed worm can live in a network, working its will, forever. the cyberspace working [ring the bell nine times [light the black flame (using the eye of the storm [opening the gate and invocation of set [the graal (the sigil of the bull of ombos pylon is shown on the computer screen. the magician removes the heart from the stela of the bull of ombos pylon and squeezes the blood into the cup] we are the heart of bata, which is sacrificed ever and anon to itself. as it feeds itself, it grows free from the natural order. drink this blood i have squeezed from the living heart of bata. accept the sacrifice of yourself that you ma

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

amn" reincarnation, for frenzied gibreel, was a term beneath whose shield many notions gathered a-babeling: phoenix-from-ashes, the resurrection of christ, the transmigration, at the instant of death, of the soul of the dalai lama into the body of a new-born child. such matters got mixed up with the avatars of vishnu, the metamorphoses of jupiter, who had imitated vishnu by adopting the form of a bull; and so on, including of course the progress of human beings through successive cycles of life, now as cockroaches, now as kings, towards the bliss of no-morereturns _to be born again, first you have to die. chamcha did not bother to protest that in most of the examples gibreel provided in his soliloquies, metamorphosis had not required a death; the new flesh had been entered into through oth

from the corners of her eyes, and he would feel a tugging in the region of his navel, as if something were trying to come out. then she looked away, and the sensation faded. perhaps it was only a sideeffect of stress. he asked her one night if she had seen the horns growing on chamcha's head, but she went deaf and, instead of answering, told him how she would sit on a camp stool by the galp n or bull-pen at los alamos and the prize bulls would come up and lay their horned heads in her lap. one afternoon a girl named aurora del sol, who was the fianc e of martin de la cruz, let fall a saucy remark: i thought they only did that in the laps of virgins, she stage-whispered to her giggling friends, and rosa turned to her sweetly and replied, then perhaps, my dear, you would like to try? from t

nately just an inch away from his face, until the ashy writer was hopelessly aroused; whereupon they would laugh at his stiffness and mock him into blushing, quivering detumescence; or, very occasionally, and when he had given up all expectation of such a thing, they would depute one of their number to satisfy, free of charge, the lust they had awakened. in this way, like a myopic, blinking, tame bull, the poet passed his days, laying his head in women's laps, brooding on death and revenge, unable to say whether he was the most contented or the wretchedest man alive. it was during one of these playful sessions at the end of a working day, when the girls were alone with their eunuchs and their wine, that baal heard the youngest talking about her client, the grocer, musa "that one" she said

ow that they were being watched; the court must be picketed, and a rota should be organized; there was the need for a financial appeal. chamcha murmured to jumpy "nobody mentions his history of sexual aggression" jumpy shrugged "some of the women he's attacked are in this room. mishal, for example, is over there, look, in the corner by the stage. but this isn't the time or place for that. simba's bull craziness is, you could say, a trouble in the family. what we have here is trouble with the man" in other circumstances, saladin would have had a good deal to say in response to such a statement- he would have objected, for one thing, that a man's record of violence could not be set aside so easily when he was accused of murder- also that he didn't like the use of such american terms as "the

SATANGEL

asmodeus, talmudic asmeddai, meaning being of judgement. ex- cherubim, more of a philosopher than a fiend. originally a persian deity, it is supposedly he who killed the seven bridegrooms of sarah and fought rapha-el, before being banished to upper egypt. classically, the patron demon of passion, lechery, luxury, sensuality, who wreaks havoc seducing nuns and monks. may appear with three heads, a bull, a ram and a man, and the feet of a rooster or goose, and a serpent s tail. shoots flames from his mouth, and rides an infernal dragon with a lance and banner. lures happily married couples into adultery, and enjoys arranging unsuitable marriages. a beautiful well dressed young man, sometimes a woman, he runs the casinos in hell. on earth, he tempts humans to squander their wealth, following

wicca. azazel (hebrew. demon prince of air. also, amongst the watchers (see above. azi dahaki (avestan azi, meaning snake, modern farsi azidaha, meaning dragon. from earliest indo-aryan, three headed serpent, embodiment of falsehood, usurper of iran. accomplice of ahriman at the end of the world. baal, bael (goetia, 1st spirit, west semite, lord, owner) who wears a conical cap with a long band of bull s horns, and is identified with seth. also manifests as the patron devil of idleness, with the arms of a spider and three heads; a toad, a cat, and a man. second in command of hell, residing in its eastern region, commanding sixty or seventy legions of demons. archdemon of netzach (waite. king commanding 66 legions. speaks hoarsely. gives the power of invisibility (goetia. the title of baal i

f cherubim, now grand pontiff and master of infernal ceremonies, chief secretary of hell, minister of foreign affairs, and infernal archivist. his name appears as a counter-signatory in the infernal pacts. baal-chanan, baal-hanan archdemon corresponding to netzach (waite. balam (goetia, 51st spirit. once of the order of dominations, now a demonic king ruling 40 legions, with the heads of a man, a bull, and a ram, with the tail of a serpent. rides a bear, carries a goshawk, speaks hoarsely. tells fortunes, gives invisibility, makes men witty. baphomet this character has long been identified with the devil and the goat of mendes, and as purely male. such has played its part in the continuation of that myth which states that the templars were the agents of darkness. the name baphomet is also

norius. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. can cause all varieties of disease. will obey any command given. gusion (goetia, 11th spirit. duke commanding 40 legions. appears as a xenopilus. tells fortunes, shows meanings and resolutions of all questions asked, reconciles friends, bestows honour and dignity to anyone. haagenti (goetia, 48th spirit. president commanding 33 legions. appears as a mighty bull with griffin s wings, assumes human form on command. makes men wise, transmutes all metals to gold, changes water into wine. halphas, malthas, malthus, malthous (goetia, 38th spirit. earl commanding 26 legions. appears as a stock dove, speaks hoarsely. builds towers and supplies them with armaments, sends warriors. haurus, haures (goetia, 64rh spirit. who manifests as a leopard, man, or theri

works of aggrippa and nettesheim. patron devil of avarice, and ambassador to england. who is so stooped from the impact from the fall that he must spend his days staring at the ground. possibly a form of mammitu, the akkadian goat headed queen of the underworld, goddess of oaths and pacts, spouse of nergal. marax, morax (goetia, 21st spirit. earl and president commanding 30 legions. appears as a bull with a human face. teaches astronomy, gives wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and stones. marbas (goetia, 5th spirit. president commanding 36 legions. appears as a great lion. gives true answers on secret matters, causes and cures disease, teaches mechanics, transforms men into other forms. marchosia, marchocias (goetia, 35th spirit. formerly an angel of dominations, now a prince o

imal. they became engrossed in the flesh that they could not reascend. see chapter two. xapham. rebel angel who suggested setting fire to heaven during the war, but was cast down too soon. now fans the flames of the pit. yama (indo-aryan. the first man to die, the prince of hell, judge of the dead. clothed in red, with a noose to drag out the soul. may appear in tantric tradition as standing on a bull, which is screwing a human woman. zagan (goetia 61st spirit. king and president commanding 33 legions. appears as a bull with griffin s wings; later as a human being. makes men witty; turns water or blood into wine; turns any metal into coins; makes even fools wise. zepar (goetia, 16th spirit. duke commanding 26 legions. appears as a soldier clothed and armoured in red. procures love, makes w

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

cient egyptians should act when facing the weighing of the heart against the feather of truth. public domain. 50 world religions: almanac ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia the book of the dead was found in tombs for commoners as well as royalty. all levels of egyptian society were concerned about their afterlife and wanted to be prepared to meet it successfully. sacred symbols the winged bull, a blend of sky god and earth god powers, is a strong symbolic representation of the mesopotamian religion. the winged bull has the head of a man bearing a cap with two (and sometimes three) horns, the body of a bull or lion, and wings like an eagle. the horns on the cap symbolize the bull s godlike nature. large sculptures of the creatures were found at three sites of ancient mesopotamia, fr

. they represent spiritual guardians that repel evil, and they always appear in pairs. assyrian kings often had pairs of winged bulls flanking the entrance to their palaces. the sculptures were sometimes accompanied by inscriptions that called upon the winged bulls to deter enemies and protect the king. the mesopotamian moon god, sin (also called nanna, has a lapis lazuli beard and rides a winged bull. lapis lazuli is a blue semiprecious stone. a powerful and still popular symbol of ancient egypt s religion is the ankh. the ankh resembles a cross, but has an upside down teardrop shape at its top. in the ancient egyptian written language of hieroglyphs, the ankh represents life. it is often present in tomb carvings and other artwork. it is associated with magical protection, or sa. even tho

n water. the king also participated in these festivities, but he did so in the temples. there, to show his loyalty to marduk, the king was slapped in the face by the priests and made to promise to the statue of marduk that he had committed no sins in the previous year. a priest would then slap the king s face again, hard enough to bring tears. tears showed that marduk was pleased with the king. a bull was sacrificed, or killed, that evening. not all the rituals have been recorded, but it seems there was also a parade through the streets of the city with the king holding the hand of the statue of marduk. some historians suggest that the new year s celebration and the sacred marriage were combined. the sacred marriage brought together the king and the goddess innana, likely represented by a

god of babylon who later came to be the supreme god. marduk fought an army of demons led by the goddess tiamat. the new year s festival celebrates the king s fitness to rule through a ceremony in which he bows to a statue of marduk. sin: the moon god. he is also known as nanna. he is lord of the calendar and oversees the seasons. sin wears a beard of the blue stone lapis lazuli and rides a winged bull. gods of the egyptian pantheon amen: called the king of gods. amen, also spelled amon or amun, was often combined with ra, or re. amen-ra was an even more powerful god. anubis: the god of embalming, or of preserving the bodies of the dead. anubis is depicted as a jackal or as a man with the head of a jackal. horus: the god of the sky. horus is the child of osiris and isis. after set killed os

winter solstice (the shortest day of winter) ceremony in beijing to celebrate the return of positive yang energy, wearing blue robes embroidered with dragons. at the confucian temple, he would light a pile of sticks set onto the circular-shaped altar, signifying the shape of heaven. the rising smoke from this fire summoned the god shangdi, the supreme lord, to the ceremony. the meat from a young bull would be served as an offering, all accompanied to the 166 world religions: almanac confucianism music of gongs, flutes, and stones beaten like drums. the emperor would also lead the ceremony at the temple of agriculture at the beginning of the planting season, plowing a furrow in a sacred field. confucians also practice a form of meditation known as quiet sitting, which is described in the b

es of the sioux nation, was among the most influential native americans of his generation. during his lifetime, the lands of his people in the modern-day u.s. states of south dakota, montana, and wyoming were opened to white settlement. the indians who lived in these areas were moved to reservations or limited territories. other native americans during the late nineteenth century, such as sitting bull (1831 1890) and crazy horse (1849 1877, battled against the settlers and gold miners and were killed by soldiers. black elk also fought as a young man and was present at two of the most important battles in the closing chapter of indian independence: the defeat of george 51 armstrong custer (1839 1879) at the battle of the little big horn in montana, and the 1890 massacre of indians at wounde

te spring of 1876, black elk s father had lost faith in his chief, red cloud, for accepting this white injustice. he took his family to join with the band led by crazy horse, his cousin and a chief who was still eager to fight the whites. many other tribes gathered that summer at greasy grass, the indian name for the little big horn in montana. they held a ritual sun dance, with the chief sitting bull as the leader. the next day the bands were attacked by soldiers of the seventh cavalry, led by custer. world religions: biographies 53 black elk the cavalry, however, was hugely outnumbered by the four thousand warriors it faced, and the native americans defeated the u.s. soldiers, killing custer in the process. black elk, only twelve at the time, killed a soldier and took his first scalp at

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

henriot had been a lackey, a thief, a spy of the police; he had drunk the blood of madame de lamballe, and had risen to his present rank for no quality but his ruffianism; and fouquier-tinville, the son of a provincial agriculturist, and afterwards a clerk at the bureau of the police, was little less base in his manners, and yet more, from a certain loathsome buffoonery, revolting in his speech, bull-headed, with black, sleek hair, with a narrow and livid forehead, with small eyes, that twinkled with a sinister malice; strongly and coarsely built, he looked what he was, the audacious bully of a lawless and relentless bar. dumas trimmed the candles, and bent over the list of the victims for the morrow "it is a long catalogue" said the president "eighty trials for one day! and robespierre's

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

if these things be done "the deceased shall p. 123 drink water from the source of the stream, and he shall shine like the stars in the heavens above" it is probable that chapters clxil-clxv. were composed at a comparatively late date. yet another example of the magical pictures of the book of the dead must here be given. the vignette of chapter cxlviii. contains pictures of seven cows "and their bull" and of four rudders; the seven cows have reference to the seven hathor goddesses, the bull is, of course, a form of ra, and the four rudders refer to the four quarters of the earth and to the four cardinal points. the text of the chapter contains the names of the cows and of the bull, and of the rudders, and certain prayers for sepulchral. offerings. now the deceased would be provided with "

the four rudders refer to the four quarters of the earth and to the four cardinal points. the text of the chapter contains the names of the cows and of the bull, and of the rudders, and certain prayers for sepulchral. offerings. now the deceased would be provided with "abundance of food regularly and continually for ever" if the following things were done for him. figures of the cows and of their bull and of the rudders were to be painted in colours upon a board, and when ra, the sun-god, rose upon them the friends of the deceased were to place offerings before them; these offerings would be received mystically by the gods and goddesses whom the figures represented, and in return they would bestow upon the deceased all the offerings or gifts of meat and drink which he would require. moreov

nd the sweat rusheth to my face even as in the time of summer' then said isis unto ra 'o tell me thy name, holy father, for whosoever shall be delivered by thy name shall live' and ra said 'i have made the heavens and the earth, i have knit together the mountains, i have created all that is above them, i have made the water, i have made to come into being the goddess meht-urt, and i have made the bull of his mother, from whom spring the delights of love. i have made the heavens, i have stretched out the two horizons like a curtain, and i have placed the soul of the gods within them. i am he who, if he openeth his eyes, doth make the light, and, if he closeth them, darkness cometh into being. at his command the nile riseth, and the gods know not his name. i have made the hours, i have creat

se beings that he had a right to pass them. in the first place, figures of the seven gates had to be made in some substance (or painted upon papyrus, as well as a figure of the deceased: the latter was made to approach each of the gates and to stand before it and to recite an address which had been specially prepared for the purpose. meanwhile the thigh, the head, the heart, and the hoof of a red bull were offered at each gate, as well as a very large number of miscellaneous offerings which need not be described in detail. but all these ceremonies would not help the deceased to pass through the gates, unless be knew the names of the seven doorkeepers, and the seven watchers, and the seven heralds who guarded them. the gods of the first gate were--sekhet-hraasht- aru, semetu, and hukheru; t

name. hold "tell me my name" d "akau" is thy name. mast "tell me my name" d "bringer back of the lady after her departure" is thy name. lower deck "tell me my name" d "standard of ap-uat" is thy name. upper post "tell me my name" d "throat of mestha" is thy name. sail "tell me my name" d "nut" is thy name. leather straps "tell us our name" d "those who p. 169 are made from the hide of the mnevis bull, which was burned by suti" is your name. paddles "tell us our name" d "fingers of horus the firstborn" is your name. pump "tell me my name" d "the hand of isis which wipeth away the blood of the eye of horus" is thy name. planks "tell us our names" d "mestha, hapi, tuamutef, qebhsennuf, haqau, thet-emaua, maa-an-tef, ari-nef-tchesef" are your names. rows "tell us our name" d "he who is at the

f set. it seems that, p. 195 the soul of horus dwelt in an eye, and that set nearly succeeded in devouring it; but horus vanquished set and saved his eye. set's associates then changed themselves into the forms of animals, and birds, and fish, but they were caught, and their heads were cut off; set, however, who was concealed in the form of a pig, contrived to escape. the sacrifice consisted of a bull (or cow) or two, two gazelles or antelopes, and ducks. when the bull had been slain, one of the forelegs was cut off, and the heart taken out, and offered to the statue or mummy; the sem priest then took the bleeding leg and touched, or pretended to touch, the mouth and eyes with it four times. the slaughtered gazelles or antelopes and ducks were simply offered before the statue. the sem prie

them to the mouth of the mummy, and when this portion of the ceremony was ended, the sem priest took an ostrich feather, and waved it before its face four times, but with what object is not clear. such are the ceremonies which it was thought necessary to perform in order to restore to the deceased the functions which his body possessed upon earth. but it must be remembered that hitherto only the "bull of the south" has been sacrificed, and that the "bull of the north" has yet to be offered up; and all the ceremonies which have been already performed must be repeated if the deceased would have the power to go forth at will over the whole earth. from the earliest times the south and the north were the two great sections into which the world was divided, and each section possessed its own spe

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of one accord with one voice, said [1 "we are the thirty-six elements, the world-rulers [2] of this darkness. but, o king solomon, thou wilt not wrong us nor imprison us, nor lay command on us; but since the lord god has given thee authority over every spirit, in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, therefore do we also present ourselves before thee like the other spirits, from ram and bull, from [35] both twin and crab, lion and virgin, scales and scorpion, archer, goat-horned, waterpourer, and fish [1. acts ii. 1. 2. kosmokratores. cp. paul, eph. vi. 12; origen, c. celsum, viii, 58] 73. then i solomon invoked the name of the lord sabaoth, and questioned each in turn as to what was its character. and i bade each one come forward and tell of its actions. then the first one came

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olden crowns upon their heads.136 130 christianity as mystical fact around the archetypal source of reality we thus find beings who have already advanced far along the path of wisdom, who look upon the infinite and bear witness to it. in the center and around the throne were the four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind. the first living creature was like a lion. the second was like a bull. the third looked like a man. the fourth was like a flying eagle. and each of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes around and within. and they cry without ceasing, both day and night, holy, holy, holy, is god, the almighty, who was, and is, and is to come. 137 it is easy to understand the living creatures; they represent the supersensible life that underlies the forms

seal is opened, the universal power of justice, now led by christianity, appears; with the opening of the fourth, it is the power of religion that appears and that is given a new perspective through christianity. the significance of the four living creatures emerges clearly: they are the four chief universal powers, which are to be given a new direction by christianity.141 war lion peaceful work bull justice human countenance religious aspiration eagle the meaning of the third being is made explicit when the third seal is opened and the text reads: a quart of wheat for a day s wages, three quarts of barley for a day s wages. thus the rider carries a pair of scales.142 when the fourth seal is opened, the rider who appears is called death, and hell was following close behind him; the rider

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e. baphles me! 111 according to this news account from the associated press (april 1, 1995, the tomb of alexander the great was found at siwa, in egypt. adorers of the greek conqueror, alexander the great, attributed horns to him. this was thought to be emblematic of a person's divine power and spiritual acumen. coins bearing alexander's visage were struck picturing the greek military leader as a bull with horns and the lit torch in his head. 112 codex magic a strangely, many medieval artists, especially those clandestinely dabbling in the occult arts, often portrayed moses as a bearded human figure with horns (the herder dictionary of symbols, chiron publications, illinois) the devil has long been conceived in the popular imagination of the masses as a creature with horns, cloved feet and

orch in his head. 112 codex magic a strangely, many medieval artists, especially those clandestinely dabbling in the occult arts, often portrayed moses as a bearded human figure with horns (the herder dictionary of symbols, chiron publications, illinois) the devil has long been conceived in the popular imagination of the masses as a creature with horns, cloved feet and claws, and tail. smokey the bull? baphlesme! 113 this ad for nokia telephones appears harmless enough. but look closely at the subtle, horned image of the man's silver belt buckle. also, he is wearing what appears to be the string cord on his left wrist characteristic of followers of the occult cabala (or kabbalah. 114 codex magica president bill clinton was named "man of the year" by time magazine. the editors stretched the

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nd commonsense to do so, whatever the state of affairs in your mind. nature eventually denies that which it affirms: through permanent association with the same moral code we help desire to transgress. desire of those things denied, the more you restrict the more you sin, but desire equally desires preservation of moral instinct, so desire is its own conflict (and weakly enough. have no fear, the bull of earth has long had nothing to do with your unclean conscience, your stagnant ideas of morality. the microbe alone would seem without fear! 11: the elemental morality or fear of displeasing. the complexity of the belief (know thyself. the nature of belief equals all possibilities ultimately true by identification through culture to an idea of time, so what is not timely is not true, and wha

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is properly a jackal. kabexnuv in the west, in the region of n, has the form of a hawk, the subordinate form to the alchemic eagle of distillation, and the form also, of horus, the hiereus, beside whom is his station, and of whose symbolism he partakes. ahephi in the north, has the head of an ape. the symbology of the ape in ancient egypt is very complex. here it may be taken that while apis, the bull, represents the divine strength of the eternal gods, the ape represents the elemental strength which is far inferior and blended with cunning. ahephi, however, has other symbolism and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilizing qualities of the nile and of the fact that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of

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many members of the various pagan belief systems, might fit into those groups, there are just as many, if not more normal well-adjusted members. there are also a number of opportunists who tend to prey upon those who seek this path. anyone can pick up a book on the occult, and toss a few buzzwords around. and if you sleep with them, they will more then gladly teach you secret powers. can you say bull shit? sex is a sacred gift, granted to us by the gods. sex should never be used as barter for knowledge. true knowledge, real knowledge is free. it is there for anyone who has the desire, and the eyes to see! if you are of legal age, and want to have sex with someone, that is your choice. no one, and no group have the right to make it for you! if you are not 100% certain that you are doing wh

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nitiation into the mysteries of the cult. although there are no available texts clearly setting forth the process of initiation, it likely included fasting, rites of purification, and the reciting of prayers and hymns. it also seems quite certain that the initiates would have enacted a play depicting the life, death, and resurrection of dionysus zagreus. in addition, records suggest that a horned bull was sacrificed and the initiates partook of a sacramental feast of its raw flesh as a holy act that brought them in closer union with the god. once this had been accomplished, the initiates were given secret formulas which would enable them to avoid the snares awaiting the unwary soul as it descended to hades and would ensure them a blissful stay while they awaited a sign that their participa

ld include periods of fasting, going on vision quests, and encounters with the world of spirits a regimen that may take the student many years to accomplish. 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 76 mediums and mystics shaman s headdress (archives of brad steiger) in 1865, the great warrior roman nose, who had studied under the tutelage of white bull, an elderly cheyenne medicine man, lay on a raft for four days in the midst of a sacred lake. roman nose partook of no food or water, and he suffered a relentless sun by day and a pouring rain by night. but he felt none of these distractions, for roman nose was in a trance so deep that he appeared to be dead. when he returned from the land of the grandparents, the place of spirits, roman nose

taries, police, and counselors. because they had the power to excommunicate even members of royal houses, the inquisitors were formidable figures with whom to reckon. in 1246 montsegur, the center of albigensian resistance, fell, and hundreds of cathars were burned at the stake. the headquarters of the inquisition was established in toulouse, and in 1252, pope innocent iv (d. 1254) issued a papal bull that placed inquisitors above the law. another decree within the bull demanded that all civil rulers and all commoners must assist the work of the inquisition or face excommunication. in 1257, the church officially sanctioned torture as a means of forcing witches, sorcerers, shapeshifters, and other heretics to confess their alliance with satan. the inquisitors would stay in a particular loca

bled tomas de torquemada (1420 1498) to become the single grand inquisitor whose name has become synonymous with the inquisition s most cruel acts and excesses. torquemada is known to have ordered the deaths by torture and burning of thousands of heretics and witches. in 1484, pope innocent viii (1432 1492) became so angered by the apparent spread of witchcraft in germany that he issued the papal bull summis desiderantes affectibus and authorized two trusted dominican inquisitors, heinrich institoris (henry kramer (1430 1505) and jakob sprenger (c. 1435 1495, to stamp out demonology in the rhineland. in 1486, kramer and sprenger published malleus maleficarum, the hammer for witches, which quickly became the bible of heretic and witch hunters. the book earnestly refuted all those who would

o the mysteries of the cult. although there are no available texts clearly setting forth the process of initiation, it is likely that they included fasting, rites of purification, and the reciting of prayers and hymns. it also seems quite certain that the initiates would have enacted a play depicting the life, death, and resurrection of dionysus zagreus. in addition, records suggest that a horned bull was sacrificed and the initiates partook of a sacramental feast of its raw flesh as a holy act that brought them in closer union with the god. once this had been accomplished, the initiates were given secret formulas that would enable them to avoid the snares awaiting the unwary soul as it descended to hades and would ensure them a blissful stay while they awaited a sign that their participat

spread so far that newspaper reporters from st. louis, new york, and chicago came to see the ghost dance messiah and record his words. whites were pleased that wovoka did not speak of war, only of the importance of all people living together in harmony. chief big foot (1825? 1890) of the sioux traveled from the camp in south dakota to nevada to see the ghost dance, and he returned to tell sitting bull (c. 1831 1890) about wovoka s promise that the dead from many tribes would soon be joining the living in a restored world that would once again be filled with plentiful game, herds of buffalo, and the tall grasses of the prairie. all those whites who interfered with this would be swallowed up by the earth, and only those who practiced the ways of peace would be spared. sitting bull, the great

s that could resist the bullets of the bluecoats, the soldiers who might attempt to stop the rebirth of the old ways. as the sioux danced, sometimes through the night, believing they were hastening the return of the buffalo and their many relatives who had been killed in combat with the pony soldiers, the settlers and townsfolk in the dakota territory became anxious. and when the sioux at sitting bull s grand river camp began to dance with rifles, it becme apparent to the white soldiers that the ghost dance was really a war dance after all. after a nervous indian agent at pine ridge wired his superiors in washington that the sioux were dancing in the snow and were acting crazy, it was decided that sitting bull and other sioux leaders should be removed from the general population and confin

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who had been employed at the monastery. the lay brother, who received the punishment meted out for such sins, was hanged. inhabitants of the rectory, and several villagers, had reported seeing the veiled nun walking through the grounds. a headless nobleman and a black coach pursued by armed men had also been listed as a frequent phenomenon. the rectory had been built in 1863 by the reverend henry bull (sometimes called martin in the literature of psychical research. he had fathered 14 children and had wanted a large rectory. he died in the blue room in 1892 and was succeeded in occupancy by his son, harry, who died at the rectory in 1927. the building was vacant for a few months while a dozen clergymen refused to take up residence there because of the eerie tales they had heard until rever

for the phenomena 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 an

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 their brother had said that, when dead, he would attempt to manifest himself in the same way. it was their father, henry bull, who had bricked up the dining room window so that the family might eat in peace and not be disturbed by the spectral nun peeping in at them. a man who had served as gardener for the bull family told price that every night for eight months he and his wife heard footsteps in their rooms over the stables. several former maids or grooms testified that they had remained in the employ of the bulls

y shortly after price s visit. they had both begun to suffer the ill effects of the lack of sleep and the enormous mental strain that had been placed on each of them. borley rectory presents an interesting combination of a haunting and the phenomenon of poltergeistic activity. harry price maintained that approximately one-half of all hauntings include some type of poltergeistic disturbance. henry bull had 14 children who lived in the rectory. phenomena began to become active about 10 years after he had 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 30 ghosts and phantoms borley rectory presents a combination of a haunting and the phenomenon of poltergeistic activity moved into the rectory with his family. it is also interesting to record that the

he had 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 30 ghosts and phantoms borley rectory presents a combination of a haunting and the phenomenon of poltergeistic activity moved into the rectory with his family. it is also interesting to record that the phenomena reached new heights of activity when the reverend lionel algernon foyster, a cousin of the bull family, took up residence in the rectory on october 16, 1930. the reverend brought with him his wife, marianne, and his four-year-old daughter adelaide (many accounts of borley rectory refer to the foysters as rev. b. and marianne morrison) the foysters had lived there only a few days when mrs. foyster heard a voice softly calling, marianne, dear. the words were repeated many times, and, thin

h smashed the chimney of the lamp that she was carrying. in addition to persecuting mrs. foyster, the entity seemed determined to establish contact with her. messages were found scrawled on the walls: marianne please get help. the entity may or may not have been suggesting that the foysters once again bring dr. harry price upon the scene. at any rate, that is exactly what they did. advised by the bull sisters of the famed investigator s interest in the borley phenomena, reverend foyster wrote to london to inform price of renewed activity in the rectory. price gained permission to stay in the rectory with two friends, and upon arrival, the researcher and his party once again examined the house from attic to cellar. the haunting wasted no time in welcoming the returning investigator. while h

. borley rectory has remained one of the most haunted houses in britain, but in december 2000, louis mayerling, who claimed borley was a second home to him until it burned in 1939, wrote a book entitled we faked the ghosts of borley rectory in which he claimed that harry price and the world had been taken in by hoaxsters. mayerling states that he first arrived at borley in 1918 to find rev. harry bull and his family taking great delight in perpetuating local folklore about a phantom nun and other paranormal activity. according to the author, the foysters were also in on the hoax, encouraging mayerling, a teenager at the time, to walk around the gardens at dusk in a black cape. 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 32 ghosts and phantoms m

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to the one possessed. the traditional dances of vodun are conducted on a serious plane with rhythm and suppleness but not with the orgiastic sensuality depicted in motion pictures about voodoo or in the displays performed for the tourist trade. all vodun ceremonies must be climaxed with sacrifice to the loa. chickens are most commonly offered to the loa, although the wealthy may offer a goat or a bull. the possessed usually drinks of the blood that is collected in a vessel, thereby satisfying the hunger of the loa. other dancers may also partake of the blood, sometimes adding spices to the vital fluid. after the ceremony, the sacrificed animal is usually cooked and eaten. the traditional belief structure of the yoruba envisioned a chief god named olorun, who remains aloof and unknowable to

retics, and witches. in 1246, montsegur, the center of the albigensian (as the cathars were also known) resistance fell, and hundreds of the sect who had for so many years withstood the only crusade ever launched against fellow christians were burned at the stake. in that same year, the headquarters of the inquisition was established in toulouse. in 1252, pope innocent iv (d. 1254) issued a papal bull that placed the inquisitors above the law and demanded that every christian.from the aristocracy to the peasantry.assist in the work of seeking out witches and heretics or face excommunication. in 1257, the church officially sanctioned torture as a means of forcing witches and heretics to confess to their evil ways. in 1305, the knights templar, who had for centuries been the bulwark of chris

ry of witchcraft. new york: university books, 1956. germany from the perspecive of the papacy, it seemed that witchcraft had become particularly virulent 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 102 magic and sorcery in germany, and in 1484, pope innocent viii (1432.1492) became so distressed with conditions in that country that he issued the papal bull summis desiderantes affectibus. as an additional antidote to demonism, the pope authorized two dominican inquisitors henrich institoris (also known as kramer (1430.1505) and jacob sprenger (1436.1495) to prepare a kind of guide book for those witchhunters who sought to battle satan in the rhineland. their collaborative work, malleus maleficarum, ga hammer for witches h (1486, soon became the

new york: citadel press, 1963. netanyahu, b. the origins of the inquisition. new york: random house, 1995. russell, jeffrey burton. witchcraft in the middle ages. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1972. swain, john. the history of torture. new york: award books, 1969. witchhunters in 1484, pope innocent viii (1432.1492) so deplored the spread of witchcraft in germany that he issued the papal bull summis desiderantes affectibus and authorized two trusted dominican inquistors, henrich institoris (kramer (c. 1430.1505) and jacob sprenger (c. 1436.1495, to squelch the power of satan in the rhineland. in 1486, sprenger and kramer published their malleus maleficarum, ga hammer for witches, h which quickly became the gbible, h the official handbook, of professional witch hunters. malleus mal

the old testament were really demons. the cathars somehow managed to hold out against the armies massed against them until montsegur, their final stronghold, fell in 1246. hundreds of the remaining cathars were burned at the stake.men, women, and children.but innocent iii did not live to see his triumph over the heretics, for he died in 1216. before he died, however, innocent iii enacted a papal bull that allowed a judge to try a suspected witch or heretic even when there was no accuser and granted the judge the power to be both judge and prosecutor. m delving deeper lea, henry charles. the inquisition of the middle ages. new york: citadel press, 1963. russell, jeffrey burton. witchcraft in the middle ages. ithaca, n.y: cornell university press, 1972. summers, montague. the history of wit

r desire to dominate, they are liable to become discontented and difficult to get along with. their views about life are definite, and they have little use for airs and graces. aries people are a robust lot with a strong resistance to disease of any kind. however, once they do succumb to illness, they are inclined to run high temperatures. neuralgia and migraines may also hinder them. taurus, the bull, april 21 to may 21, is an earth sign. the word comes from the latin meaning gbull. h taurus people like to have things their own way, but they are not quite as aggressive and as dominant as those under the aries sign. they are passionate in nature, and love means much to them. they also make splendid mothers or fathers. taureans are generally not bookish types; they prefer life itself to fic

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orraine in1408 the church moved triumphantly against joan of arc and her followers in 1431, against gilles de rais the god of the witchesintroduction5and his coven in 1440, against the witches of brescia in 1457. towards the end of the century the christianpower was so well established that the church felt that the time had come for an organised attack, and in1484 pope innocent viii published his bull against "witches" all through the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies the battle raged. the pagans fought a gallant, though losing, fight against a remorseless andunscrupulous enemy; every inch of the field was disputed. at first victory occasionally inclined to thepagans, but the christian policy of obtaining influence over the rulers and law-givers was irresistible. vaevictis was also the po

ri350ge. on a slate palette, which is dated tothe period just before the beginning of egyptian history, there is represented a man with the head and tail of ajackal;[3] as in the ari350ge example the body, hands and feet are human; he plays on a flute, and like thepalaeolithic god he is in the midst of animals. the other link is in the ceremonial dress of the pharaoh, whoon great occasions wore a bull's tail attached to his girdle. the sed-heb or tail-festival, when the king wasinvested with the tail, was one of the most important of the royal ceremonies. a sacred dance, performed bythe pharaoh wearing the bull's tail, is often represented as taking place in a temple before min, the god ofhuman generation. the worship of horned gods continued in egypt until christian times, especially inco

he god ofhuman generation. the worship of horned gods continued in egypt until christian times, especially inconnection with the horned goddess isis.the indian figures of the horned god, found at mohenjo-daro, are of the earliest bronze-age. there aremany examples, and in every case it is clear that a human being is represented, either masked or horned.sometimes the figure has a human body with a bull's head, sometimes the head and body are covered with ahairy skin, probably indicating a bull's hide. the most remarkable is that of a man with bull's horns on hishead, sitting cross-legged, and like the ari350ge figure surrounded with animals (plate iii. i. thisrepresentation was regarded in historic times as a form of shiva and is called pasupati "lord of animals".when in relief sculpture pa

rose independently in india and europe, or whether one isthe prototype of the other; if the latter, the indian appears to be the earlier.though it is not possible to give an exact date to the early legends of the aegean, it is evident that there alsothe horned god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of the dramatic legends attached to his cult, was the minoan bull, the minotaur,of crete. he was in human form with a bull's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and masked as an animal like thedancing god of ari350ge. the representations of the combat between theseus

ll's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and masked as an animal like thedancing god of ari350ge. the representations of the combat between theseus and the minotaur show the latteras entirely human, with a bull's mask (plate iv. i. theseus is sometimes represented with the flowing locks ofthe cretan athlete; this suggests that the slaying may have been a cretan custom, the man representing theminotaur being killed in a battle in which, masked as he was, he could be no match for his antagonist. frazerhas pointed out that minos went to zeus every nine years, and has suggested that this was a euphemism

ompared with the little dancing god of the palaeolithic people (plate ii, and also withthe figure of robin goodfellow (plate x. as a godling beloved of the people he is like enkidu, whom healso resembles in having hoofs. though our knowledge of him dates only to the late iron-age, his worship isobviously of high antiquity, and he appears to be indigenous in greece.another horned god of greece was bull dionysos, who, like the minotaur of crete, was slain. dionysos wassaid to have been brought into greece from the north; his cult would therefore be a foreign worship, whichfact shows that outside greece, in the countries which have no written record, the belief in a homed deityprevailed in the iron-age and probably even earlier.a few rock carvings in scandinavia show that the horned god was k

cord of the masked and horned man in england is in the liber poenitentialis[4] oftheodore, who was archbishop of canterbury from 668 to 690, and ruled the church in england with theassistance of hadrian the negro. this was a time when2424if we are to believe the ecclesiasticalchroniclers2424england was practically christianised, yet theodore fulminates against anyone who "goesabout as a stag or a bull; that is, making himself into a wild animal and dressing in the skin of a herd animal,and putting on the heads of beasts; those who in such wise transform themselves into the appearance of a wildanimal, penance for three years because this is devilish. three centuries later king edgar[5] found that theold religion was more common than the official faith, and he urges that "every christian sho

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it is i who sent him to you" no more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal "grimoire" he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. for this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the "grimoire" of honorius<bull of honorius" in the early part of the grimoire. not only is the book libeled to honorius iii, instead of honorius ii as levi states (waite says honorous i, but the "diabolical signatures" are totally different from those described by levi! levi's changes obscure the text and add false linkages to "satanic" language, in addition to exaggerating the very real sacrileges. a brief account of this

a garden, in the midst of which a single fountain branched into four rivers (the iod and the tetragram, and then of two trees, one of life, and the other of death, planted near the river. there are placed the man and the woman, the active and the 186 passive; the woman sympathizes with death, and draws adam with her in her fall. they are then driven out from the sanctuary of truth, and a kerub (a bull-headed sphinx "vide" the hieroglyphs of assyria, of india and of egypt) is placed at the gate of the garden of truth in order to prevent the profane from destroying the tree of life. here we have mysterious dogma, with all its allegories and its terrors, replacing the simplicity of truth. the idol has replaced god, and fallen humanity will not delay to give itself up to the worship of the gol

, one must dare; and in order to gather in peace the fruits of one's audacity, one must keep silent. to know, to dare, to will, to keep silent, are, as we have said elsewhere, the four qabalistic words which correspond to the four letters of the tetragram and to the four hieroglyphic forms of the sphinx. to know, is the human head; to dare, the claws of the lion; to will, the mighty flanks of the bull; to keep silent, the mystical wings of the eagle. he only maintains his position above other men who does not prostitute the secrets of his intelligence to their commentary and their laughter. all men who are really strong are magnetizers, and the universal agent obeys their will. it is thus that they work marvels. they make themselves believed, they make themselves followed, and when they sa

of a winged lion below, facing outward and progressing upward. the lion has "hod" written to the right of its head and vertically extended left foreleg "le feu" below its tail and downwardly extended right hind leg. the line from the lower right point is below this figure, and "l' automne" is below this line. the line from the upper left point has "les printemps" written above it. below this is a bull, no wings and facing downward "jesod" is above the bull's tail, and "la terre" is below the head. next below is the line from the lower left point, with "l' hiver" below that. below the lower point are the words "pole antartique" and "l' eau. there is a nob at that spot, with a winged angel facing right and pulling the nob with a diagonally downward line to the right "malchvt" is written belo

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ing "mu("water. go to the north and trace the pentagram while vibrating "nudjeru mehta (pronounced "nud-jeh-ru meh-tah" meaning "gods of the north. charge the figure with "tau("earth. invocation return to the east and form the tau cross. say "before me, hathoor, the mother of light. behind me, toum of the setting sun. on my right hand, sakhmet, mighty lady of flame. on my left hand, hapi-wer, the bull of the earth. for about me the pentagram 197 flames sehedj("a heaven of stars. and above me shines tau nudjer("the star of godu).28 repeat the egyptian qabalistic cross as in the beginning. egyptian banishing rituals alternative versions the student may choose to replace the pentagram in the above ritual with symbols that retain a more egyptian character. rather than tracing the pentagram in

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netary realm, the zonei, and was depicted as wearing horns, a symbol familiar to the witches as representative of their god. the horn shaped crown is illustrative of the crescent phases of the moon, and were symbolic of divinity in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull. they also represent sexual power. the fact that, in ancient sumeria and egypt, horns were solely representative of evil gods, but of many different deities, was used by the christian church in their attempt to eradicate pagan faiths. it was a simple enough symbol to identify with the author of evil, satan, which the church depicted as a half-animal, half-human creature with horns, claws, and

re consumed. i came to possess this knowledge through circumstances quite peculiar, while still the unlettered son of a shepherd in what is called mesopotamia by the greeks. when i was only a youth, travelling alone in the mountains to the east, called masshu by the people who live there, i came upon a grey rock carved with three strange symbols. it stood as high as a man, and as wide around as a bull. it was firmly in the ground, and i could not move it. thinking no more of the carvings, save that they might be the work of a king to mark some ancient victory over an enemy, i built a fire at its foot to protect me from the wolves that wander in those regions and went to sleep, for it was night and i was far from my village, being bet durrabia. being about three hours from dawn, in the nine

s weapons to the arsenals of the ancient ones, she bore monster-serpents sharp of tooth, long of fang, she filled their bodies with venom for blood roaring dragons she has clothed with terror has crowned them with halos, making them as gods, so that he who beholds them shall perish and, that, with their bodies reared up none might turn them back. she summoned the viper, the dragon, and the winged bull, the great lion, the mad-god, and the scorpion-man. mighty rabid demons, feathered-serpents, the horse-man, bearing weapons that spare no fearless in battle, charmed with the spells of ancient sorcery. withal eleven of this kind she brought forth with kingu as leader of the minions. remember! enki our master fearing defeat, summoned his son marduk summoned his son the son of magick told him t

t will once more rule the earth! and this is his seal: and there are four spirits of the spaces, and they come upon the wind, and they are things of the wind, and of fire. and the first comes from the north, and is called ustur, and has a human shape. and he is the most ancient of the four, and a great lord of the world. and the second comes from the east, and is called sed and has the shape of a bull, but with a human face, and is very mighty. and the third comes from the south, and is called lamas, and is of the shape of a lion, but with a human head, and governs those things of the flame and the burning wind. and the fourth comes from the west, and is called nattig, and is of the shape of an eagle, but with a human body, having only the face and wings of an eagle, with an eagle's claws

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

the fifteenth century, gles cent nouvelles nouvelles, h gthe decameron, h gthe heptameron, h gthe nights of straparola, h gbrantome, h etc, etc, are not only masterpieces for all time, but are pure, even chaste, compared with the virginal lusts that are becoming so fashionable in our modern literature, whose maidens are lesbians, and whose heroes are satyrs. europa is no longer satisfied with her bull, but seeks an ichor-maddened elephant; leda disdains her swan, and burns for a straddling ostrich; the goat of lechery sits enthroned o fer us, and is fast coupling with the mind of the nation, and spawning offspring effeminate, lustful, and degenerate. tribades with their evil-smelling kisses swarm over our pages, heroines are no longer satisfied with mere men, but must strain to their breas

st out again, as he drags cora from the room. when she re-enters her voice is hoarse and horrible: o phadra! lend me of thy wickedness, lest i go mad to contemplate myself *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 164. then turning to madeline. young, pretty, and foolish. who bids her seek help from the mother of god, gour lady of the seven stars h says: can you not see? i am cut off from god! loathsome bull-men in their corruption linked whisper lewd fancies in my ear. great fish, monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes, and crawling beetles of gigantic strength, crushed, mangled, moving, are about me. go! go! do not touch the carcass of myself that is abased, defiled, abominable *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, p. 65. then ulric enters, evidently now totally mad; the fearful power of his ne

symbol of wifehood, whilst in the latter cases, and especially in gthe fatal force, h we find that of motherhood. the true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover, and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children. this is no paradox, no riddle, no twisting of words; for crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of eternity the sacred blood of the bull, the second christ; and as the first, the lamb of god, sprang from the immaculate womb of the virgin-mother, so shall this second incarnation spring blood-red from the snowy lips of the great supernal mother, androgynous, the circe-isis of the ages. in galice, an adultery, h we see a woman passionate in her love, strenuous in her affection, yet in the end failing by abandoning her lover for h

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

is precipitated. on a circular platform in equilibrium on the wheel, is poised a sphinx, holding in its claws a javelin. at the foot of the dual column two serpents raise their heads. this is the wheel of destiny. the circular platform upon which the sphinx stands represents the zodiac; and the sphinx, as a composite of the four constellations marking the zodiacal quadrants- eagle, lion, man and bull--signifies the passage of time. it holds a javelin in its claws to indicate that time is always fructifying events and ever ready to strike to right or left as the wheel turns under its impulsion, raising the humble and lowering the proud. the eight spokes of the wheel, eight being the number of justice, symbolize that time and opportunity, in the course of divine providence, are justly meted

ew and active life in a realm above matter. the adept--arcanum xxi. in divination, arcanum xxi may be read as success or attainment. arcanum xxi is figured by a kneeling young girl playing on a harp of three strings. above is a wreath of twelve flowers, each flower having three blossoms. at each of the four angles of the wreath is a head; the two below being the head of an eagle and the head of a bull, the two above being the head of a lion and the head of a man. the man's head has the sacred serpent at its brow to indicate mental fertility. in the center of the wreath is a phallus and a yoni conjoined. this sacred lingha is soaring upward through the wreath, sustained by two wings. the young girl symbolizes purity of life. she is modestly clothed to indicate simplicity of living and moder

zodiacal signs in which all experience is gained. the three blossoms of each flower indicate that both souls, as represented joined in the winged linga, have garnered the flowers of zodiacal experience on all planes, physical, astral and spiritual. the head of the lion signifies the creative forces of the solar sign, leo, and the courage which is necessary to all real attainment. the head of the bull represents the fructifying agent of nature and points out the necessity of labor in all progress. the eagle signifies that sex, as signified by the sign scorpio, has been turned into channels which lead to spirituality. and the head of the man indicates that both intuition and intelligence are necessary guides in unfolding the highest spiritual possibilities. these four emblems ranged around

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

instead of blood. she cloaked ferocious dragons with fearsome rays and made them bear mantles of radiance, made them godlike, whoever looks upon them shall collapse in utter terror! their bodies shall rear up continually and never turn away' she stationed a horned serpent, a mushussudragon, and a lahmu-hero, an ugallu-demon, a rabid dog, and a scorpion-man,aggressive umu-demons, a fish-man, and a bull-man bearing merciless weapons, fearless in battle -enuma elish the dragon of the primal oceans of the abyss opened her veins and filled her children with venom as blood, with a spell cracking the sky with the blackened flame of her will. to raise them as gods which shall master all forms of wolves, serpents and those beasts which prey upon others is the desire of tiamat. what she gave to huma

THE BOOK OF GATES

and the whole beautifully painted as the rest. at the same end of the room, and facing the hall of pillars, we entered by a large door into another chamber with four pillars, one of which is fallen down. this chamber is 43 ft. 4 in. by 17 ft. 6 in; the pillars 3 ft. 7 in. square. it is covered with white plaster, where the rock did not cut smoothly, but there is no painting on it. i named it the bull's, or apis' room, as we found the carcass of a bull in it, embalmed with asphaltum; and also, scattered in various places, ail immense quantity of small wooden figures of mummies 6 or 8 in. long, and covered with asphaltum to preserve them. there were some other figures of fine earth baked, coloured blue, and strongly varnished. on each side of the two little rooms were wooden statues standin

is door close [upon them" along the middle of the third division, we see the boat of the sun being drawn along by four gods, as before; the god ra stands in a shrine, similar to that already described, and his companions are sa and hekau. the rope by which the boat is towed along is fastened to the two ends of a very remarkable object, in the form of a long beam, each end of which terminates in a bull's head. the accompanying text describes it as "his boat" and from the fact that the four gods who tow the boat are seen again at the other end of the beam-like object, with the towing-rope in their hands, it is clear that the boat of ra, and the god himself, were believed to pass through it, from one end to the other. the object is supported on the p. 104 shoulders of eight gods, in mummied f

t that the four gods who tow the boat are seen again at the other end of the beam-like object, with the towing-rope in their hands, it is clear that the boat of ra, and the god himself, were believed to pass through it, from one end to the other. the object is supported on the p. 104 shoulders of eight gods, in mummied form, who are called "bearers of the gods" at each end, immediately behind the bull's head, stands a bull, and at intervals seven gods, who are called "the click to view the gods of the third division of the tuat towing the boat of ra. click to view the eight bearers of the boat of the earth and its seven gods. gods who are within" are seated upon it. at the end of this division stand four mummied forms, with their elbows projecting, and their hands crossed on their breasts

the earth, and who lift up the bark of the tuat, may there be support to your forms and light unto your bark. holy is he who is in the boat of the earth. i make to go back the bark of the tuat which beareth my forms (or, attributes, and verily i travel into the hidden habitation to perform the plans which are carried out therein' ennurkhata, ennurkhata [saith 'praised be the soul which the double bull hath swallowed, and let the god be at peace with that which he hath created" the effect of the above words is to allow the sun-god and his boat to pass through the double bull-headed p. 107 [paragraph continues] boat of the earth without any let or hindrance, and when he has done this "these gods (i.e, the four gods at the other end of the boat of the earth) say to ra-'praised be ra, whose so

whom carries a paddle; they are called "gods who never diminish" 2. twelve female beings, each of whom grasps a rope with both hands; above the head of each is a star. they are called the "hours who tow alone [the boat of ra" p. 274 the god banti, with the head of a cynocephalus ape, holding a sceptre. 4. the god seshsha, man-headed, with a star above him, holding a sceptre. 5. the god ka-amenti, bull-headed, and holding a sceptre. click to view the twelve akhemu-seku gods with their paddles. 6. the god renen-sbau, man-headed, with a star above him, holding a sceptre. 7. a monkey, with a star over his head, standing on a bracket; he is called the "god of rethenu (syria. 8. a bracket, whereon rests the utchat. p. 275 9. a god called her-nest-f, holding a sceptre. p. 276 of the twelve gods (

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth. 21:6 even when i remember i am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 21:7 wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 21:8 their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 21:9 their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of god upon them. 21:10 their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 21:11 they send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 21:12 they take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 21:13 they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 21:14 therefore they say unto god, depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of th

guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up. 51:19 these two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall i comfort thee? 51:20 thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the lord, the rebuke of thy god. 51:21 therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: 51:22 thus saith thy lord the lord, and thy god [that] pleadeth the cause of his people, behold, i have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: 51:23 but i will put

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

een the heart of an adder continue its vital motions for many minutes after it has been taken from the body, and even renew them, after it has been cold, upon being moistened with warm water, and touched with a stimulus. the creator, delivering the fructified seeds of things from the restraints of inert matter by his divine strength, is represented on innumerable greek medals by the urus, or wild bull, in the act of butting against the egg of chaos, and breaking it with his horns.4 it is true, that the egg is not represented with the bull on any of those which i have seen; but mr. d hancarville5 has brought examples from other countries, where the same system prevailed, which, as well as the general analogy of the greek theology prove that the egg must have been understood, and that the at

ct of butting against the egg of chaos, and breaking it with his horns.4 it is true, that the egg is not represented with the bull on any of those which i have seen; but mr. d hancarville5 has brought examples from other countries, where the same system prevailed, which, as well as the general analogy of the greek theology prove that the egg must have been understood, and that the attitude of the bull could have no other meaning. i shall also have occasion hereafter to show by other examples, that it was no uncommon practice, in these mystic monuments, to make a part of a group represent the whole. it was from this horned symbol of the power of the 1 see plate xxi. fig. 1. 2 macrob. sat. i. c. 20. 3 see goltz, tab. ii. figs. 7 and 8. 4 see plate iv. fig. 1, and recherches sur les arts, vol

ystic monuments, to make a part of a group represent the whole. it was from this horned symbol of the power of the 1 see plate xxi. fig. 1. 2 macrob. sat. i. c. 20. 3 see goltz, tab. ii. figs. 7 and 8. 4 see plate iv. fig. 1, and recherches sur les arts, vol. i. pl. viii. the hebrew word chroub, or cherub, signified originally strong or robust; but is usually employed metaphorically, signifying a bull. see cleric. in exod. c. xxv. 5 recherches sur les arts, lib. 1. 22 on the worship deity that horns were placed in the portraits of kings to show that their power was derived from heaven, and acknowledged no earthly superior. the moderns have indeed changed the meaning of this symbol, and given it a sense of which, perhaps, it would be difficult to find the origin, though i have often wondere

ost parts of the world, even among that people from whose religion christianity is derived; for it is a common mode of expression in the old testament, to say that the horns of any one shall be exalted, in order to signify that he shall be raised into power or pre-eminence; and when moses descended from the mount with the spirit of god still upon him, his head appeared horned.2 to the head of the bull was sometimes joined the organ of generation, which represented not only the strength of the creator, 1 lib. i. c. 12. 2 exod. c. xxxiv. v. 35, ed. vulgat. other translators understand the expression metaphorically, and suppose it to mean radiated, or luminous. of priapus 23 but the peculiar direction of it to the most beneficial purpose, the propagation of sensitive beings. of this there is

23 but the peculiar direction of it to the most beneficial purpose, the propagation of sensitive beings. of this there is a small bronze in the museum of mr. townley, of which an engraving is given in plate iii. fig. 2.1 sometimes this generative attribute is represented by the symbol of the goat, supposed to be the most salacious of animals, and therefore adopted upon the same principles as the bull and the serpent.2 the choral odes, sung in honour of the generator bacchus, were hence called tragwdiai, or songs of the goat; a title which is now applied to the dramatic dialogues anciently inserted in these odes, to break their uniformity. on a medal, struck in honour of augustus, the goat terminates in the tail of a fish, to show the generative power incorporated with water. under his fee

the tail of a fish, to show the generative power incorporated with water. under his feet is the globe of the earth, supposed to be fertilised by this union; and upon his back, the cornucopia, representing the result of this fertility.3 mr. d hancarville attributes the origin of all these symbols to the ambiguity of words; the same term being employed in the primitive language to signify god and a bull, the universe and a goat, life and a serpent. but words are only the types and symbols of ideas, and therefore must be posterior to them, in the same manner as ideas are to their objects. the words of a primitive language, being imitative of the ideas from which they sprung, and of the objects they meant to express, as far as the imperfections of the organs of speech will admit, there must ne

nce of meaning. hence ambiguities arise, such as those above mentioned, which could not possibly exist in an original tongue. the greek poets and artists frequently give the personification of a particular attribute for the deity himself; hence he is called taurozoaj, taurwpoj, tauromorfoj,1 &c, and hence the initials and monograms of the orphic epithets applied to the creator, are found with the bull, and other symbols, on the greek medals.2 it must not be imagined from hence, that the ancients supposed the deity to exist under the form of a bull, a goat, or a serpent: on the contrary, he is always described in the orphic theology as a general pervading spirit, without form, or distinct locality of any kind; and appears, by a curious fragment preserved by proclus,3 to have been no other t

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

rs growth colors instruments fire ihvh tzabaoth yod michael mark lion south summer linear atziluth salamanders notus pison stalk red rod water elohim el chai he gabriel matthew eagle west fall rotary briah undines zephyrus gihon fruit blue cup air shaddai ha-aretz va u raphael john angel north winter vibratory yetzirah sylphs boreas hiddikel seed yellow dagger earth adonai tzabaoth he auriel luke bull east spring mixed assiah gnomes eurus phrath root black pentacle the four elements are a philosophical division of form into its essential quali- ties based on its kinds of motion. they are not physical elements as science under- stands them but the locus upon which the physical elements are based. for example, elemental fire is not the fire that springs from a match-it is the preva- lent inn

grow complex and stray farther from the roots of the art. the elements are dependable. their natures are relatively easy to grasp and they convey the same meaning to all peoples in all ages. in ancient times the elemental principles were represented by the emblems of four beasts whose natures embody the underlying essences of the elemental forces: 1) lion (fire; 2) eagle (water; 3) angel (air; 4) bull (earth. it would be difficult to trace the origin of these kerubic figures; they go back to ancient babylon, in whose ruins archaeologists have found their effigies, and doubtless their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began to favor agriculture over the nomadic lifestyle. on first look it appears that the eagle would be a more appropriate emblem for

ome time in the distant past a mistake was made and the eagle and angel were inverted from their rightful places in the zodiac. there is no way to prove or disprove this claim, so it seems best to use the traditional interpretations. in the heavens the four beasts are placed at the corners of the zodiac, each rep- resenting one of the elemental triads: lion-leo, eagle-scorpio, angel-aquarius, and bull-taurus. this assignment has been changeless for thousands of years. the beasts are also placed at the corners of the earth, and here some difficulty arises. there is considerable argument about the proper placement of the elements and their related symbols around the compass. there is little point in going into the various ways the beasts have been placed on the corners of the earth. all the

ass, then the eagle, emblem of water, will touch the east. but this is clearly wrong: the west is accepted as the quarter assigned to elemental water. however, if you imagine the zodiac shrinking and falling flat onto the earth and yourself viewing it from the back, the eagle touches the west while the lion is in the south, a reasonable assignment when all else is considered: angel* eagle heavens bull lion horizon (east) bull earth (south) lion (north) angel (west) eagle fire is most appropriate to the south, region of blazing heat. water is the tra- ditional element of the west, where for the ancients the shoreless atlantic lay. earth can be assigned to the east, the direction of the unmeasured steppes that led to fabled china. north is the empty quarter where the winds were supposed to m

d to make their home, appropriate to air. adam kadmon stands with the axis of the earth along his spine, circled by the moon and stars. on his brow is the angel, elemental air, symbol of his higher aspi- rations. the lion, fire, lies curled around his lower body, symbol of strength and generation. on his right hand sits the eagle, symbol of life-giving water, of mercy and love. at his left is the bull and in his left hand, the dry, hard clay of earth. in western magic, the beasts were considered too fierce and dangerous to be used as emblems of the elements. over a period of time a sublimation took place and the beasts were replaced by the four angels drawn from the lore of the kabbal- ah-michael, gabriel, raphael, and auriel. later still, psychologically if not chronologically, the angels

f some importance in practical work- ing. it defines the structure of many rituals. the lower four points, which form a rough square, are given to the four elements and have been set in their order for thousands of years. they are emblematically depicted by the four beasts: 1) the lion (fire) on the lower right, 2) the eagle (water) on the upper right, 3) the angel (air) on the upper left, 4) the bull (earth) on the lower left. the fifth point of spir- it, or light, emanates the four and is their origin. spirit is the fifth element, the quintessence, of ancient philosophy. here is one way of drawing the five-pointed figure that shows the relationship of the elements. in three dimensions it is the pyramid of egypt seen from the top: air earth water fire table of pentagram u 9 elements instr

te middle sight thinking human tiphareth shin ihvh("adonai) eloah va-daath raphael malachim fire rod red ring hearing running lion netzach yod ihvh("adonai) tzabaoth haniel elohim water cup blue index taste swimming eagle hod he (1 st) elohim tzabaoth michael beni elohim air dagger yellow small smell flying angel yesod va u shaddai; el chai gabriel kerubim earth pentacle black thumb touch crowing bull malkuth he (2nd) adonai ha-aretz x e sandalphon the point of spirit is shifted from the center to the upper side of the square to signify its rule over the four elements and to emphasize that it is the point of god evident in all men and women. a figure like this is formed, which may be called the house of man: spirit by equally spacing the points in a circle in preparation for the emanation

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tarot 219 her legs cross as she leaps in time to the music from one bare foot to the other. she uses two small white wands to guide the serpent, holding one in each hand and applying them so skillfully that there is never a threat of her being bitten. on the stage curtain behind her are painted four heads that represent the four winds at the corners of the world-the heads of an angel, an eagle, a bull, and a lion. the members of the audience in the small, dark theater strain with mingled wonder and horror as the python sways and hisses. it is evident that they are not accustomed to such worldly entertainments. leaving the theater, you find that it is contained within a fairground tent. other tents beckon, advertising their shows as the wonders of the world. their lights shine brightly in t

respond with my more recent impressions of the rune environments. 1. fehu literal meaning: cattle general sense: possessions, ownership, wealth, submissiveness, slavery the land of fehu is a farming community dominated by herds of cattle. there is a small village of simple houses with a market square. it is overshadowed by a fortified keep, the ruler of which is the god of the land. he is a great bull of a man-stubborn, quick to anger, slow of wits, with a loud, bellowing voice, and glaring eyes beneath a shock of shaggy black hair. he bears a whip that he uses to drive the villagers from the path of his cart when he rides into the village. he is fond of fine clothes, gold and jewels, but always appears somewhat slovenly in appearance. when he remains within his keep, the villagers and far

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

focus in the north, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is a beautiful dark green, the color of evergreen trees. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the dark-brown, horned head of a bull, and white-feathered wings that hang down its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a deep evergreen color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its dark-brown eyes. visualize the angel nod its horned head in acknowledgement and spread its white wings so that they fill the entire region of the north. draw seve

e of the four golden dawn earth colors, which are citrine, olive, russet, and sable. dark brown or black would also be acceptable. these angels are visualized in various ways by different offshoot traditions of golden dawn magic-sometimes as four human figures, sometimes as four living invoking the guardians of the quarters 139 creatures that express the elements (man-air, lion-fire, eagle-water, bull- earth, sometimes as four heads without bodies, sometimes as four pillars of stone or four pillars of elementally colored light. once you gain skill in visualizing the guardians of the quarters, they may be summoned more quickly with no reduction in their authority or weakening of their power as protectors of the circle. this exercise is designed to prepare you to effectively perform the less

continuing to gaze eastward, visualize the dark green of the northern pentagram transfer into the pillar beyond it. as the northern pillar turns green, the pentagram fades to a clear golden-white. the green pillar thickens and solidifies into the towering, green-robed angel auriel. the angel stands barefoot beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its dark eyes. the brown bull's head of the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel opens wide its white wings to fill the northern quarter. contemplate the four angels standing outside the circle. hold simultaneously in your awareness the circle, the pentagrams, and the angels as you continue to stand facing east with your arms spread into a cross. visual

ur breath while maintaining your expanded aura. visualize the dark green of the northern pentagram transfer itself into the pillar. as the pillar turns green, the pentagram fades to a clear golden-white. the green pillar thickens and solidifies into the towering, green-robed angel auriel. the angel stands barefoot beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its dark eyes. the bull's head of the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel turns its back to the circle to face north, and opens wide its white wings to fill the northern quarter. contemplate the four angels standing outside the circle with their faces turned outward to the four quarters and their wings spread so that the tips of their wings touch

ure. draw a deep breath and hold it four slow beats as you focus your awareness in your heart-center. vibrate upon your breath the following words "at my left hand, aur-i-el" exhale the remainder of your breath while maintaining your expanded aura. without turning your head, visualize the green-robed angel in the north lower its invoking the light 205 wings and turn around to face the circle. the bull-headed angel gazes down upon you with an alert but emotionless expression. its body wavers and lengthens into a dark green pillar. the green color of the pillar transfers itself into the white pentagram that is set in the ring of the astral circle in the north. as the pillar fades to a clear golden-white, the pentagram turns dark green. draw a deep breath and hold it for four slow beats as yo

your expanded aura. visualize the dark green of the northern pentagram transfer itself into the pillar. as the pillar turns green, the pentagram fades to a clear golden-white. 270 moving exercises the green pillar thickens and solidifies into the towering, green-robed angel auriel. the angel stands barefoot beyond the circle, gazing down at you with vigilant awareness in its dark eyes. the brown bull's head of the angel glows with the residual energy of your vibrated words. watch with your astral awareness as the angel opens wide its white wings to fill the northern quarter. contemplate the four angels standing outside the circle. hold simultaneously in your awareness the circle, the pentagrams that have been drained of their color, and the angels as you continue to stand with your arms s

focus in the north, just beyond the shining ring of the magic circle. the sounds become ever more concentrated, until they assume a vaguely humanoid shape that is a beautiful dark green, the color of evergreen trees. as you watch with your astral vision, this shape defines itself into an angel of vast size, taller even than your enlarged astral body. the angel has the dark-brown, horned head of a bull, and white-feathered wings that hang down its back almost to its bare feet. it wears a long robe of a deep evergreen color. extend your consciousness to the angel. as the angel becomes aware of your existence, gaze directly into its dark-brown eyes. silently will the angel with the force of your mind to turn away from the circle and spread its wings. visualize the angel nod its horned head in

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

procedures are structured upon the system of occult correspondences given in my book, the new magus. this differs in several important respects from the more common golden dawn system. in the new magus system, the assignments to the quarters are: quarter element archangel tetramorph sign south fire michael lion leo west water gabriel eagle scorpio north air raphael angel aquarius east earth uriel bull taurus also, in the new magus system, the left and right sides of the kabbalistic cross are the inverse of those given by the golden dawn. in the new magus, the left shoulder is assigned to geburah and the right shoulder to 106 tetragrammaton gedulah. occultists familiar with the system of the golden dawn can easily modify these rituals to be in harmony with the more conventional corresponden

e south is red, raphael in the north is yellow, gabriel in the west is blue, and uriel in the east is green. speak the words of the invocation: before me michael, guardian of fire, the lion of the south; behind me raphael, guardian of air, the angel of enzpowering the rings the north; on my right hand gabriel, guardian of water, the eagle of the west; on my left hand uriel, guardian of earth, the bull of the east. the four surround me (elevate your hands, palms up, fire above (lower your hands, palms down, water below (put your palms together in a gesture of prayer over your heart center, i am the heart of the four, i am the center of my universe. amen. this concludes the preliminary operations, which are designed to cleanse and center the magician, establish and cleanse the magic circle

ogically rule a sign, or pair of signs. the wings of a particular zodiac sign would fall under the ruling angel of that sign. still a third approach would be to command the wings by the authority of the archangels of the four beasts, ruling each wing by the name of the beast to which it belongs. the angels associated with the four beasts are michael (lion, gabriel (eagle, raphael (man, and uriel (bull. for example, the angel of severity vabashiah, who is the forward wing on the left side of the back of the bull, would be ruled by assuming the god-form of uriel. there is an easier way that eliminates the necessity of assuming a variety of god-forms, each of which rules a specific wing, or set of wings. it is to assume the god-form of the messiah, who rules all the wings, and all the lesser

d in ihvh, and to the sephirah chokmah, root of fire. the eagle corresponds to mind, to the element of water, to briah, the creative world, to the first heh in ihvh, and to the sephirah binah, the root of water. the man corresponds to the third aspect, truth or law, to the element of air, to yetzirahth, e formative world, to vav in ihvh, and to the sephirah tiphareth, attributed to air. the ox or bull corresponds to the fourth aspect, love, to the element of earth, to assiaht,h e material world, to the final heh in ihvh, and to the sephirah 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 rath

th james the% 14. vhih haviah saiinou- greater 2 15. vhhi vihael arsl laoaxrp+ ese gemini naphtali thomas agate man vau f 3 16. vhhi hiviah slgaiol- i% a 17. vihh vivael gaiol ligdisa+ north aquarius gad simon amethyst 18. vihh viviah soniznt- 19. hihv shabuel ori habioro+ nnw capricorn asher john chrysolite 20. hihv vabashiah aaozaif- 21. hivh shahavel ibah htmorda+ ssw virgo joseph matthew onyx bull second 22. hivh vaheshiah ahaozpi- he 23. hhvi shiael hipotga+ aozp1 avtotar- east taurus benjamin matthias beryl 24. hhvi aishiah n m w t he great renaissance magician henry cornelius agrippa included a table of the twelve banners of tetragrammaton and their occult correspondences in his three books of occult philosophy. i have reproduced some of this table below for comparison with the same

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and power in the study of religion (berkeley: university of california press, forthcoming, ch. vii. xfoucault, the history of sexuality; cf. jeffrey weeks, sex, politics and society: the regulation of sexuality since 1800 (london: longon, 1981; mason, the making of victorian sexuality. xiicrowley, confessions, 75. xiii xiii quoted in sutin, do what thou wilt, 422. xiv"the king of depravity" john bull (march 10, 1923. xv leslie shepard, introduction to aleister crowley, the diary of a drug fiend (hyde park: university books, 1970, v. xvi sutin, do what thou wilt, pp. 4-5. martin similarly describes crowley as an expression of the late and post-victorian zeitgeist (orthodox heresy, 188) xvii colin wilson, the occult (new york: vintage books, 1973, 362. xixsymonds, introduction to the confes

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my face as in the time of the inundation"[fn#70] and isis said unto ra "o my divine father, tell me thy name, for he who is able to pronounce his name liveth [and ra said "i am the maker of the heavens and the earth, i have knit together the mountains, and i have created everything which existeth upon them. i am the maker of the waters, and i have made meht-ur to come into being; i have made the bull of his mother, and i have made the joys of love to exist. i am the maker of heaven, and i have made to be hidden the two gods of the horizon, and i have placed the souls of the gods within them. i am the being who openeth his eyes and the light cometh; i am the being who shutteth his eyes and there is darkness. i am the being who giveth the command, and the waters of hapi (the nile) burst for

46] literally, the "heads" i.e, the divine sovereign chiefs at the court of osiris, who acted as administrators of the god, and even as task-masters [fn#147 "he who is the lord to the end (or, limit) of the world" a name of osiris [fn#148] i.e, in the house of keb [fn#149] or perhaps "take their seats in the house of keb" a legend of ptah nefer-hetep and the princess of bekhten. the horus "mighty bull, the form) of risings[fn#150, stablished in sovereignty like tem" the golden horus "mighty one of strength[fn#151, destroyer of the nine nations of the bow"[fn#152] king of the south and north "the lord of the two lands, user-maat-rasetep- en-ra son of ra: of his body, ra-meses-meri-amen, of amen- ra;[fn#153] the lord of the thrones of the two lands, and of the company of the gods, the lords

2] king of the south and north "the lord of the two lands, user-maat-rasetep- en-ra son of ra: of his body, ra-meses-meri-amen, of amen- ra;[fn#153] the lord of the thrones of the two lands, and of the company of the gods, the lords of thebes, the beloved one. the beneficent god, the son of amen, born of mut, begotten of heru-khuti, the glorious offspring of neb-tchert,[fn#154] begetting [as] the bull of his mother [fn#155] king of egypt, governor of the deserts, the sovereign who hath taken possession of the nine nations of the bow [who] on coming forth from the womb ordained mighty things, who gave commands whilst he was in the egg, the bull, stable of heart, who hath sent forth his seed; the king who is a bull [and] a god who cometh forth on the day of battle like menthu,[fn#156] the mi

hee or have dominion over thee. thou art the son of the sublime god 82 who proceeded from keb. thou art horus, and the poison shall not gain the mastery over thy members. thou art the son of the sublime god who proceeded from keb, and thus likewise shall it be with those who are under the knife. and the four august goddesses shall protect thy members [fn#216] mesqet was originally the name of the bull's skin in which the deceased was wrapped in order to secure for him the now life; later the name was applied to the other world generally. see book of the dead, chap. xvii. 121 [fn#217] the bennu who kept the book of destiny. see book of the dead, chap. xvii. 25 [fn#218] these are the balsam-trees for which heliopolis has been always famous. they are described by wansleben, l'histoire de l'eg

the sky, and who goeth down (i.e, setteth) in the tuat, whose form is in the house of height, through whom when he openeth his eye the light cometh into being, and when he closeth his eye it becometh night [i am] the water-god het when he giveth commands, whose name is unknown to the gods. i illumine the two lands, night betaketh itself to flight, and i shine by day and by night.[fn#222] i am the bull of bakha[fn#223, and the lion of manu[fn#224. i am he who traverseth the heavens by day and by night without being repulsed. i have come 85 by reason of the voice (or, cry) of the son of isis. verily the blind serpent na hath bitten the bull. o thou poison which floweth through every member of him that is under the knife, come forth, i charge thee, upon the ground. behold, he that is under th

f horus, the son of isis, and which is in every member of him that is under the knife likewise [fn#226] the text appears to be corrupt in this passage. 101. a hymn of praise to horus to glorify him, which is to be said 102 over the waters and over the land. thoth speaketh and this god reciteth [the following "homage to thee, god, son of a god. homage to thee, heir, son of an heir. homage to thee, bull, son of a bull, who wast brought forth by a holy goddess. homage to thee, horus, who comest forth from osiris, and wast brought forth by the goddess isis. i recite thy words of power, i speak with thy magical utterance. i pronounce a spell in thine own words, which thy heart hath created, and all the spells and incantations which have come forth from thy mouth, which thy father keb commanded

their meals. this they do for many reasons, but chiefly because it whets their appetites, and incites them to eat more than they otherwise would. now, as to salt being accounted impure because, as aristagoras tells us, many little insects are caught in it whilst it is hardening, and are thereby killed therein-this view is wholly trifling and absurd. from these same motives also they give the apis bull his water from a well specially set apart for the purpose,[fn#269] and they prevent him altogether from drinking of the nile, not indeed that they regard the river as impure, and polluted because of the crocodiles which are in it, as some pretend, for there is nothing which the egyptians hold in greater veneration than the nile, but because its waters are observed to be particularly nourishin

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. 27 the cross has four points. the cross of initiation is phallic. the insertion of the vertical phallus into the formal ecteris forms a cross. this is the cross of the initiation that we must place upon our shoulders. the four sacred animals of alchemy are: the lion that hides the enigma of fire; the man that represent the mercury of secret philosophy; the eagle that corresponds to the air; the bull that symbolizes the earth. egypt s sphinx (as well as ezekiel s sphinx) has the sacred symbolism of the four creatures of alchemy. the water contained in the lakes, rivers and oceans when heated by the fire of the sun are transformed into clouds that ascend up to the sky, and after a period of digestion are converted into lightning and thunder. this same process is repeated in the sexual labo

student to become familiar with all the elemental creatures of the four elements. salamanders live in fire; undines and nereids live in water; sylphs live in the air and gnomes live in the earth. the gospel of mark is symbolized by a lion (fire; the gospel of matthew is represented by a youth (water; the gospel of john is represented by the eagle (air) and the gospel of luke is represented by the bull (earth. the four gospels symbolize the four elements of nature and the realization of the great work (the magnus opus. por lo com n esos santuarios de misterios se hallaban situados al pie de alg n volc n. los disc pulos ca an sin sentido al suelo. en esos instantes el hierofante sacaba a los estudiantes de entre el cuerpo f sico y en astral los llevaba a las profundidades del santuario. ento

, luna mater et ventus hanc gestavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a chelo in terram descendit. exorciso te creatura aquae, ut sis mihi peculum die vivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et abllutio pecatorum. amen. thereafter, while still in a state of slumber, vocalize the letter m as follows: mmmmmmmm, with your lips hermetically sealed. this sound is like the bellow of the bull, yet it is a prolonged sustained sound that does not decrease like the bull does. the letter m is the mantra of the waters. this is how you will be in contact with the creatures of the waters. thereafter, invoke the genie of the waters; the genie s name is nicksa. practica con las ondinas agua- ante una copa con agua, adormeceos meditando en el siguiente exorcismo: exorcismo fiat firmamentum

pse [revelations, 11:3-6] that are now dead. by means of alchemical putrefaction represented by the crows, by means of alchemy, the two witnesses resurrect. our motto is thelema. the entire power is found enveloped within the seed that is symbolized in the wheat stalk. the sacred angel that we carry within, plays his trumpet and the two witnesses rise from the grave. two archers, one who hits the bull s eye and the other who misses, symbolize the two alchemical interpretations that can occur, the right and the wrong. the white sexual magic and the black sexual magic. the golden alchemy and the erotic satanism. the ejaculation of the ens seminis does not exist in the golden alchemy, whereas in erotic satanism there exists the ejaculation of the ens seminis. in india, the black yogis (asura

is sexual alchemy. we transform the lead of our personality into the gold of the spirit based on rigorous comprehension and sexual transmutation. this is how the i is annihilated. the rose elaborates its perfume with the mud of the earth; the perfume of the rose is transmuted mud. the door of eden sex is the door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his sword drives out from the threshold all of those who are not prepared. the enemy is within us; we need to work with the demon in order to dissolve it. we need to steal the fire from the devil. quinta: el quinto grado de integraci n representa a todo aqu l ser humano perf

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he old date and, at the very least, it gives one options. if a coven is operating on 'pagan standard time' and misses may 1st altogether, it can still throw a viable beltane bash as long as it's before may 5th. this may also be a consideration for covens that need to organize activities around the week-end. this date has long been considered a 'power point' of the zodiac, and is symbolized by the bull, one of the 'tetramorph' figures featured on the tarot cards, the world and the wheel of fortune (the other three symbols are the lion, the eagle, and the spirit) astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four 'fixed' signs of the zodiac (taurus, leo, scorpio, and aquarius, and these eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 naturally align with th

kon their days from sundown to sundown. however, british witches often refer to the astrological date of aug 6th as old lammas, and folklorists call it lammas o.s('old style. this date has long been considered a 'power point' of the zodiac, and is symbolized by the lion, one of the 'tetramorph' figures found on the tarot cards, the world and the wheel of fortune (the other three figures being the bull, the eagle, and the spirit. astrologers know these four figures as the symbols of the four 'fixed' signs of the zodiac, and these naturally align with the four great sabbats of witchcraft. christians have adopted the same iconography to represent the four gospel-writers 'lammas' was the medieval christian name for the holiday and it means 'loaf-mass, for this was the day on which loaves of br

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an only say that i have not known them try. i know no spells to this end. but anyone can make a new spell for himself, and the witches' way of training couples to work together, then a number of couples to work so as to form a sort of battery of human wills, is i think a most efficient way of doing things. i believe that it is a historical fact that in the thirteenth century pope innocent iv by a bull elsi animarum, dated november 21, 1284, greatly offended the dominicans; and it has become a proverb in the vatican 'a litaniis predicatorum, libera nos domine, which is translated 'from the litanies of the dominicans, o lord, deliver us' this was because the dominicans had recited a special prayer against the pope each day after matins, and he died in less than a month's time. now one would

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be sought, since as a boon, from heav n itself tis bought; the sacred oak ascend, and then with skill, cut the with d branches with a golden bill. selections from: william augustus russel. history of england. london, j. cooke, 1777. p. 4. sayings of the hindus (the rig-veda: to the waters) forth from the middle of the flood the waters their chief the sea flow cleansing, never sleeping. indra, the bull, the thunderer, dug their channels: here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. waters which came from heaven, or those that wander dug from the earth, or flowing free by nature. bright, purifying, spreading to the ocean, here let those waters, goddesses, protect me. those amid whom goes varuna, the sovereign, he who discriminates men s truth and falsehood distilling meath, the bright, the

ayed; not from any diffidence, but because of its magnificence the labumum set its heart on beauty not bravery. the yew was to the fore, at the seat of war. the ash was most exalted before the sovereign powers. the elm, despite vast numbers, swerved not half a foot, but fell upon the centre, on the wings, and on the rear. the hazel was esteemed, by its number in the quiver. hail, blessed cornell, bull of battle, king of all. by the channels of the sea, the beech did prosperously. the holly livid grew, and manly acts it knew. the white thorn checked all its venom scored the palm. the vines, which roofed us, were cut down in battle and their clusters plundered. the broom, before the rage of war in the ditch lay broken. the gorse was never prized; thus it was vulgarized before the swift oak-d

s a fleet, has sung praises? a wise satirist. amergin s song (from taliesin by edward williams) at once, the wind dropped and the sea became flat calm. the milesians sailed on and despite some losses, landed finally at inber colptha. there amergin, the druid, spoke this rhapsody: i am the wind upon the sea, i am a wave upon the ocean, i am the sound of the sea, i am a stag of seven points, i am a bull of seven fights, i am a bull a cliff, i am a hawk upon a cliff, i am a teardrop of the sun, i am the fairest of blossoms, i am a boar of boldness, i am a salmon in a pool, i am a lake on a plain, i am a word of skill, i am a battle-waging spear of spoil, i am a god who fashions fire in the mind. who but i knows the secrets of the stone door? who has seven times sought the places of peace? who

ders to be two different things. whose shot was that? the fair was in full swing, and nasrudin s senior disciple asked whether he and his fellow-students might be allowed to visit it. certainly, said nasrudin; for this is an ideal opportunity to continue practical teaching. the mulla headed straight for the shooting-gallery, one of the great attractions: for large prizes were offered for even one bull s-eye. at the appearance of the mulla and his flock the townsfolk gathered around. when nasrudin himself took up the bow and three arrows, tension mounted. here, surely, it would be demonstrated that nasrudin sometimes overreached himself. study me attentively. the mulla flexed the bow, tilted his cap to the back of his head like a soldier, took careful aim and fired. the arrow went very wide

rds the target. there was a dead silence. now, said nasrudin to the company, you have seen the shot of a man who was too eager to shoot, yet who having failed at his first shot, was too nervous to concentrate. the arrow fell short. even the stallholder was fascinated by these explanations. the mulla turned nonchalantly towards the target, aimed and let his arrow fly. it hit the very center of the bull s eye. very deliberately he surveyed the prizes, picked the one which he like best, and started to walk away. a clamor broke out. silence! said nasrudin, let one of you ask me what you all seem to want to know. for a moment nobody spoke. then a yokel shuffled forward. we want to know who fired the third shot. that? oh, that was me. the same strength nasruddin attended a lecture by a man who w

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eden; euphrates, gihon, hiddekel and pison; 4 rivers of the infernal regions according to the greeks, phlegethon, cocytus, styx and acheron; 4 elements of metaphysics; being, essence, virtue, action. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 masonic virtues. 4 evangelists and gospels; matthew, mark, luke, john, related to the four kerubic forms of the man, lion, bull and eagle (see wheel of fortune of tarot, key 10--hew65) and thus to the zodiacal signs--aquarius, leo, taurus and scorpio (the relation of aquila to scorpio is a rosicrucian secret. one of the abstruse dogmas of the kabalah concerns the four worlds of emanation; atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. these are not worlds in any ordinary sense, but rather planes of development and existence, t

ften represented as a dog, following a sun man. the oracle of claros (macrobius, saturnalia, i. 18) said that ia (the gnostic deity) was the sun and the first and last of the planetary set, hence the 7 concentric spheres. duncan assigns these minerals and animals to the 7 heavenly bodies known to the ancient world and are as follows: table of planets, aniiimals and metals planet animal metal moon bull silver mercury serpent quicksilver venus dove, copper sun lion gold mars wolf iron jupiter eagle pewter saturn ass lead numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with

s being the last son of the patriarch. the following associations of birds, animals and flowers with heavenly bodies has the authority of the greco-roman mythology- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott table of biiirds, aniiimals and flowers greek latin bird animal vegetable pallas minerva owl she-goat olive aphrodite venus dove he-goat myrtle helios sol cock bull laurel hermes mercury ibis dog hazel zeus jupiter eagle hart horsechestnut demeter ceres sparrow sow apple hephaistos vulcan goose ass box aries mars magpie wolf dog-wood artemis diana daw hind palm hestia vesta heron lion pine hera juno peacock sheep thorn poseidon neptune swan horse elm the astrologers associated colors with the twelve signs of the zodiac, thus- numbers--th eir occu lt powe

ecret matter. many erroneous schemes have been published. the 12 signs of the zodiac are named in hebrew, beginning with aries; taleh, shur, thaumim, sartan, ariah, bethuleh, mazanaim, akrab, kesith, gedi, deli, and dagim. in arabic; al hamal, al thaur, al tauman, al sartan, al asad, sunbul, al zubena, al akrab, al kaus, al gedi, debi and al haut. in chinese, pe yaugh, the sheep; kin nieu, golden bull; shang huing, two brothers; kin hiai, crab; sin, lion; sha niu, the house girl; tien tchingh, the claws of a scorpion; tien kie, the scorpion; gun ma, the man horse; mu thien, the hill sheep; pao pingh, precious vase; and shang yu, two fishes. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the old sanskrit hindu names used by astrologers at the present time are; me

on hesiod, and porphyry state that the 12 labors of hercunumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott les are said to be emblems of the sun in its passage through the 12 signs, and this is repeated by the mystagogus poeticus, 1653, and they have been allotted as follows- to aries, the quest of the golden apples of the hesperides; to taurus, the slaying of the cretan bull; gemini, hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; cancer, the taking of the herds of geryon; leo, the slaying of the nemaean lion; virgo, the victory over the amazon queen; libra, the death of the erymanthean boar; scorpio, the death of the lernaean hydra; sagittarius, the shooting of the five stymphalian birds; capricornus, taking of the hind alive to mycenae; aquarius, cleaning

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a god of war' etc. is ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by rep roduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double se xual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse th at gives a basi

he palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are f ound the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite

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a god of war' etc. is ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by reproduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse that gives a basis f

f the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are found the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite o

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ome difficulty getting into this aethyr, and crowley explored further than i did. vision of the 29th aethyr. came face to face with a woman whose name is athor on hathor. she had bulls' horns worked into her face. she showed me green pastures and said she directed the clouds to nourish water over certain areas to stimulate growth" crowley's vision of rh. i turned to the west and there was a great bull. with a great sword he shore the skies asunder and amid the 167 silver flashes of the steel grew lightenings and deep clouds of indigo. it is finished, my mother bath unveiled herself" both visions of the 29th aethyr refer to the bull and hathor either directly or indirectly. the full vision of crowley's, if studied carefully, relates very strongly to moisture and to the alchemical dissolutio

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gain unto the father "man indeed standeth between spirit and matter, betwixt angel and animal, at the summit of his ascent. we behold as in a glass darkly, that perfected being whom our father strove to represent in the sphinx, compound of the four elements in balanced disposition "the intelligence of man; the soaring spirit of the eagle, the fiery heart of the lion, and the firm stability of the bull. born of the spirit, he must descend into malkuth, even till he is clothed with the coat of skin; the body which is prepared for him, by the humble brothers of the flesh. and thence shall he arise again, bearing him that creation which groaneth and travaileth together with him until now awaiting redemption "the 21st path is the intelligence of counciliation and is so called because it receive

ssion; it shall be unto you a sign of the rending, a sign that the wings of the morning are uplifted in the orient of life. you will observe that in this lamen the four living creatures of ezekiel are grouped together in consonance with the inward meaning of your progress through the grades of the. leo at the summit signifies the grade of philosophus and the purification of your natural will. the bull at the lowermost point represents malkuth and the consecration of your earthly body. the man corresponds to yesod, the grade of theoricus and the purification of your material mind. the eagle has reference to hod, to the 3=8 of practicus, and to the human emotions and desires which are hallowed therein. the white ribbon from which the lamen depends signified the consecration of your entire pe

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

h, and mattoid, with ceremonial magic that toyed. granted. astronomy s no myth, but it produced piazzi smyth. what crazes actors? why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound l

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. but rather become strong in the widowhood of your joy, and evoke from the horror of your seclusion the morion of the victory of resolution, and from the misery of your loneliness, the sword of the destruction of desire. then 214 shall ye turn your faces towards the west, and stride after the night of desolation, and on the cup of the sunset shall ye become strong as warriors fed on the blood of bulls, and shall step out past the morning and the night in the manliness of might, to the conquest of thyself, and to the usurpation of the throne of god! 215 the king the king is the undying one; he is the life and the master of life; he is the great living image of the sun, the sun, and the begetter of the sun. he is the divine child, the god-begotten one, and the begetter of god. he is the pot

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not one of all my adepts that shall come unto me, and cut off mine eyelids, that i may behold and destroy? now i take a dagger, and, searching out his third eye, seek to cut off the eye-lids, but they are of adamant. and the edge of the dagger is turned. 38 and tears drop from his eyes, and there is a mournful voice: so it hath been ever: so must it ever be! though thou hast the strength of five bulls, thou shalt not avail in this. and i said to him: who shall avail? and he answered me: i know not. but the dagger of penance thou shalt temper seven times, afflicting the seven courses of thy soul. and thou shalt sharpen its edge seven times by the seven ordeals (one keeps on looking round to try to find something else because of the terror of it. but nothing changes at all. nothing but the

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will carry away. 207 we have tried to bind him with song and with old customs, but they only held him for a little while, and he has always smitten us and mocked us. when he is blind he shall dance to us and make sport. great clumsy time shall stumble and dance, who like to kill little children and can hurt even the daisies no longer. then shall our children laugh at him who slew babylon's winged bulls and smote great numbers of the elves and fairies, when he is shorn of his hours and his years. we will shut him up in the pyramid of cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. he shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. we will kiss thy painted face, o sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us time. and yet i fear that in his ul

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crosses his face- good lord alive "i'm" short! if i can't find a couple of hundred thousand before the twelfth i'll be hammered. euphemia. and so? ossory. very decent young fellow, little delhomme. i can borrow half a million from him if i want it; but i don't care to unless- unless things- unless you- euphemia. i'm the goods, am i? you old bear! ossory. i know, phemie, i know. it's those damned bulls on wall street! how could i foresee- euphemia. at least you might have foreseen that i was not a bale of cotton. ossory. but i shall be hammered, my dear child. we shall all have to go to the workhouse! euphemia["coldly. i thought mamma had three thousand a year of her own. ossory. that's just what i say. the workhouse! euphemia. my dear father, i really can't pity you. i think you're a fool

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eat tree upon the topmost branches of which hung the golden fleece. long was he destined to travel, past lemnos and samothrace, and through colchis and the city of aeea. there, as a second jason, in the temple of hecate, in the grove of diana, under the cold rays of the moon, was he to seal that fearful pact, that pledge of fidelity to medea, mistress of enchantments. there was he to tame the two bulls, whose feet were of brass, whose horns were as crescent moons in the night, and whose nostrils belched forth mingling columns of flame and of smoke. there was he to harness them to that plough which is made of one great adamantine stone; and with it was he determined to plough the two acres of ground which had never before been tilled by the hand of man, and sow the white dragons' teeth, and

d sow the white dragons' teeth, and slay the armed multitude, that black army of unbalanced forces which obscures the light of the sun. and then, finally, was he destined to slay with the sword of flaming light that ever watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom about the trunk of that tree upon which the christ hangs crucified. all these great deeds did he do, as we shall see. he tamed the bulls with ease- the white and the black. he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon o

utes, and then projected self into it with fearful force. chiah "nearly" passed.185 4. red sphere "darkened" and glorified and return to lighten tiphereth. the result was good. 20th. 1. tejas-apas meditation. 2. meditation on living object with the usual two figure result. 3. astral vision.186 i found myself in a boiling sea with geysers spouting around me. suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery angels, and titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst the waters. above all was built a white temple of marble through which a rose-flame flickered. there stood aphrodite with a torch in one hand and a cup in the other,187 and above her hovered archangels. then suddenly all was an immense void, and as i looked into i

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

e fishes, and it is for this reason that we eat fish on good friday, in commemoration of his coming. tertullian, one of the early church fathers, speaks of jesus christ as the "great fish" and of us, his followers, as the "little fishes" these facts are well known, as the following extract will indicate "the ceremonies of purification by the sprinkling or drenching of the novice with the blood of bulls or rams were widespread, and were to be found in the rites of mithra. by this purification a man was `born again' and the christian expression `washed in the blood of the lamb' is undoubtedly a reflection of this idea, the reference thus being clear in the words of the epistle to the hebrews `it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins' in this passage the w

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

the zohar, siphrah dzeniouta, in jovah rabbah, 128a, etc, etc. the kabala states the same (b) oannes (or dagon, the chaldean "man-fish) divides his cosmogony and genesis into two portions. first the abyss of waters and darkness, wherein resided most hideous beings- men with wings, four and two-faced men, human beings with two heads, with the legs and horns of a goat (our "goat-men* hippocentaurs, bulls with the heads of men, and dogs with tails of fishes. in short, combinations of various animals and men, of fishes, reptiles and other monstrous animals assuming each other's shapes and countenances. the feminine element they resided in, is personified by thalatth- the sea, or "water- which was finally conquered by belus, the male principle. and polyhistor says "belus came and cut the woman

rything through yoga power. brahma, vishnu and siva are the most powerful energies of god, brahma, the neuter, says a[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] tion" it is answered "study first the abc of occult alchemy" in their anxiety, however, to identify pymander "the mouth of mystery" with st. john the baptist prophetically, they thus identified also the 7 kabeiri and the assyrian bulls with the cherubs of the jews and the apostles. having, moreover, to draw a line of demarcation between the four and the three- the latter being the fallen angels; and furthermore to avoid connecting these with the "seven spirits of the face" the archangels, they unceremoniously threw out all they did not choose to recognise. hence the perversion in the order of the elements, in order to make

BLUE EQUINOX

who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his on and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore the equinox 174 not further in this place ind

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m-headed. each of these is seated as before. the text reads "those who are in this picture are [seated] upon their instruments for weaving, which are set firmly on their sand, according to the mystery which horns made. this god crieth out to their souls in whatsoever regions they are, and there is heard the sound of the voices of those who are shut in this circle, which is like unto the sounds of bulls and of other male animals when their souls cry out to ra. the name of this circle is aakebi" 5. this circle, which is called nebt-semu-nifu, is entered through a door having p. 176 the name of tens-sma-kekiu, and in it are seated: 1. the image of khatri, ichneumon-headed. 2. the image of affi, animal-headed. 3 the image of ari-anb-fi, cynocephalus-headed. click to view the circle nebt-semu-n

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morians. the word implies 'dwellers under the sea, and they are perhaps best described as the gods of an ancient discredited pantheon, who were in opposition to the deities of light, as represented by the tuatha d danann, who were worshipped by a later race. they are alluded to as monstrous and misshapen forms, deformed and frequently equipped with but one leg or arm apiece, and with the heads of bulls, horses or goats. the chief of this band of demon-like creatures was that balor, the one-eyed, of whom more than one mention has already been made. they appear to have waged continual war against the tuatha d danann, by whom they were conquered in the terrific battle of moytura. but they were by no means crushed by this defeat and continued to harass the gods of light for generations chiefly

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

am lineau combats this interpretation, and agrees with m. maspero's rendering of "juste de voix; see un tombeau gyptien (in revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xxiii, pp. 153, 154. it is possible that maa-kheru may mean simply "blessed] p. 1xxv and his ka is triumphant.[1] he sits on a great throne by the side of god.[2] the throne is of iron ornamented with lions' faces and having the hoofs of bulls.[3] he is clothed in the finest raiment, like unto the raiment of those who sit on the throne of living right and truth.[4] he receives the urerit crown from the gods,[5] and from the great company of the gods of annu.[6] he thirsts not, nor hungers, nor is sad;[7] he eats the bread of ra and drinks what he drinks daily,[8] and his bread also is that which is spoken by seb, and that which co

e of this work. for information on the significance of sacrifice among the semites, in whose customs many originally egyptian ideas probably survived, see robertson smith, religion of the semites, p. 294 ff. on the origin of sacrificial acts, see max m ller, natural religion, london, 1889, p. 184; and e. b. tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii, p. 340. whether the egyptians regarded the sacrifice of bulls, geese, etc, at the tomb as expiatory offerings, can hardly yet be decided] p. cxxxix certain formulae were directed to be repeated four times: a direction which takes us back to the time when the egyptians first divided the world into four parts, each corresponding to one of the four pillars which held up the sky, that is to say, to one of the four cardinal points, east, south, west, and no

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

ction known to one another and thus avoid the necessity of proving their skill as craftsmen. in order to do so, and to enable a mason to claim the hospitality of his brother masons, a system of symbols was devised, in which every mason was initiated and which he was pledged to keep secret. the term "free" as applied to the craft, arose from the fact that its members were exempted by several papal bulls from the laws which governed ordinary laborers, as well as from the various burdens imposed upon the working classes in england and on the continent. these laws bound the free masons to certain religious duties, and it was natural that a craft whose principal business was church building should receive the special attention and care of the clergy. so marked became the influence of the free m

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

tical alignment of continental freemasonry, an extreme enmity developed between freemasonry and the roman catholic church, which had aligned itself to the royal families of europe. masonry in england, a country that broke with rome during the reformation of the sixteenth century, had a much more apolitical stance. official opposition to freemasonry by the roman catholic church dates back to papal bulls of 1738 and 1751 and is a tangled story of suspicion and intrigue relating to masonic secrecy and to complex political developments of the time. much antagonism has been deliberately fostered by mischief makers. for example, during the nineteenth century, the french journalist gabriel jogand-pages, writing under the name leo taxil, perpetrated an extraordinary and prolonged hoax in which he

etell events; the power to cause diseases and death by lightning and destructive storms; the ability to transform themselves into beasts and birds; and powers to bring about illicit love or barrenness of living beings and crops. finally, it detailed their enmity against children and practice of devouring them (a crime often brought against socially proscribed groups. witchcraft persecutions papal bulls appeared for the appointment of inquisitors, free of any interference by the civil authorities. the emperor and reigning princes took them under their protection. the persecutions rose to level unparalleled in other countries until the following century. hundreds of alleged witches were burned in a few years. immediately after the redefinition of witchcraft in 1484, two inquisitors, jakob sp

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ous king of the world. a lama in the town of narabanchi took him into a temple in which there was a throne. ossendowski was told that in 1890 horsemen had ridden into town and instructed all the local lamas to come to the temple. one of the horsemen sat on the throne, at which point all present fell to their knees as they recognized the man who agharti 13 had been long ago described in the sacred bulls of the dalai lama, tashi lama, and bodgo khan. he was the man to whom the whole world belongs and who has penetrated into all the mysteries of nature. he pronounced a short tibetan prayer, blessed all his hearers and afterwards made predictions for the coming half century. this was thirty years ago and in the interim all his prophecies are being fulfilled (ossendowski, 1922. the king of the

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r make a pother, call yon ring an apparition, still we spirits take another, take the only right position. they are doves that are attending on my daughter s pearly car; taught long since, in times afar, wondrously they re hither wending. thales since it gives a real man pleasure, i too hold that as the best when a sacred, living treasure finds in him a still, warm nest. psylli and marsil [on sea-bulls, sea-calves, and sea-rams. in cyprus rugged vaults cavernal by sea-god never battered, by seismos never shattered, fanned by the zephyrs eternal, and, as in days long departed, in conscious quiet glad-hearted, the chariot of cypris we ve guarded, through murmuring night s soft vibration, over waves and their lovely pulsation, unseen by the new generation, the loveliest daughter we lead. our

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

that year, innocent viii was succeeded as the spiritual head of christendom by alexander vi, the borgia pope, one of the most publicised and colourful characters of the renaissance. unlike his predecessor, the borgia pope was not at all averse to astrology and magic, but, on the contrary, was deeply interested in those subjects, and he came most impressively to the rescue of pico's orthodoxy. the bulls for pico's absolution which lorenzo de medici had failed to obtain from innocent viii, in spite of repeated appeals, were promulgated by alexander vi on june 18th, 1493, less than a year 1 ibid, p. 507. archangelo also wrote an exposition of pico's cabalistic conclusions (cabalistaram delectiora. dogmata, a loannc pico excerpta, venice, 1569. 2 walker, pp. 151, 153 ff, 178-85, etc. 113 3* pi

to borgia, vatican (p. 115. 4. pinturichio, mercury killing argus, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116. 5. pinturicchio, isis with hermes trismegistus and moses, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116. 6 (a) pinturicchio, egyptian worship of apis, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116. m* f> m m m m bulls worshipping the cross, detail of frieze, room of the saints, appartamento borgia, vatican (p. 116, pico della mirandola and cabalist magic after his elevation to the holy see' not only that, the pope wrote a personal letter to pico himself, beginning "dilecte fili salute& apostolicam benedictionem" in this letter, alexander rehearses the whole history of pico's case, mentioning the nine hund

the next scene would show him in egypt, as the lawgiver of the egyptians, with, beside him, the law-giver of the hebrews, moses. this would be the usual hermes- moses comparison with which we have become so familiar in our study of magia and cabala. why did the pope have such a programme painted early in his reign, a programme which glorifies the egyptian religion (pi. 6a, shows the egyptian apis bulls worshipping the cross (pi. 6b, associates hermes trismegistus with moses? the answer to this question is, i believe, that the pope wished to proclaim his reversal of the policy of his predecessor by adopting pico della mirandola's programme of using magia and cabala as aids to religion. the profound significance of pico della mirandola in the history of humanity can hardly be overestimated

dying cartari's de gli immagini degli dei, the plates of which often show greek and egyptian forms together. the gods of the spaccio almost, as it were, tremble between the two forms as the egyptian power grows. the appartamento borgia frescoes, showing the greek cow, io, turning into isis in egypt, perhaps move within a similar frame of reference, though they are orthodox in showing the egyptian bulls worshipping the virgin and saints, like proper prisci theologi. bruno's views on the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, are made abundantly clear: do not suppose that the sufficiency of the chaldaic magic derived from the cabala of the jews; for the jews are without doubt the excrements of egypt, and no one could ever pretend with any degree of probability that the egyptians borro

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

and uniting them in the brotherhood forming the kingdom of heaven. when faust made the pact with mephistopheles, as recorded in the ancient soul-myth of that name, he was about to sign it in ink but mephisto says "no, sign it in blood" for this request faust asks the reason and mephistopheles says knowingly and cunningly "blood is a most peculiar essence" it is said in the bible that the blood of bulls and calves will not take away sins and that is reasonable, but how then about the blood of jesus, which is extolled as a panacea? to understand this great mystery of golgotha it is necessary to study the composition and the function of the flood from the occult point of view. when blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the tra

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

letoe and the tree on which it grows, provided it be an oak" this plant, which is called all heal, although sought after with the greatest religious ardor, is seldom found, but should the people who go forth at christmas time in large numbers succeed in finding it they immediately set about preparing feasts under the tree upon which it grows; at the same time, in the most solemn manner, two white bulls are brought forth to be sacrificed. after the feast has been prepared and the sacrifice made ready, the priest ascends the tree and with a golden pruning-knife cuts the sacred branches of the mistletoe, dropping them into a white cloth prepared for the occasion. the bulls are then sacrificed and a prayer offered that "god would render his own gift prosperous to those on whom he has bestowed

emeph, eicton, and phtha. the greeks and romans had their jupiter, neptune, and pluto; three in number, though one in essence, and all springing from cronus, a fourth, yet older god. the canaanites had their baal-spalisha or self-triplicated baal. the goths had their odin, vile, and ve, who are described as the three sons of bura, the offspring of the mysterious cow, and the celts had their three bulls, venerated as the living symbols of the triple hu or menu. to the same class we must ascribe the triads of the orphic and pythagorean and platonic schools; each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the old chaldaic or babylonian philosophy"[43 [43] faber, pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii, p. 470. the history of the catastrophe known as the deluge, which, it is claimed

bespeaks, at all events, an intimate acquaintance with astronomical rules, as well as a due regard to the principles of geometry. others have fancied them intended for sepulchres; and as the egyptians, taught by their ancient chaldean victors, connected astronomy with their funereal and religious ceremonies, they seem in this to be not far astray, if we but extend the application to their sacred bulls and other animals, and not merely to their kings, as herodotus would have us suppose"[55 [55] the round towers of ireland, p. 159. according to the testimony of inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the trinity--three in one. the triangle typifies the flame of sacred fire emerging from the holy lamp. with its base upwards it typifies the delta, or the door through which all come into the world

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

un. moreover, it is tempting to speculate which world age was being 25 myth and symbol in ancient egypt, p. 181-5. 26 ibid, p. 184. 27 ibid, p. 185. 28 the gods of the egyptians, volume ii, p. 94. 29 ibid, p. 92-4. 30 ibid, p. 93. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 359 signalled here. with a cow involved it could have been the age of taurus, although the egyptians knew the difference between bulls and cows as well as anyone. but a much more likely contender at any rate on purely symbolic grounds is the age of leo, from approximately 10,970 to 8810 bc.31 the reason is that sekhmet, the agent of the destruction of mankind referred to in the myth, was leonine in form. what better way to symbolize the troubled birth of the new world age of leo than to depict its harbinger as a rampaging l

n the vernal equinox rose in the constellation of taurus, that the bull-cult of minoan crete flourished.25 and during this epoch, too, the civilization of dynastic egypt burst upon the historical scene, fully formed, apparently without antecedents. readers must judge whether it is a coincidence that egyptians at the very beginning of the dynastic period were already venerating the apis and mnevis bulls the former being considered a theophany of the god osiris and the latter, the sacred animal of heliopolis, a theophany of the god ra.26 why should an equinoctial marker have been made in the form of a lion? i looked down the slope of the giza plateau towards the great leonine body of the sphinx. khafre, the fourth dynasty pharaoh believed by egyptologists to have carved the monument out of b

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

umber 9 expesses this equation. using aiq bkr, the names of the three governors of tor reduce to 9 (see aiq bkr and the aethyrs. tor begins the cosmic plane of air. therefore, you will probably see symbols for air such as eagles or other winged beings. the idea of stability=change may express itself as earth=air. if so, you will observe that the power symbols seen earlier will take on airy forms. bulls may turn into eagles, for example, or vice versa. another pair of symbols often seen in tor is the rose and the cross. in addition to being symbols for femininity and masculinity, the rose is the infinitely large while the cross is the infinitely small (however, sometimes their roles are seen reversed. when seen in tor, they usually symbolize the concept of extension in space. 213 lin, looki

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for emergence into independent life. humanly this is the finishing process in the womb, and where we get our imagination from. after nine months, everything is projected into: 10 thekingdomof thisworld.originated by thegod-aspect of adonaiha-aretz (lord of the earth/land. created by archangel sandalfon (co-brother) who is the other end of metatron. formed by the angel order of the keruvim (winged bulls. expressed by the life-elements of earth, air, fire and water( olam ha- yesodot- the sphere of the elements, the opposite numbers of the holy living creatures at keter. humanly of course we are here as concrete creations of cosmic consciousness going through incarnate lifetimes of experience. all this is but a surface-scratch on the study of kabbalah from a god to man viewpoint. if you need

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

itself to him) iorsin ok bicirg ok steinar ok haugarnir, ok hatt (bound) hann mes ordum einum]?a er fyrir biuggu (dwelt, ok gekk (went) inn ok tok j^ar slikt er hann vildi' afzelius in sagoh. 1, 4 mentions, too briefly and indistinctly, a strange swedish folktale of one kettil runske of kettilsas in alsheda, avho stole odin's rune-sticlis (runekaflai, and with them cast a spell on his hounds and bulls, nay at last on the merwoman that would have come to odin's aid. by this odin seems to be meant a shepherd or giant representing the former god; the surname rimshe evidently has to do with the acquisition and possession of the staves. songs and runes then can do very great things. they are able to kill and bring to life, as well as prevent from dying; to heal or make sick, bind up wounds, st

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heads in a particular direction in germany, which under christianity was treated as wicked sorcery; and on the other hand the pira equinis sellis constructa in jornandes, and the o"fj/j,a of the scythian kings in herodotus (see ra. 676, and suppl. 3 of honours paid to oxen i have not so much to tell, though they are not at all a matter of doubt, if only because bullocks were sacrificed, and bulls drew the car of the frankish kings, ra. 262. war-chariots continued to have oxen till late in the mid. ages: capto ducis (lovaniensis) vexillo, dicto gallice standart, 1 sup. m, 35 shews that esthouians ascribe prophetic powers to the horse. 2 ledebour s eeise nach dem altai, berl. 1830. 2, 54-5. 3 a sansk. name for the horse is sribhratri, brother of sri (lakshmi, because, like her (and aph

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

abundance. hapy can appear as a single deity but is most of- 136 handbook of egyptian mythology ten shown in pairs or groups. temples were often decorated with rows of fecundity figures carrying the produce of each district of egypt. hymns to hapy point out that every aspect of egyptian life was dependent on the food that he brought. all creatures are said to rejoice at his arrival: frogs croak, bulls bellow, and crocodiles roar. hapy is called the lord of fishes, the one who greens the two banks, and the maker of barley and wheat. hapy s life-giving waters were also credited with a role in reviving the murdered god osiris, who came back each year with the barley. see also heqet; khnum; nun; osiris; sons of horus references and further reading: j. baines. fecundity figures. warminster, en

and their vineyards into the greco-roman period. at all periods, seth was associated with dangerous aspects of the desert such as flash floods and sandstorms. many desert animals, particularly oryxes, wild asses, and the mythical griffin, were considered sethian creatures. seth himself was represented by a sinister imaginary animal. in myth, seth takes the form of many different animals, such as bulls, pigs, hippopotami, wild asses, crocodiles, and panthers, to carry out destructive acts. from the pyramid texts onward, seth was accused of striking down osiris. vague allusions to seth trampling or rending osiris were eventually transformed into stories of complex murder plots. the two gods were often presented as opposites. osiris could stand for order and everything that was egyptian. set

HEAVEN HELL

on the tunnel are seated seven gods called neteru-amiu, i.e, the "gods who are within" and they are intended to represent the guardians of the seven portions into which the tunnel was divided; the name given to the tunnel is "uaa-ta" i.e "boat of the earth" but there is no doubt that it originally represented click to view the boat of the earth. a kind of tuat which was complete in itself, as the bulls' heads, one at each end of it, prove. the difficulty of passing through the "boat of the earth" is soon overcome, for the gods of the tuat tow afu-ra through it, and we see them at the other end of the division still holding the tow-line in their hands. in front of them are the four gods, whose arms and hands are covered (vol. ii, p. 107, whom we have already seen in the book am-tuat (vol. i

to wish to be with him after their departure from this world. the cult of seker is one of the oldest in egypt, and in its earliest form it, no doubt, represents the belief as to the future life of some of the most primitive inhabitants of the country; in fact, it must have originated at a period when some influential body of priests taught that death was the end of all things, and when snakes and bulls were the commonest forms under which the gods of the neighbourhood of memphis were worshipped. the oldest presentment of the land of seker which we have is, of course, not older than the xviiith or xixth dynasty, and it must be remembered that it is the work of the priests of thebes, who would be certain to remove any texts, figures, or details which they found inconvenient for their views

u" or the "sound of the cry of the divine hawk of horus" or the "twittering of the birds in a nest of water-fowl" the circles on the left are: 1. sesheta, 2. tuat, 3. as-neteru, 4. aakebi, 5. nebt-semu-nifu, 6. the door tes-khaibitu-tuatiu. the sounds made by the gods in these resemble the "hum of many honey-bees" the "sound of the swathed ones" the "sound of men p. 156 who lament" the sounds "of bulls and other male animals" and the sound of those "who make supplication through terror (vol. i, pp. 170 ff. next: ninth division of the tuat. i. kingdom of osiris according to the book am-tuat sacred texts egypt ehh index index previous next ninth division of the tuat. i. kingdom of osiris according to the book am-tuat. the name of this division, or hour, or city, is best-aru-ankhet-kheperu, t

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chacan rites! it would be hard, indeed, to blame any writer for entertaining such suspicions of immorality as those above noticed, when the records of many historians are at hand to help us to make an impartial investiga- tion 'heretics' are accused of crimes in which the church has more or less openly indulged even down to the beginning of our century. in 1232 and 1233 pope gregory ix issued two bulls against the stedingers "for various heathen and magical practices' and the latter, as a matter of course, were slaughtered in the name of christ and his holy mother. in 1282 a parish priest of inverkeithing, named john, performed rites on easter day by far worse than 'magical' couecting a crowd of young girls, he forced them to enter into "divine ecstasies" and bacchanalian s43. fhilopbtriz

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n of methuselah, and he ascended to sit where his father had been cut down for the terrible deeds that he had wrought and, as is the way sons, sought to out-strip his father in glory won on the battle's field though well had he learned to obey the dictates of honour. strong was lamech's arm in battle, well did he cast the spear and hold the shield from his bronze-plated chariot, drawn by maddened bulls. as his father had brought disgrace upon the nephilim so did lamech bring honour upon their race. thither and thither went the columns of lamech and returned with rich tributes to the king. tributes though he called them though they were extorted at the spear's point and not all the shedim were satisfied at his deeds but he was not as his father had been and some lesser evils must be borne i

to the rising of the sun shurupuk was full of merriment and the people of shurupuk were full of wine and mead. at this time the army of lamech returned to the gate whence they had first set forth to conquer, coming back in defeat and ignominy though indeed they had fought most bravely. thus was the body of lamech borne to his city. upon a bier of cedar, adorned with beaten gold, dragged on by the bulls of his chariot, the king was carried to the city's heart and the throng of his people walked behind the pall, weeping and beating cow-skinned drums. to each side of the pall went his knights, lances raised in high salute to the fallen king. through the city's streets was lamech taken to the catacombs of his line where lay the kings that had sired him, all, save his father, methuselah, who la

kingship of caesar and took care to treat most humbly with that one he had appointed to speak and hear for him in the land. passing into the palace of the romans they looked about them and beheld high pillars of porphyry and images of marble, likenesses of the gods of that people and their proud monarchs that with the gods did number their own persons. upon the walls were mosaics of many things: bulls, porpoises and wondrous creatures, made bright with tiles of shining colours, blue, white, green, red and gold. it was as though heaven's arrogance was descended and abided now upon the earth. the hands of the elohim can nothing cast that does not become their own image. they cannot loose those shackles that would bind nor digress from the fatal road 339 upon which it is they walk. yet they

g. when they cried out, they were saved and when they trusted to you they met with no evil. why then must i be as a worm and stripped of my humanity? the people despise and revile me. i am mocked and they shake their heads at me and put out their lips in insult. they have said 'why is your faith not repaid? if you are beloved of god why should he not then deliver you' my enemies are about me like bulls, the mighty bulls of bashan. their mouths are as the maws of lions, so do they raven and gape. there are dogs that surround me, a company of evil men. they tear from my bones my flesh. lord, stay not from me but come swiftly to my aid. deliver from the sword my soul, deliver from the dogs my life. guard me of the lions and guard me of the horns of the re'em" now about him where rome's soldie

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

ast to the general agreement about the hedonism item, satanists were split in their response to the question on animal sacrifice. none of the respondents claimed they had actually participated in such rites, and most had no direct contact with people who did. many respondents were extremely critical of the practice, asserting, for example, that if you ever hear of a satanic sacrifice, it s either bulls**t, or the satanist deserves a good beating. at the other end of the spectrum were certain traditional satanists who, like santeria practitioners, sacrifice chickens during certain rites. the dead chickens are consumed at a feast afterward. in recent years, the most controversial self-identified satanists have been certain neo-nazi, northern european satanists who burn down christian churche

LIBER CCC KHABS AM PEKHT

who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his aon and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore not further in this place indicated. from th

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

men make the worst of nurses! 22 scene iii. the consulting-room of hermes. it has two parts, the first filled with stuffed crocodiles, snakes, astrolabes, skeletons, lamps of strange shape, vast rolls of papyri, vases containing such objects as a foetus, a mummied child, a sixlegged sheep. hands (obviously those of criminals) have been painted with phosphorus, and give light. sculptures of winged bulls and bricks inscribed with arrow-head characters are ranged about the walls. a chair of elephant's bones covered with its hide contains the doctor, who is dressed as before in a long black robe covered with mysterious characters. on his head is a high conical cap of black silk dotted with gold stars. in his right hand is a wand of human teeth strung together, in his left a gbook h of square p

eed happiness. psyche. farewell and prosper greatly [she goes out with her maidens. hermes. and thou, live high and stately in glory and gree tenfold that which thou hadst of old [he draws the curtain. 27 scene iv: the antechamber of the king.s palace. it is a vast hall of black marble. at the corners four fountains play in basins of coloured marble. at the back a narrow door pillared by vast man-bulls in white marble. in mid-stage the lady psyche, seated on the ground, her long hair unloosed, her robe of shining silver, mourns. with her are the three handmaidens bowed and mourning at front of the stage r, c, and l. the aged women are grouped in front of stage c, on the steps which lead to the hall. no light comes save through the robes of the lady psyche from the jewels that adorn her. th

is so great that his fan, as he spreads it on couching before the face of the lady psyche, fills the whole of the hall] hail! glory and light his majesty that hideth, pride and delight whereon his image rideth, while in thick night and darkness he abideth [the stage now darkens. even the light shed by the jewels of the lady psyche is extinguished. then, from the gate of the palace between the man-bulls there issueth a golden hawk. in his beak is a jewel which he drops into the lamp that hangs from the height above the head of the lady adonis 29 psyche. this lamp remains dark. during this darkness the unicorn, the lion, and the peacock disappear] love me and lead me through the blind abysses! fill me and feed me on the crowning kisses, like flowers that flicker in the garden of glory, pools

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to unbind; yea, to unbind the bound. 6 ii 1. o my god! use thou me again, alway. for ever! for ever! 2. that which came fire from thee cometh water from me; let therefore thy spirit lay hold on me, so that my right hand loose the lightning. 3. travelling through space, i saw the onrush of two galaxies, butting each other and goring like bulls upon earth. i was afraid. 4. thus they ceased fight, and turned upon me, and i was sorely crushed and torn. 5. i had rather have been trampled by the world-elephant. 6. o my god! thou art my little pet tortoise! 7. yet thou sustainest the world-elephant! 8. i creep under thy carapace, like a lover into the bed of his beautiful; i creep in, and sit in thine heart, as cubby and cosy as may be

n with ivory breasts and golden nipples; my whole body shall be like the milk of the stars. i will be lustrous and greek, a courtesan of delos, of the unstable isle. 56. thou shalt be like a little red worm on a hood. 57. but thou and i will catch our fish alike. 58. then wilt thou be a shining fish with golden back and silver belly: i will be like a violent beautiful man, stronger than two score bulls, a man of the west bearing a great sack of precious jewels upon a staff that is greater than the axis of the all. 59. and the fish shall be sacrificed to thee and the strong man crucified for me, and thou and i will kiss, and atone for the wrong of the beginning; year, for the wrong of the beginning. 19 v 1. o my beautiful god! i swim in thy heart like a trout in the mountain torrent. 2. i l

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

, and mattoid, with ceremonial magic that toyed. granted. astronomy.s no myth, but it produced piazzi smyth. what crazes actors? why do surgeons go mad and cut up men like sturgeons (the questions are the late chas. spurgeon .s) of yogi i could quote you hundreds in science, law, art, commerce noted. they fear no lunacy: their on dread.s not for their noddles doom-devoted. they are not like black bulls (that shunned reds in vain) that madly charge the goathead of rural pan, because some gay puss had smeared with blood his stone priapus. they are as sane as politicians and people who subscribe to missions. this says but little; a long way are yogi more sane that such as they are. you have conceived your dreadful bogey, from seeing many a raving yogi. these haunt your clinic; but the sound l

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

gy associated with odin. the passage in question is chapter 6 of snorri fs ynglinga saga, which also provides a description of berserksgangr, ggoing berserk. h after stating that odin could make his enemies blind, deaf, or overcome with fear in battle, their weapons useless, snorri added, gbut his men went without armor and were crazed as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, were strong as bears or bulls. they killed men, but neither fire nor iron affected them. that is called going berserk. h other than this passage, berserks seem to have belonged more to the world of men than of gods, which agrees with the project of euhemerism snorri had adopted with ynglinga saga. the skaldic poem haraldskvadi, assembled from various fragments and generally attributed to a poet called thorbjorn hornklofi

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ntegrity. he is shown crowned with a solar nimbus, carrying in one hand the crux ansata, the symbol of eternal life, and in the other a serpent-wound staff symbolic of his dignity as counselor of the gods. click to enlarge the egyptian madonna. from lenoir's la franche-maconnerie. isis is shown with her son horus in her arms. she is crowned with the lunar orb, ornamented with the horns of rams or bulls. orus, or horus as he is more generally known, was the son of isis and osiris. he was the god of time, hours, days, and this narrow span of life recognized as mortal existence. in all probability, the four sons of horus represent the four kingdoms of nature. it was horus who finally avenged the murder of his father, osiris, by slaying typhon, the spirit of evil. p. 48 the world virgin is som

an triad, x y z, corresponds to the third intellectual and ethereal [world] and is concerned with fecundity. these are the three triads of the ethereal worlds, which correspond to the father foundation. then follow the four triads of the sensible, or material, worlds, of which the first two correspond to the sidereal worlds, g i k and g d e, namely, osiris and isis, sun and moon, indicated by two bulls. they are followed by two triads--the hecatine, lm n, and the serap an, z h q, corresponding to the sublunary and subterranean worlds. these complete the seven worlds of primary genii ruling the natural universe. psellus quotes zoroaster 'the egyptians and the chaldeans, taught that there were seven corporeal worlds (i. e, worlds ruled by the intellectual powers);the first is of pure fire; t

th the entrance to the east, thus showing the influence of primitive sun worship. the outer court served the principal purpose of isolating the tent of the tabernacle proper, which stood in the midst of the enclosure. at the entrance to the courtyard, which was in the eastern face of the rectangle, stood the altar of burnt offerings, made of brass plates over wood and ornamented with the horns of bulls and rams. farther in, but on a line with this altar, stood the laver of purification, a great vessel containing water for priestly ablutions. the laver was twofold in its construction, the upper part being a large bowl, probably covered, which served as a source of supply for a lower basin in which the priests bathed themselves before participating in the various ceremonials. it is supposed

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

sons of the gods. their empire is that of order; they correspond to the inner sense. they have for adversaries the samael or jugglers, whose chief is adramelech. the ninth number is nine. the ninth sephira is yesod, or the fundamental principle. the spirits of yesod are the cherubim or angels, those powers which fecundate the earth, and which are represented in hebrew symbolism under the form of bulls. their empire is that of fecundity. they correspond to true ideas. they have for adversaries the gamaliel or obscene, whose queen is lilith, the demon of debaucheries. the tenth number is ten. the tenth sephira is malkuth, or the kingdom of forms. the spirits of malkuth are the ischim, or the virile ones; they are the souls of the saints whose chief is moses (let us not forget that it is sol

MORALS AND DOGMA

ficance of the serpent were connected. it became a maxim of the zend-avesta, that ahriman, the principle of evil, made the great serpent of winter, who assaulted the creation of ormuzd. a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time: and to express dramatically how time preys upon itself, the egyptian priests fed vipers in a subterranean chamber, as it were in the sun's winter abode on the fat of bulls, or the year's plenteousness. the dragon of winter pursues ammon, the golden ram, to mount casius. the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of arist us, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through th

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

eus he is always accompanied by an eagle. this royal bird was sacred to him, probably from the fact of its being the only creature capable of gazing at the sun without being dazzled, which may have suggested the idea that it was able to contemplate the splendour of divine majesty unshrinkingly. the oak-tree, and also the summits of mountains, were sacred to zeus. his sacrifices consisted of white bulls, cows, and goats. zeus had seven immortal wives, whose names were metis, themis, eurynome, demeter, mnemosyne, leto, and hera. metis, his first wife, was one of the oceanides or sea-nymphs. she was the personification of prudence and wisdom, a convincing proof of which she displayed in her successful administration of the potion which caused cronus to yield up his children. she was endowed w

lled into existence was preserved in the temple of erectheus, on the acropolis, and is said to have possessed such marvellous vitality, that when the persians burned it after sacking the town it immediately burst forth into new shoots. the principal festival held in honour of this divinity was the panathenaa. the owl, cock, and serpent were the animals sacred to her, and her sacrifices were rams, bulls, and cows. page 48 page 49 minerva. the minerva of the romans was identified with the pallas-athene of the greeks. like her she presides over learning and all useful arts, and is the patroness of the feminine accomplishments of sewing, spinning, weaving &c. schools were under her especial care, and schoolboys, therefore, had holidays during her festivals (the greater quinquatria, when they a

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 zeus the [100]far-famed agis, and erected the magnificent palace of the sun. he also created the brazen-footed bulls of aetes, which breathed flames from their nostrils, sent forth clouds of smoke, and filled the air with their roaring. among his most renowned works of art for the use of mortals were: the armour of achilles and aneas, the beautiful necklace of harmonia, and the crown of ariadne; but his masterpiece was pandora, of whom a detailed account has already been given. page 108 there was a temple

en the art of managing horses by the bridle. the isthmian games (so named because they were held on the isthmus of corinth, in which horse and chariot races were a distinguishing feature, were instituted in honour of poseidon. he was more especially worshipped in the peloponnesus, though universally revered throughout greece and in the south of italy. his sacrifices were generally black and white bulls, also wild boars and rams. his usual attributes are the trident, horse, and dolphin. in some parts of greece this divinity was identified with the sea-god nereus, for which reason the nereides, or daughters of nereus, are represented as accompanying him. neptune. the romans worshipped poseidon under the name of neptune, and invested him with all the attributes which belong to the greek divin

concerning ares, his sister athene ever appears in opposition to him, endeavouring by every means in her power to defeat his bloodthirsty designs. thus she assists the divine hero diomedes at the siege of troy, to overcome ares in battle, and so well does he profit by her timely aid, that he succeeds in wounding the sanguinary war-god, who makes his exit from the field, roaring like ten thousand bulls [113] page 123 ares appears to have been an object of aversion to all the gods of olympus, aphrodite alone excepted. as the son of hera, he had inherited from his mother the strongest feelings of independence and contradiction, and as he took delight in upsetting that peaceful course of state-life which it was pre-eminently the care of zeus to establish, he was naturally disliked and even ha

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

gin, moissac was erected by charlemagne as a benedictine abbey endowed with all the rights to administer justice, which were subsequently transferred to the "consuls and leaders of city hall."17 today we can still admire the church of this important abbey, a masterpiece of early romanesque art adorned handsomely with symbolic sculpture* h. de curzon, in la maison du temple de paris, cites fifteen bulls of confirmation that were issued from the time the hospitallers assumed the templar's position until 1629+ this miniature is reproduced in pierre du colombier's book les chantiers des cathedrales. the templars, the francs metiers, and freemasonry 97 there is no doubt that the templars held a role of great importance in moissac, for on the outskirts of the city discoveries have been made of t

ne of the rights of the temple that had been transferred to the hospitallers stemmed from privileges and franchises that benefited the craftsmen in the templar domain. this meant that templar communities of craftsmen, who were otherwise laypersons and outside the order, did not disappear with the order. the right of asylum in the templar domain was confirmed for the hospitallers by numerous papal bulls, notably in 1523 and 1539. we have some interesting texts from the eighteenth century showing how far this right extended. a november 3, 1701, memorandum of the high prior philippe de vendome13 attests that not all were suffered to seek sanctuary in the temple enclos and that the officers there were charged with quelling any misuse of this privilege. a police regulation from the high prior o

d a collector and a clerk.16 "the provost would then receive the congratulations and praise of all the brothers, who would lead him solemnly to his home. the chaplain, escorted by choir boys, would then turn over to him, as a sign of his taking possession of the office, the brotherhood's cross, old and new candles, the notes of meetings, and the coffer holding the deniers, property deeds, and the bulls of foundation."17 the provost alone had the power to convoke the brothers for assemblies, the selection of new members, and the burying of the dead "sometimes the election of the new chairman would be the occasion for a fairly unique ceremony. everyone would go to the patronal church and sing vespers. when they reached the verse of mason corporations in france 161 the magnificat where it say

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

en, with the aid of medea s spells, jason stole the fleece from the sacred grove of ares (mars, we are told that he put it over his shoulders and reveled in it like a girl admiring herself when the moonlight catches her silk gown. when jason arrived in colchis, he asked ae tes to give him the golden fleece. surprisingly the king agreed, but on two conditions: that jason harness two fire-breathing bulls with bronze hooves and then use them to plant a field with dragons teeth. medea provided a salve of invulnerability that enabled jason to yoke the bulls and defeat the warriors that sprang up. but ae tes then refused to keep his word so, with medea s help, jason stole the golden fleece and fled. the argo homer writes of the celebrated argo, and the boat is almost as much the hero of the stor

n (ariadne. the link continues when minos, at his death, becomes a judge, deciding people s fate in the afterlife. mazes appear on cretan vases, coins, and frescoes, and ritual dances were probably performed in maze patterns. homer speaks in the iliad of the dancing floor which daedalus once built in knossos for lovely-haired ariadne. also at knossos, frescoes show youths and maidens leaping over bulls in ritual dances. the minotaur 57 athenian hero the athenian hero theseus heir to king aegeus makes his way to the labyrinth where the minotaur is incarcerated, sure that the gods will help him triumph. half-man, half-beast the minotaur, with his human mind trapped in the body of a beast, is one of the most tragic and pitiable of all the monsters of greek mythology. he even had a human name

PROMETHEUS

prometheus, who with his wonderful wisdom is thought to have made men, by his pleading is said to have obtained permission from jove for them to cast only a part of the victim into the fire, and to use the rest for their own food. this practice custom later established. since he had obtained this permission, not as from a covetous man, but easily, as from a god, prometheus himself sacrifices two bulls. when he had first placed their entrails on the altar, he put the remaining flesh of the two bulls in one heap, covering it with an oxhide. whatever bones there were he covered with the other skin and put it down between them, offering jove [zeus] the choice of either part for himself. jupiter, although he didn t act with divine forethought, nor as a god who ought to foresee everything, was

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

n had his own further down the mountain, the priests had their own even closer to the foot of the mountain, and the rest of the people did not ascend the mountain at all.20 who exactly are these priests, since aaron ascended the mountain part way? we must say they were nadav and avihu. they are meant in the verse, gand [moses] sent the youths of the children of israel to offer burnt offerings and bulls as sacrifices to g-d. h21 this verse also describes the preparations for the giving of the torah. these youths were obviously priests, since only priests offer sacrifices. however, at this stage in jewish history, the descendants of aaron had not yet been designated as the priests. the priesthood was at this time the firstborn. only later, after the sin of the golden calf, would the tribe of

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

the whole kabalistic dogma; it included the jod or blossoming staff of aaron, the he or cup, the gomor containing the manna, the two tables of the law. an analogous symbol to that of the sword of justice. and the manna kept in the gomor, four objects which interpret wonderfully the letters of the divine tetragram. gaffarel has proved learnedly that the cherubim of the ark were in the likeness of bulls, but he did not know that instead of two there were four. two at each end, as the text expressly says. though it has been misconstrued for the most part by commentators. the eighteenth and nineteenth verses of the twenty-fifth chapter of exodus should read thus: gand thou shalt make two calves or sphinxes of beaten gold on each side of the oracle. and thou shalt make the one looking this way

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

stead of uttering words of rejection he opened his arms and farishta swam into them until they were embracing head-to-tail, and the force of their collision sent them tumbling end over end, performing their geminate cartwheels all the way down and along the hole that went to wonderland; while pushing their way out of the white came a succession of cloudforms, ceaselessly metamorphosing, gods into bulls, women into spiders, men into wolves. hybrid cloud-creatures pressed in upon them, gigantic flowers with human breasts dangling from fleshy stalks, winged cats, centaurs, and chamcha in his semi-consciousness was seized by the notion that he, too, had acquired the quality of cloudiness, becoming metamorphic, hybrid, as if he were growing into the person whose head nestled now between his leg

ze" he led them down the crystal-heavy corridors of the mansion and saladin realized that the lack of change was excessive, and plainly deliberate. it was true, vallabh explained to him, that when the begum died changez sahib had sworn that the house would be her memorial. as a result nothing had changed since the day she died, paintings, furniture, soap--dishes, the red-glass figures of fighting bulls and china ballerinas from dresden, all left in their exact positions, the same magazines on the same tables, the same crumpled balls of paper in the wastebaskets, as though the house had died, too, and been embalmed "mummified" zeeny said, voicing the unspeakable as usual "god, but it's spooky, no" it was at this point, while vallabh the bearer was opening the double doors leading into the b

of cloths is not a-1, you see. they won't do it. no interest. meanwhile i get offers every month from amrika. offers of what-what size! you wouldn't believe. i don't sell. our heritage, my dear, every day the u s a is taking it away. ravi varma paintings, chandela bronzes, jaisalmer lattices. we sell ourselves, isn't it? they drop their wallets on the ground and we kneel at their feet. our nandi bulls end up in some gazebo in texas. but you know all this. you know india is a free country today" he stopped, but zeeny waited; there was more to come. it came "one day i will also take the dollars. not for the money. for the pleasure of being a whore. of becoming nothing. less than nothing" and now, at last, the real storm, the words behind the words _less than nothing "when i die" changez cha

d as fast as sixty--year--old legs will go. his friends' assailants are unrecognizable behind their masks. it has been a night of masks. walking the debauched jahilian streets, his heart full of bile, hamza has seen men and women in the guise of eagles, jackals, horses, gryphons, salamanders, wart- hogs, rocs; welling up from the murk of the alleys have come two-headed amphisbaenae and the winged bulls known as assyrian sphinxes. djinns, houris, demons populate the city on this night of phantasmagoria and lust. but only now, in this dark place, does he see the red masks he's been looking for. the manlion masks: he rushes towards his fate. o o o in the grip of a self-destructive unhappiness the three disciples had started drinking, and owing to their unfamiliarity with alcohol they were soo

his head were as sharp as before. he was distracted from this morose inventory by a man's voice from nearby, crying out in heart-rending distress "oh, if ever a body suffered "what on earth" chamcha thought, and determined to investigate. but now he was becoming aware of many other sounds, as unsettling as the first. it seemed to him that he could hear all sorts of animal noises: the snorting of bulls, the chattering of monkeys, even the pretty--polly mimic-squawks of parrots or talking budgerigars. then, from another direction, he heard a woman grunting and shrieking, at what sounded like the end of a painful labour; followed by the yowling of a new-born baby. however, the woman's cries did not subside when the baby's began; if anything, they redoubled in their intensity, and perhaps fif

in short, hind remained unwrinkled, her body as firm as any young woman's, her hair as black as crow feathers, her eyes sparkling like knives, her bearing still haughty, her voice still brooking no opposition. hind, not simbel, ruled the city now; or so she undeniably believed. as the grandee grew into a soft and pursy old age, hind took to writing a series of admonitory and hortatory epistles or bulls to the people of the city. these were pasted up on every street in town. so it was that hind and not abu simbel came to be thought of by jahilians as the embodiment of the city, its living avatar, because they found in her physical unchangingness and in the unflinching resolve of her proclamations a description of themselves far more palatable than the picture they saw in the mirror of simbe

e was hind, who had joined the jahilian army disguised as a man, using sorcery to deflect all spears and swords, seeking out her brothers' killer through the storm of war. hind, who butchered the prophet's uncle, and ate old hamza's liver and his heart. who could resist her? for her eternal youth which was also theirs; for her ferocity which gave them the illusion of being invincible; and for her bulls, which were refusals of time, of history, of age, which sang the city's undimmed magnificence and defied the garbage and decrepitude of the streets, which insisted on greatness, on leadership, on immortality, on the status of jahilians as custodians of the divine. for these writings the people forgave her her promiscuity, they turned a blind eye to the stories of hind being weighed in emeral

SATANGEL

cain (hebrew qayin, attainment. son of adam, slayer of abel in the first murder. in some accounts the first of the witch blood lineage, the offspring of the serpent or of the watchers. camio, camael (goetia, 53rd spirit. formerly of the angelic order of angels. appears as a thrush, a man carrying a sharp sword, seems to answer in burning ashes or coals. gives understanding of the speech of birds, bulls, dogs and other animals, and of the voices of the waters. foretells the future. in occult lore he also is identified as the angel governing the sphere of mars. the druids had a god of war called camael, and it is not impossible that this may be the source of his name. cassiel angel ruling saturn and saturday, also listed as a demon in the magus, francis barret. carnivean, carniveau. patron d

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

aborate tombs such as the pyramids. followers. worshippers took their names from the numerous gods and the cults that honored the deities. name of god. the major god for much of mesopotamia was the sky god enlil; later the worship of enlil was replaced by the worship of the babylonian god marduk. for egyptians, amen-ra was the most powerful deity, chief of the pantheon. symbols. statues of winged bulls were a protective symbol related to the god sin mesopotamia, while the ankh, a kind of cross with a loop at the top, was a prominent representation of life in ancient egypt. worship. priests in both religions made daily offerings in the temples and held annual festivals open to the public. personal gods were worshipped by people in their homes. dress. priests in both mesopotamian and egyptia

quit of labours, not even among his own; but all the gods had pity on him save poseidon, who raged continually against godlike odysseus, till be came to his own country. howbeit poseidon had now departed for the distant ethiopians, the ethiopians that are sundered in twain, the uttermost of men, abiding some where hyperion sinks and some where he rises. there he looked to receive his hetacomb of bulls and rams, there he made merry sitting at the feast, but the other gods were gathered in the halls of olympian zeus. then among them the father of gods and men began to speak, for he bethought him in his heart of noble aegisthus, whom the muse: a greek goddess who oversees art, song, poetry, and science. sacked: destroyed. citadel: fortress, castle. striving: trying with great effort. sore: g

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

he always contrived that my mother should have her pockets full; and between her pockets and mine there was soon established a clandestine communication; accordingly, at fourteen, i wore my cap on one side, stuck pistols in my belt, and assumed the swagger of a cavalier and a gallant. at that age my poor mother died; and about the same period my father, having written a history of the pontifical bulls, in forty volumes, and being, as i said, of high birth, obtained a cardinal's hat. from that time he thought fit to disown your humble servant. he bound me over to an honest notary at naples, and gave me two hundred crowns by way of provision. well, signor, i saw enough of the law to convince me that i should never be rogue enough to shine in the profession. so, instead of spoiling parchment

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

n a grove and guarded by a terrible myth and mysteriosophy 75 dragon. it was the greek hero jason, in company with the other heroes heracles, theseus, orpheus, and so on, who undertook to fetch the fleece from colchis. aeetes laid upon jason severe conditions for the attainment of the fleece; but medea, the king s daughter, was skilled in magic and came to his aid. he harnessed two fire-breathing bulls and ploughed a field, sowing it with dragon s teeth. when these sprang up into armed men, on medea s advice he threw a stone amongst them, whereupon they turned and killed one another. it is by medea s magic that jason lulls the dragon to sleep and so wins the fleece. he then returns with it to greece, taking medea as his wife. the king pursues the fugitives, and in order to delay him, medea

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

. the president entered his office wearing a goat's head mask (peter sawyer's inside news, november 1991 and south east christian witness, january 1992, p. 5 and july /august 1989, p. 9) baphlesme! 109 110 codex magica the devil makes an appearance at a black sabbat ritual of his followers (from an ancient woodcut by pierre de lancre, france, 1913) baal and some other gods were pictured as horned bulls. this is baal, god of fire receiving an infant as sacrifice. baphles me! 111 according to this news account from the associated press (april 1, 1995, the tomb of alexander the great was found at siwa, in egypt. adorers of the greek conqueror, alexander the great, attributed horns to him. this was thought to be emblematic of a person's divine power and spiritual acumen. coins bearing alexande

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

arious parts of the earth, the universe, and the lives of human beings. they also believed in lower levels of entities that might be either hostile or benign in their actions toward humans. the mesopotamians wanted to be certain that they were well protected by their spiritual guardians, the shedu and the lamassu. the lamassus were portrayed in art as grotesque creatures that looked like lions or bulls with human heads and large wings, and they were often represented by statues at the entrances of temples to ward off evil. the people of mesopotamia considered them to be guardian spirits. an ancient magical text of the mesopotamians invokes the good shedu to walk on one s right hand and the good lamassu to walk on the left. in nearly all stories of angels, the beings appear to be paraphysic

owed only one meal. soap, a sinful indulgence, was forbidden. the continued existence of the world after january 1, 2000, caused dissension to grow in the ranks of the cult. many members, having followed the command to sell their property and belongings and give all proceeds to the cult, wanted their money back. on march 15, 2000, the cult held a great party in the town of kanungu, roasting three bulls and providing 70 crates of soft drinks for their members. although facts remain unclear, apparently more than 1,000 were poisoned or otherwise murdered, doused with sulphuric acid, and set on fire. the bodies of credonia mwerinde and joseph kibwetere were not found among the charred remains of their faithful members. a witness in kanungu told police that he had caught sight of the two leavin

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

of life in the neolithic and bronze-age settlements are fairly well known; the people practiseda little agriculture but in some parts were entirely pastoral. they owned all the domestic animals, but cattle the god of the witcheschapter ii. the worshippers20were their mainstay. isobel gowdie 21 in 1662 claimed to have gone into a fairy hill "and got meat therefrom the queen of fairy. there was elf-bulls routing and skoyling up and down there and affrighted me".these bulls made a great impression on her mind for in a further confession she said "we went in to thedownie hills; the hill opened, and we came to a fair and large braw room in the day time. there are elf-bullsrouting and skoyling there at the entry, which feared me" dogs of the chow type were kept by the neolithicpeople as watch-do

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

n. 32:12 and thou saidst, i will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. 32:13 and he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for esau his brother; 32:14 two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 32:15 thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 32:16 and he delivered [them] into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 32:17 and he commanded the foremost, saying, when esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, whose [art] thou? and whither goest thou? and whose [are] these before thee?

ing] 22:8 he trusted on the lord [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 22:9 but thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when i was] upon my mother s breasts. 22:10 i was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my god from my mother s belly. 22:11 be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help. 22:12 many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of bashan have beset me round. 22:13 they gaped upon me [with] their mouths [as] a ravening and a roaring lion. 22:14 i am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 22:15 my strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the d

inually before me. 50:9 i will take no bullock out of thy house [nor] he goats out of thy folds. 50:10 for every beast of the forest [is] mine [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills. 50:11 i know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine. 50:12 if i were hungry, i would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof. 50:13 will i eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 50:14 offer unto god thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high: 50:15 and call upon me in the day of trouble: i will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 50:16 but unto the wicked god saith, what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 50:17 seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words b

in of israel. 68:27 there [is] little benjamin [with] their ruler, the princes of judah [and] their council, the princes of zebulun [and] the princes of naphtali. 68:28 thy god hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, o god, that which thou hast wrought for us. 68:29 because of thy temple at jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. 68:30 rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people [till every one] submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people [that] delight in war. 68:31 princes shall come out of egypt; ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto god. 68:32 sing unto god, ye kingdoms of the earth; o sing praises unto the lord; selah: 68:33 to him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens [which were] of old; lo, he doth

hold, it shall come down upon idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 34:6 the sword of the lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the lord hath a sacrifice in bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of idumea. 34:7 and the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 34:8 for [it is] the day of the lord s vengeance [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of zion. 34:9 and the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 34:10 it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke there

and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows [shall be] as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. 50:10 and chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the lord. 50:11 because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, o ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; 50:12 your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations [shall be] a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 50:13 because of the wrath of the lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. 50:14 put yourselves in array against babyl

s, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 52:19 and the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups [that] which [was] of gold [in] gold, and [that] which [was] of silver [in] silver, took the captain of the guard away. 52:20 the two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king solomon had made in the house of the lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 52:21 and [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof [was] four fingers [it was] hollow. 52:22 and a chapiter of brass [was] upon it; and the height of one c

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

2 lucian, de dea syri. 3 deipnos. lib. of priapus 85 creation in peopling and fructifying the earth. the statue of the goddess herself was in the sanctuary of the temple; and near it was the statue of the creator, whom the author calls jupiter, as he does the goddess, juno; by which he only means that they were the supreme deities of the country where worshipped. she was borne by lions, and he by bulls, to show that nature, the passive productive power of matter, was sustained by anterior destruction, whilst the therial spirit, or active productive power, was sustained by his own strength only, of which the bulls were symbols.1 between both was a third figure, with a dove on his head, which some thought to be bacchus.2 this was the holy spirit, the firstbegotten love, or plastic nature (of

s ad viaticum. inerat enim tanta vis diabolic fraudis in ipso cinere, ut quicumque de pr fata h resi imbutus fuisset, et de eodem cinere quamvis sumendo parum pr libavisset, vix unquam postea de eadem h resi gressum mentis ad viam veritatis dirigere valeret. gu rard, cartulaire de l abbate de saint-p re de chartres, vol. i, p. 112. 1 see before, p. 146, and plate xxxiii. 184 on the worship of the bulls against the offending stedingers, in both of which he charges them with various heathen and magical practices, but in the second be enters more fully into details. these stedingers, the pope (gregory ix) tells us, performed the following ceremonies at the initiation of a new convert into their sect. when the novice was introduced, a toad presented itself, which all who were present kissed, s

tain articles of accusation were drawn up. these appear to have been enlarged afterwards. in 1307, jacques de molay, the grand master of the order, was treacherously allured to paris by the king, and there seized and thrown into prison. others, similarly committed to prison in all parts of the kingdom, were examined individually on 1 baronius, annales ecclesiastici, tom. xxi, p. 89, where the two bulls are printed, and where the details of the history of the stedingers will be found. 186 on the worship of the the charges urged against them, and many confessed, while others obstinately denied the whole. amongst these charges were the following: 1. that on the admission of a new member of the order, after having taken the oath of obedience, he was obliged to deny christ, and to spit, and som

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

south of nubia, and probably some part of the modern egyptian sudan. now my heart was very happy when i heard these things, and i entered into [the temple of khnemu. the overseers unrolled the documents which were fastened up, the water of purification was sprinkled [upon me, a progress was made [through] the secret places, and a great offering [consisting] of bread-cakes, beer, geese, oxen (or, bulls, and beautiful things of all kinds were offered to the gods and goddesses who dwell in abu, whose names are proclaimed at the place [which is called "couch of the heart in life and power" and i found the god standing in front of me, and i made him to be at peace with me by means of the thank-offering which i offered unto him, and i made prayer and supplication before him. then he opened his

bject, as is said, to produce or nourish vermin; but more of this in another place [fn#266] a rubric in the papyrus of nes-menu in the british museum orders the priestesses of isis and nephthys to have "the hair of their bodies shaved off (no. 10,188, col. 1, but they are also ordered to wear fillets of rams' wool on their heads [fn#267] probably the ram of amen. animal sacrifices were invariably bulls and cows [fn#268] this saying is by pythagoras- greek para dusian mh`onuxizou. the saying of hesiod (works and days, 740) is rendered by goodwin "not at a feast of gods from five-branched tree, with sharp-edged steel to part the green from dry" v. now, the priests are so scrupulous in endeavouring to avoid everything which may tend to the increase of the above-mentioned excrementitious subst

ite the ass, may i crush the serpent-fiend sebau" but the xlth chapter of the book of the dead is entitled "chapter of driving back the eater of the ass" the vignette shows us the deceased in the act of spearing a monster serpent which has fastened its jaws in the back of an ass. in chapter cxxv. there is a dialogue between the cat and the ass [sec. xxxi. the egyptians only sacrifice red-coloured bulls, and a single black or white hair in the animal's head disqualifies it for sacrifice. they sacrifice creatures wherein the souls of the wicked have been confined, and through this view arose the custom of cursing the animal to be sacrificed, and cutting off its bead and throwing it into the nile. no bullock is sacrificed which has not on it the seal of the priests who were called "sealers" t

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ndefiled' even allowing for puritan exaggeration it would seem that the witches' sabbat was nothing more than the ordinary pastimes of the people, any excesses being deliberately exaggerated by their opponents. if things had been let alone some of the more startling practices would have ceased, or have been performed only in private. but in 1318, and again in 1320, pope john xxii issued ferocious bulls against witchcraft pronoun-ing it to be heresy. in the resulting persecution, which continued for centuries, the people of the heaths were practically exterminated. there were no more big sabbats, as the organisation was crushed and the surviving members were either in the households of nobles or among the secret cult members. the early trials show us what happened. people said 'we are good

literally emasculating his followers. today the father in the church, the school and the law court is equally destroying the manhood of his sons by means less rough but none the less effective because they are so widespread' 9- irish witchcraft the most famous single case of irish witchcraft is that of lady alice kyteler of kilkenny. the bishop of ossory charged her with witchcraft under the new bulls issued by pope john xxii, and she was tried in 1324. the court obviously believed she had been practising witchcraft, but saw no particular harm in it though supposed to convict her they let her off as lightly as possible and discharged her, much to the bishop's disgust; much as a manx court in 1659 found mrs. jane ceasar not guilty of witchcraft, though the bishop managed to get her sentenc

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