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a garden eastward in eden so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden were the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which latter is from malkuth, which is the lowest sephira between the rest of the sephiroth and the kingdom of the shells, which latter is represented by the great red dragon coiled beneath, having 7 heads (the 7 infernal palaces) and ten horns (the 10 averse sephiroth contained in the 7 palaces. and a river nahar went forth out of eden (namely the supernal triad) to water the garden (the rest of the sephiroth) and from thence it was divided into four heads in daath whence it is said in daath the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down dew. the first head is pis

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

attack the door lest i break apart its bars lest i attack the barrier lest i take its walls by force open the door open wide the gate lest i cause the dead to rise! i will raise up the dead! i will cause the dead to rise and devour the living! open the door lest i cause the dead to outnumber the living! ninnghizhidda, spirit of the deep, watcher of the gate, open! ninnghizhidda the great serpent coiled back on itself and answered ishtar lady queen among the gods i go before my mistress ereshkigal before the queen of death i will announce thee. and ninnghizhidda horned serpent approached the lady ereshkigal and said: behold, ishtar, thy sister queen among the gods stands before the gate! daughter of sin, mistress of enki she waits. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ple of solomon the king. this number is said to be all hotch-potch and accursed. the chapter should be read most carefully in connection with the 10th aethyr. it is to that dramatic experience that it refers. the mind is called "wind, because of its nature; as has been frequently explained, the ideas and words are identical. in this free-flowing, centreless material arises an eddy; a spiral close-coiled upon itself. the theory of the formation of the ego is that of the hindus, whose ahamkara is itself a function of the mind, whose ego it creates. this ego is entirely divine. zoroaster describes god as having the head of the hawk, and a spiral force. it will be difficult to understand this chapter without some experience in the transvaluation of values, which occurs throughout the whole of

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! i,62: at all my meetings with you shall the priestess say-and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple-to me! to me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her lovechant. i,63: sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i,64: i

all ye find them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. ii,25: ye are against the people, o my chosen! ii,26: i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. ii,27: there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of re

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me" to me! to me "sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous nightsky. to me! to me "the "priest "mounts the second step" the priest. o secret of secrets that art hidden in the being of all that lives

n herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the base as a serpent. let this be exceedingly slow and subtle; and though it be accompanied with pleasure, resist; and though it be accompanied with pain, resist. 10. this shalt thou continue until thou art exhausted, never relaxing the control. until thou canst perform this one section 9 during a whole hour, proceed not. and withdraw from the meditation by an act of will, passing into

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

innumerable personal tragedies- and comedies- but for the fall of dynasties and even the wreck of empires "christ" is reported as having said "if i be lifted up from the earth, i will draw all men unto me" interpret this in the light of the cross as a phallic emblem, and- how lurid a flash! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 173 compare al ii, 26 "i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one" this versicle is deep, devilish deep; and it is chock-ablock with the mysteries of fascination. dig into this, dear sister! dig with your qabalistic trowel; don't blame me if you don't get a man

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

nd that which is above had become that which is below. if a diamond be worn, it is for the light which is before all manifestations in form; if an opal, it is to commemorate that sublime plan of the all, to fold and unfold in eternal rapture, to manifest as the many that the many may become the one unmanifest. but this matter is too great for an elementary treatise on magick. the serpent which is coiled about the crown means many things, or, rather, one thing in many ways. it is the symbol of royalty and of initiation, for the magician is anointed king and priest. 108 it also represents hadit, of which one can here only quote these words "i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring; in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one; if i droop down mine head and sh

i droop down mine head and shoot forth venom, there is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one" the serpent is also the kundalini serpent, the magical force itself, the manifesting side of the godhead of the magician, whose unmanifested side is peace and silence, of which there is no symbol. in the hindu system the great work is represented by saying that this serpent, which is normally coiled at the base of the spine, rises with her hood over the head of the yogi, there to unite with the lord of all. the serpent is also he who poisons. it is that force which destroys the manifested universe. this is also the emerald snake which encircles the universe. this matter must be studied in liber lxv, where this is discussed incomparably. in the hood of this serpent are the six jewels, t

robe which few dare wear. this robe is of a rich silk of deep pure blue, the blue of the night sky: it is embroidered with golden stars, and with roses and lilies. around the hem, its tail in its mouth, is the great serpent, while upon the front from neck to hem falls the arrow described in the vision of the fifth aethyr. this robe is lined with purple silk on which is embroidered a green serpent coiled from neck to hem. the symbolism of this robe treats of high mysteries which must be studied in liber ccxx and liber cdxviii; but having thus dealt with special robes, let us consider the use of the robe in general. the robe is that which conceals, and which protects the magician from the elements; it is the silence and secrecy with which he works, the hiding of himself in the occult life of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LAW OF LIBERTY

o oppressed by consciousness of "sin" wearily seeking or simulating wearisom and tedious "virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star-goddess "i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you; come unto me" and thus she ends "sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me" and with these words "the manifestation of nuit is at an end" iii. in the next chapter of our book is given t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhabitants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally innocent than they begin insensibly to forget their 'fixed idea' forced on them by the fog-horn of morality, so that their perversions perish, just as a coiled spring straightens itself when the external compulsion is removed. they revert to their natural sex-characters, which only in rare cases are other than simple, pure, and refined. more, sex itself ceases to play principal boy in the pantomime of life. other interests resume their proper proportions. we may now inquire why the book is at pains to admit as to love "when" and "where" we will. f

shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me" the old comment 61. practical and literal; yet it may be doubted whether "to lose all in that hour" may not refer to the supreme attainment, and that therefore to give one particle of dust (perhaps the ego) or the central atom hadit, her complement, is the act to achieve (for 'dust' see liber 418) the new comment this ritual has been thoroughly worked out

is: there are people who are veiled from themselves so deeply that they resent the bared faces of us others. we are fighting to free them, to make them masters like ourselves. note verse 60 "to hell with them" that is, let us drive them to the 'hell' or secret sanctuary within their consciousness. there dwells "the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched' that is 'the secret serpent coiled about to spring' and 'the flame that burns in every heart of man- hadit. in other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we cannot help it if that falsehood forces the king it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear truth as once jehovah did the serpent. al ii,25 "ye are against the people, o my chosen" the old co

jugorum, thien tao, and elsewhere. secondly, he must impose absolute silence upon them, as may be done by the "yoga" practices taught in book 4 (part i) liber xvi, etc. he is then ready to analyse them, to organize them, to drill them, and so to take advantage of the properties peculiar to each one by employing its energies in the service of his imperial purpose. al ii,26 "i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one" the old comment 26. the kundalini again. the mystic union is to be practised both with spirit and with matter. the new comment the magical power is universal. the free man directs it as he will

in my eyes& my spangles are purple& green" the new comment there is here suggested the image of "the star and the snake. al ii,51 "purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight" the old comment 51. purple- the ultra-violet (v.51, the most positive of the colours. green- the most negative of the colours, half-way in the spectrum. the magical image of hadit is therefore an eye within a coiled serpent, gleaming red- the spiritual red of the spirit of nature, the letter shin, not mere fire- at the apex of the triangle in the half circle of nuiot's body, and shedding spangles as of the spectrum of eight colours, including the ultra-violet but not the ultra-red; and set above a black veil, as the next verse indicates. the new comment there is a certain suggestion in this 'purple' as

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

l exceed the nations of the earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head-dress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! to me! to me! sing the raptuous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you. i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me! the priest mounts the second step. the priest: o secret of secrets that art hidden in the being of all that lives

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

xicated as i address these words; you are drunk beastly drunk! as you read them; buddha was as drunk as a british officer when he uttered his besotted command. there, my dear children, is the conclusion to which we are brought if you insist that he was serious! i answer no! alone among men then living, the buddha was sober, and saw truth. he, who was freed from the coils of the reat serpent theli coiled round the universe, he knew how deep the slaver of that snake had entered into us, infecting us, rotting our very bones with poisonous drunkenness. and so his cutting irony drink no intoxicating drinks! when i go to take pansil* it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is with keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. these five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of desire. four

th of that mountain he met also the fool. then the discourse of that fool, my brethren; it shall repay your pains. they think they are a triangle,3 he said, they think as the picture-folk. base they are, and little infinitely. ain elohim. they think, being many, they are one.4 they think as the rhine-folk think. many and none. ain elohim. they think the erect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big- nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity ignorance of daath. 4 belief in mon

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n herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the base as a serpent. let this be exceedingly slow and subtle; and though it be accompanied with pleasure, resist; and though it be accompanied with pain, resist. 10. this shalt thou continue until thou art exhausted, never relaxing the control. until thou canst perform this one section 9 during a whole hour, proceed not. and withdraw from the meditation by an act of will, passing into

an arab girl["the dancers issue from beyond the veil" 18 "the prophet" sway like the lilies, gentle girls! like lilies glimmer! furl yourselves as he lily furls its radiance dimmer! curl as the lily-petal curls, subtler and slimmer! unfold your ranks and waft yourselves apart, that i may guess what pearl is at the heart, what dew-drop glistens on the crown gold-wrought within the chalice of your coiled cohort "the musicians" the flutes coo. it is the voice of love in spring, at dawn, in dew; and piercing through those low loves that rejoice, wails in the violin that supreme string of passion, that is more akin to death than love, that shrieking sin whose teeth tear passion's tortured skin and drink love's blood, and rage within black bowels of lust to win, to win some crown of thorns inca

rns incarnadine, some cross whereof to fashion some newer, truer passion than even the agony of the violin "the prophet" yes! like a careless breeze, the close caress expands with a sob; the virgins wheel; there glows 19 in the midst a mystical rose["the dancers unfold, and their queen appears" o musical ministress of the dancing violin! in an emerald spangled skin, hooded with harvest hair close-coiled, her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slender, and full, and straight is she as an almond tree blest by an hermit! her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slow she sways; her white arms ripple from rosy finger to rosy nipple, ripple and flow like the melody of the flutes and the violins. and! i see! i see- she smiles on me the heart of a million sins, each keener than death! her se

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use the business is so gigantic. it encourages me immensely; for if my dweller on the threshold be that most formidable devil, how vast must be the pylon that shelters him, and how glorious must be the temple just beyond! 9.30. it seems that there was one more mistake to make; for i've made it! i started to attempt to awaken the kundalini the magical serpent that sleeps at the base of the spine; coiled in three coils and a half around the sushumna; and instead of pumping the prana up and down the sushumna until siva was united with sakti in the sahasrara-cakkram, i tried god knows why; i'm stupider than an ass or h c to work the whole operation in muladhara with the obvious result. there are only two more idiocies to perform one, to take a big dose of hashish and record the ravings a

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and let its shadow through. yet i who am thus prisoned and exiled am the right heir of glory, the crowned child. i match my might against my fate's. i gird myself to reach the ultimate shores, i arm myself the war to win- lift up your heads, o mighty gates! be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors! 42 the whole theory and practice of raja yoga is the awakening of a power named the kundalini, which is coiled up in what is called the sacral plexus, and then forcing this awakened power up a canal called the sushumna, which runs through the centre of the spinal column "when the kundalini is aroused, and enters the canal of the sushumna, all the perceptions are in the mental space or chittakasa. when it has reached that end of the canal which opens out into the brain, the objectless perception is i

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prang, hero-thewed and satyr-lipped; crushed, as a grape between his teeth, my fears; sucked out my life and stamped me with the shame, the monstrous word of wife. vi i will not weep; nay, i will follow him perchance he is not far, 94 bathing his limbs in some delicious dim depth, where the evening star may kiss his mouth, or by the black sky's rim he makes his prayer to the great serpent that is coiled in rapture there. vii i rose to seek him. first my footsteps faint pressed the starred moss; but soon i wandered, like some sweet sequestered saint, into the wood, my mind. the moon was staggered by the trees; with fierce constraint hardly one ray pierced to the ragged earth about their roots that lay. viii i wandered, crying on my lord. i wandered eagerly seeking everywhere. the stories of

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as i address these words; you are drunk_ beastly drunk_ as you read them; buddha was a drunk as a voter at election time when he uttered his besotted command. there, my dear children, is the conclusion to which we are brought if you insist that he was serious! i answer no! alone among men then living, the buddha was sober, and saw truth. he, who was freed from the coils of the great serpent theli coiled round the universe, he knew how deep the slaver of that snake had entered into us, infecting us, rotting our very bones with poisonous drunkenness. and so his cutting irony_ drink no intoxicating drinks! when i go to take pansil,9 it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is with keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. these five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of desire. fou

nd do i hear thy name, that quickeneth the cold lips of death to life. 2. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all my for all my praise is as the song of a bird that is ensnared in the network or the winds, and cast adown the drowning depths of night. yet in the faltering notes of my music do i mark the melody of universal truth. 3. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all my works are as a coiled-up sleeper who hath overslept the day, even the dawn that hovereth as a hawk in the void. yet in the gloom of mine awakening do i see, across the breasts of night, thy shadowed form. 4. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all my labours are as weary oxen laggard and sore stricken with the goad, ploughing black furrows across the white fields of light. yet in the scrawling trail of their

my god, thou dazzler of the deep obscurity of day? o thou golden breast of beauty! thou shrivelled udder of the storm-blasted mountains, who no longer sucklest the babe-clouds of wind-swept night! o how can i gaze upon thy countenance of eld, and yet be not blinded by the black fury of thy dethron d majesty? 9. o what art thou, o god my god, thou seraph-venom of witch-vengeance enchaunted? o thou coiled wizardry of stars! thou one lord of life triumphant over death, thou red rose of love nailed to the cross of golden light! o how can i die in thee as sea-foam in the clouds, and yet possess thee as a frail white mist possesses the stripped limbs of the sun? 10. o what art thou, o god my god, thou soft pearl set in a bow of effulgent light? o thou drop of shimmering dew! thou surging river o

adore thee, iao! o thou red breast of the sunset, that pantest for the ravishment of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou serpent of malachite, that baskest in a desert of turquoise! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou fierce whirlpool of passion, that art sucked up by the mouth of the sun! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou green cockatrice of hell, that art coiled around the finger of fate! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou lambent laughter of fire, that art wound round 68 the heart of the waters! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou gorilla blizzard air, that tearest out earth's tresses by the roots! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou reveller of spirit, that carousest in the halls of matter! i adore thee, evoe! i ado

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are thine, hadit, and draughts of wizard wine! these do no hurt. thine hermits dwell not in the cold secretive cell, but under purple canopies with mighty-breasted mistresses magnificent as lionesses_ tender and terrible caresses! fire lives, and light, in eager eyes; and massed huge hair about them lies. they lead their hosts to victory: in every joy they are kings; then see that secret serpent coiled to spring and win the world! o priest and king, let there be feasting, foining, fighting, a revel of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars' kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die- ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs

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the glory of the dead woman's hair shall be returned again. one of these creatures is poised over her mouth, which again, to vulgar in unseeing eyes, looks ugly, though it is really more beautiful now than ever it was, for it is quick with frail seeds of countless existences, and is become a very factory and warehouse of life itself. another worm is coming out of the dead right eye of the woman, coiled, as it were, like a little pink amethyst from the stuff of her brain. and yet another peers from the mysterious 318 citadel of her heart, which like a faded and extinguished censer, rusts in the decadence of its scented memories. the three worms dispose themselves and begin to talk. the little worm which is issuing from her mouth begins "i am her mouth, her beautiful mouth, that sweet frail

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e heart outwards in the pericardium; the three chief are the ida, pingala and sushumn ,75 the last of which is called "the most highly beloved of the yogis" besides practising pr n y ma he should also perform one 84 or more of the mudras, as laid down in the "hatha yoga pradipika" and the "shiva sanhita" so that he may arouse the sleeping kundalini, the great goddess, as she is called, who sleeps coiled up at the mouth of the sushumn. but before we deal with either of these exercises, it will be necessary to explain the mystical constitution of the human organism and the six chakkras which constitute the six stages of the hindu tau of life. the constitution of the human organism firstly, we have the atman, the self or knower, whose being consists in a trinity in unity of, sat, absolute exi

nhita";100 but it is both complicated and difficult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a guru. 2 "maha mudra" pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg, take hold of the toes with your hand. then practise the jalandhara bandha101 and draw the breath through the sushumn. then the kundalini become straight just as a coiled snake when struck. then the two other nadis (the ida and pingala) become dead, because the breath goes out of them. then he should breathe out very slowly and never quickly.102 "3 "maha bandha" pressing the anus with the left ankle place the right foot upon the left thigh. having drawn in the breath, place the chin firmly on the breast, contract the anus and fix the mind on the sushumn nadi

essay on hume" p. 155. 120 raja-yoga "vivek nanda" pp. 36, 37. arjuna says "for the mind is verily restless, o krishna; it is impetuous, strong and difficult to bend, i deem it as hard to curb as the wind" to which krishna answers "without doubt, o mighty-armed, the mind is hard to curb and restless, but it may be curbed by constant practice and by indifference."121 the kundalini whilst it is yet coiled up in the m l^adhara is said to be in the mah k sa, or in three dimensional space; when it enters the sushumn it enters the chitt k sa or mental space, in which supersensuous objects are perceived. but, when perception has become objectless, and the soul shines by means of its own nature, it is said to have entered the chid k sa or knowledge space, and when the kundalini enters this space i

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love- dies- love lives- in granite skirted, and under oaken skies. but best is grim december, the goatish god his power; the satyr blows the ember, and pain is passion's flower; when blood drips over kisses, and madness sobs through wine- ah, mine- the snake starts up and hisses and strikes and- i am thine["he crouches at the feet of" sphinx "toward" c.i.c.t [hermanubis "recites" hermanubis. 1. o coiled and constricted and chosen! o tortured and twisted and twined! deep spring of my soul deep frozen, the sleep of the truth of the mind! as a bright snake curled round the vine of the world! 30 o sleeper through dawn and through daylight, o sleeper through dusk and through night! o shifted from white light to gray light, from gray to the one black light! o silence and sound in the far profoun

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

lan and consequent cooperation with it. then comes the third and final stage with which we need not concern ourselves wherein there is a complete blending of the bodily forces (focussed through the ajna centre) with the soul forces (focussed through the head centre. it is at this time that there comes the final evocation of the personality will (purified and consecrated) which has been "sleeping, coiled like the serpent of wisdom" at the base of the spine; this surges upward on the impulse of devotion, aspiration and enlightened will and thus fuses itself in the head with the spiritual will. this is the final raising, by an act of discriminating determination, of the kundalini fire. this raising takes place in three stages, or impulses: 1. the stage wherein the lower energies are carried t

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re where the essential dualism of the manifested divinity man or planetary logos meet and produce form. 3. the nature of this divinity is only revealed when the second aspect has accomplished its work, through the medium of the third aspect, but under the directing will of the first aspect. 4. it is the centre where the "serpent of god" undergoes two transformations: a. the serpent of matter lies coiled. b. this serpent is transformed into the serpent of wisdom. c. the serpent of wisdom is translated and becomes the "dragon of living light" 5. these three stages are nurtured by the life and energy pouring down through the entire length of the spinal column, via the etheric correspondence of the spinal cord, and in time and space this downpouring (plus the simultaneously uprising life) prod

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

men and women. thus, the task of destroying the first three heads continues to challenge the powers of mankind thousands of years after hercules accomplished his extraordinary feat. the three qualities of character that hercules had to express were humility, courage and discrimination: humility, to see his plight objectively and recognize his shortcomings; courage, to attack the monster that lay coiled at the roots of his nature; discrimination, to discover a technique for dealing with his mortal foe. uncovering the cesspool of base desires and egotistical urges that fester in the subconscious nature has been the work of modern psychoanalysis. the latter technique brings the unsavory data of repressed impulses to the surface, it is true, but often stops at that point. the individual reali

urt of the king who ruled the underworld, hades. the latter, grim and stern, with threatening- 98- the labours of hercules mien, sat stiffly on his jet black throne as hercules approached "what seek you, a living mortal, in my realms" hades demanded. hercules said "i seek to free prometheus [171 "the path is guarded by the monster cerberus, a dog with three great heads, each of which has serpents coiled about it" hades replied "if you can conquer him with your bare hands, a feat no one has yet performed, you may unbind the suffering prometheus" satisfied with this response, hercules proceeded. soon he saw the triple-headed dog, and heard its piercing bark. snarling, it sprang upon him. grasping the primary throat of cerberus, hercules held it in his vice-like grip. goaded to frenzied fury

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l the kabalists, represented in some diagrams by the circle of tiphereth. and here, again, we may quote from our earlier volumes and enter into further explanations "from this region of unfathomable depth (bythos, aditi, shekinah, the veil of the unknown) issues forth a circle formed of spirals. this is tiphereth; which, in the language of symbolism, means a grand cycle, composed of smaller ones. coiled within, so as to follow the spirals, lies the serpent- emblem of wisdom and eternity- the dual androgyne; the cycle representing ennoia, or the divine mind (a power which does not create but which must assimilate, and the serpent, the agathodaemon, the ophis, the shadow of the light (non-eternal, yet the greatest divine light on our plane. both were the logoi of the ophites: or the unity as

le corollary which completes light or good: it is its creator on earth. according to the views of the gnostics, these two principles are immutable light and shadow, good and evil being virtually one and having existed through all eternity, as they will ever continue to exist so long as there are manifested worlds. this symbol accounts for the adoration by this sect of the serpent, as the saviour, coiled either around the sacramental loaf, or a tau, the phallic emblem. as a unity, ennoia and ophis are the logos. when separated, one is the tree of life (spiritual, the other, the tree[[footnote(s* ulupi has an entirely atlantean ring about it. like atlantis, it is neither a greek nor a sanskrit name, but reminds one of mexican names "mahabharata" adiparva, sloka, 7788, 7789. the "bhagavata pu

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nfernal regions- our earth. then the great serpent nidhogg- he who devours the corpses of the evil-doers in the "hall of misery (human life, so soon as they are plunged into "hwergelmir" the roaring cauldron (of human passions- gnawed the world-tree. the worms of materiality covered the once healthy and mighty roots, and are now ascending higher and higher along the trunk; while the midgard-snake coiled at the bottom of the seas, encircles the earth, and, through its venomous breath, makes her powerless to defend herself. they are all seven-headed, the dragons and serpents of antiquity "one head for each race, and every head with seven hairs on it" as the allegory has it. aye, from ananta, the serpent of eternity which carries vishnu through the manvantara, from the original primordial ses

d up like a mummy. in the second scroll. is anubis, holding out a cross, the "sign of life" under his feet lies the corpse encircled in the numerous folds of a huge serpent, the agathodaemon, guardian of the deceased. in the third scroll, anubis bears on his arm. the outline of. a complete latin cross. at the god's foot is a rhomboid, the egyptian 'egg of the world' towards which crawls a serpent coiled into a circle. under the busts is the letter[[omega] repeated seven times in a line, reminding one of the 'names. very remarkable also is the line of characters, apparently palmyrene, upon the legs of the first anubis. as for the figure of the serpent, supposing these talismans to emanate not from the isiac but the newer ophite creed, it may well stand for that "true and perfect serpent" wh

BLUE EQUINOX

oppressed by consciousness of .sin. wearily seeking or simulating wearisome and tedious .virtues? with such, we who have accepted the law of thelema have nothing to do. we have heard the voice of the star- goddess .i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me. and thus she ends .sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! the equinox 50 to me. and with these words .the manifestion of nuit is at an end. iii in the next chapter of our boo

nations of the earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head-dress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and liber xv 257 drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! to me! to me! sing the raptuous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you. i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me! the priest mounts the second step. the priest: o secret of secrets that art hidden in the being of all that lives

d to the gunas: ignorance, tamas; learning, rajas; wisdom, sattvas. again, ignorance corresponds to malkuth and nephesch (the animal soul, learning to tiphareth and ruach (the mind, and wisdom to binah and neschamah (the aspiration or divine mind. the equinox 16 24. the name of hall the second is the hall of learning. in it thy soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. this hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the astral world. it would certainly include ali states up to dhyana. the student will remember that his .rewards. immediately transmute themselves into temptations. 25. the name of the third hall is wisdom, beyond which stretch the shoreless waters of akshara, the indestructible fount of omniscience. akshara is the sam

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ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of t

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he royal snake of egypt [91] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s 2 this is the serpent of temptation, yet from it cometh forth redemption. for the serpent is the first appearance of the anointed one, and that which casteth adam out from the garden of the east, even that shall bring him back once more to paradise. thus in teth is shown the secret of the going forth and the return, for teth is the serpent coiled around the tau. this is the sign of the name of names, which none may utter. again, it is the symbol of the tree of divine perfections, encircled by the power of the letters wherewith is formed the whole creation. 3 and because the tally referreth to counting, and so to all the works of number, by this letter do i show first, that all things are brought forth through number, and second, tha

tree of divine perfections, encircled by the power of the letters wherewith is formed the whole creation. 3 and because the tally referreth to counting, and so to all the works of number, by this letter do i show first, that all things are brought forth through number, and second, that all works of power accomplished by the wise have number for their foundation. for the circle of the tally is the coiled fiery power which cometh from the sun, and to rule this, thou must learn to count [92] t e t h count aright, and thou shalt have oil for thy lamps, for the oil for lighting. containeth the secret of the letter teth. this is the oil which riseth like a serpent, the oil which thy father jacob poured upon the stone in the house of strength. 4 verily, he who knoweth the secret of that stone, kn

egyptian wisdom will know how truly it may be said that the secret wisdom of that land is "hid in number. in egypt pythagoras learned the great mathematical principles embodied in his system. the same truths are summed up in the great pyramid. 2 nachash, n ch sh, the name of the serpent of temptation, is equivalent by number, 358, to messiach, m sh i ch, the anointed one, or redeemer "the serpent coiled around the tau" refers to the ancient form of the letter teth, a circle (suggesting the serpent holding its tail in its mouth) enclosing a cross, which was the ancient form of the letter tav (or tau. a circle enclosing a cross is a mathematical symbol of [94] c o m m e n t on t e t h the name of names, i h v h, because every circle corresponds numerically to the number 22, and every cross t

e tree of divine perfection; and in the ancient form of teth the circle surrounding the cross is a symbol of the "power of the letters, because the total number of hebrew letters is 22, and 22 is the characteristic number of any circle. arithmetic is the basis of all practical occultism. a knowledge of the esoteric properties and uses of number is indispensable to every seeker for liberation "the coiled fiery power" is the astral light, symbolized by a coiled serpent. it is also the kundalini of the yogis, and much concerning it will be found in the writings of madame blavatsky, who calls it fohat, and says outright that the letter teth is a symbol for fohat. see also arthur avalon's serpent power and shakti and shakta. the "lamps" are the "interior stars" or "chakras. the "oil" is the ner

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d. i think he could well be correct. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delight called heden, which was more beautiful than the entire world. it was the abode of the first men before an evil spirit in the form of a serpent tempted them to take the fruit of a forbidden tree. there is also the banyan tree under which 116 children of the matrix the hindu "jesus, known as krishna, sat upon a coiled serpent and bestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of the islands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew the golden apples of immortality. the garden was defended by a dragon. in chinese sacred books there is a garden that contained trees bearing the fruit of immortality. it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. t

and display both the intimidating temperament and appearance of the unsavoury beasts. as a sign of their viperous power, snake initiates would often adorn their body with snakeskins or snake tattoos and hang snake fangs from around their necks. they also conveyed poisonous snake venom within the medicine bag and/or armed themselves with a serpent-embellished rattle, which would hiss eerily like a coiled snake when shaken. the tendency of such snake initiates was to be secretive, like a stealthy reptile, and some even developed a penchant for seeking out dark secluded dwellings or living nocturnally."46 initiations into these clans include being covered, often bitten, by live snakes. sometimes the rites involved cutting off a finger or other part of the body and feeding it to a snake (don't

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on theme is global. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delightcalled heden which was more beautiful than all the rest of the world. it was the originalabode of the first men, they said, before they were tempted by the evil spirit, in the formof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the banyon treeunder which the hindu jesus, known as khrishna, sat upon a coiled serpent andbestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

t also the inner, whereto moses referred; and that path lieth hid within the mother, and is the medium of its conjunction" when it is noted that yod is identical with the lingam in the hindu system; and that kether, daath, and the beautiful path, tiphareth, the sixth sephirah, are in a line on the middle pillar of the tree, which equates with the spine in man, the microcosm; and that kundalini is coiled in yesod, also on the middle pillar, we shall see that we have here an important key for those who are equipped to use it. 18. in the greater holy assembly, verse 566 (mathers' translation, we read concerning the head of microprosopos, whose whole body is being taken as a glyph of the cosmos "from the third cavity there goes forth a thousand times a thousand conclaves and assemblies, wherei

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

of scandals in connection with unnatural vice. if this were merely vice as such it would not come within the purview of these pages, but it appears to be used systematically as a means of obtaining occult power. those who have any knowledge of the deeper aspects of occultism know that sex force is one of the manifestations of kundalini, the serpent- fire that according to tantric philosophy lies coiled at the base of the spine, or in the terms of western occultism, the sacral plexus. the control and concentration of the kundalini force is an important part of the technique of practical occultism. there is a right way of directing it through thought-control, the technique of which i have explained in my little book, the problem of purity (rider; but there is also another method, which cons

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does not ensue. the union of kundalini with the thousand-petaled lotus confers bliss that is both physical and spiritual. the sensation is sustained, constant, powerful without being harsh, and may be likened to an orgasm that is not localized in the genitals, and is extremely subtle and refined. kundalini is sometimes describes as a serpent that lies sleeping below the muladhara chakra, her body coiled in three and one-half turns around the base of the spine. kundalini is awakened by postures that stimulate the muladhara, primarily a sitting posture in which one of the heels is pressed against the perineum. in conjunction with this posture, breathing exercises in which the breath is held and compressed into the lower abdomen are used while the anus is rhythmically contracted. this causes

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

etle-headed, who is seated in the boat of the rising sun (to illustrate lines 116 ff. 4. two apes, emblematic of isis and nephthys (to illustrate lines 124, 125. 5. the god tmu, seated within the sun-disk in the boat of the setting sun, facing a table of offerings. 6. the god rehu, in the form of a lion (to illustrate line 133. 7. the serpent uatchit, the lady of flame, a symbol of the eye of ra, coiled round a lotus flower. above is the emblem of fire. text [chapter xvii (1) here begin the praises and glorifyings[2] of coming out from and going into (2) the glorious neter-khert in the beautiful amenta, of coming out by day[3] in all the forms of existence which [1. compare the following variant from a papyrus in dublin. in the papyrus of hunefer, before the scene of the cat cutting off ap

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or the moat with all speed, followed by a curious multitude, he scooped up the egg, and in full view of the people, broke the shell and exposed to their admiring eyes a little, wriggling serpent. when a few days had elapsed, he judged the time ripe for a second demonstration. gathering together a huge crowd from every part of paphlagonia, he emerged from the temple with the large macedonian snake coiled about his neck. the head of the serpent was concealed under the prophet s arm, and an artificial head, somewhat resembling that of a human being, allowed to protrude. the assembly was astonished to find that the tiny serpent of a few days ago had already attained such remarkable proportions and possessed the face of a human being, and they appeared to have little doubt that it was indeed ap

at he would make mankind immortal, so he killed him with a thunderbolt. apollo retaliated by attacking the cyclopes who had forged the thunderbolt, and zeus was eventually prevailed upon to admit asclepius to the ranks of the gods. the worship of asclepius centered in epidaurus, and the cock was offered to him in sacrifice. the serpent and the dog were sacred to him, and his symbol of the serpent coiled about a staff still remains as the sign of medical practice. asclepius is also featured in the hermetic literature connected with hermes trismegistus( thrice-greatest hermes. sources: edelstein, emma jeanette levy. asclepius: a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. new york: arno press, 1975. ashcroft-nowicki, delores (1929) delores ashcroft-nowicki, the head of the servants of

. cadoret, remi j, and j. fahler. esp card tests of college students with and without hypnosis. journal of parapsychology 22 (1958. cadoret, remi j, and j. g. pratt. the consistent missing effect in esp. journal of parapsychology 14 (1950. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. caduceus the caduceus, an esoteric symbol picturing two serpents coiled around a rod, is one of the most ancient symbols in the middle east. serpents always carried very opposite connotations. they were beautifully decorated creatures who symbolized wisdom. in many cases they also carried a deadly venom and their bite killed. the ancient hebrews saw the serpent in the garden of eden as the instrument of humanity s fall from innocence. while in the wilderness, m

very opposite connotations. they were beautifully decorated creatures who symbolized wisdom. in many cases they also carried a deadly venom and their bite killed. the ancient hebrews saw the serpent in the garden of eden as the instrument of humanity s fall from innocence. while in the wilderness, many were bitten by serpents and, according to the story, moses lifted up a brass image of a serpent coiled around a rod (num. 21:8.9. those who looked upon the serpent were healed. throughout mesopotamia, the serpent was associated with healing deities. thus did it find its most common use as the symbol of physicians. while probably originating in mesopotamia, the caduceus found its way eastward to india and westward into the mediterranean. it is associated with the use of paired serpents in gen

e healed. throughout mesopotamia, the serpent was associated with healing deities. thus did it find its most common use as the symbol of physicians. while probably originating in mesopotamia, the caduceus found its way eastward to india and westward into the mediterranean. it is associated with the use of paired serpents in general such as those on the egyptian pharaoh s headpiece or the serpents coiled around the body of mithras. in greek lore, hermes (the roman mercury) came upon two serpents fighting. he thrust his rod between them. they coiled around the rod and remained attached to it. thus, the caduceus emerged as the symbol of messenger of the god. in greek thought, the caduceus acquired wings. in india, the caduceus became associated with the kundalini or serpent power, the latent

ithras. in greek lore, hermes (the roman mercury) came upon two serpents fighting. he thrust his rod between them. they coiled around the rod and remained attached to it. thus, the caduceus emerged as the symbol of messenger of the god. in greek thought, the caduceus acquired wings. in india, the caduceus became associated with the kundalini or serpent power, the latent power believed to lie as a coiled serpent at the base of the spine. as spiritual consciousness awakens, the energy travels up the spine to the top of the head. in roman thought, the caduceus was a symbol of moral equilibrium and good conduct. over the centuries, the caduceus was brought into the esoteric gnostic tradition and reappears as symbolic of power and the balance between positive and negative or darkness and light

nly in black magic. it is by means of the chakras that the trained occultist can become acquainted with the astral world. the theosophical concept of chakras was adapted from the ancient hindu understanding of kundalini, a cosmic energy believed to be latent in the human organism responsible for sexual activity and also conditions of higher consciousness. the hindu mystics pictured kundalini as a coiled serpent situated at the base of the spine in the subtle body. when aroused by spiritual disciplines, which included breath control and meditation, the energy darted up the spine in any of three subtle channels, illuminating the seven major centers or chakras in the body. these centers have been tentatively identified with the major nervous plexi. the seventh chakra, known as the sahasrara o

ce, in which the lights in the room were extinguished and the mediums sat tightly bound to their chairs between the other sitters. tying and releasing occurred as in the cabinet. the swishing of rope was heard. the knots presented no obstacle. sometimes every intermediate knot was left undone, with the seal at the end, yet the mediums were found free. as an additional amusement the rope was often coiled around the neck of some sitter. then through the ropes, in some mysterious way, the coats of the mediums, or their waistcoats underneath, were whisked off and on again. those who entered the cabinet to sit with the brothers in the light seance were usually victims of strange pranks. their handkerchiefs were taken, their breast pins removed and stuck into their coats, and their spectacles tr

uced by a healthy organ as compared with that of an unsound one. the following physiological explanation was advanced by dudley wright: all living beings have in their nervous systems cells with retractile branching processes which correspond to the movable condensers in wireless sets and, in addition, the cells of the body are capable of self-induction (on the same principle as wireless) through coiled structures in the nucleus. it is through encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. divining rod 431 these that the bodies of men and animals are capable of tuning into the various wavelengths emitted by other people, by other living things, and even by water, minerals and oil. the muscles are supplied by two sets of nerves, viz (1) from the cerebro spinal system which controls the

echniques prepares the yogi for meditative positions, while the ensuing practice of mental concentration invites the desired detachment, which enables the meditation itself. when associated with special breathing techniques, the subtle current of the body (termed prana) flows through the nerve channels, culminating in the arousal of latent energy called kundalini. kundalini is often depicted as a coiled snake resting at the base of the spine. the task of the yogi is to induce the kundalini energy to flow up the spine to a subtle center in the head, resulting in a mystical or transcendental experience. there are several schools of hatha yoga which students may follow. they include iyengar yoga, founded by b.k.s. iyengar, which is known for precision, of the asanas and the use of props (chai

med. the shaktas or tantrics developed an elaborate picture of the subtle anatomy of the individual, independent drawing and painting encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 784 proposing that each person had a secondary body composed of spiritual/psychic energies. in tantra, sexual energy in the yogi is manifested in a pure form as kundalini, a psychophysiological force resting like a coiled snake at the base of the spine. when awakened, the kundalini travels up the spine to the several psychic centers called chakras and eventually to the top of the head. the rise of the kundalini to the highest chakra brings higher consciousness and spiritual enlightenment. tantrics usually can be divided into two distinct groups. the original self-existent gods were supposed to divide themsel

movements. kumbha mela is one of the most colorful mass festivals of india, a kind of nongenerational super- woodstock of the spiritual life. kundalini according to ancient hindu religious teachings and yoga science, a latent force in the human organism responsible for sexual activity and (in a sublimated form) higher consciousness. in hindu mythology kundalini.from the root word kundala meaning coiled.is personified as a goddess, sometimes with the aspect of durga (a creator) and sometimes kali (the destroyer) or bhujangi (the serpent. kundalini is often described as a serpent that sleeps at the base of the spine and, when aroused, darts upward, bringing enlightenment or pain. according to classical literature, signs of awakened kundalini are grouped into three categories: vocal, physica

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ks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictured as lying latent, like a coiled serpent, at the base of the spine. in tantric practice, kundalini is released to travel up the spine, opening the chakras, and eventually bringing enlightenment. in right-hand tantra, this awakening is done with meditation and concentration. in the left-hand path, the kundalini is awakened in part by sexual intercourse ending in coitus interruptus, with a cooperating female. there has also

damballah with saint patrick. damballah is pictured as a snake, and, as in ireland, there are practically no snakes in haiti. hence the association with st. patrick. voudou worship and practice is conducted by male (oungan) and female (manbo) priests. they operate out of a worship center called ounfo. in the center of the ounfo is a peristil, a pole that usually has a representation of damballah coiled around it. worship includes honoring the deities (which may involve the sacrifice of various animals, lively dancing with drum accompaniment, and the possession of priests or others in attendance by loas. like all west african religion, voudou includes the practice of magic. voudou has a particularly bad image, even among other african-based religions, as the home to much sorcery (malevolen

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s, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! f

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

the primary names of the divine in the tantras, such as shiva and kali, are also found in the hebrew torah. the map of the sefiroth (lit. spheres) in the tree of life (etz ha-chayyim) and the map of the chakras (lit. wheels) of the tantras have much in common. the kundalini spoken of in the tantras and the shekhinah of the qabalah appear to have the same function. the kundalini is described as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. on page 12 of the introduction to tantra shastra, sir john woodroffe says: kundalini means coiled. hence, kundalini, whose form is that of a coiled serpent, means that which is coiled. she is the luminous vital energy (jivashakti) which manifests as prana [ed. same as qi in chinese, and ruach in hebrew. she sleeps in the muladhara chakra [sefira

e fallen condition is portrayed in the chakric tree by the petals on the lotuses turned downward. when the chakric tree is ascended, the petals of each lotus turn upwards as the consciousness of the traveler awakens in it. as previously mentioned in chapter one, the tantric texts (called shastra) on the chakras describe the chitshakti (energy of consciousness, known as the goddess kundalini, as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. the shekhinah of the qabalah is said to be in exile in the lower worlds. the kundalini and the shekhinah are two distinctly different allusions for the same thing. the snake of the kundalini is said to awaken and ascend the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajna chakra at the forehead. th

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value, so the order of the terms under the operation does not matter. today is 11/20/98. running under the influence of ma-huang. a connection! a communication (implied) from my hga. the sigils themselves were precluded by some automatic drawings in the shapes of a phoenix, coatyl, firesnakes moving forward([1. the explosion of the bird (it's death and it's life for [2. the serpent with it's tail coiled up([3. the formula of liber al vs. iii:76 is in the pursuit of ones hga. grant uses the word ipsos as it's word. i need to find this beings name. as of now it seems like a dark phoenix (x-men) today is 11/21/98. as i read through more material concerning typhon-set (ophidian pathways) i become more convinced that this contact was genuine, as i have had little to no fore knowledge about this

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

homet. eliphas levi created this symbol, one of the foremost satanists and freemasons of all time. the baphomet is one of the most evil of all symbols. looking closely at the baphomet(left) you will see that the emphasis is on sex. this being is androgynous- both male and female- you can see it has the breasts of a woman, and an erect phallus. you'll notice that the erect phallus has two serpents coiled around it. the baphomet has the head of a "horned goat" another title for satan. masonic and occult symbols illustrated is a book in which dr. burns says "in a book on witchcraft, the complete book of witchcraft and demonology. the caption states that he is 'the horned god of the witches, symbol of sex incarnate [p. 51] and if you look at his right hand you will see baphomet making the sign

below taken from morals and dogma, p. 496-500] 1 "the phoenicians represented the god nomu (kneph or amun-kneph) by a serpent" 2 "in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of horhat the good genius; the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" means "guardian] 3) in ancient tyre, and india "a serpent was. coiled around the trunk of a tree. python, the serpent deity, was esteemed oracular; and the tripod at delphi was a triple-headed serpent of gold [note: also, pike capitalized as we printed, above] 4 "the portals of the egyptian temples are decorated with the hierogram of the circle and the serpent" 5) the serpent "is found upon the temple of naki-rustan in persia, on the triumphal arch at pechin

ce which determines birth and rebirth and hence it is connected with the wheel of life" cirlot, a dictionary of symbols, p. 286-288] albert pike gives us the explanation for these two masonic columns, both of which depict a serpent "serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the persian, egyptian, chinese, and indian monuments. vishnu is represented reposing on a coiled serpent, whose folds form a canopy over him [pike, morals and dogma, teachings of the 25th degree, knight of the brazen serpent, p. 500] notice that the column on the left not only has a serpent encircling a globe, but notice also that the globe itself has wings. another source quotes h.g. wells as saying that the winged globe is "to become the symbol of the new world order when it overtly

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om of the qabalah page 54 the messianic redemption. to begin with there is no serpent; then one serpent; lastly two forms of one serpent, that is a serpent possessing two complementary energies which when balanced cause its immediate destruction. these two energies, or powers, are called metatron and sammael; and in the name of tetragrammaton they are symbolized by the od and the vau- the serpent coiled up or passive and the serpent erect or active. the first represents the creative energy and the second actual movement or change. these two serpents are the guardians of those forces which man calls good and evil; they are, as we have already mentioned, symbolized by yakhin and boaz, the pillars of solomon's temple, and flow into kether through the fifty gates of binah, 50 being the numeric

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

yettenare they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, ev

s ortrumpsare often omitted, and many packs are sold without these. but takingthetarotcards 121the ordinary pip cards,ifthey were simply used for a game, the ancient designs, which have persisted through so many years and in divers countries, would seem meaningless. the numbers of pips as in the common english packs would be sufficient. why, for example, should the two of pentacles have a serpent coiled round the two pips in the form of the algebraic symbol of infinity. and here we may say that those well255 meaning writers who have redrawn the cards have gone on the wrong tack. admitting that we have no evidence of the original meaning (theremayormay not be a secret tradition, i wish to make no assertion as to this) it is surely the part of wisdom to preserve the ancient symbol as clearly

number of divided councils, of good and evil, the first number to separate itself from the divine unity, hence associated with the dual nature of the serpent, or the two serpents, the serpent of the temptation, and the brazen serpent of healing lifted up by moses in the wilderness, which was a type of christ. appropriately then in the old designs is the two of pentacles illustrated by the serpent coiled in the symbol of infinity.theinterpretation may be true or false, i claim no special inspiration for it. it is merely a suggestion. but from whence comes mr waite's dancing man?ifhe belongs to any of the old forms of the128 the sorcerer and his apprenticetarot, or is in any way connected with the original designers, he is worthy of serious consideration. but one would like to know his origi

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

xpectant posture, bent knees protruding upwards, thick calves drawn back to touch its thighs, ankles tucked in against its buttocks, elbows planted on the ground, hands folded across its belly encircling an empty plate, and its back set at an awkward angle as though it were just about to lever itself upright. had it done so, i calculated, it would have stood about eight feet tall. even reclining, coiled and tightly sprung, it seemed to overflow with a fierce and pitiless energy. its square features were thin-lipped and implacable, as hard and indifferent as the stone from which they were carved, and its eyes gazed westwards, traditionally the direction of darkness, death and the colour black.2 1 mexico, lonely planet publications, hawthorne, australia, 1992, pp. 839. 2 ronald wright, time

cock fingerprints of the gods 116 in a sacred sanctuary in the mixtec capital achiotlan? we know of this curious object through the writings of a sixteenth-century eyewitness, father burgoa: the material was of marvellous value, for it was an emerald of the size of a thick pepper-pod [capsicum, upon which a small bird was engraved with the greatest skill, and, with the same skill, a small serpent coiled ready to strike. the stone was so transparent that it shone from its interior with the brightness of a candle flame. it was a very old jewel, and there is no tradition extant concerning the origin of its veneration and worship.7 what might we learn if we could examine this very old jewel today? and how old was it really? we shall never find out because fr. benito, the first missionary of ac

sing the meridian, was the resplendent constellation of scorpius dominated by the first-magnitude star antares a red supergiant 300 times the diameter of the sun. north-east, above cairo, sailed cygnus the swan, his tail feathers marked by deneb, a blue-white supergiant visible to us across more than 1800 light years of interstellar space. last but not least, in the northern sky, the dragon draco coiled sinuously among the circumpolar stars. indeed, 4500 years ago, when the great pyramid was supposedly being built for the fourth dynasty pharaoh khufu (cheops, one of the stars of draco had stood close to the celestial north pole and had served as the pole star. this had been alpha draconis, also known as thuban. with the passing of the millennia, however, it had gradually been displaced fro

traverses the earth. there is brought to him a way of ascent to the sky. 8 switching to dialogue, utterance 310 proclaimed, o you whose vision is in his face and whose vision is in the back of his head, bring this to me! what ferry-boat shall be brought to you? bring me: it-flies-and-alights. 9 utterance 332, supposedly spoken by the king himself, confided, i am this one who has escaped from the coiled serpent, i have ascended in a blast of fire having turned myself about. the two skies go to me.10 and in utterance 669 it was asked, wherewith can the king be made to fly-up? the reply was given: there shall be brought to you the hnw-bark [italicized word untranslatable] and the [text missing] of the hn-bird [italicized word untranslatable. you shall fly up therewith. you shall fly 5 ibid

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n earth as you will (bechst. 4, 174. fani-gold seems to be gold that has lain in fens with the snakes and dragons (p. 531. our earliest antiquity has famous legends of snakes and dragons on the gold (p. 689-90. it is worth noting, that men were fond of giving the shape of the snake to costly golden ware in the way of ornaments and weapons. a heap of gold glittered in the sun, and a hlack worm lay coiled around it, yet so that he did not reach quite round, and a span's breadth was left open: at this spot the labouring man who had spied the hoard stept in and gathered gold. when he had crammed his pockets full and even the smock he had pulled off, it came into his head to call up a companion and bid her load herself with the rest of the treasure; but his voice was drowned in the teri-ible ro

f the venom oozing out at that aperture' tamen intoxicatus albertus in austria, et diu per pedes suspensus, oculum perdens evasit* alb. argent (ed. basil. 1569) p. 167 (see suppl. water, springs, fire (pp. 1166. 1173) have power to preserve health or restore it (pp. 586-8. 605-6. 618-9. 621 4; especially a spring that has burst out of the rock at the bidding of a god or saint. the snake that lies coiled round the holywell, or is seen beside it (p. 585-8n, maybe likened to the serpent-rod of aesculapius. healing water or oil trickles out of rocks and walls. the mother that was walled in (p. 1143) continued for a time to nourish her babe through a hole in the wall, till at last she died. at that hole there is a continual dropping, women whose milti has run dry go there to got healed: the mot

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hick as an arm. the holes are stuffed with linen, then the cross-bar is forced in as tight as possible, the heads of the stakes being held together with 1 zeitschr. des less, vereins 2, 281. 2 not a word about sheep: supposing cocks and hens were likewise hunted over the coals, it would explain a hitherto unexplained proverb (eeinhart xciv. 606 elements. cords. about the smooth round cross-bar is coiled a rope, whose long ends, left hanging on both sides, are seized by a number of men; these make the cross-bar revolve rapidly this way and that, till the friction sets the linen in the holes on fire. the sparks are caught on tow or oakum, and whirled round in the air till they burst into a clear blaze, which is then communicated to straw, and from the straw to a bed of brushwood arranged in

s fire, superst. i, 710. 3 conf. conring s epist. ad baluz. xiii. gericke s schottel. p. 70. dahnert sub v. noodfiir. 4 zellweger s gesch. von appenzell, trogen 1830. 1, 63; who observes, that with the ashes of the fire so engendered they strew the fields, as a protection against vermin. need-fire. 607 but tobler 252b says, what boys call de tiifel hdla is spinning a pointed stick, with a string coiled round it, rapidly in a wooden socket, till it takes fire. the name may be one of those innu merable allusions to loki, the devil and fire-god (p. 242. nic. gryse, in a passage to be quoted later, speaks of sawing fire out of wood, as we read elsewhere of symbolically sawing the old woman in two. the practica of berthol. carrichter, phys. in ord. to maximilian ii, gives a description (which

, and one from austria in ziska s volksinarchen (vienna 1822, p. 51; nearly all bring in the milk-drinking 2 and the golden crown. if the parents surprise the snake with the child, and kill it, the child begins to fall away, and dies before long (temme s pomm. sagen no. 257. once, when a woman lay asleep, a snake crept into her open mouth, and when she gave birth to a child, the snake lay tightly coiled round its neck, and could only be got away by a milkbath; but it never left the baby s side, it lay in bed with it, and ate out of its bowl, without doing it any harm (moneys anz. 8, 530. then other accounts speak of a multitude of snakes filling house and yard, whose king was distinguished by a glittering crown on his head. when he left the yard, all the rest would accompany him; in the st

g. mergarte, annolied 444. eol. 106, 14. kaiserchr. 501. 6633. karl. 38b; i.e. the sea-girt world, conf. goth, marisaivs (ocean, and ohg. merikerti (aetherium, 1 diut. 1, 250. lastly, ohg. woroltring, 0. ii. 2, 13. iii. 26, 37. iv. 7, 11. v. 1, 33. 19, 1. erdring, 0. i. 11, 47. mhg. erdrinc, mar. 198-9, orbis terrarum, graff 4, 1163. according to the edda, a huge serpent, the miffgarfo ormr, lies coiled round the earth s circumference, umgiors allra landa: evidently the ocean. when alexander in the legend was carried up in the air by griffins, the sea appeared to him to twine like a snake round the earth. but that world-serpent/ hateful to all the gods (su er go$ fta, ssem. 55a) was the child of loki, and brother to the fenris-ulfr and hel; he was called idrmungandr (sn. 32, the great, the

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tions are often false in linguistic terms, but they can provide information on religious ideas. 10. writers on egyptian myth refer to the eye of ra as the eye goddess or as the solar eye (the sun disk) in distinction to the lunar eye (the moon disk. 11. for this interpretation, see chapter iiic in allen, genesis in egypt. 12. in representations of solar deities, this cobra is shown in front of or coiled round the sun disk. the uraeus cobra formed part of many egyptian royal headdresses. 13. confusingly, in spite of the story of the sole eye searching for shu and tefnut, the eye is quite often identified as tefnut. the role of a deity is often defined by the pair or group of which he or she forms a part. when tefnut is paired with maat, they usually play the contrasting roles of the fierce

eye returned with shu and tefnut, but wept with rage when she saw that ra-atum had grown a new solar eye: the glorious one. human beings were created from the tears of the angry eye or from the tears of joy shed by ra-atum s new eye (see the creation of humanity under linear time in mythical time lines. ra- atum placated the angry eye by placing her on his forehead as the uraeus. shown as a cobra coiled around the sun disk, she was more powerful than all other deities. important goddesses such as hathor, bastet, and mut can be called both the eye of atum and the eye of ra. other egyptian texts refer to these two eyes as if they were separate entities. this may be to distinguish between the creative and destructive aspect of the eye goddess. the pupil of the eye could be thought of as a wom

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d for him upon earth: then verily the heart which is provided [with words of power] shall be removed from ra, and the choice oxen for sacrifice shall be driven away from the altars of the gods, and the bread-cakes shall not be shattered, and the white bread-cakes shall not be broken in pieces, the meat-offering shall not be cut up in the divine chamber of sacrifice, and for you ropes shall not be coiled, and for you boats shall not be manned "but if he shall be with his father when he appeareth, and if he shall receive his mother when she maketh herself visible, and if he shall be rejoined to his ancestors and to his fathers and his mothers, and his men and his women, and his little p. 69 children, and his beloved ones, and his foster-parents, and his kinsfolk, and his [grown-up] sons and

aakeb (i.e, a region of the sky, and in hap (the nile, and in akeb (i.e. the watery abyss of the sky, and in het-ur-kau, and in tetu, and in tetet, and in pa-ur, and in abakher, and in abtu: then verily the bread-cakes shall be shattered, and the white bread-cakes shall be broken in pieces, and verily the meat offerings shall be cut up in the divine chamber of sacrifice, and verily ropes shall be coiled, and verily boats shall be manned, and verily the boat of ra shall journey on its way, being rowed by the mariners of the akhemu-seku and the akhemu-urtchu; now his name is unknown, his name is unknown "the goddess hathor surroundeth sepa with the magical protection of life, but it is seb who equippeth him. 1 the sister of sepa [and] wife [is] the guardian of the wood of the great field. 2

ly identified, but it is tolerably certain that it belonged to a species which was characteristic of the neighbourhood of the lake. the beings who stand on the left hand of afu-ra are divided into two groups: the first consists of nine men, and the second of nine gods, and each group is under the command of temu. between temu and the first company, who are called tchatcha we see (vol. ii, p. 114) coiled the monster serpent apep which has p. 130 collapsed as a result of the utterance of the word of power by temu. this serpent tried to envelop the boat of afu-ra with its folds, and then to force a way into his boat; but the tchatcha, i.e "great chiefs" cut open its head, and slit its body in many places, and its destruction was finished by temu. these tchatcha live upon the same food as ra

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t the a^thodaimon, the ophis the shadow of the light. both were the logoi of the ophites; or the unity as logo* manifesting itself as a double principle of good and evil; for according to their views these two principles are immutable, and existed from all eternity, as they will ever continue to exist. this symbol accounts for the adoration by this [the ophite] sect of the serpent, as the savior, coiled around either the sacramental loaf, or a tan. as a unity, ennoia and oplus are the logoa; when separated, one is the tree of life (spiritual; the other, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. therefore we find ophis urging the first human couple the material production of ilda-baoth, but which owed its spiritual principle to sophia-achamoth to eat of the forbidden fruit, although ophis rep

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all the attributes of phoebus. green jasper; a unique type. the egyptians call the moon the mother of the world, and say it is of both sexes (plutarch; spartian, life of caracalla. the moon, in a mystic sense, is called by the egyptians male and female. the above is a gem in the bosanquet collection. in the exerque is the address, cabaw glory unto thee! on the reverse, in a cartouche formed by a coiled asp, precisely as the hindoos write the ineffable name aum, are the titles iaw, abracax (the gnostics, p. 86. 160 the rosicrucians. figure 311 represents venus standing under a canopy supported on twisted columns, arranging her hair before a mirror held-up by a cupid; two others hover above her head, bearing up a wreath. in the field, fasis ariwrif the manifestation of arioriph. venus here

represent the triple powers of nature, the producer, the means of production, and that produced. the fleur-de-lis is presented in a deep disguise in the t 238 the rosicrucians. three feathers which is the crest of the prince of wales; in this form the fleur-de-lis is intended to elude ordinary recognition. the reader will observe the hint of these significant lisses in the triple scrolls of esses coiled around the bar in the reverse of the gnostic gem, the chnuphis serpent, elsewhere given. this amulet is a fine opalescent chalcedony, very convex on both sides. it is the figure of the chnuphis serpent rearing himself aloft in act to dart, crowned with the seven vowels, the cabalistic gift to man in his fall, signifying speech. the reverse presents the triple s.s.s. coiled around the phallu

m or other, at terminal or at salient points. thus they become a most important figure, if not the most important figure, in the templar architecture everywhere, of india, of egypt, of greece, of rome, even of the christian periods all the christian ages, earlier and later. the figure called nehushtan the mysterious upright set up by moses in the wilderness was a talisman in the form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau. this is a palladium offered for worship, as we have explained in several places. in a previous part of our book, we have brought forward certain reasons for supposing that the origin of the most noble order of the garter was very different from that usually and popularly assigned. the occurrence which gave rise to the formation of the order, and which explains the ado

irgo-scorpio, which is supposed to give the key to the secret or cabalistic story of creation. these letters are s and z, l and m; or rather a group, which is marked by l, p, m, s, s, z l, m, v, w. the significant aspirates, or vowel sounds, follow the same rule. the snake-like glyph, or mystery of the serpent, or disguise, in which the recusant principle is supposed to have invested himself, has coiled (so to say, and projects significant curves and inflections, through all this group of letters and sounds; which is perceivable, by a close examination and quick ear, in all languages, living and dead. the sigma presents itself to the eye (that recognises) in the hebrew, the sanscrit, the persian, the arabic, the coptic, the old gothic, the georgian t 304 the rosicrucians. or iberian, the a

KETAB E SIYAH

e earth. in the darkness the sorrows of the wronged, the weeping of the infants before the spear were heard by the shedim in hidden chadel and they too mourned those who fell to methuselah's cruel hand. hearing of what transpired upon the earth to the spire of opal and ruby by the fount of flame came abaddon, the battle-lord, marshal of my hosts. entering at the portal, guarded by great serpents, coiled about the tower's width, he ascended upon black raven's wings the central shaft to the high chamber where, within a pool of mercury i watched the reflections, magic-made, of the passings of men and beasts and angels upon the earth. turning, i hailed the iron-clad angel who bowed before me and hailed me and spoke with these words in a voice that seemed like the battle's very roar, the poundi

as sure as i intend. go then to sheol and prepare to languish there some days before it is within me to release 310 all that wrongful dwells in sheol. go, ishtar, and have courage" thus it was that ishtar went forth from chadel upon samhain night when the dead are celebrated by the living and the months of dark nights begin. now did she go from the gates and went by winding roots by passages that coiled like serpents amongst the pillars that the earth's weight, unseen amid the high shadowed vaults and plumbed profound darkness, blacker than all midnights had been. yet deeper into the abysmal ishtar went, seeking in the very roots of the earth planted long aeons past by the archons into whose hands she now cast herself. thus went ishtar to the gates of sheol, found in the darkness without l

shall exceed the nations of the earth in spendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 62. at all my meetings with you shall the priestess say- and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple- to me! to me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. 63. sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! 64. i am

ere shall ye find them. ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. beware lest any force another, king against king! love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. ye are against the people, o my chosen! 26. i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. 422 27. there is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of r

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faith; the left line is cognition and comprehension. these two lines never diverge, for they are mutually opposed to each other. therefore, the only way to balance them is by means of a middle line, which consists of both the right and left lines at the same time. this middle line connotes spiritual behavior, where reason is used in accordance with one s degree of faith. all spiritual objects are coiled around the creator; they are layered onto him in the order from which they emerged from him. everything in the universe that is layered around the creator exists only relative to the creations, and all are products of the original created being, called "malchut" that is, all worlds and all created beings, except for the creator, are a single malchut entity, meaning the root or the original

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

hermetic order of the golden dawn; magic and magical groups for further reading: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1967. guiley, rosemary ellen. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. levi, eliphas [alphonse-louis constant. history of magic. york beach, me:weiser, 1969. leviathan the word leviathan is originally hebrew, and means the coiled one or that which gathers itself together in folds. it has come to mean any formidable, monstrous being or thing. the term is originally biblical, referring to a multiheaded sea monster defeated by yahweh. leviathan is associated with and is sometimes used interchangeably with behemoth, another biblical sea monster. because of the association between the devil and serpents, leviathan is oft

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le of revealing "this is the first practice of meditation("ccxx. i" 26. 2. let him further identify himself with the heart of nuit, whose ecstasy is in that of her children, and her joy to see their joy, who sayeth: i love you! i yearn to you. pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arose the coiled splendour within you: come unto me. sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me "this is the second practice of meditation("ccxx. i" 13, 61, 63, 64, 65. 3. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as

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are thine, hadit, and draughts of wizard wine! these do no hurt. thine hermits dwell not in the cold secretive cell, but under purple canopies with mighty-breasted mistresses magnificent as lionesses. tender and terrible caresses! fire lives, and light, in eager eyes; and massed huge hair about them lies. they lead their hosts to victory: in every joy they are kings; then see that secret serpent coiled to spring and win the world! o priest and king, let there be feasting, foining, fighting, a revel of lusting, singing, smiting! work; be the bed of work! hold! hold! the stars f kiss is as molten gold. harden! hold thyself up! now die. ah! ah! exceed! exceed! olympas. and i? marsyas. my stature shall surpass the stars: he hath said it! men shall worship me in hidden woods, on barren scaurs

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use the business is so gigantic. it encourages me immensely; for if my dweller on the threshold be that most formidable devil, how vast must be the pylon that shelters him, and how glorious must be the temple just beyond! 9.30. it seems that there was one more mistake to make; for i fve made it! i started to attempt to awaken the kundalini.the magical serpent that sleeps at the base of the spine; coiled in three coils and a half around the sucumna; and instead of pumping the pr.na up and down the su.umna until .iva was united with .akti in the sahasr.ra-cakra, i tried. god knows why; i fm stupider than an ass or hall caine1. to work the whole operation in m.l.dh.ra.with the obvious result. 1 a bad novellist [ms. note by ac in equinox i (1, transcribed by yorke] liber dccclx 72 there are on

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stele of revealing. this is the first practice of meditation (ccxx. i. 26. 2. let him further identify himself with the heart of nuit, whose ecstasy is that of her children, and her joy to see their joy, who sayeth i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me. sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the bluelidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me! this continues the first practice of meditation1 (ccxx. i. 13, 61, 63, 64, 65. 1 [in equinox printing .the second practice of med

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on herein. 8. let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy closed lip, shalt thou proceed. 9. now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the base as a serpent. let this be exceeding slow and subtle; and though it be accompanied with pleasure, resist; and though it be accompanied with pain, resist. 10. this shalt thou continue until thou art exhausted, never relaxing the control. until thou canst perform this one section 9 during a whole hour, proceed not. and withdraw from the meditation by an act of will, passing into a

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

xicated as i address these words; you are drunk.beastly drunk!.as you read them; buddha was as drunk as a british officer when he uttered his besotted command. there, my dear children, is the conclusion to which we are brought if you insist that he was serious! i answer no! alone among men then living, the buddha was sober, and saw truth. he, who was freed from the coils of the reat serpent theli coiled round the universe, he knew how deep the slaver of that snake had entered into us, infecting us, rotting our very bones with poisonous drunkenness. and so his cutting irony.drink no intoxicating drinks! when i go to take pansil* it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is with keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. these five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of desire. four

th of that mountain he met also the fool. then the discourse of that fool, my brethren; it shall repay your pains. they think they are a triangle,3 he said, they think as the picture-folk. base they are, and little infinitely. ain elohim. they think, being many, they are one.4 they think as the rhine-folk think. many and none. ain elohim. they think the erect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big-nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay .qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity.ignorance of daath. 4 belief in mon

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

shalt assure thyself of the stability of the altar. 42. in this rite thou shalt be alone. 43. i will give thee another ceremony whereby many shall rejoice. 44. before all let the oath be taken firmly as thou rasiest up the altar from the black earth. 45. in the words that thou knowest. 46. for i also swear unto thee by my body and soul that shall never be parted in sunder that i dwell within thee coiled and ready to spring. 47. i will give thee the kingdoms of the earth, o thou who hast mastered the kingdoms of the east and of the west. 48. i am apep, o thou slain one. thou shalt slay thyself upon mine altar: i will have thy blood to drink. 49. for i am a mighty vampire, and my children shall suck up the wine of the earth which is blood. 50. thou shalt replenish thy veins from the chalice

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

fore the cave gnipahellir: gthe bond will burst/ and the wolf run free. h fenrir was the son of loki and the giantess angrboda, one of a brood of three. in light of the binding of fenrir, we may be justified in regarding the exile of his siblings.the midgard serpent to the outer waters of the sea and hel to the world of the dead.as a kind of binding. no fetters are used, but the serpent does lied coiled about the earth, biting its own tail, and this linking of mouth to tail might be taken as a kind of binding. like fenrir, the midgard serpent will be gunbound h from the ocean at ragnarok and will kill thor. there is no parallel gunbinding h for hel, however. loki is the most important and studied of the bound monsters in scandinavian mythology. his binding occurs, according to snorri, as v

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

mythologies, ideologies, lies, half-truths, frustrations, transferences, they have spawned and still spawn. all deceptions blinding us again and again. but ever, through this jungle have they created their good and evil( c( x. z. over-ridden, murdered or superseded. here, no prayers please; therefore let us smile at our bloodiness in defeating only ourselves. here dwelleth delusion: a man sees a coiled rope and imagines it a snake, and thereby is afraid and runs away in terror. the rope is real, and still a rope; the fear suffered with the reaction is also real although bred of imagination. the delusion was caused by poor observation. yet some would have it that because things are not what they appear to our' 5! 2% q( 5, 6- 2..q. 9"d( itself at once. therefore everything is illusion. it p

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

acred serpents of the druids; the midgard snake of scandinavia; the nagas of burma, siam, and cambodia; the brazen serpent of the jews; the mystic serpent of orpheus; the snakes at the oracle; of delphi twining themselves around the tripod upon which the pythian priestess sat, the tripod itself being in the form of twisted serpents; the sacred serpents preserved in the egyptian temples; the ur us coiled upon the foreheads of the pharaohs and priests--all these bear witness to the universal veneration in which the snake was held. in the ancient mysteries the serpent entwining a staff was the symbol of the physician. the serpent-wound staff of hermes remains the emblem of the medical profession. among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as the symbol of wisdom or salvat

d entrance to the profane. thus placed between man and his divine possibilities, the sphinx also represented the secret doctrine itself. children's fairy stories abound with descriptions of symbolic monsters, for nearly all such tales are based upon the ancient mystic folklore. click to enlarge the ur us. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the spinal cord was symbolized by a snake, and the serpent coiled upon the foreheads of the egyptian initiates represented the divine fire which had crawled serpentlike up the tree of life. click to enlarge good and evil contending for the universal egg. from maurice's indian antiquities. both mithras, the persian redeemer, and serapis, the egyptian god of the earth, are symbolized by serpents coiled about their bodies. this remarkable drawing shows the g

bols of the sun and moon, which in symbolism are referred to as the eyes of the great king. the position of the body and legs forms the symbol of sulphur, the sign of the ancient alchemical monarch. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the figure is in profile. he wears a masonic apron and the skirt forms s right-angled triangle. upon his head is the crown of the north and his forehead is adorned wit the coiled ur us. the fifth numbered major trump is called le pape, the pope, and represents the high priest of a pagan or christian mystery school. in this card the hierophant wears the tiara and carries in his left hand the triple cross surmounting the globe of the world. his right hand, bearing upon its back the stigmata, makes "the ecclesiastic sign of esotericism" and before him kneel two supplia

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

he form of the magical circle of king solomon, the which he made that he might preserve himself therein from the malice of these evil spirits (see frontispiece, figure 153) this magical circle is to be made 9 feet across, and the divine names are to be written around it, beginning at ehyeh, and ending at levanah, luna (colours- the space between the outer and inner circles, where the serpent28 is coiled, with the hebrew names written along his body, is bright deep yellow. the square in the centre of the circle, where the word master is written, is filled in with red. all names and letters are in black. in the hexagrams the outer triangles where the letters a, d, o, n, a, i, appear are filled in with bright yellow, the centres, where the t-shaped crosses are, blue or green. in the pentagram

angle is to be nearest unto the circle, the apex pointing in the direction of the quarter of the spirit. observe thou also the moon in thy working, as aforesaid, etc. anaphaxeton is sometimes written anepheneton (colours- triangle outlined in black; name of michael black on white ground; the three names without the triangle written in red; circle in centre entirely filled in in dark green) 28 the coiled serpent is only shown in one private codex, the hebrew names being in most cases simply written round in a somewhat spiral arrangement within the double circle. it is to be remembered that hebrew is always written from right to left, instead of from left to right like ordinary european languages. the small maltese crosses are placed to mark the conclusion of each separate set of hebrew name

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

, the fire of being and what your drives are. satan is the fiery aspect of the adversary, understand in the heat of emotion that you must always calm and collect yourself at times drain with caution, control will keep the chi/prana within. pluto chokmah beelzebub chaigidel (chigdal: chedeziel+ itqueziel+ golebriel+ dubriel+ alhaziel+ lufexiel blackened demonic giant-spirits with venomous serpents coiled around them. saturn binah lucifuge sateriel (sataral: saturniel+ abnexiel+ tagariel+ asteriel+ reqraziel+ abholziel+ lareziel 54 binah are called the saterial or harasiel, the destroyers whose forms and appearances are gigantic black veiled heads with horns, and hideous eyes burning blood red seen through the veil, and they are followed by evil centaurs or bestial figures. using darkness an

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

nightside of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed through the ancient aspects of set and anubis, the guardians of the threshold. the symbol of the dragon known as tiamat or leviathan is also ahriman, the coiled beast that is of serpent wisdom. the dragon has fueled the myths of dracula, the dragon race from wallachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another vampyre. but rather his own self-iniliatory work and black mag

MORALS AND DOGMA

_amun-kneph) by a serpent. in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of _horhat_ the good genius; and the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god. antipater of sidon calls _amun "the renowned serpent" and the cerastes is often found embalmed in the thebaid. on ancient tyrian coins and indian medals, a serpent was represented, coiled round the trunk of a tree _python, the serpent deity, was esteemed oracular; and the tripod at delphi was a triple-headed serpent of gold. the portals of all the egyptian temples are decorated with the hierogram of the circle and the serpent. it is also found upon the temple of naki-rustan in persia; on the triumphal arch at pechin, in china; over the gates of the great temple of chaundi te

n's head and human body, encircled by a serpent. in the sadder is this precept "when you kill serpents, you will repeat the zend-avesta, and thence you will obtain great merit; for it is the same as if you had killed so many devils" serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the persian, egyptian, chinese, and indian monuments. vishnu is represented reposing on a coiled serpent, whose folds form a canopy over him. mahadeva is represented with a snake around his neck, one around his hair, and armlets of serpents on both arms. bhairava sits on the coils of a serpent, whose head rises above his own. parvati has snakes about her neck and waist. vishnu is the preserving spirit, mahadeva is siva, the evil principle, bhairava is his son, and parvati his consort

"consecrated" he says "the species of dragons and serpents; and the ph nicians and egyptians followed him in this superstition" he was "the first who made an image of c lus; that is, who represented the heavenly hosts of stars by visible symbols; and was probably the same as the egyptian thoth. on the tyrian coins of the age of alexander, serpents are represented in many positions and attitudes, coiled around trees, erect in front of altars, and crushed by the syrian hercules. the seventh letter of the egyptian alphabet, called _zeuta_ or _life, was sacred to thoth, and was expressed by a serpent standing on his tail; and that deity, the god of healing, like sculapius, to whom the serpent was consecrated, leans on a knotted stick around which coils a snake. the isiac tablet, describing th

od of the babylonians. with the serpent, in the ancient monuments, is very often found associated the cross. the serpent upon a cross was an egyptian standard. it occurs repeatedly upon the grand staircase of the temple of osiris at phil; and on the pyramid of ghizeh are represented two kneeling figures erecting a cross, on the top of which is a serpent erect. the _crux ansata_ was a cross with a coiled serpent above it; and it is perhaps the most common of all emblems on the egyptian monuments, carried in the hand of almost every figure of a deity or a priest. it was, as we learn by the monuments, the form of the iron tether-pins, used for making fast to the ground the cords by which young animals were confined: and as used by shepherds, became a symbol of royalty to the shepherd kings. a

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

of crazed crowds seething with suppressed sexuality, are not wholly past physic. they are no sooner released from the persistent pressure by escaping to some place where the inhabitants treat the reproductive and the respiratory organs as equally innocent than they begin insensibly to forget their 'fixed idea' forced on them by the fog-horn of morality, so that their perversions perish,just as a coiled spring straightens itself when the external compulsion is removed. they revert to their natural sex-characters, which only in rare cases are other than simple, pure, and refined. more, sex itself ceases to play principal boy in the pantomime of life. other interests resume their proper proportions. we may now inquire why the book is at pains to admit as to love "when" and "where" we will. f

shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! see liber nv for t he general preparation for this rite of worship "pure heart--see liber aleph, chapter 65; the preliminary invocation of liber lxv; the obverse of the stele 666. also, the book of the dead (which was never "for the dead. it was the standard manual of astral travel, which people were supposed to practice assiduously while they lived. the

pposedly the owner had used it constantly, which provided a further link. but in practice, just as few people studied it as study the bible today, although you find the damn silly thing all over the place "single robe: an aura clean and whole, without any leak of force anywhere "rich headdress: the sahashara activated "put on the wings: awaken the ajna, which when active has two petals, or wings "coiled splendour: kundalini, of course. the above interpretations are on just one plane. several other details have better remain uncommented. one further word is necessary as to the rich jewels, store of women and spices, etc. all this must be gathered "in the love of me" this means that our wealth must be acquired, our love must be enjoyed, without the least harm to the will of any other human b

is: there are people who are veiled from themselves so deeply that they resent the bared faces of us others. we are fighting to free them, to make them masters like ourselves. note verse 60 "to hell with them: that is, let us drive them to the 'hell' or secret sanctuary within their consciousness. there dwells "the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched; that is 'the secret serpent coiled about to spring' and 'the flame that burns in every heart of man' hadit. in other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we cannot help it if that falsehood forces the king it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear truth as once jehovah did the serpent. the above is very romantic, of course; kings are not 'fighti

the "people" is a resultant of you. and this perspective is sound and practical and actual, while the other is merely a philosophical abstraction. louis xiv's gardener had as much right as the king to say "l'etat, c'est moi" that is, if he was as good as a gardener as the king was as a king. this explains the power of revolutions, as also the universal belief in kings. 26. i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. the magical power is universal. the free man directs it as he will. leave him alone, or he will make you sorry you tried to interfere! there is here a reference to the two main types of the orgi

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

its burdens will overbalance, and tip into the sea. a second aido-hwedo, the rainbow serpent, lives in the sky and sends the thunderbolts of the gods to earth. serpent s head aido-hwedo carried the creator in his mouth as the world was being shaped; that is why the world curves and winds as it does. the creator pressed the earth together and made it into the shape of a gourd, and aido- hwedo then coiled around it. there are said to be 3,500 snake coils above the earth, and 3,500 below. aido-hwedo the name aido-hwedo means either you were created before the earth and before the sky or you are both in the earth and in the sky. aido-hwedo in the sea supports the earth and everything on it; aido- hwedo, the rainbow serpent in the sky, sends thunderbolts to earth. the second crack of thunder, t

pirits such as this may be invoked by a shaman in initiation, healing, or magical ritual. the cloth s precise mythology is not known, but it may depict a myth such as the peruvian sharanahua story of snake-woman. snake-woman was lured out of her lake by a man who wished to seduce her. but when he grabbed hold of her, she became huge, reaching right up to the sky. then she shrank back to his size, coiled around him, and dragged him to her underwater home. the man thought his new wife very beautiful, but when he drank the hallucinogenic shori, he saw her in her true form and was terrified. although snake-woman calmed him, he was not happy and her brother took pity on him and led him home. this cloth found in an ancient peruvian tomb shows a two-headed heaven snake. the dreaming 102 spears th

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

arger point of view he represents the race as a whole and "is the personified symbol of the collective logos, the 'host, and of the lords of wisdom or the heavenly man, who incarnated in humanity" otherwise he represents <59> the individual candidate on the path, prior to the awakening of the "sleeping dogs" within his being, to use blavatsky's apt expression. beneath these three figures sleeps a coiled dragon, silent, unawakened. none it would seem is aware of that latent power, titanic and promethean, coiled beneath- the active magical power centered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the wate

led beneath- the active magical power centered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the water grade, so in this grade of philosophus, the power of fire is shown to have called forth catastrophe. formerly coiled beneath the tree, the hydra-headed dragon in this diagram has usurped its proper place. its several homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect appre

nd on her head the crown of twelve stars. it is written 'so the name jehovah is joined to the name elohim, for jehovah planted a garden eastward in eden' from the three supernals follow the other sephiroth of the tree of life. below the tree, proceeding from malkuth is the tree of knowledge of good and of evil which is between the tree of life and the world or assiah or shells, represented by the coiled up dragon with seven heads and ten horns-being the seven infernal palaces and the ten averse sephiroth (these are described in the text of the rituals but are not read to the candidate at his grade. when studying this diagram, these descriptions should be looked up, but they are not required for the exam) the river naher flows forth from the supernal eden and in daath it is divided into fou

ammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden, so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden was the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, which latter is from malkuth, which is the lowest sephirah between the rest of the sephiroth and the kingdom of shells, which latter is represented by the great red dragon coiled beneath, having seven heads (the seven infernal palaces) and ten horns (the ten averse sephiroth of evil, contained in the seven palaces. and a river naher went forth out of eden, namely from the supernal triad, to water the garden (the rest of the sephiroth, and from thence it was divided into four heads in daath, whence it is said "in daath the depths are broken u and the clouds drop down

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ean a profound empathy with all entities of creation, guided not by fear [which he considered the christian motive for love] but by deliberation. there is further a caution concerning superficial types of love. there is "pure" love for its own sake. the dove; and there is love for ulterior motives. the serpent [crowley interpreted the serpent as a symbol of kundalini, a sex-magic force supposedly coiled at the base of the spine. i find the concept quaint, if hardly to be taken seriously] crowley himself chose the love of the serpent, always subordinating human love and affection to his magical workings. as a result his love-life consisted of an endless string of disasters, his opinion of women remained immature, and his experiments with sex-magic [as highlighted, for example, in the king o

shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour& pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. i charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 62. at all my meetings with you shall the priestess say. and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple. to me! to me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. 63. sing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! 64. i am

f-awareness are also those who are seen to attain success in their endeavors; it is a sign that they have correctly identified and actualized their true will. such a person will continue to achieve success, unless he should clash with another whose true will is equally well-developed. or more so. 25. ye are against the people, o my chosen! a reaffirmation of #ii-18/19. 26. i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down my head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one. a learned discourse on the pleasures of sex. 27. there is a great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. he shall fall down into the pit called because, and

life beating a moment ahead of death. cobra snake summons see the snake coil, see it rise, see it strike! mighty symbol of all that is wisdom, the true animal dumb, handicapped by lack of limb, plague of the poor. but wait, is not this creature also a creature of incredible attributes? i too am much like the snake. there is that silent, whispery moment when one becomes aware of the snake inside. coiled, content, watchful, as the unwary and clumsy come too close. wisdom garnered by the slow inexorable climb along tangled vines of hidden mysteries. the satisfaction of a well-aimed strike to one who deserves the lash of anger. to those who would doubt, observe your response to an injustice. observe your wish to be able to "strike back" at one who harms you. the snake "strikes" quickly, dropp

h] this is the secret of the scorpion: with your will you may pierce the veil of time and know the intense joy of living in any time, any space, or any body [magus flowers walks to the next station. adept cinda seaton lights the candles, and magister robinson speaks] i am meretseger, who can kill or cure the worker. i am mehenet imenet, who blinds the maker of false oaths. i am the snake who lies coiled, ready to strike. if you would hear my secret, you must take a terrible oath [magus flowers] we would learn your secret even if the knowledge damns us [meretseger] this is the oath: i will not waste my energy seeking to control that which is not essential to my essence- instead i will build great energy waiting for the right time to strike. this is the sign of the oath [magister robinson ex

aimon who trod the deathscapes of yuggoth! hear me o mighty lord of the blasted heath, and attend me, for a hornless one seeks thy audience. armed with the trident of cthulhu, i move it over the surface of the roiling seas and pronounce a doom, and upon its tines show a sign proclaiming, move! attend! and come forth unto me seven headed beast of christian death! surge forth from the chaotic foam, coiled horror of the island of the dead, for i, diabolos rex, brazenly invoke thee [at this time the celebrant takes up a stance beneath the laser trapezoid and commences to push forth satanic will to commune with the consciousness of the divine infernal prince of darkness, unknown to me at this time as set, but rather as his set/ harwer composite, satan [closing steps [deactivation of the strobe

ht) as for the "red gleam" and "my spangles are purple& green" crowley makes the following observations in the equinox, volume i, number vii, page 396 (these observations also apply to verse 51, quoted in the article: purple- the ultra-violet (v. 51, the most positive of colours. green- the most negative of colours, half-way in the spectrum. the magical image of hadit is therefore an eye within a coiled serpent, gleaming red- the spiritual red of not mere= at the apex of the triangle in the half circle of nuit's body [ed note: here ref budge (8, page 292, illustration entitled "the god shu lifting up nut from seb] and shedding spangles as of the spectrum of eight colours, including the ultra-violet but not the ultra-red. green being the "most negative" of all colors and purple being the "m

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head nestled now between his legs and whose legs were wrapped around his long, patrician neck. this person had, however, no time for such "high falutions; was, indeed, incapable of faluting at all; having just seen, emerging from the swirl of cloud, the figure of a glamorous woman of a certain age, wearing a brocade sari in green and gold, with a diamond in her nose and lacquer defending her high-coiled hair against the pressure of the wind at these altitudes, as she sat, equably, upon a flying carpet "rekha merchant" gibreel greeted her "you couldn't find your way to heaven or what" insensitive words to speak to a dead woman! but his concussed, plummeting condition may be offered in mitigation. chamcha, clutching his legs, made an uncomprehending query "what the hell "you don't see her" g

is latter-day "ad or thamoud, back to the knowledge of god, to shower upon it the blessings of the recitation, the sacred word. he felt his old self drop from him, and dismissed it with a shrug, but chose to retain, for the time being, his human scale. this was not the time to grow until he filled the sky from horizon to horizon- though that, too, would surely come before long. the city's streets coiled around him, writhing like serpents. london had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense of itself and wallowed, accordingly, in the impotence of its selfish, angry present of masks and parodies, stifled and twisted by the insupportable, unrejected burden of its past, staring into the bleakness of its impoveris

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

bow and arrow or with his wife and brother. sarasvati: the goddess of knowledge. sarasvati is brahma s wife and holds the powers of speech, learning, and wisdom. she is shown with four hands and dressed in white. shiva: the destroyer god of the hindu trinity. shiva has the power to both create and destroy life. he has long hair, through which the waters of the ganges river flow, and a serpent is coiled around his neck. vishnu: the preserver god of the hindu trinity. vishnu preserves the universe and existence. he is shown with four hands and dark blue skin. 262 world religions: almanac hinduism because hinduism is as much a way of life as it is a religion, its principles and beliefs can be found in everyday life. the core of hinduism s influence on everyday living is expressed by the noti

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

every day they trampled under foot were endowed with the most potent virtues; that one would restore to health a brother on the verge of death; that another would paralyse into idiocy their wisest sage; that a third would strike lifeless to the dust their most stalwart champion; that tears and laughter, vigour and disease, madness and reason, wakefulness and sleep, existence and dissolution, were coiled up in those unregarded leaves, would they not have held him a sorcerer or a liar? to half the virtues of the vegetable world mankind are yet in the darkness of the savages i have supposed. there are faculties within us with which certain herbs have affinity, and over which they have power. the moly of the ancients is not all a fable" the apparent character of mejnour differed in much from t

monsters that glide through the ghostly river of the dead, so artfully, that the eye perceived at once that the river itself was but a spectre, and the bloodless things that tenanted it had no life, their forms blending with the dead waters till, as the eye continued to gaze, it ceased to discern them from the preternatural element they were supposed to inhabit. such were the moving outlines that coiled and floated through the mist; but before glyndon had even drawn breath in this atmosphere for his life itself seemed arrested or changed into a kind of horrid trance he felt his hand seized, and he was led from that room into the outer one. he heard the door close, his blood rushed again through his veins, and he saw mejnour by his side. strong convulsions then suddenly seized his whole fra

wledge; in dreams hovers over measureless space the first faint bridge between spirit and spirit, this world and the worlds beyond! look steadfastly on yonder star" glyndon obeyed, and mejnour retired into the chamber, from which there then slowly emerged a vapour, somewhat paler and of fainter odour than that which had nearly produced so fatal an effect on his frame. this, on the contrary, as it coiled around him, and then melted in thin spires into the air, breathed a refreshing and healthful fragrance. he still kept his eyes on the star, and the star seemed gradually to fix and command his gaze. a sort of languor next seized his frame, but without, as he thought, communicating itself to the mind; and as this crept over him, he felt his temples sprinkled with some volatile and fiery esse

pour and cloud hardening into mountains, and the breath of life moving like a steadfast splendour over all. as the dreamer looked, and shivered, she beheld that even there the two phantoms of humanity were not alone. dim monster-forms that that disordered chaos alone could engender, the first reptile colossal race that wreathe and crawl through the earliest stratum of a world labouring into life, coiled in the oozing matter or hovered through the meteorous vapours. but these the two seekers seemed not to heed; their gaze was fixed intent upon an object in the farthest space. with the eyes of the spirit, viola followed theirs; with a terror far greater than the chaos and its hideous inhabitants produced, she beheld a shadowy likeness of the very room in which her form yet dwelt, its white w

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

le of the river at coptos "the iron box is in a bronze box, the bronze box is in a box of palm-tree wood, the palm tree wood box is in a box of ebony and ivory, the ebony and ivory box is in a silver box, the silver box is in a gold box, and in the gold (sic) box lies the book. the box wherein is the book is surrounded by swarms of serpents and scorpions and reptiles of all kinds, and round it is coiled a serpent which cannot die" ptah-nefer-ka told his wife and the king what he had heard, and at length set out for coptos with ahura and merhu in the royal barge; having arrived at coptos he went to the temple of isis and harpocrates and offered up p. 145 a sacrifice and poured out a libation to these gods. five days later the high priest of coptos made for him the model of a floating stage

figures of workmen provided with tools; he then recited words of power over them and they became living, breathing men, and the search for the box began. having worked for three days and three nights they came to the place where the box was. ptah-nefer-ka dispersed the serpents and scorpions which were round about the nest of boxes by his words of power, and twice succeeded in killing the serpent coiled round the box, but it came to life again; the third time he cut it into two pieces, and laid sand between them, and this time it did not take its old form again. he then opened the boxes one after the other, and taking out the gold box with the book inside it carried it to the royal barge. he next read one of the two formula, in it and so enchanted or bewitched the heavens and the earth tha

of hair emblematic of youth. in his hands he grasps serpents, a lion, and an antelope, and it is clear by the look on his face that he is in no wise afraid of them. above his head is a bearded head, which is usually said to represent that of bes. on his right are-(1) an utchat, 1 with human hands and arms (2) horus-ra, hawk-headed, and wearing the sun's disk and uraeus, and standing on a serpent coiled up (3) osiris, in the form of a hawk standing upon a sceptre, and wearing the atef crown (4) the goddess isis standing upon a serpent coiled up (5) the goddess nekhebet, in the form of a vulture, standing upon a papyrus sceptre. on his left are-(1) an utchat with human hands and arms (2) a papyrus standard with plumes and menats 2 (3) the god thoth standing upon a serpent coiled up (4) the

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

spreads an arc of light above, proclaiming the continuity of life and the immortality of the soul (ibid, march-april 1960, pp. 6-7) m. oldfield howey tells us in the encircled serpent (david mackay co, philadelphia, pa, 192, p. 84, that in the symbolism of egypt the "serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. the brazen serpent. was a palladium or talisman in [he form of a serpent coiled around the mystic tau, or t [also] the serpent set up by moses was originally the egyptian. sun-god, who was now known to his people as jehovah (lbid, p. 83) joseph von hammer, in the history of the assassins (eng. trans, 1835) explains the tau as the figure of the phallus (see also source 9, p. 791 "among the egyptians, the lotus was the symbol of osiris and isis. it was esteemed a sacred

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

rah winfrey tv show that there is no real difference in good vs. evil magic. magic is magic (photo: the tennessean. december 19, 2001, p. 3d) the title page of a book published in greece exposing the global plot of the zionist masons of the illuminati. the authors demonstrate their understanding by the symbolic use of the evil oroboros serpent encircling the whole world. the oroboros, the serpent coiled up in a circle biting its own tail (also uroboros, is pictured as a gnostic rooster combination creature in this illustration from horapollo's selecta hieroglyphica, 1597. the sun and moon symbolize the conjunction of opposites, which is the alchemical doctrine of illuminism. 282 codex magica these two ancient celtic coins from bohemia (second and first centuries b.c) bear the marks of the

ieroglyphica, 1597. the sun and moon symbolize the conjunction of opposites, which is the alchemical doctrine of illuminism. 282 codex magica these two ancient celtic coins from bohemia (second and first centuries b.c) bear the marks of the dragon, or serpent. the first coin has the image of an oroboros serpent/dragon torqued and prepared to bite its own tail. the second coin bears the image of a coiled, horned serpent with ears. the coins signify the adoration and homage paid the serpent as a religious icon of worship-status by the mystery religions. the revival today of the ancient mystery religions is accompanied also by modern-day advances in serpent worship. the riddle of the great seal of the united states 283 this is a jewish new year postcard, by artist alain roth in 1915. amazingl

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

earance of the creature, especially the soft, almost rubberlike fin, gives one this impression. off shore on the atlantic seacoast of north america, there is a sea serpent that has been paying periodic visits to the cape ann area and gloucester, massachusetts, for more than 340 years. an englishman named john josselyn, who was returning to london, made the first sighting of the creature as it lay coiled like a cable on a rock at cape ann. seamen would have killed the serpent, but two native american crew members protested such an act, stating that all on board would be in danger of terrible retribution if the sea creature was harmed. on august 6, 1817, amos lawrence, founder of the mills which bore his name, 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

e and sued the department store for negligence. a variation of this urban legend has the woman handling some imported baskets that have just arrived at the department store. she screams and drops to the floor. she is rushed to the hospital but is dead upon arrival. the doctors recognize the symptoms of snake bite, and when the employees of the store investigate, they find a deadly poisonous snake coiled at the bottom of the last basket the woman was examining. yet a third version of the snakes at the department store has a woman trying on some clothes that have just arrived from an asian nation. she pulls on a coat and stands before the mirror, evaluating the fit. deciding against the purchase, she places the coat back on the hanger and returns home. that night, she experiences a strange s

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

ved by consciousness, and the infinitely large presence of god when attempted to be perceived likewise. broken down, the ain has the value of 511, which is of intense significance in the cult of thelema, in that it equals 418+ 93, which are the numbers of the great work, and the current that informs it. it is also the value of a'abvdh h-tyth "the worship of the snake (that is, the snake of wisdom coiled up the tree of life. note also that 511 reduces to 7, the number of the card to which the graal (and hence 418) is attributed, the chariot. as kate bush sings, in "sat in your lap (from the album "the dreaming "i hold a cup of wisdom (binah and chockmah, but there is nothing within" which is to state, kabbalistically, that binah is the final shadowing forth of the three negative veils of ai

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

and psychological habits (thought processes, emotions, imagination, aptitude, etc. 2. svadisthana 1. muladhara navel root apas prithivi figure 9: the chakras. yoga, chakras, and the wisdom of the east 169 kundalini the vital energy that is used to activate the chakras is called kundalini, a sanskrit word that means "serpent power" this fiery transformative energy has been described as a sleeping, coiled serpent whch rests in the lowest chakra of muladhara. through the spiritual disciplines of yoga, exercise, breath control, and meditation, this "serpent power" is stimulated. it rises up the spine, vitalizing, purifying, and equilibrating each chakra it comes into contact with. with each chakra thus attained, the individual reaches new plateaus of spiritual development "raising the kundalin

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

attack the door lest i break apart its bars lest i attack the barrier lest i take its walls by force open the door open wide the gate lest i cause the dead to rise! i will raise up the dead! i will cause the dead to rise and devour the living! open the door lest i cause the dead to outnumber the living! ninnghizhidda, spirit of the deep, watcher of the gate, open! ninnghizhidda the great serpent coiled back on itself and answered ishtar lady queen among the gods i go before my mistress ereshkigal before the queen of death i will announce thee. and ninnghizhidda horned serpent approached the lady ereshkigal and said: behold, ishtar, thy sister queen among the gods stands before the gate! daughter of sin, mistress of enki she waits. and ereshkigal was pale with fear. the dark waters stirred

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

e. i know not all i say, but through it all mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine *mysteries: lyrical and dramatic, vol. i, p. 113. which is almost identical with that in canto liv of gin memoriam. h a poem written in the metre of tennyson fs most famous work, yet differing in cadence, is gthe blood lotus. h quaint carven vampire bats, unseen in curious hollows of the trees, or deadlier serpents coiled at ease round carcases of birds unclean; all wandering changeful spectre shapes that dance in slow sweet measure round and merge themselves in the profound, nude women and distorted apes grotesque and hairy, in their rage more rampant than the stallion steed; there is no help: their horrid need on these pale women they assuage *oracles, vol. ii, p. 13. another poem that in parts reminds us

sion? h then on my withered gaze that beauty grew- rosy quintessence of alchemic dew! the self-informing beauty! in my heart the many were united: and i knew *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191. and yet: i was wed unto the part and could not grasp the whole. thus, i was broken on the wheel of truth. fled all the hope and purpose of my youth, the high desire, the secret joy, the sin that coiled its rainbow dragon scales within. hope fs being, life fs delight, time fs eager tooth; all, all are gone; the serpent sloughs his skin! the quest is mine! here ends mortality in contemplating the eternal thee. here, she is willing. stands the absolute reaching its arms toward me. i am mute, i draw toward. oh, suddenly i see the treason-pledge, the royal prostitute *the temple of the holy gh

THE BOOK OF GATES

s, and their drink (or, beer) is of the kemtet plants, and their cool water is from [their cisterns of] water. and food shall be given unto them in abundance from this lake" on the left of the path along which the boat of ra passes in this division of the tuat are two groups of beings. in the first of these we see the god tem, in the form of an aged man, with bent shoulders, leaning upon a staff; coiled up before him in voluminous folds, with its head flat upon the ground, is the monster serpent apep. behind apep stand nine men, with their arms hanging by their sides; these are called the "tchatcha who repulse apepi" in the second group is tem, p. 114 in a similar attitude, and before him stand nine gods, each holding the symbol of life in the right hand, and the sceptre in the left; the n

ar, o ra, after thy transformations in heaven, in the great heaven! hail! we decree for thee thy habitations by the excellence which is in the words of the mighty one of forms in the secret (or, hidden) place" the passage which refers to horus reads "he who is in this scene is heru tuati (i.e, horus p. 258 of the tuat. the head cometh forth from him, and the forms [in which he appeareth] from the coiled [serpent. ra crieth unto this god to whom the two divine uraei unite themselves; he entereth in upon the way into khepri, who listeneth when ra crieth to him" the two groups, each containing four beings "have click to view the eight powers who tow khepri. in their hands the rope which is fastened to the foot of khepri, and they say to ra-'the ways of the hidden place are open to thee, and [

" 4. four ram-headed gods, each holding a sceptre in click to view (left) the apes who praise ra (right) amenti. herit. sebekhti. his left hand; their names are ba, khnemu, penter, and tent. 5. four hawk-headed gods, each holding a sceptre in his left hand; these are called horus, ashemth, sept, and ammi-uaa-f. p. 289 6. eight female figures, each seated on a seat formed by a uraeus with its body coiled up, and holding a star in her left hand; these are called "the protecting hours" 7. a crocodile-headed god called sebek-ra, who grasps a fold of a serpent that stands on its tail in his right hand, and a sceptre in his left. p. 290 click to view the gods who bring disks and stars for ra. p. 291 of the four gods bearing disks it is said "those who are in this picture carry the disk of ra, an

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

ur rosary, close your eyes, and press your palms over your face with the heels of your palms located in the hollows of your eye sockets. slide your hands down and off your face. open your eyes, stand up, and go on with your day. commentary this is an exercise that combines controlled breathing with visualization. it is effective in stirring to life kundalini, the occult power that usually remains coiled and asleep at the base of the spine in most individuals. it also helps to develop astral sight. 42 sitting exercises by visualizing different colors, different energies can be absorbed into the body. violet, associated with the quintessence of akasa or light, awakens spiritual perceptions. red, linked with elemental fire, is energizing and invigorating. blue, associated with elemental water

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

an emotional vacuum is created in your soul. you are nothing. no part of you remains, not even a lump of clay in the ground. even the memory of your name has faded into nothingness. after a few minutes of silent contemplation, uncross your hands and open your eyes. still kneeling before the altar, remove the black cloth from your head and put it upon the southern quarter of the altar. take up the coiled white cloth in your right hand and let it fall straight down while holding its end between the thumb and forefinger of your right hand. tie it around your head, knotting it in the back so that it will not slip or fall off. gaze upon the flame of the candle on the altar and visualize the figure of the heavenly christ seated upon his great throne within the flame. open your arms in a gesture

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ TIMING IN GREATER AND LESSER BLACK MAGIC

n to observe the times. study the lives of satanic masters like zaharoff, rasputin, cagliostro, rosenburg, von list, the brothers grimm. how was the perfect historical timing the key to the changes that each of these flock have worked upon human consciousness? contrast them with other figures in history that had the right idea, but expressed it at the wrong time. learn to be patient and vigilant- coiled like a snake ready to spring. saying something too early just to prove you're clever may give you an instant gratification, but preparing your ground is the key to a good harvest. this tip is as true for influencing one individual as it is for the mass of humanity as a whole. 9. if you wish to have fulfilment in both this life and beyond, make a life plan. there is a secret teaching among t

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

simply reinterprets them for his own purposes. for example, most tantric traditions use a form of physical discipline known as kundalini yoga. according to the kundalini system, there are a series of seven energy centers (chakras) located along the axis of the spinal column. at the base of these lies the great goddess as power (shakti) hidden in the human body, which is imagined in the form of a coiled serpent (kundalini. the aim of kundalini yoga is to awaken this serpent power and to raise it through the seven energy centers where it will ultimately be united with the supreme masculine principle, the god, shiva, who is imagined as dwelling in a thousand-petalled lotus at the top of the head. crowley more or less accepts this basic system of seven chakras and the serpent power; yet, quit

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

hroughout the pacific and is associated universally with the creation enigma. from earliest days, the serpent symbol is to be seen in many parts of the world, but undoubtedly the most fascinating portrayal is a detail on an egyptian "magical" papyrus in the british museum depicting a serpent encompassed by a ray-emitting disk. the most unusual form of the serpent symbol is a spiral representing a coiled snake; it has been discovered as petroglyphs and other pictorial representations in britain, greece, malta, and egypt, as pottery designs in new mexico; as ground drawings on the nazca plateau, peru, and throughout the pacific islands..aborigine legends. indicate that the serpent beings were not above waging war, and an identical parallel is also mentioned in the hindu legends of the nagas

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