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name, 33 and return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the lord. 34 and i will bring them again into the land which i promised with an oath unto their fathers, abraham, isaac, and jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and i will increase them, and they shall not be diminished. 35 and i will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their god, and they shall be my people: and i will no more drive my people of israel out of the land that i have given them. chapter 3 lord almighty, god of israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee. 2 hear, o lord, and have mercy; ar thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee. 3 for thou endurest for ever, and we p

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cerdos civitatis superintends the divination by rods, whenever it is done for the nation. if the occasion be not a public one, the paterfamilias himself can direct the matter, and the priest need not be called in: a remarkable limitation of the priestly power, and a sign how far the rights of the freeman extended in strictly private life; on the same principle, i suppose, that in very early times covenant transactions could be settled between the parties, without the intervention of the judge (ra. 201. again, when the chvination was by the neighing of the white steeds maintained by the state, priests accompanied the sacred car, and accredited the transaction. the^^ncs^ alone may touch the car of nerthus, by him her approaching presence is perceived, he attends her full of reverence, and le

o the hands of the giants; at last the gods take possession of both. oshroeris dreckr confers the gift of poesy, and by that very fact immortality: osinn and saga, goddess of poetic art, have surely drunk it out of golden goblets, gladly and evermore (um alia daga. stem. 41. we must also take into account the creation of the wise qvasir (conf. slav, kvas, convivium, potus; that at the making of a covenant between the aesir and vanir, he was formed out of their spittle (hraki; the refining of his blood into a drink for gods seems a very ancient and farreaching myth. but beside this drink, we have also notices of a special food for gods: isunn has in her keeping certain apjyles, by eating of which the aging gods make themselves young again (er go'sin skulo abita, j^a er ?au eldaz, oc versa]?

pl^ all these female names are descriptive. olriin was discussed on p. 404. illasgusr is literally bellona straf^is; hervor, like the kindred gunnvor, alludes to hosts and battles, the adj. alvitr to the gift of prophecy, and svanhvit to the swan-shape. saxo gram. 22-3 names another scanhvita, who has likewise much of the valkyr, is a seer of spirits, and presents a sword to llegner to seal their covenant. as for slagfi&r (see p. 380, i prefer to explain it not as slagfiunr, though he is called a son of the finnakonungr, but as slagjioffr= alatus, pennatus, which goes better with svanhvit his lover, and is supported by the ohg. word slagifedara, peuna. how little we are entitled to separate the nonis and valhjrs totally from one another, is taught by the tale of these three maidens also. n

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

kind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash the barrier and the ancient ones will rule once more. an alternative possibility exists: that, by landing on the moon, we have come to reinstate the ancient covenant and thereby assure our protection against the outside. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for, as it is said in one of man's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with hi

he gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watche

altar of offerings. or, carried to the rock of invocations. or, engraved on the metal of one's god or goddess, and hung about the neck, but hidden from the view of the profane. of the three, the arra and the agga may be used separately, that is to say, singly and alone. the bandar, however, must never be used alone, but with one or both of the others, for the watcher must needs be reminded of the covenant it has sworn with the elder gods and our race, else it will turn upon thee and slay thee and ravage thy town until succour is to be had from the elder gods by the tears of thy people and the wailing of thy women. kakammu! the metal amulet that i retrieved from the ashes of the fire, and which caught the light of the moon, is a potent seal against whatever may come in the gate from the out

me regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting, dreaming, drooling for my departure. i pray the gods that i am saved, and not perish as did the priest, abdul ben-martu, in jerusalem (the gods remember and have mercy upon him. my fate is no longer writ in the stars, for i have broken the chaldean covenant by seeking power over the zonei. i have set foot on the moon, and the moon no longer has power over me. the lines of my life have been oblitered by my wanderings in the waste, over the letters writ in the heavens by the gods. and even now i can hear the wolves howling in the mountains as they did that fateful night, and they are calling my name, and the names of others. i fear for my fles

watcher behind that it may guard his body and his property, lest he be slain unawares and must wander throughout eternity among the dark spaces between stars, or else be devoured by the wrathful igigi that dwell beyond. know that thou must walk the steps of the ladder of lights, each in its place and one at a time, and that thou must enter by the gates in the lawful manner, as is put down in the covenant; else thou art surely lost. know that thou must keep purified for the space of one moon for the entrance to the first step, one moon between the first and the second step, and again between the second and the third, and so on in like manner. thou must abstain from spilling thy seed in any manner for like period of time, but thou mayest worship at the temple of ishtar, provided thou lose n

e venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few have ever opened the gate of adar, and spoken to the horned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none shall safely walk through the sunken valleys of the dead before having ascended to marduk, nor shall they breach the gates that lie beyond adar until they have seen the signs of the mad god and felt the fury of the hellish queen. and against the ancient ones, there is only defence. only a madman, indeed, such as i am called, can hope to have power over them that dwell in t

of the spirit that slays the man. then cane he hope to have power over the demons that plague the mind and the body, pulling at the hair and grasping at the hands, and the screaming vile names into the airs of the night. for what comes on the wind can only be slain by he who knows the wind; and what comes on the seas can only be slain by he who knows the waters. this is it written, in the ancient covenant. the incantations of the gates the invocation of the nanna gate spirit of the moon, remember! nanna, father of the astral gods, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken, and remember! from the gates of the earth, i call thee! from the four gates of the land ki, i pray to thee! o lord, hero of the gods, who in heaven and upon the

ate! master of the annunaki, open the gate to the stars! ia namrasit! ia sin! ia nanna! bastamaaganasta ia kia kanpa! magabathi-ya nanna kanpa! mashrita nanna zia kanpa! ia mag! ia gamag! ia zagasthena kia! ashtag karelliosh! the invocation of the nebo gate spirit of the swift planet, remember! nebo, custodian of the gods, remember! nebo, father of the sacred writing, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken, and remember! from the gate of the great god nanna, i call to thee! by the name which i was given on the lunar sphere, i call to thee! lord nebo, who does not know of thy wisdom? lord nebo, who does not know of thy magick? lord nebo, what spirit, on earth or in heavens, is not conjured by thy mystic writing? lord nebo, what

torch of the heaven and of the earth, remember! o destroyer of the hostile hordes, remember! lioness, queen of the battle, hearken and remember! from the gate of the great god nebo, i call thee! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nebo, i call to thee! lady, queen of harlots and of soldiers, i call to thee! lady, mistress of battle and of love, i pray thee, remember! in the name of the covenant, sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! suppressor of the mountains! supporter of arms! deity of men! goddess of women! where thou gazest, the dead live! ishtar, queen of night, open thy gate to me! ishtar, lady of the battle, open wide thy gate! ishtar, sword of the people, open thy gate to me! ishtar, lady of the gift of love, open wide thy gate! g

! ishtar, lady of the gift of love, open wide thy gate! gate of the gentle planet, libat, open unto me! ia gushe-ya! ia inanna! ia erninni-ya! ashta pa mabacha cha kur enni-ya! rabbmi lo-yak zi ishtari kanpa! inanna zi amma kanpa! bi zamma kanpa! ia ia ia be-yi razuluki! the invocation of the shammash gate spirit of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays!

ia! ia! atzarachi-ya! atzarelechi-yu! bartalakatamani-ya kanpa! zi dingir uddu-ya kanpa! zi dingir ushtu-ya kanpa! zi shta! zi daraku! zi belurduk! kanpa! ia shta kanpa! ia! the invocation of the nergal gate spirit of the red planet, remember! nergal, god of war, remember! nergal, vanquisher of enemies, commander of hosts, remember! nergal, slayer of lions and of men, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the great gate of the lord shammash, the sphere of the sun, i call to thee! nergal, god of the sacrifice of blood, remember! nergal, lord of the offerings of battle, ravager of the enemy's towns, devourer of the flesh of man, remember! nergal, wielder of the mighty sword, remember! nergal, lord of arms and

k angels, remember! marduk, lord of all the lands, remember! marduk, son of enki, master of magicians, remember! marduk, vanquisher of the ancient ones, remember! marduk, who gives the stars their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces between, remember! first among the astral gods, hearken and remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the mighty nergal, the sphere of the red planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! marduk, lord of the fifty powers, open thy gates to me! marduk, god of fifty names, open thy gates to thy servant! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nergal, i call to thee to open! gate of the grea

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ynda la ciii* the ten divisions of the body of god. civ. the ten earths in seven palaces. cv. english of col. civ. 0. 1 skull 2 right brain 3 left brain ra aretz earth (dry) 4 right arm hmda adamah red earth 5 left arm ayg gia undulating ground 6 the whole body from the throat to the holy member hycn neshiah pasture 7 right left hyx tziah sandy earth 8 left leg aqra arqa earth 9 sign of the holy covenant 10 crown which is in yesod lbt dlj tebhel cheled wet earth table of correspondences 23 cvi* the ten hells in seven palaces. cvii. translation of hells. cviii* some princes of the qliphoth. cix* the kings of edom. 0. 1 satan and moloch. 2* lams. 3 lwac sheol grave \ynwnz tca. 4 wdba abaddon perdition lucifuge bbwy of hrxb jobab of bozrah 5 tjcrab bar shachath clay of death \wrtca ynmyt mch

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

le a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge.18 the three mighty names of god almighty coming forth from the thirty thyrs the first name l a z o d a p e l a m e d a z o d a z o d a z o d i l a z o d u o l a t a z o d a- p e k a l a t a n u v a d a z o d a b e r e t a. the second name i r o a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

he virtue of the rod! be this wine the blood of god"(he takes the cup" gr:tau-omicron-upsilon-tau-omicron gr:epsilon-sigma-tau-iota -tau- omicron gr:pi-omicron-tau-eta-rho-iota-omicron-nu gr:tau-omicron-upsilon gr:alpha-iota-mu-alpha-tau-omicron-sigma gr:mu-omicron-upsilon"(he kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows the cup to the people, turns, replaces the cup and adores. music" 356 for this is the covenant of resurrection "he makes the five crosses on the "priestess. accept, o lord, this sacrifice of life and joy, true warrants of the covenant of resurrection "the "priest "offers the lance to the "priestess "who kisses it; he then touches her between the breasts and upon the body. he then flings out his arms upward as comprehending the whole shrine" let this offering be born upon the waves

and an aeon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f.i.a.t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of m.a.a.t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a. a, whose name is truth. 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain. 10. also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. it hath pride and gre

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

cube, which is a rough way of symbolizing the great work; for the doubling of the cube, like the squaring of the circle, was one of the great problems of antiquity. the surface of this altar is composed of ten squares. the top is kether, and the bottom malkuth. the height of the altar is equal to the height above the ground of the navel of the magician. the altar is connected with the ark of the covenant, noah's ark, the nave("navis" a ship) of the church, and many other symbols of antiquity, whose symbolism has been well worked out in an anonymous book called "the cannon<altar. for this altar must embody the magician's knowledge of the laws of nature, which are the laws th

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

hyx #pn behemoth; beasts twmhb 454 a seal mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesthood) my#dq continually dymt zaharariel: a title of tiphareth l)yr)rhz 456 the greatest fear (cf. hmy, 56) htmy) the mountain of myrrh (ct. 4:6; see 573) rwmh rh a wall ltwk legs, shanks myqw# the fig-tree and fruit hn)t you (fem. pl) hnt) face, person pwcrp 457 olives mytz furnace nwt) 458 a covenant; an engagement; a betrothed ntx 460 holiness unto hwhy (ex. 39:30) hwhyl #dq the lord is a man of war hmxlm #y) hwhy 461 bases, pedestals, sockets twnd) firm, strong, rigid, hard; rough; protruding nty) 462 the supernal earth [is binah] hnwyl( cr) a path btyn the abyss of height mwr qmw( 463 the pillar of mildness: the paths gimel, samekh and tau (cf. 26& 48) t s g crystal; glass tykwkz a

ah (matter; referred to malkuth) hy#(h mlw( orbits [of the stars/planets (another aspect of the name of the sphere of the zodiac. see 483) twlsm a white cloak hnbl tyl+ 537 emanating; nobility; atziluth: the archetypal world twlyc) the marrow, or innermost part of the spine hrd#h +wx the opening of the uterus mxr r+p 538 daughter of the voice: echo (a method of divination by use of the ark of the covenant) lwq tb 540 loins; the upper part myntm creeping thing #mr 541 israel l)r#y towards, to thee *kyl) 542 the world of mevshekal (the intellectual world; referred to the supernals) lk#wm mlw( 543 existence of existences: the name of the highest god hyh) r) hyh) 544 apples (ct. 2:5) myxwpt 545 a boar of the wood r(ym ryzx 546 sweet qwtm preserves; a watchman rmw# guards rwm# the head that is

o row rtx the pillar of severity: the paths cheth and mem (cf. 26& 463 *m x to grow warm; heat, fire; black *mx 610 gold coin, gold money trwg) the citron tree and fruit (lust and desire) gwrt) closed, shut up *m) the sea *my the angel of redemption *l)gh k)lm 611 torah: instructions, glaw h hrwt the fear [of the lord (ps. 111:10; cf. 211) t)ry edom *mwd) tumultuously; to harass, perturb *mwh 612 covenant tyrb brother-in-law *mby 613 the etrog: the number of the divine precepts in the torah gyrt the quintessence of light rw)h t) 614 pertaining to summer *mwx 615 a footstool *mwdh to swell, heave (see 51 *myh 616 the ancient of days: a title of kether nymwy kyt( swords twbrx day *mwy the avenging angel *l)wgh k)lm 617 mighty acts (pl. of gstrength h; ps. 106:2) twrwbg the pillars of fire an

cending triad t(dw hnyb hmkx to hide, treasure up (ps. 31:20) tnpc the doors myr# spirits, ghosts twxwr 621 the point of a sword brx txb) by-paths (see 1351) twxrw) 622 blessings tkrb the depths of the sea (samael and his wife) my twlwcm breadths twbwxr 623 holy spirit #dqh xwr the nose *m+wx 624 the number of letters in the great table of enoch (not counting the black cross of union: 12 13 4 his covenant (ps. 25:14) wtyrbw liberty twryx 625 weasels and other terrible animals *myxw) 626 the qliphoth: shells, demons twpylq 628 light (spelt in full, vau )w; cf. 633 and 643 :r:w) blessings twkrb to be wise *mkx life *myyx 629 the great trumpet lwdg rpw# nations; gentiles *myywg 630 the holy spirit)#ydq )xwr seraphim, flaming ones: the angelic choir of geburah mypr# hairy ones; he-goats; demon

twmlwpm mynb) lo; whether, if; they (fem *nh the staff of god (ex. 17:9 *myhl)h h+m 706 an atonement, propitiation (lit. ga covering h; the cover of the ark trwpk lilies (ct. 5:13; roses (colloquial; see von rosenroth, i.r.q. 878) myn#w# eternity; world; an adult *mlw( 707 rim *ndb) strength; wealth; trouble, sorrow; heliopolis (cf. 51 *nw) species, kind *nz long, tall *kwr) 708 the angel of the covenant tyrbh k)lm perdition tx# an ear *nz) grace, love, kindness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788 *nx libra: the scales *mynz)m beni elohim, sons of the gods: the angelic choir of hod *myhl) ynb a name of god *myhl) hwhy hy hyh) blessed *kwrb 709 the seven double letters t r p k d g b 710 a cave tr(m six (ch) ty# hidden, secret rtsn tried by fire; a watch-tower *nx

dlt# torches *mydypl 736 contortions, convolutions (cf. 1351) twlqlq( to eternity *mlw(l 737 blaze, flame (live coal) tbhl) vain pride, or the basis of vanity lbh t# oak; oak-wood *nwl) 738 the lower part, the loins *myclx 740 manna; portion *nm 741 the four letters of the elements; hence a concealed hwhy #tm) a tree *nly) firm, faithful; amen: so be it: a title of kether *nm) 742 the ark of the covenant (lit. gof tremblings h, scil. gvibrations h) twd(h nwr) 743 a disc, round shield; a defender *ngm 744 the valley of vision *nwyzxyg a window *nwlx footprints (foot fs breadth (deut. 2:5 *krdm 745 the great stone *hldg nb) multitude, abundance *nmh 746 the names twm (chaldee form of myhl *nyhl) a [civil] officer *mynwmm a place *mwqm 747 the voice of the turtle-dove (ct. 2:12) rwth lwq cha

.e. succubae *md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings *myncn cash; counted out, paid down *mydwqp high, lofty *mr rubies, gems *mynynp thorn; enclosure *k# 801 signs, tokens tt) also, yea; anger; nose *p) 802 401 2: the reflection of 401, which is t, alpha& omega the assembly (or school, or academy) supernal (refers to a a, the three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y the vengeance of the covenant (lev. 26:25) tyrb mqn an ark (as of noah or of moses) tbt 803 person, self; back, top; wing (ch *pg created [they them (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b

e of the pavement of sapphire stone (referred to yesod and malkuth) rypsh tnbl lkyh mud *cb perfume *m#b 903 and god said (gn. 1:3 *myhl) rm)yw 905 in that also (referred to daath *mg#b the name *m#h 906 license, permission; freedom tw#r a worm t(lwt qoph: the back of the head; an ape *pwq an increase *pswm dampnesses (pl; see 705. k.d. p.20 *nymlwpm medium *kwt 907 lifted up *pqz the ark [of the covenant *nwr) 908 arrow; lightning; punishment; wound; out! avaunt! go away *cx 909 throat *nwrg 910 beginning (defective; see i.z.q. 547 et seq) ty#r i.n.r (see 270 *r n y vacuum *mqyr and god saw that it was good *bw+ yk myhl )ryw 911 beginning ty#)r remnant tyr# abhorrence, abomination (is. 66:24 *nw)rd ishim, flames: the angelic choir of malkuth; burnt or incense offering *my) 912 oxen twrw#

of justice *nyd r)y 929 the treasures of the north nwpc twrcw) palace of the holy of holies (referred to the supernals) my#dq #wdq lkyh the world of briah (creation; referred to binah *h)yrbh mlw( 930 mocker *cl a record (ch *nwrkd archangel of malkuth *nwpldns perfect, whole *ml# ligure; jacinth; opal *m#l 932 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (rw bw+ t(dh c( lambs, sheep *my#bk 933 the covenant of nakedness, or of the sabbath, or of the rainbow rw(mh tyrb of a memorial (see 964 *nwrkz god of the hebrews *myrb(h yhl) 934 a most piercing light )twnydrqd )nycwb 935 the cause of causes twbsh tbs delights (see eccl. 2:8& i.r.q. 79) twgwn(t 936 peace (refers to kether *mwl# 937 a piece of the host (unleavened bread *nmwqyp) 938 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war *clx in pe

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

which can match it. 2. all men know that the soft overcometh the hard, and the weak conquereth the strong; but none are able to use this law in action. 3. a wise man hath said 'he that taketh on the burden of the state is a demigod worthy of sacrificial worship; and the true king of a people is he that undertaketh the weight of their sorrows' 4. truth appeareth paradox. 84 chapter lxxix truth in covenant. 1. when enemies are reconciled, there is always an aftermath of illwill. how can this be useful? 2. therefore, the wise man, while he keepeth his part of the record of a transaction, doth not insist on its prompt execution. he who hath the teh considereth the situation from all sides, while he who hath it not seeketh only to benefit himself((the magick powers must be exerted only accordi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

e of the joy of man upon earth, solace of labour, inspiration of endeavour, thus be thou ecstasy of the spirit! he touches the cup with the lance. by the virtue of the rod be this wine the blood of god! he takes the cup. to(c)uto'(c)esti t(c)o pot(c)hrion t(c)ou'(c)aimatos mou. he kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows the cup to the people, turns replaces the cup, and adores. music. for this is the covenant of resurrection. he makes the five crosses on the priestess. accept, o lord, this sacrifice of life and joy, true warrants of the covenant of resurrection. the priest offers the lance to the priestess, who kisses it; he then touches her between the breasts and upon the body. he then flings out his arms upward, as comprehending the whole shrine. let this offering be borne upon the waves of

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

taken, they make car, rash, head. if, omitting the two first, the next two be taken, they give ca, ash, fire. if the fourth and last be joined, they give tc, sheth, foundation. again, if the second letter be put before the first, it makes br, rab, great. if after the third be placed the fifth and fourth, it gives cya, aish, man. if to the two first be joined the two last, they give tyrb, berith, covenant. and if the first be added to the last, it gives bt, theb, which is sometimes used for bwt, thob, good. there are three qabalistic veils of the negative existence, and in themselves they formulate the hidden ideas of the sephiroth not yet called into being, and they are concentrated in kether, which in this sense is the malkuth of the hidden ideas of the sephiroth. i will explain this. th

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a, bera= created. if, omitting the first, the three following be taken, they make rash, rash= head. if the fourth and the last be joined, they give shth, sheth= foundation. again if the second letter be put before the first, it makes rb, rab= great. if after the third be placed the fifth and the fourth, it gives aish, aish= man. if to the two first be joined the two last, they give brith, berith= covenant. and if the first be added to the last, it gives thb, theb, which is sometimes used for tvb, thob= good. there are three qabalistical veils of the negative existence, and in themselves they formulate the hidden ideas of the sephiroth not yet called into being, and they are concentrated in kether, which in this sense is the malkuth of hidden ideas of the sephiroth. i will explain this. the

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pleasure in its own way) no place let it remain in one number("no place" is the infinite ain "let remain in one number; that is, let it be concentrated in kether) add and diminish until the stars be numbered (it is a mystery of the logos being formulated by the qabalah, because the stars, are all letters of the holy alphabet, as it was said in a former aethyr) arise! move! and appear! before the covenant of his mouth which he hath shewn unto us in his justice("the covenant" is the letter aleph "his mouth, p "his justice, lamed; and these add up again to aleph, so that it is in the letter aleph, which is zero, thus symbolizing the circles of the aethyrs, that he calleth them forth. but men thought that aleph was the initial arr, cursing, when it was really the initial of achd, unity, and a

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f refers to the seven days of the week, and may also be made to show how their order is derived from the planets when placed at the angles of the heptagram. the lamp within the centre represents the astral light of the universe concentrated into a focus by the planets" the "hierophant" then resumes "within the mystic veil which separated the holy place from the holy of holies stood the ark of the covenant. before the veil stood the altar of incense, of which this altar is a symbol. it was in the form of a double cube, thus representing material form as the reflection and the duplication of that which is spiritual. the sides of the altar, 265 together with the top and underside, consist of ten squares, thus symbolising the ten sephiroth "the altar of incense was overlaid with gold, to repre

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d an aeon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f. i. a. t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of m. a. a. t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a. a, whose name is truth. 35 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain. 10. also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. it hath pride a

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

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t. in kabbalistic writings he was the opposite polarity of the sixth sephiroth. he is an earth daemon. in the dukante hierarchy he is listed as a weapons master, a war daemon, and a daemon to be called on for gain in the material world. artwork by l. breton from dictionnaire infernal by j. collin de plancy (paris 1863, 7th edition. 27 daemon word search by adrianna he who is earth. 2. lord of the covenant, later made lord of death. 3. he is a great mighty earle, appearing in ye forme of an hart wth a firey [fiery] taile 4. the destroyer 5. his fire burns as the sun. 6. to present as an act of worship.(plural) 7. the most personal offering you can make. 8. an appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something. 9. an elevated place or structure before which religious cer

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divine manifestation* containing "every possible power of exact expression of proportion" by this kabalistic speculation we are taught that the sephiroth "were the numbers or emanations of the heavenly light (figures 20612 to 6561, they were the 10 'words' dbrim, 41224, the light, of which they were the flux, was the heavenly man, the adam kdm (the 144- 144; and the light, by the new testament or covenant (or 41224) created god; just as, by the old testament god (alhim, 31415) creates light (20612 to 6561" now there are three kinds of light in occultism, as in the kabala (1) the abstract and absolute light, which is darkness (2) the light of the manifested-unmanifested, called by some the logos; and (3) the latter light reflected in the dhyan chohans, the minor logoi (the elohim, collectiv

nswer "to such principles appertains the number of creation of our race-father abraham (that is abram and abraham, or numbers 41224 and 41252. he then says that this book of number treats of teaching the alhim-ness and one-ness through "dbrim" viz, the numbers of the word "words" that is, it teaches the use of the ratio 31415 to one, through 41224, which last, in the description of the ark of the covenant, was divided into two parts by two tables of stone, on which these, dbrim or 41224, were written or engraved- or 20612 by 2. he then comments on these three subordinately used words, and takes care as to one of them to make the comment "and alhim (31415 to 1) said: let there be light (20612 to 6561" the three words as given in the text are[[hebrew. and the rabbi in commenting upon them sa

gods of their pagan neighbours, consummated a national and levitical polity, by the device of setting forth their holy of holies as the most solemn sign of their monotheism- exoterically; while seeing in it but a universal phallic symbol- esoterically. while the kabalists knew but ain-soph and the "gods" of the mysteries, the levites had no tomb, no god in their adytum but the "sacred" ark of the covenant- their "holy of holies" when the esoteric meaning of this recess is made clear, however, the profane will be better able to understand why david danced "uncovered" before the ark of the covenant, and was so anxious to appear vile for the sake of his "lord" and base in his own sight (see 2 samuel vi. 16-22) the ark is the navi-form argha of the mysteries. parkhurst, who has[[footnote(s* bu

es a word about it in the hebrew lexicon, explains it thus[[arche] in this application answers to the hebrew rasit or wisdom. a word which had the meaning of the emblem of the female generative power, the arg or arca, in which the germ of all nature was supposed to float or brood on the great abyss during the interval which took place after every mundane cycle" quite so; and the jewish ark of the covenant had precisely the same significance; with the supplementary addition that, instead of a beautiful and chaste sarcophagus (the symbol of the matrix of nature and resurrection) as in the sanctum sanctorum of the pagans, they had the ark made still more realistic in its construction by the two cherubs set up on the coffer or ark of the covenant, facing each other, with their wings spread in

mother of the city of erech (the great chaldean necropolis) became eve; and now she is mary the virgin, in the latin church, represented as standing on the crescent-moon, and, at times on the globe, to vary the programme. the navi, or ship-like form of the crescent, which blends in itself all those common symbols of the ship of life, such as noah's ark, the yoni of the hindus, and the ark of the covenant, is the female symbol of the universal "mothers of the gods" and is now found under its christian symbol in every church, as the nave (from navis, the ship* the navis- the sidereal vessel- is fructified by the spirit of life- the male god; or, as the learned kenealy (in his apocalypsis) calls it very appropriately- the holy spirit. in western religious symbology the crescent was the male

] 465 the "four-faced" brahma. made plain to any one who reads "the source of measures" or "hebrew egyptian mystery" and understands the undeniable, clear, and mathematical proofs that the esoteric foundations, or the system used in the building of the great pyramid, and the architectural measurements in the temple of solomon (whether the latter be mythical or real, noah's ark, and the ark of the covenant, are the same. if anything in the world can settle the dispute that the old, as much as the later, jews (post-babylonian, and especially the former, built their theogony and religion on the very same foundation as all pagans did, it is the work in question. and now it may be as well to remind the reader of that which was said of i a o, in our work "isis unveiled "no other deity affords su

m were those of the whole pagan world; the semite interpretations emanated from, and were pre-eminently those of a small tribe, thus marking its national features and the idiosyncratic defects that characterize many of the jews to this day- gross realism, selfishness, and sensuality. they had made a bargain, through their father jacob, with their tribal deity, self-exalted above all others, and a covenant that his "seed shall be as the dust of the earth; and that deity could have no better image henceforth than that of the symbol of generation, and, as representation, a number and numbers. carlyle has wise words for both these nations. with the hindu aryan- the most metaphysical and spiritual people on earth- religion has ever been, in his words "an everlasting lode-star, that beams the br

nd- how could they, we ask, feel reverence for such a phallic symbol and a number, as jehovah is shown most undeniably to be in the kabalistic works? how could anyone worthy of the name of a philosopher, and knowing the real secret meaning of their "pillar of jacob" their bethel, oil-anointed phalli, and their "brazen serpent" worship such a gross symbol, and minister unto it, seeing in it their "covenant- the lord himself! let the reader turn to gemara sanhedrin and judge. as various writers have shown, and as brutally stated in hargrave jennings' phallicism (p. 67 "we know from the jewish records that the ark contained a table of stone. that stone was phallic, and yet identical with the sacred name jehovah. which written in unpointed hebrew with four letters, is j-e-v-e or jhvh (the h be

ely an aspirate and the same as e. this process leaves us the two letters i and v (in another form u; then if we place the i in the u we have the 'holy of holies; we also have the lingha and yoni and argha of the hindus, the isvara and 'supreme lord; and here we have the whole secret of its mystic and arc-celestial import, confirmed in itself by being identical with the linyoni) of the ark of the covenant" the biblical jews of to-day do not date from moses but from david- even admitting the identity of the old genuine with the later and remodelled mosaic scrolls. before that time their nationality is lost in the mists of prehistoric darkness, the veil from which is now withdrawn as much as we have space to do so. it is only to the days of the babylonian captivity that the old testament may

ng the lead of the "chosen" people, is pleased to enforce the worship of that one particular deity, and to anathematize all the others. whether originally a conscious or an unconscious blunder, nevertheless, it was one. jehovah has ever been in antiquity only "a god among other gods (lxxxii. psalm. the lord appears to abraham, and while saying "i am the almighty god" yet adds "i will establish my covenant to be a god unto thee (abraham, and unto his seed after him (gen. xvii. 7- not unto aryan europeans. but then, there was the grandiose and ideal figure of jesus of nazareth to be set off against a dark background, to gain in radiance by the contrast; and a darker one the church could hardly invent. lacking the old testament symbology, ignorant of the real connotation of the name of jehova

aching what they do not know, have invented, as a secure haven for their ignorance, a jealous and cruel deity, who forbids man to pry into his mysteries under the penalty of damnation. as well they may, for his mysteries can at best be only hinted at in polite ears, never described. turn to king's gnostics "description of the plates (plate h, and see for yourself what was the primitive ark of the covenant, according to the author, who says "there is a rabbinical tradition that the cherubin placed over it were represented as male and female, in the act of copulation, in order to express the grand doctrine of the essence of form and matter, the two principles of all things. when the chaldeans broke into the sanctuary and beheld this most astounding emblem, they naturally enough exclaimed 'is

rmed cross is simply the cross of the four quarters, but the cross sign is not always simple* this is a type that was developed from an identifiable beginning, which was adapted to the expression of various ideas afterwards. the most sacred cross of egypt that was carried in the hands of the gods, the pharaohs, and the mummied dead, is the ankh[[diagram] the sign of life, the living, an oath, the covenant. the top of this is the hieroglyphic ru[[diagram] set upright on the tau-cross. the ru is the door, gate, mouth, the place of outlet. this denotes the birth-place in the northern quarter of the heavens, from which the sun is reborn. hence the ru of the ankh sign is the feminine type of the birthplace, representing the north. it was in the northern quarter that the goddess of the seven sta

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the cup. vehicle of the joy of man upon earth, solace of labour, inspiration of endeavour, thus be thou ecstasy of the spirit! he touches the cup with the lance. by the virtue of the rod be this wine the blood of god! he takes the cup. touto .esti to pothrion tou .aimatos mou. he kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows the cup to the people, turns, replaces the cup, and adores. music. for this is the covenant of resurrection. he makes the five crosses on the priestess. accept, o lord, this sacrifice of life and joy, true warrants of the covenant of resurrection. the priest offers the lance to the priestess, who kisses it; he then touches her between the breasts and upon the body. he then flings out his arms upward, as comprehending the whole shrine. let this offering be borne upon the waves of

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asseh of judah (695- 642 bc, which are documented in the bible (2chronicles 33:1- 20, and at 2kings 21:1- 18. king manasseh was not of the jewish faith, he erected alters to baal and asherah in solomon's temple. in kings at 21:16, it says that so much innocent blood was shed that it filled jerusalem from end to end. at this time, the religious establishment left the country, taking the ark of the covenant and all the important religious texts with them. after a number of years in egypt, the refugees went further south, near to the source of the nile, at lake tana in ethiopia. the descendants of these people are the falashas, who even today follow the form of judaism that had been practiced in israel only before 620 bc. the ethiopians translated the book of hanokh into ge'ez, and had enough

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g blood and an enchanted powder as a necessary protection that ensured their invulnerability. the oath, by which the group had "ty[ed] themselves to secrecy" involved a ritual in which blood was drawn and shared among members "by sucking c of each others hands" like many african rituals, this oath was a form of spiritual invocation. the conspirators were bound together by the act, having sealed a covenant between themselves and the invisible forces of the supernatural world.[4] such rituals were well known in precolonial africa, where oaths were administered by priests and other religious functionaries. oaths were sworn in order to detect thieves, to find social malefactors, or to adjudicate cases with conflicting claims. often, oaths functioned as sacred ordeals by which a person's guilt

society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, in roswell randall hoes "the negro plot of 1712" new-york genealogical and biographical record 21 (1890: 162.63; scott\ 176 "slave insurrection in new york" p. 46. particularly among coromantee, an ethnic group inclusive of speakers of the akan and ga-adangme dialects, oaths unified warriors in preparation for combat. the oath secured a covenant between the forces of the spirit world and the parties sealing it with blood, a sign of kinship and a customary ingredient in african rituals of spiritual invocation. 5. wyatt macgaffey, art and healing of the bakongo, commented by themselves: minkisi from the laman collection (bloomington: indiana university press, 1991, p. 121; willem bosman, a new and accurate description of the coast

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s book, the defense department was doing a lot of work with this skill under the direction of ingo swan and general stubblebine (his real name! when i first heard it i thought it was a joke because it sounds like something right out of rocky and bullwinkle. some of what they did apparently was surprisingly accurate but when a few of their people went bonkers and started looking for the ark of the covenant (which everyone knows is in my bedroom because grandma used it for a cedar chest) the bean counters in the pentagon got very unhappy and ultimately sacked the lot. the problem with their method was not that it did not work. it worked very well. the problem is that it is too structured and boring for the average person to put up with. for example, one of the requirements was for the viewer

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g this book years ago i learned not to take the material too damned seriously, to have fun with it. and since then i ve learned not to take myself very seriously either. so deal with psionics like everything else in life. have fun with it, enjoy it, but don t take it too seriously. use it as a tool for living but don t make a religion of it. we have enough of those things in the world as it itthe covenant of samyaza- i- i, samyaza, speak to mortal man of fallen angels, those who are called watchers, whose blessing man reapeth in defiance of the tyrant-god demiurge. o man, hear of thy daimonic inheritance, and of the daimon seedwhich continues to manifest its power on earth, which doth uplift you fromthe beast of the field unto godhood. know that it was demiurge who conceived the earth and

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o the committee by professor gustav cassel of sweden, but to no avail. all these decisions were coordinated to create the circumstances in europe which would lead to the next war and an advancement of the new world order. eventually the gold standard caused such chaos and suffering that it had to be abandoned, but by then the damage was done. colonel house wrote the first draft of what became the covenant of the new league of nations and president wilson's famous fourteen points for the versailles conference were largely decided by a group convened by colonel house. this group was known as 'the inquiry. these were all new world order manipulators, people like john foster dulles, the future us secretary of state, and his brother, allen, future head of the cia. house had written a novel year

secret society network in ireland is phenomenal for such a small population and it is this which led to the creation of sinn fein in 1905, the political wing of the irish republican army (ira. this network is, in turn, connected to the web controlled by the global elite and it is through this that the well-documented links between the ira and other terrorist groups have been coordinated. the new covenant times said in its january/march 1994 edition, that the loyalist paramilitary movement was deliberately backed by an mi5 operation called "tara" with the intention of creating so much violence and tit-for-tat murder by both the ira and protestant loyalist paramilitary, that the uk parliament would agree to allow northern ireland to be absorbed into the republic of ireland. 196 .and the tru

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rdon, in the common background of greek and hebrew civilisation (w. w. norton and company, new york, 1965. to claim descent from "noah" is used by illuminati initiates to symbolise their genetic connection to the anunnaki bloodline. the sumerian version of the "noah" story relates his close connection to the anunnaki, especially enki. the franks called themselves the newmage or "the people of the covenant" and settled in germania (possibly named by the romans from a word meaning "genuine ones) with their centre in cologne. peoples of the former sumer empire moved into europe over many centuries by land. as they travelled they were known by different names in different regions. once more the changing names have obscured the fact that they were the same peoples from the former sumer empire a

ones, which the accounts refer to as the me (pronounced "may. for some reason these appear to be fundamental to the anunnaki control and could have been computer chips or programmes, or some type of crystal. there are indications that they shone or emitted light in some way. scholars translate the me as tablets of destiny or divine powers, and 1 wonder if these could be related to the "ark of the covenant, a device for which divine powers are claimed? the sumerian accounts say, quoting "zu (sin "i will take the divine me, and the decrees of the gods i will direct. i will set my throne and control all the me. i will direct the totality of the igigi["those who observe" or "the watchers" 102 children of the matrix and later the tablets report "he seizes the me with his hands, taking away the

y, i am told. lauren says that in the king james version of the bible, abraham has his servant swear upon his "thigh" according to the translation when, in hebrew tradition, it would have been his dangly bits. it certainly gives new meaning to the term "got you by the balls. staring at a penis was another way to "god" in these times, i understand, and in some way this related to "remembering" the covenant. all it does for me is make me remember that i am not as young as i used to be. so the old testament means "old balls" and the new testament means "new balls. when we testify in court is the judge symbolically holding our testicles? you're right, don't lets go there. good thinking. suns of god tammuz was a name for the sumerian god dumazi or damu (the "only begotten son" or "son of the bl

origin of this custom that still continues today in the sikh religion. the nazarenes or nazarites wore black, as did the babylonian brotherhood, and this was inherited by the christian church. today the arabic word for christians is nasrani and in the muslim koran they are the nasara or nazara. this comes from the hebrew word, nozrim, which derived from the term, nozrei ha-brit or keepers of the covenant. the anunnaki covenant, it seems to me. christianity was created by rehashing the ancient symbolic story of the sun, together with mystery school allegory and serpent cult symbolism presented as a literal story in an historical context. the elite priesthood and other initiates knew what the story really meant, and still do, but they tell the people it is literally true and damnation will

rnor of syria and took command of the roman army in judea. he was involved in the judean revolt in ad66, which vespasian was sent to quell. two years later nero was killed by a piso agent, according to reuchlin, and vespasian became emperor of rome with vital backing from the piso clan. it was vespasian who ordered the sacking of jerusalem and stole the temple "treasures, including the ark of the covenant, whatever that was. vespasian, as a roman emperor, was an illuminati frontman. according to reuchlin's book, arius calpurnius piso wrote three of the gospels in the following order: the gospel of matthew (ad70-75; the updated mark (75-80; and, with the help of pliny the younger, the updated luke (85-90; he says that the gospel of john was the work of arius's son, justus, and followed in 1

"born again" christian movement "i have no doubt that organisation is nothing more than a satanist organisation involved in ritual murders" he said.25 part of this story involves a belfast boys' home called kincora. this was the subject of a massive scandal in the 1980s when systematic abuse came to light going back at least 20 years. but, yet again, the big names involved were protected. the new covenant times said in its january/march issue of 1994 that the loyalist("protestant) paramilitaries supported an mi5 british intelligence operation called "tara, which had the intention of creating so much violence and tit-for-tat murder by both themselves and the ira that the uk parliament would agree for northern ireland to be absorbed by the irish republic. colin wallace was a part-time soldie

at the nauvoo temple architecture was in part, at least, masonically influenced. indeed, it appears that there was an intentional attempt to utilize masonic symbols and motifs."13 if anyone is in any doubt that mormonism is freemasonry under another name, they should compare the masonic oaths with those of the mormons. here is just one example: in the mormon ceremony it says "we and each of us do covenant and promise that we will not reveal the secrets of this, the second token of the aaronic priesthood, with its accompanying name, sign, grip, or penalty. should we do so, we agree to have our breasts cut open and our hearts and vitals torn from our bodies and given to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field" the masonic ritual says "i..most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear

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dolf hitler and the nazis. he knew the inside story and he said in his98work, the magical mason, that todays freemasons go back to the essenes amongother ancient groups of similar background. today the arabic word for christians isnasrani and the muslim koran uses the term nasara or nazara. these originate with thehebrew word, nozrim, which derived from the term, nozrei ha-brit- the keepers ofthe covenant. the term, nozrei ha-brit, can be traced as far back as the alleged time ofsamuel and samson in the old testament. samuel was portrayed as the top man of thelevites and it was they who orchestrated this whole bible-talmud scam under thedirection of the babylonian brotherhood. the covenant is the freemasons great workof ages- the agenda for the takeover of the planet by the reptilians.the

vespasian wassent to judea to quell. emperor nero was assassinated in 68 ad by an agent of pisoaccording to reuchlin. this certainly makes sense if nero killed his father. with this,the piso clan threw their power and manipulation behind v espasian and he becameemperor of rome in 69 ad. a year later the romans destroyed jerusalem, stole thetemple treasures, including it is claimed the ark of the covenant, and apparently tookthem back to rome where they entered the secret society underground. thisunderground was nothing less than the babylonian brotherhood.reuchlin says that anus calpurnius piso then wrote three of the gospels in thefollowing order: the gospel of matthew (70-75 ad; the updated mark (75-80; and,with the help of the roman writer and statesman, pliny the younger, the updated

francios peoplemigrated from troy in what is now turkey and became the scythians and eventually142the sicambrian franks, named after their tribal queen, cambra, in the late fourthcentury. they originated in scythia, north of the black sea in the caucasus mountains,from where the aryan and reptile-aryan race swept across europe. the sicambrianfranks called themselves the newmage- the people of the covenant; that is thecovenant of the anunnaki.the sicambrian franks later lived in an area west of the river danube and settled ingermania (named by the romans after the scythian genuine ones) and their centre wascologne. it was from the time of king meroveus, who was named guardian of thefranks in 448, that this line became known as the merovingians. these were the sorcererkings who were noted fo

gner for a jewish state in palestine, for which the v ersailles peace conferenceconfirmed its support. and none of the history books will tell you any of this. out of theconference came the world court in the hague, netherlands, and the league ofnations, the brotherhoods first attempt to create a global organisation which could beevolved into a world government. the first draft of what became the covenant of theleague of nations was written by colonel house, as were woodrow wilsons famous224fourteen points at v ersailles. y ears earlier, house had written a novel called philip dru:administrator, which he later admitted was fact presented as fiction. in the book,published anonymously two years before the first world war, he had proposed anorganisation called. the league of nations. the war

me stones, in the same order,appear in the british crown.6 the archbishop placed his hands between the queensto pay homage to the new head of his church and he kissed her right hand. then hesaid:the lord almighty. establish your throne in righteousness, that it may stand forevermore, like as the sun before him, and as a faithful witness in heaven.7this is almost a repeat of the words used in gods covenant with david in the oldtestament.8 the lord almighty was formerly el shaddai or ishkur, the son of marduk,who is claimed to have been the son of the anunnaki scientist, enki, the guy who,according to the sumerian texts as translated by zecharia sitchin, was the one whocreated the human-anunnaki hybrids with ninkharsag. the windsors are of abrotherhood-black nobility bloodline and the queen

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th of the gods. his word is arrababaal and his seal is this: the thirty-eighth name is lugaldurmah the lord of the lofty places, watcher of the skies and all that travels therein. naught traverses the starry element, but that this power is aware. his word is arataagarbal and his seal is this: the thirty-ninth name is aranunna giver of wisdom, counsellor to our father, enki, knower of the magickal covenant and of the laws and of the nature of the gates. his word is aramanngi and his seal is thusly: the fortieth name is dumuduku possessor of the wand of lapis lazuli, knower of the secret name and the secret number. may not reveal these to thee, but may speak of other things equally marvellous. his word is aratagigi and his seal is: the forty-first name is lugalanna the power of the eldest of

ly, and the spirits of the air and the spirits of the wind as well. which things he may tell thee, and thou wilt grow in wisdom. his word is zidur and his seal is thus: the forty-third name is irkingu this is the power that laid capture to the commander of the forces of the ancient ones, kingu mighty demon, that marduk might lay hold of him and, with its blood, create the race of men and seal the covenant. his word is barerimu and his seal is this: the forty-fourth name is kinma judge and lord of the gods, at whose name they quake in fear. that the gods may not err, this power was given to oversee their activities, should they be lawful and within the nature of the covenant, for the gods are forgetful, and very far away. his word is engaigai and his seal is this: the forty-fifth name is es

because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. o you heavens, arise, the lower heavens underneath you, let them serve you. govern those that govern. cast down, cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten: no place let it remain in one number: add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise, move and appear before the covenant of his mouth which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of undefiled knowledge (lavey) o ye pleasures which dwell in the first air, ye are mighty in the parts of the earth, and execute the judgment of the mighty. unto you it is said: behold the face of satan, the beginning of comfort, whose eyes are the brightness of the stars, w

stranger; because she is in the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of lucifer the king. open wide the gates of hell! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those who govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled wisdom. the 30 ayres the first ayre: lil the eleventh ayre: ich the twenty-first ayre: asp the second ayre: arn the twelfth ayre: loe the twenty-second ayre: lin the third ayre: zom the thirteenth ayre: zim the twenty-third ayre: tor the fourth ayre: paz th

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his king s name was zohak, while the mogs suggested that he was bivarasp, whom of which existed in the time of noah, was most feared for his murdering of many kings. ahriman appeared in the legend of zohak14 first visited zohak, the son of king mirtas, disguised as a noble visiting. his words were empowering, as one who sought to become something other- if thou wilt listen to me, and enter into a covenant, i will raise thy head above the sun thus the prince listened to ahriman. he later took the throne and became king. ahriman taught him the arts of magic and zohak slowly became what the just called a tyrant king. it was soon after that ahriman appeared to the king as a youth who was a cook. he was employed to prepare dishes for the king, and instead of herbs and various foods he prepared

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his to symbolize the harmony of science and religion in the kabala. the guardian angel presented seth with three seeds from this tree and directed him to place them within the mouth of his father, adam, when he died. from this planting arose the burning bush, out of which god communicated to moses his holy name, and from a part of which moses made his magic wand. this was placed in the ark of the covenant and was planted by king david on mount zion, where it grew into a triple tree and was later cut down by solomon to form the pillars jachin and boaz, which were placed at the entrance to the temple. a third portion was inserted in the threshold of the great gate and acted as a talisman, permitting no unclean thing to enter the sanctuary. however, certain wicked priests removed it, weighted

over paradise, and over the cherubims. as the roman catholic mass evolved, michael, now a saint, was invoked as a most glorious and warlike prince, the receiver of souls, and the vanquisher of evil spirits. his symbol is a banner hanging on a cross; he is armed and represents victory, with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forehead. it may be noted that god himself is called the angel of the covenant, because he embodied in his own person the whole power and representation of the angelic kingdom, as the messenger, not of separate and temporary commands, but of the whole word in its fullness. dionysius, or st. denis, the supposed areopagite (sixth century c.e, describes three hierarchies of angels in nine choirs: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers, virtues

anifestations. hereward carrington suggested an electrical analogy: less expenditure of energy is required to charge a small electric conductor to a given voltage than a large one, so it may be with the cabinet, which acts as a sort of storage battery, retaining the energy and liberating it in bundles of quanta during the seance. nineteenth-century biblical scholar allen putnam saw the ark of the covenant as an interesting model by which to understand the spiritualist cabinet: the ark of the covenant was constructed expressly for use as a spirit battery, or an instrument through which to give forth the commands of the lord. the special care taken to have the ark and all its appurtenances charged with the auras or magnetisms of a selected class of workmen, becomes very interesting in these

usions and the madness of crowds. wells, vt: fraser publishing, 1963. wilson, colin. poltergeist: a study in destructive haunting. new york: putnam, 1981. coffin nails in devonshire, england, superstition had it that a ring made from three nails or screws that have been used to fasten a coffin that was dug up in a churchyard would act as a charm against convulsions and fits of every kind. cog see covenant of the goddess cogni, giulio (1908) author, poet, and teacher of aesthetics and the psychology of music. cogni was born january 10, 1908, in siena, italy. as a member of the italian society for parapsychology, he contributed articles to tomorrow magazine, as well as published papers in the proceedings of the congresses and the annals of the italian society for parapsychology on such topic

encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. conklin, j. b. 323 connections (journal) connections is one of a small number of newsstand magazines serving the neo-pagan community. founded in 1993 as an expression of paganism in the denver, colorado, area, by the end of the decade it had gained national circulation and at the beginning of the new millennium it was adopted as the organ of the covenant of unitarian universalist pagans (cuups. cuups traces its history to the emergence of pagans within the very diverse interfaith fellowship of contemporary unitarian universalism (which also includes buddhist, humanist, and christian contingents. a pagan network was formed in 1986 and cuups formally accepted as an affiliate by the unitarian universalist association. a quarterly newsletter

complete story of the course: the history, the people and the controversies behind a course in miracles. berkeley, calif: fearless books, 1997. singh, tara. how to learn from a course in miracles. los angeles: life action press, 1988. wapnick, kenneth. absence of felicity: the story of helen schucman and her scribing of a course in miracles. roscoe, n.y: foundation for a course in miracles, 1991. covenant of the goddess (cog) the covenant of the goddess (cog) is the oldest and largest non-denominational organization of witches in north america. ten otherwise autonomous covens and several solitary practitioners in california founded cog. they wanted to foster cooperation among witches of various traditions and to ensure that practitioners of witchcraft are afforded the same rights and prote

witches in north america. ten otherwise autonomous covens and several solitary practitioners in california founded cog. they wanted to foster cooperation among witches of various traditions and to ensure that practitioners of witchcraft are afforded the same rights and protections as clergy of other faith traditions. membership is open to covens and individual witches. in addition to wiccans, the covenant s membership includes dianic (goddess only) witches, stregheria (italian witches, family traditions, and diverse other eclectic witches. cog views the autonomy, secrecy, and diversity of covens and individuals as one of its strengths. prospective members must meet the following criteria: 1. generally focus its liturgy, theology, and practices around the worship of the goddess or the godde

es, family traditions, and diverse other eclectic witches. cog views the autonomy, secrecy, and diversity of covens and individuals as one of its strengths. prospective members must meet the following criteria: 1. generally focus its liturgy, theology, and practices around the worship of the goddess or the goddess and the old gods; 2. agree to abide by a code of ethics compatible with that of the covenant; have been meeting monthly or oftener for at least six months; 3. have three or more adult members, at least one of whom is an initiate; 4. and be a cohesive, self perpetuating group. applicants must be sponsored by at least two witches known to cog, meaning that they need not necessarily be members, and must agree to a set of guidelines on finances. the national membership reviews each a

join at the national level. when three or more covens of at least two different traditions (denominations) within a reasonable traveling distance of one another are granted membership, they are encouraged to form a local council in their area. sometimes a local council grows large, and often hives off, or divides into two or more local councils. in late august or early september, business of the covenant is conducted at an annual meeting called grand council. this convocation rotates around the country, being hosted by a different local council each year. decisions are made through consensus process, with occasional exceptions. the covenant is empowered to issue clergy credentials to qualified members. cog clergy marry and bury people and perform other duties traditionally done by clergy

s to schools, colleges, interfaith groups, conservation groups, and the funeral industry, and cog members serve as consultants to film and television producers. the u.s. department of defense consulted with cog members in the publication of its 1988 directive entitled accommodation of religious practices within the u.s. military (u.s. military chaplains manual. in addition, representatives of the covenant have cosigned with other pagans on statements of common concern, such as the july 4, 1999 pagan educational network press release about first amendment freedoms issued in the wake of georgia s republican congressman bob barr s challenge to wiccans serving in the military. in 1993 cog participated in the second-ever parliament of world religions (pwr) in chicago. an important document, ori

theless. the group maintains a website at http//www.cog.org. among other things, this site contains a bibliography of children s books suitable for witch children, a memorial page, and teen page. cog may be contacted at p.o. box 1226, berkeley, ca 94701. in 2000, cog had 139 member covens and 92 individual members. sources: starhawk. the spiral dance. san francisco: harper& row, 1979, 1989, 1999. covenant of unitarian universalist pagans the unitarian universalist association began in the activity of various christian ministers who rejected some of the doctrines that in the nineteenth century were considered essential to orthodox christian faith. john murray led a group who believed in universal salvation and rejected the idea of a judgmental god and a hell of eternal torment. william elle

were ministers and members who drew their inspiration from a variety of spiritual streams from buddhism to humanism, and groups were formed within the association to give voice to the different spiritual paths that were being followed. by the mid-1980s, some unitarians had come into contact with the emerging wicca/pagan community and the goddess encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. covenant of unitarian universalist pagans 347 worship and feminism so central to it. at the 1985 meeting of the association, these pro-pagans held a summer solstice ritual and discussed the possibility of establishing an ongoing organization. an interim steering committee began to function, a newsletter was begun, and margo adler, author of drawing down the moon, a survey of modern paganism, was i

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the nude, but many new wiccan coven dress for rituals. there are annual dues for members and each coven may ask for an additional fee to cover the small costs involved in running the coven. however, no fees may be charged for initiating anyone into the craft or for the performance of an act of magic. church members are very active in the larger wiccan community, especially with the covens of the covenant of the goddess. most new wiccan covens are found in the western united states. headquarters are at box 162046, sacramento, ca 95816. information about the group can be found in its periodical, red garters, and on its website, http//www.angelfire.com/ ca/redgarters. sources: adler, margot. drawing down the moon. boston: beacon press, 1997. newton, j. r (1810.1883) american healing medium

evidently held the oak as a sacred tree. it is believed that abraham received his heavenly visitors under an oak. rebekah s nurse was buried under an oak, called afterward the oak of weeping. jacob buried the idols of shechem under an oak. it was under the oak of ophra that gideon saw the angel sitting who gave him instructions as to what he was to do to free israel. when joshua and israel made a covenant to serve god, a great stone was set up in evidence under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the lord. the prophet sent to prophesy against jeroboam was found at bethel sitting under an oak. saul and his sons were buried under an oak, and, according to isaiah, idols were made of oak wood. abimelech was made king beneath an oak located in shechem. as late as the eighteenth century the oak

with the mouth, all and any of the women and girls you may desire; in proof of which i sign myself lucifer. accounts of pacts with the devil emerged after satan became an important figure in christian theology and an image of the devil began to spread abroad in popular preaching. it was given a biblical basis from a reading of isaiah 28:15, we have entered into a league with death; we have made a covenant with hell. thus origen (185.254 c.e) and, more important, st. augustine (354.430 c.e) could speak of a pact with demons. the earliest christian legend involving a pact with the devil is a story concerning st. basil (ca. 329.379 c.e. the most important was that of theophilus, bursar of the church of adam in northern cilicia (ca. 538 c.e. after his bishop withdrew his employment, theophiliu

, to die with the greatest shame possible was with difficulty prevented from throwing off her clothing before the people, and with scarce less trouble was she flung from the ladder by the executioner. her last words were in the tone of the sect to which her brother had so long affected to belong: many, she said, weep and lament for a poor old wretch like me; but alas, few are weeping for a broken covenant. alchemy while fearful of sorcery and witchcraft, james iv was attracted to the science of alchemy. the poet william dunbar described the patronage the king bestowed upon certain adventurers who had studied the mysteries of alchemy and were ingenious in making quintiscence, which should convert other metals into pure gold. in the treasurer s accounts there are numerous payments for the qu

international spokesperson for neo-paganism, feminist concerns, and social activism. through the 1970s she studied magic and witchcraft with a succession of prominent teachers, including sara cunningham of the temple of tiperath, victor h. anderson (founder of the faery tradition, and zsuzsanna e. budapest. in the mid-1970s she founded the compost coven and was one of the original signers of the covenant of the goddess (cog, serving as cog s first officer in 1976.77. she cofounded reclaiming: a center for feminist spirituality and counseling in berkeley, california, for which she served as a director, teacher, and counselor. in 1979 starhawk wrote the first of her three books, the spiral dance, a textbook on witchcraft that became one of the most popular introductions to wicca in the 1980

ual (male/female) or plural, accept the idea of reincarnation, and see the natural world as a manifestation of divine force rather than as something created by a transcendent god. attunement of the self to natural cycles through seasonal rituals is wicca s central public religious practice. wicca as a religion has no central authority nor organization, although various umbrella groups such as the covenant of the goddess in north america and the pagan federation in the united kingdom include many individuals and groups. the primary organization remains the coven, ideally numbering thirteen persons but in actuality often comprised of fewer. because of wicca s rapid growth, however, some adherents now seek more formal organizational plans and credentialing of leaders (priests and priestesses

FAUST

s. christ is arisen! joy to mortality, whom earth s carnality, creeping fatality, held as in prison! faust what a deep humming, what a clarion tone, draws from my lips the glass with mighty power! ye deep-toned bells, make ye already known the easter-feast s first solemn hour? ye choirs, do ye the hymn of consolation sing, which angels sang around the grave s dark night, to bring assurance of new covenant and dower? chorus of women. rare spices we carried and laid on his breast; we tenderly buried him whom we loved best; cloths and bands round him, spotless we wound him o er; ah! and we ve found him, christ, here no more. chorus of angels. christ is ascended! blessed the loving one who endured, moving one, trials improving one, till they were ended! faust ye heavenly tones, so powerful and

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ry? or, is it possible that they went much further east across long traveled sea or land trades routes from the sinai peninsula to the indus valley? what was the original religion of the desert hebrews like in practice? how did their religious practices change during centuries of egyptian enslavement? what was the ultimate impact of the construction of a centralized temple to house the ark of the covenant, with its attendant class of hereditary priests bound to a strict code of levitical purity? furthermore, the word rabbi does not appear anywhere in the torah, and was not an official title or position until after rabbinical academies were established in the fifth century bce. how did the pharisaic rabbinical sect secure its position of dominance and orthodox authority over judaism by the

sees. the intense and complicated levitical focus of the rabbinical sect developed from the codes of behavior and traditions institutionalized by the priesthood (kohanim) of the centralized temples in jerusalem. the strict codes reflected the extraordinary level of levitical purity that had to be maintained to enact the high level rituals performed in the first temple, which housed the ark of the covenant. within that context, the priests needed to be like angels who attend the throne of the lord hvhy. the kohanic codes had a significant impact on the development of the pharisaic rabbinate centuries later. they were redacted much later in the talmud yerushalmi and talmud babli, which contain voluminous commentary garnered from over four centuries of rabbinical dialectic. the talmud is comp

rrespond closely to those in the mystical qabalah. the name for the divine presence dwelling among embodied souls in the worlds of matter, for instance, is called shekhinah in the qabalah and sakinat in sufism. it is also used in the qur an (surah 2:249) in the same context as it is found in torah shmoth 24:22, when referring to the divine presence residing between the kerubim over the ark of the covenant. the doctrines identified earlier as dualism, qualified non-dualism, and pure non-dualism are differentiated in sufism as three phases on the path, known as makhafah (way of fear, machabah (way of love, and ma rifah (way of knowledge. the activity in these three phases can be correlated respectively with the yogic practices associated with karma yoga (way of purification through selfless

n through the planes of consciousness, and a second series that allude to different stations of perfected souls who have completed the ascension. it is said that adam gave the book to his son seth and it was then passed down the generational line to enoch son of yared. when enoch ascended and walked with elohim, he took the book with him. the sefer hashmoth came back into the world again with the covenant of abraham.11 abraham gave the book to ishmael, isaac, and his offspring by his concubines.12 isaac s copy was handed down to master mosheh and was later sealed in the vault of the first temple of jerusalem. buried in the temple vault, access to the book was limited to those who had the psychic skill to see/read it in yetzirah (astral world of formation, and the strength to survive the im

nd the battle. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings) is especially replete with imagery. the torah gives us adam and chava (eve) and the garden of eden, noah and the great flood, the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the life saga of master mosheh and the liberation from egyptian slavery, the extraordinary sequence of events in the desert of sinai, the ark of the covenant, and more. in zohar b reshith 21a-21b, several verses in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his tent at noon),2 yitza aq( meditating in the field at sunset),3 and ya aqov( limping down the road at sunrise, after wrestling with paniel all night).4 the reader is referred to figure 7.3. the books of the prophets yield images such as king david the go

in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his tent at noon),2 yitza aq( meditating in the field at sunset),3 and ya aqov( limping down the road at sunrise, after wrestling with paniel all night).4 the reader is referred to figure 7.3. the books of the prophets yield images such as king david the golden one whirling in ecstatic absorption before the ark of the covenant as it was brought to jerusalem (ii samuel, jeremiah bearing a yoke upon his neck, ezekiel ascending in the fiery chariot, the merkabah visions of isaiah and ezekiel, etc. the books of the writings provide our imaginations with images from the travails of job, the story of yonah in the belly of the leviathan, daniel in the den of lions, and other spiritual gems. one might envision the shek

ns of isaiah and ezekiel, etc. the books of the writings provide our imaginations with images from the travails of job, the story of yonah in the belly of the leviathan, daniel in the den of lions, and other spiritual gems. one might envision the shekhinah seated in a forest setting as described earlier in chapter six, or as the presence of shadai stationed between the kerubim atop the ark of the covenant, or as the divine mother in exile wandering in the lower worlds to look after her children, or as the bride of the lord hvhy on the wedding day of shabat. you could imagine yourself prostrating before the burning bush of the flaming name hvhy, perhaps offering your head (i.e. your mind) in your right hand, and your heart (i.e. your unconditional love) in your left hand. any of the images

, buh-reshith (lit. by the first, tysar_b referring to the first head of messiah, bara shith (tys arb it created six, referring to the chayot and the six directional sefiroth, bar esheth (tysa rb son of fire, referring 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% to the third head of messiah, master yeshuvah hvshy, barosh yitav ra elohai (yhla ar bty sarb in the head dwells ra elohy. 10 tradition. 11 the hebrew word for covenant is b rith (tyrb lit. promise, circle, chain. 12 the reader again is referred to the lech lecha section of torah b reshith. 13 the shattering of the shells results in death. 14 the hebrew text used for the work of the chariot trust translation of the sefer yetzirah was a composite of the translator s opinion of what the common text must have been to give rise to the following six versions:

he tree of life" 0 ayn sof (hebrew: endless: second of the three negativelyexistent roots of the tree of life. ayn sof or (hebrew: endless light or light of the endless: third of the three negatively-existent roots of the tree of life. b rakha (arabic: blessing: direct spiritual transmission in sufism. b rakha (hebrew: blessing: direct spiritual transmission in the qabalah. b rith yachid (hebrew: covenant of unity: an appellation of small face in the world of atziluth in the center of the inner court of the three-dimensional perfect tree in the sefer yetzirah. b riyah (hebrew: world of creation: second of the four qabalistic worlds, a formless world of vibrational signatures. bar mitzvah (hebrew: son of righteous action: jewish rite of passage generally occurring at age 13, when a jewish y

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of the shadowed ones (the fallen angels. alone and divided is connected with malkuth, earth and the demoness naamah (meaning pleasant, a bride of samael and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the line of i am no longer abel to conceal what i have become, cain is revered in hereditary and independent luciferian witchcraft covens as the first witch and satanist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ve function is not abused for the purpose of gratifying the senses. degeneration resulted from the ignorant and unauthorized abuse inaugurated by the lucifer spirits. regeneration must be undertaken in order to restore man to his lost estate as a spiritual being and to free him from this body of death wherein he is now encrusted. death must be swallowed up in immortality. to attain this object, a covenant was made with humanity when it was expelled from the garden of god to wander in the wilderness of the world. according to that plan, a tabernacle was built after a pattern planned by god, jehovah, and an ark symbolical of the human spirit was placed in it. its staves were never taken out of their place, to show that man is a pilgrim on the earth and may never rest until he reaches the goa

man* almost all things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were better sacrifices than these, for christ is not entered into the holy place made with hands which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of god for us* and now has he obtained a more excellent ministry by how much also he is mediator of a better covenant which was established upon better promises; for if the first covenant had been perfect then there should be no place for a second. but finding fault with the old he saith 'behold the days come when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of judah, not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day when i took them by the hand and led the

he first covenant had been perfect then there should be no place for a second. but finding fault with the old he saith 'behold the days come when i will make a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of judah, not according to the covenant that i made with their fathers in the day when i took them by the hand and led them out of the land of egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and i regarded them not 'saith the lord* for this is the covenant that i will make to the house of israel after those days, saith the lord 'i will put my laws into their minds and write them in their hearts, and i will be to them a god and they shall be to me a people and they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother saying, know the lord, for all shall know me fr

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) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and its angel is metatron, the angel of the covenant, the letters of whose name equal in numerical value those of shaddai, namely 314. behold, i send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which i have prepared. beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not: for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 20 the tree of life. the ten sephiroth when combined with the twenty-two

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

, or as among the christians they appear as the steeple which points towards heaven, the symbol remains, and the original significance is the same. the lord of the israelites who was wont to manifest himself to his chosen people in a "pillar of smoke by day" and a "pillar of fire by night" is said to be none other than a reproductive emblem, as was also the "lord" which "reposed in the ark of the covenant" monuments set up to symbolize the religion of the parsees or fire-worshippers after they had succumbed to the pressure brought to bear upon them by the adorers of the male principle were each and all of them, like their great prototype the tower of babel, typical of the universal creative power which was worshipped as male. notwithstanding the fact that the male energy had come to be rec

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ayers for material success. in the old testament of the hebrews we read that the patriarch jacob set up a pillar of stone and anointed it with drink and oil as a religious action at bethel, to commemorate the appearance of jehovah to him in a dream, when he saw the ladder reaching from earth to heaven and received a special blessing (genesis, xxviii. jacob also set up a pillar as a witness of the covenant between laban and himself (genesisxxxi,45; in chapter xxxv, 14, we read that jacob set up another pillar in memory of a second appearance of jehovah to him; and in verse 20 we read that jacob set up still another pillar in memory of the death of his wife rachel; this latter is perhaps the earliest mention of a tombstone; and this example led to the reverence paid in later times to tombsto

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

off dinah, the daughter of leah. moses says of them46 the sorcererand his apprentice-'letthy thummim and thy urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of meribah; who said unto his father his mother, i have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children; for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. they shall teach jacob thy judgments and israel thy law: they shallputincense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar, bless,loi;d,his substance, and accept the works of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that" hate him, that they rise not again' the armorial bearings of simeon are- yellow, a sword. these are the blessings of the

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ne's life; being, mind and emotions are chained to the dialectic field and whatever ones does, one cannot escape. hence, only through transfiguration can liberation be achieved. the first stage of transfiguration is to turn away, to repent, to give-up the path of the world (the dialectic field) and begin the trek to redemption. this change of direction starts with the simple acknowledgment of the covenant and by a conscious effort to start living the life of a true gnostic. chapter ten: the seven stages of salvation the gnostic handbook page 96 first steps:detachment and controlled awareness when buddha said all life was suffering he wasn't joking! the perceptiveness of gautama buddha's understanding of how the dialectic system is perpetuated cannot be underestimated. as buddha expressed i

t to higher and higher levels of development, until, at an appointed time perfection is achieved. this state of perfection is a unique state of being. it is one where the gnostic is in tune with the mind of god (logos) and his actions embody the holy spirit (sophia. this state of "walking in the light" represents a special achievement of spiritual regeneration. it is the full manifestation of the covenant of the mysteries and is represented by a very small group of humanity. the gnostic handbook page 105 now it is fitting that the soul regenerate herself and become again as she formerly was. the soul then moves of her own accord. and she received the divine nature from the father for her rejuvenation, so that she might be restored to the place where originally she had been. this is the way

he original exodus while the priestly tradition dates from the babylonian captivity. this second narrative was probably written by a literalist priestclass who had little knowledge of the true meaning of the tradition. therefore, it is clear that most sections of the old testament have been re-worked. a number of examples may help you to get the overall picture. in the epic tradition the original covenant includes the ten words or ten commandments only, the gnostic handbook page 115 while the priestly tradition includes the covenant code laws (these laws could not have been written at the exodus as they include agricultural regulations and references to the canaanites which obviously originate after their settlement in palestine. in the epic tradition the covenant code was an adaptation of

d. in the gnostic traditions there are various rites of passing, including rituals for those left behind, rites for those passing away, rites for over the body, rites for just after death and so forth. feasts and festivals. these are various religious celebrations which occur during the year. communion. this is celebrated as required to symbolise the life of jesus and his role in our entering the covenant with lord of wisdom. other sacraments include sacraments of healing and blessing. the gnostic handbook page 124 conclusions the goal of the gnostic apostolic church is to awaken mankind and bring him to a realisation of his true nature. mankind is moving towards the omega point, the great day when all must graduate or fall. this day is also the day of judgement in that only those who have

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

endenna: name of an evil spirit. ser: mourning/ lamentation (cf. eophan. sgva: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. shal: subservient angel of earth angle of air tablet, also known as shial. shial: angel, also known as shal. siaion: temple/ temples. sias: subservient angel of air angle of air tablet, also known as sigas. siasch: esiasch, brother. siatris: scorpion/ scorpions. sibsi: the covenant. 56 sigas: angel, also known as sias. sigmorf: governor of the first division of the aethyr tan (49. sioda: commanding angel of earth angle of fire tablet. siosp: angel, also known as sisp. siosp: angel, also known as sisp. sision: temple. slgaiol: senior of venus on the water tablet, also lgaiol. smnad: another (cf. symp. smta: kerubic angel of fire angle of earth tablet. snir: subservie

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them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until aoiveae cormpt. 25 the stars be numbered. torzu! zacar! od zamran aspt sibsi butmona arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth ds surzas tia baltan. odo cicle which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of qaa od ozozma plapli iadnamad. your creation and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge. notes on the calls the adept should be aware that the first call in reality is a silent call, or in actuality no cal at all, in that it corresponds to the godhead. notice that there are

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let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such as dobix iolcam priazi ar coazior od quasb qting. fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. ripir paaoxt sa la cor vml od prdzar cacrg no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until aoiveae cormpt. the stars be numbered. torzu! zacar! od zamran aspt sibsi butmona arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth 25 ds surzas tia baltan. odo cicle which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of qaa od ozozma plapli iadnamad. your creation and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge. notes on the calls the adept should be aware that the first call in reality is a silent call, or rather no call at all, in that it corresponds to the godhead. notice that there are 1

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an-made device: a confused, awe-stricken recollection of a monstrous instrument devised by the scientists of a lost civilization. weight is added to such extreme speculations when we remember that this is by no means the only golden box in the ancient world that functioned like a deadly and unpredictable machine. it has a number of quite unmissable similarities to the hebrews enigmatic ark of the covenant (which also struck innocent people dead with bolts of fiery energy, which also was overlaid round about with gold, and which was said to have contained not only the two tablets of the ten commandments but the golden pot that had manna, and aaron s rod )13 a proper look at the implications of all these weird and wonderful boxes (and of other technological artefacts referred to in ancient t

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the dragon; and the dragon fought book of revelation 12:7 as the secret ceremony of the masonic royal arch nears its climax, the candidates are directed to bring before the king and high priest a strange box with inexplicable writing on all four sides. the high priest, in a ceremony at least hundreds of years old, looks at the box with surprise and exclaims, companion king, this is the ark of the covenant of god! the officer playing the king agrees, saying, it is undoubtedly the true ark of the covenant, most excellent. the high priest opens the ark and removes a book. on reading a few passages, the high priest proclaims, this is a book of the law long lost, but now found. holiness to the lord! the king and scribe agree, and the high priest tells the candidates for initiation, you now see

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means "to be open" the savior's mission is to open up the hearts of others and also to be open or receptive to them. the magick square for arsoe is: the arsoe square is magically very powerful. it adds up to a gematric value of 1637, a prime number that aiq bkr reduces to 8, the number for "cycles" the words arsoe means "sun-savior" oxi-ar means "mighty sun" and sibis (a variant of sibsi) means "covenant" the square thus suggests that the sun-savior is one who is able to link the solar creative forces of divinity with man. the sigil of the sun-savior from the watchtower of fire is: the letters of soe illustrate the basic formula of the sun_ savior in enochian magick. the lovers of gemini (s, the justice of libra (0) and the hermit of virgo (e. this sug g e s t s the powe r ful f o r c e s

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

oy= the song resounded, struck up. 902 poetet. and bragr, wainamoinen witli tlie finns. saga was wuotan's daughter (p. 310, as the muse was zeus's; freyja loved the minnesong: mienni lika'si vel mansongr/ sn. 29. on the origin of poetry the younger edda (sn. 82 87) gives at full length a myth, which the elder had alluded to in havanial (sffim. 12. 23-4. once upon a time the aesir and vanir made a covenant of peace, and in token of it each party stept up to a vessel, and let fall into it their spittle^ as atonements and treaties were often hallowed by mingling of bloods (ra. 193-4; here the holy spittle is equivalent to blood, and even turns into blood, as the sequel shews. the token of peace (grrsamark) was too precious to be wasted, so the gods shaped out of it a man named kvdsir, of all

chaically applied to the raven; it is true, even jerome's commentary on job 38, 41 had already in a far-fetched way made the (black) raven mean the devil. in danish folksongs the vllde ravn, vilde val-ravn (the corvus stragis, ohg. walahraban) takes exactly the place of the diabolic trold, dv. 1, 186-7. in the puppet-play of dr. faust, it is remarkable that the raven, who is bearer of the written covenant with the devil; is called the bird o mercury, which would be exactly right of wuotan. within the last few centuries only i find the vulture (geier) put for the devil^ still more frequently the cuckoo, whose connexion with magic was spoken of, p. 679. another bird 1 wahtelbein (quail-bone, decoy-whistle) des tiuvels' berth. 225' sust verirret (so misleads) ez als ein wahlelhcin' i\yng. 121

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s by midjasveipdins, sveipan meaning no doubt the same as k\veu&gt, to flush, rinse, conf. as. swapan verrere. diluvium is in ohgr. unmezfluot or slnfluot (like sinwaki gurges, mhg. sinwage; not so good is the ohg. and mhg. smtvluot, and our siindfluth (s^-flood) is a blunder. sailors let birds fly, pliny 6, 22. three ravens fly as guides, landnamabok 1, 2. deluge, sinflut. 577 jehovah made a covenant with man, and set his bow in the cloud for a token of the covenant. after this beautiful compact picture in the 0. t, the eddie narrative looks crude and unpolished. not from heaven does the flood rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated gian

appointed keeper of the bridge; he guards it against hrimthurses and mountain-giants, 2 lest they make their way over the bridge into heaven, sn. 18. 30. the whole conception is in keeping with the cars in which the gods journey through heaven, and the roads that stretch across it (conf. p. 361. it was christianity that first introduced the 0. test, notion of the celestial hew being a sign of the covenant which god made with men after the rain of the deluge: ohg. reganpocjo, as. scurboga, shower-bow, csedm. 93, 5. meanwhile some ancient superstitions linger still. the simple folk imagine, that on the spot where the rainbow springs out of the ground, there is a golden dish, or a treasure lies buried; that gold coins or pennies drop out of the rainbow. when gold-pieces are picked up, they ar

will have to remember this, and in stray features here and there recognise [mangled but] still palpitating figures even of the heathen time. when the poet has missed his way in a wooded wild, and beside the mur muring spring comes upon a wailing wife, who imparts advice and information, what is this but the apparition of a wish-wife or valkyr, who meets the hero a-t the forest fount, and makes a covenant with him? and that dwarfs or giants often come between, as servants of these wild women, and conduct to their dwelling by a narrow path, this also seems no invention, but founded on old tradition. out of many examples i will select a few. ms. 2, 136b: ich kam geriten uf ein velt viir einen griienen wait, da vant ich ein vil schcen gezelt (tent, dar under saz diu triuwe, si wand ir hende

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unto me that i shall desire to know and teach me how to increase my wisdom and knowledge, and show unto me the secrets of the magick art, and of the liberal sciences, that i may set forth the praise and glory of almighty god yes. then, i pray thee, give and confirm thy character unto me, whereby i may call thee at al! times, and also swear unto me this oath, and i will righteously keep my vow and covenant unto almighty god, and will courteously receive thee at all times when thou dost appear to me forasmuch as thou camest in peace and quietness and hast answered me and unto my petitions, i give humble and hearty thanks unto almighty god, in whose name i called thee and thou camest. and now thou mayest depart in peace unto thy orders, and retum unto me again at what time soever i shall call

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ot be found. at last one of the servants, seeing the master's dog coming in, cried out that her master was returning home, and that he would soon p. 203 catch the troublesome creature, upon which he immediately vanished, nor were they troubled with him again till february 1711. on the 11th of that month, which happened to be a sunday, old mrs. haltridge was reading dr. wedderburn's sermons on the covenant, when, laying the book aside for a little while, nobody being in the room all the time, it was suddenly taken away. she looked for it everywhere, but could not find it. on the following day the apparition already referred to came to the house, and breaking a pane of glass in one of the windows, thrust in his hand with the missing volume in it. he began to talk with one of the servants, ma

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pertinent texts for the business" and now we again ask the question: who were the first christians? those who were readily converted by the eloquent simplicity of paul, who promised them, in the name of jesus, freedom from the narrow bonds of ecclesiasticism. they understood but one thing; they were the "children of promise" gal, iv, 28. the 'allegory (a uie mosaic bible was unveiled to them; the covenant "from the mount siniu, which gendcreth to bondage" was agar ibid, 24, the old jewish synagog. and she was "in bondage with her children" to jerusalem, the new and 393. dtdint and fao, de, di. zzzviii (ui, pp. 703-4. 394. cfar. wordsworth: bumattt of t/uologg, ii, p. 90, note. 396. see potkid'b loten lo mr. ardideaam traru, in atuwer lo ui d^enet tf tkt ihne hemeniy wunatt, pp. 363. 402, e

ory clearly shows. where was the truth? where the inspired word of godp on the one hand, as we have seen, they heard the apostle paul explaining that of the two covenants "which things are an alle- gory" the old one from mount sinai "which gendereth unto bondage" was agar the bondwoman; mount sinai itself answered to 'jerusalem' which dow is "in bondage" with her circumcised children; and the new covenant meant jesus christ the "jerusalem which is above and free; and on the other peter, who was contradicting and even abusing him. paul vehemently exclaims "cast out the bondwoman and her son (the old law and the synagog "the son of the bond- woman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman "stand 397. the torn 'fsganum' ia properiy lued by many modeni writen with betiution. t iol tm or

m not to hme ktunon the umy of ti0hieousne$a, than, after tbey have known it, to turn from the holy eommandment dditered wiio them (jf peter, ii. 18-21. peter cntainly cannot have meant the gnostics, for they had never seen "the holy commandment delivered unto them; paul had. ihey never promised any one "liberty" from bondage, but paul had done so repeatedly. moreover, the latter rejects the "old covenant" agar the bondwoman, and peter holds fast to it. paul warns the people against the powers and dignities (the lower angels of the kabalists; and peter, as will be shown further, respects them and denounces those who do nol peter preaches cireumdsion, and paul forbids it. later, when all these extraordinary blunders, contradictions, dimen- sions and inventions were forcibly crammed into a f

mortal virgin who, when impregnated by bis spirit, becomes tanmdlra, the mother of the five elements air, water, fire, earth, and ether. tlius may be shown how from the hindfi cosmogony all others proceed. knorr von rosenrotb, busying himself with the interpretation of the eabala, argues that "in this first state (of secret wisdom, the infinite god himself can be understood as 'father (of the new covenant. but the light, being let down by the infinite through a canal into the 'primal adam' or messiah, and joined with him, can be applied to the name son. and the influx emitted down from him [the son] to the lower parts [of the universe, can be referred to the character of the holy ghost" sophia-achamotb, the half-spiritual, half-material life, which vivifies the inert matter in the depths o

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ry cathedral. most of the chapter-houses of the cathedrals are eight-sided. in this they imitate the eight-sided or bhuddist cross of the templars. this is the crown, fig. 231. cap, capital, chapiter, tabernacle, mythic domus templi, or domus dei. they are miniature, mystical round churches, or tors. the chapter-houses oblong in shape are imithe olic digamma. 265 tative of the ark of the mosaical covenant. all the basilicas are of this figure. the symbol is a parallelogram, or an oblong, when the shape adopted is that of the temples. it then is the navis, nave, or ship which is the argo. les chinois l adorent dans f t. la langue chinoise n ayant ni le b ni le d, ce peuple a prononc f t ce que les indiens et les parses prononcent b t, bot, bod, bodd, ou boudd par o bref f t, au pegou, est d

same sexual cast. from all this in regard to their irregular worship or rather (mysteriously) to their regular or assigned worship, it will be seen that the jews fell into idolatry (and phallic idolatry, too) to an extent interpenetrating again most mysteriously the whole scope of their religion. there will consequently not appear anything so very startling in the supposition that the ark of the covenant contained symbolic objects referring to phallic ideas. we have seen that the stone, or pillar, of jacob was held in particular veneration that it was worshipped and anointed. we know from the jewish records that the ark was supposed to contain the tables of stone. and if it can be demonstrated that these stones implied a phallic reference, and that these tables were identical with the sym

e two letters i and v (or, in another of its forms, u. then if we add the i in the u we have the holy of holies, we also have the linga and yoni and argha (ark or arc) of the hind s, the iswarra or supreme lord. in all this may be found mystically the arc- celestial replicating-in upon itself symbolically and anagrammatically and presenting itself as identical with the lingayoni of the ark of the covenant. gregory observes that the middle of the ark was the place of prayer made holy (consecrated) by the presence of adam s body (refer to the glyptic symbolism, the mystical engraving of the ark, facing p. 351) thence "man" was the cabalistic (rosicrucian) microcosmos or little world, in contradistinction to the causer, or pattern, or original macrocosmos, or great, or producing( outside, or

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ll refrain from worshiping all gods. all the books of those who are without are altered by them, and they have declined from them, although they were written by the prophets and the apostles. that there are interpolations is seen in the fact that each sect endeavors to prove that the others are wrong and to destroy their books. truth and falsehood are known to me. when temptation comes, i give my covenant to him that trusts in me. moreover, i give counsel to the skilled directors, for i have appointed them for periods that are known to me. i remember necessary affairs and execute them in due time. i teach and guide those who follow my instruction. if anyone obey me and conform to my commandments, he shall have joy, delight and comfort. i requite the descendants of adam, and reward them wit

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

of the gospel of s. john; for the whole tradition of the divine word is derived from the mysteries of egypt. the true tetragrammaton was not the name of god in hebrew, but another and far more ancient word, which has ever been known to initiates of high degree. a christian development of this symbolism forms the device of a jewel worn by a certain high official in the scottish rite. under the old covenant the word was lost, and even when restored through the discovery of a certain secret vault, its true pronunciation was unknown; the end of the quest was not yet reached, though it was in sight. the new covenant added in the centre yet one letter more, the mystic shin, emblematical of fire and of the spirit; and so the word jehovah became jeheshua, the name of the christ. which things are a

ch was carried to rome, and thence passed down through the collegia into the mediaeval guilds, finally emerging in the eighteenth century in the speculative rituals of the craft degrees, in the holy royal arch and the degree of mark master mason, and in those other emblems and ceremonies which have been incorporated into certain of the subsidiary grades belonging in their symbolic time to the old covenant. the jewish mysteries are the source of our present tradition, for the three craft degrees are, and always have been, the basis of the whole system of masonic initiation, since they enshrine the relics of the lesser and greater mysteries of egypt, which alone can be termed degrees in their original form. but before we pass on to our next link in the masonic chain of descent- that of rome

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arlier (now lost) story about jacob wrestling with a demon. jacob was the third patriarch of the hebrews. he is considered the father of the chosen people, and his sons represent the heads of the twelve tribes of the children of israel. jacob had an important dream on his way to haran to take a wife from among the daughters of his uncle laban. the purpose of this dream is to confirm the abrahamic covenant directly to jacob, and to assure jacob that, although he is in distress, he is yet the object of god s love and care. god s manifestation completely alters jacob s view of his own purpose and destiny, and to jacob this is no mere dream, but a profound spiritual experience. fourteen years later jacob was to have another dream in which he realized that he was to return to the land of his bi

darkness, and his purpose is to bring about evil and sin (1 qm 19:12. it was this image of satan, which appears to have been in general circulation in palestine during the first century, that was incorporated into christianity. as with satan, the early christian notion of hell was drawn from contemporaneous judaism. jewish thinking about the afterlife, in turn, developed out of reflections on the covenant. the very core of judaism is a covenant relationship which is both a contractual agreement and a marriage of love between yahweh and his chosen people. the ancient hebrews emphasized the importance of the present life. like both the ancient greeks and mesopotamians, existence 138 judaism and hebrew scriptures after death in sheol (the realm of the dead, when it was mentioned at all, was c

es after death in sheol (the realm of the dead, when it was mentioned at all, was conceived of less as an actual hell and more as a pale shadow of earthly life, much like the greek hades. also like the greek hades, the hebrews originally made no distinction between the treatment of the just and the unjust after death. instead, rewards and punishments were meted out in the present life, and in the covenant contract yahweh promised to do just that. one of the few stories in hebrew scriptures (the old testament) that mentions sheol is the tale of the so-called witch of endor. king saul had banished, under threat of death, all who trafficked with ghosts and spirits (1 sam. 28:3. however, faced with a superior army and feeling himself in a desperate situation, saul, in disguise, consults a woma

the clear implication is that moral distinctions do not influence one s afterlife fate the spirits of the good (e.g, samuel) and the spirits of morally bad people (e.g, saul) both end up in the same place, presumably under much the same conditions. although this is the general old testament view, reflection on the inequalities of this life and on the apparent failure of yahweh to make good on his covenant promises led serious religious thinkers to consider the option of resurrection. the resurrection of ordinary human beings seems to have originated in zoroastrianism.as a result of several centuries of persian control of the middle east, jews were brought into contact with zoroastrian religious ideas and the notion of resurrection. zoroaster combined resurrection with the idea of a final j

hose who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (dan. 12:2. while resurrection is a type of afterlife, it is peculiar in that it is an afterlife that returns the deceased to this life. it is thus, in a sense, more of a continuation of the present life than a true afterlife. because of this peculiarity, it saves the original covenant relationship, and hence divine justice, by allowing yahweh to reward devout jews in what amounts to an extension of this life. also, by adopting the notion of resurrection, none of the jewish notions about the essential goodness of this world and this life needed to be abandoned. as the citation from the book of daniel implies, the notion of resurrection was tied to a notion of judgment

seventeenth century, puritan new england encountered a a close up of the contents of one of the nagangas discovered at the scene in mexico (brad doherty) 168 mather, cotton series of crises that were to bring about an end to their holy experiment, at least in the form envisioned by the original founders. internally, the often bitter debate over church membership that led to the so-called halfway covenant of 1662 was but one aspect of a breakdown in consensus that was reflected in commercial competition, political contention, and personal bad feelings. externally, english kings began to assume control over their massachusetts colonies, most distressingly during the reign of charles ii. but even after charles was deposed, the colony knew that it would never again enjoy the autonomy of its f

these troubles,new england experienced a devastating indian war in 1675 1677 (king philip s war) that left the colonists burdened with debts. cotton mather, son of increase mather and grandson of john cotton, was the most brilliant representative of new england puritanism at a time when the older puritan hegemony was beginning to break down. born in the year following the adoption of the halfway covenant (allowing children of saved church members to be members, mather was prominently involved in the official response to the witchcraft outbreak of 1692. mather was also involved in the process of idealizing the colony s earliest period until it became a kind of golden age. like his father, he perceived his lax contemporaries as having become indianized, and called on new englanders to aband

f idealizing the colony s earliest period until it became a kind of golden age. like his father, he perceived his lax contemporaries as having become indianized, and called on new englanders to abandon their indian vices and return to the model of the past. also like his father and other puritan leaders, cotton mather saw new england s various afflictions as punishment for its deviations from the covenant their contract with god. for example, in the sixth chapter of magnalia christi americana he repeatedly asserted that the depredations of the indian savages were god s just punishments for the colony s apostasie: in the things that have been done to our captives, the great lord of hosts hath dealt with us as generals used to do upon the sedition and mutiny of military legions: he makes a s

, which is no more true than the assertion that witches worship the christian devil. in an essay that has been posted on a number of different satanic websites, satanism and the history of wicca, diane vera shows that wicca has drawn heavily from the literary satanism created by the witch-hunts. for example, wiccan terms like witch, coven, and sabbat do not witches kevin and sandie carlyon of the covenant of earth magic prepare for hallowe en, 1997 (kevin carlyon/fortean picture library) 186 neopagan witchcraft derive from pre-christian paganism. the assertion that these terms were so derived may have been plausible in the midtwentieth century when gardner founded the wiccan movement, but it is now clear that there is no historical connection between modern wiccans and the witches executed

s that capture the core of satanic philosophy: satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! satan represents kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates! satan represents vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek! the ninth covenant 193 satan represents responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for psychic vampires! satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his divine spiritual and intellectual development, has become the most vicious animal of all! satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physi

recks, are little more than a condensed paraphrase of material found in rand s novel atlas shrugged. see also lavey, anton szandor; rand, ayn for further reading: lavey, anton. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. rand, ayn. atlas shrugged. new york: random house, 1957. schreck, zeena lavey, and nikolas schreck. anton lavey: legend and reality. http//www.churchofsatan.org/aslav.html the ninth covenant the ninth covenant was founded in 1997 by syn holiday. the group is centered in long beach, california. the ninth covenant holds meetings and rituals on an irregular basis, and is particularly active on the internet through its website. like many other contemporary satanist organizations, the ninth covenant is in the tradition of anton lavey s satanism. it thus does not view itself as an

er contemporary satanist organizations, the ninth covenant is in the tradition of anton lavey s satanism. it thus does not view itself as an inversion of christianity or as worshiping the christian devil. rather, satan is seen as a symbol of human nature. as such, satan represents individualism, the striving for a vital existence, and self worship. thus, to cite from the introduction on the ninth covenant website, the satanic label and imagery are simply convenient symbols intended to provoke a strong reaction and force thought. the core of the group s practices and philosophy is summarized in eight points: a. the worship of self b. the importance of the wolf pack (hold dear and close all those in your wolf pack) c. social responsibility. swift punishment to those who violate rights. lex t

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ynda la ciii* the ten divisions of the body of god. civ. the ten earths in seven palaces. cv. english of col. civ. 0. 1 skull 2 right brain 3 left brain ra aretz earth (dry) 4 right arm hmda adamah red earth 5 left arm ayg gia undulating ground 6 the whole body from the throat to the holy member hycn neshiah pasture 7 right left hyx tziah sandy earth 8 left leg aqra arqa earth 9 sign of the holy covenant 1010 crown which is in yesod lbt dlj tebhel cheled wet earth table iv (continued) 23 cvi* the ten hells in seven palaces. cvii. translation of hells. cviii* some princes of the qliphoth. cix* the kings of edom. 0. 1 satan and moloch. 2* lams. 3 lwac sheol grave \ynwnz tca. 4 wdba abaddon perdition lucifuge bbwy of hrxb jobab of bozrah 5 tjcrab bar shachath clay of death \wrtca ynmyt mch h

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n and an aon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f.i.a.t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant,that he shall display in the great day of m.a.a.t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a a, whose name is truth. 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a seacaptain. 10. also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. it hath pride and great

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le a stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling-place of him that is fallen. o ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbers. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge.19 the three mighty names of god almighty coming forth from the thirty thyrs20 the first name. l a z o d a p e l a m e d a z o d a z o d a z o d i l a z o d u o l a t a z o d a- p e k a l a t a n u v a d a z o d a b e r e t a. the second name. i r

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taken, they make car, rash, head. if, omitting the two first, the next two be taken, they give ca, ash, fire. if the fourth and last be joined, they give tc, sheth, foundation. again, if the second letter be put before the first, it makes br, rab, great. if after the third be placed the fifth and fourth, it gives cya, aish, man. if to the two first be joined the two last, they give tyrb, berith, covenant. and if the first be added to the last, it gives bt, theb, which is sometimes used for bwt, thob, good. there are three qabalistic veils of the negative existence, and in themselves they formulate the hidden ideas of the sephiroth not yet called into being, and they are concentrated in kether, which in this sense is the malkuth of the hidden ideas of the sephiroth. i will explain this. th

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church on the subject of marriage. 125 an analysis of the tarot cards the origin of playing cards--the rota mundi of the rosicrucians--the problem of tarot symbolism--the unnumbered card--the symbolism of the twenty-one major trumps- the suit cards. 129 the tabernacle in the wilderness moses, the egyptian initiate--the building of the tabernacle--the furnishings of the tabernacle--the ark of the covenant--the robes of glory--the urim and thummim. 133 the fraternity of the rose cross the life of father c.r.c--johann valentin andre--the alchemical teachings of the rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines and tenets the confessio fraternitatis--the anatomy of melancholy--john heydon on rosicrucianism--the th

hereby this divine purpose might be realized. the dying god shall rise again! the secret room in the house of the hidden places shall be rediscovered. the pyramid again shall stand as the ideal emblem of solidarity, inspiration, aspiration, resurrection, and regeneration. as the passing sands of time bury civilization upon civilization beneath their weight, the pyramid shall remain as the visible covenant between eternal wisdom and the world. the time may yet come when the chants of the illumined shall be heard once more in its ancient passageways and the master of the hidden house shall await in the silent place for the coming of that man who, casting aside the fallacies of dogma and tenet, seeks simply truth and will be satisfied with neither substitute nor counterfeit. next: isis, the v

umont divides it into four parts (1) a frame with three (2, a reverberating basin or bowl set in the frame (e) a flat plate or table upon which the pythia sat; and (4) a cone-shaped cover over the table, which completely concealed the priestess and from beneath which her voice sounded forth in weird and hollow tones, attempts have been made to relate the delphian tripod with the jewish ark of the covenant. the frame of three legs was likened to the ark of the covenant; the flat plate or table to the mercy seat; and the cone-shaped covering to the tent of the tabernacle itself. this entire conception differs widely from that popularly accepted, but discloses a valuable analogy between jewish and greek symbolism. p. 62 an automaton which moved when certain stones in the floor of the vault we

. this tree was also sacred in the mysteries of dionysos and apollo. among the ancient egyptians and jews the acacia, or tamarisk, was held in the highest religious esteem; and among modern masons, branches of acacia, cypress, cedar, or evergreen are still regarded as most significant emblems. the shittim-wood used by the children of israel in the construction of the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant was a species of acacia. in describing this sacred tree, albert pike has written "the genuine acacia, also, is the thorny tamarisk, the same tree which grew around the body of osiris. it was a sacred tree among the arabs, who made of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur; and of it the 'crown of thorns' was composed, which was set on

allic interpretation: the pot of manna, the rod that budded, and the tablets of the law--the first, second, and third principles of the creative triad. the manna, the blossoming staff, and the stone tables are also appropriate images respectively of the qabbalah, the mishna, and the written law--the spirit, soul, and body of judaism. when placed in king solomon's everlasting house, the ark of the covenant contained only the tablets of the law. does this indicate that even at that early date the secret tradition had been lost and the letter of the revelation alone remained? as representing the power that fabricated the lower, or demiurgic, sphere, the tablets of stone were sacred to jehovah in contradistinction to the tablets of sapphire that signified the potency that established the highe

o know, and teach me how i may increase in wisdom and knowledge and show unto me all the secrets of the magic art, and of all liberal sciences, that i may thereby set forth the glory of almighty god [and the spirit shall answer 'yes"'then i pray thee give and confirm thy character unto me whereby i may call thee at all times, and also swear unto me this oath and i will religiously keep my vow and covenant unto almighty god and will courteously receive thee at all times where thou dost appear unto me "license to depart"'forasmuch as thou comest in peace and quietness and hath answered click to enlarge the pentagram. from levi's transcendental magic. the pentagram. the pentagram is the figure of the microcosm--the magical formula of man. it is the one rising out of the four--the human soul r

ounds, which are in him one and the same. 2. ten sephiroth (ten properties from the ineffable one) and twenty-two letters are the foundation of all things. of these twenty-two letters three are called "mothers" sewn "double" and twelve "simple" 3. the ten numbers (sephiroth) out of nothing are analogous to the ten fingers and the ten toes: five over against five. in the center between them is the covenant with the only one god. in the spiritual world it is the covenant of the voice (the word, and in the corporeal world the circumcision of the flesh (the rite of abraham. 4. ten are the numbers (of the sephiroth) out of nothing, ten--not nine; ten--not eleven. comprehend this great, wisdom, understand this knowledge and be wise. inquire into the mystery and ponder it. examine all things by m

second. before one what can you count? 8. concerning the number (10) of the spheres of existence (sephiroth) out of nothing, seal up your lips and guard your heart as you consider them, and if your month opens for utterance and your heart turns towards thought, control them, returning to silence. so it is written "and the living creatures ran and returned (ezekiel i. 14) and on this wise was the covenant made with us, 9. these are the ten emanations of number out of nothing: 1st. the spirit of the living elohim, blessed and more than blessed be the living elohim of ages. his voice, his spirit, and his word are the holy spirit. 2nd. he produced air from the spirit and in the air. he formed and established twenty-two sounds--the letters. three of them were fundamental, or mothers; seven wer

nd created by three sepharim (numbers, letters, and sounds) his universe, and formed by them all creatures and all those things that are yet to come. 10. when the patriarch abraham had comprehended the great truths, meditated upon them, and understood them perfectly, the lord of the universe (the tetragrammaton) appeared to him, called him his friend, kissed him upon the head, and made with him a covenant. first, the covenant was between the ten fingers of his hands, which is the covenant of the tongue (spiritual; second, the covenant was between the ten toes of his feet, which is the covenant of circumcision (material; and god said of him "before abraham bound the spirit of the twenty-two letters (the thora) upon his tongue and god disclosed to him their secrets. god permitted the letters

riot of god. one of the divisions of the qabbalah--that dealing with the arts and sciences of those planes which are under the heavens--is called the mercavah. in the zohar it is written that the celestial throne or ezekiel's vision signifies the traditional law; the appearance of a man sitting upon the throne represents the written law, philo jud us in describing the cherubim upon the ark of the covenant declares that the figures are an intimation of the revolutions of the whole heavens, one of the cherubim representing the outer circumference and the other the inner sphere. facing each other, they represent the two hemispheres of the world. the flaming sword of the cherubim of genesis is the central motion and agitation of the heavenly bodies. in all probability it also represents the so

rding to egyptian mysticism; its utensils were also of ancient and accepted form. the ark click to enlarge the ancient of days. from montfaucon's antiquities. it is in this form that jehovah is generally pictured by the qabbalists. the drawing is intended to represent the demiurgus of the greeks and gnostics, called by the greeks "zeus" the immortal mortal, and by the hebrews "ihvh" p. 134 of the covenant itself was an adaptation of the egyptian ark, even to the kneeling figures upon its lid. bas-reliefs on the temple of phil show egyptian priests carrying their ark--which closely resembled the ark of the jews--upon their shoulders by means of staves like those described in exodus. the following description of the tabernacle and its priests is based upon the account of its construction and

bits wide, ten cubits high, and twenty cubits long, which was called the holy place and contained three special articles of furniture, namely, the seven-branched candlestick, the table of the shewbread, and the altar of burnt incense; the other room ten cubits wide, ten cubits high, and ten cubits long, which was called the holy of holies and contained but one article of furniture--the ark of the covenant. the two rooms were separated from each other by an ornamental veil upon which were embroidered many kinds of flowers, but no animal or human figures. josephus hints that there was a third compartment which was formed by subdividing the holy place, at least hypothetically, into two chambers. the jewish historian is not very explicit in his description of this third room, and the majority

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them being the thirteen full moons to a lunar year. some modem witches claim, however, that thirteen has a more pragmatic import, inasmuch as it is the largest number of folk that can comfortably be squeezed into a nine-foot circle. the word "coven" itself is derived from the latin noun conventus, meaning "a gathering or assembly" it is the same root which gives us our words "convent "convention "covenant" and "convene" the occasions at which a witches' coven meets informally are known by the name "esbats" the word itself, derived from the french word meaning "to frolic" hints at how unponderous and nonreligious in the generally accepted meaning of the word the medieval concept of a witches' meeting was! similarly, the eight annual sabbats, in addition to their magical import, have always

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s descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?what do the swastika, the double-headed eagle, the masonic double cube, the double-barred cross of lorraine, the two knights templars riding one horse, really signify?what are the real pillars of hercules that guarded the way to atlantis?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation49

rs and they had lost most ofthe technology that channeled their powers. what was left of this computer hardware was often sequestered in areas that we now refer toas the inner sanctum of a temple, or as the holy of holies, etc. only the initiated couldenter such precincts, others being threatened with death and damnation if they became curi-ous and dared. the biblical references to the arc of the covenant and moses warningsabout its powers clearly denote some kind of unpredictable and deadly radioactivity. it isalso rumored that the arc contained the remains of the leader of the fallen angels or othersof his 200. the word arc comes from arche, meaning the first, the original, or even, the orig-inator, and also from arca, which translates as tomb. and the israelites declared the so-called a

noble.ishmaels wifeshe was called mahalath and was the daughter of pharaoh amenemhet ii and granddaughter of senus-ret i, the half-brother and husband of sarah, abrahams wife. the daughter of ishmael and mahalath,bashemath goes on to marry esau, son of jacob (see p. 169)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation219 appendix b: book abstracts isaacbut el shaddai (jehovah) comes to make a covenant not with ishmael or other sons of abraham, butonly with isaac the son that sarah and abraham do eventually conceive.then we read that abraham is asked to sacrifice isaac.jehovah promises that isaac and his line will possess egypt. researchers have wondered at this pro-nouncement (see p. 164)jehovah also asks abraham to observe the custom of circumcision, known only in egypt.sarah and the

er.subsequently abraham pretends not to be her husband but her brother. it turns out that sarah is the pha-raohs half sister, and it is normal for pharaohs to wed their sisters. isaac, son of pharaoh, not abrahamit is thought, therefore, that isaac is in fact, not the son of abraham, but of the pharaoh senusret i. ifisaac is the son of pharaoh senusret, then the seemingly enigmatic details of the covenant would fallvery neatly into place. we could then understand sarahs change of name to sarah (princess. similarly,the custom of circumcision would make sense, as would the prospect of future dynastic kingship in theegyptian domain. it would even explain the relevance of the mysterious birthright that was eventuallysold by isaacs son esau to his brother jacob (genesis 25:30-34 (p. 165)but wha

birthright to his younger twin brother jacob-israel (whosedescendants became kings of judah, but now through tuya and y uya, descendants of esau did indeedbecome pharaohs of egypt. these particular pharaohs became known as the amarna kings theywere akhenaten, smenkhare, tutankhamun and aye, who ruled consecutively c. 1367-1348 b.c (p.184)palestine remained under egyptian rule at this time. if the covenant was to be taken literally, it wouldappear that the selling of the birthright by esau to jacob had no effect whatever; it was not until after theamarna period that the lines from esau and jacob were united through marriage, subsequently descend-ing to the davidic kings of judah (p. 184)mosesmanetho stated that moses was a priest at heliopolis.manethomanetho says that moses was a heliopolit

d 1394 b.c, his initial banishment 1361 b.c, and the exodusabout 1334 b.c, he would have been near 60 when at sinai.book of jasherthe book of jasher makes it quite plain that moses received the laws and ordinances from lord jethroof midian, not from the lord jehovah. jethro is specifically described as a descendant of esau and thereis no talk of whatever about slabs of stone, only the book of the covenant (p. 218)conclusionthe sacred culture of the ancients was retainedin the messianic line of king david of judah (1008b.c, whose significance was in the pharaonic lineage, not in his descent from abraham and theshemite strain (p. 224)the ptolemiesin 525 b.c, egypt was conquered by the persians, whose kings were subsequently ousted by alexanderthe greats macedonian army in 332 b.c. this led t

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ial behavior have all been frequently attributed to the influence of jinn. muslims also believe in the vampiric nature of jinn, claiming that those who sleep in the presence of jinn will wake up tired and depleted. muslims, and members of the occult, believe that there is some kind of contract, or agreement, between our race and the race of jinn; in the occult, this contract is referred to as the covenant. this covenant allows humans to use words of power and thoughts to--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 35 command the demons. for example, the phrase bismillah is used by muslims to cleanse food, water, and whole rooms of demonic influence. i have heard occult writers remark that this covenant, which was formed between the human and demon races, is the result of the trace amounts of demo

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overty, become more oppressing and cruel in his bargain; but quietly, modestly, diligently, and patiently recommend his estate to god, and follow his interest, and leave the success to him. detain not the wages of the hireling; for every degree of detention of it beyond the time, is injustice and uncharitableness, and grinds his face till tears and blood come out; but pay him exactly according to covenant, or according to his needs. religiously keep all promises and covenants, though made to your disadvantage, though afterward you perceive you might have done better; and let not any precedent act of yours be altered by any after-accident. let nothing make you break your promise, unless it be unlawful or impossible; that is, either out of your nature or out of your civil power, yourself bei

ealings, keen and bitter in its competitions, low and sordid in its purposes; nor that of ambition, selfish, mercenary, restless, circumventing, living only in the opinion of others, envious of the good fortune of others, miserably vain of its own success, unjust, unscrupulous, and slanderous. he that does me a favor, hath bound me to make him a return of thankfulness. the obligation comes not by covenant, nor by his own express intention; but by the nature of the thing; and is a duty springing up within the spirit of the obliged person, to whom it is more natural to love his friend, and to do good for good, than to return evil for evil; because a man may forgive an injury, but he must never forget a good turn. he that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love, or to love that wh

eystone of the royal arch of the great temple of liberty is a fundamental law, charter, or constitution; the expression of the fixed habits of thought of the people, embodied in a written instrument, or the result of the slow accretions and the consolidation of centuries; the same in war as in peace; that cannot be hastily changed, nor be violated with impunity, but is sacred, like the ark of the covenant of god, which none could touch and live. a permanent constitution, rooted in the affections, expressing the will and judgment, and built upon the instincts and settled habits of thought of the people, with an independent judiciary, an elective legislature of two branches, an executive responsible to the people, and the right of trial by jury, will guarantee the liberties of a people, if i

nd for perfect harmony as the final result of all the concords and discords of the universe: and be charitable as god is, toward the unfaith, the errors, the follies, and the faults of men: for all make one great brotherhood. instruction _sen. w. brother junior warden, are you a prince of mercy _jun. w. i have seen the delta and the holy names upon it, and am an ameth like yourself, in the triple covenant, of which we bear the mark _qu_ what is the first word upon the delta _ans_ the ineffable name of deity, the true mystery of which is known to the ameth alone _qu_ what do the three sides of the delta denote to us _ans_ to us, and to all masons, the three great attributes or developments of the essence of the deity; wisdom, or the reflective and designing power, in which, when there was n

ankind _qu_ what is the first of the three covenants, of which we bear the mark _ans_ that which god made with noah; when he said "i will not again curse the earth any more for man's sake, neither will i smite any more everything living as i have done. while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. i will establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, and with every living creature. all mankind shall no more be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. this is the token of my covenant: i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth: an everlasting covenant between me and every living creature on th

re any more be a flood to destroy the earth. this is the token of my covenant: i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth: an everlasting covenant between me and every living creature on the earth _qu_ what is the second of the three covenants _ans_ that which god made with abraham; when he said "i am the absolute uncreated god. i will make my covenant between me and thee, and thou shalt be the father of many nations, and kings shall come from thy loins. i will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy descendants after thee, to the remotest generations, for an everlasting covenant; and i will be thy god and their god, and will give thee the land of canaan for an everlasting possession _qu_ what is the third covenant _ans_ that

r, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die; but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not end; and there shall be light among the gentiles, and salvation unto the ends of the earth. the redeemed of the lord shall return, and everlasting joy be on their heads, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away _qu_ what is the symbol of the triple covenant _ans_ the triple triangle _qu_ of what else is it the symbol to us _ans_ of the trinity of attributes of the deity; and of the triple essence of man, the principle of life, the intellectual power, and the soul or immortal emanation from the deity _qu_ what is the first great truth of the sacred mysteries _ans_ no man hath seen god at any time. he is one, eternal, all-powerful, all-wise, i

ses "having dismissed the catechumens, we have retained you only to be our hearers; because besides those things which belong to all christians in common, we are now to discourse to you of sublime mysteries, which none are qualified to hear, but those who, by the master's favor, are made partakers of them..to have taught them openly, would have been to betray them" and he refers to the ark of the covenant and says that it signified a mystery, or secret of god, shadowed over by the cherubim of glory, and honored by being veiled. st. chrysostom and st. augustine speak of initiation more than fifty times. st. ambrose writes to those who are initiated; and initiation was not merely baptism, or admission into the church, but it referred to initiation into the mysteries. to the baptized and init

ularity in nature had been suggested by common appearances to the earliest reflection. the ancients perceived a natural order, a divine legislation, from which human institutions were supposed to be derived, laws emblazoned in heaven, and thence revealed to earth. but the divine law was little more than an analogical inference from human law, taken in the vulgar sense of arbitrary will or partial covenant. it was surmised rather than discovered, and remained unmoral because unintelligible. it mattered little, under the circumstances, whether the universe were said to be governed by chance or by reason, since the latter, if misunderstood, was virtually one with the former "better far" said epicurus "acquiesce in the fables of tradition, than acknowledge the oppressive necessity of the physi

ng the fourth degree of ramsay, it is said upon the title-page, or of the reformed or rectified rite of dresden, has these passages "o how great and glorious is the _presence_ of the almighty god which gloriously _shines_ from between the cherubim "how adorable and astonishing are the _rays_ of that glorious _light, that sends forth its bright and brilliant beams from the holy ark of alliance and covenant "let us with the deepest veneration and devotion adore the great source of life, that glorious spirit who is the most merciful and beneficent ruler of the universe and of all the creatures it contains "the secret knowledge of the grand scottish master relates to the combination and transmutation of different substances; whereof that you may obtain a clear idea and proper understanding, yo

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n be boiled down to the general symbolism of the building of solomon's temple, which was one of the most popular myths of the middle ages. this popularity reveals an interpretation of the story that reaches far beyond the tale of the magnificent temple, which david began and solomon completed in order to provide a dignified place to worship the eternal one and house the holy of holies, the ark of covenant containing the tablets of the law. to the medieval mind, solomon's temple was the replica of god's true temple and must be visualized on two planes: that of the universe and the divine creation and that of man, the reduced form of the universe to which christ's incarnation had conferred a level of grandeur or some value sequal to it. the temple was the symbol of both the universal macroco

elect entreth into heaven. q. what was ye greatest wonder yt seen or heard about the temple? a. god was man and was god. mary was a mother and yet a maid. q. what signifies the temple? a. ye son of god& partly of the church ye son soffered his body to be destroyed& rose again ye 3 d day& raised up tu us ye christian church we (which) in ye true spiritwal church. q (what signifies) the ark of the covenant? a. it represents as weel our saviour christ as ye hearts of ye faithfull for in christs breast was ye doctrine both of law& gospel so is in ye faithfull though not in ye measure he was ye true manna yt descended to give life to ye world ye table of ye law move us to love& obedience aarons rod flowrishing wt blossoms signifies ye swetnes of ye gospel& ye glory of our high priest jesus chr

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ars. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never again to destroy the creatures he had made. noah lived to be 950 years old. introduction 8 nana-buluku who creates the world, and then gives it into the keeping of his children mawu and lisa (see pp. 88 89; but nana- buluku is now almost forgotten, and the work of creation credited to mawu. the ashanti tell how the supreme god onyankopon (or nyame) used to live near men, but moved t

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the road for abraham to invite into his tent. the sun is envisioned as being encompassed by a sheath that protects the world from its rays. one aspect of the purification process of purgatory is unbearable heat. abraham gwas sitting at the opening of the tent, h referring to [our sages f statement] that he sits at the entrance of purgatory and keeps whoever is circumcised and sealed with the holy covenant and has not blemished it from entering.6 abraham was the first jew to be circumcised, and the covenant of circumcision is known to this day as gthe covenant of abraham. h thus, whoever fulfills the commandment of being circumcised and guards the purity of his sexuality merits abraham fs protection. allegorically, this simply means that guarding sexual purity is sufficient merit to be spar

nflict suffering upon job. this diverted his attention from the jewish people, who proceeded to cross over to dry land unimpeded, leaving g-d to overturn the sea on the egyptians. furthermore: why did g-d use job to ransom israel? this seems biased, to say the least. gif tuvia sinned, should zigud be punished? h13 to understand this, we must explore another matter first. we have seen that at gthe covenant between the parts, h g-d said to abraham, g cyour seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs [they will serve them, and they will oppress them for four hundred years. but i will also judge the nation that they will serve, and in the end they will leave with great wealth. you, however, will come to your forebears in peace; you shall be buried in good old age. the 10 exodus 14:31. 11 job

l also judge the nation that they will serve, and in the end they will leave with great wealth. you, however, will come to your forebears in peace; you shall be buried in good old age. the 10 exodus 14:31. 11 job 1:8-11. 12 y. sotah 5. 13 pesachim 113b. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 82 fourth generation will return here, for the iniquity of the amorite will not be full until then] h14 in this covenant, g-d promises abraham the land of israel in exchange for his children going into exile. it is called gthe covenant between the parts h since it was gendorsed h by abraham and g-d (represented by a pillar of fire) passing in between the severed halves of several animals. the idea expressed was: gjust as these halves are not complete without each other, so are the two of us not complete wit

eated h is a permutation of the word for] gthrough abraham. h10 gwhen they were created h (behibaram: beit-hei-beit-reish-alef-mem. gthrough abraham h (be-avraham: beit-alef-beit-reish-hei-mem. the fact that the word for gwhen they were created h can be permuted to the word for gthrough abraham h implies that the creation of the world was in a sense dependent on abraham, or his merit. through the covenant [with abraham, the world [of tikun] endures.as it is written, gwere it not for my covenant by day, h11 referring to abraham.despite the presence of impurities, i.e, ishmael and esau, as it is written, gfor through isaac it will be called for you seed, h12 i.e, holy seed. 5 z. yavetz, toldot yisrael, vol. 6, p. 276, translated and quoted in meir holder, history of the jewish people: from y

on which the torah was given, the sixth day of sivan, 2448. the work of creation (completed on the sixth day) is dependent on the acceptance of the torah by the jewish people. without this acceptance, the world fs existence is unnecessary, or pointless, and therefore until the torah was given the world fs existence was unstable and precarious.14 this is indicated in the verse, gwere it not for my covenant by day and by night, i would not have established the laws of heaven and earth, h meaning, were it not for the observance of the torah by the jewish people day and night, g-d would have no purpose for the world and its laws of nature. here, gby day h is taken to refer to abraham, since the world was plunged in spiritual darkness until abraham, and gabraham began to shine light. h15 the co

n isaac, h and this is taken to indicate that only part of isaac fs seed will transmit the genetic line of the jewish people. thus, only jacob plays this role, and not esau, isaac fs other son.17 then, in abraham [g-d] found [a vessel for] all the seed of israel, and the souls that existed before the world was created existed in him. for until then, the world was in the order of tohu, without the covenant. that is why the world only was able to endure through the covenant of abraham. this is the [mystical] meaning of the idea that g-d gcreated them h gthrough abraham. h understand this. at this point [abraham] was informed that he would have isaac, and that the seed of israel would all exist in him, as it is written, gfor through isaac it will be called for you seed. h since this was the c

h alludes to] the letter chet and the left channel of the [male reproductive organ, associated with] yesod. as we have seen previously, the male reproductive organ is called gthe live one h because it gcomes alive h (i.e, becomes erect. the gend h of the glive one h is the gcrown of the yesod h (anatomically, the glans of the organ) that is exposed by circumcision. circumcision is the sign of the covenant between g-d and the jewish people, the pact between them obligating us (and enabling us) to always remain gopen h and sensitive to spirituality, just as the circumcised sexual organ renders the husband more sensitive to his wife fs experience of relations and not focused solely on his own sensual enjoyment. isaac (whose name alludes to this sensitivity) is thus the antithesis of the phili

there isaac fs servants dug a well. abimelech came to him from gerar, together with a group of his friends and phicol, chief of his troops. isaac said to them, gwhy have you come to me, seeing that you hated me and sent me away from you? h they replied, gwe have indeed seen that g-d has been with you, so we said: let the solemn oath between us now [continue] between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you, that you will do us no evil, just as we did not harm you, and just as we treated you only with kindness and let you leave in peace. from now on, be you blessed by g-d! h [isaac] prepared them a feast and they ate and drank. they got up early in the morning and made an oath to each other. isaac then sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. on that very day, is

r seeing ga stormy wind ca great cloud, and a flashing fire, h which signify the three realms (or gshells h) of absolute evil, he saw g ca translucent glow [nogah] surrounding it, h signifying the neutral shell (kelipat nogah. he then continues, gand out of the midst of it, out of the midst of the fire, was something like the chashmal. he alludes to the foreskin situated over the sign of the holy covenant [i.e, the male procreative organ. he quickly [removes the foreskin and] reveals the neutral shell. this is alluded to in the word chashmal, as it is written, gjoshua circumcised c. h8 the word chashmal is here interpreted as a compound of the words chash, meaning gfast, h and mal, meaning gcircumcise. h the procreative organ embodies.and epitomizes.the neutral shell since it may be used f

itillating but also insulates the individual from his partner fs feelings. it is thus at once the physical manifestation of both selfish, sensual desire and innate egocentricity, and therefore embodies and epitomizes the totally impure shells, the realms of absolute evil. judaism therefore requires that the foreskin be circumcised [however, this king] who is situated opposite the sign of the holy covenant, grabs this supernal light from the neutral realm, which was intended for the bride, and usurps it for himself. 4 see the mystery of marriage, pp. 421-426. 5 eitz chaim 8:4-5, 9:1-3. 6 3:103b. 7 ezekiel 1:4, 1:27, and 8:2. 8 joshua 5:4, 7. the arizal on parashat vayishlach (4) 176 chusham thus represents evil chesed, or evil, selfish love, which, rather than being a desire to share with a

ve seen previously, gthe land h is an appellate for malchut or nukva, the feminine principle. since this king usurps the role of the female in syphoning off the energy of yesod, his land is mentioned. this answers question #6, posed at the beginning of this exposition. the name of this king, chusham, is missing the lamed of chashmal, since, in this sublime level of emanation, the sign of the holy covenant has not yet been revealed. rather, everything was hidden inside binah, alluded to by the closed mem [of chusham. as is stated in the talmud,9 there are forty gates of binah. thus, the letter mem, whose numerical value is 40, alludes to binah. the closed, final form of the mem thus alludes to a closed, locked up form of binah. and since this light was that of the supernal chesed, which [as

purity of sexual energy, the energy of yesod) as well. furthermore, it is well known that the tribes were not meant to reflect the ten sefirot but rather twelve extremities, which exist in malchut as the twelve cattle, as is explained elsewhere. 2 1 chronicles 29:10. the arizal on parashat vayeisheiv 191 it was known in ancient times that a central prerequisite for establishing the people of the covenant, the family that would develop into the nation that would carry the divine message to the rest of humanity, was a family of twelve sons, all of whom would be worthy of this mission. thus, we see, for example, that abraham and his brother nachor both sought to expand their families to this number of sons by taking concubines. in fact, however, it was jacob who was the first to actually fat

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

s ta 'fall %ring forth with those that increase, 3and destroy the rotten 'dobix ziolcam wazi ar coazior wd quasb qting 'no place let it remain in one number. 2add and diminish until 'ripir paaoxt sa la cor 2vml od prdzar cacrg 'the stars be numbered 'aoiveae cormpt. to clarify-there is no text missing at this point. c.l.w. 17ze golden dawn: volume tv book nine 'arise! move! 2and appear before the covenant of his mouth 'tonu zucar w d zumran aspt sibsi butmona 'which he hath sworn tunto us in his justice. sopen the mysteries of 'ds s u m 2tia baltan. wdo cicle 'your creation 2and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge 'qa wd ozozma plapli 3ladnamad. note: in equinoxvolume 5, aleister crowley has published a series of visions, using the calls of the thirty aethyrs in order to investiga

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

sense of which is indicated rigorously by the figures and numbers of the urim, thummim, teraphim and ephod, all resumed and completed by the tarot. the old sanctuaries contain no further mysteries, and the significance of the objects of the hebrew cultus is comprehensible for the first time. who does not perceive in the golden table, crowned and supported by cherubim which covered the ark of the covenant, the same symbols as those of the twenty-first tarot key? the ark was a hieroglyphical synthesis of the whole kabalistic dogma; it included the jod or blossoming staff of aaron, the he or cup, the gomor containing the manna, the two tables of the law. an analogous symbol to that of the sword of justice. and the manna kept in the gomor, four objects which interpret wonderfully the letters

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

, the fairies. objection 9. that the [fact of] proceeding from their forefathers does not diminish the gin or scandal of the second sight [any] more than original sin and other voluntary sins, as well as those of ignorance, are innocently derived from our progenitors. answer. albeit original sin and its fatal consequence be not innocently derived to us from our progenitors, because of his maker's covenant with adam for himself and his posterity, as to standing, or falling; yet this does not make hereditary diseases and all other things of our immediate parentage sinfully to affect us. it might have been a sin of intemperance and riot in the parents that entailed a radicated [that is, deep-rooted] inveterate distemper and bodily disease http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (2 of 11 [

and commander of the edinburgh city guard during the ascend-ancy of the puritanical revolutionary commonwealth government. these conflicts, incidentally, are the wars involving the english that tarbett refers to in his letter (page 41. sir walter scott recorded the sister's last words at execution as being 'many weep and lament for a poor old wretch like me, but alas few are weeping for a broken covenant' if scott's nineteenth-century report draws upon true sources, then it seem likely that she was talking not of her brother's erstwhile christianity, but of her own pact with the otherworld, and the general antagonism towards such covenants. kirk then repeats his basic thesis, that the sight is not criminal, that ancestral spirits appear to seers, that the fairy people create visions for t

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hebraic ten commandments are now dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is thus given a "mission" and/or a "destiny" while the egyptian concept of an afterlife was pleasant, mesopotamians considered the underworld (kur-nu-gi-a or sheol) as a dim, dismal place. hence their approach to life was fatalistic and pessimistic, with ethics considered in terms of earthly consequences only. pre-socratic greek philosophy "pre-socrati

llow magicians in the temple of set. xeper and remanifest a proclamation from set harken to my words! i have come to fill the world you know and to open that which you have only guessed in the past. you shall arrive through timeless thought and enter my thoughts with the acknowledgment of a friend. that you knew in times past, and therein shall be the warmth of the darkness and the quietude of my covenant which i once again bring to surface amidst the paths of majesty of my elect. therefore be not troubled by the addition of my presence nor be alarmed by the might of my working for i have given to you, the elect, the essence of my being and the knowledge of my plan upon this plane of energy. and this is a gift that you must guard and nourish throughout your dimensions for this is the only

t to be the interpreter of our plaints, the chamberlain of our tears; thou wast to convey them to the father. thou has not done so, for this intercession would disturb thine eternal sleep of happy satiety [deacon] master, whose inconceivable ferocity engenders life and inflicts it on the innocent whom thou darest damn- in the name of what original sin- whom thou darest punish- in the name of what covenant- we would have thee confess thine impudent cheats, thine unpardonable crimes! we would drive deeper the nails into thy hands, press down the crown of thorns upon thy brow, bring blood and water from the dry wounds of thy sides. and that we can and will do by violating the quietude of thy body, profaner of ample vices, abstractor of stupid purities, cursed nazarene, do-nothing king, coward

SATANGEL

rus, bishop of heraclea, as beasts which might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of god s throne and his charioteers. see psalm 18. they also appear as golden sculptures covering the ark of the covenant. the origins of the term lie in babylon, where they are monstrous winged entities guarding the entrances to temples; the ka-ri-bu. similar creatures guarded the assyrian tree of everlasting life. 3rd choir: thrones- ophanim or galgallin in hebrew merkabah lore, they are the great wheels or many eyed ones. galgal meaning pupil of the eye. whilst the cherubim are god s charioteers, the opha

cult lore, accompanied by rapha-el and uri-el, as are summoned in the lesser rite of the pentagram. these are the four guardian angels. the other three are traditionally chosen from remi-el, sari-el, ana-el, ragu-el, razi-el and metatron. metatron according to rabbinical texts he is really the greatest angel of all. in christian texts he is variously called prince of the divine face, angel of the covenant, king of angels, and the lesser tetragrammaton (yhvh, and is charged with the sustenance of the world. in the talmud and targum he is the direct link between humankind and god. he appears in the yakult hadash, where the two egyptian magicians jannes and jambre manage to gain unqualified admission to heaven and refuse to leave. micha-el and gabri-el are sent to expel them but are defeated

that is an angel that keepeth hell. i was formed the first angel. even st. jerome agrees that the devil will eventually be reinstated at god s side as a power of heaven. lucifer is seen as the dying and reborn son of the morning, the balancing counterpart and mastema of christ. chapter three; liber nomini infernus the book of infernal names we have entered into a league with death: we have made a covenant with hell. isaiah 28:15 the knowledge of the names of the various spirits of magick and witchcraft offers some degree of power over them. the circle of the art is traditionally empowered through their inscription and intonation, as are a great number of talisman and spells. such is an ancient and universal belief, and may be found throughout all traditions that deal with spirits and sorce

ovem those that govern. 3cast down such as 1aboapri 2tabaori priaz ar tabas 3adrpan cors ta 1fall. 2bring forth with those that increase, 3and destroy the rotten. 1dobix 2iolcam priazi ar coazior 3od quasb qting. 1no place let it remain in one number. 2add and diminish until 1ripir paaoxt sa la cor 2vml od prdzar cacrg 1the stars be numbered. 1aoiveae cormpt. 1arise! move! 2and appear before 3the covenant of his mouth 1torzu zacar 2od zamran aspt 3sibsi butmona 1which he hath sworn 2unto us in his justice. 3open the mysteries of 1ds surzas 2tia baltan. 3odo cicle 1your creation 2and make us partakers of 3the undefiled knowledge. 1qaa 2od ozozma plapli 3iadnamhethe nine satanic statements from the satanic bible, 1969 by anton szandor lavey 1. satan represents indulgence instead of abstinenc

SATANIC BIBLE

l ahriman- mazdean devil amon- egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction apollyon- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics baalberith- canaanite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed baphomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab behemoth- hebrew personification of satan in the form of an elephant beherit- syriac name for satan bil- celtic god of hell chemosh

stranger; because she is in the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of lucifer the king. open wide the gates of hell! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those who govern! cast down such as fall. bring forth those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled wisdom. yankee rlethe rites of lucifer on the altar of the devil up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, and madness is sanity. the satanic ritual chamber is die ideal setting for the entertainment of unspoken thoughts or a veri

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ll refrain from worshiping all gods. all the books of those who are without are altered by them, and they have declined from them, although they were written by the prophets and the apostles. that there are interpolations is seen in the fact that each sect endeavors to prove that the others are wrong and to destroy their books. truth and falsehood are known to me. when temptation comes, i give my covenant to him that trusts in me. moreover, i give counsel to the skilled directors, for i have appointed them for periods that are known to me. i remember necessary affairs and execute them in due time. i teach and guide those who follow my instruction. if anyone obey me and conform to my commandments, he shall have joy, delight, and comfort (pause, gong is struck) ii i requite the descendants o

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

opomorphism: attributing human shape or form to nonhuman things, such as the gods. apathia: stoic belief that happiness comes from freedom from internal turmoil. apeiron: anaximander s term for the first principle, an undefined and unlimited substance. arche: the beginning or ultimate principle; the stuff of all matter, or the building block of creation. arihant: an enlightened person. ark of the covenant: a cabinet in which the ten commandments were kept in the first temple of jerusalem. artha: prosperity and success in material affairs. asatru: a neo-pagan religion based on worship of the norse (scandanavian) gods. ascetic: a person who practices rigid self-denial, giving up all comforts and pleasures, as an act of religious devotion. jain monks and nuns are ascetics. asha: righteousness

s: the condition of being aware of one s thoughts, feelings, and existence. conservative: a movement in modern judaism that tries to strike a balance between orthodox and reform judaism. conversion: a change in which a person adopts a new set of religious beliefs. coven: a group of neo-pagans, such as wiccans. alternately referred to as circles, groves, kindreds, garths, hearths, and other terms. covenant: in religion, a covenant refers to an agreement between god or a messenger of god and his followers. creed: a statement of belief or basic principles. crucifixion: the suffering and death by nailing or binding a person to a cross. cuneiform: sumerian writing, so-called because of its wedge-shaped marks. daevas: ancient persian deities. dao: the path or way; the rhythmic balance and natura

y were brutally suppressed. the bab was executed by firing squad in 1850. according to legend, the first round of shots left him unmarked and only cut the ropes that bound him. it took a second round to kill him. his remains were later transferred to the shrine of the bab on mount carmel in haifa, israel. words to know blasphemy: disrespectful comments or actions concerning a religion or its god. covenant: in religion, a covenant refers to an agreement between god or a messenger of god and his followers. excommunicate: to exclude or officially ban a person from a church or other religious community. heretic: a person whose beliefs oppose his or her religion s official doctrines, or defining principles. orders: religious communities. prophet: a person chosen to serve as god s messenger. sac

etimes used by members to address one another. world religions: almanac 75 baha sects and schisms the baha faith is itself the result of a schism, or separation, from the babis, and that faith was itself an islamic sect. since the religion was established there have been several disputes over leadership. the first of these disputes occurred after the death of baha u lla h, who had established the covenant of baha u lla h. this covenant was a promise to his followers guaranteeing the unbroken continuation of the baha faith by creating a clear transfer of leadership from one generation to another. at his death baha u lla h named his eldest son, abdu l-baha, the next leader of the baha community, or the center of the covenant. but another son from a second marriage, muhammad ali, tried to cla

next leader of the baha community, or the center of the covenant. but another son from a second marriage, muhammad ali, tried to claim leadership of the baha. he established a competing sect, the unitarian baha s, though it attracted few followers. finally, abdu l-baha excommunicated his brother and most of the family from baha u lla h s second and third marriages from the religion, calling them covenant breakers, or heretics, people whose opinions oppose the religion s defining principles. the term covenant breaker has been used ever since to excommunicate those who have opposed the leadership of the baha faith. abdu l-baha, in turn, established a continuation of the original covenant with the creation of a guardian, who serves as the hereditary leader of the religion, passing control fr

o generation. abdu l- baha named his grandson, shoghi effendi rabbani, as his successor. although he was young when he was named the guardian, shoghi effendi was generally accepted by the faithful. his marriage to a westerner, mary maxwell, a baha from the united states, and his growing international focus led to complaints from his immediate family, many of whom began disobeying him and marrying covenant breakers. this did not result in the creation of more sects, but it did force shoghi effendi to excommunicate several family members. with the death of shoghi effendi, the hereditary office of guardian came to an end. leadership was supposed to be passed to the oldest son, but shoghi effendi had no children, and other members of the family had already been excommunicated as covenant break

essenger from god, is held on may 23 and is a day free from work. may 29 is the ascension of baha u lla h, marking the death of the founder of the baha faith. the death of the bab, called the martyrdom of the bab, is celebrated on july 9 and is another day of rest. the birthdays of both the bab and baha u lla h, on october 20 and november 12, respectively, are days of rest as well. the day of the covenant, on november 26, marks baha u lla h s promise that baha would be a permanent religion. the ascension of abdu l-baha, the day on which he died, is november 28. both the day of the covenant and the ascension of abdu l-baha are working days for the faithful. members are still required to come together in prayer and recitation of passages from sacred works, as is done on other holy days. pilg

he prophet moses, who received from god the ten commandments (religious laws) and gave them to the jewish people. judaism became more structured and organized under kings saul (c. 1020 1000 bce, david (d. 962 bce, and solomon (tenth century bce, who constructed a magnificent temple (the first temple) in jerusalem in the tenth century bce. there, in a room called the holy of holies, the ark of the covenant was kept. this cabinet contained the tablets on which the ten commandments were carved. jews soon came to regard the temple and the city of jerusalem as their most holy sites. in 586 bce the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple and drove the jews into exile (the babylonian exile. the jews returned and rebuilt the temple, the second temple, in 515 bce after the babylonians w

rsecuted the jews and forced them to pay high taxes. to persecute someone is to mistreat them because of differences. this mistreatment often includes violence. at about the beginning of the common era a jewish group called the zealots formed to oppose the romans. in 66 ce the zealots launched a revolt, known as the great revolt, which 346 world religions: almanac judaism words to know ark of the covenant: a cabinet in which the ten commandments were kept in the first temple of jerusalem. ashkenazic: term used to refer to jews of france, germany, and eastern europe. bar mitzvah: the coming-of-age ceremony for boys. bat mitzvah: the coming-of-age ceremony for girls. conservative: a movement in modern judaism that tries to strike a balance between orthodox and reform judaism. diaspora: the s

entury bce. the torah is central to jewish belief because it outlines at least four important themes in jewish history. the first is the concept of election, or the belief that god chooses special people to carry out his work on earth. a key event in the book of genesis is god s election of the israelites as his chosen people, with abraham as their father. the second major theme is the concept of covenant, which refers to agreements between god and man. this sense of covenant governed all human relationships and made both moral and ritual demands on the jewish people. the third theme is law, including the ten commandments given to moses on mount sinai, but the torah contains numerous other laws, including the 613 mitzvoth. the final theme is exodus, the most prominent example of which is c

e united kingdom, france, the united states, and others) during world war i. weizmann made many connections with british leaders through his work and was influential in the 1917 balfour declaration, in which britain announced its support for a moses received the ten commandments from god and gave them to the jewish people. the commandments were carved onto tablets and stored within the ark of the covenant. upon his thirteenth birthday, a jewish boy automatically becomes a son of the commandment. israel images/alamy. world religions: almanac 367 judaism jewish state in palestine. additionally, the british appointed him to advise on the formation of such a state. during world war ii, when jews were being targeted for extermination by nazi germany, weizmann tried to prevent the restriction of

the forces of good and evil. the human face is turned in the direction of the good. the circle in the middle of the figure represents eternity, a suggestion that the human spirit is immortal. one of the human figure s hands points upward, suggesting the need to struggle upward to achieve salvation, or freedom from sin. the other hand holds a ring. similar to a wedding ring, this band represents a covenant, or promise, between ahura mazda and humanity. worship zoroastrians often worship privately in the home. for example, the names of some of the more important yazatas (guardian angels) are given to the days of the week and the months of the year. on a day or month that bears the name of a yazata, individuals may choose to recite one of the yashts in honor of that yazata. when zoroastrians

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is therefore written that it souled. 58. another explanation: this teaches us that it is from there that souls fly forth. it is thus written, and he souled. this continues for a thousand generations. it is thus written (psalm 105:8, the word that he commanded until a thousand generations. immediately after this it says [the covenant] that he cut with abraham. what is the meaning of cut? he cut a covenant between the ten fingers of his hands and the ten toes of his feet. abraham was ashamed. god then said to him (genesis 17:4, and i, behold my covenant is with you, and with it, you will be the father of many nations. 59. why is heaven called shamayim? this teaches that god kneaded fire and water, and combined them together. from this he made the beginning of his word. it is thus written (p

what art the seven parts of man s body? it is written (genesis 9:6, in the form of god, he made man. it is also written (genesis 1:27, in the form of god he made him counting all his limbs and parts. but we have said: what does the letter vav resemble? it is alluded to in the verse (psalm 104:5, he spreads out light like a garment. for vav is nothing other than the six directions. he replied: the covenant of circumcision and man s mate are considered as one. his is two hands then make three, his head and body, five, and his two legs make seven. paralleling all these are their powers in heaven. it is thus written (ecclesiastes 7:14, also one opposite the other had god made. these are the days [of the week, as it is written (exodus 31:17, because six days god made the heaven and the earth. t

i will not bring upon you. what is the meaning of for i am god who heals you? this means that even when he comes and strikes, i am god who will heal you. 168. why do you call it the eight? because with it the eight are begun, and with it the eight numbers are completed. in function, however, it is the seventh one. and what are [the eight] that were begun? this is the fact that a child enters the covenant of circumcision when eight days old. are they then eight? they are nothing more than seven. why then did the blessed holy one say eight? because there are eight directions in man. what are they? they are as follows: the right and left hands; the right and left legs; the head, the body, and the covenant as an arbitrator; and his wife, who is his mate. it is thus written (genesis 2:24, and

y? they are as follows: the right and left hands; the right and left legs; the head, the body, and the covenant as an arbitrator; and his wife, who is his mate. it is thus written (genesis 2:24, and he shall cling to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. they are the eight, and they parallel the eight days of circumcision. are they then eight? they are nothing more that seven, since the body and covenant are one. it is therefore eight. 169. what is the ninth? he said to them: the ninth and tenth are together, one opposite the other. one is higher than the other by 500 years. they are like two wheels (ophanim. one inclines toward the north, while the other inclines toward the west. they reach down to the lowest earth. the bahir 44 what is the lowest earth? it is the last of the seven earth

ain them. 172. and what are the sons? i have already told you that the blessed holy one has seven holy forms. all of them have a counterpart in man, as it is written (genesis 9:6, for in the form of god he made man. it is likewise written (genesis 1:27, in the form of god he made him, male and female he made them. this is what they are: the right and left legs; the right and left hands; the body, covenant and head. but these are only six. you have said that there are seven. the seventh is with his wife. it is thus written (genesis 2:24, and they shall be one flesh. but she was taken from his ribs, as it is written (genesis 2:21, and he took one of his the bahir 45 ribs. he said: yes from his ribs. does he then have a rib? yes. it is written (exodus 26:20, the ribs of the tabernacle. the ta

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high and holy--engrave his name by the three sepharim (7- numbers, letters, and sounds.(8) 2. ten are the ineffable sephiroth (9) twenty-two are the letters, the foundation of all things; there are three mothers, seven double and twelve (10) simple letters. 3. the ineffable sephiroth are ten, as are the numbers; and as there are in man five fingers over against five, so over them is established a covenant of strength, by word of mouth, and by the circumcision of the flesh (11) 4. ten is the number of the ineffable sephiroth, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven. understand this wisdom, and be wise by the perception. search out concerning it, restore the word to its creator, and replace him who formed it upon his throne (12) 5. the ten ineffable sephiroth have ten vast regions bound unto th

od (18) is superlative in his unity, there is none equal unto him: what number canst thou place before one. 8. ten are the ineffable sephiroth; seal up thy lips lest thou speak of them, and guard thy heart as thou considerest them; and if thy mind escape from thee bring it back to thy control; even as it was said "running and returning (the living creatures ran and returned (19) and hence was the covenant made. 9. the ineffable sephiroth give forth the ten numbers. first; the spirit of the god of the living (20) blessed and more than blessed be the living god (21) of ages. the voice, the spirit, and the word (22) these are the holy spirit. 10. second; from the spirit he produced air, and formed in it twenty-two sounds--the letters; three are mothers, seven are double, and twelve are simple

s are the liver, the gall, and the tongue (52) while god (53) the faithful king rules over all. one above three, three above seven, and seven above twelve: and all are connected the one with the other. 4. and after that our father abraham had perceived and understood, and had taken down and engraved all these things, the lord most high (55) revealed himself, and called him his beloved, and made a covenant with him and his seed; and abraham believed on him (56) and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. and he made this covenant as between the ten toes of the feet--this is that of circumcision; and as between the ten fingers of the hands and this is that of the tongue (57) and he formed the twentytwo letters into speech (58) and shewed him all the mysteries of them (59) he drew them thr

to be spoken of, from their sacred nature. 10. the classification of the hebrew letters into a triad, heptad and dodecad, runs through the whole philosophy of the kabalah. many ancient authors added intentional blinds, suds as forming the triad of a.m.t, ameth, truth; and of amn, amen. 11. the two covenants, by the word or spirit, and by the flesh, made by jehovah with abraham, genesis xvii. the covenant of circumcision was to be an outward and visible sign of the divine promise made to ahraham and his offspring. the hebrew word for circumcision is mulah, mulh: note that mlh is also synonymous with dbr, dabar--verbum or word. 12. rittangelius gives "replace the formative power upon his throne" postellus gives restore the device to its place" 13. abyss; the word is oumq for omq, a depth, v

ivine powers--not ihvh the tetragrammaton. chapter 6 this chapter is a resum of the preceding five; it calls the universe and mankind to witness to the truth of the scheme of distribution of the powers of the numbers among created forms, and concludes with the narration that this philosophy was revealed by the divine to abraham, who received and faithfully accepted it, as a form of wisdom under a covenant. 49. the dragon, tli, theli. the hebrew letters amount in numeration to 440, that is 400, 30 and 10. the best opinion is that tali or theli refers to the 12 zodiacal constellations along the great circle of the ecliptic; where it ends there it begins again, and so the ancient occultists drew the dragon with its tail in its mouth. some have thought that tali referred to the constellation d

ommonly translated lord; eliun, oliun, is the more usual form of "the most high one" 56. him. rittangelius gives "credidit in tetragrammaton" but this word is shin shor taurus oin oqereb scorpio tau thaumim gemini qoph qesheth sagittarius samech sartan cancer gimel gedi capricorn aleph aryeh leo daleth dali aquarius beth bethuleh virgo daleth dagim pisces not in the hebrew. 57. tongue. the verbal covenant. 58. speech. the hebrew has "upon his tongue" 59. the hebrew version of rabbi judah ha levi concludes with the phrase "and said of him, before i formed thee in the belly, i knew thee" rabbi luria gives the hebrew version which i have translated. postellus gives "he drew him into the water, he rose up in spirit, he inflamed him in seven suitable forms with twelve signs" mayer gives "er zog

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ins dead: the streets of the city are strewn with corpses. but those who overcome their lower nature and awaken the crucified christ to new life hear the proclamation of the angel with the seventh trumpet: the kingdoms of the world have become those of the lord and of his anointed, who will reign from eternity to eternity. 147 upon which, the temple of god in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. the apocalypse of john 137 on the christian path, everything that the initiates in the older mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. as osiris was threatened by the evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the

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eagles, each facing in the opposite direction. this is clearly the double-headed eagle of freemasonry, a symbol representing the serpent, honored as the sun god in the mystery religions with its eagle-like, allseeing eye. in other words: lucifer! solar god of bill clinton and the illuminati. meanwhile, in clinton's left hand (see page 183 of codex magica) is a rose sign of the illuminati's blood covenant and the rosicrucian order. you will also find here a photo of former yugoslav serb leader slobodan milosevic, likewise holding a rose in his hand, the right hand. in satanism the left-handed path is the most magical and powerful, but more evil. clinton (left-hand) is still today recognized by the world as a great leader. milosevic (right-hand) is in disgrace, in a prison cell, after being

eaders of newsweek (december 28, 1998) with a cabalistic sign. the knowing look on schumer's face is telling, isn't it? 440 codex magica albert nicholas, head of wall street's nicholas fund mutual stock firm, in newsweek (october 10, 1994, p. 52) rabbi yehuda getz, chief rabbi of all the holy places in israel, holds his hands in the cabalistic pose. rabbi getz claims he knows where the ark of the covenant is hidden beneath the temple mount in jerusalem. israeli prime minister netanyahu (right) with knesset leader milo (left. notice milo's hand sign (1 he jerusalem report, august ii, 1998, p. 15) profiled in the elitist private clubs magazine (may/june 2004, kumar malavalli, shown here apparently displaying the same hand sign as u.s. senator charles schumer, is said to be a member of the si

significance of the ring in her book. she says that "rings were traditional symbols of the bond between chieftains and their warriors in anglo-saxon england" moreover. among the celts, a ring given by a woman to a man represented her sexual availability; putting the finger through the ring was a sign of sexual intercourse.4 the ring, then is a symbol of authority, of bonding, and is a sign of the covenant made between the inferior and superior members of the illuminati group. in ancient religions and cultures, rings were also magical in nature. according to cabalistic rabbis, king solomon used a magic ring with a hexagram symbol on it to enslave the demon asmodeus into helping him build his famous temple. some members of the illuminati in france in the late 18th century, about 1780, founde

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i f t c e e cl copyright beltain 2000 by parker torrence, version 1.2 all rights reserved, all wrongs returned three fold. grimoire of eclectic magick in 1996, the craft was released in theaters and a new standard for movies about witchcraft was established. this was in part due to the technical advice of pat devin, an elder and the first officer of the southern california local council of c.o.g (covenant of the goddess) established in california in 1975, an incorporated, religious, non-profit organization[ in 1996, there were approximately 250,000 wiccans in the united states] while much of the technically correct information in the movie was a fresh relief for many of us, hollywood also had filled the movie with the normal amount of special effects. you know, the kind that have nothing w

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neration. in addition to such items of personal significance, some individuals have prized objects that reportedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where t

nations will be summoned to the place of judgment by the blowing of the great shofar (ram s horn) to awaken the people from their spiritual slumber. elijah the prophet will return and set about the task of reconciling families who have become estranged. the day when the lord judges will be dark, very dark, without a ray of light (amos 5:20. those who have maintained righteous lives and kept their covenant with god will be taken to the heavenly paradise. those who have been judged as deserving of punishment for their misdeeds will be sent to gehenna, to stay there for a length of time commensurate with the seriousness of their transgressions. m delving deeper jewish publication society translation. the tanakh. new york, 1992. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new yor

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neration. in addition to such items of personal significance, some individuals have prized objects that reportedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them sites where t

es of the mind 117 dreams, or night visions, might be auditory and present a direct message (as in job 33:15 17, genesis 20:3,6) or at other times be symbolic, requiring skilled interpretation. jacob had a dream of a ladder set up on earth, the top of it reaching to heaven. he beheld in this dream angels of god ascending and descending on the ladder with the lord standing above it, confirming the covenant of abraham to jacob (genesis 28:12. king solomon received both wisdom and warning in dreams (i kings 3:5, 9:2. the new testament accounts surrounding the birth of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) record a number of revelatory dreams. joseph was instructed to wed mary and was assured of her purity (matthew 1:20, in spite of the apparent fact that she was already pregnant. later, joseph was wa

programs, radio broadcasts, foreign words, and crossreferences are indicated by italics. the page references to the subjects include the arabic volume number as well as the page number. main entries are designated by bold page numbers while images are denoted by italics. a abgar (king of edessa, 1:237 abominable snowman. see yeti abramelin magick, 2:49 51 abyssinia, alleged location of ark of the covenant, 2:203 ace (one. see one, symbolism of acrophobtiunusual and unexplained (geuu) presents comprehensive and objective information on unexplained mysteries, paranormal abilities, supernatural events, religious phenomena, magic, ufos, and myths that have evolved into cultural realities. this extensive three-volume work is a valuable tool providing users the opportunity to evaluate the many c

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neration. in addition to such items of personal significance, some individuals have prized objects that reportedly brought victory or good fortune to heroes of long ago. still others have searched for mysterious relics filled with supernatural attributes that were credited with accomplishing miracles in the past. no physical evidence is available to determine that such an object as the ark of the covenant ever existed, but its present location continues to be sought. the holy grail, the cup from which jesus drank at the last supper, is never mentioned in the bible, but by medieval times it had been popularized as the holiest relic in christendom. in addition to bestowing mystery and power upon certain objects, humans have always found or created places that are sacred to them.sites where t

ok of living and dying: practical rituals, prayers, blessings, and meditations on crossing over (1997, and she is the author of witchcraft and the web: weaving pagan traditions online (2001. in addition to her books, her articles have appeared in many periodicals, and she has spoken on behalf of the craft to electronic and print media. nightmare holds elder and ministerial credentials through the covenant of the goddess (cog, the oldest and largest nondenominational organization of witches in the united states. a member since 1981, she is a former t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 88 magic and sorcery national first officer and has served the covenant in many other capacities. she is on the teaching faculty of cherry hill [pagan] semi

raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000. machia, arawn. gways of the strega: an introduction. h [online] http//www.monmouth.com/ equinoxbook/strega.html. steiger, brad. revelation: the divine fire. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1973. stregeria: old religion or new? ple were equipped with horns, as was the altar at the shrine of the ark of the covenant in jerusalem before solomon. most curious of all, however, is michaelangelo fs (1475.1564) famous statue of moses (14th.13th century b.c.e, which depicts him with horns, thereby causing his head and face to bear a remarkable resemblance to cerrnunos, as the celts named the horned god. because of the importance of human and animal fertility, the horned god was soon joined by a goddess, who

cles so that such powers might be theirs. 167 chapter exploration amulets bells bloodstone candles cauldron crystals fairy circles garlic hand of glory horseshoes knife love knots mandrake root maypole mirror mistletoe rings salt silver stones for healing and energy trees voodoo dolls tribal empowerment crystal skulls fetishes megaliths runes talismans totems things of sacred power the ark of the covenant crosses the holy grail philosopher fs stone the spear of destiny swastikas introduction objects of power and mystery range from ancient stone structures with puzzling origins and purposes, to legendary lost relics that reportedly reappeared centuries later, to everyday objects that are believed to have special powers that will bring good fortune to the bearer. salt, for example, represent

t was reported to be the same size as the ark. in the 1980s, former nasa astronaut james irwin participated in expeditions up the mountain, but he found only the remnants of abandoned skis. with the breakup of the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s, and the search for noah fs ark continues. as described in the old testament book of exodus, the ark of the covenant, a wooden chest covered with gold, is said to contain such sacred relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem, but ever since babylonian for

red relics as the tablets of law from god that moses (14th.13th century b.c.e) brought back from mt. sinai. the ark possessed supernatural powers and served as a means through which god could express his will to the israelites. it was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem, but ever since babylonian forces conquered the city in 587 b.c.e. the whereabouts of the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. interest in the ark of the covenant has inspired generations of those who would recover the sacred relic. in medieval times the knights templar supposedly came into possession of the ark. a whole mythology has been built around the legendary holy grail, said to be the drinking vessel of jesus at the last supper before his crucifixion and resurrection. the legend of the

possession of the nazis and their leader, adolf hitler (1889.1945. this section will examine these objects of sacred power and discuss why they have been deemed so precious and holy by believers down through the centuries. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 200 objects of mystery and power m delving deeper bernstein, henrietta. the ark of the covenant, the holy grail. marina del ray, calif: devorss publications, 1998 goodrich, norma.the holy grail. new york: harper- collins publishers, 1992. hancock, graham. the sign and the seal. london: heinemann, 1992. weston, jessie l. from ritual to romance. mineola, n.y: dover publications, 1997. the ark of the covenant ever since the babylonian captivity of jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e

el ray, calif: devorss publications, 1998 goodrich, norma.the holy grail. new york: harper- collins publishers, 1992. hancock, graham. the sign and the seal. london: heinemann, 1992. weston, jessie l. from ritual to romance. mineola, n.y: dover publications, 1997. the ark of the covenant ever since the babylonian captivity of jerusalem in the sixth century b.c.e, the whereabouts of the ark of the covenant has been a mystery. as described in the old testament of the bible, the ark served as the visible sign of god fs presence to the israelites. the israelites would rally and vanquish their foes when the ark was brought to sites of battle, and death came to those in the presence of the ark who were enemies of god, betrayed their allegiance to god, or who simply forgot about the ark fs immens

ked two cows to the cart and set it forth. the cart made its way to the territory of israel, where the ark came into the possession of the bethsames. a large number of bethsames fell dead when they failed to show respect for the ark. fearful of the ark fs power, t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d objects of mystery and power 201 theark of the covenant was last known to have rested in the temple of solomon in jerusalem. the bethsames offered it to the inhabitants of nearby cariathiarum, who took it in their possession with proper sacraments. later, when david (d. 962 b.c.e) became king of israel and established jerusalem as the holy center of the nation, the ark was to be moved there. along the way, however, a cart carrying the ark was

the talmud, the ancient, authoritative history of the hebrews, indicates that the ark was kept in a secret area of the temple of solomon and survived the destruction and pillaging of jerusalem. the temple of solomon was rebuilt on its original foundation after the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 202 objects of mystery and power ark of the covenant (fortean picture library) babylon captivity. around 150 b.c.e, a successor of alexander the great invaded jerusalem and took valuable items from the new temple, but the ark was not mentioned among them. one account has the illegitimate son of solomon and sheba stealing the ark about 1000 b.c.e. and hiding it in aksum, ethiopia, where it was guarded by a monk in a church. other stories hav

muslim armies on the christian empire of abyssinia, causing much destruction, including the razing of monasteries on the island tana kirkos, where the ark was believed to have been kept. a cathedral was built after the muslim armies retreated, and there, according to this legend, the ark remains safe. in december 2000, erling haagensen and henry lincoln published their thesis that the ark of the covenant and the holy grail were both hidden in sites on the baltic sea island of bornholm about the year 1170. interest in the ark of the covenant has recurred through the centuries. in medieval times the knights templar supposedly came into possession of the ark. in contemporary times, interest in the ark was renewed with the 1981 film raiders of the lost ark, where it is the object of a search

all of those who do not pay it proper respect. in the film, as in the old testament, the presence of the ark brings destruction to the wicked and to the vain. in raiders of the lost ark, the relic eventually ends up in an undistinguished crate in an overstocked u.s. government warehouse waiting to be archived. in december 2001, rev. john mcluckie found a wooden tablet representing the ark of the covenant in a cupboard in st. john fs episcopal church in edinburgh, scotland. rev. mcluckie, who had lived in ethiopia, recognized the artifact as sacred to ethiopia fs orthodox christians, and arranged to have the tablet returned in a special ceremony in 2002. m delving deeper bernstein, henrietta. the ark of the covenant, the holy grail. marina del rey, calif: devorss publications, 1998. deevey

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, received "a bite or nipp in his loyn, which he found painfull for a fortnight. isobel adams ofpittenweem, said at her trial in 1704, that "the devil put his mark in her flesh which was very painful"[47] in1705 the two northampton witches,[48] elinor shaw and mary phillips, who like the rest of that covenremained faithful to their god unto death, had been pricked at their finger ends.the pact or covenant was probably a late custom, introduced when the religion was falling into decay. in allreligions the god promises to the convert eternal life and eternal happiness in return for fidelity and service,but the promise of mundane help enforced by a written contract suggests a form of propaganda which couldonly have occurred when the religion was hard pressed for converts. the written contract

separate piece of parchment or paper; in the later trials it was said to be in a book, but this is the god of the witcheschapter iv. the rites40probably a confusion with the devil's book in which the records were made at the sabbaths. in america thebook was constantly mentioned by the parsons and ministers who recorded the trials. forbes, in his institutesof the law of scotland, says "an express covenant is entered into betwixt a witch and the devil appearingin some visible shape. whereby the former renounceth god and his baptism, engages to serve the devil, anddo all the mischief he can as occasion offers, and leaves his soul and body to his disposal after death. thedevil on his part articles with such proselytes concerning the shape he is to appear to them in, the servicesthey are to ex

tism, engages to serve the devil, anddo all the mischief he can as occasion offers, and leaves his soul and body to his disposal after death. thedevil on his part articles with such proselytes concerning the shape he is to appear to them in, the servicesthey are to expect from him, upon the performance of certain charms or ceremonious rites. clairegoessen[50] a belgian witch tried in 1603, made a covenant with the devil "this pact was written on paperby satan himself with blood taken from a prick which she made for that purpose with a pin in the thumb ofher left hand, and was signed by the prisoner with her own blood. half a century later, in 1657, a belgianman-witch named mathieu stoop, signed a pact with blood drawn from his right leg, but was marked at thesame time in the right armpit.v

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ge and the incarnation of god! sublime dream which explains the mysteries of india, and justifies all symbolisms! the lofty conception of the man-god corresponds to the creation of adam, and christianity, like the first days of man in the earthly paradise, has been only an aspiration and a widowhood. we wait for the worship of the bride and of the mother; we shall aspire to the wedding of the new covenant. then the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. iv the quaternary the quaternary is the number of force. it is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the

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kind this awesome power and responsibility, and will leave him knocking on the dread doors of the azonei, the igigi, approaching the barrier that keeps out the absu. and one day, without the benefit of necronomicon, the race of man will smash the barrier and the ancient ones will rule once more. an alternative possibility exists: that, by landing on the moon, we have come to reinstate the ancient covenant and thereby assure our protection against the outside. since "the gods are forgetful, buy treading on their celestial spheres we are reminding them of their ancient obligations to us, their created ones. for, as it is said in one of man's most ancient of covenants, the emerald table "as above, so below. man's power to alter the nature of his environment must develop simultaneously with hi

he gate to the outside: an this is the amulet that i held in my hand, and hold to this very day, around my neck as i write these words: of the three carved symbols, the first is the sign of our race from beyond the stars, and is called arra in the tongue of the scribe who taught it to me, an emissary of the elder ones. in the tongue of the eldest city of babylon, it was ur. it is the sigil of the covenant of the elder gods, and when they see it, they who gave it to us, they will not forget us. they have sworn! spirit of the skies, remember! the second is the elder sign, and is the key whereby the powers of the elder gods may be summoned, when used with the proper words and shapes. it has a name, and is called agga. the third sign is the sigil of the watcher. it is called bandar. the watche

altar of offerings. or, carried to the rock of invocations. or, engraved on the metal of one's god or goddess, and hung about the neck, but hidden from the view of the profane. of the three, the arra and the agga may be used separately, that is to say, singly and alone. the bandar, however, must never be used alone, but with one or both of the others, for the watcher must needs be reminded of the covenant it has sworn with the elder gods and our race, else it will turn upon thee and slay thee and ravage thy town until succour is to be had from the elder gods by the tears of thy people and the wailing of thy women. kakammu! the metal amulet that i retrieved from the ashes of the fire, and which caught the light of the moon, is a potent seal against whatever may come in the gate from the out

me regard as to the order of the rites, or to the formulae, or to the sacrifices, for now it appears as if the entire host of ereshkigal lies waiting, dreaming, drooling for my departure. i pray the gods that i am saved, and not perish as did the priest, abdul ben-martu, in jerusalem (the gods remember and have mercy upon him. my fate is no longer writ in the stars, for i have broken the chaldean covenant by seeking power over the zonei. i have set foot on the moon, and the moon no longer has power over me. the lines of my life have been oblitered by my wanderings in the waste, over the letters writ in the heavens by the gods. and even now i can hear the wolves howling in the mountains as they did that fateful night, and they are calling my name, and the names of others. i fear for my fles

watcher behind that it may guard his body and his property, lest he be slain unawares and must wander throughout eternity among the dark spaces between stars, or else be devoured by the wrathful igigi that dwell beyond. know that thou must walk the steps of the ladder of lights, each in its place and one at a time, and that thou must enter by the gates in the lawful manner, as is put down in the covenant; else thou art surely lost. know that thou must keep purified for the space of one moon for the entrance to the first step, one moon between the first and the second step, and again between the second and the third, and so on in like manner. thou must abstain from spilling thy seed in any manner for like period of time, but thou mayest worship at the temple of ishtar, provided thou lose n

e venturing forth into the pit. for this reason, few have ever opened the gate of adar, and spoken to the horned one who resideth there and giveth all manner of wisdom regarding the operations of necromancy, and of the spells that hasten unto death. only when thou hast shown thy power over the maskim and the rabishu, mayest thou venture forth to the land of the igigi, and for that reason was this covenant made, that none shall safely walk through the sunken valleys of the dead before having ascended to marduk, nor shall they breach the gates that lie beyond adar until they have seen the signs of the mad god and felt the fury of the hellish queen. and against the ancient ones, there is only defence. only a madman, indeed, such as i am called, can hope to have power over them that dwell in t

of the spirit that slays the man. then cane he hope to have power over the demons that plague the mind and the body, pulling at the hair and grasping at the hands, and the screaming vile names into the airs of the night. for what comes on the wind can only be slain by he who knows the wind; and what comes on the seas can only be slain by he who knows the waters. this is it written, in the ancient covenant. the incantations of the gates the invocation of the nanna gate spirit of the moon, remember! nanna, father of the astral gods, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken, and remember! from the gates of the earth, i call thee! from the four gates of the land ki, i pray to thee! o lord, hero of the gods, who in heaven and upon the

ate! master of the annunaki, open the gate to the stars! ia namrasit! ia sin! ia nanna! bastamaaganasta ia kia kanpa! magabathi-ya nanna kanpa! mashrita nanna zia kanpa! ia mag! ia gamag! ia zagasthena kia! ashtag karelliosh! the invocation of the nebo gate spirit of the swift planet, remember! nebo, custodian of the gods, remember! nebo, father of the sacred writing, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken, and remember! from the gate of the great god nanna, i call to thee! by the name which i was given on the lunar sphere, i call to thee! lord nebo, who does not know of thy wisdom? lord nebo, who does not know of thy magick? lord nebo, what spirit, on earth or in heavens, is not conjured by thy mystic writing? lord nebo, what

torch of the heaven and of the earth, remember! o destroyer of the hostile hordes, remember! lioness, queen of the battle, hearken and remember! from the gate of the great god nebo, i call thee! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nebo, i call to thee! lady, queen of harlots and of soldiers, i call to thee! lady, mistress of battle and of love, i pray thee, remember! in the name of the covenant, sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! suppressor of the mountains! supporter of arms! deity of men! goddess of women! where thou gazest, the dead live! ishtar, queen of night, open thy gate to me! ishtar, lady of the battle, open wide thy gate! ishtar, sword of the people, open thy gate to me! ishtar, lady of the gift of love, open wide thy gate! g

! ishtar, lady of the gift of love, open wide thy gate! gate of the gentle planet, libat, open unto me! ia gushe-ya! ia inanna! ia erninni-ya! ashta pa mabacha cha kur enni-ya! rabbmi lo-yak zi ishtari kanpa! inanna zi amma kanpa! bi zamma kanpa! ia ia ia be-yi razuluki! the invocation of the shammash gate spirit of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays!

ia! ia! atzarachi-ya! atzarelechi-yu! bartalakatamani-ya kanpa! zi dingir uddu-ya kanpa! zi dingir ushtu-ya kanpa! zi shta! zi daraku! zi belurduk! kanpa! ia shta kanpa! ia! the invocation of the nergal gate spirit of the red planet, remember! nergal, god of war, remember! nergal, vanquisher of enemies, commander of hosts, remember! nergal, slayer of lions and of men, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the great gate of the lord shammash, the sphere of the sun, i call to thee! nergal, god of the sacrifice of blood, remember! nergal, lord of the offerings of battle, ravager of the enemy's towns, devourer of the flesh of man, remember! nergal, wielder of the mighty sword, remember! nergal, lord of arms and

k angels, remember! marduk, lord of all the lands, remember! marduk, son of enki, master of magicians, remember! marduk, vanquisher of the ancient ones, remember! marduk, who gives the stars their powers, remember! marduk, who assigns the wanderers their places, remember! lord of the worlds, and of the spaces between, remember! first among the astral gods, hearken and remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and the race of men i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the mighty nergal, the sphere of the red planet, i call to thee! hearken and remember! marduk, lord of the fifty powers, open thy gates to me! marduk, god of fifty names, open thy gates to thy servant! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nergal, i call to thee to open! gate of the grea

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close this. chapter of the holy order of rose croix of heredom (all rise) holy mother, what is the hour? h.p: it is the hour when the lost word is found; when the sacred tau has bloomed into the mystic rose; when the star called wormwood is cast into the abyss, and the blazing star has reappeared in all its splendour; when our altars have been renewed, and the light restored to our eyes. the new covenant is established; do what thou wilt is the whole of the law. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (13 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. and musick.)59 m.w.s: let us then, my excellent companions, observe this law, which will enable us to erect a pyramid in our hearts to the glory of him, to whom belongeth mig

thou to it, very illustrious sir knights, that through no fault of thine the truth be lost. trust not a stranger; fail not of an heir. of the secret of freemasonry now of him is our lord the sun father, creator, preserver and destroyer, one, exalted, perfect, giver of life and death, vicegerent and viceregent of heaven; and upon earth is his representative the sacred eidolon within the ark of the covenant of whom even in this place we speak not but in hidden terms, for that he is sacred and secret beyond all that are or may be, the rod wherein prometheus brought down fire from heaven. and either image and son of the all-father undergoeth death and resurrection; and the symbols are cognate; and the feasts of one and the other have been celebrated throughout all recorded time by the initiate

much confusion hath arisen, the many overwhelming the one. and herein is the reason whereof: and every woman is not a complete image of god in due proportion. consider these words attentively, and understand what they say not. our brethren in china, to confirm a bargain, break the stick on which it is written, each party keeping half, so that only on the fitting together of the two halves can the covenant be complete. so also is the kingdom of heaven. so also is this instruction. unless the other half be in thy mind, thou wilt not understand. this then is the covenant of the creator, dividing that he may unite. in our lord jesus christ is the great work accomplished. here followeth liber 333, cap. xxxvi. the star sapphire let the adept be armed with his magick rood (and provided with his m

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and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it. 6:17 and, behold, i, even i, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 6:18 but with thee will i establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with thee. 6:19 and of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 6:20 of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every [so

uire it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man s brother will i require the life of man. 9:6 whoso sheddeth man s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of god made he man. 9:7 and you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 9:8 and god spake unto noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9:9 and i, behold, i establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 9:10 and with every living creature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 9:11 and i will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to de

eature that [is] with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 9:11 and i will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 9:12 and page 5 genesis god said, this [is] the token of the covenant which i make between me and you and every living creature that [is] with you, for perpetual generations: 9:13 i do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 9:14 and it shall come to pass, when i bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 9:15 and i will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and e

and the earth. 9:14 and it shall come to pass, when i bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 9:15 and i will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 9:16 and the bow shall be in the cloud; and i will look upon it, that i may remember the everlasting covenant between god and every living creature of all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:17 and god said unto noah, this [is] the token of the covenant, which i have established between me and all flesh that [is] upon the earth. 9:18 and the sons of noah, that went forth of the ark, were shem, and ham, and japheth: and ham is the father of canaan. 9:19 these [are] the three sons of noah: and of the

e. 15:15 and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 15:16 but in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the amorites [is] not yet full. 15:17 and it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 15:18 in the same day the lord made a covenant with abram, saying, unto thy seed have i given this land, from the river of egypt unto the great river, the river euphrates: 15:19 the kenites, and the kenizzites, and the kadmonites, 15:20 and the hittites, and the perizzites, and the rephaims, 15:21 and the amorites, and the canaanites, and the girgashites, and the jebusites. 16:1 now sarai abram s wife bare him no children: and she had

ld [it is] between kadesh and bered. 16:15 and hagar bare abram a son: and abram called his son s name, which hagar bare, ishmael. 16:16 and abram [was] fourscore and six years old, when hagar bare ishmael to abram. 17:1 and when abram was ninety years old and nine, the lord appeared to abram, and said unto him, i [am] the almighty god; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 17:2 and i will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 17:3 and abram fell on his face: and god talked with him, saying, 17:4 as for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 17:5 neither shall thy name any more be called abram, but thy name shall be abraham; for a father of many nations have i made thee. 17:6 and i will make thee exceeding frui

god talked with him, saying, 17:4 as for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. 17:5 neither shall thy name any more be called abram, but thy name shall be abraham; for a father of many nations have i made thee. 17:6 and i will make thee exceeding fruitful, and i will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 17:7 and i will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a god unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 17:8 and i will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of canaan, for an everlasting possession; and i will be their god. 17:9 and god said unto abraham, thou shalt keep my covenant therefor

for an everlasting covenant, to be a god unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 17:8 and i will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of canaan, for an everlasting possession; and i will be their god. 17:9 and god said unto abraham, thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. 17:10 this [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised. 17:11 and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 17:12 and he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of

se the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. 17:12 and he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of thy seed. 17:13 he that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 17:14 and the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 17:15 and god said unto abraham, as for sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name sarai, but sarah [shall] her name [be] 17:16 and i will bless her, and give thee a son also of h

hall be of her. 17:17 then abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 17:18 and abraham said unto god, o that ishmael might live before thee! 17:19 and god said, sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name isaac: and i will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant [and] with his seed after him. 17:20 and as for ishmael, i have heard thee: behold, i have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and i will make him a great nation. 17:21 but my covenant will i establish with isaac, which sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 1

thou hast sojourned. 21:24 and abraham said, i will swear. 21:25 and abraham reproved abimelech because of a well of water, which abimelech s servants had violently taken away. 21:26 and abimelech said, i wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard i [of it] but to day. 21:27 and abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. 21:28 and abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29 and abimelech said unto abraham, what [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 21:30 and he said, for [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that i have digged this well. 21:31 wherefore he called that place beersheba; because there they sware bo

en ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 21:29 and abimelech said unto abraham, what [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? 21:30 and he said, for [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that i have digged this well. 21:31 wherefore he called that place beersheba; because there they sware both of them. 21:32 thus they made a covenant at beer-sheba: then abimelech rose up, and phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the philistines. page 11 genesis 21:33 and [abraham] planted a grove in beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the lord, the everlasting god. 21:34 and abraham sojourned in the philistines land many days. 22:1 and it came to pass after these things, that god did tempt

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gicke and witchcraft are far differing sciences; whereof pliny1 being ignorant, scoffeth thereat: for nero (saith pliny) who had the most excellent magicians of the east sent to him by tyridates king of armenia, who held that kingdom by him, found the art after long study and labour altogether ridiculous. now witchcraft and sorcery, are works done merely by the devil, which with respect unto some covenant made with man, he acteth by men his instruments, to accomplish his evil ends: of these, the histories of all ages, people and countries, as also the holy scriptures, afford us sundry examples. but magus is a persian word primitively, whereby is expressed such a one as is altogether conversant in things divine; as plato affirmeth, the art of magick is the art of worshipping god: and the pe

ice, are unhappie. this is that which john the baptist speaketh of: no man can do any thing of himself, except it be given him from above. every character given from a spirit, for what cause soever, hath his efficacie in this business, for which it is given, in the time prefixed: but it is to be used the same day and planetary hour wherein it is given. 7. god liveth, and thy soul liveth: keep thy covenant, and thou hast whatsoever the spirit shall reveal unto thee in god, because all things shall be done which the spirit promiseth unto thee. aphorism 18. there are other names of the olymick spirits delivered by others; but they onely are effectual, which are delivered to any one, by the spirit the revealer, visible or invisible: and they are delivered to every one as they are predestinated

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

zekiel, god is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion,1 the emblems of the therial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the idea of them must have been present to the prophet s mind, previous to the apparition which furnished him with the description. even those on the ark of the covenant, though made at the express command of god, do not appear to have been original; for a figure exactly answering to the description of them appears

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veral feet above the level of the ground, and held together by a silver setting (it was cracked by fire in the siege of 683. the ancient hebrews also recognized stone, the cube, and especially cubic stones as the most suitable receptacle of spirit. the fragments of the stone tablets of moses, even though the writing that had been upon them could no longer be read, were preserved in the ark of the covenant because those stones had been touched by god, and still preserved the occult virtue of that contact. the inner chamber in the temple of solomon that housed the ark was cubic (see 1 kings 6:20, and the brass altar of solomon was square (2 chronicles 4:l. even the christian church was not insensitive to the occult significance of stone and the cubic shape. the earliest christians did not us

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

hat the unconscious mind is like the spine of a book, and the pages of that book are different planes of existence, all linked by the unconscious mind. 167. dowbenko, nexus magazine, vol. 4, no. 5 4. 168. ibid. 132 soul flight remote viewing experiences remote viewing journeys were made not only to distant worlds such as jupiter, but to the past and future as well. morehouse viewed the ark of the covenant, which he described as a portal in four-dimensional space-time. it was discovered that the past could be examined but not changed. the future is more difficult to access because it is unfixed and variable, changing from moment to moment from the influence of present events as they unfold. information gathered in both past and future, and even in other parts of the present, is never comple

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but there seem to be two piles of stones intended, one of "great stones" that are plastered (mortared) together, and another of "whole stones" that serve as an altar. both (if indeed they are two piles) are to be inscribed with the law of god. in following out the command of moses, joshua first has the representatives of the tribes carry the stones across the river before allowing the ark of the covenant to pass "and joshua said unto them, pass over before the ark of the lord your god into the midst of jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of israel (josh. 4:5. the twelve representatives of the tribes took up a stone each "and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down

s shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of israel (josh. 4:5. the twelve representatives of the tribes took up a stone each "and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there (josh. 4:8. but it is also said "and joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood (josh. 4:9. this seems to indicate that there were two sets of twelve stones, one a monument of the crossing, and the other a sacrificial altar. it is absurd to think that all the words of the law delivered by god to moses could be written upon the mortared stones of the monument-there would not be enough space, or time, to write them. what is probably intended is the list of twelve

ks and erected there as a permanent embodiment of the cursing, and blessing, of god. there is some suggestion that they may have been erected as a single altar on mount ebal that represented both hills (deut. 27:4. these piles of unhewn stones act as symbolic pillars and form a gateway into the promised land. the six stones of mount gerizim bless the people who come over the jordan and uphold the covenant, and the six stones of mount ebal curse those that pass the river and break the covenant. they are the carrot and the stick offered to the israelites as they enter through the gate to the land of milk and honey, designed to keep them obedient to the laws of moses. although it is not explicitly stated in the bible, it would be reasonable to assume that the twelve representatives who carrie

instrument (quite possibly the instrument of his death, by the application of the blood of the sacrifices. this blood served as a kind of baptism of the stones, necessary if the spirits of the tribes, acting as the angels of blessing or wrath, were to be induced to dwell within them. it seems that this initial ritual of passage confirming the obedience of the children of israel to the laws of the covenant of god the father was the twelve stones reenacted in later times on a regular basis, probably in the pass between mounts gerizim and ebal, where the stones eventually resided. this may have occurred annually (see john l. mckenzie, dictionary of the bible, th std/r macmillan, new york, 1965, page 209. it would not have involved sacrifice /z but a shared feast. only after this complex rite

sided. this may have occurred annually (see john l. mckenzie, dictionary of the bible, th std/r macmillan, new york, 1965, page 209. it would not have involved sacrifice /z but a shared feast. only after this complex rite of passage has been accomplished and all /d q (5 the peoples of the twelve tribes are permitted to cross the river does joshua q7f t k allow the priests who carry the ark of the covenant to step up onto the far bank of the jordan. the ground on the west has been prepared for the recep- efetion of the ark, where god dwells, by the sacrifice of the twelve and the faith rpi. bis of all the people. how do we know that the spirits of the twelve unfortunate men "pre- 7'l.d pared of the children of israel" by joshua really entered into the twelve stones? it is suggested by anoth

n prepared for the recep- efetion of the ark, where god dwells, by the sacrifice of the twelve and the faith rpi. bis of all the people. how do we know that the spirits of the twelve unfortunate men "pre- 7'l.d pared of the children of israel" by joshua really entered into the twelve stones? it is suggested by another act of joshua, where he erects a stone in shechem as a "witness" of the renewed covenant "and joshua said unto all the people, behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your god (josh. 24:27. to bring the twelve stones alive, so that they could "hear" the affairs of the israelites and dispense the curse or blessing appointed to each stone, it was nec

ach stone a member of its particular tribe by a tie of blood. the most primitive form of altar in the old testament is that erected by piling unshaped stones together "and jacob said unto his brethren, gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap7'(gen. 31:46. it is worth noting that laban calls upon the heap of stones to "be witness* to his personal covenant with jacob. we are not told how many stones were in the heap, but when the prophet elijah erects a similar altar for magical purposes, it is said 'be took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of jacob, unto whom the word of the lord came, saying, israel shall be thy name; and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the lord (1 kings 18:31-2. the words

out of every castle 3, holding up their banners displayed, with ensigne, the names of god. there follow seniors six, alike from the 4 gates: after them cometh from every part a king: whose princes are five, gardant, and holding up his train. next issueth the crosse of 4 angles, of the majesty of creation in god attended upon everyone, with 4: a white cloud, 4 crosses, bearing the witnesses of the covenant of god, with the prince gone out before: which were confirmed, every one, with ten angels, visible in countenance: after every crosse, attendeth 16 angels, dispositors of the will of those, that govern the castles. they proceed. and, in, and about the middle of the court, the ensigns keep their standings, opposite to the middle of the gate: the rest pause. the 24 senators meet: they seem

tion, p. 170-1) notice the explicit reference to the revelation of st. john, the twelve banners of the name, and the twenty-four elders. the thirty airs, or aethers, so important a part of the keys, are also mentioned. the wings are not named here, but directly after giving dee the revised version of the great the watchtowers and the keys 181 table, raphael says "i, raphael, counsel you to make a covenant with the highest, and to esteem his wings more than your own lives" what can be intended here, other than the active powers of the watchtowers? elsewhere, the angel michael instructs the angel nalvage to enter into kelley's crystal, saying "unto thee nalvage thus saith the lord, gather up thy wings and enter: do as thou art commanded, and be multiplied7 (casaubon, p. 81. this confirms tha

. the ritual of crossing the river jordan that moses received from god, and conveyed to joshua, involved six of the tribes, symbolically under the sun and the urim of the breastplate of aaron, offering blessings to those children of israel who abided by the holy law, and the other six tribes, symbolically under the moon and the thummim of the breastplate, who gave curses to those who violated the covenant. this rite of passage is treated in detail in chapter ix, but i mention it here to emphasize that the enochian keys did not germinate in isolation, but grew from the dark, occult soil of the old testament writings. the number of kingdoms, twelve, confirms that we are dealing with the twelve banners of tetragrammaton. in kelley's vision, these are borne out of each watchtower upon three ba

served in the mysticism of the kabbalah. kabbalists believe that the holy torah is not merely a record of god's pronouncements and laws, but the living embodiment of god. the word of god is god, particularly the written word, which among the jews has always been regarded as the holiest of all manifest things. the temple at jerusalem was built with the sole purpose of housing the sacred ark of the covenant, and the ark in its turn existed only to carry the fragments of the stone tablets delivered to moses on mt. sinai, and the fragments themselves were only considered sacred because of the words inscribed upon them. ultimately, everything comes down to the written word. when god speaks in the fourteenth key, his words become visible upon the air, written in enochian characters of fire. sinc

stranger: because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen. 0 you heavens, arise! the lower heavens underneath you, let them serve you. govern those that govern; cast down such as fall; bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten. no place let it remain in one number; add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise, move, and appear before the covenant of his mouth, which he hath sworn unto us in his justice; open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of undefiled knowledge. analysis of the key of the thirty aethers this same key serves to evoke all thirty of the successive heavenly planes called aethers, or airs. these are, in order: 1. lil 2. arn 3. zom 4. paz 5. lit 6. maz 7. deo 8. zid 9. zip 10. zax 11. ich 12. loe

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emple of solomon and are told how the master-builder suffered martyrdom rather than betray the mysteries which had been placed in his keeping. manifestly, the lesson which is drawn in the degree is a veil of something much deeper, and about which there is no real intimation. it is assuredly an instruction for the candidates that they must keep the secrets of the masonic order secretly, but such a covenant has reference only to the official and external side. the bare recitation of the legend would have been sufficient to enforce this; but observe that the candidate assumes the part of the master-builder and suffers within or in him- as a testimony of personal faith and honor in respect to his engagements. but thereafter he rises, and it is this which gives a peculiar characteristic to the

ology and history, with king solomon's temple. what is meant by this temple and what is the lost word? these things have a meaning, or our system is stultified. well, here are burning questions, and the only direction in which we can look for an answer is that which is their source. as to this, we must remember that the legend of the master degree is a legend of israel, under the aegis of the old covenant, and though it has no warrants in the holy writ which constitutes the old testament, it is not antecedently improbable that something to our purpose may be found elsewhere in the literature of jewry. the kabalah i do not of course mean that we shall meet with the legend itself; it would be interesting if we did but not per se helpful, apart from explanation. i believe in my heart that i h

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es by w. wyn n wes tcott a deep mystery is concealed in the genetic account of the conversion of the names of abram, abrm, into abraham, abrhm, and that of his wife, sarai, shri, into sarah, shrh, see genesis xvii. v. 5-15, on the occasion of the conception of isaac, ytzchq or yshchq, from the root shchq or tzchq, laugh, when sarah was 90 and abraham 100 years old. this was on the occasion of the covenant made by jehovah with abram and the institution of circumcision of males in token thereof. now here we have the addition of an h or 5, the essentially female letter, to the name of abraham, and a conversion of a yod into he, y into h, in the case of sarah; and then their sterility is destroyed. some learned men consider abraham to be a conversion of brahma, the hindu deity. the name splits

mber 7 is also associated with voice and sound, with clio the muse; with osiris the egyptian deity; with nemesis, fate--adrastia, not to be escaped from; and with mars. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott as to the sacredness of the number 7, note among the hebrews, oaths were confirmed by seven witnesses; or by seven victims offered in sacrifice; as see the covenant between abraham and abimelech with seven lambs, genesis, chapter xxi. vv. 28, 21-28. the hebrew word seven, also sh b o h, is derived from, or is similar to sh b, o, to swear. 75. clean beasts were admitted into the ark by sevens, whilst the unclean only in pairs. the goths had 7 deities from whom come our names of weekdays; sun, moon, tuisco, wotan, thor, friga, seatur, corresponding, of

ous drought proclaimed 13 fasts, at the end of which rain fell at once. the temple used 13 collecting horns; and in it were 13 tables and 13 devotional reverential bows were used in the full service. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott when a hebrew boy reached the age of 13 years, he began to fast of for the full time. a girl began at twelve years. the word covenant is written 13 times in the chapter on circumcision. the bava metzia gives 13 reasons for a good breakfast. in the hebrew liturgy are found the 13 logical rules for interpreting the law. hershon, talmud miscellany, pg. 167# 110. chapter eighteen s ome hindu us es of numbers numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott n ancient india, in the sanskrit language

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a, in the end is assimilated into part of the male organ, the yod, which is also inscribed in the name. by what means does the priest enter the shrine? through zo t, which is the yod, the sign of circumcision. with this we reach the point of perfect symmetry in the homiletical rhetoric exhibited by the zoharic author: nadab and abihu cohabited with gentile women and thereby placed the sign of the covenant in an unworthy place. from this transgression the high priest learns that he can only go into the shrine through the potency of zo t, the letter of the name inscripted on the flesh, the yod, the feminine dimension of the phallic potency, identified as ateret berit.259 exposure of the corona facilitates access to the sacred space in the sacred moment at hand, be-zo t yavo aharon el ha-qode

the end of all flesh [qes kol basar (gen 6:13, is removed from it. of peace without limit the [foreskin] is removed, and peace sits upon david s throne and kingdom, that it may be firmly established in justice and in equity. all this occurs when the final mem opens, and the foreskin is removed, and the dalet is transformed, as it has been said, and this is the mystery of this is the blood of the covenant [dam ha-berit] that the lord now makes (exod 24:8).60 148 chapter four the instrument that opens the womb and thereby effects the transformation, which is both semiotic and gendered, is the circumcised phallic potency, which is linked historically and emblematically to the figure of abraham. the fecundity of the womb is notionally correlated with the phallocentric rite of circumcision, as

that the lord now makes (exod 24:8).60 148 chapter four the instrument that opens the womb and thereby effects the transformation, which is both semiotic and gendered, is the circumcised phallic potency, which is linked historically and emblematically to the figure of abraham. the fecundity of the womb is notionally correlated with the phallocentric rite of circumcision, as it is the blood of the covenant the word for blood is dam, which is composed of dalet and mem that opens the mem, the womb of the mother, and transposes the dalet, the sign of poverty and infertility, into a he, the sign of e uence and fertility. the messiah, according to the jewish tradition, will emerge from a womb that has been impregnated by male seed. in the bahiric text, the fecund womb is demarcated not by the he

ol and thus it is associated with yesod, the phallic gradation, which comprises male and female. in other contexts, the image of the sword is associated more specifically with shekhinah in the feminine facade of divine judgment, though notes to pages 100 103 227 even in this case the female is portrayed in decidedly masculine, even phallic, terms, the sword that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant, herev noqemet neqam berit (lev 26:25; expressed otherwise, the symbolic figuration of judgment is the feminine dimension of the male. see tishby, wisdom, p. 1365; wolfson, circle, pp. 87 and 204 nn. 36 37. 256. zohar 1:221b. in a section from the tosefta stratum printed in zohar 2:27b- 28a, the scriptural image of lahat herev ha-mithappekhet, fiery ever-turning sword (gen 3:24) is applie

y forging an essential link between shekhinah and blessing, a link that is dependent, moreover, on the fact that shekhinah is like a vessel that holds the overflow of the blessing received from the emanations above her. at the conclusion of the relevant passage, nahmanides draws the obvious conclusion: for the word this [zo t] alludes to the blessing [berakhah, which is the torah, and this is the covenant [berit, as it is written this is my covenant [zo t beriti (isa 59:21. 258. david ben yehudah he-hasid, sefer ha-gevul, ms jtsa mic. 2197, fol. 25b. 259. in zohar 2:51a, the verse be-zo t yavo aharon el ha-qodesh (lev 16:3) is cited to anchor the idea that the way to approach the king is through the angelic mediator, sheliha de-malkka be-kholla, the angel of the king in all things. this an

267. babylonian talmud, rosh ha-shanah 25a. 268. dov baer schneersohn, imrei binah, 40c. 269. wolfson, divine suffering, pp. 121 135; idem, gender and heresy, pp. 254 262; idem, language, eros, being, pp. 181 186, 382 388. 270. see, for instance, isaac the blind, perush sefer yesirah, p. 2. 271. regarding this rudimentary tenet of rabbinic halakhah, see wegner, chattel or person, p. 152; hoffman, covenant of blood, pp. 164 165. 272. the locution day that is entirely long, yom she-kullo arokh, which is attested in earlier medieval sources (for instance, tosafot ha-ro sh, babylonian talmud, shabbat 13a, is based on the more frequently used rabbinic designation for the eschatological state, the world that is entirely long, yom she-kullo arokh, which parallels the expression world that is enti

head, is the masculine. scholem, origins, p. 60, interprets the open mem as a symbol of the feminine. see also stern, parables, p. 221. for discussion of this bahiric parable and the other passages that utilize these images, see wolfson, images, p. 161. 55. the symbolic implication of the bahiric passage is made explicit in later kabbalistic texts. see, for example, semah, semah saddiq, 37b: the covenant is garbed in the secret of the feminine [hitlabshut ha-berit be-sod ha-neqevah] and then there is rectification of the world [tiqqun ha-olam] and his opening overflows. 56. this is the locution of paul in galatians 4:4. see dunn, christology, pp. 38 44. 57. mopsik, body of engenderment, pp. 49 73. 58. zohar hadash, 72b c. see also zohar 1:34b; 3:155b, 236b (ra aya meheimna; zohar hadash

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takes instinct, desire and focus, not to mention passing the many tests presented by the guardians of the path. one must be strong to walk the sabbatic path, but even more strong upon the daemonic essence of the path, wherein one becomes a living circle of both darkness and light. the astral body and separation of the astral from the physical is essential in the emerging element of the nightside covenant of the luciferian. the most challenging and perhaps dangerous element of the path is the development of the astral body. to build, one must focus and meet the challenges, and the fulfillment of desires upon the dreaming path. the ritual of luciferian transference: let the magician approach the altar, decorated in the elements of seth and the illuminated archon whom fell from the sky. the

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because they had carried off dinah, the daughter of leah. moses says of them 'let thy thummim and thy urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of meribah; who said unto his father and to his mother, i have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. they shall teach jacob thy judgements and israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. bless, lord, his substance, and accept the works of his hands: smite 40 through the loins of them that rise agatinst him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again' the armorial bearings of simeon are yellow, and a sword" ritual of skrying th

e a stranger. because she is the bed of a harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen "0 ye heavens, arise! the lower heavens beneath you, let them serve you! govern those that govern. cast down such ag fall. bring forth with those that increase, and destroy the rotten "no place, let it remain in one number. add and diminish until the stars be numbered. arise! move! and appear before the covenant of his mouth which he hath sworn unto us in his jus- tice. open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers of the undefiled knowledge" 51 the call of the aethyrs enochian "madriaax ds praf lil (or name the aethyr required) chis micaolz saanir caosgo od fisis balzizas iaida "nonca gohulim: micma adoian mad, iaod bliorb, soba ooaona chis lucifitias piripsol, ds abraassa noncf net

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komselahe comfort (of) belioret, bdiorab comfort (our) beliores comfort beliores comfort (visit with) fa-beliahed comfort pi-beliare come ye, come away lsliisa comefort (thou shalt !thorax comeforter (in our) bijliad comeforter (continual) be-liar confound ovaukaho, vaunkalu conquest zoailodarepe contents (of mine) qo-k6-lasab continuance miame course zodare courses elauzodape covered etahamezod covenant sibesi creation qaa creation (in our) qoaaou creation (your) qoain creator (the) qog creatures cried with a loud voice bahals creature (no) toltorem creature (no one) toretorlum creatures (all) tolaliania crown moma6 cups talabo curse anima d darkness (with) ores darts (fiery) malipereji day basajinu death teloahe death (of) teloahe defaced (lettered) to micigi delivered (ie. gave) zodouu

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probatio veritatis; in ohg. law, sunna, sunnis means excusatio and impedimentum. the on. law likewise has this si/n gen. synjar, for excusatio, defensio, negatio, impedimentum, but the edda at the same time exhibits a personified si/7i, who was to the heathen a goddess of truth and justice, and protected the accused (sn. 38. to the same class belongs vor gen. varar, goddess of plighted faith and covenants, a dea foederis (sn. 37-8, just as the eomans deified tutela. the phrase' vigja saman varar hcndi' consecrare tutelae manu (saem. 74, is like the passages about wish's hands, p. 140. as in addition to the abstract wish we saw a wish endowed with life, so by the side of the ohg. wara foedus there may have been a goddess wara, and beside sunia a sunid (see sujipl. in the same way or sage (

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measures" pp. 276, et seq. app. vii[[vol. 2, page] 39 the numbers of creation. to flow into and be derived from the other, and these are the three steps by which the unity and sameness can be shown of the divine names. that is, the two are but variations of the same ratio, viz, that of[[pi' the object of this comment is to show the same measuring use for the cabbalah as was employed in the three covenants of the bible, and in the symbols of masonry, as just noticed "first then, the sephiroth are described as light, that is, they themselves are a function of, indeed, the same as, the manifestation of ain soph; and they are so from the fact that light represents the ratio of 20612 to 6561, as part of the 'words' dbrim, 41224, or as to the word, debar, 206= 10 cubits. light is so much the bu

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ay be coaxed out of the text, but this is not simple and is extremely time consuming. regardless of the esotericism, we must be clear about the nature of the old testament in its current form. the gnostic view is that if you followed the traditions in the old testament as they presently are, you would be enslaving yourself under archons rather than liberating yourself through the aeons. the laws, covenants and other agreements are sure signs of the enslavement of mans spirit by the archon yahweh, they illustrate how distorted the old testament really is. from a historical perspective there is little of the original israelite teachings in the old testament. when we contemplate that israel and environs had various religious traditions including gnostic (esotericism, the el tradition (canaani

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e gangan' beow. 1413; ho flies 'under fen-hleo'su^ 1632. he drinks men's hlood out of their veins 1478, like vampires whose lips are moist with fresh blood. an on. saga has a similar demon, called grimr oegir because he can walk in water as on land, he spits fire and poison, sucjcs the hlood out of man and beast (fornald. sog. 3, 241-2. about when in the mid. ages did the idea spring up of formal covenants and treaties which the devil concludes with men? to the unfortunate, the desperate, he promises temporal blessings for a number of years, but bargains for their souls at the expiration of the term, and insists on a written bond usually signed with the men's blood. this sounds not heathen, but rather as if invented after the roman mode of writing had become genei'al in em-ope. the norse d

manuscript in wanley, either of the 12th, 11th, or some earlier cent, speaks of' monnom, j^e deofol mid haem-s' in the later doctrine about witches their prostitution is an essential feature, it seals the compact, and gives the devil free control over them: in a pure maid he can have no part^ without this abomination we never come across a witch at all.2 it is a question, at what period witches' covenants and amours are first mentioned in germany. no doubt the first impulse to them was given by the persecution and consequent spread of heresies, which after the middle of the 13th cent, came from itahj and france into germany. however guilty or innocent the heretics may have been, report, magnifying and distorting, charged their assemblies with idolatrous excesses, whose affinity to witches

of the heathen belief about giants. an application of the old- german ducking to witches sprang out of the early practice of courts which had long used it against sorceresses who committed actual crimes. i do not know that the hlood-marh imprinted on witches (p. 1070) on forming their hellish compact is necessarily to be traced to the practice of heretics (p. 1065, mingling of blood in oaths and covenants was ancient and widely spread, ra. 192-3; the stigma was known in germany long before witches were prosecuted^ the regular name for it being anamdli (graff 2, 715. the corresponding amgeli in on. i find only in the ethical sense of nota=vituperium; but when heroes of old scandinavia found themselves dying the stra-dau^i in bed, they used first to consecrate themselves to osinn, who would

olniya identical with miolnir. the romans too must have regarded the thunderbolt, silex, as a 'jovis lapis: lapidem sillcem tenebant juraturi per jovem,haec verba dicentes' si sciens fallo, tum me dispiter, salva urbe arceque, bonis ejiciat, nt ego hunc lapidem' those about to take an oath fetched out of the temple of juppiter feretrius a staff and' lapidem silicem quo foedus ferirent' exactly as covenants were hallowed by thor's hammer. ace. to livy 1, 24, when a swine was sacrificed, it was struck with this stone' tu illo die, jupiter, populum romauum sic ferito, ut ego hunc porcura hie hodie feriam, tantoque magis ferito, quanto magis potes pollesque: id ubi dixit, porcum saxo silice percussit. this is like our malediction' hammer strike thee' the finns in like manner called the thunder

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s the vessel through which the divine beneficence flows into malchut, the spiritual precursor of the jewish people. by slandering them to their father, joseph was undermining any chance for peace in the family, and thus sabotaging the chances for g-d fs blessings to flow to them. yesod is also the principle of the tongue, and slander blemishes it. it is stated in sefer yetzirah that there are two covenants, that of the tongue and that of the sexual organ. both organs are instruments through which a person articulates himself to the outside world. they are both very powerful, for both sexual energy and the spoken word possess the power to build or destroy. unharnessed speech, like unharnessed sexuality, can wreck havoc in a person fs life and the lives of all those he meets. conversely, pro

l relations with her. h know as well that just as there is a higher [facial] beard, there is a lower [pubic] gbeard h around the sefirah of yesod, and understand these great mysteries, because just as there are 13 tufts of the higher beard, so are there thirteen tufts of the lower beard around yesod. this is the mystical meaning of [the sages f statement that] ggreat is circumcision, for thirteen covenants were made concerning it. h8 in the biblical passage9 in which g-d commands abraham to circumcise himself and all his present and future male offspring, the word for gcovenant h [brit] occurs thirteen times. clearly, this redundancy is not necessary for the prose of the story, and exists only to allude to the fact expressed in the sages f statement. the inner meaning of the 13 gcovenants

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e jewish people. host: a large number. hallowed: made holy. hashem: literally, the name, or another name for the lord god. 10 world religions: primary sources tanakh (hebrew bible) the third theme is law. the best example is the ten commandments, but the torah (the first five books of the hebrew bible) contains other examples of laws. all are based on the belief in one supreme god and humankind s covenants with him. the final theme is exodus, the most prominent example of which is contained in the second book of the torah, titled exodus (or shemot. the escape of jews from bondage in egypt and their return to the promised land (the land of canaan, now israel) is a key event in jewish history. this event is still remembered in the yearly feast of passover. did you know. traditionally, it was

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help enforced by a written contract suggests a form of propaganda which couldonly have occurred when the religion was hard pressed for converts. the written contract was the mostimportant part of the admission ceremony in the eyes of the legal authorities who tried the witches; itappeared to give an air of finality to the whole transaction. occasionally, especially in france, one of thesewritten covenants fell into the hands of the inquisitors, unfortunately the exact wording is never given in therecords, the inquisitor preferring to make his readers' flesh creep by saying that "it was so horrible that onehad horror in seeing it.[49] in england and scotland there is no record of such a contract having beenbrought into court as evidence against an accused person; it would appear that the d

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f god, which is in christ jesus our lord. 9:1 i say the truth in christ, i lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the holy ghost, 9:2 that i have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 9:3 for i could wish that myself were accursed from christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 9:4 who are israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of god] and the promises; 9:5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh christ [came] who is over all, god blessed for ever. amen. 9:6 not as though the word of god hath taken none effect. for they [are] not all israel, which are of israel: 9:7 neither, because they are the seed of abraham [are they] all children: but, in is

you now, and to change my voice; for i stand in doubt of you. 4:21 tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 4:22 for it is written, that abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 4:23 but he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise. 4:24 which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is agar. 4:25 for this agar is mount sinai in arabia, and answereth to jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 4:26 but jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 4:27 for it is written, rejoice [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the

nship, created in christ jesus unto good works, which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 2:11 wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 2:12 that at that time ye were without christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without god in the world: 2:13 but now in christ jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of christ. 2:14 for he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us] 2:15 having abolished in his flesh the enmity [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in him

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mporal poetics 113 tetragrammaton, and thus [milah] is [alluded to] in the first letters, whereas the name yhwh is [alluded to] in the final letters,295 and it is from the aspect of and gradation of the heavens, above the aspect of torah, which is humbled below the aspect of these heavens. regarding this the rabbis, blessed be their memory, said, great is circumcision [gedolah milah] for thirteen covenants were decreed on the basis of it. 296 the [words] great is circumcision [gedolah milah] portend the aspect of the great circumcision [ha-milah ha-gedolah] from above to below [signified by the verse] the lord will circumcise your heart (deut 30:6. the disclosure and overflow of the aspect of the great circumcision come about by means of the thirteen attributes of mercy, which are above wi

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