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soul passes ever onward and upward, and still uses its mystical hymn. it reaches the pools of the two truths, shown by the two quadrangular figures; it passes through anrutf, the gate of the north, and through the gate of tajeser, and it saith to the mystical guardians 'give me your strength, for i am made even as ye. then comes the mystical eye of osiris representing the orb of the sun, and the cow, symbolic of the great water, the blue firmament of heaven. next the adoration of the lords of truth behind the northern heaven 'hail unto ye, ye lords of truth, ye chiefs behind osiris! ye followers of her whose peace is sure' then the soul arises at the mystic pool of persea trees, wherein is horus, symbolized by the great cat, who slays the evil serpent, apophis. last of the symbols of the

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l. ker. 45. diut. 1, 166" it stands: bacha sacriticat, ploastar jiloazit, or zepar plozit; so that it is meant to translate only the lat. verb, not the subst. bacha j^akxri. or perhaps a better reading is' bachat' for bacchatur, and the meaning is' non sacriticat^ landn. 1,2: blotaci hrafna jn-ia, worshipped three ravens, who were going to show him the road; so, in sasm. 141% a l)ird demands that cow.s be sacriticed to him; the victim itself is on. hlot, and we are told occasionally: feck at bloti, ak bloti niiklu, offered a sacrifice, a great sacrifice, landn. 2, 29. sacrifice. 37 lihamina.blotelsd holocaustum, molbech's ed. pp. 171. 182. 215. 2-1'j. also the o.swed. uplandslag, at the very beginning of the churchbalkr has: sengin skal affgiisum hlotcc, with dat. of person, implying an ac

upov, xvkov koi axcotrocy 8u]yt]ais w. 429-434, a.'similar oft'ering seems to be spoken of; and hagek's bohm. chrou. p. 62 gives an instance among the slavs. that, i suppose, is why the silesians are called ass-eaters (zeitvertreiber 1668, p. 153; and if the gottingors receive the same nickname, these popular jokes must be very old in germany itself (see suppl. 4 50 worship. the hack ox and hlack cow, which are not to be killed for the household (superst. 887, were they sacred sacrificial beasts? val. suplit, a free peasant on the samland coast (samogitia or semigalia, sacrificed a hack hull with strange ceremonies^ i will add a few examples from the norse. during a famine in sweden under king domaldi]?a eflso (instituted) sviar blot stor at uppsolum, it fyrsta haust (autumn) blotusu j^eir

a\'ing that the flesh has healed over. skaoi and eagnhild necessarily fall into one. inguio. poro. iscio. 349 each other like folkvaldi and folkvaldr, and given in another ikt as burri and uors, seem clearly to be the buri and borr cited by sn. 7. 8 as forefathers of the three brothers oginn, vili, ve (see p. 162. now, buri is that first man or human being, who was licked out of the rocks by the cow, hence the eristporo (erst-born, an ohg. poro, goth. baura; borr might be ohg. parv, goth. barns or whatever form we choose to adopt, anyhow it comes from bairan, a root evidently well chosen in a genealogical tale, to denote tlie first-born, first-created men^ yet we may think of byr too, the wish-wind (see oskaljyrr, p. 144. must not buri, borr, o&inn be parallel, though under other names, t

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and her consort, through which she could see all things. she carried a shield that could reflect back all things in their true light. from her shield she fashioned the first magical mirror. one side was endowed with the power of ra's eye to see everything, no matter how distant in miles or how far into the future. the ot

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ind thyself unprepared to meet the incredible sights that will greet thee outside. remember also the sacrifices to the watcher. they must be regular, for the watcher is of a different race and cares not for thy life, save that he obey thy commands when the sacrifices have been met. and forgetting the elder sign will surely cause thee much grief. and i have seen a race of man that worships a giant cow. and they come from somewhere east, beyond the mountains. and they are surely worshippers of an ancient one, but of its name i am not certain, and do not write it down, for it is useless to thee anyway. and in their rites, they become as cows, and it is disgusting to see. but they are evil, and so i warn thee. and i have seen rites that can kill a man at a great distance. and rites that can ca

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow hathor. and it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. let it become blacker than all blackness. and in this meditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the blankness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond all thy comprehension. and it shall come to pass that if thou hast well and properly 364 performed this meditation that on a sudden thou shalt hear th

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

tions, and to all modes of seeking to modify them. there is only one proper reaction magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 216 to event; that is, to adjust oneself with perfect elasticity to whatever happens. that tiger across the paddy-field looks hungry. there are several ways of dealing with the situation. one can run away, or climb a tree, or shoot him, or (in your case) cow him by the power of the human eye; but the way of the tao is to take no particular notice (this, incidentally, is not such bad magick; the diversion of your attention might very well result in your becoming invisible, as i have explained in a previous letter) the theory appears to be that, although your effort to save yourself is successful, it is bound to create a disturbance of equilibrium e

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

barren rock beneath his feet. it melts like wax at the touch; roses spring up and twine about his limbs. around him are four living creatures, begotten of his will, so that the mountain might glow with the life that flows through him. there is a tawny lion, from whose mouth drops honey. he roars aloud, and the word thereof is this: the wrath of the master is the energy of love. there is a buffalo cow, grey-blue, whose udders overflow with milk, and her lowing means: the work of the master is the nourishment of life. there is a babe, that with his tiny hands presses out blood from his own breast, and smileth: the way of the master is the innocence of liberty. also, a golden eagle, bearing a chalice of wine, crying aloud: the woe of the master is the rapture of light. last in their midst, ab

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ense ecstasies, of beatitudes prolonged for whole months, of initiations indescribably exalted, of proof piled on proof of his power, his vigilance, his love, after being protected and energized with incredible aptness, i find myself still only too ready to grumble, nay even to doubt. it seems as if i resented the whole business. there art times when i feel that the amoeba, the bourgeois, and the cow represent the abc of enviable creatures. there may be a melancholic strain in me, as one might expect in a case of renal weakness such as mine. in any event, it is surely a most overwhelming proof that aiwaz is not myself, but my master, that he could force me to write verse 9, at a time when i was both intellectually and spiritually disgusted with, and despairing of, the universe, as well as

se of heaven. she suffered and triumphed in most shameful silence; she had no friend, no follower, none to aid or approve. for thanks she had but maudlin flatteries, and knew what cruel-cold scorn the hearts of men scarce cared to hide. she agonized, ridiculous and obscene; gave all her beauty and strength of maidenhood to suffer sickness, weakness, danger of death, choosing to live the life of a cow- that so mankind might sail the seas of time. she knew that man wanted nothing of her but service of his base appetites; in his true manhood-life she had nor part nor lot; and all her wage was his careless contempt. she hath been trampled thus through all the ages, and she hath tamed them thus. her silence was the token of her triumph. but now the word of me the beast is this; not only art tho

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ity of christian-hate- christian. j accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75 or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76 splendour, the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77 says an old writer, whom i translate roughly: thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78 see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79 there is no god! so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist. ain is god for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see berashith, infra. the fool is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is attached

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l we ask what is that one? then again we spin words- words- words. and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. what is the moon made of? science replies "green cheese" for our one moon we have now two ideas "greenness" and "cheese "greenness" depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things "cheese" depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow "deeper, even deeper, into the mire of things" shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say "there is god? what, in the devil's name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question 119 "any" question is the great question- does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we d

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e phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow hathor. and it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. let it become blacker than all blackness. and in this meditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the blankness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond all thy comprehension. and it shall come to pass that if thou hast well and properly performed this meditation that on a sudden thou shalt hear the dr

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llus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20 i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yogin and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes 25 for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well! we shall try what brother body

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these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye, as the view of a landscape is considered to be to the physical eye itself. and so when we have occasion to write "he saw an angel" it is to be taken that we mean by it as absolute a fact as if we had written "he saw a mountain" or "he saw a cow" it, however, is not to be accepted that by this we lay down that either angels or cows exist apart from ourselves, they may or they may not; but it is to be taken that angels, and mountains and cows are ideas of equal value in their own specific spheres: the astral and the material; and that they have their proper place in existence, whatever existence may be, and that every experience, norma

e with the true adepts; and those who have tried to explain themselves have been called mad by the "canaille "the truth is" continues the mystic "both of you have been talking foolishness through your material and idealistic hats. for "in the material world matter is existence "in the sensible world sense is existence "in the spiritual world spirit is existence "and though in the sensible world a cow or an angel exists solely as an idea to us, this does not preclude the possibility of a cow existing as beef in the material world, or an angel as a spirit in the spiritual world "the fact is" interrupts the sceptic "i doubt all three of you; for from the above you all three infer a chain of events- whether material, sensual, or spiritual, thus postulating the existence of causality as a commo

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and curtailed it from the orcadian dialect. i wonder if the old norseman who told it had ever heard of androcles? 341 the selkie that deud no' forget a long time ago, one mansie meur was gathering limpets at the ebb tide, off hackness, when he heard a strange sound coming from the rocks some distance off. sometimes it would be like the sob of a woman, and sometimes louder, like the cry of a dying cow, but it was always a most pitiful sound. for a while mansie could see nothing except a big seal close in to the rocks, who was craning his neck above the surface, and peering at a creek some distance off. and mansie noticed that the seal was not frightened and never ducked his head once, but gazed continually at that creek. so mansie crossed an intervening rock, and there, in a crevice, he saw

ishness. these louts of the intelligence! these clods- clodds! my good fellows, it is certainly necessary to plough a field sometimes. but not all the year round! we don't want the furrows; we want the grain. and (for god's sake) if you must be ploughmen, at least let us have the furrows straight! do you really think you have helped us much when you have shown that a horse is really the same as a cow, only different? 388 quite right; it is indeed kind of you to have pointed out that even gadarene pigs might fly, but are very unlikely birds, and that the said horse is (after all) not a dragon. very, very kind of you. thank you so much. and now will you kindly go away? the supersensual life. by jacob boehme. translated by william law. h.r.allenson, i"s. net. this admirable little treatise, n

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en hampered; her designs are cramped and forced. i am infinitely sorry for any artist who tries to draw after dipping her hands in the gluey dogma of so insufferable a dolt and prig. mr. waite, i believe, is perfectly competent to produce indefinite quantities of malted milk to the satisfaction of all parties; but when it comes to getting the pure milk of the word, mr. waite gets hold of a wooden cow. and do for god's sake, arthur, drop your eternal hinting, hinting, hinting "oh what an exalted grade i have, if you poor dull uninitiated people would only perceive it" here is your criticism, arthur, straight from the shoulder. any man that knows truth and conceals it is a traitor to humanity; any 321 man that doesn't know, and tries to conceal his ignorance by pretending to be the guardian

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made safe, is vision sure to rise therein? marsyas. though calm and pure it seem, maybe some thought hath crept into his mind to baulk the adept. the expectation of success suffices to destroy the stress of the one thought. but then, what odds? 30 "man's vision goes, dissolves in god's" or "by god's grace the light is given to the elected heir of heaven" these are but idle theses, dry dugs of the cow theology. business is business. the one fact that we know is: the gods exact a stainless mirror. cleanse thy soul! perfect the will's austere control! for the rest, wait! the sky once clear, dawn needs no prompting to appear! olympas. enough! it shall be done. marsyas. beware! easily trips the big word "dare" each man's an oedipus, that thinks he hath the four powers of the sphinx, will, coura

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women they are considered beyond the possibility of redemption, for in order of re-incarnation they are placed seven stages below a man, three below a camel, and one below a pig. manu speaks of "the gliding of the soul through ten thousand millions of wombs" and if a man steal grain in the husk, he shall be born a rat; if honey, a great stinging gnat; if milk, a crow; if woven flax, a frog; if a cow, a lizard; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear "institutes of manu" xii, 55-67. 289 we find christ insisting on this absolute chastity of body and mind, in a similar manner, and for similar reasons; for the eastern jew if he is not actually doing something dirty, is sure to be thinking about it. hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.290 191 he realized t

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monastery situated in a place free from rocks, water and fire; of the extent of a bow's length, and in a fertile country ruled over by a virtuous king, where he will not be disturbed. the mata should have a very small door, and should be without any windows; it should be level and without any holes; it should be neither too high nor too long. it should be very clean, being daily smeared over with cow-dung, and should be free from all insects. outside it should be a small corridor with a raised seat and a well, and the whole should be surrounded by a wall..52 iii "time" the hours in which yoga should be performed vary with the instructions of the guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv "food" according to the "hatha-yoga pradipika "mo

s an instrument without any thought of the event. by thus doing there is no sin" this is sound rosicrucian doctrine, by the way. 52 "hatha-yoga pradipika" pp. 5, 6. note the similarity of these conditions to those laid down in "the book of the sacred magic" also see "gheranda sanhita" p. 33. 53 "hatha-yoga pradipika" p. 22. on the question of food vivek nanda in his "bhakti yoga" p. 90, says "the cow does not eat meat, nor does the sheep. are they great yogins. any fool may abstain from eating meat; surely that alone give him no more distinction than to herbivorous animals" also see "gheranda sanhita" pp. 34-36. very hungry; before beginning the practice, some milk and butter should be taken."54 v "physical considerations" the aspirant to yoga should study his body as well as his mind, and

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es. wherein shall we rejoice? taurus. in our lady venus. libra. in what you will. taurus. thy will, our lady, and not ours be done! pisces. mistress, let the adorations be performed! libra. children, array yourselves before me, and rejoice in the adorations of my beauty["they form, each with his partner" libra "disappears behind veil" taurus "recites invocation] taurus. salutation to hathor, holy cow in the pastures of evening. salutation to hathor, in the mountain of the west; in the land of perfect peace, salutation. 86 a devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breath. salutation to hathor, the child of isis and of nephthys! salutation to hathor, the bride of apis, of apis that hath the beetle upon his tongue! a devouring fire is thy soul, and the cor

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ed from no unbroken cruses. doth not the world's great alchemist corrupt his oysters to make pearls? shall not these lips praise him? they kissed no cold reluctant girl's. jaja' hath woven the web of god from threads of lust and laughter spun. in heaven the rose is worth the rod; and love as water, one. 47 iii jeanne a pastoral "to raymond radclyffe "hey diddle diddle! the cat and the fiddle! the cow jumped over the moon" i laid mine ear against your heart, jeanne! a masterpiece of nature turned a masterpiece of art, with your blanched egyptian beauty foiled by the hungry eyes, and the red mouth soiled by the honey of mine that your greed has spoiled, jeanne! the body a corpse and the soul inurned! against your heart i laid mine ear, jeanne! and the clock went ticking, ticking. how could i

viduality; his permutation one. do not forget it, little sister "are you ready "i am ready. farewell- farewell for ever "farewell" he took his signet-ring, and pressed a spring. the bezel opened and disclosed a small jewelled wheel, divided into many compartments. he pressed a second spring. the wheel began to revolve, and in the silence sang a tiny tune. 129 it was a faint tinkle, like a distant cow-bell, or like a chime heard far off, heard from the snow. there was an icy quality in the note "where are you "i- i" she broke off. his eyes lit with joy "i am in the sand; i am buried to the wast in the sand. i see nothing but sand" his face fell again "what is sand" he asked "oh- just sand, you know. leagues and leagues of sand; like a great bowl of sand "but what is sand "sand- oh! sand is

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

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

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

n the glory and the light can indeed shine through and the moon aspect can, therefore, be exalted in taurus. this is done through the influence of venus, the symbol of earthly and of heavenly love, of both spiritual aspiration and of carnal desire, and is fittingly, therefore, the ruler of this sign. she is, above everything else, love, the creator of beauty and rhythm and unity. the bull and the cow together represent creation, and so taurus and venus are closely linked. the following is of interest "the bull or cow is the symbol of this sign, and in the celestial chart it will be observed that the little group of stars called pleiades are represented just at the shoulder of the bull. now, in egyptian sculpture, or painting, the pleiades are sometimes represented by the figure of a dove w

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h" sukra, or venus, is thus represented as the preceptor of the daityas, the giants of the fourth race, who, in the hindu allegory, obtained at one time the sovereignty of all the earth, and defeated the minor gods. the titans of the western allegory are as closely connected with venus-lucifer, identified by later christians with satan. therefore, as venus, equally with isis, was represented with cow's horns on her head, the symbol of mystic nature, and one that is convertible with, and significant of, the moon, since all these were lunar goddesses, the configuration of this planet is now placed by theologians between the horns of the mystic lucifer* it is owing to the fanciful interpretation of the[[footnote(s* the ansated cross is the astronomical planetary sign of venus "signifying the

later than the day of alexander, and who was ignorant of the old name of the indus- has unconsciously slandered the greek conqueror. nor are our modern historians much wiser, in judging as they do. for they often make the most sweeping declarations on mere appearances, as much as their ancient colleagues ever did in days of old, when no encyclopaedias were yet ready for them. the race of io "the cow-horned maid" is then simply the first pioneer race of the aethiopians brought by her from the indus to the nile (which received its name in memory of the mother river of the colonists from india. for does not prometheus say to io* that the sacred neilos (the god, not the river "he to the land, three-cornered, thee shall guide- namely, to the delta, where her sons are foreordained to found "tha

es not reveal; for as he remarks "this, to set forth at large needs lengthy speech[[footnote(s* alexander, who was better acquainted with attock than with india (where he never went) could not have failed to hear the indus near its very sources called nil and nilah. even if a mistake, it is thus easily accounted for* that io is identical allegorically with isis and the moon is shown by her being "cow-horned" the allegory undeniably reached greece from india, where vach "the melodious cow (rig-veda "from whom mankind was produced (bhagavata purana) is shown in the aitareya brahmana as pursued by her father brahma, who was moved by an illicit passion, and changed her into a deer. hence io, refusing to yield to jupiter's passion, becomes "horned" the cow was in every country the symbol of the

ield to jupiter's passion, becomes "horned" the cow was in every country the symbol of the passive generative power of nature, isis, vach, venus- the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, but, at the same time, that of the logos whose symbol became with the egyptians and the indians- the bull- as testified to by apis and the hindu bulls in the most ancient temples. in esoteric philosophy the cow is the symbol of creative nature, and the bull (her calf) the spirit which vivifies her, or "the holy spirit" as mr. kenealy shows. hence the symbol of the horns. these were sacred also with the jews, who placed near the altar horns of shittim wood, by seizing which a criminal ensured his safety[[vol. 2, page] 419 was aeschylus initiated? but "argos" is arghya varsha, the land of libation of t

hile the postulant represented the sun- the all-vivifying orb that "resurrects" every morning but to impart life to all- the sarcophagus was symbolic of the female principle. this, in egypt; its form and shape changed with every country, provided it remained a vessel, a symbolic navis or boat-shaped vehicle, and a container, symbolically, of germs or the germ of life. in india, it is the "golden" cow through which the candidate for brahminism has to pass if he desires to be a brahmin, and to become dwija("reborn a second time. the crescent-form argha of the greeks was the type of the queen of heaven- diana, or the moon. she was the great mother of all existences, as the sun was the father. the jews, previous to, as well as after their metamorphosis of jehovah into a male god, worshipped as

ife, before, during, and after the days of moses, of the chosen but "stiff-necked" people. that they have had at one time the wisdom-religion and use of the universal language and its symbols at their disposal and in their possession, is proved by the same esotericism existing to this day in india with regard to the "holy of holies" this, as said, was and still is the passage through the "golden" cow in the same stooping position as the one shown in the gallery of the pyramid, which identified man with jehovah in hebrew esotericism. the whole difference lies in the spirit of interpretation. with the hindus as with the ancient egyptians that spirit was and is entirely metaphysical and psychological; with the hebrews it was realistic and physiological. it pointed to the first sexual separati

their symbol may now militate against the claim. the ceremony of passing through[[footnote(s* in the fourth chapter of genesis, v. 26, it is mis-translated. and he called his name enos (man; then began men to call upon the name of the lord- which has no sense in it, since adam and the others must have done the same[[vol. 2, page] 470 the secret doctrine. the holy of holies (now symbolized by the cow, in the beginning through the temple hiranya gharba (the radiant egg- in itself a symbol of universal, abstract nature- meant spiritual conception and birth, or rather the re-birth of the individual and his regeneration: the stooping man at the entrance of the sanctum sanctorum, ready to pass through the matrix of mother nature, or the physical creature ready to re-become the original spiritua

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 brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night around him" the religion of the hindu detaches him from this earth; therefore, even now, the cow-symbol is one of the grandest and most philosophical among all others in its inner meaning. to the "masters" and "lords" of european potencies- the israelites- certain words of carlyle apply still more admirably; for them "religion is a wise prudential feeling grounded on mere calculation- and it was so from its beginnings. having burdened themselves with it, christian nations feel bound to de

mals of ezekiel and of the revelation. the same double triangle which in isis, vol. ii (p. 453, faces the hindu adanari, is by far the best. for there, only the three (for us) historical races are symbolized: the third, the androgynous, by ada-nari; the fourth, symbolized by the strong, powerful lion; and the fifth- the aryan- by that which is its most sacred symbol to this day, the bull (and the cow. a man of great erudition- a french savant- m. de sacy, finds several most singular statements in the book of enoch "worthy of the most serious examination" he says. for instance "the author (enoch) makes the solar year consist of 364 days, and seems to know periods of three, of five, and of eight years, followed by four supplementary days, which, in his system, appear to be those of the equin

of the word neilos (nile. this, together with the bull, with the crescent and the ansated cross between its horns, and the earth under its astronomical symbol[[diagram- are the most phallic symbols of later antiquity "the nile was the river of time with the number of a year, or year and a day (364+ 1= 365. it represented the parturient water of isis, or mother earth, the moon, the woman, and the cow, also the workshop of osiris, representing the t'sod olaum of the hebrews. the ancient name of this river was eridanus, or the hebrew iardan, with the coptic or old greek suffix. this was the door of the hebrew word jared, or 'source' or descent. of the river jordan, which had the same mythical use with the hebrews that the nile had with the egyptians* it was the source of descent, and held th

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lines, from the standpoint of occult science and symbolism, as it is the most complicated of glyphs. herein are enshrined more than a dozen symbols. to begin with, the whole pantheon of mysterious objects* every one of them having some definite occult meaning, extracted from the allegorical "churning of the ocean" by the hindu gods. besides amrita, the water of life or immortality "surabhi" the "cow of plenty" called "the fountain of milk and curds" was extracted from this "sea of milk" hence the universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the productive, the other the generative power in nature: symbols connected with both the solar and the cosmic deities. the specific properties, for occult purposes, of the "fourteen precious things" being explained only at the fourth initiation, canno

or of the word. for vach- the daughter and the female portion, as is stated, of brahma, one "generated by the gods- is, in company with kwan-yin, with isis (also the daughter, wife and sister of osiris) and other goddesses, the female logos, so to speak, the goddess of the active forces in nature, the word, voice or sound, and speech. if kwan-yin is the "melodious voice" so is vach "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water (the female principle "who yields us nourishment and sustenance" as mother-nature. she is associated in the work of creation with the prajapati. she is male and female ad libitum, as eve is with adam. and she is a form of aditi- the principle higher than ether- in akasa, the synthesis of all the forces in nature; thus vach and kwan-yin are both the magic p

called now, in the astral light) dropped a ray of cold light which overflowed this cup and froze in it. then the invisible blew a scorching wind which dissolved the frozen waters and cleared the mist. these waters (chaos, called the streams of elivagar, distilling in vivifying drops, fell down and created the earth and the giant ymir, who only had "the semblance of man (the heavenly man, and the cow, audhumla (the "mother" or astral light, cosmic soul) from whose udder flowed four streams of milk (the four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of eden, etc, etc) and which "four" allegorically are symbolized by the cube in all its various and mystical meanings. the christians- especially the greek and latin churches- have fully adopted the symbol, and see in it a commemoration

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

the sun and the river nile, the tropical year of 365 days, which number is the value of the word neilos, and the bull, as he was also the principle of fire and of life-giving force, while isis was the moon, the bed of the river nile, or the mother earth, for the parturient energies of which water was a necessity, the lunar year of 354-364 days, the time-maker of the periods of gestation, and the cow marked by, or with, the crescent new moon "but the use of the cow of the egyptians for the women of the hebrews was not intended as of any radical difference of signification, but a concurrence in the teaching intended, and merely as a substitution of a symbol of common import, which was this, viz, the period of parturition with the cow and the woman was held to be the same, or 280 days, or te

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

yanists and egyptologists- are constantly led astray from truth in their speculations. thus, de rouge is unable to understand, in the text which he translates, the meaning of ammon-ra saying to king amenophes (supposed to be memnon "thou art my son, i have begotten thee; and as he[[footnote(s* the earth flees for her life in the allegory, before prithu, who pursues her. she assumes the shape of a cow, and, trembling with terror, runs away and hides even in the regions of brahma. therefore, it is not our earth. again, in every purana, the calf changes name. in one it is manu swayambhuva, in another indra, in a third the himavat (himalayas) itself, while meru was the milker. this is a deeper allegory than one thinks[[vol. 1, page] 399 the dignity of sais. finds the same idea in many a text a

y, the evolution of the universe is divided into two acts: called in india the prakriti and padma creations. before the warm rays pouring from the "home of brightness" awake life in the great waters of space, the elements of the first creation come into view, and from them is formed the giant ymir (also orgelmir- primordial matter differentiated from chaos (literally seething clay. then comes the cow audumla, the nourisher* from whom is born buri (the producer) who, by bestla, the daughter of the "frost-giants (the sons of ymir) had three sons, odin, willi and we, or "spirit "will" and "holiness (compare the genesis of the primordial races, in this work) this was when darkness still reigned throughout space, when the ases, the creative powers (dhyan chohans) were not yet evolved, and the y

d odin, the father of the gods and of the ases, as brahma is the father of the gods and of the asuras, and hence also the androgyne character of all the chief creative gods, from the second monad of the greeks down to the sephiroth adam kadmon, the brahma or prajapati-vach of the vedas, and the androgyne of plato, which is but another version of the indian symbol[[footnote(s* vach- the "melodious cow, who milks sustenance and water" and yields us "nourishment and sustenance" as described in rig- veda[[vol. 1, page] 428 the secret doctrine. the best metaphysical definition of primeval theogony in the spirit of the vedantins may be found in the "notes on the bhagavat- gita" by mr. t. subba row (see "theosophist" for february, 1887) parabrahmam, the unknown and the incognisable, as the lectur

e four- fire, water, air, earth; of all which transmuted (correlated, and totally changed, the world consists (diogenes laertius in vit. pythag) and this may also, if it does not unriddle the mystery altogether, at any rate lift a corner of the veil off those wondrous allegories that have been thrown upon vach, the most mysterious of all the brahmanical goddesses, she who is termed "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water (the earth with all her mystic powers; and again she "who yields us nourishment and sustenance (physical earth. isis is also mystic nature and also earth; and her cow's horns identify her with vach. the latter, after having been recognised in her highest form as para, becomes at the lower or material end of creation- vaikhari. hence she is mystic, though p

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e the unknown rivers. it may be that the everlasting salt may turn to sweetness, and that my life may be no longer athirst. 6. o ye that drink of the brine of your desire, ye are nigh to madness! your torture increaseth as ye drink, yet still ye drink. come up through the creeks to the fresh water; i shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. as the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss the equinox 84 is the key to the infinite sleep

laughed back on him: o lord, o beloved, did these fingers relax on thy curls, or these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. liber lxv 85 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phil not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works o

easants are as disgusting as mr. bishop. he is certainly a very strong argument against evolution, though his book is not. after wearing out his sister ada, finding himself faced with this expense of this stenographer aforesaid, he decided that it would be cheaper to get married. so he went to llandudno; and, rather like abraham when he found the ram caught in the thicket by its horns, he found a cow caught in the children s special service mission by her feet, which were exceptionally large, and took her as wife in name, and secretary and general servant in function. this female, however, developed an unsuspected quality. she made him shave, and mr. bishop, who had been going about london for forty years looking like a most venerable old gentleman, was seen to be a monkey. he looked like

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

e taken outside and the wine poured out on the ground. like the salt and water dishes, the libation dish can be of any type' the wine goblets of the priest and priestess stand on the altar; those of the other celebrants are placed on the ground at their feet. again the goblet can be to suit yourself. it could be simply a glass or it could be a decorative drinking horn. the latter can be made from cow-horns (obtainable from handicraft stores, such as the tandy leather company chain, with stands either separate or attached, made from bent silver or copper wire or from wood. some witches refer to their goblet as a "chalice" but, to my mind, this smacks of the eucharistic cup of christianity so i tend to avoid it. some witches do not care to have deity figures on their altar. the majority, how

f witchcraft 'these forms of writing are also used in the making of charms and talismans and will be discussed further, in that context, in a later lesson. is to take a stainless steel or copper mixing bowl of the right size to fit your head. you may have to squeeze the sides inwards slightly to make it more of an ellipse than a circle. any handle, hook or hanging-ring should be removed. take two cow horns and insert and glue woodblocks in their mouths (see figure 3.8. now drill two holes through the bowl, one on either side, and put screws through from the inside, into the wood blocks in the horns. put some epoxy glue between the horns/ wood-blocks and the bowl, also, to help hold them firm. the bottom of the horns, where they join the bowl, can be bound with leather to cover and hide the

la helleborus factious medicago scuttellata bidens frondosa adonis vemalis fraxinus excelsior xanthorrhoea arborea digitalis purpurea caltha palustris tussilago farfara linaria vulgaris tephrosia virginiana scabiosa stellata asarum canadense nepeta glechoma euphorbia helioscopia corallorhiza ordontorhiza 150/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft cock's comb yellow rattle rhinanthus christagalli cow's tail canada fleabane erigeron canadense crow foot cranesbill geraniummaculatum devil's milk wartwort euphorbia helioscopia dog's tongue conoglossum offidnale donkey's eyes cowage plant mucuna pruriens (seeds) dove's foot cranesbill geranium sylvaticum dragon's claw crawley root corallorrhiza odontorrhiza dragon's eye nephalium loganum duck's foot american mandrake podophyllum peltatum fairy

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ater with their paddles to the spirits who are in this city, and they sing hymns to the lord of the disk, and they make to arise [his] soul in his forms by means of their hidden words every day" 3. a bearded, man-headed hawk, wearing plumes and horns on his head, seated on a basket or bowl; his name is muti-khenti-tuat. 4. the ram-god nesti-khenti-tuat, couchant on a basket or bowl. p. 192 5. the cow-goddess nebt-au-khenti-tuat. 6. a bearded god, in mummied form, called hetepet-neter, or hetepet-neteru. click to view muti-khenti-tuat. the text which refers to these reads: p. 193 click to view nesti-khenti-tuat. click to view (left) nebt-au-khenti-tuat (right) hetepet-neter. p. 194 [paragraph continues "those who are in this picture in this city are they who give offerings of food to the go

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and her consort, through which she could see all things. she carried a shield that could reflect back all things in their true light. from her shield she fashioned the first magical mirror. one side was endowed with the power of ra's eye to see everything, no matter how distant in miles or how far into the future. the ot

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ves in america often featured techniques that were similar to older african healing practices, as in the distinctive practice of extracting unusual foreign objects from the body. an report from a sea islands newspaper described such a case, in which an african american "doctor" resorted to supernatural ritual to treat his client. the doctor, noted the writer "profess[ed (with the aid of a magical cow horn and certain herbs) to be able to remove the witchcraft out of [the] person bewitched" when the doctor pulls old lizards, etc, out of the horn c and asserts that he has drawn them from the sufferer [the patient] not only firmly believe[s] this to be the case, but will describe in extravagant language the feelings experienced during the operation. such healing practices were perhaps known b

lent power of conjure.[30] since the conjurer was a diagnostician and healer, he or she was able to relieve afflicted persons by removing the invading creatures and determining the precise origins of the malady, thereby treating the symptoms and their source. some of their techniques were intense and dramatic. in 1919 a folklorist in virginia reported that he had seen a black conjure doctor use a cow horn to treat his patient, a device that closely resembled the cupping and blood-letting instruments of practitioners in traditional africa and premodern europe. summoned to attend a desperately ill woman, the conjurer "pricked the back of the woman's neck, drew blood, and put his cupping horn to it" according to the account "he took it off, and dropped out of it a young snake and a lizard. ef

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

eological evidence has not yet proven its existence. the dynasty that followed, the shang (1523 1027 b.c, has a rich heritage of pottery, bronzes, and artifacts, which places it as the first historical dynasty of china.1 the chinese dragon is not an evil creature. on the contrary, he brings rain and guards the lakes and waterways. he is a composite creature with the horns of a deer, the ears of a cow, the eyes of a lobster, the head of a camel, the whiskers of a cat, the body of a snake, the belly of a frog, the scales of a carp, the talons of an eagle, and the paws of a tiger. dragons love to make vibrations in the sky by rolling huge pearls, creating thunder. lesser dragons are used as riding steeds by the gods of heaven. the ruling king in this story is the yellow emperor, a good leader

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

fresh batteries) the more you practice, the more effective the mind becomes at blocking out unwelcome stimuli. after you have done this for a week or two and it is starting to get really old and boring, it is time to add something that will control your mind still further and that is a mantra. don't panic! you don't have to try to remember something in sanskrit that translates roughly "the sacred cow has defecated on the jain in the garden of vishnu" all a mantra is a set of words or sounds which you think in order to keep other thoughts from intruding. sit comfortably. try to breathe regularly, in a set rhythm, but do not become overly concerned about that. your body has its own rate of breathing that it likes and if you upset that rate your body will get upset at you. i remember when i t

ers. now pick a couple of sounds. the indians of india, or at least some of them, use the sounds so and hum. these are nothing more than an approximation of the noises the breath makes as it enters and leaves the body. they also have two other great advantages. first, they are very easy to remember. second, they don't mean anything so you won't have to worry about invoking the feces of the sacred cow. it works like this. as you inhale, think the sound so and as you exhale think the sound hum. just do this while you sit and you will notice that by doing this you can block out all manner of wandering thoughts which can disturb you, like the mountain of bills on the desk. practice this for about a month. you should, by that time, discover a few definite changes in yourself. first, you should

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

children, teenagers, and adult men, are enormous, and he is described as a thoroughly vicious piece of work. he is famous for producing "vibhuti, an ash substance, and "valuable" watches, rings, and trinkets "out of nowhere, by manifesting them from another dimension. the baileys, and the stream of testimonies they have compiled, proved that the "vibhuti" was manufactured in tablets from roasted cow dung and kept hidden between baba's third and fourth fingers until required to "manifest. the "valuable" jewellery turned out to be worthless trinkets purchased in the local village and elsewhere. baba "materialised" a ring for david bailey, which, the living god told him, was of great commercial value. when he took it to a jeweller in southern india for repair, the man in the shop immediately

t of us? you must be joking. these people know they are causing the death and suffering of billions by their actions, but they don't give a shit, just as most humans don't give a shit about the plight of cattle. their "medicine" is not designed to make us well in the true sense. its prime aim is to suppress and dim our thinking processes, and make us subservient to authority. it's like sedating a cow or a sheep so they can be controlled more easily and won't run away when they see the slaughterhouse. most of the medical profession have no idea this is so. they are just the fodder. they have to use the methods dictated from above if they wish to keep their jobs. when guylaine lanctot, a wonderful lady and professional doctor in canada, began to expose the manipulation of the drug cartel and

at a scientist must know better than a "layman" by definition. he's a scientist, isn't he? the track record of scientists talking complete cobblers is simply enormous and goes back to the very start of the "scientific method. while i was writing this book, an official report in the uk exposed how government "scientists" and "experts" had misled the british public for years about the so-called mad cow disease being transmitted to humans through eating beef. the scientists said it could not be passed to humans and so safety measures were not taken when any idiot could see that the chances were high that it could. i remember saying so on a 408 children of the matrix bbc farming programme in 1989 when i was a spokesman for the british green party. but the scientists knew best and people are st

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nto the first 12 years of the newcentury. 2012 particularly, appears to be a crucial year for reasons we shall discuss.people have no idea of the abyss we are staring into or the nature of the world we areleaving for our children to endure and most people dont seem to care. they would muchrather ignore the obvious and go into denial of a truth thats splatting them between theeyes. i feel like the cow who runs into the field screaming: hey, you know that truckthat takes some of our friends away every month? well they dont take them to anotherfield like we thought. they shoot them in the head, bleed them dry, cut them up, and putthe pieces into packets. then those humans buy them and eat them! imagine what thereaction of the rest of the herd would be: youre crazy man. theyd never do that.any

you consider sheis one of britains most gifted and effective healers working in the centre of london.unexplainable, that is, unless you know the story. but she told me she is determined thetruth shall be known, whatever the authorities seek to do to her: i dont want a war, ijust want an end to the bullshit, as she puts it. looking back on dianas life and theirconversations together, she says:poor cow, she was in a house where no-one gave a damn and its a terrible state ofaffairs. she was all alone in a nest of vipers. i used to just patch her up. she just found meand just came to me. i made her wait for a fortnight until i checked it out. they used to saythat i was giving her anger therapy. i didnt. i used to just listen to her, take it all in, andthink jesus christ! but i didnt think they

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of the greeks. now diana was primarily a chaste goddess, ever-virgin, and when the over-presumptive actaeon annoyed [page 262] her he was torn to pieces by his own hunting-hounds. diana, however, was represented at ephesus as the many-breasted, and regarded as a fertility goddess. moreover, isis is also a lunar goddess, as indicated by the lunar crescent upon her brow, which in hathor becomes the cow-horns, the cow being among all peoples the especial symbol of maternity. in the qabalistic symbolism, the generative organs are assigned to yesod. 24. all this is very puzzling at first sight, for the symbols appear to be mutually exclusive. carried a step further, however, we begin to find connecting links between the ideas. 25. the moon has three goddesses assigned to her, diana, selene or l

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

* the chapter of a sceptre of mother-of-emerald to be placed on the neck of the khu. vignette: a sceptre. chapter clx [the chapter] of placing a plaque of mother-of-emerald. vignette: a plaque. chapter clxi. the chapter of the opening of the doors of heaven by thoth, etc. vignette: thoth opening four doors. chapter clxii* the chapter of causing heat to exist under the head of the khu. vignette: a cow. chapter clxiii* the chapter of not allowing the body of a man to decay in the underworld. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (32 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] vignette: two utchats, and a serpent on legs. chapter clxiv* another chapter. vignette: a three-headed goddess, winged, standing between two pigmies. chapter clxv* the chapter of arrivin

to the use of arms by osiris, who returned from the other world, he went out to do battle with typhon, the murderer of his father. the fight lasted many days, and typhon was made captive. but isis, to whom the care of the prisoner was given, so far from aiding her son horus, set typhon at liberty. horus in his rage tore from her head the royal diadem; but thoth gave her a helmet in the shape of a cow's head. in two other battles fought between horus and typhon, horus was the victor.[3] identity of the deceased with osiris. this is the story of the sufferings and death of osiris as told by plutarch. osiris was the god through whose sufferings and death the egyptian hoped that his body might rise again in some transformed or glorified shape, and to him who had conquered death and had become

victory inclined now to one side, and now to the other, and the heart of isis suffered bitterly. when horus saw that she loosed the fetters which he had laid upon set, he became like a "raging panther of the south with fury" and she fled before him; but he pursued her, and cut off her head, which thoth transformed by his words of magical power and set upon her body again in the form of that of a cow. in the calendars the 26th day of thoth was marked triply deadly. see chabas, le calendrier, p. 28 ff] p. lii the deceased; in a word, the deceased is identified with osiris. if osiris liveth for ever, the deceased will live for ever; if osiris dieth, then will the deceased perish.[1 [1. the origin of plutarch's story of the death of osiris, and the egyptian conception of his nature and attrib

e been described both by egyptian and greek writers.[2] her commonest names are "the great goddess, the divine mother, the mistress of charms or enchantments; in later times she is called the "mother of the gods" and the "living one" she is usually depicted in the form of a woman, with a head-dress in the shape of a seat, the hieroglyphic for which forms her name. the animal sacred to her was the cow, hence she sometimes wears upon her head the horns of that animal accompanied by plumes and feathers. in one aspect she is identified with the goddess selk or serq, and she then has upon her head a scorpion, the emblem of that goddess;[3] in another aspect she is united to the star sothis, and then a star is added to her crown. she is, however, most commonly represented as the mother suckling

the reckoner of time, he obtained his name tehuti, i.e "the measurer; in these capacities he had the power to grant life for the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (8 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] millions of years to the deceased. when the great combat took place between horus, the son of isis, and set, thoth was present as judge, and he gave to isis the cow's head in the place of her own which was cut off by horus in his rage at her interference; having reference to this fact he is called ap-rehui "the judge of the two combatants" one of the egyptian names for the ibis was tekh, and the similarity of the sound of this word to that of tehu, the name of the moon as a measurer of time, probably led the egyptians to depict the god in the form of an i

l, p. 329. the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (9 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:59 am] 5. see lanzone, op. cit. tav. 109] happiness; and the greeks identified her with their own aphrodite. she is often depicted in the form of a woman having disk and horns upon her head, and at times she has the head of a lion surmounted by a ur us. often she has the form of a cow--the animal sacred to her--and in this form she appears as the goddess of the tomb or ta-sertet, and she provides meat and drink for the deceased.[1] meht-urt is the personification of that part of the sky wherein the sun rises, and also of that part of it in which he takes his daily course; she is depicted in the form of a cow, along the body of which the two barks of the sun are seen sailing

rt she personifies the place in the sky where the sun rises. in one form she was the goddess of the loom and shuttle, and also of the chase; in this aspect she was identified by the greeks with athene. she is depicted in the form of a woman, having upon her head the shuttle or arrows, or she wears the crown and holds arrows, a bow, and a sceptre in her left hand; she also appears in the form of a cow.[5] sekhet was in memphis the wife of ptah, and the mother of nefer-tmu and of i-em-hetep. she was the personification of the burning heat of the sun, and as such was the destroyer of the enemies of ra and osiris. when ra determined to punish mankind with death, because they scoffed at him, he sent sekhet, his "eye" to perform the work of vengeance; illustrative of this aspect of her is a figu

ands, maker of things, king of the north and south, khnem-ab-ra, son of the sun, aahmes (amasis, beloved of hathor, lady of sycamore trees; and no. 13,950* in fa ence; and nos. 8172, 8173, and 20,607 in hard stone. no. 18,108 is the disk of a menat in fa ence, inscribed, hathor, lady of the town of anitha" no. 20,760 is a disk and handle in bronze, the disk having, in hollow work, the figure of a cow, sacred to hathor, and the handle, the upper part of which is in the form of the head of hathor, having a sistrum. on the one side is the prenomen of amenophis iii. and on the other is hathor, lady of the sycamore" the meaning and use of the menat is discussed by lef bure in le menat et le nom de l'eunuque (proc. soc. bibl. arch, 1891, pp. 333-349* a duplicate is in the louvre; see perrot and

a bronze censer similar in shape, see no. 5296 a, fourth egyptian room. 4. it is similar in shape to the chests which held the four jars containing the mummied intestines of the deceased. for examples of them see nos. 8543a, 8543b in the third egyptian room] p. 264 group of wailing women, followed by attendants carrying on yokes boxes of flowers, vases of unguents, etc. in the right centre are a cow with her calf, chairs of painted wood with flowers upon them, and an attendant with shaven head, carrying a haunch, newly cut, for the funereal feast. the group on the right is performing the last rites. before the door of the tomb stands the mummy of ani to receive the final honours; behind him, embracing him, stands anubis, the god of the tomb; and at his feet, in front, kneels thuthu to tak

alled she en hesmen "pool of natron" and that under his left hand she en maaat "pool of nitre or salt (to illustrate lines 47-50. 3. a pylon with doors, called re-stau "gate of the funereal passages (to illustrate lines 56-58. plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (2 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] 4. the utchat facing to the left above a pylon (to illustrate line 73. 5. the cow (fig. 1) mehurt maat ra "mehurt, the eye of ra" with a flail and having on her head a disk and horns and round her neck the collar and menat (to illustrate lines 75-79.[1] 6. a funereal chest from which emerge the head of ra, and his two arms and hands, each holding the emblem of life. the chest, which is called aat abtu "the district of abydos" or the "burial place of the east" has upon its s

es 75-79.[1] 6. a funereal chest from which emerge the head of ra, and his two arms and hands, each holding the emblem of life. the chest, which is called aat abtu "the district of abydos" or the "burial place of the east" has upon its side figures of the four children of [1. in the papyrus of hunefer (british museum papyrus no. 9902) the god thoth is represented offering the utchat to the mehurt cow (fig. 2] p. 279] horus who protect the intestines of osiris or the deceased. on the right stand tuamautef and qebhsennuf, and on the left mestha and hapi (to illustrate lines 82, 83. plates vii.-x. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod18.htm (3 of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] plate ix. 1. figures of three gods who, together with mestha, hapi, tuamautef, and qebhsennuf, are the "seven shining

t eye of ra, which raged against [set] when (72) he sent it forth. thoth raiseth up the hair[-cloud, and bringeth the eye (73) alive, and whole, and sound, and without defect to [its] lord; or (as others say, it is the eye of ra when it is sick and when it (74) weepeth for its fellow eye; then thoth standeth up to cleanse it (75 "i behold ra who was born yesterday from the (76) buttocks[5] of the cow meh-urt;[6] his strength is my strength, and my strength is his strength" what then (77) is this? it is the water of heaven, or (as others say (78) it is the image of the eye of ra in the morning at his daily birth (79) meh-urt is the eye of ra. therefore osiris, the (80) scribe ani, triumphant [is] a great one among the gods (81) who are in the train of horus. the words are] spoken for him th

en when [ani] cometh unto the third pylon of the house of osiris. saith the scribe ani, triumphant "lo, the lady of the [1. var "thou invokest ra in the sektet boat of heaven" 2 reading with naville] p. 296 altar, the mighty one to whom offerings are made, the beloved[1) of every god, who saileth up to abtu. the name of the doorkeeper is sebaq" vignette iv: the fourth pylon, which is guarded by a cow-headed deity seated in a shrine, the cornice of which is ornamented with ur i wearing disks. text: words to be spoken when [ani] cometh unto the fourth pylon. saith osiris, the scribe ani [triumphant "lo, she who prevaileth with knives, mistress of the world, destroyer of the foes of the still-heart, she who decreeth the escape of the needy from evil hap. the name of the doorkeeper is nekau" p

isible emblems of himself in annu, and the might of his forms in the place of purification. i have come to thee, my heart is right, my breast is without deceit, grant thou that i may be among the living, that i may sail down and that i may sail up among thy followers] p. 369 left the emblem of life. before her are tables of meat and drink offerings and flowers. behind the hippopotamus, the divine cow, meh-urit, symbolizing the same goddess, looks out from the funeral mountain, wearing the menat on her neck. at the foot of the mountain is the tomb; and in the foreground grows a group of flowering plants. text [chapter clxxxvi] hathor, lady of amentet, dweller in the land of urt, lady of ta-sert, the eye of ra, the dweller in his brow, the beautiful face in the boat of millions of years.[1 [

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lic scene until the late 1980es when peter gilmore entered the scene after double-courting the temple of set and the church of satan (this double-courting illustrates that peter gilmore used two-faced policies from the very beginning of his career in satanism) michael aquino argues that anton lavey had lost interest in satanism and instead attempted to turn the organization into his personal cash cow, and that the organization s continued activities were a financial scam. michael aquino shows evidence that a focus on finances did escalate in the months before 1975, and that 1975 may have presented a somewhat drastic escalation. it is also believable that michael aquino s relation of his concord with anton lavey on the belief in satan is correct, judging from michael aquino s otherwise exqu

embership fee of $100.00 memberships may not be an exceptionally profitable business, but it is money nonetheless. these facts suggest that the church of satan s interest in followers is in part based on an interest in profit. this speculation is underscored by michael aquino s documentation, which indicates that anton lavey lost interest in the church of satan and attempted turned it into a cash cow instead. this all leaves little doubt that the church of satan deliberately attempts to fleece gullible the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 28 of 30 victims. if not intentional from the very beginning, certainly this is what the church of satan eventually became. the current administration of the church of satan clearly uses two-faced policies and double-talking, and encour

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arat college in india, and a correspondent with j. b. rhine and other parapsychologists on the subject of esp. born july 21, 1890, at broach, bombay state, he was educated at bombay university (b.a, m.a) and cambridge university, england (m.a. he died december 16, 1954, at poona, india. asanas the physical positions, or postures, of hatha yoga. many of these are named after living creatures, e.g, cow, peacock, locust, cobra, lion. early yoga treatises state that there are 8.4 million asanas, of which 84 are the best and 32 the most useful for the health of mankind. hatha yoga should properly be combined with spiritual development. sources: hittleman, richard l. richard hittleman s yoga for total fitness. new york: bantam books, 1983. kuvalayananda, swami. popular yoga asanas. rutland, vt:

ty of california. his retiring vice-presidential address to the american association for the advancement of science in 1958 was science, pseudo- science, and parapsychology. birog a druidess in ancient irish legend. the fomorian king balor had a beautiful daughter named ethlinn whom he kept imprisoned because of a druidic prophecy that he would be slain by his grandson. balor had stolen a magical cow from three brothers, kian, sawan, and goban. through the magical spells of birog, kian, disguised as a woman, was able to enter the tower where ethlinn was imprisoned. he then slept with ethlinn, who in due course delivered three sons at one birth. balor commanded them to be drowned, but one of them, named hugh, survived, and in the course of time fulfilled the druidic prophecy and slew balor

2. reprint, london: panther, 1975. kardec, allan [h. l. d. rivail. the book of spirits. n.p, 1893. langguth, a. j. macumba: white& black magic in brazil. new york: harper and row, 1975. mcgregor, pedro. moon and two mountains. london, 1966. noah s ark society (great britain. the mediumship of carlos mirabelli. http//home.freeuk.net/noahsark/ mirab.htm. june 6, 2000. playfair, guy lyon. the flying cow. london, 1975. reprinted as the unknown power. new york: pocket books, 1975. st. clair, david. drum and candle. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1971. breathing traditional yoga practice is associated with mystical and psychic powers developed through special breathing techniques known as pranayama. according to hindu teaching, there is a subtle vitality known as prana in the air that we breath, a

h ed. cattle mutilations 255 new mexico. in 1980, after an extensive investigation of the new mexico carcasses, and with agreement from sheriffs and pathologists in other states, rommel announced that he had found no evidence of cattle mutilation apart from normal predator damage. the pattern of disturbance of the carcass was consistent with that of small animals attacking the softest part of the cow, which was largely protected by the extremely strong hide. in 1984 further extensive study of the reports around the nation was made by daniel kagan and ian summers. their book, mute evidence (1984, remains the definitive account of the phenomenon. they examined the origin of cattle mutilation reports and found them based on inept observation and unfounded rumor. where autopsy reports of mutil

or instance, the dragon is so familiar as to be no longer remarked, and yet his significance is perhaps not fully understood by all. there are, in fact, three kinds of dragons, the lung of the sky, the li of the sea, and the kiau of the marshes. the lung is the favorite kind, however, and may be known when met by his having the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, the eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp, claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger. his special office is to guard and support the mansions of the gods, and he is naturally the peculiar symbol of the emperor. a less familiar beast is the chi-lin, which resembles in part a rhinoceros, but has a head, feet, and legs like a deer, and a tufted tail. in spite of his unprepossessing appearanc

in order to marry emer, daughter of forgall, he was obliged to pass through the ordeals of the land of shadow and the warrior goddess skatha, cross the bridge of leaps, learn the arts of war, and slay 100 men. cuchulain also featured in the great cattle raid of quelgny, described in the book of leinster of finn macgorman, bishop of kildare, recorded in 1150. in the twelfth century book of the dun cow, cuchulain is summoned from hell by st. patrick to describe the terrors of hell to the pagan king of ireland laery macneill. as a result, the king was converted to christianity and cuchulain allowed to enter heaven. the deeds of cuchulain as related in the ulster cycle of the knights of the red branch are thought to have influenced the development of traditions of king arthur in wales and engl

c.e) recorded that roman herdsmen attached bells to the necks of their flocks to keep away evil spirits and wild beasts. the roman poet ovid (43 b.c.e..17 c.e) stated that people used to beat bronze vessels during an eclipse and at the death of a friend to scare away demons. devil s bridge a bridge across the afon mynach, near aberystwyth, wales. the story goes that an old woman who had lost her cow saw it on the opposite side of the chasm but did not know how to reach it. the evil one appeared to her in the shape of a monk and promised to throw a bridge across if she would give him the first living thing that passed over it. the old lady agreed. the bridge was completed and the crafty fiend begged her to try it but the old woman had observed his cloven hoof and his knee bent backward. sh

pens among them. his court of audience is so capacious as to contain not only the numerous daivers, but also the prophets, attendants, etc. they are represented in the mythological romances of the hindoos, as having been engaged in bloody wars, and with various success against the giants (assoores. the family of daivuntren consists of his wife inderaunee, and his son seedera-budderen (born from a cow, who records the actions of men, by which they are finally to be judged. ii. the attendants or companions of these daivers are.1. the kinnarer, who sing and play on musical instruments. 2. dumbarim nardir, who also perform on a species of drum. 3. kimprusher, who wait on the daivers are represented with the wings and fair countenances of angels. 4. kunda-gaindoorer, similar winged beings who e

no. 122, lines 64ff and 359ff: to obtain a vision from the god bes: make a drawing of bes, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh frankincense, myrrh, black writing ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun, saying, send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now, now

y. london: george redway, 1898. revised as the book of ceremonial magic. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. elf arrows (or elf bolts) the superstitious name given to small triangular flints, known as belemnites, found in many countries, but notably in scotland. it was believed that these stones were arrows shot by the elves, which usually prove fatal to cattle.the cure being to touch the cow with the arrow with which it had been hit and give it water in which the arrow had been dipped to drink. in his book the secret commonwealth of elves, fauns, and fairies (1691, robert kirk describes the fairy arrow as being tipped with yellow flint and states that it inflicts a mortal wound without breaking the skin. he also says that he examined such wounds. it is even on record that an irish

eprint, wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1969. ethlinn daughter of balor, king of the fomorians of ancient irish magic legend. she was balor s only child, and because he had been informed by a druid that he would be killed by his grandson, balor had ethlinn imprisoned in a tower and guarded by 12 women who were forbidden to tell her that such beings as men existed. balor stole a magic cow from kian, who in revenge obtained access, disguised as a woman, to ethlinn. they had three children, whom balor ordered to be drowned. but one of them fell from the napkin in which they were being taken to their doom and was carried off by the druidess birog to its father, kian. this child became lugh, the great sun god, etain encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 520 who eventua

st centuries. as a result, the society once again became inactive. fairy stroke a strange enchantment, administered through touch or through blasting (raising a fairy eddy or wind, said to be practiced by fairies. a fairy stroke had a paralyzing effect, the victim being deprived of speech or movement. this spell might be broken by the use of certain flowers or herbs, such as foxglove, water lily, cow parsnip, or dock, but the latter might also predispose an individual to be fairy-struck. one strangely impressive painting by the talented but troubled artist richard dadd (1817.1886) is titled the fairy-feller s master stroke. it hangs in the tate gallery, london. faith healing a general term for all nonmedical cures, ranging from suggestion to psychic and spiritual therapy (see also christia

of parish minister samuel parris began to complain of being victims of witchcraft. they accused tituba, a slave who had showed them the scrying technique, sarah osburn, and sarah good of bewitching them. good already had a reputation for possessing a sharp tongue and a short temper. neighbors sometimes accused her of cursing them and causing various malevolent incidents, including the death of a cow. good was arrested on a warrrant issued on february 29, 1692. her age is not known, but at the time of her arrest and trial she was the mother of a four-year-old daughter, dorcas, and a recently born infant, whom she was still nursing. before her trial, sarah osburn died in prison, but four others, including rebecca nurse, were arrested. the five were tried on june 30 and condemned together. g

include: non-violence, not stealing, truthfulness, restraint from sexual impropriety and greed, observance of purity, austerity, religious study, and divinity. without such observances hatha yoga becomes merely a form of physical exercise. of the theoretical 84,000,000 asanas, 84 are said to be the best, and 32 the most useful for good health. the asanas often incorporate the postures of animals (cow, peacock, locust, lion, etc, plants (tree, lotus, and tools (plow, bow. an asana is considered mastered when the yogi can maintain the position without strain for three hours. asanas develop flexibility in associated muscle groups, and affect the tone of veins and arteries, particularly through inverted positions such as the yoga shoulderstand or headstand. many asanas help develop maximum fle

ater hex meisters. the standard textbook of hex spells and folk remedies used by hex meisters, the long lost friend or pow-wows, was published by john george hohman of berks county, pennsylvania, in 1820. the book includes instruction for a variety of magic formulas to accomplish practical tasks, as indicated by some of the topics covered: against mishaps and dangers in the house, treating a sick cow, to stop bleeding at any time, and to charm enemies, robbers, and murderers. many pennsylvania barns are still decorated with hex signs, known as hexafoos, originally placed to keep away evil spirits, but today largely a decorative addition. sources: hark, ann. hex marks the spot in pennsylvania dutch country. philadelphia: j. b. lippincott, 1938. hohman, john george. the long lost friend or p

work was condemned by the sorbonne for its mixture of christianity and magic. khunrath believed in the transmutation of stones and metals through alchemy and sought the elixir of life. the physician and chemist conrad khunrath (ca. 1594) may have been heinrich khunrath s brother. kian in irish mythology the father of lugh (who was the father of the ulster warrior-hero cuchulain. kian had a magic cow with a wonderful supply of milk. after the cow was stolen by balor (king of the fomorians, kian took revenge by making balor s daughter, ethlinn, the mother of three sons. two were drowned by balor, and the third, lugh, escaped by falling into a bay and being wafted back to his father, kian. some years later while fighting in ulster, kian encountered the three sons of turenn, whose house was a

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and sit on the rocks and sing in the evening to the awe of the local villagers. japanese fishermen used to manufacture mermaids to supplement their income and p. t. barnum exhibited similar creatures in his museum. many reports have been attributed to misidentifications or romantic viewings of a marine mammal called a dugong (halicore, of the order sirenia, which also includes the manatee or sea cow. such creatures suckle their young at the breast and have a vaguely human appearance. they used to be hunted for their oil, used as a substitute for cod-liver oil, and are now rare. it is possible that the dugong known as rhytina gigas, or steller s sea cow, long believed extinct, may survive in the bering sea, near the aleutian islands. vitus bering, after whom the sea is named, was a danish

maids displayed in showmen s booths in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were invariably clever fakes assembled by japanese craftsmen. contemporary cryptozoologists have included mermen in their area of concern. gwen benwell, arthur waugh, and bernard heuvelmans, who studied the accounts extensively, have suggested that only some type of yet-unrecognized species of dugong or sea cow, or even an undesignated variety of marine primate could account for all of the excellent and detailed reports of mer-hominoids in recent centuries. however, since the habitat of such a creature is in relatively shallow water near shorelines, it is unlikely that some would not at some point have been washed ashore and discovered. others, primarily folklorists, consider mermaids the products of

auto accident. for a modern discussion of mirabelli see gordon stein s insightful article from fate and the chapter mirabelli! in guy playfair s study. the former had the opportunity to examine the mirabelli records in england, and the latter met and interviewed individuals who had known mirabelli, including living relatives. sources: playfair, guy leon. the unknown power. reprinted as the flying cow. new york: pocket books, 1975. stein, gordon. the amazing medium mirabelli. fate 44, 3 (march 1991: 86.95. mirabilis liber a collection of predictions concerning the saints and the sibyls, attributed to saint cesaire (470.542 c.e. the work has appeared in various editions. in the edition of 1522 there is found a prophecy of the french revolution, including the expulsion and abolition of the no

lcutta. with nothing more than a magnifying-glass and a piece of cottonwool, the mahatma conjured perfumes out of the air by focusing light on the cotton-wool through the glass. each scent was waved away with the hand, to be succeeded by the next request. he produced in quick succession the scents of violets, musk, sandalwood, opium, heliotrope, flowering bamboo, nicotine plant, jasmine, and even cow-dung. a later book, naked ascetic by victor dane (1933, described a tantric yogi in bhawanipore who produced on request the smell of violets on dane s handkerchief without it leaving dane s hand; the perfume lasted for twelve hours. in the records of william stainton moses, we find highly illustrative experiences recorded. for example, at the closing of a seance, scents were often found to be

l. playfair is the author of a number of books on the psychic and related subjects and was also a contributor to the series the unexplained. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. playfair, guy lyon. the indefinite boundary. london: souvenir press, 1976. the unknown power. 1975. reprinted as the flying cow. london: souvenir press, 1975. this house is haunted: the true story of a poltergeist. london: souvenir press, 1980. pleiades the pleiades is a star cluster an approximately 400 lightyear distance from earth and near the constellations of orion and taurus in the night sky. the cluster includes seven bright stars that are easily seen with the naked eyes. in more recent years, astronomers equipp

bound by strict observances from endangering it in any way. rules as to attire, eating, and touch were numerous. sacrifices were systematized according to the end desired and the deity invoked. worship instructions designated the age and gender of all animal sacrifices; oxen were to be offered to jupiter and mars, and swine to juno, ceres the corn-goddess, and silvanus. at one shrine, a pregnant cow was sacrificed and the ashes of the unborn young were considered to be of special magical efficacy. even human sacrifice existed within historical times. after the battle of cann, the romans sought to divert misfortune by burying two greeks alive in the cattle-market, while in the time of julius c sar, two men were put to death with sacrificial solemnities by the pontiff and flamen of mars. ag

9) one agnes gourlay was accused of having made offerings of milk, saying, god preserve us too; they are under the earth that have as much need of it as they that are above the earth. the milk poured out upon the earth at magical ceremonies was supposed to go to the fairies. gruagach stones survived into relatively modern times in the highlands. these were flat stones with deep cup marks. after a cow was milked, the milker poured into a hole the portion of milk required by the gruagach, a long-haired spirit who is usually dressed like a gentleman. if no offering was given to him, the cream would not rise on the milk, or even if it did, the churning would be a failure. there are interesting records in the presbytery records of dingwall, ross-shire, regarding the prevalence of milk pouring a

n. bishop eric pontoppidan discussed the kraken in his natural history of norway (1751) and concluded that it was an enormous polyp (octopus) or starfish. it is probable that it was one of the cephalopods popularly known as cuttlefish. less ominous are the stories of mermaids, around whom many strange myths have grown. it is generally supposed that mermaid stories grew up around the dugong or sea-cow, which superficially resembles a human form. however, there are early accounts of mermaids that do not seem to fit this description. in an old history of the netherlands, there is the following account of a sea-woman of harlem in the fifteenth century: at that time there was a great tempest at sea, with exceeding high tides, the which did drowne many villages in friseland and holland; by which

studying brazilian healers firsthand. two operations were performed on playfair himself, who also witnessed the making of an incision in another patient and was allowed to place his fingers into the hole before the flesh was reunited. silva performed over 10,000 psychic operations during his lifetime. he died in 1974 after being involved in a car accident. sources: playfair, guy lyon. the flying cow. 1975. reprinted as the unknown power. new york: pocket books, 1975. silvester ii, pope (d. 1003) silvester ii (gerbert, a distinguished scholar, statesman, and pope (999.1003 c.e, was one of a number of popes from the tenth century on who were regarded as sorcerers. it was said that silvester had evoked a demon who obtained for him the papacy, and who further promised him that he should die o

have been integrated into the spiritualist groups of the countries of south america, especially brazil. sources: brett, william h. the indian tribes of guiana. london, 1868. grubb, w. barbrook. an unknown people in an unknown land. london, 1911. keller, franz. amazon and madeira rivers. london, 1874. mcgregor, pedro. jesus of the spirits. new york: stein& day, 1966. playfair, guy lyon. the flying cow. london, 1975. reprinted as the unknown power. new york: pocket books, 1975. southcott, joanna (1750.1814) british prophetess of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who announced that she had a divine pregnancy. she was born on april 25, 1750, one of the daughters of a farmer in the village of gittisham, east devon, england. she grew up in a devout religious atmosphere, being obliged to re

t and unambiguous contact with departed spirits. modern brazilian spiritists also make a distinction between ordinary automatic writing (escrita automotica, which might involve the medium s own subconscious, and psicografia (dictation from a spirit entity. sources: kardec, allan. experimental spiritism: the mediums book. london, 1876. the spirits book. london, 1875. playfair, guy lyon. the flying cow: research into paranormal phenomena in the world s most psychic country. london: souvenir press, 1975. reprinted as the unknown power. new york: pocket books, 1975. reprint, london: panther paperback, 1977. spirit messenger (journal (full name: the spirit messenger, and the star of truth) started in springfield, massachusetts, in 1849, the chief organ of andrew jackson davis s harmonial philos

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aper, the yates center farmers advocate, printed an affidavit attesting to an instance of interplanetary calf-rustling. there were three witnesses, the most prominent of whom was alex hamilton, a rancher from leroy, who soberly related the following: we we re awakened by a noise among the c a t t l e. upon going to the door i saw to my utter amazement that an airship was slowly descending upon my cow lot about forty rods [six h u n d red feet] from the house. calling my tenant, gid he s l i p, and my son wall, we seize d some axes and ran to the corral. meanwhile the ship had been gently descending until it was not more than thirty feet above the ground and we came within fifty yards of it. it consisted of a g reat cigar-shaped portion, possibly three hund red feet long, with a carriage un

n c 55 thomas e. bullard came upon a letter hamilton had written to a missouri paper, the atchison county mail (may 7, 1897, cheerfully confessing that there was no truth to the story. many years later, psychologist susan marie powers studied the claims of a woman who claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials on a number of occasions. once, while aboard a ufo, the occupants would lasso a cow, take it inside the craft, and extract blood from it. i watched [as] the blood went into a tube and then into a big tank, the woman reported. the cow s eyes would glaze over. then i knew she was dead. we would fly back and drop her in the pasture with the other cows. the little people do not eat meat. they take the blood home with them (powers, 1994. another abductee, a texas woman named judy

tted a landed ufo in a pasture. a bipedal lizard-type creature known to ufologists as a reptoid stood nearby. through binoculars the wat- 56 calf-rustling aliens an example of cattle mutilation at morrill farm, piermont, new hampshire, september 27, 1978 (loren coleman/fortean picture library) sons watched as two other beings, whiteskinned humanoids in silver suits, ran their fingers over a black cow, which, though alive, was immobile as if paralyzed. suddenly the cow floated up the ramp into the ufo, which then, weirdly, seemed to fade into the hill, along with the three aliens. see also: aurora martian; close encounters of the third kind; hopkins s martians; michigan giant; reptoids; shaw s martians further reading bullard, thomas e, ed, 1982. the airship file: a collection of texts conc

ly told law-enforcement authorities and civilian ufologists, walton got within six feet of the bottom of the craft. sounds began to come from the ufo, unnerving walton, who was starting to back away when a bluish green beam hit him, shooting him back some ten feet. te r r i fied, the others fled in the truck. a few minutes later, their panic somewhat subsided, they returned to re t r i e ve their cow o rk e r, only to find no trace of him. after twenty minutes of f ruitless searching, they drove to nearby he b e r, a r i zona, and re p o rted the disappearance to the authorities. the crew returned to the site in the company of two sheriff s officers. they found no clues to tip them off to wa l t o n s whereabouts. at midnight, wa l t o n s mother and other family members we re notified. th

FOCUS OF LIFE

what is self but cosmos? what is i but chaos? eternally creating its pleasure, everything could become arbitrary. whatever deceit we practice, the functions of the emotions are one; their expression dual: time making multitudinous by denial. what is experience, but denial? what is the centre, but belief? after a long suspiration, aaos spoke aloud to his 'i "awake, my self-love! leave this hour of cow-dust, i am all things to pleasure. too long have i lived the nightmares of others in my sleep. arise! get forth and feed from the mighty udder of life. thou art not a cow-herd, nor grass, neither cows no kine! but once again, a creator of cows-who loves their breasts! are not all things cows to thy pleasure-whether they would or not? and what is cow? is it not a fountain? didst thou not create

the tests wither? verily these senses have a further pupose beyond their own: thus shall thou steal the fire from heaven. all things return to their earliest functions" at that moment aaos realized he was not alone; and a voice asked "hast thou no fear" laughing aloud, aaos answered "hidden from thy small susceptibilities, monstrous enormities are commited! on the day my wind bloweth a little the cow-dust away-thou o fool, shalt vomit hot blood at thine own prostitution and incest. when thou knowest not, the lust wills non-rationally, the belief bindeth with modest ideas; the body is subject and suffers. what man can prevent his belief from incarnating? who is free of filth and disease? all men are servile to the great unconsciousness of thier purpose in desire. the i thinks, the self doth

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

s the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with the story of io, turned into a cow by 1 but it could also refer to ficino's criticisms of "bad" astrology in his commentaries on plotinus; cf. walker, p. 54. in any case, the point is that if pico regards ficino as a writer against astrology, then the kind of astrology which pico is against cannot be the ficinian type of neoplatonised astral magic. 2 f. saxl "the appartamento borgia, in lectures, warburg institute, university o

tremely difficult lines about apis.1 for his meditations on greek and egyptian forms of the gods, it is possible that bruno had been studying cartari's de gli immagini degli dei, the plates of which often show greek and egyptian forms together. the gods of the spaccio almost, as it were, tremble between the two forms as the egyptian power grows. the appartamento borgia frescoes, showing the greek cow, io, turning into isis in egypt, perhaps move within a similar frame of reference, though they are orthodox in showing the egyptian bulls worshipping the virgin and saints, like proper prisci theologi. bruno's views on the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, are made abundantly clear: do not suppose that the sufficiency of the chaldaic magic derived from the cabala of the jews; for t

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

n liber null (york beach, me: samuel weiser, inc, 1987, p. 33ff 4. kenneth grant, images and oracles of austin osman spare (york beach, me: samuel w 5. incidentally, this difficulty can even be used constructively should you encounter problems with visualizing or imagining objects or persons for example, 130/ practical sigil mag if you don ft succeed since it is financially unprofitable to mother cow or to induce an artificial t to procure, especially since don parchment xchange. in extremely paper-thin form it is also utilized 0. cf. sujja su fa fno-ta gdie sprache des unbewusten, anleitung zur erarbeitung einer individuellen ritualesprache h in unicorn, iii/82, pp. 137-441 ic in seeing a giraffe with closed eyes, try very intensely not to see one. sometimes the spell is immediately broke

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

f the early dual, universal power "in the old language god was called al, ale, alue, and aleim, more frequently aleim than any other name" according to the testimony of higgins, aleim denotes the feminine plural. the heathen divinities ashtaroth and beelzebub were both called aleim, ashtaroth being simply astarte adorned with the horns of a ram. ishtar not unfrequently appears with the horns of a cow. we are informed by inman that whenever a goddess is observed with horns--emblems which by the way always indicate masculine power--it is to denote the fact that she is androgynous, or that within her is embodied the complete deity--the dual reproductive energy throughout nature. the "figure becomes the emblem of divinity and power"[28 [28] ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, vol. i, p

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

n a box, ark, or chest in which he or his seed was preserved from the ravages of a mighty flood, or from destruction by the calamity which had befallen the rest of mankind. in one sense he represents a savior, in another sense he is the saved, for he is the seed of a former world and is born again from a boat, a symbol which always represents the female energy. sometimes he is shut up in a wooden cow, from which he issues forth to new life. again this storm tossed mariner is born from a cave, or the door of a rocky cavern, within which he had been preserved from some terrible catastrophe, caused either by water or fire. sir w. jones, faber, higgins, and many others who have investigated this subject are confident that the noah of genesis is identical with menu, the law-giver of india, and

ike the classical dionysos, was enclosed in an ark and driven into the sea. according to the gothic traditions as recorded in the eddas, there once existed a beautiful world, which was destroyed by fire. another was created, which, with all its inhabitants save a giant and his three sons, who were saved in a ship, were destroyed by water. with this triad, which originally sprang from a mysterious cow, the new world began. this new world, which represents the present system, will in time be devoured by flames; but another earth will arise from the ocean--an earth far more beautiful than this, upon which all kinds of grain and delicious fruits will grow without cultivation. veda and vile will be there, for the conflagration will have been powerless to destroy them. while the flames are devou

r. the doctrines of the gothic philosophers, as they appear in the eddas, concerning the eternity of matter, the renewal or succession of worlds, and reincarnation are the same as those taught by pythagoras, the stoics, and other greek schools of thought. brahme or vishnu, resting on the bottom of the sea--a goddess who was symbolized by the self-generating lotus--was in later ages the mysterious cow of the goths. after the natural truths concealed beneath their religious symbolism were wholly forgotten, and human nature through the over-stimulation of the animal instincts had become corrupted, adam and eve, names which doubtless for ages represented the two fecundating principles throughout nature, with their sons, cain, abel, and seth, comprehended the god-idea. the fact has been observe

from the ravages of which an ark which contained a man was saved. the gothic story of creation indicates that the scythians belonged to the same race as the chaldeans. at the beginning of time when nothing had been formed, and before the earth, the sea, or the heavens appeared, muspelsheim existed. a breath of heat passing over the vapors, melted them into water, and from this water was formed a cow named aedumla, who was the progenitor of odin, vile, and ve, the trinity of the gothic nation. there is also another tradition, probably a later, which asserts that from the drops of water produced by the primeval breath of heat, a man, ymer, was brought forth. the son of ymer was preserved in a storm-tossed bark, his father being dragged into the middle of the abyss, where, from his body the

ner consciousness of regeneration, but must go through with certain processes which typified the new life upon which they had entered. according to wilford, the outward symbolization of the "new birth" in the east is manifested in the following manner "for the purpose of regeneration it is directed to make an image of pure gold of the female power of nature, either in the shape of a woman or of a cow. in this statue, the person to be regenerated is inclosed, and dragged out through the natural channel. as a statue of pure gold and of proper dimensions would be too expensive, it is sufficient to make an image of the sacred yoni, through which the person to be regenerated is to pass" thus at the time nicodemus is said to have queried concerning the mysteries of the new birth, it is observed

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

, the mother of us all, and horus became the274themagical masontype of the beneficient son and sun. hence arose a public worship of this triad, and to them prayers for future happiness were directed, and to these deities temples were built, and public worship directed. supplementary to the cult of the triad was a system of adoration of sacred animals as emblems of the gods, notably of the bull or cow, and of the serpent.thebulls, called apis and mnevis, were very famous, and isis was often pictured and sculptured as cow-headed. at a later date a new deity, serapis, was developed in egypt. he appears to have been a form of osiris and apis in combination. the worship of serapis also took root in greece.theslight and scanty details of the ancient religious mysteries of egypt centre round the

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ed soul passes ever onward and upward, and still uses its mystical hymn.itreaches the pools of the two truths, shown by the two quadrangular figures; it passes through anrutf, the gate of the north, and through the gate of tajeser, and it saith to the mystical guardians 'give me your strength, for i am made even as ye. then comes the mystical eye of osiris representing the orb of the sun, and the cow, symbolic of the great water, the blue firmament of heaven. next the adorationofthe lords oftruthbehind the northern heaven 'hail unto ye, ye lords oftruth,ye chiefs behind osiris! ye followers of her whose peaceissure' then the soul arises at the mystic pool of persea trees, wherein is horus, symbolised by the great cat, who slays the evil serpent, apophis. last of the symbols of the 17th cha

they were rightly served, being cruel unfeeling people, and that god would never allow such to prosper. i hinted that i had heard among the romani of certain spellsthatbrought ill-luck on man and beast, whereon she smiled, and said it was useless to tell anything to a person who knew so much. this was a clear evasion,butit cameprettynear to an admission. on another interview i asked her whether a cow's milk could be drawn off without touching the cow, and she said of courseitcould, it only needed a rope plaited backwards, laid between the cow's hind legs and out at the byre door. you could then milk the end of the rope. only itwitchcraft145must be done in the devil's name. this was, as students of pitcairn will recognize, one of isabel goudie's spells, and it was very interestingtofind it

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

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

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

nspiring communication and moral concepts of communication of the era of which one lives. as ipos makes men witty and bold, they have a confidence boost through inspiration and self-reliance. w aim aim is a duke whom appears as a man with three heads one as a serpent, the second a human head having two stars on the forehead (burning like an image of the morning star or lucifer) and the third as a cow. aim rides upon a large viper who carries a firebrand in his hand from which he sets cities and great places on fire. aim is a spirit of selfdevelopment and force of will, whom is also of inner divination. he has 26 legions of inferior spirits. x naiberius 47 naiberius is a marquis whom comes forth as a black crane, who flies about the circle. this is a spirit of the witchcraft which makes men

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ad resolved to draw away from what was left of his creation: as i live my heart is weary of staying with mankind. i have gone on killing them [almost] to the very last one, so the [insignificant] remnant is not my affair. 26 the sun god then rose into the sky on the back of the sky-goddess nut who (for the purposes of the precessional metaphor about to be delivered) had transformed herself into a cow. before very long in a close analogy to the shaft-tree that shivered on amlodhi s wildly gyrating mill the cow grew dizzy and began to shake and to tremble because she was so high above the earth. 27 when she complained to ra about this precarious state of affairs he commanded, let my son shu be put beneath nut to keep guard for me over the heavenly supports which exist in the twilight. put he

ldly gyrating mill the cow grew dizzy and began to shake and to tremble because she was so high above the earth. 27 when she complained to ra about this precarious state of affairs he commanded, let my son shu be put beneath nut to keep guard for me over the heavenly supports which exist in the twilight. put her above your head and keep her there. 28 as soon as shu had taken his place beneath the cow and had stabilized her body, the heavens above and the earth beneath came into being. at the same moment, the four legs of the cow, as egyptologist wallis budge commented in his classic study the gods of the egyptians, became the four props of heaven at the four cardinal points .29 like most scholars, budge understandably assumed that the cardinal points referred to in this ancient egyptian tr

e gods of the egyptians, became the four props of heaven at the four cardinal points .29 like most scholars, budge understandably assumed that the cardinal points referred to in this ancient egyptian tradition had strictly terrestrial connotations and that heaven represented nothing more than the sky above our heads. he took it for granted that the point of the metaphor was for us to envisage the cow s four legs as positioned at the four points of the compass north, south, east and west. he also thought and even today few egyptologists would disagree with him that the simpleminded priests of heliopolis had actually believed that the sky had four corners which were supported on four legs and that shu, the skybearer par excellence, had stood immobile like a pillar at the centre of the whole

yptologists would disagree with him that the simpleminded priests of heliopolis had actually believed that the sky had four corners which were supported on four legs and that shu, the skybearer par excellence, had stood immobile like a pillar at the centre of the whole edifice.30 reinterpreted in the light of santillana s and von dechend s findings, however, shu and the four legs of the celestial cow look much more like the components of an archaic scientific symbol depicting the frame of a precessional world age the polar axis (shu) and the colures (the four legs or props marking the equinoctial and solstitial cardinal points in the annual round of the sun. moreover, it is tempting to speculate which world age was being 25 myth and symbol in ancient egypt, p. 181-5. 26 ibid, p. 184. 27 ib

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

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

tes. harpocrates effect, faith, acceptance, innocence. he is horus, the child. he is like the fool of the tarot. he is often shown sitting on a lotus with the first finger of his right hand resting against his closed lips in his role ofthe god of silence. hathor maternal force, protection, sustenance, fertility. hathor is the consort of horas. her name means 'house of horus' she has the form of a cow in role of the eternal mother. sothis initiation (femiriine, evolution, growth sothis is the godde ss of the dog star whose annual rise into the heavens marked 67 the advent of the nile river's inundation and thus assured another year of bounty. she is shown naked to ind cate that she holds no secrets from her followers. apis emotions, sacrifice, passion, lust, desire. apis has the form of a b

nd meadows, meandering riverlets and quiet ponds abound in this square. it is a wonderland of nature. step 7. search the square for the egyptian deity. you should see the god horus, a handsome and friendly man. he is the main force behind the lush vegetation and animal life found in this square. he represents the natural forces of invigoration and growth. the sphinx that accompanies him is a huge cow with broad wings whose udder is swollen with milk step 8. the archangel here is nlmur (nel-mu-ar. his number is 318, the number for harg-blior meaning "to plant with cor port" because of nlmur, planting and sowing is extremely easy in this region of rich fertile soil. the angel is lmur (el-mu-ar) whose number is 268, the number for moz-ma-of-fas meaning "joy that cannot be measured" and also b

command you. see a black ray of light flecked with red emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the desiring angels of earth has entered your cup. step 6. hold the talisman of earth of water high above the cup and say, 333 may the cohesive angels of water come to me now. those who hold true to what they renew; by the power of hmagl (heh-mah-gel) and the cow goddess hathor, the mother of heaven, do i command you. see a pale blue ray of light flecked with black emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the cohesive angels of water has entered your cup. hold the talisman of water of water high above the cup and say, may the regenerative angels of water come to me now. those who review what they renew; by th

i bind you. in the name of your king ikzhikal (ee-keh-zod-hee-kal) i call you. i bind you. in the name of the formula mika babalon (mee-kah bah-bah-loh-en) whose number is your own; five hundred, six, and sixty. 349 i call you. i bind you. piripsol, piripsol (pee-ree-pess-oh-leh) mika babalon (mee-kah bah-bah-loh-en) i call you. i bind you. from your square a of black earth where horns milks his cow where the influence of the element water produces the hanged man, come forth and appear in this triangle. in the name of taxir (tah-etzee-ar) i call you. i bind you. by these names i evoke you. leave your abode in the kingdom of earth and appear to me here in the magical triangle without this circle in fair shape and true. come forth axir (ah-etzee-ar) and manifest yourself before me. step 7

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

r merrymaking (p. 279, so a pofsteru-himt, performed by the country-folk themselves on the thursday before christmas, is become an established custom in the entlibuch. the posterli^ is imagined to be a spectre in the shape of an old woman or she-goat (conf, p. 916. in the evening the young fellows of the village assemble, and with loud shouts and clashing of tins, blowing of alp-horns, ringing of cow-bells and goat-bells, and cracking of whips, tramp over hill and dale to another village, where the young men receive them with the like uproar. one of the party represents the^ infantum animae flentes in limine primo, quos dulcis vitae exsortes et ab ubere raptos abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo. virg. aen. 6, 427. in the lutrod. to the pentameron the revival of a dead man depends o

ee; and antechriste is brought in too- a fragment of an older lay of the 14th cent (cod. pal. 844) says of emp. frederick' an dem gejaid er verschwant (in the hunt he disappeared, das man den edeln keiser her sind gesach (saw) nyemer mer; also ward der silver belt i'ound it, it would have shot up into the air as the birch did. another account makes the blind giant ask the sailors if the jiyiglhig-cow by the church (meaning the bell or belfry) were uill alive 1 they answered yes, and he challenged one of them to hold out his hand, that he might see if the inhabitants had any strength left. they handed him a boat-bar made redhot, which he crushed together, saying there was no great strength there (faye p. 17. a story in odman's bahuslan 153-4 has similar variations: a ship's crew, driven out

i would doubtless build for thee, so roomy that thou canst garner all thy crop therein, and ere to-morrow's dawn shall it stand ready in thy yard, if thou wilt make over to me ivhatsoever hidden -property thou ownest^ the peasant thought of treasures underground, which could do him no good till they were lifted, and he closed with the stranger's offer: not till he turned to leave did he notice a cow's foot and homo's foot peep out fi'om under the gray coat. he went home, and told his wife what had happened to him in the field' my god! what hast thou done? i have a child unborn, and thou hast signed it away to the evil one' the moment it was dark, a tremendous din arose in the farmyard, carters, carpenters, masons working away together, the devil as architect directing the whole business

l ollum]?eim sem eptir]^er soekja' be there mist and magic and much wonder to all that seek after thee, nialss. cap. 12. a formula used by fr. magicians on mounting the stick is given, but not completely, by boguet p. ill 'haston hlanc, baston noir, etc' of indian sorceresses we are likewise told, that they repeat a formula for flight: kalaratri said it and immediately, with her disciples and the cow-stall on whose roof she stood, she flew aloft and along the path of cloud, whither she would; a man, having overheard her, made use of the same spell to go after her (somad. 2, 58-9, exactly as in our tales of witches men get acquainted with their salves and spells, and pursue them (see suppl. where is the first mention of sticjc and broom riding to be found? actually i can only produce a tole

a fuher account: the hered. key is put inside a hered. bible, so that the ward part of the key lies on the words' in the beginning was the word' and the ring stands out of the book. they tie it up tight with string, and hang it up by the end of the string to the ceiling. then two people hold their fingers under the ring, touching it gently, and the injured party asks' has there been a witch at my cow' the other must say no, and the complainant answer yes, and this they keep up for some time. if the cow be really bewitched, the bible begins to turn round, and then more questions are asked. if there has been no witchery, or the wrong witch is named, the bible remains still. the turnings of sieve and key resemble those of the ivishuig-rod, p. 975. 3 the observationes ad ivonis epistolas p. 15

and weeping announces impending misfortune. in bohemian too scdlisko is a seat and also the nightmare, perhaps because the demon mounts and rides (incubus. 1136 supeestition. when the gnjadrot (charadrius) turns his head away from the sick man (see suppl. in the same way other animals give notice of a death: when a priest is called in^ and his horse lowers his head, sup. m, 35; when a black ox or cow has been killed in the house, i, 887, which points right back to ancient sacrifices. also the mole burrowing in a human habitation 555. 601. 881, the cricket chirping 555. 600. 930^ the ivoodtvorm ticking 901, and mice nibbling at the clothes of a sleeper (see suppl. prophetic ants, sup. k, 88; m, 99. a spider running toward you early in the morning is unlucky, but there are luck-spinners too

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

of a worm seated under the tongue, and this' tollwurm' can be cut out. one ailment of horses is called the animal diseases. 1163 hlowiiig ivorm (spell xv, wliicli reminds of the blowing liolden, p. 1157. another, of horses or of oxen, is the liiiiische: staid. 2, 61 makes it burning of the spleen or cold tumour, otherwise called 'the evil wind' tobl. p. 70; in lower hesse it is swollen udder in a cow, and the charm there muttered against it is: die hilnsche und der dmche (dragon) die giengen liber die bache (beck; die hiiusche die vertrank (was drowned, al. verschwauk vanished, der drache der versank. a charm in mone's anz. 465 begins' there went three blessed virgins over a liuntschen hill, the hilntsclien meets them, and one says, here is the ituntsche' certainly the word seems to contai

been looked on with no small veneration as a shreiu-asji. now a shrew-ash is an ash whose twigs or branches, when gently applied to the limhs of cattle, will immediately relieve the pains which a beast suffers from the running of a shreimnouse over the part affected. for it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. a shreiv-ash was made thus^ into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and

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es the 122. people believe that goats have their beards combed out everv fridav night by the elves (croker 3, 204. 4 hence the name futtermdnnchen (confounded at times with petermdnnchen: but often he has one favourite horse that he pays special attention to, taking hay out of the others cribs to bring to him. faye p 44 home-sprite. 511 the beds of sluggards, blows their light out, turns the best cow s neck awry, kicks the dawdling milkmaid s pail over, and mocks her with insulting laughter; his good-nature turns into worrying and love of mischief, he becomes a( tormenting spirit. agemund in the eeinardus 4, 859-920 seems to me no other than a housedaemon, distorted and exaggerated by the poet, disturbing the maid in her sleep, her milking and churning (see suppl. 1 servants, to keep on go

d trickle: by the power of him who sent the heat, the drops quickened into life, and a man grew out of them, ymir, called orgelmir by the hrimjmrses, a giant and evil of nature. ymir went to sleep, and fell into a sweat, then under his left hand grew man and wife, and one of his feet engendered with the other a six-headed son; hence are sprang the families of giants. but the ice dripped on, and a cow arose, auffumbla, from whose udder flowed four streams of milk, conveying nourishment to ymir. then the cow licked the salty ice-rocks, and on the evening of the first day a man s hand came forth, the second day the man s head, the third day the whole man; he was beau tiful, large, strong, his name was buri, and his son s name borr (p. 349* borr took to him bestla,tln.e giant bolfiorn s daught

counts together, it is obvious in the first place, that only the men and dwarfs are regarded as being really created, while the giants and gods come, as it were, of themselves out of chaos. to the production of men and dwarfs there went a formative agency on the part of gods; giants and gods, without any such agency, made their appearance under the mere action of natural heat and the licking of a cow. giants and gods spring out of a combination of fire with water, yet so that the element converted into ice must recover its fluidity before it becomes capable of production. the giant and the cow drip out of the frost, buri slowly extricates himself in three days from the thawing mass of ice. this dripping origin reminds us of some other features in antiquity; thus, 03inn had a gold ring drau

water boiled on the frictile fire, and sprinkled with the same effect, so eccard (fr. or. 1, 425) tells us, that one whitsun morning he sawsome stablemen rub fire out of wood, and boil their cabbage over it, under the belief that by eating it they would be proof against fever all that year. a remarkable story from northamptonshire, and of the present century, confirms that sacrifice of the young cow in mu]l, and shows that even in england superstitious people would kill a calf to protect the herd from pestilence: miss c and her cousin walking saw a fire in a field, and a crowd round it. they said, what is the matter? killing a calf. 3 c what for? to stop the murrain/ they went away as quickly as possible. on speaking to the clergyman, he made inquiries. the people did not like to talk of

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

e quadriga bourn ferebat/ chapeaville 2, 69 (an. 1129. a chariot drawn by four white oxen in lorraine occurs in scheffer s haltaus, p. 251. in plutarch s marius cap. 23 is the well-known story of the cimbrians swearing over a brazen bull, by which the mecklenburgers account for the bull s head in their arms (mascov i, 13. at hvitabser the people worshipped an osc (fornald. sog. 1, 253, at upsal a cow (i, 254. 260-6. 270-2; see suppl. whilst among horses the stallion is more honoured than the mare, among neat the cow seems to take the lead. kine were yoked to the car of nerthus [and two milch- kine to the ark of jehovah. the bdda speaks of a cow named auffumbla, which plays a great part in the origin of men and gods (p. 559, and was no doubt regarded as a sacred beast. by the side of that f

han the mare, among neat the cow seems to take the lead. kine were yoked to the car of nerthus [and two milch- kine to the ark of jehovah. the bdda speaks of a cow named auffumbla, which plays a great part in the origin of men and gods (p. 559, and was no doubt regarded as a sacred beast. by the side of that faith in horses (p. 656) we find an atruna^r a ku. king eysteinn of sweden put faith in a cow called sibilja: f hun var sva miok blotin (so much worshipped, at menn mattu eigi standast lat hennar; they used to lead her into battle, fornald. sog. 1, 254. 26(x king ogvaldr carried a sacred cow with him everywhere, by sea and by land, and constantly drank of her milk (fornm. sog. 2, 138. 10,302! the horns of cows, like the manes of horses, were adorned with gold: gullhyrndar kyr/ saem. 73

s. cu, on. kyr. what is more important, f go likewise means terra and plaga (bopp s gram. 123. gloss, p. 108b, so that it touches the gr. ya, 7. taking with this the presence of auffumbla in the norse history of creation, we can perhaps connect rinta (the earth) and rindr (p. 251) with our rind armentum; it is true this rind originally began with hr (graff 4, 1171, and is the 1 what can the black cow mean in the following phrases? the b. c. crushes him (hiipel s livland. idiot. 131; the b. c. has trodden him (etner s apoth. 514. the hor. belg. 6, 97. 101 (conf. 223) speaks van onser goeden blaren coe, van miere blaren coe; and ir. elfenm. cxx. of the blue cow. it is dangerous to kill the black cow, sup. i, 887. a slovenic name for the rainbow is mavra= black cow [eng. the b. c. has trodden

[eng. the b. c. has trodden on his foot, of sorrow, esp. bereavement] 666 teees and animals. as. hryfter, hroser, but wlio can tell whether rinde cortex was not once aspirated too? evpatrrj, the name of one quarter of the earth, must surely also mean earth (evpela the broad, and on p. 338 i made a guess that euro-pa, whom zeus courted in the shape of a bull, must herself have been thought of as a cow, like lo; it was not the earth took name from her, but she from the earth. on the worship of cows and oxen by the indians, egypt ians and eomans, i refer to a. w. schlegel s learned treatise.1 the israelites also made a burnt-offering of a red heifer (goth, kalbo) upon which never came yoke/ numb. 19, 2 (see suppl. the boar and the lie-goat were holy sacrificial beasts (p. 50-1-2, the boar 2 d

r thence will come the bridegroom. thus the beetle seems a messenger of the goddess of love; but the number of the black spots on his wings has to be considered too: if more than seven, corn will be scarce that year, if less, you may look for an abundant harvest, afzel. 3, 112-3. the little coccinella septempunctata has mythical names in nearly all our dialects: nhg. gotteskiililein (god s little cow, 2 gotteskalb, herrgotteskalb, herrgotts-thiercheu(-beastie, herrgots- voglein(-birdie, marienvoglein, marienkafer, marienkalblein; engl. ladycowj ladybird, ladyfly; dan. marihone(-hen; boh. jcrawlca, krawicka (little cow. in up. germany they call the small goldbeetle (chrysomela vulg) fraua-chueli, ladycow (tobler 1 an old description of the maygrave feast by ulr. petersen (in falck s new sta

o libidinis effrenatae quae regnat/ l the slavic name for the rainbow is 0. si. duga, serv. and russ. duga, duga nebeskia, boh. dulia, prop, a stave (tabula, of a cask, hence bow; the servians say, any male creature that passes under the rainbow turns into a female, and a female into a male (vuk sub v. 2 two slovenic names we find in murko: mdvra, mdvritsa, which usually means a blackish-brindled cow; and bozhyi stolets, god s stool, just as the rainbow is a chair of the welsh goddess geridwen (dav. brit. myth. 204; conf( god s chair/ supra p. 136. lett, warrawihksne, liter, the mighty beech? lith. laumes yosta, lauma s or laima s girdle (sup. p. 416; also dangaus yosta heaven s girdle, jdlpinnis dangaus heaven s bow, urorykszte weather-rod; more significant is the legend from polish lithu

l. 769 pole. 1 in the altmark, the wendish villages about salzwedel, especially seeben (where we saw hennil still in use, p. 749, have preserved the following custom: at whitsuntide rnenservants and maids tie fir-branches, straw and hay into a large figure, giving it as much as possible a human shape. profusely garlanded with field-flowers, the image is fastened, sitting up right, on the brindled cow (of which more hereafter, and lastly a pipe cut out of alder wood stuck in its mouth. so they conduct it into the village, where all the houses are barred and bolted, and every one chases the cow out of his yard, till the figure falls off, or goes to pieces (ad. kuhn s mark, sagen, p. 316-7. from switzerland, tobler 425-6 gives us a popular play in rhymes, which betray a swabian origin, and co

hang ing till the next year. on whitsun morning the cows and horses are driven for the first time to the fallow pasture, and it is a great thing to be the first there. the animal that arrives first has a bunch of mai 3 tied to its tail, which bunch is called dau-sleipe (dew-sweep, 1 while the last comer is dressed up in fir-twigs, all sorts of green stuff and field flowers, and called the motley cow or motley horse, and the boy belonging to it the pingst-kddm or pingst-kddrel. at havelberg the cow that came home first at night used to be adorned with the crown of flowers, and the last got the t/tau-schleife; now this latter practice is alone kept up. 2 in some of the altmark villages, the lad whose horse gets to the pasture first is named thau-schlepper, and he who drives the hindmost is

e of death, into the sea on whose shore standsjjjpen the mouth of heiftaftyss r (see suppl. a north english song, that used to 6e sung at lykewakes, names the bridge of dread, no brader than a thread, over which the soul has to pass in the under world (j. thorns anecd. and trad. pp. 89. 90. the same bridge is mentioned in the legend of tundalus (hahn s ed. pp. 49. 50: the soul must drive a stolen cow over it. 3 the same meaning as in the voyage of souls over the gulf or 1 owen s diet. 2, 214. villemarque 1, 135. 2 the narrow bridge is between purgatory and paradise, even owain the hero had to cross it (scott s minstr. 2, 360-1. in striking harmony with it (as supra p. 574) is a mahom. tradition given in sale s koran (ed. 1801, introd. 120: in the middle of hell all souls must walk over a b

wool (ageruld, d. vis. 1, 265. 300. akeridl, sv. vis. 2, 199, a sort of grass with a woolly flower (eriophorum polystachium; the same wishing-cloth occurs in norske ev. 1, 44. 274, it is pulled out of a mare s ear, p. 112. other wishingcloths have to be spun in silence, or the hemp for them must be picked, baked, braked, hatchelled, spun and woven all in one day. the servians tell of a miraculous cow, out of whose ear yarn is spun, she is then killed and buried, and miracles are wrought on her grave. a wishing-cow kdmaduh or kdmadhenu is mentioned in indian myth (pott 2, 421. somadeva 1, 198; vol. ii. f p 872 destine and well-being. a wixhing-goat, who procures money, in the norw. tales 1,45; an ass in pentam. 1,1. the machandelbom (juniper) in our fairy-tale is a wishing-tree, so is that

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, amenhotep (amenophis) iii (c. 1390 1352 bce. hatshepsut s famous mortuary temple at deir el-bahri in thebes had many innovative features, such as an open court for solar worship inscribed with a summary of the ruler s secret knowledge about the sun god. 42 both hatshepsut and thutmose iii built special shrines where ordinary people could come to pray to deities such as the goddess hathor in her cow form or amun of the hearing ear. 43 amenhotep iii enlarged or founded numerous temples, and many of the features introduced by his architects remained standard for c. 1,500 years. he commissioned huge numbers of divine statues to stress his identification with all the deities of egypt. amenhotep iii sometimes gave himself the attributes of a lunar deity while his chief wife, queen tiy, was ide

apophis and the other chaos monsters. even more remarkably, the corpses of osiris and the rest of the dead can be shown waiting for their temporary revival by the sun god in the sixth hour of the night. the osireion at abydos was probably constructed as a setting for this mystical union between ra and osiris. in two compositions that are often counted as underworld books, the book of the heavenly cow and the litany of ra, the genre develops in different directions. the former is centered on a complex image of the sky goddess in cow form (see figure 26, but part of the text is a lively narrative about why ra felt driven to leave earth after crushing a rebellion among humanity (see the destruction of humanity under linear time in mythical time lines. this story may have originated in a dawn

statues, such as why the temple grounds at buto contained a floating island or why amun could be shown with a ram s head. these are not unlike the kinds of tales told to gullible tourists by unofficial egyptian guides at the monuments today. the bizarre legends herodotus relates about some egyptian kings, such as a tale of king mycerinus (menkara) raping his own daughter and burying her inside a cow, may have reflected contemporary folktales. the egyptians had a long tradition of telling unflattering stories about past kings. between 404 and 343 bce, several dynasties of egyptian-born kings were able to keep the persians out of egypt. the three kings of the thirtieth dynasty instituted a style of art and architecture that was to continue under their foreign successors. a thirtieth dynasty

other religions, see s. g. f. brandon, the judgement of the dead: an historical and comparative study of the idea of post-mortem judgement in the major religions (london, 1967. 60. for example, a man named neferabu describes how the goddess meretseger struck him down like a savage lioness because he had sinned against her. this seems to be a reference to the myth told in the book of the heavenly cow of humanity s being punished for its sins by the unleashing of a terrible lioness. for a translation of neferabu s stela, see appendix: primary sources. 61. owing to the occupation of the villagers, there was an unusually high literacy rate in deir el-medina. even so, most of the artists probably could not read the texts of the underworld books they copied onto the walls of the royal tombs. fo

99. for these two books, see m. smith, the liturgy of the opening of the mouth for breathing (oxford, 1993; and f. t. herbin, le livre de parcourir l ternit (leuven, belgium, 1994. 100. other examples of continuing knowledge of ancient religious texts in the roman period are provided in a version of the new kingdom book of nut in papyrus carlsberg i and the use of part of the book of the heavenly cow in a compilation known as the book of the fayum. for translations, see bofn and bhc in appendix: primary sources. 101. this tale is part of a series of stories (the petubastis cycle) set in the third intermediate period. some commentators believe that homer s iliad was an influence on this cycle. by the roman period the egyptians were claiming that homer had been born in thebes and was a son o

even before creation began, the world contained the elements of its own destruction. 58 handbook of egyptian mythology emergence of the creator summary: the creator attains consciousness and becomes lonely. he/she differentiates the elements of chaos by speaking their names. the first light or the first sound begins the process of creation. the creator appears as the sun god. he may be born to a cow, emerge from a lotus on the water or from an egg, or alight in the form of a bird on the first mound of solid land. the creator was the unique one in the nun who existed in this womblike environment as one who is in his egg. the creator was in an inert state, yet this state contained the potential for all life. passages in the coffin texts stress that the self-created god came into being alone

first sunrise was a blue lotus rising above the surface of the nun (see lotus in deities, themes, and concepts. from the new kingdom onward, a naked child or a ram-headed figure was shown sitting in the lotus to represent the newborn sun. the fertile aspect of the nun could be personified as the goddess mehet-weret, whose name means the great flood or the great swimmer. she was usually shown as a cow and was considered the mother of all the primeval beings, including apophis. mehet-weret was envisaged as giving birth to the sun child and lifting him up on her horns. a new kingdom hymn tells us that with the first light the sky became like gold and the primeval waters like lapis-lazuli. mythical time lines 59 the sun might also be thought of as emerging from a cosmic egg laid by a primeval

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

e, is man. in many mythologies, the gods make several attempts at creating people before they are satisfied. such myths usually involve the destruction of the unsatisfactory part of humanity. as early as the middle kingdom, there are references to the creator deciding to destroy humanity and abandon the earth.24 the fullest version of this myth is given in a text known as the book of the heavenly cow, which is inscribed in five royal tombs of the new kingdom. the earliest copy is on one of the large golden shrines surrounding the coffins of king tutankhamun.25 the destruction of humanity. after ra had become the ruler of both gods and men, humanity plotted against him, while his majesty, may he live, may he prosper, may he be healthy, had grown old. his bones became silver, his flesh becam

ribes a rebellion by the people of nubia in the 363rd year of ra s reign. the rebels are tricked into killing each other, and their leader, seth, is beheaded. a myth in papyrus jumilhac tells how the goddess isis transforms herself into a form of hathor, slaughters all the followers of seth with fire, and wades in their blood. this might seem to be a direct borrowing from the book of the heavenly cow, but it should probably be seen as an example of a repeating pattern of events. in the book of the heavenly cow, even though the rebels have been defeated, the world can never be the same again. ra announces that he is sick and weary, and he cannot bear to remain on earth. nun, the god of the primeval waters, orders shu and nut to help ra. nut is transformed into a cow, and ra rides away on he

tian mythology wife. that geb s claim to the throne is disputed is clear from an episode in which he tries to put on his father s headdress and is burned by its serpent guardian. eventually, geb is accepted as ruler and has to rally his forces to defend egypt against the children of apophis. more usually, geb was regarded as the legitimate ruler of everything on earth. in the book of the heavenly cow, geb seems to be the chosen heir of the departing sun god. the warnings in this text about the need to control the snakes who are in the earth and the water suggest that geb s reign was not thought of as a peaceful one. in the fragmentary tale of astarte and the sea, a sea monster opposes the gods and exacts tribute from geb and nut. a few scattered references allude to a myth in which osiris

ame deity. the place of horus s birth is said to be in the delta, usually in the region of chemmis. to evade his enemies, the divine child was hidden inside a papyrus thicket or on a floating island. this nest of horus is one of the few mythical places that is commonly shown in egyptian art. temple wall scenes depict kings in the role of the horus child in the marshes being washed or suckled by a cow. this cow can be identified with a number of goddesses but most often with hathor, whose name literally means mansion of horus. she seems to have been regarded as the mother of horus the elder and the wet nurse or foster mother of horus the younger.37 many other deities were imagined as protecting the divine child whenever isis was forced to be absent. in literary spells these deities can be c

was torn out and swallowed or broken into pieces by seth. in some versions, both eyes of horus are blinded or torn out. although seth is the aggressor, he is sometimes said to be punishing horus for mutilating or raping his mother, isis.41 in the contendings of horus and seth, horus becomes angry with his mother for helping seth and cuts off her head. one myth has thoth heal isis by giving her a cow s head to replace the head that horus has taken away.42 the ennead decrees that horus should be punished. seth rips out the eyes of horus and buries them on a mountainside, where they grow into lotuses. in this story, the eyes of horus are restored by his foster mother, hathor. in other versions he is healed by isis or thoth. the latter is particularly associated with finding the eye of horus

caused by the return of the distant goddess from nubia. every year, the fearsome goddess had to be persuaded to return home and take on a benevolent form as she reached the southern border of egypt. kiosk-shrines built on the water s edge were decorated with comical figures of dwarfs or ani- 90 handbook of egyptian mythology figure 18. the sun child inside the ouroboros snake supported by the sky cow and the lions of yesterday and tomorrow. vignette from the funerary papyrus of herweben (british museum) mals dancing and playing musical instruments to pacify the goddess and welcome the inundation (see figure 14. alternatively, the nile flood could be seen as the tears that isis wept every year for her murdered husband or as the efflux from the decaying body of osiris (see osiris in deities

one spell refers to anat fighting alongside ra against a troop of wild donkeys who embodied the forces of chaos. so fierce was this contest that anat gathered the blood of the wounded sun god in fifteen metal bowls. king rameses iii claimed that anat had been his shield in the equally desperate struggle against the invading sea peoples. in canaanite mythology, anat and baal mated in the forms of cow and bull; in egypt, anat was called the great cow of seth. in a myth used in several spells, seth sees the seed goddess bathing and has sex with her. only the creator sun god is allowed to mate with the seed goddess, so this sacrilegious act poisons seth. anat, the woman who acts like a warrior, hastens to her father ra to demand help for seth. perhaps out of fear of his warrior daughter, ra h

ti sometimes embodies the bad qualities of horus, but in coffin texts spell 942 he is a manifestation of seth who is shaved or skinned by a goddess in revenge for turning the land upside down. a myth in papyrus jumilhac explains why the cult statue of anti is made of silver rather than the usual gold. anti was condemned for some terrible crime that he had committed, probably the decapitation of a cow goddess. his skin and his flesh were flayed off his bones as a punishment and hung on a pole. like all gods, anti s flesh was made of gold and his bones of silver, so only the silver was left. when anti was forgiven, the cow goddess restored his flesh with her healing milk. anti seems to be identical with nemty, another divine falcon who was punished by the gods. in a new kingdom story the div

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y made on earth for the gods, and the boat of ra shall travel on its way. in other words, the deceased undertakes to provide offerings to the gods whom he mentions so long as he is allowed to rejoin his relatives at will, but if he is hindered in any way, he threatens that the progress of ra himself shall be hindered, and that the god shall suffer the loss of his heart with its word of power. the cow-goddess hathor is said to endue him with the protection of her magical power, and the earth-god seb to supply him with all he needs, and the guardian of the staff [of life] promises that he shall be supplied with food and air in the great field, because the ancestors of the deceased who are already living there have given orders to this effect. these same ancestors, it is declared, shall come

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they would light fires on the top of sentinel hill, at which times the mountain rumblings would recur with greater and greater violence; while at all seasons there were strange and portentous doings at the lonely farm-house. in the course of time callers professed to hear sounds in the sealed upper storey even when all the family were downstairs, and they wondered how swiftly or how lingeringly a cow or bullock was usually sacrificed. there was talk of a complaint to the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals but nothing ever came of it, since dunwich folk are never anxious to call the outside world's attention to themselves. about 1923, when wilbur was a boy of ten whose mind, voice, stature, and bearded face gave all the impressions of maturity, a second great siege of carpentr

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will follow. it has been said before that consciousness is timeless and spaceless, and it is not necessary, while doing the exercises with living creatures, to have the object concerned directly before our eyes. by now the scholar should be trained to far as to be able to imagine any creature he likes to. let him therefore transplant is consciousness in the imagination of a cat, a dog, a horse, a cow, a goat, etc. the kind of experimental object does not matter; it might as well be an ant, a bird, or an elephant. at first one begins with the imagination of the animal in the motionless condition, later on walking, running, creeping, flying or swimming, corresponding to the kind of object in question. the scholar must be able to transmute his consciousness in any form he likes to without int

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his head, a half-worn blanket about him trailing on the floor, and a torn vest under it, and kept his face covered with the blanket held before it. mrs. haltridge asked him several questions: where he came from? where he was going? was he cold or hungry? and so on; but instead of answering her he got up and danced very nimbly round the kitchen, and then ran out of the house and disappeared in the cow-shed. the servants ran after him, but he was nowhere to be seen; when they returned to the house, however, there he was beside them. they tried to catch him, but every time they attempted it he ran off and could not 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

s of our present pharmacopoeia. the following account of this is taken from the belfast news- letter for 21st august 1807, as well as from some notes by m'skimin in young's historical notice of old belfast. one tuesday night (evidently in august 1807) an extraordinary affair took place in the house of a tailor named alexander montgomery, who lived hard by carnmoney meeting-house. the tailor had a cow which continued to give milk as usual, but of late no butter could be produced from it. an opinion was unfortunately instilled into the mind of montgomery's wife, that whenever such a thing occurred, it was occasioned by the cow having been bewitched. her belief in this was p. 226 strengthened by the fact that every old woman in the parish was able to relate some story illustrative of what she

ng been bewitched. her belief in this was p. 226 strengthened by the fact that every old woman in the parish was able to relate some story illustrative of what she had seen or heard of in times gone by with respect to the same. at length the family were informed of a woman named mary butters, who resided at carrigfergus. they went to her, and brought her to the house for the purpose of curing the cow. about ten o'clock that night war was declared against the unknown magicians. mary butters ordered old montgomery and a young man named carnaghan to go out to the cow-house, turn their waistcoats inside out, and in that dress to stand by the head of the cow until she sent for them, while the wife, the son, and an old woman named margaret lee remained in the house with her. montgomery and his a

had the desired effect. the house had a sulphureous smell, and on the fire was a large pot in which were milk, needles, pins, and crooked nails. at the inquest held at carnmoney on the 19th of august, the jurors stated that the three victims had come by their deaths from suffocation, owing to mary butters having made use of some noxious ingredients, after the manner of a charm, to recover a sick cow. she was brought up at the assizes, but was discharged by proclamation. her version of the story was, that a black man had appeared in the house armed with a huge club, with which he killed the three persons and stunned herself. lamentable though the whole affair was, as well for the gross superstition displayed by the participants as for its tragical ending, yet it seems to have aroused no ot

aid scots" it adds some picturesque details to the more prosaic account of the news-letter "in carrick town a wife did dwell who does pretend to conjure witches. auld barbara goats, or lucky bell, ye'll no lang to come through her clutches, a waeful trick this wife did play on simple sawney, our poor tailor. she's mittimiss'd the other day to lie in limbo with the jailor. this simple sawney had a cow, was aye as sleekit as an otter; it happened for a month or two aye when they churn'd they got nae butter, rown-tree tied in the cow's tail, and vervain glean'd about the ditches; these freets and charms did not prevail, they could not banish the auld witches. the neighbour wives a' gathered in in number near about a dozen; elspie dough, and mary linn, an' kate m'cart, the tailor's cousin. p

s tail, and vervain glean'd about the ditches; these freets and charms did not prevail, they could not banish the auld witches. the neighbour wives a' gathered in in number near about a dozen; elspie dough, and mary linn, an' kate m'cart, the tailor's cousin. p. 229 aye they churn'd and aye they swat, their aprons loos'd, and coost their mutches but yet nae butter they could get, they blessed the cow but curst the witches. had sawney summoned all his wits and sent awa for huie mertin, he could have gall'd the witches' guts, an' cur't the kye to nannie barton. 1 but he may shew the farmer's wab, an' lang wade through carnmoney gutters; alas! it was a sore mis-jab when he employ'd auld mary butters. the sorcerest open'd the scene with magic words of her invention, to make the foolish people

ld mary butters. the sorcerest open'd the scene with magic words of her invention, to make the foolish people keen who did not know her base intention, she drew a circle round the churn, and washed the staff in south-run water, 2 and swore the witches she would burn, but she would have the tailor's butter. when sable night her curtain spread then she got on a flaming fire; the tailor stood at the cow's head with his turn'd waistcoats 3 in the byre. p. 230 the chimney covered with a scraw an' every crevice where it smoak'd, but long before the cock did craw the people in the house were choak'd. the muckle pot hung on all night, as mary butters had been brewing in hopes to fetch some witch or wight, whas entrails by her art were stewing. in this her magic a' did fail; nae witch nor wizard wa

umstance, no doubt many witch-stories would be found to be very similar in origin to the above. as is only to be expected in a country where the majority of the inhabitants are engaged in agricultural pursuits, most of the tales of strange doings are in connection with cattle. at dungannon quarter sessions in june 1890, before sir francis brady, one farmer sued another for breach of warranty in a cow. 1 it was suggested p. 240 that the animal was "blinked" or in other words was under the influence of the "evil eye" or had a pishogue put upon it. the defendant had agreed to send for the curative charm to a wise woman in the mountains. the modus operandi was then proceeded with. three locks of hair were pulled from the cow's forehead, three from her back, three from her tail, and one from un

ocks of hair were pulled from the cow's forehead, three from her back, three from her tail, and one from under her nostrils. the directions continued as follows: the operators were to write the names of eight persons in the neighbourhood whom they might suspect of having done the harm (each name three times, and the one of these eight who was considered to be the most likely to have "blinked" the cow was to be pointed out. when this had been done there was to be a bundle of thatch pulled from the roof of the suspected person. the owner of the cow was then to cut a sod, and take a coal out of the fire on a shovel on which to burn the hair, the thatch, and the paper on which the names had been written. the sod was then to be put to the cow's mouth, and if she licked it she would live. p. 241

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nd horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'heavenly peace-makn* etc" such pictures are not purely astronomical. they represent the mole god and the female goddess, as the sun and moon in conjunction "the union of the triad with the unit" the horns of the cow on the head of isis have the same significance. and so above, below, outside, and inside the cbristiaii church, in the priestly ganneots. and the religious rites, we recognise the stamp of exoteric heathenism. on no subject within the wide range of human knowledge has the world been more blinded or deceived with such per- sistest miarepresentation as on that of antiquity. its hoary past and it

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of the sea. blue is expressive of the hellenic, isidian, ionian, fonian (foni-indian) watery, female, and moonlike principle in the universal theogony. it runs through all the mythologies. the lady-bird, or lady-cow (there is no resemblance between a bird and a cow, it may be remarked en passant, except in this strangely occult, almost ridiculous, affinity, and the rustic rhyme among the children concerning it, may be here remembered: lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home! your house is on fire your children at home! such may be heard in all parts of england when a lady-bird is seen by the children. myths a

xplain and re-render the above rude couplet? the lady-bird is the virgin maria, isis, the mother and producer of nature; the house is the ecliptic it is figuratively on fire, or of fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were in number ten. thus, re-read, the lines run: lady-bird, lady-bird (columba, or dove, fly away home! your hous

y- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic green is the mythic, magic green of venus. the emerald is the smaragdus or smaragd. the name of the insect barnabee, barnbee, burning fire-fly, whose house is of fire, whose children are ten, is red chafer, rother-kaefer, sonnen-kaefer, unser- frawen kohlein, in german; it is sun-chafer, our lady s little cow, isis, or io, or c ow, in english. the children tenne (tin, or tien, is fire in some languages) are the earliest "ten signs "in the zodiacal heavens each sign with its ten decans, or decumens, or lenders of hosts. they are also astronomically called stalls, or stables. we may here refer to porphyry, horapollo, and chifflet s gnostic gems. the speckled beetle was flung into hot water to avert s

d, the series of runes exceeded 700 in number; figures of dragons and a cross were also cut on some of the slabs. there are many mounds of various forms and sizes in this part of orkney, and there is a celebrated circle of druidical stones on the narrow peninsula which divides the two lochs of stennis. pliny says that the word boa, for a snake, comes from bovine, because young snakes are fed with cow s milk. here we have the unexpected and unexplained connection of the ideas of snake and cow. the whole subject is replete with mystery, as well as the interchange of the references to the cross and the dragon found in the insignia of all faiths, and lurking amongst all religious buildings. on a phoenician coin, found at citium or cyprus, and engraved in higgins s celtic druids, p. 117, may be

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

r symbol in moresque arch. the lunar or feminine symbol, is the universal parent of the hindoo and mahometan returned arches; and therefore, also, of the horse-shoe curves of the arabian arches, and the hooked curves of all gothic architectural reproduction, whether in arches or otherwise. chapter the thirtieth. rosicrucianism origin of the order of the garter. he natural horns of the bull or the cow both which animals were deified by the egyptians, and also by the indians, who particularly elected the cow as the object of religious honour were the models from which originally all the volves and volutes, presenting the figure of curved horns, or the significant suggestion of thethin horns of the crescent or growing moon, were obtained. the representative horns figures largely afterwards in

w, the more masculine volves and volutes, or horns, of the roman solid, majestic columns, the capitals to the ruder and more grotesque of the indian temples, the fantastic scrolls and crooks and oval curves, abounding on the tops of the spring columns in the gothic, or more properly to call it, the romantic architecture called pointed, all have a common ancestor in the horns of the bull, calf, or cow. all these horns are everywhere devoted in their signification to the moon. it is in connection with this secondary god or goddess, who is always recognisable through the peculiar appendage of horns, it is in proximity to this god or goddess, who takes the second place in the general pantheon, the sun taking the first, it is here, in all the illustrations which the mythic theology borrows from

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lantations of mexico were raped by deluges. all in certain range of latitude. deluges and falls of lumps of ice throughout england. france deluged. water dropped from the sky in switzerland, flooding some streets five feet deep. it was not rain: there were falling columns of water from what was thought to be a waterspout "bulks dropped! and one of them was watched or some kind of a vast, vaporous cow sailed over the town, and people looked up at her bag of water. something that was described as a large body of water was seen at coburg, ontario. it crossed the town, holding its baglike formation. when it broke, it splashed rivers that broke all dams between coburg and lake ontario. in the toronto globe, june 3, this falling bulk is called a waterspout. fall of a similar bulk was noted in sw

three inches in diameter, arranged approximately in straight lines, on the witches' stone near ratho, scotland. it is explained locally that these are tracks of a dog's feet (in stone. in inverness-shire the marks are called "fairies' footmarks" in norway and other places they are said to be horses' hoof prints. the rocks of clare, in ireland, have prints supposed to have been left by a mythical cow. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. picture coming to strange unexplored, never seen planet, not knew photography or cartography so must mark it, indelibly, no? 114 on u.s. 40, between dayton, ohio, and richmond, indiana, there is a popular roadside stop where tourists pull over to look at the footprints in a large stone by the side of the road. now, in devonshir

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lamech returned to the gate whence they had first set forth to conquer, coming back in defeat and ignominy though indeed they had fought most bravely. thus was the body of lamech borne to his city. upon a bier of cedar, adorned with beaten gold, dragged on by the bulls of his chariot, the king was carried to the city's heart and the throng of his people walked behind the pall, weeping and beating cow-skinned drums. to each side of the pall went his knights, lances raised in high salute to the fallen king. through the city's streets was lamech taken to the catacombs of his line where lay the kings that had sired him, all, save his father, methuselah, who lamech himself had given to the crows to appease the wrath of abaddon and win once more to his left hand the terrible angel and the bleedi

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of california, the fault is a significant seismic hazard and is primed for another big earthquake. and of course, if we survive the storms, the earthquakes, and the rising seas, there is always a bin laden in the area to remind us that our lives can be made significantly briefer than we had planned. and last but not least, there are health issues that require our attention: aids, avian flew, mad cow, and of course, the old standbys: cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. there are many more we can mention here, but by now you ve probably gotten the point. even though some of these health problems aren t new, they are mentioned here because they are rapidly spreading around the globe. 126 kabbalah revealed conclusion: an ancient chinese proverb says that when you want to curse some

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amulets and talismans in different spellings to help magicians conjure demons and protect them from attack by the spirits. the sator square consists of some magical words arranged in the pattern of a square. it was inscribed on walls and vessels as early as ancient rome (753 b.c. a.d. 476) and was considered to be an amulet against sorcery, poisonous air, colic and pestilence, and for protecting cow s milk from witchcraft. similarly, circles inscribed with the names of god were used in england as recently as 1860 to repel demons. eyes and phallic amulet from the book of the angel raziel (fortean picture library) 6 angel heart symbols are widely used on amulets. eyes protect against evil spirits and are found on tombs, walls, utensils, and jewelry. the phallic symbol, often represented by

th symbols painted on them. in august 1979 they circulated a document paraphrasing the testimony of an alleged cult defector. according to his testimony, the cult consisted of wealthy, seemingly respectable citizens, including lawyers, doctors, and veterinarians who owned helicopters and a van with a telescoping lift. in the dark of night, these satanists would use that to extend a man out to the cow, and he would mutilate it from a board platform on the end of the boom and would never touch the ground. the apparatus would telescope back into the vehicle much as a wheelchair lift and not be noticed [the satanists] love the publicity that surrounds the mutilations, and as long as the publicity is in one area they will keep returning because they like to baffle law enforcement (ellis 2000, 2

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

imals that had been sacrificed and of course the recurrent theme of babies that had been sacrificed. and they buried them out back they said, out back of the house and in the field near by. so i proceeded under the assumption that the only way to do it was to clear a sizable area. so we took the pasture out back and literally took the top off of it (papworth 1996, website) nothing beyond a single cow bone was ever recovered. the only evidence was in the recovered memories of numerous survivors. retrospectively, however, it is now clear that these were false memories resulting from improper interview techniques, which, in effect, implanted memories of imagined events by suggestion and leading questions. another factor at the time was the increasing concern over abused children as an importa

LIBER ALEPH

. for this is to state ill thy question. herein is truth and wisdom concerning this matter, that so long as love be not wholly satisfied, and equilibrated by entire fulfilment and exchange, constancy is a point of thy concentration and adultery a division in thy will. but when thou hast the summit and perfection of any work, of what worth is it to continue herein? hast thou two stomachs, as has a cow, to chew the cud of a digested love? yet, o my son, this constancy is not of necessity a stagnation. nay, behold the body of our lady nuith, therein are found twin suns, that revolve constantly about each other. so also it may be in love, that two souls, meeting, discover each in the other such wealth and richness of light and love, and in one phase of life (or incarnation) or even in many, th

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

like butchered swine, she and her maids. it seems she.s lost her man, can ft get another, wanted to claim mine. i put a stopper on the pretty plan. but ever since.well, i can.t say what.s wrong, but something.s wrong. hermes. yes; yes. now is it long? astarte. about a month. hermes. what physic have you tried? astarte. the usual things; young vipers skinned and dried and chopped with rose-leaves; cow.s hoof stewed in dung, one pilule four times daily, on the tongue; lark.s brains in urine after every meal, with just a touch of salt and orange-peel. hermes. and yet he is no better? astarte. not a whit. oh yes, though, not i come to think of it, snails pounded up and taken after food did seem to do some temporary good. of course we kept him on a doubled diet. hermes. have you tried change of

LIBER CCXLII AHA

ul made safe, is vision sure to rise therein? marsyas. though calm and pure it seem, maybe some thought hath crept into his mind to baulk the adept. the expectation of success suffices to destroy the stress of the one thought. but then, what odds .man.s vision goes, dissolves in god.s. or .by god fs grace the light is given to the elected heir of heaven. these are but idle theses, dry dugs of the cow theology. business is business. the one fact that we know is: the gods exact a stainless mirror. cleanse thy soul! perfect the will fs austere control! for the rest, wait! the sky once clear, dawn needs no prompting to appear! olympas. enough! it shall be done. marsyas. beware! easily trips the big word .dare. liber ccxlii 16 each man fs an .dipus, that thinks he hath the four powers of the sp

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e the unknown rivers. it may be that the everlasting salt may turn to sweetness, and that my life may be no longer athirst. 6. o ye that drink of the brine of your desire, ye are nigh to madness! your torture increaseth as ye drink, yet still ye drink. come up through the creeks to the fresh water; i shall be waiting for you with my kisses. 7. as the bezoar-stone that is found in the belly of the cow, so is my lover among lovers. 8. o honey boy! bring me thy cool limbs hither! let us sit awhile in the orchard, until the sun go down! let us feast on the cool grass! bring wine, ye slaves, that the cheeks of my boy may flush red. 9. in the garden of immortal kisses, o thou brilliant one, shine forth! make thy mouth an opium-poppy, that one kiss is the key to the infinite sleep and lucid, the

agistry, and laughed back on him: o lord, o beloved, did these fingers relax on thy curls, or these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phila not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destro

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

ntil we ask what is that one? then again we spin words.words.words. and we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. what is the moon made of? science replies ggreen cheese. h for our one moon we now have two ideas. greenness, and cheese. greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the cow. gdeeper, ever deeper, into the mire of things! h1 shall we cut the gordian knot? shall we say gthere is god h? what, in the devil fs name, is god? if (with moses) we picture him as an old man showing us his back parts, who shall blame us? the great question.any question is the great question.does indeed treat us thus cavalierly, the disenchanted sceptic is too prone to think! well, shall we d

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

llus is like the pillar in karnak! even by myself and my male power do i conjure ye. amen. 12.20. i was getting sleepy when the oysters came. i now eat them in a yog. and ceremonial manner. 12.45. i have eaten my oysters, chewing them every one; also some bread and butter in the same manner, giving praise to priapus the lord of the oyster, to demeter the lady of corn, and to isis the queen of the cow. further, i pray symbolically in this meal for virtue, and strength, and liber dccclx 22 gladness; as is appropriate to these symbols. but i find it very difficult to keep the mantra going, even in tune with the jaws; perhaps it is that this peculiar method of eating (25 minutes for what could be done normally in 3) demands the whole attention. 1.30. drifted into a nap. well! we shall try what

LIBER HHH

e phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power; and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow hathor. and it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. let it become blacker than all blackness. and in this meditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the svb figvra cccxli 5 blackness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond all comprehension. and it shall come to pass that if thou hast well and properly performed this meditation that on a sudden thou s

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

r of bread and salt. 35. yea! i smite.and the blood makes as it were a sunset on the lapis lazuli of the king fs bedchamber. 36. i smite. the whole world is broken up into a mighty wind, and a voice cries aloud in a tongue that men cannot speak. 37. i know that awful sound of primal joy; let us follow on the wings of the gale even unto the holy house of hathor; let us offer the five jewels of the cow upon her altar! 38. again the inhuman voice! 39. i rear my titan bulk into the teeth of the gale, and i smite and prevail, and swing me out over the sea. 40. there is a strange pale god, a god of pain and deadly wickedness. 41. my own soul bites into itself, like a scorpion ringed with fire. 42. that pallid god with face averted, that god of subtlety and laughter, that young doric god, him wil

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ty of christian-hate- christian. j.accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75.or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76..splendour. the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77.says an old writer, whom i translate roughly .thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard.s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt.s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78.see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79..there is no god. so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist .ain is god. for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see .berashith. infra. the .fool. is he of the tarot, to whom the number 0 is att

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sis, see hans sperber, gembla, h beitrage zur geschichte der deutschen sprache und literatur 36 (1910: 219.222. atla one of nine giant mothers, perhaps of heimdall, listed in hyndluljod, stanza 37 (part of the gshort voluspa h. see also heimdall; hyndluljod references and further reading: lotte motz, ggiantesses and their names, h fruhmittelalterliche studien 15 (1981: 495.511. audhumla the proto-cow, involved in the origin of the races of gods and giants. although the name is found among the thulur for gcow, h audhumla fs mythological role is found only in snorri fs gylfaginning. snorri says that audhumla emerged from the drips of rime just after ymir was formed, and that four streams of milk ran from her udders and nourished ymir. she in turn licked salt blocks, and from these there emer

rom these there emerged in three days buri, the first of the asir. although cows are not uncommon in creation stories from around the world, what is most striking about audhumla is that she unites the two groups of warring groups in the mythology, by nourishing ymir, ancestor of all the giants, and bringing into the light buri, progenitor of the asir. the presumed etymology of her name, ghornless cow rich in milk, h is of no help in interpreting her mythological role. see also ymir references and further reading: on the etymology, see adolf noreen, gurkon audhumla och nagra hennes sprakliga slaktningar, h namn och bygd 6 (1918: 169.172. deities, themes, and concepts 63 aurboda (gravel-offerer) giantess, mother of gerd, frey fs wife. the relevant source is hyndluljod, stanza 30, lines 5.8:

a, where the name is spelled bor. the word bur is a poetic noun meaning gson. h with the giantess bestla, bur had the three sons odin, vili, and ve. see also bestla; buri; odin buri first of the asir, father of bur and therefore grandfather of odin. buri is found in snorri fs gylfaginning but not in eddic poetry. he is part of the creation story, for he was licked from salt blocks by the primeval cow audhumla. snorri describes him as gfair in appearance, large, and powerful. he begat that son called bor. h although the text does not make it explicit, we may, i think, assume that he did so through an ordinary human sexual act, in contrast to the monstrous hermaphroditic procreation of ymir. see also audhumla; bur, bor; ymir byggvir mythological character. byggvir is found only in the prose

and, ridding it of theft, and to test this peace he hangs a heavy golden arm ring at a crossroads. fearful of his authority, no thief dares take it, and he derives great fame from this act. saxo tells us that this period coincides with christ fs stay on earth, and it is ended when a wicked woman urges her son to steal the arm ring, and then, trying to hide from frodi fs wrath in the form of a sea cow, she gores and kills him. to forestall the possibility of rebellion or invasion, the danes conceal frodi fs death, embalm the body, and carry it about in a cart for three years before finally burying it. this story bears close similarity to snorri fs account of the death of frey in ynglinga saga, since frey fs death also is concealed for three years, during which time peace and prosperity cont

philipsson, die genealogie der gotter in germanischer religion, mythologie, und theologie, illinois studies in language and literature, vol. 37, part 3 (urbana: university of illinois press, 1953. odin (old norse o.inn) god of poetry, wisdom, hosts, and the dead; in the received mythology head of the pantheon. odin fs father was bur, son of buri, the form licked from the salt blocks by the proto-cow audhumla. odin fs mother was bestla, a giantess, the daughter of bolthorn. his very genealogy, therefore, replicates a basic operational pattern, namely, that the gods take as wives (or make children with) the females of the giant group. with his brothers vili and ve, odin created the cosmos out of the body of the proto-giant ymir, whom they killed. here too a basic operational pattern of the

hat observation of humans or animals could suggest, and although it is not at all uncommon in cosmogonies for hermaphroditic conception and birth to occur, in the context of this mythology it demonstrates once and for all the alien nature of the giants, ymir fs descendants. ymir fs relationship with the asir is snorri fs next topic. also formed out of drops in ginnunga gap was audhumla, the proto-cow. her milk fed ymir, and she licked buri, the first of the asir, out of the salt blocks. buri sired a son bor (presumably in the normal way, and bor married bestla, the daughter of the giant bolthorn and therefore a descendant of ymir. the number of generations is so small that it is tempting to imagine that bolthorn was one of those who emerged directly from ymir, but no source makes that expl

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ative. messages so transmitted by many sources are strongly reinforced and thus tend to be firmly held and to resist change. but that is not all. there also exist the concepts of cultural selection and cultural drift. a good example of (negative) cultural selection is that of the fore people in new guinea. these people were nearly wiped out by the disease called kuru, which is very similar to mad cow disease. the culture of the fores dictated that, to honor their dead close relatives, family members should eat a small piece of their brain. and this is how kuru nearly decimated the fores: the brains of their dead relatives were infected with prions, the agents responsible for the disease. as soon as this cultural practice stopped, kuru disappeared. the story of this disease is a good exampl

hylogenetic tree. polygyny: the practice of a man having several wives at the same time. postmodernism: a philosophical position that states that all explanations of the animate and inanimate world are equally valid. postulate: an undemonstrated proposition accepted at face value. prion: a type of protein that can change the shape of other proteins and make them assume pathological functions. mad cow disease is caused by prions. prokaryote: a single-celled organism whose dna is not packaged in a nucleus. protein: a string of chemically linked amino acids. quantum mechanics: the highly mathematical theory that explains the behavior of subatomic particles and their interactions with electromagnetic radiation. quark: an elementary particle present in neutrons and protons. relativity (theories

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s androgynous to signify that they recognized the initiates and gods as partaking of both the positive and negative creative powers. gerald massey writes "this is the secret of the sphinx. the orthodox sphinx of egypt is masculine in front and feminine behind. so is the image of sut-typhon, a type of horn and tail, male in front and female behind. the pharaohs, who wore the tail of the lioness or cow behind them, were male in front and female behind. like the gods they included the dual totality of being in one person, born of the mother, but of both sexes as the child (see the natural genesis) most investigators have ridiculed the sphinx and, without even deigning to investigate the great colossus, have turned their attention to the more overwhelming mystery of the pyramid. the pyramid my

development, the soul qualities, and the physical health of an individual from the streamers of semi-visible electric force which pour through the surface of the skin of every human being at all times during his life (for details concerning a scientific process for making the auric emanations visible, see the human atmosphere by dr. walter j. kilner) isis is sometimes symbolized by the head of a cow; occasionally the entire animal is her symbol. the first gods of the scandinavians were licked out of blocks of ice by the mother cow (audhumla, who symbolized the principle of natural nutriment and fecundity because of her milk. occasionally isis is represented as a bird. she often carries in one hand the crux ansata, the symbol of eternal life, and in the other the flowered scepter, symbolic

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

hout any defense. reed was killed by the croziers. because of this treachery the croziers were driven out of redesdale. likewise, the halls were forced to leave and their name became a byword for treachery. the b orderers valued loyalty above all else and scorned treachery "the death of parcy reed" border ballad god send the land deliverance frae every reaving, riding scot; we'll sune hae neither cow nor ewe, we'll sune hae neither staig nor stot. the outlaws come frae liddesdale, they herry redesdale far and near; the rich man's gelding it maun gang, they canna pass the puir man's mear. sure it were weel, had ilka thief around his nect a halter strang; and curses heavy may they light on traitors vile oursels amang! no w parcy reed has crosier ta'en, he has deliverd him to the law; but cro

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ties or aspects of two single deities, possess animals and symbols special to themselves, and it is from these appropriate images that you should draw your coven "totems" and "logo" or composite symbol. books of mythology can be very helpful here- for those of european inclination, the norse myths; the welsh-celtic traditions as presented in the mabinogion, the irish-celtic in the book of the dun cow, the yellow book of lecan, and the book of leinster; and, finally, the matter of britain as presented in such works of the arthurian cycle as the high history of the holy grail, and the like (see the bibliography at the end of the book for more suggestions on this point) for those that would follow a more cabalistic path, works dealing with "magical correspondences" such as aleister crowley's

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ion, and genetic manipulation oak islandnear nova scotia, is labyrinthed with tunnels, reputed to hold templar treasure. fdr owned shares in amining company which was working the area. he also visited the island several times in 1909 (see p. 65.)tuatin egyptian means the underworld. interestingly the celtic tribe tuatha de danaan, did retreat into thesidhe, the portals to the underworld.hathorthe cow goddess. the word galaxy meant mothers milk and refers to the milky way in particular.hathor was therefore connected with the milky way.the beehiveoften used as a cryptic representation of the pleiades in the constellation of taurus. in latin, bee isapis, which also means bull.tiamatcalled rahab in the bible, rahab the seat of babylon.psalm 89:10-11 thou hast broken rahab to piecesjob 26:12-13

e studied at oxford. clin-ton's reign as president has been noted for numerous scandals, including the unexplained deaths ofmore than 50 of his associates by means of bullets and plane crashes. 19.1947 on july 8, 1947, a ufo and aliens' bodies were allegedly found in the desert outside roswell,new mexico, at the 33rd parallel.20.1947 on july 26, 1947, while aboard the presidential aircraft sacred cow, masonic united statespresident truman signed the national security act of 1947. the act created an independent airforce, the central intelligence agency, and the national security agency. the national securitystate was born. 21.1947 on december 5, 1947, the disappearance of flight 19 spurred on the legend of the bermudatriangle. five navy avenger bombers vanished while on a routine training m

d states, following the terms ofpresidents hanson, boudinot, mifflin, lee, gorham, griffin and st. clair. 1790 baverian police harass illuminati members. 1790 washington d.c. founded. first patent law in u.s. established. 1790 edward jenner buys a medical degree from st.andrews university for 15. 1791 edward jenner vaccinates his 18 month old son with swine-pox. in 1798, he vaccinates his sonwith cow-pox. his son will die of tb at the age of 21. 1791 first bank of the united states chartered. creation of hamilton and chartered for 20 years. 1792 anti-saccharite society forms in europe to protest effect of sugar on people. it induces a britishsugar boycott through europe. the british east india companies, already involved with opium drugtrafficking, uses the slavery issue for an advertising

ain world control of a staple food crop. the soybean industry is worth $27 billion annu-ally worldwide. 1994 the soviets hold a may 1994 conference where they prepare a tightly coordinated plan to takepower. socialism and communism is described as the future of mankind. a restoration of the sovietunion is called for. it is expected that former russian vice president rutskoi will gain power in mos-cow, and take control of russia's powerful new biological, chemical and electromagnetic weapons. 1994 university of north carolina finds that women employed in electrical trades are 38% more likelyto die of breast cancer. for men, the risk of breast cancer in those occupations is six times normal. 1994 in the united states (aug. 94) a program begins in the mind control arena which involves the use

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

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

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vessel in the shape of a woman's breast. the hand was that of justice: and the milk alluded to the galaxy or milky way, along which souls descended and remounted. two others followed, one bearing a winnowing fan, and the other a water-vase; symbols of the purification of souls by air and water; and the third purification, by earth, was represented by an image of the animal that cultivates it, the cow or ox, borne by another officer. then followed a chest or ark, magnificently ornamented, containing an image of the organs of generation of osiris, or perhaps of both sexes; emblems of the original generating and producing powers. when typhon, said the egyptian fable, cut up the body of osiris into pieces, he flung his genitals into the nile, where a fish devoured them. atys mutilated himself

solstice. hence the search for him by the nine fellow-crafts, the other nine signs, his finding, burial, and resurrection. the celestial taurus, opening the new year, was the creative bull of the hindus and japanese, breaking with his horn the egg out of which the world is born, hence the bull apis was worshipped by the egyptians, and reproduced as a golden calf by aaron in the desert. hence the cow was sacred to the hind s. hence, from the sacred and beneficent signs of taurus and leo, the human-headed winged lions and bulls in the palaces at kouyounjik and nimroud, like which were the cherubim set by solomon in his temple: and hence the twelve brazen or bronze oxen, on which the laver of brass was supported. the celestial vulture or eagle, rising and setting with the scorpion, was subst

oined osiris as he was about to attack typhon: but mercury gave her in its place a helmet shaped like the head of a bull. then horus, as a mighty warrior, such as orion was described, fought with and defeated typhon; who, in the shape of the serpent or dragon of the pole, had assailed his father. so, in ovid, apollo destroys the same python, when io, fascinated by jupiter, is metamorphosed into a cow, and placed in the sign of the celestial bull, where she becomes isis. the equinoctial year ends at the moment when the sun and moon, at the vernal equinox, are united with orion, the star of horus, placed in the heavens under taurus. the new moon becomes young again in taurus, and shows herself as a crescent, for the first time, in the next sign, gemini, the domicile of mercury. then orion, i

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nse ecstasies, of beatitudes prolonged for whole months, of initiations indescribably exalted, of proof piled on proof of his power, his vigilance, his love, after being protected and energized with incredible aptness, i find myself still only too ready to grumble, nay, even to doubt. it seems as if i resented the whole business. there are times when i feel that the amoeba, the bourgeois, and the cow represent the abc of enviable creatures. there may be a melancholy strain in me, as one might expect in a case of renal weakness such as mine. in any event, it is surely a most overwhelming proof that aiwaz is not myself, but my master, that he could force me to write verse 9, at a time when i was both intellectually and spiritually disgusted with, and despairing of, the universe, as well as p

use of heaven. she suffered and triumphed in most shameful silence; she had no friend, no follower, none to aid or approve. for thank she had but maudlin flatteries, and knew what cruel-cold scorn the hearts of men scarce cared to hide. she agonized, ridiculous and obscene; gave all her beauty and strength of maidenhood to suffer sickness, weakness, danger of death, choosing to live the life of a cow that so mankind might sail the seas of time. she knew that man wanted nothing of her but service of his base appetites; in his true manhood-life she had nor part nor lot; and all her wage was his careless contempt. she hath been trampled thus through all the ages, and she hath tamed them thus. her silence was the token of her triumph. but now the word of me the beast is this: not only art thou

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

had sworn to grant whatever she asked of him, he was compelled to comply with her wish; he therefore revealed himself as the mighty lord of the universe, accompanied by thunder and lightning, and she was instantly consumed in the flames [36] io, daughter of inachus, king of argos, was a priestess of hera. she was very beautiful, and zeus, who was much attached to her, transformed her into a white cow, in order to defeat the jealous intrigues of hera, who, however, was not to be deceived. aware of the stratagem, she contrived to obtain the animal from zeus, and placed her under the watchful care of a man called argus-panoptes, who fastened her to an olive-tree in the grove of hera. he had a hundred eyes, of which, when asleep, he never closed more than two at a time; being thus always on th

brother's herd, which he now drove before him, taking the precaution to cover his feet with sandals made of twigs of myrtle, in order to escape detection. but the little rogue was not unobserved, for the theft had been witnessed by an old shepherd named battus, who was tending the flocks of neleus, king of pylos (father of nestor. hermes, frightened at being discovered, bribed him with the finest cow in the herd not to betray him, and battus promised to keep the secret. but hermes, astute as he was dishonest, determined to test the shepherd's integrity. feigning to page 132 go away, he assumed the form of admetus, and then returning to the spot offered the old man two of his best oxen if he would disclose the author of the theft. the ruse succeeded, for the avaricious shepherd, unable to r

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be successful a million times. 15 re, the sun god the egyptian cat goddess bastet uraeus the enraged cobra is the symbol of the sun god (and of the pharaohs, who wore it on their foreheads; it is often depicted attached to the sun disc. according to one myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful re. re was born in an egg, and when he emerged from the egg he was dazzled by the light, and cried: mankind was formed from his tears. nun, fertility of the nile the god nun, who represents the primeval waters or flood, holds up the barque of the sun. to some extent the mythology of ancient egypt simply reflects the land of egypt itself. egypt was described

ed gods, sia (perception, hu (utterance, and hike (magic) as well as such important gods as shu, geb, osiris, horus, and thoth. sometimes there are also goddesses in the barque, especially hathor. barque of the sun re is shown in his solar barque, in which he travels through the sky. horus bastet w hen human beings began to plot against the ageing re, he transformed the goddess hathor (the sacred cow of fertility) into a raging lioness, sekhmet. her bloodlust brought plague and death into existence. this goddess, who could only be appeased by being made drunk, gradually became revered under a more gentle guise as the cat goddess bastet. the domestic cat was regarded as sacred to her, and many cats were mummified in religious rituals. young girls were often nicknamed kitten. but cats were a

and his eyes were said to be the sun and the moon; in his role as sun god he merged with re. hence, when he lay dying as a child, the sky went dark (see box above. wife and mother isis was the archetypal wife and mother; with her hand echoing the shape of osiris shoulder, mirrored on the other side by horus, she emphasizes the unity of this family. she is often depicted nursing the infant horus. cow s horns isis wears a solar disc between cow horns, revealing her close affinity with the cow mothergoddess hathor. both isis and hathor were at different times regarded as the mother of horus, and, therefore, of the egyptian king, who was a human manifestation of horus. worker of magic isis was a worker of magic, and could even practice her art on the gods (see pp. 14 15. it was her magic arts

hto s peerless cbild. as she drowns she identifies herself with the sea the waters are her blood and the fish her flesh. the magical mill of plenty stranded in the northland, v in m inen needed the sorceress louhi to help him home. she agreed to help and to give him her daughter, the maid, as his bride if he forged for her the magical sampo, the mill of plenty, out of a swan s quill-tip, a barren cow s milk, one barley grain, and the wool of one ewe. unable to forge it himself, v in m inen asked ilmarinen, the smith who had forged the sky, to help him, promising him the maid in return. ilmarinen had to build a new forge to make the sampo, and only after great labor did he create this mill, which ground out grain on one side, salt on another, and money on the third. delighted, louhi hid the

wn as shesha and ananta. he lives in the primal ocean, wrapped around the earth, and serves as a bed for the god vishnu. one thousand mouths even the endless energy of the asuras was sapped by the heat and flames issuing from vasuki s 1,000 mouths. whenever one of them yawns, it causes an earthquake. at the end of the world, the snake will belch forth the poison that will burn up creation. sacred cow surabhi, the cow of plenty, is the mother of all cattle, which are sacred to hindus. when purusha, the first being, who is often identified with brahma, took the shapes of all the animals to bring them into being, he first became a bull and a cow. the sun uccaihsravas, the white horse of the sun, was born from the ocean of milk. physici an of the gods dhanvantari, the divine physician, is the

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rs of thought. these are the letters themselves. the letters, in and of themselves, have no meaning. for example, a child who knows the alphabet can copy the letters of this book, without even realizing that there is any meaning behind them. another example of this is the fact that something could be said in one language which has a different meaning in another language. in chinese, for instance "cow" means "dog, but in english "cow" means "cow. as we see, the letters themselves are quite external to the meaning. even when they are placed in the same order "cow, they mean different things in different languages. these are the letters of thought, which are called leah. 2) the next level is malchut of tvunah. this is the level of the inner letters, i.e. the meaning. for example, if you hear

"dog, but in english "cow" means "cow. as we see, the letters themselves are quite external to the meaning. even when they are placed in the same order "cow, they mean different things in different languages. these are the letters of thought, which are called leah. 2) the next level is malchut of tvunah. this is the level of the inner letters, i.e. the meaning. for example, if you hear the word "cow, there is an inner meaning there. you think of a cow rather than a cat. if we sing "row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream" there is the simple meaning of the words which every child understands. this level is also called machshevet sechel (thought of the intellect. however, the machshevet sechel is also a vessel for the followin

. therefore g-d specifically loves and desires us over and above all the angels, even the highest angels in the highest worlds. this physical world is made up of two general levels of kelipah (external shells. the first level is kelipat nogah, which contains some good in it (in a concealed way. it can therefore be transformed and sublimated to g-dliness through the efforts of man. an example is a cow. it can be used for either kosher or non-kosher meat. a jew has the ability to elevate and sublimate the meat to g-d when he makes a blessing over it, and eats it with the intention of serving g-d and doing his commandments. furthermore, when he actually uses the energy derived from the food in the service of g-d, he elevates it further, and transforms it into holiness. however, there is anoth

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

+ 200+ 5= 285. alternatively [the extra hei, whose numerical value is the 5 needed to equal the numerical value of gheifer, h signifies that the five states of gevurah] descend to binah, which is referred to by the [first] letter hei [of the name havayah] or descend to malchut, which is referred to by the [second] letter hei [of the name havayah. therefore the heifer is called the parah, i.e, the cow [par] of the hei. the first two letters of the word for gheifer h (parah) are simply the male or generic word for cow, par. the heifer must be red, because [the five states of gevurah it signifies] it is drawn from binah, which is red. red is the color of blood, usually associated with gevurah, or the source of gevurah, binah. therefore the word for gred h is written without the [expected] vav

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

to his seat. in the name of yod he vau he tzabaoth, i declare this temple closed in the= grade of philosophus. hiero 111 ill 1 hiereus 111 111 1 heg 111 111 1 hegemon conducts the philosophus out. book three rituals of the inner order, the roseae rubae et aureae crucis. ritual of the portal of the vault of the adept1 veil 3rd banner air tablak 2nd adept adept pentacle hangs pan over gwv and death cow n elaments fire tablet dew11 hegemon ty phon onnor hiereus wakor el table l <156> chief adept- white cassock, yellow shoes, red cloak of hierophant, yellow and white nemyss, rose-cross on yellow collar. sceptre of five elemental colours surmounted by. pentagram, white lamp and brazier, candle. second adept- white cassock and collar, blue shoes, blue and orange cloak and nemyss, lamen of red tr

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

executed exemplar. we shall perhaps undertake the task. vestiges of the tarot are found among all nations. as we have said, the italian is possibly the most faithful and best preserved, but it may be perfected further by precious indications derived from spanish varieties. the two of cups, for example, the naibi is completely egyptian, showing two archaic vases, with ibis handles, superposed on a cow. a unicorn is represented in the middle of the four of deniers; the three of cups exhibits the figure of isis emerging from a vase, while two ibises issue from two other vases, one with a crown for the goddess and one holding a lotus, which he seems to be offering for her acceptance. the four aces bear the image of the hieratic and sacred serpent, while in some specimens the seal of solomon is

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

s conveyed to their homes by secret paths, as some skillful women do [convey] the pith of milk from their neighbour's cows into their own cheese-hold, through a hairtedder, at a great distance by art magic, or by drawing [from] a spigot fastened in a post, which will bring milk [from] as far off as a bull will be heard to roar. the cheese made of the secret commonwealth 25 the remaining milk of a cow thus strained will swim in water like cork. the method [which] they take to recover their milk is a bitter chiding of the suspected enchanters, charging by a counter-charm to give them back their own, in god['s, or [in] their master's name- but a little of the mother's dung stroked on the calve's mouth before it [starts to] suck does prevent this theft. 4. their houses (that is, the faeries) a

te differently on several [different] tempers [that is, temperaments] and ages. 6,4: though also some are of so venomous a constitution by being radicated [that is, rooted] in envy and malice, that they pierce and kill, like a cockatrice, whatever creature they first set their eye on the morning. so was it with waiter graham, sometime having in the same pariah wherein now i am, who killed his own cow after commending its fatness, and shot a hare with his eye having praised its swiftness. such was the infection of an [his] evil eye, albeit this was unusual; yet he saw no object but what [ever] was obvious to other men as well as to himself. 6,5: if the [fact of] being transported to live in another country did obscure the second sight [then] neither the parson nor the maid [mentioned above]

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e, and transfer, and express by exchanging some things, and variously transfiguring others. thus when they deliver the praises of kings, in theological fables, they write by anaglyphicks. of the third kind, by aenigms, let this be an example: all other stars, by reason of their oblique course, they likened to the bodies of serpents. but the sun to that of a beetle, because having formed a ball of cow-dung, and lying upon its back, it rolls it about (from claw to claw. the sphinx: once again there is more here than meets the eye. it is possible that iamblicus or one of the other sources could have made up the other details of a trip by pythagoras to egypt, but here we seem to have conclusive proof. both of the trip itself and of pythagoras' initiation. for the description given of the egypt

ry for such a working. her workbook lay in the center and at the front of the altar. a wand, cut from living birch, was to the left of the workbook. an athame, with her name written on the hilt in witch runes, lay to the right of the workbook. a thurible, which contained a suitable conjuration incense, was situated at the far left-hand corner of the table. at the far right-hand corner sat a large cow bell. it had been refinished in gold paint, and would act as an anti-pollutionary device. on the front left-hand corner lay a 9" by 9" sheet of blank, commercial parchment. upon it would be written the name of the demon summoned forth, and also an appropriate sigil. to the right of the athame rested her pen of art. it had been used to write the ritual text, and subject: xeper reading list: wou

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ch does not present the awesome image it did during the inquisition. the traditional black mass is no longer the outrageous spectacle to the dilettante or renegade priest that it once was. if the satanist wishes to create a ritual to blaspheme an accepted institution, for the purpose of psychodrama, he is careful to choose one that is not in vogue to parody. thus, he is truly stepping on a sacred cow. a black mass, today, would consist of the blaspheming of such "sacred" topics as eastern mysticism, psychiatry, the psychedelic movement, ultra-liberalism, etc. patriotism would be championed, drugs and their gurus would be defiled, acultural militants would be deified, and the decadence of ecclesiastical theologies might even be given a satanic boost. the satanic magus has always been the ca

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port. whosoever knows this support is adored in the world of brahma. another is from the mandukya upanishad: om is the one eternal syllable of which all that exists is but the development. the past, the present, and the future are all included in this do hindus worship cows? the short answer to this question is no. cows are considered sacred, or holy, in hinduism, but they are not worshipped. the cow can be seen as similar to the lamb in christianity, which is associated with jesus christ. the longer answer to the question reflects the depth and complexity of hindu thought. when krishna appeared in human form, it was as a cowherder. one of the hindu scriptures states, i offer repeated obeisances [respect, submission] unto lord krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and t

submission] unto lord krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas [bulls. he is also the protector of the entire society. unto that lord, who is always satisfying the senses of the cows, i offer my obeisances again and again. hindus believe that all creatures, not just cows, are sacred and should be protected, which may explain why most hindus are vegetarians. the cow is a symbolic representation of that sacredness. for hindus, the cow represents life and sustenance. it provides butter, milk, and cream and thus sustains human life. its dried manure also provides cooking fuel. it is also a gentle creature that asks little of humans. for these reasons, the cow holds a sacred place in hindu culture. world religions: almanac 253 hinduism one sound, and all that

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

he golden elixir but a fable "if not, and these men discovered it, they died, because they refused to live! there may be a mournful warning in your conjecture. turn once more to the easel and the canvas" so saying, zanoni waved his hand, and, with downcast eyes and a slow step, bent his way back into the city. chapter 2.viii. the goddess wisdom. to some she is the goddess great; to some the milch cow of the field; their care is but to calculate what butter she will yield. from schiller. this last conversation with zanoni left upon the mind of glyndon a tranquillising and salutary effect. from the confused mists of his fancy glittered forth again those happy, golden schemes which part from the young ambition of art, to play in the air, to illumine the space like rays that kindle from the su

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m the papyrus of ani, plate 16) not shut up in the tomb for all eternity. but the ideas which prompted the painting of other vignettes are not so clear, e.g, those which accompany chapters clxii.-clxv. in the late or saite recension of the book of the dead, although, fortunately, the rubrics to these chapters make their object clear. thus the picture which stands above chapter clxii. is that of a cow having upon her head horns, a disk, and two plumes, p. 115 and from the rubric we learn that a figure of it was to be made in gold and fastened to the neck of the deceased, and that another, drawn upon new papyrus, was to be placed under his head. if this be done "then shall abundant warmth be in him throughout, even like that which was in him when he was upon earth. and he shall become like a

hall become like a god in the underworld, the scribe ani passing through the door of the tomb. outside are his shadow and his soul in the form of a human-headed bird (from the papyrus of ani, plate 18) and he shall never be turned back at any of the gates thereof" the words of the chapter have great protective power (i.e, are a charm of the greatest importance) we are told "for it was made by the cow for her son ra when he was setting, and when his habitation was surrounded by a company of beings of fire" now the cow is, of course, isis-hathor, and p. 116 both the words and the picture refer to some event in the life of ra, or horus. it is quite evident that the words of power, or charm, uttered by isis-hathor delivered the god out of some trouble, and the idea is that as it delivered the

d make him sound and strong in the underworld" and again we are warned that the words are "a great mystery" and that "the eye of no man whatsoever must see it, for it is a thing of abomination for [every man] to know it. hide it, therefore; the book of the lady of the hidden temple is its name" an examination of mummies of the late period shews that the egyptians did actually draw a figure of the cow upon papyrus and lay it under the head of the deceased, and that the cow is only one figure among a number of others which were drawn on the same papyrus. with the figures magical texts were inscribed and in course of time, when the papyrus had been mounted upon linen, it superseded the gold figure of the cow which was fastened to the neck of the deceased, and became, strictly speaking an amul

er the head of the deceased shai-enen to keep warmth in the body. p. 119 hypocephalus is round; this is due to the fact that it represents the pupil of the eye of horus, which from time immemorial in egypt was regarded as the source of all generative power, and of reproduction and life. the first group of gods are--nehebka offering to horus his eye, a goddess with the eye of horus for a head, the cow of isis- hathor described above, the four children of horus, two lions, a member of the human body, the pylon of heads of khnemu the god of reproduction, and horus-ra. in the second are the boat of the sun being poled along by horus, and the boat of the moon, with harpocrates in the bow. in the other scenes we have the god khepera in his boat, horus in his boat, and horus-sept in his boat. the

rqemturennuparsheta is the name of one of thy divine sons, and panemma that of the other" and in yet another chapter 1 the deceased addressing the god par says "thou art the mighty one of names among the gods, the mighty runner whose strides are might thou art the god the mighty one who comest and rescuest the needy one and the afflicted from him that oppresseth him; give heed to my cry. i am the cow, and thy divine name is in my mouth, and i will utter it; haqabakaher is thy name; aurauaaqersaanqrebathi is thy name; kherserau is thy name; kharsatha is thy name. i praise thy name. o be gracious unto the deceased, and cause thou heat to exist under his head, for, indeed, he is the soul of the great divine body which resteth in annu (heliopolis, whose names are khukheperuru and barekathatcha

his act restored to the deceased the use of his head. the sprinkling of water was followed by a purification by means of incense, also contained in four vases, one for each of the four quarters of the earth. the burning p. 194 of this sweet-smelling substance assisted in opening the mouth of the deceased and in strengthening his heart. at this stage the sem priest dressed himself in the skin of a cow, and lying down upon a kind of couch pretended to be asleep; but he was roused up by the am-asi priest in the presence of the kher-heb and the am-khent priest, and when the sem priest had seated himself upon a seat, the four men together represented the four children of horus, 1 or the gods with the heads of a hawk, an ape, a jackal, and a man respectively. the sem priest then said "i have see

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

n placed there with the object of sanctifying the ground. a priest clad in a panther's skin holds a censer containing burning incense in one hand, and a vase, from which he sprinkles water, in the other. one ministrant holds the two instruments "tun-tet" and "seb-ur" in the right hand, and the "ur hekau" instrument in the left; and another offers four vases of unguent. in the lower register are a cow and her p. 202 calf, and two men are carrying along to the mummy the haunch which we must assume to have been recently cut from the slaughtered bull, and the heart which has just been taken out of him. on a table we see lying a number of objects, the "meskhet" and pesh-enkef" and other instruments, two sets of four vases for holding unguents and oil, the bags of colour, the iron of the south a

lines 64 ff. and 359 ff. 1 "to obtain a vision from [the god] bes. make a drawing of besa, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis) and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh) frankincense, myrrh, black writing-ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun [saying, c send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee, lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now

ly unlucky, the reason being "this was the day of the fight between horus and set" they first fought in the form of men, then they took the form of bears, and in this state did battle with each other for three days and three nights. isis aided set when he was getting the worst in the fight, and horus thereupon cut off his mother's head, which thoth transformed by his words of power into that of a cow and put on her body. on this day offerings are to be made to osiris and thoth, but work of any kind is absolutely forbidden. the calendars of lucky p. 227 and unlucky days do not, however, always agree as to a given day. thus in the list given above the 20th day of thoth is marked wholly unlucky, but in the papyrus sallier iv. it is wholly lucky, but the reader is told not to do any work in it

e of the early christian writers. but if the matter be examined closely its apparent stupidity disappears. the egyptians paid honour to certain birds, and animals, and reptiles, because they considered that they possessed certain of the characteristics of the gods to whom they made them sacred. the bull was a type of the strength and procreative power of the god of reproduction in nature, and the cow was the type of his female counterpart; every sacred animal and living thing possessed some quality or attribute which was ascribed to some god, and as each god was only a form of ra, the quality or attribute ascribed to him was that of the sun-god himself. the educated egyptian never worshipped an animal as an animal, but only as an incarnation of a god, and the reverence paid to animals in e

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

, the hand sign system for the deaf, helen keller, was herself an occultist and theosophist. did keller purposely design the deaf's "i love you" sign to be such a remarkable imitation of the classic sign of satan? was keller saying, basically "i love you, devil" then, we have the confusion of the el diablo hand sign with the university of texas "hook 'em horns" sign. texas' mascot is the longhorn cow and it is only natural that the horns sign be employed by the student body, alumnai, and fans of that great institution. when jenna bush, the daughter of president george w. bush, gave the horns sign at the 2004 presidential inauguration, it shocked the world. most viewers of international tv did not know that jenna is a recent graduate of the university of texas. however, at that same inaugur

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rbaric tribes. because he came from 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 mystery religions and cults 257 egyptian gods and goddesses amen: a creation-deity anubis: god of the dead bast: cat goddess bes: god to guard against evil spirits and misfortune chons: god of the moon dua: protector of the stomach of the dead geb: god of the earth hathor: cow goddess isis: mother goddess ka: god for the vital force of life maat: goddess of truth and justice min: egyptian fertility god mut: wife of amen, mother of khons nephthys: goddess of the dead nut: goddess of the sky and of the heavens osiris: god of the underworld and of vegetation qetesh: goddess of love and beauty ra: god of the sun selket: goddess of childbirth set: god of chaos shu: god o

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ors, are predators and scavengers. all the tales of bloodless carcasses, organs removed with surgical precision, and so forth, are the work of sensationalist journalists, excitable ranchers, and paranoid ufo conspiracy theorists. regardless of a great deal of official skepticism toward the subject of cattle mutilations, it does appear to comprise a genuine mystery. and every time that a mutilated cow is found with its tongue, eyes, ears, anus, udder, and genitalia removed without apparently shedding a drop of blood and without the culprits leaving any tracks whatsoever, aliens, satanic cultists, and crews of unmarked black helicopters are named as the suspects. one of the favorite theories of the alien/government conspiracy buffs is that a branch of the secret government made a deal with t

na in july 2002 stated that beginning with the first detected mutilation in april, more than 200 cattle had been found with their blood drained, their tongues, organs, flesh, and skin removed by angular, nearly curved, cuts. although the official explanation centered on a carnivorous mouse, no one, from ranchers and veterinarians to biologists specializing in rodents have ever seen mice feed upon cow carcasses. crews from ufos were most often named by ranchers as the most likely mutilators of their cattle herds. the most prominent researcher in the bizarre field of animal mutilations is linda moulton howe, author of glimpses of other realities (1998. howe has documented hundreds of abnormal, inexplicable deaths of animals, mostly cattle and horses on the open range all of which died becaus

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. sources: giese, paula. gstone wheels and dawn stars rising. h [online] http//www.kstrom.net/isk/starskno7.html. thomas, david hurst. exploring ancient native america. new york: macmillan, 1994. medicine wheel of the big horn mountains god fs command to sacrifice his son. after they walk the five miles back to mecca, the final stage of the hajj is achieved with a festival in which a sheep, goat, cow, or camel is sacrificed to commemorate the moment when god rescinded the command to abraham to sacrifice his son and permitted him to slay a ram and offer its blood in isaac fs stead. the hajj concludes with a final procession around the ka faba. the hajj generally lasts about 13 days, but when as many as two million pilgrims crowd into mecca to observe the annual event, it may last a day or t

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

d god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of the dramatic legends attached to his cult, was the minoan bull, the minotaur,of crete. he was in human form with a bull's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and masked as an animal like thedancing god of ari350ge. the representations of the combat between theseus and the minotaur show the latteras entirely human, with a bull's mask (plate iv. i. theseus is sometimes represented with the flowing locks ofthe cretan athlete; this suggests that the slaying may have been a cretan custom, the man representing theminotaur b

ompany. the importance of cauldrons in the late bronze-age and earlyiron-age should be noted in this connection.in all the activities of a farm which were directly connected with fertility, witches seem to have been called into perform the rites which would secure the success of the operation. they were also consulted if an animalfell sick. thus at burton-on-trent, in 1597,[26] a certain farmer's cow was ill "elizabeth wright took uponher to help upon condition that she might have a penny to bestow upon her god, and so she came to the man'shouse, kneeled down before the cow, crossed her with a stick in the forehead and prayed to her god, sincewhich time the cow continued well. here there is the interesting and very definite statement that elizabethwright had a god who was clearly not that

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ind thyself unprepared to meet the incredible sights that will greet thee outside. remember also the sacrifices to the watcher. they must be regular, for the watcher is of a different race and cares not for thy life, save that he obey thy commands when the sacrifices have been met. and forgetting the elder sign will surely cause thee much grief. and i have seen a race of man that worships a giant cow. and they come from somewhere east, beyond the mountains. and they are surely worshippers of an ancient one, but of its name i am not certain, and do not write it down, for it is useless to thee anyway. and in their rites, they become as cows, and it is disgusting to see. but they are evil, and so i warn thee. and i have seen rites that can kill a man at a great distance. and rites that can ca

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

ecome to what i want to get. another month, another year, another ten years, it is not important. i am headed toward it, i can see the picture clearly, and i can even say when i will accomplish my goal. in kabbalah there is also a desire, but for what? that is something we don t know. the pleasure is in a higher level than our own. it is like giving a certain animal a desire for knowledge, like a cow suddenly wanting to become a college professor. and this is even much closer than the desire we are given, because a cow and a college are still in the same world, whereas the desire that we get is from a different world altogether, from a higher world. when one is permeated with a spiritual desire, he doesn t realize the kind of efforts he will need to make to realize it. one does not see the

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

rds are practically summed up the raison d fetre of all mariages de convenance. the affluent marry out of sensuality, or to engender sons to inherit their selfishness, the middle orders trot their daughters round the london ballrooms just as strumpets fall in to the cry of descendez, mesdemoiselles! women marry for title, clothing, shelter, and food; men because they think it is cheaper to keep a cow, and once and for all have done with it, than to be constantly running round the corner for a penny-worth of milk; and the lower stratum. the blessed poor. spend most of their lives in the act of engendering the elite of heaven and the scum of this earth, gmere shells, husks of the golden wheat that might grow even here, h*2. if it were not for our prudery, our religion, and our laws *1. why j

THE BOOK OF GATES

a large hall, 27 ft. 9 in. by 26 ft. 10 in. in this hall are two rows of square pillars, three on each side of the entrance, forming a line with the corridors. at each side of this hall is a small chamber; that on the right is 10 ft. 5 in. by 8 ft. 8 in, that on the left 10 ft. 5 in. by 8 ft. 9 in. this hall i termed the hall of pillars; the little room on the right, isis' room, as in it a large cow is painted, of which i shall give a description hereafter; that on the left, the room of mysteries, from the mysterious figures it exhibits. at the end of this hall we entered a large saloon, with an arched roof or ceiling, which is separated from the hall of pillars only by a step so that the two may be reckoned one. the saloon is 31 ft. 10 in. by 27 ft. on the right is a small p. 77 chamber

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any of these; because their corruption [is] in them [and] blemishes [be] in them: they shall not be accepted for you. 22:26 and the lord spake unto moses, saying, 22:27 when a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the lord. 22:28 and [whether it be] cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. 22:29 and when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the lord, offer [it] at your own will. 22:30 on the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: i [am] the lord. 22:31 therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: i [am] the lord. 22:32 neither shall ye profane my holy name; but i wi

e lord [whether it be] of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 18:16 and those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which [is] twenty gerahs. 18:17 but the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they [are] holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat [for] an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the lord. 18:18 and the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 18:19 all the heave offerings of the holy things, which the

and upon [your] mouth. 21:6 even when i remember i am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 21:7 wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 21:8 their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 21:9 their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of god upon them. 21:10 their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 21:11 they send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 21:12 they take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 21:13 they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 21:14 therefore they say unto god, depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 21:15 what [is] the almighty, t

f them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 7:20 in the same day shall the lord shave with a razor that is hired [namely] by them beyond the river, by the king of assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 7:21 and it shall come to isaiah page 420 pass in that day [that] a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 7:22 and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. 7:23 and it shall come to pass in that day [that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns. 7:24 with arrows and with bows shall

l smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 11:5 and righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 11:6 the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 11:7 and the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 11:8 and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. 11:9 they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord, as the waters cover the sea. 11:10 and in

he lord said, even thus shall the children of israel eat their defiled bread among the gentiles, whither i will drive them. 4:14 then said i, ah lord god! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have i not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 4:15 then he said unto me, lo, i have given thee cow s dung for man s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 4:16 moreover he said unto me, son of man, behold, i will break the staff of bread in jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. 5:1 and

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

t in these monuments the goat is passive instead of active; and that the human symbol is represented as incarnate with the divine, instead of the divine with the human: but this is in fact no difference; for the creator, being of both sexes, is represented indifferently of either. in the other symbol of the bull, the sex is equally varied; the greek medals having sometimes a bull, and sometimes a cow,3 which, strabo tells us, was employed as the symbol of venus, the passive generative power, at momemphis, in egypt.4 both the bull and the cow are 1 div. leg. book i. c. 4. 2 see plate vii. 3 see plate iv, fig. 1, 2, 3, and plate iii, fig 4, engraved from medals belonging to me. 4 lib. xvii. 34 on the worship also worshipped at present by the hindoos, as symbols of the male and female, or gen

e symbol of venus, the passive generative power, at momemphis, in egypt.4 both the bull and the cow are 1 div. leg. book i. c. 4. 2 see plate vii. 3 see plate iv, fig. 1, 2, 3, and plate iii, fig 4, engraved from medals belonging to me. 4 lib. xvii. 34 on the worship also worshipped at present by the hindoos, as symbols of the male and female, or generative and nutritive, powers of the deity. the cow is in almost all their pagodas; but the bull is revered with superior solemnity and devotion. at tanjour is a monument of their piety to him, which even the inflexible perseverance, and habitual industry of the natives of that country, could scarcely have erected without greater knowledge in practical mechanics than they now possess. it is a statue of a bull lying down, hewn, with great accura

s, that this attitude is better adapted to the purposes of generation than any other.2 we may therefore conclude, that instead of representing them in the act of gratifying any disorderly appetites, the artists meant to show their modesty in not indulging their concupiscence, but in doing their duty in the way best adapted to answer the ends proposed by the creator. on the greek medals, where the cow is the symbol of the deity, 1 recherches sur les arts, liv. i. c. 3. 2 lib. iv, v. 1260 46 on the worship she is frequently represented licking a calf, which is sucking her.1 this is probably meant to show that the creative power cherishes and nourishes, as well as generates; for, as all quadrupeds lick their young, to refresh and invigorate them immediately after birth, it is natural to suppo

er.1 this is probably meant to show that the creative power cherishes and nourishes, as well as generates; for, as all quadrupeds lick their young, to refresh and invigorate them immediately after birth, it is natural to suppose, according to the general system of symbolical writing, that this action should be taken as an emblem of the effect it was thought to produce. on other medals the bull or cow is represented licking itself;2 which, upon the same principle, must represent the strength of the deity refreshed and invigorated by the exertion of its own nutritive and plastic power upon its own being. on others again is a human head of an androgynous character, like that of the bacchus difuej, with the tongue extended over the lower lip, as if to lick something.3 this was probably the sam

same as the gonnis, being represented after the indian manner, with the elephant's skin on her head, instead of a helmet.1 both these heads appear separate upon different medals of the ptolemies,2 under one of whom this gem was probably engraved, alexandria having been for a long time the great centre of religions, as well as of trade and science. next to the figure of brahma on the pagoda is the cow of plenty, or the female emblem of the generative or nutritive power of the earth; and at the other corner, next to the gonnis, is the figure of a woman, with a head of the same conic or pyramidal form, and upon the front of it a flame of fire, from which hangs a crescent.3 this seems to be the female personification of the divine attributes represented by the gonnis or pollear; for the hindoo

ch hangs a crescent.3 this seems to be the female personification of the divine attributes represented by the gonnis or pollear; for the hindoos, like the greeks, worship the deity under both sexes, though they do not attempt to unite both in one figure. i am the father and the mother of the world, says the incarnate god in the bagvat geeta.4 amongst cattle, adds he in a subsequent part, i am the cow kamadhook. i am the prolific kandarp, the god of love.5 these two sentences, by being placed together, seem to imply some relation between this god of love and the cow kamadhook; and, were we to read the words without punctuation, as they are in all ancient orthography, we should think the author placed the god of love amongst the cattle; which he would naturally do, 1 see plate xiii, fig. 7

rds without punctuation, as they are in all ancient orthography, we should think the author placed the god of love amongst the cattle; which he would naturally do, 1 see plate xiii, fig. 7. 2 see plate xiii, fig. 5 and 6. 3 see plate xii. 4 page 80. 5 page 86. 62 on the worship if it were the custom of his religion to represent him by an animal symbol. among the egyptians, as before observed, the cow was the symbol of venus, the goddess of love, and passive generative power of nature. on the capitals of one of the temples of phil we still find the heads of this goddess represented of a mixed form; the horns and ears of the cow being joined to the beautiful features of a woman in the prime of life;1 such as the greeks attributed to that venus, whom they worshipped as the mother of the proli

rshipped as the mother of the prolific god of love, cupid, who was the personification of animal desire or concupiscence, as the orphic love, the father of gods and men, was of universal attraction. the greeks, who represented the mother under the form of a beautiful woman, naturally represented the son under the form of a beautiful boy; but a people who represented the mother under the form of a cow, would as naturally represent the son under the form of a calf. this seems to be the case with the hindoos, as well as with the egyptians; wherefore kandarp may be very properly placed among the cattle. by following this analogy, we may come to the true meaning of a much-celebrated object of devotion, recorded by another ancient writer, of a more venerable character. when the israelites grew c

generally than we might suppose, placed upon buildings as a talisman against evil influences, and especially against witchcraft and the evil eye, and it was used for this purpose in many other parts of the world. it was the universal practice among the arabs of northern africa to stick up over the door of the house or tent, or put up nailed on a board in some other way, the generative organ of a cow, mare, or female camel, as a talisman to avert the influence of the evil eye. it is evident that the figure of this member was far 1 see von hammer-p rgstall, fundgruben des orients, vol. vi, p. 26. 2 von hammer-p rgstall, fundgruben des orients, vol. vi, p. 35, and plate iv, fig. 31. see our plate xxxi, fig. 6. generative powers 139 more liable to degradation in form than that of the male, be

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

re of the moon which daily increaseth, or decreaseth as doth the moon. also pearls, which are generated in shells of fishes from the droppings of water, also the agrippa included among lunar plants hyssop, rosemary, the palm tree, and the olive tree. among animals he mentioned the dog, chameleon, pig, deer, goat, panther, otter, baboon, cat, and any beast with horns that curve inward, such as the cow. water fowl are also lunar in nature, as are mice, flies, beetles, and any creature that breeds in the mud. sea animals particularly lunar in nature are the tortoise, crab, oyster, clam, and frog. he particularly 185. agrippa, 80. chapter eleven: astral doorways 183 singled out menstrual blood as the most lunar of substances. he mentioned a number of other creatures, but this list will give an

, express the moon's nature in their color, as does silver marcasite, also known as the mirror stone. all the cool, milky, and tasteless or slightly salty fluids or substances of the body are lunar, especially those that are cast off such as sweat and phlegm, because they wax and wane in quantity. the dew was believed to fall from the moon as a kind of lunar sweat, making dew lunar in nature. the cow is particularly lunar not only due to its curved horns that resemble the horns of the moon, but by virtue of its white milk. the cat is lunar because the pupils of its eyes resemble the lunar crescent, but can open into full disks just as the moon expands to show a full face. it is no accident that the goddess of witches was held to be diana, goddess of the moon, or that one of the primary act

s former aged body. when we gaze around at the world of this trump, we find that the land is part of a green floodplain beside a river. the remains of ancient stone columns and great statues lie broken and toppled into the rich black soil, so that they are half concealed by the grass and plants. some distance away there is a temple to the egyptian goddess hathor, whose statues have the shape of a cow and also that of a woman with a cow's head, or a woman with a headdress of curving cow's horns. the ruling intelligence of this trump is the goddess hathor, from whose breasts flow the sustaining milk of the stars. the phoenix will act as her oracle, for if you pose it a question about some future event, it will cry out in its shrill voice if the answer is yes. xviii the moon hebrew letter: qo

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ng. ii. the legend of the destruction of mankind. the text containing the legend of the destruction of mankind is written in hieroglyphs, and is found on the four walls of a small chamber which is entered from the "hall of columns" in the tomb of seti i, which is situated on the west bank of the nile at thebes. on the wall facing the door of this chamber is painted in red the figure of the large "cow of heaven" the lower part of her belly is decorated with a series of thirteen stars, and immediately beneath it are the two boats of ra, called semketet and mantchet, or sektet and matet. each of her four legs is held in position by two gods, and the god shu, with outstretched uplifted arms, supports her body. the cow was published by champollion,[fn#5] without the text. this most important my

a worthless remnant, and wished that more of them had been slain. the gods about him begged him to endure, and reminded him that his power was in proportion to his will. ra was, however, unconsoled, and he complained that his limbs were weak for the first time in his life. thereupon the god nu told shu to help ra, and he ordered nut to take the great god ra on her back. nut changed herself into a cow, and with the help of shu ra got on her back. as soon as men saw that ra was on the back of the cow of heaven, and was about to leave them, they became filled with fear and repentance, and cried out to ra to remain with them and to slay all those who had blasphemed against him. but the cow moved on her way, and carried ra to het-ahet, a town of the nome of mareotis, where in later days the rig

a entreated him to protect these supports, and to place himself under nut, and to hold her up in position with his hands. thus shu became the new sun-god in the place of ra, and the heavens in which ra lived were supported and placed beyond the risk of falling, and mankind would live and rejoice in the light of the new sun. at this place in the legend a text is inserted called the "chapter of the cow" it describes how the cow of heaven and the two boats of the sun shall be painted, and gives the positions of the gods who stand by the legs of the cow, and a number of short magical names, or formulae, which are inexplicable. the general meaning of the picture of the cow is quite clear. the cow represents the sky in which the boats of ra, sail, and her four legs are the four cardinal points w

said unto the majesty of nu "my members are weak for (or, as at) the first time; i will not permit this to come upon me a second time" and the majesty of the god nu said "o son shu, be thou the eye 'for thy father. and avenue) him, and 'thou goddess nut, place him. and the goddess nut said "how can this be then, o my father nu? hail" said nut. to the god nu, and the goddess straightway became [a cow, and she set the majesty of ra upon [her] back. and when these things had been done, men and women saw the god ra, upon the back [of the cow. then these men and women said "remain with us, and we will overthrow thine enemies who speak words of blasphemy [against thee, and [destroy them" then his majesty [ra] set out for the great house, and [the gods who were in the train of ra remained] with

thou for me the supports (heh) of the millions (heh) which are there, and which live in darkness. take thou the goddess upon thy head, and act thou as nurse for her" thereupon came into being [the custom] of a son nursing a daughter, and [the custom] of a father carrying a son upon his head. the legend of the destruction of mankind chapter ii. ii. this chapter shall be said over [a figure of] the cow--the supporters [called] heh-enti shall be by her shoulder. the supporters [called] heh-enti shall be at her side, and one cubit and four spans of hers shall be in colours, and nine stars shall be on her belly, and set shall be by her two thighs and shall keep watch before her two legs, and before her two legs shall be shu, under her belly, and he shall be made (i.e, painted) in green qenat co

(i.e, painted) in green qenat colour. his two arms shall be under the stars, and his name shall be made (i.e, written) in the middle of them, namely, shu himself "a boat with a rudder and a double shrine shall be therein, and aten (i.e, the disk) shall be above it, and ra shall be in it, in front of shu, near his hand, or, as another reading hath, behind him, near his hand. and the udders of the cow shall be made to be between her legs, towards the left side. and on the two flanks, towards the middle of the legs, shall be done in writing [the words "the exterior heaven" and "i am what is in me" and "i will not permit them to make her to turn" that which is [written] under the boat which is in front shall read "thou shalt not be motionless, my son" and the words which are written in an opp

is behind shu, near his shoulder, shall read "they keep ward" and that which is behind him, written close to his feet in an opposite direction, shall read "maat" and "they come in" and "i protect daily" and that which is under the shoulder of the divine figure which is under the left leg, and is behind it shall read "he who sealeth all things" that which is over his head, under the thighs of the cow, and that which is by her legs shall read "guardian of his exit" that which is behind the two figures which are by her two legs, that is to say, over their heads, shall read "the aged one who is adored as he goeth forth" and the aged one to whom praise is given when he goeth in" that which is over the head of the two figures, and is between the two thighs of the cow, shall read "listener "hear

ught in or near the hall of the lords of kher-aha, i.e, near heliopolis, and in the presence of isis, who seems to have tried to spare both her brother set and her son horus. for some reason horus became enraged with his mother, and attacking her like a "leopard of the south" he cut off the head of isis. thereupon thoth came forward, and using words of power, created a substitute in the form of a cow's head, and placed it on her body (sallier, iv, p. 2; see select papyri, pl. cxlv [fn#313] horus inherited the throne by his father's will, a fact which is so often emphasized in the texts that it seems there may be some ground for plutarch's view [fn#314] this view is confirmed by the words in the hymn to osiris "she moved the inactivity of the still-heart (osiris, she drew from him his essen

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large, glowing disks or 'silent helicopters' over pastures where dead animals were later found. one waco, texas rancher said he encountered two four-foot tall, light green-colored 'creatures' with large, black, slanted eyes, carrying a calf which was later found dead and mutilated. in 1983, a missouri couple watched through binoculars as two small beings in tight-fitting silver suits worked on a cow in a nearby pasture. the alien heads were large and white in color. nearby, a tall, green-skinned 'lizard man' stood glaring with eyes slit by vertical pupils like a crocodiles" case file #16: the ufo crash/retrieval syndrome (status report ii, by leonard h. stringfield. published by mufon the report interviews several medical doctors who did autopsies on et bodies from ufo crash sites. who in

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are not annihilated, but pass after death from one body to another. by this teaching men are much encouraged to valour, through disregarding the fear of death' this was the usual belief, as the hero cuchulain was urged by the men of ulster to marry, because they did not wish to lose so great a warrior to the tribe, and knew that he would be reborn again among his descendants. the book of the dun cow tells us that the famous fin mac coul was reborn in ulster in the person of king mongan, two hundred years after his death. there was also a class of diviners called druidesses and mentioned by caesar in his de bella gallica, who were looked on as even more ancient than the druids; they were shape-changers and seem to have had all the characteristics of witches. they made rain by sprinkling wa

ld customs were kept up to such an extent that any unmarried alderney woman could say to any eligible alderney man within the year 'you were with me at the may games, the child in my body is yours, you must marry me' and he was forced to do so. but nowadays there is only one such old custom still in force. any alderney person who has a bottle of rum with him on may day may take milk from anyone's cow to make rum and milk, and the owner may not object. but even that custom is dying out because of the price of rum. the puritan writer, philip stubbles, speaks of the maypole as 'a stinking idol, of which it is the perfect pattern, or rather the thing itself, meaning that it was phallic. he also says 'both men and women, old and young. go to the woods and groves, where they spend all the night

'why won't the witches let you tell the gods' names? are they satan and beelzebub' so let me assure you they are not any devils' names. concealing the gods' names is an ancient practice. among the egyptian gods, the real names of amon and of other gods whose names are sacred are unknown. referring to the god we call osiris, herodotus, who was initiated, says speaking of the exposure of the sacred cow 'at the season when the egyptians beat themselves in honour of one of their gods whose name i am unwilling to mention' and 'on this lake it is that the egyptians represent by night his sufferings whose name i refrain from mentioning' he knew these names; but they were secret. 13- recapitulation what is the witch 'power? i find i have written twelve chapters; so, this being a book about witches

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d to the universe be repulsive; except god, there is none that divines. bright are the tops of the clover; the timid have no heart; jealous ones weary themselves out; usual is care upon the weak. bright the tops of the reed-grass; furious is the jealous, and he can hardly be satisfied; it is the act of the wise to love with sincerity. bright the tops of the oat; bitter the ash branches; sweet the cow-parsnip, the wave keeps laughing; the cheek will not conceal the anguish of the heart. bright the tops of the dogrose; hardship has no formality; let everyone preserve his purity of life. the greatest blemish is ill manners. bright the tops of the broom; let the lover make assignations; very yellow are the clustered branches; shallow ford; the contented enjoy sleep. bright the tops of the appl

ay does not get lost. one does not throw the stick after the snake has gone. proverbs on human beings lack of companionship is worse than poverty. may death not kill the person who tortures us, may the gods protect 265 the one who ill-treats us; however long it takes our destiny to give us victory. proverbs on nature if you want to speak to god, speak to the winds. if the mouse were the size of a cow, it would be the cat s slave nevertheless. if plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook. however poor the crocodile becomes, it hunts in the river, not in the forest. proverbs on leadership people count what they are refused, not what they are given. the ears of the leader are like a strainer; there are more than a thousand openings to them. power must be handled in

, all arguments are gone: more beautiful tunes come from pine winds on the hills. 94. life is one rest on the way back from illusion to nirvana; let it rain if it rains! let winds blow if they blow! 101. i really love my barrel-making job; connecting each board into one round barrel. 113. walk on deliberately and you ll surely see the world beyond the thousand miles, even if you walk as slow as a cow. 114. how regrettable! never to return: days and months, flowing water, and human lives! 120. mistaken if you think you see the moon with your own eyes: you see it with the light it sheds. 130. wisdom, if you devise it, is false; the true wisdom is what you never know. 131. no hesitation anymore! having given it all up, i m quite ready to die. 143. no parents, no friends, no children, no wife

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o n war. 5``i am a god of war' etc. is ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by rep roduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double se xual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse t

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on war. 5``i am a god of war' etc. is ra hoor khuit. 6. the word in the mouth is 93: aiwaz is the lord of the fortress or house of god, which is the abbey of thelema. 7. aiwaz is spelt ayin, the eye, i.e. that of shiva or horus, the meatus penis and the anus; yod, the phallus, spermatozoon; and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by reproduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse tha

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3, 41. 46. 69. conf. virg. aen. 8, 82: candida cum foetu concolor albo sus; and the umbrian: trif apruf rufru ute fciu (tres apros rubros aut piceos, aufrecht und kirchh. umbr. si^rachd. 2, 278-9. s ra. 587. 667. weisth. 1, 498. 3, 430. white animals hateful to the gods; tettau and temme preuss. sag. 42. saceifice, 55 garlanded and adorned for sacrifice. a passage in the edda requires gold-horned cows, saem. 141; and in the village of fienstadt in mansfeld a coal-black ox with a white star and white feet, and a he-goat with gilded horns were imposed as dues^ there are indications that the animals, before being slaughtered, were led round within the circle of the assembly that is how i explain the leading round the benches, and^^e' circuituni currere, pp. 51, 52 perhaps, as among the greeks

m qui proximus est templo; is enim lucus tam sacer est gentibus, ut singulae arlores ejus ex morte vel tabo immolatorum divinae credantur. of hlosr heisreksson we are told in the hervararsaga cap. 16 (fornald. sog. 1, 491, that he was born with arms and horse in the jiolij wood (a mork hinni helgu. in the grove glasislundr a bird sits on the boughs and demands sacrifices, a temple and gold-horned cows, ssem. 140-1. the sacred trees of the edda, yggdrasil and m'wiamei&r, ssem. 109% hardly need reminding of. lastly, the agreement of the slav, prussian, finnish and celtic paganisms throws light ujjon our own, and tends to confirm it. dietmar of merseburg (pertz 5, 812) affirms of the heathen temple at eiedegost; quam undique sylva ab incolis intacta et venerabilis circumdat magna (ibid. 816)

e leave meat and drink standing for her; which means a downright sacrifice. in the mountains of salzburg there is kept up to this day, in honour of the terrible percktel, a so called perchta-running, perchtaleaping at the time of the rauchniichte [incense-nights^ in the pinzgau, from 100 to 300 young fellows (styled the berchtcn) will roam about in broad daylight in the oddest disguises, carrying cows' bells, and cracking whips^ in the gastein valley the procession, headed by from 50 or 100 to 300 stout fellows, goes hopping and skipping from village to village, from house to house, all tlirougii the valley (muchar, gastein pp. 145-7. in the north of switzerland, where in addition to berchtli the softened form bechtli or bechteli is in use, bechtclis day is the 2nd (or, if new-year's day f

ds are mounted: the valkyrs, like o'sinn, ride through air and water, sn. 107, ereyja and hyndla on a boar and a wolf, as enchantresses and witches are imagined riding a wolf, a he-goat or a cat. night (fem) had a steed hrimfaxi, rimy-mane, as day (masc) had skinfaxi, shiny-mane. at the same time carriages are mentioned too, especially for goddesses (p. 107. the sacred car of nerthus was drawn by cows, that of ereyja by cats, holda and berhta are commonly found driving waggons which they get mended, the fairies in our nursery- 1 0. muuer's archosol. 563. vehicles. iionses. 329 tales travel tlirougli the air in coaclies, and brynliiklr drives in her waworld, sicm. 227. the imafre of a gothic deity in a waggon was alluded to on p. 107; among the gods, freyr is expressly d

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g god of light and so, traditionally, a virgin was chosen to mate with the chief of the tribe to ensure the coming of new life to the land. it is said that, like lugh, he embraced cailleach, the old hag of winter who was thus transformed in his arms into the maiden goddess. in medieval times, a girl representing brighid would be brought to the door of the main house or farmstead of a village with cows and a cauldron, symbols of plenty. her straw bridal bed would be created close to the fire, adorned with ribbons and blessed with honey. milk, the first available after the winter, was central to the festival as a symbol of renewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny

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with an apple or pomegranate tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding a large black oil jar 22 a dark man, in his right hand a spear and laurel branch and in his left a book a man, dark, yet delicious of countenance 24 a man with a lance in his right hand, in his left a human head a man riding a camel, with a scorpion in his hand 25 a man with 3 bodies 1 black, 1 red, 1 white a man leading cows, and before him an ape and bear 26 a man holding in his right hand a javelin and in his left a lapwing. a man with an ape running before him 28 a man with bowed head and a bag in his hand. a man arrayed like a king, looking with pride and conceit on all around him. 29 a man with two bodies, but joining their hand. a grave man pointing to the sky. cli. magical images of the decans (cadent. cli

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of that coprolite is manifest as an image of some brute lust, some torpid dullness, some ignorant instinct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even to-day, a mass of maggot

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l view; a star who happened to be a lawyer might see things otherwise! yet nature's unspeakable variety, though it admits cruelty and selfishness, offers us no example of the puritan and the prig! weh note: crowley's determined ignorance of natural history as a subject of study is ably presented by his own direct affirmation in several of his works. harem oriented species, including seals, sheep, cows. have a puritanical prig at the top of the pecking order. pack and colony animals, such as wolves and meercats, often allow sex between only two individuals in the pack. at least it's not as bad as the parish priest who denounced homosexuality with the observation that it did not occur in animals, including dogs! however, to the mind of law there is an order of going; and a machine is more be

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s. and he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once. and perdu r abu died. 1 the archdevil of the buddhists. appendix i 104 v. now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till the approachin of perdu r abu s arahatship. but in spite of the young gently-ambling cows which ganesha took care to throw in his way, in spite of the tender shoots of green and the soft cocoanuts, this elephant was not as other elephants. the seasons spoke to him of change the forest is ever full of sorrow and nobody need preach to him the absence of an ego, for the brutes have had more sense than ever to imagine there was one. so the tusker was usually to be found, still as a ro

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from before his face. and he fell through the starry night unto the little village in the desert. benishrur, algeria "december" 10, 1909. 7.40-9.40 p.m. the cry of the 5th aethyr, which is called lit there is a shining pylon, above which is set the sigil of the eye, within the shining triangle. light streams through the pylon from before the face of isis-hathor, for she weareth the lunar crown of cows' horns, with the disk in the centre; at her breast she beareth the child horus. and there is a voice: thou knowest not how the seven was united with the four; much less then canst thou understand the marriage of the eight and the three. yet there is a word wherein these are made one, and therein is contained the mystery that thou seekest, concerning the rending asunder of the veil of my mothe

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nd you must get out of them and they out of you, and the less you consider their names the better; for name-changing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a waste of time. let us therefore call the world a series of existences and have done with it, for it does not matter a jot what we mean by it so long as we work; very well then; science is a part of this series, and so is magic, and so are cows and angels, and so are landscapes, and so are visions; and the difference between these existences is the difference which lies between a cheesemonger and a poet, between a blind man and one who can see. the clearer the view the more perfect the view; the clearer the vision the more perfect the vision. the eyes of a hawk are keener than those of an owl, and so are a poet's keener than those o

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the darkest corner of hell; eyes that set the fashion to the stars of the celestial vault of heaven; eyes that were but the imperfect mirror of the soul behind. such was the ten-years-old ljubov of the goodly countenance. when, later on, the usual legend grew around her, it was said that wolves had once entered the village, in the midst of 296 winter, starved to madness, and had begun eating two cows in their shed, when little ljubov chanced upon them and was discovered half an hour later, surrounded by two hundred of these wolves, which were pushing and kicking one another to lick her hands. on another occasion, extraordinary miracle, one glance from her eyes had stopped the tongue of a drunken pope who was swearing at a peasant in the foulest language. she was, of course, a favourite wi

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en by desire that was true desire, the hate of the lower, the love of the higher, jeanne! what is the end of it, jeanne? why, that's a mystery not to be solved by cats! in the fields we wandered through to-day, jeanne! hand in hand, this wonderful may, jeanne! this may we have made so marvellous with the infinite longing and love of us, 49 in the fields all faery with flowers there lay the placid cows- that had nothing to say, jeanne! no flame of words from maddening blood, but complacent chewing of the cud. i dared not whisper the sudden fear of my heart in your miracle of an ear, jeanne! i tightened my lips, and my hand on yours; so that you might think i loved you more. but now in the midnight the thought endures, and the love- ah what is the dream we adore? suppose the infinite peace o

e. but now in the midnight the thought endures, and the love- ah what is the dream we adore? suppose the infinite peace of the heart, jeanne! the crest and crown of labour and art, of the mystic quest, of the toil of the saint, the mount on whose slopes the strongest faint, jeanne! suppose that peace of god, that house of delight of the bridegroom and the spouse, were only the calm of the chewing cows, jeanne! suppose that in all the worlds inane there were one thing only vexed and vain, turbulent, troubled, and insane, jeanne! suppose that the universal plan had but one flaw, and that flaw were man! 50 then- even then- we are here, jeanne! we love- we shall die, sweet heart, take cheer, jeanne! we are bound to a fate that brings release; we move in a moil that must one day cease; we shall

, jeanne! suppose that the universal plan had but one flaw, and that flaw were man! 50 then- even then- we are here, jeanne! we love- we shall die, sweet heart, take cheer, jeanne! we are bound to a fate that brings release; we move in a moil that must one day cease; we shall win to the everlasting peace, jeanne! and how things are, and why, and whence are puzzles for fools that lack the sense of cows- enough of the future tense, jeanne! for the end of love and the end of art is just- my ear against your heart! aleister crowley. 51 circe her mouth a rosebud of delight, low-laughing 'mid the languid curls, whose kissing cadence seems to cite the rhythmic melody of night. her hair a saraband where whirls a wanton witch, whose perfumes smite the shuddering air; a summer night where summer lig

reby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. prosecutor. we say this is plain witchcraft [laylah "takes no notice" bishop. silence under such a charge is contumacious, and equivalent to confession. on the fourth count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. fifthly, that you do take the form of a bat, and suck the blood of sleeping children, and moreover have bewitched divers cows to the prejudice of the holy orders of knights hospitaller and others, lawful owners of the aforesaid cows. prosecutor. all clear marks of a witch! laylah. your saviour sent devils into swine. bishop. blasphemy on blasphemy["crosses himself. sure only the devil could speak thus. on the fifth count, guilty [judges "echo "guilty" clerk. sixthly- bishop. stay, gentle sir. have we not heard enoug

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ly by solid matter, by water, by fire, by wind, by air and by darkness. wherein living creatures, having been allotted a long and grievous length-of-life, feeling the misery incurred as the result of their own karma, are born" comment here is needless. in connection with the second plane, the astral, reference is made to the fact that the stars (the lives, on that plane are "driven by the wind as cows are driven by the ploughman in a circle around the threshing floor" and that they are "regulated by the steady impulsion of the wind- 164- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust we have here a wonderful picture of how all lives are driven by the force of their desires on the wheel of rebirth. vyasa notes that the mind world is peopled by six groups of gods (the six groups of egos an

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e first mammal forms "gigantic, transparent, dumb and monstrous they were" says the commentary. study the stories of the several rishis and their multifarious progeny; e.g, pulastya is the father of all the serpents and nagas- the oviparous brood; kasyapa was grandsire, through his wife tamra, of the birds and of garuda, king of the feathered tribe; while by his wife surabhi, he was the parent of cows and buffaloes, etc, etc. in the secret doctrine, the first nagas- beings wiser than serpents- are the "sons of will and yoga" born before the complete separation of the sexes "matured in the man-bearing eggs* produced by the power (kriyasakti) of the holy sages" of the early third race[[footnote(s* an allegorical reference to the "sacred animals" of the zodiac and other heavenly bodies. some

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n foretelling to maitreya some of the dark influences and sins of this kali yug. for after saying that the "barbarians" will be masters of the banks of the indus, of chandrabhaga and kasmera, he adds "there will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth- kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness. they will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize upon the property of their subjects, and be intent upon the wives of others; they will be of unlimited power, their lives will be short, their desires insatiable. people of various countries intermingling with them, will follow their example; and the barbarians being powerful (in india) in the patronage of the princes, while purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish

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g god of light and so, traditionally, a virgin was chosen to mate with the chief of the tribe to ensure the coming of new life to the land. it is said that, like lugh, he embraced cailleach, the old hag of winter who was thus transformed in his arms into the maiden goddess. in medieval times, a girl representing brighid would be brought to the door of the main house or farmstead of a village with cows and a cauldron, symbols of plenty. her straw bridal bed would be created close to the fire, adorned with ribbons and blessed with honey. milk, the first available after the winter, was central to the festival as a symbol of renewed fertility. it was poured on the bed of straw. workers from the farms and villages would approach the bride bed, and in return for a coin, a posy of flowers or tiny

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ns, but cattle (kerithuth 6b, page 78, jebhammoth 61 "the non-jews have been created to serve the jews as slaves (midrasch talpioth 225 "sexual intercourse with non- jews is like sexual intercourse with animals (kethuboth 3b "the non-jews have to be avoided, even more than sick pigs (orach chaiim 57, 6a "the birth rate of non- jews has to be suppressed massively (zohar ii, 4b "as you replace lost cows and donkeys, so you shall replace non-jews (lore dea 377,1. and so it goes on and on. so how often do the "anti-racist" protestors demonstrate outside talmudic events? never. exactly. the irony is that the racism of extreme jews and the racism of adolf hitler are both based on a colossal myth. as alfred m. lilienthal, the jewish writer and researcher, said "there is no reputable anthropologis

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deeper levels of the base saw scenes so terrifying they have refused to talk about them. from other sources, however, we can imagine some of what they saw. these bases are where many of the millions, yes millions, of children who go missing every year worldwide are taken. 1 know it is hard to stomach, but they are used for slave labour and eaten by the reptilians, just like humans eat chicken or cows. workers at the dulce base in new mexico have reported seeing the most grotesque sights in the lower levels. researchers bill hamilton and tal levesque (also known as jason bishop iii) gathered the following information about dulce, which they published in ufo magazine "level number six is privately called 'nightmare hall. it holds the genetic labs. reports from workers who have seen bizarre

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, named from its appearance as a bird-like reptile, had a large brain, wide-set eyes that gave it stereoscopic vision, andfingers with opposing thumbs which allowed it to catch and eat small mammals.7adrian j. desmond, one of the worlds leading researchers into dinosaurs, says thatcreatures like the saurornithoides, were separated from other dinosaurs by a gulfcomparable to that dividing men from cows.8 he asks: who knows what peaks thesophisticated bird-mimics would have attained had they survived?9 studies have22suggested that had the dinosaurs not been wiped out by yet another cataclysm about 65million years ago, they would have evolved into a reptile humanoid by now.10 dalerussell, the senior paleontologist at northern california university, was asked by theus space agency, nasa, to pr

on-jews are no humans, but cattle kerithuth 6b, page78, iebhammoth 61the non-jews have been created to serve the jews as slaves midrasch talpioth 225sexual intercourse with non-jews is like sexual intercourse with animals kethuboth 3bthe non-jews have to be avoided even more than sick pigs orach chalim 57, 6athe birth rate of non-jews has to be suppressed massively zohar 11, 4bas you replace lost cows and donkeys, so you shall replace non-jews lore dea 377,1but this is not just a grotesque diatribe of racism. look again. it is the very attitudesthat the draco reptilians and their underlings have towards humans. remember thishorrific stuff was not written by judeans or jews as a people. they are victims of thesebeliefs, not the authors. it was written by the levites, representatives of the

e.the prophecies said that the messiah (messeh, the crocodile of egypt) would becalled emmanuel, but the name of the gospel messiah was jesus, or at least itsjudean equivalent. oops! funny how christians seem to miss this point when theyquote the prophecy about the coming of emmanuel every christmas. think of allthose children who have been dressed up as mary, joseph, shepherds, wise men,donkeys, cows and sheep. this fantasy has been used to indoctrinate countlessgenerations to believe that this is how it all happened, when, in truth, the nativityand the christmas story are the acting out of translation errors, an invention of stfrancis, and the mid-winter rituals of pagan beliefs. i say, jenny and johnny, beforeyou don those costumes this year, can i have a quiet word?the christian euchar

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366 next: plates xxxv. and xxxvi. plates xxxiii and xxxiv. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod39.htm (5 of 5 [8/10/2001 11:29:23 am] sacred texts egypt index previous next plates xxxv. and xxxvi. vignette: a hall, within which, on the left, ani stands before two tables of offerings bearing libation water and lotus-flowers, with hands raised, adoring ra, hawk-headed.[1] next are ranged seven cows, each one couchant before a table of offerings, and each having a menat attached to the neck;[2] and a bull standing before a table of offerings. behind them are four rudders; and on the extreme right are four triads of gods, each triad having a table of offerings bearing a libation vase and a lotus-flower. text [chapter cxlviii (i) saith osiris ani, triumphant "homage to thee (2) o thou lord

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nomenon. they examined the origin of cattle mutilation reports and found them based on inept observation and unfounded rumor. where autopsy reports of mutilated cattle were acquired from competent pathologists, they indicated damage by small animals. in spite of lack of evidence, reports of cattle mutilations and unfounded charges that aliens are attacking hundreds of thousands of the defenseless cows continue to circulate within some of the ufological networks, though most ufologists have dismissed the stories. the modern-day reports of animal mutilations are not unprecedented. other stories of attacks on cattle were compiled by the indefatigable chronicler of the bizarre, charles fort, in his book lo (1931. fort recalls that in the winter of 1904.05, during an outbreak of religious reviv

bat-like wings, and suggested that it might be a cross between a kangaroo and a bat. it left two deep puncture wounds on its victims and a sulfur-like stench. the remnants of the chupacabras attacks were very real and included most frequently goats and smaller animals that one might find on a farm. dogs, cats, chickens, ducks. but the creature has also been known to attack larger animals such as cows and horses. as a whole it did not attack humans. most frequently reported were the penetrating wounds, as if a set of fangs had gone searching for an artery. similar to tales of cattle mutilations in the united states, theories about the nature of chupacabras have been as widespread as the reports of their attacks. they have ranged from vampires to aliens, and some have seen the creatures as

of fairies (1976, by katharine briggs, a modern authority on the subject. typical activities of fairies in relation to human beings include abducting babies and putting changelings in their place; helping plants and flowers to grow; sweeping floors; bestowing miraculous gifts for friendship (such as removing deformities or breaking the spells of witches; performing mischievous pranks like milking cows in the fields, soiling clothes put out to dry, curdling milk, and spoiling crops. fairyland was usually underground or in some magical other dimension. here time became mystically changed.one night in fairyland might equal a lifetime in the human world. some of the most romantic and poignant folktales concern mortals who fall in love with a fairy queen and are transported to the magical world

. the laying to rest of uneasy spirits there are many cases of hauntings by uneasy spirits that required certain acts to take place before the manifestation ceased. a highly curious mixture of haunting, poltergeist, and obsession phenomena is found in the old case of the maid of orlach, told in justinus kerner s geschichten besessener neurer zeit (1834. the disturbances began in the cowhouse. the cows were found tied up in unusual ways and places. sometimes their tails were finely plaited together, as if by a lace weaver. strange cats and birds came and went and invisible hands boxed the cowmaid magdalene s ears while she was milking and struck her cap off with violence. mysterious fires broke out from time to time in the cottage and a contest between a black and a white spirit ensued. the

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usual ceremonies in the churchyard. about four days after her death and for several months, the inhabitants of the village were frightened by unusual noises and many saw a specter, sometimes shaped like a dog and sometimes like a man, who tried to choke or suffocate them. several were bruised all over and utterly weak, pale, lean, and disfigured. the specter took his fury out even on the beasts: cows were frequently found beaten to the earth, half dead, at other times with their tails tied to one another, lowing hideously. horses were found foaming with sweat and out of breath, as if they had been running a long and tiresome race. schertz examined the subject in the capacity of a lawyer and was clearly of the opinion that if the suspected person were really the source of these noises, dis

and; it closely resembled a man but was not able to speak, so the story goes. the landnama or icelandic doomsday book tells of a merman caught off the island of grimsey, and the annals of the country describe such creatures as appearing off the coast in 1305 and 1329. in 1430 in holland violent storms broke the dykes near edam, west friesland. some girls from edam had to take a boat to milk their cows, and saw a mermaid floundering in shallow muddy water. they brought her home, dressed her in women s clothing and taught her to weave and spin and show reverence for a crucifix, but she could never learn to speak, says the tale. in 1492 christopher columbus claimed to have seen three such creatures leaping out of the sea. in 1560 some fishermen near the island of mandar off the west coast of

lopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mermaids and mermen 1025 desert island of avacha (now known as bering island) in 1741. his party included naturalist george w. steller, who made copious notes while the party was dying of starvation. steller observed large herds of sirenia a short distance from the shore. the creatures were mammals about 25 to 35 feet long and grazed off the kelp like cows on a pasture. they were unafraid of humans, and it was easy to harpoon them, drag them ashore and eat the flesh, which sustained the party. the top half of the creature resembled a seal, and the bottom half a dolphin. it had small flippers, and the females had mammary glands like a woman, suckling their young at the breast. even courtship habits seemed human, as well as other behavior. when o

to him in such a way that traditional hindu metaphysical teachings had personal relevance to the questioner. his constant theme was the discovery of the essential self present in all beings, summarized in the formulation who am i? his statements combined metaphysical subtlety and simplicity, while his gentle and perceptive presence was inspiring to his devotees. even the local creatures (monkeys, cows, peacocks, birds) were attracted to him as if to a latter-day st. francis of assisi. he was also visited by leading western scholars and seekers, including paul brunton and w. y. evans-wentz. in his later years, he developed various illnesses and a cancerous tumor on his left elbow, but remained indifferent to intense physical pain. he passed into the mahasamadhi (great sleep) of death on apr

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tten; a cask of tartar has the wine begotten. not only gold and jewels rare, proud wines of noble essences are there, enveiled in horror and in gloom. the wise seek here without dismay. a fool can recognize a thing by day; in darkness mysteries are at home. emperor. what is the gain of dark? you can have that! if aught has value, it must come to light. who can detect a rogue in dead of night? all cows are black, and grey is every cat. the pots down there, heavy with golden freightdrive your plough on, unearth them straight. mephistopheles take hoe and spade yourself, dig on! you ll grow great, through this peasant-toil. a herd of golden calves anon will wrench their way out of the soil. then with delight, without delay, yourself you can, you will your love array. a jewel in which light and

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is not a creator. from the father is derived the soul of the child, while from the mother, or from matter, the body is formed. hence the prevalence at a certain stage of human history of divine fathers and earthly mothers; for instance, alexander of macedon, julius caesar, and later the mythical christ who superseded jesus, the judean philosopher and teacher of mankind. henceforth, caves, wells, cows, boxes and chests, arks, etc, stand for or symbolize the female power. we are given to understand, however, that for ages these symbols were as holy as the god himself, and among many peoples even more revered and worshipped. we have seen that the ancients knew that matter and force were alike indestructible. according to their doctrine all nature proceeded from the sun. hence the power back

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s of cures by the same 'wise woman' who seems to have been a white witch, devoting her powers entirely to curing, and taking no fee for so doing. but the evil witch who does harm is by no means unknown.onesuch i met with many years ago now, in what was the then little fishing village of lossiemouth. i was told how she over-looked cattle and they died, how the sheep brought forth no lambs, and the cows gave no milk.withmuch difficulty and many vows of secrecy i was shown the witch's cottage, and made her acquiantance. however, when after some little conversation on things in general i asked her if she would 'spae' my fortune, either by my hand, or the cards, or in any other way, she stoutly denied having any power in that way, and it looked as though we had come to a deadlock, till fortunat

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17th and 18th february, 3102 bce and represents the final stage of the cycle. it is interesting that this date coincides with the start of the 5th sun period of the mayans, which they believe climaxes in 2012 "all kings occupying the earth in the kali age will be wanting in tranquility, strong in anger, taking pleasure at all times in lying and dishonesty, inflicting death on women, children, and cows, prone to take the paltry possessions of others, with character that is mostly tamas, rising to power and soon falling. they will be short-lived, ambitious, of little virtue, and greedy. people will follow the customs of others and be adulterated with them; peculiar, undisciplined barbarians will be vigorously supported by rulers. because they go on living with perversion, they will be ruined

paralysed from the waist down, he spent the rest of his life writing, researching and offering guidance to those seeking a spiritual revolution. he died in 1974. his writing are profuse yet most are not as yet translated into english, it seems there is a great fear regarding the explosive nature of his insightful vision. evola was not afraid of offending peoples foibles or attacking their sacred cows. he attempted to unite politics, occultism, religion and traditionalism into a "world shattering" vision and he had remarkable success. the gnostic handbook page 61 for evola, history was a series of cycles that are degenerative rather than evolutionary, we are then in the darkest age of all (the kali yuga, rather than entering an age of light, love and peace. our modern way of thinking is (a

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e, i dropped off to sleep instead. fifty minutes later i awoke to find that we were passing through a painting. the foreground, brightly sunlit, consisted of flat green meadows sprinkled with little patches of thawing frost, distributed on either side of a stream across a long, wide valley. in the middle of my view, dotted with bushes, was a large field on which a handful of black and white dairy cows grazed. nearby was a scattered settlement of houses outside which stood small, dark-skinned quechua indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats. more distant were slopes canopied in fir trees and exotic eucalyptus. my eye followed the rising contours of a pair of high green mountains, which then parted to reveal folded and even more lofty uplands. beyond these soared a f

lming desire to transmit a message to the future through a variety of different media myths, maps, buildings, calendar systems, mathematical harmonies have been connected to the cataclysms and earth changes that caused this loss? an urgent mission the possession of a conscious, articulated history is one of the faculties that distinguishes human beings from animals. unlike rats, say, or sheep, or cows, or pheasants, we have a past which is separate from ourselves. we therefore have the opportunity, as i have said, to learn from the experiences of our predecessors. is it because we are perverse, or misguided, or simply stupid that we 23 by robert bauval, personal communication. 24 see part vii. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 476 refuse to recognize those experiences unless they hav

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and all do him reverence by kneeling and kissing. when the chief devil takes a particular fancy to one woman, she is named the witches' queen, and ranks above all the rest^ answering to that norse trolla koniingr, p. 104-3. the undelightful meal is illumined by black torches, all kindled at a light that burns between the horns of the great goat. their viands lack salt and bread" they drink out of cows' hoofs and horses' heads. then they relate what mischief they have wrought, and resolve on new: if their misdeeds fail to satisfy the devil, he beats them. after the feast^ that neither fills nor nourishes, the dance begins: up in a tree sits the musician, his fiddle or bagpipe is a horse's head (p. 1050, his fife a cudgel or a cat's tail. in dancing the partners face outwards, turning their

if their misdeeds fail to satisfy the devil, he beats them. after the feast^ that neither fills nor nourishes, the dance begins: up in a tree sits the musician, his fiddle or bagpipe is a horse's head (p. 1050, his fife a cudgel or a cat's tail. in dancing the partners face outwards, turning their backs to each other: in the morning you may see a circurar track in the grass, shewing the print of cows' and goats' feet. the dance, according to hessian trials of 1631, is like that of the sword-dancers (p. 304; we often hear of one of the women wearing the giildne schuh on her right foot, would she be queen or commandress? martin von amberg speaks of' making red shoes (schuechel) for the trut; to dance in? when the ring-dance is over, they beat each other with swingle-staves and mangle-bats

way as they came: the husband, who all the while has mistaken a staff laid in the bed for his sleeping spouse, knows nothing of what has passed. whoever happens to get sight of a witches' dance, need only utter the name of god or christ: it all stops in a moment, and disappears^ the harm that witches do is chiefly to the cattle and crops of their neighbours. they know how to drain other people's cows of every drop of milk, without coming near them, superst. g, line 132: they stick a hnife in an oaken i?ost, hang a string on it, and make the milk flow out of the string (reusch's samland p. qq) j or they drive an axe into the doorpost, and milk out of the helve; they draw milk out of a spindle, out of a suspended handkerchief^ they turn good milk blue, or bloody-colour; their compliments on

onesque omnes. qui curant ea, addunt haec verba" reseda, morbos reseda! scisne, scisne quis hie pullos egerit? radices nee caput nee pedes habeant" haec ter dicunt, toticsque despuunt' collectio is a' in polish quarries grows a beautiful hlue star/lower with a long stalk (conf, trojziele p. 1216, which the peasantry make war upon, because they think old women and gijisies use it in bewitching the cows, that they may suck up all the milk themselves (pott's zigeuner p. viii. 1202 heebs and stones. gathering, and' pullos agere' must refer to this or the inflammation. what we now call reseda (odorata) is apparently a different herb (see suppl. of roots, the alriine stands first in fame. ohg. glosses already have alruna, alrun for mandragora (graff 2, 523. schm. 3, 97, and i have on fair ground

is not an old german word, being formed from the latin hedera, only instead of ivy it means ground-ivy, linnets glechoma hederacea, a weed with small blue flowers. its native name is giinde-rehe, gundel-rehe, donner-rehe, gunder-mann, ohg. gunder-reha' acev (graff 2, 354, which cannot mean maple, for it is always classed among herbs. it was reckoned sanative, and a safeguard against sorcery; when cows are first driven out to pasture, they are milked through a wreath of gundermann, and whoever wears this on his head can tell who are witches, sup. i, 462-3. giind points to the ancient valkyr (p. 422; donver to the flower's blue colour, and to the thunder-god. the lettons too have named it pehrjcones from the god pehrkon* ground-ivy. devil's-bit. good henry. 1213 the boh. ohnica (from oheu, f

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mals are driven through. in some places the fire is produced by the friction of an old cartwheel. the following description, the latest of all, is communicated from hohenhameln, bailiw. baldenberg, hildesheim: in many villages of lower saxony, especially in the mountains, it is common, as a precaution against cattle plague, to get up the so-called wild fire, through which first the pigs, then the cows, lastly the geese are driven.2 the established procedure in the matter is this. the farmers and all the parish assemble, each inhabitant receives notice to extinguish every bit of fire in his house, so that not a spark is left alight in the whole village. then old and young walk to a hollow way, usually towards evening, the women carry ing linen, the men wood and tow. two oaken stakes are dri

uld kill a calf to protect the herd from pestilence: miss c and her cousin walking saw a fire in a field, and a crowd round it. they said, what is the matter? killing a calf. 3 c what for? to stop the murrain/ they went away as quickly as possible. on speaking to the clergyman, he made inquiries. the people did not like to talk of the affair, but it appeared that when there is a disease among the cows, or the calves are born sickly, they sacrifice (i.e. kill and burn) one for good luck [a similar story from cornwall in hone s daybook 1, 153] unquestionably needfire was a sacred thing to other nations beside the teutonic and celtic. the creeks in n. america hold an annual harvest festival, commencing with a strict fast of three days, during which the fires are put out in all houses. on the

quidam ignes accendunt in compitis viarum, in agris, ne inde sortilegae et maleficae ilia nocte transitum faciant, ut ego propriis oculis vidi. alii herbas collectas in die s. johannis incendentes contra fulgura, tonitrua et tempestates credunt suis fumigationibus arcere daemones et tempestates. 2 as he is supposed to leap three times at easter (p. 291. 624 elements. bohemians used to lead their cows over it to protect them from witchcraft. the kussian name was kupdlo, which some explain by a god of harvest, kupalo: youths and maidens, garlanded with flowers and girt with holy herbs, assembled on the 24th june, lighted a fire, leapt and led their flocks over it, singing hymns the while in praise of the god. they thought thereby to shield their cattle from the leshis or woodsprites. at tim

, as well as horse-worship altogether, seems to belong equally to celts, teutons and slavs; what particular branches of these races were most addicted to it, will by degrees unfold itself to future research (see suppl. praetorius (weltbeschr. 2, 162-3) relates, that the non-german people (wends) used to keep off or extirpate cattle-plagues by fixing round their stables the heads of mad horses and cows on 1 conf. sup. i, 838, planting the willow in the dead foal s mouth. 2 pretty much as they turned the eagle s head on the house, and thought thereby to shift the wind (p. 633-4. the heathen practice of fastening up animals heads explains many very old names of places in germ, and france, as berhaupten, tierhaupten, roshaupten, schni. 2, 223. ad locum qui nuncupatur caput caballinum, pertz 2

n times: redbreast and titmouse. robin redbreast is on no account to have his nest disturbed, or the house will be struck with lightning: it is the redstart s nest 1 summer-freckles in bavar. gugker-schegken, cuckoo-spots, schm. 2, 27; conf. hofer 1, 337. eedbeeast. titmouse. 683 that draws down the flash. the latter the swiss call husrotheli (house-redling; if you tease him or take him out, your cows will give red milk (tobler 281. were these birds sacred to donar the red-bearded? and has that to do with the colour of their throat and tail? they say the redbreast drops leaves and flowers on the face of a murdered man [or babe] whom he finds in the wood; did he do this in the service of a god, who therefore would not suffer him to be molested? the tiny titmouse- whom he called gossip, was

encyclop. 58, 681 seq, grater s idunna 1812 p. 41, biisching s woch. nachr. 1, 183-6. 3, 166 and other places to be cited as they are wanted. the two earliest treatises are by paul chr. hilscher de ritu dominicae laetare, quern vulgo appellant den tod austreiben, lips. 1690 (in germ. 1710, and joh. casp. zeumer de dominica laetare, jena 1706 ;2 let the summer-children sell you a summer, and your cows will give plenty of milk, sup. i, 1097. 3 reinhart, introd. p. ccxix. athen. also, ubi supra, speaks of a crow being carried about, instead of the swallow. expulsion of wintee. 765 the custom just described belongs chiefly to districts on the middle rhine, beyond it in the palatinate, this side of it in the odenwald betwixt main and neckar. of the songs that are sung i give merely the passage

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the distant goddess) inspired fear wherever he went. one day, in the remote mountains where the lion lived, he met a panther suffering horrible wounds. the lion asked the panther who had pulled out his fur and ripped his skin. the panther replied that it was man. the lion did not know what men were, but he resolved to find man and punish him. on his journey he encountered chained horses, donkeys, cows, and oxen. the lion asked them who had imprisoned them, and they all replied man. then the lion found a bear and another lion who had both been tricked and tortured by man. the lion vowed that he would make man suffer the same pain he had inflicted on all these animals. as the lion searched for man, a tiny mouse ran under his paw. the mouse begged the lion not to crush him. he pointed out tha

ladies references and further reading: f. a. hassan. primeval goddess to divine king: the mythogenesis of power in the early egyptian state. in the followers of horus, edited by r. friedman and b. adams. oxford: 1992, 307 321. deities, themes, and concepts 125 d. kessler. bull gods. in the oxford encyclopaedia of ancient egypt i, edited by d. redford. oxford and new york: 2001, 209 213. g. pinch. cows. in votive offerings to hathor. oxford: 1993, 160 183. primary sources: pt 271, 485a; bd 141, 148; bhc; rbm; tb; pj crocodiles the nile crocodile is one of the world s largest reptiles. it was honored in some regions of ancient egypt and despised in others. the best-known crocodile deity was sobek, but a number of gods and demons had awe-inspiring crocodile forms. in some traditions, a crocod

athor eased the transition from 138 handbook of egyptian mythology death to new life. the time and manner of a person s death was decreed by a sevenfold form of hathor. as lady of the necropolis, she opened the gates of the underworld. as a tree goddess, she revived the newly dead with shade, air, water, and food. the spirits of the dead could imbibe eternal life from the milk of the seven hathor cows. the coffin texts and the book of the dead have spells to help the deceased live forever as a follower of hathor. in a late period story, hathor rules the underworld, emerging to punish those who behave unjustly on earth. by the greco-roman period, dead women in the afterlife identified themselves with hathor instead of osiris. it was only after isis took over many of her attributes that hath

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being a jealous and angry god, he threatenedthe king with all his divine wrath. for a long time, neither commands nor threats produced the desired effect. as long as there were sacred cowsto be transferred from the royal cowsheds to those of the brahmans, as long as there was money in thetreasury to fill the temple crypts, the brahmans succeeded in keeping varuna quiet. but when there were nomore cows, when there was no more money, the god threatened to overthrow the king, his palace and hisheirs, and if they escaped, to burn them alive. the poor king, finding himself at the end of his resources,summoned his first-born and informed him of the fate which awaited him. but devarata lent a deaf ear tothese tidings. he refused to submit to the double weight of the paternal and divine will. so

ath from starvation, likewise all hisfamily. he had several sons of whom the second, sunahsepha, a virtuous young man, was himself alsopreparing to become a rishi. taking advantage of his poverty and thinking with good reason that a hungrystomach would be a more ready listener than a satisfied one, the crafty devarata made the father acquaintedwith his history. after this he offered him a hundred cows in exchange for sunahsepha, a substituteburnt-offering on the altar of the gods* others call him rishika and call king ambarisha, harischandra, the famous sovereign whowas a paragon of all the virtues. the virtuous father refused at first point-blank, but the gentle sunahsepha offered himself of his own accord,and thus addressed his father "of what importance is the life of one man, when it c

d thousand lakhs* of innocent people(*a lakh is a measure of 100,000, whether men orpieces of money be in question, because of one man who is guilty. if his victim should escape him, he willsurely dry up our rivers, set fire to our lands and destroy our women who are with child- in his infinitekindness. let me then sacrifice myself, oh! my father, in place of this stranger who offers us a hundred cows.that sum would prevent thee and my brothers from dying of hunger and will save thousands of others from aterrible death. at this price the giving up of life is a pleasant thing" the aged rishi shed some tears, but he ended by giving his consent and began to prepare the sacrificialpyre *manu (book x, 105) alluding to this story remarks that ajigarta, the holy rishi, committedno sin in selling

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

r a child o' lavinny's a-callin' its father's name on the top o' sentinel hill' the only person who saw wilbur during the first month of his life were old zechariah whateley, of the undecayed whateleys, and earl sawyer's common-law wife, mamie bishop. mamie's visit was frankly one of curiosity, and her subsequent tales did justice to her observations; but zechariah came to lead a pair of alderney cows which old whateley had bought of his son curtis. this marked the beginning of a course of cattle-buying on the part of small wilbur's family which ended only in 1928, when the dunwich horror came and went; yet at no time did the ramshackle wateley barn seem overcrowded with livestock. there came a period when people were curious enough to steal up and count the herd that grazed precariously o

dark of september ninth that the horror broke loose. the hill noises had been very pronounced during the evening, and dogs barked frantically all night. early risers on the tenth noticed a peculiar stench in the air. about seven o'clock luther brown, the hired boy at george corey's, between cold spring glen and the village, rushed frenziedly back from his morning trip to ten-acre meadow with the cows. he was almost convulsed with fright as he stumbled into the kitchen; and in the yard outside the no less frightened herd were pawing and lowing pitifully, having followed the boy back in the panic they shared with him. between gasps luther tried to stammer out his tale to mrs corey 'up thar in the rud beyont the glen, mis' corey- they's suthin' ben thar! it smells like thunder, an' all the b

ting on its rounds the overture of panic that heralded the major terrors. when she got sally sawyer, housekeeper at seth bishop's, the nearest place to whateley's, it became her turn to listen instead of transmit; for sally's boy chauncey, who slept poorly, had been up on the hill towards whateley's, and had dashed back in terror after one look at the place, and at the pasturage where mr bishop's cows had been left out all night 'yes, mis' corey' came sally's tremulous voice over the party wire 'cha'ncey he just come back a-postin, and couldn't half talk fer bein' scairt! he says ol' whateley's house is all bowed up, with timbers scattered raound like they'd ben dynamite inside; only the bottom floor ain't through, but is all covered with a kind o' tar-like stuff that smells awful an' drip

ruck me as so intangibly queer about it. the barns and sheds looked trimly prosaic enough, and i noticed akeley s battered ford in its capacious, unguarded shelter. then the secret of the queerness reached me. it was the total silence. ordinarily a farm is at least moderately murmurous from its various kinds of livestock, but here all signs of life were missing. what of the hens and the dogs? the cows, of which akeley had said he possessed several, might conceivably be out to pasture, and the dogs might possibly have been sold; but the absence of any trace of cackling or grunting was truly singular. i did not pause long on the path, but resolutely entered the open house door and closed it behind me. it had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that i was shut inside i h

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

we shall do it with our eyes closed, and if we succeed in doing so with two or three senses at once for five minutes, let us do it with eyes open. the exercise is fully completed if we have indeed managed to keep this imagination for five minutes with our eyes open. now let us pass over from inanimate objects to living creatures. we shall imagine various animals such as dogs, cats, birds, horses, cows, chickens, etc, plastically as we did before with our concentration. practice with your eyes closed, for five minutes, and later on with your eyes open. mastering this exercise, imagine the animals in movement, such as a cat washing itself, or catching a mouse, drinking milk, or a dog barking, a bird flying, and so forth. the scholar may choose such or similar scenes at his own liking, first

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

of her own fervent imagination, but that she followed a method generally recognised and practised in the country-side is shown by a case that occurred at newtownards in january 1871. 1 a farm-hand had brought an action against his employer for wages alleged to be due to him. it transpired in the course of the evidence that on one occasion he had been set to banish witches that were troubling the cows. his method of working illustrates the carnmoney case. all left the house except the plaintiff, who locked himself p. 232 in, closed the windows, stopped all keyholes and apertures, and put sods on top of the chimneys. he then placed a large pot of sweet milk on the fire, into which he threw three rows of pins that had never been used, and three packages of needles; all were allowed to boil t

then to be put to the cow's mouth, and if she licked it she would live. p. 241 his honour to defendant "and did she lick it" defendant "ave, lick it; she would have ate it (roars of laughter) it then transpired that the burning of the thatch had been omitted, and this necessitated another journey to the wise woman. we may also expect to find traces of strange doings with respect to the produce of cows, viz. milk and butter. various tales are related to the following effect. a herdsman having wounded a hare, which he has discovered sucking one of the cows under his charge, tracks it to a solitary cabin, where he finds an old woman, smeared with blood and gasping for breath, extended almost lifeless on the floor. similar stories are to be found in england, and helped to make up the witch- el

finds an old woman, smeared with blood and gasping for breath, extended almost lifeless on the floor. similar stories are to be found in england, and helped to make up the witch- element there, though it may be noted that as early as the twelfth century we are informed by giraldus cambrensis that certain old hags in ireland had the power of turning themselves into hares and in that shape sucking cows. the preservation of hares for coursing, which is being taken up in parts of this country, will probably deal the death-blow to this p. 242 particular superstition. with regard to the stealing of butter many tales are told, of which the following may be taken as an illustration. a priest was walking in his field early one summer's morning when he came upon an old woman gathering the dew from

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

humanity as a whole to kabbalah. t h e a n i m at e s o u l q: science has already succeeded in cloning the biological body, but what about the soul? a: the soul has no connection with our corporeal body. our physical body can exist as a biological, animate body, with an enlivening force called the animate soul. but that has nothing to do with the upper soul. we do not ask ourselves why there are cows, chickens, or cats, and what kind of soul dwells in them. yet they too have souls, but their souls are simply the animate force that sustains them, the same force that sustains our own bodies. therefore, the body can be cloned and there is no problem with that. in the future, all organs, and eventually the whole body, will be cloned. but the soul does not depend on the body because man receiv

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

d as amulets against fire, tempest, fever, and evil spirits. the idea that a charm needed to be consecrated in order to be effective is behind the belief that a lucky charm that someone gives one is more potent than one bought for oneself. the thought of the goodwill behind the gift has in a sense consecrated it. bells have long been used as amulets to protect children, as well as horses, camels, cows, asses, and other important animals. shopkeepers hung bells over their thresholds to keep evil spirits from entering their premises. plants can also act as amulets. examples are the shamrock and garlic. garlands of garlic worn around the neck or hung in a house are said to ward off evil spirits, creatures, and spells. in mexico, the ajo macho is a huge garlic, sometimes as big as a baseball

erily bloodless corpses. those responsible also managed to accomplish their grisly acts while leaving no evidence of their presence in the form of foot- or tire prints. the organs were removed with what was judged, in a frequently used phrase, to be surgical precision. in lincoln county, in southwestern minnesota, the story spread that a cult of devil-worshipers had conducted ritual sacrifices of cows. the county sheriff concluded, however, that the animals had died of natural causes, with the damage the mutilation done by small predators chewing on the softest tissue. when the kansas state university veterinary laboratory made a similar determination upon autopsying allegedly mutilated cattle, many farmers, ranches, and rural police officers expressed skepticism and insisted that somethin

ance, witches, sorcerers and demons were also thought of as flying with an implement, such as a pitchfork, shovel or broom. the speed of flying broomsticks and forks was said to be very high. satan s minions were also attributed with the ability to transport others through the air. it was further claimed that witches and sorcerers could ride demons who were transformed into such animals as goats, cows, horses, and wolves, while the devil could carry people through the air with no visible means of transport. the notion that witches and magicians possessed the power to fly was rejected during the witch-hunts, and as early as the tenth century it was 92 fraternitas rosae crucis proclaimed impossible by the canon episcopi. however, in the late fifteenth century, the malleus maleficarum, the bi

red hot iron balls, worm-eating, and blood- and pus-eating. and the descriptions provided in the puranas are as vivid as the names of the hell worlds; for example, those haughty people who treat their mothers, fathers and teachers with contempt go to hell where they lie with their faces downward in pus, feces and urine. crows rip out the intestines through the anus of men who urinate in front of cows, brahmins [priests, the sun or fire (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 51. yama, the hindu god of death, is in charge of overseeing the enforcement of these activities. reflecting the individual samsaric process, the cosmos itself undergoes periodic dissolutions and recreations. as recorded in the puranas, the principal mythological texts of classical hinduism, these macrocosmic cycles take plac

LIBER 777

with an apple or pomegranate tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding a large black oil jar 22 a dark man, in his right hand a spear and laurel branch and in his left a book a man, dark, yet delicious of countenance 24 a man with a lance in his right hand, in his left a human head a man riding a camel, with a scorpion in his hand 25 a man with 3 bodies 1 black, 1 red, 1 white a man leading cows, and before him an ape and bear 26 a man holding in his right hand a javelin and in his left a lapwing. a man with an ape running before him 28 a man with bowed head and a bag in his hand. a man arrayed like a king, looking with pride and conceit on all around him. 29 a man with two bodies, but joining their hand. a grave man pointing to the sky. cli. magical images of the decans (cadent. cli

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

. and he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once .and perdu. r abu died. 1 the archdevil of the buddhists. 72 appendix i v .now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till the approachin of perdu. r abu.s arahatship. but in spite of the young gently-ambling cows which ganesha took care to throw in his way, in spite of the tender shoots of green and the soft cocoanuts, this elephant was not as other elephants. the seasons spoke to him of change.the forest is ever full of sorrow. and nobody need preach to him the absence of an ego, for the brutes have had more sense than ever to imagine there was one. so the tusker was usually to be found, still as a r

LIBER V VEL REGULI

ge of some brute lust, some torpid dullness, some ignorant instinct, or some furtive fear shapen in his own savage mind. man is indeed not wholly freed, even now. he is still the ritual of the mark of the beast 15 trampled under the hoofs of the stampeding mules that nightmare bore to his wild ass, his creative forces that he had not mastered, the sterile ghosts that he called gods. their mystery cows men still; they fear, they flinch, they dare not face the phantoms. still, too, the fallen fetich seems awful; it is frightful to them that there is no longer an idol to adore with anthems, and to appease with the flesh of their firstborn. each scrambles in the bloody mire of the floor to snatch some scrap for a relic, that he may bow down to it and serve it. so, even today, a mass of maggots

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

interpretatio germanica in chapter 3. the foremost witness is the germania of tacitus, from the last years of the first century c.e. tacitus describes several ritual acts carried out by various germanic tribes, of which the most famous is surely the worship of the goddess nerthus described in chapter 40 of his germania. nerthus, mother earth, covered by a cloth, is transported in a cart drawn by cows and accompanied by a priest who recognizes when she is present. this procession takes place in a holy grove on the island on which she lives, and all weapons are laid aside on the days on which it takes place, which are ones of peace and quiet. after the procession, everything is washed in the ocean by slaves who are then drowned. a number of the aspects of this ceremony agree with what schol

l (grimnismal, stanza 43, mentions only the ship. in his account of baldr fs funeral, ulf uggason says that frey arrived riding a boar with golden bristles, and snorri understood this to be gullinborsti and added that it was pulling the cart in which frey rode. lokasenna assigns two servants to frey, byggvir and beyla, whom scholars interpret through etymology as associated with barley and either cows, beans, or bees; all of these can be made to fit with the notion of a fertility god. loki fs insult to frey in the poem is a reminder of the sword given up for gerd and the problem that its loss will pose at ragnarok. in snorri fs version of the learned prehistory in chapter 10 of ynglinga saga, frey is one of the important early kings of sweden. he succeeds his father njord, who succeeded od

ept that in common they worship nerthus, that is, mother earth, and they believe her to intervene in the affairs of humans and to ride among people. there is on an island of the ocean a sacred grove, and in it a consecrated cart, covered with cloth. a single priest is allowed to touch it. he perceives the entry of the goddess into the shrine and follows with veneration as she is led away drawn by cows. then a period of rejoicing, places of festival, as many as are honored to receive and entertain her. they do not enter into war; they do not take up arms. every weapon is hidden. peace and quiet are then alone known, and then alone loved, until the same priest returns the goddess, when she has had her fill of human conversation, to her temple. thereafter the cart, the cloth, and, if you wish

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

y reconcile the idea of creation (through brahma the creator) with that of change (evolution) as represented by the 10 incarnations (dash avatars) of vishnu, the protector. in addition, as a colleague from hindu india pointed out, the idea of humans descending from a long line of animal ancestors would not be a problem in hinduism, where there is such a high value on animal life and some animals (cows, for example) are considered sacred. one great god, hanuman, is a monkey. hindu mythology is also replete with animals taking human forms and vice versa. in addition, the hindu idea of reincarnation includes humans 26 evolution and religious creation myths reincarnating into animals and animals reincarnating as humans in endless cycles. buddhism buddhism is an offshoot of vedism (the precurso

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

would stubbe peeter walk up and down until he espied either maid or wife which he lusted for. upon choosing the victim he would draw them out of the city or follow them, wherein he would ravish them and then, in his wolfish form, cruelly murder them. yea, it would often come to pass that as he walked abroad in the fields, if he by chance spy a company of maidens playing together, or milking their cows, in his wolfish shape he would run without delay among them. while the rest escaped by flight, he would for sure lay hold to one, and once he satisfied his lust he would murder them. it so happened that he had a daughter, who was a fair young damsel by which name was stubbe beel. she was said to be very beautiful. stubbe beell was also victim of her 16 16 fathers' lustful desires, not even sh

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s origin it will persist as a problem for future genera-tions. we were forewarned by our ancestors of the times we now find ourselves in.from at least three millennia ago, we have these words from the high priestesses of theceltic peoples: then she added a prophecy in which she foretold the approaching end of the divine age andthe coming of a new one, in which the summers would be flowerless, the cows milkless andwomen shameless and men strengthless, in which there would be trees without fruit and seaswithout fish, when old men would give false judgments and legislators would make unjustlaws, when warriors would betray one another and men would be thieves and there would beno more virtue in the world (babd, queen of the tuatha de danaan) and from the teutonic priestesses, the same:there sa

illimeters per year proposed by uniformitarians (p. 84)appendix b: book abstracts178atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation witch huntsputting to death the bearer of bad things is an activity usually associated with the more uninhibitedroman emperors or eastern despots. yet messenger-shooting can be just as common in scientific circleswhen the bad news concerns one of sciences sacred cows (p. 87)immanuel velikovskywhat must be called the scientific establishment rose in arms, not only against the new v elikovsky the-ories but against the man himself. efforts were made to block the dissemination of dr. v elikovskysideas and even to punish supporters of his investigations. universities, scientific societies, publishinghouses, and the popular press were approached and threatened;

cajanya conch shell; mybearer, garuda, the king of the birds; my bed, shesha naga; my expansion of energy the goddess of for-tune; lord brahma; narada muni; lord shiva; prahlada; my incarnations like matsya, kurma andv araha; my unlimited all-auspicious activities, which yield piety to he who hears them; the sun; themoon; fire; the mantra omkara; the absolute truth; the total material energy; the cows and brahmanas;devotional service; the wives of soma and kashyapa, who are all daughters of king daksha; the riversganges, sarasvati, nanda and yamuna [kalindi; the elephant airavata; dhruva maharaja; the sevenrshis; and the pious human beings (bhagavata purana 8.4.17-24)although garuda enmity toward serpents is known from this verse it is clear that both garuda andshesha naga are servants of

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

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

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

tion of his property. on his complaining to maia of her son's conduct, she pointed to the innocent babe then lying, apparently fast asleep, in his cradle, whereupon, apollo angrily aroused the pretended sleeper, and charged him with the theft; but the child stoutly denied all knowledge of it, and so cleverly did he play his part, that he even inquired in the most naive manner what sort of animals cows were. apollo threatened to throw him into tartarus if he would not confess the truth, but all to no purpose. at last, he seized the babe in his arms, and brought him into the presence of his august father, who was seated in the council chamber of the gods. zeus listened to the charge made by apollo, and then sternly desired hermes to say where he had hidden the cattle. the child, who was stil

ibed, and merely represent him as a young man, hardened by the exposure to all weathers which a rural life involves, and bearing in his hand the shepherd's crook and syrinx.these being his usual attributes.whilst small horns project from his forehead. he is either undraped, or wears merely the light cloak called the chlamys. the usual offerings to pan were milk and honey in [174]shepherds' bowls. cows, lambs, and rams were also sacrificed to him. page 202 after the introduction of pan into the worship of dionysus, we hear of a number of little pans (panisci, who are sometimes confounded with the satyrs. faunus. the romans had an old italian divinity called faunus, who, as the god of shepherds, was identified with the greek pan, and represented in a similar manner. faunus is frequently call

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

ted that a trip to the elizabeth drive area would either confirm or deny the validity of the visions. barry agreed. we both felt a mixture of excitement and anticipation as we drove along the main road leading to the area seen in the visions. leaving the densely populated areas behind us it was if we had driven into a rural landscape. ahead the road disappeared into the horizon and to either side cows grazed peacefully in paddocks dotted with vegetable gardens and solitary houses. look, said barry, pointing to a tin can on the opposite side of the< road. that s what i saw. i m sure of it. i glanced out the window as we pulled over to the side of the road. i was not so sure. the container barry had seen in his visions was at least two feet tall, and filled to the brim with gold coins, so if

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

ld atmospheric fronts. the weather, in turn, determines how our crops will grow, whether the year will be bountiful, or whether it will be a year of food shortages, g-d forbid. even the supply of meat and poultry will be determined by the weather, for the cattle and the poultry must eat the grasses and grains. furthermore, the milk production is determined by the heat. during hot seasons the milk cows will produce less milk which will be of lower quality, etc. likewise, the influence of the sun powers our entire economies. the weather caused by the sun, determines the amount of money spent on heating or air conditioning. one will need to purchase clothes suited for the weather; warm clothes for the winter and cool ones for the heat of the summer. moreover, food prices will be determined by

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

would be a gketz, h at least in the higher worlds c two years add up to 730. each [solar] year is 365, and when multiplied by two= 730. now by adding to this the six letters1 the sum total comes to 736, which equals the sum of the name a-d-n-a-i spelled simply2= 65, together with the same name spelled with the milui3= 671. 736 is called above the end of days.4 (likkutei torah) 41:2 seven healthy cows these are the seven heichalot5 of the world of beriah,6 and this is why the cows are referred to explicitly as beriot (healthy. the gseven other cows h [mentioned in the verse following] are the seven heichalot of the world of yetzirah [they are] described as gof evil appearance. h this is because in yetzirah there is good and evil, the tree of 1. numbers in hebrew are written in the form of

the twelve cattle upon which the sea [of solomon] stands. this is the meaning of g[pharaoh was] standing over the river. h the river is also yesod of atzilut, the river that pours forth its bounty to pharaoh,8 who is the kaneh. the single stalk of wheat [mentioned in verse 5. kaneh together with one for the kole9l is gematria 156, the equivalent of the gematria of yosef (likkutei torah) 41:4 the cows ate up as you already know, all famine and harsh decrees come from the side of nukvah,10 since it rules over d fchura11 and has lost her sweetness. this is indicated by the letters [of the tetragrammaton] in jumbled sequence. this is alluded to by the torah in the words of the verse haparot yefot hamar feh v fhaberiot( gthe cows of good appearance, healthy c h) for the initial letters of this

ers of this verse spell out hai, yud, hai, vav. note that the feminine letters are placed before the male letters thus ruling over them. the hai over the yud, and the second hai over the vav. this is why there was famine, which is caused by sins which arouse the harsh judgments of nukvah. nukvah is called isha, woman, the word formed by the initial letters of the verse et sheva haparot (the seven cows. for it is from this aspect that famine comes.12 (likkutei torah; sha far hapesukim) 41:25, 33 and joseph said to pharaoh: g c what g-d is doing, he has told to pharaoh c now pharaoh should seek out a man of insight, a wise person h 7. the griver h alludes to binah which gnests h [i.e, is revealed primarily in] the world of beriah (tikkunei zohar 23a; eitz chaim, sha far 47. ch. 2, as will be

ng together with himself all four fundamental elements, so that they can all be rectified. the mineral kingdom [ascends by means of] salt and water; it derives from the [world of] asiyah. the vegetable kingdom [ascends by means of] flour, oil, and wine; it derives from the [world of] yetzirah. the animal kingdom [ascends by means of] the animals.the flock [i.e, sheep and goats] and the herd [i.e, cows. and the birds.turtledoves and pigeons; it is derived from the [world of] beriah. those who exert the effort [to offer all these].the priests in their service, the levites on the dais [where they sing, the laymen on watch, and the people who offer themselves [through the sacrifice.[elevate the human kingdom, which] is derived from the [world of] atzilut. world kingdom elevated by atzilut huma

rded him, watched over him, guarded him as the pupil of his eye. 11like an eagle, who rouses his nestlings, gliding down to his young, so did he spread his wings and take him, bear him along on his pinions; 12g-d alone did guide him, no alien god at his side. 13he set him atop the highlands, to feast on the yield of the earth; he fed him honey from the rock, and oil from the flint rock, 14curd of cows and milk of flocks; with the best of lambs, and rams of bashan, and he-goats; with the very finest wheat. and foaming grape-blood was your drink. 15so yeshurun grew fat and kicked. you grew fat and gross and coarse. he weakened the g-d who made him and forgot the rock of his support. 837 this installment continues the passage presented in the second installment, in which the arizal, discussin

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

st a gloom over sheikh n sir and the yezeedees generally "on leaving the chief told us that he should spend the night with the kaww ls in the shrine of sheikh mohammed, where the principal religious ceremonies were to be performed. what those were we could not learn, but were told that they danced to the music of the tambourines and flutes. this evening none of the cattle were milked, but all the cows, sheep, and goats with their young were turned out into the fields, and permitted to feast themselves at their pleasure "april 19th--this morning the sound of fife and drum at dawn of day announced that the recreative part of the festival had commenced; so after an early breakfast we repaired to the vicinity of the shrine near which a large concourse of yezeedees lad already assembled, all ha

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

[10/9/2001 12:34:36 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 30-39) flip to page# the secret commonwealth 30 flee. the whole [that is, healthy] man laughed at his art and his warning since there was no appearance of danger; he had scarce contracted his lips from laughter, when unexpectedly an enemy leapt in at his side and stabbed him. with their weapons they [the fairies] also gon or pierce cows or other animals, usually said to be elfshot, whose purest substance, if they [subsequently] die, these subterraneans take to live on [which is to say] the aerial and ethereal parts, the most spirituous [of] matter for [the] prolonging of life, leaving the terrestrial [parts] behind; such [that is, just] as aquae-vita [distilled spirits or whiskey] moderately taken, is [the purest] among liqu

RUBY TABLET OF SET

enochian system of magic. it had originally been my intention to record the results in my diary and subsequently write them all up in an annotated form at a later date, when all thirty experiments had been concluded. on reflection, however, i believe it will be ultimately more revealing to present the findings in three installments, especially since a natural break is reached in asp (see 'sacred cows' below, and another landmark will be forthcoming in zax, the abyss, at the tenth aethyr, thus neatly dividing the account into three parts. dividing the record in this manner will make it an interesting study to trace the development not only of the aethyric visions, but also of the scribe's reaction to and account of them, contemporaneously rather than in retrospect. it should go on record t

etrospect. it should go on record that to date i have used the version of the nineteenth call as given in magus lavey's satanic bible, as i find this preferable in its glamour to the golden dawn version, but do not yet have access to the superior word of set in the ruby tablet. in purely practical terms in the context of a pragmatic gbm working, this makes little difference, as related in 'sacred cows. sacred cows: enochiana has acquired a great deal of glamour to itself and rightly so, but glamour is all it is. this is not to scorn it, for glamour in the ritual chamber can contribute a great deal. but it is necessary for the record to state that i do not believe in the actual existence of thirty aethyrs. they are, however, a convenient map for examining the self and the universe and for p

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

eel had spent the greater part of his unique career incarnating, with absolute conviction, the countless deities of the subcontinent in the popular genre movies known as "theologicals. it was part of the magic of his persona that he succeeded in crossing religious boundaries without giving offence. blue-skinned as krishna he danced, flute in hand, amongst the beauteous gopis and their udder-heavy cows; with upturned palms, serene, he meditated (as gautama) upon humanity's suffering beneath a studio-rickety bodhi-tree. on those infrequent occasions when he descended from the heavens he never went too far, playing, for example, both the grand mughal and his famously wily minister in the classic _akbar and birbal. for over a decade and a half he had represented, to hundreds of millions of bel

SATANIC APHORISMS

you slip into a comfortable illusion of everyone being like you. as has been said, certain utopias would be ideal in a nation of philosophers, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, from a machiavellian standpoint) we are far from that point. 4. self-deceit it's in the "nine satanic statements" but deserves to be repeated here. another cardinal sin. we must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. the only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it's fun, and with awareness. but then, it's not self-deceit! 5. herd conformity that's obvious from a satanic stance. it's all right to conform to a person's wishes, if it ultimately benefits you. but only fools follow along with the herd, letting an impersonal ent

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

t conflict or division. hindus believe that because people have different temperaments, philosophies, and ways of looking at the world and the universe, religious faith should accommodate their views. in addition, because people change over time, they achieve salvation by taking different paths. the upanishads, one of hinduism s sacred texts, declares that all paths lead to the same goal, just as cows of different colors all yield the same white milk. in the bhagavad gita, another 242 world religions: almanac hinduism about hinduism belief. hindus believe that all reality is a unity, expressed by the concept of brahman. they also believe in the transmigration of the soul, or reincarnation (rebirth, and that the quality of a person s next life is determined by his or her character in the pr

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

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

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

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

rk. the philistines viewed their capture of the ark as a victory over the israelites and their god. the ark was treated as a trophy, but several disasters fell upon the philistines, including the rapid spread of a plague and an invasion of mice wherever the ark was placed. the philistines eventually built a cart on which they placed the ark and representations of their afflictions; they yoked 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

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can materialize out of the darkness and attack the contactee with baseball bats, only to be thwarted by the sudden arrival of the good guys who beat them up and cart off their carcasses and the baseball bats and any other evidence. many of our black-suited "silencers" are engaged in similar games. iv. jim hacket was lucky. he only lost his shoes. elsewhere throughout the ohio river valley, dogs, cows, and horses were dying suddenly and mysteriously, usually from surgical-like incisions in their throats. animal disappearances and deaths go hand in hand with the ufo phenomenon. the most puzzling aspect of these deaths is the absence of blood. often the carcasses seem drained of all blood. the wounds don't bleed. no blood is in evidence in the grass or dirt where the victims lay. among my gr

i, too. they came out to my place but said they couldn't find anything. after that somebody tapped my telephone. maybe it was the fbi" i was scribbling in my pocket notebook. a year or two earlier i would have classified mrs. bryant as a paranoid-schizophrenic. but she didn't seem like a common run-of-the-mill nut. she and her two teen-aged children lived on a farm outside of gallipolis. she kept cows there and beginning in 1963-64 she started to have trouble with cattle rustlers who butchered the animals in the field "whoever they were" she observed "they didn't seem to want the choice cuts. they just took the brains, eyeballs, udders, and organs that you know we'd normally throw away" had she ever caught the culprits in the act "several times" she said "i'd see them out in the field and

said i shouldn't have anything to do with him. ten minutes later you showed up. after you left, i called him back. he was out in the fields. had been all day. his wife had to go get him. he said he hadn't made that call" i looked sternly at mary "is this some kind of a put-on "absolutely not" she answered, turning to the farmer "tell him the rest of it "well, about a week ago something scared my cows real bad" he continued "you know, we ain't told anyone about this, mrs. hyre. you aren't going to put it in the paper, are you "not if you don't want us to "come on. let me show you something" he led us into the field behind his barn. there was a thirty-foot circle of scorched earth on the hillside. i had seen several of these "fairy circles" before "that night our cows really acted up" he we

arn. there was a thirty-foot circle of scorched earth on the hillside. i had seen several of these "fairy circles" before "that night our cows really acted up" he went on "they stampeded. they were so scared they went right through the fence over there" he pointed toward a stretch of wire fence that had obviously just been repaired "it's an electric fence. now you know that it takes a lot to make cows charge through an electric fence. anyway, when i heard the ruckus i ran outside and i saw my cows scattering down the road. and there was a big red and white glowing thing sitting right in the field. i've got to say that it scared me half to death. i ran back in my house to get my gun. didn't take me more than a minute. but when i got outside again the thing was gone. this circle was all that

ard the ruckus i ran outside and i saw my cows scattering down the road. and there was a big red and white glowing thing sitting right in the field. i've got to say that it scared me half to death. i ran back in my house to get my gun. didn't take me more than a minute. but when i got outside again the thing was gone. this circle was all that was left. it took the rest of the night to round up my cows "were any of them lost or missing" i asked "no" he paused "but herk that's hercules my big old collie dog ran off that night and we ain't seen him, since" mary had been with me when i had checked into other missing dog incidents. she gave me a meaningful glance and he caught it "say, you don't think that thing took old herk, do you "no. it was probably just some kind of electrical phenomenon"

showed us a brand-new circuit box "i had to have this put in the next day so i could run my milker. the old box was completely burned out. in fact, it was melted. like somebody had put a welding torch to it "see, it must have been some kind of electrical thing" i said lamely. i knew ivan sanderson had investigated an almost identical incident in new jersey only weeks before. but in that case the cows had been in their stalls in the barn and were found dead "has anyone else been around to talk to you about this "no. i haven't told anyone. just some fellows from the electric company who turned up the next day. they fussed around with the transformer on the pole by the road. i tried to talk with them but they didn't have much to say "did you know them "never saw them before. come to think of

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

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

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

sh to be heavy, the youth to be learners; none but the foolish will break the faith. bright the tops of the lily; let every bold one be a servitor; the word of a family will prevail; usual with the faithless, a broken word. bright the tops of the heath; usual is miscarriage to the timid; water will be intrusive along the shore; usual with the faithful, an unbroken word. bright the tops of rushes; cows are profitable, running are my tears this day; no comfort is there for the miserable. bright the tops of fern, yellow the charlock; how reproachless are the blind; how apt to run about are youngsters! bright the tops of the service-tree; accustomed to care is the aged one, and bees to the wilds; except god, there is no avenger 250 bright the tops of the oak; incessant is the tempest- the bees

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