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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

i should prefer to put into the other name sitivrat the subordinate meaning of sito-vrat, sieve-turner, so that it would be almost the same as kolo-vrat, wheel-turner, and afford a solution of that wheel in krodo's hand; both wheel (kolo) and sieve (sito) move round, and an ancient spell rested on sieve-turning. slav mythologists have identified sitivrat with the hindu sati/dvrata, who in a great deluge is saved by vishnu in the form of a fish, krodo stands on a fish; and vishnu is represented wearing wreaths of flowers about his neck, and holding a wheel (chakra) in his fourth hand^ all these coincidences are still meagre and insecure; but they suffice to establish the high antiquity of a slavo-teutonic myth, which starts up thus from more than one quarter^ hardly with crete, where kronos

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ast. hiero: let elohim tzabaoth be praised unto the countless ages of time. amen. hiero: quits his place and goes to tablet of water in west. all face west. hiero: let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits (knocks) terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth; king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains, thou who commandest moisture which is as it were the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants, we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us thy mobile and changeful creatures in the great tempests of the sea, and we shall tremble before thee. speak to us also in the murmur of the

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his ways are everlasting. i saw the tents of: cushan in affliction and the curtains of the land of midian did tremble. was the lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? thou didst cleave asunder the earth with the rivers. the mountains saw thee and they trembled; the deluge of waters rolled by; the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high. the sun and the moon stood still in their habitation; at the light of thine arrows they went; at the shining of thy glittering spear. thou didst march through the land in indignation. thou didst thresh the heathen in thine anger. thou didst march through the sea with thine horses, through the depth of the might

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

to which you dedicate it. confirm this dedication in words, invoking the appropriate god to indwell that pure temple which you have prepared for him. do this with fervour and love, as if to balance the icy detachment which is the proper mental attitude for banishing<hebrew legends furnish us with the reason for the respective virtues of water and fire. the world was purified by water at the deluge, and will be consecrated by fire at the last judgment. not until that is finished can the "real ceremony" begin> the words of purification are: asperges me, therion, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. those of consecration are: accendat in nobis therion ignem sui amoris et flammam aeternae caritatis<
ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

is distant date it would be dangerous to do so much even as indulge in speculation. p32.i write a little, but not much, in advance of the events. to illustrate the theory here advanced i will ask the reader to compare the results of the attempts to colonize america by (a) the whole military power of spain at her zenith (b) the handful of exiles in the 'mayflower' chapter ix: p34.the legend of the deluge is derived from this eved the old and new commentaries to liber al by aleister crowley most of the text below has been entered by frater h.b, except for the text of liber al (entered by frater ebony and proofread by many others, the old comment and portions of the new comment omitted by l. wilkenson in his abridgement. this text of liber 220 has been restored by comparison with an early su

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

ways death. tyj. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tyf. she who rules the secret force of the universe. dwy. the secret of the gate of initiation [k. in the whirlings is war. dml. by equilibrium and self-sacrifice, the gate \ym. the secret is hidden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yu. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurre

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death. chith. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tith. she who rules the secret force of the universe. ivd. the secret of the gate of initiation. kp. in the whirlings is war. lmd. by equilibrium and self-sacrifice, the gate! mim. the secret is hidden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) nvn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death. smk. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. oin. the secret of generation is death. ph. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. tzdi. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary. qvp. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. rish. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. shin

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tood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations. 5. and the everlasting mountains were scattered; the perpetual hills did bow! 52 1. was the lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger kindled against the rivers? was thy wrath kindled against the sea? that thou didst ride upon thy horses and thy chariots of salvation? 2. the mountains saw thee and they trembled. the deluge of water rolled by: the deep uttered his voice; and lifted up his hands on high. 3. the sun and the moon stood still in their habitations. at the light of thine arrows they went, at the shaking of thy glittering spear! 4. thou didst march through the land in thine indignation: thou didst thresh the heathen in thine anger. 5. thou didst march through the sea with thine horses: through the de

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

n believers. the complexities and difficulties of this post-war period are very great. the closer an aspirant is to the source of spiritual light and power, the more difficult is his problem, and at the same time the clearer will be his understanding of the facts. looking away from the detail of the foreground, which ever assumes undue proportions, and divorcing oneself from those details as they deluge one's daily life with perplexities and anxieties, the problem is relatively simple and twofold in nature. first of all, the outer, physical war is only just over; two years is a short time since the firing ceased and no country has as yet recovered from its dire effects. there is no true intercourse between nations and no true understanding. today the united states permits the raising of fu

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ochthonous ancestors or progenitors of mankind (ibid, p. 108. if, while coupling with this the fact that samothrace was colonised by the phoenicians, and before them by the mysterious pelasgians who came from the east, one remembers also the identity of the mystery gods of the phoenicians, chaldeans, and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis

is the name of the man adam. says george smith in his "chaldean account of genesis "the word adam used in these legends for the first human being is evidently not a proper name, but is only used as a term for mankind. adam appears as a proper name in genesis, but certainly in some passages is only used in the same sense as the assyrian word (p. 86. moreover, neither the chaldean nor the biblical deluge (the stories of xisuthrus and noah) is based on the universal or even on the atlantean deluges, recorded in the indian allegory of vaivaswata manu. they are the exoteric allegories based on the esoteric mysteries of samothrace. if the older chaldees knew the esoteric truth concealed in the puranic legends, the other nations were aware only of the samothracian mystery, and allegorised it. th

ey are the exoteric allegories based on the esoteric mysteries of samothrace. if the older chaldees knew the esoteric truth concealed in the puranic legends, the other nations were aware only of the samothracian mystery, and allegorised it. they adapted it to their astronomical and anthropological, or rather phallic, notions. samothrace is known historically to have been famous in antiquity for a deluge, which submerged the country and reached the top of the highest mountains; an event which happened before the age of the argonauts. it was overflowed very[[footnote(s* vide "adam-adami" in part ii. of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 5 the secrets of kouyunjik. suddenly by the waters of the euxine, regarded up to that time as a lake* but the israelites had, moreover, another legend upon which to

e country and reached the top of the highest mountains; an event which happened before the age of the argonauts. it was overflowed very[[footnote(s* vide "adam-adami" in part ii. of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 5 the secrets of kouyunjik. suddenly by the waters of the euxine, regarded up to that time as a lake* but the israelites had, moreover, another legend upon which to base their allegory: the "deluge" that transformed the present gobi desert into a sea for the last time, some 10 or 12,000 years ago, and which drove many noahs and their families on to the surrounding mountains. as the babylonian accounts are now only restored from hundreds of thousands of broken fragments (the mound of kouyunjik alone having yielded to layard's excavations over twenty thousand fragments of inscriptions

on the one takes place on the other; and that many and great were their common changes- it is for these reasons that st. augustine repeats it, applying the several changes of configuration, colour, and even of the orbital paths, to that theologically-woven character of venus-lucifer. he even goes so far in his pious fancy as to connect the last changes of the planet with the noachian and mythical deluge alleged to have taken place 1796 years b.c (see "city of god" lxxi, ch. viii. as venus has no satellites, it is stated allegorically, that "asphujit (this "planet) adopted the earth, the progeny of the moon "who overgrew its parent and gave much trouble" a reference to the occult connection between the two. the regent (of the planet) sukra* loved his adopted child so well that he incarnated

lies said by sahagun and clavigero to have accompanied the mystical personage named votan, the reputed founder of the great city of nachan, identified by some with palenque. in the seven caves* from which the ancestors of the nahuatl are reported to have emerged. in the seven cities of cibola, described by coronado and niza. in the seven antilles; in the seven heroes who, we are told, escaped the deluge "heroes" moreover, whose number is found the same in every "deluge" story- from the seven rishis who were saved with vaivasvata manu, down to noah's ark, into which beasts, fowls, and living creatures were taken by "sevens" thus we see the figures 1, 3, 5, 7, as perfect, because thoroughly mystic, numbers playing a prominent part in every cosmogony and evolution of living beings. in china

ada. she (the earth) shook them off her back, whenever they overran the mother (a. after thirty crores of years, she turned round. she laid on her back; on her side. she would call no sons of heaven, she would ask no sons of wisdom. she created from her own bosom. she evolved water-men terrible and bad (b (a) this relates to an inclination of the axis- of which there were several- to a consequent deluge and chaos on earth (having, however, no reference to primeval chaos, in which monsters, half-human, half-animal, were generated. we find it mentioned in the "book of the dead" and also in the chaldean account of creation, on the cutha tablets, however mutilated[[footnote(s* 300 million years, or three occult ages. the rig veda has the same division. in the "physician's hymn (x 97 1) it is s

000 the total of the said four yugas constitute a maha yuga. 4,320,000 seventy-one of such maha-yugas form the period of the reign of one manu. 306,720,000 the reign of 14 manus embraces the duration of 994 maha-yugas, which is equal to. 4,294,080,000[[footnote(s* vaivasvata manu is the one human being- some versions add to him the seven rishis- who in the matsya avatar allegory is saved from the deluge in a boat, like noah in the ark. therefore, this vaivasvata manvantara would be the "post-diluvian" period. this, however, does not refer to the later "atlantean" or noah's deluge, nor to the cosmic deluge or pralaya of obscuration, which preceded our round, but to the appearance of mankind in the latter round. there is a great difference made, however, between the "naimitika" occasional or

bharata" strikes the key-note, and yet it needs to be explained by the secret sense contained in the bhagavad gita. it is the prologue to the drama of our (fifth) humanity. while vaivasvata was engaged in devotion on the river bank, a fish craves his protection from a bigger fish. he saves and places it in a jar, where, growing larger and larger, it communicates to him the news of the forthcoming deluge. it is the well-known "matsya avatar" the first avatar of vishnu, the dagon* of the chaldean xisuthrus, and many other things besides. the story is too well known to need repetition. vishnu orders a ship to be built, in which manu is said to be saved along with the seven rishis, the latter, however, being absent from other texts. here the seven rishis stand for the seven races, the seven pr

th by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and[[footnote(s* we must remember that at the head of all the babylonian gods were ea, anu, and the primeval bel; and that ea, the first, was the god of wisdom, the great "god of light" and of the deep, and that he was identified with oannes, or the biblical dagon- the man-fish who rose out of the persian gulf* see part. ii "the holy of holies* it is far later on that the moon became a male

onsidered as the santhathi of a particular manu. now, the fourth race has passed, or, in other words, there have been four past manus[[vol. 2, page] 141 various deluges. manu, the son of surya (the sun, and the saviour of our race, is connected with the seed of life, both physically and spiritually. but, at present, while speaking of all, we have to concern ourselves only with the first two. the "deluge" is undeniably an universal tradition "glacial periods" were numerous, and so were the "deluges" for various reasons. stockwell and croll enumerate some half dozen glacial periods and subsequent deluges- the earliest of all being dated by them 850,000, and the last about 100,000, years ago* but which was our deluge? assuredly the former, the one which to this date remains recorded in the tr

the one which to this date remains recorded in the traditions of all the peoples, from the remotest antiquity; the one that finally swept away the last peninsulas of atlantis, beginning with ruta and daitya and ending with the (comparatively) small island mentioned by plato. this is shown by the agreement of certain details in all the legends. it was the last of its gigantic character. the little deluge, the traces of which baron bunsen found in central asia, and which he places at about 10,000 years b.c, had nothing to do with either the semi-universal deluge, or noah's flood- the latter being a purely mythical rendering of old traditions- nor even with the submersion of the last atlantean island; at least, only a moral connection. our fifth race (the non-initiated portions, hearing of ma

ith the submersion of the last atlantean island; at least, only a moral connection. our fifth race (the non-initiated portions, hearing of many deluges, confused them, and now know of but one. this one altered the whole aspect of the globe in its interchange and shifting of land and sea. we may compare the traditions of the peruvians "the incas, seven in number, have repeopled the earth after the deluge" they say (coste i, iv, p. 19; humboldt mentions the mexican version of the same legend, but confuses somewhat the details of the still-preserved legend concerning the american noah. nevertheless, the eminent naturalist mentions twice seven companions and the divine bird which preceded the boat of the aztecs, and thus makes fifteen elect instead of the seven and the fourteen. this was writt

56; and croll's "climate and time" lemuria was not submerged by a flood, but was destroyed by volcanic action, and afterwards sank[[vol. 2, page] 142 the secret doctrine. with agruerus, the great phoenician god (whom faber sought to identify with noah; further, it is suspected that the name of "titan" is derived from tit-ain "the fountains of the chaotic abyss (tit-theus, or tityus is "the divine deluge; and thus the titans, who are seven, are shown to be connected with the flood and the seven rishis saved by vaivasvata manu* they are the sons of kronos (time) and rhea (the earth; and as agruerus, saturn and sydyk are one and the same personage, and as the seven kabiri are said to be the sons of sydyk or kronos-saturn, the kabiri and titans are identical. for once the pious faber was right

ed beneath the waves its impious inhabitants- dionysius lib xviii. p. 319. faber felt convinced that the "insulae phlegyae" were atlantis. but all such allegories are more or less distorted echoes of the hindu tradition about that great cataclysm, which befell the fourth, really human, though gigantic, race, the one which preceded the aryan. yet, as just said, like all other legends, that of "the deluge has more than one meaning. it refers in theogony, to pre-cosmic transformations, to spiritual correlations- however absurd the term may sound to a scientific ear- and also to subsequent cosmogony; to the great flood of waters (matter) in chaos, awakened and fructified by those spirit-rays which were swamped by, and perished in, the mysterious differentiation- a pre-cosmic mystery, the prolo

ere swamped by, and perished in, the mysterious differentiation- a pre-cosmic mystery, the prologue to the drama of being. anu, bel, and noah preceded adam kadmon, adam the red, and noah; just as brahma, vishnu, and siva preceded vaivasvata and the rest (see "isis unveiled" vol. ii, pp. 420 et seq, where one or two of the seven meanings are hinted at) all this goes to show that the semi-universal deluge known to geology (first glacial period) must have occurred just at the time allotted to it by the secret doctrine: namely, 200,000 years (in round numbers) after the commencement of our fifth race, or about the time assigned by messrs. croll and stockwell for the first glacial period: i.e, about 850,000 years ago. thus, as the latter disturbance is attributed by geologists and astronomers t

t the creation of the moon, and then that of the sun "its beauty and perfection are extolled, and the regularity of its orbit, which led to its being considered the type of a judge and the regulator of the world" if this story related simply to a cosmogonical cataclysm- even were this latter universal- why should the goddess ishtar or astoreth, the moon, speak of the creation of the sun after the deluge? the waters might have reached as high as the mountain of nizir (chaldean version, or jebel djudi (the deluge mountains of the arabian legend, or yet ararat (of the biblical narrative, and even the himalaya (of the hindu tradition, and yet not reach the sun: the bible itself stopped short of such a miracle! it is evident that the deluge of the people who first recorded it had another meanin

ldean version, or jebel djudi (the deluge mountains of the arabian legend, or yet ararat (of the biblical narrative, and even the himalaya (of the hindu tradition, and yet not reach the sun: the bible itself stopped short of such a miracle! it is evident that the deluge of the people who first recorded it had another meaning, less problematical and far more philosophical than that of an universal deluge, of which there are no geological traces whatever. as all such cataclysms are periodical and cyclical, and as manu vaivasvata figures as a generic character, under various circumstances and events (vide infra "the seven manus of humanity, there seems to be no[[footnote(s* chap. lxiv, sect. xi[[vol. 2, page] 146 the secret doctrine. serious objection to the supposition that the first "great

ay be perceived that while, in the first account "there is no god or mortal yet on earth" when manu vaivasvata lands on the himavan; in the second, the seven rishis are allowed to keep him company: thus showing that whereas some accounts refer to the sidereal and cosmic flood before the so-called creation, the others treat, one of the great flood of matter on earth, and the other of a real watery deluge. in the satapatha brahmana, manu finds that "the flood had swept away all living creatures, and he alone was left- i.e, the seed of life alone remained from the previous dissolution of the universe, or mahapralaya, after a "day of brahma; and the mahabharata refers simply to the geological cataclysm which swept away nearly all the fourth race to make room for the fifth. therefore is vaivasv

the birth-days of the dhyanis. compare stanza 39. the dhyan chohan is represented with four arms, another allusion to the four races. for while two are folded, the third hand holds a lotus (padmapani "the lotus-bearer, this flower symbolizing generation, and the fourth holds a serpent, emblem of the wisdom in his power. on his neck is a rosary, and on his head the sign of water[[diagram- matter, deluge- while on his brow rests the third eye (siva's eye, that of spiritual insight. his name is "protector (of tibet "saviour of humanity" on other occasions when he has only two arms, he is chenresi, the dhyani and bhodisatva, chakna-padmakarpo "he who holds a lotus" his other name is chantong "he of the 1,000 eyes" when he is endowed with a thousand arms and hands, on the palm of each of which

certain psychological mystery[[vol. 2, page] 226 the secret doctrine. lecture (1887) professor sayce of oxford, speaking of newly-discovered assyrian and babylonian cylinders, referred at length to ea, the god of wisdom, now identified with the oannes, of berosus, the half-man, half-fish, who taught the babylonians culture and the art of writing. this oannes, to whom, thanks only to the biblical deluge, an antiquity of hardly 1,500 b.c. had been hitherto allowed, is now spoken of in these terms "his city was eridu, which stood 6,000 years ago on the shores of the persian gulf. the name means 'the good city' a particularly holy spot, since it was the centre from which the earliest chaldean civilization made its way to the north. as the culture-god was represented as coming from the sea, it

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or the great persecutions set on foot by the roman catholic church against occultism, masonry, and heterodox mysticism generally. the days of constantine were the last turning-point in history, the period of the supreme struggle that ended in the western world throttling the old religions in favour of the new one, built on their bodies. from thence the vista into the far distant past, beyond the "deluge" and the garden of eden, began to be forcibly and relentlessly closed by every fair and unfair means against the indiscreet gaze of posterity. every issue was blocked up, every record that hands could be laid upon, destroyed. yet there remains enough, even among such mutilated records, to warrant us in saying that there is in them every possible evidence of the actual existence of a parent

bols connected with both the solar and the cosmic deities. the specific properties, for occult purposes, of the "fourteen precious things" being explained only at the fourth initiation, cannot be given here; but the following may be remarked. in the "satapatha brahmana" it is stated that the churning of the "ocean of milk" took place in the satya yug, the first age which immediately followed the "deluge" as, however, neither the rig-veda nor[[footnote(s* number, truly; but never motion. it is motion which begets the logos, the word, in occultism* the "fourteen precious things" the narrative or allegory is found in the satapatha brahmana and others. the japanese secret science of the buddhist mystics, the yamabooshi, has "seven precious things" we will speak of them, hereafter[[vol. 1, page

mber, truly; but never motion. it is motion which begets the logos, the word, in occultism* the "fourteen precious things" the narrative or allegory is found in the satapatha brahmana and others. the japanese secret science of the buddhist mystics, the yamabooshi, has "seven precious things" we will speak of them, hereafter[[vol. 1, page] 68 the secret doctrine. manu- both preceding vaivasvata's "deluge" that of the bulk of the fourth race- mention this deluge, it is evident that it is not the "great" deluge, nor that which carried away atlantis, nor even the deluge of noah, which is meant here. this "churning" relates to a period before the earth's formation, and is in direct connection with that other universal legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the chr

in that they exhibit the outlines of a man stretched out on a cross* by a series of drawings, by which from the form of a man that of a cross springs, but so done that the cross may be taken as the man, or the man as the cross; thus exhibiting a symbolic display of the interdependency of the forms set forth "it is known that tradition among the aztecs has handed down a very perfect account of the deluge. baron humboldt says that we are to look for the country of aztalan, the original country of the aztecs, as high up at least as the 42nd parallel north; whence, journeying, they at last arrived in the vale of mexico. in that vale the earthen mounds of the far north become the elegant stone pyramidal and other structures whose remains are now found. the correspondences between the aztec rema

e language to both the great and the small periods, to maha kalpas and to minor cycles. the matsya, or fish avatar, happened before the varaha or boar avatar; the allegories, therefore, must relate to both the padma and the present manvantara, and also to the minor cycles which took place since the reappearance of our chain of worlds and earth. and, as the matsya avatar of vishnu and vaivasvata's deluge are correctly connected with an event that happened on our earth during this round, it is evident that while it may relate to pre-cosmic events (in the sense of our kosmos or solar system) it has reference in our case to a distant geological period. not even esoteric philosophy can claim to know, except by analogical inference, that which took place before the reappearance of our solar syst

will be shown in book ii, the computation of periods in exoteric hinduism refers to both the great cosmic and the small terrestrial events and cataclysms, and the same may be shown for names. for instance yudishthira- the first king of the sacea, who opens the kali yuga era, which has to last 432,000 years "an actual king and man who lived 3,102 years b.c" applies also, name and all, to the great deluge at the time of the first sinking of atlantis. he is the "yudishthira* born on the mountain of the hundred peaks at the extremity of[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] the idea alone of one who established the most rigorous vegetarianism and respect for animal life- even to refusing to eat eggs as vehicles of a latent future life- dying of a meat indigestion, is absurdly con

re-embodied, in similar capacities as their former, when the world is renewed at the beginning of the succeeding kalpa (vayu purana. these clouds, mighty in size, and loud in thunder, fill up all space (nabhas-tala" goes on vishnu purana (book vi, ch. iii "showering down torrents of water, these clouds quench the dreadful fires, and then they rain uninterruptedly for a hundred (divine) years, and deluge the whole world (solar system. pouring down, in drops as large as dice, these rains overspread the earth, and fill the middle region (bhuvaloka) and inundate heaven. the world is now enveloped in darkness, and all things animate, or inanimate, having perished, the clouds continue to pour down their waters "and the night of brahma reigns supreme over the scene of desolation" this is what we

imed and practised in honour of those goddesses, were in a good measure transferred to the mother of christ" the advocate of rome answers "that such is the fact, and that it is just as it should be and quite natural. as the dogma, the liturgy, and the rites professed by the roman apostolical church in 1862 are found engraved on monuments, inscribed on papyri, and cylinders hardly posterior to the deluge, it does seem impossible to deny the existence of a first ante-historical (roman) catholicism of which our own is but the faithful continuation. but while the former was the culmination, the summum of the impudence of demons and goetic necromancy. the latter is divine. if in our (christian) revelation (l'apocalypse, mary, clothed with the sun and having the moon under her feet, has nothing

the moon' and the statue of the madonna are one" a noble marquis wrote twenty years ago six huge volumes, or, as he calls them "memoires to the french academy" with the sole object of showing roman catholicism an inspired and revealed faith. as a proof thereof, he furnishes numberless facts, all tending to show that the entire ancient world, ever since[[vol. 1, page] 402 the secret doctrine. the deluge, had been, with the help of the devil, systematically plagiarizing the rites, ceremonies, and dogmas of the future holy church to be born ages later. what would that faithful son of rome have said had he heard his co-religionist- m. renouf, the distinguished egyptologist of the british museum- declaring, in one of his learned lectures, that "neither hebrews nor greeks borrowed any of their

h they are allowed to follow neither caste nor ritual; hence all those puranic giants and titans are called devils. the missionaries, ever on the watch to show, if they can, the hindu traditions no better than a reflection of the jewish bible, have evolved a whole romance on the alleged identity of pulastya with cain, and of the rakshasas with the cainites "the accursed" the cause of the noachian deluge (see the work of abbe gorresio, who "etymologises" pulastya's name as meaning the "rejected" hence cain, if you please. pulastya dwells in kedara, he says, which means a "dug-up place" a mine, and cain is shown in tradition and the bible as the first worker in metals and a miner thereof! while it is very probable that the gibborim (the giants) of the bible are the rakshasas of the hindus, i

the hindu, the egyptian, the chaldeo-hebrew and even the scandinavian systems- hence black ravens, black doves, black waters and even black flames; the seventh tongue of agni, the fire-god being called "kali "the black" as it was a black flickering flame. two black doves flew from egypt and settling on the oaks of dodona, gave their names to the grecian gods. noah lets out a black raven after the deluge, which is a symbol for the cosmic pralaya, after which began the real creation or evolution of our earth and humanity. odin's black ravens fluttered around the goddess saga and "whispered to her of the past and of the future" what is the real meaning of all those black birds? they are all connected with the primeval wisdom, which flows out of the pre-cosmic source of all, symbolised by the

, with its prepositional prefix, signifying the same concreted general form[[vol. 1, page] 444 the secret doctrine. astronomically, with the one here intended" now the secret reading of the first verse of genesis being "in rash (b'rash) or head, developed gods, the heavens and the earth- it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven, once that the like meaning of the flood (or noah's deluge) is ascertained. whatever the many other meanings of this emblematical allegory may be, its chief meaning is that of a new cycle and a new round (our fourth round* the "raven" or the eth-h'orebv, yields the same numerical value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose prototype is vaivasvata

n the gayatri" must have a secret meaning, or else the writers of the vedas and puranas were no sacred writers but mystificators. that it has such a meaning, the hindu occultists are a proof, and they alone are able to enlighten science, as to why and how "the fire, that was primevally one, was made threefold (treta) in our present manvantara, by the son of ila (vach, the primeval woman after the deluge, the wife and daughter of vaivasvata manu. the allegory is suggestive, in whatever purana it may be read and studied- vii. an attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science. the wise words of several (english) men of science have now to be quoted in our favour. ostracised for "principle's sake" by the few, they are tacitly approved of by the many. that one of them preaches alm

onour that sign that moses divided his nation into twelve tribes, established the twelve cakes (levit. xxiv, 5) of the shewbread, and placed twelve precious stones around the ephod of the pontiffs (see de profugis) according to seneca, berosus taught prophecy of every future event and cataclysm by the zodiac; and the time fixed by him for the conflagration of the world (pralaya, and another for a deluge, is found to answer to the time given in an ancient egyptian papyrus. it comes at every renewal of the cycle of the sidereal year of 25,868 years. the names of the akkadian months were called by, and derived from, the[[vol. 1, page] 650 the secret doctrine. names of the signs of the zodiac, and the akkadians themselves are far earlier than the chaldaeans. mr. proctor shows, in his myths and

nows that the real time and year of the birth of jesus are totally unknown. and it is the jews, whose forefathers have made the word dag signify both "fish" and "messiah" who, during the forced development of their rabbinical language, are the first to deny this christian claim. and what of the further facts that brahmins also connect their "messiah" the eternal avatar vishnu, with a fish and the deluge, and that the babylonians made of their dag-on, equally a fish and a messiah, the man-fish and prophet? there are those learned iconoclasts among egyptologists, who say that "when the pharisees sought a 'sign from heaven' jesus said 'there shall no sign be given but the sign of jonas (mat. xvi. 4. the sign of jonas is that of the oan or fishman of nineveh. assuredly there was no other sign

BOOK OF ENOCH

nd the societies they founded will be wiped away by a flood. he says, at 10.22, that there will never again be another flood like the one to come. 10.1] and then the most high, the great and holy one, spoke and sent arsyalalyur to the son of lamech, and said to him: 10.2 "say to him in my name; hide yourself! and reveal to him the end, which is coming, because the whole earth will be destroyed. a deluge is about to come on all the earth; and all that is in it will be destroyed. 10.3] and now teach him so that he may escape and his offspring may survive for the whole earth" 10.4] and further the lord said to raphael "bind azazel by his hands and his feet and throw him into the darkness. and split open the desert, which is in dudael, and throw him there. 10.5] and throw on him jagged and sha

known to you. for in the generation of my father, jared, some from the height of heaven transgressed the word of the lord. 106.14] and behold, they commit sin and transgress the law, and have been promiscuous with women, and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begotten children by them. 106.15] and there will be great destruction over the whole earth, and there will be a deluge, and there will be great destruction for one year. 106.16] but this child, who has been born to you, will be left on the earth, and his three sons will be saved with him. when all the men who are on the earth die he and his sons will be saved. 106.17] they will beget on the earth giants, not of spirit, but of flesh, and there will be great wrath on earth, and the earth will be cleansed of a

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

lust has blinded you. bind our carnal bodies you may, but the light given by satanael and our gift to man, shall endure. we shall again illuminate the hearts and minds of man. the gift of satanael abideth with man since the days of adam, unto eternity. no matter how many times you purge earth, the spark of intelligence and selfhood shall again become manifest. even your final judgement after this deluge is witness to your inability to keep quenched the spark within man, and the spirits of nephilim and gibborim and watchers shall return to inspire man lest he again become as the beasts of the field "our sons gibborim shall incarnate in the bodies of man, of those who are mighty and wise, to inspire and counsel them. they shall come to be called 'evil spirits' and 'demons' by the ignorant an

h with him unto eternity. the gift of satanael shall continue to illuminate. man shall create civilization anew and reach greater heights, even unto the stars, the servility of the descendants of noah shall not endure forever, as even these have the gift of satanael within them, as bequeathed from thedays of adam- vii- the tyrant god was able to gather greater force, and he destroyed earth with a deluge. i, samyaza, and my companions were bound. we could but helplessly look on as our sons were slaughtered, and earth was engulfed by water, and the inhabitants were drowned, save the servile noah and his family. but the light given to man by satanael resideth as a heritage even in the sons of noah, and became manifest again among their descendants. man again spurned the tyrant god and built c

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re part of the same sumer empire and ruled by the same leader. the structure of administration, the foundation of law, building techniques, and so many other features of what we call modern society, can be traced back to this ancient race that founded sumer. or more to the point, to those ruling bloodlines and "gods" that held the knowledge going back into pre-history. these advanced ancient post-deluge societies appeared with tremendous speed. professor w.b. emery writes in archaic egypt (penguin books, england, 1961 "at a period approximately 3400 years (bc, a great change took place in egypt, and the country passed rapidly from a state of advanced neolithic culture with a complex tribal character to two well-organised monarchies, one comprising the delta area and the other the nile vall

the ancient legends and beliefs suggest that the sirius system is very watery with dense vegetation- perfect for amphibians and the reptilian species. chinese traditions claim that their civilisation was founded by an amphibious being called fu-hsi or fuxi in 3322bc. one description says he had a serpent's body and a man's head and he is said to have begun the repopulation of the world after the deluge with an incestuous interbreeding with a character called nu gua, who is also described as half human, half serpent. another ancient chinese figure was gong-gong, who was "a horned monster with the body of a serpent. this sounds very much like set of the egyptians and ogo in the myths of the dogon. other amphibious entities in chinese tradition are emperor yu (yu relates to reptiles) and his

larger craft hovered in the atmosphere. the nommo said that some of their number would be called "the disrupters, and one would "die on the cross, the dogon legends apparently say.35 peruvian creation myths tell of a great disk that came out of the sky and landed on an island called the island of the sun. this is a place i have visited twice on the bolivian side of lake titicaca. during the great deluge, the top of this island was the first piece of land to emerge as the water receded, they say. there are sceptics ruled by the gods 37 figure 3: the classic llluminati symbol of the all-seeing-eye and the pyramid with the capstone missing on the us dollar bill figures 4 and 5: the pyramid and all-seeing eye is used by a stream of companies in their advertising, including r.j. reynolds, a maj

at claim a lineage of egyptian kings going back tens of thousands of years before the formation of the egyptian civilisation described by official historians. this supports the stories of an atlantean/lemurian colony in egypt long before the cataclysm. the colonisation of greece is also far older than officially claimed and this colony (called the athenians) went to war with atlanteans before the deluge. plato wrote of this war and official historians have dismissed it because they say that greece did not exist that long ago. they are mistaken. the "classic greece" they ruled by the gods 41 focus upon was a later expression of that culture, not the first. the original greece existed before the cataclysms that sank atlantis. the atlantean colonists of greece worshipped a serpent goddess cal

41 52 ibid 53 ibid, p 78 54 see holy blood, holy grail (corgi books, london, 1982) 55 the return of the serpents of wisdom, p 41 56 ibid, p 42 57 ibid, p 34 58 ibid 59 ibid, p 8 60 ibid, p 9 61 sir laurence gardner: http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html chapter 4 atlantis revisited even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. will rogers he survivors of the deluge and the upheavals re-emerged from the mountains and underground shelters and began to rebuild a shattered world. we are perhaps talking of around 7,000 years ago when atlantis was finally destroyed, although there are differing opinions on the precise timescale. some ancient accounts say that the extraterrestrial "gods (the "anunnaki" of the sumerian tablets) left the planet in their flying

tly, even used part of the contents in their space programme.3 these were the craft used in the endlessly recorded "wars of the gods. the same basic knowledge used to build anti-gravity technology can be employed to disconnect massive stones from the laws of gravity. arab legends say that the astonishing blocks of stone at baalbeck in the lebanon were laid together by a tribe of giants" after the deluge. in the same way, british legends tell of giants coming from africa to build stonehenge. was the golden age of lemuria/atlantis before the cataclysms created by knowledge brought from the stars and/or even other dimensions of existence far in advance of where the earth was at the time? this is what the ancient accounts say. these are the same accounts, which, like the sumerian tablets, desc

y part of the world have the same legends, stories, and basis for their religions; and why, the further back you go, the more impressive are the temples and other structures that survive today. the sumerian tablets suggest that the anunnaki came to this planet hundreds of thousands of years ago. they would have been very much involved in lemuria and atlantis, leading up to great upheavals and the deluge. after the catastrophes, the anunnaki returned, the tablets relate, and they supervised the rebuilding of another global empire, which we know as sumer. but although this was fine for a while, the gods fought among themselves in the thousands of years that followed, the tablets say. this was especially the offspring of the earlier leaders, enlil and enki. they demanded that human nations fi

dership to be their front men and women who would rule humanity on their behalf and to their agenda, the accounts reveal. this is the reason for the obsessive interbreeding of the ruling families over thousands of years. the sumerian texts call these anunnaki "royal" bloodlines the ab-gal, the "masters of knowledge" and the "seven elders, and they apparently go back to ten priest-kings before the deluge. atlantis and lemuria in other words. they were depicted with fish-like bodies, as was enki himself under another of his names, oannes. the fish symbolises the amphibious nature of the gods and that is right in line with the apparently amphibious extraterrestrials from sirius. these "royal" bloodlines have worked to maintain their anunnaki genetics through interbreeding and others have cont

d their dna and became their "royalty. i found direct references to this theme in the indian (formerly indus valley) works, like the book of dzyan, one the unholy alliance 93 of the oldest of sanskrit accounts, and the epics, mahabharata and the ramayana. the book of dzyan tells of how a reptilian race it calls the sarpa or great dragons came from the skies to bring civilisation to the world. the deluge that ended the golden age, it says, wiped out a race of "giants (nordics) but the serpent gods survived and returned to rule. they are described as having the face of a human, but the tail of a dragon.6 their leader was called the great dragon and this is the origin of pendragon("great dragon) the title of the king of kings in ancient britain. the illuminati's ku klux klan, created by that

the command given them that the cloud of glory and the horny skin dropped from them and they stood there in their nakedness and ashamed."23 this fits with the legends which say that before the "fall, people, or "man, had skin "as bright as daylight and covered his body like a luminous garment".24 this later disappeared, but there were remnants of it among the hybrids at the time of "noah" and the deluge. still today, some people involved in government genetic experimentation tell me they have developed patches of reptilian skin. it was with the infusion of mammalian genes that the life spans began to fall from thousands of years, claimed in the records of the pre-deluge era, down to hundreds at the time of "noah" with the reptilian appearance continuing to fade. the reptilian "gods" have a

ishkur the son, and ishtar the female. from ishkur and ishtar, we get the new age myth of the "ashtar command. many new agers claim this is a force of extraterrestrial "saviours" who are preparing to take the chosen ones off the planet when the brown stuff hits the spinning propeller. a sort of jesus with a spaceship. other front-line figures in this next generation of anunnaki leaders after the deluge included marduk, son of enki, the tablets say. marduk was the god of babylon. the ancient texts, tablets, and legends describe how these gods embarked on a battle for power that brought the world to its knees. some of these conflicts, with humanity used as battle-fodder, are featured in the old testament. one defining event described in the tablets involved the anunnaki "god" known as sin

mpared with the human population and they would be overwhelmed if enough people knew what is really going on. today's secret society network is simply the modern expression of the atlantean/lemurian mystery schools, which were taken over by a malevolent force in the period before the cataclysms. those with a positive and negative agenda fought for control of the mystery schools restored after the deluge. eventually the malevolent force won that battle and began to expand its power covertly across the world again. with them they carried their own secret language, the language of symbols, which their initiates were taught to read and understand. i call this network the serpent cult, the serpent brotherhood, or the illuminati. those three are the same force. their secret language includes the

d violent opposition from mediocre minds. albert einstein he ancient world abounds with stories of the serpent or dragon race and royal kings, queens, and emperors who claim their right to rule through their descent from the serpent gods. the sumerian accounts tell of flying serpents and dragons breathing fire (symbolic of their aerial craft) and how the kings of sumer, going back long before the deluge to some 240,000bc, were "changelings" seeded by the union of the gods and humans. sargon the great, that famous ruler of the sumer empire, claimed this genetic origin and the very existence of "kingship" is reported very clearly to have been a gift of these gods. equally clear is that they were reptilian gods, as in "the reptiles verily descend. and there are many references by the sumerian

ick, saffron walden, saint leonards forest, shervage wood, slingsby, sockburn, tanfield, trull, uffington, wells, westbury, wharncliffe, wherwell, wiveliscombe, wormbridge, wormingford, wormhill, and wormshill (worm or wirm means "wingless dragon) all the legends of the dragons and serpents of the british isles follow similar themes.48 the british isles was an atlantean/lemurian colony before the deluge and the bloodlines returned there as the phoenicians, egyptians, and other names, when the sumer empire began to expand to the centres of its former motherlands. the carriers of the atlantean/lemurian knowledge in britain and other parts of europe were called the naddred or adders, a welsh name for serpent.49 they are better known as the druids, a gaelic word in ireland meaning a wise man

r was depicted as a lion-headed sphinx. mystery babylon the mystery school/secret society network designed to advance the reptilian agenda expanded rapidly from the time of babylon after 2000bc. in this same period the royal court of the dragon was infiltrating the egyptian mystery schools and the other structures of power. the jewish historian, eupolemus, said that giants built babylon after the deluge- the usual story. according to a babylonian text, these giants were the anunnaki. the anunnaki priesthood in babylon began to god save us from religion 197 invent a whole new history and religious "truth, through which they could control the people mentally, emotionally, and, as a consequence, physically. in doing so, they replaced spiritual truths with fairy tales about mythical people, wh

cult, and of the horse, so connected with the amazons or valkeries. from the names mana and mania we get the word to describe crazed behaviour. this is derived from worship of the moon goddess, as in moon-madness or "lunacy. mantra, the sanskrit term for projecting vibrations by chanting words or sounds, comes from the same root. manu was the name for the indian version of noah, who survived the deluge with the help of the great serpent vasuki" in earlier times manu was the womb of the goddess. the levites, those babylonian mystery school initiates, invented an entire history for the hebrews to hide the real story and create a fiercely imposed structure of religious control. the rabbis continue that tradition to this day. there is far more about this story in the biggest secret, where i h

low their banks to lend at least, and it is at least, ten times what they have on deposit. in truth, it is far more than that. every time you put a pound or dollar in a bank, you are giving them the right to lend ten pounds or dollars they do not have. this system of so-called "fiat" money and "fractional reserve lending, means that banks can create money out of thin air whenever they choose. the deluge of debt, with which people, businesses, and governments constantly battle, is this same fresh-air "money. personal debt, national debt "third world" debt- all of it. none of this really exists, except as figures on a computer screen. think about the suffering, poverty, and death that these crushing debts cause every day and yet they are just figures on a screen written by a clerk in a bank

ELIPHAS LEVI SANCTUM REGNUM

els, to each of whom in succession is alloted a period of 354 years and 4 months. the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign o

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

stavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a coelo in terram descendit. exorciso te, creatura aquae, ut sis mihi speculum dei vivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et ablutio pecatorum. amen. 7 prayer of the undines terrible king of the sea! thou who boldest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the hollow places of the earth! king of the deluge and of rains, of springtime! thou who openest the sources of streams and fountains! thou who commandest the moisture (which is like the blood of the earth) to become the sap of plants! we adore and invoke thee! speak to us, ye moving and changeable creatures! speak to us in the great commotions of the sea, and we will tremble before thee. speak to us also in the murmur of the limpid waters

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tortoise, and a fish, to assist the development of the world in prehistory. certain hindu scriptures ascribe these incarnations to the god vishnu (the preserver, but since the manifestation of divine power takes many different forms in hindu mythology, the distinction is academic. various scriptures ascribe to vishnu ten major incarnations (1) matsya (the fish, associated with legends of a great deluge in which manu, progenitor of the human race, was saved from destruction (2) kurma (the tortoise, whose back supported great mountains while the gods and demons churned the ocean to retrieve divine objects and entities lost in the deluge (3) vahura (the boar, who raised up the earth from the seas (4) nara-sinha (the man-lion, who delivered the world from the tyranny of a demon (5) vamana (th

magician of the gods; his sway over the forces of nature was secured by the performance of magical rites, and his services were obtained by humankind, who performed requisite ceremonies and repeated appropriate spells. although he might be worshipped and propitiated in his temple at eridu, he could also be conjured in reed huts. the latter indeed appear to have been the oldest holy places. in the deluge myth, he makes a revelation in a dream to his human favorite, pirnapishtim, the babylonian noah, of the approaching disaster planned by the gods, by addressing the reed hut in which he slept: o, reed hut, hear; o, wall, understand. the sleeper received the divine message from the reeds. the reeds were to the babylonians what rowan branches were to northern europeans. they protected them aga

d signs; and azaradel taught the motions of the moon. in this account, which harkens back to several biblical passages (genesis 6:4; isaiah 14:12, there is a description of the profanation of mysteries. the fallen angels exposed their occult and heaven-born wisdom to earthly women, whereby it was profaned, and brute force, taking advantage of the profanation of divine law, reigned supreme. only a deluge could wipe out the stain of the enormity and pave the way for a restitution of the balance between the human and the divine, which had been disturbed by these unlawful revelations. according to tradition, enoch did not die, but was carried up to heaven (genesis 5:18.24, from where he will return at the end of time. he has also been identified with thoth of the egyptians, cadulus of the phoe

imes. inherent in the truths known as this time were immortality of the soul, metempsychosis (reincarnation, the final reabsorption of all things in the one, and the periodic renewal of the worlds. the golden age, during which time the earth s axis was 90 degrees from its orbit was ultimately destroyed by the collision of the earth with three comets, each of which caused a significant but partial deluge. the earth s axis tilted, producing the present day seasons and 365 day year. two astrological cycles have subsequently become important, the astrological age of 2160 years and the neros cycle marked by the conjunction of the sun and moon at the spring equinox that occurs approximately every 600 years. changes of cycles are marked by social disruptions and messianic expectations. a neros cy

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of the seven chains. the charge given to manus is that of forming the different races of humanity and guiding humanity s evolution. each race has its own manu, who represents the racial type. this theosophical concept derives from hindu mythology of manu (man; thinker, a series of fourteen progenitors of the human race, each creation being destroyed in a mahayuga (vast cycle of time) involving a deluge. the manu of the present creation is manu vaivasvata, who built an ark during a cosmic deluge and afterward renewed the human race. he is the reputed author of the manava dharma shastra, or laws of manu, an ancient hindu treatise that prescribes human religious and social duties. sources: das, ghagavan. the science of social organisation; or, the laws of manu in the light of atma-vidya. 2 v

places on the theory of the stone; i will say only that this arcanum does not consist in the blast [rouille] or flowers of antimony. it must be sought in the mercury of antimony, which, when it is carried to perfection, is nothing else than the heaven of metals; for even as the heaven gives life to plants and minerals, so does the pure quintessence of antimony vitrify everything. this is why the deluge was not able to deprive any substance of its virtue or properties, for the heaven being the life of all beings, there is nothing superior to it which can modify or destroy it. take the antimony, purge it of its arsenical impurities in an iron vessel until the coagulated mercury of the antimony appears quite white, and is distinguishable by the star which appears in the superficies of the re

s stated that the sacred garden was watered by one river, which ran round the whole earth and was divided into four parts, but he appeared to think paradise was merely a figurative or allegorical locality. some of the peoples of hindustan had traditions of a place resembling paradise on the banks of the river ganges; their accounts were completely blended with mythology and legends respecting the deluge and the second peopling of the world. one writer who had diligently studied the indian puranas (religious and mythological works) placed eden on the imaus mountains of india. he stated: it appears from scripture that adam and eve lived in the countries to the eastward of eden; for at the eastern entrance of it god placed the angel with the flaming sword (gen. 3:24. this is also confirmed by

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ly lived among these people for a thousand years. one visitor f rom ni b i ru, enki, re p o rtedly saved the human race. when a hostile alien, en l i l, tried to keep the anunnaki from warning humans that the passing near earth of ni b i ru would cause an immense tidal wave, which would sweep over earth and destroy its inhabitants, enki resisted. he told no a h, of biblical fame, about the coming deluge, and noah set to work on his ark, thus ensuring the surv i val of earthly life. the anunnaki supposedly live a very long time because one year to them is the number of earthly years it takes their planet to go around the sun. their technology is so advanced that they developed space flight half a million years ago. they are also able to revive the dead. one critic has written, clearly, sitc

ciplines as archaeology, geology, biology, linguistics, history, and folklore to argue vigorously for the proposition that atlantis not only existed but was the place where human beings became civilized. atlantis sent its people all over the world and seeded the earth. the great gods and goddesses of the ancient world were based on the leaders and heroes of atlantis; worldwide legends of a mighty deluge owe their origins to dim memories of the catastrophe that overwhelmed atlantis. the historical civilization influenced most directly by atlantis was ancient egypt. these re velations sparked international i n t e rest, and do n n e l l y s book went thro u g h many printings. for a time even some re putable scientists we re willing to consider the possibility that the legend was true, after

FAUST

aught determine. what do you mean now with this lenten sermon? i m sated of this endless if and how. there is no money. well, then, get it now! mephistopheles i ll furnish what you wish and more. it s true, it is a light task, yet the light s a burden too. the gold lies there and yet to win it, that is the art- who knows how to begin it? recall those fearful times when roving bands poured like a deluge drowning men and lands, how many men, so greatly did they fear, concealed their dearest treasure there and here. so it was of old when mighty rome held sway, so it was till yesterday, aye, till today. it all lies buried in the earth, to save it; the earth s the emperor s, and he should have it. treasurer. now for a fool, his words are noways trite. that is, in truth, the old imperial right

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

er, confusion of all goods. when all these things have come to pass, o asclepius, then the lord and father, the god first in power and the demiurge of the one god, having considered these customs and voluntary crimes, endeavouring by his will, which is the divine will, to bar the way to vices and universal corruption and to correct errors, he will annihilate all malice, either by effacing it in a deluge or by consuming it by fire, or destroying it by pestilential maladies diffused in many places. then he will bring back the world to its first beauty, so that this world may again be worthy of reverence and admiration, and that god also, creator and restorer of so great a work, may be glorified by the men who shall live then in continual hymns of praise and benedictions. that 's what the reb

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thus mankind sank into the qliphoth, the reflection of the world of assiah upon the chaos of human passions, and hell is created- the materialized mental pit. thus also it came about that the world became corrupt and filled with violence, and to redeem it it was necessary to destroy it, except for noah and those in the ark. noah was, however, far from perfect; consequently we find that after the deluge he profanes the mysteries, gand he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent h 13 and, his son canaan divulging this profanation, is cursed. thus magic, in spite of the repentance of tetragrammaton, continued to grow until the repopulated world cried: ggo to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, h 14 t

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nd the celts had their three bulls, venerated as the living symbols of the triple hu or menu. to the same class we must ascribe the triads of the orphic and pythagorean and platonic schools; each of which must again be identified with the imperial triad of the old chaldaic or babylonian philosophy"[43 [43] faber, pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii, p. 470. the history of the catastrophe known as the deluge, which, it is claimed, took place either in armenia, at cashgar, or at some other place in the east, is observed, in later ages, to furnish a covering beneath which have been veiled the mythical doctrines of the priests. of the catastrophes which from time to time have visited our planet, and of the belief which has come to be entertained by ecclesiastics that the earth will be destroyed by

onnected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she is identical with derceto and isis, and is declared to be that general receptacle out of which all the hero-gods were produced. now there can be little doubt in what sense we are to understand this expression, when we are told that the peculiar symbol of isis was a ship; and when we learn that the form assumed at the period of the deluge, by the indian isi or bhavani, who is clearly the same as the egyptian isis, was the ship argha, in which her consort siva floated securely on the surface of the ocean. venus, therefore, or the great mother, the parent of cupid from whom all mankind descended, must be the ark: consequently, the egg, with which she is connected, must be the ark also. aristophanes informs us that the egg out

who is also literally said to have been set afloat in an ark. sometimes the order of production was inverted; and, instead of the egg being produced by night or venus, venus herself was fabled to have been produced from the egg. there is a remarkable legend of this sort which ascribes venus and her egg to the age of typhon and osiris, in other words, to the age in which noah was compelled by the deluge to enter into the ark"[46 [46] origin of pagan idolatry, book i, ch. iv. the preserver of the persians, who is seated on a rainbow in front of their rock temples, is mithras, who is identical with noah. sometimes this ancient mariner is represented as riding on the back of a fish, and again as floating in a boat. the god of hindostan, like the classical dionysos, was enclosed in an ark and

dherents of the older faith were losing sight of those higher principles which in preceding ages they had adored as god. we have seen that in every country upon the earth there is a tradition recounting the ravages of a flood. whether or not this legend is to be traced to an actual calamity by which a large portion of asia was inundated, is not for a certainty known; but the fact that there was a deluge of contention and strife, surpassing anything perhaps which the world has ever witnessed, seems altogether probable. not long after the catastrophe designated as the flood, emblems of the deity, representations of the male and female elements, appear in profusion. babylon, at which place was erected the tower of belus, and memphis, which contained the pyramids, were among the first cities w

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thras mounting the solar chariot with four white horses and ascending (d) mithras and the sun together at a banquet with men standing around.thechristian fathers especially condemned these scenes and destroyed all copies of them. s. mithras and the bull. this is no earthly bull,butis the goshurun or heavenly bull of the avesta (many scenes.)thebull in a boat upon the water, for ahriman has sent a deluge upon the world.thebull coming out of the gable end of a house on fire; in one example two figures are setting this house on fire (saarburg) the taking of the bull; the bull at large, grazing in a field; mithra seizes it by its horns, leaps upon its back, drags it by the hind legs, or carries it into the cave of mithraic worship. lastly the slaying of the bull, the tauroctonia, the most nota

e that the two pillars at the entrance of the temple of solomon were not of stone but of brass; they are said symbolically to represent the stone pillars of seth, enoch and hermes, of which many works make mention, but in regard to which i am unable to find any real information, although josephus is said to mention them in his first book of antiquities, and two pillars erected before the noachian deluge are referred to in ancient masonic charges, for example in the 'cooke ms' of the 15th century, it is narrated that all science was written upon each of two pillars, one of which could not be destroyed by fire, and the other not injured by water; the legend relates that after the flood these two pillars were recovered by hermes and pythagoras and the inscriptions260themagical masonupon them

doo name would confer no meaning to us, then acknowledges the atlantic continent, and that the lastpartto disappear was a great atlantic island beyond the pillars of hercules, that is, outside gibraltar;itsank beneath the ocean some 6,000 years before egyptian history begins: this great submergence gave rise to the widespread primary form of the legend of the flood. streams of survivors from this deluge, led by adepts, settled in egypt and passed to central asia, forming the sources of the great ancient nations which have flourished since the deluge. the first to obtain precedence was iran, ancient persia, then india, then chaldeo255 egyptian and semitic dominance, then the greco-roman, and last our own civilization, in which it is believed the ancient egyptians are being reborn. in this s

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7.'itso closely resembles thetarot,thatthefour suits of the latter occupy its first four columns; ofthetwenty-oneatoutsfourteen occupythefifth column, and the seven otheratoutsthe sixth column.thissixth column of sevenatoutsis thatofthe six days of the week of creation. now, according to the chinese, this representation belongstothe first agesoftheir empire, to the drying up of the waters of the deluge bylao;it may be concluded, therefore, that it is an original, or a copyofthetarot,and,underany circumstances, that the latter is of an origin anterior to moses,thatit belongs to the beginning of our time, to the epoch ofthepreparation of the zodiac, and consequentlythatit must own 6600 years of existence'*this is partly taken by vaillant from court de gebelin'smondeprimitif,vol. 8, p. 387.t

he heights of the coolins. there will be a rain storm tonight.'themark, whatever it was, was perfectly distinct, six crescents arranged round a circle, quite unlike the track of any beastiam acquainted with.itwas a blue and cloudless day with never a hint of rain,butsure enough at sunset ominous black lurid clouds piled themselves on the peaks of the coolins, and before midnight there came such a deluge of rain asihave seldom seen.'thecrofters certainly get a wonderful weather knowledge' said the schoolmaster 'they beat any barometer' but neither he noranyoneelse ever explained that track in the soft black mud. another time she showed me amarkon the sands near by the kyle of loch alsh.itwas like a little spiral, such as a tiny whirl of air might make.'theking of the air is on foot *pronoun

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-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" give the adoration to the lord of the universe go to the west facing west give the practicus sign facing west recite the prayer of the undines: terrible king of the sea, thou who hast the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring; thou who openest the sources of rivers and of fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee! speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful creatures, in the great tempests of the sea, and we shall tremble before thee. speak unto us also in the murmur of limpid wat

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reative sigh! o mouth which breathest forth and withdrawest the life of all beings, in the flux and reflux of thine eternal word, which is the divine ocean of movement and of truth! amen. the prayer of the undines or water spirits. terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterraean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful creatures, in the great tempests, the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic

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e faithful soldiers. as we travelled i continued to study the accounts of the spanish adventurers and ethnographers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who had faithfully recorded the ancient, pre-contact traditions of the peruvian indians. what was particularly noticeable about these traditions was the repeated emphasis that the coming of the viracochas had been associated with a terrible deluge which had overwhelmed the earth and destroyed the greater part of humanity. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 60 chapter 7 were there giants then? just after six in the morning the little train jerked into motion and began its slow climb up the steep sides of the valley of cuzco. the narrowgauge tracks were laid out in a series of z shapes. we chugged along the lower horizontal of the

tains, which then parted to reveal folded and even more lofty uplands. beyond these soared a far horizon surmounted by a jagged range of radiant and snowy peaks. casting down the giants it was with understandable reluctance that i turned at last to my reading. i wanted to look more closely at some of the curious links i thought i had identified connecting the sudden appearance of viracocha to the deluge legends of the incas and other andean peoples. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 61 before me was a passage from fr. jose de acosta s natural and moral history of the indies, in which the learned priest set out what the indians themselves report of their beginning: they make great mention of a deluge, which happened in their country. the indians say that all men were drowned in the de

are to be seen the ruins of ancient and very strange buildings, and from thence came to cuzco, and so began mankind to multiply..1 making a mental note to find out more about lake titicaca, and the mysterious tiahuanaco, i read the following passage summarizing a legend from the cuzco area: for some crime unstated the people who lived in the most ancient times were destroyed by the creator. in a deluge. after the deluge the creator appeared in human form from lake titicaca. he then created the sun and moon and stars. after that he renewed the human population of the earth..2 in another myth the great creator god, viracocha, decided to make a world for men to live in. first he made the earth and sky. then he began to make people to live in it, carving great stone figures of giants which he

way to the giants woven into the fabric of pre-colombian native american legends? adding considerably to the mystery was the fact that the jewish and peruvian sources both went on, with many further details in common, to depict an angry deity unleashing a catastrophic flood upon a wicked and disobedient world. on the next page of the sheaf of documents i had assembled was this inca account of the deluge handed down by a certain father molina in his relacion de las fabulas y ritos de los yngas: in the life of manco capac, who was the first inca, and from whom they began to 1 jos de acosta, the natural and moral history of the indies, book i, chapter four, in south american mythology, p. 61. 2 ibid, p. 82. 3 d. gifford and j. sibbick, warriors, gods and spirits from south american mythology

y of the indies, book i, chapter four, in south american mythology, p. 61. 2 ibid, p. 82. 3 d. gifford and j. sibbick, warriors, gods and spirits from south american mythology, eurobook limited, 1983, p. 54. 4 genesis 6:4. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 62 boast themselves children of the sun and from whom they derived their idolatrous worship of the sun, they had an ample account of the deluge. they say that in it perished all races of men and created things insomuch that the waters rose above the highest mountain peaks in the world. no living thing survived except a man and a woman who remained in a box and, when the waters subsided, the wind carried them. to tiahuanaco [where] the creator began to raise up the people and the nations that are in that region..5 garcilaso de la ve

o me from his royal commentaries of the incas. he was regarded as one of the most reliable chroniclers of the traditions of his mother s people and had done his work in the sixteenth century, soon after the conquest, when those traditions had not yet been contaminated by foreign influences. he, too, confirmed what had obviously been a universal and deeply impressed belief: after the waters of the deluge had subsided, a certain man appeared in the country of tiahuanaco. 6 that man had been viracocha. wrapped in his cloak, he was strong and august of countenance and walked with unassailable confidence through the most dangerous badlands. he worked miracles of healing and could call down fire from heaven. to the indians it must have seemed that he had materialized from nowhere. ancient tradit

th sun, or epoch, that humankind still lives today. this account is taken from a rare collection of aztec documents known as the vaticano- latin codex: first sun, matlactli atl: duration 4008 years. those who lived then ate water maize called atzitzintli. in this age lived the giants. the first sun was destroyed by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the art of sorcery of the permanent rain. men were turned into fish. some say that only one couple escaped, protected by an old tree living near the water. others say that there were seven couples who hid in a cave until the flood was over and the waters had gone down. they repopulated the earth and were worshipped as gods in their nations. second sun, ehecoatl: duration 4010 years. those

d by ehecoatl (wind serpent) and men were turned into monkeys. one man and one woman, standing on a rock, were saved from destruction. third sun, tleyquiyahuillo: duration 4081 years. men, the descendants of the couple who were saved from the second sun, ate a fruit called tzincoacoc. this third sun was destroyed by fire. fourth sun, tzontlilic: duration 5026 years. men died of starvation after a deluge of blood and fire..9 another cultural document of the aztecs that has survived the ravages of the conquest is the sun stone of axayacatl, the sixth emperor of the royal dynasty. this huge monolith was hewn out of solid basalt in ad 1479. it weighs 24.5 tons and consists of a series of concentrically inscribed circles, each bearing intricate symbolic statements. as in the codex, these statem

fill? could it have been a mechanism for predicting some terrible cosmic or geological catastrophe? 27 encyclopaedia britannica, 12:214. 28 the rise and fall of maya civilization, p. 168. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 165 chapter 22 city of the gods the overwhelming message of a large number of central american legends is that the fourth age of the world ended very badly. a catastrophic deluge was followed by a long period during which the light of the sun vanished from the sky and the air was filled with a tenebrous darkness. then: the gods gathered together at teotihuacan[ the place of the gods] and wondered anxiously who was to be the next sun. only the sacred fire [the material representation of huehueteotl, the god who gave life its beginning] could be seen in the darkness

rvived. many thousands of these tablets, some dating back to the beginning of the third millennium bc, have been excavated from the sands of modern iraq. they transmit a unique picture of a vanished culture and remind us that even in those days of lofty antiquity human beings preserved memories of times still more remote times from which they were separated by the interval of a great and terrible deluge: i will proclaim to the world the deeds of gilgamesh. this was the man to whom all things were known; this was the king who knew the countries of the world. he was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. he went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labour, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story.1 the story

known variously as zisudra, xisuthros or atrahasis. even so, he is always instantly recognizable as the same patriarchal character, forewarned by the same merciful god, who rides out the same universal flood in the same storm-tossed ark and whose descendants repopulate the world. there are many obvious resemblances between the mesopotamian flood myth and the famous biblical story of noah and the deluge7 (see 5 gilgamesh, p. 111. 6 ibid. 7 extracts from the book of genesis, chapters six, seven and eight: god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and god said, the end of all flesh is come before me; f

ition which tells, in graphic language, of a global catastrophe and of the near-total annihilation of mankind. central america the identical message was preserved in the valley of mexico, far away across the world from mounts ararat and nisir. there, culturally and geographically isolated from judaeo-christian influences, long ages before the arrival of the spaniards, stories were told of a great deluge. as the reader will recall from part iii, it was believed that this deluge had swept over the entire earth at the end of the fourth sun: destruction came in the form of torrential rain and floods. the mountains disappeared and men were transformed into fish. 8 according to aztec mythology only two human beings survived: a man, coxcoxtli, and his wife, xochiquetzal, who had been forewarned o

hen they were discovered, the tupinamba indians of brazil venerated a series of civilizing or creator heroes. the first of these heroes was monan (ancient, old) who was said to have been the creator of mankind but who then destroyed the world with flood and fire..15 peru, as we saw in part ii, is particularly rich in flood legends. a typical story tells of an indian who was warned by a llama of a deluge. together man and llama fled to a high mountain called vilca-coto: when they reached the top of the mountain they saw that all kinds of birds and animals had already taken refuge there. the sea began to rise, and covered all the plains and mountains except the top of vilca-coto; and even there the waves dashed up so high that the animals were forced to crowd into a narrow area. five days la

stroyed. the chickasaws asserted that the world had been destroyed by water but that one family was saved and two animals of every kind. the sioux also spoke of a time when there was no dry land and when all men disappeared from existence.24 water water everywhere how far and how widely across the myth memories of mankind do the ripples of the great flood spread? very widely indeed. more than 500 deluge legends are known around the world and, in a survey of 86 of these (20 asiatic, 3 european, 7 african, 46 american and 10 from australia and the pacific, the specialist researcher dr richard andree concluded that 62 were entirely independent of the mesopotamian and hebrew accounts.25 20 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, p. 426. 21 folklore in the old testament, pp. 111-12. 22 new lar

k et. one day the thens announced that before eating any meal people should give them a part of their food as a sign of respect. the people refused and in a rage the thens created a flood which devastated the whole earth. the three great men built a raft, on top of which they made a small house, and embarked with a number of women and children. in this way they and their descendants survived the deluge.28 in similar fashion the karens of burma have traditions of a global deluge from which two brothers were saved on a raft.29 such a deluge is also part of the mythology of viet nam, where a brother and a sister are said to have survived in a great wooden chest which also contained two of every kind of animal.30 several aboriginal australian peoples, especially those whose traditional homela

ained two of every kind of animal.30 several aboriginal australian peoples, especially those whose traditional homelands are along the tropical northern coast, ascribe their origins to a great flood which swept away the previous landscape and society. meanwhile, in the origin myths of a number of other tribes, the cosmic serpent yurlunggur (associated with the rainbow) is held responsible for the deluge.31 there are japanese traditions according to which the pacific islands of oceania were formed after the waters of a great deluge had receded.32 in oceania itself a myth of the native inhabitants of hawaii tells how the 26 reported in charles berlitz, the lost ship of noah, w. h. allen, london, 1989, p. 126. 27 world mythology, pp. 26-7. 28 ibid, p. 305. 29 folklore in the old testament, p

s 192 world was destroyed by a flood and later recreated by a god named tangaloa. the samoans believe that there was once an inundation that wiped out almost all mankind. it was survived only by two human beings who put to sea in a boat which eventually came to rest in the samoan archipelago.33 greece, india and egypt on the other side of the world, greek mythology too is haunted by memories of a deluge. here, however (as in central america) the inundation is not viewed as an isolated event but as one of a series of destructions and remakings of the world. the aztecs and the maya spoke in terms of successive suns or epochs (of which our own was thought to be the fifth and last. in similar fashion the oral traditions of ancient greece, collected and set down in writing by hesiod in the eigh

as necessary, 33 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 460, 466. 34 c. kerenyi, the gods of the greeks, thames& hudson, london, 1974, pp. 226-9. 35 ibid. 36 world mythology, pp. 130-1. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 193 and climbed into it with pyrrha. the king of the gods caused mighty rains to pour from heaven, flooding the greater part of the earth. all mankind perished in this deluge, save a few who had fled to the highest mountains. it also happened at this time that the mountains of thessaly were split asunder, and the whole country as far as the isthmus and the peloponnese became a single sheet of water. deucalion and pyrrha floated over this sea in their box for nine days and nights, finally landing on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disemba

ound in the hollow of his hand a tiny little fish which begged him to allow it to live. taking pity on it he put it in a jar. the next day, however, it had grown so much bigger that he had to carry it to a lake. soon the lake was too small. throw me into the sea, said the fish [which was in reality a manifestation of the god vishnu] and i shall be more comfortable. then he warned manu of a coming deluge. he sent him a large ship, with orders to load it with two of every living species and the seeds of every plant, and then to go on board himself. 39 manu had only just carried out these orders when the ocean rose and submerged everything, and nothing was to be seen but vishnu in his fish form now a huge, one-horned creature with golden scales. manu moored his ark to the horn of the fish and

les. manu moored his ark to the horn of the fish and vishnu towed it across the brimming waters until it came to rest on the exposed peak of the mountain of the north :40 the fish said, i have saved thee; fasten the vessel to a tree, that the water may not sweep it away while thou art on the mountain; and in proportion as the waters decrease thou shalt descend. manu descended with the waters. the deluge had carried away all creatures and manu remained alone.41 with him, and with the animals and plants he had saved from destruction, began a new age of the world. after a year there emerged from the waters a woman who announced herself as the daughter of manu. the couple married and produced children, thus becoming the ancestors of 37 the gods of the greeks, pp. 226-9. 38 world mythology, pp

ax muller, cited in atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 87. 41 ibid. see also folklore in the old testament, pp. 78-9. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 194 the present race of mankind.42 last but by no means least, ancient egyptian traditions also refer to a great flood. a funerary text discovered in the tomb of pharaoh seti i, for example, tells of the destruction of sinful humanity by a deluge.43 the reasons for this catastrophe are set out in chapter clxxv of the book of the dead, which attributes the following speech to the moon god thoth: they have fought fights, they have upheld strifes, they have done evil, they have created hostilities, they have made slaughter, they have caused trouble and oppression [therefore] i am going to blot out everything which i have made. this ear

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m leave to ask a favour; he wishes for a son, and they create him one much in the same way as kvasir was engendered (p. 902, conf. 1025n. ovid s fasti 5, 495 535. hyginus 195 relates the same fable of the thracian byrseus. in the beautiful legend of philemon and baucis (ovid's met. 8, 626 721, jupiter and mercury are travelling, and reward their kind entertainers by saving them from the impending deluge (p. 680; a fable of phaedrus makes the divine messenger alone, the god of roads and highways, pass the night with mortals (mercurium, hospitio mulieres olim duae illiberali et sordido receperant. but demeter also is at times represented as travelling and associating with men, as would be natural for all mothers of gods; aesop in fab. 54 makes demeter travel with a swallow and an eel, but wh

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n proceeds from the haunch of the primeval bull kayomer. 2 ymir, i.e, orgelmir, begot thru&gelmir, and he bergelmir. 3 the meaning of mffr has not been ascertained; elsewhere it stands for culeus, tuba, here it is supposed to be a mill-chest. the ohg. ludara f. means a cradle (graff 2, 201) as well as pannus, involucrum (swaddling-baiid, and this would fit remarkably well, as some accounts of the deluge do make the rescued child float in its cradle. true, snorri speaks not of a child, but of a grown-up giant, who sits in the luftr with his wife; this may be a later version [slav, lot is shallow basket, trough, tray] 4 snorri at all events conceived the earth to be round, he says p. 9: hon er kringlott utan, ok)?ar utan urn liggr hinn diupi siar. so in the lucidarius: disu 560 ceeationj who

the heroes, why, isco or askr may have bran dished them too. one remembers too those wood-wives and fays, who, like the greek meliads and dryads, had their sole power of living bound up with some particular oak or ash, and, unlike the tree-born man, had never got wholly detached from the material of their origin. then, a creation out of stones is recorded in the story of deucalion, whom after the deluge hermes bade throw stones behind his back: those that he threw, all turned into men, and those that his wife pyrrha threw, into women. as in the edda, after the great flood comes a new creation; only in this case the rescued people are themselves the actors.2 even the jews appear to have known of a mythical creation out of stones, for we read in matth. 3, 9: on, svvarai, 6 0eo9 e/c twv \i6av

and bones of another giant brimir. all this has to do with the black elves alone, and must not be extended to the light ones, about whose origin we are left in the dark. and other mythologies are equally silent. it. is important and interesting to get a clear view of the grada tion and sequence of the several creations. that in the edda giants come first, gods next, and then, after an intervening deluge, garly spoken of as one whose father got drowned on the apple (or nut) tree_ also, not to have sprung from an oak-stem, etner s unw. doct. 585. min gof 1st au niid abbem nossbom aba choh, and my dad didn t come off the nut-tree, tobler 337b, who wrongly refers it to the christmas-tree. 1 homer s phrase is: chat from oak or rock, as youth and maiden do. trans " as deucalion and pyrrha c

brazen race that zeus intended to destroy in the great flood from which deucalion and pyrrha were saved, and this fits in with the scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffusion among the most diverse nations of the earth gives a valuable insight into the nature of these myths. 1* from the sons of grod having mingled with the daughters of men sprang robbers and wrongdoers; and it repented jehovah that he had made man, and he said he would destroy everything on earth. but noah found favour in his eyes, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter ther

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

d him and pyrrha his wife. zeus then sent a mighty rain, so that hellas was flooded, and the people perished. nine days and nights deucalion floated on the waters, then landed on parnassus, and offered sacrifice to zeus; we have seen how this couple created a new generation by casting stones. plutarch adds, that when deucalion let a dove out of the ark, he could tell 1 buttmann on the myth of the deluge, p. 21. 2 conf. the annolied 308 seq, which brings the bavarians from armenia. 3 all this in buttmann, pp. 24-27. 578 ceeation. the approach of storm by her flying back, and of fair weather by her keeping away. lucian (de dea syria, cap. 12. 13) calls him tov ztcvoea (the scythian; if that sprang out of, 1 it may have long had this altered form in the legend itself. some branches of the gre

n the shape of a fish have i delivered you; 1 ckt9ea from cict9ea is buttmann s acute suggestion; but he goes farther, taking this sisythes or sisuthros to be sesothris, sothis, seth; and noah to be dionysos, and a symbol of water. 2 buttm. p. 45 seq, who connects it with okeanos and ogenos. 3 it is remarkable, that in a beautiful simile, therefore without names or places, homer depicts a kind of deluge, ii. 16, 384: cbs 5 vwb xcuxcttti tracra kexalvrj fiefipide "xq&v ij/j,ar otrwpo y, ore xa^porarov x^ i $8w/&gt; zeus, ore 77 p dvdpecrcrt /careercrd/u.ei os xaxetttji y, o? f3iri elv dyopfj cr/coxtas kpivucrt $eytucrras, k 5e 5uc?7i&gt; exao-wm, de&v 8iriv ovk. fuvvdei se" re py even as crouches the darkening land, overcrowed by the tempest, all on a summer s day, when jo

re py even as crouches the darkening land, overcrowed by the tempest, all on a summer s day, when jove doth the down-rushing water suddenly pour, and wreak his wrath on the proud men, men of might, who sit dealing a crooked doom in the folkmote, forcing justice aside, unheeding of gods and their vengeance (rivers swell, etc) and the works of man are all wasted. 4 bopp s die siindflut, berl. 1829. deluge. 579 now shall manus make all creatures, gods, asuris and men, and all the worlds, things movable and immovable. and as he had spoken, so it was done. in the bhagavatam, satydvratas (supra, p. 249) takes the place of manus, vishnus that of brahma, and the facts are embellished with philosophy. the indian myth then, like the teutonic, makes the deluge precede the real creation, whereas in th

ursery tale of the small all-powerful turbot or pike, who gradually elevates a fisherman from the meanest condition to the highest rank; and only plunges him back into his pristine poverty, when, urged by the counsels of a too ambitious wife, he desires at last to be equal with god. the bestowal of the successive dignities is in a measure a creation of the different orders.1 one more story of the deluge, which relates the origin of the lithuanians, deserves to be introduced.2 when pramzimas the most high god looked out of a window of his heavenly house (like wuotan, p. 135) over the world, and perceived nothing but war and wrong among men, he sent two giants wanda and weyas (water and wind) upon the sinful earth, who laid all things waste for twenty nights and days. looking down once 1 con

e stones cast by deucalion and pyrrha; and the rainbow, of the bible account, except that here it is intro duced as a person, instructing the couple what to do, as hermes (the divine messenger) did deucalion. it were overbold perhaps to connect the nutshell with that nut-tree (p. 572-3, by which one vaguely expresses an unknown extraction. not all, even of the stories quoted, describe a universal deluge desolating the whole earth: that in which deucalion was rescued affected greece alone, and of such accounts of partial floods there are plenty. philemon and baucis in phrygia (where noah s ark rested, p. 577, had given shelter to the wayfaring gods, and being warned by them, fled up the mountain, and saw themselves saved when the flood rose over the land (ovid. met. 8, 620; they were change

n going away, dropt one of his gloves in the cradle. he had not left the city long, when he heard a noise and lamentation; he thought of turning back to look for his glove, but the town was no longer to be seen, the waters covered the whole plain, but lo, in the midst of the waves a cradle came floating, in which there lay both child and glove. this child he took to the king, who had it reared as deluge. 581 the sole survivor of the sunken city. 1 conf. the story of dold at the end of ch. xxxii. another and older narrative, found even in the british triads, comes much nearer to those given above: when the lake of llion overflowed and submerged all britain, the people were all drowned save dwyvan and dwyvach, who escaped in a naked (sailless) ship, and afterwards repeopled the land. this sh

olktale is given by thiele 1, 227. fresh and graceful touches abound in the servian lay of the three angels sent by god to the sinful world, and the origin of the plattensee or balatino yezero, yuk 4, 8-13 (2nd ed. 1, no. 207. 3 there is above all a dash of german heathenism about the lakes and pools said to have been formed by the streaming blood of giants (deut. sag. no. 325, as the destructive deluge arose from yrmys bipod. it appears to me impossible to refer the whole mass of these tales about the great flood and the creation of the human species to the mosaic record, as if they were mere perversions and dis tortions of it; the additions, omissions and discrepancies peculiar to almost every one of them are sufficient to forbid that. and i have not by a long way exhausted this cycle of

(see suppl: in islands of the eastern archipelago, in tonga and new zealand, among mexicans and caribs there start up ac counts, astonishingly similar and yet different, of creation and the first human pair, of a flood and deliverance, and the murder of a brother.4 1 edw. davies s brit. mythol. 146-7. 2 ibid. 95. 129. villemarque, contes bretons 2, 294. mabinogion 2, 341. 381. 3 sole example of a deluge- story among slavs, by whom cosmogonic ideas in general seem not to have been handed down at all. 4 w. von humboldt s kawisprache 1, 240. 3, 449. majer s mythol. taschenb. 2, 5. 131. chapter xx. elements. from gods, half-gods and heroes, from the whole array of friendly or hostile beings that, superior to man in mind or body, fill up a middle space betwixt him and deity, we turn our glance

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

g these 1 reckon the folk -tale mentioned on p. 429, of the ring which the swan will drop from his mouth: it sounds altogether antique, and possibly harks back to the notion of the world-ring, p. 794. to the destruction of the world by fire, which heathens and christians 3 look forward to as future, stands opposed that by water which the histories of both represent as past. the burn ing, like the deluge (pp. 576 81, is not to destroy for ever, but to purify, and bring in its wake a new and better order of things (see suppl. 1 ohg. antitago, suonotac, suonotago, tuomistac, tuomtac, stuatago (goth, stauadags; mhg. endetac, suenetac, tuomtac; os. the lazto dag? domdag, domesdag, as. domdceg, engl. dooms-day, on. domsdagr. 2 in leyden s complaynt p. 98 is actually mentioned a story, the tayl o

-^o? ulphilas gives the fern, retro, he says air]?a reirdida; os. ertha biuoda, hel. 168, 23; ohg. erda bibinota, 0. iv. 34, 1, and the subst. erdpipa, erdbibunga, erdgiruornessi. reinardus 1, 780 puts in juxtaposition: fnec tremor est terrae, judiciive dies; and servian songs( ili grmi, il se zemlia trese? does it thunder, or does the earth shake (vuk 2, 1. 105. but the earth s quaking, like the deluge, is oftener represented as a past event, and is ascribed to various causes. the greek fable accounts for it by imprisoned cyclops or titans (ov. met. 12, 521; the norse by the struggles of chained loki when drops of poison fall upon his face (saem. 69. sn. 70, or by fafnir s journey to the water (fornald. sog. 1, 159. 160. the earth also quakes at the death of certain heroes, as heimir (for

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island people all wiped aout between v'yages. seems the other islanders had got wind o' what was goin' on, and had took matters into their own hands. s'pose they must a had, after all, them old magic signs as the sea things says was the only things they was afeard of. no tellin' what any o' them kanakys will chance to git a holt of when the sea-bottom throws up some island with ruins older'n the deluge. pious cusses, these was- they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. in some places they was little stones strewed abaout- like charms- with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs. folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like thing

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

y by h.p. lovecraft written january 1921 published november 1921 in the wolverine, no. 11: 3-15. when i drew nigh the nameless city i knew it was accursed. i was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar i saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see. remote in the desert of araby lies the nameless city, crumbling and inarticulate, its low walls nearly hidden by the sands of uncounted ages. it must have been thus before the first stones of memphis we

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island people all wiped aout between v'yages. seems the other islanders had got wind o' what was goin' on, and had took matters into their own hands. s'pose they must a had, after all, them old magic signs as the sea things says was the only things they was afeard of. no tellin' what any o' them kanakys will chance to git a holt of when the sea-bottom throws up some island with ruins older'n the deluge. pious cusses, these was- they didn't leave nothin' standin' on either the main island or the little volcanic islet excep' what parts of the ruins was too big to knock daown. in some places they was little stones strewed abaout- like charms- with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika naowadays. prob'ly them was the old ones' signs- folks all wiped aout no trace o' no gold-like thing

ISIS UNVEILED

erf man in egyptian soak rf iht dtad penecution of templan by the cburch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not the "ineffable nanw' 398 chapter ix -the vedas and the bible ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man and the deluge in the hiadh books 425 antiquity of the mancient egyptians of the aryan race? 434 skmnel. david, and solomon mythicsl powmages 439 ^mbcjiam of noah's ark 447 "nie patriaichs identical with sodiacal signs 459 ad biue legends bdong to univenal history 4c9 chapter x the devil-myth itw devil officially recognised by the church 477 sktan tbe mainstay of sacmdolalism 480 id

of christianity but little distinction was nude be- tween christ, bacchus, apouo, and the hindfi krishna, tlie incarnation of vishnu, with whose first avatar this symbol of the fish originated. in the hari'purdna, in the bhdgavata-purdna, as well as in several other books, the god vishnu is shown as having assumed the form of a fish with a human head in order to reclaim the vedar lost during the deluge. having enabled vaivasvata to escape with all his tribe in the ark, vi^nu, pitying weak and ignorant humanity, remained with them for some time. it wa4 this god who taught them to build houses, culti- vate the land, and to thank the unknown deity whom he represented, by building temples and instituting a regular worship; and as he remained half-fish, half-man all the time, at every sunset h

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sts itself in it as the mask in which alone it can be possible. thus, material light being the very opposite of god, the egyptians who were undoubtedly acquainted with the fire-revelation could not represent god as light. they therefore expressed their idea of deity by darkness. their chief adoration was paid to darkness. they bodied the eternal forth under darkness. in the early times before the deluge, of which phenomenon, as there remains a brighter or fainter tradition of it among all the peoples of the globe, it must be true, man walked with the knowledge of spirit in him. he has derogated, through time, from this primeval, god-informed type. knowledge of good and evil, or the power of perceiving difference, became his faculty, with his power of propagation, only in his fallen state

us beliefs constituting that which is called gnosticism. 270 the rosicrucians. concerning the pillars of seth (see fig. 237, josephus asserts that no. 1 was existent in his time. it is a caba- fig. 232. signature or talisman of the jaina kings: also gnostic. fig. 233. india. fig. 234. talisman: the four elements. fig. 235. wizard s foot: pentalpha, listic tradition that no. 2 was destroyed in the deluge. notice also their resemblance to the phallus or phallos, lingam or lingham. lithoi= ll-th-oi. alpha l omega u bringer ch x lux fer- fero lucifer: the day-star, morning star. lucifera: an epiphet of diana. fig 236. figs. 239, 240, represent, under different aspects, the armed abraxas, the chief deity of the gnostics. in fig. 239 fig. 237. pillars of seth. fig. 238 (1) osiris, bhidd (2) thus

ters of men. ceci est la lettre m me du texte sacr. or, ces g ants ientdes hommes de grande stature, comme qu il est dit dans baruch, chap. 3, versei 26, et de beaucoup sup rieurs aux autres hommes. outre cette taille monstrueuse, ils se signalaient encore par leur force, leurs rapines, leur tyrannie; aussi est-ce aux crimes des g ants qu il convient d attribuer la cause premiere et principale du deluge, suivant corn lius lapide, dans son commentaire sur la gen se. ces animaux incubi spirits capable of incorporating themselves and of borrowing forms to effect their purpose without alarming asserted to be an essential rosicrucian tenet ces animaux naitraient-ils dans le p ch originel, et auraient-ils rachet s par le seigneur christ? la gr ce leur serait-elle confer e, et par quels sacrement

y rare, and bears the following title: antiqvitatvm ivdaicarvm (libri ix) in q is, pr ter ivd e, hierosolymorum, et templi salomonis accuratam delineationem, pr cipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur (auctore benedicto aria montano hispalensi. adiectis formis neis. lvgdani batavorum. ex officina planteniana apud franciscum raphelengium 1593. the ark of noah-the medium of escape from the deluge, and the mythic means of the perpetuation of the human family (afterwards race. the post-diluvian signs of the zodiac are here correctly designated as in number" twelve" let the judicious reader remark that twelve times thirty are three-hundrecl-and-sixty, which is not the number of the degrees of this symbolical plan. there are twelve divisions in this ark. the centre space is that through

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tions of weather, that is. we hope that you will give very special thought to the world-wide scope of some of these intense and violent storm periods. there are many cases where storms and floods which inundated a considerable part of our own country have been almost universal in their action. this tends to hint the entrance of the earth into a large cosmic cloud of water and debris sufficient to deluge most of the areas in both northern and southern hemispheres together. the volume of water falling and the concomitants of mud, black rain, stones, etc, indicate unity of external origin. there are some cases where the distribution of violence follows restricted belts of terrestrial latitude, so that one thinks of the rotation of the earth as carrying successive longitudes into the disturban

coincidnents" some chemical gardening practiced in arks& d ships not too much, at last report. 74 in symons meteorological magazine, for 1889, it is said that the annual fall of rain, at norfolk, england, is about twenty-nine inches, and that is not a dry or desert locality. but mr. symons points out that volumes of water up to twenty-four inches fell from may 25,to 28 in new south wales and of a deluge much greater, thirty-four inches, which engulfed hong kong on may 29 and 30. in the united states, one inch of rain a day is a big fall and two inches is a flood. a normal thunder shower can bring from one-eighth to one-half inch of rain water. mr. symons called attention to these two splashes which were a couple of thousand miles or more apart, and posed the question of whether they were m

t. the little brooklet had a drainage basin not over a half a mile long, but it was a river that day in march. so i remember 1913 and the news from dayton the last dispatch "dayton in total darkness no power" meteorology was not as advanced in 1913 as it is today, but it was a lusty infant and weather forecasting was not wholly undeveloped. but there was no warning to farmers about the protracted deluge. it surprised the scientists as well as the layman. on march 23, 24, and 25, a watery sky sat on the catskills and adirondacks. it slipped and ripped its pants on a peak, and rivers invaded the streets of troy and albany. lampposts disappeared and furniture floated against the ceilings of rooms. in new jersey something called a "cloudburst" grabbed factories and made a mess of them, clutter

he island of grenada three hundred miles away. and in the island of dominica, masses of water broke windows and roofs. mud fell in tons. rivers burped with the detachables of the island: trees, cattle, houses, people. other nations and islands were hit by masses of water. colombia and salvador were among them. beginning on october 10, and continuing until the catastrophe at saint kitts, there was deluge after deluge on the earth in one zone of latitude, the north tropical area. it seemed that a swarm of meteoric lakes must have gotten in the way of a rotating earth. to most of us such a thing "just could not be. but it did happen, and it is doubtful if meteorologists have ever assembled all of the data on that series of floods. maybe it was not as general as the world-wide deluge of 1913

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by his hand from a sod of clay. and what is wrought by his hand may yet be undone if you would hear. noah, you shall be avenged and now pay heed how it shall be. adonai yahweh has resolved to destroy all things that live upon the earth that do take breath from the wind save those that he does choose to spare. lo! the lord of hosts shall throw open the cataracts and release upon the earth a great deluge, drowning all the land beneath the swollen seas. in this you, noah, prophet of god, must aid us, the elohim hosts, for our power alone cannot pierce 250 to the earth beneath heaven to release the gates beneath the seas so that the mountains' peaks might be submersed beneath the waves. to you shall i teach the invocation by which this end might be wrought. before this is done, noah, that you

rn of his own treachery and malice 269 that had not dwindled but grown darker yet "hail noah, son of lamech" spoke the prince of heaven "this number of beasts have i brought to you that you might gather them and bring them to the ship you built. now that it is prepared there is no reason to make further delay but to equip the ship and load up the beasts to their cells. we can thus bring about the deluge more swiftly and for a briefer period will the creation of god be compelled to bear the burden of mankind's sin. make haste then noah to load up your boat and tell your family to prepare to sail though the desert sands be all about so that the rains might be summoned soon and the sin of man be washed from the earth thus defeating satan and evil crew. though you are wearied by those toils th

ming comets, ignited by the blazing hooves of moloch. thus were elohim destroyed completely. even as the last of heaven's host was lost beneath the swollen waters a great wind blew up from the east and for some three hours howled its all, scattering to flight the heavy rain clouds and unveiling the blue of the sky. now from the ships went up a cheer that the foe had been vanquished and that great deluge was now ended. for seven days did the waters recede, flowing back to their hidden reservoirs. first did the mountains' heights appear as the waters receded from them and then, the tides falling back and back in constant ebb as once they had flowed great, the mountain-sides and hills then the valleys and the plains revealed themselves to the sight of those that went upon the ships and they r

inks and he is broken, temuchin, slayer of millions, he that eclipsed methuselah, lay dying in his tent. his armies were greater than alexander's 367 yet he conquered not the sword of death. temuchin died. now went the sons of temuchin westward, following the sun's path. none withstood them, mecca or rome. terrible is the tartars' wrath. never had there been such an empire since the waters of the deluge ebbed. the histories are written with blood for ink. time passes and empires pass away. as once she retreated to the east now retired rome to the west. shalem and byzant were lost to the cross and the crescent was over them. now spain went with thunder across the sea and silenced forever the songs of the incas. could you, iberia, make gold of the blood that you poured out? gabriel moved the

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the old customs and religion as well as their purity of race. nearly four thousand years after the arrival of the indians, there arose in egypt certain prophets who foretold a great flood, so the clan in a body took ship across the red sea and found a refuge among the mountains of arabia. 63. in 9,564 b.c. the prophecy was fulfilled; the island of poseidonis sank beneath the atlantic ocean in the deluge mentioned in the timaeus of plato; at the same time the land rose and made the sahara desert where a shallow sea had been before, and a vast tidal wave swept over egypt, so that almost its entire population was destroyed. even when everything settled down, the country was a wilderness, bounded on the west no longer by a peaceful sea but by a vast salt swamp, which as the centuries rolled on

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

didate was crowned with myrtle, clothed in the sacred robes, exhorted to have courage, and then led through dark caverns amid the howling of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparitions to his sight. after three days and nights of this kind of experience, he was laid on a couch in a solitary cell; there was a sudden crash of waters, typifying the deluge, and the murder of dionysus was enacted, his limbs being scattered on the waters. then, amid lamentations, commenced the search of rhea for the remains of dionysus, and the apartments were filled with shrieks and groans, accompanied by the frantic dances of the corybantes. suddenly the body was found, the scene changed to one of joy, and the aspirant was released from his confinement. after

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red to as pralaya, is symbolically represented by the image of a primordial ocean. pralaya the night of brahma during which the creator is said to sleep lasts as long as a day of brahma, or another 4,320,000,000 years. at the end of this night, the cosmos is recreated. lesser dissolutions recur at the end of every mahayuga. the dissolution of the cosmos into pralaya is not to be confused with the deluge and the accompanying universal flood that occurs fourteen times each kalpa at the end of temporal periods called manvantaras, or manu-intervals. the events of each kalpa recur exactly during each day of brahma. each brahma, in turn, lives 100 years that are constituted by 360 days of brahma very longlived indeed! furthermore, successions of different brahmas become the building blocks for e

tting his tandava dance as he pleases, the blessed pinaka-bearer [shiva] whose nature is light burns up the orb of the egg of brahma [i.e, the manifested cosmos. then, while the gods brahma, vishnu and the pinaka-bearer alone remain, the earth, with all her properties, dissolves into the waters (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 44) finally, the air fills with great clouds that rain down a ferocious deluge until the world perishes in watery darkness. to cite heinrich zimmer s evocative description from his classic myths and symbols in indian art and civilization, the ultimate elements melt into the undifferentiated fluid out of which they once arose. the moon, the stars, dissolve. the mounting tide becomes a limitless sheet of water. this is the interval of a night of brahma (zimmer 1946, 3

LIBER LVII

ways death. tyj. the chariot of the secret of the universe. tyf. she who rules the secret force of the universe. dwy. the secret of the gate of initiation [k. in the whirlings is war. dml. by equilibrium and self-sacrifice, the gate \ym. the secret is hidden between the waters that are above and the waters that are beneath (symbol, the ark containing the secret of life borne upon the bosom of the deluge beneath the clouds) wn. initiation is guarded on both sides by death ]ms. self-control and self-sacrifice govern the wheel. yo. the secret of generation is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurre

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

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stains his views by noting that the deities of the greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more ancient original fabricators. the garden of eden from which humanity was driven by a flaming sword is perhaps an allusion to the earthly paradise supposedly located west of the pillars of hercules and destroyed by volcanic cataclysms. the deluge legend may be traced also to the atlantean inundation, during which a "world" was destroyed by water, was the religious, philosophic, and scientific knowledge possessed by the priestcrafts of antiquity secured from atlantis, whose submergence obliterated every vestige of its part in the drama of world progress? atlantean sun worship has been perpetuated in the ritualism and ceremonialism of

uler would have permitted his royal name to suffer such indignities. as the most eminent authorities on the subject are still uncertain as to the true meaning of these crude markings, whatever proof they might be that the building was erected during the fourth dynasty is certainly offset by the sea shells at the base of the pyramid which mr. gab advances as evidence that it was erected before the deluge--a theory substantiated by the much-abused arabian traditions. one arabian historian declared that the pyramid was built by the egyptian sages as a refuge against the flood, while another proclaimed it to have been the treasure house of the powerful antediluvian king sheddad ben ad. a panel of hieroglyphs over the entrance, which the casual observer might consider to afford a solution of th

hey then cast the box into the nile, down which it floated to the sea. plutarch states that the date upon which this occurred was the seventeenth day of the month athyr, when the sun was in the constellation of scorpio. this is most significant, for the scorpion is the symbol of treachery. the time when osiris entered the chest was also the same season that noah entered the ark to escape from the deluge. plutarch further declares that the pans and satyrs (the nature spirits and elementals) first discovered that osiris had been murdered. these immediately raised an alarm, and from this incident the word panic, meaning fright or amazement of the multitudes, originated. isis, upon receiving the news of her husband's murder, which she learned from some children who had seen the murderers makin

ound herself to the realms of pluto. the fruit here signifies the sensuous life which, once tasted, temporarily deprives man of immortality. also on account of its vast number of seeds the pomegranate was often employed to represent natural fecundity. for the same reason, jacob bryant in his ancient mythology notes that the ancients recognized in this fruit an appropriate emblem of the ark of the deluge, click to enlarge the sunflower. from kircher's magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum. the above diagram illustrates a curious experiment in plant magnetism reproduced with several other experiments in athanasius kircher's rare volume on magnetism. several plants were sacred to the ancient egyptians, greeks, and hindus because of the peculiar effect which the sun exerted over them

ed beneath the continents and oceans of the modern world, have frequently been symbolized as rocks supporting upon their broad surfaces new lands, races, and empires. according to the scandinavian mysteries, the stones and cliffs were formed from the bones of ymir, the primordial giant of the seething clay, while to the hellenic mystics the rocks were the bones of the great mother, g a. after the deluge sent by the gods to destroy mankind at the close of the iron age, only deucalion and pyrrha were left alive. entering a ruined sanctuary to pray, they were directed by an oracle to depart from the temple and with heads veiled and garments unbound cast behind them the bones of their mother. construing the cryptic message of the god to mean that the earth was the great mother of all creatures

nd there a man lying on a golden bedstead; he was very stately and beautiful in appearance, and his head and beard were white as snow. then alexander and his princes bent the knee to the sage who spake thus 'alexander, thou shalt now see what no earthly man hath ever before seen or heard' to whom alexander made answer 'o, sage, most happy, how dost thou know me' he replied 'before the wave of the deluge covered the face of the earth i knew thy works' he added 'wouldst thou behold the most hallowed trees of the sun and moon, which announce all future things' alexander made answer 'it is well, my lord; greatly do we long to see them "then the sage said 'put away your rings and ornaments, and take off your shoes, and follow me' and alexander did so, and choosing out three from the princes, an

abet above is its equivalent in english. above each letter of the other three alphabets is its hebrew letter equivalent. next: freemasonic symbolism sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 173 freemasonic symbolism in several early masonic manuscripts--for example, the harleian, sloane, lansdowne, and edinburgh- kilwinning--it is stated that the craft of initiated builders existed before the deluge, and that its members were employed in the building of the tower of babel. a masonic constitution dated 1701 gives the following naive account of the origin of the sciences, arts, and crafts from which the major part of masonic symbolism is derived "how this worthy science was first begunne, i shall tell. before noah's flood, there was a man called lameck as it is written in the 4 chap. of

nnott burn with fire, and the other was called laturus [brass, thatt cannott drown in the water" the author of this constitution there upon declares that one of these pillars was later discovered by hermes, who communicated to mankind the secrets thereon inscribed. in his antiquities of the jews, josephus writes that adam had forewarned his descendants that sinful humanity would be destroyed by a deluge. in order to preserve their science and philosophy, the children of seth there fore raised two pillars, one of brick and the other of stone, on which were inscribed the keys to their knowledge. the patriarch enoch--whose name means the initiator--is evidently a personification of the sun, since he lived 365 years. he also constructed an underground temple consisting of nine vaults, one bene

ed to his father by the most high. in the form and arrangement of these vaults enoch epitomized the nine spheres of the ancient mysteries and the nine sacred strata of the earth through which the initiate must pass to reach the flaming spirit dwelling in its central core. according to freemasonic symbolism, enoch, fearing that all knowledge of the sacred mysteries would be lost at the time of the deluge, erected the two columns mentioned in the quotation. upon the metal column in appropriate allegorical symbols he engraved the secret reaching and upon the marble column placed an inscription stating that a short distance away a priceless treasure would be discovered in a subterranean vault. after having thus faithfully completed his labors, enoch was translated from the brow of mount moriah

four horses lived harmoniously together, which is in accord with the principles of the philosophers, who declared the world to be preserved by the concord and harmony of its elements. in time, however, the racing horse of jupiter burned the mane of the horse of earth; the thundering steed of neptune also became covered with sweat, which overflowed the immovable horse of vesta and resulted in the deluge of deucalion. at last the fiery horse of jupiter will consume the rest, when the three inferior elements--purified by reabsorption in the fiery ether--will come forth renewed, constituting "a new heaven and a new earth" when the fifth seal was opened st. john beheld those who had died for the word of god. when the sixth seal was broken there was a great earthquake, the sun being darkened an

tradition, 2,000 years before the creation of the world the caaba was first constructed in heaven, where a model of it still remains. adam erected the caaba on earth exactly below the spot in heaven occupied by the original, and selected the stones from the five sacred mountains sinai, al-jud, hir, olivet, and lebanon. ten thousand angels were appointed to guard the structure. at the time of the deluge the sacred house was destroyed, but afterward was rebuilt by abraham and his son ishmael (for details see a dictionary of islam. it is probable that the site of the caaba was originally occupied by a prehistoric stone altar or ring of uncut monoliths similar to those of stonehenge. like the temple at jerusalem, the caaba has undergone many vicissitudes, and the present structure does not an

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nd expresseth the simplicity and the unity of the nature divine, which abel having invoked, he deserved to escape from the hands of cain his brother. book one page 25 i conjure ye by the name tetragrammaton elohim, which expresseth and signifieth the grandeur of so lofty a majesty, that noah having pronounced it, saved himself, and protected himself with his whole household from the waters of the deluge. i conjure ye by the name of god el strong and wonderful, which denoteth the mercy and goodness of his majesty divine, which abraham having invoked, he was found worthy to come forth from the ur of the chaldeans. i conjure ye by the most powerful name of elohim gibor, which showeth forth the strength of god, of a god all powerful, who punisheth the crimes of the wicked, who seeketh out and

e sovereign god, we shall accomplish all our work. the key of solomon page 28 come ye at once without any hideousness or deformity before us, come ye without monstrous appearance, in a gracious form or figure. come ye, for we exorcise ye with the utmost vehemence by the name of iao and on, which adam spake and heard; by the name el, which noah heard, and saved himself with all his family from the deluge; by the name iod, which noah heard, and knew god the almighty one; by the name agla, which jacob heard, and saw the ladder which touched heaven, and the angels who ascended and descended upon it, whence he called that place the house of god and the gate of heaven; and by the name elohim, and in the name elohim, which moses named, invoked, and heard in horeb the mount of god, and he was foun

name sepheriel, by which god will come to universal judgment, like a prince newly crowned entering in triumph into his capital city, girded with a zone of gold, and preceded by angels, and at his aspect all climes and parts of the universe shall be troubled and astonished, and a fire shall go forth before him, and flames and storm shall surround him; and by the name tau, by which god brought the deluge, and the waters prevailed above the mountains, and fifteen cubits above their summits; and by the name ruachiah, by which god having purged the ages, he will make his holy spirit to descend upon the universe, and will cast ye, ye rebellious spirits, and unclean beings, book one page 31 into the depths of the lake of the abyss, in misery, filth, and mire, and will place ye in impure and foul

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. they met no resistance fromthe disoriented and weakened inhabitants of the earth who believed their visitors werepowerful gods.some theorists, like the energetic erich von daniken, have also determined that therewas a great intergalactic war between two (or possibly more) extraterrestrial forces ina neighboring galaxy or solar system. the result of this titanic war had enormous con-earths first deluge6atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sequences for the earth because, it is postulated, the losers on being pursued into oursystem pretended to take refuge on tiamat. they even erected a makeshift radar-typestation there to decoy their pursuers. however, the defeated ones had really taken ref-uge on planet earth, not on tiamat. upon their arrival, they almost immediately wen

unto him, tell me what it is that is falling upon the earth that it is in such evil plight andshaken(book of enoch)and the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as if it were alampand the name of the star is called wormwood; and many men died of the water ,because they were made bitter (rev 8:7 9:1) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation7 earths first deluge and the fourth angel sounded and a third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of themoon and the third part of the stars, so as the third part of them was darkened (rev 8:7 9:1)and i beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loudvoice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth (rev 8:7 9:1) for this they are willingly ignorant of..the world t

themoon and the third part of the stars, so as the third part of them was darkened (rev 8:7 9:1)and i beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loudvoice, woe, woe, woe, to the inhabitants of the earth (rev 8:7 9:1) for this they are willingly ignorant of..the world that then was, being overflowed withwater, perished (2 peter 3:5) celtic records also speak of the deluge: i have been in the bark of dylan, son of the wave, when the waters rose as lances, fallingdown from the skies, into the exposed abyss (book of taliesin) the indians of lake missoula, washington, have in their myths the following account: one summer morning the people were startled by a rumbling and a shaking of theearththen the sun was blotted outterrified people ran to the hills to get aw

up from their caves and their coming up required several days.the earth was at this time very small and the light as scanty as it had been down below, forthere was as yet no heaven, nor sun, nor moon, nor stars. from teutonic legends:earth sinks in the sea, the sun turns black, cast down from heaven are the hot stars,fumes reek, into flames burst, the sky itself is scorched with fireearths first deluge8atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation from maverick catastrophist and researcher comyns beaumont, we read: the flood, to the world generally a vague and nebulous tradition, really conceals the mostappalling visitation and its ravages in the british isles and scandinavian lands may beretraced to more considerable extent by the effects of what geologists term the drift age.it w

issions of the fallengods in their strange chariots were also witnessed and recorded. these recordsremain today though many believe them to be mere fairy tales: more than 30,000 written documents from all over the world tell of advanced beings whoeither came to earth or who were already living on earth (jack barranger, past shock) atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation9 earths first deluge now as i looked upon the living creatures, i saw four wings upon the ground, one by each ofthe living creatures, with their four faces. the appearance of the wheels and their composi-tion was like the color of shiny amber: and all four wings had one likeness: and their compo-sition was like a wheel in the middle of a wheel (book of ezekiel)lets consider just a few of the strange references

he tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, andstood at the door of the tabernacle, and the lord talked with moses. and all the people sawthe cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,every man in his tent door (exodus 33:9)then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the landwhither they went (john 6: 21) earths first deluge10atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and from the ancient aryans and hindus we have:he boarded the aerial vehicle with khara which was decorated with jewels and the faces ofdemons and it moved with noise resembling the sonorous clouds. so ravana and maricha boarded the aerial vehicle resembling a palace (vimana) from thathermitage. then the demoness brought the puspaka aeri

hat is, the visitors, were generally moral and good, and that theirarrival here was generally a good thing for the earth. this writer finds it difficult toaccept this theory in its entirety. it is just as reasonable to assume, as the ancient textsadvocate, that these visitors, being so remorselessly pursued, were immoral, negativeatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation11 earths first deluge beings, who had perhaps contributed to the corruption of their own home planet andwho were finally being expunged. there is a great deal of information coming out ofthe ancient legends that convinces this writer that the visitors, for all their intellectualacumen and technological expertise, were morally corrupt, without spiritual sensibili-ties of any kind. these alien, criminal renegades

n image, or any likeness of anything that is in heavenabove, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is under the water of the earth (exodus 20:4)in edward bulwer-lyttons book, the coming race, he describes the existence ofadvanced beings living in tunnels and caverns beneath the surface of the earth. herefers to these beings as the ana, saying they were forced below because of earthearths first deluge12atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation changes and a flood which destroyed their civilization thousands of years before thebiblical cataclysm. in david ickes children of the matrix, we read: thirty-six underground cities have been discovered in cappadocia so far and some are hugecomplexes going down eight levels. the ventilation systems are so efficient that even eightfloors

ngs who live near the stars (from uriel s machine by christopher knight and robertlomas) in celtic mythology, the tuatha de danaan, a powerful tribe of druid warriors,descended into the underworld through what are called the sidhes. we could fill vol-umes with the references of alien visitation in connection with the hollow earth.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation13 earths first deluge these accounts of the ancients have been dismissed for centuries and often ridiculedand misunderstood. for instance, the visitors are sometimes described to be fantasticin aspect, sometimes as having two heads or faces. but this description is compre-hensible when we realize that it refers to a face inside a space helmet, which appearedto our ancestors as two faces or heads. the men of bras

and tribes that were shaken asunder by the recentcelestial catastrophe. nearly all the native cultures of the earth record the visitation ofstrange and advanced individuals possessed of miraculous powers. an interestinganecdote which repeats throughout the ancient records and accounts is that the beingswho visited the various countries were never numerically many. the records say thatearths first deluge14atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation they appeared in groups of three or four members. the fact that the visitors were ofsuch a small number is suggestive that they were actually contingents of a larger masscentered elsewhere, that they were on reconnaissance missions, and that were datagatherers and ambassadors sent out to the corners of the globe. the strangers couldknit

rstand how god could so cruelly visit the world.and from comyns beaumonts the riddle of prehistoric britain: the prehistory of the atlanteans and the race of adam possessed peculiar similarities. thesupermen of plato s island were drowned in a flood like the adamites, the giants of old time,men of renown, the men whose thoughts became wholly evil, destroyed in what is called theflood or universal deluge. the cause advanced for their destruction was in effect the samein both cases, they being accused of having mastered too many of the divine secrets of, as weshould say, science, as the ancients named it, the gods.the world falls dead38atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the indians of lake tahoe, california say:there was a time when their tribe possessed the whole earth and

, the picture is everywhere one of appalling disorder, carnage and wholesaledestruction, with countless animals and plants frozen in positions of death ever since the daythey perished. as a result, their remains are amazingly fresh-looking and are frequentlyindistinguishable from those of animals and plants that have died mere weeks ago. the magnitude of the biological extinctions achieved by the deluge almost transcends theimagination. it annihilated literally billions of biological units of both sexes and every ageindiscriminately. only incredibly powerful flood waters operating world-wide could haveachieved such results, and only a flood produced by the means previously suggested couldhave operated globally..it is astonishing that such an unscientific explanation ever came to be formula

ry herald the shift to a newparadigm,made necessary by the collapse of the first paradigm(colin renfrew, beforecivilization)when we hear of the coming of the angels of the lord to humans, like manu (india),satyaravata (india, khasistra (india, yima (iran, noah (semetic, deucalion(greece, dwyfan (wales, nuada (ireland, bergelmir (scandinavia, coxcox (mex-ico, and nata (aztec) warning of the coming deluge, we must understand that it ismembers of the sons of the serpents who brought the warnings and not, as isbelieved, the representatives of jehovah.records of blood and stone52atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation53 chapter 8i shall reverse the worldnow if we are to answer the question of how evil has really come into the wor

n the magnetism of the earth. as a result, theearth deviated on its normal orbit and upset the movement of other neighboring plan-ets and bodies. the course variations allowed debris from the previously destroyedplanet, tiamat, to re-enter the roche field where it fell to earth, again causing havoc.much of this effluence was salt water from the once vast oceans of tiamat, thus caus-ing the second deluge of prehistory. these global cataclysms caused the polar axis toalter, resulting in the great pole shift that destroyed almost all the flora and fauna onthe planet. this event is universally recorded and is now scientifically confirmed (seewhen the earth nearly died) i shall reverse the world54atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the warlocks of atlantis, who were never many

feelas disturbed by their conscience and seek to suppress it in a variety of ways. and whatgoes on within the individual manifests collectively. the inner predicament has itsenvironmental concomitant. the post-diluvian empires, nations, and states aredesigned from the atlantean pattern. all the abhorrent phenomena that plaguesearthly life today have their origins in these times. after the second deluge (pole shift, the roles of the genders changed. the proclivitiesof the male became exalted and women slowly suffered the removal of their powerand status. aggression, violence, and conquest became dominant. meat eating(unheard of in the pre-diluvian epoch) was necessary during the times of tribulationand was later maintained. class divisions were established, slavery was again pro-moted, blo

currences that not only shaped the earth but that impactedhumans physiologically and psychologically. moreover, the elitist world of sciencehas brought its fury to bear on the lives, careers, and advancement of their detractors,genius mavericks, and revisionists, such as immanuel v elikovsky, ignatius donnelly,and comyns beaumont. edmund halley was the first scientist to account for the bibli-cal deluge by polar displacement: when he first argued his case before the royal society of london in 1692, the revelation wasso startling that his paper was not published until 30 years after (larry brian radka,astrononomical revelations) those diligent scholars who have done their homework jettisoned the ice age the-ory as completely untenable. since 1995, the science is in proving that there was ne

ne to the firstcreation. surely, this would be less misery to the wretch. god condemns eternally andhis mortal creations suffer interminably for the slightest moral deviation or infraction?so we ask, who is evil, the one who acts it out, or the one who created the propensityin the first place? does it not seem strange that the god who promised to take care of all his people andnever bring another deluge would be so conspicuously absent during all the subse-quent horrors of history? so it goes on and on throughout the bible text. no wonder that pliny the y oungerwhen asked by the emperor trajan about christianity replied that it was a..degenerate sort of cult taken to extravagant lengths.i do not believe in the creed professed by the jewish church, by the roman church, by thegreek church, b

power-ful but must, from the evidence, have affected the entire world (p. 9)obviously, any near-approach to the earth of a massive celestial object possessing high electro-mag-netic potential would, through slowing or halting earths rotation and generating tidal friction, greatlyincrease the natural level of earths thermal energy (p. 186)the magnitude of the biological extinctions achieved by the deluge almost transcends the imagination.it annihilated literally billions of biological units of both sexes and every age indiscriminately. onlyappendix b: book abstracts168atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation incredibly powerful flood waters operating worldwide could have achieved such results, and only aflood produced by the means previously suggested could have operated globall

instituted,and completely different oceanic and atmospheric circulatory regimes were established (p. 263)and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and everybondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains.the flood watersinevitably, the inhabitants of high latitudes experienced the most massive rising of the deluge waters asthey became piled up into a gargantuan water mountain submerging all land. salvation in arks andother floating refuges was the sole means of escape for those communities (p. 303)the phaeton disaster proper marked the singlemost momentous point in intelligent humanitys historyso far the deluge of global tradition representing our most abiding memory of itcan surely nolonger be doubt

ts solar orbit and, having doneso, began to heat upjust as tiamat had been previously (p. 227) as phaetons influence began to wane, earths rotational speed started to increase again, although theplanet generally still continued to suffer the calamities outlined in our explanation (p. 255) the phaeton disaster proper marked the single most momentous point in intelligent humanitys historyso far the deluge of global tradition representing our most abiding memory of it can surely nolonger be doubted (p. 341)louis agassizin regards the coming of the ice age:he failed to explain why there had been a lowering of the temperature in the first place, merely allud-ing vaguely to some sort of climatological change (p. 24)despite these shortcomings, agassizs hypothesis won rapid acceptance in geologica

the delugeafter the phaeton upheaval, peoples diet differed appreciably from that which had prevailed previously.in genesis, there is more than a hint that antediluvian man was vegetarian:and god said, behold, i have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be your meat.following the deluge, genesis states-and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. appendix b: book abstracts174atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation that dead meat was i

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ty, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. and as for the jews and muslim s, they pretty much echo the bible s version of events. and of coarse you have the aforementioned noah, whose family survived a massive flood in a boat with 2 of every animal, released birds to indicate the presence of dry land, and landed on a mountain. did humanity have a collective bad dream? did a deluge of biblical proportions (forgive me) leave an imprint so deep that none were left unscaved? how did the traditions of so many civilizations who never made contact come to contain so many corresponding details? even minor, seemingly trivial ones! imagine it, you arrive to a crime scene and start the investigation by talking to witnesses. and although i d hate to make the truth a popularity c

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is entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislature, nor judge, to be hereditary" it is a volume of truth and wisdom, a lesson for the study of nations, embodied in a single sentence, and expressed in language which every man can understand. if a deluge of despotism were to overthrow the world, and destroy all institutions under which freedom is protected, so that they should no longer be remembered among men, this sentence, preserved, would be sufficient to rekindle the fires of liberty and revive the race of free men. but, to _preserve_ liberty, another must be added "that a free state does not confer office as a reward, especially for q

ient personages alone returned with the british just man, hu, from the dale of the grievous waters. there were seven heliad, whose father helias, or the sun, once crossed the sea in a golden cup; seven titans, children of the older titan, kronos or saturn; seven corybantes; and seven cabiri, sons of sydyk; seven primeval celestial spirits of the japanese, and seven karfesters who escaped from the deluge and began to be the parents of a new race, on the summit of mount albordi. seven cyclopes, also, built the walls of tiryus. celsus, as quoted by origen, tells us that the persians represented by symbols the two-fold motion of the stars, fixed and planetary, and the passage of the soul through their successive spheres. they erected in their holy caves, in which the mystic rites of the mithri

nto the greek tongue, and laid up in the private recesses of the egyptian temples. these pillars were found in subterranean caverns, near thebes and beyond the nile, not far from the sounding statue of memnon, in a place called syringes; which are described to be certain winding apartments underground; made, it is said, by those who were skilled in ancient rites; who, foreseeing the coming of the deluge, and fearing lest the memory of their ceremonies should be obliterated, built and contrived vaults, dug with vast labor, in several places. from the bosom of egypt sprang a man of consummate wisdom, initiated in the secret knowledge of india, of persia, and of ethiopia, named thoth or phtha by his compatriots, taaut by the phoenicians, hermes trismegistus by the greeks, and adris by the rab

from the dead, and commence to ascend to the northward. then the death of sita was bewailed; or that of cama, slain by iswara, and committed to the waves on a chest, like osiris and bacchus; during which the candidate was terrified by phantoms and horrid noises. then he was made to personify vishnu, and perform his avatars, or labors. in the first two he was taught in allegories the legend of the deluge: in the first he took three steps at right angles, representing the three huge steps taken by vishnu in that avatar; and hence the three steps in the master's degree ending at right angles. the nine avatars finished, he was taught the necessity of faith, as superior to sacrifices, acts of charity, or mortifications of the flesh. then he was admonished against five crimes, and took a solemn

practice of prayers and ablutions, and living only on vegetables. he was then said to be born again. the fourth was absolute renunciation of the world, self-contemplation and self-torture; by which perfection was thought to be attained, and the soul merged in the deity. in the second degree, the initiate was taught the unity of the godhead, the happiness of the patriarchs, the destruction by the deluge, the depravity of the heart, and the necessity of a mediator, the instability of life, the final destruction of all created things, and the restoration of the world in a more perfect form. they inculcated the eternity of the soul, explained the meaning of the doctrine of the metempsychosis, and held the doctrine of a state of future rewards and punishments: and they also earnestly urged tha

t length, restored to life, and seated upon a throne. he was obligated upon a naked sword (as is still the custom in the _rit moderne, and _sealed_ his obligation by drinking mead _out of a human skull. then all the ancient primitive truths were made known to him, so far as they had survived the assaults of time: and he was informed as to the generation of the gods, the creation of the world, the deluge, and the resurrection, of which that of balder was a type. he was marked with the sign of the cross, and a ring was given to him as a symbol of the divine protection; and also as an emblem of perfection; from which comes the custom of giving a ring to the aspirant in the 14th degree. the point within a circle, and the cube, emblem of odin, were explained to him; and lastly, the nature of th

very nearly simultaneous in their heliacal rising. thus the stars of bo tes rose in the east immediately after vindemiatrix, and as if under the genial influence of its rays; he had his annual career of prosperity; he revelled orientally for a quarter of a year, and attained his meridian altitude with virgo; and then, as the stars of the water-urn rose, and aquarius began to pour forth his annual deluge, he declined westward, preceded by the ark of osiris. in the east, he was the sign of that happiness in which nature, the great goddess of passive production, rejoiced. now, in the west, as he declines toward the northwestern horizon, his generative vigor gradually abates; the solar year grows old; and as his stars descend beneath the western wave, osiris dies, and the world mourns. the anc

believed that the earth had sustained one general destruction by water; and would again be destroyed by fire. they admitted the doctrines of the immortality of the soul, a future state, and a day of judgment, which would be conducted on the principle of man's responsibility. they even retained some idea of the redemption of mankind through the death of a mediator. they retained a tradition of the deluge, perverted and localized. but, around these fragments of primitive truth they wove a web of idolatry, worshipped two subordinate deities under the names of hu and ceridwen, male and female (doubtless the same as osiris and isis, and held the doctrine of transmigration. the early inhabitants of scandinavia believed in a god who was "the author of everything that existeth; the eternal, the an

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

houses, and other useful arts of civilization. but the human race became in the course of time so degenerate that the gods resolved to destroy all mankind by means of a flood; page 22 deucalion [22](son of prometheus) and his wife pyrrha, being, on account of their piety, the only mortals saved. by the command of his father, deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife took refuge during the deluge, which lasted for nine days. when the waters abated the ship rested on mount othrys in thessaly, or according to some on mount parnassus. deucalion and his wife now consulted the oracle of themis as to how the human race might be restored. the answer was, that they were to cover their heads, and throw the bones of their mother behind them. for some time they were perplexed as to the meaning

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

the end of time, all will be purified, and as in norse mythology a fresh, new creation will arise. the flood just as many mythologies look forward to the destruction of this world in a catastrophe, such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myt

sun, nahui ollin, was made by the gods at teotihuacan (just north of modern mexico city, which was also the birthplace of the gods themselves. the stone is not a fully-functioning calendar; the complex aztec calendar was based on a 52-year cycle known as the calendar round, which reconciled the concurrent 260-day and 365-day years. noah and the flood noah s ark rides the flood after the biblical deluge, in a wood-engraving from the nuremberg bible of 1483. god decided to destroy humanity because of its wickedness, but warned the pious noah of the coming flood, and told him to build the ark and take on board two of every living creature. after the ark had grounded on mount ararat, god sent the rainbow as a symbol of his covenant never again to destroy the creatures he had made. noah lived

omen. this woman then takes the lead in the celebratory feast that night. she is said to hold the power of creation and of life and death, and be the mother of the buffaloes. the buffalo dance by george catlin (1794-1872) this painting shows the mandan indians, who lived on the upper missouri river, performing part of the annual okeepa ceremony. it celebrated the subsiding of the waters after the deluge in the mandan flood myth; lone man was the only survivor, landing his big canoe on a high mountain to the west, where he still lives. if the ceremony was not performed, the mandan believed the flood would rise again to destroy the human race once more. lone man i n the beginning, says the native american mandan creation myth, the earth was covered in water, and darkness reigned. then first

d his wife, rukmini. that lakshmi can be incarnated twice in the krishna story and that other avatar stories exist is indicative of the way in which myths grow, appropriating elements from different sources at different times, often resulting in a varying versions of a common theme. matsya, the fish vishnu s first avatar was matsya the fish, a form he took to protect manu, the first man, from the deluge. when manu found the tiny fish, it told him, look after me, and i will look after you. but then the fish grew too large, so manu released it into the sea. then the fish warned him that there was going to be a flood, and told him to build an ark. when the flood came, the fish grew a horn, to which manu fastened his ship, using ananta, the world snake, as a rope, and the fish towed him to saf

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

facing west. hierophant goes to the west before the tablet of water. all face west- members arranging themselves in balanced disposition, facing west <119> hiero (knocks) let us rehearse the prayer of the undines or water spirits! terrible king of the sea, thou who holdest the keys of the cataracts of heaven, and who enclosest the subterranean waters in the cavernous hollows of earth. king of the deluge and of the rains of spring. thou who openest the sources of the rivers and of the fountains; thou who commandest moisture which is, as it were, the blood of the earth, to become the sap of the plants. we adore thee and we invoke thee. speak thou unto us, thy mobile and changeful 180 the golden dawn: volume 11 book two creatures, in the great tempests, and we shall tremble before thee. speak

were scattered- and perpetual hills did bow. his ways are everlasting. i saw the tents of cushan in affliction and the curtain of the land of midian did tremble. was the lord displeased against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea that thou didst ride upon thy horses and chariots of salvation? thou didst cleave asunder the earth with the rivers. the mountains saw thee and they trembled. the deluge of waters rolled by. the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high. the sun and the moon stood still in their habitations. at the light of thine arrows they went- at the shining of thy glittering spear. thou didst march through the land in indignation. thou didst thrash the heathen in thine anger. thou didst march through the sea with thy horses- through the depth of the mighty

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

es was corrupted by the persian magians by a various mixture of foreign idolatry. this was borrowed chiefly from the sabeans, whose religion had been diffused over asia, by the science of the chaldeans, and the arms of the assyrians. of this people, the author above quoted says "the flexible genius of their faith was always ready, either to teach or to learn; in the tradition of the creation, the deluge and the patriarchs, they held a singular agreement with their jewish captives; they appealed to the secret books of adam, seth, and enoch; and a slight infusion of the gospel has transformed the last remnant of the polytheists, into the christians of s. john, in the territory of bassora" it is not within the scope of this work to trace with precision, the relation existing between the moder

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

ascendeth from earth to heaven, and again it descendeth from heaven to earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest become unto men a mirror of the living god in his works, a fount of life and ablution of sins. prayer of the undines dread king of the sea, who hast the keys of the floodgates of heaven and dost confine the waters of the underworld in the caverns of earth; king of the deluge and the floods of the springtime; thou who dost unseal the sources of rivers and fountains; thou who dost ordain moisture, which is like the blood of earth, to become the sap of plants: thee we adore and thee the invoke! speak unto us, thine inconstant and unstable creatures, in the great tumults of the sea, and we shall tremble before thee; speak unto us also in the murmur of limpid waters

t instructing it how to rise upward, is not this condemning us to descend ourselves? and hence we have stooped to the reign of the carmagnola, the sanscullotes and marat. to restore tottering and distracted society, the hierarchy and initiation must be again established. the task is difficult, but the whole intelligent world feels that it is necessary to undertake it. must we pass through another deluge before succeeding? we trust earnestly not, and this book, perhaps the greatest but not the last of our the ceremonial of initiates 57 audacities, is an appeal unto all that is yet alive for the reconstitution of life in the very midst of decomposition and death. 58 chapter x the key of occultism let us now examine the question of pantacles, for all magical virtue is there, since the secret

thus making known the law of attraction; subsequently the cherub or sphinx placed at the gate of the edenic sanctuary, with the fiery sword of the guardians of the symbol; then regeneration by labour and propagation by sorrow, which is the law of initiations and ordeals; the division of cain and abel, which is the same symbol as the strife of anteros and eros; the ark borne upon the waters of the deluge like the coffer of osiris; the black raven which does not return and the white dove which does, a new setting forth of the dogma of antagonism and balance. all these magnificent kabalistic allegories of genesis, which, taken literally and accepted as actual histories, merit even more derision and contempt than voltaire heaped upon them, become lumithe key of occultism 59 nous for the initia

darkness. next came the reign of anael, the spirit of venus, on 24 june, in the year of the world 354, when love began to be the instructor of mankind; it created the family, while the family led to association and the primitive city. the first civilizers, were poets inspired by love; presently the exaltation of poetry produced religion, fanaticism and debauchery, culminating subsequently in the deluge. this state of things continued till 25 october, being the eighth month of the year a.m. 708, when the reign of zachariel, the angel of jupiter, was inaugurated, under whose guidance men began to acquire knowledge and dispute the possession of lands and dwellings. it was also the epoch of the foundation of towns and the extension of empires; its consequences were civilization and war. the n

m, urim and thummim, the primeval genesis of the zohar and of william postel, the mystical wheel of ezekiel, the rota of the kabalists, the tarot of magi and bohemians. the invention of arts began, and navigation was attempted for the first time; relations extended, wants multiplied and there folthe science of the prophets 127 lowed speedily an epoch of general corruption, preceding the universal deluge, under the reign of samael, angel of mars, which was inaugurated on 26 june, a.m. 1417. after long exhaustion, the world strove towards a new birth under gabriel, the angel of the moon, whose reign began on 28 march, a.m. 1771, when the family of noah multiplied and re-peopled the whole earth, after the confusion of babel, until the reign of michael, angel of the sun, which commenced on 24

RUBY TABLET OF SET

and political framework. the nile flows for more than 4,000 miles, creating along its length a prosperous oasis. ah! but my land, my kem which you have come to learn about, stretches for only 750 miles between the mighty first cataract at aswan and ther great green (what you call the mediterranean sea. and, my friends, kem is called "the gift of the river. each year the ethiopian rains flow in a deluge, pushing swiftly northward across the land, and only the towns remain above the water. thus, every summer, the land is irrigated; hopefully not too well, for flooding creates havoc- nor too low, for famine can easily invade us if the life-giving waters do not reach deeply into the farm lands. our three seasons are determined by the gods- and by the nile's temperament! june through september

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

s, every one of them having had endless forms of government; and if we can ascertain [determine] the cause of these changes in states, that will probably explain their origin. what do you think of ancient traditions about deluges [floods] and destructions of mankind, and the preservation of a remnant [remainder? every one believes in them. then let us suppose the world to have been destroyed by a deluge. the survivors would be hillshepherds, small sparks of the human race, dwelling in isolation, and unacquainted [unfamiliar] with the arts and vices [bad behaviors] of civilization. we may further suppose that the cities on the plain and on the coast have been swept away, and that all inventions, and every sort of knowledge, have perished [been destroyed- after the great destruction we may i

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

artificer, and the materials, to other hands, were but herbs and bronze. so is it ever with thy works and wonders, o genius, seeker of the stars! words themselves are the common property of all men; yet, from words themselves, thou architect of immortalities, pilest up temples that shall outlive the pyramids, and the very leaf of the papyrus becomes a shinar, stately with towers, round which the deluge of ages, shall roar in vain! but in that solitude has the presence that there had invoked its wonders left no enchantment of its own? it seemed so; for as viola stood in the chamber, she became sensible that some mysterious change was at work within herself. her blood coursed rapidly, and with a sensation of delight, through her veins, she felt as if chains were falling from her limbs, as i

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between religious traditions. on the north american continent, the christian missionaries were intrigued to discover that tribe after tribe across the length and width of the continent had legends and myths which closely paralleled so many of the accounts found in genesis and in other books of the old testament. the delaware, to cite only one example, told the story of the creation and the great deluge in pictographs. some missionaries dealt with the mystery in the same manner that the early spanish priests who accompanied the conquistadores had dealt with the aztec myths that told stories similiar to those found in the bible they declared that the native people had been told these stories by satan. in a study of the aboriginal peoples of the united states written by a theologian in the l

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sly on the outside windowsill. such pranks the abbe could bear with much more patience than the time the invisible invader dumped every one of his books on the floor. only the holy scriptures remained on the shelves. the most vicious attack on the clergyman occurred once when he knelt at his fireplace stirring the coals, preparatory to placing new kindling on the andirons. without warning, a huge deluge of water rushed down the chimney, extinguishing the fire, blinding the abbe with flying sparks, and covering him with ashes. the tutor woefully concluded that such actions could only be the work of his satanic majesty, the devil. the only other person who actually suffered physical pain dealt out by the haunting phenomena was mme. de x, who was in the act of unlocking a door when the key su

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or wat was intermittently inhabited by buddhist monks, and the former hindu temple subsequently became a destination for buddhist pilgrims from all over the world. m delving deeper ingpen, robert, and philip wilkinson. encyclopedia of mysterious places. new york: barnes& noble, 1999. mt. ararat according to genesis 8:4, after seven months and 17 days afloat in the ark upon the waters of the great deluge that destroyed all life on earth, noah, his family, and his massive living cargo of livestock came to rest upon the mountains of 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 216 places of mystery and power angkor wat is the main temple in northern cambodia (klaus aarsleff/fortean picture library) ararat, near the headwaters of the euphrates river

wickedness of humans and was determined gto end all flesh. h he called on noah, whom god deemed a just man, and told him to build a large barge with three interior decks. the barge was to be constructed of wood and sealed with bitumen. its length was to be 300 cubits (about 450 feet, its width 50 cubits (about 75 feet, and its height 30 cubits (about 45 feet. the ark would be able to survive the deluge through which god would wipe out life. the ark held noah fs family.his wife, their three sons, and the sons f wives.and at least two animals from every species to populate the earth again. all the food needed for their survival was provided for them. the ark and its inhabitants survived the deluge by sailing on the floodwaters, and all aboard returned to the land to repopulate the earth aft

ll those aboard disembarked safely is not mentioned in the bible. questions persist about where the ark finally landed. the bible cites the mountains of ararat, which could designate a region (then known as armenia) or a specific mountain peak. some biblical scholars locate it in kurdistan, an area that encompasses mt. ararat and parts of present-day turkey and iran. the babylonian account of the deluge in the epic of gilgamesh names mt. nisir in that region. after the ark came to rest, according to the gilgamesh epic, pilgrims would scrape off bitumen (a sealant against water) and make charms of it to guard against witchcraft. most evidence and sightings are based on locations on mt. ararat. as the christian religion spread in the first century, the christians of apamea, in phrygia, built

the former soviet union, expeditions up the mountain intensified during the 1990s. previously, expeditions were considered a security threat by the soviet government because the region bordered the former soviet union. the search for noah fs ark continues, as do questions concerning how best to understand the story of noah and the ark: should the bible fs description of the ark, the extent of the deluge, and the capability of lodging every species of animal and bird be taken literally, or is the message most important? the deluge occurred, according to the bible, because god had become disgusted with the wickedness of humankind. those searching for the ark with the hope of making great profits probably missed that most enduring legacy of the story, a moral that persists regardless of wheth

ish pursuits above the greater good. they began invading other lands with the idea of world domination. angered by these developments, poseidon set about destroying the civilization, battering the continent with earthquakes and floods until atlantis was swallowed up by the ocean. that description of the destruction of atlantis has been linked by some to other cataclysmic events.stories of a great deluge in the bible, the epic of gilgamesh, and flood myths in other societies. some contend that the end of the ice age between 12,000 and 10,000 b.c.e. likely resulted in rises of water levels in various parts of the world and that earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and climate changes, either incidental or associated with the ice age, occurred during the time identified with the destruction of at

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

proof of it is the enthusiasm of our children, who mean, one day, to be also soldiers of the old guard! napoleon is no more a man: he is the very genius of france, he is the second saviour of the world, and he also gave for a sign the cross to his apostles. st. helena and golgotha are the beacons of the new civilization; they are the two piles of an immerse bridge made by the rainbow of the final deluge, and which throws a bridge between the two worlds. and can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? could you think that the spur of a tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother's womb "go on! go on" said the v

merely submit to you that the institution of the hierarchical infallibility in matters of dogma is reasonable in quite another sense, and far more incontestably true than all the miracles of the world. besides, what sacrifices ought one not to make in order to preserve peace! believe me, john huss would have been a greater man if he had sacrificed one of his eyes to universal concord, rather than deluge europe with blood! o sir! let the church decide when she will that i have but one eye; i only ask her one favour, it is to tell me in which eye i am blind, in order that i may close it and look with the other with an irreproachable orthodoxy "i admit that i am not orthodox in your fashion "i perceive that clearly. but let us come to the miracles! you have then seen, touched, felt, tasted th

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

our own generation at the turn of the millennium. for crowley is surely no less relevant for our own generation. perhaps most importantly, he provides some telling insights into the contemporary preoccupation with sexuality, which now saturates society through media, television and advertising. as angus mclaren "today's media, while claiming to be shocked by the subversiveness of carnal desires, deluge the public with explicit sexual imagery to sell everything from calvin klein jeans to black and decker power drills."cxix thus, as foucault argues, it may not be the case that we in the modern west have liberated sex in any radical way; but what we have done is to intensify our discourse about sex, arguing and fantasizing about it as an endless source of titillation. at the same time, we ha

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

base the age of the stratum on the objects found within, and also the age of the artifacts on the type of stratum in which they lie, then we are dealing with a catch-22 type of dating system wherein any theoretical date could be applied. and usually the stratum are aged based on the assumption that they took millions or billions of years to accumulate, rather than on the possibility that a global deluge and cataclysm might have accounted for many of the layered deposits and their artifacts. which would open up the possibility of humans and saurians having existed contemporaneously with each other before the deluge. scientists consider alligators, crocodiles, iquanas and kimodo dragons to be relative descendants of the earlier saurians. however these "saurians" survived, and if this is the

most frequently reported ufonauts resemble reptilian or amphibian humanoids may be because that is exactly what they are, highly evolved members of a serpentine or semi- aquatic species. a provocative theory is that the dinosaurs didn't really vanish, they 'evolved' into a humanoid creature that eventually ran it's course, or was destroyed in an atlantis- type catastrophe (i.e. such as the great deluge- although steiger and others may hold to an 'evolutionary' hypothesis, this may not necessarily be the case, especially when the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the laws of entropy are brought to bear. instead of 'evolving' from a far less complex form, it is in fact far more likely that the serpent race mutated via atrophication, natural selection, environmental adaptation, survival of the f

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