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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

n adj, and denotes impius sk. 44, 22; afgudei impietas, eom. 11, 26; eihwxa he translates by galiuga (figmenta, 1 cor. 5, 10. 10, 20. 28, or by galiiicjaguda, 1 cor. 10, 20; and elhtoxeiov by galiuge staos, 1 cor. 8, 10. another n.h.g. expression gotze i have discussed, gramni, 3, 694; luther has in deut. 12, 3' die gotzen ihrer goiter, making gotze rridolum. in er. alberus fab. 23, the gotz is a demigod (see suppl. the o.n. language distinguished the neut. goff idolum from the masc. gud' deus. snorri 119 says of sif' it harfagra gos' the fairhaired god; i do not know if a heathen would have said it. in curses and exclamations, our people, from fear of desecrating the name of god, resort to some alteration of it? poiz wetter! potz tausend! or, kotz tausend! mz wunder! instead of gottes; bu

ther world, bewailed by all; nothing can fetch him back, and nanna the true wife follows him in death. in saxo, all is pitched in a lower key: balder and hother are rival suitors, both wooing nanna, and hother the favoured one manages to procure a magic sword, by which alone his enemy is vulnerable; when the fortune of war has wavered ions; between them, hother is at last victorious and slays the demigod, to whom hel, glad at the near prospect of possessing him, shews herself beforehand. but here the grand funeral pile is prepared for gelder, a companion of balder, of whom the account in the edda knows nothing whatever. the worship of the god is attested chiefly by the fri5]?iofssaga, v, eornald. sog. 2, 63 seq (see suppl. baldr, gen. baldrs, reajdpears in the ohg. proper name paltar (in m

kol deov a-vvoerov, o fxr)tid dvopcotro'i earl, iii^re 6eolucian in dial, mortuor. 3, yet so that the human predominates' ita tamen ut plus ab liomine habeat' says servius on aen. 1, 200. the hero succumbs to pains, wounds, death, from which even the gods, according to the view of antiquity, were not exempt (p. 318. in the hero, man attains the half of deity, becomes a demigod, semideus: rj fi t6 eo) v yeva avspcov, ii. 12, 23; avhpwv i)pu)(dv delov 7ew9, dl koxkoviai rjfjbloeoi, hes. py. 159. jornandes applies semidei to the anses (supra p. 25, as saxo gram, pronounces balder a semidcum, arcano superum semine procreatum. otherwise in ojsr. writings we meet with neither halfgos nor halfas^ but n. cap. 141 renders hemithei heroesque by' halhkota unde erdkota (ear

l hero irmino is not to be distinguished from this god irmin, as hermino in tacitus is from arminius? so from thiod, regin, were formed the names thiodo, ilegino. it would be harder to show any such relation between ing and ingo, isc and isco; but i think i can suggest another principle which will decide this point: wlien races name themselves after a famous ancestor, this may be a deified man, a demigod, but never a purely divine being. there are ingaevones, iscaevones, herminones, oescingas, scilfingas, ynglingar (for ingingar, volsungar, skioldungar, niflungar- as there were heracleidae and pelopidae, but no wodeningas or thunoringas, though a wodening and a kronides. the anglo-saxons, with woden always appearing at their head, would surely have borne the name of wodeningas, had it been

as, ynglingar (for ingingar, volsungar, skioldungar, niflungar- as there were heracleidae and pelopidae, but no wodeningas or thunoringas, though a wodening and a kronides. the anglo-saxons, with woden always appearing at their head, would surely have borne the name of wodeningas, had it been customary to take name from the god himself. nations do descend from the god, but through the medium of a demigod, and after him they name themselves. a national name taken from the highest god would have been impious arrogance, and alien to human feeling. as lower saxony, especially westphalia, was a chief seat of the irmin-worship, we may put by the side of widukind's account of hirmin a few other traces of his name, which is not even yet he greek aspirate corresponds a teutonic s, not h: o, 17 sa

t have suggested a haxon hcvenring, as the rainbow is called the ring of lieaven. an old as. name for orion, ehuriyrung, ehirtsring, seems somehow connected, es2)ecially with the luwsring above. 360 heroes. one another. now, either the legend has made the two friends change places, and transferred irmin's way to iring, or iring (not uncommon as a man's name too.,trad. fuld. 1, 79) is of himself a demigod grown dim, who had a way and wain of his own, as well as irniin. only, irmin's worship seems to have had the deeper foundations, as the image of the irmansul sufficiently shows. as the name of a place i find iringcs 'pure (burg, mb. 7, 47. 157. 138. 231. iringisperc (berg) 29, 58. up to this point i have refrained from mentioning some norse traditions, which have a manifest reference to th

rant, j>rimumque omnium virorum fortium ituri in proelia canunt, germ' kaiserchr. 285: sin j:;ecelt liiez cr slalien do uf oiiiiii lifir dor heizit swero \on dem berge iswcro sint t>ie allc gchcizeu swabo. fur swlto read iiwevo (see suppl. 364 heroes. 3. speaking of sacrifices in cap. 9, after mentioning ^lercuring first, he immediately adds: herculem ac martem concessis animali- lus placant, the demigod being purposely put before even mars, chapter 34 tells us of the ocean on the coast of the frisians, then says: et superesse adhuc ilerculis columnas fania vulgavit, sive adiit hercules, sen quidquid ubique magnificum est, in claritateni ejus referre consensimus. nee defuit audentia druso germanico, sed obstitit oceanus in se simul atque in herculem inquiri. mox nemo tentavit, sanctiusque

ntia druso germanico, sed obstitit oceanus in se simul atque in herculem inquiri. mox nemo tentavit, sanctiusque ac reverentius visum de actis deorum credere quam scire. the annals 2, 12 name a' silva hcrcjdl sacra' between the weser and elbe in the land of the cheruscans; while the peutinger table puts a' castra herctdis' near noviomagus (nimwegen. all this means something, it all points to some demigod who is identified, not unadvisedly, with that of the iiomans. hercules, whose deeds were accomplished in countries widely remote, is thouglit to have visited germany also, and the gaditanian pillars at one end of europe have a counterpart in the frisian ocean on another side of it. in the german battle-song the praise of hercules is sounded first, victims are slain to him as to the highest

del, and the two would demand oast. aurvendill, eyrvendill; but if we start with on. orvendill, then as. earendel, ohg. erentil would seem preferable. the latter part of the compound certainly contains entil= wentil^ the first part should> whence did matthesius (in frisch 2, 439) get his" pan is the heathens' jvendel and head bagpiper? can the word refer to the metamorphoses of the' flute-playing demigod l in trials of witches "wendelis a name for the devil, mones anz. y, 124. 376 heroes. be either ora, earo (auris, or else on, or, gen. orvar (sagitta. now, as there occurs in a tale in saxo gram, p. 48, a horveudilus filius gervenclili, and in ohg. a name kerwentil (schm. 2, 334) and gerentil (trad. fuld. 2, 106, and as geir (hasta) agrees better with or than with eyra (auris, the second i

hg. witcgouwe and witege, as. wudga, in either form silvicola, from the goth, vidus, ohg. witu, as. wudu (lignum, silva, leads us to suppose a being passing tlie bounds of human nature, a forest-god. erau wachilt, a mermaid, is his ancestress, with whom he takes refuge in her lake. at the head of the whole race is placed king vilkinus, named after vulcanus as the latin termination shews, a god or demigod, who must have had another and german name, and who begets with the merwoman a gigantic son vadi, as. wada (cod. exon. 323, 1, ohg. wato, so named i suppose because, like another christopher, he waded with his child on his shoulder through the grcenasund where it is nine yards^ and so uhland (on tlior, p. 47 seq) expounds it: in groa lie sees the i;;powth of the crop, in orvandill the spro

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

ess. 83 chapter lxxviii a creed. 1. nothing in the world is more elastic and yielding than water; yet it is preeminent to dissolve things rigid and resistant; there is nothing which can match it. 2. all men know that the soft overcometh the hard, and the weak conquereth the strong; but none are able to use this law in action. 3. a wise man hath said 'he that taketh on the burden of the state is a demigod worthy of sacrificial worship; and the true king of a people is he that undertaketh the weight of their sorrows' 4. truth appeareth paradox. 84 chapter lxxix truth in covenant. 1. when enemies are reconciled, there is always an aftermath of illwill. how can this be useful? 2. therefore, the wise man, while he keepeth his part of the record of a transaction, doth not insist on its prompt ex

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ertain occult wonders concealed in the first part of this text (see liber ccclxx. the solution of the last sentence may depend upon the number of the verse, which is that of mezla, the influx from the highest, and of the book of thoth, or tarot. we may take "thy name" as "the sun, for qabalistic reasons given in the appendix; the verse need not imply the establishment of a new cult with myself as demigod (help) but they shall worship the group of ideas connected with the sun, and the magical formula of the number 418, explained elsewhere. al ii,79 "the end of the hiding of hadit; and blessing& worship to the prophet of the lovely star" the old comment 79. so mote it be! the new comment so mote it be! the third chapter al iii,1 "abrahadabra! the reward of ra hoor khut" the old comment 1. ab

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

d a sorcerer. but the antediluvian giants (the gibborim of the bible) were not all bad or sorcerers, as christian theology, which sees in every occultist a servant of the evil one, would have it; nor were they worse than many of "the faithful sons of the church" a torquemada and a catherine de medicis certainly did more harm in their day and in the name of their master than any atlantean giant or demigod of antiquity ever did; whether his name was cyclops, or medusa, or yet the orphic titan, the anguipedal monster known as ephialtes. there were good "giants" in days of old just as there are bad "pigmies" now; and the rakshasas and yakshas of lanka are no worse than our modern dynamiters, and certain christian and civilised generals during modern wars. nor are they myths "he who would laugh

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

fs are that greed causes suffering, meditation can help the individual achieve peace, and that living beings may be reborn into another life after they die. calligraphy the art of writing chinese words on silk or paper, using a brush and ink. confucianism a code of conduct developed by confucius, a great teacher. this code emphasized obligations of people toward each other and toward their state. demigod a half-human, half-godlike ruler in early legendary chinese mythology who could change shapes at will. dynasty a succession of rulers from the same family. elixir a magical potion that gives special powers to the person who drinks it. i ching translated as the book of changes, it is a book of philosophy as well as a tool for foretelling the future. it tells how to interpret trigrams, or pa

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

le in the religion. it is very common to find that followers of new religious groups, sects, or cults revere the founder as more than human, capable of miracles (or, in the case of anton lavey, curses, etc. with very flattering hagiographies written about the founder s life. they ignore rampant inconsistencies in the founder s professed past and perceive ordinary actions as accomplishments only a demigod could have performed. they are quick to accredit general trends to the founder; for example, on the church of satan web page peter gilmore contributes today s pleasure-oriented culture to anton lavey: indulgence was the watchword chosen by anton lavey when he founded the church of satan in 1966. i think a case may certainly be made that this concept has in the interim made a lasting impact

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

hour as the vampire disappeared for the second time, he was transported to sicily, where he became a school master. aristaeus is again heard of 340 years later in the town of metapontus, where he caused certain monuments to be raised that were to be seen in the time of herodotus. so many wonderful happenings inspired the sicilians with awe, that they raised a temple to him and worshipped him as a demigod. sources: herodotus. the histories of herodotus of halicarnassus. london: oxford university press, 1962. weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. arithmancy divination by means of numbers (sometimes wrongly called arithmomancy. the ancient greeks

e was paid. some roman writers referred to the genius as the god of nature, or nature itself, but their notions seem to have been modified by, if not formed from, etymological considerations more likely to mislead than to afford a clue to the real meaning of the term. at a later period they supposed almost every created thing, animate or inanimate, to be protected by its guardian genius.a sort of demigod who presided over its birth and was its constant companion until death. censorinus, who lived about the middle of the third century, noted: the genius is a god supposed to be attendant on everyone from the time of his birth. many think the genius to be the same as the lars of the ancients. we may well believe that its power over us is great, yea, absolute. some ascribe two genii at least t

FAUST

sures he stirs us on to deeds of might, when he, for lazy, idle pleasures, lays down for us the cushions right! cursed be the grape s sweet juice deceiving! cursed love s supreme, delicious thrall! a curse on hoping! on believing! and cursed be patience most of all! chorus of spirits [invisible. woe! woe! thou hast destroyed the beautiful world, with powerful fist; tis smashed, downward hurled! a demigod dashed it to bits! we re trailing the ruins on to the void, and wailing over the beauty lost and gone! mighty one midst the sons of earth, splendider build it again, build it aloft in thy breast! and life s new quest commence with clearer sense, and songs of cheer anew shalt hear! mephistopheles these are the little folk of those whom i evoke. hark how they to joy and deed sagely bid you t

omen was surrendered. faust upon a true, great man i gaze! who will not hear a word of praise, modestly strives to shut his ears and acts as had he many peers. chiron you are well-skilled, i see, in idle patter, princes and common folk alike to flatter. faust at least confess that you have seen the greatest men that in your time have been. you ve with the noblest vied in earnest strife and like a demigod have lived your life. of all the figures of heroic mould whom as the ablest did you hold? chiron among the argonauts, superb procession! each one was worthy after his own fashion, and by the special power that he possessed, could do what lay beyond the rest. castor and pollux ever did prevail where youthful bloom and beauty turned the scale. in swift resolve and act for others good the son

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

rifices; and the buttered stone (p. 546) may have been smeared for the giantess, not by her, for it was the custom of antiquity to anoint sacred stones and images with oil or fat, conf. p. 63. as to the gude lubbe whose worship is recorded by bp. gebhard (p. 526, his gianthood is not yet satisfactorily made out. fasolt, the giant of storm, was invoked in exorcisms; but here we may regard him as a demigod, like thorgersr and irpa, who were adored in scandinavia (see suppl. the connexion pointed out between several of the words for giant and the names of ancient nations is similar to the agree ment of certain heroic names with historic characters. mythic traits get mysteriously intergrown with historic, and as dietrich and charles do duty for a former god or hero, hungarians and avars are ma

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

e now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which i tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret. no sooner had i crawled beneath the overhanging foliage of the palm, than there dropped from its branches a young child of such beauty as i never beheld before. though ragged and dusty, this being bore the features of a faun or demigod, and seemed almost to diffuse a radiance in the dense shadow of the tree. it smiled and extended its hand, but before i could arise and speak i heard in the upper air the exquisite melody of singing; notes high and low blent with a sublime and ethereal harmoniousness. the sun had by this time sunk below the horizon, and in the twilight i saw an aureole of lambent light encircled the child

ISIS UNVEILED

of the trees. see, her cheeks resuming their color, her eyes, whose lids tremble as if they were about to open; her lips quiver as if about to speak; she is sleeping, i tell you; and hold! see, she moves. kaltaiahl rise and walkl "hardly had krishna spoken, when the breathing, wannth, move- ment and life returned little by little into the corpse, and the young girl, obeying the injunction of the demigod, rose from her couch and re- digitizecoy google 2tt isis dnveiled joined her companioiu. but the crowd marvded and cried out 'this is a god, since death is no more for him than sleep* all such parables are enforced upon christians with the addition ot dogmas which, in their eztraordinaiy character, leave far behind them the wildest conceptions of heathenism. the christians, in order to bel

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

ody at death seems to have developed from earlier notions of divinities of death. such figures are widespread in world culture. in hinduism, for example, yama is the god of the dead. in the earliest vedic texts, yama ruled an afterlife realm not unlike the norse valhalla in which the deceased enjoyed carnal pleasures. as hinduism was transformed in the post-vedic period, yama became a rather grim demigod, who snared the souls of the departed and conducted them to the otherworld. the notion of an angel of death was most fully developed in rabbinical judaism. like yama, the jewish idea of an angel of death developed across time. the biblical emissaries of death were clearly under the direct command of god, as, for example, in 2 samuel: then the angel stretched out his arm toward jerusalem to

stic myth of creation, sophia, one of the good spiritual beings (one of the aeons) residing in the pleroma (the pure spiritual realm, inadvertently creates another entity often called yaldabaoth who creates our familiar world (e.g, refer to the apocryphon of john 2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this evil deity, who is alternately designated the demiurge (a term originally utilized by plato to refer to a demigod who creates the world in the timaeus, also creates the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, the pleroma. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as this evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testa

osticism gnosticism is a term for a broad range of different religious movements. despite this variation, what we might call generic gnosticism is usually described as having an identifiable, coherent ideology that includes such doctrines as the notion that this world, and especially the human body, were the products of an evil deity the demiurge (a term originally utilized by plato to refer to a demigod who created the world in the timaeus) who also created the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings residing in the pleroma, inadvertently created the demiurge. the demiurge then created the cosmos by emanating a

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

agan denmark and the 26 norse mythology second 8, christian denmark. the first books are therefore, like ynglinga saga, set in prehistory, and gods and heroes play a major role that continues down through the ninth book. saxo offered a theory of euhemerism similar to that of snorri, for he says in book 1 that odin was a man falsely believed to be a god. hod has become a human king, but baldr is a demigod, and sometimes saxo seems to be far more interested in the narratives he is recounting than in any theory of euhemerism. saxo tells us he got some of his materials from icelanders, and these materials probably sounded rather like the mythic-heroic sagas. the mythic-heroic sagas are prose with interspersed verse, and saxo adorns his latin prose with verse, often rather ornate but still thou

and have it tear the other to pieces. they suspend a poisonous snake over him, dripping venom. his wife sigyn catches the venom in a pot, but when she goes to empty it the venom falls onto his face, and his writhings cause earthquakes. saxo grammaticus has a rather different story of baldr fs death and the aftermath. hotherus, the foster son of king gevarus, and balderus, the son of othinus and a demigod, have both fallen in love with nanna. hotherus acquires a special sword and a magic ring. nanna refuses balderus on the grounds that demigods and humans are incompatible. hotherus and an ally confront balderus and the gods in a sea battle and gain victory when hotherus slices the handle off thor fs hammer, the gods f major weapon, with his magic sword. hotherus marries nanna. in a subseque

s, and also because i have no weapon. h then loki said to him: gdo as others do and honor baldr as others do. i will show you where he is standing; shoot this stick at him. h hod took the mistletoe and shot it at baldr at loki fs direction. the shot flew through baldr, and he fell dead to the earth. in the gesta danorum of saxo grammaticus the cognate figure hotherus is a human king who, like the demigod balderus, has fallen in love with nanna. hotherus and an ally confront balderus and the gods in a sea battle and gain victory when hotherus slices the handle off thor fs hammer, the gods f major weapon, with his magic sword. hotherus then marries nanna. in a subsequent battle, balderus defeats him. balderus is plagued by dreams of his desired nanna. hotherus is now chosen king of the danes

dottir and says that when she, baldr fs wife, saw his body on the pyre, she gburst from grief h and was placed there alongside him. she accompanied him to hel and sent back with hermod some linen cloth for frigg and a finger ring for fulla, just as baldr returned the ring draupnir to odin. in the gesta danorum of saxo grammaticus, nanna is a human woman, the pivot of a love triangle involving the demigod balderus and the human king hotherus. hotherus gets the girl, and balderus dies, still presumably loving her, killed by hotherus. voluspa, stanza 30, refers to valkyries as gnannas of odin. h i have used a capital letter, as though it were a name, but it is also possible that there was a common noun, nanna, which would have meant something like gwoman. h there is an account of a rus (proba

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

that can be known by intellectual energy, is a god among men" man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. he whose mind is enslaved to his bestial instincts is philosophically not superior to the brute, he whose rational faculties ponder human affairs is a man; and he whose intellect is elevated to the consideration of divine realities is already a demigod, for his being partakes of the luminosity with which his reason has brought him into proximity. in his encomium of "the science of sciences" cicero is led to exclaim "o philosophy, life's guide! o searcher--out of virtue and expeller of vices! what could we and every age of men have been without thee? thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment

f alchemical theorems. evolutionists trace the unfoldment of the arts and sciences up through the growing intelligence of the prehistoric man, while others, of a transcendental point of view, like to consider them as being direct revelations from god. many interesting solutions to the riddle of alchemy's origin have been advanced. one is that alchemy was revealed to man by the mysterious egyptian demigod hermes trismegistus. this sublime figure, looming through the mists of time and bearing in his hand the immortal emerald, is credited by the egyptians as being the author of all the arts and sciences. in honor of him all scientific knowledge was gathered under the general title of the hermetic arts. when the body of hermes was interred in the valley of ebron (or hebron, the divine emerald

ce. the shamans turned their magic against him and, according to one legend, created an evil bird which, swooping down from heaven, tore his only daughter to pieces before his eyes. when hiawatha, after accomplishing his mission, had sailed away in his self-propelled canoe along the path of the sunset, his people realized the true greatness of their benefactor and elevated him to the dignity of a demigod. in longfellow's song of hiawatha the poet has cast the great indian statesman in a charming setting of magic and enchantment; yet through the maze of symbol and allegory is ever faintly visible the figure of hiawatha the initiate--the very personification of the red man and his philosophy. the popol vuh no other sacred book sets forth so completely as the popol vuh the initiatory rituals

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

t swept upfrom the sea and passed over the ship. the mist had barely cleared the vessel when the first case of dis-ease was announced (p. 190)there were also frequent reports of loud noises in the sky, or rumblings.a huge blazing star was seen in the sky over england, even by charles ii, before the plague ofengland.commentit is interesting to compare this attitude to that of the later plantagenet demigod, richard ii of england, who in the fourteenth century brutally suppressed the peasants revolt, and said to the survivors of his plague wrecked country:god omnipotent, is mustering in his clouds on our behalf, armies of pestilence and they shall strike your children yet unborn and unbegot, that lift your vassal hands against my head and threat the glory of my precious crown.atlantis, alien

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

house 418. there are certain occult wonders concealed in the first part of this text (see liber ccclxx) the solution of the last sentence may depend upon the number of the verse, which is that of mezla, the influx from the highest, and of the book of thoth, or tarot. we may take 'thy name' as 'the sun, for qabalistic reasons; the verse need not imply the establishment of a new cult with myself as demigod (help) but they shall worship the group of ideas connected with the sun, and the magical formula of the number 418, explained elsewhere. the establishment of a "new cult" with aleister crowley as demigod would be the denial of his entire work. the problem with the world is that there are too many cults already, each clamouring to be the sole word of truth. thanks to his influence, they are

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

asses to his shin "self pawpaw portrait" he was longsighted to a degree "don't need help to see moomovies but real life gets too damn cloclose up) it was sisodia's rented limo that hit gibreel, a slow-motion accident luckily, owing to traffic congestion; the actor ended up on the bonnet, mouthing the oldest line in the movies _where am i, and sisodia, seeing the legendary features of the vanished demigod squashed up against the limousine's windshield, was tempted to answer _baback where you bibi belong: on the iska iska iscreen "no bobobones broken" sisodia told allie "a mimi miracle. he ista ista istepped right in fafa front of the weewee wehicle _so you're back, allie greeted gibreel silently _seems this is where you always land up after you fall "also scotch-and-sisodia" the film produc

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

od cannot dispute the order. such weaknesses are often found in the old literature, particularly regarding the demon- ic gods that are very dangerous. most of the figures in the major world mythologies have an enemy they could not overcome, or a weapon that defeated the:m, or an incident in their pasts that they are ashamed to remember or have repeated. the most famous weakness is the heel of the demigod achilles. the mother sf achilles, a nereid named thetis, dipped her infant son into the waters of the :infernal river styx, but neglected to coat his foot with this magical liquid. thereafier achilles was invincible in battle. no weapon could wound him, until the trojan paris shot him in the heel with an arrow and killed him. every god and demon has his or her achilles' heel, which the mag

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

here again the story is different. it is quite possible that the stories of istar and siva have influenced the myth, but i think that its origin is most likely celtic. in celtic legends the lords of the underworld did prepare you for rebirth, and many living people are said to have entered their regions, formed alliances with them and returned safely, but it needed great courage; only a hero or a demigod dared to risk it. celtic mysteries assuredly contained rituals of death and resurrection, and possibly visits to the underworld with a safe return. i think st. patrick's purgatory in lough derg was a christianised version of this legend. primitive man dreaded the idea of being born in another tribe, among strangers, so he prayed and performed rites to ensure being born again at the same ti

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

erpent deities (klu) and other malevolent spirits. it is in the intermediate spaces just above the surface of the earth where the various classes of worldly deities are found, making close interaction with humans possible.13 once buddhism came to tibet, the country adopted the universal buddhist cosmology of sa.s.ra, the realm of birth, death, and rebirth. sa.s.ra consists of six realms: the god, demi-god, human, animal, hungry ghost, and hell realms. the previous schema now intersects this buddhist system. the subterranean realm is associated with the hell realms; the hungry ghost realm overlaps the surface realm of humans, which also includes a host of diverse demonic beings; the human and animal realms are also found on the surface; and the heaven realm is where the gods and demi-gods r

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the worse: the unfalling; and it is the reverse of chyuta "the fallen" the dhyanis who incarnate in the human forms of the third root- race and endow them with intellect (manas) are called the chyuta, for they fall into generation[[vol. 2, page] 48 the secret doctrine. in the vishnu purana, is the most mysterious. he is referred to by the honourable title of deva rishi (divine rishi, more than a demi-god) by parasara, and yet he is cursed by daksha and even by brahma. he informs kansa that bhagavat (or vishnu in exotericism) would incarnate in the eighth child of devaki, and thus brings the wrath of the indian herod upon krishna's mother; and then, from the cloud on which he is seated- invisible as a true manasaputra- he lauds krishna, in delight at the avatar's feat of killing the monste

nature- is weak and inadequate to explain the secret meaning. besides the fact that the moon, with the greeks, was feminine in exoteric mythology, and could therefore hardly be regarded as castor- and at the same time be identified with diana- ancient symbologists who held the sun, the king of all sidereal orbs, as the visible image of the highest deity, would not have personified it by pollux, a demi-god only[[footnote(s* pindar. nem. x, 60, dissen* schol. eurip "orestes" 463, dindorf. see decharme's "mythol" etc, p. 654* the monad is impersonal and a god per se, albeit unconscious on this plane. for, divorced from its third (often called fifth) principle, manas, which is the horizontal line of the first manifested triangle or trinity, it can have no consciousness or perception of things

ican inventors of the morse code of telegraphic writing, which reminds us of the ahgam writing, a combination of iong and short strokes, as mr. rivett-carnac describes it "cut on sandstone" sweden, norway, and scandinavia are full of such written records, the runic characters having followed the cup-marks and long and short strokes. in "johannes magnus' infolio" one sees the representation of the demi-god, the giant starchaterus (starkad, the pupil of kroszharsgrani, the magician) who holds under each arm a huge stone covered with runic characters; and starkad, according to scandinavian legend, went to ireland and performed marvellous deeds in the north and south, east and west (see "asgard and the gods[[vol. 2, page] 347 universal witnesses. can move it, while the weight of the whole body

d towards the lybian desert, and were known as the serpent's catacombs, or passages. it was there that were performed the sacred mysteries of the kuklos anagkes, the "unavoidable cycle" more generally known as "the circle of necessity; the inexorable doom imposed upon every soul after the bodily death, and when it has been judged in the amenthian region. in de bourbourg's book, votan, the mexican demi-god, in narrating his expedition, describes a subterranean passage which ran underground, and terminated at the root of the heavens, adding that this passage was a snake's hole "un agujero de colubra; and that he was admitted to it because he was himself "a son of the snakes" or a serpent("die phoinizier" 70) this is, indeed, very suggestive; for his description of the snake's hole is that of

mythical explanations of which we find to this day in india and ceylon, where any one can study the allegorical narratives and traditions which have remained unchanged for many thousands of years[[footnote(s* see sanchoniathon in "eusebius" pr. ev. 36; genesis xiv "society of antiquaries of london" vol. xxv. p. 220[[vol. 2, page] 381 the theft of rahu. rahu, mythologically is a daitya- a giant, a demi-god, the lower part of whose body ended in a dragon or serpent's tail. during the churning of the ocean, when the gods produced amrita- the water of immortality- he stole some of it, and drinking, became immortal. the sun and moon, who had detected him in his theft, denounced him to vishnu, who placed him in the stellar spheres, the upper portion of his body representing the dragon's head and

ed on next page[[vol. 2, page] 414 the secret doctrine. leaving for a few pages the main subject, let us pause and see what may be the hidden meaning of this, the most ancient as it is the most suggestive of traditional allegories. as it relates directly to the early races, this will be no real digression. the subject of aeschylus' drama (the trilogy is lost) is known to all cultured readers. the demi-god robs the gods (the elohim) of their secret- the mystery of the creative fire. for this sacrilegious attempt he is struck down by kronos* and delivered unto zeus, the father and creator of a mankind which he would wish to have blind intellectually, and animallike; a personal deity, which will not see man "like one of us" hence prometheus "the fire and light-giver" is chained on mount cauca

" whose first law is that the order of the successive and harmonious phases in the process of evolution during cyclic development should be strictly preserved- under the severe penalty of abnormal growth with all its ensuing results. it was not in the programme of natural development that man- higher animal though he may be- should become at once- intellectually, spiritually, and psychically- the demi-god he is on earth, while his physical frame remains weaker and more helpless and ephemeral than that of almost any huge mammal. the contrast is too grotesque and violent; the tabernacle much too unworthy of its indwelling god. the gift of prometheus thus became a curse- though foreknown and foreseen by the host personified in that personage, as his name well shows* it is in this that rests

os for their rebellion against him. all the three are endowed by myth with an hundred arms and fifty heads, the latter standing for races, the former for sub-races and tribes. bearing in mind that in mythology every personage almost is a god or dernigod, and also a king or simple mortal in his second aspect* and[[footnote(s* thus, for instance, gyges is a hundred-armed and fifty-headed monster, a demi-god in one case, and a lydian, the successor of candaules, king of the country, in another version. the same is found in the indian pantheon, where rishis and the sons of brahma are reborn as mortals[[vol. 2, page] 776 the secret doctrine. that both stand as symbols for lands, islands, powers of nature, elements, nations, races and sub-races, the esoteric commentary will become comprehensible

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is father and when noah found out he launched into a rage and put a curse on ham and his son canaan. could the big deal here be that ham saw something about noah's body that indicated he was a child of the gods? it appears that some of the hybrids this far back in history still had clear reptilian features, especially some sort of scaly skin on the chest. in the hindu classic, the mahabharata, a "demi-god" hybrid called kama was born from the union between an earth woman and the sun god, surya. the child is described as being "clad in a coat of armour, like a divine being. by the time of "noah, just before the final atlantis cataclysm, humans were rebelling against the control of the anunnaki-nefilim and those of the hybrid bloodline were seriously unpopular. they were said to wear the "ba

for power with the nordic underground kingdoms of agharta and shambala. hindus believe that patala can be entered at the well of sheshna in benares, while bhogavati is believed to be in the himalayas. similar stories of underground caverns and tunnel systems can be found in tibet and china. in the gilgamesh stories of the sumerian tablets, we are told of vast underground cities. gilgamesh was a "demi-god" and "semi-divine (reptilian hybrid) who sought the immortality of the "gods. the stories speak of ki-gal or "the great below, which was ruled serving the dragon: the present (2) 267 by the goddess ereshkigal and the god mergal. in the ki-gal were violent guardians called "scorpion men, reanimated human bodies, spirits and the "undead, and robotic beings known as galatur or gala, which we

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ideals (similar to the gnostic pleroma) and had eternal, abstract qualities. it is from this world of ideals the lower worlds emanate, resulting in the physical world. platonism, neo platonism and gnosticism argue between themselves in regards to the nature of matter. while all posit a demiurge which created the material dimensions, the nature of this being (from demonic to malefic, bungling to a demi-god) depends on the school and sect. plutarch (45-125ad, for example, posited a negative world soul (demiurge) and hence heralded a reconciliation between platonic and gnostic thought. when the platonic model was combined with pythagorean mathematics a hierarchical structure rethe gnostic handbook page 19 sulted. this early model which spanned the universe from the "all" to matter, was probab

their value is in what they represent rather than in themselves. in regards to the name(s) of god in the old testament there is a real quandary, there are many names for god, though translated under the one title in english. what makes it more difficult is that each name has a different meaning, the name elohim, for example, means mighty ones (note it is plural) and can be applied to any form of demi-god, destructive or constructive, of the light or of darkness. the same applies to the formula of yhvh, while it has a esoteric meaning, it too, has been twisted to reflect the barbaric and violent storm god that is falsely represented throughout the old testament as the creator. for gnostics there are literally two gods within the old testament period, the original i am, the transcendent one

believed he was the creator and formed matter, by his error, sophia herself became trapped in his creation as did thousands of beings of light that came to believe his error. this tradition is intriguing as it paints the demiurge in an ignorant rather than malefic role, in some sense it embodies the ambivalence found in much hermetic literature where the false creator is seen more as a blundering demi-god than as a adversary. for the kabbalists the fall occurred on a far more ethereal level, when the cosmic light of ain soph began to expand it produced emanations known as sephiroth or light centres. as these sephiroth or light vessels began to create a hierarchy of being, a reflection was cast onto the ocean of cosmic spirit and this reflection, being distorted, gave birth to destructive a

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s commandments or in some way or another break cosmic law, and are expelled from the garden of eden (in gnostic terms the expulsion from eden represents the soul entering matter. there are many variantions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia or wisdom. out of a yearning to know the original creator she gives birth to a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. in this legend the god of the old testament is seen as evil and christ is the only emissary of the light world. in another tradition satanel (the fallen one) creates the physical world, but his creation is sterile and marred. yahw

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e houses of the cities of cathuria are all palaces, each built over a fragrant canal bearing the waters of the sacred narg. of marble and porphyry are the houses, and roofed with glittering gold that reflects the rays of the sun and enhances the splendor of the cities as blissful gods view them from the distant peaks. fairest of all is the palace of the great monarch dorieb, whom some say to be a demi-god and others a god. high is the palace of dorieb, and many are the turrets of marble upon its walls. in its wide halls many multitudes assemble, and here hang the trophies of the ages. and the roof is of pure gold, set upon tall pillars of ruby and azure, and having such carven figures of gods and heroes that he who looks up to those heights seems to gaze upon the living olympus. and the fl

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it la hontu lot, p. 806. 739. ltbouddiatliardigion, p. 137: paria, 1860. 740. phuippiom. m, 11. 12 digitizecoy google 288 isk unveiled sole power of his freed spirit. a rahai, say the buddhists, is one who has acquired the power of flying in the air, becomiag invisible, commanding the elements and working all manner of wonders commonly and erroneously called mnpo (miracles. he is a perfect man, a demi-god. a god he will become when he reaches nirvina; for, like the initiates of both testaments, the worshipers of buddha know that they "are gods "genuine buddhism, overieaping the barrier between finite and infinite mind, urges its followers to aspire, by thar own effaru, to that divine perfectibility^ which it t aches that man is capable, and by attaining which man becomes a god" says brian

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e 279 he engaged in a wrestling-match with king anteos, son of poseidon and gaa, which terminated fatally for his antagonist. from thence he proceeded to egypt, where reigned busiris, another son of poseidon, who (acting on the advice given by an oracle during a time of great scarcity) sacrificed all strangers to zeus. when heracles arrived he was seized and dragged to the altar; but the powerful demi-god burst asunder his bonds, and then slew busiris and his son. resuming his journey he now wandered on through arabia until he arrived at mount caucasus, where prometheus groaned in unceasing agony. it was at this time that heracles (as already related) shot the eagle which had so long tortured the noble and devoted friend of mankind. full of gratitude for his deliverance, prometheus instruc

ccompanied in this undertaking by diomedes, at length gained the day, and he induced philoctetes to accompany him to the camp, where the skilful leech machaon, the son of asclepias, healed him of his wound. page 331 philoctetes became reconciled to agamemnon, and in an engagement which took place soon after, he mortally wounded paris, the son of priam. but though pierced by the fatal arrow of the demi-god, death did not immediately ensue; and paris, calling to mind the prediction of an oracle, that his deserted wife oenone could alone cure him if wounded, caused himself to be transported to her abode on mount ida, where he implored her by the memory of their past love to save his life. but mindful only of her wrongs, oenone crushed out of her heart every womanly feeling of pity and compass

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