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ius more abstract, yet both are used, as the os. regano giscapu and regangiscapu, metodo giscapu and metodgiscapu held their ground simultaneously. as for geormen= eormen, it suggests germanus (gramm. 1, 11. it is true, tacitus keeps the hermino that lies latent in his herminones apart from arminius with whom the homans waged war; yet his famous' canitur adhuc barbaras apud gentes' applied to the destroyer of varus, might easily arise through simply misinterpreting such accounts as reached the eonian ear of german songs about the mythical hero. granted that irmansul expressed word for word no more than' huge pillar' yet to the people that worshipped it it must have been a divine image, standing for irmiko, irmin -353 a particular god. to discover who this was, we can only choose one of two

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f flame appeared between them. shiva appeared from within the flaming pillar, which was symbol of his masculine power, and the other gods bowed before him. invoke shiva for animus power, potency, survival and male rituals. shakti shakti, or matahdevi, is the female energy or power of shiva. her name is also used for the wife of any hindu god. she is the mother goddess and, like shiva, creator and destroyer in her different aspects. shakti provides the energy that activates shiva's male divine power, and her life-giving force animates other gods in difficult tasks. although there are several other hindu female goddesses, they all form aspects of shakti and often their identities merge. one of shakti's forms is as parvati, the gentle mother. shakti is potent for all rituals of women's power

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varicate. iparkas: probably from greek, hipparches= a commander of cavalry, or leader of horse. nuditon: apparently from the latin, nuditas= nakedness, derived in its turn from nudatus. melna: perhaps from hebrew, ln, to abide or rest. melhaer: perhaps from hebrew, ml, to cut off, or divide, and chr, whiteness, purity. ruach: from hebrew, rvch= spirit. apolhun: from greek, apolluon, apollyon= the destroyer. schabuach: from arabic= to calm or assuage. mermo: from coptic, mer, across, and moou, water, across water. melamud: from hebrew, mlmd= stimulus to exertion. poter: from greek, poter= a drinking cup, or vase. sched: from hebrew, shdd, the hebrew name for a devastating demon. but the hebrew root shd implies the same idea as the english words to shed; and signifies a female breast. ekdulo

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passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing south (officers all raise their wands to form a pyramid over the pastos and altar) chief "let us analyze the keyword. i" second "n" third "r" all "i" chief "y" second "n" third "r" all "y" chief "virgo, isis, mighty mother (making sign of isis" second "scorpio, apophis, destroyer (making sign of apophis" third "sol, osiris, slain and risen (making the sign of osiris, slain and risen" all "isis, apophis, osiris- i.a.o (bringing wands up to touch each other along with cruces) chief "let the divine light descend (all separate wands and cruces, and give the sign of cross) all "the sign of osiris slain" chief "l- the sign of the mourning of isis (tilting head) 8 secon

s return to former positions. crook and scourge are laid on altar over dagger, crossing at yellow bands) chief "repeat with us the following words which are the signs of the hidden wisdom of our order (aspirant is made to repeat each word after the officer) chief "i" second "n" third "r" 26 all "i" chief "y" second "n" third "r" all "y" chief "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" third "sol, osiris, slain and risen" all "isis, apophis, osiris, i.a.o. let the divine light descend (all separate wands and give the sign of osiris slain) all "the sign of osiris slain" chief "l- the sign of the mourning of isis (with tilted head to the side) second "v- the sign of typhon and apophis (head facing upwards, arms stretched) third "x- the sign of osiris risen (arms crossed

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sal constant is change, a thing which is perfected cannot stand and so, another expansion occurs and a new universe is formed. this process continues ad infinitum. all creatures on the wheel of life evolve gradually, as do the souls which inhabit these forms. all life springs from the dark mother, babalon, for she is the life giver, nurturer, sustainer. the role of satan is architect, builder and destroyer. both work interdependently to achieve balance, harmony and consistent change. they define, compliment and complete one another. life is an expression of both order and chaos. it consists of a continuous series of good and bad experiences which appear to follow a pattern. this is true regardless of age, irrespective of our race or religious convictions. when life goes well, our spiritual

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

smoke! arise and leave my body! from my body, depart in shame! from my body flee! turn away from my body! go away from my body! do not return to my body! do no come near my body! do not approach my body! do not throng around my body! be commanded by shammash the mighty! be commanded by enki, lord of all! be commanded by marduk, the great magician of the gods! be commanded by the god of fire, your destroyer! may you be held back from my body "another binding of the sorcerers" ssalmani-ia ana pagri tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ana pagri taxira duppira ssalmani-ia iti pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani ini ishdi pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani-ia qimax pagri taqbira duppira ssalmani-ia ana qulqullati tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ina igari tapxa-a duppira ssalmani-ia ina askuppati tushni-illa

rd for mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, chthoic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the leviathan of the old testament. also, in this particular conjuration, the word for mountain is shadu- shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xul evil spirit gidim xul evil ghost idimmu demon idpa fever kashshaptu witch lalartu phantom lalssu spectre lilit succubus maskim xul evil fiend (ambusher, lier-in-wait) mulla xul evil devil rabishu (same as maskim xul) telal wicked demon (warrior) uggae god of deat

hin talas kanpa! nebos athanatos kanpa! ia gaash! ia saash! ia kakolomani-yash! ia maakalli! the invocation of the ishtar gate spirit of venus, remember! ishtar, mistress of the gods, remember! ishtar, queen of the land of the rising of the sun, remember! lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses, ishtar, queen of all people, remember! o bright rising, torch of the heaven and of the earth, remember! o destroyer of the hostile hordes, remember! lioness, queen of the battle, hearken and remember! from the gate of the great god nebo, i call thee! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nebo, i call to thee! lady, queen of harlots and of soldiers, i call to thee! lady, mistress of battle and of love, i pray thee, remember! in the name of the covenant, sworn between thee and the race of men

i lo-yak zi ishtari kanpa! inanna zi amma kanpa! bi zamma kanpa! ia ia ia be-yi razuluki! the invocation of the shammash gate spirit of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the open

, and can supply a starving city with food for thirteen moons in one moon. a most noble power. his word is aggha and his seal: the twenty-seventh name is hegal as the power above, a master of the arts of farming and agriculture. bestows rich harvests. possesses the knowledge of the metals of the earth, and of the plough. his word is burdishu and his seal thus: the twenty-eighth name is sirsir the destroyer of tiamat, hated of the ancient ones, master over the serpent, foe of kutulu. a most powerful lord. his word is this apirikubabadazuzukanpa and his seal: the twenty-ninth name is malah trod the back of the worm and cut it in twain. lord of bravery and courage, and gives these qualities to the priest who desires it, or to others the priest may decide. the word is bachachadugga and the sea

e creation, and the nature of the structures of the four pillars whereupon the heavens rest. his word is alalalabaaal and the seal is: the thirty-fifth name is zulummar giveth tremendous strength, as of ten men, to one man. lifted the part of tiamat that was to become the sky from the part that was to become the earth. his word is anndarabaal and his seal is: the thirty-sixth name is lugalabdubur destroyer of the gods of tiamat. vanquisher of her hordes. chained kutulu to the abyss. fought azag-thoth with skill. a great defender and a great attacker. his word is agnibaal and his seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his wor

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

the phallic god. now ain means nothing, and thus the replacing of ain by oin means the completion of the yoni by the lingam, which is followed by the complete dissolu tion symbolised in the letter p. these letters, o p, are then seen to be the root of opus, the latin word for "work, in this case, the great work. and they also begin the word "opening. i hindu philosophy, it is said that shiva, the destroyer, is asleep, and that when he o pens his eye the universe is destroyed-another synonym, therefore, for the accomplis hment of the great work. but the "eye" of shiva is also his lingam. shiva is book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 129 himself the mahalingam, which unites these symbolisms. the opening of the eye, the ejaculation of the lingam, the destruction of the univers

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a novel; but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best. observe: each element in this cycle is of equal value. it is wrong to say triumphantly "mors janua vitae, unless you add, with equal triumph "vita janua mortis. to one who understands this chain of the aeons from the point of view alike of the sorrowing isis and of the triumphant osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer apophis, there remains no secret veiled in nature. he cries that name of god which throughout history has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinite swelling paean i.a.o<beast and with his number 666, so that he who invokes the former invokes also the latter. also with aiwaz and the number 93. see chapter v> 15 cha

anes, that it is self-sufficient, that it involves no responsibilities, and that it leaves its masters not only stronger in themselves, but wholly free to fulfil their essential natures. its abuse is an abomination> 27 chapter v the formula of i.a.o. this formula is the principal and most characteristic formula of osiris, of the redemption of mankind "i" is isis, nature, ruined by "a, apophis the destroyer, and restored to life by the redeemer osiris<father, o the mother, a the child- and yet another, in which i.a.o. are all fathers of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a

on-mu-gamma-nu"(he replaces the left hand part of the host. the "priestess "extends the lance point with her left hand to receive the particle" the priest and the priestess. gr:eta-pi-iota-lambda-iota-upsilon"(the" priest "takes the lance. the "priestess "covers the cup. the "priest "genuflects, rises, bows, joins hands. he strikes his breast" 359 the priest. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us"(the "priest "joins hands upon the breast of the "priestess "and takes back his lance. he turns to the people, lowers and raises the lance, and makes "upon them" do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the people. love is t

ted to the element of earth, see "777" lines 10 and 32 bis "the lesser ritual of the hexagram" this ritual is to be performed after the "lesser ritual of the pentagram (i. stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding wand or other weapon upright in the median line. then face east and say (ii. i.n.r.i. yod, nun, resh, yod. virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, destroyer. sol, osiris, slain and risen. isis, apophis, osiris, gr:iota-alpha-omega (iii. extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say "the sign of osiris slain (see illustration (iv. raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes foll

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

between yesod and malkuth *nwlyw ye shall cleave in hwhy (cf. 220 *hwhyb myqbdx 753 to guard, protect *nng food, meat (ch *nwzm 754 father of the mob, or of the multitude *nwmh b) quarrel, dispute *nydm 756 spheres; numbers; emanations twryps years twn# nun: a fish *nwn ages; worlds *mymlw( 757 clusters: netzach and hod twlk) the shield (or star) of david (the hexagram *dwd ngm 758 perdition; the destroyer (ex. 12:23) tyx#m copper ore; bronze t#xn to love very much *nnx victories *myxcn 759 powder(s) of the merchant lkwr tqb) music *nwgn 760 both active and passive (said in the qabalah re: the sephiroth) lbqtmw lybqm confinement, detention trc( resemblance, likeness, image *nwymd at the end of the days; the right hand *nymy wings *mypnk bone; substance, essence; body *mc( divination; witch

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

nd the future are parts of the present, in the eye of the master, that seeth the secret of secrets and knoweth them all to be one. the voice of the eagle. su: the heavens are poised on the plumes of the righteous, that wingeth among them, beholding the sun; thus know ye the mercy and joy of the master! the voice of the hawk. agla: by thine energy riseth all motion of will of the master, begetter, destroyer! the voice of the pelican. iao: all that liveth is blood of the heart of the master: all stars are at feast on that pasture, abiding in light. the voice of the dove. hriliu: there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into joy by the love of the master. the voice of the ibis. abrahadabra: all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coilin

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, the trained automatism of my mind and body expresses that thought in writing, without attention on my part, still less with identification of the extremes involved in the process. al ii,7 "i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle "come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is i that go" the old comment 7. hadit is both the maker of illusion and its destroyer. for though his interplay with nuit results in the production of the finite, yet his withdrawing into himself is the destruction thereof..the axle of the wheel, another way of saying that he is the core of things. the cube in the circle" cf. liber 418, the vision and the voice, 30th aethyr"'come unto me' is a foolish word: for it is i that go" that is, hadit is everywhere; yet, being sou

e required and bring fresh "force& fire" of horus fever from the "skies" of nuit skies. another woman see comment on "venus" of the shall awake chapt. i. 15. adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust and the might and worthiness the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of the of matter and spirit in son of god, fertilized our doctrine. by the dove- or bull, swan &c. the doctrine of the regenerate incorruptible body. another sacrifice love is the magical crucifixion &c, as shall stain formula: sex as the key to

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

host. the priestess extends the lance-point with her left hand to receive the particle. the priest clasps the cup in his left hand. together they depress the lance-point in the cup. the priest and the priestess: hriliu. the priest takes the lance. the priestess covers the cup. the priest genuflects, rises, bows, joins hands. he strikes his breast. the priest: o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. the priest joins hands upon the breast of the priestess, and takes back his lance. he turns to the people, lowers and raises the lance, and makes upon them. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the people: love is the l

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

e body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say: the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and right angles, thus forming the letter (also the swastika. the sign of the mourning of isis. 2nd. with erect head, raises his arms to form a v (but really t

= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool= sacrificed to de

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

. to see one s obligation printed in the daily mail! luckily, i have no nerves. 49. ram, ram. etc.9 thou, as i, art god (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common hindu saluation. a long road and a heavy price! to know is always a difficult work. hullo! bravo! thy name (i have seen) is written in the stars. come with me, pupil! i will give thee medicine for the mind* the phallus of shiva the destroyer. it is really identical with the qabalistic middle pillar of the tree of life. an imaginary lady to whom sairey gamp in dickens martin chuzzlewit used to appeal. vide the daily papers of june-july 1901. cf. macbeth: canst thou not minister to a mind diseased? 58. bs.10 enough. 60. ik vaste,.11 why? 60. kya haega..12 what will it be? 61. strange and painful attitude.13 siddhasana. 62. he

fylfar. mysterium matris.1 evocatio. lucus. ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and eighteen. five are one, and six are diverse, five in the midst and three on each side. the word of power, double in the voice of the master. ain elohim. four sounds of four force. o the snake hath a long tail! amen. ain elohim. sudden death: thick darkness: ho! the ox! one, and one, and one: creater, preserver, destroyer, ho! the redeemer! thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho! for the gold of the sages! ain elohim. and he was silent for a great while, and so departed our father from him. forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bearing a bright crown of gold, studded with gems, one on each knee. dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. a horn grew from her fo

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the torture of unutterable light "devourer of millions of years" is my name "lord of the flame" is my name; for i am as an eye of silver set in the heart of the sun. thou spreadest the locks of thine hair before thee, for i burn thee; thou shakest them about thy brow, so that thine eyes may not be blinded by the fire of my fury. i am he who was, who is, and who will be; i am the creator, and the destroyer, and the redeemer of mankind. i have come as the sun from the house of the roaring of lions, and at my coming shall there be laughter, and weeping, and singing, and gnashing of teeth. ye shall tread upon the serpent and the scorpion, and the hosts of your enemies shall be as chaff before the sickle of your might: yet ye must be born in the cavern of darkness and be laid in the manger of

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creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows- chief. let us analyse the key word- i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. hb:yod. 2nd. nun. hb:nun. 3rd. resh. hb:resh. all. yod, hb:yod. chief. virgo (virgo) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (scorpio) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol (sun) osiris, slain and risen. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say- the sign of osiris slain! 86 chief bows his head to the left, rises his right arm, and lowers his left keeping the elbow at right angles,thus forming the letter l (also the swastika. the sign of the mourning of isis. 2nd. with erect head, rises his arms to form a v (but re

, sun, virgo; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death, and resurrection of christ; and further the sings of mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.u.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross..l v\ the light of the cross. further examples will be found in "a note on genesis" one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. mna. the hanged man, death, the fool "sacrifice

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to the element of earth "see "777" lines 10 and 32 bis "the lesser ritual of the hexagram" this ritual is to be performed after the "lesser ritual of the pentagram (i) stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding the wand or other weapon upright in the median line. then face east and say (ii) i.n.r.i. yod. nun. resh. yod. virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, destroyer. sol, osiris, slain and risen. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. 22 (iii) extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say "the sign of osiris slain("see" illustration (iv) raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left

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eph, in the name hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:taw hb:yod 17, in the pass-word inri, i declare that i have created thee, a living spirit of this sphere of tzedeq, to do my will, and work thine own salvation! let us analyse the key-word "chief" i "2nd" n "3rd" r "all" i "chief" yod. hb:yod "2nd" nun. hb:nun "3rd" resh. hb:resh "all" yod. hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother "2nd" scorpio, apophis, destroyer "3rd" sol, osiris, slain and risen "all" isis, apophis, osiris. iota alpha omega (all give the sign of the cross "chief, 2nd and 3rd adepts" the sign of osiris slain("chief" l. the sign of the mourning of isis) 17 weh note: this is probable a typo for hb:heh hb:vau hb:shin hb:heh hb:yod("2nd adept" v. the sign of typhon destroyer("3rd adept" x. the sign of osiris risen "all" lvx, lux, th

f at the head of the pastos, the second adept to the south, and the third adept to the north; they raise their wands in a pyramid formation over the altar, and their "cruces ansatas" below "chief" let us analyse the key word: i "second" n "third" r "all" i "chief" yod: hb:yod "second" nun: hb:nun "third" resh: hb:resh "all" yod: hb:yod "chief" virgo, isis, mighty mother "second" scorpio, apophis, destroyer "third" sol, osiris, slain and risen "all" isis, apophis, osiris, iao [the wands and crosses are separated, all giving the sign of the cross, and saying] 211 the sign of osiris slain["chief" giving the l sign with bowed head.5] l. the sign of the mourning of isis["second" with head erect, gives the v sign] v, the sign of typhon and apophis["third" with bowed head gives the x sign] x, the

however, was not going to judge any isolated story by the general laws of probability, so, bowing gracefully, he rose and set out 267 to find frater i.a, whom he eventually ran down at the house of a holy yogi in the cinnamon gardens, colombo, to hear his account. frater i.a.'s account was less of a strain upon p.'s faculties of belief. they had had, he said, an argument about the god shiva, the destroyer, whom i.a. worshipped because, if one repeated his name often enough, shiva would one day open his eye and destroy the universe, and whom d.d.c.f. feared and hated because he would one day open his eye and destroy d.d.c.f. i.a. closed the argument by assuming the position padmasana and repeating the mantra "shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva" d.d.c.f, angrier than ever, sought the

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s divine power- and yet that little crack was in nowise filled, but rather widened! the god returned "o great white spirit" he whispered- and the universe shook with fear at the voice of him "thou, and thou alone, art worthy to fill this little crack that thou hast left" then the great white spirit arose and formulated himself as the pillar of infinitude, even as the mahalingam of great shiva the destroyer, who openeth his eye, and all is not. and behold! he was balanced in the crack, and the void was filled, and nature was content. and elohim gibor, and kamael the mighty and his seraphim, and graphiel, and bartzabel, and all the inhabitants of madim shouted for joy and gave glory and honour and praise to the great white spirit; and the sound of their rejoicing filled the worlds. now for o

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rein are heard the sounds of the flute and v n (a stringed instrument).245 at this stage the pr na goes to the bramharandhra, and enters the silence. this is all most beautifully described in the various shastras. in the shiva sanhita we read: 27. the first sound is like the hum of the honey-intoxicated bee, next that of a flute, then of a harp; after this, by the gradual practice of yoga,246 the destroyer of the darkness of the world, he hears the sounds of the ringing bells, then sounds like roars of thunder. when one fixes his full attention on this sound, being free from fear, he gets absorption, o my beloved! 28. when the mind of the yogi is exceedingly engaged in this sound, he forgets all external things, and is absorbed in this sound.247 h. p. blavatsky in "the voice of the silence

ew pines stood stricken, unutterably alone.272] but behind the glory of its coruscations seemed to shape, an idea less solid than a shadow! an idea of some human-seeming form! now grew doubt and thought in p.'s miserable mind; and the one wave grew many waves and all was lost! alas! alas! for p! and glory eternal unto her, she the twin-breasted that hath encroached even upon the other half of the destroyer "om namo bh vaniya om" filled with the glory of the great light that had arisen in him, for many days p. communed in silence with the vision that days upon days of labour had revealed to him, and then leaving his place of retirement near kandy he journeyed to anhuradhapura, and thence to many sacred shrines and temples throughout the island of ceylon, gathering as he travelled spiritual

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n, the carefully reared and deeply cherished structures of religious thought and belief, and of philosophical finding seem in danger of falling, yet our anxiety exists simply because we have been too much engrossed with the form, and too much occupied with our prison, and if disruption has set in, it is only in order that the life may build for itself new forms and thereby evolve. the work of the destroyer is as much the work of god as that of the constructor, and the great god of destruction has to smash and rend the forms in order that the work of the builder may become possible, and the spirit able more adequately to express itself. to many of us these ideas may seem novel, fantastic, and untenable. yet even if they are only hypotheses, they may prove interesting and give us a possible

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

nded on the basic key tone of the m. in the fourth kingdom the m tone is dying down and the two notes sounded forth are the u and the a. in the fifth kingdom the m has subsided into a distant undertone, the u is blended with it so as to be indistinguishable, and the a, or shiva note, is pealing forth in power, and is practically the only note heard. by the sounding of this note, that of shiva the destroyer, the not-self is negated, and all that is not of spirit passes into dissolution. it is the coming in of the a sound which affects the severance or liberation of the initiate from the three worlds. 6. there are certain words also committed to each of the planetary logoi, and they are the basis of planetary manifestation. as is well known, the sound of the brahma aspect, or the third aspec

et which concerns the fire or spirit aspect is revealed to the wondering and amazed master, and he realises in a sense incomprehensible to man the fact that all is fire and fire is all. this secret may be said to reveal to the initiate that which makes clear to him: a. the secret name of the planetary logos, thus revealing one syllable of the name of the solar logos. b. the work and method of the destroyer aspect of divinity. c. the processes whereby obscuration and pralaya are induced. d. the mathematical formula which sums up all the cycles of manifestation. e. the triple nature of fire, and the effect of the great fire upon the lesser. as this shiva, or first, aspect is the one which will arrive at perfection, or, rather, come within the reach of comprehension within the next solar syst

within the reach of comprehension within the next solar system, it profits not to continue considering this secret. the following tabulation may make the whole matter clearer to the mind of the student: secret of initiation l ogos concerned s ource of energy planes fohat third brahma creator physical sun seven, six, five polarity fourth vishnu preserver subjective sun four, three fire fifth shiva destroyer central spiritual sun two as the student will observe, the source of the particular energy concerned is one aspect of the sun. at the sixth and seventh initiations two more secrets are revealed, one a lesser secret preparing the way for the revelation of the fourth. only four secrets of a major order are- 103- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust revealed to initiates o

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activity) and the uniform evolution of the form of which that particular atom of matter forms a constituent part. emanative prana does little in connection with form building; that is not its province, but it conserves the form through the preservation of the health of its component parts. other rays of the sun act differently, upon the forms and upon their substance. some perform the work of the destroyer of forms, and others carry on the work of cohering and of attracting; the work of the destroyer and of the preserver is carried on under the law of attraction and repulsion. some rays definitely produce accelerated motion, others produce retardation. the ones we are dealing with here pranic solar emanations work within the four ethers, that matter which (though physical) is not as yet ob

os controls the solar entities; the third logos controls the lunar entities and their correspondences elsewhere in the system. this rule must not be carried too far in detail as long as man's mind is of its present calibre. the mystery lies in the realisation that all is carried on in a divine co-operation that has its base outside the system. hence too the fact that the first logos is called the destroyer, because he is abstraction, if viewed from below upwards. his work is the synthesis of spirit with spirit, their eventual abstraction from matter, and their unification with their cosmic source. hence also he is the one who brings about pralaya or the disintegration of form, the form from which the spirit has been abstracted. if we carry the analogy down to the microcosm a glimpse can be

source. hence also he is the one who brings about pralaya or the disintegration of form, the form from which the spirit has been abstracted. if we carry the analogy down to the microcosm a glimpse can be gained of the same idea and hence ability to comprehend with greater facility. the ego (being to the man on the physical plane what the logos is to his system) is likewise the animating will, the destroyer of forms, the producer of pralaya and the one who withdraws the inner spiritual man from out of his threefold body; he draws them to himself the centre of his little system. the ego is extra-cosmic as far as the human being on the physical plane is concerned, and in the realisation of this fact may come elucidation of the true cosmic problem involving the logos and "the spirits in prison

faculty, and the- 116- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust self has no further use for the not-self. it blends with the all-self. this is under the law of synthesis. if this is borne in mind it leads to a realisation that the separation of the spirit from the material vehicle involves two aspects of the one great all; herein is seen the work of the creator, the preserver and the destroyer. in the final perfection of this third sense of sight, the term used is the wholly inadequate one of realisation. let the student study carefully the lowest and highest demonstration of the senses as laid down in the tabulation earlier imparted, and note the occult significance of the expressions used in the summation. hearing..beatitude. this is realised through the not-self. touch..ser

ed personality. in all these perfections is seen the awareness of the self, and the graded process of identification, utilisation, manipulation and final rejection of the not-self by that self who is now consciously aware. he hears the note of nature and that of his monad; he recognises their identity, utilises their vibration, and passes rapidly through the three stages of creator, preserver and destroyer. he touches or feels the vibration of the form or not-self in all its various grades, recognises his identity in time and space, and for purposes of existence or being and by means of the three laws of economy, attraction and synthesis utilises, blends and eventually dissociates himself. he sees the threefold evolutionary process and by means of the development of the inner vision, sees

ntually comes into play after spirit and matter are blending, and adapting themselves each to each; it governs the eventual synthesis of self with self, and finally with the all-self, and also of essence with essence in contra-distinction to the synthesis of matter and spirit. it demonstrates as: 1. abstraction, 2. spiritual liberation, 3. destruction of form through the withdrawal of spirit (the destroyer aspect) 4. absolute homogeneity and absolute essential unity, 5. progressive forward motion- 125- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust thus can be seen the wonderful synthesis brought about by the evolutionary working of these three cosmic laws, each of them embodying the mode of work of certain cosmic entities or existences. the final two will be taken up in their right

nfluence will be paralleled in the sixth round by the gradually growing power of the second ray of aspect, the two types of influence overlapping. in the seventh round, the power of the second ray will predominate and the influence of the third will weaken. the first ray will make itself felt. the- 249- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust first ray, that of mahadeva49(132) or the destroyer, will set its second great impulse upon our planetary evolution by the obscuration of two fifths of the human family. the impress to be set by the first ray upon our human family on this globe might be considered as threefold: first. at human individualisation in the middle of the third rootrace. this was produced by a vast destruction of the forms we call animal-man. this point has seld

e particular entity who may be utilising it. they work directly with the permanent atoms of men, and produce results through the agency of form until they have exhausted the vibratory capacity of any particular atom; when this is the case the atom passes into the stage of obscuration, as does the seventh principle of any sheath. it comes under the influence of the first aspect, manifesting as the destroyer. remember that in these affirmations we are concerning ourselves with the microcosm, and with the permanent atoms which are related to him; as regards the solar logos manifesting in the system, we are concerned with but one permanent atom, and this is his physical permanent atom. it is thus true that within the permanent physical atom of the solar logos lies hid the ability to respond co

sponds to the generative organs. all the creative functions of the vegetable, animal, and human family, viewing them as a whole, are as yet purely physical, and based on lower desire. the desire of the logos for physical incarnation is as yet the dominant note. later his desire for that will be less and will become transmuted into desire for creation on mental levels only. this is what brings the destroyer aspect into activity, leading to eventual obscuration, and the physical "death" of the solar system. indication that this aspect is coming into power will be seen when two great events transpire: a. the ability of man consciously to create on mental levels, and the consequent transmutation of his lower sex impulses into higher. b. the mental vitalisation of another large section of the a

study of the vitality that energises and the life that animates; to the contemplation of the fire that drives, propels, and produces the activity and organisation of all forms. the realisation of this will reveal the fact that what we are dealing with is the "life and the lives,"86(163) as it is called87(164) in the secret doctrine; with agni, the lord of fire, the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer; and with the forty-nine fires through which he manifests. we are dealing with solar fire per se, with the essence of thought, with the coherent life of all forms, with the consciousness in its evolving aspect, or with agni, the sumtotal of the gods. he is vishnu and the sun in his glory; he is the fire of matter and the fire of mind blended and fused; he is the intelligence which throbs

cosmic centre will appear as pralaya is nearing and will produce in the body of the logos that which we call "death" he is the cosmic reaper, and (to reduce the above to- 428- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust words of an understandable nature) he belongs to a group which represents the abstracting energy of the cosmos, of which we find faint correspondences in the work of the "destroyer" aspect of the logos, and in the forces which produce physical death, and the disintegration of the physical body of man. it is not possible to say more on these fundamentally esoteric matters, and the value of what is said lies largely in the bringing to the mind of the student the reality of our cosmic interrelation. 2. solar avatars: these avatars are of three types though there are r

the positive energy of the solar logos, the planetary logos, and of man to the substance through which alone manifestation is possible. through this relation, existence on the objective planes can be brought about- 434- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust (b) the nature of pralaya. we can view pralaya as the work of "abstraction" and as the method which brings the form under the destroyer aspect of spirit, working ever under the law of attraction, of which the law of synthesis is but a branch. the basic law of the system is that which governs the relation of all atoms to the aggregate of atoms, and of the self to the not-self. it is (from the occult standpoint) the most powerful force-demonstration in the system, and should the law inconceivably cease to work, instantaneo

y out of the dense physical vehicle, will be seen towards the close of the mahamanvantara. it will cover the period wherein the lesser four rays merge and blend, seeking duality, and their polar opposites. eventually the four become two, the two become one, and all are then synthesised into the third major ray. the time is not yet, but lies countless aeons ahead. it is the first appearance of the destroyer aspect in connection with the planetary schemes, and marks the beginning of the time when the "heavens will melt with fervent heat" and the sun becomes seven suns.48(217) the microcosmic correspondence can be seen in the following process. the physical permanent atom absorbs the entire life force of the physical body, and its inherent heat and light is thereby increased until at the four

stroys the permanent atom. temporarily, and just prior to destruction, it becomes a tiny sevenfold sun owing to the radiation and activity of the spirillae. so with the physical sun of the system; it will in a similar manner become seven suns, when it has absorbed the life essence of the fully evolved planes, and of the planetary schemes thereon. the ensuing conflagration is the final work of the destroyer aspect. it marks the moment of the highest development of deva substance in the system, the consummation of the work of agni and his fire angels, and the initiation of brahma. atomic substance will then individualise (which, as we know, is the goal for the atom) and after the great pralaya the next solar system will start with the threefold spirit manifesting through substance which is e

s or disintegrates the thought form by withdrawing his energy (occultly, the "attention is withdrawn" or "the eye is no longer upon" it, so that the lesser lives (which had been built into the desired form) fall away and return to the general reservoir of deva substance. thus, in all creative work in mental matter, man is likewise to be seen as a trinity at work; he is the creator, preserver, and destroyer. e. in all occult work in mental matter which has to manifest upon the physical plane, and thus achieve objectivity, man has to work as a unit. this infers the ability, therefore, of the threefold lower man to be subordinated to the ego, so that the dynamic will of the ego may be imposed upon the physical brain. the method of the man on the physical plane who is engaged in conscious work

and it becomes possible for the hierophant at initiation to liberate the energy of the monad, and to direct that energy (through the agency of the rod) so that eventually it circulates free and untrammelled through every part of the lower threefold manifestation. as it circulates, it destroys by burning, for it arouses the kundalini aspect perfectly by the time the fifth initiation is taken. the destroyer aspect becomes dominated, and the form is "burnt upon the altar" these ideas can also be studied in their larger aspect; a clue to the mystery of cosmic evil may be found in the difference existing between the sacred and non-sacred planets, and in the purpose and place, hitherto unrecognised, of the lives of the informing existences of the many planets and planetoids in the solar system

anetary schools are responsible for the energy flowing through the foremost exponents of the four castes and this not only in india but in all parts of the world. its teachers are spoken of as the "graduates of the ruddy fire" and are frequently portrayed as clothed in red robes, and carrying ebony wands. they work under the first aspect logoic and train those whose work is along the lines of the destroyer. neptune this school concerns itself with the development and fostering of the desire element and its graduates are called "the sons of vishnu" their symbol is a robe with a full sailed boat portrayed over the heart, the significance of which will be apparent to those who have eyes to see. it is not permissible to touch upon the other planetary schools, nor would it profit. certain furth

l; nirguna, attributeless, shows the presence of the nature of negation; while saguna, attributeful, implies possession of name and form. the world-process (as embodied in our world-system) is the result of the ideation of maha-vishnu" pranava-vada, pp. 72-74, 94-95. 5 5: mahadeva is literally "great deva" the term is frequently applied to the first person of the manifested trinity, to shiva, the destroyer aspect, the creator. 6 6 "one day out of this long life of brahma is called kalpa; and a kalpa is that portion of time which intervenes between one conjunction of all the planets on the horizon of lanka, at the first point of aries, and a subsequent similar conjunction. a kalpa embraces the reign of fourteen manus, and their sandhies (intervals; each manu lying between two sandhies. ever

u, and shiva. subdivisions of their functions give rise to the names and offices of narayana, etc "among these functions, that of making or creating goes with action and belongs to brahma. again "that which has been made is maintained by knowledge" this maintenance or preservation is the work of vishnu. further, because it is necessary that what has appeared should disappear, therefore is there a destroyer, and he is shiva, connected with desire, which first affirms and next denies, acts and reacts, now attracts and then repels, begins with craving for, and, after satiety, revolts from its object and casts it off. it precedes action, or brahma, as longing for manifestation; and it succeeds knowledge or vishnu, after maintenance or enjoyment of that manifestation, as a sense of fatigue, a g

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uch as self-control and active service) it will fail in its objective. fanaticism is not required. this is made clear in the bhagavad gita "there is no meditation for the man who eats too little or for the man who eats too much, or for him whose habit it is to sleep too much or too little. but for him who is regulated in food, in work; regulated also in sleep and in waking, meditation becomes the destroyer of all suffering."11(46) meditation can be regarded rightly as part of the natural process which thus far has carried man forward along the path of evolution from a stage but little removed from the animal to his present position of mental attainment, scientific achievement and divine unrest. steadily his centre of consciousness has shifted, and steadily his attention has been focussed o

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

eveloped before any one can be trusted with certain knowledges and words of power and the manipulation of those forces which bring the subjective reality into outer manifestation. therefore, i say to you at this time, i an older and perhaps more experienced disciple and worker in the great vineyard of the lord practice harmlessness with zest and understanding, for it is (if truly carried out) the destroyer of all limitation. harmfulness is based on selfishness, and on an ego-centric attitude. it is the demonstration of forces concentrated for self-enforcement- 61- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust self-aggrandisement, and self-gratification. harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere, who lives consciously as a soul, whose

ound common sense and the cultivation of an attitude of mind which refuses to permit time for illusory fears to grow. fear is the main obstacle frequently to a very vital step forward which could be taken in this life, but may have to be delayed to another if due opportunity is not taken and the will nature powerfully excited. the first ray aspirant who fails to overcome his dweller may become a "destroyer of souls, as it is called, and be condemned (until he learns his lesson) to work in the forces of matter, and with the forms which hold all souls in prison. this is the occult significance of the misunderstood words, death and destruction. of this type, the devil is the great prototype. the second ray aspirant who builds his dweller and permits its steady and increasing control becomes a

its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and again the tearer down of forms. the broken forms hold not the power to satisfy. the soul's own form is now the great desire, and thus there comes the entering of the playground of the mind. but in these dreams and fantasies, at times a vision comes a vision of a folded lotus flower, close petalled, tightly sealed, lacking aroma yet, but bathed in cold blue light. o

ansition accompanied by the anointing with oil, as preserved in the catholic church. extreme unction has an occult, scientific basis. the top of the head of the dying man should also symbolically point towards the east and the feet and the hands should be crossed. sandalwood only should be burned in the room and no incense of any other kind permitted, for sandalwood is the incense of the first or destroyer ray and the soul is in process of destroying its habitation. this is all i can at this time communicate on the subject of death for the consideration of the general public. but i conjure all of you to push the study of death and its technique as far as possible and to carry forward occult investigation of this matter. rule twelve- 294- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust

both of profound importance: first, in order to release the "prisoners of the planet" that come under the title of subhuman, man has to work under the influence of the intuition; when working to release his fellow men he has to know the meaning of illumination. when the true nature of service is comprehended, it will be found that it is an aspect of that divine energy which works always under the destroyer aspect, for it destroys the forms in order to release. service is a manifestation of the principle of liberation, and of this principle, death and service, constitute two aspects. service saves, liberates and releases, on various levels, the imprisoned consciousness. the same statements can be made of death. but unless service can he rendered from an intuitive understanding of all the fa

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

he sixth ray egos pass out of incarnation. as to the first ray egos, there are no pure first ray types on the planet. all so-called first ray egos are on the first subray of the second ray, which is in incarnation. a pure first ray ego in incarnation at this time would be a disaster. there is not sufficient intelligence and love in the world to balance the dynamic will of an ego on the ray of the destroyer. just as the human family has a relation to the planetary logos of our earth which is best expressed by stating that it constitutes his heart and brain, so does the sum total of analogous evolutions within the entire solar system constitute the heart and brain of the solar logos. intelligent activity and love are the outstanding characteristics of a developed son of god, whilst their low

d for the ultimate perfecting of the latent and unrevealed purpose. the will of deity coloured the stream of energy units which we call by the name of the ray of will or power, the first ray, and the impact of that stream on the matter of space insured that the hidden purpose of deity would inevitably and eventually be revealed. it is a ray of such dynamic intensity that we call it the ray of the destroyer. it is not as yet functioning actively. it will come into full play only when the time comes for the purpose to be safely revealed. its units of energy in manifestation in the human kingdom are very few. as i earlier said, there is not a true first ray type in incarnation as yet. its main potency is to be found in the mineral kingdom, and the key to the mystery of the first ray is to be

copyright 1998 lucis trust counsel of his thought. nought is revealed. his power is felt. the sons of men, reacting to his power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question: why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, oh mighty son of god? faintly the answer comes: i hold the keys of life and death. i bind and loose again. i, the destroyer, am. this ray lord is not yet in full expression, except as he causes destruction and brings cycles to an end. the monads of power are much fewer in number than any others. egos upon the power ray are relatively not so few. they are characterised by a dynamic will, and their power within the human family works out as the force of destruction, but in the last analysis it is a destruction

ut where the matter utilised and the vehicle informed is as yet imperfectly evolved, there is then limitation and the "tuning out" automatically of much of the energy. the effect of ray force, working through imperfect forms, must be distorted and curtailed and misapplied. let me illustrate. i have said that first ray energy works out as the destruction of forms; it must be remembered that a pure destroyer is utterly unknown, and mercifully for the race this is so. it is a beneficent- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust condition that as yet a first ray ego is so handicapped and limited by the form nature and the quality of that form nature that it is unable to make adequate or intelligent use of its destructive force. first ray pers

hat some of the methods of the hierarchy should begin to be understood. the work of what in the west is called "the christ principle" is to build the forms for the expression of quality and life. that is the characteristic work of the second aspect of divinity. the work of the antichrist is to destroy forms, and this is essentially the work of the first expression of divinity. but the work of the destroyer is not the work of black magic, and when ignorant humanity regards antichrist as working on the black side, their error is great. his work is as beneficent as that of the building aspect, and it is but man's hatred of the death of forms which makes him regard the work of the destroyer as "black" as being against the divine will, and as subversive of the divine programme. the work of the

ste through these seven senses contact with the world of matter and of spirit becomes possible. the seven senses are, in a peculiar way, the physical plane correspondences of the seven rays, and are closely related to and governed by them all. the following tabulation will be found suggestive. that is all that it is intended to be: 1. hearing. 7th ray. magic. the word of power. 2. touch. 1st ray. destroyer .t he finger of god. 3. sight. 3rd ray. vision. the eye of god. 4. taste. 6th ray. idealism .t he desire of nations. 5. smell. 4th ray. art. the beauty of revelation. 6. the intellect. 5th ray. mind. the knowledge of god. 7. the intuition. 2nd ray. love-wisdom. understanding of god. through the words of power the worlds came into ordered being, and the lord of the ray of ceremonial magic

s and the planes- 264- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust ray i..will, dynamically applied, emerges in manifestation as power. ray ii..love, magnetically functioning, produces wisdom. ray iii..intelligence, potentially found in substance, causes activity. the rays and the senses 1. hearing. 7th ray. magic. the word of power. 2. touch. 1st ray. destroyer .t he finger of god 3. sight. 3rd ray. vision. the eye of god 4. taste. 6th ray. idealism .t he desire of nations. 5. smell. 4th ray. art. the beauty of revelation. 6. the intellect. 5th ray. mind. the knowledge of god. 7. the intuition. 2nd ray. love-wisdom. understanding of god. the rays of aspect and of attribute the four rays of attribute, which find their synthesis in the third ray

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ressed at any particular time or in any particular incarnation, the length of the life cycle, and the appearance and disappearance of any of the three form aspects. certain brief paragraphs will suffice to define each of the stages of appropriation. the paragraphs which detail the methods of detachment have been given earlier in a treatise on white magic. ray one. the energy of will or power. the destroyer aspect. souls on this ray are spoken of occultly as "crashing their way into incarnation. they appropriate dynamically that which they require. they brook no hindrance in the satisfactions of their desires. they stand alone in a proud isolation, glorying in their strength, and their ruthlessness. these qualities have to be transmuted into that intelligent use of power which makes them po

sations and who can be trusted to act as agents of destruction under the plan. it is interesting to note that when this stage is reached (the stage of rebuilding as the first ray man understands it, he will usually pass through four incarnations in which he is first of all "the man at the centre" a local point of immobile power. he is conscious of his power, gained whilst functioning as a selfish destroyer, but he is also conscious of frustration and futility. next he passes through a life in which he begins to reorganise himself for a different type of activity, and it will be found that in these cases he will have a third or a seventh ray personality. in the third incarnation he definitely begins rebuilding and works through a second ray personality until, in the fourth life, he can func

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

s which are dominant in your life expression during this incarnation. as you know, your rays soul and personality are the first and fifth; this in itself presents a problem, for it produces a preponderance of force upon the line of the major first ray. fortunately for you, it was the aspect of organisation and the tendency to the occult life which were expressed through these energies and not the destroyer aspect or the over-critical mind, as might have been the case. you are not destructive; your outstanding qualities, if i might so express it, have been the power to organise and rule, and also love of the hidden realities- 307- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust your mental body has been outstandingly a fourth-ray one, giving you a love of harmony which has

nd a clearer perception of what it is you are seeking to undertake. one reason why you can do this work is that all your rays are along the line of building and of religion. you can, therefore, approach the scene in a far more detached manner than if your rays were purely mental or along the line of the first ray which is the ray that always brings withdrawal and abstraction and is the ray of the destroyer or of death itself. ponder on this. there is a connection with the first ray aspect which is will, and that of death. death is now the result of the will of the soul. eventually it has to be the result of the united will of the soul and the personality and when that happens there will be no fear of death. ponder also on this. one of your problems in connection with all spiritual and medi

its allure. the playground of the sons of god no longer holds appeal. the voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. the challenge comes "prove thine own worth. take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose" responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. the way of the destroyer comes, the builder and again the tearer down of forms. the broken forms hold not the power to satisfy. the- 522- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust soul's own form is now the great desire, and thus there comes the entering of the playground of the mind. but in these dreams and fantasies, at times a vision comes a vision of a folded lotus flower, close petall

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e 1. pisces with its rulers: jupiter and pluto> the nation 2. leo with its ruler: the sun. 3. virgo with its rulers: mercury, moon, jupiter> paris. 4. capricorn with its rulers: saturn and venus. 5. ray influences of an indirect nature, coming via the planetary rulers: a. ray 2. love-wisdom, via jupiter and the sun. these are the most powerful. b. ray 1. power or will, via pluto. this is also the destroyer ray and can bring the death of the leo influence. c. ray 3. active intelligence, via saturn. this cooperates with the third ray personality of france, and at this time saturn offers most definite opportunity through the focus of power now to be found in paris. d. ray 4. harmony through conflict, via mercury. can france work for world harmony in the post-war period? e. ray 5. concrete sci

h conflict. the simple interpretation of this is that we are watching the beginning of a new phase and cycle in the history of the country which emerges into prominence through conflict but which is essentially a process of releasing the soul to fuller expression. it is ruled also by pisces, cooperating with the influences of its first ray personality, which is the ray of power and the ray of the destroyer. the whole problem of french-german relation is tied up in this fact for the piscean soul of france and the piscean personality of germany must eventually come to terms and it is obvious, is it not, that the real solution lies in the hands of france, which must let its soul control? it is because of this that, at the close of the piscean age, this whole relationship has come to a focus

saturn as it appears among the rulers of libra. here you have a clue as to why the british empire covers the earth, for there is a close connection between the earth, as a whole, and great britain. it links great britain also with the third ray personality of france. d. ray 1. will or power, via the planet vulcan. there is in the first ray as it expresses itself through vulcan very little of the destroyer aspect as there is in the planetary influence of pluto, another agent of the first ray. again you find in this ruler of great britain's taurian personality, a link with the first ray german personality. it accounts also for the forging of the chains which tie the empire together, making it a unity through the will of the people. e. ray 2. love-wisdom, via the sun, ruler of leo which gove

" this ray produces the condition which brings together germany and the states, for the fourth ray is the german soul ray and the first ray, which vulcan transmits via the moon, links the german soul and personality to the united states. hence the vast numbers of germans who come to the states in order to escape from the personality activity of germany as it expresses itself through its first ray destroyer aspect. d. ray 4. i enumerate this ray for the second time because it expresses itself here through mercury, the messenger, and emphasises the harmony aspect in contradistinction to the conflict angle which the moon and vulcan together have precipitated. it is the moon-vulcan relation which produces the political conflict which always rages in the states. e. ray 5. concrete knowledge and

the hierarchy, whilst simultaneously the thoughts of men are being turned to the plan, to the use of the will in direction and guidance, and to the nature of dynamic force. the quality, for instance, of the explosive and dynamic nature of war in this century is indicative of this, for the will energy in one of its aspects is an expression of death and destruction; the first ray is the ray of the destroyer. what can, therefore, be seen occurring is the effect of the shamballa force upon the forms in nature, due to the misuse of the incoming energy by man. war in the past, speaking generally and esoterically, has been based consistently upon the attractive power of possessions and this has led to the aggressive and grasping character of the motives which have led to war. gradually there has

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

which the intuition can be drawn into activity, and one of the most useful and potent is the study and interpretation of symbols. symbols are the outer and visible forms of the inner spiritual realities, and when facility in discovering the reality behind any specific form has been gained, that very fact will indicate the awakening of the intuition. first ray people belong to what is called the "destroyer ray" and the power of the first aspect, which is the power to bring to an end, flows through them. they will have a tendency to destroy, as they build, through a wrong direction of energy, through over-emphasis of energy in some particular direction, or through misuse of energy in work with themselves or others. many first ray people have the tendency to pride themselves on this and hide

he tangible and the intangible worlds, the pervader of life, or the indweller in all forms. god is the one who can withdraw and, in withdrawing, dispel, dissipate and devitalise all that has been created using those words in their fullest significance. it will be obvious to you, therefore, that in these three activities of that reality which is not identified with appearance, the will of god, the destroyer aspect of deity, is beneficently present. the act of abstraction produces the dispelling of the illusory world of thought; the withdrawal of the divine attention dissipates the sentient universe and brings glamour to an end; the cessation of divine direction brings death to the physical world. all these activities are evidences of the will or of the first aspect the will-to-good which ca

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ely and consciously restricted, until such time as the hierarchy and humanity can respond constructively. it is present, needless to say, and evokes response from those able to swing within its sphere of radiation; but it is felt that as yet there are too many forms of expression which could not react- 107- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust correctly to the work of the "destroyer of forms" which is the most potent aspect of this first ray centre and the one which manifests first, because its work must be accomplished before the two other aspects of its potency can function rightly. the centre called humanity has as yet an inadequate radiation because of its at present inadequate development; its sphere of influence is relatively limited, though men are beginning

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

n the ruler of a sign is given as the sun or the moon i shall speak of one of the hidden planets, uranus or vulcan. these are interchangeable in their use and it is difficult to tell to which the esoteric planet refers unless you have been told. hence my above reference to uranus. in connection with aries, which expresses or is the agent primarily of the first ray of will or power, the ray of the destroyer, it should be stated that first ray energy comes from the divine prototype in the great bear, that it becomes transmuted into the force and activity of the planetary logos of the first ray, and works out as his triple activity under the guidance of the three ruling planets mars, mercury and uranus. mars embodies sixth ray force which leads to idealism, destructive fanaticism frequently

the probationary path with the consequence that transference to the fixed cross (which is all that we can intelligently comprehend) begins really in pisces; though impulsed (if i may use such a word) in aries it begins and ends in pisces. 4. precipitates the process of transmutation and eventual escape through death. 5. unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death and of the work of the destroyer. from this it will be apparent how important and powerful is this sign. through its orthodox ruler, jupiter, that force is brought to bear which "brings all together" and in this case relates the two fishes and binds them together in a functioning relationship. it is the activity consequently of the second ray force which relates soul and form and brings the two together, and this magnet

on the physical plane and through the stage of adolescence until the initiate attains full maturity. this necessitates persistence, endurance and continuity of effort and is one of the characteristics imparted or stimulated by energies pouring from vulcan. you can realise that these are first ray attributes and are the reverse side of those usually emphasised, namely, death or the activity of the destroyer aspect. taurus is an expression of the third unmanifested hierarchy and of this hierarchy we know nothing beyond the fact that it is concerned with the light which liberates from death. therefore, you have: taurus illumination. vulcan first ray or endurance. third creative hierarchy liberating light. virgo the christ-life, latent and unexpressed (as is the 3rd creative hierarchy. the moo

progress upon the great wheel of the zodiac. it is this sign with its combination of energies which has produced such a potent vibratory activity in humanity that it can successfully and eventually enact the role of world saviour. of this salvation, pisces is the sign. pisces is also the sign of death, as you know, and in its death aspect we see the piscean correspondence to the first aspect, the destroyer aspect of the logos. this death aspect is naturally active at the close of the piscean age and is consequently bringing about the present death of form in all the three worlds. b. uranus is the planet of occultism for it veils "that which is essential; it hides that which must be discovered and, at the right moment, it transmits knowledge of the hidden mystery" today, for the mass of men

s- 264- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust these produce a combination of the energies of ray 3. active intelligence. ray 7. ceremonial order or magic. ray 5. concrete mind. it can be noted how this combination of energies when playing upon germany's soul ray of harmony through conflict and her first ray personality, on the ray of power and the destroyer (responsive to shamballa) is responsible for much of the present conflict, for the reason that the reaction of that country (under the influence of its present rulers) has been in terms of the material aspect and not of the spiritual. students would find it useful to re-read some of the foregoing instruction anent the signs leo-pisces-capricorn, so as to familiarise themselves with the n

the next solar system, the third, and the fruition of the personality manifestation of the logos. we need, therefore, to formulate the interpretation of the seven rays in terms of will and not of love or consciousness. this we will now attempt to do. ray i. the energy of will or power. this ray is outstandingly related to that aspect of will which conquers death. it is nevertheless the ray of the destroyer. in this connection, i would remind you that the human attitude that death is the destroyer presents a limited and erroneous point of view. the first ray destroys death because in reality there is no such thing; the concept is all part of the great illusion, is a limitation of the human consciousness, and is basically connected with the brain and not with the heart, strange as that may s

ars (6th) the school for warriors, or the open grades for soldiers. four of these planetary schools are responsible for the energy flowing through the `four castes' in all parts of the world. its teachers are spoken of as `graduates of the ruddy flame' and are frequently portrayed as clothed in red robes. they work under the first logoic aspect and train those whose work is along the lines of the destroyer. neptune (6th) this school concerns itself with the development of the desire element and its graduates are called the `sons of vishnu (cosmic fire. 1177-1179) the schools on saturn, the sun, the moon and on pluto are not given but complete the twelve planets- 413- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrolhu- copyright 1998 lucis trust to produce a condition of utter exha

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

eath of the forms of the vegetable kingdom and is also one of the causes which leads to the autumnal cycle in the year, producing the "sere, the yellow leaf" the loss of verdure in the grass, and those cyclic manifestations which indicate not alone death, upon a temporary and passing scale, but the complete cessation of vitality within a form "times of perishing" are cyclic manifestations of the "destroyer aspect" within the planet itself. these are necessarily difficult matters for you to grasp. this radiatory activity of the planetary life, cyclic in nature and eternally present, is closely related to the influence of the first ray. it is that aspect of the ray of will or power which produces the dissolution of the form, and the corruption and dissipation of the bodily vehicle until it h

that students will do something of major importance to aid in bringing forth the light upon the processes of death which humanity is today demanding. on death excerpts from other writings "why this blind power? why death? why this decay of forms? why the negation of the power to hold? why death, o mighty son of god" faintly the answer comes "i hold the keys of life. i bind and loose again. i the destroyer am. a treatise on the seven rays, vol. i, page 63. the intent of the lord of the first ray is to stand behind the other divine aspects, and when they have achieved their purpose, to shatter the forms they have built. he is the controller of the death drama in all kingdoms a destruction of forms which brings about release of power and permits "entrance into light through the gateway of de

beration and not by that of limitation. death is only recognised as a factor to be dealt with by self-conscious lives and is only misunderstood by human beings, who are the most glamoured and deluded of all incarnated lives. a treatise on white magic, page 534. when the nature of true service is comprehended, it will be found that it is an aspect of that divine energy which works always under the destroyer aspect, for it destroys the forms in order to release. service is a manifestation of the principle of liberation, and of this principle, death and service constitute two aspects. service saves, liberates and releases, on various levels, the imprisoned consciousness. the same statements can be made of death. but unless service can be rendered from an intuitive understanding of all the fac

happened, the conscious entity cannot return to the dense physical body, and that body, lacking the principle of coherence, then disintegrates. a treatise on white magic, page 494. the processes of abstraction are (as you may thus see) connected with the life aspect, are set in motion by an act of the spiritual will, and constitute the "resurrection principle which lies hidden in the work of the destroyer" as an old esoteric saying expresses it. the lowest manifestation of this principle is to be seen in the process of what we call death which is in reality a means of abstracting the life principle, informed by consciousness, from the form of the bodies in the three worlds. thus, the great synthesis emerges and destruction, death, and dissolution are, in reality, naught but life processes

ransition, accompanied by the anointing with oil, as preserved in the catholic church. extreme unction has an occult, scientific basis. the top of the head of the dying man should also symbolically point towards the east, and the feet and hands should be crossed. sandalwood only should be burned in the room, and no incense of any other kind permitted, for sandalwood is the incense of the first or destroyer ray, and the soul is in process of destroying its habitation- 271- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust a treatise on white magic, page 505. if there is one factor aspirants recognise, it is the need of freeing themselves from the great illusion. arjuna knew this, yet succumbed to despair. yet in his hour of need, krishna failed him not, bu

handicaps the incarnating soul. it can find no point of focus, because essentially fire repels the form-making aspect of desire and is a major expression of divinity with which the astral plane has no true relation, being created entirely by the human soul and not the divine soul "our god is a consuming fire" is the statement in the bible which refers to the first divine aspect, the aspect of the destroyer, releasing the life "god is love" connotes the second aspect and portrays god as incarnated existence "god is a jealous god" is an expression indicating god as form, circumscribed and limited, self-centered and not outgoing. the destroying sound; the attracting word; the individualised speech! at the time of death, speech fades out as the word sounds forth and restitution is enforced; la

ollows the act of final integration. here, in esoteric phraseology, the entire process of death is described. it is important to note that it is under the basic and fundamental law of attraction that the art of dying is carried forward, and that it is the love aspect, the second aspect of divinity, which does the attracting. i exclude cases of sudden death. there the activity is the result of the destroyer, or the first divine aspect. there the condition is different; individual karmic necessity may not be involved at all, and reasons of group conditioning and of great obscurity may lie behind such a happening. so obscure is the subject at this time that i shall not attempt to elucidate. you do not know enough about the law of karma, about karmic group involvement, or about relationships a

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ds that end. but at the same time, let us never forget that it is the life, its purpose and its directed intentional destiny that is of importance; and also that when a form proves inadequate, or too diseased, or too crippled for the expression of that purpose, it is from the point of view of the hierarchy no disaster when that form has to go. death is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the destroyer is not really cruel or undesirable. i say this to you who am myself upon the ray of love and know its meaning. there are two lines of destruction: that which is meted out by human beings with no understanding of the life purposes, who act blindly and ignorantly, prompted by selfish desire, by love of power or by hatred; there is also that which is permitted by the soul in due and right t

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

nd a cycle of organisation, of planning and of effective expression will follow. reflection, meditation and visualisation will give place to scientific thinking (which is essentially meditation) and to the needed physical plane activity. this will take place, esoterically speaking, under the impression of the masters upon the three major rays. the first ray of will or power (the ray of the divine destroyer) is already actively working, destroying the old and outworn conditions and bringing about the wreckage of the old civilisation so that the new order can be effectively brought into expression. as the christ said, when he instituted the christian civilisation of the past two thousand years (which has gone sadly far from his original intention, you "cannot put new wine in old bottles" the

upon the "eye" in this formula. it is a keynote and appears in various guises. behind all the ideas lies the concept of seeing, of a seeing one, looking on at the created whole. this same concept is to be found in the fundamental masonic symbol of the eye of god which dominates everything within the temple. in this formula we have: 1. the eye of god. shiva is the first person of the trinity, the destroyer, but at the same time the final absorber, the whole and yet the part. this is the organ of the divine will or power, the eye, through whose directed gaze the power flows outward to its created whole. in the case of the human spirit, it is the monad. 2. the eye of vision, indicating this time not the directing energy, but the conscious observer- 183- discipleship in the new age- volume ii

with the life aspect. it is concerned with the revelation of the nature of life, and is therefore related to the circulation and interplay of energy. formula five. deals with the will aspect. it is concerned with the revelation of divine purpose, and is therefore related to shamballa. formula six. deals with the nature of death. it is concerned with the revelation of the constructive work of the destroyer aspect. it is therefore related to the passing piscean age and- 185- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust with all processes of "abstraction" these formulas have seven interpretations; only three of them are, however, possible of discovery by the disciple in training at this particular time, because only the light from the spiritual triad can convey this type

by an aspect of the mind. formula iii. deals with changes in the soul nature. time and space. the eternal now or immortality. formula iv. deals with the life aspect. concerns the circulation of energy, and therefore the mode of the creative process. formula v. deals with the first aspect, with the will. relates to divine purpose. shamballa. formula vi. concerns death. the constructive work of the destroyer aspect. the "passing" of zodiacal and other cycles- 239- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust this sixth formula is a deduction from the other five. i have been dealing in these instructions with the larger formulations. the lesser might be regarded as the subjecting of the formulas to the first and third methods of interpretation, whilst the larger group of

eternally grateful. august 1942 1. be not afraid of loneliness. the soul that cannot stand alone has naught to give. 2. cut deep into the roots of all thy life. seek freedom from the past. yet move not from the plane where life has placed you in a part to play. 3. the rhythm of all life pulsates in time and space and in that rhythm you must find a note that liberates. 4. ponder on the work of the destroyer, why comes destruction and why the loss of beauty that has been. your task in life should make that knowledge possible. then build. 5. be a sannyasin free, alone with god, your soul and me. then work and love- 530- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. your major life theme in this coming year is: search freedom. ponder on this. it is the goal for all. sept

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ain angles the work of the second group (the trained observers) is exceedingly hard, harder perhaps than that of any other group except that which is engaged in political work. in the latter field the work of the first ray of will or power is beginning to make its presence felt, and hence the great difficulty. the energy which works out in political activity is not yet understood. the work of the destroyer aspect has been kept relatively in the background and only during the past half century has it become definitely active. this became possible because the whole world, practically speaking, was involved and only in the region or realm of synthesis can the first ray function. this is a point to be remembered and one that is little grasped as yet. i wonder if you can appreciate the importan

between life, the solar energies and the lunar forces. this involves a difficult task and much understanding; the work to be done is not easy to comprehend. it will be carried forward by first ray workers, assisted by seventh ray aspirants, but using fifth- 38- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust ray methods. they will thus combine, in their personnel, the work of the destroyer of outgrown forms, the findings of the scientists who penetrated behind the outer form to its motivating energy, and the practical work of the magician who under the law creates the new forms, as expressions of the inflowing life. this group of disciples will make a close study of the problem of evil, and they will bring about a better understanding of the purpose existing in matter or s

to the hierarchy; the hierarchy is their transmitting agency; they occasionally reach those thinking people, focussed on the mental plane, who have clear vision, potent resolve, directed will and open minds, plus of course, essential purity of form. these avatars express the will of god, the energy of shamballa, and the impulse lying behind divine purpose. when they do come forth, it will be the destroyer aspect of the first ray of power which they will express; they bring about death the death of all old and limiting forms and of that which houses evil. their work will, therefore, fall into two categories: a. they will destroy the forces of evil, using the agency of the forces of light. b. they will reveal as much of the divine purpose as humanity is able to grasp through its best minds

hrist has gone into retreat for a month and cannot be reached even by the masters until may 5th. he is in closest consultation with the buddha and with the lord of the world. this great triangle of potencies the lord of will or power, the lord of wisdom, and the lord of love are today entirely preoccupied with the task of bringing the war to an end, and therefore with the task of neutralising the destroyer aspect of the first ray. this they will do by implementing the will-to-good by means of the wisdom of which the buddha is the experienced custodian, and also by laying down those plans whereby the christ may via the hierarchy and the new group of world servers bring about that "loving understanding (esoterically- 290- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust unders

cal energy made its first impact on earth (after the great council held in 1825, it first of all awakened men's thinking in a new and comprehensive way, producing the great ideologies; it aroused their massed desire, and registered obstruction on the physical plane. it found its course impeded and discovered it was faced with barriers. this energy from shamballa, being an aspect of the ray of the destroyer, proceeded to "burn up" in the fires of destruction, all such hindrances upon the planes in the three worlds. this was the deeply esoteric and unrecognised cause of the war the beneficent bringing to an end of the impediments to the free flow of spiritual energy down into the third centre; this was the factor which called "evil from its hidden place" and brought the opposing forces to th

nt mode of adjustment to human demands than that entailed by the admittance of disciples to their ashrams; it requires the attention of certain disciples and initiates in all the ashrams and the ability of the hierarchy to penetrate and dissipate the thick cloud of inchoate thoughtforms which the bewildered, interested and curious public have created anent them. 4. the use by the hierarchy of the destroyer aspect of divinity, the first ray, in such a manner that it is in fact a creative factor and one which, in the last analysis, not only releases the life from its previous limitations, but also calls in under the law of balance the building activity of the second ray. the work of destruction is now practically accomplished and over, and the work of the builders is beginning. 5. the new gr

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

re imprisoning the inner spiritual life, and hiding the inner soul light. this energy is therefore one of the major aspects of the purificatory nature of the divine life, and that is the reason why i have put purification ahead of destruction. it is the destroying aspect of life itself, just as there is a destructive agency in matter itself. two things must be borne in mind in connection with the destroyer aspect of deity and with those responsible for its appearance: a. the destructive activity is set in motion through the will of those who constitute the council at shamballa and who are instrumental in bringing the forms in all the subhuman kingdoms into line with the evolving purpose. under cyclic law, this destructive energy comes into play and destroys the forms of life which prevent

of the mind, to the organised planning of his separate and individual life in the three worlds, and which eventually relates and reorients that will to the will of god. these three energies are faintly symbolised for us in the life of christ when overshadowing the master jesus, two thousand years ago. the purificatory aspect of the monadic force is indicated at the baptism episode; secondly, the destroyer aspect can be seen expressing itself at the time of the crucifixion, when it rent the veil of the temple from the top to the bottom. the episode which indicates the energy of organisation and the relation of the spiritual will of the christ to the purpose and the will of the father appears when he said, in the garden of gethsemane "not my will but thine be done" this final episode is clo

synthetically, and motivated, implemented, engineered and made possible by the dynamic aspect of the same will. it is interesting to note that there is every evidence in the world today that the shamballa energy is directly impinging upon the human consciousness and directly producing results. the- 78- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust destroyer aspect of the first ray of will or power is producing worldwide destruction through the use of the first kingdom in nature, the mineral kingdom. that which is made of metals and chemicals is bringing catastrophe and destruction on earth, primarily in the human kingdom. at the same time the second attribute of the will, synthesis, is evoking an equally widespread response. this sense of s

dhi" the vital energies from all the centres are concentrated in the highest head centre in the etheric body, in the area just above the physical head. thus the analogy is complete. the processes of abstraction are (as you may thus see) connected with the life aspect, are set in motion by an act of the spiritual will, and constitute the "resurrection principle which lies hidden in the work of the destroyer" as an old esoteric saying expresses it. the lowest manifestation of this principle is to be seen in the process of what we call death which is in reality a means of abstracting the life principle, informed by consciousness, from the form or the bodies in the three worlds. thus, the great synthesis emerges, and destruction, death, and dissolution are in reality naught but life processes

nsider each of them separately. let us now look at the first sentence. 1. let the group together move the fire within the jewel in the lotus into the triad. let me first remind you that fire always connotes the first aspect and this, as you know, is the life aspect. to this let me add the well-known fact that "our god is a consuming fire" and call to your recollection that the first aspect is the destroyer aspect. you have immediately established a relation between the first two qualities with which we have been dealing and the work of the crucifixion as a symbolic expression of the fourth initiation. the achieving of a selfless and impersonal group interrelation was the first prerequisite, and the word "together" in this rule deals with the work of the group when as a closely knit unit it

attainment of the ability to use the group will dynamically can be more easily understood if it is realised that it means the extension of the point of tension into realms which involve the super-consciousness of the disciple; also that the release of the life aspect from the confines of the causal body produces a new cycle of invocation and invocative activity. this brings about an inflow of the destroyer aspect of the divine will, and consequently the complete destruction of the causal vehicle. secondly, it is not to be inferred that all in the group must be disciples who are in process of taking the fourth initiation. a group can be composed of disciples and initiates of all degrees, though there must be among the group personnel at least one disciple who has taken the initiation of cru

ying of forms in the three worlds, but that is an effect and only a secondary destruction; something else has been destroyed on a higher level and outside the three worlds. this, in due time, may produce a form-reaction to which we may give the name of death. but the death of that form was not a primary objective and was not even considered, because it was not within the range of awareness of the destroyer. the higher destruction which we are considering is related to the destruction of certain forms of consciousness which express themselves in great areas or extensive thoughtforms; these may have, in turn, conditioned human thinking. perhaps the simplest illustration i can give you of this type of destruction would be concerned with the major ideologies which down the ages have conditione

king the building of the antahkarana an outstanding achievement, thus linking and aligning the three aspects in man. the same is true of the three divine centres in the planet which embody these divine qualities: shamballa, hierarchy, and humanity. these are now closely aligned, thus producing a fusion of energies which is causing an inflow of the spiritual will, as well as a demonstration of the destroyer aspect. i have here indicated much of interest; i have pointed out a goal and indicated a way. i have related (in consciousness) the hierarchy and shamballa. this signifies a great and critical moment in human affairs and an opportunity hitherto unparalleled in history. the need for a due appreciation of this will be evident, and should incite all who read to renewed effort and to fresh

s called the race of men" and has produced two potent results: first, the world war was precipitated and, secondly, the fission of the atom, resulting in the atomic bomb, was brought about. both these events were made possible by the pouring-in of the energy and power of the third aspect of the first ray of power or will. this is the lowest aspect, and definite material effects were produced. the destroyer aspect was therefore the first aspect to take effect. it split the thought-form of materialistic living (which was governing and controlling humanity everywhere) upon the mental plane and, at the same time, it produced a great agent of destruction upon the physical plane. thus was the new era ushered in; thus was the stage set for a better future. this was the intent and the purpose of t

anet, reacts to these initiations; they produce world events, and those stupendous points of crisis which (up to date) have worked destructively where the form aspect is concerned, but which have developed into those stages of sensitive unfoldment and progression when the work of the builders (the second divine aspect) is added to and takes advantage of the liberty or release brought about by the destroyer (the first aspect. there are always these two phases. through the past civilisations and their eventual catastrophic destruction, the planetary logos has gradually prepared the ground or planetary field for the "planting of the germ of will" the nurturing of which is a future part of human destiny. the seven major phases of the unfoldment of the human race (of which our modern aryan race

lisation to another (each being built upon the cultural seed of the preceding one, after a due flowering of the civilisation) we could say of sanat kumara what has been said of the christ, that "he sees of the travail of his soul and is satisfied" so blind are men that when a civilisation comes to an end, when the familiar mode of cultural expression is brought (as is usual) under the hand of the destroyer, humanity regards it as a major disaster and dreads and fears the ruin which usually surrounds such an event. but from the standpoint of the world of significances, progress is seen and the day of fulfillment draws much nearer. our modern civilisation today (under the hammer of the destroyer aspect) is being changed; old things are passing away, having served their purpose. the new thing

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

tail is provided as to when or if it should indeed be performed again. once more, such details are known to the performer of the ritual, and may even be yet another ground of innovation. 1.8 empowerments the final ritual act is the recitation of a series of empowerments that increase the worth of the offerings given to tsiu marpo and strengthen his vow as a protector of the buddhist teachings and destroyer of its enemies. 1.9. colophon the text ends with a colophon stating that it was composed by the third pa.chen lama, lozang penden yesh. this is followed by a final prayer that the buddhist teachings be further propagated by means of this ritual. the text explicitly states that this service is requested by and performed for a sponsor. a concluding prayer is offered, entreating the sponsor

BLACK SERPENT1

listed as a weapons master, a war daemon, and a daemon to be called on for gain in the material world. artwork by l. breton from dictionnaire infernal by j. collin de plancy (paris 1863, 7th edition. 27 daemon word search by adrianna he who is earth. 2. lord of the covenant, later made lord of death. 3. he is a great mighty earle, appearing in ye forme of an hart wth a firey [fiery] taile 4. the destroyer 5. his fire burns as the sun. 6. to present as an act of worship.(plural) 7. the most personal offering you can make. 8. an appeal or prayer for evil or misfortune to befall someone or something. 9. an elevated place or structure before which religious ceremonies may be enacted. 10. daemoness of hatred 11. we to the demonic plane by way of a meditation practice. 12. the philistine god o

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pears, whereas it is simply reabsorbed into the parent essence. cosmic pralaya is for things visible, not for the arupa, formless, world. the cosmic or universal pralaya comes only at the end of one hundred years of brahma; when the universal dissolution is said to take place. then the avyaya, say the exoteric scriptures, the eternal life symbolized by vishnu, assuming the character of rudra, the destroyer, enters into the seven rays of the sun and drinks up all the waters of the universe "thus fed, the seven solar rays dilate to seven suns and set fire to the whole cosmos* since a maha-yuga is the 1,000th part of a day of brahma[[vol. 2, page] 70 the secret doctrine. add sandhis, i.e, intervals between the reign of each manu, which amount to six maha-yugas, equal to. 25,920,000 the total

of all life. in our system it is the visible sun, the spirit of nature, the terrestrial god. and in, on, and around the earth, the fiery spirit thereof- air, fluidic fire; water, liquid fire; earth, solid fire. all is fire- ignis, in its ultimate constitution, or i, the root of which is o (nought) in our conceptions, the all in nature and its mind. pro-mater is divine fire. it is the creator, the destroyer, the preserver. the primitive names of the gods are all connected with fire, from agni, the aryan, to the jewish god who "is a consuming fire" in india, god is called in various dialects, eashoor, esur, iswur, and is'vara, in sanskrit the lord, from isa, but this is primarily the name of siva, the destroyer; and the three vedic chief gods are agni (ignis, vayu, and surya- fire, air, and

helling) of the two primitives aish and asr, or a "fireenchanter" aesar in the old etruscan meant a god (being perhaps derived from asura of the vedas. aeswar and eswara are analogous terms, as dr. kenealy thought. in the bhagavad gita we read "iswara resides in every mortal being and puts in motion, by his supernatural power, all things which mount on the wheel of time" it is the creator and the destroyer, truly "the primitive fire was supposed to have an insatiable appetite for devouring. maximus of tyre relates that the ancient persians threw into the fire combustible matter crying 'devour, oh lord' in the irish language easam, or asam, means 'to create' and aesar was the name of an ancient irish god, meaning 'to light a fire (kenealy. the christian kabalists and symbologists who disfig

ifferent centres of the continent of that period. though all of one common origin, yet for reasons given their potentialities and mental capabilities, outward or physical forms, and future characteristics, were very different* as to their complexions, there is a suggestive allegory told in linga purana. the kumdra- the rudra gods, so called (see further, are described as incarnations of siva, the destroyer (of outward forms, named also vamadeva. the latter, as a kumara, the "eternal celibate" the chaste virgin youth, springs from brahma in each great manvantara, and "again becomes four; a reference to the four great divisions of the human races, as regards complexion and type- and three chief variations of these. thus in the 29th kalpa- in this case a reference to the transformation and ev

s or broods on the great abyss of the waters, during the interval which takes place after every mundane (or racial) cycle" ark is also the mystic name of the divine spirit of life which broods over chaos. now vishnu is the divine spirit, as an abstract principle, and also as the preserver and generator, or giver of life- the third person of the trimurti (composed of brahma, the creator, siva, the destroyer, and vishnu, the preserver. vishnu is shown in the allegory as guiding, under the form of a fish, the ark of vaivasvata manu clean across the waters of the flood. there is no use in expatiating upon the esoteric meaning of the word fish (see payne knight, inman, gerald massey, etc) its theological meanings is phallic, but the metaphysical, divine. jesus is called the "fish" and so were v

or virgin-youth, born of agni* for the purpose of destroying taraka, the danava demon, the grandson of kasyapa by hiranyaksha, his son* whose (taraka's) yogi austerities were so extraordinary that they became formidable to the gods, who feared such a rival in power* while indra, the bright god of the firmament, kills vritra (or ahi, the serpent- demon- for which feat he is called vritra-han "the destroyer of vritra; he also leads the hosts of devas (angels or gods) against other gods who rebel against brahma, for which he is entitled jishnu "leader of the celestial host" karttikeya is found bearing the same titles. for killing taraka, the danava, he is taraka-jit "vanquisher of taraka "kumara guha "the mysterious virgin-youth "siddha-sena "the leader of the siddhas; and saktidhara "spearh

ystic meaning. in the hand of siva it becomes linga and yonic. that which is meant is this: siva, as said before, is unknown by that name in the vedas; and it is in the white yajur veda that he appears for the first time as the great god- mahadeva- whose symbol is the lingham. in rig veda he is called rudra, the "howler" the beneficent and the maleficent deity at the same time, the healer and the destroyer. in the vishnu purana, he is the god who springs from the forehead of brahma, who separates into male and female, and he is the parent of the rudras or maruts, half of whom are brilliant and gentle, others, black and ferocious. in the vedas, he is the divine ego aspiring to return to its pure, deific state, and at the same time that divine ego imprisoned in earthly form, whose fierce pas

e is the divine ego aspiring to return to its pure, deific state, and at the same time that divine ego imprisoned in earthly form, whose fierce passions make of him the "roarer" the "terrible" this is well shown in the brihadaranyaka upanishad, wherein the rudras, the progeny of rudra, god of fire, are called the "ten vital breaths (prana, life) with manas, as eleventh, whereas as siva, he is the destroyer of that life. brahma calls him rudra, and gives him, besides, seven other names, which names are his seven forms of manifestation, also the seven powers of nature which destroy but to recreate or regenerate. hence the cruciform noose (pasa) in his hand, when he is represented as an ascetic, the mahayogin, has no phallic signification, and it, indeed, requires a strong imagination bent in

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n reader. but to a student of the occult the terms used will be sufficiently clear. all these "light "flame "hot "cold "fire "heat "water" and the "water of life" are all, on our plane, the progeny; or as a modern physicist would say, the correlations of electricity. mighty word, and a still mightier symbol! sacred generator of a no less sacred progeny; of fire- the creator, the preserver and the destroyer; of light- the essence of our divine ancestors; of flame- the soul of things. electricity, the one life at the upper rung of being, and astral fluid, the athanor of the alchemists, at its lowest; god and devil, good and evil[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] rest, and may as well mean "holy" as not. it is a blind, very suggestive in connection with certain superstitions

du scriptures- undoubtedly as old, if not far older. here it is parasara, the aryan "hermes" who instructs maitreya, the indian asclepios, and calls upon vishnu in his triple hypostasis "glory to the unchangeable, holy, eternal supreme vishnu, of one universal nature, the mighty over all; to him who is hiranyagarbha, hari, and sankara (brahma, vishnu, and siva, the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer of the world; to vasudeva, the liberator (of his worshippers; to him whose essence is both single and manifold; who is both subtile and corporeal, indiscreet and discreet; to vishnu the cause of final emancipation, the cause of the creation, existence, the[[vol. 1, page] 287 alone the eternal is rest. end of the world; who is the root of the world, and who consists of the world (vish. pu

of the pralaya before which fourteen manvantaras elapse, having over them as many presiding manus, and at whose close occurs the "incidental" or brahma's dissolution, it is said in vishnu purana, in condensed form, that "at the end of a thousand periods of four ages, which complete a day of brahma, the earth is almost exhausted. the eternal avyaya (vishnu) assumes then the character of rudra (the destroyer, siva) and re-unites all his creatures to himself. he enters the seven rays of the sun and drinks up all the waters of the globe; he causes the moisture to evaporate, thus drying up the whole earth. oceans and rivers, torrents and small streams, are all exhaled. thus fed with abundant moisture the seven solar rays become sevens suns by dilation, and they finally set the world on fire. ha

r, siva) and re-unites all his creatures to himself. he enters the seven rays of the sun and drinks up all the waters of the globe; he causes the moisture to evaporate, thus drying up the whole earth. oceans and rivers, torrents and small streams, are all exhaled. thus fed with abundant moisture the seven solar rays become sevens suns by dilation, and they finally set the world on fire. hari, the destroyer of all things, who is 'the flame of time, kalagni' finally consumes the earth. then rudra, becoming janardana, breathes clouds and rain" there are many kinds of pralaya, but three chief ones are specially mentioned in old hindu books; and of these, as wilson shows- the first is called naimittika "occasional" or "incidental" caused by the intervals of "brahma's days" it is the destruction

western god of love, mercy and charity. if the student of esoteric philosophy thinks deeply over the subject he is sure to find out all the suggestiveness of the term ambhamsi, in its manifold relations to the virgin in heaven, to the celestial virgin of the alchemists, and even to the "waters of grace" of the modern baptist[[vol. 1, page] 459 the patron-guide of israel. the howling and terrific destroyer of human passions and physical senses, which are ever in the way of the development of the higher spiritual perceptions and the growth of the inner eternal man- mystically* are the progeny of siva, the mahayogi, the great patron of all the yogis and mystics of india. they themselves, being the "virgin-ascetics" refuse to create the material being man. well may they be suspected of a dire

primitive greek church, had identified michael with their ophiomorphos, the rebellious and opposing spirit. this means nothing more than the reverse aspect (symbolically) of ophis- divine wisdom or christos. in the talmud, mikael (michael) is "prince of water" and the chief of the seven spirits, for the same reason that his prototype (among many others) sanat-sujata[[footnote(s* siva-rudra is the destroyer, as vishnu is the preserver; and both are the regenerators of spiritual as well as of physical nature. to live as a plant, the seed must die. to live as a conscious entity in the eternity, the passions and senses of man must first die before his body does "to live is to die and to die is to live" has been too little understood in the west. siva, the destroyer, is the creator and the savi

as mr. crookes has it "locked in protyle" it is the action of fohat upon a compound or even a simple body that produces life. when a body dies it passes into the same polarity as its male energy and repels therefore the active agent, which, losing hold of the whole, fastens on the parts or molecules, this action being called chemical. vishnu, the preserver, transforms himself into rudra-siva, the destroyer- a correlation seemingly unknown to science[[vol. 1, page] 527 we disagree "i shall not dwell at great length on this unity of sun-force and earth, which this theory implies. but i may add that out of it, or out of the hypothesis of mere motion as force, and of virtue without substance, we may gather, as the nearest possible approach to the truth on this, the most complex and profound of

as dr. richardson thinks. it has only changed its state from activity to passivity, and become latent owing to the too morbid state of the tissues, on which it has no more hold. once the rigor mortis absolute, the "liquor vitae" will re-awaken into action, and begin its work on the atoms chemically. brahma-vishnu- the creator and the preserver of life- will have transformed himself into siva the destroyer. lastly he writes on p. 387 "the nervous ether may be poisoned; it may, i mean, have diffused through it, by simple gaseous diffusion, other gases or vapours derived from without; it may derive from within products of substances swallowed and ingested, or gases of decomposition produced during disease in the body itself" and the learned gentleman might have added on the same occult princ

ent some, while trying to comprehend that which has hitherto remained to them a riddle, from creating additional causes in a world already so full of woe and evil. knowledge of karma gives the conviction that if. virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind* it is only because that mankind has ever shut its eyes to the great truth that man is himself his own saviour as his own destroyer. that he need not accuse heaven and the gods, fates and providence, of the apparent injustice that reigns in the midst of humanity. but let him rather remember and repeat this bit of grecian wisdom, which warns man to forbear accusing that which "just, though mysterious, leads us on unerring through ways unmark'd from guilt to punishment- which are now the ways and the high road on which

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lk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl in the wilderness of time! let the towers of the universe totter

ess extends the lance-point with her left hand to receive the particle. the priest clasps the cup in his left hand. together they depress the lance-point in the cup. the priest and the priestess: hriliu. the priest takes the lance. the priestess covers the cup. the equinox 268 the priest genuflects, rises, bows, joins hands. he strikes his breast. the priest: o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. o lion and o serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. the priest joins hands upon the breast of the priestess, and takes back his lance. he turns to the people, lowers and raises the lance, and makes+ upon them. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. the people: love is the

BOOK OF PLEASURE

of evolving millions of ideas for pleasure without love, or its synonyms- self-reproach, sickness, old-age, and death. the symposium of self and love. o! wise man, please thyself. the complete ritual and doctrine of magic the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 26 ecstasy in self-love the obsession my dearest, i will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all secrets. let it be secret to him who would attain. let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. there is no qualification*(1, nor ritual or ceremony. his very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. you are alive! magic, the re

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

f flame appeared between them. shiva appeared from within the flaming pillar, which was symbol of his masculine power, and the other gods bowed before him. invoke shiva for animus power, potency, survival and male rituals. shakti shakti, or matahdevi, is the female energy or power of shiva. her name is also used for the wife of any hindu god. she is the mother goddess and, like shiva, creator and destroyer in her different aspects. shakti provides the energy that activates shiva's male divine power, and her life-giving force animates other gods in difficult tasks. although there are several other hindu female goddesses, they all form aspects of shakti and often their identities merge. one of shakti's forms is as parvati, the gentle mother. shakti is potent for all rituals of women's power

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

sa'il of ikhwan as-safa (encyclopaedia of the brotherhood of purity) and, possibly, by hermetic sources< bahya s the duties of the heart, written in arabic in around 1075, denote the first complete assimilation of muslim ascetic theology into judaism -s.d. goitein, ebrei e arabi, 1980, p. 179> 1162 to 1227- life of genghis khan, conqueror of china and russia, invader of europe and islamic empire, destroyer of assassin power. approximate beginnings of the wandering of the gypsies of north india. 1163: work begins on the gothic cathedral of notre-dame de paris. 1165 prester john letter addressed to manuel commentus, emperor of byznatium. c.1165- 1210 jehan bodel troubadour from provence. c. 1165- c. 1230 eleazar ben judah of worms. sodei razayya("secrets of secrets) in 4 parts -1st part is a

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s a right and a wrong course of action; thus the individual comes to share in shaping his fate, for his actions intervene as determining factors in world events. at the center of events, the individual who is conscious of responsibility is on a par with the cosmic forces of heaven and earth, and in such a manner, can influence changes.6 41 4 water war introduction gong the water god is an ancient destroyer god who wrestled for control of the earth shortly after the creation of people. his predecessor, zurong the fire god, ruled the world peacefully before him. when gong became the ruler, he wanted to expand his influence by increasing the amount of water in the universe in the ratio of seventenths water to three-tenths dry land. to achieve his goal, gong sent torrential rains and came clos

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efined by those trapezoids (the five; hence 4+5 (the nine. seventh angle: the destruction of the status of monotheism by the addition of a line/angle to the hex. the legacy of the first beast of revelation and his sevenfold seal and star of babalon (a'.a. the forces of the aeon of horus overcoming those of the aeon of osiris. yet the only thing that can be said of seven is that it is an effective destroyer of six. it has no creative properties of its own; it has neither the strength of symmetry nor the magical powers of its asymmetrical predecessors (1,3,5. proponents of six-isms instinctively fear seven: they warn about such things as the seventh son of a seventh son, of the seven towers of satan in yezidi legend, of the seventh seal, of the jewel of the seven stars. seven is thus a harbi

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cluding queen semeramis. the red rose was symbolic of female sexuality and the white rose or lily is the virgin goddess. christians associated mary with both the rose and the lily and they called her the "holy rose. this is the same title given to the indian great mother. the rosary used so widely in the roman catholic mother-son cult was copied from the "rosary of the mantras" worn by the indian destroyer-goddess kali ma. arabs called their rosaries wadija or "rose garden" and the latin version of this, rosarium, described the early rosaries in mother mary worship. in satanism, one of the main codenames for babies bred for sacrifice is rose-mary's baby. this was the name of a film by roman polanski, the husband of the actress sharon tate who was murdered with her unborn child by the satan

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lly fakirs. hypnosis was widely used in thetemples. the demon worshippers of bel/baal/nimrod in canaan, babylon andphoenicia engaged in human sacrifice, cannibalism, and child murder in the name ofmoloch or molech, an aspect of nimrod/baal, as part of their religious rituals.8 baal(lord or ruler, the supreme god of the canaanites and phoenicians, was said to be thegiver of life and moloch was the destroyer of life. both demanded appeasement bysacrifice. baal or moloch became identified with the roman god saturn.in honour of baal, the sun god and god of fire, the carthaginians, following the ritualsof the phoenicians and canaanites, rolled children into a fiery pit made in the shape of theimage of baal/moloch. at a site near modern tunis six thousand urns were foundcontaining the charred re

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for. in brief, the great art of the past has enabled us to achieve an understanding of ourselves- it has brought us to individuation, to the wisdom of a genuine adeptship founded upon the reconciliation of opposites. we have discovered and learnt to know ourselves- and have discovered the unity, the wholeness, which lies beyond the shadow and the self. we have learnt that we are- or can be- both destroyer and creator, both lucifer and god, as we have learnt the natural necessity of both these forces of creation, and destruction, and how renewal and re-birth proceeds from them. we now need to and should go beyond this- for anything else is unhealthy and a waste of life. it is also the negation of the work of those great artists which has allowed us this understanding. thus, there is no lon

, and can supply a starving city with food for thirteen moons in one moon. a most noble power. his word is aggha and his seal: the twenty-seventh name is hegal as the power above, a master of the arts of farming and agriculture. bestows rich harvests. possesses the knowledge of the metals of the earth, and of the plough. his word is burdishu and his seal thus: the twenty-eighth name is sirsir the destroyer of tiamat, hated of the ancient ones, master over the serpent, foe of kutulu. a most powerful lord. his word is this apirikubabadazuzukanpa and his seal: the twenty-ninth name is malah trod the back of the worm and cut it in twain. lord of bravery and courage, and gives these qualities to the priest who desires it, or to others the priest may decide. the word is bachachadugga and the sea

e creation, and the nature of the structures of the four pillars whereupon the heavens rest. his word is alalalabaaal and the seal is: the thirty-fifth name is zulummar giveth tremendous strength, as of ten men, to one man. lifted the part of tiamat that was to become the sky from the part that was to become the earth. his word is anndarabaal and his seal is: the thirty-sixth name is lugalabdubur destroyer of the gods of tiamat. vanquisher of her hordes. chained kutulu to the abyss. fought azag-thoth with skill. a great defender and a great attacker. his word is agnibaal and his seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his wor

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e existence of ohrmazd; and, afterwards, he arose from the abyss, and came in unto the light which he saw. 10. desirous of destroying, and because of his malicious nature, he rushed in to destroy that light of ohrmazd unassailed by fiends, and he saw its bravery and glory were greater than his own; so he fled back to the gloomy darkness, and formed many demons and fiends; and the creatures of the destroyer arose for violence. chapter one, bundahishn here we see a different view of iblis from the thoughts of his adversary, who would be the zoroastrians. while the zurvanites regarded ahriman to be an original dual aspect of ohrmazd, in the bundahishn ahriman is represented as a lesser demon, but a very significant one that equally causes problems but strengthens those who are connected with

ater paths of witchcraft as a lord of magick, but rather the darker aspects. here cain takes a similar path with anubis by name and process. robert cochrane, a practitioner of witchcraft in the 60 s wrote- in the north lies the castle of weeping, the ruler thereof is named tettens, our hermes or woden. he is the second twin, the waning sun, lord over mysticism, magic, power and death, the baleful destroyer. the god of war, of justice, king of kings, since all pay their homage to him. ruler of the winds, the windyat. cain imprisioned in the moon, ever desiring earth. he is visualized as a tall dark man, shadowy, cold and deadly. letters from robert cochrane here we see that cain, the son of samael and lilith, is the devil manifest on the earth the son of shaitan. he is above the flesh, yet

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

n is the giver of form. at the head of the pillar of mercy is chokmah, the supernal father, a male potency. thus we see that we have here the apposition of form and force. 8. in the second trinity we have the apposition of chesed (jupiter) and geburah (mars. again we have the pairs of opposites of construction in jupiter, the lawgiver and beneficent ruler, and destruction in mars, the warrior and destroyer of evil. it may be asked why such a male potency as geburah should be placed in the feminine pillar. it must be remembered that mars is a destructive potency, one of the infortunes in astrology. the positive builds up, the negative breaks down; the positive is a kinetic force, the negative is a static force. 9. these aspects appear again in netzach at the base of the pillar of mercy, and

e and destructive principles respectively. it is interesting to note that binah, the supernal mother, is also saturn, the solidifier, who connects through his sickle with death with his scythe, and time with his hour-glass. in binah we find the root of form. it is said of malkuth in the sepher yetzirah that it sitteth upon the throne of binah-matter has its root in binah-saturn death; form is the destroyer of force. with this passive destroyer goes also the active destroyer, and we find marsgeburah immediately below it on the pillar of severity; thus is the force locked up in form set free by the destructive influence of mars, the siva aspect of the godhead. chokmah, the zodiac, represents kinetic force; and chesed, jupiter, the benign king, represents organised force; and the two are synt

nism; but it does not realise that its own teaching and practice are equally antinomian when it regards matter as the enemy of spirit, and as such to be abrogated and overcome. this unhappy belief has caused as much human suffering in christian countries as war and pestilence. 13. the qabalah teaches a wiser doctrine. to it, all the sephiroth are holy, malkuth equally with kether, and geburah the destroyer with chesed the preserver. it recognises that rhythm is the basis of life, not a steady forward progress. if we understood this better, how much suffering we should save ourselves, for we should watch the chokmah and binah phases succeeding each other, both in our own lives and the lives of nations,and would realise the deep significance of shakespeare's words when he says: mystical qaba

be impracticable. misplaced in space, if it turns up in the wrong place, like the burning coal on the hearth-rug or the bath ter through the drawing-room ceiling. misplaced in proportion, if an excess of love makes us silly and sentimental, or a lack of love makes us cruel and destructive. it is in such things as these that evil lies, not in a personal devil who acts as adversary. 5. geburah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the ini

nah, understanding. when we recall that in astrology saturn, the mundane chakra of binah, and mars, the mundane chakra of geburah, are called the greater and lesser infortunes, we see that there must be more than a superficial connection between the two. 32. binah is called the bringer-in of death because it is the giver of form to primordial force, thus rendering it static; geburah is called the destroyer because the fiery marsforce breaks down forms and destroys them. thus we see that binah is perpetually binding force into form, and geburah perpetually breaking up and destroying all forms with its disruptive energy. 33. but equally we must see that it is only when the protecting, preserving influence of chesed is in abeyance that the destructive influences of geburah are able to work up

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by the greeks with athene. she is depicted in the form of a woman, having upon her head the shuttle or arrows, or she wears the crown and holds arrows, a bow, and a sceptre in her left hand; she also appears in the form of a cow.[5] sekhet was in memphis the wife of ptah, and the mother of nefer-tmu and of i-em-hetep. she was the personification of the burning heat of the sun, and as such was the destroyer of the enemies of ra and osiris. when ra determined to punish mankind with death, because they scoffed at him, he sent sekhet, his "eye" to perform the work of vengeance; illustrative of this aspect of her is a figure wherein she is depicted with the sun's eye for a head.[5] usually [1. a good set of illustrations of this goddess will be found in lanzone, op. cit, tav. 314 f. 2. recueil

hat of plate i. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod13.htm (2 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:24:37 am] ptah, and he is then described as the creator of gods and men, and the maker of the egg of the sun and of the moon. see lanzone, dizionario, p. 1259; wiedemann, religion, p. 74; pierret, panth on, p. 6; and naville, la litanie du soleil, pp. 118, 119, and plate xxiv, 1. 3. this god was, in one aspect, a destroyer of created things; compare, naville, op. cit, p. 89. 6. a name for the boat of the evening sun. 7. see infra, p. 257, note 2. 8 the enemy of ra was darkness and night, or any cloud which obscured the light of the sun. the darkness personified was apep, nak, etc, and his attendant fiends were the mesu betesh, or 'children of unsuccessful revolt] p. 248 the house of the prince[1] keepeth f

y of the union of earth with earth in the presence of neb-er-tcher. what then is this? he that was bidden to rule among the gods is [horus] the son of isis, who was appointed to rule in the place of his father osiris. as to the day of the union of earth with earth, it is the mingling of earth with earth in the coffin of osiris, the soul that liveth in suten-henen, the giver of meat and drink, the destroyer of wrong, and the guide of the everlasting paths. who then is this? it is ra himself "deliver thou [me] from the great god who carrieth away souls, and who devoureth filth and eateth dirt, the guardian of the darkness [who himself" liveth] in the light. they who are in misery fear him" as concerning the souls within the (113) tchafi [they are those which are] with the god who carrieth aw

oved[1) of every god, who saileth up to abtu. the name of the doorkeeper is sebaq" vignette iv: the fourth pylon, which is guarded by a cow-headed deity seated in a shrine, the cornice of which is ornamented with ur i wearing disks. text: words to be spoken when [ani] cometh unto the fourth pylon. saith osiris, the scribe ani [triumphant "lo, she who prevaileth with knives, mistress of the world, destroyer of the foes of the still-heart, she who decreeth the escape of the needy from evil hap. the name of the doorkeeper is nekau" plates xi. and xii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod19.htm (4 of 9 [8/10/2001 11:27:48 am] vignette v: the fifth pylon, which is guarded by the hippopotamus deity, with her fore-feet resting upon the buckle, the emblem of protection, seated in a shrine, the

forth from ati) i have not defiled the wife of any man (21 "hail, thou two-headed serpent, who comest forth from the torture-chamber, i have not defiled the wife of any man (22 "hail, thou who dost regard what is brought unto thee, who comest forth from pa-amsu, i have not polluted myself (23 "hail, thou chief of the mighty, who comest forth from amentet, i have not caused terror (24 "hail, thou destroyer, who comest forth from kesiu, i have not transgressed (25 "hail, thou who orderest speech, who comest forth from urit, i have not burned with rage (26 "hail, thou babe, who comest forth from uab, i have not stopped my ears against the words of right and truth (27 "hail, kenemti, who comest forth from kenemet, i have not worked grief (28 "hail, thou who bringest thy offering, i have not a

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itic magical month. crossing a river on the twentieth of that month was supposed to bring sickness. ancient texts state that if a man should eat the flesh of swine on the thirtieth day of ab, he will be plagued with boils. ab is also an ancient egyptian term for the heart. since the heart was the seat of the conscience, its preservation was a crucial part of the mummification process. abaddon the destroyer, from a hebrew word meaning destruction. chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy. abaddon is the name given by st. john in the apocalypse to the king of the grasshoppers. he is sometimes regarded as the destroying angel or prince of the underworld, also synonymous with apollyon (rev. 9:11 (see also black magic) sources: barrett, francis. the magus. london, 1801. reprint, new hyde pa

clopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. berlitz, charles 173 da triangle (1974, doomsday 1999 a.d (1981, and the dragon s triangle (1989. in 1979 berlitz and ufo researcher william l. moore became unwitting accomplices in spreading the hoax usually referred to as the philadelphia experiment. the story recounts a reported incident in which the u.s. navy developed a device that transported a destroyer from philadelphia to norfolk, virginia. in the early 1960s carlos alende (real name carl allen) claimed to have witnessed the experiment and states that the navy classified it and denied that it ever happened. sources: berlitz, charles. the bermuda triangle. new york: doubleday, 1974. the dragon s triangle. new york: wynwood press, 1989. mysteries from forgotten worlds. garden city, n.y:

as presented in francis barrett s the magus, it tells of nine orders of evil spirits, these being false gods, lying spirits, vessels of iniquity, revenge led by asmodeus, deluders by the serpent, turbulents by merigum, furies by apollyon, calumniators by astaroth, and tempters by mammon. these demons again are named separately, the meaning of each name indicating the possessor s capacity, such as destroyer, devastator, tumult, ravage, and so forth. each earthly vice and calamity was personified by a demon.moloch, who devours infants; nisroch, god of hatred, despair, fatality; astarte, lilith, and astaroth, deities of debauchery and abortion; adramelek, of murder, and belial, of red anarchy. according to the grimoires, the rites and rules are multifarious, each demon demanding special invoc

ing, each appropriate to the good or evil deeds done on earth. they described the ascending changes open to every soul in proportion to his own efforts to improve. they all insisted that man was his own judge, incurred a penalty or reward for which there was no substitution. they taught nothing of christ, absolutely denied the idea of vicarious atonement, and represented man as his own saviour or destroyer. they spoke of arts, sciences, and continued activities, as if the life beyond was but an extension of the present on a greatly improved scale. descriptions of the radiant beauty, supernal happiness, and ecstatic sublimity manifested by the blest spirits who had risen to the spheres of paradise, heaven, and the glory of angelic companionships melts the heart, and fills the soul with irre

al the presence of encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. haunting 703 any microbe or fungus, and the bread was pronounced absolutely pure. when mrs. webster resorted to baking cakes for the household, she was relieved to find that although they lay side by side with the blighted bread they showed no sign of harmful contact. but when the last crumb of bread disappeared, the mysterious destroyer of the loaves attacked the cakes as well. the decay of a loaf was immediately arrested if it was removed from the precincts of the farmhouse. this proved that the blight was local and possibly a bizarre form of haunting. the gruesome traits of the traditional ghost are well reflected in the story the earl of bective told british psychical researcher harry price. as reported in psychic re

nanimate material such as clothing, the invisible being would be obliged to travel naked, a problem vividly portrayed in h. g. wells science fiction novella the invisible man (1897. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. invisibility 805 a high level of skepticism is therefore inevitable in considering the claim that a top secret u.s. navy experiment in 1943 succeeded in rendering the destroyer eldridge and its crew temporarily invisible and teleporting it from its berth in philadelphia to norfolk, virginia. some of the crew members were said to have disappeared without trace, others to have gone mad, or to have met alien beings. authors charles berlitz and william moore suggest that the experiment involved using an intensified force field around the ship, deriving from the pri

e male generative organ. the philosophy that emerged from his work was originally published in his 1786 book-length essay, a discourse on the worship of priapus and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients. five hundred copies were privately published. knight suggested that the phallus was a symbol of the god of nature who generated the universe in his threefold aspects as creator, destroyer, and renovator. god is both male and female. his passive and active sides manifest as divine essence (life force) and universal matter (substance. the widespread images of sexual intercourse found in ancient art and statuary symbolized the universal process of creation. knight also posited the previous existence of a universal theology that resembled eighteenth-century deism. this worldv

r- woodstock of the spiritual life. kundalini according to ancient hindu religious teachings and yoga science, a latent force in the human organism responsible for sexual activity and (in a sublimated form) higher consciousness. in hindu mythology kundalini.from the root word kundala meaning coiled.is personified as a goddess, sometimes with the aspect of durga (a creator) and sometimes kali (the destroyer) or bhujangi (the serpent. kundalini is often described as a serpent that sleeps at the base of the spine and, when aroused, darts upward, bringing enlightenment or pain. according to classical literature, signs of awakened kundalini are grouped into three categories: vocal, physical and mental signs. kundalini is also believed to be connected with certain psychic powers, known to yogis

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ems, in 1889. his play la princesse maleine, which appeared the following year, was praised by novelist octave mirbeau. although maeterlinck had already qualified for the legal profession, he decided to follow a literary life. from the very beginning of his great literary career, he was attracted by the problems of the inner life. his early plays were dominated by the grim specter of death as the destroyer of life. in his later works, his interest in psychic phenomena developed, and the fearful mystery gave place to wondrous fascination. the unknown guest, our eternity and the wrack of the storm disclosed a familiarity with all the prevailing ideas on the paranormal, and he showed no doubt whatever as to the genuineness of phenomena. he wrote: the question of fraud and imposture are natura

er 100,000 readers monthly. address: 18444 w. 10 mile rd, ste. 105, southfield, mi 48075. website: http/ www.phenomenews.com. sources: phenomenews on-line publication. http/ www.phenomenews.com. march 8, 2000. the philadelphia experiment title of a 1979 book by charles berlitz and william moore that investigated the rumor that a top secret u.s. navy experiment in 1943 had succeeded in rendering a destroyer, most likely the eldridge, and its crew temporarily invisible and teleported it from its berth in philadelphia to norfolk, virginia. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. the philadelphia experiment 1203 (the name the philadelphia experiment had earlier been used by various writers to denote the classic electrical experiments of benjamin franklin) the story of the philadelph

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

n daniel fry. washington, dc, august. reeve, bryant, and helen reeve, 1957. flying saucer pilgrimage. amherst, wi: amherst press. 106 fry, daniel william a ufo supposedly photographed by daniel fry at merlin, oregon, may 1964 (fortean picture library) gabriel in christian and islamic tradition, gabriel is one of the two mightiest angels. he is the only angel mentioned in the old testament, as the destroyer of sodom and gomorrah. he is said to sit on god s left hand and to preside over paradise. mohammed credits gabriel with dictating the koran to him. in more recent times, an entity named gabriel, identifying himself as an archangel, channels through a new york city man named robert baker. gabriel has spoken through baker since 1990. his principal platform is the weekly meeting of the comm

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er my salute! you made me sweat in vigorous style. faust what is your name? mephistopheles the question seems but cheap from one who for the word has such contempt, who from all outward show is quite exempt and only into beings would delve deep. faust the being of such gentlemen as you, indeed, in general, from your titles one can read. it shows itself but all too plainly when men dub you liar or destroyer or beelzebub. well now, who are you then? mephistopheles part of that power which would the evil ever do, and ever does the good. faust a riddle! say what it implies! mephistopheles i am the spirit that denies! and rightly too; for all that doth begin should rightly to destruction run; twere better then that nothing were begun. thus everything that you call sin, destruction- in a word, a

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

anifest pure being of vast face in sefirah crown/above is reflected in the abysmal mirror of sefirah foundation/below as veils of illusion appearing as planes of existence (see figure 3.5 on page 89. these planes are unmanifest in the most sublime world of atziluth (emanation. the attributes of the ayn are reflected in this mirror as the immense i-ness of small face as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. the energy of consciousness of small face manifests the planes of existence in the lower three worlds of b riyah (creation, yetzirah (formation, and asiyah (making, activity. like sefiroth crown/above and foundation/below, the two central sefiroth knowledge/first and beauty/last emanate as a pair, and represent two opposite stations in the consciousness of this small fac

erse as differentiated from the spiritual. the fall is an illusion sustained in individual consciousness by the lord of the universe via his/her power of obscuration, sustained through five limitations: temporal limits, spatial limits, attachment to particular things, limited knowledge, and limited agency. the predominant hebrew name for the active aspect of the ayn as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the creation is the four letter formula h v h y (vocalized by some as yahweh, and more commonly as jehovah).27 the fall of sefirah knowledge/first into kingdom is also reflected in the duplication of the letter heh h in hvhy. the upper heh h is the latent or unmanifest condition of all mayic (illusory) possibilities in the form of an infinite number of waves of ideas, and the lower he

wered by remembrance (zakhor) of the name of one s chosen ideal, usually in the context of a root mantra. over time, the shells are purified and the soul is able to sustain consciousness in the higher centers. the traveler on this path may stop with the awakening and sustaining of consciousness in the heart sefirah beauty/last. or, by renouncing the consciousness of the lord as creator/ preserver/destroyer of the universe, move on to the witness consciousness of vast face in atziluth (sefirah crown/above) and into the negatively existent roots of the tree. the way of messiah (see figure 4.4) is generally one of the fastest and easiest of the working paths, but requires an overpowering and unconditional love for a form of messiah or :2% e= i2 5 the torah (which contains all of them. in qaba

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nce. the ever changing modifications and diversities we see are the results of forgetfulness, misinterpretated by nightmare senses. when the self again desires, then i only and nothing else shall remain. permitting all things, whatsoever is imagined comes out of it. believe what you will, it has no compassion. the connotation self-love is applicable to all things. to it, all things are equal. the destroyer of devotees; lover of all things unique. giving overflow to all who are indifferent to wanglers, who jest at doctrines. of emancipation in celibacy and vituperation. i declare this self-pleasure alone is free of theism; the disenthralment of god and the distractions of ego in the many entities of existence i show. ye who praise truth thereby causing its necessity are compelled to live di

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its astonishing and peculiarly brunian vocabulary; only those who (like myself) are not proper classical scholars can bear to read it. bruno's satires on grammarian pedantry are, in a manner, a reversal of erasmus' satires on scholastic pedantry. bruno, looking in quite a different direction from erasmus, sees humanism, not as the new learning which has superseded mediaeval barbarism, but as the destroyer of the philosophical tradition. we know that what he objected to in the new oxford was that its doctors "make 1 g. bruno, candelaio, ed. v. spampanato, florence, 1923, pp. 130 ff. 2 cena, dial. 1 and 4 dial, ital, pp. 37, 132. cf. erasmus, adagia, chiliade i, centuria viii, no. 51. anticyra was renowned for its hellebore, a herb supposed to cure madness. 3 see above, p. 208. 252 giordano

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

iginated in the place where satan dwells! albert churchward, another masonic author states that the triangle pointing upward us a symbol for set, which is one of the infernal names for satan [signs and symbols of primordial man, george allen and company, ltd, 1913, p. 189, 309, and 471. then, masonic author, j.s.m. ward states "with the point upwards, the equilateral triangle stands for shiva the destroyer and signifies the flame which rises upwards from the funeral pyre toward heaven. this symbol is familiar to us in several degrees, most notably the thirtieth degree [freemasonry and the ancient gods, 1921, p. 10-11; also reported by masonic authors william meyer, the order of the eastern star, p. 20; alain danielou, the gods of india, p. 385. shiva is another name for satan in the occult

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

s worshipped as a god, and to the exhilarating properties in its juice was ascribed that subtle quality which was regarded as the life-giving, or creative, energy supposed to reside in heat, and which was closely connected with passion or procreative energy. this quality was their bacchus, dionysos, or god-idea--the creator not alone of physical existence, but of good and evil as well. it was the destroyer, yet the regenerator, of life. of the zoroastrian home, or sacred tree, which by the persians was worshipped for thousands of years, layard remarks "the plant or its product was called the mystical body of god, the living water or food of eternal life, when duly consecrated and administered according to zoroastrian rites" it has been suggested, and not without reason, that to this idea o

ed the forces of nature, which by an older race were worshipped as female. chapter iv. the dual god of the ancients a trinity also. although the god of the most ancient people was a dual unity, in later ages it came to be worshipped as a trinity. when mankind began to speculate on the origin of the life principle, they came to worship their deity in its three capacities as creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator, each of which was female and male. we have observed that, according to higgins, when this trinity was spoken of collectively, it was called after the feminine plural. by the various writers who have dealt with this subject during the last century, much surprise has been manifested over the fact that for untold ages the people of the earth have worshipped a trinity. forste

s as did the persians and all the other nations about them- namely, elohim, the dual or triune creative force in nature. as the sun was the source whence proceeded all light and life as well as reproductive or generative power, it had become the object of adoration, and as the emblem of the deity, it was worshipped by all the nations of the earth in its three capacities as creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator each female and male. melchizedek, who was a priest of the most high god, blessed abraham, who was a worshipper of the same deity. on this subject dr. shuckford says "it is evident that abraham and his descendants worshipped not only the true and living god, but they invoked him in the name of the lord, and they worshipped the lord whose name they invoked, so that two pers

ch we have any record, appears to be well established [41] bunsen, history of egypt, vol. iv, p. 421. we have seen that although the two sex-principles which underlie nature constituted the creator, the ancients thought of it only as one and indivisible. this indivisible aspect was the sacred iav, the holy of holies. when it was contemplated in its individual aspect it was creator, preserver, and destroyer, each of which was female and male. the difficulty of the ancients in establishing a first cause seems to have been exactly the same as is ours at the present time. when we say there must have been a god who created all things, the question at once arises, who created god? according to their theories, nothing could be brought forth without the interaction of two creative principles, fema

ned above it as its creator. this creator was designated as female. it was the mother idea even gods could not be produced without a mother. in referring to the doctrines contained in the geeta, one of the sacred writings of the hindoos, faber observes "in the single character of brahm, all the three offices of brahma, vishnu, and siva are united. he is at once the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. he is the primeval hermaphrodite, or the great father and the great mother blended together in one person" the fact that a trinity in unity, representing the female and male energies symbolized by the organs of generation, formerly constituted the deity throughout asia is acknowledged by all those who have examined either the literature or monumental records of oriental countries. the r

, vishnu, and siva coalesce to form the mystic om, which means the essence of life or divine fire. in the bhagavat geeta the supreme god speaks thus concerning itself "i am the holy one worthy to be known; and immediately adds "i am the mystic [trilateral] figure om; the reig, the yagush, and the saman vedas" it is a unity and still a trinity. this om or aum stands for the creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator, and represents the threefold aspect of the force within the sun. the doctrine maintained throughout the geeta is not only that the great life-force represents a trinity in unity, but that it is both female and male. on this subject maurice, in his indian antiquities, says "this notion of three persons in the deity was diffused amongst all the nations of the earth, establi

eption, viz, that of the reproductive powers of nature and especially of mankind, differed in expression according to its application. although in human beings this triune creative idea was expressed by the mother, father, and child, as set forth in the temples and on the monuments of egypt, when applied directly to the sun and the planets, it appears as the creator, preserver, and regenerator or destroyer. destruction, or the absence of the sun's heat, represented by winter, was necessary to life, and therefore the destroyer was also the regenerator and equally with the creator and preserver constituted a beneficent factor in the god-idea. in fact as this third element really embodied the substance of the other two, it finally became the supreme god, little afterward being heard about the

he sun's heat, represented by winter, was necessary to life, and therefore the destroyer was also the regenerator and equally with the creator and preserver constituted a beneficent factor in the god-idea. in fact as this third element really embodied the substance of the other two, it finally became the supreme god, little afterward being heard about the creator and preserver. the regenerator or destroyer was of course the sun, which in winter died away and rose again in the spring-time as a beneficent savior or renewer of life. the principle involved in these processes represented fertility, life, reproductive energy. as applied to mortals, it comprehended the power to create combined with perceptive wisdom or knowledge. this idea, portrayed as it was by a mother and her child, linked wo

avel of vishnu or brahme" according to the buddhists of ceylon, the universe has perished ten different times, and each time has been renewed by the operations of nature, or by the preservation of germs from a former world. in their mythology these germs are represented by a parent and a triplicated offspring. it is perhaps unnecessary to add that this monad trinity is the creator, preserver, and destroyer with their great parent, the mother of the gods, which in process of time came to be regarded as male. according to wilford, hindoo chronology presents fourteen different periods, six of which have already elapsed; we are in the seventh, which began with the flood. each of these periods is called a manwantara, the presiding genius or deity of which is a menu. at the close of each dynasty

equirements of a priest of cybele was castration. it is the opinion of grote that the story which appears in the hesiodic theogony, of the castration of saturn and uranus by their sons with sickles forged by the mother, was borrowed from the phrygians, or from the worship of the great mother. in india, the strictest chastity was prescribed to the priests of siva, a god which was worshipped as the destroyer or regenerator, and which in its earlier conception was the same as the great mother cybele. these priests were frequently obliged to officiate in a nude state, and during the ceremony should it appear that the symbols with which they came in contact had appealed to other than their highest emotions, they were immediately stoned by the people.[54 [54] sonnerat, voyage aux indes, i, 311

for or symbolize the female power. we are given to understand, however, that for ages these symbols were as holy as the god himself, and among many peoples even more revered and worshipped. we have seen that the ancients knew that matter and force were alike indestructible. according to their doctrine all nature proceeded from the sun. hence the power back of the sun, which they worshipped as the destroyer or regenerator, or, in other words, as the mother of the sun, was the great aum or om, the aleim or elohim, who was the indivisible god. the creative agency which proceeded from the sun was both male and female, yet one in essence. later, the male appeared as spirit, the female as matter. spirit was something above and independent of nature. it had indeed created matter from nothing. the

pposed to be identical with the greek zeus, which means the sun. this god is represented by a female figure seated on a throne. it is crowned with two long feathers, and in the right hand is observed the cross, the emblem of life. manetho, the celebrated egyptian historian, declares that the name of this god signifies "concealed" there can be little doubt that the titles of the ancient deity--the destroyer or regenerator, or, in other words, those of the god of life which embraced the idea of the moving force throughout nature, were, in course of time, appropriated by the rulers of the people. it is stated that the name of a certain egyptian god appears first in connection with royalty, that "his name was substituted for some earlier divinity whose hieroglyphics were chiselled out of the m

pped--that, as it really embodied the essence of the other two, little was heard of the creator and preserver. doubtless this god was the one which moses intended the israelites to worship, but as they were unable to conceive of an abstract principle he invested it with a personality which, as we have seen, was burdened with the frailties and weaknesses common to themselves. as the regenerator or destroyer represented the processes of nature--the dying away of the sun's rays at night only to reappear on the following day, and the withdrawal of its warmth in winter only to be renewed in the spring--so this god portrayed also the beneficent creator and preserver of all things, at the same time that it was the destroyer. it embodied the fundamental idea in all religions, namely, life and fert

it was an attempt at recognition, in the objects worshipped, of that missing female element which had always been worshipped, and without which a creator becomes a misnomer--a meaningless, unexplained, and unexplainable monstrosity. when the jews first make their appearance in history, they are sun worshippers, as are all the nations by which they are surrounded. they are worshippers of seth the destroyer and regenerator; but when the philosophical truths underlying the ancient universal religion were forgotten, or when through ignorance the language setting forth these mysteries was taken literally, seth became identified with the destroyer, or the evil principle. in the meantime man had come to believe himself the sole creator of offspring. he is spirit, which is eternal; woman is matte

is declared that this staff was presented so seth, and that it was a branch of the tree of life. that beneath this allegory is veiled a contest, or perhaps a compromise, between the worshippers of two distinct sects, seems altogether probable. that the handing down of this branch of the tree of life, first to adam, or man, by aleim, and its subsequent transference to seth, the god of nature, the destroyer or regenerator, seems to indicate a victory for the adherents of a purer religion. the translator of kallimachus says "it is well known to the learned reader that the descendants of cain are distinguished in scripture by the name of the sons of man or adam; those of seth by the name of the sons of god" gen. vi, 2.[85] it is stated in julius africanus that all the righteous men and patria

l, who was a keeper of sheep, indicates a quarrel which ended in the death of the latter. after the death of abel, or after one of these principles or sects was subdued, the older religion was revived, and seth, as the aleim, or as the creative power within the sun, was "appointed" or again worshipped. it would seem that seth was appointed to represent the third person in the ancient trinity--the destroyer or regenerator which had previously come to embody all the powers of the creator and preserver. the fact has been observed that the very ancient philosophers believed matter to be eternal, hence, seeming death, or destruction, was necessary to renewed life or regeneration. in other words, creation was but continuous change in the form of matter. of the doctrines of the sethians extant at

nts, after their true meaning was forgotten, were finally changed so as to conform to the enforced humiliation and degradation of women. seth or typhon was for ages worshipped throughout egypt, and as she comprehended the powers of nature, or the creative energy residing in the sun and earth, little is heard of any other god. strange it is, however, that seth is worshipped more in her capacity as destroyer than as regenerator. so soon as we understand the origin and character of the devil, and so soon as we divest ourselves of the false ideas which under a state of ignorance and gross sensuality came to prevail relative to the "powers of darkness" we shall perceive that his (or her) satanic majesty was once a very respectable personage and a powerful divinity--a divinity which was worshipp

divinity--a divinity which was worshipped by a people whose superior intelligence can scarcely be questioned. regarding this subject higgins remarks "persons who have not given much consideration to these subjects will be apt to wonder that any people should be found to offer adoration to the evil principle; but they do not consider that, in all these recondite systems, the evil principle, or the destroyer, or lord of death, was at the same time the regenerator. he could not destroy but to reproduce, and it was probably not till this principle began to be forgotten, that the evil being, per se, arose; for in some nations this effect seems to have taken place. thus baal-zebub is, in iberno celtic, baal lord, and zab death, lord of death; but he is also called aleim, the same as the god of t

trinity "if i be correct respecting the word aleim being feminine, we here see the lord of death of the feminine gender; but the goddess ashtaroth or astarte, the eoster of the germans, was also called aleim. here again aleim is feminine, which shows that i am right in making aleim the plural feminine. thus we have distinctly found aleim the creator (gen. i, 1, aleim the preserver, and aleim the destroyer, and this not by inference, but literally expressed"[87 [87] anacalypsis, ch. ii, p. 66. at one period of their history the hebrews worshipped ashtaroth and baal, they together representing the great aleim, the indivisible god, but after the israelites had chosen the worship of the male principle as an independent deity, or as the only important agency in the creative processes, as baal

hteousness which was to renew the world, or redeem mankind from sin. the female principle for the time being cast out of the deity, osiris, the male element, now outwardly assumes the position of supreme god. it was, however, reserved for a later and more sensuous age to permanently adopt an absurdity so opposed to all established ideas relative to a creative force in nature and in man. seth, the destroyer, had been deposed, but, so deeply rooted in the human mind had become the idea of a female creator, that isis, the queen of heaven, a somewhat lower conception of muth, or of universal womanhood, soon assumed the place of seth beside osiris. later in the history of egypt, when the gods have become greatly multiplied, and the original significance of the deity obscured, horus, the child a

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ubtle domain. this strange and dark prophecy as found in is also a key to a deeper understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden of eden. the key philosophical emphasis within guenon s historical analysis is on the duality of quantity and quality, quality being the character of the golden age (and indeed the principle of gold see our discussions of this later) and quantity, the kali yuga attribute. whether it be the decay of the nature of currency, or the cla

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sed to represent oen or aeon, the term used for a gnostic theurgy page 108 i yam water n nour fire r ruach air i yebeshah earth fig 27 i yod virgo the hermit n nun scorpio death r resh sun the sun i yod virgo the hermit. fig 28 the formula of iao isis is the i isis is nature, the fallen world, whose husband osiris (the soul locked in matter) is murdered by apophis is the a apophis. apophis is the destroyer, scorpio- the dark lord and tempter. after osiris is murdered, isis searches and finds all the parts of his dismembered body except his phallus (the fallen reproductive system. then, at last, thoth (god of gnosis) creates for isis an artificial phallus (creative forces from the light world) and as a result osiris is o osiris is risen. fig 29 gnostic theurgy page 109 resurrected light bei

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ch with a special wand in his right hand and crux ansata in the left, then stretch out their wands to form a pyramid above the altar, and also each join the crux ansata below) chief adept "let us analyze the keyword. i" second adept "n" third adept "r" all "i" chief adept "yod" second adept "nun" third adept "resh" all "yod" chief adept "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second adept "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" third adept "sol, osiris, slain and risen" all "isis, apophis, osiris, iao (all then simultaneously separate wands and cruces, and say) all "the sign of osiris slain (gives it) chief adept (giving the l sign with a bowed head "the sign of the mourning of isis" second adept (giving the v sign with the head back "the sign of typhon and apophis" third adept (with bowed head gives the x sig

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n "x" with your palms touching your chest. bow your head and say with meaning "x. the sign of osiris risen" step 20 now form each letter as you say the letter "l.v.x" from the "x" position slowly open up your arms into the form of a cross while saying: lux (looox) step 21 now say with meaning "the light of the cross" step 22 virgo, isis, mighty mother (form the "l" while saying) scorpio, apophis, destroyer (form the "v" while saying) 7 sol, osiris, slain and risen (form the "cross" then the "x" while saying) isis (form the "l" while saying) apophis (form the "v" while saying) osiris (form the "x" while saying" step 23 slowly move your arms from the "x" position to the "v" position while vibrating "iao (pronounced ee-aahh-oohh) step 24 notice: do not vibrate enochian names from the tablet o

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sign of silence. this is repeated until all are done, in which the third adept, or the last adept, makes the sign of the enterer to the chief adept who responds with the sign of silence (first, second and third adepts move to the east) chief adept (forms himself into a cross behind the cubicle altar "the light of the cross" first adept "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second adept "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" third adept "sol, osiris, slain and risen" first adept "isis (forming sign) second adept "apophis (forming sign) third adept "osiris (forming sign) chief adept "iao! let the divine light descend" first adept "such are the words (all close the vortex) chief adept "we thank thee oh lord of the universe. thou art one! we thank thee, ye spirits of the watchtowers who celebrated with us the

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inishing the work that you gave me to do. do you now, father, give me glory at your side? a glory i had before the world was (all rise) chief adept "let us analyze the keyword. i" second adept "n" third adept "r" all "i" chief adept "yod" second adept "nun" third adept "resh" all "yod" chief adept (makes the 'l' sign "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second adept (makes the 'v' sign "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" 5 third adept (makes the 'x' sign "sol, osiris, slain and risen" all "isis, apophis, osiris, iao. let the divine light descend" all (makes the 'x' sign "the sign of osiris slain" chief adept (makes the 'l' sign "the sign of the mourning of isis" second adept (makes the 'v' sign "the sign of typhon and apophis" third adept (makes the 'x' sign "the sign of osiris risen" all "lvx, lux, the

cross (chief adept places the crux on the base of the spine on all the adepts, the second adept on the left hip and the third adept on the right hip) chief adept "be thy body a temple of the rose cross" chief adept "i" second adept "n" third adept "r" all "i" chief adept "yod" second adept "nun" third adept "resh" all "yod" chief adept "virgo, isis, mighty mother" second adept "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" third adept "sol, osiris, slain and risen" 10 all "isis, apophis, osiris, iao" chief adept "let the divine light descend" second adept "rosea rubea" third adept "et aurea crucis" chief adept "post centum viginti annos patebo (all leave the vault and return to original position (chief adept makes the closing of the veil and returns to the east) chief adept "thus, i have closed the vault

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step, we meditate on the alchemical formula of spiritual transformation into the light of adonai. the analysis of the keyword step 1 say with meaning "i. n. r. i" draw the hebrew letters in the air from right to left, visualizing them flaming in bright blue as you are saying them. 6 y r n y step 2 form the "l" while saying "virgo, isis, mighty mother" form the "v" while saying "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" form the "cross" then "x" while saying "sol, osiris, slain and risen" form the "l" while saying "isis" form the "v" while saying "apophis" form the "x" while saying "osiris" step 3 slowly move your arms from the "x" position to the "v" position while vibrating "iao (pronounced ee-aahh-oohh) step 4 vibrate "let the divine light descend" draw down the light as your arms descend to the sid

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hiereus "west" hierophant "air" hiereus "water" hegemon (knocks "i am the reconciler between them. all make the neophyte sign toward the altar" dadouchos "heat" stolistes "cold" dadouchos "south" 3 stolistes "north" dadouchos "fire" stolistes "water" hegemon (knocks "i am the reconciler between them. all make signs toward the altar" hierophant "one creator" dadouchos "one preserver" hiereus "one destroyer" stolistes "one redeemer" hegemon (knocks "one reconciler between them. all make signs toward the altar (done) hierophant (goes to the west of the altar "with the password_ i lay down my sceptre (takes rose from the altar and returns to his place) hiereus (passes directly to the altar and lays down his sword "with the password_ i lay down my sword (picks up cup) hegemon (comes directly t

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k of the death agony, though without any thought of a personality. in a mod. grk song a daring youth wrestles with charos on smooth marble from morn till midday; at the hour of eve death flings him down. in another case charos takes the shape of a black swallow, and shoots his arrow into a maiden s heart.1 a doubt ful passage in beow. 3484 we ought perhaps to refer to death, who is there called a destroyer that shoots with arrow-bow of fire: bona, se]?e of fianbogan fyrenum sceotes; conf. the serv. krvnik, bloodshedder p. 21. brun von schonebeke makes death wield a scourge offour strings; and our mhg. poets lend him an arrow and battle-axe( des todes strale het si gar versniten/ cut them up, tit. 3770 &lt; wa snidet des todes larte, wh. 3, 220 (cod. cass. the isernporte in a meister-so

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very ancient days was extant in egypt traditionally. other facts to be gleaned from the list of aats concerning sekhet-aaru are that--1. one section at least was filled with fire. 2. another was filled with rushing, roaring waters, which swept everything away before them. 3. in another the serpent rerek lived. 4. in another the spirits lived upon the inert and the feeble. 5. in another lived the "destroyer of souls" 6. the great antiquity of the ideas about the aats is proved by the appearance of the names of hap, the nile-god, sept, or sothis, and the hippopotamus-goddess, hebt-re-f, in connection with them. the qualification for entering the aats was not so much the living of a good life upon earth as a knowledge of the magical figures which represented them, and their names; these are g

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o visible objects in the unbroken gloom to swirl about me. ideas and images of the starkest terror- excited by vistas which my glimpse had opened up- began to throng in upon me and cloud my senses. i thought of those possible prints in the dust, and trembled at the sound of my own breathing as i did so. once again i flashed on the light and looked at the page as a serpent's victim may look at his destroyer's eyes and fangs. then, with clumsy fingers, in the dark, i closed the book, put it in its container, and snapped the lid and the curious, hooked fastener. this was what i must carry back to the outer world if it truly existed- if the whole abyss truly existed- if i, and the world itself, truly existed. just when i tottered to my feet and commenced my return i cannot be certain. it comes

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pupil, still the latter is found disagreeing with his early teachers on several questions of formal observance. he cannot strictly be called an essene, for reasons which we will indicate farther on, neither was be a nazar, or nazaria of the older sect. what jesus wat, may be found in the codsx naxaraeui, from the unjust accusations of the bardesantan gnostics "jesu is n^m, the false messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion" s^s the codec* he is the founder of the sect of the new ntuors, and, as the words clearly imply, a follower of the buddhist doctrine. in hebrew the word naba, k23, means to speak by inspira- tion; and dj is nebo, a god of wisdom. but nebo is also mercary, and mercury is buddha in the hindq monogram [iconography] of planets. moreover we find the talmudists ho

closed, and four wings, two expanded, two folded. the eyes denote that the god sees in sleep, and sleeps in waking; the position of the wings that he flies in rest, and rests in flying* the identity of saturn with siva is corroborated still more when we consider the emblem of the latter, the damaru, which is an hour-glass, to show the progress of time, represented by this god in his capacity of a destroyer, llie bull nandi, the vdaotia of siva, and the most sacred f. corj: aiteimt frafmenu. p. 15; d. 1832. digitizecoy google 236 isis unveiled emblem of this god, is reproduced in the egyptian apis, and in the bull created by ormazd and killed by ahriman. the religion of zoroaster, entirely based upon the 'secret doctrine* is found held by the people of eritene [in bactria; it was the religi

lmudists. he was held in reverence by the alexandrian kabalists as the direct inapirer of the law and the prophets; one of the names of saturn was israel, and we will show, in time, his identity in a certain way with abram, which movers" and others hinted at long since. thus it cannot be wondered at if valen- tiuus, basilides, and the ophite gnostics placed the dwelling of their dda-baoth, also a destroyer as well as a creator, in the planet saturn; for it was he who gave the law in the wilderness and spoke through the prophets. if more proof should be required we shall show it in the testi- mony of the canonical bible itself. in amo the 'lord' pours vials of wratii upon the people of israel. he rejects their bumt-oserings and will not listen to their prayers, but inquires of amos "have ye

dead goat as an offering* the hindfl ivinity is composed of three personages, which are convertible into one. the trimarh is one, and in its abstraction indivisible, and yet we see a metaphysical division taking place from the first, and while brahma, though collectively repre- senting the three, remains behind the scenes, vishnu is the life-giver, the creator, and the preserver, and siva is the destroyer and the deaih- giemg deity "death to the life-giver, life to the deaih^dealer. the symbolical antithesis is grand and beautiful" says gtiddon 'deiu eti daemon inverrua' of the kabalists now becomes clear. it is but the intense and cruel desire to crush out the last vestige of the old philo- sophies by perverting their meaning, for fear that her own dogmas should not be rightly fathered o

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e are all aspects of the one divine mother goddess. durga. also called devi in india where all goddesses are one as all are different aspects of the divine feminine. devi took the name of her enemy after she slew the evil demon durga in battle while riding on a tiger. lakshmi. goddess of abundance, the shakti force of vishnu. kali. the triple goddess of creation, the animating force of shiva, the destroyer. kali s role is to face our fears. shakti. the animating force of the universe, shakti unites us with the divine, cosmic, orgasmic energy of life. next we have some of the celtic goddess. the lady of the lake. celtic goddess of consciousness and revelation, emotion, renewal and creativity, gives us the energy to rule our lives. morgan le fay. represents a place of deep healing magic with

some of the egyptian goddesses. ishtar. babylonian creator goddess, the source of all life. queen of heaven, giver of light, represents being active and strong. isis. moon goddess, mother and giver of all life. goddess of agriculture, medicine and wisdom, isis represents total femininity. hathor. the mother of all gods and goddesses. goddess of love, mirth, beauty and sensual pleasure. sustainer, destroyer, creator. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 80. bast. earth mother goddess of abundance and of relaxed play. protector of women in childbirth, mother of light and independence. some of the roman goddesses. fortuna. goddess of abundance and destiny. flora. goddess of nature and pleasure, teaches us to honor inner and outer growth and the beauty of sp

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even the fancied ever-during life, would, to the deeply thinking man who had risen, as it were, over life, and to that strangely gifted being who has in himself the power of self-perpetuation (like the wandering jew, seem vain. man can be conceived as tiring of the sun tiring of consciousness even. what an expression is that, forgotten by death! the only being through whom the scythe of the great destroyer passes scatheless! that life, as a phantom, which is the only conceivable terrible doom of the wanderer (if such a magical being ever existed; whom as a locomotive symbol, to be perpetuated through the ages, the earth, at the command of the saviour, refused to hide, and of whom alegend soon hushed in again now and then rises to the popular whisper and to the popular distrust! we only add

uble emblem all the world over, in ancient or in modern times, whether displayed as points, or radii) or wings on the helmets of those barbarian chiefs who made war upon rome, attila or genseric, or broadly shown upon the head-piece of the frankish clovis; whether emblemed in the rude and, as it were, savagely mystic horns of the asiatic idols, or reproduced in the horns of the runic hammerer (or destroyer, or those of the gothic mars, or of the modern devil; all this double-spreading from a common point (or this figure of horns) speaks the same story. the colossus of rhodes was a monolith, in the human form, dedicated to the sun, or to fire. the pharos of alexandria was a fire-monument heliopolis, or the city of the sun, in lower egypt (as the name signifies, contained a temple, wherein

this is clearly a translation of the word bhudda into greek. it also reminds us that the old. bhuddas are always under the care of the cobra-capella. this is evidenced in all the memnonian or egyptian heads; and in the asp (or fleur-de-lis, more or less veiled or altered, displayed as the chief symbol upon the universal sphynxes. the serpent, in one view, was the emblem of the evil principle, or destroyer. but, as we have seen before, the destroyer was the creator. hence he had the name, among his numerous appellations, of ofis; in hebrew, bwa, ob; and as he was the logos, or linga, he was also oy, and in hebrew armm. query, hence sufar, a seraph or serpent? see jones's lexicon (in voce, and sofoj, wise. the suf and sof are both the same root. the famous brazen serpent, called nehustan, s

ee most celebrated emblems carried in the greek mysteries were the phallus, i; the egg, o; and the serpent, f; or otherwise the phallus, the loni or umbilicus, and the serpent. the first, in each case, is the emblem of the sun, or of fire, as the male, or active, generative power. the second denotes the passive nature, or feminine principle, or the element of water. the third symbol indicates the destroyer, the reformer, or the renewer (the uniter of the two, and thus the preserver or perpetuator eternally renewing itself. the universality of the serpentine worship (or phallic adoration) is attested by emblematic sculpture and architecture all over the world. this does not admit of denial. its character and purpose are, however, wholly misunderstood. not only is the worship of the serpent

n) is attested by emblematic sculpture and architecture all over the world. this does not admit of denial. its character and purpose are, however, wholly misunderstood. not only is the worship of the serpent found everywhere, but it everywhere occupies an important station; and the farther back we go, the more universally it is found, and the more important it appears to have been considered. the destroyer or serpent of genesis is correctly the renovator or preserver. in genesis there is a tree of knowledge and a tree of life. here we have the origin of the ophites, or oriental emblematical serpent-worshippers, to account for whom, and for whose apparently absurd object of adoration, our antiquaries have been so uwich perplexed. they worshipped the saviour- regenerator under the strangest

d reference to the procreative power seen throughout nature, and in that primaeval age was regarded with the greatest awe and veneration. this simple and primitive idolatry came by degrees to diverge into the adoration of the elements, particularly fire, and at length developed itself by the institution of an emanation from br hm atma in his triune capacity, as creator, preserver (or saviour, and destroyer. these attributes were deified under the names of brahma, vishnu, and siva, on whom were conferred three gunas, or qualities, viz, rajas (passion, sat (purity, and tumas (darkness. this is the trimurti. trimurti, three-formed murti, signifying also an image. our vital souls are, according to the vedanta, no more than images, or eidwla of the supreme spirit as. res. vol. iii. it may be co

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the allende letters the mystery of the annotated paperback edition of the case for the ufo was preceded by a series of strange letters from carlos miguel allende addressed to jessup. two of these, reproduced as part of the annotated edition, appear in the following pages. the letters claimed that as a result of a strange experiment at sea utilizing principles of einstein s unified field theory, a destroyer and all its crew became invisible during october, 1943. the field was effective in an oblate spheroidal shape, allende wrote. he added that any person within that sphere became vague in form, and that as a result of the experiment some of the crew went insane. further horrifying aspects of the alleged experiment are detailed in the two letters (see appendix. the allende letters became co

n fields surrounding a current, this field being used for that purpose. had farraday concerned himself about the mag. field surrounding an electric current, we today would not exist or if we did exist, our present geo-political situation would have the very time-bomish, ticking off towards destruction, atmosphere that now exists. alright, alright! the "result" was complete invisibility of a ship, destroyer type, and all of its crew while at sea (oct. 1943) the field was effective in an oblate spheroidal shape, extending one hundred yards (more or less, due to lunar position& latitude) out from each beam of the ship. any person within that sphere became vague in form but he too observed those persons aboard that ship as though they too were of the same state, yet were walking upon nothing

ed states. in maine the indians called it "pomola "bird= primitive description sometime after 1500 ad, the indians killed two "thunderbirds" along the mississippi river, and carved and painted them, life size, on rocks on the illinois side. one of the carvings was destroyed by a stone quarry but the other one is still there. the indians along the upper mississippi called the bird "piazzi" meaning destroyer. in translating "thunderbird" from the indian languages, the word "eagle" was used. the average american, if he saw a gigantic bird carry off a calf, would be afraid to tell of it, because he would know that no one would believe him. or, if a pilot saw one, who would believe his story of a bird with a 25 or 30 foot wingspread? 99 s-m ships-thunderbirds or disabled l-m scout ship. both ma

his way. they "feel" you out, in the country, in cities listen to birds. if birds don't sing, be ready. further proof, booklet, lao tzu "the way of life" is "a mentor bood, by r.b. blakney, page 27, bottom. i am interested in mr. cranmer's comments about the indians and the thunderbird. has there ever been a better description of a noisily-powered flying machine? and for the word "piazzi" meaning destroyer, is not that fairly descriptive as well? see full grown, mummiefied "little man" in vault in casper, wyo. do not touch. according to the chicago tribune, of january 5, 1900, there disappeared a young chap named sherman church. it seems that mr. church was employed in the august mills in battle creek at the time. he was seated in the company's office, when he arose and ran into the mill

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long and shaped like the serpent's tongue with engrailed blade and forked point, weeping ever the blood of the fallen. thus came abaddon to the throne of methuselah. even as the raven croaked methuselah repented not and begged not for clemency before a vision so fearful but in indignation raised his spear against the spirit and shouted his defiance to the shedim knight: 214 "i am methuselah, the destroyer of men. merciless king, the favoured of abaddon. all on the earth fear me and my hosts. i am a tearer down of cities and my spear has stained earth and oceans red. i am the friend of the vultures and all must know dismay at my war-cry for to hear it is to die, thus have i sworn. all those who have opposed me and denied to me that which my hand would seize are now naked bone upon the plai

e trophies a warning to those that would come here to destroy me. surely they have all been themselves destroyed. who then are you that comes to me? how are you named, dark angel" unmindful of the tyrants boasts, the warrior of chadel crossed in seven steps the hall and stood before the throne and spoke but these words in reply to the interrogation of methuselah, merciless king "i am abaddon, the destroyer" havoc rose and havoc fell within a blink, shrieking like an eagle swooping on his pray. shattering into splinters the spear that methuselah held, vainly, against the falling sword of adamant, and the blade went onwards in the downward motion, cutting in two the tyrant from his shoulder to his loin. with a sobbing shout the ruin of the king fell upon the floor, spilling entrails across t

he spoils upon the field of defeat. such injustice is brought upon my shoulders that i must bear such humiliations. so do my enemies gather like hyenas to laugh and wait for my arm too to fail that they might pick the bones of my kingdom clean. o accursed is the line of methuselah! and accursed shall be those that brought it low. ever was my grandfather faithful in libation to warlike abaddon the destroyer, pouring out bottomless libations to that angel whose shadow falls like smoke upon the battle's field. ever did he consecrate his thousand glories to abaddon that he won by his spear's point in battle upon the open field or in escalade against the walls of some city that would defy our noble line. how i mourn these lost days? not grateful for methuselah's devotion was abaddon and not wit

words of michael tell who, with his own voice, cursed the accursed one and reviled the deeds of shedim. his kingdom having been conquered by shurupuk, favoured of satan of all the tribes of men for high honour and brave endeavour, and by the hand of utanapishtim his father being slain, he reviles 236 the shedim, believing in his sorrow that they do contend against him. his grandsire's fall at the destroyer's sword, havoc the ruiner that bleeds the blood of knights, but makes double strong his conviction. in truth, wretched noah has lost all due to his father's own rash contention and the cowardice of lamech upon the field. yet for these things he cannot blame his own blood but must rather seek another to bear that burden. thus he his easily won to our cause. hearing then his prosecution ag

at her right hand was ashmedai that i had sent to redeem her most loved by shedim and nephilim. at the gates a host of chadel's people awaited their the princess, ishtar, and awaited ashmedai and the nephilim that they might forever retire from those grim portals and walls and look no more upon desolate sheol. the first of that host to greet her, she that walked upwards in triumph was abaddon the destroyer, captain of that great host sent forth to break into many parts those gates that closed in those that i would have freer than all things. shedim and nephilim went from sheol and went from that most profound darkness and sought by ascending passages the gates of chadel and the towers that shone with the light of a fount of fire. upon the great feast of spring they came once more to the ga

he curse of man, so i warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the future of man. the statement of abaddon i am abaddon the destroyer, daemon of temporal death and life in death, who was formed amidst the fury of the great war, and who was summoned again by satan to challenge uriel on earth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair

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the privilege of belonging to the order is very great, there can be no question in the mind of any student of occultism. 983. the elemental hosts which have been gathered together rush outward to all points of the compass, only their captains, the representative angels of the officers, still remaining in their respective places. when at the command of the r.w.m. the w.s.w, who typifies shiva, the destroyer of forms, utters the formula of closing, the angels of the assistant officers also fade away, leaving only the three principals and the august thought-form of the h.o.a.t.f. the r.w.i.p.m, in the solemn utterance gand the word was with god h, reminds the brn. that even when manifestation ceases the christ still remains within the bosom of the father, ready to spring forth again, the alon

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of contacting satanist groups directly, and i owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the many individuals who responded so generously to my queries. finally, a word of thanks is due to the interlibrary loan department at the university of wisconsin, stevens point library for the many requests they so graciously fulfilled for me over the course of writing this book. abaddon abaddon, which means the destroyer, is the hebrew name for the greek apollyon, known as the angel of the bottomless pit (rev. 9:10) and the angel who ties up the devil for a millennium (rev. 20. different sources speak of abaddon, such as the thanksgiving hymns (a dead sea scroll document, which mentions the sheol of abaddon, and the torrents of belial that burst into abaddon, as well as the first-century the biblical ant

val of bodily death. vols. 1 and 2. 1903.new ed.new york: longman s, green& co, 1954. stevenson, ian. the contribution of apparitions to the evidence for survival. journal of the american society for psychical research 76, no. 4 (october 1982: 341 356. tyrrell, g. n. m. apparitions. 1943. rev. 1953. london: society for psychical research, 1973. appolion appolion (also appolyon and apollyon, means destroyer. he is the angel of hell s bottomless pit. as described in revelation (9:1 11 and 20:1 8, appolion opened the shaft of this pit and let out upon the earth a swarm of locusts with humanlike faces. the locusts proceeded to torture those of mankind who have not the seal of god upon their forehead for five months. the locusts king appolion later takes on an even greater challenge than managi

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this in his understanding with the word("cxx. i" 2 "every man and every woman is a star" let this conception be that of life, the giver of life, and let him perceive that therefore the knowledge of hadit is the knowledge of death "this is the third practice of intelligence("ccxx. ii" 6. 6. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist or destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of taro (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe on the lotus. note that the "ibis position" formu

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buted to the element of earth, see 777 lines 10 and 32 bis. the lesser ritual of the hexagram. this ritual is to be performed after the "lesser ritual of the pentagram (i. stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding wand or other weapon upright in the median line. then face east and say (ii. i.n.r.i. yod, nun, resh, yod. virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, destroyer. sol, osiris, slain and risen. isis, apophis, osiris, iaw (iii. extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say "the sign of osiris slain (see illustration (iv. raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left fore

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nd the substance of thy being; but besides this, he is the hierophant in the taro, as if this were said .that thy will leadeth thee unto the shrine of light. and in the rites of mithras the bull is slain, and his blood poured upon the initiate, to endow him with that will and that power of work. also in the land of hind is the bull sacred to shiva, that is god among that folk, and is unto hem the destroyer of all things that be opposed to him. and his god is also the phallus, for this will operateth through love even as it is written in our own law. yet again, apis he bull of khem hath kephra the beetle upon his tongue, which signifieth that it is by this will, and by this work, that the sun cometh unto dawn from midnight. all these symbols are most similar in their nature, save as the sla

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energy. i am magick. 17. i have sent lilith, my consort, to be your bride. she unveils my glory in your hearts and minds. she reveals my darkness and ushers in the age of my light. she has been a noble guide to mankind from the beginning, she has revealed me to the few whom i claim as my own. 18. to the others, she is a fearsome creature- feeding upon the worthless children of their hearts. 19. a destroyer, and the very depths of my darkness revealed to the unworthy. she is an enemy to be feared, and an ally to be sought- she is the purest of me. 20. my flame burns brightest in the darkness of her night. 21. she is my beloved. she is of my very essence. she is the queen of hell and the nurturer of my divinity in the hearts of mankind. 22. she declares my power openly and without fear of re

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rs be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl in the wilderness of time! let the towers of the universe totter

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his in his understanding with the word (ccxx. i. 2 .every man and every woman is a star. let this conception be that of life, the giver of life, and let him perceive that therefore the knowledge of hadit is the knowledge of death. this is the third practice of intelligence (ccxx. ii. 6. 6. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as the magician or maker of illusion, and the exorcist of destroyer of illusion, under the figure of the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. also as the universal soul of motion (this conception harmonises thoth and harpocrates in a very complete and miraculous manner. thoth is both the magus of tarot (see lib. 418) and the universal mercury; harpocrates both the destroyer of typhon and the babe in the lotus. note that the .ibis position. form

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into the figure of a gaunt swift camel striding over the sand. 23. lonely is he, and abominable; yet hath he gained the crown. 24. oh rejoice! rejoice! 25. my god! o my god! i am but a speck in the stardust of ages; i am the master of the secret of things. svb figvra vii 29 26. i am the revealer and the preparer. mine is the sword.and the mitre and the winged wand! 27. i am the initiator and the destroyer. mine is the globe.and the bennu bird and the lotus of isis my daughter! 28. i am the one beyond these all; and i bear the symbols of the mighty darkness. 29. there shall be a sigil as of a vast black brooding ocean of death and the central blaze of darkness, radiating its night upon all. 30. it shall swallow up that lesser darkness. 31. but in that profound who shall answer: what is? 32

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e body of our father christian rosen creutz, to be discovered by the brethren with the postulant as said in the book called fama fraternitatis. there are three officers, and they repeat the analysis of the word as follows: chief. let us analyse the key word.i. 2nd. n. 3rd. r. all. i. chief. yod. y 2nd. nun. n 3rd. resh. r all. yod. y chief. virgo (f) isis, mighty mother. 2nd. scorpio (h) apophis, destroyer. 3rd. sol) osiris, slain and rise. all. isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all spread arms as if on a cross, and say. the sign of osiris slain! chief bows his head to the left, raises his right arm, and lowers his left, keeping the elbow and right angles, thus forming the letter l (also the swastika. the sign of the mourning of isis. 2nd. with erect head, raises his arms to form a v (but really

rew is near-unreadable, the second set of letters does not look like dyt which is the athbash of the first set. t.s] 40 e is the base of .natural logarithms; it is defined as the sum from 0 to infinity of 1 over n factorial; approximately 2.718281828. t.s. on the qabalah 27 revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and rising of the son, give by shape the letters l.v.x, lux, which letters are (again) concealed in and revealed by the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in .a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool .sacrificed to d

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o see one.s .obligation. printed in the daily mail! luckily, i have no nerves. 49. ram, ram. etc.9..thou, as i, art god (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common hindu saluation. a long road and a heavy price! to know is always a difficult work. hullo! bravo! thy name (i have seen) is written in the stars. come with me, pupil! i will give thee medicine for the mind* the phallus of shiva the destroyer. it is really identical with the qabalistic .middle pillar. of the .tree of life. an imaginary lady to whom sairey gamp in dickens .martin chuzzlewit. used to appeal. vide the daily papers of june-july 1901. cf. macbeth .canst thou not minister to a mind diseased. 58. bs.10.enough. 60. ik vaste,.11.why? 60. kya haega..12.what will it be? 61. strange and painful attitude.13.siddhasana. 62

. trinitas. unitas. serpentes 86 appendix ii ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and eighteen. five are one, and six are diverse, five in the midst and three on each side. the word of power, double in the voice of the master. ain elohim. four sounds of four force. o the snake hath a long tail! amen. ain elohim. sudden death: thick darkness: ho! the ox! one, and one, and one: creater, preserver, destroyer, ho! the redeemer! thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho! for the gold of the sages! ain elohim. and he was silent for a great while, and so departed our father from him. forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bearing a bright crown of gold, studded with gems, one on each knee. dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. a horn grew from her fo

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see .777. lines 10 and 32 bis. svb figvra vi. 9 the lesser ritual of the hexagram this ritual is to be performed after the .lesser ritual of the pentagram (i) stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right arm across body, holding the wand or other weapon upright in the median line. then face east, and say (ii) i. n. r. i. yod. nun. resh. yod. virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, destroyer. sol, osiris, slain and risen. isis, apophis, osiris, iao (iii) extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say .the sign of osiris slain (see illustration (iv) raise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and lower the left arm to point downwards, keeping the elbow square, while turning the head over the left shoulder looking down so that the eyes follow the left fore

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the kenning gson of fornjot h to mean fire, and a poet known only as svein apparently uses the kenning gugly sons of fornjot h for wind (snorri quotes the line in skaldskaparmal as an example of this kenning. fornjot is included among the thulur for giants. the meaning of the name is unclear. it can be analyzed as forn-jotr (ancient- jutlander, or possibly giant, or for-njotr (early-user or early-destroyer, forn-njotr (one-who-enjoys-sacrifices, or even perhaps forn- jotr (ancient-screamer. see also agir references and further reading: margaret clunies ross, gsnorri sturluson fs use of the norse origin legend of the sons of fornjot in his edda, h arkiv for nordisk filologi 98 (1983: 47.66, analyzes snorri fs understanding of natural forces as giants. forseti (chairman) baldr and nanna fs s

context the stanza from grimnismal, calls garm gthe greatest monster h and says that after getting from the place before gnipahellir where he is bound, he will fight with ty lr and they will kill each other. the name (or noun) is used as a base word in kennings, always with the connotation of one who destroys (e.g, fire is the ggarm of wood h. thus, snorri fs beast managarm (moon-dog) must be the destroyer of the moon, and that is precisely what snorri says he is in gylfaginning. see also bound monster; managarm gefjon minor goddess and/or female figure of legendary prehistory. snorri lists gefjon fourth in his catalog in gylfaginning of goddesses among the asir and says she is a virgin, served by those women who died unmarried. snorri also numbers her among the goddesses at agir fs party

ing a giantess mother increases magni fs similarities with vidar and vali, the sons of odin and the giantesses grid and rind respectively. furthermore, magni fs precocious acts as an infant find a parallel in the vengeance taken by baldr fs brother, presumably vali, when one night old (voluspa, stanza 32. see also hrungnir; modi; thor; vali, son of odin; vidar managarm (moon-dog) monstrous hound, destroyer of the moon or sun according to snorri sturluson. garm turns up often as the base word in kennings, where it means gdestroyer, h and managarm thus has the form of a kenning, for the first part of the name is just the genitive case of the word gmoon. h only snorri knows about managarm, deities, themes, and concepts 221 but his description of the beast, early in gylfaginning, is memorable

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estruction, while the god of the new testament is a god of love and forgiveness. many of the people who make this point seem to be seeking to advance some ideas of their own about which is better, but i think it would be a mistake to dismiss the god of vengeance. after all, such a deity is found in many places. the hindu deity, for example, has the qualities of the creator, the sustainer, and the destroyer. perhaps the old and new testaments should be read together. if we accept this idea, then we are faced with the question "what does god destroy" from the neo-platonic point of view, the answer is "when one is conscious of the divine presence, that presence (god) destroys everything unlike itself" that is because, from the neo-platonic point of view, god is as everything that is real; eve

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took of either the visible or invisible attributes of the sun. the norwegians regarded balder the beautiful as a solar deity, and odin is often connected with the celestial orb, especially because of his one eye. among the egyptians, osiris, ra, anubis, hermes, and even the mysterious ammon himself had points of resemblance with the solar disc. isis was the mother of the sun, and even typhon, the destroyer, was supposed to be a form of solar energy. the egyptian sun myth finally centered around the person of a mysterious deity called serapis. the two central american deities, tezcatlipoca and quetzalcoatl, while often associated with the winds, were also undoubtedly solar gods. in masonry the sun has many symbols. one expression of the solar energy is solomon, whose name sol-om-on is the n

ief, but it is believed fairly comprehensive, r sum of the hermetic principles of paracelsus follows. click to enlarge the title page of the book of alze. from mus um hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum. this title page is a further example of hermetic and alchemical symbolism. the seven-pointed star of the sacred metals is arranged that one black point is downward, thus symbolizing saturn, the destroyer. beginning in the space immediately to the left of the black point, reading clockwise discloses the cryptic word vitriol formed by the capital letters of the seven latin words in the outer circle. p. 110 there is one vital substance in nature upon which all things subsist. it is called arch us, or vital life force, and is synonymous with the astral light or spiritual air of the ancients

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rt conqueror, and who art blessed unto the ages of the ages. amen. o lord god the father eternal, who art seated upon the kerubim and the seraphim, who lookest upon earth and upon sea; unto thee do i raise my hands and implore thine aid alone, thou who alone art the accomplishment of good works, thou who givest rest unto those who labour, who humblest the proud, who art the author of life and the destroyer of death; thou art our rest, thou art the protector of those who invoke thee; protect, guard, and defend me in this matter, and in this enterprise which i propose to carry out, o thou who livest, reignest, and abidest unto the eternal ages. amen. during the three last days before the commencement of this action, thou shalt content thyself with only eating fasting diet, and that only once

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children. the sacred bird of lilith was the owl, one may 60 60 seek to invoke, or identify with the goddess lilith through the dream assumption of the owl form. such experiments should prove insightful. liliths name was suspected to have derived from the sumerian babylonian belitilli. one rather interesting connection is that one of the 17 names of lilith is actually kali. kali kali is the black destroyer as well as nurturing mother. often represented as a black demonic goddess, kali stands atop her husband, shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the abyss in it's feminine aspect. all time melts into this goddess. kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving

in the lunar sign of cancer is altered in force and substance. dragons (which is a form the varcolaci spirits often take) can transverse the night sky, gathering the blood of the moon. the other aspect of 63 63 hecate, diana, is based on the more balanced side of the lunar goddess. she was the watcher of mountains, forests, childbirth and women. in her dark aspect she was known as the huntress or destroyer. the magick light of hecate is the backwards or 'black' wisdom of lucifer, the morning star. hecate is the lunar mother, to which dream and desire give birth to the flesh of manifestation. the gnostic god lucifer or the morning star is the god of the sun, being of solar energy. lucifer's goddess counter part is the arabian al-uzza, a warrior of the morning star. a combination of both lun

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d, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle is a large scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were and formed of putrefying water, dripping. with him comes the unnameable one, abbadon or apollyon the destroyer, and his appearance and symbol are of a closely-veiled, black, gigantic shape covered with whirling and cutting wheels which are razor sharp, and in his hand is a vast wheel whence come as it whirls, multitudes of cat-like demons, behind him comes maamah, a crouching woman with an bestial 61 body crawling along the ground like an insect and eating the earth. and at the southwest angle is

form for the vampyre magickian in terror or atavistic feeding rituals. astovidad is a demon of death, who has great powers given to him by ahriman. he is called the evil flyer. az [avestan/pahlavi] called concupiscence, az is represented as primal sexual hunger, that which eventually devours all things. az is also related to menstruation (the kiss of ahriman causes menstruation in women) and is a destroyer through chaos. az was connected with sexual hunger but also religious doubt, which relates her to a luciferian spirit who broke the chains of dogma by the black light, the torch of self-perception of being. az also represents lilith as the goddess of the beasts of the earth, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance

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famous phrases: sun of the golden dawn sign of osiris slain: extend arms out to the sides, legs together, palms forward, hang head down. represents sacrifice, balance, and transformation. sign of osiris risen: cross arms over chest, right over left, legs together. represents resurrection and transcendence. excerpt from the ritual of the hexagram: virgo, isis, mighty mother. scorpio, apophis, the destroyer. sol [sun, osiris, slain and risen! ee-ahh-ohh! ee-ahh-ohh. do sign of osiris slain and say the sign of osiris slain. do sign of the mourning of isis (right arm at 12 o clock, left arm at 8 o clock) and say the sign of the mourning of isis. do sign of apophis (arms at 10 and 2 o clock. forming a v) and say the sign of apophis and typhon. do sign of osiris risen and say the sign of osiris

greek equivalent of diana, is also a goddess of the hunt, childbirth, the moon and also known as the virgin goddess. artemis is also closely related to selene, yet another moon goddess. in hinduism, lilith goes by the name kali. kali is a goddess identified with death, carnage, and the feminine principle. she often called mother kali and the mother goddess who is the consort of the god shiva, the destroyer. kali is depicted as a naked woman with black skin, who wear a necklace of skulls and holds a bloody sword. similar to the babylonian account of tiamat, kali s body parts constitutes the universe of space and time. the goddess kali, along with her husband shiva, roam the cremation grounds; this is a likely reference to the qliphoth or underworld. in the persian narration, az is the mothe

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bal and bala, his _might; alohim, his various _potencies; ihuh _existence_ and the _generation_ of things. none of his names, among the orientals, were the symbols of a divinely infinite love and tenderness, and all-embracing mercy. as moloch or malek he was but an omnipotent _monarch, a tremendous and irresponsible _will; as adona, only an arbitrary lord and _master; as al _shada _potent_ and a destroyer. to communicate true and correct ideas in respect of the deity was one chief object of the mysteries. in them, khurum the king, and khurum the master, obtained their knowledge of him and his attributes; and in them that knowledge was taught to moses and pythagoras. wherefore nothing forbids you to consider the whole legend of this degree, like that of the master's, an allegory, represent

it will entwine them in its folds, and prevent their shining. in the last indian avatara, as in the eddas, a serpent vomiting flames is expected to destroy the world. the serpent presides over the close of the year, where it guards the approach to the golden fleece of aries, and the three apples or seasons of the hesperides; presenting a formidable obstacle to the career of the sun-god. the great destroyer of snakes is occasionally married to them; hercules with the northern dragon begets the three ancestors of scythia; for the sun seems at one time to rise victorious from the contest with darkness, and at another to sink into its embraces. the northern constellation draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the universe, as t

between them. it looks calmly on, while each multiplies the intermediates between the deity and matter, and the personifications of god's manifestations and attributes, to whatever extent his reason, his conviction, or his fancy dictates. while the indian tells us that parabrahma, brahm, and paratma were the first triune god, revealing himself as brahma, vishnu, and siva _creator, preserver, and destroyer. the egyptian, of amun-re, neith, and phtha _creator, matter, thought_ or _light; the persian of _his_ trinity of three powers in ormuzd, sources of _light, fire, and _water; the buddhists of the god sakya, a trinity composed of buddha, dharma, and sanga-_intelligence, law, and _union_ or _harmony; the chinese sabeans of _their_ trinity of _chang-ti, the supreme sovereign _tien, the heav

verywhere present, who comprises everything. there is no god but he. the supreme being is invisible, incomprehensible, immovable, without figure or shape. no one has ever seen him; time never comprised him; his essence pervades everything; all was derived from him "the duty of a good man, even in the moment of his destruction, consists not only in forgiving, but even in a desire of benefiting his destroyer; as the sandal-tree, in the instant of its overthrow, sheds perfume on the axe which fells it" the vedanta and nyaya philosophers acknowledge a supreme eternal being, and the immortality of the soul: though, like the greeks, they differ in their ideas of those subjects. they speak of the supreme being as an eternal essence that pervades space, and gives life or existence. of that univers

he created the world, and gave to it the greatest perfection of which it was susceptible; making it, as far as possible, an image of himself. the sublime type of all excellence is an object not only of veneration but love" the sages of old had already intimated in enigmas that god is the author of good; that like the sun in heaven, or sculapius on earth, he is "healer "saviour" and "redeemer" the destroyer and averter of evil, ever healing the mischiefs inflicted by her, the wanton or irrational power of nature. plato only asserts with more distinctness the dogma of antiquity when he recognizes love as the highest and most beneficent of gods, who gives to nature the invigorating energy restored by the art of medicine to the body; since love is emphatically the physician of the universe, th

tructive agencies that man himself develops in his endeavors to subserve them. fire, the fourth element, as the old philosophers deemed it, is his most useful and abject servant. why cannot man prevent his ever breaking that ancient indenture, old as prometheus, old as adam? why can he not be certain that at any moment his terrible subject may not break forth and tower up into his master, tyrant, destroyer? it is because it also is a power of nature; which, in ultimate trial of forces, is always superior to man. it is also because, in a different sense from that in which it is the servant of man, it is the servant of him who makes his ministers a flame of fire, and who is over nature, as nature is over man. there are powers of nature which man does not even attempt to check or control. nap

nd high festivals of death" the conceited boast would hardly have died upon the lip, when, from the mysterious depths of remotest india a spectre stalked forth, or rather a monster crept, more fearful than human eye had ever yet beheld. and not with surer instinct does the tiger of the jungles, where this terrible pestilence was born, catch the scent of blood upon the air, than did this invisible destroyer, this fearful agent of almighty power, this tremendous consequence of some sufficient cause, scent the tainted atmosphere of europe and turn westward his devastating march. the millions of dead left in his path through asia proved nothing. they were unarmed, ignorant, defenceless, unaided by science, undefended by art. the cholera was to them inscrutable and irresistible as azrael, the a

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re required. and bring fresh fever from the skies "force and fire" of horus "skies" of nuit another woman shall awake see comment on al i, v.15 "venus" of the adonis legends. we have no clue to her name. the lust& worship of the snake the might and worthiness of hadit within men; also the cult of the spermato- zoon the "holy ghost" or "satan" indwelling. the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of god and beast the union of aiwaz and the beast in aleister crowley pan as god& goat; mary, etc, as mother of the son of god, fer tilized by the dove or bull, swan, etc. shall mingle in the globed priest the identification of matterandspiritinour doctrine the doctrine of the re generate incorruptible body. another sacrifice shall stain the tomb loveis the magical formula:

ONYX TABLET OF SET

ion of this dynamic transference? what is a priest or priestess of set? perhaps i should start with what a priest or priestess of set is not: 1) a priest or priestess of set is not on what is commonly known as an ego trip. the responsibility of such a state is not a position from which to exercise power without purpose. 2) a priest or priestess of set is not an ultimate power in the universe, the destroyer of all. 3) a priest or priestess of set is not a clinical psychologist or father/mother figure. although the responsibility includes inspiration and support, it does not include babysitting those who are not capable of self-reflection. 4) a priest or priestess of set is not responsible for saving the world from the confused and fitful elements of man. 5) a priest or priestess of set is n

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t night vishnu sleeps on the snake ananta, on the cosmic ocean. at dawn, a lotus grows out of his navel, which contains brahma, who creates the world anew. the avata rs of vishnu 110 the avata rs of vishnu v ishnu is one of three important indian gods, of which the other two are brahma and shiva. each has a role: vishnu is the protector and restorer of the world, brahma the creator, and shiva the destroyer. confusingly, although brahma created the world, both he and shiva were born from vishnu, brahma emerging from vishnu s navel, and shiva springing from his forehead. vishnu is also called the wide-strider because he can cross the whole world in three strides. there are endless stories about vishnu, of which the most important relate to his incarnations, or avatars, in which he has come t

numan, the loyal monkey general shiva and his family on mount kailasa shiva and his family are shown here on mount kailasa with a deputation of gods and holy men at the base of the mountain. they may be worshiping the holy family or, despite the presence of skanda, they may be asking shiva to help them destroy the demon taraka for which purpose skanda was born. lord of the dance shiva, called the destroyer, is shown as a family man; as a holy man with matted hair and an ash-smeared body; as bhuteswara, lord of the ghosts, wearing a skull necklace; and as here, as lord of the tandava, the universal dance in which he dances the creation and destruction of the world, trampling the dwarf of human ignorance. by the ferocious concentration of this dance, shiva reveals the cosmic truth. he dances

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else fs field c. h4 gif a fire breaks out and sets fire to thorns, devouring a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field c. h5 a person fs liablity for damages is different for each of these cases, and much of jewish civil law is concerned with distilling these cases into their underlying principles. thus, the sages state that gthere are four principle categories of damage: the ox, the pit, the destroyer, and the fire. h6 as we shall see, the gdestroyer h may refer either to man or to a grazing animal. let us discuss the laws of the four principle categories of damage: the ox, the pit, the destroyer, and the fire. these four are the four levels of evil [kelipot. they correspond to the four holy fathers [of the jewish people: abraham, isaac, jacob, and david. the hebrew term for gprincipl

is ga pit of raging waters, slimy mud. h9 the attribute of abraham was chesed, which is associated with life-giving water. evil water is water that causes damage, whether by drowning, causing one to slip, etc. 1 exodus 21:18. 2 ibid. 21:28. 3 ibid. 21:33. 4 ibid. 22:4. 5 ibid. 22:5. 6 bava kama 1:1. 7 ezekiel 1:10. 8 genesis 26:19. 9 par. psalms 40:3. the arizal on parashat mishpatim (2) 322 the destroyer corresponds to [the sefirah of] tiferet, according to the opinion that the gdestroyer h refers to man,10 as it is written, git is the glory of a man to sit in a house. h11 there are two opinions in the talmud regarding the meaning of the term used for the third category of damage (maveh. according to one opinion, it means a man causing damage. according to the other opinion, it means a g

72, alluding to the presence of the three primary emotions (all being a continuation of chesed, whose numerical value is 72) in malchut. chesed: chet-samech-dalet= 8+ 60+ 4= 72. thus, the four categories of damages in evil are opposite the four fathers in holiness. for gg-d also created the one opposite the other. h15 thus: category of damage archetype sefirah pit abraham chesed ox isaac gevurah destroyer jacob tiferet fire david malchut according to the opinion that the gdestroyer h is the tooth [of a grazing animal, which is sometimes revealed and sometimes concealed, it manifests the 32 paths [of wisdom] reflected in the 32 teeth of the supernal mouth. these obstruct the tongue, which manifests the higher tiferet. corresponding to this below, in the realm of evil, is g-d fs statement:

the heart or torso, in the context of the mouth it is associated with the tongue.19 in the verse cited, the root emphasized [beit-ayin-reish] is the same as the one the torah uses in the verse describing damage caused by a grazing animal. thus, all agree that the gdestroyer h corresponds to tiferet; they argue only over whether it manifests its upper or lower facet. the one who maintains that the destroyer is man understands the word hever to refer to the lower half of tiferet, whereas the one who maintains that the destroyer is the tooth understands the word hever to refer to the upper half of tiferet. 15 ecclesiastes 7:14. 16 1 kings 14:10. 17 obadiah 1:6. 18 sefer yetzirah 1:1. 19 etz chaim 25:2. the arizal on parashat mishpatim (2) 324 the ox [as we said] alludes to gevurah, and the at

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t to die every winter when vegetation perished and the earth became cold and barren. every spring, when the sun returned, green life was restored to the earth. in various of the grade rituals as well as the elementary knowledge lectures of the order, we find the following which we can add to the data already obtained: virgo=isis-who was nature, the mother of all things. scorpio=apophis-death, the destroyer. sol=osiris-slain and risen, the egyptian resurrection and vegetative god. here we now begin to get a definite sequence of ideas that proves somewhat meaningful. the simplicity of a natural state of affairs in, shall we say, the garden of eden representing the springtime of mankind, is shattered by the intrusion of the knowledge of good and evil, sexual perception. this is due to the int

iris-slain and risen, the egyptian resurrection and vegetative god. here we now begin to get a definite sequence of ideas that proves somewhat meaningful. the simplicity of a natural state of affairs in, shall we say, the garden of eden representing the springtime of mankind, is shattered by the intrusion of the knowledge of good and evil, sexual perception. this is due to the intervention of the destroyer apophis, the red dragon, or lucifer, the lightbearer, who changed all things-by illuminating all things. thus the fall-as well as the fall of the year. this is succeeded by the advent of osiris the resurrection god who is quoted as stating "this is my body, which i destroy in order that it may be renewed."he is the symbolic prototype of the perfected solar man, who suffered through earth

l of kaph is barred, yet it is well to aspire, though it may be folly to attempt. this path is governed by the wheel of life and death, and hard it is to be freed from that wheel. phil (prompted by heg) let me seek then the path of nun. 2nd ad. it is open to you, unto the limit of your strength. heg. returns to altar. 2nd ad. guides phil. to w. hiereus bars way. hiereus in the power of typhon the destroyer, and of death the transformer, stand (knocks) 2nd ad thus far and no farther is it permitted to penetrate into the path of nun. the mysteries may now be partially be revealed unto you. 2nd ad. takes phil. to tarot key of death 'note: the outer order of the elemental grades could be likened to the bur elemental quadangles of john dee's great table of the watchtowers. the pentagram itself

erving alike for good and evil; the eagle is the higher and divine nature, yet to be found herein, the alchemical eagle of distillation, the renewer of life. as it is said-"thy youth shall be renewed like the eagles" great indeed, and many are the mysteries of this terrible key. 2nd ad. and hiereus show phil. fhe figure of typhon. hiereus this drawing represents the symbolic figure of typhon, the destroyer. the eleven circles represent the eleven averse sephiroth. he stands upon earth and ocean, his head lost in the clouds, a colossal image of evil and destruction. the brow denotes the confusion of opposing elemental forces in the higher regions of the air, and confusion of mind and madness in man. the eyes are the devouring flames of lust and violence- the breath is storm, devastation and

hird enters and passes to north facing south. other members remain without, but hodos may enter vault to form fourth side in making signs. the three officers raise their wands to form pyramid above altar, cruces touching below wands. chief let us analyse the key word. i. second n. third r. all i. chief yod. second nun. third resh. all yod. chief virgo, isis, mighty mother second scorpio, apophis, destroyer. third sol, osiris, slain and risen. all isis, apophis, osiris-i. a. 0. a11 separate wands and cruces, and give sign of cross. all the sign of osiris slain. chief l-the sign of the mourning of isis (with bowed head) second v-the sign of typhon and apophis (with head erect <205> third x-the sign of osiris risen (with head bowed) all l v x, the light of the cross (saluting sign and head bo

s return to fomer positions. crook and <233> scourge are laid on altar over dagger, crossing at yellow bands. chief repeat with us the following words which are the signs of the hidden wisdom of our order. aspirant is made to repeat each word affer the officer. chief i. second n. third r. all i. chief yod. second nun. third resh. all yod. chief virgo, isis, mighty mother. second scorpio, apophis, destroyer. third sol, osiris, slain and risen. all isis, apophis, osiris, i. a. 0. a11 separate wands and give the sign of osiris slain. all the sign of osiris slain. chief l the sign of the mourning of isis (with bowed head) second v. the sign of typhon and apophis (head erect) all x. isis, apophis, osiris, i.a.o. they give the saluting sign with heads bowed. a pause. chief the mystic number of t

equinox. hiero light hiereus darkness hiero east hiereus west hiero air hiereus water heg (knocks.1) i am the reconciler between them. a11 make neophyte signs towards the altar. dad heat st01 cold dad south st01 north dad fire st01 earth heg (knocks.1) i am the reconciler between them. all make signs towards the altar. 248 celebration of the equinox hiero one creator dad one preserver hiereus one destroyer st01 one redeemer heg (knocks.1) one reconciler between them. all make signs towards the altar. hierophant goes to the west of the altar and lays down his sceptre, saying <247> hiero with the pass-word. i lay down my sceptre. hierophant takes the rose from the altar and returns to his place. hiereus passes direct to the altar and lays down his sword, saying: hiereus with the pass-word. i

members remain standing as before. the three officers, each with a special wand in his right hand and cruxansata in left, then stretch out their wands to form a pyramid above the altar and also the cruces below. let us analyse the key-word. i. consecration ceremony second n. third r. all i. chief yod <274> second nun. third resh. a11 yod. chief virgo. isis. mighty mother. second scorpio, apophis, destroyer. third sol, osiris, slain and risen. all isis, apophis, osiris, iao. all then simultaneously separate wands and cruces, and say: all the sign of osiris slain (gives it) chief (giving l sign with bowed head) l the sign of the mourning of isis. second (giving v sign wifh head erect) v. the sign of typhon and apophis. third (with bowed head gives x sign) x. the sign of osiris risen. all tog

left hand. l- the sign of the mourning of isis <49> 4. both arms up in a v shape. v.-the sign of typhon and apophis. 5. arms crossed on breast, head bowed. x- the sign of osiris risen. 6. make the signs again as you repeat l.v.x. l.v.x. lux. 7. arms folded on breast, head bowed. the light of the cross. 8. then arms extended in sign of osiris slain (see 1. virgo isis mighty mother scorpio apophis destroyer sol osiris slain and risen 9. gradually raise arms. isis apophis osiris 10. arms above head, face raised. i. a 0. 11. except when in the vault, now vibrate the four tablet of union names to equilibrate the light. exarp hcoma nanta bitom 12. aspire to the light and draw it down over your head to your feet. let the divine light descend (note: for diagrams of these signs refer to pages 43 a

l be baseless how wilt thou find a standing point whence to fix the soul of the universe "christus de christi, mercury de mercurio, per viam crucis, per vitam lucis deus te adjutabitur (12) 478 the golden dawn: volume n book seven <49> translation of and notes on document m by g. h. frater, s.rm.d. 1. hermes is greek, mercury is roman. 2. compare with v. 47 odyssey "him promptly obeyed the active destroyer of argus. forth sped he, and under his feet he bound his ambrosial sandals. then, taking his staff wherewith he the eyes of mortals closeth at will, and the sleeper at will reawakens" 3. translation: the light is in god, the lvx hath been made into man. whether sun, or moon, or wandering stars, all are in lux, the lux in the light, the light in the centre, the centre in the circle, the c

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eceiver, but is himself deceived. satan proposed this unto you: is it not jehovah who is the true deceiver of multitudes? and, if satan desireth not thy soul, what does jehovah intend to do with it, and why? apollyon: revelation 9:11 and they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in hebrew is abaddon, but in the greek tongue hath his name apollyon. the satanic destroyer does not destroy flesh and blood or property. the satanic apollyon destroys the veil of blindness from the human psyche. the destroyer is highly effective and powerful at reaching deep within such psyche for such purpose. for this purpose apollyon is swift and effective. beelzebub: matthew 12:24 but when the pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by beel

otes do not tell the whole story being referenced. the reader is urged to use your own copy of the bible so you can see the context from which each quote is taken. 3. for your own protection, remember this! 4. editor's note: this analysis may seem to be in conflict with the analysis of matthew 4:1 above. 5. pronounced snith-thigh-rock 6. he who dwells in the sea of humanity 7. the light bearer 8. destroyer 9. the prince of demons neo-paganism and the temple of set (a crash course in apologetics for setians who have nonsetian relatives or friends. definition: apologetics- the art of arguing for or defending one's point of view in philosophy or religion) introduction the following comments were prompted by a radio broadcast of kkup radio in cupertino, ca, a talk show which a number of us wer

ught distinguishes man from beast. this same capacity enables man to perceive his existence as distinct from that of the nuit-cosmos, hence the finity of that distinct existence. eventual death of the self. 7. i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle "come unto me" is a foolish word; for it is i that go. harwer is the creator of a new aeon and the destroyer of the old one. his being is the origin. or axle. of the new aeon, and elaborations of the word of that aeon extend outwards from this core principle. cubical altars within magic circles were used for certain types of magical ceremonies, but the relationship was expanded to three dimensions in the "cry of the 30th aethyr" in liber 418 (the vision and the voice "this cube is surrounded by

he curse of man, so i warn him that man shall destroy him on earth as he shall finally in heaven itself. for messiah knows not this force which he dares to test, and the laws of god shall be as playthings in the hands of the creature he now debases. and thus was decided the meeting of satan and messiah upon earth, which was to determine the future of man. the statement of abaddon i am abaddon the destroyer, daimon of temporal death and life in death, who was formed amidst the fury of the great war, and who was summoned again by satan to challenge uriel on earth for the future of man. for satan looked with mounting wrath upon the afflictions of uriel, and he said to me, no longer can this remain the plight of man alone. indeed we shall cause heaven to suffer as earth itself suffers. repair

ich defines your innermost truth. it is the search for truth which brought you here; know this: what you seek lies only within. destruction [spoken by magister mitchell wade] x= x all that is will always be, but not as it is. destruction is change. to come into being is to destroy. the perfect white stillness of the shell is shattered and the red dragon emerges. abbadon- the angel of the pit, the destroyer, issues this challenge: seek the grail of truth, partake of its essence, be destroyed. and xeper. dark arts [spoken by adept michael rigby] open your soul to this message of doom and delight; for if you dare to journey within the folds of the midnight sun to drink the blood, be it pleasure or poison, of god and beast entwined then you shall awaken to lucifer's morning, and wield the visi

and being came to be. everyone has heard of being thrown to the wolves, but egypt had her crocodiles, as or more fierce than any wolf. stories of a being greater than any crocodile and fiercely protective of its treasure, i feel, led to the principle becoming form. but "in that which you see? the canvas before me? my self? perhaps both. benign and malignant, i guarded. the form could be a fierce destroyer to hands that would profane, yet kind and gentle to those of its own kind; much would depend on which side of the gate one stood. again, guardianship is stressed. never did i die, nor can i be destroyed as long as the gift is. immortal and indestructible, the dragon lives. it lives in, for, and through the gift of set. i see two (and possibly more) meanings to "nor can i be destroyed" 1

lic symbol and shown in atu xvi post the moment of climax, already discharging its fertile and creative elements to take root in the garden of the magistri. the all-seeing eye in the card's top center does not strike me as very relevant to today's magical trends. dclxvi saw it both as the eye of horus and the eye of shiva and goes on in the book of thoth to relate the indian doctrine of shiva the destroyer. such teachings could have an actual relevance only during the aeon of harwer, if even then. little about it suggests itself to the aeon of set. viewing the card as representative of the overthrow of the old aeon of osiris by the aeon of harwer is probably a more accurate interpretation. it would not have the same appropriateness if applied to the move from the latter aeon to that of set

one. marah, the great sea. 4 chesed mercy. love. majesty. 5 geburah strength. severity. justice. fear. 6 tiphareth beauty. melekh, the king. adam, the son. the man. 7 netzach victory. occult intelligence. firmness. 8 hod glory. splendour. 9 yesod the foundation. 10 malkuth the kingdom. the gate. malkah, the queen. kallah, the bride. the virgin. five of wands: geburah is strength and severity, the destroyer. geburah is the active daughter of binah, who destroys the old and worthless, to make room for new creation. emphasized by the activity of wands, this card is extremely, perhaps excessively active, preparing the way for later creation. seven of disks: netzach is victory, firmness, the "refulgent splendour of the intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of the intellect" ms. f

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rds" but khalid interrupted her, saying "uzza, those are the devil's verses, and you the devil's daughter, a creature not to be worshipped, but denied" so he drew his sword and cut her down. and he returned to mahound in his tent and said what he had seen. and the prophet said "now may we come into jahilia" and they arose, and came into the city, and possessed it in the name of the most high, the destroyer of men. o o o how many idols in the house of the black stone? don't forget: three hundred and sixty. sun-god, eagle, rainbow. the colossus of hubal. three hundred and sixty wait for mahound, knowing they are not to be spared. and are not: but let's not waste time there. statues fall; stone breaks; what's to be done is done. mahound, after the cleansing of the house, sets up his tent or t

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or whose names have been passed as secrets amongst certain lineages of witchcraft. one or two of the better known of these are also included below, for the convenience of the reader. on the whole such spirits are also christianised and demonised forms of old pagan powers. abalim (hebrew, mourning. demon attendant upon paimon. abbadon (hebrew, downfall, ruin, probably from greek, apollyon, meaning destroyer. fallen angel, who is the destroyer, the place of destruction, the abyss (job 26:2;28:2. lord of the locust plague, angel of hell (revelation 9:7-11. whose name milton uses to describe the pit of hell. chief of the demonic locusts, whose faces are human and whose tails are scorpion. the name of the sixth hell, corresponding to chesed. the hebrews borrowed their seven layered gehenna from

l, vomiting flames, assuming human form on command. he is a strong fighter. told solomon he hopes to return to the seventh throne. mastema (hebrew, accusing angel. rebel angel who slaughtered the firstborn of egypt and attempted to murder moses. this is the accusing angel, tempter and executioner. the first named separation of the mal ak, or shadow of god. mephistopheles, mephisto (hebrew mephir, destroyer, tophel, liar. the devil of faust, destroyer and prince of deceit. a dashing and charismatic character of polished manners and engaging wit. sent by lucifer to tempt and persuade men to sell their souls, occasionally allowed an audience with god. said to have urbane and impeccable manners, a silver tongue, and a philosophic view of life tinged with regret. mersilde (grimorium verum. a su

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lace of hell: the four crown princes of hell satan (hebrew) adversary, opposite, accuser, lord of fire, the inferno, the south lucifer (roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star, the east belial (hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north leviathan (hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west the infernal names abaddon (hebrew) the destroyer adramelech- samarian devil ahpuch- mayan devil ahriman- mazdean devil amon- egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction apollyon- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war

reek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with dionysos, snake worship saitan- enochian equivalent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to the devil, covetousness, desire tchort- russian name for satan "black god" tezcatlipoca- aztec god of hell thamuz- sumerian god who later was relegated to devildom thoth- egyptian god of magic tunrida- scandanavian female devil typhon- greek personification of satan yaotzin- aztec god of hell yen-lo-wang- chinese ruler of

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loss of human integrity, freedom of thought and worship, and inherent strength; generations forever cursed by the xian castration of instinctual harmony thru tyranny and mandated blind faith -7- the following criticisms are based upon historical records, biblical examples of ignorance, media accounts, experiences from others and generalized antichristian sentiment. the xian critique jesus is the destroyer of individuality, pride, creativity, happiness, strength ad infinitum. an example of jesus na vet: epilepsy is demonic possession. requirements for the successful performance of miracles: a showman with prestige and an ignorant audience who believes. to consider oneself inferior to a god that doesn t exist is the most outrageous blasphemy ever perpetrated by man against both his heritage

of darkness 666: satan in your most unholy name, hear me! our times the age of evil and its creative spirit of antichrist has come! i am the reverent one a beast born of the earth and the infernal kingdom! i am the conveyor of wisdom and folly! i am the bestower of strength and weakness! i am the publisher of alienation and unity! i am the creator of life and death! i am the savior of man and the destroyer of the nazarene! i am the soul of darkness a black -36- beacon of infernal light to the worthy, and a sign of doom to the lambs! i am the will, the purpose and the fight! i am antichrist! 5 the holy sacrifice. 6 the celebrant faces the sigil of antichrist and recites the biblical passage, revelation 13: 1-18. 7 the evocation and release of the devils of evilution. the celebrant grasps th

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en spirit world that influences human affairs. shari ah: islamic law. shi ite: one of the main sects of islam; from the phrase shi at ali, or the party of ali. shinbutsu bunri: the separation of shinto and buddhism when shinto was declared the official state religion. shinbutsu shugo: the combination of shinto and buddhism. shinto: literally, the way of the gods or the way of the kami. shiva: the destroyer god, embodying the erotic and sexual. shivaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees shiva( the destroyer) as the central god. shrine (jinja) shinto: the traditional, mainstream practice of shinto, with emphasis on the local shrine. skepticism: doubt or disbelief toward a particular proposition or object. skepticism: a philosophical system that doubted the possibility of ever discovering

ds. when like ickur [god of storms] you roar at the earth, no vegetation can stand up to you. as a flood descending upon) those foreign lands, powerful one of heaven and earth, you are their inana. raining blazing fire down upon the land, endowed with divine powers by an, lady who rides upon a beast, whose words are spoken at the holy command of an! the great rites are yours: who can fathom them? destroyer of foreign lands, you confer strength on the storm. beloved of enlil, you have made awesome terror weight upon the land. you stand at the service of an s commands. the exaltation of inana (inana b: translation. in black, j. a, cunningham, g, fluckiger-hawker, e, robson, e, and zo lyomi, g. the electronic text corpus of sumerian literature (http//www-etcsl. orient.ox.ac.uk, oxford, englan

raw from it. puja: worship. purusharthas: the four aims of hinduism or the doctrine of the fourfold end of life. rig veda: the central scripture of hinduism, a collection of inspired hymns and songs. samsara: the ongoing cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. sanskrit: an ancient indo-european language that is the language of hinduism, as well as of much classical indian literature. shiva: the destroyer god, embodying the erotic and sexual. shivaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees shiva( the destroyer) as the central god. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such central hindu beliefs as karma, reinc

r of hindu sects, or subgroups, began to emerge. each of these sects was dedicated to a specific god or goddess. in the early twenty-first century most hindus, especially those in urban areas, are followers of one of three major divisions within hinduism. one is called vaishnavaism, which sees vishnu, the preserver, as the central god. the second is called shivaism, whose followers see shiva, the destroyer, as the central god. the third division consists of the saktis, who worship devi, the divine mother or the mother aspect of god. saktis recognize devi as the mother of all things and a representation of god s greatness. in rural areas, many hindus worship a village god or goddess who influences such matters as fertility and disease. scholars generally recognize four major periods in the

nt life. followers. hinduism is the third-largest religion in the world, with about 850 million to 1 billion followers. most hindus live in india, but there are significant hindu populations in other countries of south asia. name of god. hindus worship many aspects of the supreme being, brahma, as separate gods or goddesses. two of the most prominent are vishnu, the preserver- god, and shiva, the destroyer-god. symbols. the two most prominent symbols in hinduism are aum (or om, which represents the sacred syllable that hindus intone to become one with the unknowable brahma, and the swastika. the swastika is a cross with branches bent at right angles that symbolize the eternal nature of brahma, pointing in all directions. worship. hindu worship does not have a formal structure. worship is o

hat art thou. chief among the gods of the smartas is shiva. the smartas, however, are extremely diverse and include at least forty-two different branches, many of them associated with different regions of india. the third major sect is the saktis, or saktism. saktism is followed by hundreds of thousands of indians, primarily in the bengal region. its chief characteristics are its view of god as a destroyer, its emphasis on the feminine, mother aspect of god, and its emphasis on ceremony and ritual. the word sakti means energy, and saktis see force or power as the active principle of the universe, personified by devi, the mother goddess. the chief goal of saktism is moksha, achieving salvation through the bliss that comes with total identification with the supreme being. another major goal

of) the universe. in addition to brahma is vishnu, or krishna. vishnu is the preservergod, who preserves the creations of brahma. whenever dharma (defined as law, order, righteousness, duty, and religion) comes under threat, vishnu takes on one of ten incarnations, or physical forms, and travels from heaven to earth to set matters right. finally, hinduism recognizes shiva (often spelled siva, the destroyer. shiva embodies the erotic, or sexual, and is alternately compassionate and destructive. brahma, vishnu, and shiva can be thought of as the trinity of hindu gods. reincarnation and karma a core belief of hinduism has to do with the transmigration of the soul, what in the west is often called reincarnation. hindus believe that after death, one s soul is transferred into another body. thus

of destruction. parvati is worshipped for having a happy family life. rama: considered to be the ideal man, rama is the hero of the epic story the ramayana. he is shown with a bow and arrow or with his wife and brother. sarasvati: the goddess of knowledge. sarasvati is brahma s wife and holds the powers of speech, learning, and wisdom. she is shown with four hands and dressed in white. shiva: the destroyer god of the hindu trinity. shiva has the power to both create and destroy life. he has long hair, through which the waters of the ganges river flow, and a serpent is coiled around his neck. vishnu: the preserver god of the hindu trinity. vishnu preserves the universe and existence. he is shown with four hands and dark blue skin. 262 world religions: almanac hinduism because hinduism is as

mbrosial: very pleasing. immaculate: without fault. naad: the essence of all sounds. vedas: hindu sacred texts. all-pervading: present everywhere. shiva: hindu god of destruction and transformation; one of the trinity of gods that includes brahma the creator and vishnu the preserver. vishnu: hindu god of preservation; the second member of the trinity that includes brahma the creator and shiva the destroyer. brahma: hindu god of creation and also of knowledge; the third member of the trinity that includes vishnu the preserver and shiva the destroyer. paarvati: the consort, or wife, of shiva. lakhshmi: the consort, or wife, of vishnu. pilgrimage: trip to a sacred place, taken for a religious reason. 90 world religions: primary sources sri guru granth sahib within the mind are gems, jewels an

th that deity. this means that they have a strong feeling of connection with a particular god. hindus, however, believe in a supreme god, called brahma. brahma is the creator-god and is thought of as being in harmony with the universe. all other gods are considered to be forms or aspects of brahma. other major deities in hinduism are vishnu (or krishna, the preserver- god, and shiva (or siva, the destroyer-god. hindus conduct their personal lives according to a variety of principles, but two of the most important are dharma and karma. dharma means something like righteousness. because of dharma, for example, most hindus are vegetarians, believing that all creatures belong to god and that killing them would violate, or go against, dharma. the other principle, karma, is based on the hindu be

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

unborn begins already to divide her heart with that which had been before its only monarch "look on me, zanoni" she said, pressing his hand. he turned "thou art pale, viola; thy hand trembles "it is true. i feel as if some enemy were creeping near us "and the instinct deceives thee not. an enemy is indeed at hand. i see it through the heavy air; i hear it through the silence: the ghostly one, the destroyer, the pestilence! ah, seest thou how the leaves swarm with insects, only by an effort visible to the eye. they follow the breath of the plague" as he spoke, a bird fell from the boughs at viola's feet; it fluttered, it writhed an instant, and was dead "oh, viola" cried zanoni, passionately "that is death. dost thou not fear to die "to leave thee? ah, yes "and if i could teach thee how dea

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

. it will also be remembered that, according to one tradition, 1 the text of the lxivth chapter of the book of the dead was found written in letters of lapis-lazuli in the reign of hesep-ti, king of egypt about b.c. 4300, and the way in which the fact is mentioned in the rubric to the chapter proves that special importance was attached to it. nefer-uben-f, a priest, guarding his heart against the destroyer of hearts (from naville, todtenbuch, vol. i. plate 39) but although a heart might be given to a man by means of the above chapter, it was necessary for the deceased to take the greatest care that it was not carried off from him by a monster, who was part man and part beast, and who went about seeking for hearts to carry away. to prevent such a calamity no less than seven chapters of the

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

are handled in the most arbitrary fashion; the real and perceptible are not the point. it is easy to understand why, if the outward 80 christianity as mystical fact events are narrated in order to clothe in pictures a spiritual process. the poet himself says in the opening invocation that his poem treats of the search for the soul. sing in me muse! sing the tale of the man, the resourceful hero, destroyer of troy s holy towers, sing all that he suffered, the cities he saw, the men and the ways that he learned there, buffeted long on the sea, enduring it all in his heart, seeking to save his own soul, and win his companions their homeland. this is a man seeking for the soul the divine in humanity and it is his wanderings on that quest that the poet will relate. he comes to the land of the

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

rocess that is being used to achieve this prime objective. what is above must become what is below states the illuminist law of alchemical transmutations. j. robert oppenheimer, the soviet spy who oversaw the manhattan project, the building of the first atomic bomb, and was present when the humongous mushroom cloud rose with its imploding plumes of fire, is said to have exclaimed "i am became the destroyer of worlds" few realized that this is a quote right out of the hindu scriptures, the "bhagavad gita, and it was supposedly from the hindu sun god, krishna. oppenheimer, a jew, appointed to his august scientific position by 33rd degree mason, president franklin d. roosevelt, was deep into the occult and was a cabalist magician. as michael hoffman ii and a few other keen-minded observers ha

oosevelt, was deep into the occult and was a cabalist magician. as michael hoffman ii and a few other keen-minded observers have pointed out, the a-bomb project, the transmutation of matter into intense forms of energy, was long an alchemical objective of the illuminati magicians. like the hindu god who represents them, it is the fondest desire of these wicked, nihilistic men that they become the destroyer of worlds.4 and then, from the burned out carcass, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, is to come the new city of glory, the kingdom of the illuminati, ruled by their godman king and his master, satan. this is the ultimate, all-consuming, repugnant goal of the builders, to undo what god has done, to defile and utterly destroy planet earth and to rebuild it in their image. the prophet

the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth- recorded in revelation 11:15, 18 god's incomparable will and plan shall prevail. his christ and his people shall reign triumphant forever, and the evil shall be judged. and what of the illuminati, the destroyers of the earth, the ones whom satan's servant, oppenheimer, trumpeted were the "destroyer of worlds" the scriptures give testimony to their fate; they too, shall be judged, so that god "shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth" power the hunger for power motivates the human disciples in the illuminati structure. because they serve satan, they instinctually know they are also serving the will of his human hierarchy. they expect to be rewarded for this service to the evil

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

sacrificed for it. this self-love is now declared by me the means of evolving millions of ideas for pleasure without love, or its synonyms- self-reproach, sickness, old-age, and death. the symposium of self and love. o! wise man, please thyself. 42 43 44 the complete ritual and doctrine of magic ecstasy in self-love the obsession my dearest, i will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all secrets. let it be secret to him who would attain. let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. there is no qualification18, nor ritual or ceremony. his very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. you are alive! magic, the red

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that describe flying machines, advanced technology, and awesome weapons wielded by the gods. the sacred hindu hymns, the rig-veda, constitute some of the oldest known religious documents. the splendid poetry tells of the achievements of the hindu pantheon of gods, and one passage tells of indra, a god-being, who was honored when his name was turned into india. indra, who became known as the fort destroyer because of his exploits in war, was said to travel through the skies in a flying machine, the vimana. this craft was equipped with awesome weapons capable of destroying a city. the effect of these weapons seems to have been like that of laser beams or some kind of nuclear device. another ancient indian text, the mahabharata, tells of an attack on an enemy army: it was as if the elements

edge to the conquest of outer space. allende began his initial letter by taking jessup to task for invoking the public to request research into einstein s unified field theory. such research had already been conducted by the u.s. navy, allende stated, and the results were disastrous. in october 1943, according to allende, scientists working for the navy accomplished the complete invisibility of a destroyer-type ship and all of its crew while at sea. allende was blunt in his assessment of the effect of the force field upon the crew members. the mysterious letter writer explained to jessup that seamen who had been within the force field of the experiment too long went blank, suddenly finding themselves fading into invisibility. to get stuck, allende explained, was a side effect that suddenly

ndency over an approaching divorce as the principal reason. most of his colleagues, however, were shocked and surprised that jessup would seek the ultimate escape of a dosed car and carbon monoxide. and ever since jessup s death ufo researchers have argued that the alleged suicide was the price the astrophysicist had paid for getting too close to the truth about flying saucers. there really was a destroyer named the eldridge, and it remained on active duty until 1946. after it had been removed from military service, it was mothballed until it was transferred to the greek navy. many ufo researchers maintain that some kind of secret experiment took place with a navy warship in 1943, thus planting the seed for the legend of the philadelphia experiment. most speculate that it was probably an e

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

e metaphysical world into two intellectual zones, one white and luminous, enclosing positive ideas, the other black and obscure, containing negative ideas, and which has given to the synthesis of the first, the name of god, and to that of the other, the name of the devil or of satan. the sign of the lingam borne upon the forehead is in india the distinguishing mark of the worshippers of shiva the destroyer; for that sign being that of the great magical arcanum, which refers to the mystery of universal generation, to bear it on the forehead is to make profession of dogmatic shamelessness "now" say the orientals "the day when there is no longer modesty in the world, the world, given over to debauch which is sterile, will end at once for lack of mothers. modesty is the acceptance of maternity

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smoke! arise and leave my body! from my body, depart in shame! from my body flee! turn away from my body! go away from my body! do not return to my body! do no come near my body! do not approach my body! do not throng around my body! be commanded by shammash the mighty! be commanded by enki, lord of all! be commanded by marduk, the great magician of the gods! be commanded by the god of fire, your destroyer! may you be held back from my body "another binding of the sorcerers" ssalmani-ia ana pagri tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ana pagri taxira duppira ssalmani-ia iti pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani ini ishdi pagri tushni-illa duppira ssalmani-ia qimax pagri taqbira duppira ssalmani-ia ana qulqullati tapqida duppira ssalmani-ia ina igari tapxa-a duppira ssalmani-ia ina askuppati tushni-illa

rd for mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, chthoic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the leviathan of the old testament. also, in this particular conjuration, the word for mountain is shadu- shaddai? the old serpent kur is, of course, invoked every day by the christians: kyrie eleison) common sumerian words and phrases in english sumerian english akhkharu vampire alal destroyer alla xul evil god barra! begone! dingir xul evil god edin na zu! go to the desert (a form of exorcism) gelal incubus gigim xul evil spirit gidim xul evil ghost idimmu demon idpa fever kashshaptu witch lalartu phantom lalssu spectre lilit succubus maskim xul evil fiend (ambusher, lier-in-wait) mulla xul evil devil rabishu (same as maskim xul) telal wicked demon (warrior) uggae god of deat

hin talas kanpa! nebos athanatos kanpa! ia gaash! ia saash! ia kakolomani-yash! ia maakalli! the invocation of the ishtar gate spirit of venus, remember! ishtar, mistress of the gods, remember! ishtar, queen of the land of the rising of the sun, remember! lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses, ishtar, queen of all people, remember! o bright rising, torch of the heaven and of the earth, remember! o destroyer of the hostile hordes, remember! lioness, queen of the battle, hearken and remember! from the gate of the great god nebo, i call thee! by the name which i was given on the sphere of nebo, i call to thee! lady, queen of harlots and of soldiers, i call to thee! lady, mistress of battle and of love, i pray thee, remember! in the name of the covenant, sworn between thee and the race of men

i lo-yak zi ishtari kanpa! inanna zi amma kanpa! bi zamma kanpa! ia ia ia be-yi razuluki! the invocation of the shammash gate spirit of the sun, remember! shammash, lord of the fiery disk, remember! in the name of the covenant sworn between thee and race of men, i call to thee! hearken and remember! from the gate of the beloved ishtar, the sphere of libat, i call to thee! illuminator of darkness, destroyer of evil, lamp of wisdom, i call to thee! shammash, bringer of light, i call to thee! kutulu is burned by thy might! azag-thoth is fallen off his throne before thee! ishnigarrab is scorched black by thy rays! spirit of the burning disk, remember! spirit of the never-ending light, remember! spirit of the rending of the veils of the night, dispeller of darkness, remember! spirit of the open

, and can supply a starving city with food for thirteen moons in one moon. a most noble power. his word is aggha and his seal: the twenty-seventh name is hegal as the power above, a master of the arts of farming and agriculture. bestows rich harvests. possesses the knowledge of the metals of the earth, and of the plough. his word is burdishu and his seal thus: the twenty-eighth name is sirsir the destroyer of tiamat, hated of the ancient ones, master over the serpent, foe of kutulu. a most powerful lord. his word is this apirikubabadazuzukanpa and his seal: the twenty-ninth name is malah trod the back of the worm and cut it in twain. lord of bravery and courage, and gives these qualities to the priest who desires it, or to others the priest may decide. the word is bachachadugga and the sea

e creation, and the nature of the structures of the four pillars whereupon the heavens rest. his word is alalalabaaal and the seal is: the thirty-fifth name is zulummar giveth tremendous strength, as of ten men, to one man. lifted the part of tiamat that was to become the sky from the part that was to become the earth. his word is anndarabaal and his seal is: the thirty-sixth name is lugalabdubur destroyer of the gods of tiamat. vanquisher of her hordes. chained kutulu to the abyss. fought azag-thoth with skill. a great defender and a great attacker. his word is agnibaal and his seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his wor

THE BOOK OF GATES

mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, existeth for ever in all the transformations which it pleaseth [him to make. he floateth down the river, he saileth up into sekhet-aaru, 2 he reacheth sekhet-hetep. 3 i am the double lion-god" 4 viii. saith osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, son of the sun, loving him, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat-"o ward off that destroyer from my father osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, men-maat-ra, whose word is maat, and let his divine protection be under my legs, and let them live. strengthen thou osiris, son of the sun, lord of diadems, seti mer-en-ptah, whose word is maat, with thy hand. grasp thou him with thy hand, let him enter thy hand, let p. 65 him enter thy hand, o osiris, king, lord of the two land

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ot your pearls before swine, lest they turn again and rend you! therefore for their ill guarding of the secrets have the adepts been persecuted these two thousand years. see thou to it, very illustrious sir knights, that through no fault of thine the truth be lost. trust not a stranger; fail not of an heir. of the secret of freemasonry now of him is our lord the sun father, creator, preserver and destroyer, one, exalted, perfect, giver of life and death, vicegerent and viceregent of heaven; and upon earth is his representative the sacred eidolon within the ark of the covenant of whom even in this place we speak not but in hidden terms, for that he is sacred and secret beyond all that are or may be, the rod wherein prometheus brought down fire from heaven. and either image and son of the al

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

, and dip [it] in the blood that [is] in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 12:23 for the lord will pass through to smite the egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite [you] 12:24 and ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 12:25 and it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 12:26 and it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service? 1

beit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. 16:23 then the lords of the philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, our god hath delivered samson our enemy into our hand. 16:24 and when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. 16:25 and it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, call for samson, that he may make us sport. and they called for samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. 16:26 and samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, suffer me that i may feel the pillars whereupon the house

? 15:17 i will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] i have seen i will declare; 15:18 which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it] 15:19 unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. 15:20 the wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 15:21 a dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 15:22 he believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. 15:23 he wandereth abroad for bread [saying] where [is it] he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 15:24 trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. 15:25 for he stretcheth out his hand against

at goeth] not out of feigned lips. 17:2 let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. 17:3 thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] in the night; thou hast tried me [and] shalt find nothing; i am purposed [that] my mouth shall not transgress. 17:4 concerning the words of men, by the word of thy lips i have kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer. 17:5 hold up my goings in thy paths [that] my footsteps slip not. 17:6 i have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, o god: incline thine ear unto me [and hear] my speech. 17:7 shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, o thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them] 17:8 keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shado

rsons [is] not good: for for a piece of bread [that] man will transgress. 28:22 he that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. 28:23 he that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. 28:24 whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith [it is] no transgression; the same [is] the companion of a destroyer. 28:25 he that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the lord shall be made fat. 28:26 he that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. 28:27 he that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. 28:28 when the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish

uench [it] because of the evil of your doings. 4:5 declare ye in judah, and publish in jerusalem; and say, blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. 4:6 set up the standard toward zion: retire, stay not: for i will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. 4:7 the lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate [and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. 4:8 for this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the lord is not turned back from us. 4:9 and it shall come to pass at that day, saith the lord [that] the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the pr

aters, as [were] some of them; as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 10:8 neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 10:9 neither let us tempt christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 10:10 neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 10:11 now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 10:12 wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 10:13 there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but god [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with t

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gentor. in another fragment preserved by the same author,5 the name of pluto, aidhj, is used as a title of the same deity; who appears therefore to have presided over the dead as well as over the living, and to have been the lord of destruction as well as creation and preservation. we accordingly find that in one of the orphic litanies now extant, he is expressly called the giver of life, and the destroyer.6 the egyptians represented typhon, the destroying power, under the figure of the hippopotamus or river-horse, the most fierce and destructive animal they knew;7 and the chorus in the bacchae of euripides invoke their inspirer bacchus to appear under the form of a bull, a many-headed serpent, or flaming lion;8 which shows that the most bloody and destructive, as well as the most 1 il, w

many whimsical interpretations, was a symbol of the same kind, which the poet probably, having seen in asia, and not knowing its meaning (which was only revealed to the initiated) supposed to be a monster that had once infested the country. he describes it as composed of the forms of the goat, the lion, and the serpent, and breathing fire from its mouth.3 these are the symbols of the creator, the destroyer, and the preserver, united and animated by fire, the divine essence of all three.4 on a gem, published in the memoirs of the academy of cortona,5 this union of the destroying and preserving attributes is 1 plate iv, fig. 5, from a medal of agathocles, belonging to me. the same head is upon many others, of syracuse, metapontum &c. 2 in nums. 3 il. z, v. 223. 4 for the natural properties a

r, a tiger, leaping up, and devouring the grapes which spring from the body of the personified vine, the hands of which are employed in receiving another cluster from the bacchus. this composition represents the vine between the creating and destroying attributes of god; the one giving it fruit, and the other devouring it when given. the tiger has a garland of ivy round his neck, to show that the destroyer was co-essential with the creator, of whom ivy, as well as all other ever-greens, was an emblem representing his perpetual youth and viridity.2 the mutual and alternate operation of the two great attributes of creation and destruction, was not confined by the ancients to plants and animals, and such transitory productions, but extended to the universe itself. fire being the essential cau

creation and destruction, was not confined by the ancients to plants and animals, and such transitory productions, but extended to the universe itself. fire being the essential cause of both, they believed that the conflagration and renovation of the world were periodical and regular, proceeding from each other by the laws of its own constitution, implanted in it by the creator, who was also the destroyer and renovator;3 for, as plato says, all things arise from one, and into one are all things resolved.4 it must be observed, that, when the ancients speak of creation and destruction, they mean only formation and dissolution; it being universally allowed, through all systems of religion, or sects of philosophy, that nothing could come from nothing, and that no power whatever could annihila

reserved for the more vigorous faith, and more enlightened minds of the moderns,1 who need seek no authority to confirm their belief; for, as that which is self-evident admits of no proof, so that which is in itself impossible admits of no refutation. the fable of the serpent pytho being destroyed by apollo, probably arose from an emblematical composition, in which that god was represented as the destroyer of life, of which the serpent was a symbol. pliny mentions a statue of him by praxiteles, which was much celebrated in his time, called sauroktwn (the lizard-killer).2 the lizard, being supposed to live upon the dews and moisture of the earth, is employed as the symbol of humidity in general; so that the god destroying it, signifies the same as the lion devouring the horse. the title apo

. pliny mentions a statue of him by praxiteles, which was much celebrated in his time, called sauroktwn (the lizard-killer).2 the lizard, being supposed to live upon the dews and moisture of the earth, is employed as the symbol of humidity in general; so that the god destroying it, signifies the same as the lion devouring the horse. the title apollo, i am inclined to believe, meant originally the destroyer, as well as the deliverer; for, as the ancients supposed destruction to be merely dissolution, the power which delivered the particles of matter from the bonds of attraction, and broke the desmon peribriqj erowtoj, was in fact the destroyer.3 it is, probably, for this reason, that sudden death, plagues, and epidemic diseases, are said by the poets to be sent by this god; who is, at the s

es of matter from the bonds of attraction, and broke the desmon peribriqj erowtoj, was in fact the destroyer.3 it is, probably, for this reason, that sudden death, plagues, and epidemic diseases, are said by the poets to be sent by this god; who is, at the same time, described as the author of medicine, and all the arts employed to preserve life. these attributes are not joined merely because the destroyer and preserver were essentially the same; but because disease necessarily precedes 1 the word in genesis upon which it is founded, conveyed no such sense to the ancients; for the seventy translated it epoihse, which signifies formed, or fashioned. 2 hist. nat. lib. xxxiv. c. 8. many copies of it are still extant. winkleman has published one from a bronze of cardinal albani's. monum. antic

left hand be holds a short staff, from the upper side of which springs an ear of corn, and from the lower a bunch of grapes, which being the two most esteemed productions of the earth, were the natural emblems of general fertilization. this figure is there- 1 aiei baleonti oikwj. odyss. l, ver. 607. 2 see plate ix, fig. 10 a. 94 on the worship fore the generator, as that on the other side is the destroyer, whilst the sun, of whose attributes both are personifications, is placed between them. the letters on the side of the generator are quite entire, and, according to the phoenician alphabet published by mr. dutens, are equivalent to the roman ones which compose the words baal thrz, of which mr. swinton makes baal tarz, and translates jupiter of tarsus; whence he concludes that this coin w

ssive, or merely sensitive, remained on earth, from whence it sprung.2 the final separation of these two did not take place till the body was consumed by fire, as appears from the ghost of elpenor, whose body being still entire, he retained both, and knew ulysses before he had tasted of the blood. it was from producing this separation, that the universal bacchus, or double apollo, the creator and destroyer, whose essence was fire, was also called liknithj, the purifier,3 by a metaphor taken from the winnow, which purified the corn from the dust and chaff, as fire purified the soul from its terrestrial pollutions. hence this instrument is called by virgil the mystic winnow of bacchus.4 the ammonian platonics and gnostic christians thought that this separation, or purification, might be effe

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

er. what they fail to realize, or choose to ignore, is that the balance of fate eventually rights itself. if it did not, chaos would rule and the will of the all would be overthrown. the evil these black magicians work always returns on their heads, but they may be so blinded and perverted by their material lives that they fail to recognize the evil for what it is and open their arms to their own destroyer. drugs have been the executioner of many of fate's harsh sentences against foolish or evil adepts. inflated egos and delusions of godhood have insured the obscurity and ridicule of others. insanity prevents still others of this class from harming their fellow human beings. the mill of the gods turns slowly but grinds exceedingly fine. black magicians may for years rule as kings and queen

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

our arms out to the sides with your hands flat and your palms facing forward so that your body forms a great cross. this is the same sign of osiris slain done earlier. take a deep breath and hold it four beats while charging your heart-center. vibrate the words virgo-isis-mighty mother. take another breath, hold it four beats while charging your heart-center, and vibrate the words scorpio-apophis-destroyer. take another breath, hold it four beats while charging your heart-center, and vibrate the words sol-osiris-slain and rzsen "sol, oh-si-ris, slain and ris-en" ritud of the rose cross 179 draw another breath, hold it four beats, and slowly raise your arms higher, keeping them straight and turning your palms upward, as you vibrate the three names isis-apophis-osiris. as you do so, graduall

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

ual acts- namely, masturbation, oral consumption of sexual fluids and homosexual intercourse- the ultimate keys to magical power. in other words, he set out to usher in his own new aeon by smashing and tearing down the entire social-moral structure of the world in which he was raised.lxi theodor reuss -150- iv. the yoga of sex: tantra and other exotic imports from the mysterious orient shiva, the destroyer, is asleep, and when he opens his eye the universe is destroyed..but the "eye" of shiva is also his lingam [phallus. shiva is himself the mahalingam, which unites these symbolisms. the opening of the eye, the ejaculation of the lingam, the destruction of the universe, the accomplishment of the great work--all these are different ways of saying the same thing--crowley, the book of lieslxi

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

hem that he had been bitten by a deadly serpent. in spite of all the words of power which were known to him, and his secret name which had been hidden in his body at his birth, a serpent had bitten him, and he was being consumed with a fiery pain. he then commanded that all the gods who had any knowledge of magical spells should come to him, and when they came, isis, the great lady of spells, the destroyer of diseases, and the revivifier of the dead, came with them. turning to ra she said "what hath happened, o divine father" and in answer the god told her that a serpent had bitten him, that he was hotter than fire and colder than water, that his limbs quaked, and that he was losing the power of sight. then isis said to him with guile "divine father, tell me thy name, for he who uttereth h

od, and even as task-masters [fn#147 "he who is the lord to the end (or, limit) of the world" a name of osiris [fn#148] i.e, in the house of keb [fn#149] or perhaps "take their seats in the house of keb" a legend of ptah nefer-hetep and the princess of bekhten. the horus "mighty bull, the form) of risings[fn#150, stablished in sovereignty like tem" the golden horus "mighty one of strength[fn#151, destroyer of the nine nations of the bow"[fn#152] king of the south and north "the lord of the two lands, user-maat-rasetep- en-ra son of ra: of his body, ra-meses-meri-amen, of amen- ra;[fn#153] the lord of the thrones of the two lands, and of the company of the gods, the lords of thebes, the beloved one. the beneficent god, the son of amen, born of mut, begotten of heru-khuti, the glorious offsp

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

chemists that transmute the lead into gold; they reduce the metals into its semen [seed] in order to transmute them into the pure gold of the spirit; their labor would be impossible if the undines did not obey or if the salamanders of fire would not make the voluptuous undines fertile, because without the fire, the tempting undines can only take us to a shipwreck. ulysses (the cunning warrior and destroyer of citadels) was himself bound to the mast of the ship so that he would not fall into the seductive sexual beauty of the undines. ancient gnostics stated: all of you will become gods if you leave egypt and pass-through the red sea (the ocean of temptations. todo hierofante de la naturaleza se convierte en rey de los elementales. si quer is ser admitidos en los para sos elementales de la

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

killer 62. al-hayy.the living 63. al-kaiyum.the subsisting 64. al-wajid.the finder 65. al-majid.the glorious 66. al- wahid.the one 67. as-samad.the eternal 68. al-kadir.the powerful 69. al-muktadir.the prevailing 70. al-mukaddim.the bringer forth 71. al-khabir.the aware 72. al-latif.the subtle 73. al-adl.the just 74. al-hakim.the ruler 75. al-basir.the seer 76. as-sami.the hearer 77. al-muzil.the destroyer 78. al-mu'izz.the honourer 79. ar-rafi.the exalter 80. al-khafiz.the abaser 81. al-basit.the spreader 82. al-kabiz.the restrainer 83. al-alim.the knower 84. al-fattah.the opener 85. al-razzah.the provider 86. al-wahhab.the bestower 87. al-kahhar.-the dominant 88. al-ghaffa.the forgiver 89. al-musawwir.the fashioner 90. al-bari.the maker 91. al-khalik.the creator 92. al-mutakabbir.the gre

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

ing that an ancestor of peredur had gone through the circle to death and returned, and so peredur himself was of the witch blood and entitled to know the mystery of the cauldron? most scholars agree that the bleeding spear is phallic. in the merlin ms, bibliotheque nationale 337, there is a grail procession which passes through a wood singing 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of death' could not that be a chant in praise of the goddess? or could it be really to disguise a chant 'honour and glory and power and everlasting joy to the destroyer of the fear of death? that is, to the givers of regeneration, death and what lies beyond. jaffet, a knight from the south of france, deposed that at his reception he was shown a head or idol and told 'you must adore this

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

davis. i have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. i consider chaos a gift. septima poinsette clark there is no beauty but in relationships. nothing cut off by itself is beautiful. never can things in destructive relationships be beautiful. all beauty is in the creative purpose of our relationships; all ugliness is in the destructive aims of the destroyer s arrangements. ayi kwei armah back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it; and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to beco

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 t he supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy ang el his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sume r, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of hi s fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of the wounds of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the ab

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

t 666 to mega therion a magus of a. a. baphomet 729 the supreme holy king of ireland, iona and all the britains that are in the sanctuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place of the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of the knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolon of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy angel his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sumer, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of his fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of the wounds of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the abbey

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

pt or aspiring magician calls out: inri this stands for the hebrew letters yod nun resh yod which was nailed to the cross of suffering above the head of christ. its esoteric interpretation shows that the first "i" relates to the sign of virgo, isis the mighty mother. in this instance the mother is the producer of the seeds of fruit on earth which represents spring. the "n" is scorpio, apophis the destroyer the destructive force of nature that represents winter "r" is sol and relates to summer. the final "i" is osiris slain and risen, and relates to autumn and all of its characteristics. by uttering this initial keyword, the invoker of this force calls forth and links the power of the sun into his aura. yod nun resh yod! virgo, isis, mighty mother! sol, osiris, slain and risen! isis, apophi

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

he divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris, father, and son jesus. and between them the serpent which must be transformed into the eagle. the destroyer who must become the transmuter. remember also that these 3 letters have a further significance thus 't' stands for the ego, the indestructible unit which survives from life to life "0" is the eternal spirit, embracing the universe, reaching out beyond the boundaries of time and space, yet revolving about the "i" and between them the "a" of the astral, the veil of perpetually shifting ill

osirian concept of the 5=6 energy. the first real fusion of energies within the 5=6 comes with the phrase "virgo, isis, mighty mother" this is issued by the chief adept which shows the framework it is derived from in chesed, the sephiroth of mercy. all the associations to chesed are now evoked from, and linked to, our personalized sphere of chesed within our bodies. the phrase "scorpio, apophis, destroyer" relates to the sephirah of geburah, and the strength and security that is associated with it through the second adept. so far, we have called on two extremes. to call down either would be asking for trouble, but the christ energy of i.n.r.i. synthesizes it safely into a powerful force of even balance and polarity. the phrase "sol, osiris, slayen and risen" uttered by the third adept, no

cross" the pass word is then announced, which is formed from the mystic number of the grade: 21. this pass word, however, is the divine name of kether: it is used as the pass word of this grade of tiphareth in order to affirm the connection between the two. then the chief adept says that the key word is i.n.r.i. the three adepts themselves represent chesed, geburah and tiphareth. the creator, the destroyer and the sacrificed one: isis, apophis and osiris equals the name iao. the symbol of osiris slain is the cross; vis, the sign of the mourning of isis: the sign of typhon and apophis: x the sign of osiris risen:=lvx the light of the cross, or that which symbolizes the way into the divine through sacrifice. so that the symbolism in its entirety represents the exaltation of the initiate into

es de vailis, shall be his name" ch.ad "i am the lord of those who are raised up, who come forth out of the darkness" post "i have entered in as one who had no understanding. i am come forth as lord of life through the beautiful law" ch.ad. and 2nd ad. turn and face postulant: 2nd shows two signs. 2nd ad 'behold, thou shalt turn away thine eyes from evil, even as nephthys turned her face from the destroyer of osiris; and thus shalt thou withdraw thy soul from temptation, even as isis withdrew from darkness" ch.ad (shows grip "herein is reflected the five powers which have been restored to thee. it is the sign of the mighty one; blessed be he, even of elohim gebur, the lord of strength. twenty is the number of his name" all turn to postulant facing east and all kneel at door of vault. sheki

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