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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s; the angel creates continually, wreathing his will in clinging beauty, imperishably green. the tiger, the symbol of the brutal passions of man, gambols about its master's heels; and he bestrides the ass of priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither he wills to go. let the magician therefore adventure himself upon the astral plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. all explanations other than these are of value only as extending and equilibrating knowledge, or possibly as supplying energy to such magicians as may have found their way to the sources of strength. in all cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the one great

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

n a. and admiral b. of the naval intelligence department. these "secret chiefs" keep in the dark for precisely the same reasons; and these qualities disappear instantaneously the moment they want to get hold of you. it is written, moreover "let my servants be few& secret: they shall rule the many& the known (al i, 10) but are they then men, in the usual sense of the word? they may be incarnate or discarnate: it is a matter of their convenience. have they attained their position by passing through all the grades of the a'.a? yes and no: the system which was given to me to put forward is only one of many "above the abyss" all these technical wrinkles are ironed out. one man whom i suspect of being a secret chief has hardly any acquaintance with the technique of our system at all. that he acc

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ly; and it meant nothing to anybody in the world, either then or for seventeen years after. and now the meaning falls so pat, so natural, so self-justified, so evidently the unique value of the 'x' of the equation, that it is impossible to quibble. the law of probablities excludes all theories but one. the simple truth is what i have always asserted. there is a being called aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this book of the law, using my ears and hand. his mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for he has dominated me and taught me ever since. but that apart, the proof of any discarnate intelligence, even of the lowest order, has never before been established. and lack of that proof is the flaw in all the religions of the past; man could not be certain o

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

-ray which is governing the personality. all are graded and charted. the masters have their halls of records, with a system of tabulation incomprehensible to us owing to its magnitude and its necessary intricacies, wherein these charts are kept. they are under the care of a chohan of a ray, each ray having its own collection of charts. these charts, being in many sections (dealing with incarnate, discarnate, and perfected egos, are again all under the care of subordinate guardians. the lipika lords, with their vast band of helpers are the most frequent users of these charts. many discarnate egos awaiting incarnation or having just left the earth, sacrifice their time in heaven to assist in this work. these halls of records are mostly on the lowest levels of the mental plane and the highest

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

, embody centres just as does a human being, and on their own plane these centres of force can be found. again we need to recollect that these centres of force on cosmic levels, and in manifestation in the objective system, demonstrate as the great force centres of which any particular group of adepts and their pupils are the exponents. every group of masters and all the human beings incarnate or discarnate who are held within the periphery of their consciousness are centres of force of some particular kind or quality. this is a fact generally recognised, but students should be urged to link up this fact with the information imparted on the centres of the human being, and see if much is not thereby learnt. these centres of force will demonstrate on etheric levels and on the subtler planes

onadic auric egg, in connection with a human being and his forty-nine cycles. a chain,37(121) in its totality corresponds to the body egoic of a human being, to the causal body with its seven great cycles mentioned elsewhere in these pages, and hinted at in certain occult books. a globe, with its seven races corresponds to a particular series of incarnations in connection with a man, incarnate or discarnate, for all globes are not on physical levels. a physical globe, in a chain corresponds to a particular physical incarnation of a man. the planetary logos takes physical form in his planet and is its life and works out his purposes. a root-race, simply is analogous to the "seven parts (as shakespeare phrases it) as played by the midget, man. in a root-race a heavenly man is simply living o

f the vehicles, and eventually bring about the shattering of the form, and the subsequent escape of the spirit into a form composed of matter which responds to the vibration of the fifth spirilla. the fourth ether is coming into recognition, and along with it will come the knowledge of the lives which it embodies. hence the success of spiritualistic endeavour, for the larger number of the average discarnate entities at this stage who are willing to make contact with the physical plane are clothed in matter of this ether. the devas of this ether will also come to be known before the end of this round, and alliance will be made between the fourth creative hierarchy of men, and the devas of the fourth ether. the fourth plane, the buddhic, by the aid of manas, will gradually be realised. this

in mind in this connection that all that is seen, being objective forms or beings in manifestation through certain spheres of light, may not be all that is, but that there may lie back of everything visible a vast realm or realms of existences. the very brain of man reels in contemplation of such a concept. yet just as there are tens of millions of human beings out of objective manifestation, or discarnate, on the subtler planes of the solar system, so there may be cosmic entities, in rank equal to the one about whom naught may be said, who are in a similar sense discarnate, and found in realms subtler than that of the manifestation of light. 3. on the earth- 241- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the five kumaras. we might now consider briefly the subject of the fiv

the physical plane sheaths or vehicles. the same idea must be applied to the units devoid of a physical vehicle who form a component part of the mental body of the group. these two laws are termed: 6. the law of expansive response. 7. the law of the lower four. these laws only become operative in units on the physical plane which are becoming responsive consciously to those group workers who are discarnate. all these laws, from the point of view of a disciple, need only be considered as operative in the three worlds, though it is needless to point out that parallels will be found on all planes. these seven laws are those which are ascertained and consciously studied in all groups working under the masters. the laws and symbols(300) for each of these laws, there is a definite formula and s

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

mment by veda vyasa which is here appended "passionless is the consciousness of being master on the part of one who has rid himself of thirst for either seen or revealed objects "the mind stuff (chitta) if it be rid of thirst for objects that are seen, such as women, or food or drink or power, if it be rid of thirst for the object revealed (in the vedas) such as the attainment of heaven or of the discarnate state or of resolution into primary matter if even when in contact with objects either supernormal or not, it be, by virtue of elevation, aware of the inadequateness of objects will have a consciousness of being master" the word "traditional" carries the student's thought away from that which is usually regarded as the object of sensuous perception into the world of thought forms, into

ns of one-pointed meditation upon the relationship between the akasha and sound, an organ for spiritual hearing will be developed. 42. by one-pointed meditation upon the relationship existing between the body and the akasha, ascension out of matter (the three worlds) and power to travel in space is gained. 43. when that which veils the light is done away with, then comes the state of being called discarnate (or disembodied, freed from the modification of the thinking principle. this is the state of illumination. 44. one-pointed meditation upon the five forms which every element takes, produces mastery over every element. these five forms are the gross nature, the elemental form, the quality, the pervasiveness and the basic purpose. 45. through this mastery, minuteness and the other siddhis

ect realization the various means of yoga dealt with in the previous books, certain keys and knowledge, certain words and formulas, can be entrusted to him which will, through concentrated meditation give him the freedom of the heavens and the right to pass through certain gateways into the kingdom of god. 43. when that which veils the light is done away with, then comes the state of being called discarnate (or disembodied, freed from the modification of the thinking principle. this is the state of illumination. again, we have a free, rather than a literal translation, and in this the true sense of the archaic terms used is preserved instead of academic correctness. the reason for this will be apparent if certain well-known translations are given. they are correct translations but demonstr

se of the archaic terms used is preserved instead of academic correctness. the reason for this will be apparent if certain well-known translations are given. they are correct translations but demonstrate the- 188- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust ambiguity which is inevitable when a literal translation of the sanskrit terms is used "an outwardly unadjusted fluctuation is the great discarnate; as a result of this the dwindling of the covering to the brightness" woods "the external modification (of the internal organ. thoughtless is (called) the great incorporeal (modification; therefrom (results) the destruction of the obscuration of the illumination (of intellect" tatya. vivekananda expresses the sutra in the following terms "by making sanyama on the real modifications of t

second divine aspect) can flood the lower man and he knows himself as he is. illumination pours in and he knows himself as something different to the forms through which he is functioning. he is no longer centred, no longer polarized in his forms, but is actually in a condition of disembodiedness. his consciousness is that of the man out of incarnation, of the true man on his own plane, the real discarnate thinker. st. paul, as has been pointed out by several thinkers, had a touch of this state of being. he referred to it in these words "i knew a man in christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body i cannot tell, or whether out of the body i cannot tell; god knoweth; such an one caught up to the third heaven. and i knew such a man. how that he was caught up into paradise, and heard

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

tenment takes place, leading up to full illumination "the knowledge (or illumination) achieved is seven-fold and is attained progressively."4(91) patanjali goes on later to point out that, after proper concentration, meditation and contemplation, that which obscures the light is gradually removed, and he adds "when that which veils the light is done away with, then comes the state of being called discarnate (or disembodied) freed from the modification of the thinking principle. this is the state of illumination."5(92) it is perhaps possible, therefore, that when christ enjoined upon his disciples that they should "let their light shine" he was not speaking symbolically at all, but was urging upon them the necessity of arriving at a state of freedom from the body consciousness in order that

s a channel through which the christ can communicate. i am not referring here to the mass of automatic writings which are so popular now. i am supposing that the student of meditation refuses to have anything to do with this kind of dangerous work. no true aspirant, in his efforts to be master of himself, will hand over the reins of government and submit to the control of any entity, incarnate or discarnate; neither will he render up his hand blindly for any force to use. the dangers of this kind of work are becoming too well known and have landed so many people in the psychopathic wards, or necessitated their being freed from obsessions or from "id es fixes, that there is no need for me to enlarge upon it. how, it might be pertinently asked, can one can distinguish between the truly inspi

little further. as to its mechanics; the writers of such a type of teaching will have a real understanding of the methods they employ. they will have mastered the technique of the process; they will be able to guard themselves from illusion, and from the intrusion of personalities, and will have a working knowledge of the apparatus with which they are working. if they are receiving teachings from discarnate entities, and from great masters- 111- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust they will know how to receive it, and will then know all about the agent transmitting the teaching. true servers of the race and those who have contacted the world of the soul, through meditation, have no time for platitudes; these can safely be left to the parrots of the world; they are too bu

all about the agent transmitting the teaching. true servers of the race and those who have contacted the world of the soul, through meditation, have no time for platitudes; these can safely be left to the parrots of the world; they are too busy serving constructively to care to pick up mantles which are only a veil to pride; they are not interested in the good opinion of any person, incarnate or discarnate, and care only for the approval of their own soul, and are vitally interested in the pioneering work of the world. they will do nothing to feed hatred and separativeness or to foster fear. there are numbers of people in the world only too ready to do that. they will fan the flame of love wherever they go; they will teach brotherhood in its true inclusiveness, and not a system which will

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

o misinterpretation. it is necessary, therefore, that some understanding of the process should be found. some transmitters work entirely on astral levels and their work is necessarily part of the great illusion. they are unconscious mediums and are unable to check the source from whence the teachings come; if they claim to know that source, they are frequently in error. some receive teaching from discarnate entities of no higher evolution, and frequently of lower, than themselves. some are simply abstracting the content of their own subconsciousnesses, and hence we have the beautiful platitudes, couched in christian phraseology, and tinctured by the mystical writings of the past, which litter the desks of disciples, working consciously on the physical plane. some work only on mental levels

describes the process when confined entirely to the astral levels. on the egoic plane this involves inspiration. ponder on this explanation for it explains much. mediumship is dangerous. why is this so? because the mental body is not involved and so the soul is not in control. the medium is an unconscious instrument, he is not himself the controlling factor; he is controlled. frequently also the discarnate entities who employ this method of communication, utilizing the brain or voice apparatus of the medium, are not highly evolved, and are quite incapable of employing mental plane methods. some people combine the method of inspiration and of receiving instruction along various lines and, when this is the case, great accuracy of transmission is found. occasionally again, as in the case of

f all subhuman lives causes a constant changing and shifting of the substance of the plane; there is a building of the temporary forms, some of rare beauty, some of no beauty, and a vitalising by the astral energy of its creator. add to these forms that persistent and steadily growing scenario we call the "akashic records" which concern the emotional history of the past, add the activities of the discarnate lives which are passing through the astral plane, either out of or towards incarnation, add the potent desire, purified and intelligent, of all superhuman lives, including those of the occult planetary hierarchy, and the sum total of forces present is stupendous. all play upon, around and through every human being, and according to the calibre of his physical body, and the condition of

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

consciousness thread will not be anchored in the head. it will be withdrawn, and, therefore, the soul remains unaware of the form. in these cases you have idiocy, or simply a very lowgrade human animal. b. certain cases of possession or obsession will be found, wherein the life thread is attached to the original owner of the body but the consciousness thread is that of another person, or identity discarnate and most anxious for physical plane expression. in the average case, where the true owner of the body is not present, the situation is of no real moment, and sometimes serves a useful purpose, for it enables the obsessing entity to continue in possession. i refer to- 279- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust those cases wherein there

used by undesirable entities and forces. they can, therefore, be most useful, but when interpreted by any man as embodying divine guidance and as constituting an infallible leading (thus demanding and evoking blind and unquestioning acceptance) they become a menace to the free activity of the soul and are of no true value. 8. guidance can come, therefore, from all kinds and types of incarnate or discarnate men, ranging in character from very good to very bad. they can include the help proffered by real initiates and adepts through their working disciples and aspirants to the mental and astral activities of ordinary intelligent men and women, including the emotionally and selfishly oriented person. it should be remembered that no true initiate or disciple ever seeks to control any person n

nightingale) have all been associated with this centre. the range of these associates is tremendous and the grades of these workers are many, but self sacrificing work for the betterment of human living and love of their fellow men have distinguished them all. yet all drew their light and inspiration from this central focal point. the members of this government may be alive in physical bodies or discarnate. it is assumed that there is belief in immortality among those who read these pages a belief in the perpetuation of the conscious soul in some dimension. these great souls are primarily distinguished by the fact that they know no mental limitation, and their inclusiveness is such that for them there are no racial distinctions nor any religious differences- 398- a treatise on the seven r

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ng anxiously at the separating veil and hoping for some sign to come through which will convince you that all is well. such, i reiterate, is not the way for you. reach up to the heights of the soul and, having sought and found that pinnacle of peace and that altitude of joy whereon your soul immovably stands, then look into the world of living men a threefold world in which all men, incarnate and discarnate are found. find there that which your soul can and will recognise. the glamours of one's own distress, the maya of the past distorts one's point of view. only the soul stands clear from illusion, and only the soul sees things as they are. mount, therefore, to the soul. i would like here to point out to you that earlier i gave you a hint that there might arise a need for you to call for

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

roups and exempt all sincere scientific work. none of these groups has as yet proven their case. the mystery and the foolishness of the average seance room, and the work of the mediums, have nevertheless demonstrated the presence of an inexplicable factor; the laboratories of the scientific research worker have scarcely proved even that. for every case of the definitely acceptable appearance of a discarnate person there are thousands of cases which can be explained upon the grounds of gullibility, telepathic rapport (with the bereaved person, but not with anyone who has passed over, the seeing of thoughtforms by the clairvoyant and the hearing of voices by the clairaudient, and also by trickery. note that i refer to "acceptable appearances" of a returning spirit. there is enough evidence t

a life all its own. after the first death (the death of the physical body) it still remains equally real. but its potency slowly dies out: the mental man comes to realise his own true state of consciousness (whether developed or undeveloped, and the second death becomes possible and takes place. this phase covers the process of elimination. when these two phases of the art of dying are over, the discarnate soul stands free from the control of matter; it is purified (temporarily by the phases of restitution and elimination) from all contamination by substance. this is achieved, not through any activity of the soul in form, the human soul, but as a result of the activity of the soul on its own plane abstracting the fraction of itself which we call the human soul. it is primarily the work of

not a distressed and bereaved disciple looking anxiously at the separating veil and hoping for some sign to come through which will convince you that all is well. reach up to the heights of the soul, and having sought and found that pinnacle of peace and that altitude of joy whereon your soul immovably stands, then look into the world of living men a threefold world in which all men incarnate and discarnate are to be found. find there that which your soul can and will recognize. the glamours of one's own distress, the maya of the past, distort ever one's point of view. only the soul stands clear from illusion, and only the soul sees things as they are. mount, therefore, to the soul. discipleship in the new age, vol. i, page 463. chapter v- the process of restitution the theme of death, whi

te the dense physical body. they contribute naught else save a body of a particular quality and nature which will provide the needed vehicle of contact with the environment demanded by the incarnating soul. they may also provide a measure of group relationship, where the soul experience is long and a true group relation has been established. these two critical moments are consciously faced by the discarnate man and he knows what he is doing within the limits set by his point in evolution. the devachan experience i would also point out that this conscious undertaking of the art of elimination, and this awareness of process and purpose, in reality constitute the state of consciousness which has been called devachan by the orthodox theosophist. there has been a great deal of misunderstanding

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

teries. today we call this process of communication 'channelling. there are many ufo sightings and much research which indicates that there are secret underground and underwater bases for extraterrestrials around the world, central asia among them. i am not saying that blavatsky was negative, only that hitler was influenced by her work. the belief in the masters and the great white brotherhood of discarnate entities promoted by people like the theosophical psychic of the post-blavatsky period, alice bailey,2 is a theme that remains well entrenched in parts of what is known today as the new age movement. alice bailey claimed to 'channel' an entity she called "the tibetan" and she produced a number of books, including hierarchy of the masters, the seven rays, a new group of world servers, an

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

process of communication channelling. there are many ufosightings and much research which indicate that there are secret underground andunderwater bases for extraterrestrials around the world, central asia among them. thisconnects with the endless legends and ancient traditions all over the world of a masterrace living within the earth. the belief in the masters and the great whitebrotherhood of discarnate entities promoted by people like the theosophical psychic ofthe post-blavatsky period, alice bailey, is a theme that remains well entrenched in whatis known today as the new age movement. alice bailey founded the arcane esotericschool. she claimed to channel an entity she called the tibetan and she produced anumber of books including hierarchy of the masters, the seven rays, a new group

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

lete and perfect fulfillment of human potential. devil, the: see satan. devils: an alternate name for the legions of demons in hell that serve satan. dialectic, hegelian: see thesis-antithesis-synthesis theory. directive: a sample or representative of what is sought, used as an aid in dowsing (q.v. sometimes, especially in dowsing with a pendulum (q.v) this substance/material is called a witness. discarnate: without physical body. discarnate beings can have become separated from their physical (e.g, human souls after death) or may never have had earthly bodies (e.g, archangels (q.v, elementals (q.v, etc. diviniation: 1) the art of revealing by occult practices the future or matters that are hidden. 2) discovery of the future or of the unknown, usually by a specific technique rather than sp

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

incarnation, are emanated; it is into this that the active essence of experience is absorbed at the end of each incarnation when the incarnating unit dissolves into dust and ether. 30. it is this second triad which forms the oversoul, the higher self, the holy guardian angel, the first initiator. it is the voice of this higher self which is so often heard with the inner ear, and not the voice of discarnate entities, or of god himself, as is thought by those who have had no training in tradition. 31. overshadowed and directed by the second triad, the third triad builds up through the experience of incarnation, with malkuth as its physical vehicle. brain consciousness mystical qabala page 134 is of malkuth, and as long as we are imprisoned in malkuth, that is all we have. but the doors of m

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

in margarita, but he came for his soul at the appointed time. we may also remember that if margarita had not responded to the lure of the jewel song she would not have fallen a victim. the weak spot in the defence was after all in her own nature. we have considered the modus operandi of telepathic suggestion in detail because it forms the real basis of every kind of occult attack. whether it be a discarnate entity, a being of another order of evolution, a demon from the pit, or merely the panic-stricken soul of a selfish friend, clinging to the life of form regardless of consequences, in all cases the opening gambit is the same. until the aura is pierced, there can be no entrance to the soul, and the aura is always pierced from within by the response of fear or desire going out towards the

, however, that a rapport has been formed with the attacking entity in a previous incarnation, and therefore it holds, as it were, the key to the postern. such a problem is a very difficult one, and external assistance is needed for its solution. the difficulty is increased by the fact that the victim is often disinclined to allow the break to be made, being bound to the attacking entity, whether discarnate or incarnate, by bonds of fascination, or even genuine affection. a case with which i was acquainted throws so much light on various aspects of psychic interference by incarnate souls operating out of their bodies that it is of value to quote it at length. in the summer of 1926 i saw in the papers a short paragraph describing the death of a certain man and his wife, which took place wit

make themselves known, the subconscious perceptions being reflected into consciousness in this form. it is held by many occultists that congenital epilepsy, as distinguished from that due to tumours of the brain, has its roots in the operations of black magic or witchcraft in which the sufferer participated in a past life, whether as practitioner or victim, the fit being an astral struggle with a discarnate entity, reflected on the physical body by means of the well-known phenomenon of repercussion. the moon plays a very important part in all occult operations, different tides being available at different phases of her cycle. persephone, diana and hecate, all aspects of luna, are three very different persons. it therefore appeared probable that as the physical investigation had drawn blank

as long again as the others, and terminated in points of needle-like sharpness. true vampirism in western europe appears to be rare, but z. was of the opinion that many obscure cases of tropical debility in which anemia played a prominent part, might be attributed to this cause. 28 of 103 chapter vi hauntings there are two forms of "haunting" which have to be considered, the one which is due to a discarnate soul who interferes with a particular person, and the one which is due to the conditions prevailing in a particular place, and which affects any person sufficiently sensitive who happens to go there. except in cases where the influence is exceptionally strong, the insensitive person is immune. to perceive a "haunting" one needs, as a general rule, to be slightly psychic; it is for this

ensitive person is immune. to perceive a "haunting" one needs, as a general rule, to be slightly psychic; it is for this reason that children, celts and the coloured races suffer severely from such interferences, and the stolid nordic type is comparatively immune, and, to a lesser extent, the lively, materialistic and sceptical latin. let us consider first of all the question of interference by a discarnate soul, it will be noted that i use the term "interference" and not "attack" the disturbance need not necessarily be an attack, any more than the drowning man who clings to his rescuer and drags him under is motived by malice. the entity that is causing the trouble may be a soul that is itself in distress on the inner planes, and is too ignorant of post-mortem conditions to know the harm

m. i was told that it had previously been the bed room of the last owner of the house, who had been addicted to drink and had gone bankrupt. it is a curious fact that drunkards and drug addicts make very evil psychic atmospheres, whereas a person who is a common criminal, however bad, is not nearly so noxious and his atmosphere fades rapidly. in these two cases there was no question of an entity, discarnate or incarnate, being concerned in the matter; there was merely an unpleasant mental atmosphere generated by some powerful and painful emotion that had been experienced over a considerable period at that spot. such a concentration, if very strong, will linger almost indefinitely. the structures that saw the concentration may have been pulled down and new ones built, nevertheless the force

y realised. frauds usually either fade away or recover quickly when threatened with a physical overhaul. those who decide to chance their luck are pretty quickly caught out by the man who has served his time in the out-patient department of a general hospital. the diagnosis which the occultist has to make therefore lies in distinguishing between the attack of an incarnate mind and the attack of a discarnate mind. there are two ways in which he can do this, and he ought to use them both, so that they countercheck each other. he ought to get at least two independent psychics to psychometrise the case, and he himself ought to make his own diagnosis entirely from the case-history interpreted in the light of first principles. it is a great mistake to mix the psychic and the 75 of 103 scientific

the relationship of parent and child. it also accounts for some important aspects of the relation of pupil and teacher. but not only is it possible for a rapport to be established between two individuals, but between an individual and a group. this fact plays an important part in all fraternity work. it is also possible to establish rapport between a human being and other kingdoms of nature; with discarnate entities, superhuman beings, and, in fact, with any form of life with which an individual can form a sympathetic understanding. there must be some ground of sympathy as the basis for the formation of a rapport, but once formed, it can be developed almost indefinitely. it is a curious fact that if a rapport is long continued, the persons thus united gradually come to resemble each other

which it occupies in the heart of the christian mystic. in the western tradition it is symbolised by tiphareth, the central sephira of the ten holy sephiroth of the qabalistic tree of life. the christ-force is the equilibriating, compensating, healing, redeeming, purifying factor of the universe. it should be invoked in every operation of psychic self-defence where any human element, incarnate or discarnate, is concerned. where non-human elements, such as elementals, thought-forms, or the qlippoth, have to be dealt with, it is the power of god the father, as creator of the universe, that is invoked, his supremacy over all the kingdoms of nature, visible and invisible, being affirmed. god the holy ghost is the force that is employed in initiations, and it should not be invoked during times

unpleasantness. in my perplexity i resolved to do nothing upon the physical plane and to invoke the masters upon the inner planes. at this time i was not of a grade which is supposed to have direct access to the masters, but i determined to try and get them telepathically, though i did not know whether those to whom i was trying to telepath were human or non-human, incarnate in physical bodies or discarnate entities, for at that time i was not very advanced in my occult studies. all i had to hold on to was an abstract idea and the knowledge that in previous difficulties i had been able to get in touch with something on the inner planes which had proved a powerful friend. in telepathing, the usual method of getting in touch is to visualise the person you want to communicate with and call hi

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

hollow box is a miniature cabinet that is believed to accumulate psychic force as it moves under the fingers over a polished board printed with the alphabet. the term autoscope has been given to such devices as the ouija board, planchette, and additor, that are believed to facilitate the production of messages from an unknown intelligent source, at times the subconscious mind, at other times from discarnate spirits of the dead (see also automatic writing) adelphi organization the adelphi organization dates to 1976 when richard kieninger, the founder of the stelle group, left stelle, illinois, and founded a second group near dallas, texas. kieninger s autobiographical volume the ultimate frontier had provided the main teaching at stelle, but he was asked to leave the community after his sex

rdance with the operator s suggestion. theories concerning apparitions various complex and contradictory theories have already been cited in relation to specific cases of apparitions. from the late-nineteenth century on, apparitions have usually been ascribed to hallucination. even those who advanced a spiritualistic view of apparitions frequently inclined to this view, for it was argued that the discarnate intelligence might, by psychical energy alone, produce in the brain of a living person a definite hallucination, corresponding perhaps to the agent s appearance in life. hallucinations might be either coincidental or noncoincidental. the former, also known as telepathic hallucinations, were those which coincided with a death, or with some other crisis in the life of the person represent

s, but in the end it belongs to the realm of romance rather than science; it is hardly to be considered as a serious theory. not only is it unsupported by convincing evidence, but it again attempts to explain one unknown by another. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apparitions 71 spiritualistic theories of apparitions also vary, though they agree in referring such appearances to discarnate intelligences, generally to the spirits of the dead. the opinion of some spiritualist authorities is that the surviving spirit is produced in the mind of the percipient by purely psychic means.an hallucination representing the agent s former bodily appearance. others believe that the discarnate spirit can materialize by taking ethereal particles from the external world, and building up

has, and frederic william henry myers, obtained by geraldine dorothy cummins, were sometimes delivered at the extraordinary speed of two thousand words per hour. automatic writing from living communicators a question of paramount importance, especially for spiritualists, has been the source of the automatic communications. could they originate from an extraneous mind? this need not necessarily be discarnate. there are cases on record that suggest the contents of the script may emanate from the mind of a living individual. william t. stead, who developed the power of automatic writing, often received such curious messages from many of his friends for a period of 15 years. he said that, as a rule, these messages were astonishingly correct and the fact of such communication with the living wa

if the script emanates from an extraneous intelligence, its psychometric reading should result in the presentation of a character different from the medium s. there is no way of telling, however, to what extent the medium s influence may blend with the script and garble psychometric impressions. the difficulties, therefore, are very great if we set out to prove that a certain message comes from a discarnate mind. it encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. automatic writing 129 should not only be clear that the contents of the message were unknown to the medium, but also that they were unascertainable by normal means. and as we do not know the powers of the subconscious to acquire information, those instances in which the information may have been acquired from books should only

be clear that the contents of the message were unknown to the medium, but also that they were unascertainable by normal means. and as we do not know the powers of the subconscious to acquire information, those instances in which the information may have been acquired from books should only be provisionally accepted. stainton moses control rector could read books and proved it in many tests. if a discarnate mind can do so, there is no a priori possibility that an incarnate mind, freed in trance, may not achieve the same thing. another series of difficulties will be encountered if we consider the influence of telepathy. a rigorous inquiry should be held into how far the message could have been influenced by the knowledge contained in a living mind. if every exaggerated scruple is to be sati

knowledge contained in a living mind. if every exaggerated scruple is to be satisfied we will have to narrow down considerably the circle of conclusive messages. the revelation of the contents of posthumous sealed letters, of the whereabouts of intentionally hidden objects, or the sudden announcement of death unknown to the sitters may offer a prima facie case that the communications come from a discarnate mind. a good case of the latter kind was quoted by alexander n. aksakof. a man named duvanel died by his own hand on january 15, 1887, in a swiss village where he lived alone. five hours after his death an automatic message, announcing the decease, was written at wilna by a miss stramm, whom duvanel wished to marry, but who could have received no news of his tragic end. nevertheless the

monday by all means. susan. susan was the name of mr. wason s wife. myers and hodgson saw a girl of four write the words, your aunt emma. celina, a child of three and a half, wrote in the presence of drs. dussart and broquet: i am glad to manifest through a charming little medium of three and a half who promises well. promise me not to neglect her. glimpses into automatic literature the claims of discarnate authorship present a delicate problem. angelo brofferio knew a writing medium to whom boccaccio, bruno and galileo dictated replies that for the elevation of thought were assuredly more worthy of the greatness of that automatic writing encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 130 trio than on the level of the medium: i could cite competent testimony to the fact. according to c

the limbs, head, or tongue by an inner motor impulse beyond the conscious will) and sensory automatism (externalization of perceptions in inner vision and audition. the first he called active, the second passive automatism, stressing, however, that the impulse from which it originates may be much the same in that one case as in the other. this place of origin is either the subconscious self or a discarnate intelligence. myers suggested that the excitation of the motor or sensory centers may take place either through the subconscious (subliminal) mind, or the communicating intelligence may find some direct way, for which he proposed the name telergic. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. automatism 131 the phenomena of automatism are often accompanied by organic disturbances

t position indicated, the test book was george eliot s middlemarch. on the first line at the top of page 78 were the words: ay, ay. i remember.you ll see i ve remembered em all. the quotation was singularly appropriate, because much of barrett s work since myers passed over had been concerned with the question of survival after death and whether the memories of friends on earth continued with the discarnate. but the most remarkable part of the test was yet to be discovered. unknown to barrett, the maid, when in dusting the bookshelves, replaced two of eliot s novels by two volumes of dr. tyndall s books, namely, his heat and sound, which were found exactly in the position indicated. in his youth barrett was for some years tyndall s assistant, and these books were written during that time

remarkable part of the test was yet to be discovered. unknown to barrett, the maid, when in dusting the bookshelves, replaced two of eliot s novels by two volumes of dr. tyndall s books, namely, his heat and sound, which were found exactly in the position indicated. in his youth barrett was for some years tyndall s assistant, and these books were written during that time. by what process does the discarnate intelligence find a relevant passage in closed books? one of the preliminary statements that thomas received from his father was that he sensed the appropriate spirit of the passage rather than the letters composing it. after 18 months he appeared to acquire a power of occasionally seeing the words by some sort of clairvoyance. giving the page number is one of the greatest difficulties

comparative analysis has been more fully understood and appreciated. bozzano s pioneer researches have not been fully recognized outside europe, because most of his many books have not been translated into english. among the few available to english- speaking readers are animism and spiritism (1932, polyglot bottle imps encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 208 mediumship (1932, and discarnate influence in human life (1938. bozzano also contributed a preface and articles to modern psychic mysteries by gwendolyn k. hack (1929. sources: alvarado, c. s. the life and work of an italian psychical researcher; a review of ernesto bozzano: la vite a l opera by giovanni iannuzzo. journal of the american society for psychical research 81 (1987: 37. berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. t

the werewolf. london, kegan paul, trench, trubner, 1933. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1966. burgoyne, thomas h (1855.1894) thomas h. burgoyne, an astrologer and founder of the hermetic brotherhood of luxor, was born april 14, 1855, and grew up in his native scotland. spontaneously psychic, he claimed that as a child he came into contact with the brotherhood of light, a group of discarnate, advanced beings who attempt to guide the destiny of humankind. today that group continues as the church of light. at a later date he met a m. theon, purported to be an earthly representative of the brotherhood who taught burgoyne about the brotherhood. burgoyne moved to the united states around 1880 and soon afterward his writings began to appear in various periodicals. he was brought

psychologist william james and psychotherapist carl g. jung. her first communications were by ouija board, many were transcribed by her husband as she spoke them in trance, while others were recorded by automatic writing. after the death of jane roberts in 1984, her husband robert butts edited new seth manuscripts, which were published by tam mossman in his journal metapsychology; the journal of discarnate intelligence. mossman himself also channels an entity named james. other channelers appeared by the end of the decade, the most prominent through the 1980s being jz knight, who channels ramtha, and jach pursel, who channels lazaris. channeling became an integral part of the new age movement and numerous new age channels arose. included in their number are ken carey, virginia essene, rut

f occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. clairvoyance 297 exercising the clairvoyant faculty, presumably because the hypnotic state is favorable to development of supernormal vision; however, it could also be that the condition thus induced favors the rising into the upper consciousness of knowledge previously stored in the subconscious. the term clairvoyance is also used to describe the power to see discarnate spirits, and is applied to mediumship generally. for a discussion of the early history of clairvoyance, see divination. types of clairvoyance charles richet used the term cryptesthesia in a wide sense to cover a whole range of such related phenomena as clairvoyance, premonitions, monitions, psychometry, dowsing, and telepathy. f. w. h. myers used the term telesthesia in a narrower conte

eceived through mediums and the difficulties in communicating with the dead presented a very complex problem. richard hodgson, on the basis of his experiences with piper, arrived at the following conclusions: if, indeed, each one of us is a spirit that survives the death of the fleshly organism, there are certain suppositions that i think we may not unreasonably make concerning the ability of the discarnate spirit to communicate with those yet incarnate. even under the best conditions for communication which i am supposing for the nonce to be possible, it may well be that the aptitude for communicating clearly may be as rare as the gifts that make a great artist, or a great mathematician, or a great philosopher. again, it may well be that, owing to the change connected with death itself, t

iving. some early clairvoyants suggested that the only perceptible difference between the spirits of the living and those of the dead was that a delicate line of light appears to proceed from the latter, apparently uniting it with the distant physical body. some modern clairvoyants claimed to have discovered another distinction. the spirit incarnate appears lifeless, dead, statuelike, whereas the discarnate one is intensely alive. catherine berry writes in experiences in spiritualism (1876: the table presently began rolling in a most extraordinary manner, so that we could scarcely keep it down. we asked what was the matter and it spelled out we have buoyed the cable and shall be home in three days. we did not know what this meant. someone suggested that we should ask the name which it gave

d under the broad label of psychokinesis. ectoplasm a term coined by psychical researcher charles richet and widely used in spiritualism, derived from the greek ektos and plasma (meaning exteriorized substance. it denotes a mysterious vaporlike substance that, spiritualists claimed, streamed out of the body of entranced mediums. the manipulation of ectoplasm, either by the subconscious self or by discarnate intelligences, resulted in the phenomena of a superphysical order (including partial and complete materializations) psychoplasm and teleplasm are terms similarly used to convey the same meaning, the latter denoting action at a distance from the medium s body, while ideoplasm progresses a step further and means the molding of the ectoplasm into the likeness of a self. encyclopedia of occ

m patients in distant countries. his records indicated close to a 80 percent recovery rate dealing with such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, arthritis and epilepsy, although, only a minority of these cases were documented to the level required to verify the healing claimed. edwards worked closely with physicians. he believed that spiritual healing power passed through him with the assistance of discarnate spirit helpers, and also claimed to have traveled outside his body to visit distant patients. he authored a number of books and published a monthly magazine the spiritual healer from his home. edmunds, simeon encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 476 edwards died december 7, 1976, but his healing work has been continued at his burrows lea sanctuary by joan and ray branch, w

ty of discovering poison by exhibiting certain semicircles like rainbows in the liquor, which it also keeps sparkling and hissing as if on the fire. a black species of electrum or amber is the gargates spoken of by pliny and the jet sometimes used in jewelry. elementals a term usually used synonymously with elementary spirits, but sometimes given a special connotation by spiritualists to indicate discarnate entities of a malicious nature. theosophists use the word elemental to denote the astral remains or shell of one who has lived an evil life on earth and who is loath to leave the scene of his pleasures. with some occultists, again, elemental really signifies a subhuman being, probably identical to an elementary spirit, but of a mental and moral status considerably lower than that of a h

ch founder john wesley. the phenomena lasted for several months and were first attributed to trickery, then to the devil, although samuel s wife, susannah wesley, disagreed with the latter hypothesis. instead, she connected it with the fate of her brother who, in the service of the east india company, disappeared and was never heard of again. it was not proved that the rappings were caused by his discarnate agency, but the members of the family took it for granted after a while that old jeffrey was involved in the manifestations, which appeared to be connected mostly with hetty wesley. she was noticed to tremble strongly in her sleep when the knockings occurred. the main disturbances lasted with intervals for two months, december and january 1716.17, and broke out occasionally afterward. t

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d from the indianapolis press club (1957, and the george r. holmes journalism award (1958. in 1958, she became interested in psychic phenomena after writing a series of articles on the occult. although at first skeptical, she continued her research. she met medium arthur ford, who told her that she had the ability to do automatic writing, and has since been influenced by what she calls my guides, discarnate spirits that have assisted her writings on such subjects as psychic healing, reincarnation, and psychic faculties. she broke into the spotlight with her biographical presentation of washington psychic jeane dixon in a gift of prophecy (1965, which the following year won the best non- fiction book of the year award from indiana university. following the death of arthur ford in 1971, mont

is first seance, with lottie fowler operating as the medium, on april 2, 1872. after much nonsense he received a striking description of the spirit presence of a friend who had died in the north of england. charles williams was the next medium he went to see. a seance with d. d. home and sittings in many private circles followed. within about six months, moses became convinced of the existence of discarnate spirits and of their power to communicate. soon he himself showed signs of great psychic powers. in 1872, five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he reported his first experience of levitation. the physical phenomena continued with gradually lessening frequency until 1881. they were of extremely varied nature. the power was often so enormous that it kept the room in constant

attempt in any language to consider the phenomena of hallucination, automatism, double personality, and mediumship as connected parts of one whole subject. theodore flournoy, a profound psychologist himself, considered myers one of the most remarkable personalities of our time in the realm of mental science. further, he observed, if future discoveries confirm his thesis of the intervention of the discarnate, in the web and the woof of our mental and physical world then his name will be inscribed in the golden book of the initiated, and, joined to those of copernicus and darwin, he will complete the triad of geniuses who have the most profoundly revolutionised scientific thought, in the order, cosmological, biological and psychological. walter leaf compared myer to ruskin and considered him

bsession and possession obsession, from latin obsidere (to besiege, is a form of insanity caused, according to traditional belief, by the persistent attack of an invading spirit from outside the individual. obsession is the opposite of possession, control by an invading spirit from within. both, however, involve the usurpation of the person s individuality and control of the body by a foreign and discarnate entity. in the western christian context, both obsession and possession, but especially possession, have been viewed as completely negative, a perspective somewhat enforced by the modern concern for the autonomous individual, possession implying a giving over of one s freedom. in most cultures, however, there is a distinction between dysfunctional possession and possession that occurs v

tomach. there is no doubt that it was the work of the devil who is capable of anything which will maintain a dread of him. views of obsession from psychical research as nandor fodor pointed out, obsession in psychiatry means that the mind of the patient is dominated by fixed ideas to which an abnormal mental condition corresponds. in psychical research, obsession is an invasion of the living by a discarnate entity, tending to a complete displacement of normal personality for purposes of selfish gratification that is more or less permanent. the difference between mediumship and obsession is not in principle but in purpose, duration, and (most important) effect. mediumship, or trance possession, does not interfere with the ordinary course of life, does not bring about a demoralizing dissocia

patient with the statements made through the psychic, i have reason to regard the mental phenomena observed in the patient as of external origin. in a number of cases, persons whose condition would ordinarily be described as due to hysteria, dual, or multiple personality dementia precox, paranoia, or some other form of mental disturbance, showed unmistakable indications of invasion by foreign and discarnate agencies. hyslop tells the readers of his life after death (1918, before accepting such a doctrine, i fought against it for ten years after i was convinced that survival after death was proved. but several cases forced upon me the consideration of the question. the chief interest in such cases is their revolutionary effect in the field of medicine. it is high time for the medical world

ty of the individual comes forward, usually as a result of extreme trauma. spiritualism spiritualism emerged as a possession-oriented religion in the mid-nineteenth century. in spiritualist mediumship, and its contemporary derivations such as new age channeling, possession is a developed form of motor automatism in which the personality of the automatist is substituted by another, usually by as a discarnate spirit. the possessing personality aims to establish communication with this world through the organism of the entranced medium, by writing or speech. the incipient stage of possession is personation, during which the medium s own personality is still in the body but is assuming the characteristics of someone departed. the next stage is partial possession, the excitation of the medium s

ng personality aims to establish communication with this world through the organism of the entranced medium, by writing or speech. the incipient stage of possession is personation, during which the medium s own personality is still in the body but is assuming the characteristics of someone departed. the next stage is partial possession, the excitation of the medium s motor or sensory centers by a discarnate agent either through the subconscious self or in some direct way. f. w. h. myers suggested the word telergic as a correlative to telepathic for such action. full possession postulates the vacation of the organism by the medium to allow the entrance of another spirit. alternating personalities offer the first suggestion of the possibility of possession. an arbitrary personality may posse

th ed. 1230 dium is usually not available, as she or he often does not remember what happened. swedish seer emanuel swedenborg remembered his excursions into the spiritual world, but in his case there was no possession. the subjects of alphonse cahagnet described heavenly visions in trance, but there was not enough evidence to rule out the possibility that even when evidential communications from discarnate spirits were produced, they did not come from the subconscious self alone. if no new knowledge is shown in the trance state, there is no reason to ascribe the communication to an external intelligence. the character of the communicator alone does not furnish convincing proof. the medium leonora piper never remembered her visions of the spiritual world and, the fragmentary utterances dur

f psychic science, members of the society for psychic research and others, have left sealed letters, whose contents are known only to the writer. on the death of the writer and before the letter is opened, an attempt is made by a medium to reveal the contents. since only the writer knows what the letter contains, it is presumed that on his death this knowledge can only be communicated through his discarnate spirit. a notable posthumous letter from the escapologist harry houdini, was a code message apparently confirmed to his widow by the medium arthur a. ford. however, the genuineness of this story has been alternately confirmed, denied, and confirmed again. potawatomi prophet by the 1880s, the native american tribes who had been pushed from their traditional homes in the east to new lands

than that of 98 percent of the population. psisig was concerned with interest in and conducting of scientific research in the psychic sciences and arts, such as theories of existence and reality, states of mind, human auras, clairvoyance, mental and thought projection, telepathy, dowsing, psychometry, healing and defense, multiple personalities and possession, psychokinesis, survival after death, discarnate entities, and extraterrestrial life. it disseminated research findings and applied research and education for the benefit of humanity in mental health, reduction of superstition and fraud, safety, and enhancement of human relations. psisig provided educational programs to promote awareness and capabilities in the psychic sciences and arts and offers grants, scholarships, and other aids

of a self that has disappeared, a self which depended on a brain now reduced to dust. but except in a few rare cases, the inconsistency between the past and the present mentality is so great that in the immense majority of spiritist experiences it is impossible to admit survival, even as a very tentative hypothesis. i could more easily admit a non-human intelligence, distinct from both medium and discarnate, than the mental survival of the latter. treating of the so-called death bed meeting cases he stated: among all the facts adduced to prove survival, these even seem to me to be the most disquieting. he did not accept the facts of materialization as proof of survival. the case of george pelham, though there was no materialization, is vastly more evidential for survival than all the mater

ldston, the famous stage magician, attended some seances and declared that under the same conditions a whole group of prestidigitators could not produce the phenomena which he witnessed. as regards the personality, olga: after many seances and confidential talks with her, wrote harry price, i am completely at a loss to know whether she is really a figment of rudi s subconscious mind or actually a discarnate entity. after the experiments were over, harry price handed a certificate to rudi schneider on behalf of the council of the national laboratory of psychical research, stating that absolutely genuine phenomena have been produced through his mediumship. he added: if the laboratory issued a gold medal, or diploma for genuine mediumship under our own scientific conditions, we should have no

o many others who became legendary in the field. in 1905, shirley founded the occult review, which he edited for 21 years. it included contributions from the leading occultists of the time and set a high standard of both popular and scholarly occultism. shirley also became vice president of the international institute for psychic investigation, for whom he edited ernesto bozzano s important study discarnate influence in human life (1938. it was in the pages of the occult review that shirley published the important firsthand experiences of oliver fox (pseudonym of hugh g. callaway) on astral projection and out-of-the-body travel from april to may 1920. shirley also published other pioneer writings on the subject, including his own book the mystery of the human double: the case for astral pr

ity, the relaxation of voluntary control over the muscular movements, and the ideas.this whole psycho-physiological attitude, where the subject is in a state of expectancy of communicating with the deceased.strongly predisposes him to mental dissociation and a sort of infantile regression, a relapse into an inferior phase of psychic evolution, where his imagination naturally begins to imitate the discarnate, utilising the resources of the subconscious, the emotional complexes, latent memories, instinctive tendencies ordinarily suppressed, etc, for the various roles it plays. james h. hyslop summed up the fundamental conditions of the spirit hypothesis as follows (1) the information acquired must be supernormal, that is, not explicable by normal perception (2) the incidents must be verifiab

the freed soul are unique. spiritualists believe that the soul, or spirit, is composed of a sort of attenuated matter inhabiting the body and resembling it in form. on the death of the body the soul withdraws itself, without undergoing any direct change, and for a period remains on the earth plane. but the keynote of the spirit world is progress, so after a time the spirit proceeds to the lowest discarnate plane. from that plane they go on to higher and higher planes, gradually evolving into a purer and nobler type. at length it reaches the sphere of pure spirit. from the comments of mediums speaking in trance, a picture of the spirit domain has been constructed by spiritualists. it is thought to be a somewhat attenuated version of earthly life, conducted in a highly rarified atmosphere

peared for the first time to these ladies on the same day, january 11, 1901. on may 8, 1901, the myers control appeared in the scripts of both thompson and margaret verrall, and later in those of piper and others. so remarkable were the correspondences obtained in some cases where seemingly there could not possibly have been collusion between the mediums, that it is difficult to believe that some discarnate intelligence was not responsible for at least some of the scripts. toward the end of 1916 a great sensation was caused with the publication by sir oliver lodge of a memoir about his son, lieutenant raymond lodge, who was killed near ypres in september, 1915, during world war i. the book, titled raymond, or life and death, is divided into three parts, the first of which contains a histor

science. los angeles: superet press, 1950. superet light. los angeles: superet light center, 1953. superet light doctrine. los angeles: superet press, 1949. super-extrasensory perception term used by parapsychologists for the hypothesis that some individuals may have unlimited powers of acquiring information from living persons or objects, thus making the conventional spiritualist explanation of discarnate entities unnecessary. supernatural an occurrence in violation of the known laws of nature. this was a concept that developed as the idea of a law-abiding nature was developed in the middle ages. the supernatural realm included both the heavenly world of god and the angels and the world of satan and demons. many leaders of the enlightenment of the eighteenth century were exponents of dei

term denoting the claimed faculty of moving material objects without contact, presumably by psychic force. the movement of objects, without contact or with only limited contact was frequently observed in the seance room. phenomena included rappings, table-turning, levitations, the conveyance of apports, and other material phenomena. spiritualists believed these were caused by the intervention of discarnate spirits. magnetists believed in the existence of some kind of fluidic or energetic emanation as the cause of such movements. others, discounting those phenomena that were the result of fraud, tea leaves, divination by encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1536 suggested some form of telekinetic theory, which held that all these varied feats are accomplished by the thoughts

, yet behave years later as adults although no such memory of them is retained in any living mind. if a medium operated by means of telepathy, he would have to be omniscient. there is no need for the supposition of omniscience if a telepathic message may originate as well from the dead as from the living. once this admission is made one can well understand the futility of the brain wave theory. a discarnate spirit has no physical brain. the message must come from the spirit and not from the percipient. if it may come from the spirit as an agent, it may be received by the medium s spirit and transmitted to his brain. the insufficiency of the telepathic explanation has also been demonstrated by hundreds of strange cross correspondences and newspaper and book tests. many post-mortem letters h

al definition of telepathy. he preferred to define telepathy as a coincidence excluding normal perception, between the thoughts of two minds. it was the word trans- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. telepathy 1539 mission, hyslop said, that gave telepathy the implication that it is a process exclusively between living people and not permitting the intervention of the dead, if the discarnate exist and can act on the living. hyslop s definition permits the employment of the term to describe the action of discarnate as well as incarnate minds. hyslop further concluded, we are not entitled to assume the larger meaning of telepathy to be a fact because we are not sure of its limitations. here is where we have been negligent of the maxims of scientific methods and the legitimate

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learn that material on the subject exists in staggering quantity. a considerable portion of it is about channeling (in which an individual is the passive recipient of messages from the otherworld, usually speaking in the voice of an intelligence from elsewhere) from a wide assortment of entities: nebulous energy sources, soul clusters, extraterrestrials, ascended masters, interdimensional beings, discarnate atlanteans and lemurians, nature spirits, even whales and dolphins. besides these purely psychic connections with the otherworld, there are many who report direct physical meetings with beings from outer space, other dimensions, the hollow earth, and other fantastic places. not all of these ideas are new, of course. the hollow earth and its inhabitants were a popular fringe subject in n

s just that. it is not veridical (that is, independently witnessed or otherwise shown not to be a subjective experience; no channeling entity can prove its existence, and the information provided through the channeling process is susceptible to neither verification nor falsification. the authority of the channeling entity rests solely on its self-identification. if you believe he, she, or it is a discarnate atlantean, space alien, or ascended master, you will believe what he, she, or it has to say. if you choose not to believe any of that, the channeling entity will prove helpless to get you to change your mind. experiences such as close encounters, conversely, may be veridical in the sense that on occasion they involve multiple or, more rarely, independent observers. in the case of multip

gle- shaped ufos over the course of one week in 1973, californian darryl anka the brother of singer and composer paul anka began reading ufo literature in search of answers. through his reading about ufos, he b 39 was led to paranormal subjects such as psychic phenomena, channeling, and spirit communication. in 1983, anka sat in with a channeler and spent several months absorbing information from discarnate sources. the entity offered to teach whoever might be interested in learning how to channel, and anka decided to take a course from the channeler. midway through the course, anka first heard from bashar, who said he was the pilot of the spaceship anka had seen a decade earlier. bashar claimed to have come from a planet w h e re all communication is done thro u g h t e l e p a t h y. the

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neither a believer nor an unbeliever, i simply wanted to know. i wanted to see, as i said then 'things move about. i had seen maskelyne and cooke, and pepper's ghost, and other clever conjuring tricks. i understood from90thesorcerer and his apprenticemy studies in physics that there might be unknown forces, perfectly material and scientific, accidentally set in motion; and i knew the theories of discarnate entities, whether of the dead, or of non-human beings, who could produce physical results. but wishing to see for myself the manifestations produced, i gladly accepted an invitation to be present at amaterializing seance. this took place in a disused chapel somewhere in blooms255 bury; i forget the address, idon'tthink it exists now.thesitters were all strangers to me,buti had my introd

es 97scientifically investigated by some form of photography. on the subject of automatic writing i would preserve a very open mind. in common with, i suppose, a vast number of investigators, i have seen such leagues of drivel going under this name, and often regarded by the recipients with an awestruck reverence as being little short of a divine revelation, as to cause one to wonder what kind of discarnate entity could produce such utter banality. and then, occasionally, one meets with communications of real value obtained in this way, such asthe lettersofa living dead man, the gateofremembrance,and others the names of which will readily occur. whence come these? one instance is in my memory where the origin of an apparent automatic writing was definitely traced. a doctor who practised a

own and loved here 'we believe that the spirits that have passed over are constantly anxioustohelp those whom they have loved here. that is the reason they are often so keenly desirous. to find some means of communicating. clumsy andseej:ninglytrivial means they often are,butthis is due to our densenessofperception 'so then there are two worlds; or planes 6fexistence. may we callthemincarnate and discarnate; and the soul alternatessome psychic memories99between them. is this afairstatement''notquite our wayofputting it. still i cannot say it is wrong 'then would you say, practically, that a death on one plane is a birth on the other, and vice versa''ithas been so expressed, and it seems afairanalogy 'thenthe-soulthat entersintoa new-born baby was previously existingonwhat,ibelieve, you cal

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

ques vallee and john keel had both pointed out the connection with mythic names and legends, and i thought lanulus might be a play on land you lost or land you lust a reference to atlantis lore, or legendary shadow lands such as f rie or magonia. but such answers seemed, like the masonic third degree, somehow incomplete. 22 allen h. greenfield i was aware, also, that similar names had shown up as discarnate beings and controls in 19th and early 20th century trance mediumship, ufo contactee trance channeling and, later, the trance channeling so trendy since the seth material of jane roberts in the 1970s. as a former elected member of the british society for psychical research, i saw a connectedness but could not make out the actual connection. when i started working with the 1974 cipher sol

essages, and why? to answer this, one must apply the cipher knowledge to the world of deep occultism, of which ufos are but a surface manifestation. the answers do not come from anything as simple as mental aberrations and hoaxes on the one hand, nor interstellar visitors and vast government conspiracies on the other. as historian paul johnson has shown, the theosophical mahatmas were neither the discarnate semi-deities of the believers nor madame blavatsky s fraudulent deceptions of the skeptics. rather, they were real people adepts or initiates of the deep wisdom perhaps, but people nonetheless with radical political and spiritual agendas that made pseudonyms a necessity. the names such mahatmas and chiefs took were, in very truth, noms de guerre: the kind of names underground members ad

name with the same cipher value as ramon natalli, one of the original inner circle of contactee mark probert, and one of the first sources of ufo wisdom. the inner circle, which was promoted by meade layne and which was a key player in the crossover from occultism to contacteeism, itself has an odd secret or two hidden in its cipher value. there were 16 members of the inner circle, all said to be discarnate human beings in touch with aliens. the words inner and circle each has a cipher value of 16 the number of members of the inner circle, or that together inner circle has a value of 176, the same as instruction or initiation, the 36 allen h. greenfield precise function of the inner circle. deciphered, the name describes the inner circle itself as an instructional, initiatory body of 16 me

n macrocosm and microcosm which is the precise role of the medium and contactee as well. i have mentioned the seth material as indicating a continuity from the mediumship and ufo contacteeism of the past 100+ years to the so-called new age trance channeling phenomenon. to be sure, a parallel exists with the holy books and the patience worth material channeled by mrs. curran from 1916. the alleged discarnate 17th century english girl who came through in correct period dialect shows the almost expected qabalistic qualities. patience worth= 201= intelligence and ail must be done well. actually, the lightlines group in kentucky, source of the ra material, is the crossover point from ufology to new age religion. jane roberts work the seth material is of special interest, as it introduced the ne

obiography, but is still quite convinced 20 or so years later when he notes, in magick without tears: they can induce a girl to embroider a tapestry, or initiate a political movement to culminate in a world-war; all in pursuit of some plan wholly beyond the purview or the comprehension of the deepest and subtlest thinkers..but are they men, in the usual sense of the word? they may be incarnate or discarnate: it is a matter of their convenience. we should take note of paul johnson s recent trailblazing study of the theosophical masters. the essence may be boiled down to this: secret chiefs or hidden masters may have good reason to mythologize themselves, and encourage those in direct contact with them to follow suit on the border where magical philosophy meets with its political implication

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

er animals. by "intelligence" we must conceive more broadly of an ability to think, construct, direct, analyze, plan, navigate, laugh, etc, which is not necessarily a part of, or associated with, a carnate brain. in short, we must adjust our ego to the possibility that intelligence exists in space, that it may be and probably is superiour to our own, and that it may inhabit physical entities of a discarnate nature such as the nebulous or cloudlike bodies observed by barnard (described later) throughout, we are searching for objects, bodies, events which have been made, shaped or guided by forces obviously controlled by an "intelligence" which has the power of decision as opposed to those which have merely been acted upon by "physical" forces and "physical" laws, such as gravitation, and th

ject. there was no noticeable distortion of its front, or advancing edge, as it plowed through the cloudy or fluid surface on which it floated, although it moved with a speed of two hundred miles per hour through the medium. it is conceded by all scientists that life, such as we know, could not exist on jupiter in any form, from our lowest to our highest. as for life in some other form, or weird, discarnate intelligence, the limit is defined only by one's ability to speculate. i "read "no life there at all, malfunction" because jupiter's great size, complex and turbulent condition, intricate system of satellites and attendant comets, and its gravitational effects on all other bodies within the sun's bailiwick, it would seem that most anything could happen on or around the huge orb. ark got

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

nt years. see also satanic ritual abuse for further reading: mcloughlin, david. second thoughts on the christchurch civic creche case; has justice failed peter ellis? north and south. august 1996, pp. 54 69 .news statement. north and south. july 19, 1995. the press, christchurch, new zealand, july 28, 1995, p. 3; january 9, 1995, p. 11. possession and exorcism possession is a situation in which a discarnate spiritual being invades a living person and takes over control of the body and, sometimes, control of the mind. possession can occur with or without the cooperation of the individual, and the invader can be the spirit of someone who has died, a deity or a demon. exorcism is the expulsion of otherwise disembodied spirits who have taken over control of (i.e, possessed) a human being. this

ce. the other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. they themselves are equally pleased by both errors. see also demons for further reading: lewis, c. s. the screwtape letters. new york: macmillan, 1961. messand, george. the history of the devil. london: newell, 1996. s ance a s ance involves a group of people who come together in order either to communicate with discarnate spirits or to produce and witness paranormal phenomena. a professional medium is usually, but not always, present. because of a longstanding association between disembodied spirits and demons, s ances were traditionally regarded as diabolical activities in which sitters (people attending the s ance) contacted agents of the 246 season of the witch devil agents who merely pretended to be

nominational boundaries. low lighting, it was claimed, was necessary for spirit communications. skeptics naturally felt that this particular condition served only to help the medium fake phenomena. in the nineteenth century, when s ances were characterized by the fantastic phenomena associated with physical mediumship, drafts of cool air, rapping noises, and strange lights signaled the arrival of discarnate entities. contemporary mental mediums have dispensed with such dramatic manifestations. see also demons; possession and exorcism for further reading: chaney, rev. robert g.mediums and the development of mediumship. freeport, ny: books for libraries press, 1972. fodor, nandor. an encyclopaedia of psychic science. 1933. secaucus, nj: citadel press, 1966. pearsall, ronald. the table-rapper

MEANING OF MASONRY

ogies the tradition is universal of a" golden age" an age of comparative innocence, wisdom and spirituality, in which racial unity and individual happiness and enlightenment prevailed; in which there was that open vision for want of which a people perisheth, but in virtue of which men were once in conscious conversation with the unseen world and were shepherded, taught and guided by the" gods" or discarnate superintendents of the infant race, who imparted to them the sure and indefeasible principles upon which their spiritual welfare and evolution depended. the tradition is also universal of the collective soul of the human race having sustained a" fall" a moral declension from its true path of life and evolution, which has severed it almost entirely from its creative source, and which, as

e tendencies are eradicated, until the desires of the heart are utterly weaned from external delights, there can be no permanent restoration of the soul to its source, but merely the periodic respite and refreshment that death brings when it withdraws the soul from pluto's realm to the heaven-world, to be follo wed again and again b y periodic descents into material limitations and reascents into discarnate conditions, until it becomes finally purged and perfected. by this great myth, therefore, instruction was imparted as to the history of the soul, its destiny and prospects, and the doctrine of reincarnation* was emphasized. how masonry follows this traditional method of instruction by myths. its canon of teaching in the craft degrees contains two myths. one is that of the building of ki

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gh the dual ecstasies to work with both shadow and light. this is the development of the bestial and angelic familiar; the holy guardian angel and evil genius-congressus cum daemone. five: this is the initiation by magickal retirement for a period, from which one observes sethian isolation and the various aspects of self. the initiate shall receive instructions of the coven, and may then seek the discarnate who reside in the lands of the gast for selfintrospection. six: the infernal induction. the initiate shall embrace the daemonic essence and enjoy the pleasures of the earth. the initiate shall for a period chosen by the coven, become an avatar for a specific associate god or goddess form of the higher famulus/angel/demon. seven: this is the path of over-stimulation and exhaustion, which

mental strength and the like. the flip side of the absorption of such a spirit is that if not properly prepared, or merely attempted with the spirit escaping one could risk possession, psychic damage or madness. such beings generally are mindless, especially if broken fragments of a former self; but some may be of extra terrestrial (non human) origin, or a powerful sorcerer suriving intact in the discarnate state, these have extensive abilities upon the astral plane. this is also true of the adept sorcerer who is able to take on the dream flesh of the vampire, it will prove nearly impossible for anyone to absorb such a sorcerer's spirit. such results require close to the same expenditure in time, and semi continuous work, as destroying a spirit to take command of a body. such is possible

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

y; and it meant nothing to anybody in the world, either then or for seventeen years after. and now the meaning falls so pat, so natural, so self-justified, so evidently the unique value of the 'x' of the equation, that it is impossible to quibble. the law of probabilities excludes all theories but one. the simple truth is what i have always asserted. there is a being called aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this book of the law, using my ears and hand. his mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for he has dominated me and taught me ever since. but that apart, the proof of any discarnate intelligence, even of the lowest order, has never before been established. and lack of that proof is the flaw in all the religions of the past; man could not be certain o

rder, has never before been established. and lack of that proof is the flaw in all the religions of the past; man could not be certain of the existence of "god, because though he knew many powers independent of muscle, he knew of no consciousness independent of nerve. one asks oneself, could he really be so naive as to believe this reasoning? and that this was sufficient proof of the existence of discarnate intelligence to a truly sceptical mind? the answer is yes in both cases. it would never have occurred to him that a careful preparation on his part of all the keys in the mmss, and a steady 'play-acting' for the rest of his life, would be just as possible. the point of the matter is, the book has been fulfilling itself in the life of mankind steadily, ever since the days of its dictatio

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

h is unseen on the other side of the hill. if he does not do so, he is able to return by the middle way to the outer world, where he appears transformed by his experience. appendix 4: thomas rhymer 151 http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_149.htm (2 of 4 [10/9/2001 12:37:26 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds the three roads may also be considered in the context of post-mortem metaphysics. the discarnate soul usually takes the 'broad broad way, in company with millions of others, following certain natural laws of attraction which are attuned by specific religions and mysteries, national group-souls, deep long-term aims of potent groups and patterns. these in turn are loosely related to certain stellar influences, and to the overall luminous attraction of lucifer within the earth's plane

n to the planet or group worlds by impulse or attraction, but who chooses to do so out of love for those who suffer. the middle way does not lead to incarnation from the inner to outer worlds, under normal circumstances. it may be specifically opened for communication and exchange 'cross time, as we have seen in the summoning of the ancestors, and this is the simplest human level of its so-called discarnate operation. if the reader has followed the theory of the underworld initiation carefully, it will be clear that the usual concepts of life/death are irrelevant in such a context. in a second level or mode, the middle way is available for exchange of energies between beings in different worlds. spiritual enlightenment flows along this way, as do many of the concerted group rituals that in

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information beyond the normal sensory channels, emanate from spirits of the dead. nonspiritualists who attend seances may hold a wide variety of religious and philosophical views, but they are likely to believe that some part of their being survives physical death, and they are willing to base their hope for life eternal on the phenomena of the seance room and the messages that they receive from discarnate beings. after the sitters have been ushered into the seance room with its subdued lighting, they are invited to be seated, generally forming a circle around a large round table. the successful medium of an established reputa- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 86 mediums and mystics theouija board was first available for the america

views, it is abhorrent for anyone to claim the ability to talk to the dead. at best, in this view, such claimants are frauds and charlatans. at worst, they are committing a grave sin. and if the phenomena of the seance room is really due to as-yet unknown faculties of the human mind, then the sins of mediums are doubled if they claim that manifestations originating in their subconscious come from discarnate entities. spiritualists will answer such charges by stating that the more conservative religions promise their congregations a life eternal, but spirit mediums offer tangible proof that the human soul does survive the act of physical death. they will assert that millions of stricken hearts have been healed by the consolation afforded by the conviction that they have truly communicated w

hs, uvani answered bluntly that he does not speak english: it is my instrument who speaks. i impress my thought upon her, on that figment which i must work up, but no word of mine actually comes to you. the instrument is impressed by my personal contact. chicago psychic-sensitive irene f. hughes explained how she can tell when her spirit guide wishes to bring forth an impression or message from a discarnate entity on the other side. i am quiet, completely relaxed, deep in meditation, she explained. i may be alone at home or among friends in a prayer circle. a tingling sensation, similar to a chill, begins on my right ankle, then on my left. slowly the tingling spreads to cover my entire body. it is as though a soft silken skin has been pulled over me, glove-tight even over my face, changin

d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 92 mediums and mystics autosuggestion in the trance state, assume the guise of the spirit communicators who have come to speak to the sitters in the seance circle. professional hypnotists have often claimed that all the phenomena of mediumship can be duplicated through their subjects by suggesting to them that they are under the control of discarnate entities. a medium or a spiritualist might counter such an assertion by saying that certain spirits may actually take possession of a hypnotic subject when they receive permission to do so, and that the subject may then truly be said to be in the control of the souls of the deceased. parapsychologists who have tested both the hypnosis hypothesis and the possibility of spirit possession

n their butterfly-like apprenticeship by leaving the ways of their human caterpillar family and friends behind and attain the higher level in an actual physical body. the kingdom of heaven and all those who occupy it, according to the two, were literally physical in form. no spirits were permitted in their father s kingdom. if one stays at the human level, bo and peep warned, whether incarnate or discarnate, one still has all ties with this garden earth. bo and peep achieved national media attention after a ufo lecture in waldport, oregon, on september 14, 1975, when they were said to have mysteriously whisked away 20 members of the audience aboard a flying saucer. concerned family members of the vanishing oregonians were not convinced that extraterrestrials had kidnapped their relatives

ss of setting borders, limits or marking boundaries. from the spanish demarcacion, literally meaning, marking off. demon possession when low-level disincarnate spirits invade and take over a human body. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d glossary 325 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem go

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t described in detail a series of manifestations in which his wife appeared to him and dictated information regarding life after death. oberlin became convinced that the inhabitants of the invisible world can appear to the living, and we to them, and that we humans are apparitions to them, as they are to us. the question that may remain is whether the percipients of apparitions actually observe a discarnate entity, which occupies an objective area in time and space, or whether they perceive the result of a successfully implanted telepathic message-image, which had been transmitted at the moment of death by the dying loved one. the witnesses themselves, however, insist that their experiences cannot be dismissed as only dramatic devices of their imaginations. m delving deeper baird, a. t, ed

range, such as a ghost. from the latin apparitus, past participle of apparere, meaning to appear. astral self theosophical belief that humans possess a second body that cannot be perceived with normal senses, yet it coexists with the human body and survives death. automatic writing writing that occurs in an unconscious state or when one is in a trance or supposed telepathic contact with a spirit. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. geiger counter an instrument named after its inventor, german physicist hans geiger (1882 1945, that is used to measure and detect such things as particles from radioactive materials. hallucinations a false or distorted perception of events during which one vividly imagines seeing, hearing or sensing o

hat the huge boulder s piezo-electric composition could intensify meditation and the power of the human mind to establish communication with alien intelligences. when he began holding weekly meditations under the rock, others who felt drawn to the rock and the desert soon joined him. in 1951, van tassel went into trance and said later that he had been taken out of his body to meet with a group of discarnate beings who inhabited a spaceship orbiting earth. in august of 1952, van tassel stated that aliens from venus had landed near giant rock and invited him to enter their spacecraft. when word spread of his dramatic encounter, the first space convention was held at giant rock in the spring of 1953. in the years to come, thousands would attend these conventions, drawn to the rock, the desert

ss of setting borders, limits or marking boundaries. from the spanish demarcacion, literally meaning, marking off. demon possession when low-level disincarnate spirits invade and take over a human body. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d glossary 305 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem go

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ss of setting borders, limits or marking boundaries. from the spanish demarcacion, literally meaning, marking off. demon possession when low-level disincarnate spirits invade and take over a human body. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d glossary 283 g l o s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning gopinion h or gtenet, h and from dokein, gto

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t it is also the strictest possible bond. it is that harmony of legis jugum and libertas evangelii1 which we once saw upon the little table above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have assumed for example, that the mysterious master thirion was either some discarnate entity, similar to those who supposedly manifested themselves to macgregor mathers and other members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or a himalayan superman, like madame blavatsky s mahatmas.2 again, the statement that the o.t.o. in no way conflicts with or infringes the just privileges of the united grand lodge of england 3 displayed on reuss s part either what lenin, in anot

an elemental or file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c4.html (2 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:05:49 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. planetary spirit, of a nature fitted to some desired end. thus one eloquent, from an incarnation of tiriel, or one bold in war, from the indwelling of graphiel. and these will be his chief difficulties (a) that man (even when discarnate) is so spiritually powerful, that to bar him from his urgent need is a task of colossal awe; and (b) it is necessary to choose a spirit suitable to the foetus. thus if the babe that is to be were by reason of physical heredity sluggish, melancholy and weak, it would be but nugatory to invoke into it a spirit of nakhiel or raphael or haniel or anael. b the human soul is all but inexpugna

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ever contribute to forwarding the destiny of the magician who receives it, and it can never result in true happiness. such understanding (binah) is sterile, because it lacks wisdom (chokmah. impatient and irreligious adepts may think they are willing to sacrifice the grace of the light in order to achieve their material ends, but it is not so simple. by their inherent nature, evil entities (those discarnate beings who dwell on the shadowy limit of manifestation) are eager to expand into regions where the light chooses to withhold itself. they thrust understanding of the black arts onto those utterly inca- pable of dealing with the consequences, and as a result, these black magicians end by destroying themselves. they cannot manipulate in any useful or healthful way the forces they presume

ircle of the body of the magus, is felt as an inner change in the personality. the invoked spirit is usually visualized as surrounding the magus like a cloak of light, and sink- ing into the depths of his or her being. it is thus a kind of voluntary possession similar to that experienced by medi- ums, who are taken over by their spirit contacts, and by channelers, who become speaking machines for discarnate intelligences, and by voudoun worshippers, who are mounted and "ridden" by their loas. however, in hermetic magic the magus always retains a center of self-awareness and control. outright possession, where human consciousness is temporarily replaced by the consciousness of a spirit, is not a feature of western ritual occultism. in this way ritual magic is distinct from spiritualism and

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