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e knew the correct spelling) is only explicable by his wish not to take the edge off his plan for making the assyrian's letter a fulminating revelation of his existence, as would have happened if the secret had been prematurely disclosed. the case is here cited in order to illustrate the extreme care which ought to be taken in excluding all alternative hypotheses before admitting the existence of disembodied intelligences. it may be mentioned, however, that in this particular case there are numerous other incidents which make the telepathic theory untenable, and subconscious knowledge<psychology in which the heroine is an ignorant english servant girl of quite inferior intelligence, and unacquainted with any language, even her own

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ed 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 (or powers) ar

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 demonstrate the- 188- t

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

lace, 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 the light of t

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

ind the teaching anent the so-called ascended masters, put out by the leaders of the "i am" movement, thus prostituting and bringing down almost into the realm of cheap comedy one of the most notable happenings which has ever taken place upon our planet. there is therefore, owing to the inflow of energy from extra-planetary sources, a general shifting of the focus of consciousness of embodied and disembodied lives at this time; this shift is one of the prime factors producing the present disruption. students today are searching for the causes in human motives, in past history and in karmic relationships. to these they add the so-called factor of wickedness. all these factors of course exist, but are of lesser origin and are inherent in the life of the three worlds. they are themselves set

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

were created in the beginning, and hereafter to come into this world, the holy one placed therein: out of this treasury the holy one furnishes children in the womb with souls" a further commentary in symbolic language narrates how the holy one perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it "the holy one, blessed be he, beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul: and this is being always done since the world began; the soul appears before the holy one and worships in his presence, to whom the eternal one says 'betake thyself to this form' instantly the soul excuses himself, saying 'oh governor of the world, i am satisfied with the world in which i have been so long: if it please thee, do not force m

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

an explanation on the material and the terrestrial plane. the flames are evanescent and only periodical; the fires- eternal in their triple unity. they correspond to the four lower, and the three higher human principles* the suras, who become later the a-suras* atma, buddhi and manas. in devachan the higher element of the manas is needed to make it a state of perception and consciousness for the disembodied monad[[vol. 2, page] 58 the secret doctrine. whose esoteric interpretations may differ from our own- we shall have to explain to them the foregoing by certain passages in their own exoteric books, namely, the puranas. in the allegories of the latter, brahma, who is collectively the creative force of the universe, is said to be "at the beginning of the yugas (cycles. possessed of the de

s "the rebel angels hurled down from heaven into the darkness of hell- our earth. hindu philosophy hints at the truth by teaching that the asuras hurled down by siva, are only in an intermediate state in which they prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemption from their[[footnote(s* explaining the kabala, dr. h. pratt says "spirit was to man (to the jewish rabbin, rather) a bodiless, disembodied, or deprived, and degraded being, and hence was termed by the ideograph nahash 'deprived' represented as appearing to and seducing the human race- men through the woman. in the picture from this nahash, this spirit was represented by a serpent, because from its destitution of bodily members, the serpent was looked upon as a deprived and depraved and degraded creature("new aspects" p. 2

u brahmaputras and manasaputras (sons of brahma and mind-born sons) down to the b'ne-aleim of the jewish bible, the faith of the centuries and[[footnote(s* this is a direct reference to the esoteric division of man's principles symbolised by the divine wheat. the legend which inscribes the third registrar of the papyrus (chap. cx. of the "book of the dead) states "this is the region of the manes (disembodied men) seven cubits high- to wit: those just translated and supposed to be still sevenfold with all their principles, even the body represented astrally in the kama-loka or hades, before their separation" and, there is wheat three cubits high for mummies in a state of perfection (i.e, those already separated, whose three higher principles are in devachan "who are permitted to glean it" t

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ound on our globe- no more monads can enter the human kingdom. the door is closed for this cycle and the balance struck. for were it otherwise- had there been a new soul[[vol. 1, page] 183 man, the oldest son of the earth. created for each of the countless milliards of human beings that have passed away, and had there been no reincarnation- it would become difficult indeed to provide room for the disembodied "spirits" nor could the origin and cause of suffering ever be accounted for. it is the ignorance of the occult tenets and the enforcement of false conceptions under the guise of religious education, which have created materialism and atheism as a protest against the asserted divine order of things. the only exceptions to the rule just stated are the "dumb races" whose monads are alread

apyri the crocodile is called sebek (seventh, while the water is the fifth principle esoterically; and, as already stated, mr. gerald massey shows that the crocodile was "the seventh soul, the supreme one of seven- the seer unseen" even exoterically sekhem is the residence of the god khem, and khem is horus avenging the death of his father osiris, hence punishing the sins of man when he becomes a disembodied soul. thus the defunct[[footnote(s* one of the explanations of the real though hidden meaning of this egyptian religious glyph is easy. the crocodile is the first to await and meet the devouring fires of the morning sun, and very soon came to personify the solar heat. when the sun arose, it was like the arrival on earth and among men "of the divine soul which informs the gods" hence th

e(s* creation is an incorrect word to use, as no religion, not even the sect of the visishta adwaitees in india- one which anthropomorphises even parabrahmam- believes in creation out of nihil as christians and jews do, but in evolution out of preexisting materials* the so-called "spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the monads or higher principles of disembodied personalities. such a "spirit" can only be either an elementary, or- a nirmanakaya[[vol. 1, page] 234 the secret doctrine. or taking temporary possession of a medium. just as certain persons- men and women, reverting to parallel cases among living persons- whether by virtue of a peculiar organization, or through the power of acquired mystic knowledge, can be seen in their "double" in o

acle for various reasons- such as insanity, spiritual and physical depravity, etc* therefore, that which living men (initiates[[footnote(s* on p. 340-351 (genesis of the soul) in the "new aspects of life" the author states the kabalistic teaching "they held that, functionally, spirit and matter of corresponding opacity and density tended to coalesce; and that the resultant created spirits, in the disembodied state, were constituted on a scale in which the differing opacities and transparencies of elemental or uncreated spirit were reproduced. and that these spirits in the disembodied state attracted, appropriated, digested and assimilated elemental spirit and elemental matter whose condition was conformed to their own "they therefore taught that there was a wide difference in the condition

produced. and that these spirits in the disembodied state attracted, appropriated, digested and assimilated elemental spirit and elemental matter whose condition was conformed to their own "they therefore taught that there was a wide difference in the condition of created spirits; and that in the intimate association between the spirit-world and the world of matter, the more opaque spirits in the disembodied state were drawn towards the more dense parts of the material world, and therefore tended towards the centre of the earth, where they found the conditions most suited to their state; while the more transparent spirits passed into the surrounding aura of the planet, the most rarified finding their home in its satellite" this relates exclusively to our elementary spirits, and has naught

l spiritual triad- the atma-buddhi and manas- the fruition of the latter assimilated by the first two after every terrestrial life. the "four wicks" that go out and are extinguished, are the four lower principles, including the body "i am the three-wicked flame and my wicks are immortal" says the defunct "i enter into the domain of sekhem (the god whose arm sows the seed of action produced by the disembodied soul) and i enter the region of the flames who have destroyed their adversaries" i.e, got rid of the sin-creating "four wicks (see chap. i, vii "book of the dead" and the "mysteries of ro-stan (b) just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining, so our evanescent personalities- the illusive envelopes of the immortal monad

plane: it is but the ray of light eternal which shines upon and through the darkness of matter- when the latter is willing. 4. the soul (collectively, as the upper triad) lives on three planes, besides its fourth, the terrestrial sphere; and it exists eternally on the highest of the three. 5. these dwellings are: earth for the physical man, or the animal soul; kama-loka (hades, the limbo) for the disembodied man, or his shell; devachan for the higher triad. 6. correct. 7. the astral through kama (desire) is ever drawing manas down into the sphere of material passions and desires. but if the better man[[second column continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 245 occultists and kabalists differ[[first column continued from previous page] conquered in accordance with the inspirations of neschamah

es the spirits of the dead[[vol. 1, page] 277 many bodies but one soul. it is on the right comprehension of the primeval evolution of spirit-matter and its real essence that the student has to depend for the further elucidation in his mind of the occult cosmogony, and for the only sure clue which can guide his subsequent studies. in sober truth, as just shown, every "spirit" so-called is either a disembodied or a future man. as from the highest archangel (dhyan chohan) down to the last conscious "builder (the inferior class of spiritual entities, all such are men, having lived aeons ago, in other manvantaras, on this or other spheres; so the inferior, semi-intelligent and non-intelligent elementals- are all future men. that fact alone- that a spirit is endowed with intelligence- is a proof

gher as to be divine in the sight of that infant humanity. by a "mankind" in short, from other spheres; an idea which contains nothing supernatural in it, but the acceptance or rejection of which depends upon the degree of conceit and arrogance in the mind of him to whom it is stated. for, if the professors of modern knowledge would only confess that, though they know nothing of the future of the disembodied man- or rather will accept nothing- yet this future may be pregnant with surprises and unexpected revelations to them, once their egos are rid of their gross bodies- then materialistic unbelief would have fewer chances than it has. who of them knows, or can tell, what may happen when once the life cycle of this globe is run down and our mother earth herself falls into her last sleep? w

l, what may happen when once the life cycle of this globe is run down and our mother earth herself falls into her last sleep? who is bold enough to say that the divine egos of our mankind- at least the elect out of the multitudes passing on to other spheres- will not become in their turn the "divine" instructors of a new mankind generated by them on a new globe, called to life and activity by the disembodied "principles" of our earth (see stanza vi, book i, part 1) all this may have been the experience of the past, and these strange records lie embedded in the "mystery language" of the prehistoric ages, the language now called symbolism[[vol. 1, page] 310 the secret doctrine. ii. the mystery language and its keys. recent discoveries made by great mathematicians and kabalists thus prove, be

worlds (p. 55. who, then, or what were those races, since the author still maintains that adam is the first man of our race? it was the satanic race and races "satan (was) never in heaven, angels and men (being) one species" it was the pre-adamic race of "angels that sinned" satan was "the first prince of this world" we read. having died in consequence of his rebellion, he remained on earth as a disembodied spirit, and tempted adam and eve "the earlier ages of the satanic race, and more especially during the life-time of satan) may have been a period[[footnote(s "primeval man unveiled, or the anthropology of the bible; author (unknown) of the "stars and the angels" 1870, p. 195* especially in the face of the evidence furnished by the authorized bible itself in ch. iv. of genesis, v. 16 an

ory illusion of the senses. as to the "elemental atoms" so called, the occultists refer to them by that name with a meaning analogous to that which is given by the hindu to brahma when he calls him anu, the "atom" every elemental atom, in search of which more than one chemist has followed the path indicated by the alchemists, is, in their firm belief (when not knowledge, a soul; not necessarily a disembodied soul, but a jiva, as the hindus call it, a centre of potential vitality, with latent intelligence in it, and, in the case of compound souls- an intelligent active existence, from the highest to the lowest order, a form composed of more or less differentiations. it requires a metaphysician- and an eastern metaphysician- to understand our meaning. all those atom-souls are differentiation

BOOK OF PLEASURE

gical obsession (genius) and insanity. magical obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc, for inspiration. it is the condition of genius. other obsession is the "blind leading the blind" caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disembodied energy. a transmutated consciousness that is a resistance to "true" sub-conscious activity, it being a voluntary insanity, a somnambulation of the ego with "no form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations are stupid in suggestion, or memories of childhood. obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort o

s existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live and perform its emotional experience. disease and insanity (all disease is insanity) is caused when the the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 29 disembodied energy has no vital function. it is this energy which is utilised for the vitalization of sigils. sigils. the psychology of believing. if the "supreme belief" remains unknown, believing is fruitless. if "the truth" has not yet been ascertained, the study of knowledge is unproductive. even if "they" were known their study is useless. we are not the object by the perception, but by becom

ma (the sub-conscious stratum, a particular existence and knowledge gained by it) relative to the desire, but not from memory or experience which was recent. knowledge is obtained by the sensation, resulting from the unity of the desire and karma. power, by its "actual" vitalization and resurrection* this is not the passivity of mediumism which opens the mind to what is called external influence- disembodied energy usually having no better purpose than to rap-tables. there are many means of attaining this state of vacuity: i mention the most simple, there is no need for crucifixion. drugs are useless. smoking and laziness the more difficult. this knowledge leaves its stratum in company with the energy or desire returning to the ego. it escapes the ego's resistance by associating with simil

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

m, 1967, p. 215. 56. in the new england witchcraft cases, several blacks were included among the accusers and the accused. see william d. piersen, black yankees: the development of an afro-american subculture in eighteenth-century new england (amherst: university of massachusetts press, 1988, p. 80; see also cross "witchcraft in north carolina" p. 219. 57. according to one source, the hag is the "disembodied spirit of an old woman who practices witchcraft" rather than a shape-shifting female human. see federal writers program, south carolina folktales (folcroft, pa: folcroft library editions, 1976, pp. 89, 92; see also joyner, down by the riverside; basil duke, reminiscences of general basil w. duke (new york: deale publishing, 1906, p. 32; sobel, trabelin' on, p. 69; raboteau, slave relig

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

psychonisis, in a living person (as can be the case in some poltergeist cases, these are entities that are the astral remains of deceased people stuck in the lowest levels of the spiritual planes after the death of the physical body. 2) the soul of a dead person that is bound to earth (q.v, usually to the specific locality where the person died, or to it's former home, or it's place of burial. 3) disembodied souls. ghosts, pseudo: entities similar to what donald michael kraig refers to as "little nasties (q.v) or "astral junk" these entities are intelligent beings from the lower planes, and can tell you things about your past and future, giving the appearance of being the ghost of a loved one. these entities feed off of the energy given to them by persons who believe that they are communic

e higher self (q.v) and the lower self. here the word is used to indicate the personal identity of a living being, it's feelings, it's thoughts, impulses, memories, and sense of self, i.e. awareness. the astral star teaches that we do not have things called souls, but rather, we are souls. spirit: 1) the highest level of the psyche (q.v. 2) the fifth magickal element (q.v) or other being which is disembodied by nature. 3) self aware beings that lack a living, material body. some spirits have the power to borrow the bodies of mortal men and women, and use them as their own. 4) in spiritualism/ spiritism (q.v, a disembodied human soul. spirit, human: the vitalizing energy that burns within each individual and is one with the divine radiance. spiritism: french equivalent to the spiritualism o

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

unlimited (though also unorganised) on its own plane. involvement in a form is therefore the beginning of the death of life. it is a straitening and a limiting; a binding and a constricting. form checks life, thwarts it, and yet enables it to organise. seen from the point of view of free-moving force, incarceration in a form is extinction. form disciplines force with a merciless severity. 9. the disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. but the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. we can see then how terrible must the great mother appear as she binds free-moving force into the discipline of form. she is death to the dynamic activity of chokmah; the chokmah-force dies as it issues into binah. form is the discipline of fo

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

s its denser physical counterpart, taking with it the sense of pleasure and pain, and lives for a short time in its own world. here again the state of the primitive differs from that of his more advanced fellows. the less advanced body does not travel far from his immediate surroundings, while the more mature one may perform useful, helpful work for the benefit of humanity. furthermore, note that disembodied people are not the only inhabitants of the astral world, for very many of its inhabitants are said to be of an altogether nonhuman nature.lower orders of the devas, or angels; and nature-spirits, or elementals, both good and bad, such as fairies, which are just beyond the powers of human vision; as well as demons, present to alcoholics in delirium tremens. following physical death, the

ordinary individual, however, does not experience this seventh division of the astral world, but according to character finds itself in one or other of the three next higher divisions. the sixth division is very little different from physical existence, and the new inhabitant continues in the old surroundings among old friends, who, of course, are unaware of the astral presence. indeed, the newly disembodied soul often does not realize that it is dead, so far as the physical world is concerned. the fifth and fourth divisions are in most respects quite similar to this, but their inhabitants become less and less immersed in the activities and interests that previously engrossed them, and each sheath of their astral bodies decays in turn, as did the gross outer sheath of the sensualist s body

64. bach was also a director of the antique airplane association and editor of its magazine antiquer, and did some airplane barnstorming in the midwest. his early books include stranger to the ground (1963, biplane (1966, and nothing by chance: a gypsy pilot s adventures in modern america (1969. in 1959, while living at belmont shore, california, bach was walking by the waterfront when he heard a disembodied voice say jonathan livingston seagull. this was followed by a kind of daydream of a seagull flying alone at sunrise, and a realization of its significance. bach felt impelled to write this down, using a green ballpoint pen and some old scratch paper (the only writing materials handy, and completed the first part of the story of jonathan livingston seagull up to the point of jonathan s

om high estate to the rank of peasant tenants, the banshee never leaves nor forgets it till the last member has been gathered to his fathers in the churchyard. the maccarthys, o flahertys, magraths, o rileys, o sullivans, o reardons, have their banshees, though many representatives of these names are in abject poverty. the banshee, says d. r. mcanally [in his book irish wonders (1888, is really a disembodied soul, that of one who in life was strongly attached to the family, or who had good reason to hate all its members. thus, in different instances, the banshee s song may be inspired by different motives. when the banshee loves those she calls, the song is a low, soft chant giving notice, indeed, of the close proximity of the angel of death, but with a tenderness of tone that reassures th

ason. the south sea islanders used to bury their dead in coffins shaped like the bird that was to bear away the spirits, while the natives of borneo represented tempon telon s ship of the dead as having the form of a bird. the native american tribes of the northwest had rattles shaped like ravens with a large face painted on the breast. the probable significance is that the raven was to carry the disembodied soul to the region of the sun. the flight of birds was also studied as part of the methods of divination in ornithomancy. bird voices paranormal messages supposedly conveyed through the medium of the twittering of budgerigars, as distinct from mere imitation of human voices (see also electronic voice phenomenon; friedrich jurgenson; raudive voices) birge, raymond t(hayer (1887) a profe

ontemporary term for the earlier spiritualist idea of mediumship, spirit entities conveying philosophical or spiritual advice or healing through mediums. mediumship is generally thought of as the special activity of a few people who operate primarily to put people in contact with their dead friends and relatives. channelers operate primarily to bring philosophical and theological teachings from a disembodied entity. since the development of modern spiritualism, mediums have also operated as channels and many channels also operate as mediums. the channeling of philosophical teachings, especially on the nature of continued existence in the afterlife, began with andrew jackson davis, who published a number of volumes of channeled material. numerous platform mediums became known for their spir

rance exhibit precisely the kind of confusion and incoherence which it seems to me we have some reason a priori to expect if they are actually what they claim to be. myers pointed out the resemblance of such communications to the fugitive and unstable discourse between different strata of personality of which embodied minds offer an example. he suggested that multiple personality may occur in the disembodied as well. the explanations of piper s control george pelham presented a spiritualist explanation of the communication process: in trance the ethereal body of the psychic parts from the physical body just as it does in dreams and then we take possession of it for the purpose of communication. your conversation reaches us as if by telephone from a distant station. our forces fail us in th

aret verrall, also known for her automatic writing, and later produced scripts herself. she first went into trance in 1910. she took part in a cross-correspondence communications study by the society for psychical research in which a group of automatists (verrall, helen salter, mrs. holland [alice kipling fleming] and mrs. willett) produced interlocking scripts that indicated the possibility of a disembodied intelligence. coombe-tennant s mediumship is discussed in an article by g. w. balfour in the proceedings of the society for psychical research. after her death in 1956 she supposedly communicated to geraldine cummins the scripts later published in the book swan on a black sea (1965. sources: balfour, g. w. a study of the psychological aspects of mrs. willett s mediumship. proceedings o

although it proved to be a language never spoken, nevertheless consisted almost entirely of anglo-saxon root words and no modernisms. some psychical researchers found much to praise in curran s work. they noted that she had received material from sources far beyond her knowledge while in a waking state. walter franklin prince believed that if the spiritualist hypothesis that patience worth was a disembodied spirit communicating through curran was not accepted, then a reappraisal of our understanding of the subconscious must be revised. of course, over the last few decades that is exactly what has happened, and curran s production, while notable, has been duplicated and does not seem as extraordinary. sources: hickman, irene. i knew patience worth. sacramento, calif: the author, 1971. litv

a person named john, according to the mission s literature. john was a channel and teacher of metaphysics in the seattle, washington, suburb of bellevue. he had been channeling an entity named elihu. the concept of a walk-in was popularized by new age author and channel ruth montgomery, who described situations in which the spirit of an individual would, for whatever reason, abandon a body and a disembodied spirit would walk in and take over. in that change, the memory of the person who left would be left behind, but the personality of the new entity would dominate. thus it was that avinash walked in and took over john s body. shortly after avinash appeared, the person that had been john moved to hawaii. he was accompanied by a second walk in, a female named alezsha. in hawaii they met a

es. do we not find in the different ancient literature, demons, angels, gnomes, goblins, sprites, spectres, elementals, etc? perhaps these legends are not without some foundation in fact. evans-wentz concludes that we can postulate scientifically, on the showing of the data of psychical research, the existence of such invisible intelligences as gods, genii, daemons, all kinds of true fairies, and disembodied men. in his assertions, evans- wentz goes far beyond the territory usually covered by his colleagues, who usually limit themselves to the study of folklore traditions. in his foreword to the 1966 reissue of evans-wentz s book, leslie shepard cites the protean aspect of fairies (i.e, their ability to change form in accordance with the convention of the viewer) and says, i have a strong

onal animal (1978; philosophy: an introduction (1979; the politics of procrustes (1981; and the logic of mortality (1987. he also edited the 1964 book body, mind and death. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. flew, antony g. n, ed. body, mind and death. new york: macmillan, 1964. is there a case for disembodied spirit? journal of the american society for psychical research 66 (1972. the logic of mortality. oxford: blackwell, 1987. a new approach to psychical research. london: c. a. watts, 1953. ludwig, j. k, ed. philosophy and parapsychology. buffalo, n.y: promethus books, 1978. flint, leslie (ca. 1911.1994) noted british medium who specialized in independent direct voice communications (i.e

these people were the same as the corybantes, or ministers of the gods, otherwise known as the cabiri. pococke claims, on somewhat slender evidence of place-names, that palestine and greece were colonized from india in ancient times. gestefeld, ursula newell encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 634 sources: pococke, edward. india in greece. london: j. j. griffin& co, 1852. ghost the disembodied spirit or image of a deceased person, appearing to be alive. the term does not include apparitions of the living. reports of appearances of ghosts go back to ancient times, and ghost stories have always been popular as a special genre of literature. ghosts are believed to be ethereal, able to penetrate doors and walls, and are often said to appear at the moment of death to a distant re

s for consideration: 1. the apparition is something belonging to the external world that, like ordinary matter, it occupies and moves through space, and would be in the room whether the percipient were there to see it or not. 2. the apparition has no relation to the external world but is an hallucination caused in some way by some communication, without the intervention of the senses, between the disembodied spirit and the percipient, its form depending on the mind of either the spirit or of the percipient, or of both. this hypothesis does not account for the apparent dependence of the haunting on the locality. 3. the first appearance in haunted houses is a purely subjective hallucination, and subsequent similar appearances, both to the original percipient and to others, are the result of

an velzen, van der loef, and herr schimmel, were among authors who wrote in defense of the same opinions, and the writings of c. f. varley, sir william crookes, and alfred russel wallace were translated into dutch. a mesmerist, signor donata, carried on the practice of animal magnetism in holland and endeavored to identify the magnetic force emanating from the operator with the substance of which disembodied spirits were believed to be composed. progress of the movement was hampered by the many exposures of unscrupulous mediums, but on the whole the mediums, professional or otherwise, were well received. haunted houses and poltergeists were also noted. psychical research and parapsychology some of the pioneers of psychical research in holland were frederik van eeden (1860.1932, k. h. e. de

advantage or detriment. much of japanese folklore and tradition is permeated with a belief in the supernatural. shinto religion and ancestor-worship a prominent feature of the japanese religion shintoism is the worship of ancestors, allied to the worship of nature. each of the main sects of shintoism includes the veneration of one s ancestors as a cardinal principle. according to that belief, the disembodied spirits acquire the powers of deities and possess supernatural attributes. they become potential for good or evil and exercise their potentialities in the same mundane sphere upon which their interests and affections centered during life. consequently they become guardian divinities and the object of ceremonies to honor them, to show gratitude for their services while upon earth, and t

ss and the tutelary god of the family, one finds the memorial tablets containing names, ages, and dates of death of members of the household. stories circulate through the villages of the souls of ancestors taking material form and remaining visible through centuries. in the month of july three days are set apart for the celebration of the festival of the dead. at this time it is thought that the disembodied souls return from the dismal region of the shades to gaze for a while upon the beauty of their country and to visit their people. on the first morning, new mats are placed upon all altars and on the household shrine, while in the homes, tiny meals are prepared in readiness for the ghostly guests. the streets at night are brilliant with many torches. in front of the houses gaily-colored

4, who anticipated the modern pictographic conception of apparitions in his analysis of the experiences of emanuel swedenborg in dreams of a spirit-seer (1766. he was impressed with swedenborg s attempts, with some seeming success, to communicate with the deceased brother of the wife of the king of sweden. in his book, written several years later, kant explores the possibility of the existence of disembodied spirits and their ability to communicate with humans: departed souls and pure spirits. can still act upon the soul of man. for the ideas they excite in the soul clothe themselves according to the law of fantasy in allied imagery and create outside the seer the apparition of the objects to which they are appropriate. kant did not distinguish between veridical and objective apparitions a

over the next 10 years leary continued to be in the public eye as a trendsetter in ideas. he lectured widely, though he no longer advocated the psychedelic revolution or drug taking. in september 1976 he spoke to 3,000 students at princeton university on a scientific approach to self-development. in his book exo-psychology (1977, he suggested that human beings could evolve into pure, intelligent, disembodied energy. other lecture topics include skylab/space shuttle activities and efforts to increase human intelligence and life-span, summed up in the acronym smile (space migration, increased intelligence, life extension. he founded an organization named starseed, a cooperative to colonize space. in 1982 leary toured on a debate circuit with convicted watergate conspirator g. gordon liddy, w

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ughout polynesia. from his work in the south pacific, r. h. codrington observed: the word is common, i believe, to the whole pacific. it is a power or influence, not physical, and in a way supernatural, but it shows itself in physical force, or in any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses. this mana is not fixed in anything, and can be conveyed in almost anything; but spirits, whether disembodied souls or supernatural beings, have it and can impart it. all melanesian religion consists in getting this mana for oneself, or getting it used for one s benefit. the techniques of arousing and acquiring mana were extensively explored by max freedom long (1890.1971) in his study of the kahuna magic in hawaii and described in his books, notably the secret science behind miracles (1948. l

ay be thrown, gas or electricity turned off, the flame encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. movement (paranormal) 1061 of a candle depressed, cords and handkerchiefs knotted, bonds untied. much of the reported phenomena occurred in a darkened seance room. sitters also reported evidence of the operation of invisible hands, whose presence was often felt through touches; frequently the disembodied hands were said to have been seen in operation. the very nature of the reports suggest that much of the phenomena was produced by the mediums and their accomplices. lord adare saw, in a seance with d. d. home, a hand stretch over the jet of gas. at the same moment eight jets of gas went out in the house. psychical researcher hereward carrington wrote of the naples seances with eusapia

the regular channels of muscular movements. edmund e. fournier d albe, author of several books on psychical phenomena, wondered if living principle of the cells that die could in some way still be attached to us. if so, we would be actually living half in this world and half in the next, he theorized. could not then telekinesis be explained by a resumed embodiment or materialized activity of the disembodied epidermal cell principles? he asked. cesare lombroso suggested: i see nothing inadmissible in the fact that, with hysterical and hypnotic subjects the excitation of certain centres which become active in proportion as all other centres become paralysed, may cause a transposition of psychical forces, and thus also bring about a transformation into luminous force or into motor force. it

has mysticism encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1084 published his experiences and the perceptions accompanying them in a series of books, which during the last years of his life attracted the attention of scientists in investigating the phenomenon. paranormal side effects most religions have reported miraculous phenomena associated with the path of mysticism, including visions, disembodied voices, levitation, and gifts of healing. christian saints have their miracles and the yogis have their occult powers. it would seem that with the transcendence of normal mental and emotional life, there is an area of transcendence of normal physical law. however, the mystic is warned not to be snared by such phenomena, since it will activate egoism and pride, common faults of the begi

medieval mysticism and magic. plotinus, its founder, commenced the study of philosophy in alexandria at the age of 28. he early experienced an earnest desire to reach the truth concerning existence, and to that end made a deep study of the dialogues of plato and the metaphysics of aristotle. he practiced severe austerities and attempted to live what he called the angelic life, or the life of the disembodied in the body. he was greatly drawn to apollonius of tyana by reading his life by philostratus. the union of philosopher and priest in the character of apollonius fired the imagination of plotinus, and in his pythagorean teachings the young student discovered the elements of both orientalism and platonism, for both pythagoras and plato strove to escape the sensuous and to realize in cont

returning ego of lurancy vennum, the girl s health was mentally and physically reestablished. obsession and possession encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1134 as a result of his twenty years study of obsession as head of the james hyslop institute, titus bull published in 1932 some conclusions, as follows: an obsessing personality is not composed of the soul, mind and will of one disembodied being, but is, in reality, a composite personality made up of many beings. the pivot obsessor, or the one who first impinges upon the sensorium of the mortal, is generally one with little resistance to the suggestions of others. he or she, therefore, becomes an easy prey to those who desire to approach a mortal in this way. some people, moreover, may be born with tendencies which make

complish goals in magic. crowley s system is very different from the mystical sexual practices of tantric yoga, with which it has often been compared. reuss resigned his position in 1922 and crowley became the outer head of the order. the order became his major means of spreading his particular magical philosophy based on the revelatory the book of the law, which he claimed he had received from a disembodied intelligence in 1904. this book was translated into german in the mid-1920s, and many of the german members rejected crowley and his perspective. they withdrew and continued as a pre-crowleyite oto, although enough german members accepted crowley that he could count one german lodge in his branch of the order. both of the german groups were destroyed by the nazi regime. a group continu

1952, england. following graduation he joined the faculty of the department of philosophy of the university of alberta, edmonton, canada. in the field of parapsychology, he studied the question of personal identity with reference to the possibility of a purely psychical entity. he was also interested in theories of survival and discussed questions of identity and survival in his book survival and disembodied existence (1970. pentacle (or pantacle or pentagram) a five-pointed star formed from five straight lines of equal length, a symbol frequently used in magical rituals. when a single point projects upward, with two points on the base projecting downward, it is used in modern neo-paganism and wicca (witchcraft) groups as a symbolic invocation of positive influences. when turned upside-dow

ner sympathy his feelings and his thoughts. podmore believed the phenomena to be a delusion. an account of personation experiences was rendered by charles hill-tout, principal of buckland college, vancouver, canada, in proceedings of the society for psychical research (vol. 11, pp. 309.16. on one occasion, during a seance, he was oppressed by a feeling of coldness and loneliness, as of a recently disembodied spirit. his misery was terrible, and he was only kept from falling to the floor by some of the other sitters. at this point one of the sitters. made the remark, which i remember to have overheard it is father controlling him, and i then seemed to realise who i was and whom i was seeking. i began to be distressed in my lungs, and should have fallen if they had not held me by the hands a

if she had any pain, and her friends said no. then they explained that some bogau was sucking her blood. i said, how does he do it? oh, they said, that is known only to herself. he manages to get her blood which makes him strong, while she gets weaker every day, and if he goes on much longer she will die. deformities at birth, and being born dumb or blind, are attributed to the evil influence of disembodied spirits, who inhabit a lower region called tuma. once a year the spirits of the ancestors visit their native village in a body after the harvest is gathered. at this time the men perform special dances, the people openly display their valuables, spread out on platforms, and great feasts are made for the spirits. on a certain night, when the moon named namarama is at the full, all the p

membership of this society does not imply the acceptance of any particular explanation of the phenomena investigated, nor any belief as to the operation, in the physical world, of forces other than those recognised by physical science. nevertheless, two prominent researchers, f. w. h. myers and sir oliver lodge, found evidence sufficient to convince them of the operation in the physical world of disembodied intelligences who manifest themselves through the organisms of special people generally referred to as mediums or sensitives. frank podmore, on the other hand, was the exponent of a telepathic theory. any phase of the manifestations that could not be explained by means of such known physiological facts as suggestion and hyperesthesia (the so-called subconscious whispering, exaltation o

means of such known physiological facts as suggestion and hyperesthesia (the so-called subconscious whispering, exaltation of memory and automatism, or the unfamiliar but presumably natural telepathy, according to him, fell under the grave suspicion of fraud. his theory of poltergeists, for example, which he regarded as the work of naughty children, did not admit the intervention of a mischievous disembodied spirit. he considered telepathy a suitable explanation for coincident hallucination (hallucinatory apparitions that coincide with the death of the person represented or with some other crisis in that person s life, as well as for all cases of personation by the medium. his view.one shared by andrew lang, several of his contemporaries, and many presentday parapsychologists.was that if t

seekers and servers the radiant school of seekers and servers was one of a number of occult groups drawn to mount shasta, the prominent mountain in northern california. founded by kenneth wheeler in 1963, the original small group moved some years later to the village of mount shasta, at the base of the mountain. the school was a channeling group through whom phylos the tibetan spoke. phylos is a disembodied entity who is claimed to have first spoken in the 1890s through frederick spencer oliver. these channelings were collected and published in a book, a dweller on two planets (1899. a second volume reported to be by phylos appeared in 1940 as an earth dweller returns and was channeled through one of the founders of the lemurian fellowship. in the 1960s phylos began to speak again, and th

ent on the question of survival, maintaining that the constitution of the society precludes a collective opinion. at first the cooperation between the spr and the spiritualists was friendly. the line of distinction was that psychical researchers only attempted to establish the veracity of the phenomena whereas spiritualists not only considered them proved but also attributed them to the action of disembodied spirits. sympathy, however, soon changed to hostility as the society refused to endorse, and then in many ways became antagonistic to, the views of the spiritualists (in spite of the personal views of many of the society s members. spiritualists objected to the extreme suspicion and the frequently voiced charges of fraud by psychical researchers and said that their standard of evidence

ry celebrated medium, noticed with terror that his playthings moved about by themselves, while the child declared that another child was playing with them. sources: marryat, florence. there is no death. london: k paul, trench, trubner, 1891. reprint, london: griffith, farran, 1893. spirit hypothesis the theory that the intelligence that directs the phenomena of the medium and the seance room is a disembodied spirit. interest in the possibility of this theory being true and of establishing proof of it energized much of psychical research in its first generations. the theory suffered greatly from the discovery that most of the more interesting phenomena was simply the product of fraud. most of contemporary parapsychology has redirected itself away from any consideration of the spirit hypothe

alism of physical seances and their survival only on the fringes of the movement. revelations of fraud have called into question all of the accounts of materializations, apports, and spirit photography produced throughout the first century of spiritualism. spiritualism still adheres to the spirit hypothesis, meaning the belief that the intelligence that directs the phenomena of the medium is of a disembodied spirit s. the spirit hypothesis remains the most intriguing of the explanations of such phenomena, and the possibility of finding evidence of the spirit s survival after death still motivates many parapsychologists. sources: barbanell, maurice. this is spiritualism. london: herbert jenkins, 1959. garrett, eileen. many voices: the autobiography of a medium. reprint, alexandria, va: time

m experimental telepathy. frank podmore. a hardened skeptic.in his the newer spiritualism (1910) suggests that: whilst the attempt to correlate the two kinds of phenomena is perhaps legitimate, we can hardly be justified in making the spontaneous phenomena the basis of a theory of telepathy. myers argued that telepathy as a faculty must certainly exist in the universe if the universe contains any disembodied intelligences at all. prayer could be telepathic communion with higher beings, and the basis of sympathy and antipathy may be telepathy. monitions of approach appear to be telepathic messages. the knowledge of victory or disaster in war that so inexplicably occurred among ancient greeks may have been telepathically acquired. origins of modern telepathic theories the theory of thought t

teachings of the temple. 3 vols. halcyon, calif: temple of the people, 1947.85. theogenesis. halcyon, calif: temple of the people, 1981. temple of universal law the temple of universal law is a spiritualist church founded in 1936 by the rev. charlotte bright. bright was a medium whose spirit guide master nicidemus was considered to be a member of the great white brotherhood, that group of evolved disembodied entities who are believed to guide the destiny of the human race. under the brotherhood s direction, bright erected a church on chicago s north side in 1956. she pastored the church until her death in 1989, when she was succeeded by her son, rev. robert e. martin. before her death she oversaw the establishment of a second congregation in wisconsin. the temple affirms the beliefs of met

, hornell. the enigma of survival: the case for and against an after life. springfield, ill: c. c. thomas, 1959. m. a (oxon [w. stainton moses. spirit identity. london, 1879. myers, f. w. h. human personality and its survival of bodily death. 2 vols. london: longmans, green, 1903. owen, iris m, and margaret sparrow. conjuring up philip. new york: harper& row, 1976. penelhum, terence. survival and disembodied existence. new york, humanities press, 1970. richmond, kenneth. evidence of identity. london: g. bell, 1939. salter, w. h. trance mediumship: an introductory study of mrs. piper and mrs. leonard. london: society for psychical research, 1962. transcendental meditation (tm) a popular hindu meditation technique first taught in the west by maharishi mahesh yogi, an allahabad university phy

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

hat soon ashtar was warning some communicants that evil astral entities we re impersonating him. he was also forced to deny allegations that he was some form of giant mechanical brain (constable, 1958. in the 1970s and beyond, as fundamental christians began writing books on ufos, ashtar was re p resented as a servant of sa t a n. though to nearly all who experienced him, ashtar existed only as a disembodied voice, a very few claimed to have seen him. one woman, adele darrah, even alleged that she saw him before she had ever heard of an ashtar. one night in the early 1960s, after she had gone to bed, darrah found herself suddenly awake and in her downstairs living room, where a striking-looking stranger stood in front of the fireplace. he was tall, slim, and erect and was wearing a uniform

cers, some writers tied ufos to an extraterrestrial technology that the atlanteans knew because of their frequent interactions with friendly space people. ho l l ow- e a rth enthusiasts believed that at l a n t e a n m a c h i n e ry and even atlanteans themselve s could be found inside certain cavern entrances around the world. new age channelers communicated with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of disembodied atlanteans. a c e n t u ry of occult lore holds that at l a n t e a n s and lemurians (from lemuria, the pa c i fic e q u i valent of atlantis) maintain colonies inside mount shasta on the california-ore g o n b o rd e r. with the rise of the internet, web sites devoted to atlantis and related materials have proliferated. one such site, run by the hawaii-based department of interplanet

pace travelers from some other planet, since chaneques were not known to cause pointless destruction. see also: close encounters of the third kind; fairies encountered further reading pantoja lopez, ramon a, and robert freeman bound, 1974. chaneques: mexican gnomes or interplanetary visitors? fate 27, 11 (november: 51 57. channeling channeling is new in name only. it refers to the process whereby disembodied entities communicate ideas and information through human beings who are either in full waking consciousness or in an altered state. the communicating entities may be deceased persons, gods, angels, extraterrestrials, extradimensional intelligences, ascended masters (mystical adepts who have transcended physical existence, nature spirits, and more. in earlier times, channeling was calle

ish clergyman whose the secret common-wealth (1691) preserved fairy lore in the highlands, evans- wentz deduced that fairies live in an otherworld that overlaps with the human world. he went so far as to claim that we can postulate scientifically, on the showing of the data of psychical research, the existence of such invisible intelligences as gods, genii, daemons, all kinds of true fairies, and disembodied men. not all purported witnesses were the uneducated rural folk stereotypically associated with fairy beliefs and encounters. a seventeenth- century swedish clergyman, peter rahm, gave this sworn statement to legal authorities: f 99 in the year 1660, when i and my wife had gone to my farm, which is three quarters of a mile from ragunda parsonage, and we were sitting there and talking a

early ufo groups, claiming as many as six hundred members in a number of countries. bender was also an enthusiastic science- fiction fan. a bachelor, he lived in a house full of artifacts from horror films, and at night, as he lay in bed, he would imagine himself sailing out of his body and into deep space. soon, according to bender s book, weird things began happening to him. strange lights and disembodied footsteps frightened him, and once glowing eyes, accompanied by a stench of sulfur, stared at him. with colleagues in australia and new zealand, bender speculated about a saucer base inside the south pole, and they laid plans for a research project to study that possibility. bender urged his membership to try to contact the saucers telepathically at the same hour on march 15, 1953. whi

e, of acceptance, of you re o.k (tuieta, 1986. see also: ashtar; channeling; contactees further reading tuella [pseudonym of thelma b. turrell, ed, 1989. ashtar: a tribute. third edition. salt lake city, ut: guardian action publications. tuieta, 1986. project alert. fort wayne, in: portals of light. kronin on july 26, 1967, near big tujunga canyon in california, a man and a woman in a car heard a disembodied voice speaking. it alerted them to the imminent appearance of something out of the ordinary. they spotted a flash, then a disc-shaped ufo that landed nearby. a tall, boneless, eyeless figure emerged. he was, he said, kronin, head of the kronian race. he was also a space robot encased in a time capsule (keel, 1975. when she arrived home, the woman, maris delong, took a phone call. it wa

reading creighton, gordon, 1970. a weird case from the past. flying saucer review 16, 4 (july/august: 30. hufford, david j, 1982. the terror that comes in the night: an experience-centered study of super- natural assault traditions. philadelphia, pa: university of pennsylvania press. keel, john a, 1970. ufos: operation trojan horse. new york: g. p. putnam s sons. monka monka first surfaced as the disembodied voice of a martian on a tape owned by contactee dick miller. miller played the message at the april 1956 giant rock interplanetary spacecraft convention, telling the audience that the voice had mysteriously appeared on a tape inside a sealed can. the message had monka( i am what you would call the head of my government) promising, on the evening of november 7, of this your year 1956, a

ple moved from upstate new york to scottsdale, arizona. an article on their beliefs concerning st a r people in the may 1, 1979, issue of the na- tional en q u i re r b rought them a flood of letters and telephone calls. it turned out that other persons suspected that they also we re space people put in place to help the human race through coming cataclysms and changes. many said they had heard a disembodied voice tell them, now is the time, short l y b e f o re they read the en q u i re r piece. t h e steigers went on to release books in the st a r people series, three originals and two reprints of earlier brad steiger titles. t h e originals we re based in considerable part on fr a n c i e s channelings. according to these messages, the starseeds are the true star people. as direct desce

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the highest. ennui is fear: death is failure. go where thou fearest most. how canst thou become great among men. cast thyself forth! of this event, genius is the successful effort of memory. break thy commandments, be lawless unto all dogma. revolt is the fertiliser of the new faculties. knowledge and all evil wars react from previous existences that are now fragmentary to the body and operate as disembodied astrals. the more distant the creature that govern our functions the more unusual is our manifestation of phenomena, which are but living their physical peculiarities by a mechanism. retrogress to the point where knowledge ceases, in that law becomes its own spontaneity and is freedom. if my word has spoken unto fragments, pushed aside marriage beds, and brushed out old grave chambers;

ath? knew i not death, when time was born? arise, old memory! and tell my consciousness of this frequent experience-once again" then death spake unto aaos "no stranger, nor enemy to me is aaos, we are too ancient friends to come to blows. what hast thou come to take from me this time? what fresh associations for thy new body? no self-denial has aaos! thou hast not come to rap tables. to awake the disembodied astrals" aaos answered "in my life my memory lived numerous remotenesses which were once me. my belief reached associations that out-stripped all morality and rationalism. my i chanced much with the self: certain it is, i come not to repent. nor seek a wife. yea, my will conquered faith and sincerely laughed at every righteousness! no w that my individual consciousness dissolves, to sa

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

a treasury called guph, and all the souls which were created in the beginning, and hereafter to come into this world, god placed therein: out of this treasury god furnishes children in the womb with souls.a further commentary in symbolic language narrates how the power, perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it.god beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul; and this has been always done since the world began: he appears before jehovah, anda further glance at the kabalah 107worships in his presence, to whom jehovah says 'betake thyselfto this form' instantly the soul excuses himself, saying 'governor of the world, i am satisfied with the world in which i have been so long;ifit please thee do no

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

d, messages from dead friends. whose faces she might have seen in my memory. in fact somespritualistic friends have more than hinted that this was what actually happened, she, however,hadno belief in spiritualism. her gift, such as it was, she declared was perfectly natural, merely a kindoftelepathy, developed by a power of concentration.theidea of thought-forms recurred. was it possible that the disembodied spirit, say of one who had passed over, could create a thought-form, which a medium could see,andthus convey a message?ifso a mine of information lay before us of great value.if,for example, my father could recall to. me, through a medium, an incident known only to me and himself (which seems to be a frequent experience, and considered a convincing proof of bona fides, why should not m

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

o his flat lounge and sits down (however that is possible in two dimensions) and begins to read an even flatter book. suddenly a voice comes to him from another dimension, this voice is actually coming from mr.jones, a traveller from the dimension of up, but mr.square does not know this. mr.square cannot see him because up does not exist for mr. square, all he experiences is a loud bellowing, but disembodied voice. mr.square, by now obviously terrified, demands that this being makes himself known to him. mr.jones with the aim to oblige and enter into inter-dimensional communication, lowers himself towards the ground in mr.square's home. mr.square cannot see the totality of mr.jones, all he sees is the points and lines of mr.jones body where they connect to the two dimensional lines of his

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to his flat lounge and sits down (however that is possible in two dimensions) and begins to read an even flatter book. suddenly a voice comes to him from another dimension, this voice is actually coming from mr.jones, a traveller from the dimension of up, but mr.square does not know this. mr.square cannot see him because up does not exist for mr.square, all he experiences is a loud bellowing, but disembodied voice. mr.square, by now obviously terrified, demands that this being makes himself known to him. mr.jones with the aim to oblige and enter into inter-dimensional communication, lowers himself towards the ground in mr.square's home. mr.square cannot see the totality of mr.jones, all he sees is the points and lines of mr.jones body where they connect to the two dimensional lines of his

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.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 cherry avenue, suite r- 159, fontana, california, 92337. 2 obsession always enters through a cutting off of the higher from the lower will, and it is ordinarily first induced by a thought-ray of the spiritual consciousness (whence one danger of evil thoughts) ill-governed, penetrating the sphere of sensation and admitting another potency, either human embodied, or human disembodied, elemental or demonic. the first action of such a force is to flatter the lower will, until he shall have established firmly an entrance into the sphere of sensation, and thus shall cause a strain on the nephesch which shall render the ruach less concentrated. as soon as the ruach is sufficiently dispersed to repair the strain on the physical body, the lower will is weakened, and is so

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

egret the things that he left behind.itis impossible that they could do so.theless regret they have at leaving it, and the less their thoughts are fixed on worldly things, the more rapidly they lose consciousness of it in the atmosphere and hades, but none (of those who attain hades) through that are doomed to any punishment, further than their own thoughts.thesoul, for the first time after being disembodied on earth, will take a material shape. it will have the appearance of the human body, withallgrossness,alldeformity removed.itwillbe spiritual,-angelical,-light, even as air,-swift as thought-s-trans255parent,-andyet have a humanform,-theform ofitscreator, and nothing can be morelovelythan that. angels know thattobe perfection; and manhasalwaysthe blessing of this. a spirit, even in his

e catholic church. 1 took the vows, and was a priest. i became acquainted with many secrets, and read many of the old spanish manuscripts of the antient magicians. such a study was prohibited, but not less desired by me. i had much time and little to occupy it, and i was devoted with my whole heart and soul to seeking into hidden things. at last my greatest wishes were fulfilled, and i saw beings disembodied.'iwas uneducated in thewaysof the world, but brought up to be conversant with horrors. i was hardened by sights of penance and sufferings, and 1 was constantly employed in hypocrisy anddeceit-mycalling obliged me to be so. 1 saw and conversed with spirits to whom these things were hateful.bythem 1 was persuaded, and 1 believe helped, to flee from the brotherhood that would have persecu

HEAVEN HELL

the contents of the book am-tuat and the book of gates compared. the western vestibule or antechamber of the tuat. having already briefly described the general character of the book am-tuat and the book of gates we may pass at once to the comparison of their contents. for the sake of convenience, in describing the various divisions of the tuat let us assume that we are occupying the position of a disembodied spirit who is about to undertake the journey through the tuat, and that we are standing at the entrance to the first division awaiting the arrival of the boat of the sun-god, on which we hope to have permission to travel. every funeral rite has been duly and adequately performed, the relatives and friends of the deceased have made the legally appointed offerings, and said all the praye

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he vanished personalities that were; at other times, elementals. spirit is a word of manifold and wide significance. i really do not know what spiritualists mean by the term; but what we understand them to claim is that the physical phenomena are produced by the reincarnating ego, the spiritual and immortal "individuality" and this hypothesis we entirely reject. the conscious individuality of the disembodied cannot materialize, nor can it return from its own mental devachanic sphere to the plane of terrestrial objectivity. q. but many of the communications received from the "spirits" show not only intelligence, but a knowledge of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does

rrestrial objectivity. q. but many of the communications received from the "spirits" show not only intelligence, but a knowledge of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does not necessarily prove that the intelligence and knowledge you speak of belong to spirits, or emanate from disembodied souls. somnambulists have been known to compose music and poetry and to solve mathematical problems while in their trance state, without having ever learnt music or mathematics. others, answered intelligently to questions put to them, and even, in several cases, spoke languages, such as hebrew and latin, of which they were entirely ignorant when awake-all this in a state of profound sl

most important of the teachings we hold upon the subject would take up more space and time than can be allotted to it at present. we have no desire to interfere with the belief of the spiritualists any more than with any other belief. the responsibility must fall on the believers in "spirits" and at the present moment, while still convinced that the higher sort of manifestations occur through the disembodied souls, their leaders and the most learned and intelligent among the spiritualists are the first to confess that not all the phenomena are produced by spirits. gradually they will come to recognize the whole truth; but meanwhile we have no right nor desire to proselytize them to our views. the less so, as in the cases of purely psychic and spiritual manifestations we believe in the inte

telligent among the spiritualists are the first to confess that not all the phenomena are produced by spirits. gradually they will come to recognize the whole truth; but meanwhile we have no right nor desire to proselytize them to our views. the less so, as in the cases of purely psychic and spiritual manifestations we believe in the intercommunication of the spirit of the living man with that of disembodied personalities. we say that in such cases it is not the spirits of the dead who descend on earth, but the spirits of the living that ascend to the pure spiritual souls. in truth there is neither ascending nor descending, but a change of state or condition for the medium. the body of the latter becoming paralyzed, or "entranced" the spiritual ego is free from its trammels, and finds itse

cases it is not the spirits of the dead who descend on earth, but the spirits of the living that ascend to the pure spiritual souls. in truth there is neither ascending nor descending, but a change of state or condition for the medium. the body of the latter becoming paralyzed, or "entranced" the spiritual ego is free from its trammels, and finds itself on the same plane of consciousness with the disembodied spirits. hence, if there is any spiritual attraction between the two they can communicate, as often occurs in dreams. the difference between a mediumistic and a non-sensitive nature is this: the liberated spirit of a medium has the opportunity and facility of influencing the passive organs of its entranced physical body, to make them act, speak, and write at its will. the ego can make

o they can communicate, as often occurs in dreams. the difference between a mediumistic and a non-sensitive nature is this: the liberated spirit of a medium has the opportunity and facility of influencing the passive organs of its entranced physical body, to make them act, speak, and write at its will. the ego can make it repeat, echo-like, and in the human language, the thoughts and ideas of the disembodied entity, as well as its own. but the non-receptive or non-sensitive organism of one who is very positive cannot be so influenced. hence, although there is hardly a human being whose ego does not hold free intercourse, during the sleep of his body, with those whom it loved and lost, yet, on account of the positiveness and non-receptivity of its physical envelope and brain, no recollectio

lly to our immortal essence, still the latter is, as our individual ego, a distinct entity, immortal and eternal, per se. it is only in the case of black magicians or of criminals beyond redemption, criminals who have been such during a long series of lives-that the shining thread, which links the spirit to the personal soul from the moment of the birth of the child, is violently snapped, and the disembodied entity becomes divorced from the personal soul, the latter being annihilated without leaving the smallest impression of itself on the former. if that union between the lower, or personal manas, and the individual reincarnating ego, has not been effected during life, then the former is left to share the fate of the lower animals, to gradually dissolve into ether, and have its personalit

average sinner, good or bad, guilty or innocent, once delivered of the burden of physical life, the tired and worn-out manu("thinking ego) has won the right to a period of absolute rest and bliss. the same unerringly wise and just rather than merciful law, which inflicts upon the incarnated ego the karmic punishment for every sin committed during the preceding life on earth, provided for the now disembodied entity a long lease of mental rest, i.e, the entire oblivion of every sad event, aye, to the smallest painful thought, that took place in its last life as a personality, leaving in the soul-memory but the reminiscence of that which was bliss, or led to happiness. plotinus, who said that our body was the true river of lethe, for "souls plunged into it forget all" meant more than he said

see more than mortals in the flesh do" we say that the bliss of the devachanee consists in its complete conviction that it has never left the earth, and that there is no such thing as death at all; that the postmortem spiritual consciousness of the mother will represent to her that she lives surrounded by her children and all those whom she loved; that no gap, no link, will be missing to make her disembodied state the most perfect and absolute happiness. the spiritualists deny this point blank. according to their doctrine, unfortunate man is not liberated even by death from the sorrows of this life. not a drop from the life-cup of pain and suffering will miss his lips; and whether willing or unwilling, since he sees everything now, shall he drink it to the bitter dregs. thus, the loving wi

dreams, and often in various events-in providential protection and escape, for love is a strong shield, and is not limited by space or time. as with this devachanic "mother" so with the rest of human relationships and attachments, save the purely selfish or material. analogy will suggest to you the rest. q. in no case, then, do you admit the possibility of the communication of the living with the disembodied spirit? a. yes, there is a case, and even two exceptions to the rule. the first exception is during the few days that follow immediately the death of a person and before the ego passes into the devachanic state. whether any living mortal, save a few exceptional cases has derived much benefit from the return of the spirit into the objective plane is another question. the spirit is dazed

a pendulum between the hours of birth and death. but if these hours, marking the periods of life terrestrial and life spiritual, are limited in their duration, and if the very number of such stages in eternity between sleep and awakening, illusion and reality, has its beginning and its end, on the other hand, the spiritual pilgrim is eternal. therefore are the hours of his postmortem life, when, disembodied, he stands face to face with truth and not the mirages of his transitory earthly existences, during the period of that pilgrimage which we call "the cycle of rebirths"-the only reality in our conception. such intervals, their limitation notwithstanding, do not prevent the ego, while ever perfecting itself, from following undeviatingly, though gradually and slowly, the path to its last

educated christians any better, being if possible still more material. what between truncated angels, brass trumpets, golden harps, and material hellfires, the christian heaven seems like a fairy scene at a christmas pantomime. page 80 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt it is because of these narrow conceptions that you find such difficulty in understanding. it is just because the life of the disembodied soul, while possessing all the vividness of reality, as in certain dreams, is devoid of every grossly objective form of terrestrial life, that the eastern philosophers have compared it with visions during sleep -ooo- definite words for definite things q. don't you think it is because there are no definite and fixed terms to indicate each principle in man, that such a confusion of ideas

he english spooks denying and denouncing the doctrine, we say that either the french or the english "spirits" do not know what they are talking about. we believe with the spiritualists and the spiritists in the existence of "spirits" or invisible beings endowed with more or less intelligence. but, while in our teachings their kinds and genera are legion, our opponents admit of no other than human disembodied "spirits" which, to our knowledge, are mostly kamalokic shells. q. you seem very bitter against spirits. as you have given me your views and your reasons for disbelieving in the materialization of, and direct communication in seances, with the disembodied spirits-or the "spirits of the dead"-would you mind enlightening me as to one more fact? why are some theosophists never tired of sa

cases of deliberate fraud) know them to be as true as that you and i live, that all my being revolts against them. once more i speak only of physical, not mental or even psychic phenomena. like attracts like. there are several high-minded, pure, good men and women, known to me personally, who have passed years of their lives under the direct guidance and even protection of high "spirits" whether disembodied or planetary. but these intelligences are not of the type of the john kings and the ernests who figure in seance rooms. these intelligences guide and control mortals only in rare and exceptional cases to which they are attracted and magnetically drawn by the karmic past of the individual. it is not enough to sit "for development" in order to attract them. that only opens the door to a

ophy- hp blavatsky.txt attention to the prophecy-for such it was, though half-veiled. q. for what, and since when, do the spiritualists hate you? a. from the first day of the society's existence. no sooner the fact became known that, as a body, the t.s. did not believe in communications with the spirits of the dead, but regarded the so-called "spirits" as, for the most part, astral reflections of disembodied personalities, shells, etc, than the spiritualists conceived a violent hatred to us and especially to the founders. this hatred found expression in every kind of slander, uncharitable personal remarks, and absurd misrepresentations of the theosophical teachings in all the american spiritualistic organs. for years we were persecuted, denounced, and abused. this began in 1875 and continu

virtue of his full faith in, and devotion to, his teachers, the latter, whenever transmitting their thoughts to one with whom these conditions are not fulfilled, experience great difficulties in penetrating into the cloudy chaos of that person's sphere. but this is no place to treat of a subject of this nature. suffice it to say, that if the power exists, then there are intelligences (embodied or disembodied) which guide this power, and living conscious instruments through whom it is transmitted and by whom it is received. we have only to beware of black magic. q. but what do you really mean by "black magic? a. simply abuse of psychic powers, or of any secret of nature; the fact of applying to selfish and sinful ends the powers of occultism. a hypnotist, who, taking advantage of his powers

sm, is nevertheless made to acknowledge the messiahship and divine origin of jesus, is now declared spurious both by most of the christian bishops (lardner among others) and even by paley (see his evidence of christianity. it was for centuries one of the weightiest proofs of the real existence of jesus, the christ. kamaloka (sans) the semi-material plane, to us subjective and invisible, where the disembodied "personalities" the astral forms called kamarupa, remain until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental impulses that created these eidolons of the lower animal passions and desires (see kamarupa) it is the hades of the ancient greeks and the amenti of the egyptians-the land of silent shadows. kamarupa (sans) metaphysically and in our esoteric philo

reclothe themselves occasionally in matter; i.e, they form for themselves out of the materials at hand found in the atmosphere and the emanations of those present, a temporary body bearing the human likeness of the defunct, as he appeared when alive. theosophists accept the phenomenon of "materialization" but they reject the theory that it is produced by "spirits" i.e, the immortal principles of disembodied persons. theosophists hold that when the phenomena are genuine-which is a fact of rarer occurrence than is generally believed-they are produced by the larvae, the eidolons, or kamalokic "ghosts" of the dead personalities (see kamaloka and kamarupa) as kamaloka is on the earth-plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which re

bjective. this is necromancy; it does no good to the dead, and great harm to the living, in addition to the fact that it interferes with a law of nature. the occasional materialization of the "astral bodies" or doubles of living persons is quite another matter. these "astrals" are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon-like, our own "elementaries" along with those of the disembodied and cosmic elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. in short, at the so-called "materialization seances" it is those present and the medium who create the peculiar apparition. independent "apparitions" belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. materialist not necessarily only one who believes in neither god nor soul, nor the s

early in the present one in france, england, and elsewhere. sthula-sharira the sanskrit name for the human physical body, in occultism and vedanta philosophy. sthulopadhi the physical body in its waking, conscious state (jagrat. sukshmopadhi the physical body in the dreaming state (svapna, and karanopadhi "the causal body" summerland the fancy name given by the spiritualists to the abode of their disembodied "spirits" which they locate somewhere in the milky way. it is described on the authority of returning "spirits" as a lovely land, having beautiful cities and buildings, a congress hall, museums, etc, etc. swedenborg, emanuel a famous scholar and clairvoyant of the past century, a man of great learning, who has vastly contributed to science, but whose mysticism and transcendental philos

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not only from the majority, but very largely from one another. they wrote a great deal in what seemed to my cloudy vision a vast variety of characters- never the typical curvilinear hieroglyphs of the majority. a few, i fancied, used our own familiar alphabet. most of them worked much more slowly than the general mass of the entities. all this time my own part in the dreams seemed to be that of a disembodied consciousness with a range of vision wider than the normal, floating freely about, yet confined to the ordinary avenues and speeds of travel. not until august, 1915, did any suggestions of bodily existence begin to harass me. i say harass, because the first phase was a purely abstract, though infinitely terrible, association of my previously noted body loathing with the scenes of my vi

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nd in answer heard the thing which has brought this cloud over my mind. i do not try, gentlemen, to account for that thing--that voice--nor can i venture to describe it in detail, since the first words took away my consciousness and created a mental blank which reaches to the time of my awakening in the hospital. shall i say that the voice was deep; hollow; gelatinous; remote; unearthly; inhuman; disembodied? what shall i say? it was the end of my experience, and is the end of my story. i heard it, and knew no more--heard it as i sat petrified in that unknown cemetery in the hollow, amidst the crumbling stones and the falling tombs, the rank vegetation and the miasmal vapors- heard it well up from the innermost depths of that damnable open sepulcher as i watched amorphous, necrophagous sha

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he higher degree of initiation. john ^ves to his word a purely kabalistic significance, which no 'fathers' except those who had belonged to the neo-platonic school, were able to comprehend. origen understood it well, having been a pupil of ammonious saccos; therefore we see him bravely denying the perpetuity of hell-torments. he maintains that not only men, but even deinls (by which term he meant disembodied human sinners, after a certain duration of punishment shall be pardoned and finally restored to heaven* in consequence of this and other such heresies origen was, as a matter of course, dled. many have been the learned and truly inspired speculations as to the locality of hell. the most popular were those which placed it in the center of the earth. at a certain time, however, skeptical

nature, mastered as if by magical power organic and inorganic bodies. but this was not the worst. a more direful calamity for the church occurred in the evocation from the upper and nether worlds of a multi- tude of 'spirits' whose private bearing and conversation gave the direct lie to the moat cherished and profitable dogmas of the church. these 'spirits' claimed to be the actual entities in a disembodied state of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters, friends and acquaintances, of the persons viewing the weird phenomena. the devil seemed to have no objective existence, and this struck at the very foundation upon which the chair of st. peter rested' not a 'spirit' except the 37. lltcre wtre two chain of the titular ^mmtle at rome. the dagy, frightened at the unldt rrupl d evtdence furni

ever existed a great difference between adepts of the higher order, and purely psychological subjects like many 212. louia jaoolliot: l$ tpir^itau dant u mtnuu, pp. 31^^20^ 65. digitizec by google 100 isis unveiled natural; for they are his iwotecting deities. but are the pitris disembodied human beings of our meet tiaa is the question, and we will discuss it in a moment. we say that the fakir may be regarded in a degree as a medium; for he is what is not generally known under the direct mesmeric influence of a living adept, his sannydst or guru. when the latter dies, the power of the former, unless he has received the last transfer of spiritual forces, wanes and often ev

ow in india. not only must the adept have mastery over himself, but he must be able to control the inferior grades of spiritual beings, nature-spirits, and earthbound souls, in short the very ones fay whom, if by any, ihe fakir is liable to be affected. for the objector to affirm that the brahmana-adepts and the fakirs admit that of themselves they are powerless, and can only act with the help of disembodied human spirits, is to state that these hindfls are un- acquainted with the laws of their sacred books and even the meaning of the word pitris. the laws ofmanu, the athatva-veda, and other books, prove what we now say "all thatezists,"saysthe^laarca-keda "isin the power of the gods. tie gods are under the power of magical conjura- tions. the magical con jurarions are under the control of

nsmigration in any form. and how can man ever reach this state so long as the up&dana, that state of longing for life, more life, does not disappear from the sen- tient being, from the ahank&ra dothed, however, in a sublimated body? it is the 'upad&na' or ^e intense desire which produces will, and it is wiu, which develops fane, and the latter generates viatter, or an object having form. thus the disembodied ego, through this sole undying de- sire in him, unconsciously furnishes the conditions of hia successive self- procreations in various forms, which depend on his mental state and karma, the good or bad deeds of his preceding ezisteace, commonly called 'merit and demerit' this is why the 'master' recommended to his mendicants the cultivation of the four degrees of dhydna, the noble 'pat

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e fall. milton follows an ancient tradition common to the great alexandrian school of christian philosophy, according to which the universe is full of incarnate spirits who are corporeal although not densely corporeal. they are seen only by clairvoyant eyes. in accordance with that ancient tradition, milton s angels and demons really do eat and excrete, although not in our crass way. they are not disembodied spirits, although their embodiment is so much finer than ours that they might seem to us to be so. see also dante alighieri; demons for further reading: hastings, james, ed. encyclopedia of religion and ethics. edinburgh: t& t clark, 1930. macgregor, geddes. angels.ministers of grace. new york: paragon house publishers, 1988. swain, kathleen m. before and after the fall. contrasting mo

; 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 driving out can be a formal, ritual procedure, or a less formal process, depending on the tradition. notions of possession and exorcism practices are found worldwide, in every major religious and cultural tradition. within christianity and other monotheisms, possession is almost always viewed as demonic. the go

ticularly in the context of ritual, possession is often the means by which gods and goddesses communicate with the human community. possession also represents a way by which deceased human beings can continue to communicate with their loved ones. in most such cases, the possessed proffers his or her body voluntarily and the possessing entity leaves voluntarily. in demonic possession, however, the disembodied entity usually takes over and refuses to leave, and special techniques of exorcism are required to eject the invader. enthusiasm s (greek en theos, to be in god) and ecstasy characterized the initiation and purification process of the cult of dionysus in ancient greece. women, and to a lesser extent men, who were possessed by the god and surrendered to the possessed state could become

g: 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 the spirits of departed loved ones. there are references to s ance-type communications that go back as far as the third century neo-platonist, porphyry. a candidate for the

h, along with the hermetic order of the golden dawn, 285 chronology 286 chronology constitutes the other major magical tradition to influence modern satanism and left-hand path groups. 1897 aurum solis, originally a school of high cabalistic magic, founded in england by charles kingold and george stanton. 1904 aleister crowley writes the book of the law (said to have been dictated to crowley by a disembodied spirit, one of the most important of modern magical treatises, and the basis of all thelemic magic. 1907 aleister crowley founds his own organization, the astrum argentinum( silver star. 1909 aleister crowley begins publication of the equinox semiannually (until 1913) in order to spread his ideas. 1922 builders of the adytum (b.o.t.a, a mystery school based on the cabala, is establishe

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orkings to take place between the hours of 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. if you keep a gnormal h schedule. otherwise schedule workings for the time between the last five and seven hours you would normally be asleep. signs of success with sleep deprivation include, but are not limited to, the following observed phenomenon: the physical distortion of objects and shadows; divinatory questions being answered by disembodied voices; a rapid multiplication of observed synchronicities and deja vu; time distortion. fasting the human body-mind can survive from six to eight weeks existing only on water. however, the gnostic state of fasting can usually be obtained in a time frame of one to two weeks, during which time the magician subsists wholly on water alone. it is important that you at least drink water if

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end of the giants' revolt, and similarly in greek mythology concerning the gods' dealings with the rebellious titans. it is a persistent theme. the zohar intimates, however, that though most of the giants yielded up their lives in the flood, many of their spirits partaking as they did of the angelic nature of their fathers, proved indestructible, and lived on, invisible yet powerful even in their disembodied state. on occasion, these shades are said to gain access to the world of men by reincarnating in human shape, and are referred to as intruders, ancient alien souls transmigrating from the past. otherwise, collectively in their immaterial shape, they constitute the so-called demonic hierarchy with which the modern witch has dealings on occasion. it is the watchers, the mighty ones of th

get for all the bolts of dark fire. should the attack worsen, then of course the deep mind's pleas for attention will become more frenzied, and you may begin to discover you are experiencing waking dreams or hallucinations. these can take the form of many different types of sensory delusions ranging from the visual pink-elephant variety to aural and olfactory ones. the latter may take the form of disembodied voices, snatches of music, a high-pitched whine or tone (in the past referred to by occultists as the "astral belt) and imaginary odours of varying degrees of pungency, usually fetid in the case of an attack. in fact, all the signs of a "bad trip" without an occasioning drug or naturally occurring personality disorder. should you be fortunate or unfortunate enough to also possess free

name but differing considerably in its aim. on an earlier page, i referred to a certain use of the witches' cord wherein it is used by the practitioner to bind himself. this is done on two occasions. first, many witches believe that by restricting the use of limbs and blocking up the avenues of the senses, the inherent witch power can be let free to wander abroad, either in an invisible form as a disembodied and clairvoyant astral body, or a semiembodied, half-materialized fetch. the witches' cord itself is often used for this purpose of immobilization. for the sensory deprivation itself, a mask is worn, covering the entire head but leaving the mouth free to breathe. this is sometimes referred to as a witches' cradle or witches' bridle (not to be confused with the old scottish instrument o

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into a wooded area. much fog lay across the landscape and the sight was beautiful. i knew that in the night i was free and, even though on the astral plane there are often wars among sorcerers, that i was safe unto myself. i had, after all, developed strength and protective walls from the blood and sexual fluids of two individuals from many nights of tantric elemental formations. i began to hear disembodied chants, in many different voices and tones, often sounding both angelic and demonic. i saw within the forest a vast clearing. a huge bonfire lit up the area, and various torches surrounded the area, beyond which were great shadows of night. a numerous assembly of witches had come, many in human form. their astral shapes were either beautiful or grotesque, some demonic and animal like

anticipation. 99 99 we are watchers of the lineage of the craft. i am born of water and of the pure blood, my life is within the current. lord of witches, baphomet, black horned one, lend us thy grail of the dragon s venom ,illuminated with the fire of hecate s torch. give us the wisdom and power. so mote it be! watcher, who art not of our sight, but hidden and reversed. whose revolving forms are disembodied desires of my life: thus is each shape enfleshed with life from the sigils which grant your traffic upon this earth, we evoke thee! thou horsemen, guides of the earth, lilith and samael, grant us fire, grant us air. under your signs we gather at this magickal equinox. in this moment, we forget all ills, and the dead shall rise before us. all pleasure and its great audience shall gather

rit. these beings can prove to be more malicious and dangerous than mere servitors, as they already have a partial will of their own. i have discovered, through numerous recording sessions involving evp (electronic voice phenomena, that many spirits will send half thought messages or unintelligible rubbish. though this could perhaps partly be blamed on the method of recording, involving capturing disembodied voices on magnetic tape, it is still something to consider. a friend of mine gave an interesting opinion that, perhaps because they are fragmented partial identities, they will give any message to attract the attention of the living. this makes quite a lot of sense especially if you have worked with evp as much as i have. when you do get messages, they may seem rather cryptic or 'in co

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t-of-body experience took place after a wreck in which she sustained severe injuries says, i could see my own body all tangled up in the car amongst all the people who had gathered around, but, you know, i had no feelings for it whatsoever. it was like it was a completely different human, or maybe even just an object. i knew it was my body but i had no feelings for it. despite the eeriness of the disembodied state, the situation has been thrust upon the dying person so suddenly that it may take some time before the significance of what he is experiencing dawns upon him. he may be out of his body for some time, desperately trying to sort out all the things that are happening to him and that are racing through his mind, before he realizes that he is dying, or even dead. when this realization

ly affects the spiritual one. in this case, a man lost the better part of his leg in the accident that resulted in his clinical death. he knew this, because he saw his damaged body clearly, from a distance, as the doctor worked on it. yet, while he was out of his body, i could feel my body, and it was whole. i know that. i felt whole, and i felt that all of me was there, though it wasn't. in this disembodied state, then, a person is cut off from others. he can see other people and understand their thoughts completely, but they are able neither to see nor to hear him. communication with other human beings is effectively cut off, even through the sense of touch, since his spiritual body lacks solidity. thus, it is not surprising that after a time in this state profound feelings of isolation

dren and my husband. now, this is the part that is hard to get across: when i had this wonderful feeling, there in the presence of try light, i really didn't want to come back. but take my responsibilities very seriously, and i knew that i had a duty to my family. so i decided to try to come back. in several other cases, persons have told that, though they were comfortable and secure in their new disembodied existence and were even enjoying it, they felt happy to be able to return to physical life since they had left some important task undone. in a few cases, this has taken the form of a desire to complete an unfinished education. i had completed three years of college and had only one more year to go. i kept thinking "i don't want to die now" but i feel that if this had gone on just a fe

f a few cases in which a suicide attempt was the cause of the apparent "death" these experiences were uniformly characterized as being unpleasant. as one woman said "if you leave here a tormented soul, you will be a tormented soul over there, too" in short, they report that the conflicts they had attempted suicide to escape were still present when they died, but with added complications. in their disembodied state they were unable to do anything about their problems, and they also had to view the unfortunate consequences which resulted from their acts. a man who was despondent about the death of his wife shot himself "died" as a result, and was resuscitated. he states: i didn't go where [my wife] was. i went to an awful place. i immediately saw the mistake i had made. i thought "i wish i h

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bmit to _all_ the conditions of visible existence. in death, as in life, isis and osiris were patterns and precursors of mankind; their sepulchres stood within the temples of the superior gods; yet though their remains might be entombed at memphis or abydus, their divinity was unimpeached, and they either shone as luminaries in the heavens, or in the unseen world presided over the futurity of the disembodied spirits whom death had brought nearer to them. the notion of a dying god, so frequent in oriental legend, and of which we have already said much in former degrees, was the natural inference from a literal interpretation of nature-worship; since nature, which in the vicissitudes of the seasons seems to undergo a dissolution, was to the earliest religionists the express image of the deit

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

t. pronounce the names exactly as i have written them. if you stumble over a name the first few times, don t worry, but practice it until you can say it clearly treat these names with care. they are ultimately powerful, and should be respected. keep them secret from people who do not know about the magic power of the occult. the word spirit, which is derived from the latin spiritus, refers to any disembodied entity, devil, demon or angel; invoked, coerced or otherwise called forth by the magician through the application of those things which are harmonious with it and reflect certain parts of its nature. and if all is propitious assume an aerial body, be visible to sight and reply to questions. the difference between those spirits willing to help you and those that won t, is invariably fea

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

o biblical students these are shocking admissions and it adds fuel to the charge of a masonic antichrist in our midst. it is these mysteries which christ will restore upon his reapearance, alice bailey reveals, thus reviving the churches in a new form, and restoring the hidden mystery (the reappearance of the christ, p. 122) bailey is giving these revelations by her channeled master djwhal khul a disembodied ascended master. her christ is indeed the antichrist in the strictest sense of the word. antichrist means substitute for or in place of christ. she goes on to say that these ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the hierarchy [of which djwhal khul is a part of] and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbol

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

th wrought them much injustice. fiffh knowledge lecture of obsession, trance, death obsession always entereth through a cutting off of the higher from the lower will, and it is ordinarily first induced by a thought-ray of the spiritual consciousness (whence one danger of evil thoughts) ill-governed, penetrating the sphere of sensation and admitting another potency, either human embodied, or human disembodied, elemental or demonic. the first action of such a force is to flatter the lower will, until he shall have established firmly an entrance into the sphere of sensation, and thus shall cause a strain on the nephesch which shall render the ruach less concentrated. as soon as the ruach is sufficiently dispersed to repair the strain on the physical body, the lower will is weakened, and is so

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eat deal of debate and conveniently allows for any number of interpretations of exactly what is meant by spirit/soul/being. it can also be exploited easily enough for those using it in the humpty dumpty way in that it can mean anything they want at a given moment. flew makes yet another pertinent observation "there is nothing" he writes "to stop anyone from giving what sense he likes to the term 'disembodied person' the difficulty is to attach enough sense to the expression so that some discovery about disembodied people could provide us with grounds for believing that we survive death" flew's finger is on the pulse of the question in that quote. while we within ourselves, selves made more acute in their awarenesses, are convinced that the possibilities are high that our souls are either s

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

pots, they both mistreat their wives, sit in dives, waste their stinking lives. no wonder i fell for you, sugar, when the local product is so low grade you get to like goods from foreign" george had gone with zeeny to bhopal and was becoming noisy on the subject of the catastrophe, interpreting it ideologically "what is amrika for us" he demanded "it's not a real place. power in its purest form, disembodied, invisible. we can't see it but it screws us totally, no escape" he compared the union carbide company to the trojan horse "we invited the bastards in" it was like the story of the forty thieves, he said. hiding in their amphoras and waiting for the night "we had no ali baba, misfortunately" he cried "who did we have? mr. rajiv g" at this point bhupen gandhi stood up abruptly, unsteadi

-inventing god, that once they had proved the existence of a single unified force of which electromagnetism, gravity and the strong and weak forces of the new physics were all merely aspects, avatars, one might say, or angels, then what would we have but the oldest thing of all, a supreme entity controlling all creation "you see, what our friend says is, if you have to choose between some type of disembodied force-field and the actual living god, which one would you go for? good point, na? you can't pray to an electric current. no point asking a wave-form for the key to paradise" he closed his eyes, then snapped them open again "all bloody bunk" he said fiercely "makes me sick" after the first days chamcha no longer noticed gibreel's bad breath, because nobody in that world of sweat and ap

ta finally managed to force himself out of the chair and on to his feet. walking was like dragging a ball and chain across the floor, but he reached the window. in every direction, and as far as he could see, there were giant thistles waving in the breeze. where the sea had been there was now an ocean of thistles, extending as far as the horizon, thistles as high as a full-grown man. he heard the disembodied voice of dr. babington mutter in his ear "the first plague of thistles for fifty years. the past, it seems, returns" he saw a woman running through the thick, rippling growth, barefoot, with loose dark hair "she did it" rosa's voice said clearly behind him "after betraying him with the vulture and making him into a murderer. he wouldn't look at her after that. oh, she did it all right

breel feels himself rising into the sky, bearing the old man of the sea, the imam with hair that grows longer by the minute, streaming in every direction, his eyebrows like pennants in the wind. jerusalem, he wonders, which way is that- and then, it's a slippery word, jerusalem, it can be an idea as well as a place: a goal, an exaltation. where is the imam's jerusalem "the fall of the harlot" the disembodied voice resounds in his ears "her crash, the babylonian whore" they zoom through the night. the moon is heating up, beginning to bubble like cheese under a grill; he, gibreel, sees pieces of it falling off from time to time, moon-drips that hiss and bubble on the sizzling griddle of the sky. land appears below them. the heat grows intense. it is an immense landscape, reddish, with flat-t

; the guns babble, and they die, and then the next seventy climb over the bodies of the dead, the guns giggle once again, and the hill of the dead grows higher. those behind it commence, in their turn, to climb. in the dark doorways of the city there are mothers with covered heads, pushing their beloved sons into the parade _go, be a martyr, do the needful, die "you see how they love me" says the disembodied voice "no tyranny on earth can withstand the power of this slow, walking love "this isn't love" gibreel, weeping, replies "it's hate. she has driven them into your arms" the explanation sounds thin, superficial "they love me" the imam's voice says "because i am water. i am fertility and she is decay. they love me for my habit of smashing clocks. human beings who turn away from god lose

nd kissed it firmly upon the mouth, for the spirit that is kissed by an archangel regains, at once, its lost sense of direction, and is set upon the true and righteous path- the lost soul, however, had a most surprising reaction to being favoured by an archangelic kiss "sod you" it shouted "i may be desperate, mate, but i'm not that desperate- after which, manifesting a solidity most unusual in a disembodied spirit, it struck the archangel of the lord a resounding blow upon the nose with the very fist in which its image was clasped- with disorienting, and bloody, results. when his vision cleared, the lost soul had gone but there, floating on her carpet a couple of feet off the ground, was rekha merchant, mocking his discomfiture "not such a great start" she snorted "archangel my foot. gibr

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

conditions of the being which thy presence was wont to rejoice. i know that our wisdom comes but from the indifference to the things of the world which the wisdom masters. the mirror of the soul cannot reflect both earth and heaven; and the one vanishes from the surface as the other is glassed upon its deeps. but it is not to restore me to that sublime abstraction in which the intellect, free and disembodied, rises, region after region, to the spheres, that once again, and with the agony and travail of enfeebled power i have called thee to mine aid. i love; and in love i begin to live in the sweet humanities of another. if wise, yet in all which makes danger powerless against myself, or those on whom i can gaze from the calm height of indifferent science, i am blind as the merest mortal to

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

gical obsession (genius) and insanity. magical obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc, for inspiration. it is the condition of genius. other obsession is the "blind leading the blind" caused by quietism, known as mediumism, an opening out of the ego to (what is called) any external influence, elementals, or disembodied energy. a transmutated consciousness that is a resistance to "true" sub-conscious activity, it being a voluntary insanity, a somnambulation of the ego with "no form" or control to guide it: hence its emanations are stupid in suggestion, or memories of childhood. obsession known as or related to insanity is an experience that is dissociated from the personality (ego) through some sort o

paration or concealment from the rest of the ego, its premature sub-conscious existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live and perform its emotional experience. disease and insanity (all disease is insanity) is caused when the disembodied energy has no vital function. it is this energy which is utilised for the vitalization of sigils. 49 50 sigils. the psychology of believing. if the "supreme belief" remains unknown, believing is fruitless. if "the truth" has not yet been ascertained, the study of knowledge is unproductive. even if "they" were known their study is useless. we are not the object by the perception, but by

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igious ceremonies and as a signal in battle. soul the animating and vital principal in human beings, credited with the faculties of will, emotion, thought and action and often conceived as an immaterial entity, separate from the physical body. the spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. the disembodied spirit of a dead human being. telepathy communication of thoughts, mental images, ideas, feelings, or sensations from one person s mind to another s without the use of speech, writing, signs, or symbols. transience a state of impermanence, or lasting for only a brief time. remaining in a place only for a short time, or the brief appearance of someone or something. t h e g a l e e n c y

1) writes in this is spiritualism (1959, is that in a few minutes there is reproduced in the seance room the birth which normally takes nine months in the mother s womb. numerous researchers, as well as spiritualists, have claimed to have seen a nearly invisible cord which links the materialized spirit figure to the medium and have all made the obvious comparison to an umbilical cord. if, indeed, disembodied spirits are capable of fashioning temporary physical bodies for their ethereal personalities, just what kind of substance could be used for such a remarkable materialization? the name that spiritualists 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 88 mediums and mystics psychic photography is nearly as old as photography itself. give to such

of risking their reputations by examining his mediumistic talents, daniel dunglas home set out for england and france. the overseas press had been awaiting the medium s arrival, and so had the greatest hostesses of london society. home soon captivated england as thoroughly as he had the united states. those who attended his seances could expect to see spirit lights, to hear raps and the voices of disembodied spirits, and perhaps even to experience the thrill of being lifted into the air by unseen hands. the english novelist sir edward bulwer- lytton (1831 91, who was well versed in the occult, reported a series of seances held in his home in which the medium had set heavy tables rolling like hoops, and invisible musicians had played familiar melodies on accordions. spirit hands and arms ma

he state of trance, piper was able to reveal knowledge that she could not have acquired through the normal sensory channels. science, like life, feeds itself on its own ruins, james said. new facts break old rules. sir oliver lodge, after a series of experiments with piper, told how the medium from boston had completely convinced him not only of human survival but also of the faculty possessed by disembodied spirits to communicate with people on earth. hereward carrington related that piper s procedure during a seance was to make herself comfortable on a pile of cushions, then gradually pass into the trance state. once entranced, the medium was impervious to pain and oblivious to everything that happened around her. after a few moments of trance, her right hand would reach out and accept t

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 mediums and mystics 159 hereward carrington (1880 1958 (fortean picture library) was certain that this energy had a biological basis and was dependent upon the physical body of the medium for its production, regardless of whether it was directed by the subconscious mind of the medium or by the mind of an unseen, disembodied personality. although few psychical researchers had as much firsthand experience investigating instances of spirit contact and hauntings as hereward carrington, there were times when even he found himself dealing with something that affected him in a very primal, frightening way. it was on the night of august 13, 1937, that carrington, his wife, marie sweet smith, and a party of five o

have the ability to foretell future events. soul the animating and vital principal in human beings, credited with the faculties of will, emotion, thought and action and often conceived as an immaterial entity, separate from the physical body. the spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. the disembodied spirit of a dead human being. spell a formula or word believed to have magical power. a trance or a bewitched state. spirit control the guide that mediums contact to receive messages from deceased spirits, or another name for spirit guide as used in mediumship. spirit guide a nonphysical being or entity which possibly can be an angel, the higher self, the spirit of a deceased person, a

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structive impulse of a demon to one people, is attributed to the destructive impulse of a fragmented psyche to another. according to many contemporary psychical researchers poltergeist manifestations are dramatic instances of psychokinesis (pk (the mind influencing matter) on the rampage. although the pranks of the poltergeist were formerly attributed to malicious tricks perpetrated by demons and disembodied spirits, the great majority of psychical researchers today hold that some faculty of pk is at work. the poltergeist is not a ghost, the psychoanalyst dr. nandor fodor once wrote, but a bundle of projected repressions. quite probably, according to many researchers, the sex changes that occur during puberty have a great deal to do with the peculiar type of pk that is responsible for polt

was momentarily elated when he noticed something moving in a linen bag, but upon scooping up the cloth, and hoping to find a rat or a mouse in his clutches, he was dismayed to find himself left holding an empty bag. later that night, when rev. glanvil and a friend retired for the evening, they were awakened by a loud knocking. when the clergyman demanded to know what the entity wished of them, a disembodied voice answered that it wanted nothing of the two men. the next morning, however, rev. glanvil s horse was found trembling in a state of nervous exhaustion, appearing as though it had been ridden all night. glanvil had scarcely mounted the horse for his return trip when the animal collapsed. although the horse was well-attended and cared for, it died within two days. one night in the ch

ld not have been gained through normal means. psychokinesis (telekinesis) is the movement of objects, seemingly caused by some force unknown to physical science. the direct action of mind on matter is the parapsychologists current nominee as the energy involved in poltergeist cases those bizarre occurrences when bottles and crockery float through the air, fires break out on living room tables, or disembodied voices cackle threats and obscenities. telepathy is the transference of thought from one mind to another. distance and time seem unable to affect this phenomenon. even from these brief definitions, it becomes apparent that many attributes of parapsychological, or psi, phenomena overlap. it has long been a contention of serious parapsychologists that each of these types of phenomena is

have the ability to foretell future events. soul the animating and vital principal in human beings, credited with the faculties of will, emotion, thought and action and often conceived as an immaterial entity, separate from the physical body. the spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. the disembodied spirit of a dead human being. spell a formula or word believed to have magical power. a trance or a bewitched state. spirit control the guide that mediums contact to receive messages from deceased spirits, or another name for spirit guide as used in mediumship. spirit guide a nonphysical being or entity which possibly can be an angel, the higher self, the spirit of a deceased person, a

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have the ability to foretell future events. soul the animating and vital principal in human beings, credited with the faculties of will, emotion, thought and action and often conceived as an immaterial entity, separate from the physical body. the spiritual nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. the disembodied spirit of a dead human being. spell a formula or word believed to have magical power. a trance or a bewitched state. spirit control the guide that mediums contact to receive messages from deceased spirits, or another name for spirit guide as used in mediumship. spirit guide a nonphysical being or entity which possibly can be an angel, the higher self, the spirit of a deceased person, a

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

is or her thoughts of occult matters for the space of several hours. it is not the best idea to go directly to sleep after a ritual unless sleep is a specific part of the work- ing. bad dreams and hypnagogic images (visual hallucinations at the boundaries of sleep) are likely. indeed, these are almost certain to occur. phantom noises that may be quite loud, sudden breezes or chills upon the skin, disembodied shouting voices, distorted or demonic faces, touches, pricks, slaps, blows, sensations of cold or hot, and other psychic jetsam are common after a powerful ritual as the poten- cies invoked leak past the protective barriers the magus has erected. provided these protections are rightly made, the aftereffects of ritual will be of no great consequence, and the magus should not be overly c

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

rows that may correspond with the pineal gland. the regular use of certain objects and practices can help to develop this latent talent. the underlying unity between scrying and astral projection is indicated by the way in which these activities overlap. at times, astral travelers are aware of being in their projected bodies yet on other occasions feel themselves present in astral landscapes as a disembodied consciousness. still other times, they observe astral scenes yet remain separated from them, as though they were viewing projected three-dimensional images. those who engage in scrying find that the boundaries tend to blur between visions viewed at a distance and visions experienced all around them in the same location they physically occupy. the alchemist edward kelley, who was the hi

sical body yet completely lost awareness of his physical surroundings while walking in an astral vision, he termed being "carried by the spirit into another place."184 if we add scrying to swedenborg's three types of astral projection, the result is four successively deeper levels of astral awareness: 1. scrying: visual perception of astral scenes at a distance 2. projection in the spirit: direct disembodied perception of astral scenes 3. projection out of body: direct perception of astral scenes in the astral double 4. projection to another place: direct perception of astral scenes in the physical body swedenborg's final kind of vision-being present within an astral landscape in the physical body-is not really possible, but it can seem completely real to those who experience it. it happen

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