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ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

lusion to which we were led in my last lecture. nothing is any use to us unless it be a certainty unshakeable by criticism of any kind, and there is only one thing in the universe which complies with these conditions: the direct experience of spiritual truth. here, and here only, do we find a position in which the great religious minds of all times and all climes coincide. it is necessarily above dogma, because dogma consists of a collection of intellectual statements, each of which, and also its contradictory, can easily be disputed and overthrown. 3. you are probably aware that in the society of jesus the postulants are trained to debate on all these highly controversial subjects. they put up a young man to prove any startling blasphemy that happens to occur to them. and the more shocked

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

nment. scholars, of course, are able to find higher, ulterior motives in lovecraft's writings, as can be done with any manifestation of art. lovecraft depicted a kind of christian myth of the struggle between opposing forces of light and darkness, between god and satan, in the cthulhu mythos. some critics may complain that this smacks more of the manichaen heresy than it does of genuine christian dogma; yet, as a priest and former monk, i believe it is fair to say that this dogma is unfortunately very far removed from the majority of the faithful to be of much consequence. the idea of a war against satan, and of the entities of good and evil having roughly equivalent powers, is perhaps best illustrated by the belief, common among the orthodox churches of the east, in a personal devil as we

sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gon

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

universe is but the coffin-worm [156] commentary( omicron-gamma) the hebrew letter gimel adds up to 73; it means a camel. the title of the chapter is borrowed from the well-known lines of rudyard kipling: book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 153 "but the commissariat camel, when all is said and done 'e's a devil and an awstridge and an orphan-child in one" paragraph 1 may imply a dogma of death as the highest form of initiation. initiation is not a simple phenomenon. any given initiation must take place on several planes, and is not always conferred on all of these simultaneously. intellectual and moral perception of truth often, one might almost say usually, precedes spiritual and physical perceptions. one would be foolish to claim initiation unless it were complete on ev

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

from 1 to 36 in this square, so that each line, file, and diagonal adds to the same number. this number is 111; the total of all is 666> is 666 "the number of a man. the letter m exhibits the termination of this process. it is the hanged man of the tarot; the formation of the individual from the absolute is closed by his death. we see accordingly how aum is, on either system, the expression of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. it is cognate with the formula of the slain god. the "resurrection" and "ascension" are not implied in it. they are later inventions without basis in necessity; they may be described indeed as freudian phantasms conjured up by the fear of facing reality. to 46 the hindu, indeed, they are still less respectable. in his view, existence is essentially object

times. most valuable as a general education of the mind. 209 the spiritual guide of molinos. a simple manual of christian mysticism. the star of the west (captain fuller) an introduction to the study of the works of aleister crowley. the dhammapada (s.b.e. series, oxford university press) the best of the buddhist classics. the questions of king milinda (s.b.e. series) technical points of buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues. varieties of religious experience (james) valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment. kabbala denudata, von rosenroth: also the kabbalah unveiled, by s. l. mathers. the text of the kabalah, with commentary. a good elementary introduction to the subject. konx om pax. four invaluable treatises and a preface on mysticism and magick. the pistis sophia. a

ry is at stake may falsify the facts, and find too late that he has made a fool of himself. in the case of initiations itself, history is scarred with the wounds inflicted by this dagger. it reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. a judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal prejudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. dogma, with persecution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and many another evil, as its satraps, has always established a tyranny when genius has proclaimed it. islam making a bonfire of written wisdom, and haeckel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity disputing the conclusions of geology, and theologians impatient of truth struggling against the tide of thought; all su

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

based upon a sorites of doubtful validity. to tell you the hideously shameful truth, i hate this doctrine so rabidly that i can hardly trust myself to present it fairly! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 69 but i will try. meanwhile, you can study it in the upanishads, in the bhagavad-gita, in ernst haeckel's the riddle of the universe, and dozens of other classics. the dogma appears to excite its dupes to dithyrambs. i have to admit the "poetry" of the idea; but there is something in me which vehemently rejects it with excruciating and vindictive violence. possibly, this is because part of our own system runs parallel with the first equations of theirs. k. the monists perceive quite clearly and correctly that it is absurd to answer the question "how came these m

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s would be an unending task; the cloud of witnesses is too great. now each religion is equally positive; and each demands faith. this we refuse in the absence of positive proof. but we may usefully inquire whether there is not any one thing upon which all religions have agreed: for, if so, it seems possible that it may be worthy of really thorough consideration. it is certainly not to be found in dogma. even so simple an idea as that of a supreme and eternal being is denied by a third of the human race. legends of miracle are perhaps universal, but these, in the absence of demonstrative proof, are repugnant to common sense. but what of the origin of religions? how is it that unproved assertion has so frequently compelled the assent of all classes of mankind? is not this a miracle? there is

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

i,27 "then the priest answered& said unto the queen of space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: o nuit, continuous one of heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of thee as one but as none; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous" the old comment 27- 31. here is a profound philosophical dogma, in a sense possibly and explanation and illumination of the propositions in "berashith. the dyad (or universe) is created with little pain in order to make the bliss of dissolution possible. thus the pain of life may be atoned for by the bliss of death. this delight is, however, only for the chosen servants of nu. outsiders may be looked on much as the cartesians looked on animals. yet, of

suming to alter one jot or tittle of the observed facts of nature. so we may assert that modern discoveries in physiology have rendered obsolete the osirian conceptions of the sexual process which interpreted chastity as physical abstinence, small regard being paid to the mental and moral concomitants of the refusal to act, still less to the physical indications. the root of the error lies in the dogma of original sin, as a result of which pollution was actually excused as being in the nature of involuntary offence, just as if one were to assert that a sleep-walker who has fallen over a precipice were any less dead than empedocles or sappho. the doctrine of thelema resolves the whole question in conformity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties prescribed by magick. it must

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

f his collected works, and which we here reprint in full. 26 reprinted heidelberg: georg olms, 1974; it may be found in academic libraries t.s. 27 figures mostly taken from golden dawn teachings or rituals which accompanied the instalments of the temple of solomon the king in equinox i (2-3. most can be found in regardie, golden dawn t.s. 28 almost certainly crowley t.s. liber lviii 16 qabalistic dogma the evolution of things is thus described by the qabalists. first is nothing, or the absence of things, ya, which does not mean and cannot mean negatively existing (if such an idea can be said to mean anything, as s. liddell macgregor mathers, who misread the text and stultified the commentary by the light of his own ignorance of hebrew and philosophy, pretends in his translation of v. rosen

. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is a test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or to invoke a spirit. the methods of discovering dogma from sacred words are also numerous and important: i may mention (a) the doctrine of sympathies: drawn from the total numeration of a word, when identical with, or a multiple or submultiple of, or a metathesis of, that of another word (b) the method of finding the least number of a word, by adding (and re-adding) the digits of its total number, and taking the corresponding key of the taro as

nctions are deduced their signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the word lux (rwa, which itself is contained in the cross. a careful study of these ideas, and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making,31 will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like the sloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells

me. 341. the sum of the 3 mothers, aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha, existence is existence, i am that i am, a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is bruised, being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= c) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read: the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit, while cjn reads death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the con

ruth, and the life) and shows the taro as a key; and that the law itself it nothing else than this. for this reason the outer college of the a\a\ is crowned by this knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 741. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called the wanderings of shaun. 58 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8) 8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son in its most material form. 811. iaw (greek numera

erstand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th thyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligibile to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery63 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary64 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught

lkuth is in kether, and kether is in malkuth, or that which is below is like that which is above or simply yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth. the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ* for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer h (the letter alike of mother and daughter in hwhy. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisitions on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by p, implying that an infinite factor must be employed. for the qabalist it is usually symbolised by the rosy cross, or by such fo

resents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says never less than four. hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols a.c. liber lviii 38 in spiritual dealings, the qabalah, with those secrets discovered by yourself that are known only to yourself and god, forms the grip, sign, token and password that assure you that the lodge is properly titled

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ges, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the christian clergyman accepted mark and acts until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith surely the most essential quality for the adherent to christian dogma as being convinced on insufficient evidence. similarly the dying-to-live idea of hegel (and schopenhauer) claimed by caird as the central spirit of christianity is far older, in the osiris myth of the egyptians. these ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with christianity than the metric system with the great pyramid. but see piazzi smyth! henry morley has even the audacity to cl

ent from sir philip sidney! but cave os, et claude id, ne vituperasse inventus sim. in english let me render him! 180 ware mug, and snap potato-trap! or elsely it may haply hap the sword of song 10 ascension day. moral aspect of christianity to be discussed to prejudice of the metaphysical. orthodoxy to be our doxy. gipsies barred. henrik ibsen and h. g. wells. parson and poet. fugitive nature of dogma in these latter days. the higher criticism. panel* in libel i bewail me (funny how english seems to fail me) so, as a surgeon to a man, sir, 185 let me excise your christian cancer impersonally, without vanity, just in pure love of poor humanity! here s just the chance you d have! behold the warm sun tint with early gold 190 yon spire: to-day s event provide my text of wrath ascension-tide!

s, nerves, grey matter in his brains, each cell a life, self-centred, free 430 yet self-subordinate to the whole for its own sake expand! so we molecules of a central soul, time s sons, judged by eternity. nature is gone our joys, our pains, 435 our little lives and god remains. were this the truth why! worship then were not so imbecile for men! but that s no christian faith! for where enters the dogma of despair? 440 despite his logic s silver flow i must count caird62 a mystic! no! you christians shall not maask me so the plain words of your sacred books behind friend swedenborg his spooks! 445 says huxley63 in his works (q. v) the microcosmic lives change daily in state or body yet you gaily arm a false hegel cap -pie your self, his weapons make him wear 450 false favours of a ladye fay

ut! sceptic and sinner! see me! quail i? 455 i cite the little-go. you stare, and have no further use for paley! ascension day 17 mysticism does not need christ. krishna will serve, or the carpenter. the sacred walrus. god, some vestments, and lady wimborne. fearful aspect of john iii. 16. universalism. will god get the bara* slam? eternal life. divergent views of its desirability. buddhist idea. dogma of belief. but if you drink your mystic fill under the good tree igdrasil64 where is at all your use for christ? 460 hath krishna not at all sufficed? i hereby guarantee to pull a faith as quaint and beautiful as much attractive to an ass, and setting reason at defiance, 465 as zionism, christian science, or ladies leage,65 keep off the grass! from alice through the looking-glass. hence i ac

miracles follow as a dower; but ah! they used that fatal power 725 and lost the spirit in the act. this may be fancy or a fact; at least it squares with super-sense or spiritual experience. you do not well to swell the list 730 of horrid things to me imputed by calling me materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, 735 the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said: your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate! i sat in vague expectant bliss. 740 the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him! 745 how dare you be on me encroaching? the beautiful

ng as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry s terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton* this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox literary school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear: how sharper than a serpent s tooth it is to have an intellect! how is this? listen, and hear! i find myself confronted with the crux: that a buddhist, convinced intellectually and philosophically of

nution of his sensibility to physical charms. pure and sane is his early work; then he is carried into the outer current of the great vortex of sin, and whirls lazilky though the sleepy waters of mere sensualism; the pace quickens, he grows fierce in the mysteries of sapphism and the cult of venus aversa with women; later of the same forms of vice with men, all mingled with wild talk of religious dogma and a general exaltation of priapism at the expense, in particular, of christianity, in which religion, however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necro

se quaint points of distinction may give us an intuition, or direct mind-apperception of what we want, one way or the other. a.c. tycarb 76 buddhists are discreetly silent, while not contradicting even the gross and ridiculous accounts of the more fantastic hindu visionaries. the qabalists explain the first cause 1 by the phrase: from 0 to 1, as the circle opening out into the line. the christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of a previous and eternally existing god, though the qabalists hedge by describing this latent deity as not. later commentators, notably the illustrious2 mac- gregor-mathers, have explained this not as negatively-existing. profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom i am proud to have been permitted to call my ma

e of which no drop of blood has ever been, nor ever will be shed, a banner under which you will join forces with five hundred millions of your fellow-men. and you will not be privates in the army; for you the highest place, the place of leaders, waits; as far as the triumphs of the intellect are concerned, it is to western science that we look. your achievements have shattered the battle-array of dogma and despotism; your columns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha s hand; we are your brothers. but in t

elohim. they think the erect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big- nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. appendix ii 118 abracadabra* amethsh. ye fylfar. mysterium matris.1 evocatio. lucus. ain elohim. the chariot. four

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lail that beats the grain from the chaff, the sieve through which falsehood passes and in which truth remains. it is, indeed, the poise of the balance, the gnomon of the sun-dial; which, if we learn to read aright, will tell us at what hour of our lives we have arrived. through the want of it kingdoms have fallen into decay and by it empires have been created; and its dreaded foe is of necessity "dogma" 150 directly a man begins to say "yes" without the question "why" he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar. and it is for this reason that we are so bitterly opposed to and use such scathing words against the present- day rationalist6 when we attack him. for we see he is doing for darwin, huxley, and spencer what the early christian did for jesus, peter, and paul; and that

e torn to pieces in the rooms of the royal society by the followers of haeckel, just as hypatia, that disciple of plato, was torn to pieces in the church of christ by followers of st. john. we have nothing to say against the men of science, we have nothing to say against the great mystics- all hail to both! but such of their followers who accepted the doctrines of either the one or the other as a dogma we here openly pronounce to be a bane, a curse, and a pestilence to mankind. why assume that only one system of ideas can be true? and when you have answered this question there will be time enough to assume that all other systems are wrong. start with a clean sheet, and write neatly and beautifully upon it, so that others can read you aright; do not start with some old palimpsest, and then

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2, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82. by far the best and most concise account of the method of the qabalah is that by an unknown author, which mr. aleister crowley has printed at the end of the first volume of his collected works, and which we here reprint in full. qabalistic dogma the evolution of things is thus described by the qabalists. first is nothing, or the absence of things, hb:nun-final hb:yod hb:aleph, which does not and cannot mean negatively existing (if such an idea can be said to mean anything, as s. liddell macgregor mathers, who misread the text and stultified the 83 commentary by the light of his own ignorance of hebrew and philosophy, pretends in his

the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is one test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or to invoke a spirit. the methods of discovering dogma from sacred words are also numerous and important: i may mention("a" the doctrine of sympathies: drawn from the total numeration of a word, when identical with, or a multiple of submultiple of, or a metathesis of, that of another word("b" the method of finding the least number of a word, by adding (and re- adding) the digits of its total number, and taking the corresponding key of the taro a

ed their signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the word lux (hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph, which itself is contained in the cross. a careful study of these ideas,and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making, will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like thesloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells

the sum of the "3 mothers" aleph, mem, and shin. 345. mshh, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, ahih ashr ahieh "existence is existence "i am that i am" a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. mshich, messiah, and nchsh, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is "bruised" being replaced by m, the letter of sacrifice, and god, the letter alike of virginity (hb:yod= virgo) and of original deity (hb:yod= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read "the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (hb:chet, the chariot) through the spirit" while nchsh reads "death entering the (realm

life) and shows the taro as a key; and that the law itself is nothing else than this. for this reason the outer college of the a. a. is crowned by this "knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel" this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 741. amthsh, the four letters of the elements. amn, counting the n final as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsany in a tale called "the wanderings of shaun" 106 777 "vide supra" 800. ashth, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8- 8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son- in its most material form. 811. iota alpha om

rstand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418. 10th aethyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungred and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught of th

h is in kether, and kether is in malkuth" or "that which is below is like that which is above" or simply "yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth) the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ.8 for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer "h (the letter alike of mother and daughter in ihvh. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisition on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by pi, implying that an infinite factor must be employed. for the qabalist it is usually symbolised by the rosy cross, or by such f

resents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphereth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st john makes his son say "i and my father are one" and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says "never less that four" hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols. it is consequently of the very last importance that these final secrets should never be disclosed. and it must be remembered that an obsession, even momentary, might place a lying spirit in possession of the secrets of your grad

m a lady who says that "socrates remained for twenty-four hours lost in thought in the camp the potidaea was besieging" it was potidaea's way of doing her back hair that made her so generally admired) no; this is the real poulain, 50 per cent. above proof. i am sorry for this hobble-skirted atalanta. he must not study mystic facts; all he is allowed to do is to arrange, invent, delete as may suit dogma. he is obliged to accept the nymphomaniac nun gertrude, and treat her blasphemous maunderings with reverence, or ascribe some peculiarly foul outburst to an "early temptation" he must accept every orthodox levitation, and explain it by weight-lifting competitions among the angels; he must deny every heterodox levitation, or explain it by demonic power. and as one's bitterest enemies are alwa

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e given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rare and curious books, and to students of occultism, by placing within their reach a magical work of so much importance, and one so interestingly associated with the respective authors of "zanoni" and of the "dogma and ritual of transcendental magie" the magical squares or combination of letters, placed in a certain manner, are said to possess a peculiar species of automatic intelligent vitality, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it. transcendenta

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g as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry's terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton!1 this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox "literary"2 school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear "how sharper than a serpent's tooth is it to have an intellect" how is this? listen and hear! i find myself confronted with the crux: that, a buddhist convinced intellectually and philosophically

ly constructed by hand. perhaps we may one day publish one at a shilling a time) but mr. waite has not "betrayed" the true attributions of the trumps. they are obvious, though, the moment one has the key (see "777. still, pamela coleman smith has evidently been hampered; her designs are cramped and forced. i am infinitely sorry for any artist who tries to draw after dipping her hands in the gluey dogma of so insufferable a dolt and prig. mr. waite, i believe, is perfectly competent to produce indefinite quantities of malted milk to the satisfaction of all parties; but when it comes to getting the pure milk of the word, mr. waite gets hold of a wooden cow. and do for god's sake, arthur, drop your eternal hinting, hinting, hinting "oh what an exalted grade i have, if you poor dull uninitiate

e given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rare and curious books, and to students of occultism, by placing within their reach a magical work of so much importance, and one so interestingly associated with the respective authors of "zanoni" and of the "dogma and ritual of transcendental magie" the magical squares or combination of letters, placed in a certain manner, are said to possess a peculiar species of automatic intelligent vitality, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it. new pearl of

argoyles. pott 8vo, pp. vi+ 113, 5s. net. oracles. demy 8vo, pp. viii+ 176, 5s. net. some of mr. crowley's finest mystical lyrics are in these collections. knox om pax. see advt. collected works (travellers' edition. extra crown 8vo, india paper, 3 vols. in one, pp. 808+ appendices. vellum, green ties, with protraits, 3 3s; white buckram, without portraits, 2 2s. this edition contains "qabalistic dogma "time "the excluded middle "eleusis" and other matter of the highest occult importance which are not printed elsewhere. ambergris. medium 8vo, pp. 200, 3s 6d (elkin mathews) a selection of lyrics, containing some of great mystical beauty. illustration on center top third by horizontal of the back cover of the boards edition, entire back cover in red ink: this is an equilateral triangle circu

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. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning of our second year we have little to record but quiet steady growth, a gradual spreading of our tree of knowledge, a gradual awakening of interest in all parts of the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* mr. h. sheidan-bickers will lecture on behalf of the equinox during the year. we shall be

. editorial happy is the movement that has no history! at the beginning of our second year we have little to record but quiet steady growth, a gradual spreading of our tree of knowledge, a gradual awakening of interest in all parts of the earth, a gradual access of fellow-workers, some young and enthusiastic, others already weary of the search for truth in a world where so many offer the stone of dogma, so few the bread of experience. there! we had nothing to say, and we have said it very nicely. floreas* we must apologise for the necessity of holding over our edition of sir edward kelly's account of the forty-eight angelical keys, and other important articles. considerations of space were imperative* two days after the bound advance copies of this number were delivered by the printer, an

side, those links must be kept. similarly must he apply the serpent to st. ignatius, and out of the combination of the strongest links of both their armours fashion for himself so invulnerable a coat of mail that none can pierce it. thus, instead of burying one's reason in the sands of faith, like an ostrich, one should rise like a phoenix of enlightenment out of the ashes of both freethought and dogma. this is the whole of philosophic scientific illuminism. now that we have finished our short disquisition upon the methods of western magic, let us once again 150 turn to frater p. and seen how he applied them to his own labours. shortly after becoming a member of the order of the golden dawn, p, as already mentioned, became acquainted with a certain frater, i.a. by name, a magician of remar

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reets of london; from which abyss a church meant warmth, light, incense, music, and a pageant of hope. to-day, as in the days of nero, christianity is no more than the slum-born shriek of the degenerate and undersized starvelings that inhabit the inferno of industrialism. so also thompson, impotent from abuse of opium, reviles shelley and byron for virility "o che sciagura essere senza cog- dirt, dogma, drugs! what wonder and what hope lies in the soul of man if from such ingredients can be distilled such wine as "the dream tryst" requiescat in pace. let the flowers grow on thompson's grave; let none exhume the body! a. quiller, jr. 292 the eyes of st. ljubov: de la ratiboisiere's account of the typhlosophists of south russia by j. f. c. fuller and george raffalovich the eyes of st. ljubov

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e given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rare and curious books, and to students of occultism, by placing within their reach a magical work of so much importance, and one so interestingly associated with the respective authors of "zanoni" and of the "dogma and ritual of transcendental magie" the magical squares or combination of letters, placed in a certain manner, are said to possess a peculiar species of automatic intelligent vitality, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it. transcendenta

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stand and love the other.66 once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the 62 certainly not in the case of the mahometan religion and its sufi adepts, who drank the vintage of bacchus as well as the wine of iacchus. the question of chastity is again one of those which rest on temperament and not on dogma. it is curious that the astute vivek nanda should have fallen into this man-trap. 63 swami vivek nanda "raja yoga" p. 45. 64 the bhagavad-g ta, vi, 16, 17. 65 or more correctly as the buddhist puts its- skilfulness and unskilfulness. 66 "konx om pax" by a. crowley, pp. 62, 63. fault is the seer's and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. never forget blake

were, become a gigantic battery of will. this tremendous will is exactly what the yogi wants.120 and the conquest of the will is the beginning and end of pr n y ma. 98 117 for further powers see flagg's "transformation or yoga" pp. 169, 181. 118 such as: apana, samana, udana, vyana, haga, kurma, vrikodara, devadatta, dhanajaya, etc, etc. 119 raja-yoga "vivek nanda" p. 23. see eliphas levi's "the dogma and ritual of magic" pp. 121, 158, 192, and huxley's "essay on hume" p. 155. 120 raja-yoga "vivek nanda" pp. 36, 37. arjuna says "for the mind is verily restless, o krishna; it is impetuous, strong and difficult to bend, i deem it as hard to curb as the wind" to which krishna answers "without doubt, o mighty-armed, the mind is hard to curb and restless, but it may be curbed by constant pract

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e given in the present work. there are also other interesting points too numerous to be given here in detail. it is felt therefore that by its publication a service is rendered to lovers of rare and curious books, and to students of occultism, by placing within their reach a magical work of so much importance, and one so interestingly associated with the respective authors of "zanoni" and of the "dogma and ritual of transcendental magic" the magical squares or combinations of letters, placed in a certain manner, are said to possess a peculiar species of automatic intelligent vitality, apart from any of the methods given for their use; and students are recommended to make no use of these whatever unless this higher divine knowledge is approached in a frame of mind worthy of it- frank hollin

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whose occupants were unknown to me. he is a man of science and of most accurate and balanced judgment. one little lapse of memory: he forgot that he had told me that the book was not in his shelves; another little lapse of memory: he forgot where the book was; and there is your miracle! now for my constructive policy. i suggest that a "spirit" be cultivated on the lines laid down by eliphaz levi "dogma and ritual" chap. xiii, so that he may manifest more wholly. then let him dictate to two or three segregated mediums a long passage, or a long set of meaningless figures, and get so high a degree of agreement that hardly any doubt remains. or if anybody wants a really high evidential proof, let him get the proof of fermat's last theorem, which fermat died without revealing, and which the uni

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ew historical records of 'white' witches at this time and must include them under the general term 'witches, modem white witches, who are the subject ofthis book, believe that they are descended from, and adhere to, a separate tradition embracing the worship not of satan, but of the homed god and the earth mother-symbol of fertility, the oldest goddess known to man. certain aspects of white-witch dogma can be traced in ancient religions all over the world, in druidical beliefs, for instance, and the incantations in runic have been passed from generation to generation. white witchcraft is invariably confmed to doing good, restraining evil and promoting fertility. but although some attempt was made in the middle ages* often confused, erroneously, with the term 'coven. the latter is much more

en, not only because they are the receptacles ofthe future, but because they represent the goddess on earth. he encouraged paul to sit in with the group of theology students from the university who attended classes under alex-now an acknowledged authority on witchcraft-as part of their study of comparative religions. twice a week during the term they visited his chorlton rooms and delved into the dogma, history and beliefs of all forms of witchcraft, both english and egyptian. paul became interested in the tutorials, and as he realized that no restrictions would be put on his sexual appetites providing they were not used promiscuously, he began preparing for his formal initiation. 79 all this time alex was.waiting for the girl he had seen in the crystal, sure that she.would materialize thr

ould not help being flattered by such esteem and loyalty, but he had no stomach for the extra work and responsibility that would come with. the title. a pacificman by nature, he was content to passon the. teachings of the cult and try to help those in need. acting as arbiter in the innumerable disputes of his. heterogeneous band of followers. did not come to him naturally. in matters ofritual and dogma, his authorityantongst his covens was unquestioned anyway-why was it necessaryto appoint him king? the elder, or high priest, in each coven was usually able to sort outits difficulties; only the insoluble ones were referred to alex 'i'1u not god/he told. them 'lean do no more than anyone of you .they agreed,toa point, but went on to itemize the times over the .years when alex's authority had

art in witchcraft? a: none whatever. i have no political bias; i never vote. by nature i am a royalist and i approve of orders ofhierarchy. politics ate not taken into account when members join, but i know that we have amongst us communists and conservatives and all shades in between. q: do your covens ever go against your wishes? a .yes.we are a democratic organization, and while i can advise on dogma, law and ritual, i have no power to demand obedience. q: do you believe in all the visions you see in your crystal? a: of course. sometimes i get the time factor wrong, but that is an error of interpretation. q: how does witchcraft overlap or intrude into the members' everyday life? a: witthcraft is a way of life; it affects everything we do or think. we try to wear the colours and metals re

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

rm, to what is going on in the solar system, and to what will happen in the solar system when the logos withdraws from that which is, for him, but a temporary manifestation. let us now make practical application of these thoughts. we are living at this time in a period in which all the forms of thought seem breaking up, in which the religious life of the peoples is no longer what it was, in which dogma and doctrine of every kind come under criticism. many of the old forms of scientific thought are likewise disintegrating, and the foundations of the old philosophies seem to be shaken. our lot is cast in one of the most difficult periods of the world's history, a period which is characterised by the breaking up of nations, the smashing of old relationships and ties, and the apparently immine

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

of cosmic data can be but rudimentary. when- 5- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust we recognise the further fact, that to be conscious on a plane and to have control on that plane are two very different conditions, it becomes apparent how remote is the possibility of our approximating more than the general trend of the cosmic scheme. we must recognise also that danger lies in dogma and in the hide-bound facts of textbooks, and that safety lies in flexibility, and in a shifting angle of vision. a fact, for instance, looked at from the standpoint of humanity (using the word "fact" in the scientific sense as that which has been demonstrated past all doubt and question) may not be a fact from the standpoint of a master. to him it may be but part of a greater fact, only a f

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

he ego, the influencing of groups, the making of contact with the occult hierarchy, the co-operation with the devas in order to further the constructive ends of evolution, and many other objects which will grow out of the scientific comprehension of the constitution of man, the nature of vibration or radioactivity, and the demonstrated reality of the hitherto metaphysical hypothesis and religious dogma of the unseen world of thought and of spiritual existence. increased facility in approaching the path. this will be based on the fact that so many of the then existent humanity will have personal knowledge of the ruling powers and forces, will perhaps be on the probationary path, or will be initiates of the first degree. thus the present scepticism will become non-existent. the dangers then

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

true masters in the orient. they are taught to formulate questions about the inner realities and then to find the answer for themselves through a search for that source of all knowledge, latent at the heart of all beings. to ask intelligently and to find the answer, they must first free themselves from all outer imposed authority and from all tradition and from the imposition of every theological dogma, whether religious or scientific. only thus can the reality be found and the truth be seen- 41- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust "when thy soul shall pass beyond the forest of delusion, thou shalt no more regard what shall be taught, or what has been taught. when withdrawn from traditional teaching thy soul shall stand steadfast, firm in soul-vision, then thou shalt gain unio

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

lutionary process. man will enter into his divine heritage and know himself as the son of the father, with all the divine characteristics, powers and capacities which are his because of his divine endowment. but in the meantime what have we? a breaking away from old established tradition, a revolt from authority, whether of the- 188- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust church, of dogma, doctrine or theology; a tendency towards self-determination and an overthrowing of the old standards, and of old barriers of thought and the divisions existing between races and faiths. hence we are passing through an intermediate stage of change and of questioning, of rebellion and consequent apparent license. the methods of science, investigation and analysis, comparison and deduction, ar

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

cal council at rome (1870, with its declaration of papal infallibility. the tractarian movement in england started at the same time, whilst the progress of the seventh sub-ray influence, still going on, is marked by the steady increase of ritualism and sacerdotalism in the various churches, and even in the church of rome there has been a distinct tightening of priestly authority in all matters of dogma and practice. so much for its influence on religious thought; its other aspects will be considered later. we have also been told that the religious revival under wesley and whitfield in england was under the sixth subray, and i think we are justified in drawing the inference that the rise of molinos and the quietists in spain and central europe, and of st. martin and his band of spiritual ph

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

3. that cessation of suffering is brought about by eradicating all desire for existence in this universe of phenomena. 4. that the way to the cessation of suffering is by treading the noble eightfold path, wherein are expressed right belief, right intentions, right speech, right actions, right living, right endeavour, right-mindedness and right concentration. he provided a structure of truth, of dogma and of doctrine which has enabled many thousands, down the centuries, to see the light. today christ and his disciples are occupied (as they have been for two thousand years) with the same task of bringing enlightenment and salvation to men; blows are being struck at the world illusion, and the minds of humanity are arriving, en masse, at an increasing clarity of thought. through the message

e spirituality and what is spirituality but the expression, in form, of divinity? that he ventured on a great experiment which has led into the christian experience. faith in christ! faith in humanity! faith in man's responsiveness to the experiment! faith that the vision given will be transmuted or developed into experience! such was the faith of god in humanity. the christian faith, in spite of dogma and doctrine, and in spite of the distortions of the academic theologian and the impositions of a few unintelligent churchmen, has brought together god and man, blended in the christ, and so presented the truth that each human being can also have faith to venture the experiment and undergo the experience. this vital, dramatic, mystically pictured yet living truth, when grasped by the mind an

penalty has been at fault, but the reality of god's love can now be grasped and can thus offset the disastrous doctrine of an angry god who sent his son to be the propitiation for the world evil. of this belief calvinism is perhaps the best and purest interpretation, and a brief statement as to that theological doctrine will present the concept in understandable terms "calvinism is built upon the dogma of the absolute sovereignty of god, including omnipotence, omniscience and eternal justice a common christian doctrine, but developed by calvinists with relentless logic to extreme conclusions. calvinism is often summarised in five points (1) every human being as a descendant of adam (whom all christians in those times supposed to be an historical character) is guilty from his birth of origi

f the disharmony of others by- 131- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the power of a spiritual presence, which brings about the great transmutation; evil is absorbed and transmuted into good or equilibrised."41 this constitutes the endeavour of christ, and the fact of his presence is the harmonising medium in life. men are not saved by belief in the formulation of a theological dogma, but by the fact of his living presence, of the living immediate christ. it is the realisation of the fact of the presence of god in the human heart which is the basis of the mystical vision, while the knowledge that one is a son of god gives one the strength to follow the saviour's footsteps from bethlehem to calvary. that which will eventually reorganise our human life is the presence in t

t time. in these respects christ and his mission were uniquely important. he taught us to work towards unity and to bring to an end isolation and hatred and separation, telling us to love our neighbour as ourselves. he gave a message which was universal in its implications, for the kingdom of god stands wide open to all who love and serve and who purify the lower nature, irrespective of creed and dogma. he taught the unity of the faith, the fatherhood of god, and the necessity not only to walk with god, but to walk with each other in love and understanding. he emphasised the necessity for cooperation, indicating that if we truly follow the way, we shall put an end to competition, and substitute for it cooperation. he urged us to live by principles, divine, basic and fundamental, and to lay

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

nized religious groups of churches in every land and composing all faiths do not offer spiritual guidance and help, humanity will find another way. nothing can keep the spirit of man from god. i. the failure of the churches let us remember: christ has not failed. it is the human element which has failed and which has thwarted his intentions, and prostituted the truth which he presented. theology, dogma, doctrine, materialism, politics and money have created a vast dark cloud between the churches and god; they have shut out the true vision of god's love, and it is to this vision of a loving reality and to a vital recognition of its implications that we must return. is there any chance that a renewal of the faith as it was in christ will return? are there enough men of vision in the churches

e of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, or the buddha or shri krishna. the little minds of men at their past and present stages of evolution cannot today and never have comprehended the mind and the purposes of the one in whom we live and move and have our being; they have interpreted god in terms of themselves; therefore when men unthinkingly accept a dogma, they are only accepting the point of view of some other fallible human being, and are not accepting a divine truth at all. it is this truth that theological seminaries must begin to teach, training their men to think for themselves and to remember that the key to truth lies in the unifying power of comparative religion. only those principles and truths which are universally recognized and w

ndered into a theological impasse and into a cul-de-sac from which there is no possible exit. the churches in the east have overemphasized these laws so that a negative, acquiescent attitude to life and its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. christianity has emphasized immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: be a true professing christian and live eternally in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting christian and go to an impossible hell a hell growing out of the theology of the old testament and its presentation of a god full of hate and jealousy. both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. no one of any true reasoning power or with any true belief

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

dered into a theological impasse and into a cul-de-sac from which there is no possible exit. the churches in the east have over-emphasised these laws so that a negative, acquiescent attitude to life and its processes, based on continuously renewed opportunity, controls the people. christianity has emphasised immortality but has made eternal happiness dependent upon the acceptance of a theological dogma: be a true professing christian and live in a somewhat fatuous heaven or refuse to be an accepting christian, or a negative professional christian, and go to an impossible hell a hell growing out of the theology of the old testament and its presentation of a god, full of hate and jealousy. both concepts are today repudiated by all sane, sincere, thinking people. no one of any true reasoning

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust all other forms of faith as well as its internal dissensions, its protesting groups and its cliques and cabals. the church has wandered far from the simplicity which is in christ. theologians have lost (if they ever possessed it) the "mind that is in christ" and the outstanding need of the church today is to relinquish theology, to let go all doctrine and dogma and to turn upon the world the light that is in christ, and thus demonstrate the fact of christ's eternal livingness, and the beauty and the love which it can reflect from its contact with him, the founder of christianity but not of churchianity. i generalise. there are those in the church today who do express all that i have stated and who are reflections in the truest sense of the living c

's salvation or not. they know that man's salvation is determined by the processes of evolution and is not a question of ultimate achievement but simply one of time; they know that the life within a man will bring him ultimately to his goal and that the experiences and the type of incarnation will inevitably lead him to "his desired haven" his salvation is not determined by his acceptance of some dogma, formulated by men who have lost their sense of proportion (and consequently their sense of humor) and who deem themselves capable of interpreting the mind of god for their fellowmen. it should be here remembered that there are divine attributes and ray characteristics which have hitherto never been revealed to the minds of men or sensed by them in their highest moments of inspiration; this

which it was necessary to present to the vision of the sons of men as their possible and immediate goal. in these manifestations as i have earlier pointed out the sixth ray influence can easily be seen. when, however, an individual sixth ray influence can be noted in an era wherein the sixth ray is uniquely active, then the reason for the potency of the religious idea, as expressed in theological dogma and doctrine and the universal authority of the churches can be seen. this orientation of man to the world of higher values has been the main objective of the piscean age which is ending now and of the sixth ray influence which is so rapidly passing out. though there has never been a time when this basic orientation has not been going steadily forward, it is of value to bear in mind that dur

her motives and the acquisition of more land and territorial possessions has not been the true and the main motive. war has been prompted by economic necessity, or it has been in the nature of the imposition of the will of some nation or group of nations and their desire to impose some ideology or other upon some nation or to rid itself of a worn out system of thought, of government, of religious dogma which is holding back racial development. this is being now consciously done and is an expression of the shamballa or will force and is not so definitely the desire force of the past. the seventh ray is one of the direct lines along which this first ray energy can travel and here again is another reason for its appearance at this time, because, in the releasing of the life into the new and i

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

by a vital part of the world glamour may be dissipated if only all men of goodwill within the world aura adhere to their appointed task. when the buddha was on earth and achieved illumination, he "let in" a flood of light upon the world problem through his enunciation of the four noble truths. his body of disciples and his nine hundred arhats formulated those four great truths into a structure of dogma and doctrine that by the power of collective thought has greatly helped in the attack upon the world illusion. today the christ is carrying forward the same great task and in the spiritual significance of his imminent coming (and in the language of symbolism) he and his nine thousand arhats will strike a second blow at the world glamour. it is for this that we prepare. only the intuition can

ng together the money needed for their support; they are interested to gather out those who form the true church upon the inner spiritual plane and in helping them to walk in the light. the illusion of power, the illusion of superiority, taints them not. after the world crisis is over, churchmen everywhere will not rest until they can discover how to penetrate through the illusion of doctrine and dogma which engulfs them, and find their way back to christ and his simple message which has in it the power to save the world, if recognised and practised. much of the true revelation since the time of christ has come to the world along the line of science. the presentation, for instance, of material substance (scientifically proven) as essentially only a form of energy was as great a revelation

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

high church party which was almost anglo-catholic and the low church party which believed in a hell for those who did not accept certain tenets and a heaven for those who did. i belonged for six months of the year to one party and for six months of the year (when i was not in scotland and under the influence of my aunt) to the other. i was torn between the beauties of ritual and the narrowness of dogma. missionary work was dinned into my consciousness by both groups. the world was divided into those who were christians and worked hard to save souls and those who were heathen and bowed down to images of stone and worshipped them. the buddha was a stone image; and it never dawned on me then that the images of the buddha were on a par with the statues and images of the christ in the christian

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

e lesser angels or devas who vitalise thoughtforms and who keep alive the thoughts of the guides of the race for the benefit of humanity- 330- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the master k.h, the chohan on the teaching ray and he who will be the next world teacher, is already active in his line of endeavour. he is attempting to transmute the thoughtform of religious dogma, to permeate the churches with the idea of the coming, and bring to a sorrowing world the vision of the great helper, the christ. he works with the rose devas and with the blue devas on astral levels, with the wise help of the great guardian angel of that plane, called (in hindu terminology) the lord varuna. the activity of the astral plane is being much intensified and the angels of devotio

buddha use this festival each year as the point of inspiration for the coming year's work. see that you do likewise. the spiritual energies are then uniquely available. 6. discover the members of the new group of world servers, whenever possible, and strengthen their hands. look for them in every nation and expressing many lines of thought and points of view. remember always that in doctrine and dogma, and in techniques and methods, they may differ widely from you, but in love of their fellowmen, in practical goodwill and in devotion to the establishing of right human relations they stand with you, they are your equals, and can probably teach you much- 420- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust and now: what shall i say to you in closing, my comrades, my brothers

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

rned by saturn, hence our present difficulties, our political upheaval, the dividing of the world stage into great groups, with people who are national, patriotic, and those who are beginning to vision the international spirit. in the churches, in the religious field, division again, between those who are getting a picture of the universality of the love of god, and those who bow to authority and dogma. in the field of economics a tremendous turmoil is brought about by saturn, between those who bow to material things and those who are letting them go in order to get the better things; between those who grab possessions for themselves, those who hoard and keep, and those who let go in order to acquire what christ calls "treasures in heaven. in almost any field of thought we find these two c

inst the encroachment of some organized system of life. which threatens to leave scant scope and area for its own free initiative and its spontaneous creative activity. it is a proclamation that the soul has certain inherent rights and capacities, a dominion of its own, which must be respected and held sacred. sometimes mysticism has been the protest of man's spirit against the hardening crust of dogma, sometimes a revolt against ecclesiasticism" the philosophic basis of mysticism by t.h. hughes, page 46. in days of darkness and apparent spiritual deadness, this revival of interest in the higher realities inevitably appears, guaranteeing that the spirit of man is on its way, and that the reality remains unchanged behind the changing surface of material events. the very need of the hour cal

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

author, or who were its earliest teachers. considerable evidence may be adduced to show that its roots pass back to the hebrew rabbis who flourished at the time of the second temple about the year 515 b.c. of its existence before that time i know of no proofs. it has been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosophy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, hence the name qblh from qbl to receive, and it became varied by the minds through which it filtered in its course; there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after. it has been kept curiously distinct both from the exoteric pentateuchal mosaic books, and from the

r adds the statement "and whatever the man learns and displays on earth life, he knew before his incarnation" this is a parallel doctrine to the buddhist scheme of re-incarnation with karma as god--eternal law, relentlessly compelling the individual ego to a new earth life. christian ginsburg states that a "transmigration of souls" was the belief of the pharisees in the time of josephus; and this dogma was held by many jews up to the ninth century of our era. the caraite jews have accepted it ever since the seventh century. st. jerome says it was a doctrine of the early christian church taught only to a select few believers, and origen was of opinion that without transmigration, the incidents of the struggle between esau and jacob before birth, genesis 25, v. 22, and the reference to jerem

ate that which the mind's eye can at any time perceive. the process cannot be forced. mystic lore cannot be stolen. if any learner did appropriate the knowledge of a grade beyond him it would be to him but folly, disappointment and darkness. students have often been offered a doctrine, or assertion, or explanation, which their intellect has rejected as absurd, or as sheer superstition; which same dogma they have later in life assimilated with every feeling of esteem. occultism in this resembles freemasonry; we are either admitted to the hidden knowledge, or we are not; and if we are not admitted, we never believe any secret of its ritual even if it be offered to us. the secrets of occultism are like freemasonry; in truth they are to some extent the secrets that freemasonry has lost. they a

ANTINOMIANISM

edience to ideas that you are not your own through experience or developed contemplation and philosophical inquiry. it is fully possible to have a rational faith in very large ideas (such as the essential nature of human consciousness) without having to simply "accept" it because religion, cultural ideology or socialization have told you that it is so. the alternative to this "blind acceptance of dogma" is to carefully evaluate the known facts from largely unbiased data such as scientific, archaeological and well developed philosophical concepts and then come to your own conclusions. sometimes to successfully accomplish this task one must learn very new thinhgs such as a new language, or go to school and take some courses in philosophy or to create a unique art. this is part of the respons

result of the sublimation of consciousness. when you begin to disperse ideas that are not your own, and replacing them with what you do know the entire world as you view it will change. wisdom comes from ideas that help free you from that which is not your own. thus opening the floodgate to what can be yours through the divine gift. any text which asks you to accept its tenets- on blind faith or dogma- is an abhorrence to the dignity of the soul which seeks its true expression through its own knowledge of self. any text which asks you to examine its ideas and sources and then determine for yourself the validity of its ideas is to be esteemed. the answers are out there, but it will take an awakening, a desire, and the will to seek for the tree to bear its fruit. antinomianism is not only a

BALANONES TEMPLE OF SET FAQ

ey through the underworld. there is a very definite sense that, through my contact with the art of austin osman spare, the previously unseen spirit world has become tangible and palpable, more reachable and more real. powerful stuff indeed. john balaohbalanone's temple of set faq contents: 1.0 introduction 2.0 philosophy 2.1 xeper 2.2 initiation 2.3 satanism 2.4 left hand path 2.5 metaphysics 2.6 dogma vs doctrine 3.0 religion 3.1 the temple of set as a religion 3.2 set 3.3 the gift of set 4.0 magic 4.1 black magic 4.2 ritual practices 4.3 occult studies 5.0 the organization 5.1 membership in the temple 5.2 relations with other organizations 5.3 why the temple of set? 5.4 our reputation(s) 5.5 pylons and orders 5.6 the high priest 6.0 setians and setianism 6.1 activities 6.2 setians 6.3 wh

th is the tradition of spiritual dissent. it is a process of using the ideas and actions of the seeker to create or realize an immortal, individual, potent, and powerful essence that will survive death. the left hand path is the quest for personal immortality, won by hard effort without grace of gods, even of our role model, set. 2.5 metaphysics this section is found only in the ref document. 2.6 dogma vs doctrine the temple of set has no dogma, but it does have teachings. we're sometimes accused of having dogma because of these teachings. the ref document includes some discussion detailing the distinction i see between doctrine and dogma. there is some disagreement on this issue, primarily i believe because people use different definitions for dogma. for example, in reviewing a draft of t

e of these teachings. the ref document includes some discussion detailing the distinction i see between doctrine and dogma. there is some disagreement on this issue, primarily i believe because people use different definitions for dogma. for example, in reviewing a draft of this faq, magus don webb, the high priest, suggested i erred in my statement above: dw> actually the temple of set does have dogma: dw> 1. being and becoming are good. dw> 2. being and becoming can be enhanced by consciously chosen activities including magic. dw> 3. the temple of set, if properly maintained and used as a tool can be used to obtain being and becoming. dw> that's about it> 3.0 religion 3.1 the temple of set as a religion is the temple of set a religion? yes, although belief in the religion is not required

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

ion by the goetic sorcery grimoire, which presents a left hand path alignment with the 72 daemons of the shemhamforasche, but rather the rituals which prepare the magician for the summoning and encircling of such spirits. an invocation of the holy guardian angel, azal ucel, as well as the invocation of the adversary prepare the mental outlook of the magician, that rather than adopting a christian dogma, the daemonic spirit is illumined within through determined and willed practice. this may also make considerations for the commitment needed for this path and circle of luciferian witchcraft, that even within workings of light, the witch is becoming in the blackened flame of azazel (in a sigillic and mantraspoken form, azal ucel. this is obviously a serious point of introspection needed by t

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ter which, abandoning this body, it was transformed into night (see part ii "the fallen angels) two important points are involved herein (a) primarily in the rig-veda, the "asuras" are shown as spiritual divine beings; their etymology is derived from asu (breath, the "breath of god" and they mean the same as the supreme spirit or the zoroastrian ahura. it is later on, for purposes of theology and dogma, that they are shown issuing from brahma's thigh, and that their name began to be derived from a privative, and sura, god (solar deities, or not-a-god, and that they became the enemies of the gods. every ancient theogony without exception- from the aryan and the egyptian down to that of hesiod- places, in the order of cosmogonical evolution, night before the day; even genesis, where "darknes

legory it is matter- hence the more material angels- which was regarded as the conqueror of spirit, or the archangels who "fell" on this plane "they of the flaming sword (or animal passions) had put to flight the spirits of darkness" yet it is the latter who fought for the supremacy of the conscious and divine spirituality on earth and failed, succumbing to the power of matter. but in theological dogma we see the reverse. it is michael "who is like unto god" the representative of jehovah, who is the leader of the celestial hosts- as lucifer, in milton's fancy, is of the infernal hosts- who has the best of satan. it is true that the nature of[[vol. 2, page] 63 who are the "flames? michael depends upon that of his creator and master. who the latter is, one may find out by carefully studying

suras who are devoid thereof, who are shown as passing their lives in profitless ceremonial worship based on blind faith- a hint now ignored by the orthodox brahmins- and forthwith the former become a-suras. the first and mind-born sons of the deity refuse to create progeny, and are cursed by brahma to be born as men. they are hurled down to earth, which, later on, is transformed, in theological dogma, into the infernal regions. ahriman destroys the bull created by ormazd- which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the "germ of sorrow- and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil. typhon cuts osiris into fou

tors and rulers of the material world "peeped through the harmony and, breaking through the seven circles of fire, made manifest the downward-born nature* it explains every verse in that hermetic narrative, as also the greek allegory of prometheus. most important of all, it explains the many allegorical accounts about the "wars in heaven" including that of revelation with respect to the christian dogma of the fallen angels. it explains the "rebellion" of the oldest and highest angels, and the meaning of their being cast down from heaven into the depths of hell[[footnote(s* see "pymander" bk. ii, verses 17 to 29[[vol. 2, page] 104 the secret doctrine. i.e, matter. it even solves the recent perplexity of the assyriologists, who express their wonder through the late george smith "my first ide

n the proper place, on this fourth round planet that such evolution took place, but only during the first, second, and third rounds, when man was, in turn "a stone, a plant, and an animal" until he became what he was in the first root-race of present humanity. the real line of evolution differs from the darwinian, and the two systems are irreconcilable, except when the latter is divorced from the dogma of "natural selection" and the like. indeed, between the monera of haeckel and the sarisripa of manu, there lies an impassable chasm in the shape of the jiva; for the "human" monad, whether immetallized in the stone-atom, or invegetallized in the plant, or inanimalized in the animal, is still and ever a divine, hence also a human monad. it ceases to be human only when it becomes absolutely d

red by renan when he says that "the supernatural has become like the original sin, a blemish that every one seems ashamed of- even those most religious persons who refuse in our day to accept even a minimum of bible miracles in all their crudeness, and who, seeking to reduce them to the minimum, hide and conceal it in the furthermost corners of the past* but the "supernatural" of renan belongs to dogma and its dead letter. it has nought to do with its spirit nor with the reality of facts in nature. if theology asks us to believe that four or five thousand years ago men lived 900 years and more, that a portion of mankind, the enemies of the people of israel exclusively, was composed of giants[[footnote(s "polynesian researches" ellis. vol.ii, p. 38. missionaries seem to have pounced upon th

has full power over him, and possesses him by right (diabolum dominationem et potestatem super homines habere et jure cos possidere" to this occult philosophy answers: prove first the existence of the devil as an entity, and then we may believe in such congenital possession. a very small amount of observation and knowledge of human nature may be sufficient to prove the fallacy of this theological dogma. had satan any reality, in the objective or even subjective world (in the ecclesiastical sense, it is the poor devil who would find himself chronically obsessed and even possessed by the wicked- hence by the bulk of mankind. it is humanity itself, and especially the clergy, headed by the haughty, unscrupulous and intolerant roman church, which have begotten, given birth to, and reared in lov

god alone" the legitimate attribute patented by theology in the name of an infinite deity of their own making, this power had to be regarded as "satanic" and as an usurpation of divine rights. thus, the foregoing, in the light of such narrow views, must naturally be considered as a terrible slander on man "created in the image of god" a still more dreadful blasphemy in the face of the dead-letter dogma "your doctrine" the occultists were already told "makes of man, created out of dust in the likeness of his god, a vehicle of the devil, from the first "why did you make of your god a devil- both, moreover, created in your own image" is our reply. the esoteric interpretation of the bible, however, sufficiently refutes this slanderous invention of theology; the secret doctrine must some day be

the representative assemblies of the most confirmed materialists and atheists. the old doctrine about the true meaning of the "fallen angels" in its anthropological and evolutionary sense, is contained in the kabala[[vol. 2, page] 229 the mysteries among the mayas. and explains the bible. it is found pre-eminent in genesis when the latter is read in a spirit of research for truth, with no eye to dogma, and in no mood of preconception. this is easily proven. in genesis (vi) the "sons of god- b'ne aleim- become enamoured of the daughters of men, marry, and reveal to their wives the mysteries unlawfully learnt by them in heaven, according to enoch; and this is the "fall of angels* but what is, in reality, the "book of enoch" itself, from which the author of revelation and even the st. john o

but which fell nevertheless into matter by virtue of that same evolution, as the second logos of the "father[[footnote(s* see the "primeval manus of humanity* the "heavenly man- please mark again the word- is "the logos" or the "son" esoterically. therefore, once that the title was applied to christ (declared god and the very god himself) christian theology had no choice. in order to support its dogma of the personal trinity it had to proclaim, as it does, that the christian logos is the only true one, and that all the logoi of other religions were false, and only the masquerading evil principles, satan. now see where this led western theology to "for the mind, a deity abounding in both sexes, being life and life, brought forth by its word another mind or workman; which, being god of the

nity, deprived of limbs as it is- to the jod[[diagram- the poetical ideograph of jehovah in the kabala- the god of the male symbol of generation[[vol. 2, page] 247 the curse of vasishta. wretched condition; but christian theology, claiming to be based on the rock of divine love, charity, and justice of him it appeals to as its saviour- has invented, to enforce that claim paradoxically, the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of roman catholic philosophy. as to rabbinical wisdom- than which there is none more positive, materialistic, or grossly terrestrial, as it brings everything down to physiological mysteries- it calls these beings, the "evil one" and the kabalists- nahash "deprived" as just said, and the souls, that have thrown themselves, after having been alienated in heaven

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of dzyan? the writer, therefore, is fully prepared to take all the responsibility for what is contained in this work, and even to face the charge of having invented the whole of it. th

f the true esoteric knowledge, the buddha gave to the world only its outward material body and kept its soul for his elect (see also volume ii) many chinese scholars among orientalists have heard of the "soul doctrine" none seem to have understood its real meaning and importance. that doctrine was preserved secretly- too secretly, perhaps- within the sanctuary. the mystery that shrouded its chief dogma and aspirations- nirvana- has so tried and irritated the curiosity of those scholars who have studied it, that, unable to solve it logically and satisfactorily by untying the gordian knot, they cut it through, by declaring that nirvana meant absolute annihilation. toward the end of the first quarter of this century, a distinct class of literature appeared in the world, which became with ever

ing to the neo-platonism of the alexandrian school, that of the gnostics, under the christian veil. more than this, some of the doctrines of the secret schools- though by no means all- were preserved in the vatican, and have since become part and parcel of the mysteries, in the shape of disfigured additions made to the original christian programme by the latin church. such is the now materialised dogma of the immaculate conception. this accounts for the great persecutions set on foot by the roman catholic church against occultism, masonry, and heterodox mysticism generally. the days of constantine were the last turning-point in history, the period of the supreme struggle that ended in the western world throttling the old religions in favour of the new one, built on their bodies. from thenc

nal mother-father" it is composed from its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers "what is that which was, is, and will be, whether there is a universe or not; whether there be gods or none" asks the esoteric senzar catechism. and the answer made is- space. it is not the one unknown ever-present god in nature, or nature in abscondito, that is rejected, but the god of human dogma and his humanized "word" in his infinite conceit and inherent pride and vanity, man shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the material he found in his own small brain-fabric, and forced it upon mankind as a direct revelation from the one unrevealed space* the occultist[[footnote(s* see manu's account of brahma separating his body into male and female, the latter the female vach

er of religions that will be mentioned later, comes the jewish, esoterically, as in the kabala, following in the line of babylonian magism; exoterically, as in genesis and the pentateuch, a collection of allegorical legends. read by the light of the zohar, the initial four chapters of genesis are the fragment[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] known causeless cause" is the oldest dogma in occultism, millenniums earlier than the pater-aether of the greeks and latins. so are the "force and matter, as potencies of space, inseparable, and the unknown revealers of the unknown" they are all found in aryan philosophy personified by visvakarman, indra, vishnu, etc, etc. still they are expressed very philosophically, and under many unusual aspects, in the work referred to* in contr

invisible protyle of science. but, as the hour strikes and it becomes receptive of the fohatic impress of the divine thought (the logos, or the male aspect of the anima mundi, alaya- its heart opens. it differentiates, and the three (father, mother, son) are transformed into four. herein lies the origin of the double mystery of the trinity and the immaculate conception. the first and fundamental dogma of occultism is universal unity (or homogeneity) under three aspects. this led to a possible conception of deity, which as an absolute unity must remain forever incomprehensible to finite intellects "if thou wouldest believe in the power which acts within the root of a plant, or imagine the root concealed under the soil, thou hast to think of its stalk or trunk and of its leaves and flowers

these three principles depends upon a fourth- the life which radiates from the summits of the unreachable, to become an universally diffused essence on the manifested planes of existence. and this quaternary (father, mother, son, as a unity, and a quaternary, as a living manifestation) has been the means of leading to the very archaic idea of immaculate conception, now finally crystallized into a dogma of the christian church, which carnalized this metaphysical idea beyond any common sense. for one has but to read the kabala and study its numerical methods of interpretation to find the origin of that dogma. it is purely astronomical, mathematical, and pre-eminently metaphysical: the male element in nature (personified by the male deities and logoi- viraj, or brahma; horus, or osiris, etc

that of the bulk of the fourth race- mention this deluge, it is evident that it is not the "great" deluge, nor that which carried away atlantis, nor even the deluge of noah, which is meant here. this "churning" relates to a period before the earth's formation, and is in direct connection with that other universal legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the christian dogma of the "war in heaven" and the fall of the angels (see book ii, also revelations chap. xii. the brahmanas, reproached by the orientalists with their versions on the same subjects, often clashing with each other, are preeminently occult works, hence used purposely as blinds. they were allowed to survive for public use and property only because they were and are absolutely unintelligible to th

the first archangel, who sprang from the depths of chaos, was called lux (lucifer, the "luminous son of the morning" or man[ footnote(s* see "kwan-shai-yin" the real name from the text cannot be given[[vol. 1, page] 71 light emerges from darkness. vantaric dawn. he was transformed by the church into lucifer or satan, because he is higher and older than jehovah, and had to be sacrificed to the new dogma (see book ii- stanza iii- continued. 7. behold, oh lanoo* the radiant child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent glory, bright space, son of dark space, who emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. it is oeaohoo, the younger, the (whom thou knowest now as kwan-shai-yin- comment (a. he shines forth as the sun. he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom. the eka is chatur (four, and

is given as plainly "after due allowance for the imagery of personified powers, we must admit the existence of these entities, if we would not reject the existence of spiritual humanity within physical mankind. for the hosts of these sons of light and 'mind-born sons' of the first manifested ray of the unknown all, are the very root of spiritual man" unless we want to believe the unphilosophical dogma of a specially created soul for every human birth- a fresh supply of these pouring in daily, since "adam- we have to admit the occult teachings. this will be explained in its place. let us see, now, what may be the occult meaning of this stanza. the doctrine teaches that, in order to become a divine, fully conscious god- aye, even the highest- the spiritual primeval intelligences must pass t

athematical aspects of the doctrine, the teaching given may be expanded and some obscure[[vol. 1, page] 171 the mystery of the moon, unveiled. points solved. as the evolution of the globes and that of the monads are so closely interblended, we will make of the two teachings one. in reference to the monads, the reader is asked to bear in mind that eastern philosophy rejects the western theological dogma of a newly-created soul for every baby born, as being as unphilosophical as it is impossible in the economy of nature. there must be a limited number of monads evolving and growing more and more perfect through their assimilation of many successive personalities, in every new manvantara. this is absolutely necessary in view of the doctrines of rebirth, karma, and the gradual return of the hu

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mondes, 1865, pp. 157 and 158. end of vol. it 197 special supplement the way. 3 may morn the artist represents the dawn of the day following the witches. rout. the witch is hanged, and the satyr joyfully looks out from behind the tree; in the background all is spring, and the nymph dances joyfully to the piping of the shepherd. the picture is symbolical of the new aeon. from the blasted stump of dogma, the poison oak of .original sin. is hanged the hag with dyed and bloody hair, christianity, the glyph thus commemorating .sa vie horizontale et sa mort verticale. the satyr, a portrait of frater d.d.s, one of the teachers of the master therion, represents the soul of the new aeon, whose word is do what thou wilt; for the satyr is the true nature of every man and every woman; and every man a

the teachers of the master therion, represents the soul of the new aeon, whose word is do what thou wilt; for the satyr is the true nature of every man and every woman; and every man and every woman is a star. the shepherd and the nymph in the background represents the spontaneous outburst of the music of sound and motion caused by the release of the children of the new aeon from the curse of the dogma of original sin, and other priestly bogies. love is the law, love under will. 5 hymn to pan .frix .rwti periarc j d nepi man. p n p n p n p n liplagkte, kullan.aj cionokt poi petra.aj p deir doj f nhq, qe n corop i nax .soph. aj. thrill with lissome lust of the light, o man! my man! come careering out of the night of pan! io pan! io pan! io pan! come over the sea from sicily and from arcady!

times. most valuble as a general education of the mind. the spiritual guide of molinos. a simple manual of christian mysticism. the star in the west (captain fuller. an introduction to the study of the works of aleister crowley. the dhammapada (s. b. e. series, oxford university press. the best of the buddhist classics. the questions of king milinda (s. b. e. series) technical points of buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues. liber dcclxxvii vel prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mystic vi explicand, fundamentum hieroglyphicam sanctissimorum scienti summ. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, re-printed with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webs

estructive power. it is not a fierce and terrible thing, any more than the puritanism of the modern new englander is fierce and terrible. it nibbles at mr. pound, but it does not devour him; it has not strength left for that. it is not a demogorgon, but a schoolmaster, not a victim or a priest. he has all the schoolmaster.s love of the chalk and the blackboard, he has the true pedagogic flair for dogma, the true pedagogic knack of rapping it out .clear and hard. on the board, with the .expert. touch under which the chalk never crumbles. no writer, you would think, could be more acceptable to the american mind, for no nation in the world believes in the schoolmaster and his methods as america believes in them, no nation venerates pedagogy so profoundly .but what is the good of style. i was

BOOK OF JASHAR

the wording of the first sentence suggests that god's own existence also begins at the moment of creation. if not, then god was silent before creation. readers today are likely to become defensive and distracted when we find god included as a character in a story. we assume that an author is demanding that we should believe a story if he has written god into it, so we prepare to be force-fed some dogma, and we become unable to appreciate the story as a work of fiction. these expectations must be dropped before we can appreciate this manuscript. it is written in counterpoint to genesis, and so we must suppose that the author wants us to read it as fiction, not as dogma. indeed, the manuscript may prompt us to ask whether a taboo on using god as a literary character might in some ways limit

BOOK OF PLEASURE

ve in what defies natural laws and existing belief. surely it is not by saying "i believe; that art has long been lost. they are even more subject to bewilderment and distraction directly they open their mouths full of argument; without the book of pleasure (self love) get any book for free on: www.abika.com 4 power and unhappy unless spreading their own confusion, to gain cogency they must adopt dogma and mannerism that excludes possibility. by the illumination of their knowledge they deteriorate in accomplishment. have we not watched them decay in ration to their expoundings? verily, man cannot believe by faith or gain, neither can he explain his knowledge unless born of a new law. we being everything, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not? be ye mystic. others believe in praye

hings by not giving. what man can have faith without fear? only he who has no duty to perform. when faith perishes duty to moral doctrines perishes, we are without sin and endure for ever in all-devouring love. what man can know with certainty? only he who has effaced the necessity of learning. when teachers fall out, what is the use of learning from them? the wise are not contentious and have no dogma to expound. rather are they silent as a new-born babe in feeding. what teacher can show the source of wisdom? it is because i know without learning; i know the source and can convey lessons without teaching. knowledge is but the excrement of experience: experience its own repetition. the true teacher implants no knowledge but shows him his own superabundance. keeping his vision clear he dire

BOOK OF SATYRS

nt and circumstance from out whose grip the man at length emerges equipped for faith by knowledge. and spare, with the unflinching assurance of the optimist as to the ultimate, treads with reforming energy where the effeminate and parsonic would whimper or weep helplessly. his is no gently-advancing theory, but his satires (or satyrs, as he loves to call them) arrive as full-fledged and assertive dogma. the designs have their claim upon the imagination also, not from a visionary cast given by obscure shapes or heavy mystification, but by reason of clearly incisive and circumstantial detail, informed nevertheless, with so psychic an intention that the familiar is made to be the haunt of what is startling and indeterminable. in his art spare continually achieves the unexpected; his pattern i

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

a new method of sorcery. chaos magick is a tool, not a structure. many techniques and traditions are brought into this effective form of sorcery yet anything at anytime can be changed, altered or more or less form fitted to achieve the results desired. chaos magick is formed from many traditions, in the current age it seems almost perfect. there is nothing which would be denied or ignored due to dogma. the system of chaos implements the foundation of change and progression. while the foundations of chaos are within the components of aleister crowley (who might have been a chaos magician himself, austin osman spare and macgregor mathers (default for the golden dawn and his various translations of manuscripts) chaos has spawned from the information these individuals have unknowingly given

of performance, denying myself the option of functioning at capacity by not recognizing that belief is arbitrary and that i can change my beliefs as readily as i change my shoes. the current state of chaos magick in the present time has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleister crowley. spare unders

wakened subconscious, capable of anything opened for thinking. both created something amazing which threw the doors towards magickal exploration and progression wide open. no longer would understanding be damned to the old, yet those of the new flesh could be awakened towards their own desire. the concepts of kia and neither-neither could now be explored and absorbed. for spare aleister crowley s dogma of thelema (which through further study and practice proves there is very little dogma in thelema) was too limiting for his own needs. independent and proud, austin was not willing to accept aleister s concepts in whole. the inner drive or true will insisted different. aos would not ignore this call and sought the means of enfleshing his ideas. austin osman spare was in complete understandin

mination to serve and die for this individual. the luciferian component to the old man of the mountains is based within the concept of his silent yet effective rule. he presented extreme ideals, not willing to surrender to what seems to be more powerful forces; to not only survive but to succeed beyond his original ideas. luciferic magickians understand the usefulness of expanding the mind beyond dogma; to reach beyond what is commonly understood as accepted and to tear it to shreds, piss on it and smile while doing so. to reach to the heart or essence and reform it as you would so desire. this is the luciferian principle of chaos magick. to seek, understand and form to your ever-developing system. i am the power of my desire (id) aos all energy sources, which are altered or changed throug

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hab no use for such as he" similarly, a former bondwoman by the name of aunt fanny reacted to the criticisms of a plantation mistress after black worshipers performed a healing ritual around her sickbed, rejoining "honey, that kind of religion suits us black folks better than your kind. what suits mars charles mind, don't suit mine" others insisted, as had many of their slave forebears, that the dogma taught by whites had no place in the bible. after the civil war, when the businessman charles stearns attempted to offer spiritual tutelage to the freedpersons on his georgia plantation, he was surprised that most were indifferent or averse to the lessons he drew from the scriptures. on questioning them he determined that their lack of interest was attributable to the fact that most of them

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1848 december 17- july 30, 1925 william wynn westcott 1850-1918 jos phin p ladan 1851 gerard de nerval, journey to the orient describing the hiram abiff legend in detail 1854 samuel liddell macgregor mathers born in london 1854-1917 frederick holland utilized a tarot with hebrew lettered trumps and the shemha mephorash attributed to the pips 1855: eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) publishes "dogma et rituel de la haute magie" 1856 levi's masterpiece le dogme et rituel de la haute magie published 1857 arthur edward waite born in brooklyn, new york 1858-1918 sar peladan 1859 adrien adolphe desbarolles les mysteres de la main. 1860 sefer yetzirah published in lemberg with commentaries from saadia gaon, rabbi abraham ben dior halevi, rabbi moses ben nacham, elieser of germisa, moses botar

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religions based on extraterrestrial special effects? look at the pain, misery, and inter-generational ignorance that has been visited upon this planet by christianity, islam, judaism, and all the rest. if you want to shut down someone's consciousness so they stop thinking for themselves and delink their minds from their infinite potential, sell them a dogmatic religion or some other form of rigid dogma. they are then putty in your hands. i think the takeover of planet earth was achieved by what i call the luciferic consciousness. i use this as an overall name to describe the force which attempts to work through all life forms, human and extraterrestrial, to control the planet. it is an extremely negative energy operating from the fourth dimension. the luciferic consciousness takes two main

the 12th planet (avon, new york, 1976) 14 virginia essene and sheldon nidle, you are becoming a galactic human (s.e.e. publishing co, santa clara, 1994) 15 d.s. allan and j.b. delair, when the earth nearly died (gateway books, bath, 1995) chapter 2 the birth of the brotherhood he most effective way to close down a human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to programme into it some form of dogma. a dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power. humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. dogmas take endless forms and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulati

changed to suit those in power at any given time. this is why you still find elements of this knowledge in all religions. the original core knowledge has been diluted and diverted in countless directions, to manifest as religions such as christianity, islam, judaism, paganism, hinduism, etc. all have retained the themes of the knowledge to some extent, while often destroying its true meaning with dogma, myth, and manipulated make-believe. ironically, paganism has retained far more of the original knowledge than those religions (such as christianity) which condemn it as 'evil. the fourth dimensional prison warders wish to prevent us from knowing who we are, how we have been imprisoned, and how we can get out of prison. making us confused and dividing us into factions, religions, and tongues

derstanding of the laws and potential of creation which is far in advance of 26. and the truth shall set you free the 'science' we are allowed to see in the public arena, and of the knowledge of the human psyche, its nature, and how it can be programmed and controlled. the hoarding of such knowledge was not always done for negative reasons. when christianity imposed its misguided and manipulative dogma throughout most of the known world, it was suicidal to speak of these alternative spiritual beliefs in public. not surprisingly, they were passed on in secret or hidden within legends and symbolic stories. thank goodness they were! but knowledge is neutral. it is how you use it that is negative or positive. the spiritual knowledge can be used and abused, and so can the secrecy inherent in th

who control those empires that i am seeking to expose, not everyone whose name is rothschild, rockefeller, or whatever. i believe that researchers over the years who have blamed the entire conspiracy on the jewish people as a whole are seriously misguided; similarly, for jewish organisations to deny that any jewish person is working for the new world order conspiracy is equally naive and allowing dogma or worse to blind them to reality. we are looking at a common thread- a lust for power and the all-seeing eye cult- which goes across all races and, in my view, is connected- sometimes knowingly but mostly unknowingly- to a higher controlling force: the prison warders of the fourth dimension. a global elite banking network was created with central banks in each country working together to ma

lly are. the real us, not the robot version. deprogramming the mind an ever-increasing number of people are deprogramming themselves from a lifetime of subtle and less than subtle mental dictatorship. the minute-by-minute messages from the media, religion, and the 'education' system, together with the inherited 'values' we absorb without question, have been designed to create a concrete prison of dogma in our consciousness. i refer to religion and the other empires of manipulation as psychological fascism. it turns our mind into a rigid enemy, when it should be our flexible friend. letting go of dogma is the key. it doesn't matter what form your dogma may take; there will be an opposing dogma to challenge yours. as these are brought into conflict, a divide-and-rule scenario follows. this i

hey don't stop to observe that they are imposing their beliefs on someone else and using the banner of 'freedom' to do it. mental dictators don't all look like adolf hitler or josef stalin. they can also stand in picket lines, go on freedom marches, or sit around a candle in glastonbury. we desperately need the re-emergence of female energy on the planet, but not to the extent that we replace one dogma with another. when it was suggested that i be interviewed on the bbc radio programme, woman's hour, the programme researcher asked what a man could possibly tell women about female energy. this lady opposed, quite rightly, male chauvinism, but then expressed female chauvinism, another dogma which operates on exactly the same thought pattern as the one she was opposing! some homosexuals who

sacred and anyone who takes life should be murdered. the mental gymnastics required for this beggars belief. all these examples are the same thought patterns promoted as opposites. they are dogmas, prisons of the mind. what we believe is right for us we surely need to believe is also right for everyone. if we don't, we are not serious about freedom for all, only freedom for ourselves and our own dogma. the difference between dictatorship and freedom is allowing all information into the public arena and respecting another's right to make of it what feels good to them. disagreement and harmony are not contradictions if respect for another view is there. when i challenge people and organisations in this book, it is not because of what they believe. they can believe what they like, that is th

her left or right. there is no 'in-between' to a robot radical, precisely as the manipulators intended. it all appears so simple. left is good and right is bad and vou must be one or the other. it is a thought pattern which speaks of freedom, but actually believes in anything but. it is another form of inflexible, mental dictatorship decked out as freedom- the freedom to pursue and impose its own dogma. the robot radicals are a manipulator's dream. smash the tories and all will be well. summon the revolution of the people against the fascist state. that's what they said in france during their revolution. that's what they said in russia during theirs. millions were slaughtered in the name of 'people power' and one tyranny was replaced by another. those on the robot radical vibration do not

media under hitler and the way the japanese magazine, marco polo, was closed down by its parent company in 1995 because of a campaign by the global jewish hierarchy to stop its advertising revenue after it published an article questioning some of the official stories of the nazi concentration camps? both come under the heading of authoritarianism, but don't ask a robot radical to see that. their dogma could not cope with it. these apparent 'opposites' like right and left, fascists and robot radicals, are actually operating on the same thought patterns. they just use different words to describe the same thing: imposing their dogma on everyone else while seeking to deny a platform to views and information they disagree with. when i spoke in glastonbury, somerset, in 1995, a robot radical fr

ight are the same as all the rest. new age- or the old age revisited? the inflexibility of thought i am addressing here can be found in all areas of 'alternative' thinking and lifestyles, including that which is known as the new age. significant parts of the new age are, i believe, becoming little more than another religion which believes in reincarnation and it is seeking to impose its gathering dogma on others. i have been fascinated to experience how those who speak of freedom of thought and expression really mean freedom of thought and expression which agrees with their own. this is what the old thinking does, as revealed by the robot radicals, and yet here the old thinking is packaged as new thinking for a new age. i feel we have to be careful about this because much of this 'new thin

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k they know what they are involved in, but, in truth, only a tiny few have any idea of what is going on and who, ultimately, is calling the shots. albert pike, who died in 1891, was one of the most pre-eminent figures in world freemasonry. among his titles were sovereign grand commander of the supreme council of the 33rd degree and supreme pontiff of universal freemasonry. in his book, morals and dogma, written for higher degree freemasons, he reveals the way the lower levels are misled* the 33 degrees of the scottish rite and 10 degrees of the york rite, both include the blue degrees, of course. to the prison born 7 "the blue degrees are but the outer court or portico of the temple. part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally mis-led by false interpret

kicked. so it is with the illuminati, the hidden hand behind the events that affect our lives and our world every day. but, by the end of this book, if you are open-minded enough to complete it, the hand will be hidden no more. the truth is not only out there. a lot of it is right here. sources 1 jim shaw, the deadly deception (huntington house inc, lafayette, louisiana, 1988, p 103 2 morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry, p 819 3 the deadly deception, pp 65 and 66 4..and the truth shall set you free, pp 321 to 324 chapter 2 designer history who controls the past, controls the future. who controls the present, controls the past. george orwell, 1984 history is the lie commonly agreed upon. voltaire o know where you are and where you are going, it helps e

nd death, that their version of the same story is somehow literally true while all the others are not. yeah, right. to understand how the repeat of an ancient, endlessly recurring story could be transformed into the prison-religion called christianity, and to see the source of global control today, we have to research our ancient origins. when we do that with an open mind and without preconceived dogma, a very different human history emerges. one that is not taught in the schools and universities of the world or revealed through the mainstream media. it is a story that not only makes sense of the past, but opens your eyes to the staggering scale of manipulation today and the ancient background and ancestry of those involved. contrary to conditioned belief, life on earth has not evolved fro

of its vast lands and peoples, was the worship of the sun and many symbolic stories emerged to describe the cycles of the sun, moon, stars, and seasons. 66 children of the mat another point to stress in the story so far is that the rulers of the sumerian empire were chosen by bloodline, an immensely relevant point as we shall now see. given the origin of these bloodlines, we are about to enter a dogma-free zone in which it would be sensible to fasten your seat belts and be aware of possible mental and emotional turbulence. readers with closed minds and programmed beliefs, who have a fear of climbing to high altitudes to view a much bigger picture of possibility, should venture no further. for those who will therefore be leaving us now, please make sure you take all of your baggage with yo

lliance 105 powers until they had completely undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive mysteries..they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reigns of spiritual government "thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralysed the intellectual and spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priest craft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the scarlet council- a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood."32 this is exactly what happened in the latter era of atlantis and what happens today with the puppet politicians placed in "power" by those behind the scenes, the illuminati, who dictate their actions and agenda. those who will n

outh americans, black africans, the australian aborigines, and the "pagan" religion in general. this is what they did, of course, as even conventional history records, but it never tells you the real reason why or who was really behind it. by replacing these native cultures with imposed christianity, judaism, islam, hinduism, and all the rest, they could either crush the true knowledge with rigid dogma, or imprison it in a gruesome hierarchical structure of genetic "superiority, as with the hindu caste system. the unholy alliance 107 columba(us) the interconnections of the illuminati web can be seen in the story of christopher columbus. he sailed to the americas in 1492 knowing basically where he was going because his father-in-law was a sea captain close to prince henry the navigator, the

ame for britain derived from the phoenician goddess, barati or "barat-anna. freemasonic heroes like albert pike, the supreme pontiff of universal freemasonry in the 19th century, have said that freemasonry is a revival of the ancient mystery religions of babylon, egypt, persia, rome, and greece "masonry is identical with the ancient mysteries, he wrote in his freemasonic "bible" called morals and dogma. so, of course, you are going to find the same knowledge and symbols used in freemasonry that could be found in the ancient mystery schools. pike tells only half the truth, however, because freemasonry is not a revival of those mystery religions, it is a continuation of them. they never went away, only underground. freemasonry is a wonderful example of how the liluminati have the many faces

official peak, most are told nothing of the true meaning of freemasonry, its symbols and agenda. symbolism is the very foundation of the anunnaki-illuminati secret language and codes (see the biggest secret) and freemasonry calls itself a system of pure religion expressed in symbols. so misinterpret the symbols and you have lost the plot completely. here we have albert pike writing in morals and dogma about the blue degrees, the bottom three levels that feed into the scottish and york rite degrees "the blue degrees are but the outer court or portico (porch) of the temple. part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. it is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understa

nd secrets, p 674 5 ibid, p 382 6 ibid, p 549 7 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, pp 201 and 202 8 trance-formation of america, pp 176 and 178 9 for sir laurence gardner's information about this see: http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 10 british edda, introduction 11 http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 12 the deadly deception, p 102 13 ibid 14 albert pike, morals and dogma, p 819 15 details of the explanations that jim shaw was given can be found in the deadly deception, pp 142 to 146 16 ibid, p 149 17 told to the author by arizona wilder, a former "mother goddess" in llluminati satanic ritual 18 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 23 19 ibid, pp 963 and 964 20 ibid, pp 382 and 383 the many faces of the serpent cult 181 21 ibid 22 ibid, p 378 23 i

tificial impregnation of women by the "gods" may have been 208 children of the matrix an ancient origin to this concept, too. so many "heroes" like merovee and alexander the great were said to be the result of their mothers being impregnated by a non-human entity and not by intercourse with their husbands. albert pike, a notorious illuminati operative in the united states, wrote in the morals and dogma of scottish rite freemasonry (l.h. jenkins, 1928) of the egyptian myth from which the christian themes originated "at the moment of the winter solstice, the virgin rose (with the sun, having the sun (symbolised as horus) in her bosom..virgo was isis (virgin mother of horus) and her representation, carrying a child (horus) in her arms, exhibited in her temple, was accompanied by this inscript

ert" was sent out across the internet warning that i was anti226 children of the matrix islam; and many new agers condemn me for being "too negative (saying what is really happening) and for exposing the "spiritual" charlatans and the illuminati manipulation of the new age mentality. the reason i can unite such apparently opposing groups is that they all have one thing in common. they each have a dogma to sell or defend. as 1 am challenging all dogmas, impositions, and suppression, i can bring them together as one indignant voice. they are opposames, the same attitude with a different frock on, but more and more people are freeing themselves from these prisons of the mind. the illuminati-anunnaki could not care less which religion or mind-prison you choose, so long as you choose one of the

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their superhuman powers until they hadcompletely undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive mysteries. they usurpedthe position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reins of spiritual government.thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralysed the intellectual and spiritualactivities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence inthe dogma formulated by the priestcraft. the pharaoh became a puppet in the hands ofthe scarlet council- a committee of arch-sorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood.22the black magicians that hall says were formerly in atlantis were, for me, thereptilian-human hybrids of what i call the babylonian brotherhood. it is their secretsociety network that now spans the globe and operates in literally e

mystery schools after they were infiltrated by the babylonian brotherhood. the82egyptians considered the jehovah revelation to be a robbery committed against thesacred sciences.2 manly p. hall, the freemasonic historian and initiate, said that blackmagic dictated the state religion in egypt and that the intellectual and spiritual activitiesof the people were paralysed by complete obedience to the dogma formulated by thepriestcraft. what a perfect description of the levite-babylonian mode of manipulationand of all the religions, like christianity, which were to emerge from the lies theypeddled. and thats a crucial point to remember. judaism, christianity and islam allbase their beliefs on these same stories written by the levites after their stay inbabylon. we are looking at a point in hist

tianity was amale bastion from its very foundation, created to suppress the balancing female energy.the early founders of the church, like quintus tertullian, banned women from priestlyoffice and even speaking in church. it was only at the council of trent in 1545 that theroman church officially agreed that women had souls and then only by a majority ofthree votes! the seeds of this anti-feminine dogma in the christian church can be seenin its mirror, zoroasterism, the sect of the prophet (mythical sun god, zoroaster. heand his religion emerged yet again from persia, now turkey, the home of the taurusmountains and st pauls abode, tarsus. zoroaster was vehemently anti-women and hesaid that no women could enter heaven except those submissive to control, who hadconsidered their husbands lords

ged many of the basicfoundations of christianity. he was playing two sides against each other to create anenvironment in which another, unspoken, agenda could flourish. certainly this periodproduced the classic control system of divide and rule. mass slaughter erupted acrosseurope in the protestant-catholic wars, while, at the same time, both creeds were beingchallenged by the emerging scientific dogma.it was also under the influence of bacon and other esoteric magicians like john deeand sir francis walsingham, that the spy networks across europe, now known as britishintelligence, were created. british intelligence was formed by the reptilian bloodlines ofthe babylonian brotherhood and british intelligence would later create americanintelligence and similar networks throughout the expandin

e bottom three levels, the blue degrees, and theyare used as a front of respectability to hide the real agenda which the rank and file arenot aware of. albert pike was the head of the southern jurisdiction of the scottish riteof freemasonry in the united states in the last century and is considered a freemasonicgod in america. his statue stands in washington dc. in his freemasonic book,morals and dogma, he writes on page 819:the blue degrees are, but the outer court or portico of the temple. part of the symbols are169displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. it is notintended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine heunderstands them.put another way, keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit. this is the cla

s tears,though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,their childrens cries unheard, that passed through fire,t o his grim idol.the old testament abounds with stories of animal and human sacrifice. the samesymbolism can be seen in a stream of ancient texts about the sacrifice of the first born oryoung children. the jesus story includes this theme also, of course. at its most extreme,the jewish dogma is deeply sacrificial. their temples were slaughterhouses with aconstant supply of animals taken there for ritual murder and sacrifice. look at the jewishform of killing animals to this today. meat is only considered kosher if the animal hasits throat cut and dies by being bled dry. the same with the halal meat of the muslims.through the brotherhood bloodlines the ancient rituals have been s

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ng concerning the brethren in the visible society "masonry, like all the religions, all the mysteries, hermeticism, and alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the adepts and sages, or the elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead; to conceal the truth, which it calls light, and draw them away from it [morals and dogma, p. 104-5, 3rd degree] albert pike specifically says in the above quote that masonry is a religion after the order of the satanic mysteries, the equally satanic hermetic philosophy, and alchemy. freemasonry like the public education system was designed to conceal certain secrets from the brethren in the visible organization. the elite masons are the ones who know the truth. this again is con

s. listen to what pike says about telling the truth of the organization to the 'masses "a spirit, he said "that loves wisdom and contemplates the truth close at hand, is forced to disguise it, to induce the multitudes [that is you] to accept it. fictions are necessary to the people, and the truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance [morals and dogma, p. 103, 3rd degree; emphasis added] if a person is not capable of accepting the truth that inner-core, invisible freemasonry really worships and serves satan, then such truth would become "deadly" to you. therefore "fictions are necessary" so visible masons would not be so devastated that they would leave freemasonry and expose its inner secrets. there is one short paragraph that properly a

t male sex organ. the obelisk is the major symbol for this worship, which is why you see obelisks everywhere associated with freemasonry! it is time to stop being deceived, don't you think! listen to albert pike speak of the obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created by the egyptian mysteries of the pharaohs, and is spoken of in the

preme councils of the world, july 14, 1889. recorded by a.c. de la rive in la femme et l'enfant dans la francmaconnerie universelle on page 588 "lucifer, the light-bearer! strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! lucifer, the son of the morning! is it he who bears the light, and with it's splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish souls? doubt it not" morals and dogma page 321 as time goes on, people will realize who the real enemy is. the human race is asleep and it needs to awaken. if you really want to learn more, nevermind the red pill and eat the red apple and you will learn just how deep the rabbit hole goes. all of these masons praise lucifer. it is also the biggest reason why we see luciferic designs incorporated into government center washington

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dark god or dark goddess. the original and true name for the devil is that used by the ancient sumerians. in her original form, the devil is female. she is the ancient one, the serpent of chaos, tiamat, mother of the gods and the abominations of chaos. most of the names for the devil are titles of honor addressed to her. the devil is thought of as masculine in form because centuries of christian dogma converted the dark goddess/female serpent into a dark god/masculine dragon. while most of the names for the devil are simply titles, some are actual names such as astaroth, kali, and lillith. in studying the names for the devil you will find that most can be traced to ancient goddesses who represented various aspects of tiamat, either as goddess of the earth, goddess of fertility and pleasur

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xxvii influence of the priests of annu on its compilation. pyramid texts are versions of ancient religious compositions which the priests of the college or school of annu[1] succeeded in establishing as the authorized version of the book of the dead in the first six dynasties. ra, the local form of the sun-god, usurps the place occupied by the more ancient form tmu; and it would seem that when a dogma had been promulgated by the college of annu, it was accepted by the priesthood of all the great cities throughout egypt. the great influence of the annu school of priests even in the time of unas is proved by the following passage from the text in his pyramid "o god, thy annu is unas; o god, thy annu is unas. o ra, annu is unas, thy annu is unas, o ra. the mother of unas is annu, the father

r, m nster, 1890, p. 29 ff. 2 a similar difficulty also exists in hebrew, for elomhim means both god and "gods; compare psalm lxxxii, i] p. xcii unity of a supreme and self-existent being, his eternity, his almightiness, and external reproduction thereby as god; the attributing of the creation of the world and of all living beings to this supreme god; the immortality of the soul, completed by the dogma of punishments and rewards: such is the sublime and persistent base which, notwithstanding all deviations and all mythological embellishments, must secure for the beliefs of the ancient egyptians a most honourable place among the religions of antiquity"[1] nine years later he developed this view, and discussed the difficulty of reconciling the belief in the unity of god with the polytheism w

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e pentagram which is the morning star, and in the name of the tetragram, which is written in the center of the cross of light. amen. the sign of the cross adopted by the christians does not belong to them exclusively. it is also kabalistic, and represents the contrasts, and the quaternary equilibrium of the elements. we see by the occult stanza of the lord's prayer, which we have indicated in our dogma, 9 that there were primitively two modes of making it, or at least two very different formulas to distinguish it. one reserved for the priests and initiated; the other granted to neophytes and the profane. thus, for example, said "to thee" then he added "belong" and continued while carrying his hand to his breast "the kingdom; then to his left shoulder "justice" to the right shoulder "and me

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ible as quickly as possible [5, p. 4] the satanic bible is comprised of, in the following order: 1. an anti-christian diatribe. this section seems to appeal especially to those that were brought up in christian homes and are fed up with that religion. the church of satan explains that this section is a wake-up call that is only necessary for some readers. 2. a level-headed refutation of christian dogma; an assertion that there is no afterlife and hence no reward or punishment after one dies; and elaborations on different facets of a life lived accordingly. this section contains many examples of how even seemingly conflicting behavior is satanic according to the the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 4 of 30 author, and effectively virtually any behavior is inherently satan

, a ritual [i.e, magic] is used to attain, while a ceremony [i.e, a ritual] serves to sustain [15, p. 17] rituals serve as self-programming devices that maintain the follower s dedication to the religion, and they have a transfusing effect on the person s life. the satanic rituals includes the following rituals: 1. le messe noir a rite of passage intended to rid the follower of catholic christian dogma. 2. l air epais an initiation ritual in which the participant symbolically dies and is reborn as a satanist. 3. das tierdrama a reminder of one s animal heritage. 4. homage to tchort draws inspiration from russian folklore of various demons, which are summoned during the ritual. 5. the ceremony of the nine angles inspired by h. p. lovecraft, it is intended to emphasize potential. 6. the call

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nt leaders in the sixteenth century (many considered it idolatry) and from the eighteenth-century enlightenment that saw most supernaturalism as mere superstition. from the eighteenth century one can see documented an attempt to revive interest in marian devotion with the call for a definition of the immaculate conception (the belief that the virgin mary was born free of original sin) as official dogma (teachings. it also saw the publication of several massive works on mariology, especially the eminently successful glories of mary (1876) by alphonsus liguori, which became one of the most highly circulated books on mary in modern times. through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the role of mary in theology and her place in the devotional life of the church has increased significantly

her place in the devotional life of the church has increased significantly. in 1854, pope leo ix issued the bull defining the doctrine of the immaculate conception. over the next century, there were to be numerous papal encyclicals on mary that would culminate in 1950 with pope pius xii s definition of the assumption of mary (that at the end of her life she was taken body and soul into heaven) as dogma. integral to this expansion of theological and devotional interest in mary are a set of apparitions that began in 1820. in the last generation literally hundreds of apparitions of mary have been documented, but of these less than 20 have received the approbation of the church and become part of its ongoing devotional life. mary in the nineteenth century a new era in marian apparitions began

claimed apparition, they went out to the site and found that the spring was once again flowing. possibly the most famous of the modern apparitions occurred to young bernadette souberous, also in france, this time at the village of lourdes not far from the spanish border. bernadette was the subject of a series of apparitions beginning february 11, 1858, just four years after the definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception. she had been sent out to gather firewood when she wandered close to a grotto of massabielle. there she saw the lady whom she originally described as something in the shape of a girl. during the ninth apparition on february 25, she was told to drink and wash with water from a spot that mary pointed out to her. people dug around the spot that soon turned into a he

iduals in all walks of society, which she discussed in brain/mind bulletin (january 1976 (now known as new sense)in her editorial, the movement that has no name. ferguson claimed that the conspiracy had infected medicine, education, social science, hard science, even government with its implications. it is characterized by fluid organizations reluctant to create hierarchical structures, averse to dogma. it operates on the principle that change can only be facilitated, not decreed. it is short on manifestos. it seems to speak to something very old. and perhaps, by integrating magic and science, art and technology, it will succeed where all the king s horses and all the king s men failed. when writing her book about this new movement, ferguson felt that the subtle links and mutual recognitio

o hell. traces exist in lewd verses and songs. infernal influence is seen in pictures, sculptures, and carvings decorating palaces and cathedrals; the devil s likeness peeps out from carven screen and stall, and his demons appear in gargoyles grinning and leering from niche and corner and clustering beneath the eaves. the atmosphere of superstition and fevered imagination coexisted with religious dogma and repression. the great witchcraft manias flourished from the middle ages onward. the thousands of innocent men, women, and children who were brutally tortured and executed have left a deep stain on the church (see also black mass; evocation) sources: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1967. black mass according to the inquisitors, the black mass epitomized

and instability; and receives permission from jehovah to test the justice of this accusation, by afflicting job in everything he holds dear. we have here the spy, the informer, the public prosecutor, the executioner; all embodied in satan, the adversary: these attributes are not amiable ones, but the writer does not suggest the absolute antagonism between jehovah and satan, which is a fundamental dogma of modern christianity. in later judaism the concept of satan is strongly colored by persian dualism, and it has been supposed that asmodeus of the book of tobit is the same as aeshara daewa of the ancient persians. both satan and satans are mentioned in the book of enoch; in ecclesiasticus, satan is identified with the serpent of genesis; and in the book of the secrets of enoch his revolt a

work of collecting fortean data. founded january 26, 1931, the society was the forerunner of organizations studing unidentified flying objects and other bizarre phenomena. the first issue of the fortean society magazine appeared in september 1937. with the eleventh issue (winter 1944.45) the title was changed to doubt, emphasizing fort s characteristic preoccupation with healthy skepticism toward dogma. thayer died in 1959 and the society languished. doubt owed much to thayer s indefatigable enthusiasm, and issue no. 61 was the last. although the society was never officially dissolved, its work was superseded by info, the international fortean organization, headed by paul and ron willis, which publishes info journal (p.o. box 367, arlington, va 22210-0367. a related journal of fortean curi

and his followers represented spiritism, and pierart led the opposing faction commonly called spiritualists. kardec derived his communications chiefly from writings and trance mediums who proved the most susceptible to his influence, and is said to have persistently banished from his circles not only d. d. home, m. bredif, and other physical mediums but all those who did not endorse his favorite dogma through their communications. in nineteenth century miracles britten noted how the schism in french spiritualism reached out across europe. in france, kardec s personal influence fitted him for a propagandist and his opinions were generally accepted by his readers. little or no spiritualist literature had been disseminated in the french language when kardec s works were first published. he p

s. new york: frederick a. stokes, 1919. glamourie the state of mind in which witches were said to see apparitions and visions of many kinds (see also witchcraft) glanvill, joseph (1636.1680) chaplain to charles ii, prebendary of worcester, philosopher, and one of the earliest fellows of the royal society. an orthodox clergyman of the anglican church, glanvill was a selfavowed skeptic and enemy of dogma. he was the author of several books, including scepsis scientifica (1665) and sorcerers and sorcery (1666. he is best remembered as a precursor of modern psychical researchers and the author of sadicismus triumphatus (1681, which contains accounts of remarkable cases of witchcraft and details of the author s personal investigation into the poltergeist known as the drummer of tedworth. source

alist, an authority on alternative medicine and paranormal topics. inglis was born on july 31, 1916, in dublin. he attended shrewsbury and magdalene colleges, oxford (b.a, honors) and dublin university (ph.d. he served in the royal air force during world war ii and afterward became a journalist and author. he was editor of the spectator (1959.62. his original outlook on and mistrust of scientific dogma led him to join the society for psychical research in the early 1960s and make his own investigation into paranormal subjects. he was a founding member of the k.i.b. foundation, with arthur koestler, formed to encourage and promote research in fields presently outside scientific orthodoxies, such as parapsychology and alternative medicine (after the death of arthur koestler, the organization

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l and engaging in sexual orgies (charges discussed by montague summers in his history of witchcraft and demonology. he had joined the freemasons in 1850 and began working seriously on reforming what he thought of as worthless rituals. he became accomplished in hermetic, rosicrucian, and continental masonic traditions and incorporated extensive esoteric content. his monumental textbook, morals and dogma of freemasonry, appeared in 1872. since pike had dumped so much material pierrakos, john c. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1212 acquired from his memory, he refused to claim authorship. he could not determine what was his own contribution. he was never able to recover his prewar prominence in law, and increasingly he lost himself in freemasonry. in 1873 he moved into the

ght up the old accusation of pike having written the rituals of the ku klux klan and demanded that it be removed. lacking clear evidence of their accusations, they were unsuccessful. sources: brown, walter lee. albert pike, 1809.1891. fayetteville: university of arkansas press, 1997. duncan, robert lipscomb. reluctant general: the life and times of albert pike. n.p, 1961 [pike, albert. morals and dogma of freemasonry. 1871, 1905. reprint, kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1992. pike, james a(lbert (1913.1969) former episcopalian bishop of california, whose bestselling book the other side (1968) was a powerful argument for psychic phenomena and communication with the dead. pike was born on february 14, 1913, in oklahoma city, oklahoma. he was educated at the university of santa clara (1930

regularly for national and regional conferences and in small study groups. in 1979 johnson relocated to florida and opened the new age centre for alternative realities in orlando. also in 1979, some people who had found their primary spiritual home within the council organized the church of the spiritual advisory council and saw the first ministers of the new church ordained. sac has no creed or dogma but generally operates within a new age perspective. channeling, both for spiritual contact with the other world and for healing energies, is accepted. sac publishes the outreach newsletter. address: 2933 w. state rd. 434, longwood, fl 32279. the spiritual age (periodical) early american periodical serving the cause of spiritualism. spiritual athenaeum briefly the headquarters of british spi

vity to the descent of spiritual energy. this often causes pronounced convulsions, similar to the shakes or jerks elicited by nineteenth century evangelists at camp meetings, or the onset of kundalini energy in traditional hindu mysticism. this energy is seen as having a purifying function and reportedly brings intense feelings of peace when there is submission to divine will. subud has no creed, dogma, rules, or regulations but makes available the experience of the latihan to initiates. subud groups meet regularly in members homes or in rented halls. the movement does not advertise or proselytize. more than 70 north american cities have subud centers, and there are many in the united kingdom. address in north america: subud usa, 13701 bel-red rd, ste. b, bellevue, wa subud encyclopedia of

ck in his 1801 catalog of magical practice, the magus. the next important step in the establishment of the occult tarot occurred in the mid-nineteenth century when eliphas levi encountered a deck during his massive reworking of the magical tradition in light of mesmerist thought. he identified their magical power with animal magnetism, a theory still popular to the present. in 1853 levi published dogma de la haute magie, in which he first laid out his ideas tying the tarot to the ancient egyptian teacher hermes trismegistus, the legendary author of the hermetic magical writings. he then tied the cards to the hebrew magical/mystical kabala (which he spelled qabalah. he identified the numbered cards with the ten sephiroth. the court cards represented the stages of human life, and the suits s

ce, reported in proceedings of the society for psychical research (vol. 1, 1882, pp. 121.122, is noteworthy because mrs. birkbeck was conscious before she died of having spent the time with her children (see also j. w. goethe; vardo. gr) wrekin trust british based new age organization, concerned with the spiritual nature of man and the universe. it was not affiliated to any particular doctrine or dogma, did not offer any one way to the truth and helps people find the disciplines most suited to them. after more than 12 years of pioneering courses and conferences on the holistic world view and introductory approaches to various disciplines, the trust offered in addition, a curriculum for ongoing spiritual training. the inspiration was derived from the medieval concept of the university, whic

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

stian, islamic, and perhaps even the tantric religions are woven. in this book, that heritage is called the mystical qabalah.1 within the context of rabbinical judaism, this mystical tradition has come to be known as the jewish kabbalah, and in islam, as sufism (arabic tasawwuf. the christian cabala emerged from the mystical side of christianity, which developed as a parallel tradition to pauline dogma as it diverged and became estranged from its judaic roots. the christian cabala evolved as a way to harmonize jewish kabbalistic doctrines with christian theology. the precise usage of the word qabalah to denote the ideas and practices of the esoteric teachings and the secrets of the torah emerged from the circle of yitza aq the blind (1200ce, and was used in the same context by eleazar of w

s prophet nathan of gaza, and embraced as such by several million followers spread across the middle east. the phenomenon of zevi was further compounded by the widespread hermetic adulteration of jewish qabalistic teachings by european occultists, and a growing tendency among christian cabalists to attempt to establish that the true hidden meaning of the qabalah supports the efficacy of christian dogma. the widespread anti-qabalistic sentiment promulgated by both the rabbinical and pauline orthodox authority has been accompanied by a considerable amount of misinformation and fear mongering. even those rabbis and talmudic scholars who do not regard the mystical qabalah as evil and malicious echo the injunctions that it should only be studied by married jewish men over the age of forty who h

- 1 the mystical qabalah of the children of abraham reflects an ancient mystical transmission that preceded and supersedes any of the individual religious vessels through which it has been filtered and colored. orthodox jews sometimes refer to this transmission as the noachic kabbalah, linking it in name to noah who survived the great flood. outside the rigid myopia of compartmentalized religious dogma, the hebrew, jewish, christian, muslim, and perhaps even the tantric traditions, can be seen as branches of a single tree. these branches all share a common trunk and roots: the universal mystical spirituality of the absolute unity of the divine, and the primacy of love, surrender, and discrimination as the means for spiritual awakening from dualistic sleep. each of the branches is built aro

storted, or watered down. hence, jews generally regard master mosheh as a kind of holy magician, and have lost almost all awareness of the significance of master yeshuvah having come to renew the core mystical teaching of the jews within the context of judaism. considering that many christians themselves are confused by contradictions, inter-sect differences, and fundamentalist rigidity in church dogma, it is not surprising that most jews refute any credibility for master yeshuvah as being a messianic appearance of the lord hvhy. 2 f# hebrew name yeshuvah when master yeshuvah came, the jews were waiting for the messianic advent of the lord hvhy as acharit (the last, who was expected to liberate them from roman control and give the jews dominion in palestine. acharit has been described as r

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serve no man, hell is democracy. think not the words 'i wish' say not the words 'i will' respect thy body: it will again become thy parents. fear nothing,-strike at 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

lized or our belief. the great human factor in life is deceit: always the greater deceiver-self? the wrath is revealed against all that hold the truth in righteousness. still are those shallownesses, who could know they hide a universe? and tell me, what is it the obvious does not contain? know much of life! should death give you its secret? self suggestion-to will, this is the great teacher: not dogma. to those of fixed ideas, beware of suppressed evacuation. what the world reveres most, treat with the utmost contempt. consumption, evacuation, sleep: this labour suffers of no variation for to-morrow we again procreate life. o, fool! suicide does not exist. there is no death. death is change and for many very small change. you who stink like a butcher's shambles-what is your daily menu? be

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ce we know that "pythagorism, platonism, and the greek learning in general was in great part derived from the egyptians" why should not such learning in the hermetic books have come straight from the egyptian priests, its true source ?5 this circular argument shows how strong a hold renaissance respect for egypt as the fount of wisdom still had on cudworth's mind. the example he gives is that the dogma in trismegistic books "that nothing in the world perisheth, and that death is not the destruction, but change and translation of things only" though pythagorean, was derived by pythagoras from the egyptians and fits very well with another doctrine in these books that the world is a "second god" and therefore immortal. this may therefore well be some of the old egyptian learning preserved in

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

95% of all masons are wrong. this quote from masonic author, carl claudy sums it all up "cut through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut through that meaning and find another; under it, if you dig deep enough, you may find a third, a fourth- who shall say how many teachings" many who are in masonry are not aware that they are lied to. finally, remember albert pike's bold assertion in morals& dogma, that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries [p. 624, teachings of the 28th degree] of course these top 5% call jesus christ an "inferior god" they never, ever mention him in their teachings or their rituals. this shouldn't surprise you since the pope carries a ben

d works social organization" as quoted above, you have secrets within secrets. lucifer praised as the light-bearer of freemasonry "lucifer, the light-bearer! strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of darkness! lucifer, the son of the morning! is it he who bears the light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? doubt it not [albert pike, morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted scottish rite of freemasonry, p. 321, 19th degree of grand pontiff; red emphasis added] masons from the first initiation which is the first degree are urged to mightily "seek the light" the average mason is continually saying that he is "seeking the light" and will spend his entire life "moving toward the light" people who haven't studied this subject would assume

revelation. this insight completely squares with stated masonic policy of deliberately misleading masons in the lower degrees until they were really ready for the "truth" this is the truth- masonry worships lucifer. pike's typical satanic phrase- out where everyone can see concrete evidence is then given by pike of freemason's worship of satan/lucifer on the very front of the cover of morals and dogma. pike writes a latin phrase just below the round seal of "god" this is a phrase proven to be satanic. any "satanic brother" looking at this phrase would know that the contents of this book are satanic. they would also understand that the entire religion of freemasonry is satanic "deus meumque jus" is this phrase. the literal meaning is "god and my right" doc marquis says this statement is a

th the "good" and "evil" stars represented. thoth "the first hermes was the intelligence or word of god. moved with compassion for a race living without law. god sent to man osiris and isis, accompanied by thoth, the incarnation or terrestrial repetition of the first hermes; who taught men the arts, science, and the ceremonies of religion; and then ascended to heaven or the moon [pike, morals and dogma, p. 255, 17th degree, knights of the east and west; emphasis was in the original. helena petrovna blavatsky was founder of the house of theosophy. her books were all written by her demonic guiding spirits in a form that is called automatic writing. these writings tie thoth together nicely. hermes, the god of wisdom, called also thoth, tat, set, and sat-an; and that he was, furthermore, when

n their own minds, not good. pan. satan is not a black god, but negation of god. this is not a person, but a force, created for good, but which may represent evil. it is the instrument of liberty or free will. they represent this force. under the mythologic and horned form of the god pan; thence came the he-goat of the sabbat, brother of the ancient serpent, and the light-bearer [pike, morals and dogma, p. 102] since the satanic bible lists pan as one of the infernal names of satan, we need to look further into the occult for more information on pan. however, we now know that, from pan came the he-goat of the sabbat, brother of the serpent, and the light-bearer [lucifer, because albert pike, the #1 freemason of all history, has just told us. one thing more to keep in mind. they have planne

n freemasonry the serpent is a very important symbol within both freemasonry and christianity. it was also important in ancient civilizations. it shouldn't be a shock to you to learn that freemasonry worships the serpent. most pagan groups have done this for the past 5,000 years. remember the serpent in eden? albert pike speaks greatly about the importance of the worship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids

mbols illustrated, p. 28] wonderful. this statement means that freemasonry practices both white magic and black magick witchcraft. the illuminati practices black magick witchcraft, and so will antichrist! albert pike then reveals that other mysteries' religions throughout the globe and at different times also worshipped the serpent, in various ways. for example [quotes below taken from morals and dogma, p. 496-500] 1 "the phoenicians represented the god nomu (kneph or amun-kneph) by a serpent" 2 "in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of horhat the good genius; the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" means "guardian] 3) in ancient tyre, and india "a serpent was. coiled around the trunk of a

the wheel of life" cirlot, a dictionary of symbols, p. 286-288] albert pike gives us the explanation for these two masonic columns, both of which depict a serpent "serpents encircling rings and globes, and issuing from globes, are common in the persian, egyptian, chinese, and indian monuments. vishnu is represented reposing on a coiled serpent, whose folds form a canopy over him [pike, morals and dogma, teachings of the 25th degree, knight of the brazen serpent, p. 500] notice that the column on the left not only has a serpent encircling a globe, but notice also that the globe itself has wings. another source quotes h.g. wells as saying that the winged globe is "to become the symbol of the new world order when it overtly rules the world [fritz springmeier, the watchtower and the masons, po

ates take a solemn vow to never divulge their secrets, under the penalty of having their throat slit and being disemboweled? but, albert pike, the most revered 33 degree mason of all time, has more blasphemy. listen to him describe the ouroboros, the symbol of the serpent devouring his own tail "it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring its own tail [morals and dogma, p. 734, teachings of the 28th degree, knight of the sun, or prince adept] thus, freemasonry blasphemes both jesus christ and the holy spirit of the trinity. what did jesus christ say about this type of situation "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. and whosoever speaketh a word against the son o

however, arthur waite, occultist and 33rd degree mason quotes eliphas levi who is also a 33rd degree, tells us that the letter "g" stands for venus, and that venus' symbol is a lingam, a stylized phallis [masonic author, arthur edward waite, the mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, chicago, delaurence, scott, and company, 1909, p. 217] albert pike states within morals and dogma [page 631-32] that the monad[#1] is male, and the duad[#2] is female. their sexual union produces the triad[#3, which is "represented by the letter 'g, the generative principle" this term "generative principle" is code for the sex act. sex act in columns- broken and unbroken the broken column is utilized by the eastern star and freemasonry. it contains many levels of meanings. the initiate i

for satan. isis is the consort of lucifer. isis just lost her husband (osiris, that is the reason why she is weeping. osiris' body was dismembered, including his penis, which had been cut into many sections. isis and osiris were wrote about by albert pike, saying they were "the active and passive principles of the universe. commonly symbolized by the generative parts of man and woman [morals and dogma, p. 401] you must focus on the bottom of the broken column and not the top. the bottom of the column shows the phallic upright column inserted into the circular base, which is the symbol of the female vulva. the column is broken, of course, to symbolize the belief that osiris' penis had been cut into many sections. but albert mackey, 33 degree masonic author, states that the regular column i

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ave explained is included in the words of the emerald tablet of hermes trismegistus: gthat which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above, for the operations of the wonders of the one thing. h gto deny hell h, writes eliphas levi, gis also to deny heaven h then he says: seeing that, according to the most exalted interpretation of the great hermetic dogma, hell is the equilibrating reason of heaven, for harmony results from the analogy of contraries, quod superius, sicut quod inferius. superiority presupposes inferiority; the depth determines the height, and to fill up the valleys is to efface mountains, so also to take away shadows would be to destroy light, as this is only visible by the graduated contrast of darkness and day; a universal o

nes the height, and to fill up the valleys is to efface mountains, so also to take away shadows would be to destroy light, as this is only visible by the graduated contrast of darkness and day; a universal obscurity would be produced by all-dazzling brilliance. the very existence of colour in light is due to the presence of shadow; it is the triple alliance of day and night, the luminous image of dogma, the light made shadow, and the saviour is the word made man. all this rests on the same law, which is the first law of creation, the one absolute law of nature, being that of distinction and harmonious balancing of opposing forces in universal equilibrium. 17 the source of messianic power. as the creation of the world was out of chaos, so must its destruction, which carries with it its spir

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

sociated with a serpent as the cause of evil in the world, the history of the god seth, who, as we have seen, represented the processes of nature, namely destruction and regeneration, seems quite significant as indicating some of the actual processes involved in this change. there can be little doubt that the facts relating to this deity indicate the source whence has sprung the great theological dogma underlying christianity, that woman is the cause of evil in the world. chapter x. ancient speculations concerning creation "daughters of jove, all hail! but o inspire the lovely song! the sacred race proclaim of ever-living gods; who sprang from earth, from the starred heaven, and from the gloomy night, and whom the salt deep nourished into life. declare how first the gods and earth became;

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later age. why indeed should it not have been so, seeing that for 1500 years in europe the nations had reposed in a state of apathy without culture, had made almost no progress, and had been hide-bound by the fetters of a religious establishment which boasted itself upon its exclusiveness, its control of all that god gave or man could receive, and formulated and practisedchristian rosenkreuz15the dogma that there was no revelationbutane- the bible- and that the bible was unsuitable to the people, whose soleduty was to support a priesthood, from whose personal attention and propitiation alone was any good to be obtained. so long as vast nations were taught that neither mind, nor intellect, nor man's spiritual soul required any further culture, nor any further enlightenment than could be obt

al essence; behind the astral form and the material image lies the concealed spirit, the vis ab initio, the energy from on high, from the exalted, from the divine essence. man, too, is triune, for man is a copy of the microcosm, which is a reflection of the macrocosm, the greater man 255 man's universe 'that which is below is like that which is above, says the smaragdine tablet, and this hermetic dogma is absolute truth. man has a material form. man has an astral form around which the matter has collected. both are ever changing, both are progressing. behind and above these, man exists as the dweller in these garbs, the higher spiritual ego, itself again triune.thehigh magic of the true rosicrucian is the knowledge of how to perceive by the mental powers of the lower man, the reflections o

e second temple.ofits existence before this time i know of no evidence. one of the chief books, thesepheryetsirah,is ascribed to abraham:butmodern criticism, which is hardly disposed to grant the existence of abraham, does not of course assent to this ascription.ithas been suggested that the captivity of the jews in babylon led to the formation of this philosphy by the effect of chaldean lore and dogma acting on jewish tradition. no doubt in the earliest stages of its existence the teaching was entirely oral, and became varied by the minds through whom it filtered in its course: there is no proof that any part of it was written for centuries after; and it was kept curiously distinct both from the exoteric pentateuchal mosaic doctrine, and from the ever255 growing talmudic commentaries.them

assimilate that which the mind's eye can at any time perceive; the process cannot be forced, mystic lore cannot be stolen.ifany learner did appropriate the knowledge of a grade beyond him, it would be tohimbutfolly, disappointment and darkness. i have myself often been offered a doctrine, or assertion, or explanation, which my intellect has rejected as absurd, or as sheer superstition; which same dogma1have later in life assimilated with every feeling of esteem, occultism in this resembles freemasonry; we are either admitted to the hidden knowledge, or we are not;andifwe are not admitted, we never believe any secret of its ritual even if it be offered to us.thesecrets of occultism are like freemasonry; intruththey are to some extent the secretsthatfreernasonyhas lost.theyare of their very

to combat the risk of death what weapon should we expect to find chosen? whatbutthe threat of death?nota perfect116themagical masonweapon possibly, not an ideally perfect one, not a heavenly one;butone applicable and competent to protect against evil doers. now freemmasonry has, it has appeared, a grand central idea, a creator, a one god. does history give us any record that the holders of such a dogma have been the mass of the inhabitants, or the greatest men throughout the world or throughout the centuries? or does history show us that believers in a unique impersonal deity, pure and undefiled, not consenting unto iniquity, have ever been aughtbuta minority, often persecuted, and always reviled?theminority has doubt255 less been a growing one, and has of late been too important to be cru

able to trace in definite order every step in the vast procession of forms through which the monotheistic secret has been shrouded, veiled, and preserved, or eventotrace a distinct groove in the wheel of time inanyonenation or century,buthistory is at no time free from the survival of scraps of evidence that a mystic association was at work, preserving and consecrating some high ideal, some great dogma.theabsence of distinct and definite histories of secret monotheistic societies is really an evidence of their reality and of their successful operation, and the vast number of forms assumed by the true believers, at one time resembling a military organization, at another a priesthood, at another a philosophic sect, at another time the secret held by three, two, or even oneman-aking-atothers

an entirely new scheme in the 16th or 17th century it must have arisen in a christian land, and would certainly have been marked by specially trinitarian features, which would have remained permanent. now as collateral evidence of my contention i pray you to follow me into the consideration that in our freemasonry may yet be traced allusions and references to that system of esoteric teaching and dogma, which was undeniably the result of the destruction of the exoteric monotheism of judea, i mean the jewish kabbalah-s-whiqh first took shape as a definite secret sophia, wisdom or doctrine after the fall of jerusalem, and which was founded on the basis of the monotheistic truths accumulated during centuries of more or less pure outward observance of a monotheistic religion. this kabbalah the

s. i am content to recognise that all these associations have been concerned in its growth, and am content that our present system points boldly to the cardinal truth, confessing that in its progression along the ladder of time it has been assisted by each and all of these, and has survived them, and has thus proved its right to exist. to say the least ofitthe mystery would only be increased by a dogma that the officials of freemasonry in the seventeenth century were so intensely learned that they con255 structedpropiomotu,such a system, in which the doctrines and essays of the most ancient aporreta shine forth.thekabbalah as a system of theosophy has pre-eminent claims to be consideredprimusinterpares,among all the theistic speculations of mankind, which have a bearing on, and have taken

n rather than gods, because they were themselves under control of a few higher deities such as jove and saturn.theromans believed in the genius loci, or guardian of a place, and in the 'lares publici, and 'lares domestici' of the home. zoroaster appears to have taught the existence of spirits or angels who were at man's disposition for intercession with god, and paul appears to have combated this dogma.themohammedans taught that two guardian angels watched each man's actions, one registering his good and the other his bad actions, and that they were so regardful of man's fate that they deferred a decision on his conduct after a wicked action until they had allowed him to sleep, and if on awaking he repented him of the evil the bad record was not made. among the ancient persians there was a

t, they are four principal angels who stand around the throne of jehovah; they are michael, gabriel, raphael and uriel.inthe curious ancient jewish volume named the book of enoch there is constant reference to many named angels concerned in the fall of angels and man. among the jews of olden time, only those of the sect of the sadduceesdenied the interference of angelsinhuman concerns. one quaint dogma on angels said that'noangel carries two messages, nor two angels one message, bereshith rabba. we shall now consider the more purely rabbinic notions which have no support among the christian teachers. rabbi jochanan says angels were created on the second day. rabbi chanina allots them to the fifth day of creation. rabbi bechai asserts that angels are of an ephermeral nature, created from th

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to was published which confirmed the first, but contained some additions relative to some developments that had occurred in the meantime. thousands of thinkers, scientists, writers and members of the media signed the second manifesto, which is supported by the still very active american humanist association. when we examine the manifestos, we find one basic foundation in each of them: the atheist dogma that the universe and human beings were not created but exist independently, that human beings are not responsible to any other authority besides themselves, and that belief in god has retarded the development of individuals and societies. for example, the first six articles of the first humanist manifesto are as follows: first: religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and no

nce makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. sixth: we are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought."35 in the above articles, we see the expression of a common philosophy that manifests itself under such names as materialism, darwinism, atheism and agnosticism. in the first article, the materialist dogma of the eternal existence of the universe is put forward. the second article states, as the theory of evolution does, that human beings were not created. the third article denies the existence of the human soul claiming that human beings are composed of matter. the fourth article proposes a "cultural evolution" and denies the existence of a divinely ordained human nature (a special human natu

120 million people were killed by communist regimes or organizations. it is also evident that the western brand of humanism (capitalist systems) has not succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to their own societies or to other areas of the world. the collapse of humanism's argument on religion has also been manifested in the field of psychology. the freudian myth, a corner-stone of the atheist dogma since early twentieth century, has been invalidated by empirical data. patrick glynn, of the george washington university, explains this fact in his book titled god: the evidence, the reconciliation of faith and reason in a postsecular world: the last quarter of the twentieth century has not been kind to the psychoanalytic vision. most significant has been the exposure of freud's views of re

and square among the most familiar symbols of masonry is the compass superimposed over a square. if masons are asked, they explain that this symbol represents the concepts of science, geometric order and rational thinking. however, the compass and square actually has quite a different meaning. we can learn this from a book written by one of the greatest masons of all time. in his book morals and dogma, albert pike wrote the following about the compass and square: the square. is a natural and appropriate symbol of this earth. the hermaphroditic figure is the symbol of the double nature anciently assigned to the deity, as generator and producer, as brahm and maya among the arians, osiris and isis among the egyptians. as the sun was male, so the moon was female.78 this means that the compass

lity of energy, evolving and dying, but never totally disappearing. things change and are transformed. there is really no such thing as death or loss; there is continuous change, transformation and formation. but it is not possi- global freemasonry dcg ble to explain this great question and universal secret by means of scientific laws. but extra-scientific explanations are imaginary descriptions, dogma and vain belief. according to positivist science and reason, there is no spirit apart from the body.81 you will find views identical to those above in the books of materialist thinkers such as k. marx, f. engels, v .i. lenin, g. politzer, c. sagan, and j. monod. they all accept the basic materialist myth that the universe has existed for ever, matter is the one absolute existent entity, huma

n these foundations. some of the symbolic meanings of these elements were not contrary to science and logic and so survive in various places in our rituals today.97 the words quoted above "purged of vain religious beliefs and dogmas" mean that initiates were made to reject religion at all. that is how the mason isindag defines religion. however, as we examined in earlier sections "vain belief and dogma" is a euphemism particular to masonic philosophy. it must be recognized that masonry, or any other materialist group, express such anti-religious ideas without logical justification; they rely only on propaganda and suggestion. because they cannot denounce religion rationally, they resort to these methods of suggestion and words selected to create a particular psychological effect. from the

subjection and ready to oppose the demands of the bourgeoisie. natural science became a weapon in the opposition to belief and tradition; science and the newly discovered natural laws were put forward; it was with these weapons that the bourgeoisie fought. darwinism came at the desired time; darwin' s theory that man is the descendant of a lower animal destroyed the entire foundation of christian dogma. it is for this reason that as soon as darwinism made its appearance, the bourgeoisie grasped it with great zeal..under these circumstances, even the scientific discussions were carried on with the zeal and passion of a class struggle. the writings that appeared pro and con on darwin have therefore the character of social polemics, despite the fact that they bear the names of scientific auth

el exists that explains this great deed, that is the act of "leap" we must believe that there was a phase of development in which there was a great rush of activity that caused life to pass at a particular moment from that phase to another.114 it is possible here to recognize masonic fanaticism. when the writer says that they "reject a kind of creation that excludes man" he is repeating the basic dogma of humanism, that "a human being is the highest creature that exists" and announcing that masons reject any other explanation. when he says "an abnormal kind of creation" he means god's intervention in the creation of living beings, rejecting this possibility a priori (however, what is truly abnormal is that masons accept, without observation or experiment, the illogical belief that lifeless

ptize this holy struggle of ours and bring it to an end: eat one more piece of bread, brothers, you are the missionaries of this religion, let those saints who share this bread be friends. brothers, to be blood brothers, take another sip of flame from your wine glass (mason, year: 29, no.40-41, 1981, pp. 105-107) djl the masonic war against religion global freemasonry dkc the materialist-humanist dogma espoused by the masons has brought great suffering upon humanity in the twentieth century. world war two cost 55 million people their lives. this photograph of a fallen soldier, whose face was shattered by a bomb near stalingrad, is just one example of the great human suffering that was created by "humanist" ideologies. dkd the masonic war against religion global freemasonry dke in other wor

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while fundamentalism is ambivalent to the intellect, it uses a restricted form of rationalism to hold its doctrines in place, accordingly, fundamentalism is most prevalent in religions of "the book- protestantism, islam and so forth. while other forms of fundamentalism exist, the most pernicious forms are those which in reaction to materialism and scientism use rationalism to create a stalwart of dogma and doctrine, and yet in the process destroy the very foundation of the true religious vision- mysticism. to appreciate the esoteric and mystical view of truth we need to travel back to ancient greece and examine the allegory of the cave as used by plato. this allegory, beyond all others, offers us a real insight into the problem of what truth is. plato sees all of humanity as prisoners, eac

very, very wrong. in the early christian church there were many that taught reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus- to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnation became unpopular and this was coupled with the development of teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire, purgatory and other dogma's which were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that reincarnation was finally and formally condemned. in regards to scripture itself it is obvious that church copyists have removed many of the classic reincarnation references, however, references still do occur if you look closely and carefully

prove a certain viewpoint. the gnostic apostolic church is working hard to help in the restoration of the bible to its original purity and to reinstate the esoteric or mystery teachings that are central to real christianity. multiple levels of truth inherent within the mystery teachings is the understanding that truth is a complex and multifaceted thing and cannot be reduced to simple doctrine or dogma. accordingly, within the ancient gnostic teachings there was a clear understanding that there were (and are) multiple levels on which truth operates. when st.paul discusses in hebrews that there is solid food and there is milk or infant food in regards to truth, he is simply re-iterating the teaching of multiple truth levels. in fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need so

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, this time carved on the side of a narrow pillar, was similarly bearded and attired. who were these conspicuous strangers? what were they doing in central america? when did they come? and what relationship did they have with those other strangers who had settled in this steamy rubber jungle the ones who had provided the models for the great negro heads? some radical researchers, who rejected the dogma concerning the isolation of the new world prior to 1492, had proposed what looked like a viable solution to the problem: the bearded, thin-featured individuals could have been phoenicians from the mediterranean who had sailed through the pillars of hercules and across the atlantic ocean as early as the second millennium bc. advocates of this theory went on to suggest that the negroes shown a

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

cago: de laurence, 1932. 6 norman cohn, europe's inner demons, the demonization of christians in medieval christendom (pimlico: london, 1975) provides an excellent historical analysis of this phenomenon. 2 at the close of the twentieth century, as well as of the millennium, we live under very different conditions than did the magicians of earlier times. science has greatly diminished the power of dogma to determine how we see the world, and psychology has emerged to fill the role once played by theurgy. we live in an age of religious tolerance, wherein christians may again begin to embrace the value of magic. indeed, christ the magus is the ideal of christian magicians. let the intolerant and the self-righteous remember that the religious leaders of his day accused christ himself of evil m

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d statelier devotion (attentio) which we find woven into numerous legends and sermons. but mary does not stand alone by a long way. immediately at her side there has grown up in the catholic and greek churches an interminable adoration of saints, to make up for heathen gods of the second or third rank, for heroes and wisewomen, and to fill the heart by bridging the gulf between it and pure deity. dogma may distinguish between deity and intercessors; but how many a pious lip, moving in prayer before the sacred image, must be unaware of this distinction, or forget it! and further, among the saints themselves there are various xxxyin peeface. grades, and the particular troubles under which they can be of service are parcelled out among them like so many offices and lines of business, so that

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l constituent parts of the body. none of the fathers seem to be acquainted with the theory of the eight constituents of the first man; i will not venture to decide whether it was already familiar to heathen times, and maintained itself by the side of the eddie doctrine, or first arose out of the collision of this with christian teaching, and is to be regarded as a fuller development of the adamic dogma. if adam was interpreted to mean clay, it was but taking a step farther to explain, more precisely, that the flesh only was borrowed from earth, but the bones from stones, and the hair from grass. it is almost unscriptural, the way in which the mhgr. poetizer of genesis (fundgr. 2, 15) launches out into such minutiee: f duo got zeinitzen stucchen den man zesamene wolte rucchen, duo nam er, s

in some mss; but interpolation is not a thing to be gauged by the contents alone, it must be incontrovertibly established by explicit proofs. even if it did take place, neither the heathen character of the myth nor the age of the poem as a whole is thereby brought under suspicion. for, as the heathen faith among early converted races was not demolished at a blow, 2 so here and there a chris tian dogma may also have penetrated even to nations that were still heathen; conversely some heathen ways of thinking lingered on among christians. consider how the author of the heliand (131-2-3, while following the gospels in describing the approach of the last day, yet admits such rank heathenisms as f gebanes strom and mudspelhv in the very personifying of the judg ment day( verit stuatago in lant/

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

believe there were nations as cultured in days of old and certainly more spiritually "advanced" than we are. but there are several reasons for this willing ignorance. one of them was given by st. paul to the cultured athenians-a loss, for long centuries, of real spiritual insight, and even interest, owing to their too great devotion to things of sense and their long slavery to the dead letter of dogma and ritualism. but the strongest reason for it lies in the fact that real theosophy has ever been kept secret. q. you have brought forward proofs that such secrecy has existed; but what was the real cause for it? a. the causes for it were: 1. the perversity of average human nature and its selfishness, always tending to the gratification of personal desires to the detriment of neighbors arid

are the soul of the wisdom-religion, and were once the common property of the initiates of all nations. but buddha was the first to embody these lofty ethics in his public teachings, and to make them the foundation and the very essence of his public system. it is herein that lies the immense difference between exoteric buddhism and every other religion. for while in other religions ritualism and dogma hold the first and most important place, in buddhism it is the ethics which have always been the most insisted upon. this accounts for the resemblance, amounting almost to identity, between the ethics of theosophy and those of the religion of buddha. q. are there any great points of difference? a. one great distinction between theosophy and exoteric buddhism is that the latter, represented b

a god who takes upon himself the risk of creating a new soul for every new-born baby, all that can be said is that such a god can hardly be regarded as himself endowed with any wisdom or prevision. certain other difficulties and the impossibility of reconciling this with the claims made for the mercy, justice, equity and omniscience of that god, are so many deadly reefs on which this theological dogma is daily and hourly broken. page 38 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. what do you mean? what difficulties? a. i am thinking of an unanswerable argument offered once in my presence by a singhalese buddhist priest, a famous preacher, to a christian missionary-one in no way ignorant or unprepared for the public discussion during which it was advanced. it was near colombo, and the missio

ophers taught, and if it is the same, and nothing more than the metaphysically-objective soul, how can it be otherwise than eternal? and what matters it in such a case, whether man leads a pure life or an animal, if, do what he may, he can never lose his individuality? a. this doctrine, as you have stated it, is just as pernicious in its consequences as that of vicarious atonement. had the latter dogma, in company with the false idea that we are all immortal, been demonstrated to the world in its true light, humanity would have been bettered by its propagation. let me repeat to you again. pythagoras, plato, timaeus of locris, and the old alexandrian school, derived the soul of man (or his higher principles and attributes) from the universal world soul, the latter being, according to their

es be fixed that may our rage contain, and punish faults with a proportioned pain; but do not flay him who deserves alone a whipping for the fault that he has done. this is a rule for all men, and a just one. have we to believe that god, of whom you make the embodiment of wisdom, love and mercy, is less entitled to these attributes than mortal man? q. have you any other reasons for rejecting this dogma? a. our chief reason for it lies in the fact of reincarnation. as already stated, we reject the idea of a new soul created for every newly-born babe. we believe that every human being is the bearer, or vehicle, of an ego coeval with every other ego; because all egos are of the same essence and belong to the primeval emanation from one universal infinite ego. plato calls the latter the logos

orn, nor can he choose the parents that will give him life. in every respect he is a victim to his environment, the child of circumstances over which he has no control; and if each of his transgressions were impartially investigated, there would be found nine out of every ten cases when he was the one sinned against, rather than the sinner. it is on this transgression that the cruel and illogical dogma of the fallen angels has been built. it is explained in vol. ii of the secret doctrine. all our "egos" are thinking and rational entities (manasaputas) who had lived, whether under human or other forms, in the precedent life cycle (manvantara, and whose karma it was to incarnate in the man of this one. it was taught in the mysteries that, having delayed to comply with this law (or having "re

y ego, which thus becomes its own savior in each world and incarnation. q. but christianity teaches the same. it also preaches progression. a. yes, only with the addition of something else. it tells us of the impossibility of attaining salvation without the aid of a miraculous savior, page 73 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt and therefore dooms to perdition all those who will not accept the dogma. this is just the difference between christian theology and theosophy. the former enforces belief in the descent of the spiritual ego into the lower self; the latter inculcates the necessity of endeavoring to elevate oneself to the christos, or buddhi state. q. by teaching the annihilation of consciousness in case of failure, however, don't you think that it amounts to the annihilation of se

rieve when we sin, rejoice when we repent yet it becomes evident that if all the bishops the world over were asked to define once for all what they mean by soul and its functions, they would be as unable to do so as to show us any shadow of logic in the orthodox belief -ooo- the doctrine is taught in st. john's gospel q. to this the adherents to this belief might answer, that if even the orthodox dogma does promise the impenitent sinner and materialist a bad time of it in a rather too realistic inferno, it gives them, on the other hand, a chance for repentance to the last minute. nor do they teach annihilation, or loss of personality, which is all the same. a. if the church teaches nothing of the kind, on the other hand, jesus does; and that is something to those, at least, who place chris

as naught, tomorrow it will judge or after many days* such is the law which moves to righteousness, which none at last can turn aside or stay; the heart of it is love, the end of it is peace and consummation sweet. obey. and now i advise you to compare our theosophic views upon karma, the law of retribution, and say whether they are not both more philosophical and just than this cruel and idiotic dogma which makes of "god" a senseless fiend; the tenet, namely, that the "elect only" will be saved, and the rest doomed to eternal perdition! q. yes, i see what you mean generally; but i wish you could give some concrete example of the action of karma? a. that i cannot do. we can only feel sure, as i said before, that our present lives and circumstances are the direct results of our own deeds an

faith, moreover, which clashes not only with every conceivable view of justice and logic, but which, if analyzed, leads man to his moral perdition, checks the progress of mankind, and positively making of might, right-transforms every second man into a cain to his brother abel. q. what do you allude to -ooo- has god the right to forgive? a. to the doctrine of atonement; i allude to that dangerous dogma in which you believe, and which teaches us that no matter how enormous our crimes against the laws of god and of man, we have but to believe in the self-sacrifice of jesus for the salvation of mankind, and his blood will wash out every stain. it is twenty years that i preach against it, and i may now draw your attention to a paragraph from isis unveiled, written in 1875. this is what christi

he clergy; assumptions banged at the heads of your countrymen by england's favorite preachers, right in the "light of the nineteenth century -this most paradoxical age of all. now to what does it lead? q. does it not make the christian happier than the buddhist or brahmin? a. no; not the educated man, at any rate, since the majority of these have long since virtually lost all belief in this cruel dogma. but it leads those who still believe in it more easily to the threshold of every conceivable crime, than any other i know of. let me quote to you once more: if we step outside the little circle of creed and consider the universe as a whole balanced by the exquisite adjustment of parts, how all sound logic, how the faintest glimmering sense of justice, revolts against this vicarious atonemen

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ind or another. sometimes it s interesting to ask awkward questions just to see what the selfappointed experts come out with. some will emit a stream of verbal diahorrea rather than admit to not knowing the answer, whereas a true adept will probably say i 15 oven-ready chaos haven t a f**g clue. quite early on, chaos magicians came to the startling discovery that once you strip away the layers of dogma, personal beliefs, attitudes and anecdotes around any particular technique of practical magick, it can be quite simply described. 3. technical excellence. one of the early misconceptions about chaos magick was that it gave practitioners carte blanche to do whatever they liked, and so become sloppy (or worse, soggy) in their attitudes to self-assessment, analysis, etc. not so. the chaos appro

r own development- what you do, and how you interpret it in the light of your own experience. i m occassionally asked by people what do you have to do to become a chaos magician. there really isn t an answer to this. you could, for example, practice qabalah (and exclusively qabalah) for ten years, and thus consider yourself a chaos magician- if you wanted to. above all, don t confuse opinion with dogma, or glamour for commitment- but that s only my opinion anyway! hail eris! phil hine, march 1992. 49 oven-ready chaos appendices the following essays are appended as sources of interest& inspiration for readers who are interested in reading more about someone else s approach to chaos magick, and most definitely not to pad out an otherwise slim volume. most have appeared in nox magazine or som

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ys remain hidden from incompetent persons, though hundreds of books should be published about them. a true magician does not know any hatred against religions or sects, since he knows that every religion does have a fixed system that is intended to lead to god, and that is why he respects them. it is a well known fact that every religion has made mistakes, but he does not condemn it because every dogma is serving the spiritual maturity of its followers. in the due course of his development the magician goes through that stage of maturity where he can see with his mental eyes through every idea, every action and deed, no matter whether present, past or future, and it is quite obvious that he might feel tempted to judge and condemn his fellow men. but by doing so he would act against the div

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he keys of the celestial gates. is any one of them in possession of this rare truth? or, must we exclaim with the buddhist philosopher "there is but one truth on earth, and it is unchangeable: and this is that there is no truth on it" though we have no disposition whatever to trench upon the ground that has been so exhaustively gleaned by those learned scholars who have shown that every christian dogma has its origin in a heathen rite, still the facts which they have exhumed, since the enfranchisement of science, will lose nothing by repetition. besides, we propose to examine these facts from a different and perhaps rather novel point of view: that of the old philosophies as esoterically understood. these we have barely glanced at in our first volume. we will use them as the standard by wh

man sacri- fices, incantations, witchcraft, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently overlook a few insignificant details, among which is the undeniable presence of heathen phauicism in the christian symbols. a strong spiritual element of this worship may be easily demonstrated in the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mother of god; and a physical element equally proved in the fetish-worship of the holy livju of sts. cosmo and damiano at laemia, near naj; a successful traffic in which er-votos in wax was carried on by the clergy annually, until bardy a century ago* we &id it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their viob wrath in such sen

representatives on earth of that same meek jesus, unhesitatingly curse whoever resists their despotic will. besides, was not the 'son' long since crowded by them into the background? hey make thar obeisance only to the dowager mother, for according to thor teaching again through 'the direct spirit of god' she alone acts as a mediatrix. the oectunenical council of 1870 embodied the teaching into a dogma, to disbelieve wliicb is to be doomed forever to the 'bottomless pit' the work of don pasquale di franciscis is positive on that point; for he tells ua that, as the queen of heaven owes to the present pope "the finest gem in her coronet" since he has conferred on her the uniexpected honor of becoming suddenly immaculate, thne b nothing she cannot obtain from her son for "her church" some yea

ls hurled into it by siva are allowed by para- brahman to consider it as an intermediate state, in which an opportunity is afforded them to prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemp- tion from their wretched condition. the gehenna of the new testa- ment was a locality outside the walls of jerusalem; and ill mentioning it jesus used but an ordinary metaphor. whence then came the dreary dogma of hell, that archimedean lever of christian theology, with whidi they have succeeded in holding in subjection the numberless millions of christians for nineteen centuries? assuredly not from the jewish scriptures, and we appeal for corroboration to any well-informed hebrew scholar. he only suggestion of something approaching hell in the bible is gehenna or hinnom, a valley near jerusalem, w

thereby* the skeptical gentleman had evidently forgotten that centuries ago st, augustine solved the di sculty. have we not the word of this learned divine that hell, nevertheless, ia in the center of the earth, for "god supphes the central fire with air iy a miracuf" the argument is unanswerable, and so we will not seek to upset it* the christians were the first to make the existence of satan a dogma of the church. and once that she had established it, she had to struggle for over 1700 years for the repression of a mysterious force which it was her policy to make appear of diabolical origin. unfortunately, in manifesting itself, this force invariably tends to upset such a belief by the ridiculous discrepancy it presents between the alleged cause 23. ariatotle meatioiu ^rthagonuu who plac

nd fall itf the annan empin, ch. xxi. 52. zisis unveiled irenaeua, not the adept of the esseoes, the obscure reformer from galilee. we see him under the disfigured nato-philoneaa mask, not as when the disciples heard him on the mount. so far then the heathen philosophy had helped them in the building of the principal dogma. but when the theurgists of the third neo ^atonic school, deprived of their ancient mysteries, strove to blend the doctrines of plato with those of aristotle, and by combining the two philosophies added to their theosophy the primeval docbioes ot the oriental kabala, then the christians from rivals became persecutors. once that the metaphysical allegories of plato were being prepared to be d

life as a sacrifice for his race to the gods whom he hoped to rejoin, or an animal victim. the former [mode of expiation] depended entirely on his own will. at the last moment of the solemn 'new birth' the initiator passed 'the word' to the initiated, and im- mediately after that the latter had a weapon placed in his right hand, and was ordered to strike" this is the true origin of the christian dogma of atonement. 73. see zohar; kabbalu denvdala; siphra dbtniuoua. the oldcat book of the kkbaluu; and milmsn: hitlory of diritfianilg, pp. 212-215, origiiul edition, 1840. 74. milnun; op. cil, p. 280. the kvriot uid kara art mentbned repeatedly by justin martyr; ne/ apol, ch. 64, etc. 75. see okhaubeu: biiliau commttdary on neic tettament, introduction, 1: new york, 1857-60. 76. there i* a wi

champollion junior discovered a picture, according to his opinion the most ancient ever yet found. it represents the heavens symbolized by the figure of a woman bedecked with stars. the birth of the sun is figured by the form of a little child, issuing from the bosom of its' divine mother* in the book of hermet, pomander, is enunciated in distinct and un- equivocal sentences the whole trinitarian dogma accepted hy the chris- tians "that light i am" says fymander, the divinb thodoht "i am the naut or intelligence; and i am thy god; and i am far oldn than the humid principle which escapes from the shadow. i am the germ of thought, the resplendent wobd, the son of god. think that wiiat thus sees and hears in thee, is the verbum of the master, it is the lliou^t, which ia god the father "the ce

n. thou commandest us and vie are forced to confeae that nobody is damned who only perseveres in thy holy worship, etc, etc^ luther's "saint satan" assures him that while believing m the transubstantiation of christ's body and blood he had been worshiping merely bread and wine; and the deeih of all the cathohc saints promise vernal damnation to whomsoever disbelieves or even so much aa doubts the dogma! before leaving the subject, let us give one or two more instances from alban butler's the lines of the fathers, martyrs and outer principal savits, selected from such narratives as are fully accepted by the church. we might 611 volumes with proofs of undeniable confederacy between the exorcizers and the demons. their very nature betrays them. instead of being independent, crafty entities be

or ut natare; and a man bowing down b adoration thereof ihows tbe mme idea as ii depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progress. blind faith in the pope's infallibility and in the immaculate nature of the virgin and afker atkestral female lineage to a certain remove could alone save the church from the indiscreet revelations of saence. it was a clever strc^e of polk^ on the part of the vicegerent of go

the im- possibility of sinning, can claim no virtue, no personal merit for her purity, precisely for which, as we were taught to believe in our younger days, she was chosen among all other women. if his holiness has de- prived her of this, perhaps on the other hand he thinks that he has en- dowed her with at least one physical attribute not shared by the other virgin-goddesses. but even this new dogma which, in company with the new claim to infauiinlity, has quasi-revolutionized the christian world, is not original with the church of rome. it is but a return to a hardly- remembered herety of the early christian ages, that of the collyridians, so called tmm their tacnjicing cakea to the virgin, whom they claimed to be virffin-bom* the new sentence "o virgin mary, conanced vnthout sin" is s

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ices of robert flood, a famous english member of the order of the rosicrucians, fully admits his ignorance of whom the brotherhood comprised, and of their constitution or purpose. all generally received accounts, therefore, are wrong, principally for three reasons: first, through ignorance; secondly, through prejudice; thirdly, as instigated by distrust, dislike and envy, for in criticism it is a dogma that the subject must be always under the critic, never that, by a chance, the subject may be above the critic that is, above the critic s grasp and comprehension. but suppose the criticised choose to except to the ability of the critic in any way to judge of him? from this obstinacy and conceit arise much underrating and false comment: as is implied in the following, which is extracted from

a work by the rev. c.w. king, m.a, published in 1864, horapollo has preserved a talisman, or gnostic gem, in yellow jasper, which presents the engraved figure of a cynocephalus, crowned, with b ton erect, adoring the first appearance of the new moon. the phallic worship prevailed, at one time, all over india. it constitutes, as mr. sellon asserts, to this day one of the chief, if not the leading, dogma of the hindoo religion. incontestable evidence could be adduced to prove this however strange and impossible it seems the key of all worship the world over; and highest in esteem in the most highly civilised nations. though it has degenerated into gross and sensual superstition, it was originally intended as the worship of the creative principle in nature. innumerable curious particulars lie

s, called fire, plays, in its escape, in violent agitation, to us, combustion, is deep down inside of us: that is, deep-sunk 78 the rosicrucians. inside of the time-stages; of which rings of being (subsidences of spirit) we are, in the flesh, that is, in the human show of things,-in the outer. it is exceedingly difficult, through language, to make this idea intelligible; but it is the real mystic dogma of the ancient guebres, or the fire-believers, the successors of the buddhists, or, more properly, bhuddists. what is explosion? it is the lancing into the layers of worlds, whereinto we force, through turning the edges out and driving through; in surprisal of the reluctant, lazy, and secret nature, exposing the hidden, magically microscopical stores of things, passed inwards out of the accu

of the reminding-stone prevails in all places, and was the act of all time. it is the only independent thing which stands distinct out of the clouds of the past. it would seem universally to refer to the single supernatural tradition all that is heired out of time. a mysterious cabalistic volume of high repute, and of the greatest antiquity, is the book of light, whose doctrine divides. the first dogma is that of light-enlightened or self-existent, which signifies god, or the light spiritual, which is darkness in the world, or manifestation or creation. this light-enlightened is inspiration, or blackness to men (god, opposed to knowledge, or brightness to men (the devil. the second light is the enlightening light, or the material light, which is the producer, foundation, and god of this wo

in what place where man exists is it not, everywhere where worship was 88 the rosicrucians. practised (and where, out of fears, did not, first, come the gods, and then their propitiation) in all the countries, we repeat, as the earliest of man s work, we recognise this sublime, mysteriously speaking, ever-recurring monolith, marking up the tradition of the supernaturally real, and only real, fire-dogma. buried so far down in time, the suspicion assents that there must somehow be truth in the foundation; not fanciful, legendary, philosophical creed-truth, unexplainable (and only to be admitted without question) truth; but truth, however mysterious and awing, yet cogent, and not to be of philosophy (that is, illumination) denied. the death and descent of balder into the hell of the scandinav

eremonies of the hindoos and of the mohammedans, even to this day, though the body be committed whole to earth. wherefore fire, then? cremation and urn-burial, or the burning of the dead practised in all ages imply a profounder meaning than is generally supposed. they point to the transmigration of pythagoras, or to the purgatorial reproductions of the indians, among whom we the earliest find the dogma. the real signification of fire-burial is the commitment of human mortality into the last of all matter, overleaping the intermediate states; or the delivering over of the man-unit into the flame-soul, past all intervening spheres or stages of the purgatorial: the absolute doctrine of the bhudds, taught, even at this day, among the initiate all over the east. thus we see how classic practice

gin were nations the most diverse, yet the mightiest of the earth. the very name of the iberia which they discovered, and to which they themselves gave title, hints the cabiri, who carried, doubtless, in their explorations, as equally with their commerce and their arts, their religious usages and their faith, as pyramidically intensifying, until it flashed truth upon the worlds in the grand fire- dogma! that faith to which sprung monuments from all the sea-borders at which glittered the beak-itself an imitation flame of every many-oared, single ship of their adventurous, ocean-dotting fleets, the precursors of the exploring ships of the vikings. we claim the caldron of the witches as, in the original, the vase or urn of .the fiery transmigration, in which all the things of the world change

emn journey to her last home, the body of queen eleanor, as told in the english annals (which flamememorials, so raised by the pious king edward in the spiry, flame-imitating stone, are all, we believe, obliterate or put out of things, but the well-known, magnificent, restored cross at waltham; all these, to the keen, philosophic eye, stand as the best proofs of the diffusion of this strange fire-dogma: mythed as equally, also, in that dark veiled cotytto, she to whom the flame of midnight torches burns. she, this blackest of concealment in the mysteries, isis, lo, ashtaroth, or astarte, or cybele, or proserpine; he, this baal, bel, baalim, foh, brahm, or bhudd; it, for the myth is no personality, but sexless, snake, serpent, dragon, or earliest at all of locomotion, under whatever letter

gr ale. 369 the third note with its cabalistic illustrations. the sang-r ale, gr al, or holy gr ale. the engraving at p. 340 gives the mystical idea, or suggestion, of the round table of the knights of king arthur, which is again typical of the san gr al. the romance of guyot, or at least the traditional fable of the san gr al, spread over france, germany, and england. in the. twelfth century the dogma of transubstantiation not being yet defined by the church, the chalice, the mark of the knights templars, had not the deep mystic meaning which it received in the following century. the graal signifies a vase. the san gr al is identified with the vessel, in which jesus celebrated the holy supper, and which also was used to receive his blood flowing from the wound inflicted upon him by the ce

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

l standing before the academy in paris ere it was accepted by science that iron and stone did fall from the sky. this controversy was raging as recently as one hundred and fifty years ago, in spite of firm demonstrations by some isolated scientific observers one or two hundred years previously, and there were still holdouts until the end of the 19th century. so firm is astronomy in its entrenched dogma, that there are still some respected men who dispute that the arizona meteor crater is meteoric in origin, or that the carolina bays were caused by anything but mysteriously formed whirlpools. great bombardment. the great bombardment announced the end of mu. 81 it is not surprising, therefore, when we learn that among the vast amount of material that has fallen from the sky, sulfur is presen

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

oncerned with living in the physical world, we are mental beings. the fact is we are thinking all the time. we plan, we brood, we get depressed or elated- all of it is thought. but the universe is mental too, and if we could control our thinking we would see magnificent results in the everyday world. many systems have been developed over the ages to help us control our thoughts. a great amound of dogma too has been kicked around in an attempt to make us into better people. magick (the occult kind, spelled with a 'k) is one of the oldest and most general of these systems. magick is the study and application of psychic forces. it uses mental training, concentration, and a system of symbols to program the mind. the purpose of magick is to alter the self and the environment according to the wi

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ake use of all those advances in translation technique, notation& sympathy developed over the last few decades, from the methods of projective verse to those of etymological translation or of that attention to the recovery of the oral dimension of the poem (from the pre-face to origins by jerome rothenberg) whatever the aim, the san francisco poet style hardly seems suitable for sy, which is hard dogma in sober, enigmatic language. poetic format aside, the individual words chosen in this version are often awkward and affected. for example, origins has spiritwind for ruah (spirit, and lawed presumably for khaqaq( engraved, though if pointed differently it could mean decreed or legislated. origins brand of indulgence infects whole passages, making them stilted and vague. for sy chapter 1, pa

KETAB E SIYAH

f your printed idols do i bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe. i demand proof over all things and accept with reservations even that which is true. i dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent, mad redeemer and write over his thorn-torn brow "the true prince of evil the king of the slaves" 435 no hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no cult or dogma shall encramp my pen. i break away from all conventions. alone, untrammelled. i raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong. i gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome jehovah and pluck him by the beard; i uplift a broadaxe and split open his worm-eaten skull. i blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath! then reaching up the fest

rilize living thought. too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets. in the days that are at hand, neither creed nor code must be accepted upon authority- human, superhuman, or "divine. morality and conventionalism are for subordinates. religions and constitutions and all arbitrary principles, every mortal theorem, must be deliberately put to the question. no moral dogma must be taken for 436 granted, no standard of measurement deified.there is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. like the wooden idols of long ago, they are all the work of human hands; and what man has made, man can destroy. he who is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom.the chief duty of

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

y of masonry, rebold, p. 62) 567. the whole world is but one republic, of which each nation is a family, and every individual a child. masonry, not in any way derogating from the different duties which the diversity of states requires, tends to create a new people, which, composed of men of many nations and tongues, shall all be bound together by the bonds of science, morality, virtue(*morals and dogma, by albert pike, p. 220) 568. that the sentiments expressed above have not remained mere theories is shown by the following extract from dr. churchward fs arcana of freemasonry: 569. only a few years ago we in this country went through great and acute tension- that danger which threatened war between us and the united states of america. that has passed, and will never return in an acute form

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

st the spirit of the middle ages. 555. the renaissance originated in that longing for emancipation from the shackles of the past which is probably felt by every new generation, and which now and then, favoured by special conditions, succeeds in realizing its ideals. the ideals in this case were joy and liberty and personality, liberation from mediaeval asceticism, mediaeval priestcraft, mediaeval dogma; liberation from the anathema that had rested on the natural rights of man- on freedom of thought and on moral judgment; liberation from traditional law and self-constituted authority, and the restoration to the individual of intellectual and moral self-rule(*cotterill. history of art, vol. i, p. 390) 556. one of the factors which helped to bring about this great revival of learning was the

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

nts ever held by the church of satan. listed by the new york times, it was a wellattended event held at a new york city art gallery. see also heavy metal music for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. sadie, stanley, ed. new grove dictionary of music and musicians.washington, dc: grove s dictionaries of music, 1980. dragons 73 dogma two modern-day fallen angels, bartelby and loki, are condemned to a fate almost as bad as hell when they are sent to wisconsin. although the cast of this 1999 movie is great, the plot is lame and too much time is wasted on boring nonsense and excessive profanity. dragons often depicted as a mixture of several creatures, the dragon is a fantastic beast that appears in mythology and folklore w

l groups ceased. these groups came into the public eye concurrently with the rise of a dilettante interest in occultism in western europe. in 1801 francis barrett published the magus. in the early 1800s, alphonse-louis constant studied the 112 hermetic order of the golden dawn whole magical tradition and became familiar with barrett s the magus. under the pen name eliphas levi, constant published dogma and ritual of high magic, history of magic, and key of the great mysteries in the 1850s. levi over the next decades became the teacher of members of such diverse groups as rosicrucians, ritual magicians, and witches. in mid-nineteenth century england, spiritualism and what was to become theosophy were having a major cultural impact.members of these groups said they received messages from the

e became a priest, but was expelled because of his left-wing political opinions (his writings earned him three short jail terms) and because he did not keep his inability to be celibate a secret. he became a follower of a man named ganneau who claimed to be the reincarnation of louis xvii, and began serious study of the occult, which had always interested him. in 1861 his most important book, the dogma and ritual of high magic appeared. based on the work of francis barrett in the magus, it attempted to create a unified magical system of all occult knowledge, and this effort was continued in his later books. his system was then adopted and improved by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and so became the source of all modern systems of magic, including the magic of modern satanist groups

ectual respectability, it has remained a nearly ubiquitous factor in western cultural life ever since. in 1801, francis barrett, who had gathered a working magical group around himself, published the magus, the first modern book that attempted to make the arcana of magic accessible to the middle class. at midcentury, alphonse-louis constant, who wrote under the name of eliphas levi, published his dogma and ritual of high magic, a history of magic, and key to the great mysteries. these pulled together the disparate strands of western occultism into the beginnings of a unified system, and so became the textbooks for all the later magical groups. in the 1850s and 1860s, a group using barrett s the magus as a text gathered around a psychic named fred hockley, and began trying to get barrett s

palm of his hand, shouting hail satan! and holding up his fingers alongside his head in imitation of devil s horns. in his statement during his sentencing, he was unrepentant: you don t understand me. you are not expected to. you are not capable. i am beyond your experience. i am beyond good and evil. i will be avenged. lucifer dwells in all of us. i don t believe in the hypocritical, moralistic dogma of this so-called civilized society. i need not look beyond this courtroom to see all the liars, the haters, the killers, the crooks, the paranoid cowards .you maggots make me sick! hypocrites one and all.we are all expendable for a cause. no one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly, as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of god and cou

ram, a satanic group. 1854 birth of samuel mathers (1854 1918, a founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, which had a significant but indirect influence on modern religious satanism through aleister crowley, a one-time member of the order. 1858 the fraternitas rosae crucis is founded by physician p. b. randolph (1825 1875. it is generally considered the oldest rosicrucian body. 1861 the dogma and ritual of high magic, the most popular book by french occultist eliphas levi (alphonse-louis constant) appears. levi s system was adopted and improved by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and so became the source of all modern systems of magic. 1865 the societas rosicruciana in anglia founded by robert wentworth little. 1875 birth of aleister crowley (1875 1947, the most famous and

intellectual challenge. faith and self-deceit are our enemies.we want our children to be free to question all things, not shackle their minds to any one view. concerned non- satanists who learn about our religion only through talk-show hype,who would fear we would indoctrinate our children to satanism, have less to worry about with us than with christianity. since our religion isn t dependent on dogma and blind faith, no indoctrination is necessary. our attitudes about life, animals, magic, success, satan, science will inevitably seep in, through our opinions and example. a child should be free to explore anything he s drawn to. even christianity can be examined as the dominant mythic context cultural anthropology in action! whose kids are these,anyway? you d think the right to educate yo

radition. two traditional satanists asserted that they regarded the sb as just another self-help book. some respondents diminished (without disparaging) the sb as an introductory text or primer of satanism (an assessment that lavey himself would have agreed with; see lavey interviews in moynihan and soderlind 1998, 234, and in baddeley 1999, 79) most hastened to add that they did not regard it as dogma. although lavey has sometimes been dismissed as having done little more than throw together disparate ideas and practices into an artificial syncretism and dress it up in sensational trappings, it appears that his creation is highly attractive to some people. part of the reason for this attractiveness is laveyan satanism s ability to hold together a number of diverse meanings found in the am

LIBER LVII

16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 82.27 by far the best and most concise account of the method of the qabalah is that by an unknown author,28 which mr aleister crowley has printed at the end of the first volume of his collected works, and which we here reprint in full. qabalistic dogma the evolution of things is thus described by the qabalists. first is nothing, or the absence of things, ya, which does not mean and cannot mean negatively existing (if such an idea can be said to mean anything, as s. liddell macgregor mathers, who misread the text and stultified the commentary by the light of his own ignorance of hebrew and philosophy, pretends in his translation of v. rosen

. the use of these attributions is lengthy and various: i cannot dwell upon it: but i will give one example. if i wish to visit the sphere of geburah, i use the colours and forces appropriate: i go there: if the objects which then appear to my spiritual vision are harmonious therewith, it is a test of their truth. so also, to construct a talisman, or to invoke a spirit. the methods of discovering dogma from sacred words are also numerous and important: i may mention (a) the doctrine of sympathies: drawn from the total numeration of a word, when identical with, or a multiple or submultiple of, or a metathesis of, that of another word (b) the method of finding the least number of a word, by adding (and readding) the digits of its total number, and taking the corresponding key of the taro as

nctions are deduced their signs, and these are found to signal (as it were) the word lux (rwa, which itself is contained in the cross. a careful study of these ideas, and of the table of correspondences, which one of our english brethren is making,31 will enable him to discover a very great deal of matter for thought in these poems which an untutored person would pass by. to return to the general dogma of the qabalists. the figure of minutum mundum will show how they suppose one quality to proceed from the last, first in the pure god-world atziluth, then in the angel-world briah, and so on down to the demon-worlds, which are however not thus organised. they are rather material that was shed off in the course of evolution, like the sloughs of a serpent, from which comes their name of shells

e. 341. the sum of the .3 mothers. aleph, mem, and shin. 345. hcm, moses. note that by transposition we have 543, hyha rca hyha .existence is existence .i am that i am. a sublime title of kether. moses is therefore regarded as the representative of this particular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is .bruised. being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= f) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read .the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit. while cjn reads .death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the c

uter college of the a a is crowned by this .knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. this number too is that of the ritual of neophyte. see liber xiii. 59 [when the first number is n, the second is n2, the third n (n2+ 1/ 2 and the fourth n2 (n2+ 1/ 2. t.s] 40 liber lviii 741. ctma, the four letters of the elements. ma, counting the as 700, the supreme name of the concealed one. the dogma is that the highest is but the four elements; that there is nothing beyond these, beyond tetragrammaton. this dogma is most admirably portrayed by lord dunsanay in a tale called .the wanderings of shaun..60 777. vide supra. 800. tcq, the rainbow. the promise of redemption (8).8 as mercury, intellect, the ruach, microprosopus, the redeeming son.in its most material form. 811 (greek numeration

erstand unity at all. if he thinks of it, it is only to hate it, as the one thing which he is most certainly not (see liber 418, 10th athyr. i may remark in passing that this book is the best known to me on advanced qabalah, and of course it is only intelligible to advanced students. this atheist, not in-being but in-passing, is a very apt subject for initiation. he has done with the illusions of dogma. from a knight of the royal mystery65 he has risen to understand with the members of the sovereign sanctuary66 that all is symbolic; all, if you will, the jugglery of the magician. he is tired of theories and systems of theology and all such toys; and being weary and anhungered and athirst seeks a seat at the table of adepts, and a portion of the bread of spiritual experience, and a draught

th is in kether, and kether is in malkuth. or .that which is below is like that which is above. or simply .yod (the foundation of all letters having the number 10, symbolising malkuth. the answer of the adept to the second form of the problem is for the christian all the familiar teaching of the song of songs and the apocalypse concerning the bride of christ* for the qabalist it is a long complex dogma which may be studied in the zohar and elsewhere. otherwise, he may simply answer .he (the letter alike of mother and daughter in hwhy. see liber 418 for lengthy disquisitions on this symbolic basis. the answer of the adept to the third form of the problem is given by p, implying that an infinite factor must be employed. for the qabalist it is usually symbolised by the rosy cross, or by such

esents her to the father and mother or holy spirit. these four then complete tetragrammaton. but the bride is never united to the father. in this scheme the soul can never do more than touch tiphareth and so receive the ray from chokmah. whereas even st. john makes his son say .i and my father are one. and we all agree that in philosophy there can never be (in truth) more than one; this christian dogma says .never less than four. hence its bondage to law and its most imperfect comprehension of any true mystic teaching, and hence the difficulty of using its symbols. a.c. on the qabalah 45 true. my discovery of this word is the main subject of this article. all the foregoing exposition has been intended to show why i sought a word to fulfil the conditions, and by what standards of truth i co

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

s, often out of their context, claims his system as christianity. luther discards james. kingsford calls paul the arch heretic. my friend the .christian clergyman. accepted mark and acts.until pushed. yet deussen is honest enough to admit that vedanta teaching is identical, but clearer! and he quite clearly and sensibly defines faith.surely the most essential quality for the adherent to christian dogma .as .being convinced on insufficient evidence. similarly the dying-to-live idea of hegel (and schopenhauer) claimed by caird as the central spirit of christianity is far older, in the osiris myth of the egyptians. these ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with christianity than the metric system with the great pyramid. but see piazzi smyth. henry morley has even the audacity to

wet.44* scots legal term for defendant. a romany word for woman. the rev. j. bowley. the conversation described actually occurred in mr. gerald kelly.s studio in paris. 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 ascension day. moral aspect of christianity to be discussed to prejudice of the metaphysical. orthodoxy to be our doxy. gipsies barred. henrik ibsen and h. g. wells. parson and poet. fugitive nature of dogma in these latter days. the higher criticism. 8 the sword of song he tells me when i cite the .fall .but those are legends after all. he has a hundred hills45 to lie in, but finds no final ditch46 to die in .samuel was man; the holy spook did not dictate the pentateuch. with cunning feint he lures me on to loose my pompoms on saint john; and, that hill being shelled, doth swear his forces neve

ins cells, nerves, grey matter in his brains, each cell a life, self-centred, free yet self-subordinate to the whole for its own sake.expand!.so we molecules of a central soul, time.s sons, judged by eternity. nature is gone.our joys, our pains, our little lives.and god remains. were this the truth.why! worship then were not so imbecile for men! but that.s no christian faith! for where enters the dogma of despair? despite his logic.s silver flow i must count caird62 a mystic! no! you christians shall not mask me so the plain words of your sacred books behind friend swedenborg his spooks! says huxley63 in his works (q. v .the microcosmic lives change daily in state or body..yet you gaily arm a false hegel cap -pie. your self, his weapons.make him wear false favours of a ladye fayre (the sca

hang* great slam.a term of bridge-whist. bara is hindustani for great. john iii. 18 .he that believeth not is condemned already. mysticism does not need christ. krishna will serve, or the carpenter. the sacred walrus. god, some vestments, and lady wimborne. fearful aspect of john iii. 16. universalism. will god get the bara* slam? eternal life. divergent views of its desirability. buddhist idea. dogma of belief. 460 465 470 475 480 485 490 495 ascension day 15 on just belief or unbelief; and an involuntary act make difference infinite in fact between the right and left-hand thief? belief is not an act of will. i think, sir, that i have you still, even allowing (much indeed) that any will at all is freed, and is not merely the result of sex, environment, and cult, habit and climate, health

usness.59 miracles follow as a dower; but ah! they used that fatal power and lost the spirit in the act. this may be fancy or a fact; at least it squares with super-sense or .spiritual experience. you do not well to swell the list of horrid things to me imputed by calling me .materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said .your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate. i sat in vague expectant bliss. the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him .how dare you be on me encroaching. the beautiful young g

ng as i am to sap the foundations of the buddhist religion by the introduction of porphyry.s terrible catapult, allegory, i am yet compelled by the more fearful ballista of aristotle, dilemma. this is the two-handed engine spoken of by the prophet milton* this is the horn of the prophet zeruiah, and with this am i, though no syrian, utterly pushed, till i find myself back against the dead wall of dogma. only now realising how dead a wall that is, do i turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox .literary. school of buddhists, as grown at rangoon, exclaim with lear .how sharper than a serpent.s tooth it is to have an intellect. how is this? listen, and hear! i find myself confronted with the crux: that a buddhist, convinced intellectually and philosophically

nution of his sensibility to physical charms. pure and sane is his early work; then he is carried into the outer current of the great vortex of sin, and whirls lazilky though the sleepy waters of mere sensualism; the pace quickens, he grows fierce in the mysteries of sapphism and the cult of venus aversa with women; later of the same forms of vice with men, all mingled with wild talk of religious dogma and a general exaltation of priapism at the expense, in particular, of christianity, in which religion, however, he is undoubtedly a believer till the last (the pious will quote james ii. 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into sadism, necro

elohim. they think the erect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big-nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay .qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity.ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. abiegnus. mysterium i. n. r. i. mysterium lvx. pastos. trinitas. unitas. serpentes 86 appendix ii ain elohim. the

e quaint points of distinction may give us an intuition, or direct mind-apperception of what we want, one way or the other..a.c. tycarb 94 buddhists are discreetly silent, while not contradicting even the gross and ridiculous accounts of the more fantastic hindu visionaries. the qabalists explain the .first cause.1 by the phrase .from 0 to 1, as the circle opening out into the line. the christian dogma is really identical, for both conceive of a previous and eternally existing god, though the qabalists hedge by describing this latent deity as .not. later commentators, notably the illustrious2 mac- gregor-mathers, have explained this not as .negatively-existing. profound as is my respect for the intellectual and spiritual attainments of him whom i am proud to have been permitted to call my

ce of which no drop of blood has ever been, nor ever will be shed, a banner under which you will join forces with five hundred millions of your fellowmen. and you will not be privates in the army; for you the highest place, the place of leaders, waits; as far as the triumphs of the intellect are concerned, it is to western science that we look. your achievements have shattered the battle-array of dogma and despotism; your columns roll in triumphant power through the breaches of false metaphysics and baseless logic; you have fought that battle, and the laurels are on your brows. the battle was fought by us more than two thousand years ago; the authority of the vedas, the restrictions of caste, were shattered by the invulnerable sword of truth in buddha.s hand; we are your brothers. but in t

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eory is at stake may falsify the facts, and find too late that he has made a fool of himself. in the case of initiation itself, history is scarred with the would inflicted by this dagger. it reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. a judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal prejudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. dogma, with persecution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and many another evil, as its satraps, has always establsihed a tyranny when genius has proclaimed it. islam making a bonfire of written wisdom, and haeckel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity disputing the conclusions of geology, and theologicans impatient of truth struggling against the tide of thought; all s

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

drifts on in unequal development. mainly sub-human. thus, to be nearer our god-hood we must regress functionally and rely chiefly on atavistic impulses of the remote past until we are inspired by a pure instinctivism needing no other reaction than it- y> e 5. a7 jk( 5< f- 5! evoked by a process of re-membering backwards to the primal instincts..q( 1"d !7 the stoic does not teach by exhortation or dogma but by exemplary acts: neither does he indurate himself by separation from the world and by emotional self# b":7 jk..1. 6' 5! 9"d'%d=h, acceptances, and if desired, analgetic. he is never lost when realizing himself in otherness. he is a solipsist, self-dependent, demanding only from himself, seeking no privileges; which does not preclude his giving and accepting gifts. xk( z> 2 z "d 2..1. 9

in a mad world mad fictions almost become essential, and i, for one, believe that it is not essential to survival to have such madness. the self and the blade of grass are still potentialities in vague eternities. the damned course i run: this word-infected mouth has only uttered "i am i" in every sphere; yet, overburdened with pretences, ills and fears, seeks sleep awhile. that sweet release. no dogma senses the infinite or reveals much; religion is quantity of feeling. real belief is not taught but recollected: belief to be real must be profound. more even, a psychic experience, not lip-avowal. i- e5: 2. x..q 9"d. m..alogue existence but, by artistry, to enjoin the aesthetic and the ethical as logical social functions. the uncommitted life turns out to be deeply wedlocked to life itself

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

of witches sabbat are based within the art and writings of austin osman spare, called zos vel thanatos. while the techniques implemented and developed by spare is nothing new to witchcraft, the approach is. zos himself was the receiver of what is the arcana of anon, of the language of primal and essential magick. this is the barbarous aspects which allow the individual the pure current, devoid of dogma and ceremonials. while we urge the training of the will through such exercises, the sorcery of zos vel thanatos stand at the vanguard of magical awakening. to work through spare s system one would seek in-between states, which is a procreative during which belief is suspended, thus the imagination (shaitan) may develop and manifest the desire accordingly. the use of the alphabet of desire in

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

how to master it and use the insight to improve his or her life. the luciferian path is one of knowledge and must be held with an open mind. different paths teach many different things, and should be understood as suucin the united states of america on acid-free paper to all free thinkers, past, present, and ever to be this page intentionally left blank human reason must never be subjugated to a dogma, or to a myth, or to a preconceived idea because for human reason to do so would be for human reason to cease to exist. henri poincare (translated by l.s) scientia vincere tenebras [science will defeat darkness. motto of the free university of brussels (p.f.l. s alma mater) this page intentionally left blank preface america is becoming more and more isolated fromthe rest of the world. this s

the concept that lifeforms could evolve may first have been formulated in ancient greece by the sophist empedocles. this idea was quickly abandoned. it was not until the late 1700s that scientists (they were called naturalists in those days) realized that the apparent fixity of species and a seemingly mostly inert surface of earth are illusions. at this time, several thinkers began to revisit the dogma of a young earth and immutable living species. five naturalists stand out in their overturning of the old ideas and their introduction of the notion of transformism in biology and the earth sciences: georges louis de buffon (1707 1788) and jean-baptiste de lamarck (1744 1829) from france, and charles lyell (1797 1875, charles darwin (1809 1882, and alfred russel wallace (1823 1913) from engl

sary, forcing creationists constantly to identify new targets for criticism in the life sciences. this frequent switching from one temporarily unexplained phenomenon to the next is advertised by creationists as critical thinking, something they say is important for students education. indeed, critical thinking must definitely be taught to our students. but critical thinking cannot be based on any dogma of any kind, for example, the postulated existence of an omnipotent intelligent designer able to govern the natural world through a series of miracles.many people would scoff at the idea of alchemy, astrology, and magic being taught in schools, other than in history or anthropology classes. we know why: in spite of what some enthusiasts might say, alchemy, astrology, and magic are not scient

ned for heresy by the catholic inquisition in 1633. galileo s mistake at the time had been to oppose a geocentric interpretation of the solar system, whereby planet earth was at the center of the universe and did not move relative to other celestial bodies. of course, galileo was right, and the catholic church was wrong. later, galileo rightfully became an icon for thinkers opposed to established dogma, scientific ignorance, and intolerant worldviews. does this mean that anyone opposing a consensus view of nature must by definition be a scientific hero or a misunderstood genius? not at all. the history of science abounds with false claims, flawed observations, and unsustainable theories. even today, there are still some who pretend they have manufactured a perpetual motion machine (and try

k, the action of determining the age of biological and mineral specimens. dissipative structures (or systems: physical or chemical structures that dissipate entropy in the process of self-organizing. dna: deoxyribonucleic acid, the blueprint of life, the molecule that contains genes. four bases are used to make dna: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. dna also contains the sugar deoxyribose. dogma: a belief authoritatively considered to be absolute truth. drift (also genetic drift: evolutionary factor that changes gene frequencies in populations of living organisms by pure chance. 203 electromagnetic radiation: a type of radiation that is at the same time composed of light particles (photons) and combined, oscillating electric and magnetic fields. visible light is a type of electromag

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

of the open boat in faber's pagan idolatry. the few who passed this third degree were said to have been "born again" and were instructed in the secret and hidden truths which the druid priests had preserved from antiquity. from these initiates were chosen many of the dignitaries of the british religious and political world (for further details, see faber's pagan idolatry, albert pike's morals and dogma, and godfrey higgins' celtic druids) the rites of mithras when the persian mysteries immigrated into southern europe, they were quickly assimilated by the latin mind. the cult grew rapidly, especially among the roman soldiery, and during the roman wars of conquest the teachings were carried by the legionaries to nearly all parts of europe. so powerful did the cult of mithras become that at l

bolical language of ancient art and mythology "hence varro [in de lingua latina] says that coelum and terra, that is universal mind and productive body, were the great gods of the samothracian mysteries; and the same as the serapis and isis of the later gyptians: the taautos and astarte of the phoenicians, and the saturn and ops of the latins" the second quotation is from albert pike's morals and dogma"'thee' says martianus capella, in his hymn to the sun 'dwellers on the nile adore as serapis, and memphis worships as osiris: in the sacred rites of persia thou art mithras, in phrygia, atys, and libya bows down to thee as ammon, and phoenician byblos as adonis; thus the whole world adores thee under different names" the odinic mysteries the date of the founding of the odinic mysteries is un

anean passages correspond to the tortuous byways of hades. the square base of the pyramid is a constant reminder that the house of wisdom is firmly founded upon nature and her immutable laws "the gnostics" writes albert pike "claimed that the whole edifice of their science rested on a square whose angles were: sigh, silence; buqov, profundity; nouv, intelligence; and alhqeia truth (see morals and dogma) the sides of the great pyramid face the four cardinal angles, the latter signifying according to eliphas levi the extremities of heat and cold (south and north) and the extremities of light and darkness (east and west. the base of the pyramid further represents the four material elements or substances from the combinations of which the quaternary body of man is formed. from each side of the

n world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one--and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. the time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the world. the day is at hand when the doom of dogma shall be sounded. the great theological tower of babel, with its confusion of tongues, was built of bricks of mud and the mortar of slime. out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phoenixlike the ancient mysteries. no other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the mysteries there never has been a reli

ing sands of time bury civilization upon civilization beneath their weight, the pyramid shall remain as the visible covenant between eternal wisdom and the world. the time may yet come when the chants of the illumined shall be heard once more in its ancient passageways and the master of the hidden house shall await in the silent place for the coming of that man who, casting aside the fallacies of dogma and tenet, seeks simply truth and will be satisfied with neither substitute nor counterfeit. next: isis, the virgin of the world sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 45 isis, the virgin of the world it is especially fitting that a study of hermetic symbolism should begin with a discussion of the symbols and attributes of the saitic isis. this is the isis of sais, famous for the inscr

of this country. i was instructed by mercury. no one can destroy the laws which i have established. i am the eldest daughter of saturn, most ancient of the gods. i am the wife and sister of osiris the king. i first made known to mortals the use of wheat. i am the mother of orus the king. in my honor was the city of bubaste built. rejoice, o egypt, rejoice, land that gave me birth (see "morals and dogma" by albert pike) p. 46 rose again, until at last osiris also tried. the moment he was in the chest typhon and his accomplices nailed the cover down and sealed the cracks with molten lead. they then cast the box into the nile, down which it floated to the sea. plutarch states that the date upon which this occurred was the seventeenth day of the month athyr, when the sun was in the constellati

un was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief. the primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the supreme deity. concerning the origin of sun worship, albert pike makes the following concise statement in his morals and dogma "to them [aboriginal peoples] he [the sun] was the innate fire of bodies, the fire of nature. author of life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no existence, no form. he was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and everywhere present. it was their need of light, and of his creative energy, that was felt by

nomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the creator himself. from a deep philosophic consideration of the powers and principles of the sun has come the concept of the trinity as it is understood in the world today. the tenet of a triune divinity is not peculiar to christian or mosaic theology, but forms a conspicuous part of the dogma of the greatest religions of both ancient and modern times. the persians, hindus, babylonians, and egyptians had their trinities. in every instance these represented the threefold form of one supreme intelligence. in modern masonry, the deity is symbolized by an equilateral triangle, its three sides representing the primary manifestations of the eternal one who is himself represented as a ti

of vishnu and buddha. hence came the legend of the murder of khurum, representative of the sun, by the three fellow-crafts, symbols of the winter signs, capricornus, aquarius, and pisces, who assailed him at the three gates of heaven and slew him at the winter solstice. hence the search for him by the nine fellow-crafts, the other nine signs, his finding, burial, and resurrection (see morals and dogma) other authors consider libra, scorpio, and sagittarius as the three murderers of the sun, inasmuch as osiris was murdered by typhon, to whom were assigned the thirty degrees of the constellation of scorpio. in the christian mysteries also judas signifies the scorpion, and the thirty pieces of silver for which he betrayed his lord represent the number of degrees in that sign. having been str

behold with clarified vision the workings of the great architect of the universe. from age to age the vision of a perfect civilization is preserved as the ideal for mankind. in the midst of that civilization shall stand a mighty university wherein both the sacred and secular sciences concerning the mysteries of life will be freely taught to all who will assume the philosophic life. here creed and dogma will have no place; the superficial will be removed and only the essential be preserved. the world will be ruled by its most illumined minds, and each will occupy the position for which he is most admirably fitted. the great university will be divided into grades, admission to which will be through preliminary tests or initiations. here mankind will be instructed in the most sacred, the most

of it the idol al-uzza, which mohammed destroyed. it is abundant as a bush in the desert of thur; and of it the 'crown of thorns' was composed, which was set on the forehead of jesus of nazareth. it is a fit type of immortality on account of its tenacity of life; for it has been known, when planted as a door-post, to take root again and shoot out budding boughs above the threshold (see morals and dogma) it is quite possible that much of the veneration accorded the acacia is due to the peculiar attributes of the mimosa, or sensitive plant, with which it was often identified by the ancients. there is a coptic legend to the effect that the sensitive plant was the first of all trees or shrubs to worship christ. the rapid growth of the acacia and its beauty have also caused it to be regarded as

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ient to, then at least in league with him. the delegated power of weather working was then used either for the ignoble purpose of blighting the crops of god's faithful or, should the effect produced be a benevolent one leading to increase of crops, as a means of leading the unwary astray from the path of righteousness by dint of heretical reliance on devilish practices. whatever the ecclesiatical dogma, however, witches had their own beliefs and apparently managed to maintain them fairly consistently throughout the various periods of persecution in europe and england, although the years of total secrecy contributed much to the almost total fragmentation and hybrid diversification of the knowledge such as it exists today. apart from the direct application of witch power, whether inherited a

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

have worked in the occult since i was very young, it is very much a natural thing to me, and the connections between the topics of vampirism and sorcery were made known to me at an early age through my dreams. at a later age i actually made a magickal connection, the result of this study in print is the book of the witch moon. this is meant to be a study guide to the night side, a non- christian dogma infested approach. the methods of witchcraft within this tome are of the darkest magick, when vampires, werewolves and sorcerers haunted the nights, doing their work and weaving webs in your dreams. we are still there, alive in your mythologies, alive in your mind. what is witchcraft in essence? is witchcraft the worship of nature, an earth religion? not completely. the tradition, which i ha

our life. asmodeus and lilith are waiting. this book is part personal record and part map, a way towards the dark essence of the qlippoth, and of the lore of ages. it is dangerous in it s methods of dealing with such forces as they are demonic or the more balanced counter spelling daemonic (neutral spirit intelligences or elementals which hold their own godlike association not associated with any dogma s such as good or evil. the great opening of the abyss is encoded within the grimoire, open and enter with care. our basis is to establish a thought process ushering forth in this upcoming age based on balance and ancient values. the subconscious must be explored on numerous levels to understand what is known as the beast within. we do not wish to throw in a new religion, or claim something

oth demon and vampire. some texts have presented choronzon as not a demon at all, however but a guardian of this hidden sphere who is only considered 'evil' due to it's alien nature to conscious or even subconscious human thought patterns. i am presenting choronzon as a demon, a vampire spirit. now am i defining it as 'evil, no. my reasoning is that evil is only a closed term defining already pre-dogma- ridden thought patterns, a system within itself. one must go beyond the gates of choronzon into da ath in order to begin to understand first, the self and secondly, the exterior universe. once one has crossed the abyss it is then possible to begin to control and shape his or her own individual destiny based on the discovery of the true will or holy guardian angel. choronzon is also a vampir

ils are not designed and implemented for the purpose of the sigil, as many has done ignorantly. sigils are an extension of an individual's own personal preferences and talent. both practical method and actual intent depend intensely on what is correct for the individual, what feels right and what they can achieve viable results with. this is a call to break down the near-there attitude over which dogma presides, imposing itself on all levels. separation from such limits is necessary for the continuation of real personal progress on whatever level. the red temple tiamat, considered as an aspect of babalon (11) in the path of vampirism, fits naturally in the work of the red temple, meaning sex and blood magick. this can be highly useful when forming a new point of mental/magickal power. crea

ntial. many have fallen away into stagnant slumps of failure due to the fact they never rise and develop as their beliefs change. i urge each one to progress in their own time, while always keeping their integrity and individualistic strength. imposed moral codes are nothing but shackles for those without personal honor. an individual who has a strong personal morality is able to break with moral dogma in order to find his or her true essence of self. once one has developed their own personal convictions and developed a sense of honor it should be adhered to, save for a paradigm shift which would render the sorcerer useless for true magick, being that of growth and progression. spirits will seek to destroy an individual with no honor. unable to keep his or her word, they fall prey to that

e made significant developments concerning this often understood and misrepresented magickal assumption. the sabbat takes place several times a year depending on the desire and requires no set communication between the members. as i have stated, it is based on the subconscious desire and urge to take part in the sabbat. primarily the sabbat is based on astral union and the shedding of restrictive dogma and day side denials which take place within each sorcerer's life unless they live with a harem far away from civilization. the sabbat as described in general takes place deep in the forest, when the moon stands full in the night. witches, both male and female attend with their elemental servitors and imps, who participate in the ceremony, celebrating according to their masters' will while i

pale and with burning black eyes. there have been occasions however when black eagle had no precise form at all, manifesting merely as a gray or different coloured shapeless mass. communication with black eagle is either done through it showing images to your mind or through words, either a tongue which is not easily understood or with a heavy north american indian accent. if the mind is clear of dogma concerning black eagle, then one will obtain clear speech at some point. this is where one should implement the use of a magickal diary or notebook next to your bed. upon waking, one should take extensive notes of all of the images and words that appeared to you. the evocation method of black eagle is simple yet effective. you must first obain a clear image expressing the essence of black ea

and steady grip squeezed my throat until i lost consciousness. i later learned from her that i had fallen within the entrance of the circle, and she was careful not to let me fall hard, land on a candle or injure my head. at the moment of assuming the death posture i had felt a rush of red energy, followed by what seemed to be a spiraling ecstasy of phantom energies within my mind. all conceived dogma was now destroyed. there is much that can be said regarding that exact moment, for the self becomes nothing yet open to all possibilities. they took the form of many shapes and faces, while i felt the up rush of weightlessness and perceived a cloud of various spirits and energies. i opened my eyes and felt a source of strength which i had not felt before with the death posture. all time seem

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

slated from the original hebrew malath, which meantno more than messenger (p. 47)mythology and factwhat actually transpired was that the original mesopotamian writings were recorded as history. thishistory was later rewritten to form a base for foreign religious cultsfirst judaism and then christianity.appendix b: book abstracts214atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation the corrupted dogma of the religions then became established as history and because the contriveddogma (the new approved history) was so different from the original, the early first-hand records werelabeled mythology (p. 60)mardukthe great babylonian god was the son of goddess damkina, by way of the sumerian annunaki king,enki (see p. 63)enki and enlilsumerian annunaki, the sons of anu, the supreme father, who

ox. out of these,6,795 had been vaccinated. 1871 in bavaria, germany, vaccination is compulsory and revaccination is commonplace. out of30,472 cases of smallpox, 29,429 had been vaccinated. 1871 worldwide epidemic of smallpox begins. claims 8 million people worldwide. appendix f: general chronology of events334atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation 1871 albert pike writes morals and dogma. pike also writes a letter on august 15, 1871 (untilrecently on display in the british museum) to mazzini detailing the luciferian plan for world conquest,outlining plans for three world wars, and detailing the destruction of both christianity and atheism. 1871 bulwer-lytton writes vril: the power of the coming race, containing racial theory that wouldlater figure in nazi germany. protege of

d states in production of crude oil. russia kerosene takes 30% of thebritish market. 1889 in england, a royal commission is appointed to inquire into certain aspects of the vaccinationquestion. the committee would be in session for 7 years and would issue 6 reports, with the final reportin 1896. the result of the final report was the v accination act of 1898. 1889 albert pike issues a theological dogma to the 23 supreme councils of the world stating thatlucifer and adonay are both god. 1889 standard oil production operations in pennsylvania, ohio, indiana. 1889 most of britain's food production becomes industrialized. 1890 cecil rhodes becomes prime minister of cape colony in africa, exploiting the diamond and goldfields of africa, and took control of parliamentary seats and england and af

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

ractitioner of the luciferian path will balance the spiritual and material to their own end not focusing too much on one to stop the other. in terms of magical practice, the luciferian would implement the practice of magick and sorcery based on the ends they wish to achieve. there is no specific or set practice to proceed the grimoires offered are suggestions based on practice rather than defined dogma do what works for you. astral projection astral projection is a process of magick in which change begins within the self first. in order to prepare your initiatory experience if you chose in vampyric magick or sorcery, it is imperative that you align your mind with forces which are in direct control of the self. firstly, one must prepare under the process of asana, or posture. a posture whic

s called the evil flyer. az [avestan/pahlavi] called concupiscence, az is represented as primal sexual hunger, that which eventually devours all things. az is also related to menstruation (the kiss of ahriman causes menstruation in women) and is a destroyer through chaos. az was connected with sexual hunger but also religious doubt, which relates her to a luciferian spirit who broke the chains of dogma by the black light, the torch of self-perception of being. az also represents lilith as the goddess of the beasts of the earth, the very mother of demons and sorcerous beings. az was said to be created in the zurvan myth as a black substance like coal, which would devour all creation, manifesting her as a vampyric being. azazel [hebrew] the first angel who brought the black flame of being to

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

o trapezoids crowned by cain the adversary and the apep demon of chaos, surrounded by sigillic formulas of antinomian self-deification; the making of the luciferian mind through solitude and isolation. this is a process of developing the self through the mark of cain[5] and the declaration of separation from the natural order. this allows the magician to grow without outside and society crippling dogma. the sigillic drawings of lilith and samael-asmoday (a mask of shaitan-iblis) are the separate initiators of the path, lilith who comes as the vampyric succubi and the moon dwelling force of water and earth, via the north winds (symbolic of darkness. shaitan-samael, the dragon-angel comes enfleshed as a beautiful figure which holds two skulls, one wolf-like and one of a goat this is the sexu

MORALS AND DOGMA

had extracted more and written less. still, perhaps half of it is his own; and, in incorporating here the thoughts and words of others, he has continually changed and added to the language, often intermingling, in the same sentences, his own words with theirs. it not being intended for the world at large, he has felt at liberty to make, from all accessible sources, a compendium of the morals and dogma of the rite, to re-mould sentences, change and add to words and phrases, combine them with his own, and use them as if they _were_ his own, to be dealt with at his pleasure and so availed of as to make the whole most valuable for the purposes intended. he claims, therefore, little of the merit of authorship, and has not cared to distinguish his own from that which he has taken from other sou

d to distinguish his own from that which he has taken from other sources, being quite willing that every portion of the book, in turn, may be regarded as borrowed from some old and better writer. the teachings of these readings are not sacramental, so far as they go beyond the realm of morality into those of other domains of thought and truth. the ancient and accepted scottish rite uses the word "dogma" in its true sense, of _doctrine, or _teaching; and is not _dogmatic_ in the odious sense of that term. every one is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. it is only required of him that he shall weigh what is taught, and give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. of course, the ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations

odge. 21--noachite or prussian knight. 22--knight of the royal axe or prince of libanus. 23--chief of the tabernacle. 24--prince of the tabernacle. 25--knight of the brazen serpent. 26--prince of mercy. 27--knight commander of the temple. 28--knight of the sun or prince adept. 29--scottish knight of st. andrew. 30--knight kadosh. 31--inspector inquisitor 32--master of the royal secret. morals and dogma. lodge of perfection. morals and dogma [illustration] i. apprentice. the twelve-inch rule and the common gavel. force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. it is destruction and ruin. it is the v

s, and not with their philosophical and spiritual meanings, still the divine ever mingles with the human; with the earthly the spiritual intermixes; and there is something spiritual in the commonest duties of life. the nations are not bodies-politic alone, but also souls-politic; and woe to that people which, seeking the material only, forgets that it has a soul. then we have a race, petrified in dogma, which presupposes the absence of a soul and the presence only of memory and instinct, or demoralized by lucre. such a nature can never lead civilization. genuflexion before the idol or the dollar atrophies the muscle which walks and the will which moves. hieratic or mercantile absorption diminishes the radiance of a people, lowers its horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that u

make, greater the spiritual glory of the race; that whosoever aids the march of a truth, and makes the thought a thing, writes in the same line with moses, and with him who died upon the cross; and has an intellectual sympathy with the deity himself. the best gift we can bestow on man is manhood. it is that which masonry is ordained of god to bestow on its votaries: not sectarianism and religious dogma; not a rudimental morality, that may be found in the writings of confucius, zoroaster, seneca, and the rabbis, in the proverbs and ecclesiastes; not a little and cheap common-school knowledge; but manhood and science and philosophy. not that philosophy or science is in opposition to religion. for philosophy is but that knowledge of god and the soul, which is derived from observation of the m

thin the reach of all. these mystic shows and performances were not the reading of a lecture, but the opening of a problem. requiring research, they were calculated to arouse the dormant intellect. they implied no hostility to philosophy, because philosophy is the great expounder of symbolism; although its ancient interpretations were often ill-founded and incorrect. the alteration from symbol to dogma is fatal to beauty of expression, and leads to intolerance and assumed infallibility* if, in teaching the great doctrine of the divine nature of the soul, and in striving to explain its longings after immortality, and in proving its superiority over the souls of the animals, which have no aspirations heavenward, the ancients struggled in vain to express the _nature_ of the soul, by comparing

s. we do not see the churches and priesthoods of christendom relinquishing their old task of governing men by imaginary terrors. nowhere do we see a populace that could be safely manumitted from such a government. we do not see the great religious teachers aiming to discover truth for themselves and for others; but still ruling the world, and contented and compelled to rule the world, by whatever dogma is already accredited; themselves as much bound down by this necessity to govern, as the populace by their need of government. poverty in all its most hideous forms still exists in the great cities; and the cancer of pauperism has its roots in the hearts of kingdoms. men there take no measure of their wants and their own power to supply them, but live and multiply like the beasts of the fiel

, the centre and cause of all. it is not _the genius of plato_ that we here admire. we recognize only _the exact knowledge of the initiate. the great apostle saint john did not borrow from the philosophy of plato the opening of his gospel. plato, on the contrary, drank at the same springs with saint john and philo; and john in the opening verses of his paraphrase, states the first principles of a dogma common to many schools, but in language especially belonging to philo, whom it is evident he had read. the philosophy of plato, the greatest of human revealers, could _yearn toward_ the word made man; the gospel alone could give him to the world. doubt, in presence of being and its harmonies; skepticism, in the face of the eternal mathematics and the immutable laws of life which make the div

divine justice. below this triangle of light they supposed a divine reflection, also composed of three personified rays: first _teutates_ or _teuth, the same as the _thoth_ of the egyptians, the word, or the intelligence formulated; then force and beauty, whose names varied like their emblems. finally, they completed the sacred septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations. this was a young girl veiled, holding a child in her arms; and they dedicated this image to "the virgin who will become a mother-_virgini paritur" hertha or wertha, the young isis of gaul, queen of heaven, the virgin who was to bear a child, held the spindle of the fates, filled with wool half white and half black; because she presides over all forms and all symb

eh, adona, and agla. above the first is written in latin _formatio, above, the second _reformatio, and above the third _transformatio. so creation is ascribed to the father, redemption or reformation to the son, and sanctification or transformation to the holy spirit, answering unto the mathematical laws of action, reaction, and equilibrium. iahaveh is also, in effect, the genesis or formation of dogma, by the elementary signification of the four letters of the sacred tetragram; adona is the realization of this dogma in the human form, in the visible lord, who is the son of god or the perfect man; and agla (formed of the initials of the four words _ath gebur laula m adona) expresses the synthesis of the whole dogma and the totality of the kabalistic science, clearly indicating by the hiero

honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth, and that whatever one firmly and conscientiously believes _is_ truth _to him--these are the mortal enemies of that fanaticism which persecutes for opinion's sake, and initiates crusades against whatever it, in its imaginary holiness, deems to be contrary to the law of god or verity of dogma. and education, instruction, and enlightenment are the most certain means by which fanaticism and intolerance can be rendered powerless. no true mason scoffs at honest convictions and an ardent zeal in the cause of what one believes to be truth and justice. but he does absolutely deny the right of any man to assume the prerogative of deity, and condemn another's faith and opinions as deservi

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his tongue in his cheek. he knows perfectly well that all religions, without one single solitary exception, suppose the converse. he, himself, had once supposed the converse. this central mystery revealed by aiwass was the darkest secret of most initiatic schools. all religions start as methods of theurgy; as met hod degenerates into routine, blind faith becomes more virtuous than experience, and dogma is born. then god is put on a pedestal, where he, or she, or it, is less uncomfortably present when you indulge your basest appetites such as preaching and saving souls. the formidable nature of the book of the law becomes apparent when we see that this "dark mystery" is the first and simplest of its revelations. no wonder organized religions everywhere fought it! no wonder "initiatic orders

ery is, of course, woman. aspirants must not fret because the rituals are 'half concealed. those who practice seriously attract the attention of the hierophant and the high priestess, and what is concealed springs forth within them at the time it is needed. also, this 'hidden half may vary according to individual idiosyncrasy. if any rituals had been 'completely' and 'openly' given, we would have dogma, and no doubt a 'church of thelema complete with pope or popess or whatnot, by now. this ain't at all what the doctor ordered, chillun. 35. this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. readers will please note that it is threefold; therefore, if statements in any one chapter seem to contradict statements in another chapter (or even within the same chapter, contradiction is apparent

suming to alter one jot or tittle of the observed facts of nature. so we may assert that modern discoveries in physiology have rendered obsolete the osirian conceptions of the sexual process which interpreted chastity as physical abstinence, small regard being paid to the mental and moral concomitants of the refusal to act, still less to the physical indications. the root of the error lies in the dogma of original sin, as a result of which pollution was actually excused as being in the nature of involuntary offence, just as if one were to assert that a sleep-walker who has fallen over a precipice were any less dead than empedocles or sappho. the doctrine of thelema resolves the whole question in conformity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties prescribed by magick. it must

o 'wears the crown; and the crown has, of course, always been the symbol of an activated sahashara. unless the symbol stands for reality, the man is a 'king' but in name. no church can make a king, no parliament can make a king. the king is, first of all, king of his own soul. next he may or may not be ruler over other men. the entire concept of kingship has been vitiated by two thousand years of dogma. it makes even archaeologists commit egregious mistakes. for instance, it is now known that the pyramids of egypt were not built by "hundreds of thousands of slaves under the cruel lash of the overseer; as the sadomasochism characteristic of the slave spirit would have us believe: they were built by select crews of workers who elected their own foremen and cheerfully competed with each other

living by the no-reason of laws, and that is stupid and inadequate even when the laws still hold good; for he is a mere mechanism, resourceless should any danger that is not already provided for in his original design chance to arise. respect for routine is the mark of the second-rate man. this does not mean that routine is not proper and fitting in its place; but when routine any routine becomes dogma, someone's mind has curled up and gone to sleep "the law was made for man, not man for the law" is the voice of commonsense. the 'immoral' man, defying convention by shouting aloud in church, may indeed be 'brawling; but equally he may be a sensitive who has felt the first tremor of an earthquake. we of thelema encourage every possible variation; we welcome every new 'sport; its success or f

criticize the book of the law as lacking "christian" virtues. it reminds one of the descriptions of the pharisees in the new testament "pharisees; however, are truly a state of mind, and not a class of society; unless one wishes to remark on the astounding regularity with which one finds pharisees in priestly togae as soon as any method of theurgy ceases being a method and becomes an established dogma. 78. lift up thyself! for there is none like unto thee among men or among gods! lift up thyself, o my prophet, thy stature shall surpass the stars. they shall worship thy name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, the number of the man; and the name of thy house 418. there are certain occult wonders concealed in the first part of this text (see liber ccclxx) the solution of the last sentence may d

s "augoeides; and they are seriously to blame for not stating more openly that this true will is not to be daunted or suppressed; but within their limits they have done excellent work. some technical aspects of this verse must be mentioned. first, the ordeal x consists in the perception that 666 is the christ, or messiah, of this aeon. this perception must be intuitional; it cannot be a matter of dogma or of faith. whosoever does not have it is not qualified to officiate at thelemic rites. as to public rites, the extant religions will remain untouched by us. strange as it may seem, there shall be no 'holy wars' or persecutions. any cult is allowable, provided it does not try to frighten people into conversion with threats of 'hell' or condemnation, and provided its faithful do not try to a

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

ought "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and "love is the law, love under will. two statements which clearly set in motion the ascension of the seeking individual towards godhead. in his poem "hymn to lucifer" crowley presents the bringer of light in a thelemic aspect. no longer shall man be subservient to a religion which would destroy your foundation and right of personal choice. dogma is also a trap which can lead towards spiritual stagnation. growth is necessary through the freedom of an open being, that through will power and focus can change take hold and run it's natural course. the luciferian individual is at heart a predator, however balancing action and thought with compassion and tolerance when such emotions are heart felt. a thelemic individual is by definition f

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

elf has absolute zrk. and hard work it is:neophyte cere- f r ?rentually being linked &e- lowing suggestions. for c- iti on to the original -5 careful readings since. structure, and function. of the great work itself- 7 reflecting, meditating ,l i would suggest reading :rn the task of memorizing found within the first i.?abet has no connotation_ a 1 il "holy" symbols-pow- 2,-1.1ated with dogma or esomr r= a r i z intgh ese letters is to ri- 2. 2 all become acquainted are then "built" within the "sphere with clay. the astral light as termed constant) is malleable by focused symbols thus created within the aura and guidance and prevent emotional of us have felt depleted by being around by a negative environment. using the description of this ritual right hand at full extension strai

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

ove that god hath granted me.oh holy, righteous, blessed lord.by every living thing adored,grant us the elixir ye crave,for "love divine" alone can save.immediately upon the pronouncement of the latin aphorism by gualdi, the 4 ancients letter the wordi.n.r.i, and the chief adept makes the proclamation of closing, as set forth in the closingceremonyrituals of the societas rosicrucian teliphas levi dogma et rituel de la haute magie translated by a. e. waite dogme et rituel de la haute magie part i: the doctrine of transcendental magic by eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) translated by a. e. waite. originally published by rider& company, england, 1896. transcribed and converted to adobe acrobat format by benjamin rowe, june, 2001. typeset in bauer bodoni and waters titling. part i: the d

ook later on, for its mathematical and precise explanation will be the complement and crown of our conscientious undertaking. the original alliance between christianity and the science of the magi, once demonstrated fully, will be a discovery of no second-rate importance, and we do not doubt that the serious study of magic and the kabalah will lead earnest minds to a reconciliation of science and dogma, of reason and faith, heretofore regarded as impossible. we have said that the church, whose special office is the custody of the keys, does not pretend to possess those of the apocalypse or of ezekiel. in the opinion of christians the scientific and magical clavicles of solomon are lost, which notwithstanding, it is certain that, in the domain of intelligence, ruled by the word nothing that

radise, is in proximity to the tree of life and is joined at the root thereto. at the foot of this tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers; it is guarded by the sword of fire and by the four symbolical forms of the biblical sphinx, the cherubim of ezekiel. here i must pause, and i fear that already i have said too much. i testify in fine that there is one sole, universal and imperishable dogma, strong as supreme reason; simple, like all that is great; intelligible, like all that is universally and absolutely true; and this dogma is the parent of all others. there is also a science which confers on man powers apparently superhuman. they are enumerated thus in a hebrew manuscript of the sixteenth century: hereinafter follow the powers and privileges of him who holds in his right han

bols of moses and the narratives of genesis. he makes war upon his father, whom he slays without knowing tremendous prophecy of the blind emancipation of reason apart from science. thereafter he meets with the sphinx, that symbol of symbols, the eternal enigma of the vulgar, the granite pedestal of the sciences of the sages, the voracious and silent monster whose unchanging form expresses the one dogma of the great universal mystery. how is the tetrad changed into the duad and explained by the triad? in more common but more emblematic terms, what is that animal which in the morning has four feet, two at noon, and three in the evening? introduction 9 philosophically speaking, how does the doctrine of elementary forces produce the dualism of zoroaster, while it is summarized by the triad of

the veil of being and the characteristic sign of life. every form is the veil of a word, because the idea which is the mother of the word is the sole reason for the existence of forms. every figure is a character, every character derives from and returns into a word. for this reason the ancient 6 the doctrine of transcendental magic sages, of whom trismegistus is the organ, formulated their sole dogma in these terms: that which is above is like unto that which is below, and that which is below unto that which is above. in other words, the form is proportional to the idea; the shadow is the measure of the body calculated in its relation to the luminous ray; the scabbard is as deep as the sword is long; the negation is in proportion to the contrary affirmation; production is equal to destru

tsoever is subsists in unity, considered as beginning, and returns into unity, considered as end. one is in one; that is to say, all is in all. unity is the principle of numbers; it is also the principle of motion and consequently of life, the entire human body is recapitulated in the unity of a sinthe candidate 7 gle organ, which is the brain. all religions are summed up in the unity of a single dogma, which is the affirmation of being and its equality with itself, and this constitutes its mathematical value. there is only one dogma in magic, and it is this: the visible is the manifestation of the invisible, or, in other terms, the perfect word, in things appreciable and visible, bears an exact proportion to the things which are inappreciable by our senses and unseen by our eyes. the magu

elements, analogous to the divine elements, are understood firstly as four, explained as two and exist ultimately as three. revelation is the duad; every word is double, and supposes two. the ethic which results from revelation is founded on antagonism, and this results from the duad. spirit and form attract and repel one another, like sign and idea, fiction and truth. supreme reason necessitates dogma when communicating to finite intelligences, and dogma by its passage from the domain of ideas to that of forms, participates in two worlds and has inevitably two senses testifying in succession or the pillars of the temple 11 simultaneously, that is, to the spirit and the flesh. so are there two forces in the moral region, one which attacks and one which restrains and expiates. they are repr

endental magic in the hieroglyphic work of hermes, being the tarot or book of thoth, the duad is represented either by the horns of isis, who has her head veiled and an open book concealed partially under her mantle, or otherwise by a sovereign lady, juno, the greek goddess, with one hand uplifted towards heaven and the other pointed to earth, as if formulating by this gesture the one and twofold dogma which is the foundation of magic and begins the marvellous symbols of the emerald table of hermes. in the apocalypse of st. john there is reference to two witnesses or martyrs on whom prophetic tradition confers the names of elias and enoch-elias, man of faith, enthusiasm, miracle; enoch, one with him who is called hermes by the egyptians, honoured by the phoenicians as cadmus, author of the

and enoch, expected at the close of the ages of ignorance, will be the renovation of their doctrine by the comprehension of the kabalistic keys which unlock the temple of unity and of universal philosophy, too long occult and reserved solely for the elect, who perish at the hands of the world. but we have said that the reproduction of the monad by the duad leads of necessity to the conception and dogma of the triad, so we come now to this great number, which is the fullness and perfect word of unity. 13 iii g c the triangle of solomon plenitudo vocis binah physis the perfect word is the triad, because it supposes an intelligent principle, a speaking principle and a principle spoken. the absolute, revealed by speech, endows this speech with a sense equivalent to itself, and in the understan

d by this sign, which is the grand pantacle that is to say, the most simple and complete abridgement of the science of all things. grammar itself attributes three persons to the verb. the first is that which speaks, the second that which is spoken to, and the third the object. in creating, the infinite prince speaks to himself of himself. such is the explanation of the triad and the origin of the dogma of the trinity. the magical dogma is also one in three and three in one. that which is above is like or equal to that which is below. thus, two things which resemble one another and the word which signifies their resemblance make three. the triad is the universal dogma. in magic principle, realization, adaptation; in alchemy azoth, incorporation, transmutation; in theology god, incarnation

himself and triple in our conception, which also leads us to behold him as triple in himself and one in our intelligence and our love. this is a mystery for the faithful and a logical necessity for the initiate into absolute and real sciences. the word manifested by life is realization or incarnation. the life of the word accomplishing its cyclic movement is adaptation or redemption. this triple dogma was known in all sanctuaries illuminated by the tradition of the sages. do you wish to ascertain which is the true religion? seek that which realizes most in the divine order, which humanizes god and makes man divine, which preserves the triadic dogma intact, which clothes the word with flesh by making god manifest to the hands and eyes of the most ignorant, which in fine appeals to all in i

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an absolute god outside or independent of reason is the idol of black magic and the phantom of the fiend. the demon is death masquerading in the tattered garments of life, the spectre of hirrenkesept throned upon the rubbish of ruined civilizations, and concealing a loathsome nakedness by the cast-off clothes of the incarnations of vishnu. here ends the doctrine of transcendental ma reliphas levi dogma et rituel de la haute magie translated by a. e. waite dogme et rituel de la haute magie part ii: the ritual of transcendental magic by eliphas levi (alphonse louis constant) translated by a. e. waite. originally published by rider& company, england, 1896. transcribed and converted to adobe acrobat format by benjamin rowe, january, 2002. typeset in bauer bodoni, goudy text, and waters titling

n participated in the ceremony, the operator was always a virgin, a hermaphrodite, or a child. i shall be asked whether the eccentricity of these rites is arbitrary, and whether its one end is the exercise of the will by the mere multiplication of difficulties in magical work? i answer that in magic there is nothing arbitrary, because everything is ruled and predetermined by the one and universal dogma of hermes, that of analogy in the three worlds. each sign corresponds to an idea and to the special form of an idea; each act expresses a volition corresponding to a thought, and formulates the analogies of that thought and will. the rites are, therefore, prearranged by the science itself. an uninstructed person who is not acquainted with the threefold power is subject to its mysterious fasc

vital and palmary question, whether the real evocation and real conjuration of spirits are things possible, and whether such possibility can be demonstrated scientifically. to the first part of the question it may be replied out of hand that everything which is not an evident impossibility can and must be admitted provisionally. as to the second part, we affirm that in virtue of the great magical dogma of the hierarchy and of universal analogy, the kabalistic possibility of real evocations can be demonstrated; concerning the phenomenal reality consequent upon magical operations accomplished with sincerity, this is a matter of experience. as already narrated, we have established it in our own persons, and by means of this gritual h we shall place our readers in a position to renew and confi

cians traced the sign of the pentagram upon their doorsteps, to prevent evil spirits from entering and good spirits from departing. this constraint followed from the direction of the points of the star. two points on the outer side drove away the evil; two points on the inner side imprisoned them; one only on the inner side held good spirits captive. all these magical theories, based upon the one dogma of hermes and on the analogical deductions of science, have been confirmed invariably by the visions of ecstatics and the paroxysms of cataleptics, declaring that they are possessed by spirits. the g which freemasons place in the middle of the blazing star signifies gnosis and generation, the two sacred words of the ancient kabalah. it signifies also grand architect, for the pentagram on eve

, to show that a new cultus is only a new path, conducting man to one religion, being that of the sacred triad and the radiant pentagram, the sole eternal catholicism. st. john, in the blazing pentagram 37 the apocalypse, beholds this same star fall from heaven to earth. it is then called absinthe or wormwood, and all the waters of the sea become bitter. a striking image of the materialization of dogma, which produces fanaticism and the acridities of controversy. then unto christianity itself may be applied those words of isaiah: ghow has thou fallen from heaven, bright star, which wast so splendid in thy prime! h but the pentagram, profaned by men, burns ever unclouded in the right hand of the word of truth, and the inspired voice guarantees to him that overcometh the possession of the mo

purifying genius of venus; extreme unction is the safe-guard of the sick about to fall under the scythe of saturn; and orders, consecrating the priesthood of light, is marked more especially by the characters of the sun. almost all these analogies were observed by the learned dupuis, who thence concluded that all religions were false, instead of recognizing the sanctity and perpetuity of a single dogma, ever reproduced in the universal symbolism of successive religious forms. he failed to understand the permanent revelation transmitted to human genius by the harmonies of nature, and beheld only a catalogue of errors in this chain of speaking images and eternal truths. magical works are also seven in number (1) works of light and riches, under the auspices of the sun (2) works of divination

ery sword of the guardians of the symbol; then regeneration by labour and propagation by sorrow, which is the law of initiations and ordeals; the division of cain and abel, which is the same symbol as the strife of anteros and eros; the ark borne upon the waters of the deluge like the coffer of osiris; the black raven which does not return and the white dove which does, a new setting forth of the dogma of antagonism and balance. all these magnificent kabalistic allegories of genesis, which, taken literally and accepted as actual histories, merit even more derision and contempt than voltaire heaped upon them, become lumithe key of occultism 59 nous for the initiate, who still hails with enthusiasm and love the perpetuity of true doctrine and the universality of initiation, identical in all

cury to air and water, salt to earth. all masters in alchemy who have written concerning the great work have employed symbolical and figurative expressions, and have been right in so doing, not only to deter the profane from operations which would be dangerous for them, but to make themselves intelligible to adepts by revealing the entire world of analogies which is ruled by the one and sovereign dogma of hermes. for such, gold and silver are the sun and moon, or the king and queen; sulphur is the flying eagle; mercury is the winged and bearded hermaphrodite, throned upon a cube and crowned with flames; matter or salt is the winged dragon; metals in the molten state are lions of various colours; finally, the whole work is symbolized by the pelican and phoenix. hermetic art is, therefore, a

e elevation of the dry substance by means of fire, with adherence to its proper vessel. whosoever would acquire understanding of the great word and possess the great arcanum, after studying the principles of our gdoctrine h, should read the hermetic philosophers carefully, and he will doubtless attain initiation, as others have attained it; but for the key of their allegories he must take the one dogma of hermes, contained in the gemerald table h, while to classify the knowledge and direct operation he must follow the order indicated in the kabalistic alphabet of the tarot, of which an absolute and complete explanation will be given in the last chapter of this work. among the rare and priceless treatises which contain the mysteries of the great arcanum, the gchemical pathway or manual h of

eted by the tarot. the old sanctuaries contain no further mysteries, and the significance of the objects of the hebrew cultus is comprehensible for the first time. who does not perceive in the golden table, crowned and supported by cherubim which covered the ark of the covenant, the same symbols as those of the twenty-first tarot key? the ark was a hieroglyphical synthesis of the whole kabalistic dogma; it included the jod or blossoming staff of aaron, the he or cup, the gomor containing the manna, the two tables of the law. an analogous symbol to that of the sword of justice. and the manna kept in the gomor, four objects which interpret wonderfully the letters of the divine tetragram. gaffarel has proved learnedly that the cherubim of the ark were in the likeness of bulls, but he did not

on, let a revealer of hidden things come forward and seek to popularize the discoveries of science among gross and ignorant men, destitute of the most simple elementary notions; let him say, for example, that the earth revolves and that it is shaped like an egg: what resource has the barbarian who hears him except to believe? is it not plain that every proposition of this nature becomes for him a dogma from on high, an article of faith? and is not the veil of a wise allegory sufficient to make it a mythos? in the schools of seers the terrestrial globe was represented by an egg of pasteboard or painted wood, and when young children were asked, ewhat is this egg? f they answered, eit is the earth. f those older children, the barbarians, hearing this, repeated, after the little children of th

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being possibly banned from heaven by an orthodox deity. this theme 'the burden of unimagined time' was pursued by the scottish poet fiona macleod (william sharp) in his fairy drama, the immortal hour, which was adapted and set to music by rutland boughton22 in england in the early twentieth century. while it does play some part in fairy tradition, it stems from poetic interpretation of christian dogma. the concept that the fairies are the spirits of the dead in a temporary or even permanent condition of subterranean life is widespread, and in tradition itself we find the ancestors, the recently dead, the fairies, and the gods, goddesses and elemental beings, all inhabiting the underworld together, sometimes jointly and sometimes in separate realms, dimen-sions, or states within the underw

ity of the seventeenth century, and if we grant that kirk is indeed reporting oral tradition, this is further evidence of a specific wisdom-teaching of ancient origins, but with perennial and worldwide currency. finally we have the reference to reincarnation: for the souls sleep in an inactive state until they resume terrestrial bodies again. an unambiguous statement directly counter to christian dogma. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_92.htm (2 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:14 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 92-101) as kirk is reporting the beliefs of his barbarian parishio-ners, presumably he can avoid any suggestion of heresy or witchcraft, but we need to remember constantly that seventeenth-century scotland, and indeed england, had re-cently emerged from the fanatical conflict

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n rivalry with plato's academy in 335 bce, after having been denied the headship of the academy [where he had earlier been a student of plato's for 20 years. in 323 bce, when alexander the great died, aristotle was hounded from athens on a charge of "impiety" his works were lost to europe upon the fall of the roman empire; they resurfaced in the time of thomas aquinas and were treated as catholic dogma. aristotle attempts to disprove or attack plato, but his criticisms are somewhat shaky. an example is his attack on plato's elitism, while he himself defends the concept of natural slavery. aristotle may be credited with endeavoring to interrelate many fields of knowledge carefully and systematically. otherwise he is as beholden to plato as plato is to pythagoras. aristotle conceptualized a

hastity, and (3) obedience. nowhere is the importance of cosmology better demonstrated than in a consideration of aquinas. if his cosmology is accepted as a priori valid, then his reasoning represents a high point in philosophy. a standard for the catholic church even today. if it is not accepted, then he is a sort of "aristotle baptized" who did as good a job as possible of reconciling christian dogma with a non-christian empirical and intuitive classical philosophy. aquinas is an example of medieval scholasticism in that he is "reasoning" towards a preaccepted and pre-determined conclusion. instead of using logic as an investigative device to address questions open-mindedly, he uses it as a vehicle to justify dogma. while it is easy to see this in aquinas and other scholasticists, one mu

determined conclusion. instead of using logic as an investigative device to address questions open-mindedly, he uses it as a vehicle to justify dogma. while it is easy to see this in aquinas and other scholasticists, one must also bear in mind the "intuitive truth" element to be found in classical logic as applied by plato, aristotle, etc. these elder philosophers were not defending institutional dogma, but they were using the device of argumentative logic. the dialectic. to illustrate and substantiate concepts which they had essentially grasped intuitively, i.e. supralogically. hence one cannot question aquinas in this area without questioning them too. machiavellianism the period ca. 1350-1600, termed the "renaissance" was characterized by a continuing increase in secular education [with

the emerging merchant middle class. this support was born essentially of the desire by these groups to rid themselves of the economic burden of the papacy and its subordinate echelons. in time the reformation provoked the catholic "counter-reformation" a somewhat militant retrenchment by that church. from 1545 to 1563 the council of trent, a catholic church conference, met to resolve questions of dogma. once decided, these dogma were promulgated and enforced with a seriousness not found during the pleasure-loving papacy of the renaissance "if my own father were a heretic" said paul iv "i would burn him" in 1540 ignatius loyola founded the society of jesus (jesuits, characterized by extreme discipline and machiavellian social influence. loyola placed great stress on education, and by the 17

sophy. no student of gnosticism will deny the philosophic character of gnosticism. however, there certainly is a sharp difference of opinion as to whether or not hellenistic philosophical thought, particularly stoic and platonic emphasis, is a source. harnack has stated his case clearly "there can be no doubt of the fact that gnosticism, which has become a factor in the movement of the history of dogma, was ruled in the main by the greek spirit and determined by the interests and doctrines of the greek philosophy of religion" van unnik refers to hyppolytus who also repeatedly alleged a connection of gnosticism with the schools of greek philosophy and questions the validity of the assertion. quispel states that gnosticism had some greek origins and in the greek philosophic climate gnosticis

the little flower, is a well know example, a saint who still continues to "perform miracles" and whose story is spread through the blessed rose petals her followers pass out to souls in need. she is very popular in wisconsin. the word "cult" is not used lightly either, as the behavior of these devout folks does meet the description of cultist behavior. so far the trinity of god is still the basic dogma. the established goal of christianity is even more insistent than previous religions on the fact that the soul is to achieve union with god in this life, with the culmination in the hereafter to the extent even of loss of identity. it still spells stasis and loss of self determination. the protestant denominations, even those which reject the doctrine of the trinity and allow only for jehova

dy c. magickal will d. aeon of isis 20. setians regard that which is defined by conventional religions as "god" to be a. the prince of darkness, or set b. the principle of life c. harwer d. the natural order 21. religion always begins with a. unnatural phenomena b. natural phenomena c. fear d. introspection 22. the best means for transcribing philosophical thought is through a. myths b. religious dogma c. scientific parallels d. symbolism 23. what is the city of the pyramids? a. binah b. magickal initiation c. the human brain d. kether 24. the word 'occult' means a. hidden knowledge b. ancient knowledge c. hermetic science d. metaphysical 25. according to aristotle) is the proper color of elements in transmutation" a. yellow b. red c. black d. white 26. a pantheon of gods called "loas" are

difficult to be a sinner than a saint. there are many today who are fascinated by the dark side at the same time that they inveigh against it. this affords them a degree of titillation at a "safe" distance. even as they extol the virtues of safety in the garden, however, they are drawn by what may lie beyond its bounds. they venture near the border and then are frightened back into the refuge of dogma; yet the lure of the unknown- the potential for awareness and free will which is the true legacy of the prince of darkness- persists. caught between two realms, they cannot be true to either and thus betray both. they are described most accurately as metaphysical demagogues, and most politely as dilettantes misrepresenting superficial scholarship as knowledge. history someone christ, king of

trumps were published in the trail of the serpent from xxi to xxiii. the remaining unpublished ones were written in xxiii and the careful reader will detect changes taking place in the atu descriptions. each is designed not to be comprehensive, but rather to be what was seen during one magician's look at the cards. the thoughts may or may not be correct- i will not impose those interpretations as dogma. the tarot trumps can be a journey through a life above and beyond the mundane world. they can be a toy or a tool. it is, after all, a matter of what you will. the inverted pentagram layout was downloaded from the nsbbs and used with the permission os the sysop, priest roger whitaker. trump 0 the fool atu 0, the fool, opens the thoth deck trump series. if the tarot is designed to serve as a

e, while set's has the stylized set-head. the emperor's cross-topped orb holds a maltese cross while set carries the anx [i suspect the reason for the maltese cross could stem from the symbol of the knights of malta who formed their crosses from four arrowheads pointed inward. seen as such, it could be symbolic of temporal influence coming about from an aggressive nature. i do not advance this as dogma, but it does fit with the red color of the card and overall power presented in it] the ram, ares, can be seen in four places in three forms: the capitals of the throne [himalayan wild rams, according to the book of thoth, the sceptre, and the lamb at the emperor's feet. the presence of the ram and the color red are both suggestive tro set himself- red being set's color and ares being the gre

se. being is an activity. it has goals. it uses tools and raw matter. it encounters pitfalls through its trial and error approaches. it gives the individual an opportunity to analyze and answer the question of whether life is worthwhile in the living of it. such an answer depends in part on the volume of delusion and deceit or the lack thereof within an aeon. after personal exposure to inflexible dogma in my own past, the previous satanic age anmd the current setian aeon stand out like breaths of fresh mountain air. there is a great deal to be said for being able to gather facts and best possible solutions in the place of comforting myths. atu xx is a tunnel leading through the corridors of time. the child has grown and seen the god of his time merge into set-hen and from that become the t

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golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. 5. before none of your printed idols do i bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe! 6. i dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: the true prince of evil- the king of slaves! 7. no hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! 8. i break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. 9. i raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong! 10. i gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome jehovah, and pluck him by the beard; i uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull! 11. i blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and

nd behold; all this is fraud! 3. gather around me, oh! ye death-defiant, and the earth itself shall be thine, to have and to hold! 4. too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought! 5. too long right and wrong, good and evil have been inverted by false prophets! 6. no creed must be accepted upon authority of a "divine" nature. religions must be put to the question. no moral dogma must be taken for granted- no standard of measurement deified. there is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy! 7. he that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle is the beginning of all unwisdom. 8. the chief duty o

s- one that best represents the very carnal and physical being that has the idea-power to invent a god in the first place? if man insists on externalizing his true self in the form of "god, then why fear his true self, in fearing "god- why praise his true self in praising "god- why remain externalized from "god" in order to engage in ritual and religious ceremony in his name? man needs ritual and dogma, but no law states that an externalized god is necessary in order to engage in ritual and ceremony performed in a god's name! could it be that when he closes the gap between himself and his "god" he sees the demon of pride creeping forth- that very embodiment of lucifer appearing in his midst? he no longer can view himself in two parts, the carnal and the spiritual, but sees them merge as on

n recent years there has been an attempt to humanize the spiritual concept of christianity. this has manifested itself in the most obvious non-spiritual means. masses which had been said in latin are now said in native languages- which only succeeds in making the nonsense easier to understand, and at the same time robs the ceremony of the esoteric nature which is consistent with the tenets of the dogma. it is much simpler to obtain an emotional reaction using words and phrases that cannot be understood than it is with statements which even the simplest mind will question when hearing them in an understandable language. if priests and ministers were to have used the devices to fill their churches one hundred years ago that they use today, they would have been charged with heresy, called dev

r best interests at heart "satanism is based on a very sound philosophy" say the emancipated "but why call it satanism? why not call it something like 'humanism' or a name that would have the connotation of a witchcraft group, something a little more esoteric- something less blatant" there is more than one reason for this. humanism is not a religion. it is simply a way of life with no ceremony or dogma. satanism has both ceremony and dogma. dogma, as will be explained, is necessary. satanism differs greatly from all other so-called white-light "white" witchcraft or magical groups in the world today. these self-righteous and supercilious religions protest that their members use the powers of magic only for altruistic purposes. satanists look with disdain upon "white" witchcraft groups becau

sonality. we are living in an era of intellectual awareness unlike any the world has ever seen. this is all very well and good, but- there is one flaw in this new state of awareness. it is one thing to accept something intellectually, but to accept the same thing emotionally is an entirely different matter. the one need that psychiatry cannot fill is man's inherent need for emotionalizing through dogma. man needs ceremony and ritual, fantasy and enchantment. psychiatry, despite all the good it has done, has robbed man of wonder and fantasy which religion, in the past, has provided. satanism, realizing the current needs of man, fills the large grey void between religion and psychiatry. the satanic philosophy combines the fundamentals of psychology and good, honest emotionalizing, or dogma

despite all the good it has done, has robbed man of wonder and fantasy which religion, in the past, has provided. satanism, realizing the current needs of man, fills the large grey void between religion and psychiatry. the satanic philosophy combines the fundamentals of psychology and good, honest emotionalizing, or dogma. it provides man with his much needed fantasy. there is nothing wrong with dogma, providing it is not based on ideas and actions which go completely against human nature. the quickest way of traveling between two points is in a straight line. if all the guilts that have been built up can be turned into advantages, it eliminates the need for intellectual purging of the psyche in an attempt to cleanse it from these repressions. satanism is the only religion known to man th

although christianity is certainly deserving of the criticism it has received, perhaps it has been taking more than its share of the blame. the followers of the mystical beliefs are every bit as guilty of the little humanisms as the "misguided" christians. both religions are based on trite philosophies, but the mystical religionists profess to be enlightened and emancipated from the guilt-ridden dogma which is typified by christianity. however, the eastern mystic is even more preoccupied than the christian with avoiding animalistic actions that remind him he is not a "saint, but merely a man- only another form of animal, sometimes better, more often worse, than those who walk on all fours; and who, becuase of his "divine spiritual and intellectual development, has become the most vicious

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emorating an event, aspect of life, admired personage, or declaration of faith. generally, a ritual is used to attain, while a ceremony serves to sustain. for example, the traditional black mass would incorrectly be considered a ceremony-a pageant of blasphemy. actually it is usually entered into for a personal need to purge oneself, via overcompensation, of inhibiting guilts imposed by christian dogma. thus it is a ritual. if a black mass is performed by curiosity seekers or "for fun" it becomes a party. what constitutes the difference between a satanic ceremony and a play presented by a theatre group? often very little: mainly it hinges on the degree of acceptance on the part of the audience. it is of little consequence whether an outside audience does or does not accept the substance of

cal gods of pleasure, as well as dark, forboding demons like balaam, and persian deities like kors. in the ritual of these "seekers after joy" their whirlings and circumambulations, followed by frenzied sexual release, were virtually indistinguishable from the ecstatic flailing about of the dervishes. undoubtedly the strongest testimony to the influence of foreign sects upon the khlysty was their dogma of "repentance through sin"-the proposition that physical intercourse with a "divine" or chosen one (one in whom a god or the flame of god dwelt) would abolish and transform sin into virtue. this doctrine has overt resemblance to and varies only slightly from one preached by the brethren of the free spirit in france, germany and czechoslovakia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. the br

ert with cataclysmic terror -not in avoidance of it. this theme of a constant interrelationship between the constructive and destructive facets of the human personality is the keystone of the doctrines of satanism. theism argues that the integrity of the individual can be increased by a rejection of the carnal and an obedience to morality. lovecraft recorded bis aversion to conventional religious dogma in the silver key, and he regarded with a similar scorn those who, rejecting religion, succumbed to a controversial substitute, i.e. the popular notion of witchcraft. the concept of worship per se is strikingly absent from the cthulhu mythos. nyarlathotep, shub- niggurath, yog-sothoth and cthulhu are all honored through bizarre festivals, but their relationship to their followers is invariab

blame or take the credit for his own actions. inasmuch as all satanists would be considered "misguided" by the pious, we have no wish to offend further the sensibilities of the self-righteous by luring apple-cheeked boys and girls into "unholy rites and unspeakable orgies" virtually every unsuccessful (usually deservedly so) contemporary sect or cult which has deviated from established christian dogma has fallen because the pious majority has been outraged by said cult's traffic with underaged persons. admittedly, many of these cults have been little more than confidence games, or sexual outlets, cloaked in white-light spirituality. while we concur that age is no proof of sound judgment, we recognize the importance of working within the legal framework of society. there is nothing inheren

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t believe that some mysterious and awesome deity (whether or not he has horns and a tail) is going to hand us that knowledge in return for our allegiance (or that problematic entity the "soul. knowledge is achieved by learning, working, experimenting, experiencing and thinking. that is why the orthodox religions fulminate against us, because they are aware of the insecure foundations of their own dogma. it is our existence that threatens them. faith is the true evil. blind, unquestioning faith in a religion or a cause has made men go to war, commit unspeakable acts of persecution and terrorism against other human beings. the satanist does not offer such allegiance. it is his principle to ask "why" one little word that could shatter empires. no wonder they are so afraid of us. appendix 2 sa

. the lh paths and the rh paths [hereafter, the singular 'path' will be used, although the plural is to be understood] are quite distinct and differ in both their methods and their aims. the most fundamental difference is that the rhp is restrictive- certain things are forbidden or frowned upon- and collective. that is, the rhp takes some responsibility away from the individual by having a formal dogma, a code of ethics and behaviour and by having the individual participate in an organized grouping, however loose that grouping may be. in brief, the identity of the individual is to some extent taken away- by the beliefs systems which that individual has to accept, and by them accepting some higher 'authority, be such authority an individual, a group or an 'ideology (or even, sometimes, a su

ate is seeking mastery and self-knowledge these being implicit in such an initiation. accordingly, the lhp initiate sees methods as merely methods; experience as merely experience. both are used, learned from and then discarded. because of this, the lhp is by its nature ruthless- the strong of character win through, the weak go under. there are no `safety nets' of any kind on the lhp- there is no dogma or ideology to rely on, no one to provide comfort and soften the blows, no organization, individual or `being' to run to when things get difficult and which will provide supportand sympathy and understanding. or which, just as importantly, takes away the responsibility of the initiate for their deeds. the lhp breeds self-achievement and self-excellence- or its destroys, either literally, or

h does not uphold this in both theory and practice is a fraudulent organization. in practice this means that an organization does not restrict the experiences of its members- it does not, for instance, impose upon them any binding authority which the members have to accept or face 'expulsion' just as it does not lay down for them any codes of behaviour or ethics. that is, it does not promulgate a dogma which the members have to accept as it does not require those members to be obedient to what the hierarchy says. there is no "proscription" of certain views, or individuals or other organizations as there is no attempt to make members conform in terms of behaviour, attitudes, views, opinions, expressions or anything else. if there are any of these things, the organization so doing these thin

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

three divine persons in one god. moreover, plotinus s concept of sin is very close to the christian concept. sin, for plotinus, came about from humans being separated from the one, just as in christian theology sin arises from humankind s separation from god. sects and schisms greek religion was both a public and private matter. but there were no written rules for the religion, no moral code, no dogma (established opinion) or church teaching. the mystery cults could not properly be called sects, as they were simply another way of honoring various gods. however, what could be called a schism or split in greek religion came about when the greek philosophers began to offer counter explanations to the myths about the workings of nature. there were several instances where philosophy conflicted

o: good thoughts, good words, good deeds (in modern-day persian, pendar-e nik, goftar-e nik, and kerdar-e nik. this goal is expressed by the term asha, a form of righteousness that comes from natural law (law derived from the way the universe operates rather than from human sources) and includes truth, order, discipline, and progress. choice zoroastrianism is a religion that is remarkably free of dogma, or principles regarded by the religion as true and authoritative, and commandments, or laws. it instead emphasizes an ethical life. zarathushtra, who believed in the power of human reason, taught that each person was capable of knowing the difference between good and evil and following the good. a person endowed with vohu manah, or good mind, will 452 world religions: almanac zoroastrianism

himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see god. even in this life; then and then only all the crookedness of the heart is made straight. so the best proof a hindu sage gives about the soul, about god, is: i have seen the soul; i have seen god. and that is the only condition of perfection. the hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming. descend we now from the aspirations of philosophy to the religion of the ignorant. at the very outset, i may tell you that there is no polytheism in india. in every temple, if one stands by and listens, one will find the worshipers applying all the attributes of god, including omnipresence, to the images. it is not polytheism. th

nd listens, one will find the worshipers applying all the attributes of god, including omnipresence, to the images. it is not polytheism. the rose, called by any other name, would smell as sweet. names are not explanations. uncompromising: showing no willingness to find a middle ground or negotiate. causation: the process of causing an effect. proclaim: announce. bondage: slavery. sage: holy man. dogma: code of belief. aspirations: ambitions, goals. polytheism: belief in more than one god. omnipresence: presence everywhere, throughout all of creation. world religions: primary sources 115 paper on hinduism superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse. why does a christian go to church? why is the cross holy? why is the face turned toward the sky in prayer? why are there so man

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concerned with our universe and with the microcosm. the opinions of hebrew kabalistic rabbis and of modern mystics may be fitly introduced here. the following interesting quotation is from rabbi moses botarel, who wrote his famous commentary in 1409-"it was abraham our father--blessed be he--who wrote this book to condemn the doctrine of the sages of his time, who were incredulous of the supreme dogma of the unity. at least, this was the opinion of rabbi saadiah--blessed be he--as written in the first chapter of his book the philosopher's stone. these are his words: the sages of babylon attacked abraham on account of his faith; for they were all against him although themselves separable into three sects. the first thought that the universe was subject to the control of two opposing forces

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

e inexpressible clearness of the atmosphere there was something that rejoiced the senses. the very soul seemed to grow lighter and purer in that lucid air "and these men, to commence their era of improvement and equality, are jealous even of the creator. they would deny an intelligence, a god" said zanoni, as if involuntarily "are you an artist, and, looking on the world, can you listen to such a dogma? between god and genius there is a necessary link, there is almost a correspondent language. well said the pythagorean (sextus, the pythagorean 'a good intellect is the chorus of divinity" struck and touched with these sentiments, which he little expected to fall from one to whom he ascribed those powers which the superstitions of childhood ascribe to the darker agencies, glyndon said "and y

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link between true theosophy and the reverse side of the seal of the united states. the time will come. when the white stone will become the headstone of the corner of our government. in proclaiming a new religion in which all spiritual currents flowing from every religion shall meet in the perfection of the white stone [capstone over the pyramid] teaching o f. spiritual unfoldment. having neither dogma nor doctrine. we see in mr [william] barton only the facade of the instrument; that, if he himself was not a mystic or seer, then, a master stood behind him (her emphasis) miss lang felt that this "master" must have been thomas paine, the deist and revolutionary. c. a. l. totten attributed a scriptural meaning to the use of the number 13 in the seal: 13 stripes in the shield, 13 stars in the

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ical turn in his work. until then he was known for philosophical and literary publications in which he stressed the autonomy of human knowledge, rejecting completely any dogmatic worldview, especially the dogmatic christianity of the church. here for the first time he himself is speaking about the substance of christianity, which until then he had completely rejected in its form as ecclesiastical dogma. it would be easy to assume that he gave a spiritual-scientific commentary on various aspects of traditional teachings, and supplemented what was already known from christian tradition with profound insights for even deeper knowledge. rudolf steiner has been misunderstood again and again in this regard, as, for example, when his lecture cycles are seen simply as anthroposophical commentaries

faith in a spiritual world or in reincarnation, would be just as problematic as the materialistic superstition of natural science. for this reason, when steiner developed a path of knowledge in his basic philosophical writings, the dogmatism of revealed religion was rejected just as sharply as the dogmatism of natural science. such truth can illuminate the path of knowledge only as a goal; it is dogma when placed at the beginning. even as a young man steiner had pointed out that the dogma of revelation. passes down to people, one way or another, truths about things withheld from their view. people have no insight into the world from which the postulates arise. they must believe in such truth, because they have no access to its basis. 4 steiner objected to such dogmatic faith in the philos

, who is striding to meet us from east to west. rudolf steiner s path toward this noble goal of knowledge was an inner path through deserts and abysses, through loneliness of the soul, and through the experience of hell, as described in terms of the mysteries in christianity as mystical fact.15 he could follow this path only by ignoring consistently all traditional christianity and all idealistic dogma. he had to follow his own path unperturbed by any external influence. and yet he would not have arrived at his goal had he not gone beyond what appeared in intuitive thinking as a spiritual path as the fruit of the germinal writing of the twenty-one-year-old. he knew the spiritual law: knowledge is not gained by asserting only one s own point of view, but through immersion in streams of thou

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

archbishop of sardi (asia minor near smyrna. papal nunzio to portugal. 11-2-67# 18911-47 "gimase" sposito, luigi. pontifical commission for the archives of the church in italy. head administrator of the apostolic seat of the vatican. suenens, leo. cardinal. title: protector of the church of st. peter in chains, outside rome. promotes protestant pentecostalism (charismatics. destroyed much church dogma when he worked in 3 sacred congregations: 1) propagation of the faith; 2) rites and ceremonies in the liturgy; 3) seminaries. 6-15-67# 21-64 "lesu" trabalzini, dino. bishop of rieti (reate, peruga, italy. auxiliary bishop of southern rome. 2-6-65# 61-956 "tradi" travia, antonio. titular archbishop of termini imerese. head of catholic schools. 9-15- 67# 16-141 "atra" trocchi, vittorio. secret

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selves into our social structures, our politics, our myths and legends and our way of thinking. these two ways, or paths can be described as the path of spiritual dissent and the path of spiritual unity. to understand this a bit better we can say that the path of spiritual unity depends upon the individual giving themself over to manners of conduct as determined by their god/goddess/gods/doctrine/dogma in various ways. at the opposite side of this would be individuals who engage in actions that are determined through independent criteria (such as personal experience) rather than through dogma or ritualized and established codes of conduct. i will explore this in greater detail further on in your reading. this book is not, as many would think, an attack upon god or anyone s belief system. i

od(s)forms to be embodiments of principles encased within various mythological countenances. additonally, there are views that perceive the idea of a god(s) as egregores, or determine them as something entirely different such as a useful metaphor or symbol. in the lhp that judgement can only be truthfully answered by oneself and their own experiences. it cannot be a judgement based upon doctrine, dogma or articles of faith to have any utility as a tool for individuation. however, this issue of noumenal existence is one that must be acknowledged and discussed at some point within the antinomian experience. it is through a discovery of the seat and source of ones spiritual self (whatever the final determination) that moves the individual towards more advanced states of consciousness. the exp

dience to ideas that you are not your own through experience, or developed contemplation and philosophical inquiry. it is fully possible to have a rational faith in very large ideas (such as the essential nature of human consciousness) without having to simply "accept" it because religion, cultural ideology or socialization have told you that it is so. the alternative to this "blind acceptance of dogma" is to carefully evaluate the known facts from unbiased largely unbiased sources, and then come to your own conclusions. sometimes to successfully accomplish this task one must learn very new things such as a foreign language, or go to school and take some courses in philosophy, or to create a unique piece of art. this is part of the responsibility that the antinomian praxis demands of its a

disperse, and rid yourself of ideas that are not your own, and then replacing them with what you do know, the entire world as you view it will change. wisdom comes from those methodologies that help free you from that which is not your own. thus opening the floodgate to what can be yours through the divine gift of self consciousness. any text which asks you to accept its tenets- on blind faith or dogma- is an abhorrence to the dignity of the soul that seeks its true expression through its own knowledge of self. any text which asks you to examine its ideas and sources, and then determine for yourself the validity of its ideas, is to be esteemed. the answers are out there, but it will take an awakening, a desire, and the will to seek for the tree to bear its fruit. antinomianism is not only

rceptual constructions that aid in the creation of these individuated futures. in the beginning, there could only be our two types of nothing. most hermeticists, and rhp devotees, will insist that 1=2. they want the monad to reflect referential duality without knowledge of itself, knowledge must precede method as andre vandenbroeck has stated. this rhp approach is not a formula as much as it is a dogma that reflects the conceptual paradigm that a unity- a sole architect and creator manifest the existing universe and its following diversity. indeed that unity exists, but not without its antinomian counterpart, its antimatter, its shadow. it is this polarity of extremes that is explored and reflected through the antinomian spirit. it is this spiritual polarity that dissents from oneness, fol

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surely will give this evil tyrant all their allegiance. they, along with the duped masses, will fall prey to the strong delusion, they will believe the lie, and they will be damned (ii thessalonians 2. please to please their master, lucifer, is the highest priority of the illuminati. illuminist albert pike, 33, former sovereign grand commander whose commentary on freemasonry's rituals, morals and dogma, is the classic learning textbook for all masons, issued instructions on july 14, 1889, to the supreme councils of the world identifying the master whom masons universally worship and venerate: that which we must say to the crowd is we worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. to you, sovereign grand inspector generals, we say this; that you may repeat it to brot

t. obviously, this was a staged "photo op" event, but for vice president al gore and house speaker newt gingrich to reach over the clasped hands of president bill clinton and senate majority leader bob dole was a serious breach of etiquette (usa today, december 21, 1995 "cross my heart and hope to die" 237 albert pike, former sovereign grand commander of the scottish rite, in his book, morals and dogma, considered by many masons to be their "bible" and guide for daily living, has this illustration of an "x" in the form of a crossed gavel and a measuring stick, or rule. pike explains the illustration by suggesting that force (the brute power of the people) must be regulated by the elite "the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed. it must be regulated

bible" and guide for daily living, has this illustration of an "x" in the form of a crossed gavel and a measuring stick, or rule. pike explains the illustration by suggesting that force (the brute power of the people) must be regulated by the elite "the blind force of the people is a force that must be economized, and also managed. it must be regulated by intellect" 238 codex magica 80 morals and dogma. hour; and hence, in several african dialects, as names of the sun, airo, ayero, eer, uiro, ghurrah, and the like. the royal name rendered pharaoh, was phra, that is, pai-ra, the sun. the legend of the contest between hor-ra and set, or set-nu-bi, the same as bar or bal, is older than that of the strife between osiris and typhon; as old, at least, as the nineteenth dynasty. it is called in t

nd the lamp in the shape of a boat, appeared in the procession. if the symbol we are speaking of is not a mere modern invention, it is to these things it alludes. the identity of the legends is also confirmed by this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, which may also enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel. in his classic masonic textbook, morals and dogma, scottish rite legend albert pike suggests that "this hieroglyphic picture, copied from an ancient egyptian monument, may enlighten you as to the lion's grip and the master's gavel" two standards of the ritual ceremony for the master degree. in the picture, the candidate, lying on the floor, is about to be "raised" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right han

sed" by the powerful grip of the lion's paw. the lion is carrying in his right hand the ankh, symbol of reincarnation, or regeneration. the "x" on the man's chest tells us this is osiris, the sun god who was slain but arose from the dead, being pieced back together by his beautiful queen, isis "cross my heart and hope to die" 239 beginning on page 801 of albert pike's classic textbook, morals and dogma, we find an explanation of the 29th degree, grand scottish knight of st. andrew. 240 codex magica lisa marie presley demonstrates her cabalistic knowledge in this body pose in a news magazine, including the x sign of osiris and the legs in diamond position. this body position emphasizes the sex generative energies (time magazine, april s, 2005) twelve that ravenous dark bird sublime mysterie

e-headed eagle and he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird- revelation 18:2 the royal secret..the secret of the universal equilibrium. shall at length make real the holy empire of true masonic brotherhood- albert pike, 33 morals and dogma two heads are better than one, except when they're on the body of only one eagle. texe marrs c a n the body of one bird have two heads? is such a notion insane? i believe so. insanity can be described as a demented man's firm belief that two totally contradictory and opposite things are nevertheless one and the same. if a man simultaneously embraces two competing, mutually exclusive ideas or

ll. this is the exalted "royal secret" it is the illuminati's core doctrine, their cardinal teaching, that out of bloody, universal chaos will ultimately come equilibrium and the holy empire of the illuminati, to be ruled by their cabalistic messiah, or king actually the antichrist. pike revealed this ultimate objective to subordinate illuminists on page 861 of his celebrated textbook, morals and dogma: the royal secret, of which you are a prince, if you are a true adept..is that which the sohar (an occultic and cabalistic text) terms the mystery of the balance. it is the secret of the universal equilibrium..such, my brother, is the true word of a master mason; such is the true royal secret, which makes possible, and shall at length make real, the holy empire of true masonic brotherhood.1

rite's international 246 codex magica headquarters, the house of the temple, in washington, dc, taught that out of the ongoing universal motion of the conflict of opposites, a potent and magical force could be created or energized, so powerful that "a single man, who could possess himself of it, and should know how to direct it, could revolutionize and change the face of the world" in morals and dogma, he emphasizes: this force was known to the ancients. it is a universal agent, whose supreme law is equilibrium..it was adored in the secret rites of the sabbat or the temple under the hieroglyphic figure of baphomet or the hermaphroditic goat of mendes. there is a life-principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current..it is the body of the holy spirit

ity of the universe, that he shall be king over all realms, above and below, and that the reign of he, the serpent, shall stand for all eternity. the scottish rite textbook, a bridge to light, by rex hutchens, 33rd degree, outlines the knowledge and symbols used for the various degrees of freemasonry. in this book, hutchens restates the principles of albert pike's 19th century classic, morals and dogma. according to these principles, the oroboros serpent shown in this design (levi's occult magic of "as above, so below) represents eternity and the holy spirit of the triune godhead. in other words, the illuminists are declaring that the serpent, identified in the scriptures as the devil, is, in their religion, the divine holy spirit! a blasphemous concept, indeed. a company called azure gree

ble-headed phoenix serpent. eyeopening is the crowned victorious hero figure with a cape, carrying a lance, riding a white horse found within the "heart" of the doubleheaded black bird. the symbolical meaning of this image is overwhelming, to say the least, in terms of bible prophecy. the idolatrous image of the double-headed eagle shown here on the cover of albert pike's classic text, morals and dogma is a much-treasured symbol of jewish masons. it represents the babylonian god of money and forces, mammon-ra, as well as the hegelian dialectical process practiced by the jewish elite. this same symbol is the "masonic jewel" awarded high level masons initiated into the 33rd degree. 2 6 0 codex magica a friend of the author sent him this photograph he took while visiting russia recently. it i

d subterfuges. he is called "the sun" the "central sun "hiram abiff" the one with the "ineffable name "ein soph" the "great architect of the universe "abaddon "mahabone" and "jahbuhlun" ostensibly the illuminati worship a pantheon, a multiplicity of gods. but, not so. these are all fronts for the elite worship of lucifer. he is their true god, the god of light. as albert pike stated in morals and dogma "doubt it not" their god is the serpent now, the bible, in isaiah 14 and revelation 12:9, identifies lucifer as "the great dragon..that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world" so, by whatever name you call him, the god of the illuminati and masonry is the serpent. in fact, in a bridge to light, an official textbook of the supreme mother council, 33, the hig

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thus they lead the pupil round in a circle, leaving only the impression of progress. soon these pupils become followers only and no longer pupils. soon spirituality is replaced by conventional patterns, success is measured by the number, and not by the quality of the membership, financial prosperity becomes more important than magickal influence, intellectual analysis of the system scleroses into dogma, living theurgical experience is eschewed for blind fath. the magus spoke truth: this truth, refracted into the planes of consciousness below the abyss, becomes a lie to all those who are unable to understand- that is, unable to harmonize the apparent paradoxes of the gospel the master- any master- proclaimed. initiates of the 2nd grade of h.o.o.r. will understand that when they manage to pa

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e much knowledge, cannot tell you exactly what "belief" is, or how to believe in what defies natural laws and existing belief. surely it is not by saying "i believe; that art has long been lost. they are even more subject to bewilderment and distraction directly they open their mouths full of argument; without power and unhappy unless spreading their own confusion, to gain cogency they must adopt dogma and mannerism that excludes possibility. by the illumination of their knowledge they deteriorate in accomplishment. have we not watched them decay in ration to their expoundings? verily, man cannot believe by faith or gain, neither can he explain his knowledge unless born of a new law. we being everything, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not? be ye mystic. others believe in praye

hings by not giving. what man can have faith without fear? only he who has no duty to perform. when faith perishes duty to moral doctrines perishes, we are without sin and endure for ever in all-devouring love. what man can know with certainty? only he who has effaced the necessity of learning. when teachers fall out, what is the use of learning from them? the wise are not contentious and have no dogma to expound. rather are they silent as a new-born babe in feeding. what teacher can show the source of wisdom? it is because i know without learning; i know the source and can convey lessons without teaching. knowledge is but the excrement of experience: experience its own repetition. the true teacher implants no knowledge but shows him his own superabundance. keeping his vision clear he dire

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ry succession of life and death you will do and suffer what life may fitly suffer at the hands of life. cicero s (106 43 b.c.e) treatise on glory concedes that the counsels of the divine mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for some sins committed in a former life. plotinus (205 270 c.e, in the second ennead, writes that reincarnation is a dogma recognized throughout antiquity the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and afterwards passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials. reincarnation is not an approved doctrine in any of the orthodox christian, islamic, or judaic religions, which all hold fast to the belief that there is but one lifetime, one day of judgment, and a heavenly resurrection of the

ed feng-shui. they believed it important to bury the bones in a place where the dead person will be happy, or else his or her ghost might return to punish the family. annually, the chinese festival, ching-ming, is held to pay tribute to and honor the deceased. sources: mayled, john. death customs. morristown, n.j: silver burdett press: 1987. chinese taoist journey to the next life and accept this dogma with acclamation as the truth of it has been incontestably demonstrated by the zohar, and all the books of the kabbalists. in religion and immortality, g. lowes dickinson presents his view that reincarnation offers a really consoling idea that our present capacities are determined by our previous actions and that our present actions again will determine our future character. such a philosoph

ng the vision quest becomes the fundamental guiding force in the shaman s power (medicine. in addition to those who would be shamans, all traditional young men and women may partake of the vision quest, setting out alone in the wilderness to fast, to exhaust the physical body, to pray, to establish their own contact with the dimension of spirit, and to receive their individual medicine power. the dogma of tribal rituals and the religious expressions of others become secondary to the guidance that one receives from his or her own personal visions. the seeker goes forth solitary, writes hartley burr alexander in the world s rim (1967) carrying his pipe and with an offering of tobacco. there in the wilderness alone, he chants his song and utters his prayers while he waits, fasting, such revel

ased on the trance communications of celina japhet, became the guidebook for those wishing information regarding mediumship, life in spirit, and the evolution of the soul. the spirits book went into more than 25 editions and became popular throughout europe and south america. however, because traditional spiritualists reject the concept of reincarnation, conflict developed between the established dogma and the writings of kardec. kardec remained firm in his belief in what the 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 mediums and mystics 143 grave of allen kardec (dr. elmar r. gruber/fortean picture library) traditional spiritualists reject the concept of reincarnation. spirits had told him: reincarnation was necessary for the soul to progress

ction with the divine. whereas the major religions teach submission of the individual will and adherence to various creeds and dogmas, the mystic desires to realize a union with the supreme being free of all ecclesiasticisms and physical limitations. while the faithful member of the orthodox religious bodies seeks to walk the doctrinal spiritual path and obey the will of god according to accepted dogma, the mystic wishes to become one with the divine essence itself. in other words, for the conventional, unquestioning member of a religious faith, revealed truths come from an external source, such as god and his selected prophets and teachers. for the mystic, however, truth comes from the god-self within and with the union of the human mind and the divine. many mystics speak of having receiv

cious self, from a telepathic link with another, or from a deceased spirit wishing to communicate a message. 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 mediums and mystics 173 agroup of cambridge scholars founded the british society for psychical research for the purpose of examining allegedly paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased manner. dogma a principle, belief, or set of beliefs considered to be absolutely true, whether religious, political, or philosophical. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or body of thought that is all-encompassing and adhered to in an organized church or institution. elemental spirits a lower order of spirit beings, said to be usually benevolent and dwell in the nature kingdom as the life

ot be so readily discounted by those who have not carefully examined what may be a blending of several traditions and a serious attempt to achieve enlightenment. it may be that many of the spiritual experiments of the twentieth century will be assessed by more conventional students of theology as modern expressions of the christian mystery schools that combined elements of the occult within their dogma. unfortunately, far too many of these newly emergent groups began with visions of peace and love and ended with the mass suicides and deaths of their followers. in the united states, the peoples temple began with pastor james jones expanding the teachings of a liberal protestant denomination into a doomsday cult and later revealing himself to group as being the reincarnation of jesus and the

pon the devil or evil spirits. blasphemy something said or done which shows a disrespect for god or things that are sacred. conquistadores from the latin conquirere meaning to conquer. spanish soldiers or adventurers, especially of the sixteenth century who conquered peru, mexico, or central america. coven from the anglo-norman, mid-seventeenth century assembly and from convenire meaning convene. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and held to be true. hierophant from the latin hierophanta and greek hierophantes, meaning literally a sacred person who reveals something. an ancient greek priest who revealed or interpreted the sacred mysteries, or holy doctr

s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or b

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has been a conscious effort to provide reliable and authoritative information in the most objective and factual way possible, to present multiple viewpoints for controversial subject topics, and to avoid sensationalism that taints the credibility of the subject matter. the manner of presentation enables readers to utilize their critical thinking skills to separate fact from fiction, opinion from dogma, and truth from legend regarding enigmas that have intrigued, baffled, and inspired humankind over the centuries. about the authors and advisors brad e. steiger has written over 150 books with over 17 million copies in print. his vast writing experience includes biographies, books of inspiration, phenomenon and the paranormal, spirituality, ufo research, and crimes. his first articles on the

hip a part of american literature. sources: rickard, bob, and john michell. unexplained phenomena. london: rough guides, 2000. spaeth, frank, ed. mysteries of the deep. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1998. winer, richard. ghost ships: true stories of nautical nightmares, hauntings and disasters. new york: berkley publishing group, 2000. ghost ships admit that he was beginning to feel his dogma crumbling around him. in 1806 a dreadful avalanche at rossberg buried several villages, and the reports of visions of the dying appearing to loved ones became so numerous that oberlin at last came to believe that the villagers were indeed perceiving spirits of the departed. in footfalls on the boundary of another world (1848, robert dale owen relates that oberlin came to believe that his wif

s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or b

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has been a conscious effort to provide reliable and authoritative information in the most objective and factual way possible, to present multiple viewpoints for controversial subject topics, and to avoid sensationalism that taints the credibility of the subject matter. the manner of presentation enables readers to utilize their critical thinking skills to separate fact from fiction, opinion from dogma, and truth from legend regarding enigmas that have intrigued, baffled, and inspired humankind over the centuries. about the authors and advisors brad e. steiger has written over 150 books with over 17 million copies in print. his vast writing experience includes biographies, books of inspiration, phenomenon and the paranormal, spirituality, ufo research, and crimes. his first articles on the

tied, it is handed to the reader for interpretation of the leaf particles. whichever method the individual reader prefers, they all agree that the first impression upon looking into the cup is the most important. experienced readers take in the total pattern of the leaves and envision the various symbols in terms of the whole picture before picking up on individual details. again, there is little dogma among tea leaf readers. for some, the rim of the cup represents the future; the bottom, the past. for others, the rim represents the present, the sides predict the future, and the bottom foretells the very distant future. there seems some consensus that the cup fs handle stands for the client fs home life and personal environment, so the nearer the symbol to the handle, the sooner it will oc

s s a r y desecration when something sacred is treated in a profane or damaging manner. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. the dispersion from the greek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning gopinion h or gtenet, h and from dokein, gto seem good. h a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activit

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rates said that burning was too good for witches, and condemned them to be torn inpieces with red-hot pincers. this is, as far as i know, the only occasion when the christian clergy pleaded formercy for the culprits; they were so far successful that the sentence was mitigated to beheading with thesword, for which mercy the condemned thanked the magistrate with tears of gratitude.the belief in the dogma of the dying god is the reason why it is so often recorded against witches as aheinous sin that they pretended to be christian while all the time they were "devil-worshippers. thefundamental difference between the two religions is that the christian believes that god died once for all,whereas the more primitive belief is that the god is perpetually incarnate on earth and may therefore be put

en or nine. when the changes inevitable to all human customsgradually took place, a substitute could suffer in the king's stead, dying at the time the king should have diedand thus giving the king a further lease of life.this, put shortly, is the theory and cult of the dying god. the belief belongs to all parts of the old world,and survives in africa into the present century. it was a fundamental dogma of the pre-christian religion ofeurope, believed in and practised as ardently as among the africans of to-day.to investigate the subject of the divine victim of the witch-cult it is essential to put aside all preconceivedideas, remembering always that the records were made by the prejudiced pens of monkish chroniclers. thesubject must be approached with the same unbiassed mind as though the

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pagan tradition. this does not change the power of this ancient ritual consumption of bread and drink; the flaw in christianity is that the christians do not understand the depth of symbolism behind and within the sacred meal. their lack of awareness, as we shall see, prevents the loop from being complete, as it was intended to be; the mysteries are a matter of deep awareness and realization, not dogma or empty ritual performance. awareness, as it is focused through the housle, is in fact the key to the highest workingthe working of immortality, the immortalization of the individual. modern pagan authors normally do not discuss such topics, but they were secret doctrines of the ancient mysteries. the secret workings of the true life without beginning or end are summed up in the housle, per

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as an editor. on the contrary, he not only mutilates and distorts his authors, but, as demonstrated above, he is totally incapable of understanding their simplest phrases and even their commonest words. vi introduction this volume represents the high-water mark of the thought of eliphas levi. it may be regarded as written by him as his thesis for the grade of exempt adept, just as his "ritual and dogma" was his thesis for the grade of a major adept. he is, in fact, no longer talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. he is beginning to see something of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in the final analysis they turn out to be one

pythagoras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. solomon represented this alphabet by seventy-two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. eastern initiates still call these the "little keys" or clavicles of solomon. these keys are described, and their use explained, in a book the source of whose traditional dogma is the patriarch abraham. this book is called the sepher yetzirah; with the aid of the sepher yetzirah one can penetrate the xiii hidden sense of the zohar, the great dogmatic treatise of the qabalah of the hebrews. the clavicles of solomon, forgotten in the course of time, and supposed lost, have been rediscovered by ourselves; without trouble we have opened all the doors of those old sanct

impose itself, does not establish itself by any political agreement; like life, it manifests itself with a sort of fatality. the same power which directs the phenomena of nature, extends and limits the supernatural domain of faith, despite all human foresight. one does not imagine revelations; one undergoes then, and one believes in them. in vain does the spirit protest against the obscurities of dogma; it is subjugated by the attraction of these very obscurities, and often the least docile of reasoners would blush to accept the title of "irreligious man" religion holds a greater place among the realities of life than those who do without religion- or pretend to do without it- affect to believe. all ideas that raise man above the animal- moral love, devotion, honour- are sentiments essenti

finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. but in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. by what? by science? we have seen that science can do nothing here. by the civil authority? it is absurd. are our prayers to be superintended by policemen? there remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogma and establish the discipline of worship, in concert this time with the civil authority, but not in obedience to its orders. it is necessary, in a word, that faith should give to the religious need a real satisfaction- a satisfaction entire, permanent and indubitable. to obtain that, it is necessary to have the absolute and invariable affirmation of a dogma preserved by an authorized hierarch

the name of science is to prove that one understands neither science nor faith: in fine, the mystery of a god of three persons is not a problem of mathematics; the incarnation of the word is not a phenomenon in obstetrics; the scheme of redemption stands apart from the criticism of the historian. science is absolutely powerless to decide whether we are right or wrong in believing or disbelieving dogma; it can only observe the results of belief, and if faith evidently improves men, if, moreover, faith is in itself, considered as a physiological fact, evidently a necessity and a force, science will certainly be obliged to admit it, and take the wise part of always reckoning with it. let us now dare to affirm that there exists an immense fact equally appreciable both by faith and science; a

or the bible is the book of the images of god. we shall ask numbers to give us the reason of the dogmas of eternal religion; numbers will always reply by reuniting themselves in the synthesis of unity. the following pages are simply outlines of qabalistic hypotheses; they stand apart from faith, and we indicate them only as curiosities of research. it is no part of our task to make innovations in dogma, and what we assert in our character as an initiate is entirely subordinate to our submission in our character as a christian<key to the whole of his paradoxes- trans> sketch of the prophetic theology of numbers i unity unity is the principle and the synthesis of numbers; it is the idea of god and of man; it is the alliance of re

hould know it" the formulation of faith is to agree upon the terms of the common hypothesis. faith begins where science ends. to enlarge the scope of science is apparently to diminish that of faith; but in reality, it is to enlarge it in equal proportion, for it is to amplify its base. one can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. 15 analogy was the sole dogma of the ancient magi. this dogma may indeed be called "mediator" for it is half scientific, half hypothetical; half reason, and half poetry. this dogma has been, and will always be, the father of all others. what is the man-god? he who realizes, in the most human life, the most divine ideal. faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature

derstanding him. to believe in the supreme truth is not to define it, and to declare that one believes in it is to recognize that one does not know it. the apostle st. paul declares all faith contained in these two things- to believe that god is, and that he rewards them who seek him. 26 faith is a greater thing than all religions, because it states the articles of belief with less precision. any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. the more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogm

e seizes by virtue of his "idea" he has a sterile wife, his thought, and a fertile slave, his force; but when force has produced its fruit, thought becomes fertile; and the son of intelligence drives into exile the child of force. the man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. god orders him to immolate his son, that is to say, doubt ought to test dogma, and the intellectual man should be ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of supreme reason. then god intervenes: universal reason yields to the efforts of labour, and shows herself to science; the material side of dogma is alone immolated. this is the meaning of the ram caught by its horns in a thicket. the history of abraham is, then, a symbol in the ancient manner, and contains a lof

the sciences and of the fine arts; and the eternal word of the gospel, living and incarnate in a visible authority, is still the light of the world. 59 silence, then, to the pharisees of the new synagogue! silence to the hateful traditions of the schools, to the arrogance of presbyterianism, to the absurdity of jansenism, and to all those shameful and superstitious interpretations of the eternal dogma, so justly stigmatized by the pitiless genius of voltaire! voltaire and napoleon died catholics<"i do not say that voltaire died a good catholic, but he died a catholic- e. l. christian authors unanimously hold that, like all 'heretics' he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. what on earth does it matter? life, not death, reveals the soul- trans> and do you know what the catholic

ss genius of voltaire! voltaire and napoleon died catholics<"i do not say that voltaire died a good catholic, but he died a catholic- e. l. christian authors unanimously hold that, like all 'heretics' he repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. what on earth does it matter? life, not death, reveals the soul- trans> and do you know what the catholicism of the future must be? it will be the dogma of the gospel, tried like gold by the critical acid of voltaire, and realized, in the kingdom of the world, by the genius of the christian napoleon. those who will not march will be dragged or trampled by events. immense calamities may again hang over the world. the armies of the apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. the sanctuary will be cleansed. rigid and holy pover

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

based on the manuscript of lemegethon, the lesser key of solomon the king modern magick is at a time of opportunity. what is clear is that systems may be adapted based on the predilection of the individual, that certain aspects may be altered for better results. the luciferian edition of the goetia, by michael w. ford is based on his own individual practice of goetic magick without the christian dogma of earlier versions. the luciferian edition of the goetia is a grimoire of both high and low sorcery, it unites by the formula of the adversary, the shadow and the light. while the individual seeks to become and initiate self-development, his or her own goals may be achieved by a unity of sorcerous practice and self-deification. the goetia was refined in a luciferian sense by the practices d

h of the reworking of the goetia were inspired by michael s practice and development of the systems of aleister crowley and especially austin osman spare. no longer does the sorcerer stand in a circle and fear what he has called, but rather confronts and commands those forces connected to his 11 or her own being. it is a system of strength and will by the very foundation up no longer is christian dogma infecting the basis of the great work. illustrated heavily by elda isela ford, the original manuscript sigils are given with some new interpretations of the goetic djinn, the luciferian edition of the goetia is a work which boldly presents a new turn in modern magick. the toad rite three roads of satandar, lucifuge and hecate by michael w. ford illustrated by elda isela ford the toad rite is

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

nd restriction. the equal-armed cross is not the cross of the four elements redeemed by spirit, the fifth element, and is in some ways a full-stop to progress in the creation process. it is only once the process continues that chesed can function as a source of power. in yetzirah, the astral world, chesed functions as the archetype of authority and religion, with again the danger of stagnation as dogma, convention and compromise. in assiah, chesed is the establishment of the universe in the dimensions, and the generative archetype (reflected in the procreative and generative aspects of netzach at a further stage of the creative process. chesed in assiah signifies security, authority, and the solidity of the material plane. the yetziratic text of hod states that its root is in chesed, and f

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

nment. scholars, of course, are able to find higher, ulterior motives in lovecraft's writings, as can be done with any manifestation of art. lovecraft depicted a kind of christian myth of the struggle between opposing forces of light and darkness, between god and satan, in the cthulhu mythos. some critics may complain that this smacks more of the manichaen heresy than it does of genuine christian dogma; yet, as a priest and former monk, i believe it is fair to say that this dogma is unfortunately very far removed from the majority of the faithful to be of much consequence. the idea of a war against satan, and of the entities of good and evil having roughly equivalent powers, is perhaps best illustrated by the belief, common among the orthodox churches of the east, in a personal devil as we

sumerian tradition acknowledges that the person of "evil" is actually the oldest, most ancient of the gods. whereas christianity states that lucifer was a rebel in heaven, and fell from god's grace to ignominy below, the original story was that marduk was the rebel, and severed the body of the ancient of ancient ones to create the cosmos in other words, the precise reverse of the judeo-christian dogma. the elder gods evidently possessed a certain wisdom that was not held by their parents, yet their parents held the power, the primal strength, the first magick, that the elder ones tapped to their own advantage, for they were begotten of her. it generally accepted in the halls of magick that all of the wisdom in the world is useless without the necessary adjunct of power. this power has gon

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

he sea flashed with blasphemy, and loath black thunders broke from out the shuddering deep. he swore again, and from its century fs sleep earthquake arose, and rocked and raved and roared. he swore the third time. but that heaven fs lord curbed their black wrath, the stars of heaven fs vault. had rushed to whelm the sun with vehement assault *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 12. cf. the qabalistic dogma of pistorius: gschema misericordiam dicit, sed et judicium. h the infinite being when exercising his power upon the finite must necessarily chastise to correct and not to avenge himself. the strength of the sin does not exceed that of the sinner, and if the punishment be greater than the offence, he who inflicts it becomes executioner and is the real criminal, who is wholly inexcusable, and

night, with a rosary of ideals twined round our minds: one worshipped a bogey, the other a bogus. o! sancta simplicitas: homo indeed is sapiens! have we progressed? not one whit. worship is at all times and everywhere one and the same, an insult to the offerer and the receiver alike; sacrifice, the egotism of usurers; prayer, the misdirected energy of idiots; ceremony but an excuse for vice; and dogma but a legitimized imposition. such is religion! why, then, has man ever sought this moloch of his nights, shedding o fer it his own blood, and drenching it with that of others, if it prove but an incubus of sorrow and despair? firstly, because most men are fools; secondly, because those who are not are knaves. i take no heed of trickery played by cunning mad elijah fs skill, when the great t

trated in gthe mother fs tragedy. h cora thinks, ggod hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse of my forgetful age. h not so however: they know not, learn not, cannot calculate how subtly fate weaves its fine mesh, perceiving how to wait; or how accumulate the trifles that shall make it master yet of the strong soul that bade itself forget *the mother fs tragedy, vol. i, pp. 156-7. qabalistic dogma of pistorius. factum fatum quia fatum verbum est. a supreme reason governs all, and hence there is no fatality; all which is must be; all which happens ought to take place. an accomplished fact is irrevocable as destiny, but destiny is the reason of the supreme intelligence .the mysteries of magic, p. 123. this law of cause and effect logically leads us to the third great principle of both b

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

a new method of sorcery. chaos magick is a tool, not a structure. many techniques and traditions are brought into this effective form of sorcery yet anything at anytime can be changed, altered or more or less form fitted to achieve the results desired. chaos magick is formed from many traditions, in the current age it seems almost perfect. there is nothing which would be denied or ignored due to dogma. the system of chaos implements the foundation of change and progression. while the foundations of chaos are within the components of aleister crowley (who might have been a chaos magician himself, austin osman spare and macgregor mathers (default for the golden dawn and his various translations of manuscripts) chaos has spawned from the information these individuals have unknowingly given

of performance, denying myself the option of functioning at capacity by not recognizing that belief is arbitrary and that i can change my beliefs as readily as i change my shoes. the current state of chaos magick in the present time has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground. chaos magick must be defined in a certain context in order to re-awaken the luminous possibilities contained therein. austin osman spare was the founder of what is today chaos magick (unknowingly of course. his study and practice of magick developed early on and was later subject to formal training with aleiste

wakened subconscious, capable of anything opened for thinking. both created something amazing which threw the doors towards magickal exploration and progression wide open. no longer would understanding be damned to the old, yet those of the new flesh could be awakened towards their own desire. the concepts of kia and neither-neither could now be explored and absorbed. for spare aleister crowley s dogma of thelema (which through further study and practice proves there is very little dogma in thelema) was too limiting for his own needs. independent and proud, austin was not willing to accept aleister s concepts in whole. the inner drive or true will insisted different. aos would not ignore this call and sought the means of enfleshing his ideas. austin osman spare was in complete understandin

mination to serve and die for this individual. the luciferian component to the old man of the mountains is based within the concept of his silent yet effective rule. he presented extreme ideals, not willing to surrender to what seems to be more powerful forces; to not only survive but to succeed beyond his original ideas. luciferic magickians understand the usefulness of expanding the mind beyond dogma; to reach beyond what is commonly understood as accepted and to tear it to shreds, piss on it and smile while doing so. to reach to the heart or essence and reform it as you would so desire. this is the luciferian principle of chaos magick. to seek, understand and form to your ever-developing system. i am the power of my desire (id) aos all energy sources, which are altered or changed throug

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

his negation, being a positive assertion, must be founded on a positive idea. we have therefore a positive idea of infinity. the eclectic jews, and their followers, the ammonian and christian platonics, who endeavoured to make their own philosophy and religion conform to the ancient theology, held infinity of space to be only the immensity of the divine presence `o qepk auto topoj esti1 was their dogma, which is now inserted into the confessional of the greek church.2 this infinity was distinguished by them from common space, as time was from eternity. whatever is eternal or infinite, said they, must be absolutely indivisible; because division is in itself inconsistent with infinite continuity and duration: therefore space and time are distinct from infinity and eternity, which are void of

ligion, or sects of philosophy, that nothing could come from nothing, and that no power whatever could annihilate that 1 see plate xxi, fig. 7. 2 strabo, lib. xv, p. 712. 3 brucker, hist. crit. philos. vol. i, part 2, lib. i. plutarch, de placis. philos. lib. ii, c. 18. lucretius, lib. v. ver. 91. cic. de nat. deor. lib. ii. 4 ex noj ta panta genesqai, kai eij t' uton analuesai, in ph d. the same dogma is still more plainly inculcated by the ancient indian author before cited, se bagavat geeta, lect. ix. 76 on the worship which really existed. the bold and magnificent idea of a creation from nothing was reserved for the more vigorous faith, and more enlightened minds of the moderns,1 who need seek no authority to confirm their belief; for, as that which is self-evident admits of no proof

e atmosphere, to restore and replenish the waste of the day. hence, when they personified the attributes, they revered the one as the diurnal, and the other as the nocturnal sun, and in their mystic worship, as macrobius says,1 called the former apollo, and the latter dionysus or bacchus. the mythological personages of castor and pollux, who lived and died alternately, were allegories of the same dogma; hence the two asteriscs, by which they are distinguished on the medals of locri, argos, and other cities. the p ans, or war-songs, which the greeks chanted at the onset of their battles2 were originally sung to apollo,3 who was called p on; and macrobius tells us,4 that in spain, the sun was worshipped as mars, the god of war and destruction, whose statue they adorned with rays, like that o

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

kind of offensive defense, to forestall some of the criticisms that will surely arise from those occultists married to traditional magic. one purpose of this book is to present a fresh outlook on matters that are very much taken for granted in the majority of modern magical texts. all that can be said to anyone who does not like the alterations made here is, feel free to ignore them. they are not dogma but are suggestive insights into a difficult and often self- contradictory subject. m agic has always been a disreputable business. until a few years ago, it could result in fines, imprisonment, torture, or execution, depending on how the lawmakers felt at a given period. in the bible, christians are cautioned not to suffer a witch to live "witch" was the english translation for any- one who

r pervasive authority. the magus was not subject to the ecclesiastical pressures that could be brought to bear on a christian believer. excommunication meant nothing to him beyond the social abuses it carried. he thought and acted according to his own creed, and cared nothing for the censure of the bishops. the church of the middle ages recognized no truth beyond what it pro- claimed in its rigid dogma. if the pope said the sun revolved around the earth, the question was not open to debate. if he asserted that the wine of the sacrament changed into human blood, believers perforce believed. such an absurd situation could only be sustained with an absolute suppression of freedom. even minor challenges to the authority of the church were ruthlessly punished with death. it is not necessary to

sees magic as a pathetic delusion that lures plastic minds into worthless and mad pursuits, diverting human potential away from material goals that have real value. the true objection of science to magic is identical to that of the church. sci- ence seeks to rule society by controlling the minds of individuals. magic provides a mental framework in which the mind can work independent of scientific dogma. science perceives magic as a threat to its hard-won, comfortable truisms. from the scientific point of view, anything not scientific is at best frivolous, at worst poiso- nous. magic defies the scientific method and therefore must be suppressed. it is ironic that science and magic were thrown together during the church's per- secution of new ideas. galileo suffered as much from the insidiou

phets translated the guiding insights of spirit into human laws, which were then institutionalized as commandments from god. in the age of reason, the pronouncements of prophets are denounced and ridiculed as the ravings of lunatics. spirit still speaks to individuals, but society no longer listens. magic provides a way for those lost in the confusion of the world to find themselves. it offers no dogma, but the means to awaken the center of spirit that exists within each human being. the spiritual heart binds the loose spokes of life together and gives cohesion and purpose where before there was only a vacuum of doubt and confusion. more than this, magic makes it possible to use the limitless potential of spirit to reshape the world in accordance with the fondest desires of the soul. it go

elieve about that subject is not the product of your personal understanding, but is doctrine received from the mind of another human being. if you accept such doctrine and pattern your life upon it, you are little more than a biological automaton. it is very easy to fall into the error of believing that you have considered a question merely by repeating in your own mind over and over the received dogma of your social group. this is not thinking, and it has no place in the mind of the magus, who stands apart and independent from society. too often there is an attempt to trivialize magic into something purely mechanical, a biological function of the brain. this is what is know as reduction- ism, or as carl jung preferred to express it (he borrowed the term from william james, the "nothing bu

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

them in that he died and came back to life in his body before that body was lifted alive into heaven. he is supposed to have predicted his ascent to heaven. the event had no eyewitnesses. this is generally true of fairy abductions and ufo abductions-a person mysteriously vanishes, sometimes to reappear at a later date, but the actual disappearance is seldom witnessed. descent into hell it is the dogma of the church that jesus came back to life after his crucifixion and ascended in the living body to heaven. the apocryphal gospel of nicodemus relates the legend that after his ascent to heaven, he subsequently descended into hell to free all the souls who had been imprisoned there since the fall from grace of adam. after shattering the gate of brass and bars of iron that closed the entrance

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ght lesser angle of the watchtower in the upper left quadrant of the great table will be ruled by these names: xgsd (oip, aloai (teaa, aourrz (pdoce. i must stress that this relationship is founded upon my personal interpretation of the keys and dee's magical records and does not correspond with the golden dawn system. it is my purpose in this work to offer fresh insights, not merely to reproduce dogma. consequently, some of what i set forth conflicts with the accepted methods of enochian magic as i t is worked by modern ritualists, many of whom embrace the enochian teachings of the golden dawn without ever subjecting them to critical examination. the "seats 12 of government" are the signs of the zodiac, which rule the "true ages of time" through their relationship to the twelve houses of

e celestial realms sustain a shock, and then all spirits cry out one upon another "who is it thus disturbing the kingdom of heaven" then does the earth communicate unto the first sphere the sins of that rash being who takes the eternal name in vain, and the accusing word is transmitted from circle to circle, from star to star, and from hierarchy to hierarchy (ibid, p. 50) according to consecrated dogma, there are three persons in god, and these three constitute one only deity. three and one provide the conception of four, because unity is required appendix b: comr7zentaries on tetragrammaton to explain the three. hence, in almost all languages, the name of god consists of four letters, and in hebrew these four are really three, one of them being repeated twice, that which expresses the wor

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

chert bird, and they found osiris thrown on the ground in netat by his brother set" the late form of the legend goes on to say that isis fanned the body with her feathers, and produced air, and that at length she caused the inert members of osiris to move, and drew from him his essence, wherefrom she produced her child horus [fn#26] pepi i, line 475; pepi ii, line 1263. this bare statement of the dogma of the conception of horus does not represent all that is known about it, and it may well be supplemented by a passage from the pyramid texts,[fn#27] which reads "adoration to thee, o osiris.[fn#28] rise thou up on thy left side, place thyself on thy right side. this water which i give unto thee is the water of youth (or rejuvenation. adoration to thee, o osiris! rise thou up on thy left sid

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

communicated to the father principle, chokmah, through the first letter, aleph, called the fiery intelligence. case points out that the other letter, beth or b, is the intelligence which forms the path to binah. chokmah possesses the latent potency of becoming binah, just as two always points to three. binah, the mother, completes this first qabalistic trinity. levi calls the triad the universal dogma and the basis of magical doctrine. the father exists in potentiality in chokmah, wisdom, and as number two finds fulfillment in number three, binah, understanding. ab=3 demonstrates this relationship (1+2 =3. it is shown as an arrow going straight up when placed on a saturn kamea (see figure 5-a. fabre de 'olivet, the great hebrew language scholar, says that ab is "the potential sign united

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

to say, i will not have this arrow taken out until i have learnt the name of the man who wounded me, and to what clan he belongs. or again he were to say, i will not have this arrow taken out until i have learnt whether the man who wounded me was tall, or short, or of the middle height. that man would die, malunkyaputta, without ever having learnt this. this religious life does not depend on the dogma that the world is eternal; nor does the religious life depend on the dogma that the world is not eternal. whether the dogma obtain that the world is eternal, or that the world is not eternal, there still remain birth, old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief, and despair, for the extinction of which in the present life i am prescribing. accordingly, bear always in mind what it is t

prohibit. this is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. bene gesserit coda, dune death and fate he who has been near to death knows the worth of life. turkemestan the fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. russian he who is fated to hang will never drown. scottish one calamity is better than a thousand counsels. turkish your karma ran over my dogma. unknown i m not afraid to die. i just don t want to be there when it happens. woody allen i cannot tell you your fate, a man should not know his fate until he is halfway through life. if he were to know sooner, it would all seem an illusion. plexus, gatorr earth and ecology the earth is a blessing to those upon her. egyptian do not damage the earth, or the sea, or the trees. book of revelat

the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. their movements become headlong- faster and faster and faster. they put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to a man in a blind rush until it s too late. bene gesserit proverb, dune the inspiration of the bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentlemen who reads it. robert ingersoll the dogma of the infallibility of the bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. thomas henry huxley don t change beliefs, change the believer. werner erhart all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person. waldo ralph emerson people in general are equally horrified at hearing the christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced. samuel butl

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

gue, lips, cheeks and gums. four round--head, neck, forearms, ankles. four long--back, fingers, arms, legs. four wide--forehead, eyes, seat, lips. four fine--eyebrows, nose, lips and fingers. four thick--buttocks, thighs, calves and knees. four small--breasts, ears, hands and feet. see lane s edition of the arabian nights. in the rosicrucian writings of behmen, fludd and maier, we find the occult dogma that the four elements are peopled by spirits, beings who may have influence on the destiny of man; thus the earth was inhabited by gnomes; the air was inhabited by sylphs; the fire was numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott inhabited by salamanders; and the water by undines; these are now commonly called elementals. see lives of the necromancers, w. godwi

ils and storms. pirke of rabbi eleazar, cap. 3. the number 4 is related to jacob, the lesser light, which is the moon. jacob was spelled ioqb, and its initials are those of epithets, iutzr, the former; oushh the maker, quna the possessor, and bvra, the creator. see amos vii. 2, where jacob is called the small. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in christian dogma, christ the triple deity on the cross of 4 limbs, is the descent of spirit into matter; or, as the theosophists say, the triad of atma-buddhi-manas descends into the quaternary of personal man, the kama, prana, linga and sthula sarira. the 4 cabeiri, or great deities of syro-phenicia, were axieros, axiokersos, axiokersa and kasmillos, children of sydyk, are named by sanchoniathon and quoted

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

an ontotheological truth that lies beyond and is the foundation of the christological myth of three persons in the one substance of god. in line with those who viewed kabbalah as a repository of jewish doctrine that confirms christian belief, a strategy that gained particular currency in renaissance humanist and neoplatonist circles advocating a prisca theologia, schelling adduces the trinitarian dogma on the basis of a dyad derived from the mythologic of kabbalistic symbolism. in consonance with the theosophy of b hme, schelling maintains that the godhead is a whole and undivided unity comprising the eternal yes and eternal no, and thus it is improper to privilege one member of the antinomical pair over the other.246 nevertheless, it is evident that schelling ascribes priority to the nega

ominent in the twelfth century when the attempt to convince jews of the mechanics of the incarnation was based on an appeal to observable natural phenomena perceived by the senses and understood by reason.43 the remark that the messiah must be propagated through the conjunction of masculine and feminine (sarikh lihyot al yedei zakhar u-neqevah) appears to be a direct challenge to the foundational dogma of the church.44 needless to say, in the period of the redaction of the bahir, christianity was not monolithic indeed, at no time in history has it been and surely some authors could have accommodated the notion that jesus came to be from the union of male and female. none, however, could have comfortably interpreted the matter somatically, presuming thereby that jesus was conceived in a wom

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