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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

23. if that langobardic' carmen nefandum' had been preserved, we could judge more exactly of the rite than from the report of the holy father, who viewed it with hostile eyes. about other sacrificial beasts we cannot be certain, for of dietmar's dogs and hawks and cocks, hardly any but the last are to be depended on (see sup^^l. but even then, what of domestic poultry, fowls, geese, pigeons? the dove was a jewish and christian this also a reference to heathen sacrifices; an as. name for xov. is expressly twtmones. the common man at his yearly slaughtering gets up a feast, and sends meat and sausages to his neighbours (conf. maiichli, stalder 2, 525, which may be a survival of the common sacrifice and distribution of flesh. it is remarkable that in sei-via too, at the solemn burning of the

herod. 4, 15; a raven is perched aloft on the mantle of mithras the sun-god. the gospels represent the holy ghost as a^ in marc. cap. 1, 11, the words 'augiirales vero alitcs ante curriini delio coiistiterunt, are transl. by notker 37: to warcn garo ze apollinis reito sine wizegfogela, ralena unde albisze. to ot5inn hawks are sometimes given instead of ravens: otjins haukar saem. 167. 148 wodan. dove descending upon christ at his baptism, lu. 3, 22, and resting upon him, ejxeivev ctt' avrov, mansit super eum, john 1, 32 'in krist er sih gisidalta' says 0. i. 25, 24; but hel. 30, 1 of the dove: sat im icppan uses drohtines ahslu (our lord's shoulder. is this an echo of heathen thoughts? none of the fathers have this circumstance, but in the mid. ages there is talk enough about doves restin

ist at his baptism, lu. 3, 22, and resting upon him, ejxeivev ctt' avrov, mansit super eum, john 1, 32 'in krist er sih gisidalta' says 0. i. 25, 24; but hel. 30, 1 of the dove: sat im icppan uses drohtines ahslu (our lord's shoulder. is this an echo of heathen thoughts? none of the fathers have this circumstance, but in the mid. ages there is talk enough about doves resting on shoulders^ and the dove, though frequently contrasted with the raven (which, like the wolf, the christians applied to the evil one, may nevertheless be put in the place of it. oswald's raveii flies to his shoulder and arm, 749. 942. oswald talks to it, 95-6, and kneels before it, 854. conf. ziugerle, oswalt p. 67 (see suppl^ now under that figure of the bearded old man, wuotan is apparently to be regarded as a water

r) nikuz' may arise from the diversity of old dialects. nikarr corresponds to the as. nicor, and nikuz to ohg. nichus; the initial hn seems to be on. alone. on these i shall have more to say, when treating of water-sprites (see suppl) another epithet of osinn is equally 1 gregor. nyssen. encom. ei)hraemi relates, that when basil the great was preaching, ephraem saw on his rujlii shoulder a ^vhite dove, which put words of wisdom in his mouth. of gregory the great ave read in pauh diac, vita p. 14, that when he was expounding the hist vision of ezekiel, a xuhite dove sat u'pon his head, and now and then put its beak in his mouth, at which times he, the writer, got nothing for his stvlus to put down; conf. the narrative of a poet of the 12th cent, hoffm. fundgr. 2, 229; also myst. 1. p. 226-7

he great ave read in pauh diac, vita p. 14, that when he was expounding the hist vision of ezekiel, a xuhite dove sat u'pon his head, and now and then put its beak in his mouth, at which times he, the writer, got nothing for his stvlus to put down; conf. the narrative of a poet of the 12th cent, hoffm. fundgr. 2, 229; also myst. 1. p. 226-7. augustine and thomas aquinas are portrayed with a white dove perched on their shoulders or hovering over their heads. a nursery-tale (kinderm. no. 33) makes two doves settle on the pope's shoulder, and tell him in his ear all that he has to do. a white dove descends singing on the head of st. devy, and instructs him, buhez santez nonn. paris 1837, p" 117. and on other occasions the dove flies down to make known the will of heaven. no one will trace the

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uares with the letter q added, from a square of h c squares. diskenah= in the likeness of an old woman. it is to be remarked that this square is rather oblong, i squares long by j deep. no. d consists of c a squares from a square of e a. disakan means to cover up or hide, but were it disakar it would mean as if one young. no. e consists of b a squares from a square of c f squares. ionek means thy dove. no. f consists of b g squares from a square of c f. bacur= firstborn. of abramelin the mage 184 the twenty-second chapter. his chapter is only for evil, for with the symbols herein we can cast spells, and work every kind of evil; we should not avail ourselves hereof( b) to cast spells upon men( c) to bewitch beasts( d) to cast a spell upon the liver( e) this symbol should never be made use o

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

not realize that, had she faced it, it would have fled with all the other phantoms. for the sole reality of this universe is god. the old absinthe house is not a place. it is not bounded by four walls. it is headquarters to an army of philosophies. from this dim corner let me range, wafting thought through every air, salient against every problem of mankind: for it will always return like noah's dove to this ark, this strange little sanctuary of the green goddess which has been set down not upon ararat, but by the banks of the "father of waters" vi. ah! the green goddess! what is the fascination that makes her so adorable and so terrible? do you know that french sonnet "la legende de l'absinthe" he must have loved it well, that poet. here are his witnesses. apollon, qui pleurait le trepas

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

om dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azug-bel-ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! presently, i heard a voice, softly, some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ies knowledge of a secret worship, of which the grand master did not speak. the eagle may be identified, though not too closely, with the hawk previously spoken of. it is perhaps the sun, the exoteric object of worship book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 74 of all sensible cults; it is not to be confused with other objects of the mystic aviary, such as the swan, phoenix, pelican, dove and so on. note (17) his initials i.b.m. are the initials of the three pillars of the temple, and add to 52, 13x4, bn, the son [77] 34 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-delta the smoking dog(18) each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. love and death are the greyhounds that course him. god bred the hounds and taketh his pleasure in the sport. this is the comedy of pan, that

found in the place of life, with the result that the horse, who represents ordinary animal life, becomes the divine horse pegasus. in paragraph 6 we see this spring identified with the phallus, for it is not only a source of water, but highly elastic, while the reference to the seasons alludes to the wellknown lines of the late lord tennyson "in the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove, in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love -locksley hall. in paragraph 7 the place of life, the universe of animal souls, is identified with the toad, which "ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head -romeo and julietthis jewel being the divine spark in man, and indeed in all that "lives and moves and has its being. note this phrase, which is highly

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

house cometh that child. aum! all words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked. but thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark. i,57: invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise* in ms, the symbol found here is usually interpreted as the hebrew letter tzaddi. i,58: i give unimaginable joys on eart

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

leonine face and flaming eyes; rides great horse. 22 55& bwarwa orobas horse. 24 58# wa amy flaming fire. 25 61! and# gaz zagan bull with gryphon s wings. 26 64$ rwah haures leopard. 28 67 ]wdma amdusias (1) unicorn (2) dilatory bandmaster. 29 70& rac seere beautiful man on winged horse. clxiii. goetic demons &c. by night (succedent. clxiv. magical images of col. clxiii. 15 38 [lah halphas stock-dove with sore throat. 16 41$ rwlkwp focalor man with gryphon s wings. 17 44= c shax stcck-dove with sore throat. 18 47$ lawa uvall dromedary. 19 50 ]wp furcas cruel ancient, with long white hair and beard, rides a pale horse, with sharp weapons. 20 53# yak camio (1) thrush (2) man with sharp sword seemeth to answer in burning ashes or coals of fire. 22 56$ rwmg gamori beautiful woman, with duches

taining illusion in his left hand, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and p

h dot in m. m and the extra coloured band used to glyph the word in pyramidos. lines 1-9: in the heart of the master, section aves( birds, nine magical formula are given as the voices of various symbolic birds, apparently referred to the sephiroth 1-9, thus: 1 (the swan: aumgn (one version has aum) 2 (the phoenix: al 3 (the raven: amen 4 (the eagle: su 5 (the hawk: agla 6 (the pelican: iao 7 (the dove: hriliu 8 (the ibis: abrahadabra 9 (the vulture: mu line 24: possibly on (ayin nun) should also be referred here. notes 54 col. xlvi. crowley s later attributions of the trigrams of the i ching, etc, to the sephiroth are given in the book of thoth, thusly: 0: tao. 1: tao teh. 2:yang. 3: yin. daath: khien. 4: tui. 5: kbn. 6: li. 7: kbn. 8: sun. 9: kh n. 10: khwbn. col. xlviii. most of these re

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

sible point determined by reference to the four quarters. this is the formula which enables it to express its secret self; its dew falling upon the rose is developed into an eidolon of itself, in due season> and the phallic symbol of resurrection. will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that will<lxv and liber vii> the aspiration's arrow that is shot against the holy dove must transmute itself into the wondering virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same spirit of god. any idea that is thus in itself positive and negative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic<qabalah

ion, child :acacia, bay, laurel, vine: 7 :lynx :rose: 8 :hermaphrodite, jackal, twin :moly, anhalonium lewinii: serpents: 9 :elephant:(banyan) mandrake, damiana: yohimba: 10 :sphinx :willow, lily, ivy :11 :eagle or man (cherub of air.:aspen: 12 :swallow, ibis, ape, twin :vervain, herb mercury: serpents: marjolane, palm: 13 :dog :almond, mugwort, hazel (as moon. moonworth: ranunculus: 14 :sparrow, dove, swan :myrtle, rose, clover: 15 :ram, owl :tiger lily, geranium: 16 :bull (cherub of earth :mallow: 17 :magpie, hybrids :hybrids, orchids: 18 :crab, turtle, sphinx :lotus: 19 :lion (cherub of fire :sunflower: 20 :virgin, anchorite, any :snowdrop, lily, narcissus: solitary person or animal: 21 :eagle :hyssop, oak, poplar, fig: 22 :elephant :aloe :23 :eagle-snake-scorpion :lotus, all water plan

f yod (the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd "sh" is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but "t" is the holy spirit in action as a "roaring lion" or as the "old serpent" instead of as an "angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove; leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph the fool impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it affir

is late version in the mass to reflect the ix degree idea. other versions of the mass are found in the "international (first publication) and in the equinox iii, 1 (the "blue equinox, published a few years before this text> the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run, to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus: men. glory to thee from gilded tomb. second semichorus: women. glory to thee from waiting womb. men. glory to thee from earth unploughed! women. glory to thee from virgin vowed! men. glory to thee, true unity of

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

c without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 282 exceedingly. 40. the joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam- all in the mother-of-pearl. and again, cp. i, v. 50-52 and v. 56-62. 50. adonai spake yet again with v.v.v.v.v. and said: the earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes, and be drunken thereon. 51. and v.v.v.v.v. answered and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 56. and adonai said: the strong brown reaper swept his swathe and rejoiced. the wise man counted his muscles a

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

nger, stable; an enclosure swb) myrtle sdh nations; gentiles myywg transgression, error, sin +s 70 hush, be silent hsh wine nyy night lyl the secret (ps. 25:14; see 353) dws adam and eve hwxw md) honest; so, thus, just so, such, so much nk 71 thy terror kmy) nothing; an apparition, image; idol lyl) silence; silent ml) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level kn) vision nwzx a dove, pigeon hnwy a dove hwny plentitude, fulness; to fill )lm 72 the number of triliteral names in the shem ha-mephorasch (72 3= 216; which, by the addition of -yh or -al, give 72 angels chesed: mercy, kindness dsx adonai, as transliterated in the lemegeton, etc (cf. 65) y)nwd) in, so, thus, then nkb in the secret dwsb and they are excellent, finished wlkyw hwhy in atziluth yh wyw yh dwy atziluth

tle of kether +w#p rw) brightness; splendours twxcxc extremities twwcq 603 to haggle rgt together, also *mg 604 a letter, epistle; a heap, pile trg) a pool, pond; sorrow *mg) blood *md 605) nobleness, eminence trd) six h# lady, madame, mistress, queen trbg adam: man; red *md) to grow warm; they (masc *mh 606 let them bring forth wcr#y essentiality, quintessence twmc( nexus, ligature rw#q a turtle-dove rwt 607 adam primus: the first man (see 210) nw#)rh md) the mountains of spices (ct. 8:14) mym#b yrh a span, palm (lit. gthe little finger h) trz aum (cf. 111 *mw) 608 the last gate )rtb )bb to dig (subterranean activity; to row rtx the pillar of severity: the paths cheth and mem (cf. 26& 463 *m x to grow warm; heat, fire; black *mx 610 gold coin, gold money trwg) the citron tree and fruit (l

her *nm) 742 the ark of the covenant (lit. gof tremblings h, scil. gvibrations h) twd(h nwr) 743 a disc, round shield; a defender *ngm 744 the valley of vision *nwyzxyg a window *nwlx footprints (foot fs breadth (deut. 2:5 *krdm 745 the great stone *hldg nb) multitude, abundance *nmh 746 the names twm (chaldee form of myhl *nyhl) a [civil] officer *mynwmm a place *mwqm 747 the voice of the turtle-dove (ct. 2:12) rwth lwq changeless, constant; the god amon (na. 3:8 *nwm) the appointed time *nmz auphanim, wheels: the angelic choir of chokmah *mynpw) 748 the oil of anointment hx#mh nm# image; hid, concealed (pertains to sol and the lingam-yoni *nmx the master of the nose *m+wxh l(k 750 conclave tk#l lead trp( an effort, exertion *nwdm species, kind *nym 751 the whole [perfect] man mt #y) and

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

is voice breaks into song: the word of the law is thelema (greek letters. then is all heaven aflame with a great blast of trumpets; and the world is alight with one flash that sundereth every spirit that liveth, branding this sign upon them: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. aves. now the whole air is thrilled by the voices of birds: a swan, a phoenix, a raven, a hawk, a pelican, a dove, an ibis and a vulture: in his turn each one sang praises, even as it was given unto him to understand one part of the spirit of the master. the voice of the swan. aumgn: through the bornless, through the eternal, the thought of the master goeth, afloat in the aethyr. the voice of the phoenix. al: not to be burned, not to be quenched, the soul of the the heart of the master get any book for f

are poised on the plumes of the righteous, that wingeth among them, beholding the sun; thus know ye the mercy and joy of the master! the voice of the hawk. agla: by thine energy riseth all motion of will of the master, begetter, destroyer! the voice of the pelican. iao: all that liveth is blood of the heart of the master: all stars are at feast on that pasture, abiding in light. the voice of the dove. hriliu: there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into joy by the love of the master. the voice of the ibis. abrahadabra: all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coiling in curves of ineffable wonder; each star has its course, by the manifold musings that move in the mind of the master. the voice of the vulture. mu: unmated, immaculate

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

s indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuith and hadith, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for lvoe's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit- spiritus, breath, or air- in the shape of a dove. but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane yet crafty of many legends in many lands, is also this same "holy ghost, or silent self of a man, or his holy guardian angel. he is almost the "unconscious" of freud, unknown, unaccountable, the silent spirit, blowing "whither it listeth, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth. it commands with absolute authori

ll expression; the process of initiation thereto was continuous over years, and contained the most sublime mystic experiences- beyond any yet recorded by man- as mere incidents in its terrific pageant. the "equation" is the representation of truth by word. al i,57 "invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but* is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise *in ms, a mark in this place is commonly read as the hebrew letter tzaddi. the old comment 57 "invoke me" etc. i take li

worthiness the "holy ghost" worship of the of hadit within men; also or "satan" indwelling. snake the cult of the spermatozoon the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of the union of aiwaz and pan as god and god and beast the beast in aleister goat; mary &c: crowley. the identification as mother of the of matter and spirit in son of god, fertilized our doctrine. by the dove- or bull, swan &c. the doctrine of the regenerate incorruptible body. another sacrifice love is the magical crucifixion &c, as shall stain formula: sex as the key to the magical the tomb life "the tomb- the formula. death as temple of love the key to life "the tomb- the coffin or grave. another king horus (ra-hoor-khuit) the osiris (jesus &c) shall reign crowned child. the dying king (see fra

eater of flesh, and there's no getting away from it. but apparently she is all right just so far as she is open, to enter or leave at one's pleasure, the gateway of eternal life. she is sakti, the teh, the magical door between the tao and the manifested world. the great obstacle than is if that door be locked up. therefore our lady must be symbolized as an whore (note daleth, the door= venus. the dove; free flowing; all this is linked up in the symbol. clearly, at last, the enemy is this shutting up of things. shutting the door is preventing the operation of change, i.e. of love. the objection to calypso, circe, armida, kundry, and co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their gardens. the whole of the book of the dead is a device for opening the closed vehicles, and enabling the osiris

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

sh fire kindling as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

g, bowed deeply, and at once began: fear nothing, mary! all is well! 750 i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin. the sword of song 44 degradation of symbols. essential identity of all forms of existence. practical advice. out of a silver tube a dart shooting god s spirt to her heart 61 755 this beats the orthodox dove-suitor! what explanation could be cuter than gabriel with a pea-shooter? in such a conflict i stand neuter. but oh! mistake not gold for pewter! 760 the plain fact is: materialise what spiritual fact you choose, and all such turn to folly lose the subtle splendour, and the wise love and dear bliss of truth. beware 765 lest your lewd laughter set a snare for any! thus and only thus will i admi

. a cannibal.74 this word is inept, as it predicates humanity of christian-hate- christian. j accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75 or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76 splendour, the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77 says an old writer, whom i translate roughly: thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78 see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79 there is no god! so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist. ain is god for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see berashith, infra. the

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

hither to walk. the reeds whisper not along the margin of the lake; all is still; heaven has closed her mouth and there is no breath in her to wake the slumber of desolation. the lilies have been sucked up by the greedy waters, and now night sleeps like some mighty 206 serpent gorged on the white flesh and the warm blood of the trembling maidens of dawn, and the wild youths of the noon-tide. o my dove, my loved one! didst thou but approach as a wanderer in the wilderness, thine hair floating as a raiment of gold about thee, and thy breasts lit with the blush of the dawn! then would mine eyes fill with tears, and i would leap towards thee in the madness of my joy; but thou comest not. i am alone, and tremble in the darkness like the bleached bones of a giant in the depths of a windy tomb. t

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in the sea, green beyond imagination. but there is no subsistence in them. a voice goes on: this is the holiness of fruitless love and aimless toil. for in doing the thing for the things's sake is concentration, and this is the holiest of them that suit not 164 the means to the end. for therein is faith and sympathy and a knowledge of the true magick. oh my beloved, that fliest in the air like a dove, beware of the falcon! oh my beloved, that springest upon the earth like a gazelle, beware of the lion! there are hundreds of visions, trampling over one another. in each one the angel of the aethyr is mysteriously hidden. now i will describe the angel of the aethyr until the voice begins again. he is like one's idea of sappho and calypso, and all seductive and deadly things; heavy eye-lids

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

with eight breath-cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form.(p.s. evidently the introduction of the cascara into my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous. my breathing passages were none too clear, either; i have evidently taken a chill. now, o, my lord adonai, thou self-glittering one, wilt thou not manifest unto thy chosen one? for see 73 me! i am as a little white dove trembling upon thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. i am as a young child bought in the slave market and night is fallen! i await thee, o my lord, with a great longing, stronger than life; yet am i as patient as death. there was a certain darwesh whose turban a thief stole. but when they said to him,"see! he hath taken the road to damascus! that holy man answered, as he went q

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form of a seal and dive into the water. he never saw her again, but sometimes she would call o'nights, 338 as she sported on the shore with her first husband, who was, of course, the large seal. that is the story as they tell it to-day in orkney, and that is the story as told by haroun al raschid. only, in the "arabian nights" it is called the "the melancholy youth" and the seal is replaced by a dove, but all the essentials- the maidens, the bathing, the skins, the wedding, the flight- remain as they do to-day. the seal is well known to be an animal in which the maternal instinct is abnormally developed, and many of the tales have this fact as their basis. here is a particularly charming one- the story of gioga's son: one day, as a boat's crew were completing a successful raid on the seal

t, the tale has not been told in vain. 348 but if ever i see that great white seal, whose track is like the wash of an ocean steamer, i am not quite sure but that i might rise a gun myself. i think it would be rather good fun to have a shot at pharaoh, for i never like the man much. norman roe. 349 ave adonai pale as the night that pales in the dawn's pearl-pure pavilion, i wait for thee, with my dove's breast shuddering, a god its bitter guest- have i not gilded my nails and painted my lips with vermilion? am i not wholly stript of the deeds and thoughts that obscure thee? i wait for thee, my soul distraught with aching for some nameless naught in its most arcane crypt- am i not fit to endure thee? girded about the paps with a golden girdle of glory, dost thou wait me, thy slave who am, a

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t the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the hb:shin("see" lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c. in theosophical nomenclature this latter was the m anas or jeheshuah: the third principle\ a--u for the same reason i have drawn the triangle with the 3 uppermost

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a raven in the night; seeing naught, hearing naught, and understanding naught: neither was it seen, nor heard, not understood; for as yet countenance beheld not countenance. 0. and as the limitless stretched forth its wings, an unextended unextendable light became; colourless, formless, conditionless, effluent, naked, and essential, as a crystalline dew of creative effulgence; and fluttering as a dove betwixt day and night, it vibrated forth a lustral crown of glory. 1. and out of the blinding whiteness of the crown grew an eye, like unto an egg of an humming-bird cherished on a platter of burnished silver. 2. thus i beheld thee, o my god, the lid of whose eye is as the night of chaos, and the pupil thereof as the marshalled order of the spheres. 7 3. for, i am but as a blind man, who wand

rop of due shimmering in the golden cup of the crocus. 3. o thou throbbing music of life and death, thou rhythmic harmony of the world! yea, as i listen to the echo of thy voice, my rapture is but as the whisper of the wings of a butterfly. 4. o thou burning tempest of blinding sand, thou whirlwind from the depths of darkness! yea, as i struggle through thee, through thee, my strength is but as a dove's down floating forth on the purple nipples of the storm. 5. o thou crown d giant among great giants, thou crimson-sworded soldier of war! yea, as i battle with thee, thou masterest me as a lion that slayeth a babe that is cradled in lilies. 10 6. o thou shadowy vista of darkness, thou cryptic book of the fir-clad hills! yea, as i search the key of thy house i find my hope but as a rushlight

h open eye be lost in the pearly foam of thine oblivion? 2. o what art thou, o god my god, thou eternal incarnating immortal one? o thou welder of life and death! thou whose breasts are as the full breasts of a mother, yet in thy hand thou carriest the sword of destruction! o how can i cleave the shield of thy might as a little wanton child may burst a floating bubble with the breast-feather of a dove? 3. o what art thou, o god my god, thou mighty worker laden with the dust of toil? o thou little ant of the earth! thou great monster who infuriatest the seas, and by their vigour wearest down the strength of the cliffs! 48 o how can i bind thee in a spider's web of song, and yet remain one and unconsum d before the raging of thy nostrils? 4. o what art thou, o god my god, thou fork d tongue

e, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou crimson rose of the dawn, that art fastened in the dark locks of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou pink nipple of being, thrust deep into the black mouth of chaos! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou vampire queen of the flesh, wound as a snake around the throats of men! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 64 o thou tender nest of dove's down, built up betwixt the hawks claws of the night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou concubine of matter, anointed with love-nard of motion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou flame-tipp'd bolt of morning, that art shot out from the crossbow of night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frail blue-bell of moonlight, that art lost in the gardens of the star

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hoes a moment or more, so the voice of thy spirit soft-calling my soul in its flight. as the breath of the wind that is borne from the island of love, as the swift-moving cloudlets that sail in the heaven above, as the warmth of the sunlight that breaks on the shimmering sea, and the sweetness that lurks in the sting of the honey-fed bee, so the joy of thy kiss, the dread offspring of serpent and dove. as the trail of the fiery lightnings which gleam in the dark, as the light from the measureless bow of the sevenfold arc, as the fires which glance o'er the face of the treacherous deep, when none but the furies may rest, and the nereids weep- so thy meteor eyes, brightest sirens alluring love's barque. when hid in the wonderful maze of thy whispering hair, alone with the shadows and thee, a

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ly decapitateth him. xii. an ancient hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. v xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight's own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child's toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of spain, he findeth the bait stolen by bermin. xvii. in crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. sir palamede compelleth hi

heart, i ween, was then the loyal knight, the weak of wit, the butt of lewd and puny men, sir palamede the saracen. 37 xiv northward the good knight gallops fast, resolved to seek his foe at home, when rose that vision of the past, the royal battlements of rome, a ruined city, and a dome. there in the broken forum sat a red-robed robber in a hat "whither away, sir knight, so fey "priest, for the dove on ararat i could not, nor i will not, stay "i know thy quest. seek on in vain a golden hart with silver horns! life springeth out of divers pains. what crown the king of kings adorns? a crown of gems? a crown of thorns! the questing beast is like a king in face, and hath a pigeon's wing and claw; its body is one fleece of bloody white, a lamb's in spring. enough. sir knight, i give thee peac

me! since i may not imitate the beast, at least i work and wait. we shall discover soon or late which is the master- i or fate" 85 xxxiii sir palamede the saracen hath passed unto the tideless sea, that the keen whisper of the wind may bring him that which never men knew- on the quest, the quest, rides he! so long to seek, so far to find! so weary was the knight, his limbs were slack as new-slain dove's; his knees no longer gripped the charger rude. listless, he aches; his purpose swims exhausted in the oily seas of laxity and lassitude. the soul subsides; its serious motion still throbs; by habit, not by will. and all his lust to win the quest is but a passive-mild devotion (ay! soon the blood shall run right chill- and is not death the lord of rest) there as he basks upon the cliff he ye

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ottom. the center as for anahata, but sixteenfold. ajna on forehead. this is a more western symbol, two upward curving wings of seven primary feathers and a more complex array of secondaries, curving to the outside and coming to two points just above the top of the head. these join in two white featherlets a semicircular curve at the base, just above the brows. there is a stylized descending gray dove in the midst, just above the lower white featherlets. a white light seems to be seen through the backs of the wings just above the dove. for the meaning of the symbolism of these "closed" wings, see the footnote below, page 147 in the equinox. the upper 2/5's of the space contains a large circular device, representing the shasrara. this looks a bit like the head of a thistle and has 72 elonga

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taurus "and" libra "draw the inner veil apart" libra "returns and kneels" libra. daughter of glory, child of earth's dione mild by the father of all, the aegis-bearing king! 83) spouse, daughter, mother of god, queen of the blest abode in cyprus' splendour singly glittering. sweet sister unto me, i cry aloud to thee! i laugh upon thee laughing, o dew caught up from sea! drawn by sharp sparrow and dove, and swan's wide plumes of love, and all the swallow's swifter vehemence, and, subtler than the sphinx, the ineffable iynx heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, when from the bluest bowers and greenest-hearted hours of heaven thou smil'st toward earth, a miracle of flowers! down to the loveless sea where lay persephone violate, where the shade of earth is black, crystalline out of space

the souls of the blessed ones of nu! a devouring fire is thy soul, and the corpses of the dead are enkindled at thy breath["returns to his throne" venus. brother libra, art thou silent["a pause" brother libra, where art thou? libra "still hidden, recites from swinburne's "atalanta" we have seen thee, o love, thou art fair; thou art goodly, o love; thy wings make light in the air as the wings of a dove "etc. famine, and blighting of corn, when thy time was come to be born [libra "appears and confronts her" all these we know of; but thee who shall discern or declare "etc. wilt thou utterly bring to an end? have mercy, mother! venus. nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. libra. alas. venus. yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to me. isis am i, and from my life

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ith fruitless travail, sterile care! marvellous! marvellous, marvellous! and again a marvel, a lotus-bud dropt from the brows of a goddess unknown on the ivory steps of the golden throne, virginal brows and luminous with the star-stream flowing therein for blood. ah, but electric thrills the host of the esoteric eucharist! the pagan power of the corn and wine mystical, magical, hers and mine, the dove-plumed snake of the holy ghost that wings and writhes in the wounds unkissed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of the murderous mouth! 45 ii the snow maiden "to margaret callaghan" my love is like the

behind the sun a glimpse of one appointed equally to be hidden and to be seen, each as may be fitting. but the brightness of the sun and its heat dazzled me and scorched me. my members refused to obey; and i slid backward into the great stream that was here so icy cold, and it refreshed me and comforted me. now then i was minded to enter again the ark when there flew unto me, i wot not whence, a dove, and perched upon my shoulder. and thus i swam for a while, and the waters of the stream were soft and warm, caressing me. yet i felt that this aimless drifting was enervating my limbs; so i gathered some stray planks of my raft- for they still floated round the ark- and began half playfully to paddle, with what purpose i cannot tell. and so it was ordered that the dove flew to me with an oak

reon, i beheld one appointed, and i understood that the oak-leaf was sent from the house. then i took counsel of him who is to this end appointed, and with his own hand he brought to me a champak-blossom, a mustard-seed, and again an oak-leaf. and these i treasured in my bosom, though i hardly knew wherefore. nor could i understand what purpose they should serve, save darkly. and seeing this, the dove came to me again bearing an olive-branch; and with this i was so mightily pleased that for awhile i forgot all else, and swam lustily in the stream for my pleasure. but now came a current of ice-cold water and enwrapped me; and when i looked, it bore spots of blood upon it. then i went hastily into the ark that was ever near by; and, climbing to the roof by the ladder that i had before made

he ark, and it was shaped like a cradle rather than like a boat. and i heard the voice of one appointed to speak saying "behold thou me" 62 and i could not. nevertheless i gazed earnestly, and paddled in the direction of the sound. while this was a-doing suddenly the river fell in a cataract. and i looked for the olive-branch, and it was withered, and sunk beneath the stream. and i looked for the dove, and it was wrapped round with a most hideous serpent. and i was helpless. in the end he devoured that rose-winged companion of my journey, and went seeking a new prey. now in this cataract i had most surely been wrecked but that i clung tightly to the boat. this indeed floated as serenely as if it had been upon the still waters of a lake; and when i had a little plucked up courage, i saw sit

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tnut. animals: ram, tiger, leopard. bird: magpie. metal: iron. colours: bright green, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for both taurus and venus. lucky day: friday. flowers: lily-of-the-valley, violet, rose, myrtle. trees: almond, apple, walnut, ash, sycamore. animal: bull. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: all shades of blue, indigo, soft rose. gemini the twins. 22 may to 21 june. lucky stones: agate, chrysoprase, diamond, jade. lucky number: five. lucky day: wednesday. flower: snapdragon. trees: elder and filbert. animals: dog and squirrel. birds: parrot and linnet. metal: quicksilver. colours: white, silver, yellow, light green. cancer the crab. 22 june to 21 july. lu

ower, valerian. tree: hazel. animal: squirrel. birds; parrot, magpie. metals: virgo, platinum; mercury,quicksilver. colours: pale blue, pale gold, yellow, jade green. lm.ra the scales. 22 september to 21 october. lucky stones: libra, opal; venus, lapis lazuli. lucky numbers: libra, eight; venus, six. lucky day: friday. flowers: violet, white rose. trees: almond, walnut. animals: hart, hare. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: blue, violet. scorpio the scorpion. 22 october to 21 november. lucky stones: ruby, beryl, turquoise, topaz. lucky number: nine. lucky day: tuesday. flowers: heather, chrysanthemum. trees: holly, thorn. animals: wolf, panther. birds: eagle, vulture. metal: iron. colours: red, russet, brown. sagittaluus the archer. 22 november to 21 december. lucky stones: sagittarius

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

rance and fearlessness. 5. see you not god in all, the life in all, and love in all? why separate yourself and leave behind the loved and the well-known? quality..power to detach oneself- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 6. can you arrest the waters of the sixth great sphere? can you stem the flood? can you recover both the raven and the dove? can you, the fish, swim free? quality..overcoming the waters of the emotional nature. this out-going ray of devotion to the ideal, and the incoming ray of magical order or organisation are largely responsible for the type of man's consciousness today. man is essentially devoted (to the point of fanaticism) to whatever may be the goal of his life's attention. this goal may be to achieve disci

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be baptised of him. but john forbade him, saying, i have need to be baptised of thee and comest thou to me "and jesus answering said unto him, suffer it to be so now, for it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. then he suffered him "and jesus, when he was baptised, went up straightaway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove, and lighting upon him- 61- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust "and lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased."8 in these simple words we are told the story of this initiation. the keynote is purification, and it closed a period of preparation, of quiet service and inaugurated a cycle of strenuous activity. the purification of the lowe

experience. there is no indefiniteness in it, and the initiate is never quite the same again in his consciousness. in the river jordan the light from heaven streamed upon the christ, and his father spoke those words which have sounded down the ages and have evoked response from all aspirants to the- 67- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust kingdom. the spirit of god descended as a dove upon him. the dove is ever a symbol of peace. for two reasons it was the chosen sign at this initiation. water, as we have seen, is the symbol of the emotional nature, which nature when purified through initiation, becomes a peaceful limpid pool, capable of reflecting the divine nature in its purity. thus, in the form of a dove, the peace of god descended upon jesus. secondly, the essential d

ithin itself the promise of the messiah, of him who shall come. the new testament stands for the spiritual man, for god made flesh, and for the birth of that which the material nature carried and veiled for so long. the old testament opens with the appearance of the raven at the time of the founding of the ancient world, as we can begin to know it. the new testament opens with the appearance of a dove one the symbol of the raging waters, the other the symbol of the waters of peace. through christ and the unfoldment of the christ life in each human being will come "the peace which passeth understanding."23 standing there in the waters of jordan, christ faced the world as man. standing upon the top of the mount of transfiguration, he faced the world as god. but in this initiation, he stood o

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bility, probability and the law of correspondences can indicate the rightness of these events. their effects will be noted, especially after the moment of emergence. these three events can be described as follows: 1. the spirit of peace descended upon christ. the new testament bears witness to a somewhat similar event when, at the baptism, we read that "he saw the spirit of god, descending like a dove and alighting upon him (st. matt. iii.16) this spirit is a being of tremendous cosmic potency and is today overshadowing the christ in much the same manner as christ (two thousand years ago) overshadowed or worked through the master jesus. this spirit of peace is not the sum total of an emotional and static calm, bringing to an end the turmoil on the earth and instituting an era of peace. he

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d the cow together represent creation, and so taurus and venus are closely linked. the following is of interest "the bull or cow is the symbol of this sign, and in the celestial chart it will be observed that the little group of stars called pleiades are represented just at the shoulder of the bull. now, in egyptian sculpture, or painting, the pleiades are sometimes represented by the figure of a dove with wings outspread over the bull's saddle. the dove as we remember, is the bird sacred to venus, and as the pleiades are part of the constellation taurus and, as we shall see, more taurian in nature, if possible, than taurus itself, the dove becomes a specially appropriate symbol for this little star-group (the zodiac: a life epitome, walter h. sampson, p. 24 [46] the theme of sex from this

s the drinking of that which we have ourselves brewed. in other words, the same truth can be expressed in the words of christian bible "as a man soweth, so shall he also reap [107] then we have, thirdly, corvus, the raven, that stands upon hydra, the serpent, and pecks at it. it has nine stars, again the number of initiation. the old testament started with a raven, the new testament starts with a dove. experience starts with the bird of matter and ends with the bird of spirit. it is interesting to note that in aquarius, the consummating sign to leo, we find cygnus, the swan, the symbol of the bird of spirit. in the voice of the silence we read "and then thou canst repose between the wings of the great bird. aye, sweet to rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor dies, but is th

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eguenda or witch-meeting how to consecrate the supper.here follows the supper, of what it must consist, and what shall be said and done to consecrate it todiana.you shall take meal and salt, honey and water, and make this incantation:scongiurazione della farina.scongiuro te, o farina!che sei il corpo nostro senza di tenon si potrebbe vivere tu cheprima di divenire la farina,sei stata sotto terra, dove tuttisono nascosti tutti in segreti,maccinata che siei a metterte al vento,tu spolveri per laria e te ne fuggiportando con te i tuoi segreti!ma quando grano sarai in spighe,in spige belle che le lucciole,vengeno a farti lume perche tupossa crescere pi bella, altrimentitu non potresti crescere a divenire bella,dunque anche tu appartienialle strege o alle fate, perchele lucciole appartengonoal

age 9 n r r r r r non devi essere come la figlia di caino,e della razza che sono devenutiscellerati infami a causa dei maltrattamenti,come giudei e zingari,tutti ladri e briganti,tu non divieni..tu sarai (sempre) la prima strega,la prima strega divenuta nel mondo,tu insegnerai larte di avvelenare,di avvelenare (tutti) i signori,di farli morti nei loro palazzi,di legare il spirito del oppressore,e dove si trova un contadino ricco e avaro,insegnare alle strege tue alunne,come rovinare suo raccoltocon tempesta, folgore e balen,con grandine e vento.quando un prete ti fara del male,del male colle sue bene dizioni,tu le farei (sempre) un doppio malecol mio nome, col nome di /diana/,regina delle streghe..quando i nobili e prete vi dirannodovete credere nel padre, figlio,e maria, rispondete gli se

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and the ark went (with noah, the spirit) upon the face of the waters" thus noah, if identical with the chaldean nuah, is the spirit vivifying matter, which latter is chaos, represented by the deep, or the waters of the flood. in the babylonian legend (the pre-cosmical blended with the terrestrial event) it is ishtar (astaroth or venus, the lunar goddess) who is shut up in the ark and sends out "a dove in search of dry land("isis unveiled" vol. ii, pp. 423 and 424. george smith notes in the "tablets" first the creation of the moon, and then that of the sun "its beauty and perfection are extolled, and the regularity of its orbit, which led to its being considered the type of a judge and the regulator of the world" if this story related simply to a cosmogonical cataclysm- even were this latte

at the entrance passage to the king's chamber the measurement from the surface of the great step* and the grand gallery to the top of the said gallery, is by the very careful measures of piazzi smyth 339 inches[[diagram] take a as a centre and with this radius describe a circle; the diameter of that circle will be 339 x 2= 678, and these numbers are those of the expression and the raven, in the 'dove and raven' scenes or pictures of the flood of noah (the radius is taken to show division into two parts, which are 1,065 each) for 113 (man) x 6= 678; and the diameter to a circumference of 1,065 x 2- so we have here an indication of cosmic man on this high grade or step, at the entrance of the king's chamber (the holy of holies- which is the womb. now this passage is of such a height that a

nimals. the first man adam was made only a living soul (nephesh, the last adam was made a quickening spirit- says paul, his words referring to the building or creation of man. without this quickening spirit, or human mind or soul, there would be no difference between man and beast; as there is none, in fact, between animals with respect to their actions. the tiger and the donkey, the hawk and the dove, are each one as pure and as innocent as the other, because irresponsible. each follows its instinct, the tiger and the hawk killing with the same unconcern as the donkey eats a thistle, or the dove pecks at a grain of corn. if the fall had the significance given to it by theology; if that[[footnote(s* the real original text of i corinthians, rendered kabalistically and esoterically would rea

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hemists, at its lowest; god and devil, good and evil[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] rest, and may as well mean "holy" as not. it is a blind, very suggestive in connection with certain superstitions- e.g, that of the russian people who will not use the pigeon for food; not because it is "unclean" but because the "holy ghost" is credited with having appeared under the form of a dove* not the mediaeval alchemists, but the magi and fire-worshippers, from whom the rosicrucians or the philosophers per ignem, the successors of the theurgists borrowed all their ideas concerning fire, as a mystic and divine element[[vol. 1, page] 82 the secret doctrine. now, why is light called in the stanzas "cold flame? because in the order of cosmic evolution (as taught by the occultist, the

to the law of which it is the inner and ultimate essence. the hebrews did not adopt the egg as a symbol, but they substituted for it the "duplex heavens" for, translated correctly, the sentence "god made the heavens and the earth" would read "in and out of his own essence as a womb (the mundane egg, god created the two heavens" but the christians have chosen as the symbol of their holy ghost, the dove "whosoever acquaints himself with[[hebrew] the mercaba and the lahgash (secret speech or incantation, will learn the secret of secrets" lahgash is nearly identical in meaning with vach, the hidden power of the mantras. when the active period has arrived, from within the eternal essence of ain-soph, comes forth sephira, the active power, called the primordial point, and the crown, kether. it i

life. this occult art, which demanded 3,000 years ago the greatest learning and the most abstruse mathematical calculations, has now fallen into the depths of degradation: it is old cooks and fortune-tellers who read their future to servant-girls in search of husbands, by means of the white of an egg in a glass. nevertheless, even christians have to this day their sacred birds; for instance, the dove, the symbol of the holy ghost. nor have they neglected the sacred animals. the evangelical zoolatry- the bull, the eagle, the lion, and the angel (in reality the cherub, or seraph, the fiery-winged serpent, is as much pagan as that of the egyptians or the chaldeans. these four animals are, in reality, the symbols of the four elements, and of the four lower principles in man. nevertheless, the

egyptian conceptions and beliefs- in their outward and inward meaning- and which are not to be found in the jewish canon. one of such is the water-lily in the hands of the archangel in the early representations of his appearance to the virgin mary; and these symbolical images are preserved to this day in the iconography of the greek and roman churches. thus water, fire, the cross, as well as the dove, the lamb, and other sacred animals, with all their combinations, yield esoterically an identical meaning, and must have been accepted as an improvement upon judaism pure and simple. for the lotus and water are among the oldest symbols, and in their origin are purely aryan, though they became common property during the branching-off of the fifth race. let us give an example. letters, as much

iver, whose reflection he found therein; and this belief that the fire finds refuge in the water was not limited to the old scandinavians. it was shared by all nations and was finally taken up by the early christians, who symbolized the holy ghost under the shape of fire "cloven tongues like as fire- the breath of the father-sun. this "fire" descends also into the water or the sea: mar, mary. the dove was the symbol of the soul with several nations, it was sacred to venus, the goddess born from the[[footnote(s* quoted in mr. g. massey's lecture[[vol. 1, page] 403 identity of typology. sea-foam, and it became later the symbol of the christian anima mundi, or the holy spirit. one of the most occult chapters in the "book of the dead" is ch. lxxx, entitled "to make the transformation into the

egarded as sacred in the bible are not few: the goat for one, the azaz-el, or god of victory. as aben ezra says "if thou art capable of comprehending the mystery of azazel, thou wilt learn the mystery of his (god's) name, for it has similar associates in scriptures. i will tell thee by allusion one portion of the mystery[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 442 the secret doctrine. the dove, are "the sacred animals" of the western bible, the first three being found grouped round the evangelists; and the fourth (the human face) is a seraph, i.e, a fiery serpent, the gnostic agathodaemon probably* as explained, the "sacred animals" and the flames or "sparks" within the "holy four" refer to the prototypes of all that is found in the universe in the divine thought, in the root, whic

ic powers- the creative dhyan-chohans, beyond which all is darkness. let us inquire of the wisdom of the kabala- even veiled and distorted as it now is- to explain in its numerical language an approximate meaning, at least of the word "raven" this is its number value as given in the "source of measures "the term raven is used but once, and taken as eth-h'orebv[[diagram= 678, or 113 x 6; while the dove is mentioned five times. its value is 71, and 71 x 5= 355. six diameters, or the raven, crossing, would divide the circumference of a circle of 355 into 12 parts or compartments; and 355 subdivided for each unit by 6, would equal 213-0, or the head("beginning) in the first verse of genesis. this divided or subdivided, after the same fashion, by 2, or the 355 by 12, would give 213-2, or the wo

it is easy to comprehend the esoteric meaning of the raven, once that the like meaning of the flood (or noah's deluge) is ascertained. whatever the many other meanings of this emblematical allegory may be, its chief meaning is that of a new cycle and a new round (our fourth round* the "raven" or the eth-h'orebv, yields the same numerical value as the "head" and returned not to the ark, while the dove returned, carrying the olive-branch, when noah, the new man of the new race (whose prototype is vaivasvata manu, prepared to leave the ark, the womb (or argha) of terrestrial nature, is the symbol of the purely spiritual, sexless and androgyne man of the first three races, who vanished from earth for ever. numerically jehovah, adam, noah, are one in the kabala: at best, then, it is deity desc

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oneliness. 48. even instantly rode hades heavily upon her, and ravished her away. 49 (then the scribe knew the narcissus in his heart; but because it came not to his lips, therefore was he shamed and spake no more) 50. adonai spake yet again with v.v.v.v.v. and said: the earth is ripe for vintage; let us eat of her grapes and be drunken thereon. 51. and v.v.v.v.v. answered and said: o my lord, my dove, my excellent one, how shall this word seem unto the children of men? 52. and he answered him: not as thou canst see. it is certain that every letter of this cipher hath some value; but who shall determine the value? for it varieth ever, according to the subtlety of him that made it. 53. and he answered him: have i not the key thereof? i am clothed with the body of flesh; i am one with the et

ently and hid myself. the garden s glow darkened, and all the gold below went out, and left the gold above to its sacrament of love, save where to sentinel my station, gold lilies bowed in adoration. had i not feared to move, i might have hid my shame from such a night! man is not worthy to intrude his soullessness on solitude; yet god hath made it to befriend pilgrims, that his peace may pend, a dove upon the dire and dark waters that assail the ark, and lure their less love to his own. life is a song, a speech, a groan, as may be; none of these have part in the silence of his heart. lapsed in that unwean d air, i awaited, unaware, what might fall. the silence wrapped veil on veil about me, trapped by the siren night, whose words the sevenfold sacrament 189 were the river and the birds. s

as mine intents aspire. thee i invoke, abiding one, thee, centre and secret of the sun, and that most holy mystery of which the vehicle am i. the equinox 266 appear, most awful and most mild, as it is lawful, in thy child! the chorus: for of the father and the son the holy spirit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of t

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then existed in the oceans of the world. noah knew that her family would wonder how more water could be made. so she asked whether god's plan would deviate from the natural laws, which had guided the universe since the beginning, and she got no answer. but tubalcain faithfully made the cart to carry their tents and the younger children. no one knew the way to mount ararat, and so they followed a dove for forty days and forty nights, until it came to rest on an olive tree in a field of wheat, high above the valley. and there they stayed, waiting for the flood. in their first winter on the mountain, they had no food, except for the wheat. but god put a blessing on noah's porridge, and tubalcain set out to enlarge the field. with torch and axe he cut the brush, and in the spring they scatter

mythic history of humanity, the invention of the wheel and the domestication of grain (along with the earlier invention of fire) should be high on our list. thus, replacing the wooden ark by a wooden cart nicely broadens the significance of the story. also, it gives us the amusing image of tubalcain and noah pulling the cart, while the younger children enjoy the ride, as the family goes on a wild dove chase (like modern archaeologists, noah and her family are uncertain about the exact location of the biblical ararat) another, more serious strand concerns intermarriage and unbelief, which noah confronts when her sons marry forest women who do not share the family's belief in the flood. the unbelieving wives lead noah's sons down the mountain to the better lands below. noah is in anguish for

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e, which bindeth together the unending series of little lives and deaths [131] comment on nun* n u n, pronounced noon. transcribed as" n. the number 5o. meaning: fish. the imaginative intelligence. 1 the quotation "he had his dwelling in the great sea, and was a fish therein, is from the zohar, or book of splendor. the great sea, of course, is binah. 2 the prophet is jonah, i v n h, signifying "a dove. note well that the dove is the bird of venus, and that the "great fish" mentioned in jonah 1: 17 is dag gedul, d g g d v l, for which the numeral value is 50, the same as that of the letter nun. furthermore, the zodiacal sign scorpio, relating to reproduction, and ruled by mars, is attributed to nun. when the "great fish" swallows the "dove" the forces of venus and mars are conjoined. note a

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ould turn back, or take any of the ways before me. i considered well my own unworthiness, but the dream still comforted me that i was delivered out of the tower; and yet i did not dare confidently rely upon a dream; whereupon i was so perplexed in various ways, that very great weariness, hunger and thirst seized me. whereupon i presently drew out my bread and cut a slice of it; which a snow-white dove of whom i was not aware, sitting upon the tree, saw, and therewith (perhaps according to her usual manner) came down. she betook herself very familiarly with me, and i willingly imparted my food to her, which she received, and so with her prettiness she again refreshed me a little. but as soon as her enemy, a most black raven, perceived it, he straightaway darted down upon the dove, and takin

on the tree, saw, and therewith (perhaps according to her usual manner) came down. she betook herself very familiarly with me, and i willingly imparted my food to her, which she received, and so with her prettiness she again refreshed me a little. but as soon as her enemy, a most black raven, perceived it, he straightaway darted down upon the dove, and taking no notice of me, would force away the dove s food, and she could not guard herself otherwise than by flight. whereupon they both flew together towards the south, at which i was so hugely incensed and grieved that without thinking what i did, i hastened after the filthy raven, and so against my will ran into one of the fore mentioned ways a whole field s length. and thus the raven having been chased away, and the dove delivered, i then

o my feet, and resolved, since so it must be, that i would use my utmost endeavour to get to my journey s end before night. now although many apparent byways showed themselves, yet i still proceeded with my compass, and would not budge one step from the meridian line; howbeit the way was often so rugged and impassable, that i was in no little doubt of it. on this way i constantly thought upon the dove and the raven, and yet could not search out the meaning; until at length upon a high hill afar off i saw a stately portal, to which, not regarding how far it was distant both from me and from the way i was on, i hasted, because the page 12 sun had already hid himself under the hills, and i could see no abiding place elsewhere; and this verily i ascribe only to god, who might well have permitt

lace he bowed himself down upon both his forefeet, as if hereby he had shown honour to the lion, who stood so immoveably upon the fountain, that i had taken him to be of stone or brass. the lion immediately took the naked sword which he had in his paw, and broke it in two in the middle, and the pieces of it, it seemed to me, sunk into the fountain; after which he roared for so long, until a white dove brought a branch of olive in her bill, which the lion devoured in an instant, and so was quieted. and so the unicorn returned to his place with joy. hereupon our virgin led us down again by the winding stairs from the scaffold, and so we again made our reverence towards the curtain. we were to wash our hands and heads in the fountain, and there to wait a little while in our order, till the ki

he who could redeem these tokens at the gate? i answered in most humble manner, yes. but he laughed at me, saying, there was no need for ceremony; i was his father. page 83 then he asked me with what i had redeemed them? i replied, with water and salt. whereupon he wondered who had made me so wise; upon which i grew a bit more confident, and recounted to him how it had happened with my bread, the dove and the raven, and he was pleased with it and said expressly that it must be that god had herein vouchsafed me a singular happiness. with this we came to the first gate where the porter with the blue clothes waited, bearing in his hand a supplication. now as soon as he saw me alongside the king, he delivered me the supplication, most humbly beseeching me to mention his ingenuity to the king

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rays of seafoam bubbled and frothed around the raft. zurong placed himself strategically in the path of gong s warriors. as gong s battle raft approached, zurong blasted forth a huge, towering pillar of fire. the leaping flames were sucked into the hollow cores of the raft s bamboo poles, which burst into flame, plunging gong s soldiers to their watery deaths. gong jumped off the burning raft and dove down into the sea. quickly, the water god called forth all his loyal subjects: the giant turtles, shrimp, crabs, and lobsters of the waters. out of the deep sea, monsters rose with huge horns and wings like bats. the water god smiled as he surveyed his mighty forces. unlike his human army, these water warriors had their own protective armor. they lived in the sea and could not die by drowning

le monkeys back into hair. he freed the imprisoned children and returned them to their parents. to celebrate their king s return, the cave monkeys feasted on dates, fruit, and grape wine. the visit to the dragon king monkey decided that the demon was right to have laughed at him. he was king of his monkeys, but he did not have any clothes or weapons worthy of a king. so monkey recited a spell and dove into the sea to meet with the dragon king of the eastern sea. when he demanded a suitable weapon, the dragon king showed monkey a heavy iron pillar weighing several tons. no one in the sea could lift it; many feared its strange, glowing light. monkey grabbed the stick, recited a spell, and changed it into a weapon-sized iron rod. making thrusts and parries, monkey jabbed and swung the stick i

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tis and lemuria) became the symbol of the merovingian bloodline and so you see it used profusely by british royalty, on official buildings (like a gate at the white house, and in churches (figure 15. the bee is also a merovingian symbol and this was associated with artemis (see picture section) and many other goddesses, including queen semiramis in babylon who is symbolised by the illuminati as a dove. thus the dove is another theme of british royalty's ritual ironmongery, sorry sacred sceptres. the reptilian bloodline is supposed to carry secret esoteric and magical powers (what the nazis called the "vril" or "serpent" power) and the merovingians were known as sorcerer kings" because of these abilities. some of the more amazing of these powers we shall discuss later. keep the seat belt on

of mother-father-son. el was also known as eldi or "fiery el, the "hound, and, highly significantly, as "mary".24 from this cult and "fiery el" came the term hell "burning in hell" and "fires of hell" el or hel was the norse queen of the underworld and her followers became known as "kinsman of hel".25 in medieval times, this was symbolised as the "harlequin, the lover of the maiden columbine-the-dove. columba, columbine, and the symbol of the dove are all other names and symbols for el, the serpent or dragon queen of the edda. the more i research, the more the 154 children of the matrix world that exists under our feet becomes increasingly significant. the underground "hell" is supposed to be the place of judgement and eternal punishment where the "devil" and evil spirits dwell beneath th

e the "vandals" or "hun- again reptilian bloodlines. van or baina was also the ancient capital of the matriarch queen of the serpent cult, semiramis (el, and i guess this might relate to the lady of the lake in the king arthur stories. the underground world is also symbolised as the "lake of fire, the domain of the death-goddess, hel. semiramis translates as "branch bearer" and her symbol was the dove- further links to the noah story with the dove arriving to noah bearing the olive branch. i have seen lake van associated with the garden of eden by one researcher. so the babylonian mother-son was semiramis of the serpent cult and her son, tammuz, the hero of their far earlier version of the "jesus" story. we shall see later that this same serpent cult moved from babylon to rome and founded

knee because satanism calls itself the "left-hand path. on the black madonna's head at chartres was, as always, a crown and on the pedestal is a roman inscription saying "the virgin who will give birth" the crown is a symbol of the reptilian bloodlines and is used to signify high rank in satanism. the black madonna was called "the queen of heaven" and all these mother-virgins were symbolised as a dove. the symbolism of british royalty with its crowns, doves, and lions, etc, are all symbolic of the serpent cult in power today. the man who did most to advance the worship of the black madonna was st bernard (1090 to 1153, the abbot of clairvaux in france, who founded the cistercian order. he claims to have experienced a miraculous religious "illumination" when the black madonna of chatillon p

ilm by roman polanski, the husband of the actress sharon tate who was murdered with her unborn child by the satanic "family" of charles manson. tony blair's labour party introduced the red rose as its logo thanks to the illuminati clone and later disgraced government minister peter mandelson, whose nickname is the 'prince of darkness. the other two major uk political parties have the logos of the dove (liberal democrats) and the lighted torch (conservatives, both major illuminati symbols going back thousands of years "shakespeare" was lord draconis the works of shakespeare are part of this story, also. the texts are awash with esoteric and illuminati symbolism and codes. for instance, the "queen of the fairies (reptilian bloodline) in "shakespeare's" a midsummer night's dream, is another v

ed with serpents. there are all kinds, some very long and large. many of the scottish rite degrees include the representation of serpents and i recognised them among those decorating the walls."13 secret society, serpent cult, and goddess symbolism can be clearly seen in the founding of the united states. queen semiramis (meaning "branch bearer) was another name for el and she was symbolised as a dove. l.a. waddell says that the indian vedic title for el was sarama "the bitch of the pani" or vans. this was queen semiramis, the amazonian queen of lake van and it was apparently the source of the tribal title of "sarma-tian" for the eastern vandal "turanian" hordes that ravaged the early western world. the roman serpent cult worshipped semiramis as venus columba or "venus the dove. columbe is

ays that the indian vedic title for el was sarama "the bitch of the pani" or vans. this was queen semiramis, the amazonian queen of lake van and it was apparently the source of the tribal title of "sarma-tian" for the eastern vandal "turanian" hordes that ravaged the early western world. the roman serpent cult worshipped semiramis as venus columba or "venus the dove. columbe is still the word for dove in french. columba became a symbolic name for el or semiramis, the dragon queen of the serpent cult. so we have christopher "columbus (real name colon, who bore the branch of the serpent cult to the americas. we also have british columbia in canada; the district of columbia, the home of washington dc; and a stream of illuminati operations called columbia pictures, columbia university, and col

slators of the bible. the religion of babylon created the mould, even the detailed stories, for those that followed. for example, where have you heard this before? in babylon they worshipped a trinity of nimrod, the father, symbolised as a fish; tammuz or ninus, the son, who was said to have died to save humanity on december 25th; and queen semiramis, the babylonian "isis, who was symbolised as a dove. they said that nimrod and tammuz, the father and son, were "one. when tammuz died for the sins of humanity, the priesthood said he was put in a tomb and, three days later when they rolled back the stone, he was gone. all this was thousands of years before christianity and it is just one of so many versions of the "jesus" story that were told long before "jesus" was supposed to have lived. oh

ork (cbn) in 1961 and is the host of its stunningly tedious daily talk show, the 700 club. the christian broadcasting network has received funding from illuminati families and has their classic lighted torch symbol as its logo (figure 39. the other major us christian channel, the trinity broadcasting network (tbn, has a lion and a white horse on its logo- both ancient symbols for the sun- and the dove symbolic of the illuminati goddess (figure 40. if you are in america give tbn a watch. it is an experience you will never forget, nor will your eyes believe what they are seeing. robertson was a candidate for the republican presidential nomination in 1988 and a year later founded the christian coalition political pressure group. he was born in lexington, virginia in 1930, studied at the new y

e world jewish congress. these organisations that control the "christian" and "judaic" con men are themselves controlled by the same force. as i was completing this book, george w. bush nominated senator john ashcroft to be his top law officer as attorney general. ashcroft is another member figure 39: the logo of pat robertson's christian broadcasting network figure 40: the lion, white horse, and dove, of the trinity broadcasting network "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen 319 of the religious right who appears to have emerged from the same do-what-i saynot- what-i-do-mould that spawned pat robertson. he describes himself as a christian conservative who doesn't smoke, drink, or dance. he is against abortion because it takes a human life created by god and yet supports the death pen

et handshakes, and garb. we are looking at one face hidden by many masks. joseph smith even used the freemason's code for distress in his dying words. when a freemason is in trouble he says "o lord, my god! is there no help for the widow's son" smith's dying words included "oh lord, my god, is there no help for the widow's son" he also gave the freemasonic sign of distress. joseph smith carried a dove medallion given to him by an english masonic lodge and the dove is illuminati symbolism for queen semiramis (el, the female deity in their babylonian trinity and for the dragon queens. today the mormons, as an important branch of the illuminati, have a strong influence in washington. congressman orrin hatch, an elder (el-der) of the mormon church, is one of their representatives, but there ar

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came known as the deity, hermes, which means son of ham.1 ham orkhem means the burnt one and may have been connected to sun worship.2 a greatnetwork of deities emerged from babylon and its connections with egypt.nimrod and semiramis have remained the key deities of the brotherhood to this dayunder many different names and symbols. nimrod was symbolised as a fish and queensemiramis as a fish and a dove. semiramis is likely to be symbolic of ninkharsag, thecreator of the reptile-human crossbreeds. nimrod was the fish-god dagon who wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 it is possible that this was symbolic of him being halfhuman, half scaled reptile. queen semiramis was also symbolised as a fish because thebabylonians believed fish to be an aphrodisiac and it became the symbol for thegoddess o

wasdepicted as half man, half fish.3 it is possible that this was symbolic of him being halfhuman, half scaled reptile. queen semiramis was also symbolised as a fish because thebabylonians believed fish to be an aphrodisiac and it became the symbol for thegoddess of love.4 hence the use of the fish in christian symbolism and architecture. inher role as the holy spirit, semiramis was pictured as a dove holding an olive branchand semiramis means branch bearer as in ze (the) emir (branch) and amit(bearer).5 note also the symbolism of this in the story of noah and the great flood,when the dove came back bearing an olive branch. the return of the reptilians after theflood? the name, semiramis, was evolved from the earlier indian deity, sami-rama-isior semi-ramis.6 a fish and a dove are two symb

olive branch. the return of the reptilians after theflood? the name, semiramis, was evolved from the earlier indian deity, sami-rama-isior semi-ramis.6 a fish and a dove are two symbols still widely used in religious ritualand national ceremony, although most of the people involved have no idea of the truemeaning. sinn fein, the political wing of the northern ireland terrorist group the ira,has a dove as its symbol and you find the dove on many of the sceptres held by thebritish monarch (see picture section. both organisations are modern fronts for thebabylonian brotherhood and the doves symbolise queen semiramis. the dove to themis not a symbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to

brotherhood and the doves symbolise queen semiramis. the dove to themis not a symbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to thebrotherhood, and this allows their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of

unnaki. but before 2,000 bc thereptilians were taking over. the royal court of the dragon was founded by the priests ofmendes in around 2,200 bc and this still exists today as the imperial and royal court ofthe dragon sovereignty. the author, laurence gardner, is the present chancellor of theimperial court of dragon sovereignty and his postal address in devon, england is atcolomba house. columba= dove= queen semiramis. according to gardner, the namedracula means son of dracul and was inspired by prince vlad iii oftransylvania-wallachia, a chancellor of the court of the dragon in the 15th century. theprinces father was called dracul within the court. dracul= draco. wherever they went,the babylonian brotherhood created their own mystery schools to manipulate thepopulation into believing a no

erhood and satanism networks, carriedthe knowledge and the rituals into the present day. the incas of peru sacrificed childrenand human sacrifice was practised from the earliest days in europe. one druid ritualwas to bury a child under the foundations of a new building or to sprinkle the childsblood on the site. the same ritual can be found in many parts of the world. in the storiesof st columba (dove, semiramis, this christian hero is said to have told his monksthat it was fitting for one of them to be buried in the foundations of a new monastery onthe scottish island of lona (the sun) to hallow the ground. a saint oran volunteeredand as a result, it was believed, he went straight to heaven.1 roman accounts by thehistorian, tacitus, reveal how the druids deemed it a duty to cover their al

anyon in orange county, california, but dueto urban sprawl, the rites are now conducted in nearby blackstar canyon, which isclosed to the public. local streets are also cordoned off by members of the orangecounty sheriffs department. the samhain ritual is conducted at the eastside christianchurch located at the junction of 7th avenue and temple in longbeach. outside thechurch is a logo of a white dove with a red goblet between its wings. this is semiramisagain and white is considered a demonic colour by these people, hence pindar, themarquis de libeaux, travels in a white limousine (a code-white is a codeunderstood by judges, police, the military, etc, and it means: look the other way or donot prosecute this person. military guards carrying automatic weapons protect thechurch and inquisiti

otherhood spiders web. the black sun represents themalevolent use of solar energy and the galactic sun, and this oneincludes the face of winston churchill. 362the lion is seen so often in heraldry and flags because it is an ancient symbol of thesun, as is the sphinx most probably. the fish symbolises the sign of pisces and also thelegendary king of babylon, nimrod, who was depicted as a fish. the dove symboliseshis partner, queen semiramis, and it is more reverse symbolism. while the dove meanspeace to most people, it symbolises death and destruction to the brotherhood. thisreversing allows them to use their symbols in the public eye in a way that no-oneunderstands. sinn fein, the political wing of the provisional ira in northern ireland,has a dove as its symbol for this reason. it is this

ove symboliseshis partner, queen semiramis, and it is more reverse symbolism. while the dove meanspeace to most people, it symbolises death and destruction to the brotherhood. thisreversing allows them to use their symbols in the public eye in a way that no-oneunderstands. sinn fein, the political wing of the provisional ira in northern ireland,has a dove as its symbol for this reason. it is this dove symbolism which gives us thefictitious name of christopher columbus who in fact used to sign his name colon. thename columbus was invented as yet more brotherhood symbolism. the romans usedto worship a deity they called venus columba, v enus the dove. v enus and dove areassociated with queen semiramis in babylon. the word dove in french today is stillcolombre. columba is also an aphrodite god

reversed swastika, the skull and bones and theeagle! three major symbols of the brotherhood are the lighted torch, the red rose andfigure 40: the maltese cross.figure 41: the united nations logo in freemason blue with 33 sections withinthe circle in line with the 33 official degrees of the scottish rite of freemasonrythe frame is also directly from freemasonry as you can see in figure 42. 363the dove. the symbols of the three main political parties in the united kingdom whichserve the structure headed by the queen are the lighted torch (conservatives, the redrose (labour) and the dove (liberal democrats! at the time of writing their threeleaders are tony blair (bilderberg group, william haig (bilderberg group, andpaddy ashdown (bilderberg group. just a coincidence, nothing to worry about

the queen. this was symbolic of the story in the old testament describingthe crowning of saul as king of israel when people shouted god save the king.2this cry can be found eight times in the old testament when the kings of israel arecrowned. the queen sat in the coronation chair holding the egyptian symbols, asceptre and a rod. on the top of the sceptre is the maltese cross and on the rod is a369dove. she also later holds an orb with a maltese cross on the top, the same as thoseused by the dutch wing of the black nobility. babylon is now london and queenelizabeth is seen by the brotherhood as a symbolic successor to the legendary founderof babylon, queen semiramis, who was symbolised as a dove. the queen was alsoanointed with oil at her coronation, the ancient aryan and reptile-aryan trad

babylon, queen semiramis, who was symbolised as a dove. the queen was alsoanointed with oil at her coronation, the ancient aryan and reptile-aryan tradition whichgoes back thousands of years. the word christ means the anointed one. the oil atthe queens coronation was the same mixture as that used in the ancient middle east. itwas carried in a gold vessel called the ampulla made in the form of. a dove.3 this issymbolic of the messeh fat used in egypt by the royal court of the dragon. theanointing at the coronation is supposed to elevate the monarch to the rank of highpriest, in this case, appropriately, high priestess of the church of england as well ashead of state. while this was happening, the archbishop of canterbury said:as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed: and as solomon wa

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a poet, good and excellent. and he will be willing to perform thy requests. he hath hopes also to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years more, as he said unto solomon. he governeth 20 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (38) halphas, or malthus. the thirty-eighth spirit is halphas, or malthous (or malthas. he is a great earl, and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove. he speaketh with a hoarse voice. his office is to build up towers, and to furnish them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with a

high towers, castles and cities, and-to furnish them with armour, etc. also he can afflict men for many days with wounds and with sores rotten and full of worms. he giveth good familiars at the request of the exorcist. he commandeth 50 legions of spirits; and his seal is this (44) shax- the forty-fourth spirit is shax, or shaz (or shass. he is a great marquis and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. his office is to take away the sight, hearing, or understanding of any man or woman at the command of the exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. if commanded he will fetch horses at the request of the exorcist, or any other thing. but he must first be commanded into a triangle, or else he wi

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be diseased of body and corrupt of estate. 11. in chokmah, then, we must see both the creative word which said "let there be light" and the lingam of siva and the phallus adored by the bacchantes. we must learn to recognise dynamic force, and revere it wherever we see it, for its god-name is jehovah tetragrammaton. we see it in the spread tail of the peacock and the iridescence of the neck of the dove; but we also hear it in the yowl of the tom-cat and smell it in the stench of the he-goat. likewise we meet it in the colonising adventurers of the most virile epochs of our history, notably those of elizabeth and victoria-both women! we see it again in the man diligent in his toil, strenuous in his profession, in order that his home may be provided for. all these are types of chokmah, whose

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ck and what i might expect if any more articles were published. i can honestly say that until i received this letter i had not the slightest suspicion that this person was implicated in the scandals i was attacking. i was in a somewhat difficult position; i had fired off a charge of shrapnel on general principles, and had apparently "bagged" a number of my friends and associates and fluttered the dove-cote generally. my position was rather complicated by the fact that i did not know nearly as much as they apparently suspected me of doing; i had, of course, known that these abuses existed sporadically about the occult field, as everybody in the movement knows; but to know in this vague way is one thing, and to put one's finger on specific cases is another. i had evidently blundered into som

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nimal, the man inside the man, is the soul. and as the activity of an animal or man is explained by the presence of the soul, so the repose of sleep or death is explained by its absence; sleep or trance being the temporary, death being the permanent absence of the soul. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apparitions 63 sometimes the human soul was represented as a bird.an eagle, a dove, a raven.or as an animal of some sort, just as the soul of a river might be in the form of a horse or a serpent, or the soul of a tree in human shape; but among most peoples the belief was that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body resembling it in every feature, even to details of dress. when a person saw another in a dream, it was thought either that the soul of the dreamer had vis

and appeared none the worse for their strange journey. the phenomenon was first observed by dr. g. p. billot. in recherches psychologique ou correspondence sur le magnetisme vital entre un solitaire et m. deleuze (paris, 1839) he describes a session on march 5, 1819, with three somnambules and a blind woman. he writes: towards the middle of the seance, one of the seeresses exclaimed: there is the dove, it is white as snow, it is flying about the room with something in its beak, it is a piece of paper. let us pray. a few moments later she added: see, it has let the paper drop at the feet of madame j. billot saw a paper packet at the spot indicated. he found in it three small pieces of bone glued onto small strips of paper, with the words: st. maxime, st. sabine and many martyrs written bene

ecorded: on one occasion, the whole family being assembled round the couch of the magnetized sleeper and every door being shut, a heavy flat-iron, last seen in the kitchen.quite a distance away.was suddenly placed in their midst, and, at the request of mrs. larkin, as suddenly disappeared, and was next found in the kitchen, every door of communication having remained closed. the apport of a white dove into the olive branch of peace circle of boston was attested, in the early years of american spiritualism, in an account published in the new era by 11 respectable citizens of boston. the room was hermetically sealed for 24 hours prior to the promised presentation. in quoting this and similar accounts in her modern american spiritualism (1870, emma hardinge britten remarks on the singular doc

counts in her modern american spiritualism (1870, emma hardinge britten remarks on the singular docility of apported birds and says: numerous other instances can be cited in which spirits have manifested their power of influencing birds with a degree of readiness and intelligence as unaccountable as it is interesting. theories of explanation ever since britten s report of larkin s experience, the dove has remained a favorite apport object of the invisible operators. the average apport manifestation, however, is less impressive, though, from the viewpoint of experimental research, the appearance of the smallest object in a closed space to which there is no normal access is of immense import. unfortunately, observations under strict test conditions are all but nonexistent, and psychical rese

seventeenth century, foretold that the last of the seaforths would be deaf. it was uttered at brahan castle, the chief seat of the seaforths, near dingwall, after the seer had been condemned to death by lady seaforth for some offensive remark. he declared to her ladyship that he would go to heaven, but she would never reach it. as a sign of this he declared that when he was burned, a raven and a dove would hasten toward his ashes. if the dove was the first to arrive it would be proved his hope was well founded. notably, the same legend is attached to the memory of michael scott. according to tradition, kenneth was burned on chanonry point, near fortrose, although no record survives of this event. the first authentic evidence regarding the alleged seer was unearthed by william m. mackenzie

59ff: to obtain a vision from the god bes: make a drawing of bes, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh frankincense, myrrh, black writing ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun, saying, send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now, now, quickly, quickly. come i

energies of jesus. she began to channel messages from him that became the basis of a book, new teachings for an awakened humanity (1986, rev. exp. ed. 1995. she founded the spiritual education endeavors publishing company and the share foundation to nurture and disseminate her channeled material. she has subsequently published secret truths: a young adults guide for creating peace, descent of the dove (with ann valentin, you are becoming a galagtic human (with sheldon nidle, and the hathor material (with tom kenyon (1966. new teachings for an awakened humanity espoused the idea of the love corps an alliance of people who seek inner peace and the application of such peace to the global situation. those who associate with essene.the share foundation and the love corps.dedicate themselves to

ornelio (ca. 1610) originally listed in the encyclopedia of occultism by lewis spence (1920) as quiradelli, corneille. ghirardelli was a franciscan monk born in boulogne, france, toward the end of the sixteenth century. he studied astrology and was the author of several works on astrology, physiognomy, and other subjects. sources: ghirardelli, cornelio. cefalogia fisonomica divisa in dieci doche, dove conforme a documenti d aristotile, e d altri filosofi naturali. bologna, italy, 1630. compendio della cefalogia fisonomica; nella quale si contiene cento sonetti di diversi eccellenti posti sopra cento teste humane. bologna, italy, 1673. the ghor-boud-des the people of ghor-bund-land. edward pococke in his book india in greece (1852) maintains that these people were the same as the corybantes

y moved when the table spelled out the name of his lost daughter leopoldine. soon regular communications were established. the sitters included general le flo, count paul teleki, charles hugo, one vacquerie, and mme. hugo. victor hugo himself was never at the table, sometimes not even in the room. many symbolical personages came through, including the lion of androcles, the ass of balaam, and the dove of noah. the shadow of the tomb expressed itself in verse in the style and language of victor hugo, with all the grandiloquence of romantic poetry. sometimes verse in the same style was signed by aeschylus. shakespeare challenged hugo to a poetic competition. andre chenier, the guillotined poet, finished the fragmentary poem that was interrupted by his execution. charles hugo was the principa

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ssible remnant of pagan beliefs, some old christian churches in europe have a bricked-up doorway on the north side. there is an old tradition that witches used to enter on the north, which is connected with superstitions concerning the devil. northern ufo news british publication concerned with ufos and related topics, such as crop circles. it is edited by jenny randles. address: halsteads close, dove holes, buxton, high peak, derbyshire sk17 8bs, england. norton, rosalind (1917.1979) rosalind norton, an australian occultist and avant-garde artist whose life anticipated the modern wiccan movement, was born in dunedin, new zealand. as a child she had a vision of a shining dragon beside her bed, one of several events that convinced her of the existence of a spirit world. when she was seven

s, the guardians of the temple permitted no one to fulfil the duties of the office until she had attained the age of 50. the oracle of dodona another celebrated oracle, that of jupiter, was at dodona in epirus, greece (from which jupiter derived the name of dodonus. it was situated at the foot of mount tomarus, in a grove of oaks, and there answers were given by a woman named pelias. pelias means dove in the attic dialect. the fable arose that the doves prophesied in the groves of dodona. the historian herodotus (ca. 484.425 b.c.e) cites a legendary tale concerning the origin of the oracle. supposedly two priestesses from thebes, egypt, were carried away by phoenician merchants; one went to libya, where she founded the oracle of jupiter ammon, the other to greece. there she had a temple bu

) cites a legendary tale concerning the origin of the oracle. supposedly two priestesses from thebes, egypt, were carried away by phoenician merchants; one went to libya, where she founded the oracle of jupiter ammon, the other to greece. there she had a temple built at the foot of an oak in honor of jupiter, whose priestess she had been in thebes. herodotus added that this priestess was called a dove, because her language could not be understood. the dodonic and african oracles were probably connected. herodotus stated that the manner of prophecy in dodona was the same as that in thebes, egypt. diana was worshiped in dodona in conjunction with zeus, and a female figure was associated with amun in the libyan ammonium. according to some authors, there was an intoxicating spring at dodona an

who noted that while a new form of magical gnostic teachings, master leo s perspective was very close to his own and that of kenneth grant, the head of the ordo templi orientis organization based in london, england. following the opening of the path of gnostic light, a set of inner orders were created. they include the order of the gnostic black serpent (for males, the order of the gnostic black dove (for females, the order of the gnostic black star (for both males and females) and a fourth order known only by its initials, p.o.k.a. included in the work of these orders is the practice of left-hand tantra, that is, sex magick. the teachings of the path are a path of self-exploration that begins in the direct experience of one s personal nature and the destruction of the illusionary present

gs, and by that cruel affection of the spinal marrow, which is termed tabes dorsalis in medicine. 6. the talisman of venus must be formed of a circular plate of purified and well-polished copper. it must be of the ordinary dimensions of a medal, perfectly polished on both its sides. it must bear on the obverse face the letter g inscribed in the alphabet of the magi, and enclosed in a pentagram. a dove must be engraved on the reverse, in the centre of the sixpointed star, which must be surrounded by the letters which compose the name of the planetary genius suroth. this talisman must be composed on a friday, during the passage of the moon through the first ten degrees of taurus or virgo, and when that luminary is well aspected with saturn and venus. its consecration consists in its exposure

treal, pq canada h2l 3n7. it has an expansive internet presence at http//www.vega.bg/ beinsa_douno. sources: douno, beinsa. the master speaks: the word of the great white brotherhood. los angeles: sunrise press& books, 1970. reminiscences: talks with the master. los angeles: sunrise press, 1968. the teachings of beinsa douno: pearls of love. glasgow: beyond the rising sun publications, n.d. white dove s message white dove s message is a quarterly magazine that features the channeled messages of zavena white dove, the name adopted by a medium now residing in wichita, kansas. the name white dove was given to her as a child by angelic beings she came to know as her playmates. the little angels told her they were from gabriel, her guardian angel. they also prophesied that she would one day bec

rience three confirmatory events that would designate the time that she was to start using her rightful name. two of these events occurred in the late 1980s when she received messages from two native american guides, one an apache and one a cheyenne. the third occurred two years later in a vision of the indian hierarchy that confirmed the time had come. since that time she has been known as white dove. an associated near-death experience confirmed that she had a special mission to fulfill. in 1997, she was given the additional name zavena during an initiation ceremony where it was revealed that she was now a cosmic inter-galactic server. she began using her full name on september 21, 1997. she brings messages from a spectrum of beings including her native american guide, silver eagle, a li

as given the additional name zavena during an initiation ceremony where it was revealed that she was now a cosmic inter-galactic server. she began using her full name on september 21, 1997. she brings messages from a spectrum of beings including her native american guide, silver eagle, a light being, firefly, and ascended master kuthumi. she is also a reiki master and teaches reiki healing. white dove s message was launched in 1993 as a monthly, but in 1999 became a quarterly publication. at about the same time, white dove began her internet presence and posts a daily message for interested readers. the internet site is at http/ www.whitedovemsg.com. much of the emphasis in white dove s communication concerns the handling of the ongoing and even accelerated changes in the lives of people i

n 1999 became a quarterly publication. at about the same time, white dove began her internet presence and posts a daily message for interested readers. the internet site is at http/ www.whitedovemsg.com. much of the emphasis in white dove s communication concerns the handling of the ongoing and even accelerated changes in the lives of people involved in the post-new age spiritual community. white dove s message may be contacted at p.o. box 781792, wichita, ks 67278-1792. sources: white dove s message. http//www.whitedovemsg.com. june 10, 2000. white eagle lodge british spiritualist organization founded in 1934, arising from the mediumship of grace cooke (d. 1979, assisted by her husband ivan cooke, and presenting the teachings channeled from her native american spirit guide, white eagle. t

osm. we are cells of the cosmos, just as our bodies, in turn, are made up of cells, with the same laws applying at all levels (5) equilibrium and balance.the law connected to karma, described as the law of compensation. it claims that no action can continue indefinitely, but will travel just as far before a reaction pulls things back to normal. human joy and sorrow follow this law (i.e, ex- white dove s message encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1666 tremes of emotion will eventually cause a reaction that pulls the soul back to normal. the physical body is considered the outer garment of the soul, which includes subtler bodies of emotions and thoughts, and the spirit that is the heart of the soul and is known as the christ spirit, or real self. spiritual healing involves co

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eir spirits, minds, and bodies, who by due, careful, and sufficient training, wisdom and experience, have earned such a reward. such should the typical rosicrucian be, a terrestrial earthly body, the temple in which dwells a mind trained to understand the powers of nature, and enshrined within this, as a canopy, should sit a divine afflatus, a portion of the spirit of god, an ala of the celestial dove who brooded over the chaos, and this spirit may by patent submission to deity, and by active efforts at power, draw down to itself a commission to work wonders, and so do "not as other men do" the great tendency of the modern times has been to reduce all men to a level, a dead level, of mediocrity, an effort fatal to the supremacy of individuals, and which has tended to discourage research in

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

n. in early 1956, when the contacts intensified, menger began taking photographs of alleged spacecraft. he also claimed interplanetary flights in the company of aryan-type beings and produced, among others, pictures of the lunar surface taken from a flying saucer. conservative ufologists scoffed at menger s tales and rejected his photographs as absurdly unconvincing. writing in saucer news, lonzo dove deemed them so evidently faked that it is almost foolish to even criticize them (dove, 1959. when the anticontactee national investigations committee on aerial phenomena challenged menger and other contactees to submit to polygraph examinations, menger declined. his supporters flocked to his high bridge, new jersey, farm, where some reported seeing, from a distance, spacemen in luminous unifo

tic. they also appeared in the 1992 di s c ove ry channel documentary fa re well, good bro t h e r s. they make occasional appearances on the saucer and new age scene. see also: adamski, george; contactees further reading baxter, marla [pseud. of constance weber menger, 1958. my saturnian lover. new york: vantage press. contactee letters, 1957. confidential bulletin to nicap members (september 6. dove, lonzo, 1957. menger s adamski-type saucers. saucer news 4, 2 (february-march: 6 7. menger, howard, 1959. from outer space to you. clarksburg, wv: saucerian books. moseley, james w, 1966. strange new ideas from howard menger. saucer news non-scheduled newsletter 26 (january 25. nebel, long john, 1961. the way out world. englewood cliffs, nj: prentice-hall. schwarz, berthold e, 1972. beauty of

skin-tight, green, glistening, metallic suit, looked, anderson thought, like elizabeth taylor. the space people told him that they had come to earth to gather specimens. be f o re they left, they handed him an envelope with i n s t ructions not to open it for five eart h days. after waiting for the designated period, anderson found a golden amulet inside. on one side there was a bird resembling a dove. on the other, a message read, peace and friendship fore ve r, treena and su n a r, with depictions of saturn and jupiter beside the n a m e s. further reading bartholomew, robert e, and george s. howard, 1998. ufos and alien contact: two centuries of mystery. amherst, ny: prometheus books. sunar and treena 239 tabar on the night of december 10, 1979, a rhode island woman, elaine kaiser, saw

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otten can be shown by a quotation from tommaso campanella who, writing nearly a hundred years later, is recalling this passage in agrippa. in his magia e grazia, a work chiefly devoted to religious magic, campanella makes a classification of different kinds of magic, including a kind which he calls "real artificial magic. real artificial magic produces real effects, as when architas made a flying dove of wood, and recently at nuremberg, according to boterus, an eagle and a fly have been made in the same way. daedalus made statues which moved through the action of weights or of mercury. however i do not hold that to be true which william of paris writes, namely that it is possible to make a head which speaks with a human voice, as albertus magnus is said to have done. it seems to me possibl

de to the angel-visitants is like that of pico in the oration on the dignity of man, full of awe and wonder. dee's ignorant contemporaries could not distinguish between practical cabala and conjuring, in which they were perhaps not unjustified. but they also could not understand, as dee' but he lists under "thaumaturgy" as an "art mathematicall, the brazen head made by albertus magnus, the wooden dove of architas, and the mechanical fly made at nuremberg (preface to billingsley's euclid, sig. a i verso, which shows that he was drawing upon a list of mechanical marvels similar to those given by agrippa and campanella. dee's mind passes rapidly from the pneumatics of hero of alexandria to the statues of the asclepius, or "images of mercurie" as he calls them (ibid, sig. a i recto and verso

e riverenza di quel carattere e molto piu antica che non e il tempo dch'incarnatione di nostro signore e ch'e stata riconosciuta dal tempo che fioriva la religione de gl'egittij circa i tempi di moise, e che quel segno era affisso nel petto di serapide, et all'hora li pianeti et influssi di essi hanno piu efficacia oltre il principio, e fondamento quando sono nel principio de segni cardinali cioe dove i colori intersecano l'eclitica o il zodiaco per linea retta, onde da dui circoli in questo modo intersecanti viene prodotta la forma di tale carattere, li quattro segni cardinali sono li dui equinottiali e li dui solstitiali circa li quali la morte, nativita et incarnatione di nostro signore sempre fu intesa essere, e fu celebrata" sommario, pp. 72-3.1 gather from this that bruno thought tha

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placed second and sometimes third, and it is generally called the understanding. it is feminine and negative- the matter, as it were, in which kether can take form and propagates itself. binah is often called the heavenly mother or holy spirit. her letter is h (heh, the numerical value of which is 5. binah possesses 50 gates, which is symbolical of the heh multiplied by the od; her symbol is the dove; her dimension is depth, whilst kether's is length (compare the lingam and yoni in hindu mythology; and her colour is sky blue, the colour of the virgin mary. from the union between kether and binah emanates 'hokmah (3) hmkc 'hokmah, wisdom. the third sephirah is the son or logos and the firstborn. it represents abstract ideas, the fruit of the gi am h forming in the mind. in the qabalah it i

nd, and there he was transfused with so stupendous a magnetic power that even today his followers number one hundred and fifty millions. christ, brought up in poverty, from the age of twelve to thirty disappeared from the world, and during this long period no single mention is made of him. then through baptism and prayer the heaven was opened, and the holy ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove [symbol of binah] upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son; in thee i am well pleased. 7 today his nominal and actual followers still number six hundred and eighty millions. mahomet, at the age of thirty-five, retired into a cave and was visited by the angel gabriel, the messenger of god; he emerged an illumined adept. his followers conquered half the known

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the god element or reproductive principle within the ark was both female and male, is a fact which has been lost sight of during the historic period, or during those ages of the world in which the attempt has been made to prove nature motherless. all the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and which were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and males; and, besides, the dove (female, the emblem of peace, was also present. even noah himself was produced from an egg, which, as we have seen, is the symbol of venus, or universal womanhood. in after ages the female principle was not mentioned, but, on the contrary, was concealed beneath convenient symbols; and as the philosophical ideas underlying natural religion were lost or forgotten, and mankind had become too ign

and were believed to have been the architects of the tower of babel. epiphanius, eusebius, and others assert that at the time of the building of this tower there existed two rival beliefs, the one demonstrated as scuthism, the other as ionism, or hellenism, the latter of which embodied the worship of the great mother, or the female element, which was worshipped in the shape of the mystic "iona or dove" the scuths, on the other hand, believed in the pre-eminence of a great father, or, perhaps i should say, in a deity composed of a triad containing the elements of a male parent. upon this subject the learned faber remarks "i am much mistaken if some dissension on these points did not prevail at babel itself; and i think there is reason for believing that the altercation between the rival sec

anguages in producing the dispersion"[52 [52] pagan idolatry, book vi, ch. ii. those who believed in the superiority of the male in the processes of reproduction, adored the male element in the deity, while those who held that the female is the more important, worshipped the female energy throughout nature under one or another of its symbols, sometimes as a woman with her child and sometimes as a dove, but oftener as an ark, box, or chest. it is evident from the sacred writings of the hindoos that in india, during a period of several thousand years, there existed various sects, those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to both, as alike important in the office of reproduction. it would seem that t

janus who was the god (or goddess) of the year. although this deity does not appear among the twelve gods it is said to be the parent of them all. it was represented as having two faces. upon one were the letters representing 365, and upon the other were the keys of life and death. according to bryant this deity was called junonius, from the goddess juno, whose name resolves itself into juneh, a dove. in the hebrew this name is identical with yoni or yuni--the female principle. on the coins of this god (which was subsequently regarded as male) is usually figured a boat, although a dove with an olive branch is sometimes observed.[133 [133] see faber, pagan idolatry. juno is thought to be the same as jana, which came from jah of the hebrews. diana was diva jana or "dea jana who is the same

of a regenerator of mankind, an office which had been symbolized by the powers of the sun. he was to restore that which was lost. he attempted to teach to the masses of the people the long neglected principles of purity and peace. he did not condemn woman. he was baptized by john (ion or yon) in water, the original symbol for the female element, and while in the water; the holy ghost in form of a dove (female) descended upon him. to those who have given attention to the symbolism of the pagan worship these facts are not without signification. because of the peculiar tendency of christ's teachings women soon became active factors in their promulgation. if there were no other evidence to show that they publicly taught the new doctrines, the injunction of st. paul "i suffer not a woman to tea

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their spirits, minds, and bodies, who by due, careful, and sufficient training, wisdom and experience, have earned such a reward. such should the typical rosicrucian be, a terrestrial earthly body, the temple in which dwells a mind trained to understand the powers of nature, and enshrined within this,asacanopy, should sit a divine afflatus, a portion of the spirit of god, an ala of the celestial dove who brooded over the chaos, and this spirit may by patient submission to deity, and by active effortsutpower, draw down to itself a commission to work wonders, and so do'notas other men do .thegreat tendency of the modern times has been to reduce allmen to a level, a dead level of mediocrity, an effort fatal to the supremacy of individuals, and which has tended to discourage research into the

s carrying a magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven divine and planetary forces as they are shown to man in the rainbow of heaven; he is always silent; with his wand he transforms the outward appearance of every object he wills to strike. colum255 bine, named from columba, the dove, is the human soul; she is constantly at the side of harlequin, is always obedient to his wish, is light, aerial and fairy-like, beautiful and pleasing;butshe herself has no magical power, she shines by his light, and is but a minor reflection of the spirit which overshadows thethe number four161personality.thekabalists used thebirdas an emblem ofthesoul, and bird's-nest as a symbol of heaven

otems,which were animal forms related tocertain tribes, sects, and families. we remember, of course, that the four quarters of the earth were associated with lion, bull, man and eagle, and that these symbols were allocated by the hebrews to the four cherubim and by the christiansto the four evangelists.theancient greek kronos, emblematic of time, was considered as lion-headed; venus as love, as a dove; jove with an eagle; apollo is shown with a swan. preliminary to admission to the secret grades we read that candidates had to pass a long period of probation, of cleansing both moral and physical, and of prolonged abstinence from meat food, and that they suffered many other privations. after severe tests a form of baptismperlavacrumwas carried out and solemn oaths administered, and tertullia

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r tradition, as in the valentinian gnostic school, there were three grades- the hylic, psychic and pneumatic. the hylic was that of everyday man, it was sometimes represented by a crawling serpent, the snake of earth. the hylic is the bulk of humanity, it has little innate spark of life and generally is a creature of instinct. the psychic was the first path of salvation and was represented by the dove. the psychic is a mixture of light, mind and flesh and is dominated by his lower instincts, he needs the guidance of the gnostic school to achieve liberation. the secret path was that of the serpent of light, the winged serpent. this path is followed by the pneumatics, the parfait or children of the pleroma. the duality represented by the snake is very expressive, in some ways it hints at the

len elements by sophia and in recognition of his achievement, the divine will acknowledges his new state. michael is now jesus the christ, the christ state being the achievement of communication with the mind of god or the logos. the gnostic handbook page 78 as soon as jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting on him. and a voice from heaven said "this is my son, whom i love; with him i am well pleased" matthew 3:16,17 jesus was now in a position to transform the human situation, as a son of god (a being whose essence is in commune with the logos and whose actions embody the holy spirit, he now went about his task of redeeming israel. he was the messiah from the land of light come for

sophia. it was only after he had conquered death that a path to individual theosis became available and the task of those who followed such as mary magdaelne and simon magus. later the gnostic st.paul offered a full revelation of the mystery of theosis. the new teachings as revealed by jesus and paul has two distinct aspects, the first is that of individual self discovery. this is the path of the dove known to the gnostics as the psychic path. it is the path outlined by jesus. after the death of jesus and outpouring of sophia at pentecost, james the just revealed a second path, the path of the serpent or the pneumatic path. this is the path of theosis or deification. the concept of theosis is found in the writings of many church fathers and is embodied in the initiations described in the s

figuration offers the transformation of man. it offers liberation from the cycles of the world of the archons and transfiguration into a new being, a child of the treasury of light. transfiguration is based on the example of jesus who through his ascension to become the first born of the treasury of light opened the way so we can enter the spiritual path. this path is known as the path(es) of the dove and serpent or the path of transfiguration. when a person enters the path, the pneumatic spark or light self that has been frozen in time awakens and begins to grow once again. sophia cleanses the mind, instincts and other constituents of the psychic apparatus and prepares the initiate for communion with the logos or mind of god. the process of rebirth is just that, a process. nobody is immed

ages in this world, there are many in the spiritual world. being conceived on the path of transfiguration is not enough, the path itself must be traveled! the gnostic handbook page 91 therefore if any man be in christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 1 corinthians 5:17 the two paths the first path is known as the terrestrial path or that of the dove. there are actually two paths within the process of transfiguration. before anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom or the celestial path they must have passed through the terrestrial first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics, it is a demanding way which transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is

ter the path of the serpent of wisdom or the celestial path they must have passed through the terrestrial first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics, it is a demanding way which transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the secret teachings of valentinus those who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics. the path of the dove has seven stages. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path, after the gnostic has worked through these stages he can rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point, depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate and teach and ass

e path of the dove has seven stages. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path, after the gnostic has worked through these stages he can rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point, depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate and teach and assist others or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dove is to be reborn as immortal beings living on the restored light world which will be the replacement for earth. the earth will be rectified and return to the static kingdom and will exist in a dimension of light populated by those of the terrestrial path of rebirth. the mysteries..and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in god, who

when you make the inside like the outside, and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female..then you will enter the kingdom. the gospel of thomas 2:38. within the oldest gnostic traditions we find that a further division is made within the spiritual classes. the psychic or dove class are allowed to reproduce (though not encouraged) and in fulfil the role of creating children, however, those of the serpent class are not permitted to reproduce and in the many traditions were defined as gender-variant or homosexual. this fact alone explains a lot about descriptions of the essenes and others being celibate, the meaning of course, was more non-reproductive than altogethe

traditions of early cultures focused on gender variant activity. this understanding of reproduction is central to the gnostic view of sexuality. while reproduction may be necessary for the propagation of the species, it is by its very nature difficult as it tends to bring our focus back towards the material world. accordingly, those who choose this path can only be initiated into the path of the dove, in future lives it was envisaged in the old texts they would reincarnate in forms suitable to enter the qadesh priesthood. the reason behind the qadesh priesthood is quite simple. reproduction has an energy field which gravitates towards propagation of the species and hence sustaining the material world. accordingly though this field can be modified and a certain liberation achieved (the pat

future lives it was envisaged in the old texts they would reincarnate in forms suitable to enter the qadesh priesthood. the reason behind the qadesh priesthood is quite simple. reproduction has an energy field which gravitates towards propagation of the species and hence sustaining the material world. accordingly though this field can be modified and a certain liberation achieved (the path of the dove) only by total rejection of this field can full liberation be gained. while a heterosexual can certainly achieve this, it is probably more difficult for them to reject the reproductive urges programmed in their cellular structure than for a homosexual. at the same time the path of the serpent is non-discriminatory, reproduction and reproductive values are the issue, not sexual preference. the

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s permanently one with the pleroma. now surely this does not apply to modern fundamentalist christians who are supposedly reborn by a quick prayer at a revival meeting! gnostic theurgy page 127 no, being reborn is being transformed from one substance to another! the two paths there are two paths within the process of transfiguration. the first path is known as the terrestrial path (or that of the dove, the second that of the serpent (the celestial path. before anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom (or the celestial path) they must have graduated from the terrestrial path first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics. it transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the sec

ore anyone can enter the path of the serpent of wisdom (or the celestial path) they must have graduated from the terrestrial path first. the terrestrial path is the path of rebirth for most gnostics. it transforms the dialectic into the very substance of the treasury of light. in the new testament it is the path of the called. in the secret teachings of valentinus, those who enter the path of the dove are known as psychics, while those who follow the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics (fig 35) the two paths terrestrial path sacred law immortals on new spiritual earth. path of the dove, terrestrial, called ones. celestial path mysteries mastery of terrestrial path- initiation and deification -perfection on earth. path of the serpent of wisdom, celestial, chosen ones, parfait

the secret path of the serpent are known as pneumatics (fig 35) the two paths terrestrial path sacred law immortals on new spiritual earth. path of the dove, terrestrial, called ones. celestial path mysteries mastery of terrestrial path- initiation and deification -perfection on earth. path of the serpent of wisdom, celestial, chosen ones, parfait. fig 35 gnostic theurgy page 128 the path of the dove has seven stages (fig 36. these seven stages illustrate the process of the terrestrial path. only after the gnostic has worked through these stages can he rightly be called a child of the treasury of light. at this point (depending on his destiny, he will reincarnate, teach and assist others, or he will enter the celestial or secret path. the destiny of those who remain as children of the dov

c tradition existed gnostic theurgy page 190 except to those who were properly prepared. in some sense this is out of a sense of pragmatism, while reproduction sustains the fallen system, it at least, fulfils the task of giving bodies for souls to incarnate into and hence gain the possibility of transfiguration. in the gnostic apostolic tradition these two cults are reconciled in the paths of the dove and of the serpent. historically speaking, there are many examples of these cults as opposing traditions, as reconciled in esoteric brotherhoods, or as corrupted by the demiurgic forces. it should be clearly stated that the earth cult can only be of value in connection with that of the sky, pagan movements (ancient and modern) which worship the earth are simply sustaining the dominion of the

s energy field has been cleansed of dialectic elements by sophia, and in recognition of his achievement, the father of wisdom acknowledged his new state. michael is now jesus the christ, the christ state being the achievement of communication with the logos. as soon as jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove and lighting on him. and a voice from heaven said "this is my son, whom i love; with him i am well pleased" matthew 3:16,17 jesus was now in a position to transform the human situation, as a son of god (a gnostic theurgy page 198 being whose essence is in communication with the logos and whose actions embody the holy spirit, he went about his task of redeeming the caged particles of light. je

ould have a family, spend lifetimes exploring and growing, leave our spiritual growth to later in life. the old hinu tradition was that life could be a stroll through its various stages and conditions. we could divide our lives into sectors and as old men and women we could retire to the forest and contemplate god. even within the gnostic tradition we have extolled the virtues of the paths of the dove and the serpent and the slow and steady hierarchical progress of the soul. there is one large problem however, that looms in front of us. time is short! ragnarok is coming, armageddon is around the corner. it is no use enrolling in the high school if you know that the school will burn down before graduation. as the final trumpets begin to blow and the blood laps against our ankles, we need to

will burn down before graduation. as the final trumpets begin to blow and the blood laps against our ankles, we need to seriously consider the urgency of transfiguration. reproduction was always only just tolerated in the past by gnostic sects, today it should be viewed aghast. the time for family values and children is over- the only new being you should be creating is yourself! the path of the dove is useful only insomuch as it leads you to the wisdom of the serpent. do not waste time sprouting moralisms and platitudes, face yourself and become what you are truly meant to be. while morals, ethics, social values have always played a part in the outercourt of the gnosis, it is time to go beyond good and evil and venture within. there are maps available for your inner journey, but you must

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phenex is a poet and inspires the magician to write and create tomes and works. phenex also wishes to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years as well, and governs 20 legions of spirits. phenex is a nature spirit, whom inspires a careful pondering of the places of nature and the animals within it. 55 l halphas halphas or malthus is the thirty-eighth spirit of solomon, who appears as a stock-dove. malthas (as it is also spelled) is a great earl, who speaks unto the magician with a hoarse voice. this spirit upon evocation in the black mirror, builds towers and fortification surrounding the magician. this may be reflected in a spiritual manner, creating astral towers of which protect the magician from any attacks. malthus furnishes the tower with weapons of war, he does send spirits to

hite horse. sabnock builds towers and castles, being dwellings of the astral spirit which the sorcerer shall encircle his/her self in through dream projection. he can cause wounds to infect and kill me slowly. sabnock gives excellent familiars who may build and strengthen the towers of self. he governs 50 legions of spirits. 58 r shan shan/shaz/shax is a great marquis who appears in the form of a dove, who speaks with a rough and hoarse voice. this spirit may take way hearing and sight, and may destroy perception. it is written that shan steals money out of the house of kings, which in an initiatory context of the sabbatic path, shan guides the sorcerer s astral spirit to the sabbat and reveals secrets unto him/her. shan brings horses to the magician, which is the nightmare or sabbatic ste

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of-top. all mankind had returned to clay. i opened a hatch and light fell on my face. then i bowed low, i sat down and i wept, the tears streamed down my face, for on every side was the waste of water. fourteen leagues distant there appeared a mountain, and there the boat grounded; on the mountain of nisir the boat held fast, she held fast and did not budge. when the seventh day dawned i loosed a dove and let her go. she flew away, but finding no resting place she returned. then i loosed a swallow, and she flew away but finding no resting place she returned. i loosed a raven, she saw that the waters had retreated, she ate, she flew around, she cawed, and she did not 2 ibid, p. 108. 3 ibid, and myths from mesopotamia, p. 110. 4 myths from mesopotamia, pp. 112-13; gilgamesh, pp. 109-11; edmu

se, in the seventh month in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of ararat. and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. and he stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 187 note. scholars argue endlessly about the na

and men were transformed into fish. 8 according to aztec mythology only two human beings survived: a man, coxcoxtli, and his wife, xochiquetzal, who had been forewarned of the cataclysm by a god. they escaped in a huge boat they had been instructed to build and came to ground on the peak of a tall mountain. there they descended and afterwards had many children who were dumb until the time when a dove on top of a tree gave them the gift of languages. these languages differed so much that the children could not understand one another.9 a related central american tradition, that of the mechoacanesecs, is in even more striking conformity with the story as we have it in genesis and in the mesopotamian sources. according to this tradition, the god tezcatlipoca determined to destroy all mankind

ecreed that the waters of the flood should retire. wishing to find out whether it was now safe for him to disembark, tezpi sent out a vulture which, feeding on the carcasses with which the earth was now strewn, did not return. the man then sent out other birds, of which only the hummingbird came back, with a leafy branch in its beak. with this sign that the land had begun to renew itself, and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. and noah went forth. and builded an altar unto the lord, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. and the lord smelled the sweet savour. 8 maya history and religion, p. 332. 9 sir j. g. frazer, folklore in the old testament: studies in comparative r

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the mythic resemblances are no less significant. radegast must stand for wuotan, perun for fairguneis, fiorgunn, but svatovit for zio; between radegast the god of bliss (rad glad, radost joy, and our wish, the harmony is yet stronger. kroto reminds us of kirt, molnia of miolnir (pp. 1221. 813. how near the badniak of the servians comes to our christmas fire! their cuckoo -pole to the langobardic dove-pole (p. llssn, their dodola to the fetching-in of rain (p. 594, the carrying-out of death to the fight of summer and winter, the vila to our wise-women! if the elf and dwarf legends appear less polished than they are among celts and germans, our giant legend on the other hand has much more in common with the slavic and finnic. no doubt slav mythology altogether is several degrees wilder and

r him an eagle) z'allen ziteu ist init hohen fliigen gewesen^ eagles spread their v^ings over famous heroes to shade them from the sun: when the heathen deputies came to charles's hall^ they saw' daz die adelaren dar zu geweuit waren, daz sie scate hdren' kol. 21, 20. this evidently stands connected with the eagle over charles's palace (p. 633, perhaps even with that in obin's hall, seem. 41. the dove hovering above was mentioned p. 148; supervenire and adumbrare are even biblical language. by the side of' drupir iorn yfir' i place an important stanza of the havamal, saem. 12: ominnis hegri, sa er yfir ol^rom j^rumir, hann stelr ge^i guma]?ess fugls fio'srom ec fiotrasr varc i garsi gunnla^ar (oblivionis ardea, qui super symposiis stridet mentemque hominum furatur; ejus avis pennis captus

weasel or snake on the roof boded ill (suidas sub v. xenocrates' anguis per impluvium decidit de tegulis' ter. phormio iv. 4, 29. so does a mouse nibbling at your clothes. sup. i, 184. raven, crow or magpie on a sick house is unlucky, or of double meaning, i, 120. 158. 496 (see suppl. there were corpse-birds, birds of dole, whose appearing signified actual or impending death. i suppose the turtle-dove with her melancholy wail to have been such to the goths, by their calling her hrdivadubo (corpse-dove; neither rpvycov nor turtur conveys this collateral sense, the bird merely mourns her lost mate- tales about her are coll. in aw. 3, 34. one of the way- 1 record of 788 in marini no. 56, p. 94' et alia multa de vestra infidelitate cognovimus ad puuorum comtum (r. cantum- the langobards used t

age (sup. i, 863, leicli-lmhn (lich-hen, grab-eiile, todten-vogel, and in brunswick the lapsch, because of its lazy lingering flight (brauns. anz. 1746. p. 236' ignavus bubo' which again calls up the old sense of feig (fey, moribundus. other prognostics of death are, when the raven belches, sup. g, 1. 166, when a cock or hen trails straw, m, 77, the top of the pole was fixed the wooden image of a dove, whose head or beak pointed in the direction where the loved one lay buried; paul. diac. 5, 34 (not unuke the gyrating eagle on the palace-roof, p. 634. the dove represented the sorrowing kinsman who set up the pole. precisely so the servians of to-day make the cuckoo mourn for them (p. 682: on a wooden cross 6 feet high arc carved as many cuckoos as there are survivors, esp. sisters, to mour

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es, and he bade him build a great ark, and enter therein with his household. then it began to rain, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains, and all that had flesh and breath perished, but the ark floated on the flood. then jehovah stayed the rain, the waters returned from off the earth, and the ark rested on the mountains of ararat. but noah let out first a raven, then a dove, which found no rest for her foot and returned into the ark; and after seven days he again sent forth a dove, which came back with an olive leaf in her mouth; and after yet other seven days he sent forth a dove, which returned not any more.2 then noah came out on the dry earth, and offered a clean burntoffering, and 1 ulph. renders kara/cxuoy^s by midjasveipdins, sveipan meaning no doubt the

rain down, it swells up from the blood of the slain giant, whose carcase furnishes material for creating all things, and the human race itself. the insolence and violence of the annihilated giants resemble those of the sons of elohim who had mingled with the children of men; and noah s box(/a/rtaro) is like bergelmi s luftr. but the epic touches, such as the landing on the mountain, the outflying dove, the sacrifice and rainbow, would surely not have been left out, had there been any borrowing here. in the assyrian tradition, 1 kronos warns sisuthros of the coming downpour, who thereupon builds a ship, and embarks with men and beasts. three days after the rain has ceased, birds are sent out, twice they come flying back, the second time with slime on their feet, and the third time they stai

he prompting of prometheus, deucalion built an ark, which received him and pyrrha his wife. zeus then sent a mighty rain, so that hellas was flooded, and the people perished. nine days and nights deucalion floated on the waters, then landed on parnassus, and offered sacrifice to zeus; we have seen how this couple created a new generation by casting stones. plutarch adds, that when deucalion let a dove out of the ark, he could tell 1 buttmann on the myth of the deluge, p. 21. 2 conf. the annolied 308 seq, which brings the bavarians from armenia. 3 all this in buttmann, pp. 24-27. 578 ceeation. the approach of storm by her flying back, and of fair weather by her keeping away. lucian (de dea syria, cap. 12. 13) calls him tov ztcvoea (the scythian; if that sprang out of, 1 it may have long had

gl. jim. 188 (where it is confounded with the hyades not far off, in the bull s head. beside this purely arithmetical denomination, there are others more living: gr. it/vetase, ion. ila^tase, seven daughters of atlas and pleione, whom zeus raised to the sky, ii. 18, 486. od. 5, 272, and who, like the norse thiassi and orvandill, are of giant kin; but some explain these pleiads from trexeta? wild dove, which is usually trexeta.1 lat. vergiliae, of which festus gives a lame explanation. a german poet writes virilie, amgb. 42b. the picture of the pleiades that finds most favour among the people in germany and almost all over europe is that of a hen and seven chickens, which at once reminds us of the greek seven doves.2 mod. gr. irovkia (fauriel 2, 277. our klucke, jcluclcerin, iduckh.enne, b

gle as soon as he dies. the first-born daughters of the house of pileck were changed into doves if they died unmarried, but the married ones into owls, and to each member of the family they foretold his death by their bite (woycicki s klechdy 1, 16. when the robber madej was confessing under an appletree, and getting quit of his sins, apple after apple flew up into the air, converted into a white dove: they were the souls of those he had murdered. one apple still remained, the 1 servati lupi vita s "wigberhti, cap. 11: verum hora exitus ejus. circumstantibus fratribus, visa est avis quaedam specie pulcherrima supra ejus corpusculum ter advolasse, nusquamque postea comparuisse. not so much the soul itself, as a spirit who escorts it. 2 maerlant 2, 217, from a latin source. the soul a b

ejus. circumstantibus fratribus, visa est avis quaedam specie pulcherrima supra ejus corpusculum ter advolasse, nusquamque postea comparuisse. not so much the soul itself, as a spirit who escorts it. 2 maerlant 2, 217, from a latin source. the soul a bird. meadow. 829 soul of his father, whose murder he had suppressed; when at length he owned that heinous crime, the last apple changed into a gray dove, and flew after the rest (ibid. 1, 180. this agrees with the unresting birds of the boh. legend. in a podolian folk song, on the grave-mound there shoots up a little oak, and on it sits a snow-white dove (ibid. 1, 209, 1 instances of transformation into birds were given above (pp. 673-6. 680, under woodpecker and cuckoo. greek mythology has plenty of others (see suppl. the popular opinion of

7. gerhard s antike bildw. p. 407. 3 hor. od. i. 4, 13: pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres. 4 constant use will soften down the meaning of the harshest terms; we had an instance in the fr. gene, p. 800n. a 5 goth, leik (corpus, caro, our leiche, leichnam &ng. lich (cadaver; the ohg. hreo, as. hraw, mhg. re (cadaver, funus, and goth, hrdiv (whence hraiva-dubo, mourner-dove) are the lat. corpus. 842 death (orig. todu) masc, os. dod, doff, as. dedff, on. dauffi, all masc, the m. nethl. dot having alone preserved the fern, gender, which is however compatible with the gothic form. the verb in gothic is diva, dan (morior, standing in the same relation to ovrjcrko, eoavov, odvaros as the gothic tiv to the slavic dan (dajr, p. 195. the on. dau$i i find used only of th

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ist are attributed to his all-embracing consciousness,[166] the result of his attunement with the divine of his own nature. the term has no significance other than cosmic consciousness. the non- christian mystic prefers the latter term because this universal or cosmic consciousness has been had by other illuminated personages and should have no personal designation. colombe.the word colombe means dove. in earlier rosicrucian temples there were one or more vestal virgins who not only kept the important symbolical and holy fire in the vestal stand ever burning, but who also served in the ritualistic work and mystical exercises as a symbol of fire, light, life, and love, and the dove of consciousness. the colombe also represents the conscience of each frater and soror of the lodge. compensati

were an institution of roman origin, but research has shown that in the arcane schools of egypt, and in the earlier rosicrucian temples, there were one or more vestal virgins, who not only kept the important symbolical and holy fire in the vestal stand ever burning, but who also served in the ritualistic work and in the mystical exercises as a symbol of fire, light, life, and love, as well as the dove of consciousness. hence the word colombe, which means dove, is a symbol which has always had an important place in the mystical and religious ceremonies of ancient and modem times. vibrations.a periodic impulsion or wavelike oscillation of forces. vibrations occur in solids, liquids, air, and in electromagnetic phenomena. according to rosicrucian ontology, all being is vibratory. vibroturgy.t

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e a stake through that organ; and ann's dogged insistence on a search under the cellar had been prominent in bringing about her discharge. her tales, however, commanded a wide audience, and were the more readily accepted because the house indeed stood on land once used for burial purposes. to me their interest depended less on this circumstance than on the peculiarly appropriate way in which they dove-tailed with certain other things- the complaint of the de parting servant preserved smith, who had preceded ann and never heard of her, that something "sucked his breath" at night; the death- certificates of fever victims of 1804, issued by dr. chad hopkins, and showing the four deceased persons all unaccountably lacking in blood; and the obscure passages of poor rhoby harris's ravings, where

mebbe ye'd like to a ben me in them days, when i seed things at night aout to sea from the cupalo top o' my haouse. oh, i kin tell ye' little pitchers hev big ears, an' i wa'n't missin' nothin' o' what was gossiped abaout cap'n obed an' the folks aout to the reef! heh, heh, heh! haow abaout the night i took my pa's ship's glass up to the cupalo an' seed the reef a-bristlin' thick with shapes that dove off quick soon's the moon riz "obed an' the folks was in a dory, but them shapes dove off the far side into the deep water an' never come up "haow'd ye like to be a little shaver alone up in a cupola a-watchin' shapes as wa'n't human shapes .heh. heh, heh, heh" the old man was getting hysterical, and i began to shiver with a nameless alarm. he laid a gnarled claw on my shoulder, and it seemed

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

mebbe ye'd like to a ben me in them days, when i seed things at night aout to sea from the cupalo top o' my haouse. oh, i kin tell ye' little pitchers hev big ears, an' i wa'n't missin' nothin' o' what was gossiped abaout cap'n obed an' the folks aout to the reef! heh, heh, heh! haow abaout the night i took my pa's ship's glass up to the cupalo an' seed the reef a-bristlin' thick with shapes that dove off quick soon's the moon riz? obed an' the folks was in a dory, but them shapes dove off the far side into the deep water an' never come up. haow'd ye like to be a little shaver alone up in a cupola a-watchin' shapes as wa'n't human shapes .heh. heh, heh, heh" the old man was getting hysterical, and i began to shiver with a nameless allarm. he laid a gnarled claw on my shoul-der, and it seem

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

sive manner of unity with god is a privilege granted to most of the saints and all the believers to whom the divine principle manifested itself somehow in ecstasy. as the magician does not know in which form god will manifest to him, the kind of manifestation will be expressed according to his religious faith. in the instance of a christian, this may happen in the form of a symbol such as a white dove for the holy spirit, in the person of christ himself or in the shape of a cross; all this is, however, of secondary importance. the main point is the quality of the divinity that manifests itself to the respective person. how strong and pervasive this manifestation of god to the individual will be depends entirely in the measure of his mental and psychic maturity. this kind of manifestation w

ISIS UNVEILED

by the priests of the middle ages. the exorcist-priest entered a circle at mid- night; he was clad in a new surplice, and had a consecrated band hanging from the neck, covered with sacred characters. he wore on the head a tall pointed cap, on the front of which was written in hebrew the holy word, the tetragrammaton the ineffable name. it was writtrai with a new pen dipped in the blood of a white dove. what the exordsts most yearned after, was to release miserable spirits wkich haunt spots v^ere hidden treasures lie. the exorcist sprinkles the circle with the blood of a black lamb and a white pigeon. the priest had to adjure the evil spirits of hell acheront, magoth, asmodei, bedzebub, beual, and all the damned souls, in the mighty names of jehovah, adonai, elohah, and sabaoth, which latte

hdc who u abate all ihingt. this aeon subjected jesus, he b^ot him physically through joseph from one who was not a virgin, but wnply the wife of that joseph, and jesus was bom like all other men. viewed from this physical aspect of his nature, jesus was called the 'son of man' it was only after his baptism, that chrietot, the anointed, descended from the princeliness of above in the figure of a dove, and then announced the dnenown father through jesus" if therefore jesus was physically considered as a son of man, and spiritually as the christos who overshadowed him, how then could the 'god of all* the' unknovm father' be called by the gnostics homo, a man, and his mind, ennoia, the second man, or son ofmavf neither in the oriental kabala, nor in gnosticism, was the 'god of all' ever anth

itself, at the end of the second century, with the platonic philosophy, and engulfing, still later, the gnostic sects, whose symbols and misunderstood mysticism over- flowed the church of rome. amid this jumble of contradictions, what christian is secure in con- fesung himself such? in the old syriac gorpel according to luke (iu, 22. the holy spirit is said to have descended in the likeness of a dove" jesua, full of the sacred spirit, returned from jordan, and the spirit led him into the desert (old syriac, luke, iv, 1, tremellius'"die diffi- culty" says dunlap "was that the gospels declared that john, the baptbt, saw the spirit (the power of god) descend upon jesus after he had reached manhood; and if the spirit then first descended upon him, there was some ground for the opinion of the

oth^ circumstance may be regarded as a prophecy, the story of jonah cannot be made to answer the purpose 'big fish' is cetus, the latinized form of ketos (k^tos, and ketos is dagon, poseidon, the feminine form of it being keton atar-gatis the syrian goddess, and venus, of askalon" the figure or bust of der- ketos, or astarte, was generally represented on the prow of the ships. jonah (hebrew, for dove; a bird sacred to venus) fled to jaffa, where the god dagon, the man-fish, was worshiped, and dared not go to nineveh, v^icre the dose wag revered. hence some commentators believe that when jonah was thrown overboard and was swallowed by a fish, we must understand that he was picked up by one of these vessels, on the prow of which was the figure of ketot. but the kabalists have another legend

red not go to nineveh, v^icre the dose wag revered. hence some commentators believe that when jonah was thrown overboard and was swallowed by a fish, we must understand that he was picked up by one of these vessels, on the prow of which was the figure of ketot. but the kabalists have another legend, to this effect: they say that jonah was a run-away priest from the temple of the goddess where the dove was worshiped, and that he desired to abohsh idolatry and institute monotheistic worship. that, caught near jaffa, he was held prisoner by the devotees of dagon in one of the prison- cells of the temple, and that it is the strange form of the cell whidi gave rise to the allegory. in the collection of mose de garcia, 8 portuguese kabalist, there is a drawing representing the interior of the te

hey appear in history. they are the disciples of that john who is said to have foretold the advent of jesus, baptized him, and declared that the latchet of his shoe he (john) was not worthy to unloose. as they two the messenger and the messiah stood in the jordan, and the elder was consecrating the younger his own cousin, too, humanly speaking the heavens opened and god himself, in the shape of a dove, descended in a glory upon his 'beloved son! how then, if this tale be true, can we account for the strange infidehty which we find among these sm^ving naza- raeans? so far from believing jesus the only-begotten son of god, they actually told the persian missionaries, who in the seventeenth century first discovered them to europeans, that the christ of the new teaiameni was "a false teacher"

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were in number ten. thus, re-read, the lines run: lady-bird, lady-bird (columba, or dove, fly away home! your house is of fire your children are ten! the name of the flying insect called in england lady- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic green is the mythic, magic green of venus. the emerald is the smaragdus or smaragd. the name of the insect barnabee, barnbee, burning fire-fly, whose house is of fire, whose children are ten

sacred stone in every temple in india. the stone, or pillar, or pillow, of jacob was sacred among the jews. it was anointed with oil. there was a sacred stone among the greeks at delphi, which was also anointed with oil in the mystic ceremonies. the stone of caaba, or black stone at mecca, is stated to have been there long before the time of mohammed. it was preserved by him when he destroyed the dove and images. the obelisks at rome were, and are, lingas (or linghas. in the temple of jerusalem, and in the cathedral of chartres, they are in vaults. they are the idea of 168 the rosicrucians. the abstract membrum, or affluence, or means. to the initiated mind they imply glory, not grossness. figs. 25, 26 (p. 137, are the crux-ansata of the egyptians. this emblem is also found in india. accor

the mythic means of the perpetuation of the human family (afterwards race. the post-diluvian signs of the zodiac are here correctly designated as in number" twelve" let the judicious reader remark that twelve times thirty are three-hundrecl-and-sixty, which is not the number of the degrees of this symbolical plan. there are twelve divisions in this ark. the centre space is that through which the dove or raven, escaped-out into the open in search of its new home, or into the restored world when the waters went down or disappeared. each of the twelve spaces in the accompanying plan contains twentyfive degrees which make an aggregate of three hundred degrees. the mythical figure contained in the ark is presumably that of noah. it is also evidently the symbolical figure of the saviour, and ty

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

carcely be imagined. lest we fall into the trap of suspecting these reports merely because of their age, i shall depart from my desire to draw upon material reported before the present flying saucer phenomenon, and reproduce this letter in fate magazine, august, 1950. the great hail on sunday, september 11, 1949, three acquaintances, dr. robert botts, dr. john tipton, and dr. t.j. treadwell, went dove hunting on the eugene tipton ranch in northwest stephens county, texas. dr. botts told me about it, and said that it was a fairly clear, hot afternoon on the ranch when the skies let loose with about forty pounds of ice, all in one chunk. dr. tipton and dr. treadwell substantiate what dr. botts says that he saw. dr. botts was sitting by an earthen tank, waiting for birds. he said that he "hea

ttany, france, a blazing thing like a globe was seen in the sky. its size was immense, and on its beams hung a ball of fire like a dragon out of whose mouth proceeded two beams, one of which stretched beyond france, and the other reached towards ireland, and ended in firelike rays "s" ship, ark type, in battle& force-locked with l-m 'boats" ad 393 "in the time of theodosius, a sign like a hanging dove (colmba pendens) appeared in the sky. it burned for thirty days" can't say, probably ship in distress, force-locked 170 bc "at lanupium, on the appian way, sixteen miles from rome a remarkable spectacle of a fleet of ships was seen in the air" mirage of boats on clouds, no record of such 129 a sized movement. 106 bc "a bird that flew in the sky and set houses on fire, was seen over rome "s" s

KETAB E SIYAH

ed house cometh that child. aum! all words are sacred and all prophets true; save only that they understand a little; solve the first half of the equation, leave the second unattacked. but thou hast all in the clear light, and some, though not all, in the dark. 57. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but [tzaddi] is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. i give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

ngs. he also asked and commanded his disciples to study as much as possible of the seven earthly teachings, and that too was in order to raise the wisdom of israel according to the wisdom of the torah in the eyes of the nations, as it is written, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples--rabbi hillel shklover in the name of the vilna gaon, the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 115 concerning the study of the seven teachings, our rabbi had told us: the messianic revelation comes hand in hand with the revelation of the wisdom of the torah, and appears through the disclosure of the secretes of the torah and the opening of the seven teachings this is what is meant in the zohar (vayera, 117) that in the year 1840 the gates of wisdom will open from above k a b b a l

ah, and appears through the disclosure of the secretes of the torah and the opening of the seven teachings this is what is meant in the zohar (vayera, 117) that in the year 1840 the gates of wisdom will open from above k a b b a l i s t s w r i t e a b o u t k a b b a l a h 203 and the springs of wisdom from below, with the commencement of the gradual messianic revelation. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 117 he would often sigh heavily and say, why should the nations say, where is the wisdom of israel? he would often whisper to us what those who perceive our torah do for the glory of the name of god, as the ancient sages from israel had done. many of them glorified the name of god through their extensive knowledge in the research of nature s secrets from the creator s wonders. many among

rom the creator s wonders. many among the righteous of the nations of the world also extolled the wisdom of the sages of the torah in israel the members of the sanhedrin, the tanaaim, the amoraim, etc. and in later generations our rabbi the rambam, baal hatosafot, and others who did much to sanctify the name of god among the nations through their study in earthly research. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 studying the seven teachings assists in the attainment of the wisdom of the torah in its secrets, elevates the wisdom of israel and the sanctification of god s name in the eyes of the nations, and brings redemption nearer. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 to understand and to attain the wisdom of the torah contained in the upper light of wisdom, it is also necessary to study the s

orah in its secrets, elevates the wisdom of israel and the sanctification of god s name in the eyes of the nations, and brings redemption nearer. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 118 to understand and to attain the wisdom of the torah contained in the upper light of wisdom, it is also necessary to study the seven teachings concealed in the lower world, the world of nature. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 119 these are the seven teachings: a) the wisdom of calculus, attribute and measurement; b) the wisdom of creation and assemblage; c) the wisdom of medicine and growth; d) the wisdom of reason, grammar and law; e) the wisdom of playing music and sanctity; f) the wisdom of correction and integration; g) the wisdom of brw k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e

and assemblage; c) the wisdom of medicine and growth; d) the wisdom of reason, grammar and law; e) the wisdom of playing music and sanctity; f) the wisdom of correction and integration; g) the wisdom of brw k a b b a l a h, s c i e n c e, a n d t h e m e a n i n g o f l i f e 204 (between rain and wind, and the mental forces. our rabbi thoroughly knew all these teachings. the voice of the turtle-dove, p. 120 rabbi abraham yitzhak hacohen kook (1865-1935) rationality evolves only because beyond the threshold of its consciousness, the hidden does its scientific and moral work. the prevalent assumption that the hidden obscures the clear science and the accurate critique, is false. it is precisely through the hidden, with the might of its singing and the depth of its reason, that the sound fo

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ancient egypt; and in the egyptian hall of judgment osiris is seen seated on the square while judging the dead (see plate ii b) 17. 18. thus the square came to symbolize the foundation of eternal law(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 59) 19. the egyptians used the rough and the smooth ashlars with much the same meaning that masons attach to them today(*ibid, p. 60) a wand surmounted by a dove is represented, not only in ancient egypt, but also in some of the monuments in central america, and those who bore it were called gconductors h. it is a curious fact, also, that the descendants of the nilotic negroes, who emigrated long ago from egypt to central africa, when called to take an oath in a court of law, still do so with a gesture which, still do so with a gesture, were i at libe

n. during the time of refreshment, when they are outside the lodge. such conduct at all times leads to a life that is full of grace and beauty. 271. the remaining officers also wear jewels of office. those of the orator, secretary, treasurer and d.c. are respectively a book, crossed pens, crossed keys and crossed wands, of which the meaning is obvious. in co-masonry, the s.d. and j.d. have each a dove as their jewel, signifying their quality as messengers; but in some other lodges they have a square and compasses, with a sun in the centre for the s.d. and a moon for the j.d. the square and compasses are intended to indicate their qualities of circumspection and justice, for theirs are the duties of seeing to the security of the lodge and the introduction of visitors. a lyre, a purse, cross

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

crete 229. the main worship appears to have centred round the feminine aspect of the deity already mentioned who, like isis amongst the egyptians and demeter amongst the later greeks, symbolized the creative power and fostering care of mother-nature. connected with her worship was the sacred tree, depicted in so many presentations of minoan shrines, while the deity herself was associated with the dove, the lion, the fish and the snake, typifying her dominion over air, earth, water and the fire within the earth. 230. as i have written above, the most sacred symbol in minoan worship was the double axe or labrys. this, mounted on a stone column, is found in the shrines of ancient crete, and when depicted on any object or building invariably denotes its sacred character (see plate i, 1 and pla

ur in various models of minoan shrines, and his explanation of their religious meaning: 242. but of all these remains, the highest religious interest attaches to a terra-cotta group belonging to some religious structure on a larger scale than the others. it consists of three columns on a common base, supporting in each case, above their square capital, the round ends of a pair of beams on which a dove is perched (plate ii, 3, following p. 50. the square capital itself and the beam ends above it must here be regarded as the equivalent, in an epitomized shape, of the roof beams and entablature of a building. in other words, they are the pillars of the house, and the doves settled above them are the outward and visible sign of the divine presence and protection. a clay seal with a similar dev

erched (plate ii, 3, following p. 50. the square capital itself and the beam ends above it must here be regarded as the equivalent, in an epitomized shape, of the roof beams and entablature of a building. in other words, they are the pillars of the house, and the doves settled above them are the outward and visible sign of the divine presence and protection. a clay seal with a similar device of a dove perched above roof-beams resting on a column, itself set on an altar base as in the lion s gate scheme, has now come to light at mycenae- a singular illustration of the minoan source of its cult. 243. of the columns themselves, each one may be regarded as a separate religious entity, since in place of a common entablature the superstructure is in each case separately rendered by a kind of arc

that could be thus sanctified by the descending emblem of spiritual indwelling. in the case of the gold plates from the third shaft grave at mycenae the doves are seen not only perched on the shrine but on the head and fluttering from the shoulders of a nude female personage (plate iii, 2, following p. 50. so too the central clay image from the late shrine of the double axes at knossos shows the dove settled on her head. in these cases we have either images of the dove goddess herself, reinforced by what may have been her older zoomorphic form, or of a priestess deified by the descent of the dove-spirit. 246. the extent to which primitive minoan religious conceptions were familiar to the semitic mind is here again illustrated by the striking parallel of the baptism in jordan and the pictu

s herself, reinforced by what may have been her older zoomorphic form, or of a priestess deified by the descent of the dove-spirit. 246. the extent to which primitive minoan religious conceptions were familiar to the semitic mind is here again illustrated by the striking parallel of the baptism in jordan and the picture drawn by the evangelists of the holy spirit descending in bodily shape like a dove and lighting on jesus. what has to be borne in mind in all these connexions is that it is not only the inanimate or aniconic object, such as the pillar or the sacred weapon, that may become, through due ritual, the temporary dwelling-place of the divinity, but that the spiritual being may enter into the actual worshipper or votary in human form, who for the time becomes a god, just as the bap

mple repository which, as evans says is in the shape alternately of flowers and buds, suggested by those of a pomegranate. further symbols familiar to freemasons are the frequently recurring sun and moon, shown in our illustration (plate vi, 2 and 3, following p. 50) on a bronze votive tablet from the psychro cave, and a gold ring from mycenae. with regard to the former evans says: 258. the tree, dove and fish, which here appear as the vehicles of divine possession, aptly symbolize her dominion of earth, air and sea. the triple group of sacral horns further emphasize the threefold aspect of the cult, which also explains the triple basin of the libation table. so, too, we see the pillar shrines of the goddess, like that of the knossian wall-painting, regularly divided into three compartment

LIBER 777

leonine face and flaming eyes; rides great horse. 22 55& bwarwa orobas horse. 24 58# wa amy flaming fire. 25 61! and# gaz zagan bull with gryphon s wings. 26 64$ rwah haures leopard. 28 67 ]wdma amdusias (1) unicorn (2) dilatory bandmaster. 29 70& rac seere beautiful man on winged horse. clxiii. goetic demons &c. by night (succedent. clxiv. magical images of col. clxiii. 15 38 [lah halphas stock-dove with sore throat. 16 41$ rwlkwp focalor man with gryphon s wings. 17 44= c shax stcck-dove with sore throat. 18 47$ lawa uvall dromedary. 19 50 ]wp furcas cruel ancient, with long white hair and beard, rides a pale horse, with sharp weapons. 20 53# yak camio (1) thrush (2) man with sharp sword seemeth to answer in burning ashes or coals of fire. 22 56$ rwmg gamori beautiful woman, with duches

taining illusion in his left hand, but over his right shoulder, and a staff 463 lines long in his right. a lion and a dragon are at his feet, but he seems unaware of their attacks or caresses. line 12. his attitude suggests the shape of the swastika or thunderbolt, the message of god. line 13. she is reading intently in an open book. line 14. she bears a sceptre and a shield, whereon is figured a dove as a symbol of the male and female forces. line 15. his attitude suggests f, and he is seated upon the cubic stone, whose sides show the green lion and white eagle. line 16. he is crowned, sceptred, and blessing all in a threefold manner. four living creatures adore him, the whole suggesting a pentagram by its shape. line 17. he is inspired by apollo to prophesy concerning things sacred and p

and the greenish-yellow coloured band in the glyph for the word in pyramidos. lines 1-9: in the heart of the master, section aves( birds, nine magical formula are given as the voices of various symbolic birds, apparently referred to the sephiroth 1-9, thus: 1 (the swan: aumgn (one version has aum) 2 (the phoenix: al 3 (the raven: amen 4 (the eagle: su 5 (the hawk: agla 6 (the pelican: iao 7 (the dove: hriliu 8 (the ibis: abrahadabra 9 (the vulture: mu liber 777 54 line 24: possibly on (ayin nun) should also be referred here. col. xlvi. crowley s later attributions of the taoist principles and the trigrams of the i ching to the sephiroth are given in the book of thoth (appendix ii, diagram the chinese cosmos) thus: 0: tao. 1: tao teh. 2:yang. 3: yin. daath: khien. 4: tui. 5: kbn. 6: li. 7:

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

ve, a crime too sweetly sinned, the queen of time, the lady of heaven, to whom the stars, seven by seven, from their bars lean and do worship.even she who hath given all her sweet self to thee, the lady astarte! the girl. peace, o peace! a swan, she sails through ecstasies liber cccxxxv 4 of air and marble and flowers, she sways as the full moon through midnight.s haze of gauze.her body is like a dove and a snake, and life, and death, and love! the boy. even as the twilight so is she, half seen, half subtly apprehended, ethereally and bodily. the soul incarnate, the body transcended! the girl. aching, aching passionately, insufferably, utterly splendid! the boy. her lips make pale the setting sun! the girl. her body blackens babylon! the boy. her eyes turn midnight fs murk to grey! the gir

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

nt hag prateth of it as evangelical. her he hewed in pieces. sir palamdes, the saracen knight vi xiii. at naples he thinketh of the beast as author of evil, because free of will. the beast, starting up, is slain by him with a poisoned arrow; but at the moment of its death it is reborn from the knight.s own belly. xiv. at rome he meeteth a red robber in a hat, who speaketh nobly of it as of a king-dove-lamb. he chaseth and slayeth it; it proves but a child fs toy. xv. in a tuscan grove he findeth, from the antics of a satyr, that the gods sill dwell with men. mistaking orgasm for ecstasty, he is found ridiculous. xvi. baiting for it with gilded corn in a moonlit vale of spain, he findeth the bait stolen by vermin. xvii. in crete a metaphysician weaveth a labyrinth. sir palamede compelleth h

heart, i ween, was then the loyal knight, the weak of wit, the butt of lewd and puny men, sir palamede the saracen. 31 xiv northward the good knight gallops fast, resolved to seek his foe at home, when rose that vision of the past, the royal battlements of rome, a ruined city, and a dome. there in the broken forum sat a red-robed robber in a hat .whither away, sir knight, so fey .priest, for the dove on ararat i could not, nor i will not, stay .i know thy quest. seek on in vain a golden hart with silver horns! life springeth out of divers pains. what crown the king of kings adorns? a crown of gems? a crown of thorns! the questing beast is like a king in face, and hath a pigeon.s wing and claw; its body is one fleece of bloody white, a lamb.s in spring. enough. sir knight, i give thee peac

come! since i may not imitate the beast, at least i work and wait. we shall discover soon or late which is the master.i or fate. 76 xxxiii sir palamede the saracen hath passed unto the tideless sea, that the keen whisper of the wind may bring him that which never men knew.on the quest, the quest, rides he! so long to seek, so far to find! so weary was the knight, his limbs were slack as new-slain dove.s; his knees no longer gripped the charger rude. listless, he aches; his purpose swims exhausted in the oily seas of laxity and lassitude. the soul subsides; its serious motion still throbs; by habit, not by will. and all his lust to win the quest is but a passive-mild devotion (ay! soon the blood shall run right chill .and is not death the lord of rest) there as he basks upon the cliff he ye

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

ay with eight breath-cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form (p.s..evidently the introduction of the cascara into my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous) my breathing passages were none too clear, either; i have evidently taken a chill. now, o, my lord adonai, thou self-glittering one, wilt thou not manifest unto thy chosen one? for see me! i am as a little white dove trembling upon thine altar, its throat stretched out to the knife. i am as a young child bought in the slave market. and night is fallen! i await liber dccclx 62 thee, o my lord, with a great longing, stronger than life; yet am i as patient as death. there was a certain darwesh whose turban a thief stole. but when they said to him .see! he hath taken the road to damascus. that holy man answer

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ight breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin. 715 720 725 730 735 740 745 750 mystic mean-ing of pente-cost. super-consciousness is the gift of the holy ghost. poet not a materialist. mohammed.s ideas. verbatim report of moslem account of the annunciation. pentecost 41 out of a silver tube a dart shooting god s spirit to her heart.61 this beats the orthodox dove-suitor! what explanation could be cuter than.gabriel with a pea-shooter? in such a conflict i stand neuter. but oh! mistake not gold for pewter! the plain fact is: materialise what spiritual fact you choose, and all such turn to folly.lose the subtle splendour, and the wise love and dear bliss of truth. beware lest your lewd laughter set a snare for any! thus and only thus will i admit a diff

a cannibal.74.this word is inept, as it predicates humanity of christian-hate- christian. j.accuse the english language: anthropophagous must always remain a comic word. 731. the flaming star.75.or pentagram, mystically referred to jeheshua. 732. zohar.76..splendour. the three central books of the dogmatic qabalah. 733. pigeon.77.says an old writer, whom i translate roughly .thou to thy lamb and dove devoutly bow, but leave me, prithee, yet my hawk and cow: and i approve thy greybeard dotard.s smile, if thou wilt that of egypt.s crocodile. 746. lost! lost! lost !78.see the lay of the last minstrel. 759. ain elohim.79..there is no god. so our bible. but this is really the most sublime affirmation of the qabalist .ain is god. for the meaning of ain, and of this idea, see .berashith. infra

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

e second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of$ and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the c (see lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c* in theosophical nomeclature this latter was the ad m u anas or jeheshua: the third principle. for the same reason i have drawn the triangle with the 3 uppermost 1d 3 2 instead of

LIBER V VEL REGULI

it. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph .the fool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion, and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it af

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

e the inner guard/ego devotes its attention exclusively to the requirements of the tyler/physical senses. as we will see in a moment, masonry requires the inner guard to place his attention elsewhere. above the swords of the two sentinels are two doves in the triads of feeling and awakening, respectively. the officers who wear these jewels are called the junior and senior deacons; and just as the dove is said to be a messenger of divine grace, so the deacons are messengers who convey commands and information on behalf of the more senior officers of the lodge. for me, they are analogous to those levels of consciousness called feeling and awakening which provide messages to the ego with information about what is going on in the deeper levels of the psyche, the part of which we are usually un

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

herapeutic music--the music of the spheres--the use of color in symbolism--the colors of the spectrum and the musical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent of wisdom--the sacred crocodile. 85 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds, part ii the dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol--the lotus blossom--the scandinavian world tree, yggdrasil--the sprig of acacia--the juice of the grape--the magical powers of the mandrake. 93

vered oracles. while christian authors have tried to prove that oracular revelations were delivered by the devil for the purpose of misleading humanity, they have not dared to attack the theory of oracles, because of the repeated reference to it in their own sacred writings. if the onyx stones on the shoulders of israel's high priest made known by their flashings the will of jehovah, then a black dove, temporarily endowed with the faculty of speech, could indeed pronounce oracles in the temple of jupiter ammon. if the witch of endor could invoke the shade of samuel, who in turn gave prophecies to saul, could not a priestess of apollo call up the specter of her liege to foretell the destiny of greece? the most famous oracles of antiquity were those of delphi, dodona, trophonius, and latona

luence was on the side of virtue, and its political influence in favor of the advancement of civil liberty (see the faiths of the world) the oracle of dodona was presided over by jupiter, who uttered prophecies through oak trees, birds, and vases of brass. many writers have noted the similarities between the rituals of dodona and those of the druid priests of britain and gaul. the famous oracular dove of dodona, alighting upon the branches of the sacred oaks, not only discoursed at length in the greek tongue upon philosophy and religion, but also answered the queries of those who came from distant places to consult it. the "talking" trees stood together, forming a sacred grove. when the priests desired answers to important questions, after careful and solemn purifications they retired to t

city was a hill thickly covered with oak trees which from the most ancient times had been sacred to jupiter. the grove was further venerated because dryads, fauns, satyrs, and nymphs were believed to dwell in its depths. from the ancient oaks and beeches were hung many chains of tiny bronze bells which tinkled day and night as the wind swayed the branches. some assert that the celebrated talking dove of dodona was in reality a woman, because in thessaly both prophetesses and doves were called peleiadas. it is supposed that the first temple of dodona was erected by deucalion and those who survived the great flood with him. for this reason the oracle at dodona was considered the oldest in greece. p. 64 drawn into the cave, which was described by those who had entered it as having only the d

d purifies the lower spheres. these birds were therefore adopted as symbols of the disintegrative processes which accomplish good while apparently destroying, and by some religions have been mistakenly regarded as evil. birds such as the parrot and raven were accorded veneration because, being able to mimic the human voice, they were looked upon as links between the human and animal kingdoms. the dove, accepted by christianity as the emblem of the holy ghost, is an extremely ancient and highly revered pagan yonic emblem. in many of the ancient mysteries it represented the third person of the creative triad, or the fabricator of the world. as the lower worlds were brought into existence through a generative process, so the dove has been associated with those deities identified with the proc

ries it represented the third person of the creative triad, or the fabricator of the world. as the lower worlds were brought into existence through a generative process, so the dove has been associated with those deities identified with the procreative functions. it is sacred to astarte, cybele, isis, venus, juno, mylitta, and aphrodite. on account of its gentleness and devotion to its young, the dove was looked upon as the embodiment of the maternal instinct. the dove is also an emblem of wisdom, for it represents the power and order by which the lower worlds are maintained. it has long been accepted as a messenger of the divine will, and signifies the activity of god. the name dove has been given to oracles and to prophets "the true name of the dove was ionah or i nas; it was a very sacr

, for it represents the power and order by which the lower worlds are maintained. it has long been accepted as a messenger of the divine will, and signifies the activity of god. the name dove has been given to oracles and to prophets "the true name of the dove was ionah or i nas; it was a very sacred emblem, and atone time almost universally received; it was adopted by the hebrews; and the mystic dove was regarded as a symbol click to enlarge the phoenix on its nest of flames. from lycosthenes' prodigiorum, ac ostentorum chronicon. the phoenix is the most celebrated of all the symbolic creatures fabricated by the ancient mysteries for the purpose of concealing the great truths of esoteric philosophy. though modern scholars of natural history declare the existence of the phoenix to be purel

s of esoteric philosophy. though modern scholars of natural history declare the existence of the phoenix to be purely mythical, pliny describes the capture of one of these birds and it exhibition in the roman forum during the reign of the emperor claudius. p. 90 from the days of noah by all those who were of the church of god. the prophet sent to ninevah as god's messenger was called jonah or the dove; our lord's forerunner, the baptist, was called in greek by the name of ioannes; and so was the apostle of love, the author of the fourth gospel and of the apocalypse, named ioannes (bryant's analysis of ancient mythology) in masonry the dove is the symbol of purity and innocence. it is significant that in the pagan mysteries the dove of venus was crucified upon the four spokes of a great whe

apocalypse, named ioannes (bryant's analysis of ancient mythology) in masonry the dove is the symbol of purity and innocence. it is significant that in the pagan mysteries the dove of venus was crucified upon the four spokes of a great wheel, thus foreshadowing the mystery of the crucified lord of love. although mohammed drove the doves from the temple at mecca, occasionally he is depicted with a dove sitting upon his shoulder as the symbol of divine inspiration. in ancient times the effigies of doves were placed upon the heads of scepters to signify that those bearing them were overshadowed by divine prerogative. in medi val art, the dove frequently was pictured as an emblem of divine benediction. the phoenix clement, one of the ante-nic an fathers, describes, in the first century after c

binah, understanding, as the mother" there is a difference of opinion concerning certain of the relationships of the parts of the first triad. some qabbalists, including ibn gebirol, consider kether as the father, binah as the mother, and chochmah as the son. in this later arrangement, wisdom, which is the attribute of the son, becomes the creator of the lower spheres. the symbol of binah is the dove, a proper emblem for the brooding maternal instinct of the universal mother. because of the close similarity of their creative triad to the christian trinity, the later qabbalists rearranged the first three sephiroth and added a mysterious point called daath--a hypothetical eleventh sephira. this is located where the horizontal line connecting chochmah and binah crosses the vertical line join

n which stood three great cedars, one bearing a tablet with an inscription describing the four paths that led to the palace of the king: the first short and dangerous, the second circuitous, the third a pleasant and royal road, and the fourth suitable only for incorruptible bodies. weary and perplexed, c.r.c. decided to rest and, cutting a slice of bread, was about to partake thereof when a white dove begged it from him. the dove was at once attacked by a raven, and in his efforts to separate the birds c.r.c. unknowingly ran a considerable distance along one of the four paths--that leading southward. a terrific wind preventing him from retracing his steps, the wedding guest resigned himself to the loss of his bread and continued along the road until he espied in the distance a great gate

had received back their wands, the priests awaited a sign from heaven, but none came. joseph, because of his advanced age, did not: ask for the return of his rod, for to him it was inconceivable that he should be chosen. but an angel appeared to the high priest, ordering him to give back the short rod which lay unnoticed in the holy of holies. as the high priest handed the rod to joseph, a white dove flew from the end of it and rested upon the head of the aged carpenter, and to him was given the child. the editor of the sacred books and early literature of the east calls attention to the peculiar spirit with which the childhood of jesus is treated in most of the apocryphal books of the new testament, particularly in one work attributed to the doubting thomas, the earliest known greek vers

t, with a cross in his hands. and in one instance, where the figure is not merely outlined, the cross is red, the clothes are coloured, and the face and hands quite black. if this was the christianity of the german nestorius, how came he to teach that the crucified savior was black? the name of the god who was crucified was quexalcoatl. the crucifixion of the word in space, the crucifixion of the dove often seen in religious symbolism- both of these are reminders of pagan overshadowing. the fact that a cross is formed by the spread wings of a bird in relation to its body is no doubt one of the reasons why the egyptians used a bird to symbolize the immortal nature of man, and often show it hovering over the mummified body of the dead and carrying in one of its claws the sign of life and in

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

should strive to contact the goddess before your spells of romantic love, by visualizing her clad in silvery garments, mantled in darkness wherein the stars dimly gleam, and with long streaming hair. she is crowned with a wreath of flowers and corn, while above her brow shines the lunar disk on either side of which rise two rearing serpents. on her right hand perches her symbolic bird, the white dove. all flowers and blossoms, particularly those with a perfume, are sacred to the lady, and before beginning the more complex operations of love it is as well to strew your altar with them. apart from the associative symbolism of flowers, they also give off a subtle magnetism which is peculiarly in accord with works of this nature. no magical circle is necessary for these operations either, for

themselves in this area of magic are ruled by a very different power to habondia. in fact, we are dealing with her consort, the horned one, in medieval times claimed by the church to be none other than satan himself. the attribution is merely scholarly, however, as the horned one existed long before christianity came into existence, with its concept of the devil. whereas habondia's symbol is the dove, old horny's is the goat. to students of symbolism, this attribute should speak for itself. the goat is the age-old representative of lust and debauchery, and cernunnos himself, for such is his witch name, is frequently represented as possessing the cloven hooves, horns, and erect phallus of his attribute. his symbolism has much in common with that of the greek god pan with his attendant saty

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

gations, choose the night of full or of new moon, and from midnight until daybreak. thou shalt transport thyself unto the appointed spot if it be for the purpose of discovering a treasure; if not, any place will serve provided it be clean and pure. having had the precaution on the preceding evening to write upon a slip of virgin parchment coloured azure-blue, with a pen made from the feather of a dove, this character and name (see figure 9; taking thy carpet, thou shalt cover thy head and body therewith, and taking the censer, with new fire therein, thou shalt place it in or upon the proper place, and cast thereon some incense. then shalt thou prostrate thyself upon the ground, with thy face towards the earth, before the incense beginneth to fume, keeping the fire of the same beneath the c

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

a poet, good and excellent. and he will be willing to perform thy requests. he hath hopes also to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years more, as he said unto solomon. he governeth 20 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (38) halphas, or malthus- the thirty-eighth spirit is halphas, or malthous (or malthas. he is a great earl, and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove. he speaketh with a hoarse voice. his office is to build up towers, and to furnish them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war19 to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with

high towers, castles and cities, and-to furnish them with armour, etc. also he can afflict men for many days with wounds and with sores rotten and full of worms. he giveth good familiars at the request of the exorcist. he commandeth 50 legions of spirits; and his seal is this (44) shan- the forty-fourth spirit is shax, or shaz (or shass. he is a great marquis and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove, speaking with a voice hoarse, but yet subtle. his office is to take away the sight, hearing, or understanding of any man or woman at the command of the exorcist; and to steal money out of the houses of kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. if commanded he will fetch horses at the request of the exorcist, or any other thing. but he must first be commanded into a triangle, or else he wi

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ter and perhaps so close to the earth that it could belong to our solar systemwhen irasresearchers saw the mysterious celestial body and calculated that it was possibly eighty billion kilome-ters away from earth, they speculated that it is moving towards earth (p. 95)quetzalcoatlhe whose home is water .oannes (the original fisher king)in africa, known as the king of the dogons. the name means the dove. from oannes we derivejoannes or john, the same as the author of revelation, or worshipped by the knights templar. john wascalled the baptizer and connected to water and to the dove also.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation253 appendix b: book abstracts oannes was said to have a removable fish-skin, probably a wet-suit of some kind, and to live under theocean.oannes is similar

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

at s more, noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. the vast majority of angels, nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. before the waters subsided, noah released a raven from the ark to discover whether dry land was yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. next noah released a dove into the air, and the bird returned with an olive branch, indicating to noah that there was indeed land nearby. with the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark and once more began to replenish the earth. after the decedents of noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the earth, they again lose the god s favor. i

an named bergelmir and his wife who survived the flood using a hollowed-out tree trunk as a vessel. in the sumerian/babylonian accounts (2500bc, allegedly, a man named utnapishtim is warned by the god ea that another god enlil intends to flood the earth. utnapishtim then built a massive boat, and loaded his wife and 2 of every creature aboard. as the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in

ueen of the underworld, queen of the dead, queen of the vampires, queen of the sabbat, queen of hell, queen of the witches, queen of the shells and shades. mother earth, and mother goddess. she is the bride of satan and the mother of all demons, also called lilitu. lilith is often associated with the red sea, which is said to be a place where she spawned and instructed demons. the screech owl and dove are lilith s sacred animals. the us dollar bill contains a tiny image of what is commonly thought to be a spider, but is in fact an owl. at bohemian grove, members of the elite perform rituals and mock-sacrifices before a 35 foot stone owl. this owl, which was long suspected to be symbolic of the ancient canaanite god moloch, is in fact symbolic of lilith, who is babylon the great and the bri

ns of semiramis, are considered to be one of the 7 great wonders of the ancient world. the hanging gardens, which some speculate to date back to 600 bc (more likely much earlier, was a spectacular series of manmade terraces, with flowing waters and lush growth on every platform. queen semiramis is said to be a harlot, a home wrecker, and a powerful sorceress. this personage is associated with the dove and, proper to the virgin, was credited with the invention of the chastity belt. semiramis became the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 79 patroness of babylon when she restored the city to its ancient glory. i can t believe it s not fiction: tiamat queen of the damned (2002) hades [5.5] hades is the lord of the underworld. although greek mythology does not depict hades as a villain, moder

MORALS AND DOGMA

mid the _seven_ golden lamps" in _six_ days, or periods, god created the universe, and paused on the _seventh_ day. of clean beasts, noah was directed to take by _sevens_ into the ark; and of fowls by _sevens; because in _seven_ days the rain was to commence. on the _seven_teenth day of the month, the rain began; on the _seven_teenth day of the _seventh_ month, that ark rested on ararat. when the dove returned, noah waited _seven_ days before he sent her forth again; and again _seven, after she returned with the olive-leaf. enoch was the _seventh_ patriarch, adam included, and lamech lived 777 years. there were _seven_ lamps in the great candlestick of the tabernacle and temple, representing the _seven_ planets _seven_ times moses sprinkled the anointing oil upon the altar. the days of con

l formula assumed by the great mystery in almost all religions, from the zend-avesta to the gospel. as proserpina, the divine power is as the seed decaying and destroyed; as artemis, she is the principle of its destruction; but artemis proserpina is also cote soteria, the saviour, who leads the spirits of hercules and hyacinthus to heaven. many other emblems were employed in the mysteries--as the dove, the myrtle-wreath, and others, all significant of life rising out of death, and of the equivocal condition of dying yet immortal man. the horrors and punishments of tartarus, as described in the ph do and the neid, with all the ceremonies of the judgments of minos, eacus, and rhadamanthus, were represented, sometimes more and sometimes less fully, in the mysteries; in order to impress upon t

e blood, or salt, corresponds by opposition with the father; the azothic, or mercurial water, with the word, or logos; and the breath, with the holy spirit. but the things of high symbolism can be well understood only by the true children of science. alchemy has its symbolic triad of salt, sulphur, and mercury--man consisting, according to the hermetic philosophers, of body, soul, and spirit. the dove, the raven, and the ph nix are striking symbols of good and evil, light and darkness, and the beauty resulting from the equilibrium of the two. if you would understand the true secrets of alchemy, you must study the works of the masters with patience and assiduity. every word is often an enigma; and to him who reads in haste, the whole will seem absurd. even when they seem to teach that the g

r just for him to subjugate the horse and ox to his service, giving them in return only their daily food, which god has spread out for them on all the green meadows and savannas of the world: or how it is just that we should slay and eat the harmless deer that only crops the green herbage, the buds, and the young leaves, and drinks the free-running water that god made common to all; or the gentle dove, the innocent kid, the many other living things that so confidently trust to our protection--quite as difficult, perhaps, as to prove it just for one man's intellect or even his wealth to make another's strong arms his servants, for daily wages or for a bare subsistence. to find out this universal law of justice is one thing--to undertake to measure off something with our own little tape-line

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

it is indeed the task of this book to reduce theology to the interplay of the dyad nuit and hadit, these being themselves conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit spiritus, breath, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying god, is a much older myth than christianity; and the virgin was usually seeded by a god under the form of a beast. far from being origina

aji 'little--30 +10+9+9+30+ 5= 93. hoor-paar-kraat is the fool, and aiwass his minister. this throws light on the function of this ipsissimus. he is the hierophant of the magi, just as 666, his pupil, is, at present, the hierophant of the masters of the temple. 57. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise "love is the law, love under will, is an interpretation of the general law of will. it is dealt with fully in liber aleph

rical. the fact of its so doing is a most convincing proof of the superhuman wisdom of the author of this book to those who have laboured for years, in vain, to elucidate the problems of the tarot 'all these old letters of my book are aright: in the tree of life diagrams there is no need to change the position of the letters. it is only the attributions to the tarot trumps that must be corrected. dove--symbol of heterosexual love. serpent--symbol of homosexual love. thelemites must choose well. well. 6+6+5+30+30= 77, oz, a goat, the devil. also, ye= yod+he= 15, which is 3 x 5, which suggests the path of cheth, the chariot, the link between binah and geburah, but also iii x v, the empress coupled with the hierophant, and xv, the devil again. yod+ he is the hermit plus the star. also, 1 +5=

ds. we have no clue to her name. the lust& worship of the snake the might and worthiness of hadit within men; also the cult of the spermato- zoon the "holy ghost" or "satan" indwelling. the key to magick in the snake apophis the destroyer. another soul of god and beast the union of aiwaz and the beast in aleister crowley pan as god& goat; mary, etc, as mother of the son of god, fer tilized by the dove or bull, swan, etc. shall mingle in the globed priest the identification of matterandspiritinour doctrine the doctrine of the re generate incorruptible body. another sacrifice shall stain the tomb loveis the magical formula: sex as the key to life 'the tomb" the temple of love. crucifixion, etc, as the magical formula. death as the key to life 'the tomb" the coffin or grave. another king shal

eater of flesh, and there's no getting away from it. but apparently she is all right just so far as she is open, to enter or leave at one's pleasure, the gateway of eternal life. she is sakti, the teh, the magical door between the tao and the manifested world. the great obstacle then is if that door be locked up. therefore our lady must be symbolized as an whore (note daleth, the door= venus. the dove; free flowing; all this is linked up in the symbol) clearly, at last, the enemy is this shutting up of things. shutting the door is preventing the operation of change, i.e, of love. the objection to calypso, circe, armida, kundry, and co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their gardens. the whole of the book of the dead is a device for opening the closed vehicles, and enabling the osiris

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olds from the waist downwards, and her whole attitude is the embodiment of all that is graceful and lovely in womanhood. she is of medium height, and the form is perfect in its symmetry and faultless proportions. aphrodite is also frequently represented in the act of confining her dripping locks in a knot, whilst her attendant nymphs envelop her in a gauzy veil. the animals sacred to her were the dove, swan, swallow, and sparrow. her favourite plants were the myrtle, apple-tree, rose, and poppy. the worship of aphrodite is supposed to have been introduced into greece from central asia. there is no doubt that she was originally identical with the famous astarte, the ashtoreth of the bible, against whose idolatrous worship and infamous rites the prophets of old hurled forth their sublime and

of the public adoption of his son, xuthus gave a grand banquet, the old servant of creusa contrived to mix a strong poison in the wine of the unsuspecting ion. but the youth.according to the pious custom of the ancients, of offering a libation to the gods before partaking of any repast.poured upon the ground a portion of the wine before putting it to his lips, when suddenly, as if by a miracle, a dove flew into the banquet-hall, and sipped of the wine of the libation; whereupon the poor little creature began to quiver in every limb, and in a few moments expired. ion's suspicions at once fell upon the obsequious servant of creusa, who with such officious attention had filled his cup. he violently seized the old man, and accused him of his murderous intentions. unprepared for this sudden att

, and constantly met and separated. before leaving bithynia, the blind old seer, phineus, had informed them that they would be compelled to pass between these terrible page 252 rocks, and he instructed them how to do so with safety. as they now approached the scene of danger they remembered his advice, and acted upon it. typhus, the steersman, stood at the helm, whilst euphemus held in his hand a dove ready to be let loose; for phineus had told them that if the dove ventured to fly through, they might safely follow. euphemus now despatched the bird, which passed swiftly through the islands, yet not without losing some of the feathers of her tail, so speedily did they reunite. seizing the moment when the rocks once more separated, the argonauts worked at their oars with all their might, and

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

id, let us loose the waters on the world, and drown them all. the gods agreed, but ea warned utnapishtim of the impending disaster in a dream and told him to build a boat, and take on board two of every creature. for seven nights the tempest raged, until the entire world was covered in water. at last, the boat ran aground on the top of mount nisir. to check the water level, utnapishtim set free a dove, then a swallow, then a raven. when the raven did not return, utnapishtim knew it had found a resting place and the waters were subsiding. in thanks, he lit a fire to make a sacrifice to the gods. enlil was furious when he smelled the smoke, but wise ea interceded, and enlil made utnapishtim and his wife immortal; they are the ancestors of all humanity. ishtar, goddess of love the goddess ish

incorporated the mandan belief that they lived at the very center of the world. their own name for themselves was simply numakaki people. in the bel-lohk-na-pick, the buffalo dance, the eight buffalo dancers separated into four pairs, dancing to the north, east, south, and west. willow boughs each dancer carries willow boughs on his back to represent the willow twig brought back to lone man by a dove as the waters began to subside. the ceremony took place when the willow leaves were full grown along the river bank. morning rays four dancers, each bearing a staff and a rattle, naked except for a kilt and headdress of eagles quills and ermine, accompany the four pairs of buffalo dancers. two, painted red with white stripes, were called the morning rays. turtle drums four sacred drums in the

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

combine and formulate the words at all. rather, he is analyzing the idea in his mind, tearing it apart and dissecting it. only then can he speak. this is the meaning of the statement in zohar that "the mother (binah-understanding) lends the clothing (the five gevurot) to the daughter (malchut-speech (this is also explained in the zohar on the verse "v kol hator nishma b artzeinu the voice of the dove is heard in our land. the word "tor" means "dove, but it is also the masculine form of torah. this is referring to the giver of the torah. the zohar explains that "aretz (land) refers to malchut (speech. from this we understand that when one speaks the words of torah, the voice of the giver of the torah is heard in his speech. furthermore, the halacha (torah law) requires that when learning t

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

orresponding to [its dominion over] half of malchut. 22 psalms 102:25. 23 esther 5:3, 6, 7:2. the arizal on parashat mishpatim (2) 326 this, however, is true only when the blemish does not persist, but is repeated only twice or at most three times.24 these three [times] correspond to netzach-hodyesod [of malchut. this is why [such an ox] is called an gunblemished h [tam] one, as in the verse, gmy dove, my unblemished one, h25 who, only when able to unite with and be adorned with these three [sefirot, can be called gunblemished. h the verse cited depicts g-d calling his beloved jewish people his gunblemished one. h even though they have sinned, he considers their sins not serious enough to compromise their inherent purity, just as a limited number of gorings does not disqualify an ox from b

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

nertia, the impetuous ejection of those who would enclose themselves in the walls of ease-&id tradition. xv11. the star. this shows the seven-pointed star of venus shining above the waters of aquarius, the guiding force of love in all its forms and aspects, illuminates the soul during her immersion in humanity, so <215> that the bonds of saturn are dissolved in the purified waters of baptism. the dove of the spirit hovers above the tree of knowledge giving the promise of ultimate attainment- and on the other side gleams of the tree of life. pale colours suggest dawn and the morning star- amethyst, pale grey, fawn, dove colour and white, with the pale yellow of the star. xviii. the moon. here also is a river but it is the troubled waters of night, wherein is to be described a crayfish, coun

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

f powers of the soul; to consecrate something to mercury or venus is the fiery sword 37 to magnetize that object according to a direct intention, whether pleasure, science or profit be the end in view. the analogous metals, animals, plants and perfumes are auxiliaries to this end. the seven magical animals are (a) among birds, corresponding to the divine world, the swan, the owl, the vulture, the dove, the stork, the eagle and the pewit (b) among fish, corresponding to the spiritual or scientific world, the seal, the catfish, the pike, the mullet, the chub, the dolphin, the sepia or cuttlefish (c) among quadrupeds, corresponding to the natural world, the lion, the cat, the wolf, the he-goat, the monkey, the stag and the mole. the blood, fat, liver and gall of these animals serve in enchant

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

for mars a sword, a g for venus, for jupiter a crown and a scythe for saturn. the reverse must bear the sign of solomon, that is, the six-pointed star composed of two superposed triangles; in the centre there is placed a human figure for the talismans of the sun, a chalice for those of the moon, a dog's head for those of mercury, an eagle's for those of jupiter, a lion's head for those of mars, a dove's for those of venus, and a bull's or goat's for those 46 the ritual of transcendental magic of saturn. the names of the seven angels must be added in hebrew, in arabic or in magical characters like those of the alphabet of trithemius. the two triangles of solomon may be replaced by the double cross of the wheels of ezekiel, which is found on a great number of ancient pantacles and is, as we

but too well. it is the same with all the ancient dogmas, the brilliant theogonies and poetic legends. to say that ancient greece believed in the love-adventures of jupiter, or that egypt worshipped the cynocephalus and sparrow-hawk, is to exhibit as much ignorance and bad faith as would be shown by maintaining that christians adore a triple god, composed of an old man, an executed criminal and a dove. the ignorance of symbols is invariably calumnious. for this reason we should be on our guard first and foremost against the derision of that which we do not know, when its enunciation seems to involve some absurdity or even singularity, as a course no less wanting in good sense than to admit the same without discussion and examination. prior to anything which may please or displease ourselve

he gate of the edenic sanctuary, with the fiery 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 u

k of hermes 129 michas, he cites a curious passage from philo, which is a complete revelation as to the ancient and sacerdotal origin of our tarots. gaffarel thus expresses himself: ghe (philo the jew) speaking of the history concealed in the before-mentioned chapter of judges, says that michas made three gimages of young boys and three young calves, three also of a lion, an eagle, a dragon and a dove, all of fine gold and silver; so that if anyone sought him to discover a secret concerning his wife, he interrogated the dove; concerning children, the young boy; concerning wealth, the eagle; concerning strength and power, the lion; concerning fecundity, the cherub or bull; concerning length of days, the dragon. h this revelation of philo, though deprecated by gaffarel, is for us of the high

f philo, though deprecated by gaffarel, is for us of the highest importance. here, in fact, is our key of the tetrad, and here also are the images of the four symbolical animals found in the twenty-first key of the tarot; that is, in the third septenary, thus repeating and summarizing all the symbolism expressed by the three septenaries superposed; next, the antagonism of colours expressed by the dove and the dragon; the circle or rota, formed by the dragon or serpent to typify length of days; finally, the kabalistic divination of the entire tarot, as practised in later days by egyptian bohemians, whose secrets were divined and recovered imperfectly by etteilla. we see in the bible that the high priests consulted the lord on the golden table of the holy ark between the cherubim, or bull-he

RUBY TABLET OF SET

future. the intellect alone will enable man to confront problems purely in the realm of the objective universe, but the uninitiated intellect is inadequate where the entire universe. including metaphysical realities. is concerned. this is the realm of the magi. 57. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these old letters of my book are aright; but tzaddi is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. nuit is to be invoked during the hours of darkness "love is the law, love under will" became one of crowley's key

e one of crowley's key aphorisms [generally used to close any document opened with the "do what thou wilt" quote from #i-40. he understood it to mean a profound empathy with all entities of creation, guided not by fear [which he considered the christian motive for love] but by deliberation. there is further a caution concerning superficial types of love. there is "pure" love for its own sake. the dove; and there is love for ulterior motives. the serpent [crowley interpreted the serpent as a symbol of kundalini, a sex-magic force supposedly coiled at the base of the spine. i find the concept quaint, if hardly to be taken seriously] crowley himself chose the love of the serpent, always subordinating human love and affection to his magical workings. as a result his love-life consisted of an e

began to undergo a wondrous, yet frightening, transformation. already garbed, he started to writhe and undulate. he was growing and aging rapidly. the growth appeared hideous. a strange 'alienesque' expression came over his young face. he betrayed almost great age and youth simultaneously. it was time to flee that unnatural scene, and i convinced my friend to do the same. literally head first, i dove onto the ice-covered path. my inner wish was that i might once gain attain some degree of normalcy. but i could not leave behind that which was a part of me- in fact, that which was me- the baby. he came with me. i was he, and "i" was also the "me" of the terrestrial plane. as we/i plunged downward, i heard (and felt) a voice tell me that my metamorphosis to the myall had left me only two hou

ss if applied to the move from the latter aeon to that of set because of the 180 opposition of set and osiris. the task the magus aleister crowley faced was that of building a complex new world on the ruins of the old one which had worshipped death for far too long. the harwer aeon put in motion the ttrend toward life, hence the lack of any necessity to destroy. the presence of the figures of the dove and the serpent are, as dclxvi's commentary points out, references to chapter 1, verse 57 of the book of the law. what would history be like had aleister crowley chosen the dove instead of the serpent? the question makes for interesting speculation. his alleged sexual escapades are infamous to this day and were of course a preference on his part prior to the transmission of the book of the la

d the serpent are, as dclxvi's commentary points out, references to chapter 1, verse 57 of the book of the law. what would history be like had aleister crowley chosen the dove instead of the serpent? the question makes for interesting speculation. his alleged sexual escapades are infamous to this day and were of course a preference on his part prior to the transmission of the book of the law. the dove had no chance- the serpent was already firmly established in the mind and will of harwer's (9=[2. the dove and serpent seem to have only minimal influence when compared to an overall view of the path we follow today. minimal in that sense, but still potent enough in their own right when used actively and with understanding. the dove and serpent representations, along with the eye, stand out i

as they were in the aeo of harwer, not in that of set. the violence engendered by the eye is appropriate only in that context of bathing the worls in fire to prepare it for the then-current aeon. as previously mentioned, aleister crowley loved sex and used it for any and all reasons. hence his love of the serpent as a means to an end tool rather than refining his methods for the aristos which the dove might have brought him, he was a blatant and childish chauvinist where women were concerned, seeing them only as vessels for pleasure and the bringing about of desired ends both magical and mundane. if his sex magic had worked even a fair percentage of the time i would be willing to grant that he might have been on the trail of something valid. as it was he only concentrated a number of undes

y may gain the strength to live forever* behold the unvealing of the company of heaven. every man and woman is a star. come forth, o children, under the stars, and take your fill of love. i am above you and in you. my ecstasy is in yours. my joy is to see your joy. invoke me under my stars! love is the law, love under will. nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. there is the dove, and there is the serpent. choose ye well! he, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortess, and the great mystery of the house of god. all these odd letters of my book are aright; but tzaddi is not the star. this also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise* i am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life

SATANGEL

f all questions asked, reconciles friends, bestows honour and dignity to anyone. haagenti (goetia, 48th spirit. president commanding 33 legions. appears as a mighty bull with griffin s wings, assumes human form on command. makes men wise, transmutes all metals to gold, changes water into wine. halphas, malthas, malthus, malthous (goetia, 38th spirit. earl commanding 26 legions. appears as a stock dove, speaks hoarsely. builds towers and supplies them with armaments, sends warriors. haurus, haures (goetia, 64rh spirit. who manifests as a leopard, man, or theriomorph, a master of divination. destroys and burns the enemies of the summoner. tells of the creation of the world, and how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed q

n the tale of the two brothers in genesis, and the mystery of set and osiris. seth, set, setech, sutech (egypt. who murders his brother osiris, lord of the desert, whose priests were all had red hair. equated with typhon by the greeks. a god of dark sorcery and homosexual mysteries, equated with satan. shax, shan, shaz, shass (goetia, 44th spirit. marquis commanding 30 legions. appears as a stock dove with a hoarse but subtle voice. causes blindness and deafness. fetches horses or anything else, steals riches from kings, discovers things not hidden by evil spirits, sometimes gives good familiars. shedim (aramaic. one of four classes of demons, the others being lilin, mazziqin, and ruachin. shuck (anglo-saxon. the east anglian name for the devil in the form of a black dog, who is often seen

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

one is the reference in the bible to christians as being fishers of men. the other is the fact that the greek word for fish, ichthus, also forms, in greek, the first letters of the words jesus christ, son of god, savior. thus, this simple symbol was a heavily encoded message. while the cross and the fish are primary symbols of christianity, the religion is filled with other icons and symbols. the dove is another among the symbols sacred to christianity are the cross and a primitive drawing of a fish. the cross is used as a symbol of jesus s sacrifice for humankind, while the fish was first used as a means by which christians could identify one another. royalty-free/ corbis. world religions: almanac 137 christianity christian symbol, especially when depicted with a halo of three rings. the

ro in hinduism and is worshipped as an incarnation, or form, of vishnu, the preserver god. all gods in hinduism are considered to be representations of the one god, brahma) according to legend a shipwreck took place off the coast near the town of malpe. madhva had a dream in which he saw an image of krishna aboard the ship that he felt had to be retrieved. he enlisted the help of local fishermen, dove into the sea, and rescued the image of krishna for the temple. madhva s religious views became popular throughout india, particularly in the south and west. many of the region s hindu saints followed his teachings, and some of his disciples became highly respected themselves. madhva wrote some thirty-seven books on palm leaves. most were commentaries on hindu sacred texts, such as the upanish

the expanse of the sea, and at twelve leagues there emerged a region (of land. on mt. nimush the boat lodged firm, mt. nimush held the boat, allowing no sway. one day and a second mt. nimush held the boat, allowing no sway. a third day, a fourth, mt. nimush held the boat, allowing no sway. a fifth day, a sixth, mt. nimush held the boat, allowing no sway. when a seventh day arrived i sent forth a dove and released it. the dove went off, but came back to me; no perch was visible so it circled back to me. i sent forth a swallow and released it. the swallow went off, but came back to me; no perch was visible so it circled back to me. i sent forth a raven and released it. the raven went off, and saw the waters slither back. it eats, it scratches, it bobs, but does not circle back to me. coweri

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

thought and recollection of that moonlit hour in the gardens, of the strange address of zanoni, froze up all human passion. viola herself, if not forgotten, shrunk back like a shadow into the recesses of his breast. he shivered as he stepped into the sunlight, and musingly retraced his steps into the more populous parts of that liveliest of italian cities. book iii. theurgia. i cavalier sen vanno dove il pino fatal gli attende in porto. gerus. lib, cant. xv (argomento) the knights came where the fatal bark awaited them in the port. chapter 3.i. but that which especially distinguishes the brotherhood is their marvellous knowledge of all the resources of medical art. they work not by charms, but simples "ms. account of the origin and attributes of the true rosicrucians" by j. von d. at this

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

"to obtain a vision from [the god] bes. make a drawing of besa, as shewn below, on your left hand, and envelope your hand in a strip of black cloth that has been consecrated to isis) and lie down to sleep without speaking a word, even in answer to a question. wind the remainder of the cloth round your neck. the ink with which you write must be composed of the blood of a cow, the blood of a white dove, fresh) frankincense, myrrh, black writing-ink, cinnabar, mulberry juice, rain-water, and the juice of wormwood and vetch. with this write your petition before the setting sun [saying, c send the truthful seer out of the holy shrine, i beseech thee, lampsuer, sumarta, baribas, dardalam, iorlex: o lord send the sacred deity anuth, anuth, salbana, chambre, breith, now, now, quickly, quickly. co

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

-opening comments of a number of knowledgeable authorities on the jewish cabala: the cabala contains such power and demonic teaching, it is more than enough to give the ideology and driving force needed to lead the world astray and to keep such an evil conspiracy alive through the centuries..the cabala is a teaching source of the freemasons as well as for other groups. john torrell, publisher the dove kabbalah: the sacred books of black magic of orthodox judaism which form a large part of the basis of the western secret societies, from rosicrucianism to freemasonry and the oto. kabbalism is itself derived from the sorcery of ancient babylon and..pharaohic egypt. craig heimbichner blood on the altar kabbalism is a system of jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in moder

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

nd they will tell you; or to speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. h although totems are most often associated with native americans, many cultures have at some time in their past used animal totems. local sport teams use names such as the tigers, lions, bears, cardinals, and falcons. various religions and sects use expressions like the lamb of god, the dove of the holy spirit, and the lion of judah. people through history have even had such surnames as bear, beaver, wolf, crane, crow, drake, finch, fish, fox, hawk, robin, pike, lamb, partridge, and salmon. for many centuries, humans have allowed animals to be both surrogates and teachers. the ethnologist ivar lissner has pondered the provocative mystery of why those anonymous franco-cantabrian c

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

instincts and passions of men. if you make a man timid, you change him into a hare. if, on the contrary, you drive him to ferocity, you make a tiger of him. the wand of circe is the power of fascination which woman possesses; and the changing of the companions of ulysses into hogs is not a story peculiar to that time. but no metamorphosis may be worked without destruction. to change a hawk into a dove, one must first kill it, then cut it to pierces, so as to destroy even the least trace of its first form, and then boil it in the magic bath of medea. observe how modern hierophants proceed in order to accomplish human regeneration; how, for example, in the catholic religion, they go to work in order to change a man more or less weak and passionate into a stoical missionary of the society of

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ith dazzlingly bright red and green lights "i was stunned" she said. before she could wake up her husband, the object made a zig- zag motion and suddenly disappeared. she did not mention the sighting to anyone outside her immediate family until weeks later. that afternoon a seventeen-year-old boy was driving down route 7, not far from mrs. grose's home in cheshire, ohio, when a huge bird suddenly dove at his car and pursued him for a mile or so. on the eighteenth two firemen from point pleasant, paul yoder and benjamin enochs, were in the tnt area when they encountered a giant bird with big red eyes "it was definitely a bird" they stated flatly "but it was huge. we'd never seen anything like it" everyone was now seeing mothman or the "bird" or so it seemed. sightings were reported in mason

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

om dawn, in the nineteenth of shabatu, i was awakened by the howl of a dog, perhaps of a wolf, uncommonly loud and close at hand. the fire had dies to its embers, and these red, glowing coals cast a faint, dancing shadow across the stone monument with the three carvings. i began to make haste to build another fire when, at once, the gray rock began to rise slowly into the air, as though it were a dove. i could not move or speak for the fear that seized upon my spine and wrapped cold fingers around my skull. the dik of azugbel- ya was no stranger to me than this sight, though the former seemed to melt into my hands! presently, i heard a voice, softly, some distance away and a more practical fear, that of the possibility of robbers, took hold of me and i rolled behind some weeds, trembling

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

of guilt, flee! teaching of sin, forget! i stand tall. i feel strong. i am free! patience chant to be said when you feel a loss of patience and feel the stirrings of anger. air of silence, surround me. quell the flame within me. breathe in the tranquility around me. may the calmness fill and ground me. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com isis moonlight beauteous love enamoured raven mourning dove spiral helix cosmos sky persephone underworld mother butterfly triple goddess morrigu this is the calling of the chosen few. writer s chant mnemosyne. mnemosyne. muse of the ancient time. keeper of the ancient rhyme. memory of that ancient age when poetry was kept on tongue, not page. whisper to me those ancient utterings. send pen and ink fluttering. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com a

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

ngs of sand let loose on the land by the wind that is born of the sun. thrilled through to the marrow with heat we abode (as we glode) on the river. every arrow he launched from his seat, from the white inexhaustible quiver, smote us right through, smote us and slew, as we rode on the rapturous river. sweet sleep is perfection of love. to die into dreams of my lover, to wake with his mouth like a dove kissing me over and over! better sleep so than be conscious, and know how death hath a charm to discover *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 94. but not until we read gthe eyes of pharaoh h do we read one of the most astounding paintings in words, i make bold to say, that has ever been written in any language: and death fs insufferable perfume beat the black air with golden fans as turkis rip a nubian f

o bless the hour, comes men know not what false flower: ere the cup is drained, the wine grows unsweet, that was divine *the tale of archais, vol. i, pp. 9, 10. these last two lines contain the whole secret of this story. the beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire, the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose, and as in galice, h gthe dove gave place a moment to the swine; h. and yet hardly so! the pure desire of man and woman in whatever state of life, the weaving of the golden web of twain into one entity, is not lust, never was lust, never will be lust. according to the conventional meaning of that word, lust expresses something unhealthy, unclean; and the love charicles bore archais was certainly not that. this love, to use

imbs twined to each other while fine dew bedims their quivering skins: lip fastened unto lip: whole soul and body frenzied meet and clip; and the breath staggers, and the life-blood swims! terrible gods chant black demoniac hymns as the frail cords of honour strain and slip. for in the midst of that tremendous tide the mighty vigour of a god was mine! drunk with desire, her lamentations died. the dove gave place a moment to the swine! rapturous draughts of madness! out she sighed uttermost life fs love, and became a bride *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 77. gmany sins are forgiven this woman because she hath loved much. h not like adam and eve, however, did they then discover that they were naked, such epilogues being more especially suited to the author of glot and his daughters h and gt

l means we can never hope to penetrate beyond the tremendous night of reason; then came fichte, schelling, and hegel, they, peering into the depths of the darkness, here and there saw some fleeting asteroid; after them came huxley, who glooming into the depths, far in the distance, saw the whirling cloud of stars, still beyond him must we go, beyond that trembling cloud which hovers as some tired dove on the horizon of our minds, past nebula of stars and molten suns singing midst new-born spheres and hoary-headed worlds, gi would that i were the sky that i might be all eyes to behold thee, h till the stars circle about us, and the wild comets speed by, and suns embrace suns, and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament. then all powers will dissolve, and the great golden dawn effulge

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ict caution as our other secrets? c: i do. s: then i will entrust you with the pass grip and pass word, leading to the degree to which you seek admission. the pass grip is given by joining hands as you have been taught, and twisting the wrist sharply to the left. the pass word is agape, which means love in the greek language. look frankly and fearlessly into my eyes, and say with me: there is the dove and there is the serpent. choose ye well. you will now retire from the camp to a place prepared, there to undergo the necessary preparations for your devotion (e. takes out c) second point c. is prepared by having cords, with heavy weights, totalling 156 pounds, attached to his shoulders, file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c4.html (4 of 19 [12/

spirit, going forth from the father and creating the worlds. and the spirit is one, not begotten, but proceeding, the seed of which father and the son are in very truth but vehicles and guardians. and the nature of the spirit is liberty, and as the wind, he goeth as it listeth him to impregnate the worlds. and as the son is double, so is the spirit double; for he is both male and female. for the dove is the bird of venus; yet our ancient brother marcus valerius martialis that was grand orator of the roman empire in days of old hath hidden the sacred phallus in this image. he is the mother. he is the womb. he is the sperm that fertilizes the ovum: nay, but he is that fertilized and self-living thing which is neither sperm nor ovum, but their marriage, the perfect tincture, the medicine of

and orator of the roman empire in days of old hath hidden the sacred phallus in this image. he is the mother. he is the womb. he is the sperm that fertilizes the ovum: nay, but he is that fertilized and self-living thing which is neither sperm nor ovum, but their marriage, the perfect tincture, the medicine of metals, the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the elixir of life. he is that dove that, returning to the ark of noah, bore a branch of olive. he is the eagle of jupiter, he is the swan of brahma. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (10 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. from this duplicity of speech hath sprung infinite confusion in the vulgar mind. for they understand not that man is the gu

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

8:5 and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month] on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 8:6 and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8:8 also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 8:10 and he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the

see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 8:10 and he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 8:11 and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 8:12 and he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 8:13 and it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month] the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up f

them away, and they went to their master. so the bands of syria came no more into the land of israel. 6:24 and it came to pass after this, that ben-hadad king of syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged samaria. 6:25 and there was a great famine in samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass s head was [sold] for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove s dung for five [pieces] of silver. 6:26 and as the king of israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, help, my lord, o king. 6:27 and he said, if the lord do not help thee, whence shall i help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? 6:28 and the king said unto her, what aileth thee? and she answered, this woman said unto me, give thy son, that we

ar me: i mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 55:3 because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 55:4 my heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 55:5 fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 55:6 and i said, oh that i had wings like a dove [for then] would i fly away, and be at rest. 55:7 lo [then] would i wander far off [and] remain in the wilderness. selah. 55:8 i would hasten my escape from the windy storm [and] tempest. 55:9 destroy, o lord [and] divide their tongues: for i have seen violence and strife in the city. 55:10 day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of i

u didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. 68:10 thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, o god, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. 68:11 the lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that published [it] 68:12 kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. 68:13 though ye have lien among the pots [yet shall ye be as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. 68:14 when the almighty scattered kings in it, it was [white] as snow in salmon. 68:15 the hill of god [is as] the hill of bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of bashan. 68:16 why leap ye, ye high hills [this is] the hill [which] god desireth to dwell in; yea, the lord will dwell [in it] for ever. 68:17 the chariots of god [are] twenty th

se up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 2:11 for, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone; 2:12 the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing [of birds] is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 2:13 the fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines [with] the tender grape give a [good] smell. arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. 2:14 o my dove [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely. 2:15 take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes. 2:16 my beloved [is] mine, and i [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies. 2:17 until the day break, and the sha

come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 5:1 i am come into my garden, my sister [my] spouse: i have gathered my myrrh with my spice; i have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; i have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, o friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, o beloved. 5:2 i sleep, but my heart waketh [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh [saying] open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew [and] my locks with the drops of the night. 5:3 i have put off my coat; how shall i put it on? i have washed my feet; how shall i defile them? 5:4 my beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door] and my bowels were moved for him. 5:5 i rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh

om me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from gilead. 6:6 thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and [there is] not one barren among them. 6:7 as a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks. 6:8 there are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 6:9 my dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. the daughters saw her, and blessed her [yea] the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 6:10 who [is] she [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun [and] terrible as [an army] with banners? 6:11 i went down into the garden of nuts to see th

e age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd s tent: i have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. 38:13 i reckoned till morning [that] as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me. 38:14 like a crane [or] a swallow, so did i chatter: i did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: o lord, i am oppressed; undertake for me. 38:15 what shall i say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it] i shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 38:16 o lord, by these [things men] live, and in all these [things is] the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 38:17 behold, for peace i had gre

and his arm is broken, saith the lord. 48:26 make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the lord: moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. 48:27 for was not israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. 48:28 o ye that dwell in moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole s mouth. 48:29 we have heard the pride of moab (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. 48:30 i know his wrath, saith the lord; but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it] 48:31 therefore will i howl for moab, and i will cry out for all moab [mine heart] shall mo

em that calleth unto me. 7:8 ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; ephraim is a cake not turned. 7:9 strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 7:10 and the pride of israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the lord their god, nor seek him for all this. 7:11 ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to egypt, they go to assyria. 7:12 when they shall go, i will spread my net upon them; i will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; i will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. 7:13 woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though i have redeemed page 525 hosea them, yet they have spok

kindled together. 11:9 i will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, i will not return to destroy ephraim: for i [am] god, and not man; the holy one in the midst of thee: and i will not enter into the city. 11:10 they shall walk after the lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. 11:11 they shall tremble as a bird out of egypt, and as a dove out of the land of assyria: and i will place them in their houses, saith the lord. 11:12 ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of israel with deceit: but judah yet ruleth with god, and is faithful with the saints. 12:1 ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the assyrians, and oil is c

3:14 but john forbad him, saying, i have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 3:15 and jesus answering said unto him, suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. then he suffered him. 3:16 and jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 3:17 and lo a voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. 4:1 then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 4:2 and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 4:3 and when the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the son of god, command that these stones be mad

mightier than i after me, the latchet of whose shoes i am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. 1:8 i indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the holy ghost. 1:9 and it came to pass in those days, that jesus came from nazareth of galilee, and was baptized of john in jordan. 1:10 and straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the spirit like a dove descending upon him: 1:11 and there came a voice from heaven [saying] thou art my beloved son, in whom i am well pleased. 1:12 and immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness. 1:13 and he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. 1:14 now after that john was put in prison, jesus came into galilee, pre

o the people. 3:19 but herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for herodias his brother philip s wife, and for all the evils which herod had done, 3:20 added yet this above all, that he shut up john in prison. 3:21 now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 3:22 and the holy ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, thou art my beloved son; in thee i am well pleased. 3:23 and jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of joseph, which was [the son] of heli, 3:24 which was [the son] of matthat, which was [the son] of levi, which was [the son] of melchi, which was [the son] of janna, which was [the son] of joseph

jesus coming unto him, and saith, behold the lamb of god, which taketh away the sin of the world. 1:30 this is he of whom i said, after me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. 1:31 and i knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to israel, therefore am i come baptizing with water. 1:32 and john bare record, saying, i saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 1:33 and i knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the holy ghost. 1:34 and i saw, and bare record that this is the son of god. 1:35 again the next day after john stood, and two of his disciples; 1:36 and looking upon jesus a

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, your most obedient humble servant, william hamilton. lettera da isernia nell anno, 1780. n isernia citt sannitica, oggi della provincia del contado di molise, ogni anno li 27 settembre vi una fiera della classe delle perdonanze (cosi dette negl abruzzi li gran mercati, e fiere non di lista: questa fiera si fa sopra d'una collinetta, che st in mezzo a due fiumi; distante mezzo miglio da isernia, dove nella parte piu elevata vi un antica chiesa con un vestibulo, architettura de bassi tempi, e che si dice esser stata chiesa, e monistero de p. p. benedettini, quando erano poveri? la chiesa dedicata ai santi cosmo e damiano, ed grancia del reverendissimo capitolo. la fiera di 50 baracche a fabrica, ed i canonici affittano le baracche, alcune 10, altre 15, al piu 20, carlini l'una; affittano a

o; e mischiate vi sono ancora gambe, braccia, e faccie; ma poche sono queste. quei li vendono tengono un cesto, ed un piatto; li membri rotti sono nel cesto, ed il piatto serve per raccogliere il danaro d elemosina. gridano s. cosmo e damiano. chi sprattico domanda, quanto un vale? rispondono pi ci metti, pi meriti. avanti la chiesa nel vestibolo del tempio vi sono due tavole, ciascuna con sedia, dove presiede un canonico, e suol essere uno il primicerio, e l altro arciprete; grida uno qui si ricevono le messe, e litanie: l altro, qui si ricevono li voti; sopra delle tavole in ogn una vi un bacile, che serve per raccogliere li membri di cera, che mai si presentano soli, ma con denaro, come si pratticato sempre in tutte le presentazioni di membri, ad eccezzione di quelli dell isola di ottai

y which he only means that they were the supreme deities of the country where worshipped. she was borne by lions, and he by bulls, to show that nature, the passive productive power of matter, was sustained by anterior destruction, whilst the therial spirit, or active productive power, was sustained by his own strength only, of which the bulls were symbols.1 between both was a third figure, with a dove on his head, which some thought to be bacchus.2 this was the holy spirit, the firstbegotten love, or plastic nature (of which the dove was the image when it really deigned to descend upon man,3) proceeding from, and consubstantial with both; for all three were but personifications of one. the dove, or some fowl like it, appears on the medals of gortyna in crete, acting the same part with dict

, appears on the medals of gortyna in crete, acting the same part with dictynna, the cretan diana, as the swan is usually represented acting with leda.4 this composition has nearly the same signification as that before described of the bull in the lap of ceres, diana being equally a personification of the productive power of the earth. it may seem extraordinary, that after this adventure with the dove, she should still remain a virgin; but mysteries of this kind are to be found in all religions. juno is said to have renewed her virginity every year by bathing in a certain fountain;5 a miracle which i believe even modern legends cannot parallel. 1 the active and passive powers of creation are called male and female by the ammonian platonists. see proclus in theol. platon. lib. i, c. 28. 2 l

arrow, as he appears on the present medal, is like the apollo, the destroying power of the diurnal sun. on the other side of the medal3 is a figure, somewhat like the jupiter on the medals of alexander and antiochus, sitting with a beaded sceptre in his right hand, which he rests upon the head of a bull, that projects from the side of the chair. above, on his right shoulder, is a bird, probably a dove, the symbol of the holy spirit, descending from the sun, but, as this part of the medal is less perfect than the rest, the species cannot be clearly discovered. in his left hand be holds a short staff, from the upper side of which springs an ear of corn, and from the lower a bunch of grapes, which being the two most esteemed productions of the earth, were the natural emblems of general fertil

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many previously puzzling questions become clear. this is why so many dances involve the linking of hands; why mediums join hands around a table; why children play ring around the rosie-all intuitively sense the power of a circle. on a more elemental level, this is why electricity runs in a ring, and why the earth is round. in alchemical drawings the creation of the universe is pictured as a white dove (divine spirit) flying in a circle, trailing after it light, and enclosing a section of pri- mordial chaos. the linking of this circle marks the birth of the world. this visual image presents the essential understanding of a circle. one of the most important esoteric works of alchemy was the mystical squaring of the circle. this consisted of establishing a transcendent, symbolic link between

efied and pure of colors. it is transparent, and cannot be fmed by a particular quality-like pure water it has no flavor-yet it illuminates and pervades the entire world. for this reason the philosophers assigned to white the spirit of the unmanifest that is everywhere and nowhere, that promotes seeing but is itself unseen. in alchemical plates this understanding is best presented as a snow-white dove that circles the mists of chaos, with radiance streaming behind it, to form the cosmos. the modern awareness that white is a composite only reinforces the attribution of white to spirit. just as whiteness holds all other colors within itself, so does spirit embody all form and substance. as colors are subjective elements of light existing only in the mind of the observer, so are forms subject

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was right, but i answered "i wasn't sure you were the enemy, but thanks for straightening that fact out for me" then i felt the rage building inside again, so i lunged again, this time i hit him as hard as i could, in the side of the head. i think it stunned him, but not for long. again he threw me back, this time i slid backward against the exhaust fan from the building. as i tried to get up, he dove on top of me and said "now you die for your bad judgment" he felt a lot heavier than he looked, i could not throw him off. i thought i was about to die. but then i saw my eastwing hammer, it was hanging on the inside of the vent cover. i reached up and grabbed it. and swung it as hard as i could at his head. when i hit him he squealed like a hog. his body went limp, and i rolled him off of me

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

. the oracle of claros (macrobius, saturnalia, i. 18) said that ia (the gnostic deity) was the sun and the first and last of the planetary set, hence the 7 concentric spheres. duncan assigns these minerals and animals to the 7 heavenly bodies known to the ancient world and are as follows: table of planets, aniiimals and metals planet animal metal moon bull silver mercury serpent quicksilver venus dove, copper sun lion gold mars wolf iron jupiter eagle pewter saturn ass lead numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott note also the number of 7 pipes in the musical instrument at the mouth of the old deity pan, the great whole, a sun god (not the later rural pan. 78. an ancient symbol of the universe was a ship with seven pilots, in the center of the ship, a lio

benjamin, the closing of the lodge as being the last son of the patriarch. the following associations of birds, animals and flowers with heavenly bodies has the authority of the greco-roman mythology- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott table of biiirds, aniiimals and flowers greek latin bird animal vegetable pallas minerva owl she-goat olive aphrodite venus dove he-goat myrtle helios sol cock bull laurel hermes mercury ibis dog hazel zeus jupiter eagle hart horsechestnut demeter ceres sparrow sow apple hephaistos vulcan goose ass box aries mars magpie wolf dog-wood artemis diana daw hind palm hestia vesta heron lion pine hera juno peacock sheep thorn poseidon neptune swan horse elm the astrologers associated colors with the twelve signs of the zodiac

here are 700 species of fishes, and in eiruvin, 18. i, it says that god plaited eve s hair into 700 braids. 753. 753 b.c, the founding of the city of rome. it is also the number alike of abram with sarai 243 and 510, and of abraham with sarah 248 and 505, the change which led to parenthood. 780. ophis--serpent, and sophia--wisdom. 801. 801 is the number of alpha and omega, 1+800, the peristera or dove, vehicle of the holy ghost; being 80+5+100+10+200+300+5+100+1=801. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 813. 813 is the numeration of ararita, a very important kabalistic word, its letters being collected from the initials of the sentence, one principle of his unity, one beginning of his individuality, his vicissitude is one, or so it is rendered by s. l

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ths worshipped a goddess fraujo, they too would doubtless know of a breis igge mani^ conf. ch. xx, lar&ar men, earth's necklace, i.e, turf in the on, legal language. we cannot but feel it significant, that where the gospel simply speaks of ro ayiov sacrum (matt. 7, 6, the os. poet makes it a helag halsmeni (holy necklace, hel. 52, 7; an old heathen reminiscence came over him, as once before about doves perching on shoulders (p. 148. at the same time, as he names only the swine, not the dogs, it is possible that he meant halsmeni to be a mere amplification of' merigrioton' pearls. but this legend of the goddess's necklace gains yet more in importance, when we place it by the side of greek myths. brisinga men is no other than aphrodite's 6pijiovenus 88, and the chain is her girdl

sagr cap. 199. ed. holm, while the fornm. sog. 5, 38 has it: sia svi, mannsins er a brutt gekk; conf. os humerosque deo similis, aen. 1 589. this also lingers in our devil-stories: at the evil one's departure his cloven hoof suddenly becomes visible, the 'l-xyia of the ancient god. as the incessus of venus declared the goddess, the motion (jd/jlo) of here and athene is likened to that of timorous doves, ii. 5, 778, flight. vehicles. horses. 327 but the gliding of the gods over such immense distances must have seemed from first to last like flying, especially as their departure was expressly prepared for by the assumption of a bird's form. it is therefore easy to comprehend why two several deities, hermes and athene, are provided witli peculiar sandals jrezixa, wliose motive power conveys t

hagene took away, are precisely such; it is said (nib. 1476, 1) by way of simile again: sie swebten sam die vogele uf der fluot. it is true, our epic names only two of them (the danish story only one, the 2visiu wip, hadburc and sigelint^ but one of them begins to prophesy, and their garments are described as' wnnderlich' 1478, 3. the myth of volundr we meet with again in an ohg. poem, which puts doves in the place of swans: three doves fly to a fountain, but when they touch the ground they turn into maidens, wielant removes their clothes, and will not give them up till one of them consents to take him for her husband. in other tales as widely diffused, young men throw the shift, ring or chain over them, which turns them into siuans? when tlie resumption of human shape cannot be effected c

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the rites of blood- during this practice it is most wise that the philosophus utter no word concerning his working, as if it were a forbidden love that consumeth him. but let him answer fools according to their folly; for since he cannot conceal his love from his fellows, he must speak to them as they may understand. and as many deities demand sacrifice, one of men, another of cattle, a third of doves, let these sacrifices be replaced by the true sacrifices in thine own heart. yet if thou must symbolise them outwardly for the hardness of thine heart, let thine own blood and no other's be spilt before that altar< 403 nevertheless, forget not that this practice is dangerous, and may cause the mani

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verything to conscious fraud. 28 in that case what about poor tiny aleister? do please allow me the happy young eagles of the old testament; what clearer prophecy of psychoanalysis, it's only the english for freud and jung and adler! no, by no means always fraud. yet at any s ance the "investigators" take no magical precautions soever- against, say, the impersonation of iophiel by hismael, or the doves of venus by the a'arab zareq. all they attempt especially at "demonstrations" and "materializations" is to guard with great elaboration and (as a rule) complete futility against the deceptions of the common conjuror. they are not expecting any genuine manifestation of the "spirit world" and this fact makes clear their true subconscious attitude. as for those mediums who possess magical abili

oked as if it had been lifted bodily from the "continong (a very wicked place) there was a promenade, with bars complete (drinking bars, my dear child, i blush to say) where magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 220 one might hope to find "strength and beauty met together, kindle their image like a star in a sea of glassy weather" there one might always find london's "soiled doves (ass they revoltingly called them in the papers) of every type: theodora (celebrated "christian" empress) and phryne, messalina and thais, baudelaire's swarthy mistress, and nana, moll flanders and fanny hill. but the enemies of life were on guard. they saw people enjoying themselves (shame) and they raked through the mildewed parchments of obsolete laws until they found some long-forgotten

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angry snb sharpness qdx the lord god: the divine name of binah myhl) hwhy (notariqon of ha-qadosh barukh hua, 655) hbqh 113 likewise; the same (fem (cf. 108) hqx a giving away, remitting hxyls a stream, brook glp 114 tear (weeping (md gracious, obliging, indulgent nwnx science (dm brains nyxwm we wnxn 115 here am i ynnh the heat of the day mwyh mwx to make strong; vehement, eager qzx we wnxn) 116 doves mynwy the munificent ones mybydn primordial h)ly( artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s) mylglg 117 fog, darkness lpw) chief, duke; guide pwl) 118 to pass, renew, change plx to ferment (mx the high priest lwdg nhk the goddess nu (spelt in full :w:n 119 lydian-stone nxwb nb) beelzebub: the fly-god bwbzl(b weeping (subst) h(md abominable lwgp 120 samekh: a prop, support kms master l(k

*msx builders *mynwb 670 deprecating, entreating rt( kinsmen, nation, populace; with, by, near *m( 671 bearing fruit yrp h#w( the gate: a title of malkuth)(rt taro (cf. 216, 224& 280 (r)t adonai: my lord (spelt in full :y:n:d) he is one god: a name of god *myhl )wh dx) aum (thus in s.s; cf. 47 *m) 672 the lord god: the divine name of binah *myhl) hwhy 674) a merchant trxws 676 resplendent ccwntm doves *mynwy the munificent ones *mybydn artificial (counted only with mem final in s.s *mylglg 679 the chrysolite stone (ct. 5:14) tplw(m nb) 680 prophetic sayings, or decrees: ghis days shall be h (hence gabra- melin h *mylm vermin *mynk 681 joyful noise; battle-cry; the sound [of a trumpet (cf. 585) h(wrt vain idols *mylyl) an end, extremity *mp) of whirling motions *mylglgh ?termination of abr

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e word! fulfil the will "the prophet" bid the virgins veil the bride! lead her forth, a shower of spray, 17 a flower of foam upon the tide, a fleece of cloud upon the day! so my sightless eyes may see in the transcendental trance the virgin of eternity lead the demi-gods to dance. has the tree of life its root in the soul or in the skin? is it god, or is it brute, that comes mystically in for the doves within the flute, the eagles on the violin? ah! the perfume's coiling tresses curl like veils upon the limbs of the dancer that caresses with her flying feet the hymns that flow and ripple in the air, bathing all the doves of prayer "the musicians" lingering, low, fingering slow, the tingling bows of the violins go. trembling, twittering, dissembling, the lips of the flute-players wander ove

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ale brilliant blue, like plumes. and they gather themselves and settle upon his lips. his lips are redder than roses, and the blue plumes gather themselves into a blue rose, and from beneath the petals of the rose come brightly coloured humming-birds, and dew falls from the rose-honey-coloured dew. i stand in the shower of it. and a voice proceeds from the rose: come away! our chariot is drawn by doves. of mother-of-pearl and ivory is 25 our chariot and the reins thereof are the heart-strings of men. every moment that we fly shall cover an aeon. and every place on which we rest shall be a young universe rejoicing in its strength; the meadows thereof shall be covered with flowers. there shall we rest but a night, and in the morning we shall flee away, comforted. now, to myself, i have imagi

o him: thou liest) ask of thy brother p, and he shall tell thee if i lie (this the scribe refused to do, saying that it was no concern of the demon's) 100 i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. the three slain doves are my threefold blasphemy against him; but their blood shall make fertile the sand, and i writhe in blackness and horror of hate, and prevail not (then the demon tried to make the scribe laugh at magick, and to think that it was all rubbish, that he might deny the names of god that he had invoked to protect him; which, if he had doubted but for an instant, he had leapt upon him, and gnawed

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ided by that wizard's head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 32 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs- old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman's tangled tale (god's patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword- the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale "this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he "but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath

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ces and pauses of his feet [luna "plays a wild and horrible melody<<witches' dance: paganini [saturn" drags" libra "backwards into the dusk["the" probationers "group similarly" mars "with" mars "and" venus "with" venus. some, too, stand isolated] 90 venus. brother taurus, art thou faithful, thou alone? taurus["seductively yet ironically] knowest thou not me? venus. yea, my beloved, lord of all my doves. taurus. venus, our lady! venus. come unto me["she half rises and draws him to her" taurus. within the veil? venus. there is no veil before my shrine["she unfastens his robe. as it falls he leaps up with the caduceus, as" mercury "and tramples her beneath his feet] taurus. in the beginning was the word; and the word was with god; and the word was god["all come forward" saturn "with" libra "l

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the soul after death, and its power to call to life that which is dead- a very deep metaphor if one thinks over its meaning. every people of antiquity reverenced this symbol, with the exception of christians, who chose to forget the brazen serpent of moses, and even the implied acknowledgment of the great wisdom and prudence of the serpent by jesus himself "be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the chinese, one of the oldest nations of our fifth race, made of it the emblem of their emperors, who are thus the degenerate successors of the "serpents" or initiates, who ruled the early races of the fifth humanity. the emperor's throne is the "dragon's seat" and his dresses of state are embroidered with the likeness of the[[vol. 2, page] 365 the various noahs. dragon. the aphorisms in t

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nd symbols may vary among themselves. for in the origin those symbols were all identical. take, for instance, the opening sentences in various cosmogonies: in every case it is either a circle, an egg, or a head. darkness is always associated with this first symbol and surrounds it- as shown in the hindu, the egyptian, the chaldeo-hebrew and even the scandinavian systems- hence black ravens, black doves, black waters and even black flames; the seventh tongue of agni, the fire-god being called "kali "the black" as it was a black flickering flame. two black doves flew from egypt and settling on the oaks of dodona, gave their names to the grecian gods. noah lets out a black raven after the deluge, which is a symbol for the cosmic pralaya, after which began the real creation or evolution of our

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developed. the favourite eastern image of the wheel of the good law is difficult to western minds, and the whole metaphor appears to us somewhat confused. 19. true knowledge is the flour, false learning is the husk. if thou would.st eat the bread of wisdom, thy flour thou hast to knead with amrita.s clear waters. but if thou kneadest husks with maya.s dew, thou canst create but food for the black doves of death, the birds of birth, decay and sorrow .amrita. means not only immortality, but is the technical name of the divine force which descends upon man, but which is burnt up by his tendencies, by the forces which make him what he is. it is also a certain elixir which is the menstruum of harpocrates. amrita here is best interpreted thus, for it is in opposition to .maya. to interpret illus

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g its formation in the earth. some colors are given especially descriptive names: snow jade, mutton-fat white, chicken-bone white, milky white, spinach green, apple green, kingfisher (emerald) green, cinnabar red, rust red, lavender, black, and blue. through the ages, jade has been used for ceremonial blades (axes, daggers and swords, religious containers and nature spirit figures (oxen, cicadas, doves, dragons, carp, mountain scenes, and, currently, for personal treasures (chopsticks, writing brushes, teacups, rice bowls, jewelry. professor d argenc sums up its symbolism: with time jade came to be associated in popular belief with everything that is noble, pure, beautiful and indestructible. 6 chinese mythology 94 9 monkey introduction by the first century a.d, a philosophy called taoism

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rching his army around the city for seven days, accompanied by sevenpriests carrying seven trumpets. on the seventh day they circled jericho seven times andthe walls came tumbling down. in the story of noah, seven pairs of each animal go into theark and seven pairs of each type of bird. there are seven days between the prediction of thedeluge and the rain and seven days between the sending of the doves. the ark comes torest on the 17th day of the seventh month, noah leaves the ark on the 27th day, and afterthe flood he begins his seventh century. many of the names for the symbolic deities, suchas abraxas of the gnostics and serapis of greece have seven letters. then there is 40.adam enters paradise when he is 40 years old; eve follows 40 years later; during the greatflood it rains for 40 d

e lowerchakras.199 the ancient images on the wall of thetemple at saqqara, egypt,depicting one of their gods. look at theclose up of this god and itcorrelates remarkably with thedescriptions of the serpent race. it evenseems to me to have wings,as with the winged draco.pictures courtesy of mark cottier and farah zaidi200 the pope with his fish headhat, a symbol of the babyloniangod-figure, nimrod.doves on the sceptres of british royalty thedove is a symbol of queen semiramis,nimrods partner in babylon. note also theuse of maltese crosses which were found oncaves in the former phoenician land ofcappadocia in what is now turkeythe maltese cross canalso be found on thebritish coronation crown. and on theuniform of thenazis. hitlersfanatics alsoused the skulland bones, thereversedswastika (aph

seewhere their originators were coming from. the most obvious is alexandria just over theborder from the district of columbia, in virginia (the virgin- isis, semiramis. and, bythe way, look at the logos of those columbia organisations. columbia pictures has thelady holding the lighted torch, columbia university has the lighted torch, and columbiabroadcasting (cbs) has the eye, the all seeing eye. doves can be seen standing onmaltese crosses on the sceptres held by the queen of england in her ceremonies andthere are maltese crosses on the crown of the british monarch (see picture section).sceptres and rods were symbols of power in ancient egypt. the maltese or splayedcross (see figure 40) was found in caves in the former phoenician lands of cappadocia,now turkey, dating back many thousands

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of the different pantheons to the sephiroth; and secondly, they form part of the symbolism of the astral paths and serve as landmarks when travelling in the spirit-vision. for instance, if one saw a horse (mars) or a jackal (luna) in the sphere of netzach (venus, one would know that there was confusion of plane and the vision was not reliable. in her sphere one [page 100] would expect to see her doves, and a spotted beast, such as a lynx or leopard. 25. it may be thought that the association of the symholi beasts with the gods and goddesses in the old myths is entirely arbitrary and the fruit of the poetic imagination, which, like the wind, bloweth where it listeth. to this the occultist answers that the poetic imagination is not an arbitrary thing and refers the sceptic to the works of d

rces and factors of the manifested universe, has, by the creative use of the imagination, penetrated far more deeply into their secret causes and springs of being than has the scientist; it is not for nothing that the racial imagination, working thus, has come to associate certain animals with certain gods; a brief examination of the examples cited serves to show the basis of the association. the doves of venus show her gentler aspect, and the cat-beasts her sinister beauty. 27. the association of plants with the different paths rests upon a twofold basis. firstly, there are plants traditionally associated with the legends of the gods, as is corn with ceres and the vine with dionysos; these we find associated with the sephiroth, with which the functions of these gods are correlated orn wit

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unto him: thou liest) ask of thy brother p, and he shall tell thee if i lie (this the scribe refused to do, saying that it was no concern of the demon's) i have prevailed against the kingdom of the father, and befouled his beard; and i have prevailed against the kingdom of the son, and torn off his phallus; but against the kingdom of the holy ghost shall i strive and not prevail. the three slain doves are my threefold blasphemy against him; but their blood shall make fertile the sand, and i writhe in blackness and horror of hate, and prevail not (then the demon tried to make the scribe laugh at magick, and to think that it was all rubbish, that he might deny the names of god that he had invoked to protect him; which, if he had doubted but for an instant, he had leapt upon him, and gnawed

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sted. besides the lack of observable data, the chief reason is that the phenomenon itself is exceptional and is considered so contrary to scientific observation to date apports encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 76 that even those few great minds who admitted the phenomena of materialization as genuine shied away from apports. it also has to be admitted that the production of tame doves (and other items) from thin air is a common trick of the stage magician. there are two theories that attempted to bring the phenomena of apports within understanding, on the assumption that genuine cases did occur. one is the fourth dimension, and the other, generally favored by spiritualists, the disintegration and reintegration of the apported objects. the former was first advocated by ger

and although a woman was chosen as the medium of the prophetic utterance, no woman might question the oracle. the oracle of the pelasgic zeus at dodona was the oldest of all. it answered by signs rather than inspired speech, by means of lots and the falling of water, or by the wind-moved clanging of brazen-bowls, two hollow columns standing side by side. the three priestesses or peliades (meaning doves) were given titles signifying the diviner of the future; the friend of man, virtue; and the virgin-ruler of man, chastity. for 2,000 years this oracle existed. it was consulted by those heroes of the ancient myths struggling in the toils of fate.hercules, achilles, ulysses and aeneas.down to the later vestiges of greek nationality. the oracle of trophonius was also of great renown. here ther

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occupier. an iguana, a tortoise, and a snake, are perhaps the most dreaded of these unnatural visitors. they are sprinkled with ashes, if possible to counteract their evil influence. a swarm of bees settling near a house is an unlucky omen, and prognosticates misfortune. so, too, omens were taken either from the flight or cries of certain birds, such as the night-owl, the crow, some kinds of wild doves, and the bird called the rice s husband (laki padi. astrology divination by astrology was, however, the most common method of forecasting the future. the native practitioners possessed long tables of lucky and unlucky periods and reasons. these were mostly translations from indian and arabic sources. the oldest known of these systems of propitious and unpropitious seasons was known as katika

ns that the greeks and romans believed to be the first sustenance of mankind. the pelasgi regarded this tree as the tree of life. in this tree the god was supposed to reside and the rustling of its leaves and the voices of birds showed his presence. when the questioners entered, the oak rustled and the peliades said, thus speaks zeus. incense was burned beneath it. according to the legend, sacred doves continually inhabited the tree, like the marsoor oracle at tiora mattiene, where a sacred hawk predicted the future from the top of a wooden pillar. at the foot of the oak, a cold spring gushed and supposedly the inspired priestesses prophesied from this murmur. according to legend, when lighted torches were thrust into this fountain they would be extinguished and would rekindle without assi

s, charms, and occasionally, poison. however, things turned in a more sinister direction in 1667. in that year la voisin was consulted by the marquise de montespan, francoise-athenais, who was ambitious in the extreme. she wanted to become the queen of france. her goal was, through magic, to alienate louis from both the queen and his current mistress. reportedly, following a mass during which two doves were killed, she became louis s mistress. further masses were said to secure her position. then in 1673, with the abbe guibourg officiating, a mass was said over montespan s nude body, during which an infant was sacrificed and the blood used to create a host that was then added to the king s food. these later masses seemed to have no effect, and louis was perceived to be changing his affecti

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rs, they measure, and the weaver takes the skein. herald. those coming now, ye d never recognize them, however learned ye were in ancient letters. to look at them- the world s worst ill-abettorsye d call them welcome guests and prize them. they are the furies, no one will believe us. fair are they, well-made, friendly, young moreover; but if ye lend them ear, ye will discover how serpentlike such doves can wound and grieve us. malicious are they- true- and with effront ry, but now when each fool boasts his reputation, they too ask not angelic exaltation; they know they are the pests of town and country. the furies. alecto. what boots it? for to trust us ye ll not stickle, for each is young and fair, a coaxing kitten. if one among you by a girl is smitten, we shall not cease, his ears to sc

r once a man, i can assure you, then all is at an end with you. thales that s as may be; yet it s not ill a man s role in one s time to fill. proteus [to thales] well, one of your kind, to be sure! for quite a while they do endure; for midst your pallid phantom-peers i ve seen you now for many hundred years. sirens [on the rocks. see yon cloudlets, how they mingle round the moon, how fair a ring! doves they are, with love a-tingle, white as light is every wing. paphos sent them as her greeting, ardent, radiant, they appear, thus our festival completing, fraught with rapture full and clear! nereus [approaching thales. though night-wanderer make a pother, call yon ring an apparition, still we spirits take another, take the only right position. they are doves that are attending on my daughter

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the "mathemata" and physical things there is a place where the natural forces of things can be drawn, as is done by the magi. heraclitus, epicurus, synesius, proclus confirm this and necromancers use it much.3 (note the curious company in which bruno places epicurus) neither pythagorean symbolic number, nor "mathesistical" use of number is the "real artificial magic" which can produce mechanical doves and crabs. bruno is not at all in the line of the advance of mathematical and mechanical science. rather he is a reactionary who would push the copernican diagram or a compass invention back towards "mathesis. but the scientific or the genuinely philosophical approach to giordano bruno is not the only approach. as one follows him on his wanderings, the conviction grows ever stronger that the

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

according to the bible, our earliest parents were forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge, but eve, seduced by the serpent, did eat and later induced the man to follow her example. who the serpents are and what the tree of knowledge is may also be determined from certain passages in the bible. we are told, for instance, that christ exhorted his disciples to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves" the so-called curse pronounced upon eve after her confession declares that she must bear her children in sorrow and pain and that the race will die. it has always been a great stumbling block to bible commentators as to what connection there could be between the eating of an apple, death, and painful parturition; but when we are acquainted with the chaste expressions of the bible, which des

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greece the observation of auguries from birds was universal; for birds from being seen to fly freely everywhere about were supposed to know the proceedings of men all around them. the augurs studied the flight of birds with much ceremon255 ial; as they sat facing the north, birds on their right hand, the east, were presages of good; of evil on the left. birds bringing good luck were owls, storks, doves and the swan; the phrase 'an owl is out''itis a lucky moment. of unlucky omen were swallows, hawks, and vultures; also magpies and bats, if they entered a house. sukomanteia in this method by fig leaves the enquirer's name and his question were written letter by letter on leaves placed in a row: these were then exposed to the wind during the recitation of a prayer to the gods. when this was

amos which has been translated into orion is ksl, commonly spoken of askesil;in the peshito version of syria the word found is[yutha;the hebrew wordinjobix,9, isash;butin job xxxviii, 31, the word iskimah.theorion of the greeks was a giant and a mighty hunter; he has been associated with osiris of egypt, and with nimrod, whowasalso a great hunter. according to maunder, orion was chasing the seven doves, the pleiades, when he became confronted with the bull; or according to lempriere orion was shot while in the sea by diana, who then in sorrow placed him among the stars.theconstellation orion is perhaps the most obvious group of stars visible in the northern hemisphere: four great stars at the corners of a trapezium, three stars for a belt to the hero, and three stars for his sword; three s

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with greek fable, which seems to pi'ove the high antiquity of that notion of a giant and hunter. to the greeks, orion was a gigantic (trexwpto) huntsman, who in the underworld continues to chase the quariy on the asphodel-mead (od. 1, 572, and forms a brilliant constellation. homer speaks of orion's hound (ii. 22, 29) seen in the sky below him; in flight before him are the pleiads (a bevy of wild doves, od. 12, 62, and the great bear herself appears to watch him [bokevei, od. 5, 274' did our ancestors connect' 0. miiller on orion (ehein. mus. f. pliilol. 2, 12. furious host: orion. 949 tlie same group of stai's with their myth of the wild hunt? i have lefc it doubtful on p. 727. we might, for one thing, see such a connexion in orion's as. name of hoar-throng (eoforj^ryng; and secondly add

ingle out. the approaching doom is commonly announced by talking beasts: the enormity of the crime whose punishment impends has lent them speech, or some magic has opened to man the meaning of their 1 justinus 32, 3; conf. dnncker's origines germanicae, p. 31. submerged castle. 983 tones. the serving-man tastes a piece off a silver-wliite snake, and immediately knows what the fowls, dacks, geese, doves and sparrows in the yard are saying of the speedy downfall of the castle (ds. no. 131. this is told of isang's castle near seeburg, a similar story of tilsburg near dahlum (p. 774, and no doubt in other neighbourhoods as well. another thing we come across is, that a good man who is sick sends his son out to observe the weather, and is told first of a clear sky, next of a tiny cloudlet on the

e pole. precisely so the servians of to-day make the cuckoo mourn for them (p. 682: on a wooden cross 6 feet high arc carved as many cuckoos as there are survivors, esp. sisters, to mourn the dead. a girl who has lost a brother can never hear the cuckoo sing without breaking into a flood of tears; kukumene! is an interjection of grief, montenegro, stuttg. 1837. pp. 99. 100. all this setting up of doves and cuckoos brings to mind that of horses' heads on poles and roofs (p. 659, of eagles on roofs (p. 633-4. 1 the lausitz wends call our wehklage boze sedlesko, god's little chair [saddle: it appears either as a ichite hen, or as a beautiful white child, whose piteous wailing and weeping announces impending misfortune. in bohemian too scdlisko is a seat and also the nightmare, perhaps because

f our minnesingers (walth. 39. 40. hadloub 2, 194-5, but men have to gather the grass and flowers for that amid singing of birds. to the medieval way of thinking it was most natural to make healing herbs grow out of the graves of holy men, as we plant flowers on the tomb and pick some for remembrance. even on the huorco's barrow grows wound-healing rosamarina, the plucking of which turns men into doves, pentam. 4, 8. the saint's grave nourishes a peartree, whose fruit cures the sick forthwith (greg. tur. mirac. 1, 47. we have seen p. il78n. how at the foot of a holy statue a nova species (quite the homeric veo6i]x7: above) grew up to the skirt of the robe, and then became a healing plant; with this i connect what pliny tells us 24, 19 [log 'herha in ccqnte statuae nata, collectaque alicuju

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lecine. now the hungarian tale in gaal p. 381 has golden hen and six chickens/ meaning the pleiades; and the maiden, seeking her lost lover, has to obtain access to him by the valuables contained in three nuts; these were three dresses, on which severally were worked the sun, the moon, and the sevenstars (conf. wigal. 812, being gifts of sun, moon, and seven- 1 the snppl. adds: the pleiades, like doves, carry ambrosia to zeus, but one flhcays gets lost in passing the planctae rocks, and zeus fills up their number again, athen. 4, 325-6. homer tells the story simply of doves, iraeueu, od. 12, 61. tbans. 2 conf. pentam. 4, 8 li sette palommielle, seven children transformed, s mem. des antiq. 4, 376. 6, 121-9. pleiades. 729 stars, bestowed upon her in her wanderings. the third dress tradition

er mouth. viutler tells us, the ivege-warte (ohg. wegawarta, wegapreita, plantago, was once a woman, who by the wayside waited (wartete) for her lover; he suggests no reason for the transformation, conf. kinderm. no. 160 (see suppl. in the same way popular imagination, childlike, pictures the soul as a bird, which comes flying out of the dying person s mouth. that is why old tombstones often have doves carved on them, and these the christian faith brings into still closer prox imity to spirit. 1 a ship founders: the people on shore observe the souls of those who have sunk ascending from the wave to ward heaven in the shape of white doves.2 the romance legend of the tortured eulalia says( in figure de colomb volat a ciel/ as a bird the little brother, when killed, flies out of the juniper-t

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who, if judged from their volumi255 nous writings, must doubtless prove most loquacious fellows, and who, having indulged when on this dull earth so copiously in dark and mystical enigmas, will now throw an unerring light upon the first matter, will trulygiveus an open entrance to the shut palace of the king, a lucid explanation of the tabula smaragdina of hermes, the sophie fire of pontanus, the doves of diana, the fountain of count turisan, and the green lion, and all other monsters ofparacelsus, ripley, flamel, andco,-notomitting the assistance to be derived from those thrice learned ladies, miriam the prophetess, perrenelle, and quercitan's daughter. let them do this, m. alphonse cahagnet, and your revived art of projection will make more converts to animal magnetism than anthony mesme

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earthy and metancholy star" 749. the name vhich norberg translates, in his onomosftimn to the codtx naxarana, m fa-ho, stands in the original par'ha rabba. in the lift cf motut, given by epiphantus, in his paaana, lib. ii. torn. ii, uaer. lxvi, iii, is mentioned a certain priest m mithras, a friend of the great hetesiarcfa manes, uuned parcfaus. digitizecoy google two cosmogonies comfabed 295 as doves" in the scheme ophis is represented as the egyptian cnu- l^is or kneph, caued dracontia. he appears as a serpent standing erect on its tail, with a lion's head, crowned and radiate, and bearing on the point of each ray one of the seven greek vowels symbol of the seven celestial spheres. this figure is quite familiar to those who are acquainted with the gnostic gems* and is borrowed from the

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refully inspected that which has been designated the crux antiquariorum, or the puzzle of antiquaries, namely, the famous font, which is of unknown and bewildering antiquity, in the nave of winchester cathedral. milner (a feeble narrator and misty unreliable historian, in his history of winchester, has the following superficial notice of this relic: the most distinguished ornaments on the top are doves breathing (they are not breathing, they are drinking) into phials surmounted with crosses fich e. and on the sides (the north side, he should say, which is faced wrongly, and ought properly to front the east) the doves are again depicted with a salamander, emblematic of fire; in allusion to that passage of st. matthew, he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire. all the secrets o

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the mystery religion of crete and were closely connected with its rites. the evidence that the three columns bore a sacred meaning is to be found in one of the terra-cotta models belonging to a votive shrine, which often supply us with additional information about the cretan mysteries (see plate ii, 3, following p. 50) we will quote sir arthur evans description of the three columns surmounted by doves (which repeatedly occur in various models of minoan shrines, and his explanation of their religious meaning: 242. but of all these remains, the highest religious interest attaches to a terra-cotta group belonging to some religious structure on a larger scale than the others. it consists of three columns on a common base, supporting in each case, above their square capital, the round ends of

place of a common entablature the superstructure is in each case separately rendered by a kind of architectural shorthand. this trinity of baetylic pillars (which has many parallels in semitic cult) itself recalls the triple arrangement seen in the case of the temple fresco at knossos and of several late minoan and mycenaean shrines. the triple gold shrines of mycenae are also coupled with seated doves. 244. the seated birds, as already observed, symbolize in this and other cases the descent of the divinity into the possessed object. at times, as in the above instances, it is the baetylic pillar or the cell that enshrines it. the celebrated scene on the sarcophagus of hagia triada shows raven-like birds brought down by ritual strains and libations on to the sacred double axes, which are th

rved, symbolize in this and other cases the descent of the divinity into the possessed object. at times, as in the above instances, it is the baetylic pillar or the cell that enshrines it. the celebrated scene on the sarcophagus of hagia triada shows raven-like birds brought down by ritual strains and libations on to the sacred double axes, which are thus charged as it were with the divinity. the doves on the gold chalice from mycenae and of nestor s cup repeat the same idea. 245. but it was not only the cult object itself that could be thus sanctified by the descending emblem of spiritual indwelling. in the case of the gold plates from the third shaft grave at mycenae the doves are seen not only perched on the shrine but on the head and fluttering from the shoulders of a nude female perso

249. models of shrines 250. the accompanying figures (plate iii, 1; plate iv, 1, 2, 3, following p. 50) show models of fresco paintings of minoan shrines. in plate iii, 1, a gold plaque from mycenae, we see again the three columns surmounted by the horns of consecration which, like the double axe, denote the sacred character of the object, and the ritual significance is further emphasized by the doves perched on the ends of the sacred horns. in looking at these illustrations of minoan sanctuaries we must remember that the side walls of the chamber are flattened out in the picture and not drawn in perspective, so that we must in imagination fold the two side panels of the picture of the shrine forward so as to form three walls of a shrine room. underneath the pillars in the different illus

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the rites of blood. during this practice it is most wise that the philosophus utter no word concerning his working, as if it were a forbidden love that consumeth him. but let him answer fools according to their folly; for since he cannot conceal his love from his fellows, he must speak to them as they may understand. and as many deities demand sacrifice, one of men, another of cattle, a third of doves, let these sacrifices be replaced by the true sacrifices in thine own heart. yet if thou must symbolize them outwardly for the hardness of thine heart, let thine own blood, and no other.s, be spilt before that altar.2 nevertheless, forget not that this practice is dangerous, and may cause the manifestation of evil things, hostile and malicious, to thy great hurt. 45. concerning a further sac

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

ided by that wizard.s head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 28 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs. old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman fs tangled tale (god.s patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword.the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale .this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he .but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

s-like substances known as tektites found in the libyan desert and containing radioactive isotopesof aluminum and beryllium may have been the remains of some missile (p. 79)book of isaiahthey come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land (from verse 13:3-5, quoted on p. 93)who are these that fly in a cloud, and as the doves to their windows (isaiah 9:8)for behold, the lord will come with fire, and with his chariots, like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire (isaiah 1 6:15)ufos in rome 100 b.c.(from roman historian, julius obsequens)at sunset a circular object like a shield was seen to sweep across the sky from west to east (p. 131)this globegolden in color fell to earth

ed and clear similarities of construction of that particular narrative. naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first universal language. in buddhism,wisdom has always been tied, symbolically, to the figure of the serpent. in the western tradition it canbe found as used by the christ in the gospel of saint matthew (10:16, be ye therefore wise as ser-pents, and harmless as doves.in all mythological language the snake is also an emblem of immortality. its endless representationwith its tail in its mouth (ouroboros, and the constant renewal of its skin and vigor, enliven the sym-bols of continued youth and eternity. the serpent's reputation for positive medicinal and/or life-preserving qualities have also contributed tothe honors of the serpent as still seen by the em

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y a single point on the globe, or in history, whose local population did not associate the gods with serpents and dragons (or the wisdom brought by the gods. in the bible, the serpent is often spoke of as an enemy of god, and in one case the bible refers to satan as that old serpent. even though the whole of the bible identifies the serpent with evil, even jesus was heard saying be as harmless as doves, and as wise as serpents. the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 5 problem with this statement taken literally is that reptiles aren t exactly the geniuses of the animal kingdom; warm-blooded animals are, on the average, more intelligent than reptiles. considering the serpent to be a creature of wisdom is an interesting choice considering that the serpent is mostly instinctual. egypt, a ci

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harm against barrenness, as did the devotees of mithras and saba-zeus. the earth-born civilizers of the early world, fohi, cecrops, and erechtheus, were half-man, half-serpent. the snake was the guardian of the athenian acropolis. nakhustan, the brazen serpent of the wilderness, became naturalized among the hebrews as a token of healing power "be ye" said christ "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" the serpent was as often a symbol of malevolence and enmity. it appears among the emblems of siva-roudra, the power of desolation and death: it is the bane of a pytus, idom, archemorus, and philoctetes: it gnaws the roots of the tree of life in the eddas, and bites the heel of unfortunate eurydice. in hebrew writers it is generally a type of evil; and is particularly so in the indian and pe

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ad, and was universally venerated as the great national god of the greeks. page 14 page 15 anxious to preserve the secret of his existence from cronus, rhea sent the infant zeus secretly to crete, where he was nourished, protected, and educated. a sacred goat, called amalthea, supplied the place of his mother, by providing him with milk; nymphs, called melissae, fed him with honey, and eagles and doves brought him nectar and ambrosia.[4] he was kept concealed in a cave in the heart of mount ida, and the curetes, or priests of rhea, by beating their shields together, kept up a constant noise at the entrance, which drowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. under the watchful care of the nymphs the infant zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined

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d boar and, evading adonis spear, mortally wounded him. the dying days of summer it is harvest time and the summer is coming toward an end, indicating that it will soon be time for adonis to visit persephone in the underworld. symbolically, it also prefigures adonis s death. chariot of a goddess aphrodite s golden chariot is drawn by two swans. aphrodite was often accompanied by birds, especially doves and sparrows. echo and narcissus by nicholas poussin (1594 1665) echo, fading to a shadow from her unrequited love for narcissus, gazes on him as he lies dead by a pool in a forest glade, while eros, the god of love, looks on. when adonis died, he should have remained in the underworld, never to see the upper world and aphrodite again. but she begged zeus not to allow persephone to take him

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u get higher, until they resemble huge walls and start blotting out the sun. the lizards arc blue as shadows. then you are on the peak, jahilia behind you, the featureless desert ahead. you descend on the desert side, and about five hundred feet down you reach the cave, which is high enough to stand upright in, and whose floor is covered in miraculous albino sand. as you climb you hear the desert doves calling your name, and the rocks greet you, too, in your own language, crying mahound, mahound. when you reach the cave you are tired, you lie down, you fall asleep. o o o but when he has rested he enters a different sort of sleep, a sort of not--sleep, the condition that he calls his _listening, and he feels a dragging pain in the gut, like something trying to be born, and now gibreel, who

ll old soldiers accustomed to keeping his own company, squats down in the dust and plays a game with pebbles. there is no sense of urgency; sometimes he is away for days, even weeks. and today the city is all but deserted; everybody has gone to the great tents at the fairground to hear the poets compete. in the silence, there is only the noise of hamza's pebbles, and the gurgles of a pair of rock-doves, visitors from mount cone. then they hear the running feet. khalid arrives, out of breath, looking unhappy. the messenger has returned, but he isn't coming to zamzam. now they are all on their feet, perplexed by this departure from established practice. those who have been waiting with palm-fronds and steles ask hamza: then there will be no message? but khalid, still catching his breath, sha

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

al informs us("souvenirs de la terreur" volume iii page 183) that chaumette had an aviary, to which he devoted his harmless leisure; the murderous fournier carried on his shoulders a pretty little squirrel, attached by a silver chain; panis bestowed the superfluity of his affections upon two gold pheasants; and marat, who would not abate one of the three hundred thousand heads he demanded, reared doves! apropos of the spaniel of couthon, duval gives us an amusing anecdote of sergent, not one of the least relentless agents of the massacre of september. a lady came to implore his protection for one of her relations confined in the abbaye. he scarcely deigned to speak to her. as she retired in despair, she trod by accident on the paw of his favourite spaniel. sergent, turning round, enraged a

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. 1:12 while the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 1:13 a bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 1:14 my beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of en-gedi. 1:15 behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves eyes. 1:16 behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed [is] green. 1:17 the beams of our house [are] cedar [and] our rafters of fir. 2:1 i [am] the rose of sharon [and] the lily of the valleys. 2:2 as the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters. 2:3 as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. i sat down under his shado

r, the bottom thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of jerusalem. 3:11 go forth, o ye daughters of zion, and behold king solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. 4:1 behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount gilead. 4:2 thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep that are even] shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none [is] barren among them. 4:3 thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4:4 th

t ye tell him, that i [am] sick of love. 5:9 what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, o thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 5:10 my beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 5:11 his head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy [and] black as a raven. 5:12 his eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk [and] fitly set. 5:13 his cheeks [are] as a bed of spices [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. 5:14 his hands [are as] gold rings set with the beryl: his belly [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] sapphires. 5:15 his legs [are as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as lebanon

h therein shall not know peace. 59:9 therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness [but] we walk in darkness. 59:10 we grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night [we are] in desolate places as dead [men] 59:11 we roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation [but] it is far off from us. 59:12 for our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; 59:13 in transgressing and lying against the lord, and departing away from our god, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and utter

of midian and ephah; all they from sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the lord. 60:7 all the flocks of kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and i will glorify the house of my glory. 60:8 who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? 60:9 surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the lord thy god, and to the holy one of israel, because he hath glorified thee. 60:10 and the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath i smote thee, but in

blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof. 7:15 the sword [is] without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that [is] in the field shall die with the sword; and he that [is] in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. 7:16 but they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 7:17 all hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water. 7:18 they shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame [shall be] upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 7:19 they shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and

eem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. 2:5 he shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. 2:6 the gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. 2:7 and huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. 2:8 but nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. stand, stand [shall they cry] but none shall look back. 2:9 take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for [there is] none end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture. 2:10 she is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together

urn to you. 10:14 and whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. 10:15 verily i say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of sodom and gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. 10:16 behold, i send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 10:17 but beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 10:18 and ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the gentiles. 10:19 but when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 10:20 for it

in the name of the lord; hosanna in the highest. 21:10 and when he was come into jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, who is this? 21:11 and the multitude said, this is jesus the prophet of nazareth of galilee. 21:12 and jesus went into the temple of god, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 21:13 and said unto them, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 21:14 and the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. 21:15 and when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, hosanna to the son of david; they were sore displeased

ame to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not [yet] 11:14 and jesus answered and said unto it, no man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. and his disciples heard [it] 11:15 and they come to jerusalem: and jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 11:16 and would not suffer that any man should carry [any] vessel through the temple. 11:17 and he taught, saying unto them, is it not written, my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. 11:18 and the scribes and chief priests heard [it] and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished a

of miracles did jesus in cana of galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. 2:12 after this he went down to capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. john page 612 2:13 and the jews passover was at hand, and jesus went up to jerusalem, 2:14 and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 2:15 and when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers money, and overthrew the tables; 2:16 and said unto them that sold doves, take these things hence; make not my father s house an house of merchandise. 2:17 and his disciples remembered that it was written, the ze

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

n-boaz, which represent balanced equilibrium, have a value of 175, one of the magical numbers of the kamea, and the seventh card in most tarot decks is the chariot, or victory (see figure 9-j. furthermore, the sphinxs drawing the chariot, one black and the other white, symbolically point to the two pillars as well. the mythological figure of venus is often represented as riding a chariot drawn by doves. the ancient pythagoreans attributed the number seven to athene, a warrior goddess who also ruled craftsmanship. this number was thought to be important in the dynamic symmetry of art and in the actual structure of physical forms throughout the universe. one of the words that equals seven when the letters are added together is bahdah (bda, which means to form, fashion, or produce something n

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