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ed: taurus b virgo f capricorn j to air are attributed: gemini c libra g aquarius k to water are attributed: cancer d scorpio h pisces l 52 to the ancients, six planets besides the sun were known. they also assigned certain planetary values to the north and south nodes of the moon. that is the point where the moon's orbit touches that of the ecliptic. these were named: caput draconis head of the dragon p cauda draconis tail of the dragon q since the discovery of two more distant planets, neptune and uranus, these two terms have been partially replaced by them. the effect of caput draconis is like neptune: n the effect of cauda draconis is like uranus: the names of the old planets are: sol a saturn l mars f venus c jupiter k mercury b moon 5 the hebrew alphabet the hebrew alphabet is give

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the others from their position being concealed from you. just so, behind the material universe, lies the concealed form of the majesty of god. the altar of incense was overlaid with gold to represent the highest degree of purity, but the altar before you is black to represent the terrestrial earth. learn then, to separate the pure from the impure, and refine the gold of the spirit from the black dragon, the corruptible body. upon the cubical altar, were fire, water, and. incense three mother letters of the hebrew alphabet; aleph, mem, and shin. mem is silent, shin; is sibilant, and aleph is the tongue of a balance between these contraries in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them. in this is a great mystery, very admirable and recondite. the fire produced the heavens, the wat

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

amannic lohlio, or only a grcndil and krentil; what is of capital importance is the agreement in tlie myths themselves. to what was cited above, i will here add something more. our nursery-tales have made us familiar with the incident of the haii plucked off the devil as he lay asleep in his grandmother's lap (kinderm. 29. the corresponding norwegian tale makes three feathers be pulled out of the dragon's tail, not while he sleeps, but after he is dead. loki, in punishment of his misdeeds, is put in chains, like prometheus who brought fire to men; but he is to be released again at the end of the world. one of his children, fcnrir i.e, himself in a second birth, pursues the moon in the shape of a ivolf, and threatens to swallow her. according to sn, 12. 13, an old giantess in the forest gav

mannisko= homo, the^ in the eoman legend, eomulus and eemiis were connected tlirongh silvia with mars, and through aniulius witli venus; and eomulus was taken up to heaven. the later apotheosis of the omperors differs from the genuine heroic, almost as canonization does from primitive sainthood; yet even augustus, being deified, passed in legend for a son of apollo, whom the god in the shape of a dragon had by atia; sueton. octav. 91. inguio. 345 tliinking self-conscious being (see p. 59; both forms, tlie simple and the derived, have (like tiv and tivisko) the same import, and may be set by the side of the sanskr. manus and manushya]\iannus liowever is the first hero, son of the god, and father of all men. traditions of this forefather of the whole teutonic race seem to have filtered down

egfried in the poems, that we need not stick at triiles; his whole nature has evident traces of the superliuman: brought up by an elf eegino, beloved by a valkyr brunhild, instructed in his destiny by the wise man gripir, he wears the helmet of invisibility, is vulnerable oidy on one spot in his body, as achilles was in the heel, and he achieves the rich hoard of the nibelungs. his slavin^ of the dragon eafnir reminds us of tivdcdu^ 1 haupts zeitschr. 1, 21. 2 laulinuinn's examination of the whole nibelung legend, p. 22^ ilaupts zeitschv. 1, 2 6* in the cc" magn. lex. g43 i suppose on the ground of the inscriptt. in grutcr iviii. 5: marti segomoni sacrum. in civitate se([uanorum; and ii. 2: diis deabus omnibus veturius l.l. securius (al. segomunus) pro se quisque (see suppl. 5 ahnost the s

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planted a garden eastward in eden so this represents the power of the father joined thereto in the glory from the face of the ancient of days. and in the garden were the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which latter is from malkuth, which is the lowest sephira between the rest of the sephiroth and the kingdom of the shells, which latter is represented by the great red dragon coiled beneath, having 7 heads (the 7 infernal palaces) and ten horns (the 10 averse sephiroth contained in the 7 palaces. and a river nahar went forth out of eden (namely the supernal triad) to water the garden (the rest of the sephiroth) and from thence it was divided into four heads in daath whence it is said in daath the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down dew. the first head

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of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus being tempted by the tree of knowledge (whose branches indeed, tend upward into the seven lower sephiroth, but also tend downwards into the kingdom of the shells) reached down into the qlippoth, and immediately the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic system was shattered, and with it fell adam, the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns, and the garden was made desolate, and malkuth was cut off from the upper sephiroth by his intersecting folds, and linked unto the kingdom of the shells, and the 7 lower sephiroth were cut from the three supernal in daath; at the feet of aima elohim. and on the heads of the dragon are the names and crowns of the eight edomite kings, and upon the horns are the names

orns are the names of the 11 dukes of edom. and because in daath was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil, therefore is there as it were, another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the 8 kings. and for the infernal and averse sephiroth 11 instead of 10, according to the number of the dukes of edom. and hence were the rivers of eden desecrated, and from the mouth of the dragon rushed the infernal waters in daath. and this is leviathan, the piercing serpent, even leviathan, the crooked serpent. but between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, tetragrammaton elohim placed the letters of the name and the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam. and thence was it necessary that the second adam shoul

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ower or you have an important issue that needs energy. they are effective against drought, global warming, all pollution caused by burning fuels or chemicals, forest fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fightin

herefore very effective for rituals requiring immediate action or the same intensity of effort from start to finish, rather than a gradual increase, perhaps of love or prosperity. there are two kinds of incense. the first is non-combustible incense that is burned by smouldering it on charcoal blocks. this is made from powdered herbs, leaves bark or even pine needles mixed with a gum resin such as dragon's blood and has the advantage of producing clouds of smoke, brilliant for purification or for the climax of a spell. you can buy this type of incense prepared as loose powder, wood chips, granules or special paste, to burn on charcoal blocks or discs. traditional practitioners often make their own non-combustible incense, which can be very empowering, but it does take time and can be messy

spirituality, success, healing, psychic powers, money, love and passion. cherry cherry brings new love and divinatory abilities. cloves cloves are used in spells for love and money; they repel hostility and improve memory. copal use copal for protection and purification; it is especially good for cleansing crystals. cypress cypress is for times of transition to a new phase, letting go of sorrow. dragon's blood dragon's blood is used for love and protection, passion and male potency. fern an initiator of change, travel and fertility, fern will also bring hidden wealth, maybe in terms of potential. fig use fig for wisdom, creativity and creation, fertility, harmony and balance. frankincense use frankincense for courage, joy, strength and success. freesia freesia increases trust, especially

fire festivals are linked with his power. he is the roman equivalent of the greek ares and the viking tyr, the altruistic warrior god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of mars is especially good for psychic self-defence and for courage in a crisis. element: fire colour: red crystals: garnet, bloodstone, ruby, jasper incenses: dragon's blood, ginger, mint, thyme trees: cypress, holly, pine herbs and oils: basil, coriander, garlic, pepper, tarragon metal: iron or steel mars rules aries, march-20 april, and is the co-ruler of scorpio, 24 october-22 november. in magick, it is most potent during these two sun sign periods and for those born under aries and scorpio. mercury wednesday, the day of mercury, is good for spells t

the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cleanses doubts and weakness, replacing them with spiritual courage to stand against what is corrupt, especially those who abuse power. he can be invoked for rituals to relieve those in war-torn lands, minorities who are being oppressed and endangered species colour: red crystals: garnet and bloodstone incenses or oils: allspice and dragon's blood raphael raphael is the archangel of the planet mercury. raphael's day is wednesday. raphael, the harmoniser, offers healing of all kinds, protects children, bringing guidance and sustenance to all who are lost whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. he can be invoked in all health matters, for spiritual knowledge and insight and for alleviating the worries of daily lives tha

ABRAMELIN2

erived from the hebrew or chaldee, and also from greek and latin and coptic, etc. the chief spirits. lucifer: from latin, lux, light, and fero, to bear- a light bearer. there is a name lucifuge also employed occasionally, from lux, light, and fugio, to fly from- he who shuns the light. leviatan: from hebrew, lvithn (usually written leviathan instead of leviatan- the crooked or piercing serpent or dragon. satan: from hebrew, shtn= an adversary. belial: from hebrew, bliol= a wicked one. the eight sub-princes. astarot: from hebrew, oshthrvth= flocks, crowds or assemblies. usually written ashtaroth. also a name of the goddess astarte; esther is derived from the same root. magot: may be from hebrew, movth= small stones or pebbles; or from mg= a changing of camp or place; or from greek, magos, a

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

d lain, who said 'why seek ye the living among the dead' chief "i am the resurrection and the life. he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die" second "behold the image (points at the lower half of the lid) of the justified one, crucified on the infernal rivers of tud, and thus rescuing twklm from the folds of the red dragon (third adept points to upper half of lid) third "and being turned, i saw seven golden light bearers, and in the midst of the light bearers, one like unto the ben adam, clothed with a garment down to the feet, and girt with a golden girdle. his head and his hair were white as snow, and his eyes as flaming d; his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace. and his voice as the

etals, within a heptangle formed of a heptagram reflected from the seven angles of the wall. the triangle represents the three supernal sephiroth; the heptagram, the lower seven; the rose represents the 22 paths of the serpent of wisdom "the floor has upon it also the symbol of a triangle enclosed within a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth of the twpylq, the great red dragon of seven heads, and the inverted and evil triangle. thus, in the tomb of the adepti do we tread down the evil powers of the red dragon (chief adept stamps thrice on diagram, and so tread thou upon the evil powers of thy nature" 30 ceiling of the vault floor of the vault "for there is traced within the evil triangle the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of seven time

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

tations develop into extreme agony. any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. i must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (i *have* known people who were so hopelessly bat-witted that they rationalised. they thought 'ah, well, this position is not suitable for me, as i thought it was. i have made a mess of the ibis position; now i'll have a go at the dragon position' but the ibis has kept his job, and attained his divinity, by standing on one leg throughout the centuries. if you go to the dragon he will devour you. 19. it is through the perversity of human nature that the most acute agony seems to occur when you are within a finger's breadth of full success. remember gallipoli! i am inclined to think that it may be a sort of symptom that one i

leave her, far from where her swarthy kindred roam- kindred roam in the scarlet fever, scarlet fever, scarlet fever convalescent home' 31. so now, no less than that chivalrous gentleman, his grace, the most reverend the archbishop of canterbury, who in a recent broadcast confounded for ever all those infidels who had presumed to doubt the possibility of devils entering into swine, we have met the dragon science and conquered. we have seen that, however we attack the problem of mind, whether from the customary spiritual standpoint, or from the opposite corner of materialism, the result is just the same. one last quotation from mr. sullivan 'the universe may ultimately prove to be irrational. the scientific adventure may have to be given up' but that is all *he* knows about science, bless hi

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan that is identified closely with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated

kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of pre-eminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glasto

lay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingsh

to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened- ce

knowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invok

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ely contradicted, the author being a master of the temple. he thereupon enters into his samadhi, and he piles contradiction upon contradiction, and thus a higher degree of rapture, with ever sentence, until his armoury is exhausted, and, with the word amen, he enters the supreme state. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 32 [33] 12 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta iota beta the dragon-flies io is the cry of the lower as oi of the higher. in figures they are 1001;(9) in letters they are joy.(10) for when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself [34] book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 33 commentary( iota beta) the dragon-fli

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ps. 18 11$ wyswg gusion like a xenopilus 19 14 ]yarl leraikha an archer in green 20 17% and# cyfwb botis viper (or) human, with teeth and 2 horns, and with a sword. 22 20! wcrwp purson lion-faced man riding a bear, carrying a viper. trumpeter with him. 24 23 \ya aim man with 3 heads a serpent s, a man s (having two stars on his brow, and a calf s. rides on viper and bears firebrand. 25 26 \yb bim dragon with 3 heads a dog s, man s, and gryphon s. 26 29$ twrtca asteroth hurtful angel or infernal dragon, like berot, with a viper [breath bad. 28 32! yadmsa asmoday 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, goose s feet. rides, with lance and banner, on a dragon. 29 35= cwjrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. c

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 duchess crown tied to her waist, riding great camel. 24 59= ayrw oriax lion on horse, with serpent s tail, carries in right hand two hissing serpents. 25 62# law volac child with angel s wings rides a two-headed dragon 26 65 [lardna andrealphas noisy peacock. 28 68! laylb belial two beautiful angels sitting in chariot of fire. 29 71$ lafnd dantalion man with many countenances, all men s and women s, carries a book in right hand. clxv. goetic demons &c. by night (cadent. clxvi. magical images of col. clxv. 15 39 [lam malphas crow with sore throat. 16 42$ rapw vepar mermaid. 17 45$ and! anyw vin lion on bla

e week is obtained. col. clxxviii. these intelligences are angelic in nature, but possessing material and even earthly dominion. hence they preside over the geomantic figures, whose nature indeed expresses their relation to man. col. clxxxi. line 11. he laughs; bearing a sphere containing 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 ston

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

omao siaionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the forty-eight keys or calls 28 the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)8 have spoke. come away! for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided! come forth! appear! to the terror of the earth, and to

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

his is the period of apophis. it is followed by the arising not of isis, but of osiris. the ancient condition is not restored, but a new and superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. the alchemists themselves taught this same truth. the first matter of the work was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formul

le of growth- the epicene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yod in tetragrammaton. a the babe is pursued by the dragon, who casts a flood from his mouth to swallow it. see "rev" vii. the dragon is also the mother- the "evil mother" of freud. it is harpocrates, threatened by the crocodile in the nile. we find the symbolism of the ark, the coffin of osiris, etc. the lotus is the yoni; the water the amniotic fluid. in order to live his own life, the child must leave the mother, and overcome the temptation to r

, and his agonized reluctance to their elimination plunging him into such ordeals that he seems (both to himself and to others) to have turned from a noble and upright man into an unutterable scoundrel; so does the "first matter" blacken and putrefy as the alchemist breaks up its coagulations of impurity. the student may work out for himself the various analogies involved, and discover the "black dragon, the "green lion, the "lunar water, the "raven's head, and so forth. the indications above given should suffice all who possess aptitude for alchemical research. only one further reflection appears necessary; namely, that the eucharist, with which this chapter is properly preoccupied, must be conceived as one case- as the critical case- of the art of the alchemist. the reader will have obse

wer of eleven" aphen-iaf "thou treasure of iao" i "thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom" photeth "abode of the light. abrasax..of the father, the sun, of hadith, of the spell of the aeon of horus" aeoou "our lady of the western gate of heaven" ischure "mighty art thou" mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar-phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear me: and make all spirits subject unto me: so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section e. earth. i invoke thee- ma "o mother! o truth" barraio "thou mass<"mass, in the sense

e of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things "line 3" he now asserts that he is himself the "angel" or messenger of his angel; that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as "un-nefer" the perfection of "asar" himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the "egg (or heart "girt with a serpent" is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv. which expands this to the uttermost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams, si

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s made a rose to flower, occupies himself primarily with spiritual and physiological alchemy. taking for "the first matter of the work" a neutral or inert substance (it is constantly described as the commonest and least valued thing on earth, and may actually connote any substance whatever) he deliberately poisons it, so to speak, bringing it to a stage of transmutation generally called the black dragon, and he proceeds to work upon this virulent poison until he obtains the perfection theoretically possible. incidentally, we have an almost precise parallel with this operation in modern bacteriology. the apparently harmless bacilli of a disease are cultivated until they become a thousand times more virulent than at first, and it is from this culture that is prepared the vaccine which is an

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

for reasons connected with the subject of prana, which will be dealt with in its proper place. the positions illustrated in liber e (equinox i and vii) form the best guide<god) 2. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs("the dragon) 3. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand, etc, free forefinger on lips("the ibis) 4. sit; left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the knees: head and back straight("the thunderbolt> the extreme of asana is practised by those yogis who remain in one position without

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

twkz 434 daleth: a door tld the lord of war (ex. 15:3) hmxlm #y) 435 deceived lth his manner (lit. ghis justice h) w+p#m 436 tutor, curator; prefect; administrator spwr+p) hosannah: gsave, we pray! h hn(#wh gsatanas h: the goat satan z( n# 437 balm; the balsam tree nwmsrp) 438 the whole [perfect] stone (deut. 27:6) hmyl# nb) 439 exile, banishment twlg judges my+p# 440 praise; psalm hlht the great dragon (the constellation draco; serpent (lit. gcurls h; see i.r.q. 834; cf. 450& 510) ylt whole; irreproachable; perfect; wholeness; sincerity; perfection mt dead tm 441 a hind tly) truth tm) a live coal tlxg you (masc. pl) mt) 442 the ends of the earth cr) ysp) 443 virgo: a virgin (title of malkuth; a city hlwtb the house of god (cf. 498; also a place name) l) tyb 444 the sanctuary #dqm frogs (d

er hp#km 446 destruction; death twm the ankles mylwsrq 447 initials of the three above and the three beneath (cf. 203& 248 )br rmd 448 lofty twmb 449 most dazzling light xcxwcm rw) cloak tyl+ 450 tablets (e.g. of moses) twxwl the fruit of the tree c( yrp transgression(#p goodwill (grace, acceptance, favour, will) without end lwbg ny)b nwcr dwelling in eternity d( nkw# craftiness, cunning myl# the dragon; jackal nt witchcrafts, sorceries myp#k 451 the essence of man md)h t) death )tym the deep, the abyss (gn. 49:25) mwht 452 ardent desire, longing, wish tdmx the crop; the maw nbqrq 453 the animal soul in its fulness (i.e. including the creative entity or ego, chiah; living creature hyx #pn behemoth; beasts twmhb 454 a seal mtwx the gholy ones h (consecrated catamites kept by the priesthood)

, wet nurse (cf. 491) tnmw) 498 the house of god (cf. 443) myhl) tyb palace of merit (referred to geburah) twkz lkyh 499 a loving hind (prov. 5:19) mybh) tly) busy, arduous; an army; ghosts h tw)bc 500 the humerus ptk treasured gold, cimelia (perh. inf. from mtk, ggold h and arabic kthm, gto cover, conceal h) mtkm master, prince, head, chief; navel r# to give ntn be fruitful and multiply wbrw wrp dragon; jackals, wild beasts (pl. of 450) mynt showeth knowledge (ps. 19:2) t(d hwhy 501 blessedness; that, which; whose; wherein r) strong, hardy mynt) the head#)r shekinah superior h)ly( hnyk# likeness, similitude hnwmt but, howbeit; certainly *k) 502 to tell glad tidings; flesh, body r#b to cut qtb 503 g r# the cup of the stolistes expelled, cast forth #rg to rage #gr 504 sought for #rd half, m

cf. 48& 463 *k w 507 that which causes ferment; yeast rw# masters of the heavens: astrologers mym#h yl(b pure, clear, transparent, innocent *kz 508 daybreak; black rx# palate *kx 509 bridge rw#g to break down, overturn *kdh 510 resh: the head #yr the allegorical sense (of scripture, etc; see 247& 400 #wrd straight, level; honest, upright; direct; just conduct (i.e. maat, niyama, etc) r#y song ry# dragon (cf. 440& 450) nynt 511 the head)#yr row, rank (military; line; series hrw) the time of god l)yt( how *ky) to go *kwh 512 adhesion, cohesion; loyalty, devotion twqbd 513 feeling, sensation h#grh 514 black rwx# statutes, enactments twqx 515 seizing without difficulty myrcm ylb hlxn minister of justice r+w# prayer, cantrip (esp. on parchment, worn as an amulet) hlpt he will go *khy 516 a wood

vine name of tiphareth t(dw hwl) hwhy 549 moral; felt, sensed #grwm storm-wind hr(s xwr 550 eagle, vulture, bird of prey; to fall off, fall away r#n a rod of iron (ps. 2) lzrb +b# masters, princes, heads, chiefs myr# dragons (restricted (ps. 74:13) mnynt 551 thy terror *kmy) lead, the metal of saturn; a plummet-line, level, water-level *kn) 552 the daily want, daily desire mymy tdmx 553 the great dragon lwdg nynt 554 bearing seed (rz (rz 555 obscurity htp( the god had (spelt in full :d):h 556 mark, vestige, footstep wmy#r restoration nwqt 557 first, former, primary nw#)r 558 to initiate *knx 560 waters of quiet twxwnm ym a point, prick, dot tdwqn dragons mynynt sorceress r#km sought my#wrd crowd *ks 561 cain nyqt) concealed mystery )twyncd 562 primordial hnw#)r 563 a washing of the hands m

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19. if thou dost not understand, and are bewildered by doubts and questions concerning the forces of this divination: thou mayest read in "magick" where the master therion hath made discourse upon the subject by his understanding of the tao. abrahadabra a(rgenteum) a(strum) publication in class b 1 khien lingam of lingam- khien originating from the term, piercing advantageous, right and firm. the dragon lurks: it is no time to act. the dragon's in the field: now make thy pact. be active, watchful, using care and tact. the dragon leaps; a bursting cataract. the dragon ploughs the sky with pace exact. exceed not, dragon; lest thy force react (if all this heavenly hosts of dragons lacked their heads, good fortune would become a fact) 2 the khwan hexagram yoni of yoni- khwan: great, originatin

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civilized the country. the names of some of the earlier gods confirm this. nu (hebrew noah) is atlantean for arch, zu (egyptian shu) for many ideas connecting with wind, asi means 'cum quasi serpens, obviously the name of an actual high priestess. ra is pure atlantean for sun, and 'mse (egyptian chomse) for moon. the idea in 'mse is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in the apocalypse. in the mystic greek used by the gnostics we find similar traces, sophia being from s ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. iao is phallos, kteis, proktos. the word logos means the boy (g) naturally engendered of the virgin (l) and the serpent (s. theos (root o, first written 0) means

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ic puts me at the mercy of a million circumstances, from my cook to my wife. al i,24 "i am nuit, and my word is six and fifty" the old comment 24. nu= 6+ 50= 56. the new comment one must observe the special significance of these numbers, not only conjoined, but separate. for 6, vau, is the bull; and 50, nun, the scorpion. but 6 is also the number of the sun, our star. the n of nu is therefore the dragon "infinite space- and v is "the infinite stars" thereof. the ith is the honorific termination representing her fulfilment of creative force "i" being the inmost force, and "th" its extension. the dragon in current symbolism refers to the north or hollow of heaven; thus to the womb of space, which is the container and breeder of all that exists. liber aleph should be consulted for further inf

hat atu of thoth whose number is zero, and whose name is maat, truth, or maut, the vulture, the all-mother, being an image of our lady nuith, but also it is called the fool, who is parsifal 'der reine thor, and so referreth to him that walketh in the way of the tao. also, he is harpocrates, the child horus, walking (as saith david, the badawi that became king, in his psalms) upon the lion and the dragon; that is, he is in unity with his own secret nature, as i have shewn thee in my word concerning the sphinx. o my son, yester eve came the spirit upon me that i also should eat the grass of the arabs, and by virtue of the bewitchment thereof behold that which might be appointed for the enlightenment of mine eyes. now then of this may i not speak, seeing that it involveth the mystery of the t

on to identify the climax of love with that of life. it is then not unnatural for us to ask: can 'death' have some deeper significance than appears? scorpio, the zodiacal sign of death, is really the sexual or reproductive function of nature. it is the earth-transcending eagle, the self-restoring serpent, and the self-immolating scorpion. in alchemy it is the principle of putrefaction, the "black dragon, whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the rainbow-coloured spring-tide of the man in motley. the nymph of spring, syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but breath to fill the world with music, attracts pan, the goat-god of ecstatic lust, by whose work the glory of summer is established anew. it is obvious that "the length of thy longing" varies with the number of p

ion, the mixture will be much too strong. in fact, the oil of cinnamon may injure the eyes or raise blisters if used at this strength. al iii,24 "the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what" the new comment a: menstrual blood. b: possibly "dragon's blood. these two kinds of 'blood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover the sense of this passage by recollecting the qabalistic statement that "the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour

e unto me" is a foolish word; for it is i that go. now the semen is god (the going-one, as shown by the ankh or sandal-strap, which he carries) because he goes in at the door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that seed of going (the birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true going-principle is the lion-serpent, or dragon; the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions) weh note: shall we simply say that crowley had a problem with misogyny in general? his love for the specific seems not to have been effected, witness the latter part of "confessions. liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore

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tau (see 400, also hta, thou. note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7) gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.54 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. tud, knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth heads of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was

ryba, mighty this shows abrahadabra as the word of double power, another phrase that meant much to me at the time. a a a a r a d b h b (3) baa at the top of the hexagram gives ba, amya, b, father, mother, child. rdh by yetzirah gives horus, isis, osiris, again father, mother, child. this hexagram is again the human triad. dividing into 3 and 8 we get the triangle of horus dominating the stooping dragon of 8 heads, the supernals bursting the head of daath. also a r b a a a a h d r b the supernals are supported upon two squares: daba= dd, love, 8. arha= rwa, light, 207. now 8 207= 1656= 18= yj, living, and 207= 9 23, hyj, life. at this time licht, liebe, leben was the mystic name of the mother-temple of the g\d. 72 twza, a hebrew spelling of azoth, also adds to this number. vide liber cdxiv

id not understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least tittle of a magical oath. 463. shows what the wand ought to represent. not 364;74 so we should hold it by the lower end. the wand is also will, straight and inflexible, pertaining to chokmah (2) as a wand has two ends. 474. see part i. to the beginner, though, daath seems very helpful. he is glad that the stooping dragon attacks the sanctuary. he is doing it himself. hence buddhists make ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten fetters. but in truth knowledge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.75 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero. and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but

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we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my mother under the dragon s tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows i am rough and lecherous. sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and religion

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the hunchback! and? by aleister crowley 113 the hermit 137 the temple of solomon the king (book i) 141 the herb dangerous (part i) a pharmaceutical study. by e. whineray, m.p.s. 233 "special supplement" john st. john- the record of the magical retirement of g. h. 17 frater o. m. i l l u s t r a t i o n s the silent watcher facing page 6 the four positions: the ibis, the god, the thunderbolt, the dragon" 29 the regimen of the seven" 89 blind force (supplement" 2 illustrations are not available in this electronic edition. editorial with the publication of this review begins a completely new adventure in the history of mankind. whatever knowledge may previously have been imputed to men, it has always been fenced in with conditions and restrictions. the time has come to speak plainly, and so

, you will be given more complex and difficult exercises. iii "asana- posture" 1. you must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods. 27 2. you must wear no garment that interferes with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. the first position (the god. sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. the second position (the dragon. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. the third position (the ibis. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms st

ion; and, should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices. 28 illustration facing next page: halftone: four photographs of a man (crowley) with face blanked out, dressed only in a gemmed cross on a chain about his neck and (upper panels only) a masonic apron. nipples and navel are air-brushed out. the postures shown are "the ibis "the god "the thunderbolt" and "the dragon. titled below to critique the examples "in the ibis the head is tilted very slightly too far back; in the thunderbolt the right foot might be a little higher and the right knee lower with advantage. iv "pranayama- regularisation of the breathing" 1. at rest in one of your positions, close the right nostril with the thumb of the right hand and breathe out slowly and completely through the le

e, and its hinder quarters were as a bull's. 90 moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working "he slayeth sir merlin the wizard" yet our brother perardua- and by now he was right skilful at the athanor- determined to attain to that higher projection of our art. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will have it, a fiery flying serpent, whereby he should eat up that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venomous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one

ery flying serpent, whereby he should eat up that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venomous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one "he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted" now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that which cometh forth therefrom is in no wise that which went in. yet are these twelve the children of those two-and twenty. so when he had broken the cucurbite, he found therein no trace of the seven, but a button of fused gold- as we

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u (see 400, also athh "thou" note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7, gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh- i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part, q.v. 419. tith, the letter teth. 434. dlth, the letter daleth. 440. thli, the great dragon. 441. amth, truth. note 441= 21 x 21. 21 is ahih, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. thn, the great dragon. 463. nth hshqd, moses' wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. dvth, weh note: sic, should be doth in the substitutions used in text knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eig

note 441= 21 x 21. 21 is ahih, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. thn, the great dragon. 463. nth hshqd, moses' wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. dvth, weh note: sic, should be doth in the substitutions used in text knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth head of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was shattered, and macroposopus set cherubim against microposopus. see 4= 7 ritual "supra" also, and very specially, liber 418. it is the demon that purely intellectual or rational religions take as their god. the special danger of hinayana buddhism. 480. lilith, the demon-queen of malkuth. 543. ahih ashr ahih "i am that i am" 666. last of the mystic numbers

205= gbr, mighty. this shows abrahadabra as 213= abir, mighty. the word of double power, another phrase that meant much to me at the time. aab at the top of the hexagram gives ab, aima, bn, father, mother, child. hdr by yetzirah gives horus, isis, osiris, again father, mother, child. this hexagram is again the human triad. dividing into 3 and 8 we get the triangle of horus dominating the stooping dragon of 8 heads, the supernals bursting the head of daath. also a\ the supernals are supported upon two squares- r--b a--b a--h abad= dd, love, 8. a--d r--a ahra= avr, light, 207. now 8 x 207= 1656= chi, living, and 207= 9 x 23, chih, life. at this time "licht, liebe, leben" was the mystic name of the mother-temple of the g. d. 117 the five letters used in the word are a, the crown; b, the wand;

did not understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least tittle of a magical oath. 463. shows that the wand ought to represent. not 364; so we should hold it by the lower end. the wand is also will, straight and inflexible, pertaining to chokmah (2) as a wand has two ends. 474. see part i. to the beginner, though, daath seems very helpful. he is glad that the stooping dragon attacks the sanctuary. he is doing it himself. hence buddhists make ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten fetters. but in truth knowledge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of misery. 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and sublime zero "and therefore their breaths stink" 543. good, but only carri

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d be thou for ever! thy shadow is as great light. thy name is as the breath of love across all worlds. illustration on page 5 approximated (a vast svastika is shewn unto me behind the angel with the book) rend your garments, o ye clouds! uncover yourselves! for the love of my son! who are they that trouble thee? who are they that slew thee? o light! come thou, who art joined with me to bruise the dragon's head. we, who are wedded, and the earth perceiveth it not! o that our bed were seen of men, that they might rejoice in my fertility: that my sister might partake of my great light. o light of god, when wilt thou find the heart of man- write not! i would not that men know the sorrow of my heart, amen! i turned me to the west, and the archangel bore a flaming book, on which was written an i

orela zodireda! on pireda exentaser; arba pire gah gaha gahal gahalana vo abra na gaha velucorsapax. 2 in the light of the cry of loe, this passage seems to mean precisely the opposite of its apparent meaning. and the voice of the aeon cried: return, return, return! the time sickeneth, and the space gapeth, and the voice of him that is, was and shall be crowned rattles in the throat of the mighty dragon of eld. thou canst not pass by me, except thou have the mystery of the word of the abyss. now the angel putteth back the sapphire stone into his breast; and i spake unto him and said, i will fight with thee and overcome thee, except thou expound unto me the word of the abyss. now he makes as if to fight with me (it is very horrible, all the tentacles moving and the flail flashing, and the f

thine heart, and that its petals should be by 7 and by 7? 16 she is weeping, weeping. and the tears grow and fill the whole stone with moons. i can see nothing and hear nothing for the tears, though she keeps on praying "take of these pearls, treasure them in thine heart. is not the kingdom of the abyss accurst" she points downward to the cauldron; and now in it there is the head of a most cruel dragon, black and corrupted. i watch, and watch; and nothing happens. and now the dragon rises out of the cauldron, very long and slim (like japanese dragons, but infinitely more terrible, and he blots out the whole sphere of the stone. then suddenly all is gone, and there is nothing in the stone save brilliant white light and flecks like sparks of golden fire; and there is a ringing, as if bells

an old man like the hermit of the taro has opened it and come out. i ask him for admission: and he shakes his head kindly, and says: it is not given to flesh and blood to unveil the mysteries of the aethyr, for therein are the chariots of fire. and the tumult of the horsemen; whoso entereth here may never look on life again with equal eyes. i insist. 47 the little gate is guarded by a great green dragon. and now the whole wall is suddenly fallen away; there is a blaze of the chariots and the horsemen; a furious battle is raging. one hears nothing but the clash of steel and the neighing of the chargers and the shrieks of the wounded. a thousand fall at every encounter and are trampled under foot. yet the aethyr is always full; there are infinite reserves. no; that is all wrong, for this is

r meanings, but they all imply this one thing; that nothing is of any importance but man; there is no hope or help but in man. and she says: sweet are my kisses, o wayfarer that wanderest from star to star. sweet are my kisses, o householder that weariest within four walls. thou art pent within thy brain, and my shaft pierceth it, and thou art free. thine imagination eateth up the universe as the dragon that eateth up the moon. and in my shaft is it concentrated and bound up. see how all around thee gather my warriors, strong knights in goodly armour ready for war. look upon my crown; it is above the stars. behold the glow and the blush thereof! upon thy cheek is the breeze that stirs those plumes of truth. for though i am the angel of the fourteenth key, i am also the angel of the eighth

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power to create magical images is still with me. 11.40- hanged man posture. will invoke adonai once more 12.0. by pure thought. got into a very curious state indeed; part of me being quite perfectly asleep, and part quite perfectly awake. 2.10. have slept, and that soundly, though with many dreams. awaking with the utmost horror and loathing of the path of the wise it seemed somehow like a vast dragon-demon with bronze green wings iridescent that rose up startled and angry. and i saw that 19 2.10. the littlest courage is enough to rise and throw off sleep, like a small soldier in complete armour of silver advancing with sword and shield at whose sight that dragon, not daring to abide the shock, flees utterly away. 2.15. lunch, 3 garibaldis and 3 gaufrettes. wrote two letters. 2.50. goin

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em of the perfect man. fludd, bonaventura, lully, valentinus, flamel, geber, plotinus, ammonius, iamblichus and dionysius were all devoured with the avidity and greed which youth alone possesses; there was no halting here"'now, master, take a little rest- not he (caution redoubled, step two abreast, the way winds narrowly) not a wit troubled back to his studies, fresher than at first, fierce as a dragon he (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst) sucked at the flagon" 234 plunging into the "tenebrae" of transcendental physics, he sought the great fulfilment, and unknowingly in the exuberance of his enthusiasm left the broad road of the valley and struck out on the mountain-track towards that ultimate summit which gleams with the stone of the wise, and whose secret lies in the opening of the "

and the vicegerents in the palaces of the rulers ameshet at the n.e, thoumathph at the s.e, ahephi or ahapshi at the s.w, kabetznuph at the n.w. of the place of the evil triad this is the place of yesod, it is termed the place of the evil one, of the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuser and punisher of the brethren. wherefore is he frequently represented in egypt with the head of a water-dragon, the body of a lion or leopard, and hindquarters of a water- horse. he is the administrator of the evil triad, whereof the members are: apophrasz. the stooping dragon. satan-typhon. the slayer of osiris. besz. the brutal power of demoniac force. 247 9 a document which by some of the members of the g. d. was considered to be forged. it purported to be signed by s.d.a. and others, and authori

which is spiritual. the sides of the altar, 265 together with the top and underside, consist of ten squares, thus symbolising the ten sephiroth "the altar of incense was overlaid with gold, to represent essential purity, but the altar before you is black to typify the terrestrial earth. learn then to separate the pure from the impure, the refined and spiritual gold of the alchymist from the black dragon of putrefaction in evil "i now congratulate you on having attained to the 1= 10 grade of zelator, and in recognition thereof i confer on you the mystic title of pereclinos de faustis, which signifies that you are still far from the goal which has been reached by the complete initiates" shortly after this the closing takes place, and the prayer of the spirits of the earth is rehearsed, and t

sentation of the fall "the great goddess, who in the 3= 8 degree, was supporting the columns of the sephiroth in the form of the sign of theoricus("i.e, of atlas supporting the world) being tempted by the fruit of the tree of knowledge, stooped down to the qliphoth. the columns were unsupported, and the sephirotic scheme was shattered; and with it fell adam the microprosopus. then arose the great dragon with seven heads and ten horns, cutting by his folds malkuth from the sephiroth, and linking it to the kingdom of the shells. the seven lower sephiroth were cut off from the three supernals in da th, at the feet of aima elohim. and on the head of the dragon are the names of the eight edomite kings, and on the horns the names of the eleven dukes of edom. and because in da th was the utmost r

rns the names of the eleven dukes of edom. and because in da th was the utmost rise of the great serpent of evil; therefore there is as it were another sephira, making eight heads according to the number of the eight kings; and for the infernal and averse sephiroth eleven instead of ten, according to the number of the eleven dukes of edom. the infernal waters of d ath rushed from the mouth of the dragon- and this is the leviathan. tetragrammaton elohim placed four letters of the holy name, and also the flaming sword, that the uppermost part of the tree of life might not be involved in the fall of adam" illustration on page 283 partly described "diagram 51. the fall" this is a development from diagram #33 on page 235. it is composed of a circle above, containing three smaller, slightly over

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life, my first duty is to describe them. the island is a large one. when i have gone round it myself i shall perhaps be able to give a rough estimate of its area. for the present i can but say "it is a large island" we have trees by thousands: water trees, from which, after the stems have been cut and slashed, the water pours down; kola-nut trees, papaw tress, with their flowers, male and female; dragon trees, fig trees, cocoa-nut palms, bread-fruit trees, and the rest. beautiful birds are dwelling in the branches. all that is needed for life is abundant and easy to gather. the climate permits us 367 to spend night and day in the open, and when i retire to sleep on the box whose cover i have turned out to be, my companions sleep in the trees. no venomous or objectionable beast has yet dare

want the grain. and (for god's sake) if you must be ploughmen, at least let us have the furrows straight! do you really think you have helped us much when you have shown that a horse is really the same as a cow, only different? 388 quite right; it is indeed kind of you to have pointed out that even gadarene pigs might fly, but are very unlikely birds, and that the said horse is (after all) not a dragon. very, very kind of you. thank you so much. and now will you kindly go away? the supersensual life. by jacob boehme. translated by william law. h.r.allenson, i"s. net. this admirable little treatise, now so beautifully and conveniently printed, deserves a place on every bookshelf. it contains the essential knowledge of our own community in the christian- but not too christian- dialect. i ha

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lso the advantage of falling across ludlow's book, and was struck by the circumstance that he, obviously ignorant of vedantist and 36 yogic doctrines, yet approximately expressed them, though in a degraded and distorted form. i was also aware of the prime agony of meditation, the "dryness<apophis in the mystic regenerative process isis apophis osiris i a o; or the black dragon in the alchemical translation from the first matter of the work into the elixir (as molinos calls it) which hardens and sterilises the soul. the very practice which should flood it with light leads only to a darkness more terrible than death, a despair and disgust which only too often lead to abandonment, when in truth they should encourage, for that- as the oracles affirm- it is darkest be

red blood of our heart to the ineffable crown of brilliance, who have seen what angel stands in the moon-ray, who have known the perfume and the vision, seen the drops of dew supernal stand on the silver lamen of the forehead- for us is neither fear nor pride, but silence in the one thought of the one beyond all thought. the world of phantoms has no terror left; we can take the blood of the black dragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ease upon the path of the chameleon, by the towers of iron and the fountains of supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea most still. xiii "from the cavities of the earth leap forth the

e hippodrome whose gladiators shock and shun as the blue night devours them, crested comb of sleep's dead sea that eats the shores of life, rings round eternity! ii so, he is gone whose giant sword shed flame into my bowels; my blood's bewitched; my brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame. that tearing pain is gone, enriched by his life-spasm; but he being gone, the same myself is gone sucked by the dragon down below death's horizon. iii i woke from this. i lay upon the lawn; they had thrown roses on the moss 93 with all their thorns; we came there at the dawn, my lord and i; god sailed across the sky in's galleon of amber, drawn by singing winds while we wove garlands of the flowers of our minds. iv all day my lover deigned to murder me, linking his kisses in a chain about my neck; demon-emb

n the next word, vau-aleph-taw, we find that the conjunctive hb:vau makes of the key number of the essence of the earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the world should fall unto the kingdom of the shells, and how it should be redeemed by the son of man<qliphoth; but when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon there was added unto the tree dalet-ayin-taw, the knowledge, as the 11th sephira, to preserve intact the "ten"-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil should come the saving of mankind; for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby cometh salvation. wherefore also is 11 the key number of the great

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iving among the dead "chief adept" i am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth on me, shall never die "second adept" behold the image [directing attention to lower half of lid8] of the justified one, crucified on the cross of the infernal rivers of death, and thus rescuing malkuth from the folds of the red dragon. illustration facing page 218 described "diagram 71. the lid of the pastos" this is a black and white halftone tipped in on clayed paper. it is a long vertical rectangle, 7x19 proportions, divided into a gray (white) background half on top and a black background half on bottom. in the top half is a floating figure of jehovah, head gloried by rays forming a right canted star of one off verti

f seven colours (3) the floor, chiefly black. the ceiling consists of a triangle, enclosing a rose of twenty-two petals surrounded by a heptagram. on the triangle are the three supernal sephiroth, and in the heptangle the seven lower ones. 221 the floor is black, having upon it also a triangle enclosed with a heptagram, bearing the titles of the averse and evil sephiroth as shown by the great red dragon with seven heads. in the midst of the evil triangle is the rescuing symbol of the golden cross united to the red rose of forty- nine petals "but the whiteness above shineth the brighter for the blackness which is beneath, and thus mayest thou at length comprehend that even the evil helpeth forward the good "and between that light and that darkness vibrate the seven colours of the rainbow" w

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the galaxies of thy domain, to press thy lamb's breasts with the teeth of my soul, and drink of the milk and blood of thy subtlety and innocence. 9. o thou eternal river of chaotic law, in whose depths lie locked the secrets of creation; i swear to thee by the primal waters of the deep, to suck up the firmament of thy chaos, and as a volcano to belch forth a cosmos of coruscating suns. 10. o thou dragon-regent of the blue seas of air, as a chain of emeralds round the neck of space; i swear to thee by the hexagram of night and day, to be unto thee as the twin fish of time, which being set apart never divulge the secret of their unity. 11. o thou flame of the horn d storm-clouds, that 17 sunderest their desolation, that outroarest the winds; i swear to thee by the gleaming sandals of the sta

ing breast. 5. o thou wanton cup-bearer of madness, whose mouth is as the joy of a thousand thousand masterful kisses; intoxicate me on thy loveliness, so that the silver of thy 28 merriment may revel as a moon-white pearl upon my tongue. 6. o thou midnight vision of whiteness, whose lips are as pouting rosebuds deflowered by the deciduous moon; tend me as a drop of dew in thy breast, so that the dragon of thy gluttonous hate may devour me with its mouth of adamant. 7. o thou effulgence of burning love, who pursueth the dawn as a youth pursueth a rose-lipped maiden; rend me with the fierce kisses of thy mouth, so that in the battle of our lips i may be drenched by the snow pure fountains of thy bliss. 8. o thou black bull in a field of white girls, whose foaming flanks are as starry night

. 12. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou star-blaze of undying expectation; thou ibis-throated voice of silence; thou blinding night of understanding: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white finger of chaotic law; o thou creative cockatrice twined amongst the waters! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till my cries stir the night as the burnished gold of a lance thrust into a poisonous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount

i cannot grasp thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i hurl me down the scarlet throat of a volcano, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 3. o thou unity of all things: as the moon that waneth and increaseth in the heavens, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot stay thee; for thou art everywhere; lo! though i devour thee, as a dragon devoureth a kid, there still shall i find thee, thou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! 4. o thou unity of all things: as the dust that danceth over the breast of the desert, so art thou, o god my god. i cannot seize thee, for thou art everywhere; lo! though i lick up with my tongue the bitter salt of the plains, there still 52 shall i find thee, thou unity

ou unity of unities, thou oneness, o thou perfect nothingness of bliss! o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 54 the chapter known as hexagram the hundred and sixty-nine cries of adoration and the unity thereof i adore thee by the hundred and sixty- nine cries of adoration and by the unity thereof. o thou dragon-prince of the air, that art drunk on the blood of the sunsets! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unicorn of the storm, that art crested above the purple air! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning sword of passion, that art tempered on the anvil of flesh! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou slimy lust of the grave, that art tangled in the roots of the tr

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ons to which our priest-loving, sin-conscious slaves now flock. refinement of cruelty! thou hast replaced the trappist cell by the court theatre! for this, i, who prefer the study to the theatre, forgive thee; for i love not the badger-reek of suburbia and bohemia in my nostrils. but for this also i praise thee, that lion-like thou turnest at last upon the jackal-crowd at thy heels. that ungainly dragon, the chesterbelloc, hast thou ridden against, 349 good st. george bernard shaw! with a spear thou hast pierced its side, and there floweth forth beer and water. turn also, gramercy, upon the others, even unto the lowest. as ibsen hawked at carrion birds with a wild duck, so do thou create some harpy to torment them. who is this that followeth thee? behold this mumbler born to butcher the en

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med the bulls with ease- the white and the black. he ploughed the double field- the east and the west. he sowed the dragons' teeth- the armies of doubt; and among them did he cast he stone of zoroaster given to him by medea, queen of enchantments, so that immediately they turned their weapons one against the other, and perished. and then lastly, on the mystic cup of iacchus he lulled to sleep the dragon of the illusions of life, and taking down the golden fleece accomplished the great work. then once again did he set 44 sail, and sped past circe, through scylla and carybdis; beyond the singing sisters of sicily, back to the fair plains of thessaly and the wooded slopes of olympus. and one day shall it come to pass that he will return to that far distant land where hung that fleece of gold

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te of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the presence of the eternal gods. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the radix of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness. the becoming visible of matter. the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon. the breaking forth of the light["all being seated, the" four probationers "rise from among the other" probationers "and march to the altar] first probationer. 333-333-22. brethren, let us kindle the holy perfumes in honour of the most divine god. all four probationers["while he does so] hail unto the most divine lord mercury! first probationer["to" fr. gemini] our brother, child 97 of the

ght on["he seats" sor. gemini "upon his throne. she plays her babe- music<gemini. the will of the gods be accomplished["all depart" 108 the rite of luna officers luna "silver robe and veil. violin. artemis. the lady of the moon" cancer "amber robe. cup. warden of the holy graal" taurus "orange robe. bow and quiver. the lord of the bow" a nymph "white robe. the head of the dragon" a satyr "black robe. the tail of the dragon" pan "black robe, tom-tom "in the east luna is throned, cancer on her right, taurus on her left. beyond these the satyr and the nymph. at the apex of a descending triangle, upon the earth, pan" 111 the rite of luna "one reciteth "the twelvefold certitude of god" from" 963 "the veil is withdrawn" cancer. 333-333-333. taurus. 333-333-333. cancer. 1

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ove; he lets us die together. laylah. together at last! rinaldo. you and i, love, you and i. laylah. you and i["the flames blaze to heaven with a roar" rinaldo "and" laylah "are blotted out" urchin. what has he done? isaac. he was trying to save his diamonds. that was the grand master of the temple. it was his crest; she must have stolen it. a diamond scorpion! oh dear! oh dear! urchin. i'll be a dragon, with wings. they shan't burn me; i'll burn them. isaac. of course, you will, you little fire-eater. what's your great name? urchin. saladin. curtain. 107 the earth the child of miracle to the world, greeting. i reach my hands to the leaves and dabble in the dew: i sprinkle dew on you for kisses. i kneel down and hold the grass of the black earth to my bosom; i crush the earth to my lips as

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ion of the symbols and formulas which embody the knowledge whereby- 97- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust they can eventually work. these formulas are based upon nine symbols which are now recognised: 1. the cross in its varying forms. 2. the lotus. 3. the triangle. 4. the cube. 5. the sphere and the point. 6. eight animal forms, the goat, the bull, the elephant, the man, the dragon, the bear, the lion, and the dog. 7. the line. 8. certain signs of the zodiac, hence the need for the study of astrology. 9. the cup, or the holy grail. all these symbols allied, interwoven, or taken in part, are combined to express one or other of the seven secrets. the initiate has to recognise them by sight as well as to hear them, and by an effort of the will to imprint them irrevocably

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of both these cosmic entities stands another entity who is the embodiment of will, and who is the utiliser of forms though not the forms of any other than the greater building devas and the human hierarchies in time and space. he is the animating principle; the will-to-live aspect of the seven hierarchies. nevertheless these seven hierarchies are (as says h. p. b) the sevenfold ray of wisdom, the dragon in its seven forms.66,(58)67,68(59) this is a deep mystery, and only a clue to it all can be found at this time by man in the contemplation of his own nature in the three worlds of his manifestation. just as our logos is seeking objectivity through his solar system in its threefold form of which the present is the second, so man seeks objectivity through his three bodies physical, astral an

: the egoic ray can always be one of the seven, but we need to remember that, in this astral-buddhic solar system, wherein love and wisdom are being brought into objectivity, the bulk of the monads are on the love-wisdom ray. the fact, therefore, of its being the synthetic ray has a vast significance. this is the system of the son, whose name is love. this is the divine incarnation of vishnu. the dragon of wisdom is in manifestation, and he brings into incarnation those cosmic entities who are in essence identical with himself. after the third initiation all human beings find themselves on their monadic ray, on one of the three major rays, and the fact that masters and initiates are found on all the rays is due to the following two factors: first. each major ray has its subrays, which corr

tually merged into the three, and finally the three are blended into the one. this can be traced along the line of analogy as we consider the seven rays. these seven rays, which in manifestation are diverse, are eventually synthesised. the minor four are blended, we are told, into the third major ray, and the three major rays are finally merged into the one synthetic ray, the love-wisdom ray (the dragon of wisdom, the occult serpent swallowing its tail).95(84) this has been pointed out by- 135- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust h. p. b. we have, therefore, the three crowning rays, but seven seen during the evolutionary process. in connection with the heavenly men, functioning through the planets, there are, therefore, three planets which might be considered as synthesisi

ret doctrine by diverse names, are the mind-born sons of brahma, the third aspect logoic. they are the seven planetary logoi, and are the lords of the rays, the seven heavenly men. they developed the mind aspect in the first solar system, that in which brahma was paramount, and in himself embodied objective existence. this he did in the same sense as that in which the second aspect (the vishnu or dragon of wisdom aspect) is the sumtotal of existence in this the second system. the cells in their bodies are made up of the units of the human and deva evolutions in the same manner (only on a higher turn of the spiral) as the bodies of human beings are made up of living organisms, the various animated cells, or the lesser lives. this is a basic fact in occultism, and the relationship between th

erfected manasaputras. man aims at becoming a divine manasaputra, or perfected son of mind showing forth all the powers inherent in mind, and thus becoming like unto his monadic source, a heavenly man. a heavenly man has developed manas, and is occupied with the problem of becoming a son of wisdom, not inherently but in full manifestation. a solar logos is both a divine manasaputra and likewise a dragon of wisdom, and his problem concerns itself with the development of the principle of cosmic will which will make him what has been called a "lion of cosmic will" throughout all these graded manifestations the law holds good, and the lesser is included in the greater. hence the need for the student to preserve with care a due sense of proportion, a discrimination as to time in evolution, and

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doctrine. the relation of the fifth hierarchy to a certain constellation has also a bearing upon this mystery. this is hidden in the karma of the solar logos, and concerns his relationship to another solar logos, and the interplay of force between them in a great mahakalpa. this is the true "secret of- 27- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the dragon" and it was the dragon-influence or the "serpent energy" which caused the influx of manasic or mind energy into the solar system. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in lem

tem. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in lemurian days. it had to do with solar and planetary kundalini, or serpent fire. a hint lies in the fact that the constellation of the dragon has the same relation to the one greater than our logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. it concerns stimulation, and vitalisation with a consequent co-ordination of the manifesting fires. a clue to the mystery lies also in the relation of this fifth group to the two contracting poles. they are the five-fold links, the "benign uniters" and "the producers of the a

quality-appearance (considered in the opening pages of volume i; thus also to the creativity of the three major rays; thus to their basic relation and thus to their enduring and persistent synthesis. the circle of revelation is rounded out; the cycle is completed; the serpent of matter, the serpent of wisdom and the serpent of life are seen to be one whole and behind the three "stands the eternal dragon for ever spawning forth the triple serpent, for ever saying: go forth and come thou back" thus speaks the old commentary in reference to this matter. three words are concerned with this triple manifestation: attraction, subtraction, abstraction and these three are related (as far as man is concerned) to the first three initiations, but only from the will aspect and in relation definitely to

potent in influence and until etheric vision is developed, all calculations will be full of error (c.f. 1057) 37 "a planetary logos is the meeting place for two types of force, spiritual or logoic, which reaches him. from the seven rishis of the great bear on their own plane, and, secondly, of buddhic force which is transmitted via the seven sisters or the pleiades from a constellation called the dragon and from which has come the appellation `the dragon of wisdom (c.f. 1162) tabulations related to astrology the rays and the planets (according to besant) ray method planet colour i. will or power raja yoga u ranus f lame (representing sun) ii. love-wisdom intuition raja yoga m ercury y ellow. rose iii. higher mind h igher venus indigo. blue. mathematics philosophy b ronze iv. conflict birth

s who mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle. they are as mysterious as their supposed wives, the pleiades (s.d. ii. 579) 3 "the first `seven stars' are not planetary. they are the leading stars of seven constellations which turn around with the great bear (s.d. iii. 195) 4 "in egypt, the great bear was the constellation. called the mother of the revolutions, and the dragon with seven heads was assigned to saturn, who was called the dragon of life (s.d. iii. 195) 5 "in the book of enoch, the great bear is called leviathan (s.d. iii. 195) 6 "our solar system with the pleiades and one of the stars of the great bear form a cosmic triangle or an aggregation of three centres in the body of the one about whom naught may be said. the seven stars of the great bear cor

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is divinity is only revealed when the second aspect has accomplished its work, through the medium of the third aspect, but under the directing will of the first aspect. 4. it is the centre where the "serpent of god" undergoes two transformations: a. the serpent of matter lies coiled. b. this serpent is transformed into the serpent of wisdom. c. the serpent of wisdom is translated and becomes the "dragon of living light" 5. these three stages are nurtured by the life and energy pouring down through the entire length of the spinal column, via the etheric correspondence of the spinal cord, and in time and space this downpouring (plus the simultaneously uprising life) produces: a. the awakening in a gradual and orderly manner of the centres, according to ray types. b. the reversal of the centr

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place through the medium of a culminating catastrophe which wiped hundreds of thousands of human beings off the face of the earth. this historical event has been preserved for us in the universal legend of the great flood. those who survived are symbolically spoken of in the bible as those who were saved in noah's ark, and in the ancient writings it is expressed in the following terms "like as a dragon snake uncoils slowly its body, so the sons of men, led on by the sons of wisdom, opened their folds and spreading out like a running stream of sweet waters. many of the faint- hearted among them perished on their way. but most were saved" a close study of the tale as given in the secret doctrine will reveal the state of immature development (from the angle of our modern standards) and of th

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ing source of manas. there the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity" these seven paths are not concerned with nature or the balancing of the pairs of opposites. they are concerned only with unity, with that which utilises the pairs of opposites as factors in the production of light. path i. earth service attributes..wise compassion. source..constellation of the dragon, via libra. method..twelve cosmic identifications. hierarchy..the sixth. symbol..a green dragon issuing from the centre of a blazing sun. behind the sun and overtopping it can be seen two pillars on either side of a closed door. quality gained. luminosity. path ii. path of magnetic work attributes..responsiveness to heat and knowledge of rhythm. source..an unknown constellation, via gemini

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ll me the way, o teacher of my soul. i seek the apples and i need them quickly for my use. show me the quickest way and i will go "not so, my son, replied the teacher "the way is long. two things alone i will confide to you, and then it is for you to prove the truth of what i say. remember that the sacred tree is [55] guarded well. three maidens fair cherish the tree, protecting well its fruit. a dragon with one hundred heads protects the maidens and the tree. guard thyself well from strength too great for thee, from wiles too subtle for thy comprehension. watch well. the second thing that i would say to thee is that thy search will carry thee where five great tests will meet thee on the way. each will afford thee scope for wisdom, understanding, skill and opportunity. watch well. i fear

travelling, he heard a rumor from a passing pilgrim on the way that, near a distant mountain, the tree was to be found, the first true statement given him as yet. therefore he turned his feet to the high mountains of the east and, on a bright and sunny day, he saw the object of his search and hastened then his steps "now i shall touch the sacred tree" he shouted in his joy "surmount the guarding dragon; see the fair maidens of wide fame; and pluck the apples" but again, he was arrested by a sense of deep distress. atlas confronted him, staggering 'neath the load of worlds upon his back. his face was lined with suffering; his limbs were bowed with pain; his eyes were closed with agony; he asked no help; he saw not hercules but stood bowed down with pain, with the weight of worlds. hercules

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powers for themselves, and the powers created for themselves six angels for each one until they became 365 angels. and these are the bodies belonging with the names: the first is athoth, a he has a sheep's face; the second is eloaiou, he has a donkey's face; the third is astaphaios, he has a hyena's face; the fourth is yao, he has a serpent's face with seven heads; the fifth is sabaoth, he has a dragon's face; the sixth is adonin, he had a monkey's face; the seventh is sabbede, he has a shining fire-face. this is the sevenness of the week "but yaltabaoth had a multitude of faces, more than all of them, so that he could put a face before all of them, according to his desire, when he is in the midst of seraphs. he shared his fire with them; therefore he became lord over them. because of the

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sam. when these three are united, we may call them the mercurial liquid: a water which was examined by mercury, found by him to be pure and spotless, and therefore espoused by him as his wife. of the two was born an incombustible oil; for mercury became so proud that he hardly knew himself. he put twelve keys of basil valentine 17 of 95 forth eagle feathers, and devoured the slippery tail, of the dragon, and challenged mars to battle. then mars summoned his horsemen, and bade them enclose mercury in prison under the ward of vulcan, until he should be liberated by one of the female sex. when this became known, the other planets assembled and held a deliberation on the question, what would be the best and wisest course to adopt. when they were met together, saturn first came forward, and del

degroom is placed, must consist of two hostile kinds of matter, that purge and rectify each other by means of a continued struggle. for it is not good for the eagle to build her nest on the summit of the alps, because her young ones are thus in great twelve keys of basil valentine 31 of 95 danger of being frozen to death by the intense cold that prevails there. but if you add to the eagle the icy dragon that has long had its habitation upon the rocks, and has crawled forth from the caverns of the earth, and place both over the fire, it will elicit from the icy dragon a fiery spirit, which, by means of its great heat, will consume the wings of the eagle, and prepare a perspiring bath of so extraordinary a degree of heat that the snow will melt upon the summit of the mountains, and become a

nd again rejected by it. then it must be so exalted as to shine more brightly than all the stars of heaven, and in its essence it must have an abundance of blood, like the pelican, which wounds its own breast, and, without any diminution of its strength, nourishes and rears up many young ones with its blood. this tincture is the rose of our masters, of purple hue, called also the red blood of the dragon, or the purple cloak many times folded with which the queen of salvation is covered, and by which all metals are regenerated in colour. carefully preserve this splendid mantle, together with the astral salt which is joined to this sulphur, and screens it from harm. add to it a sufficient quantity of the volatility of the bird; then the cock will swallow the fox, and, having been drowned in

f vulcan was twelve keys of basil valentine 73 of 95 produced from the spirit. body, soul, and spirit exist in both, whence the whole matter proceeds. it proceeds from one, and is one matter. bind together the fixed and the volatile; they are two, and three, and yet one only. if you do not understand you will attain nothing. adam was in a bath v v wherein venus found her like, which bath the aged dragon had prepared when his strength was deserting him. there is nothing, says the philosopher, save a double mercury; i say that no other matter has been named; blessed is he who understands it. seek therein, and be not weary; the result justifies the labour. a short appendix and clear resumption of the foregoing tract concerning the great stone of the ancient sages i, basil valentine, brother o

h and fat, while the bee prepares honey out of the precious juices of flowers and herbs. the great change which takes place in these and other substances is due to putrefaction, which separates and transmutes the constituent elements. the common spirit of salt, which is extracted according to the direction given in my last declaration, if there be added to it a small quantity of the spirit of the dragon, dissolves, volatilizes, and raises together with itself in the alembic, gold and silver; just as the eagle, together with the spirit of the dragon (which is found in stony places, before the spirit is separated twelve keys of basil valentine 79 of 95 from its body, is much more powerful in producing fixation than volatility. this i also say, that if the spirit of common salt be joined to t

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s, called often algol. the very essence of chaos is disruption and the opening of possibility, that we may destroy that which hinders ourselves and thus creating a new form of order. order exists until the self grows into stasis, thus chaos then grows into a positive self-liberation process. the opposer/adversary thus holds the black flame of being within chaos, that we are both the red and black dragon, the sun and the moon respectively. evolution itself is possible when the mind reaches back to the primal well of darkness, which holds the secrets of our origins and luciferic divinity, from then liberation is an available process of the divine gift. iii) saturn, the watchers and luciferian spirits the saturnian mysteries[7] is only one avenue of magical exploration which may be explored w

lf, from which all other god and goddess find their existence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our great famulus and demonium of the depths. the individual will then soon realize that there is no god and there is no devil, yet we as the image of the adversary, are both god and the master of the devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. iv) the dragon and vampyrism i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood o

flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace, scribe your name in the black book of the dead, with the witchblood of your veins, you are all my children, of lilith-hecate, your father is ahriman, lord of phantoms and darkness. lilith in nox umbra by michael ford the dragon itself holds a significant role within the darker and self-liberating aspects of the sabbatic path, being specifically a evocation of latent forms from which we become. considering the dragon itself is a model or form of the adversary, the symbolism of the red and black dragon are present. the red dragon itself is shaitan or samael, the dual aspects of self-liberation and transformation. as

self holds a significant role within the darker and self-liberating aspects of the sabbatic path, being specifically a evocation of latent forms from which we become. considering the dragon itself is a model or form of the adversary, the symbolism of the red and black dragon are present. the red dragon itself is shaitan or samael, the dual aspects of self-liberation and transformation. as the red dragon is a mirror or exteriorized (viewed as a form outside the self) form of the primal self, the dragon is also a form of ourselves developed and initiated into the luciferian mysteries. the dragon itself as the adversary is viewed in the initiatory context as both shaitan and lilith, the beholders of night. the dragon itself is considered the center point of the sabbatic arcanum, the initiator

night. the dragon itself is considered the center point of the sabbatic arcanum, the initiatory path of the serpent, which coils and encircles the spirit or psyche of the individual. arimanius frowned, the author foul of evil, how with shades from his dire mansion, he deformed the works of oromazes, turned to noxious heat the solar beam, that foodful earth might parch (yasht xix.11,12) the black dragon is symbolized as ahriman, the averse force of darkness and shadow. ahriman in zoroastrian terms is the great force of evil and darkness, whom was created divine but chose the shadow path. in the ancient persian religion of zoroastrianism, ahriman (called also arimanius or angra mainya) is one of the earliest forms of the devil itself, the father of those of the shadow, the demonium of the e

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

e lords of life-energy; regarding the possessions of delight for you, the assembly of the seven terrifying emanating ones: the tormas of red flesh and blood are piled up like a mountain. the uncontaminated nectar is contained like a lake. the oblation liquid of blood fills a pool. the possessions of the deity offering are spread out like the stars. the music of the thigh-bone trumpet roars like a dragon together with the assembly of pleasant song. 1.4. vow amendment (28.6-29.5 (29) amend the vows of the seven oath-bound brothers! amend the vows of the radiant wild might demons! amend the vows of the eight thousand classes of demons! amend the vows of the oath-bound shrine protectors! amend the vows of the messengers of the four activities! 535 sanskrit transliteration "bless the purified v

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

d and often misunderstood definition. essentially, the left hand path is by universal perception as being the mutation or transformation of consciousness into a divinity or divine conscious, this is done by the process of the practice of magick and sorcery to achieve the motion of the body and mind towards a higher perception. the black adepts of the order of phosphorus and the black order of the dragon are magicians who are committed to process of self-determined magical exercises to refine and expand their consciousness; through physical and mental activity. this includes but is not limited to, sexual magick, ceremonial practice and solitary workings of all kinds to seek the initiatory results of magick itself. this is not a path of prayer and supplication, but recognition of the sorcere

d. this deific energy or power may be recalled into the flesh and conscious mind of the practitioner, thus one finds the knowledge undertaken by earlier sects such as the golden dawn, the maskhara of the arabic and asian tribes, austin osman spare s zos kia cultus, etc. there are numerous rituals explored by luciferian sabbat practitioners within the order of phosphorus and the black order of the dragon which utilize old methods of lycanthropy and the shedding of flesh, of shape shifting by dream in therion form to go forth to the erotic convulsions of the infernal sabbat. the god of luciferian witchcraft is seth-an, or set (the same as samael, satan. this is the egyptian prince of darkness, a lord of chaos and sorcerous power. set should not be considered merely a god in an anthropomorphi

hat lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children. she was said to have been the reunited with her mate samael (ahriman) after the fall, when he would not be roused by his fellow fallen ones and demons, only the words of az (lilith) could rouse him. he then kissed her form and caused menstruation, which was passed on to all women as lilith is directly connected with their fiery and dark sides. the goddess of luciferian witchcraft

ith-az, does the initiatic stream of the watchers survive. those of the yatu or sorcerous path of ahriman within the circle of ritual evocation, known as azothoz, does the therion atavistic shadows emerge from the darkness of flesh. azothoz in the lore of the circle represents the alpha and omega, being the beginnning and end which is also the primal current of the serpent, or az azhi dahaka, the dragon king of persian sorcerous lore. the great work as within the model of the witches sabbat proves a challenging and darksome journey wherein the initiate drinks deep from 10 the skull cup filled with the venom d blood of seth-an, who then eats of the flesh of abel and whose blood is offered to his own angel-demon, the very essence and representation of the great work itself. the sabbat as bei

y nathaniel j. harris (privately circulated) witcha: a book of cunning by nathaniel j. harris (mandrake of oxford 2004) ecstasies: deciphering the witches sabbath by carlo ginzburg the sufis by idries shah secret societies by idries shah the book of shadows by gerald gardner michael w. ford is the magister of the order of phosphorus, a closed order of solitary initiates and the black order of the dragon, the inner guild based around yatukivah persian and chaos sorcery. he is the author of luciferian witchcraft: which contains 12 different grimoires including the left hand path tantric grimoire, adamu, a forbidden book of sexual magick, goetic sorcery, a luciferian approach to the 72 spirits of the shemhamforasche, yatuk dinoih and other works focused on the darksome rites of the path of sh

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

good and the origin of evil. this "creator" is neither good nor bad per se, but its differentiated aspects in nature make it assume one or the other character. with the invisible and the unknown universes disseminated through space, none of the sun-gods had anything to do. the idea is expressed very clearly in the "books of hermes" and in every ancient folk lore. it is symbolised generally by the dragon and the serpent- the dragon of good and the serpent of evil, represented on earth by[[footnote(s* for a clearer explanation of the origins, as contained in the esotericism of the bhagavad gita, see the notes thereon published in the "theosophist" for february, march and june, 1887, madras[[vol. 2, page] 26 the secret doctrine. the right and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finland

ruary, march and june, 1887, madras[[vol. 2, page] 26 the secret doctrine. the right and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finland, the kalewala* the origin of the serpent of evil is given: it is born from the "spittle of suoyatar. and endowed with a living soul by the principle of evil" hisi. a strife is described between the two, the "thing of evil (the serpent or sorcerer, and ahti, the dragon "magic lemminkainen" the latter is one of the seven sons of ilmatar, the virgin "daughter of the air" she "who fell from heaven into the sea" before creation, i.e, spirit transformed into the matter of sensuous life. there is a world of meaning and occult thought in these few lines, admirably rendered by dr. j. m. crawford, of cincinnati. the hero lemminkainen, the good magician "hews the w

to fragments. when the monster little heeding. pounces with his mouth of venom at the head of lemminkainen. but the hero, quick recalling, speaks the master words of knowledge, words that came from distant ages, words his ancestors had taught him (d) in china the men of fohi (or the "heavenly man) are called the twelve tien-hoang, the twelve hierarchies of dhyanis or angels, with human faces, and dragon bodies; the dragon standing for divine wisdom or spirit; and they create men by incarnating themselves in[[footnote(s* j. w. alden, new york* it has been repeatedly stated that the serpent is the symbol of wisdom and of occult knowledge "the serpent has been connected with the god of wisdom from the earliest times of which we have any historical notice" writes staniland wake "this animal wa

o 50 degrees, and to its being enveloped in eternal clouds. but it relates only to the physical constitution of the planet. it is with its regent, the informing dhyan chohan[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] have chosen the crescent for their national arms. venus has always been identified, since the establishment of roman catholic dogmatism, with satan and lucifer, or the great dragon, contrary to all reason and logic. as shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the serpent and the idea of darkness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it

l reason and logic. as shown by the symbologists and astronomers, the association between the serpent and the idea of darkness had an astronomical foundation. the position which the constellation of draco at one time occupied showed that the great serpent was the ruler of the night. this constellation was formerly at the very centre of the heavens, and is so extensive that it was called the great dragon. its body spreads over seven signs of the zodiac; and dupuis "who" says staniland wake "sees in the dragon of the apocalypse a reference to the celestial serpent" remarks that "it is not astonishing that a constellation so extended should be represented by the author of that book as a great dragon with seven heads, who drew the third part of the stars from heaven and cast them to earth (dup

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

nd non-being. 45 the eye of dangma. 47 alaya, the universal soul. 49[[vol. 1, page] x contents. page. stanza ii- the idea of differentiation. 53 the absolute knows itself not. 55 the germ of life was not yet. 57 the universe was still concealed in the divine thought. 61- stanza iii- the awakening of kosmos. 62 the great vibration. 63 nature's symbols. 65 the power of numbers. 67 the logoi and the dragon. 73 the astral light. 75 primeval radiations from unity. 79 the web of being. 83 conscious electricity: fohat. 85- stanza iv- the septenary hierarchies. 86 the sons of the fire. 86 the vehicle of the universe- the dhyan chohans. 89 the army of the voice. 93 speech and mind. 95 the ogdoad and the heptad. 99 the stellar "sons of light. 103- stanza v- fohat: the child of the septenary hierarch

1 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and originals. 393 the moon bi-sexual. 397- x. tree and serpent and crocodile worship. 403 degeneration of the symbol. 405 the seven-headed dragons. 407 dragon and crocodile. 409- xi. demon est deus inversus. 411 death is life. 413 the fall of the angels. 418 transformation of the legend. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle. 426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic systems. 444[[vol. 1, page] xiv cont

, page] xxvii introductory. so that, with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments, the entire chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost atlantis. a few facts that were contained in the berosian history are given in part ii. of vol. ii, and may throw a great light on the true origin of the fallen angels, personified by bel and the dragon. turning now to the oldest aryan literature, the rig-veda, the student will find, following strictly in this the data furnished by the said orientalists themselves, that, although the rig-veda contains only "about 10,580 verses, or 1,028 hymns" in spite of the brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries, it is not understood correctly to this day. why is this so? evidently because th

and heat, and motion. darkness vanished and was no more; it disappeared in its own essence, the body of fire and water, or father and mother. 7. behold, oh lanoo! the radiant child of the two, the unparalleled refulgent glory: bright space son of dark space, which emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. it is oeaohoo the younger, the* he shines forth as the son; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom; the one is four, and four takes to itself three* and the union produces the sapta, in whom are the seven which become the tridasa (or the hosts and the multitudes. behold him lifting the veil and unfurling it from east to west. he shuts out the above, and leaves the below to be seen as the great illusion. he marks the places for the shining ones, and turns the upper into a shorel

these three enclosed within the[[diagram] are the sacred four; and the ten are the arupa universe. then come the "sons" the seven fighters, the one, the eighth left out, and his breath which is the lightmaker. 6. then the second seven, who are the lipika, produced by the three. the rejected son is one. the "sonsuns" are countless- stanza v. 1. the primordial seven, the first seven breaths of the dragon of wisdom, produce in their turn from their holy circumgyrating breaths the fiery whirlwind. 2. they make of him the messenger of their will. the dzyu becomes fohat, the swift son of the divine sons whose sons are the lipika, runs circular errands. fohat is the steed and the thought is the rider. he passes like lightning through the fiery clouds; takes three, and five, and seven strides thr

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nd the worm hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. even as their rapture shore asunder the visible hope, so also the fear invisible fled away and was no more. 37. o ye that are beyond aormuzdi and ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self- luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come th

b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius frater vnvs in omnibvs from the photograph by henry b. camp the master is represented in the robe of, and described by his name as, a probationer, as if to assert his simplicity. he is in his favourite asana, the dragon, in profound holy meditation. 129 a master of the temple section i april 2, 1886, to december 24, 1909 charles stansfeld jones, whom i shall usually mention by the motto v.i.o, which he took on becoming a probationer of the a.a, made his entry into this world by the usual and approved method, on april 2nd 1886 e. v, having only escaped becoming an april fool by delaying a day to summon up e

nature than formerly; also the addition of a .little stranger. to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps being twenty minutes. after this there is a gap, during which he worked morning and evening most days, but made no further record till november 9, from which date to december 31 over eighty practices are recorded. of the details of all this early work it is not necess

i have got a zeal for service since the retirement, wanted to take for new motto .i aspire to serve. but cannot find latin equivalent[.volo servare. would do. but a better idea is .i want to help. rather than .serve..o.m] liber clxv 159 march 22. feel sorry i missed exercise this morning through slackness [when you detect slackness, double the exercise, if it kills you. sure cure!.o.m] march 25. dragon asana. mantra a.m.p.h. 9:39 to 10:34 p.m.=55 mins, breaks 14 to 18, mostly very slight. interruptions none. results: dharana, got feeling on skin and automatic rigidity. lost all personality most of the time, but only found this out by .break. which revived it. brain soon took up mantra automatically. illumination in brain after a while. towards the last saw some visions of sea &c (very sli

t when this occur, it leads to a kind of ecstasy. had to leave off, as was called to tea by ruby [good, but a virtuous woman is above rubies, and never calls holy men to tea..o.m] apr. 4. control of body. while at office kept left elbow at side for 3 hours. wished to see if this would be quite easy and found i had no difficulty in remembering [good: try something harder..o.m] apr. 6, 9:20.10 p.m. dragon. this meditation was the best lately. quickly felt the prana gripping the body. conceived the blackness of understanding become penetrated by wisdom. brain became luminous. body rigid. tension passed and force concentrated at bridge of nose. concentrated on ajna. personality gone. tried to project consciousness straight up. was suddenly interrupted by r. who was in bed just by my side. hard

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

will honor the requests but it having been made they are amiable to the demands made. each of these orders rule 490 leagues of spirits except those ruled by tagaririm, whose dominion is sevenfold that of the others. the qliphoth these be they who be unclean and evil, even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithe

led. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of adam be lifted up, raised through the balance of strife and of trial, through th

he difference between the two serpents, for before the serpent of brass of numbers, the serpent of fire could not stand. but at the fall, the serpent of evil arising in the tree surrounded malkuth, and linked her thus into the outer and the qliphoth, for this is the sin of the fall, even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. thus, therefore, must malkuth be cleansed, and this is the redemption to come. for also christ expiated not sin till after he had overcome the temptation. but surely all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other, and the evil also helpeth the work, for thus the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much more doth the light become bright by

oman, and she rideth upon a serpent scorpion; and lilith, a woman outwardly beautiful but inwardly corrupt and putrefying, riding upon a strange and terrible beast. to these four (babel, jonia, media, edom) are attributed four kingdoms. 1. bairiron- so called because they are derived from the fourth evil, namely samael, the black. their colors are dull red and a black, and their form is that of a dragon- lion. 2. adimiron- whose colors are like blood mixed with water, a dull yellow and grey. their form is that of a lion-lizard. 3. tzelladimiron- whose colors are like limpid blood, bronze and crimson. they are like savage triangular-headed dogs. 4. schechiriron- whose colors are black, and their form blended of reptile, insect and shell-fish, such as the crab and the lobster, yet demon-face

ound and eating the earth. and at the south-east angle are the winged lion and a winged horse drawing in a chariot the younger lilith, the wife of asmodai. she is dark, a woman to the waist and a man below it, and she appears as dragging down with her hands small figures of men into hell. of the three evil forces behind samael the first is qematriel, whose form is that of a vast black, man-headed dragon-serpent, and he united under him the force of kether of the infernal and averse sephiroth. the second, a black, bloated man-dragon, belial, he denieth a god; and he uniteth the forces of the averse chokmah. the third is othiel or gothiel, a black, bloated man-insect, horrible of aspect, his breth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of the averse binah. the fourth form is samae

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

misconceptions that cowans (non witches) have of the craft, is that we boil up all sorts of evil ingredients in our cauldrons! how did this warped belief come about? well, it was because of the many local common names given to ordinary herbs. an herb, perhaps because of its suggestive appearance, would acquire a picturesque name. the name would stick and, before long, be taken at its face value, dragon's blood is an excellent example. this gum resin was given the name because of its reddish-brown color, similar to dried blood, and because it comes from such plants as calamus draco, dracaena draco, pterocarpus draco, etc, named after the constellation draco the dragon, of the northern hemisphere. it is not the actual dried blood of a dragon, though many people believe it is! here are some

euphorbia helioscopia corallorhiza ordontorhiza 150/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft cock's comb yellow rattle rhinanthus christagalli cow's tail canada fleabane erigeron canadense crow foot cranesbill geraniummaculatum devil's milk wartwort euphorbia helioscopia dog's tongue conoglossum offidnale donkey's eyes cowage plant mucuna pruriens (seeds) dove's foot cranesbill geranium sylvaticum dragon's claw crawley root corallorrhiza odontorrhiza dragon's eye nephalium loganum duck's foot american mandrake podophyllum peltatum fairy fingers/gloves foxglove digitalis purpurea flesh and blood tormentil potentillatormentilla fox tail club moss lycopodium clavatum foal's foot coltsfoot tussilago farfara frog's foot bulbous buttercup ranunculus bulbosus goat's beard vegetable oyster tragopog

ans. for instance: engraved on a silver dollar or half-dollar, when silver was called for; on a copper penny or even on a flattened copper kitchen measuring-spoon, when copper was called for. having chosen your metal, what should you inscribe on it? there are many talismanic designs shown in occult books, taken from such old grimoires asthe greater and lesser keys of solomon, the black pullet, le dragon rouge and similar. but just copying these designs, without knowing their meanings or significance, and without personalizing them, is completely useless. you need to work specifically for yourself and specifically for your problem. the most common form a talisman takes is a metal disc worn on a chain as a pendant. on one side of the disc you place the personalization, and on the other side

en you encounter books (or magazine or newspaper articles, for that matter) that are antagonistic to witchcraft, and promote the misconceptions, don't hesitate to write to the publishers and set the matter straight. let me here include an article that appeared in the seax-wica voys (official journal of saxon witchcraft) in the imbolc 1983 issue, together with the editorial comment. stan slays the dragon or "positive public relations" by richard clarke recently, several students of chicago decided that rather than allow the kids to go trick-or-treating, there would be a big hallowe'en party sponsored by the village. five such parties were to feature "burning a witch" in a big bonfire. a reporter for the chicago tribune called stan modrzyk, priest of the first temple of the craft of wica, of

CALLING TO THE FIRST OF WITCH BLOOD

stinctual desire and willed continual existence. with the pen inked in the blood of abel do i scribe of when the blade fell i knew pain and a blinding heat of falling deep into my own created hell, of knowing a heaven of isolation and self-reliance then this ecstasy of transformation. the blood of my shell encircled me, and alone did i first summon forth my father of whom i knew by dream did that dragon come and ignite within, my soul, my initiator by giving to the daemon did my eyes open anew. i conjure thee, o wanderer who bears a black thorn stick i adjure thee, who the blood of abel did ignite your senses who lifted thee up into the flames of your father in iblis shadow did you awaken in the arms of lilith, the moon. i summon thee, cain of old, whose words open the gates of hell i invo

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

ower or you have an important issue that needs energy. they are effective against drought, global warming, all pollution caused by burning fuels or chemicals, forest fires and the 'slash and burn' policy in rainforests. surround your fire candle with golden sunflowers or chrysanthemums, tiny mirrors that reflect the light and clear crystal quartz, which is called in the orient 'the essence of the dragon. blue blue is for water and the west, dusk and autumn. a blue candle is placed in the nine o'clock position. water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of air. it is also potent for fightin

herefore very effective for rituals requiring immediate action or the same intensity of effort from start to finish, rather than a gradual increase, perhaps of love or prosperity. there are two kinds of incense. the first is non-combustible incense that is burned by smouldering it on charcoal blocks. this is made from powdered herbs, leaves bark or even pine needles mixed with a gum resin such as dragon's blood and has the advantage of producing clouds of smoke, brilliant for purification or for the climax of a spell. you can buy this type of incense prepared as loose powder, wood chips, granules or special paste, to burn on charcoal blocks or discs. traditional practitioners often make their own non-combustible incense, which can be very empowering, but it does take time and can be messy

s, healing, psychic powers, money, love and passion. cherry cherry brings new love and divinatory abilities. cloves seite 83 wicca01.txt cloves are used in spells for love and money; they repel hostility and improve memory. copal use copal for protection and purification; it is especially good for cleansing crystals. cypress cypress is for times of transition to a new phase, letting go of sorrow. dragon's blood dragon's blood is used for love and protection, passion and male potency. fern an initiator of change, travel and fertility, fern will also bring hidden wealth, maybe in terms of potential. fig use fig for wisdom, creativity and creation, fertility, harmony and balance. frankincense use frankincense for courage, joy, strength and success. freesia freesia increases trust, especially

fire festivals are linked with his power. he is the roman equivalent of the greek ares and the viking tyr, the altruistic warrior god who sacrificed his sword arm to save the other deities (the word tuesday derives from his name. the hour of mars is especially good for psychic self-defence and for courage in a crisis. element: fire colour: red crystals: garnet, bloodstone, ruby, jasper incenses: dragon's blood, ginger, mint, thyme trees: cypress, holly, pine herbs and oils: basil, coriander, garlic, pepper, tarragon metal: iron or steel mars rules aries, march-20 april, and is the co-ruler of scorpio, 24 october-22 november. in magick, it is most potent during these two sun sign periods and for those born under aries and scorpio [insert sym16] mercury wednesday, the day of mercury, is goo

the avenger who offers protection to the weak and vulnerable and cleanses doubts and weakness, replacing them with spiritual courage to stand against what is corrupt, especially those who abuse power. he can be invoked for rituals to relieve those in war-torn lands, minorities who are being oppressed and endangered species colour: red crystals: garnet and bloodstone incenses or oils: allspice and dragon's blood raphael raphael is the archangel of the planet mercury. raphael's day is wednesday. raphael, the harmoniser, offers healing of all kinds, protects children, bringing guidance and sustenance to all who are lost whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. he can be invoked in all health matters, for spiritual knowledge and insight and for alleviating the worries of daily lives tha

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this circle, by the spirit mind of godhood i emerge as one who commands the elements by will alone. move and bless this circle and work! by the image of the falling pentagram and star, from which we dive to achieve the promethean light, i bless this circle, by the spirit mind of the separated psyche, made selfdeified by self- love, to build and strengthen through the mysteries of ur and the black dragon, i emerge as one who commands individual ascension by will alone. move and bless this circle of work! by who is named lucifer, come forth and bless this circle which is dedicated through thee. in the image of the morning star we each ascend, and in your image we become. prince of light and prince of darkness emerge as one! bless this circle! hail lilith, she who would bless our lives with j

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xts, a classic of history (eighth century b.c, a classic of mountains and seas (third century b.c, and questions of heaven (fourth century b.c).1 in addition, many images of nuwa have been uncovered on ancient chinese bronze sculptures and paintings. like many of the early chinese gods, nuwa was half animal, half divine. most often, nuwa had the face and arms of a human but the body of a snake or dragon. she could change her shape at will. modern chinese books prefer to show her as a beautiful woman. it appeared that women in china had no social standing of their own. however, in their roles as mothers and wives, they were extremely powerful. since women generally outlived their husbands, they often asserted themselves and ran the household after their spouses death. even in politics, seve

clear: her task is to restore order. the commentators say that the ash of reeds is efficacious [effective] in the repair of breached dykes because reeds grow in water. it may be that the concept of reed (water) and ash (fire) is also seen as an expression of harmonious union yin-yang, of order and equilibrium.4 the phoenix is an important creature in chinese mythology, second in rank only to the dragon. poet brian katz describes her: the phoenix, feng huang, was the sacred fire bird. it was truly a magnificent creature to behold, and it had the features of several different animals. it had the head of a swan; the throat of a swallow; the beak of a chicken; the neck of a snake; the legs of a unicorn; the arched back of a turtle; and the stripes of a dragon. its feathers were made up of the

status as ruler to his descendants and thus create a dynasty, or ruling family. he named his dynasty the xia [she ah. it still remains a mythical dynasty, since archaeological evidence has not yet proven its existence. the dynasty that followed, the shang (1523 1027 b.c, has a rich heritage of pottery, bronzes, and artifacts, which places it as the first historical dynasty of china.1 the chinese dragon is not an evil creature. on the contrary, he brings rain and guards the lakes and waterways. he is a composite creature with the horns of a deer, the ears of a cow, the eyes of a lobster, the head of a camel, the whiskers of a cat, the body of a snake, the belly of a frog, the scales of a carp, the talons of an eagle, and the paws of a tiger. dragons love to make vibrations in the sky by ro

lay trapped and frozen in the ice. chinese mythology 54 three years later, the yellow emperor sent zurong the fire god to check on his grandson kun s body. when he reached the spot where kun was buried in the ice, the fire god was amazed to find that kun s body was perfectly preserved in the ice. as he hacked open the glacier with his sword, zurong accidentally split open kun s body. a huge dark dragon flew out of the corpse. terrified, zurong fled to warn the yellow emperor. the huge dragon became yu the great, son of kun, who was born with all the memories and knowledge of his father. like his father, yu was filled with compassion for the farmers. however, unlike his father, he did not wish to incur the wrath of the yellow emperor. immediately, he hurried to the yellow emperor s court

ad failed. therefore, every spring, the rivers continued to burst their banks, drown innocent people, and destroy property. furthermore, the emperor was pleased that yu had asked for the magic earth, rather than attempt to steal it. at last, the emperor said to yu, pile the magic dirt on the back of this tortoise and go forth to control the floodwaters. with the help of this tortoise and a winged dragon, rebuild the world in your father s vision. yu was curious about the size and shape of the earth. therefore, before leaving the emperor s court, he dispatched one of the lesser court gods to measure the country north/south and another god to measure the country east/west. each returned to report exactly the same number: 233,500 li (three li make one mile) and 75 paces. delighted, yu created

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r of events. the aim of this negative brotherhood structure is to persuade the mass of the people to believe any old nonsense while the manipulators keep for themselves the knowledge of the nature of life and creation and how to exploit the power of the mind, the earth's energy fields, and the global energy grid (the network of energy lines known by different cultures as ley lines, meridians, and dragon lines. but even the privileged initiates did not retain the purity of the information through the centuries. to this day, they work with a twisted version of the knowledge, albeit still far more advanced in its understanding of the universal laws than anything you will find in the religions and establishment sciences that the rest of us are asked to accept. the greatest misunderstanding of

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reptilian-nordic hybrids, that were placed in the positions of ruling royal power in the thousands of years before "known" history. they were the kings and queens who claimed the "divine right" to rule because of their bloodline- the bloodline of the gods. these ancient royal lines in places like egypt, sumer, and the indus valley, had a white skin and often blue eyes, yet they were known as the dragon kings or serpent kings by those who knew the secret of their hybrid nature. lemuria was destroyed by a staggering cataclysm that struck the earth, maybe 11,500 to 12,000 years ago. atlantis went the same way, in stages, over the thousands of years that followed. the universal stories of the great flood are related to this. when atlantis came to an end amid more enormous geological upheavals

of years and are still in the positions of power to this day, as we shall see. bloodlines that were once egyptian pharaohs and european royalty are now presidents of the united states, and leading bankers and media owners. a fundamental theme running from the "golden age" of atlantis and lemuria-mu to the present day is that of the snake or serpent. both civilisations were known in legends as the dragon lands and the motherlands.2 the greeks called atlantis "hespera (a name for venus) and they said it was guarded by a dragon.3 native american records call atlantis "itzamana, which means "dragon land" or the "old red land".4 the algonquins use the name pan for the atlantean continent, a name also given to the goat god of the greeks. pan was originally a dragon or goat god of the atlanteans

n.3 native american records call atlantis "itzamana, which means "dragon land" or the "old red land".4 the algonquins use the name pan for the atlantean continent, a name also given to the goat god of the greeks. pan was originally a dragon or goat god of the atlanteans, some records of the early egyptians and greeks suggest.5 the very name, mu, pronounced moo, is close to the polynesian name for dragon.6 an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean it calls kumari nadu or kumari kandam, which means the "dragon land of the immortal serpents".7 you cannot be sirius these technologically advanced extraterrestrial and other-dimensional beings created mystery schools and a secret society network in atlantis and lemuria to pass on levels of th

ledge themselves as a member of the "order of the serpents. william bramley in the gods of eden (avon books, new york, 1993) calls this the brotherhood of the snake. you can see snake and serpent symbolism in the logos of llluminati companies and the logo of the leading uk communications network, british telecom, is one example (figure 7. lemurian kings and queens were 13thlevel initiates of the "dragon bloodline, according to the lemurian fellowship. as i with the serpent cult or serpent brotherhood through the ages, the lemurian initiated were worshippers of the sun. but was it our sun or was it sirius, the brightest star in the sky? records discovered in india by the leading author and researcher on lemurian history, colonel james churchward, confirmed this sun worship. one of lemuria's

one of lemuria's names, apparently, was "the empire of the sun" and the sun symbols of i the llluminati may also relate to that and the atlantean "temple of the sun".41 atlantis and lemuria existed for hundreds of thousands of years and atlantis broke up in stages over a long period before the final destruction. both cultures expanded across the world with their priests and "royal" bloodlines or "dragon figure 6..and here it is in the logo of the british intelligence arm, mi5. british intelligence is a creation of the llluminati going back at least to elizabeth 1st in the 16th century figure 7: the symbol of the snake in the logo of british telecom, the uk's major telecommunications company. follow the right leg through to the right arm ruled by the gods 39 kings, founding colonies in all

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of demons inindian legend and their name means those who do not walk, but creep; theegyptians had their serpent god, kneph, and pharaohs were often pictured withserpents; the phoenicians had agathodemon, another serpent figure; the voodoo peoplehave a god they call damballah wedo, who is depicted as a serpent; and the hebrewshad nakhustan, the brazen serpent. the ancient british god, known as the dragon-ruler of the world, was called hu and from this, very appropriately i would suggest,we get the term, hu-man. the winged-disc symbol of the sumerians, which is found allover the ancient world, was normally featured with two serpents. the symbolism of theserpent and its association with ancient gods abounds throughout the world. thereverend john bathhurst deane in his book the worship of the

the reptilian gods who onceoperated openly thousands of years ago. these were the serpent people of ancient texts,including the bible, where the serpent is a regular theme. of course, the serpent hasbeen used to symbolise many things and not every reference will be literally a reptile,certainly not. but many of them are. there is also a common theme of a sacred placebeing guarded by a serpent or dragon. we have the serpent in the garden of eden andthe serpent/dragon theme is global. the persians spoke of a region of bliss and delightcalled heden which was more beautiful than all the rest of the world. it was the originalabode of the first men, they said, before they were tempted by the evil spirit, in the formof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the b

mof a serpent, to partake of the fruit of the forbidden tree. there is also the banyon treeunder which the hindu jesus, known as khrishna, sat upon a coiled serpent andbestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity. the ancient greeks had a tradition of theislands of the blessed and the garden of the hesperides in which grew a tree bearingthe golden apples of immortality. this garden was protected by a dragon.4 in thechinese sacred books there is a garden in which grew trees bearing the fruit ofimmortality and it, too, was guarded by a winged serpent called a dragon. in ancientmexican accounts, their version of the eve story involves a great male serpent.5another hindu legend speaks of the sacred mountain of meru guarded by a dreadfuldragon.6 over and over we see the same theme of sacred places

there is anunmistakable resemblance between some dinosaurs and ancient depictions of dragons.several species of small indo-malayan lizards with webbed wings look so much likedragons that they have been given the name draco after the star constellation fromwhich the reptilian hierarchy are said to originate. of even more interest to me is thearmoured lizard called moloch horridus which also has a dragon-like appearance.moloch is an ancient deity to which children were sacrificed thousands of years ago andstill are today in the vast satanic ritual network. they are sacrificed to the reptilians inother words because, as will become clear, many demonsof satanism are the reptilianswho have sought to take over the planet for thousands of years. charles gould who haswritten extensively about dra

here i saw reptilians again. the ones i call the baby godzil lasthat have short teeth and yellow slanted eyes. the things that stick in my mind are thebeings that look like reptiles, or the velcoci-rapters. they are the cruellest beings youcould ever imagine and they even smell hideous.41on the ship she remembers seeing the germans and americans wearing an insignia, ablue triangle with a red-eyed dragon and circle around it. a contact later told her that shesaw the same symbol at fort walden in the united states. a winged serpent symbol couldalso be seen on the sleeve of an israeli soldier as he comforted the daughter of theassassinated prime minister, yitzhak rabin, at her fathers funeral in 1995 (see newsweek,november 20th 1995) one of alex christophers specialities is the new denver air

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feng-shui masters, adept at the art, are able to utilize its rules as well as use divination to effect maximum control of situations, maximize health, effect longevity, protect homes and businesses from negative force and events, etc. feng-shui is based on 1 "li" roughly translated as the laws of nature, 2 "su" or the numerical proportions of nature, 3) the breath of nature, the yin and yang, the dragon and the tiger, or the positive and negative energies, and 4) nature's appearance and forms. it is in this latter aspect of feng-shui that we see how form and shape are viewed and utilized in feng-shui to control the chi. if the reader's interest is piqued by this short explanation, i would recommend reading some of the books listed in the bibliography for a more complete understanding of th

7.4.1-1, and first week of january loads to another important connection, that of the great pyramid and the orion constellation (see figure 7.4.2-1. figure 7.4.2-1. orion constellation research by one of the early great pyramid surveyors, sir flinders petrie, revealed that the king's chamber's northern air duct generally pointed to the star thuban (alpha draconis) in the constellation draco (the dragon, which was the pole star at the time of the pyramid's creation, and the southern air duct pointed to one of the stars in the constellation orion's belt around 2600 bc. more precise modern measurements7 have also shown that the king's chamber's north and south air ducts and the queen's chamber southern air duct date the pyramid at 2450 bc. the details of this discovery by bauval is depicted

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which is "dynamic, a potential threat to the status-quo such as war, revolution, political unrest, or social upheaval, is represented by the devil. but, if the universe is dynamic not static and consciousness is not but is becoming then the devil, satan, more accurately reflects the true nature of god than christ, yahweh, or any other image of god which man has defined. the sumerians believed the dragon of chaos, tiamat, to be the mother of the gods. the gods brought order to chaos, but they were themselves the children of chaos and subject to its laws and conditions. the devil was not originally a "rebel" against the order of creation but, the beginning and the end, the source of all creation "the dragon sleeps" we are told in the texts of old "but shall awaken" in the alchemical treatise

is actually the universe which is creating god. satan is a metaphor for man. the rise of lucifer is the rise of man to his eventual destiny. the aeon of lucifer did not utterly destroy the aeon of set, but augmented it. set is the "dynamic" of the universe, the source consciousness which- through man- is creating god "the word of the aeon is- deitus- for man has become god, lucifer has risen, the dragon has awakened, the gates have been flung wide and the heavens have been conquered. the ancient ones rule once more. by your will alone, the genetic code of man has been altered. by thelema and by xeper, you are now deitus! a new race, a superior race, has been born. no longer shall you be called "homo sapien; you are now "homo deitus! no longer shall you be called man for you have become god

ng a god and accepts "his place as a god upon the earth" his consciousness expands to the limits of the current aeon and he then continues to xeper and remanifest in direct relationship to the universe. the sorcerer realizes that his consciousness and his will are a manifestation of the universal dynamic, which man calls satan. having attained deitus, man becomes the very embodiment of satan. the dragon (a second consciousness which contains the knowledge of his ultimate purpose) awakens. as man becomes the embodiment of satan and rises to become a god, lucifer arises, for the rise of lucifer is a metaphor of man's ultimate purpose and direction. in deitus, you see not only the limits of the current aeon, but become aware of future aeons which shall come into being as the universe evolves

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

is temple which i have prepared. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. ride upon me as you do upon the beast. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of hell and i have become the devil incarnate. i am satan; i am lucifer; i am belial; and i am leviatan. come forth, whore of babylon, and manifest thyself (drink from chalice) invocation of the dragon choronzon into the abyss i call; to the depths of hell i call; to the dragon choronzon i call: choronzon, i invoke thee. choronzon, i summon thee. choronzon, i conjure thee. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself. come forth, choronzon, and manifest thyself. for i have crossed the gates of

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which i have invoked using this formula. their names are derived from various sources should you wish to consult further works on mythology and demonology. each name possesses a power in itself. it is not necessary for you to research a spirit before invoking it. there are countless other spirits which may be invoked and their names may be found in other books and grimoire l1 d i a b o l u s the dragon within the triangle of darkness an exploration of the adversary within magick michael w. ford 2004 michael w. ford for the order of phosphorus members only. succubus publishing website http//algol.chaosmagic.com psychonaut 75 website http//www.psychonaut75.com e-mail: keteb75@psychonaut75.com 2 contents introduction i. set the egyptian god of darkness ii. ahriman the persian devil and the w

logical standpoint. as a practitioner of magick from a satanic and luciferian viewpoint, many often inquire on my sources and inspirations from which i form my sorcerous work. it was because of this need for a crystallization of the form and function of the praxis of sorcery that i began, to present a concise view of the practice of left hand path magical practice from a luciferian viewpoint. the dragon within the triangle of darkness is a reference made to the evocation circle as the meeting place of the daemon and man, but also the luciferian rite of azi dahaka, the sorcerer-dragon king from persian mythology called zohak, an original son of satan. the black triangle by more common knowledge is related to the concentration of will to evoke the daemon of man and woman, to uplift and enven

rong and reside. 7 the opposing god of horus set are early manifestations of the adversary; that is to say horus represents day or the purity of fire, while set represents night and strengthening the self, and also the opposite which set purifies and horus strengthens. set is also considered in the egyptian book of the dead, to be the greatest of all the gods, as it is sethan who has mastered the dragon of chaos apep and it now serves him and became part of his essence. sethan as he is often called is considered the most ancient yet distinctly clear form of the opposer and adversary. charles pace (born 1920 date of death currently unknown, the obscure luciferian called himself a satanist or a setanist, and was a priest of set and anubis in a well known witchcraft coven in london under gera

hich is kept in continual motion by the daeva lord of darkness. the word daeva is actually demon, announcing a path and spiritual aversion to the principles the zoroastrians held in honor. some myths mention that ahriman first saw the light across the void and so lusted for it, thus igniting the great wars between his children the daevas (demons) and druj (the word being associated with lie, also dragon. ahriman was initially defeated and cast down into the darkness of the void, unconscious for 3,000 years. the first demons said to be created by ahriman were mitokht 'falsehood) and akoman( evil mind. shortly after ahriman then created (according to the bundahishn) andar, savar, nakahed, tairev and zairik. many of the demons are featured in the yatuk dinoih, and formulas for creation and ev

ns said to be created by ahriman were mitokht 'falsehood) and akoman( evil mind. shortly after ahriman then created (according to the bundahishn) andar, savar, nakahed, tairev and zairik. many of the demons are featured in the yatuk dinoih, and formulas for creation and evocation are given. ahriman created or had fell with seven archdemons who served his will. they were in a prototypical way, the dragon of seven heads. these daevas were listed as the following, aeshma, akoman, nanghaithya, tawrich, savar, andar and zarich. the daevas were authored or created by ahriman as in suggestion of the zurvan myth. these are so-called evil spirits who chose the intellect and individual will as opposed to servitude and conformity. aeshma is the original form of asmodeus, a daeva of ahriman. this demo

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ew. 31. there remains for our final consideration the scphitah malkuth, the kingdom of earth. this sephirah differs from the others in several respects. firstly, it is not part of any equilibrated triangle, but is said to be the receptacle of the influences of all the others. secondly, it is a fallen sephirah, for it was cut off from the rest of the tree by the fall, and the coils of the stooping dragon arising from the world of shells, the kingdoms of unbalanced force, separate it from its brethren. behind the shoulder of the queen, the bride of microprosopos (malkuth, the serpent rears his head, and here is said to be the place of severest judgments. the sphere of malkuth abuts upon the hells of the averse sephiroth, the qliphoth, or evil demons. it is the firmament whereby elohim separa

ntal, or a lack of love makes us cruel and destructive. it is in such things as these that evil lies, not in a personal devil who acts as adversary. 5. geburah the destroyer, the lord of fear and severity, is therefore as necessary to the equilibrium of the tree as chesed, the lord of love, and netzach, the lady of beauty. gebura his the celestial surgeon; he is the knight in shining arinour, the dragon-slayer; beautiful as a bridegroom in his strength to the maiden in distress, though, no doubt, the dragon might have preferred a little more love. 6. the initiations of the infortunes, saturn, mars, and the deceptive lunar yesod, are just as necessary to the evolution and balanced development of the soul as are the mysteries of the crucifixion assigned to tiphareth. it is the one-sidedness

almost too hackneyed for quotation. 19. it is the light of the moon which is the stimulative factor in these etheric activities, and as earth and moon share one etheric double, all etheric activities are at their most active when the moon is at its full. likewise, during the dark of the moon, etheric energy is at its lowest, and unorganised forces have a tendency to rise up and give trouble. the dragon of the qliphoth raises his multiple heads. in consequence, practical occult work is best let alone during the dark by all but experienced workers. the life-giving forces are relatively weak and the unbalanced forces relatively strong; the result, in inexperienced hands, is chaos. 20. all psychics and sensitives are conscious of the set of these cosmic tides, and even those who are not avowe

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task of drawing a presentable eagle, the symbolic form of the kerub of air, he will use the zodiacal sign for scorpio. the evolutionary connection between the snake and the bird is well known to biologists; but long ages before darwin, initiates used the serpent and the eagle to represent the unsublimated and sublimated aspects of the life-force. the scorpion connects with the serpent through the dragon. i had a very curious experience myself in connection with the element of air. i am betraying no secrets if i say that certain grades of initiation refer to the elements, for the fact is too generally known, and too obvious, for it to be any more mysterious than the queen of spain's legs. to begin with, i have an exceptionally bad head for heights, and as the abyss of height belongs to the

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m mankind at our time of origin. once we understand that the enochian angels viewed coronzon as equivalent to lucifer or satan, we can learn something about the nature of coronzon by studying the references to the devil or the old serpent that occur in the bible. a very interesting reference is found in the book of revelation "and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-9. the serpent of genesis is identified as the devil or satan. moreover, the serpen

agon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-9. the serpent of genesis is identified as the devil or satan. moreover, the serpent is said to be a dragon. this is not as strange as might first appear. in past times, dragons and serpents were often confused together- a great snake such as a python was called a dragon by the romans, for example. dragons were sometimes called "worms" in ancient anglo-saxon literature. another important point to gather from the quote above is that the old serpent is identified with the leader of the angelic rebe

ver" in the enochian key known as the call of the thirty aethyrs, coronzon is referred to under the descriptive title "him that is fallen" which is equated with the enochian words teloc-vovim. coronzon is the proper name of the fallen leader of the watchers, whereas teloc-vovim is a title similar to those applied to god, such as lord of hosts. in the eighth key, reference is made to the "stooping dragon" this is almost certainly another title for coronzon, who stoops in the way that a falcon stoops upon its prey, falling like a bolt of lightning from the heavens. in enochian it translates as abai-vovin. note the similarity between the endings of both titles. they are probably the same word- vovim or vovin is translated by laycock in his complete enochian dictionary as "dragon" the enochian

falcon stoops upon its prey, falling like a bolt of lightning from the heavens. in enochian it translates as abai-vovin. note the similarity between the endings of both titles. they are probably the same word- vovim or vovin is translated by laycock in his complete enochian dictionary as "dragon" the enochian word teloc means "death" therefore a more accurate meaning for teloc-vovim is the death dragon, or perhaps the slaying dragon. aleister crowley linked coronzon to the tenth aethyr of enochian magic. the aethyrs (or aethers or ethers or airs) are dimensions or worlds of spirit arranged in a series of concentric shells, like ukrainian nesting dolls. the outermost sphere is numbered 1, and the innermost that is next to the earthly sphere of the four elements is numbered 30. one call is

and the 22 cells of the qliphoth. crowley has treated openly of the atus (see the book of thoth, but of the 22 cells of the qliphoth and the tunnels of set beneath the paths, he did not write. the present book therefore completes the work he left unfinished (ibid. set is the egyptian god of evil and darkness, one of whose forms is that of a great serpent. he is therefore another name of the death dragon, coronzon. below is a table of qliphothic sigils corresponding to the 22 hebrew letters, the 22 tarot trumps, and the 22 channels on the tree of the sephiroth. it was presented by crowley as part of his liber ccxxxi, and published in the equinox, volume 1, issue 7. this table and its qliphothic spirits provides the structure for part two of kenneth grant's nightside of eden. it was reproduc

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reason, it should be outlawed because it desecrates the remains of the departed and causes grief to the families of the disinterred or otherwise disturbed bodies. it is one of the darker and more sinister branches of western magic, best left sleeping in the past beside the shades of the dead. return h hhome resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about the necronomicon (head and tail of the dragon, used with incantations to yog-sothoth) thenecronomicon is a supposedly ancient book, invented by the fantasy and horror writer h. p. lovecraft (1890-1937) as a plot device for some of his stories. lovecraft first used the title in his story the festival, written in 1923, but two years earlier he had included the name of the imaginary author of the necronomicon, the "mad arab" abdul alhazre

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fied the opposing powers they gave to them the shapes of noxious animals and reptiles, such as snakes and scorpions. as time went on, the moral ideas of good and right were attributed to the former, and evil and wickedness to the latter. the first personifications of light and darkness were horus and set, and in the combat--the prototype of the subsequent legends of marduk and tiamat, bel and the dragon, st. george and the dragon, and many others--which took place between them, the former was always the victor. but, though the deceased was identified with horus or ra, the victory which the god gained over set only benefited the spiritual body which dwelt in heaven, and did not preserve the natural body which lay in the tomb. the principal enemy of the natural body was the worm, and from th

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it to him. he popped it with alacrity into his little grass bag; for white man s hair is fetish of the first order. then i poured out some raspberry vinegar into a glass, drank a little of it first, country fashion, and offered it to him, telling him that it was blood from the brains of great doctors. upon this he received it with great reverence, and dipping his fingers into it as if it was snap-dragon, sprinkled with it his forehead, both feet between the two first toes, and the ground behind his back. he then handed his glass to a disciple, who emptied it, and smacked his lips afterwards in a very secular manner. i then desired to see a little of his fetish. he drew on the ground with red chalk some hieroglyphics, among which i distinguished the circle, the cross, and the crescent. he s

in greek mythology, the good spirit of vineyards and cornfields. according to aristophanes, agathodaemon was honored by drinking a cup of wine at the end of a meal. he was represented pictorially in the form of a serpent or sometimes as a young man holding a horn of plenty, a bowl, and ears of corn. winged serpents were also venerated by the ancient egyptians, chinese, and other peoples (see also dragon) agent term in parapsychology to denote the individual who attempts to communicate information to a percipient, or subject, of extrasensory perception. the age of progress american spiritualist weekly edited by stephen albro, who witnessed and reported on the early demonstrations of the davenport brothers in the 1850s. agharta (or agharti) in his book agharta (1951, robert ernst dickhoff cl

in a greased paper, and cooked among the cinders. it was afterward taken out and rubbed with verbena leaves and given to the person suspected of deceit, who, if the suspicion was justified, would be unable to digest it. in ancient times, there was said to be a sacred wood at lavinium, near rome, where alphitomancy was practiced in order to test the purity of women. the priests kept a serpent or a dragon in a cavern in the wood. on certain days of the year the young women were sent there, blindfolded, and carrying a cake made of barley flour and honey. those who were innocent had their cakes eaten by the serpent, while the cakes of the others were refused. sources: waite, arthur edward. the occult sciences. 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. alpiel an angel or demon who

mp of god. gabriel and michael are the only angels mentioned by name. the archangel michael appeared to daniel and will lead his angelic army against the people of god (revelation 12:7. the mention of michael by name occurs five times in scripture, and always in the character of a chief militant. in daniel, he is the champion of the jewish church against persia; in the revelation, he overcame the dragon; and in jude he is mentioned in a personal conflict with the devil about the body of moses. he is called by gabriel, michael, your prince, meaning the prince of the jewish church. gabriel first appeared as an angel to give daniel an interpretation of a dream (daniel 8:16.27) but earned his lasting fame as the one to announce both the birth of john the baptist to zachariah and the coming bir

her is shown in the figure of a bird, with four feet, a tail, a bull s head much flattened, horns, and black shaggy hair. he will mark his own with a seal representing this in miniature. michaelis added that things execrable will be around him. he will destroy rome and the pope with the help of the jews. he will resuscitate the dead, and, at the age of 30 will reign with lucifer, the seven-headed dragon. after a reign of three years, christ will slay him. many such details might be quoted of antichrist, whose coming has long been threatened but not yet realized (see end of the world. a volume by rusand published many years ago at lyons, les precurseurs de l antechrist, stated that the reign of antichrist, if it has not begun, is drawing near; that the philosophers, encyclopedists, and revo

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ore widely known and taught in the west since world war ii, when many servicemen encountered them in asian campaigns, and there are now many schools for specific training of the different martial art forms. symbolic of the growing interest in martial arts has been the popularity of the late chinese film star bruce lee, who popularized the art of kung-fu in such films as fist of fury and enter the dragon. that particular martial art was further popularized in the television movie series kung fu starring david carradine, first shown in the 1970s and revived in the 1990s. the main martial arts are: aikido (a kind of judo of graceful movement in which an opponent s force is used against him, bando (burmese boxing and wrestling, judo (wrestling with special emphasis on balance and leverage, jiu

test hermes. london: theosophical society, 1906. meddelande fran sallskapet fur parapsykologis publication in swedish of the swedish society for psychical research. last known address: p.o. box 7045, stockholm 10386, sweden. medea in greek mythology, an enchantress and daughter of the king of colchis who fell in love with jason when he came to that country. medea enabled him to slay the sleepless dragon that guarded the golden fleece. she fled from colchis with jason, who made her his wife, and from whom she exacted a pledge never to love another woman. they were pursued by her father, but she delayed the pursuit by the cruel expedient of cutting her brother absyrtus to pieces and strewing his limbs in the sea. medea accompanied jason to greece, where she was regarded as a barbarian. havin

archangels, including michael and gabriel, emerged into prominence. in one of the uncanonical jewish writings, the assumption of moses, michael disputes with satan for the body of moses, a belief picked up and mentioned in the christian new testament (jude 9. the most important quote concerning michael is found in revelation 12:7: there was war in heaven. michael and his angels fought against the dragon. from this it is deduced that michael is the leader of the celestial hierarchy against lucifer, the head of the disobedient angels. his design, according to genealogist randle holme, is a banner hanging on a cross, and he is represented as victory with a dart in one hand and a cross on his forehead. bishop horsley and others considered michael as only another name for the son of god. in one

re the special guardians of subterra- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mines, haunted 1039 nean treasure, and they were anxious to defend their province. mines containing precious stones were equally well looked after. the indians of peru declared that evil spirits haunted the emerald mines, while a mine in the neighborhood of los esmeraldos was said to be guarded by a frightful dragon. it has also been believed that the poisonous fumes and gases that often destroy the lives of miners were baleful influences radiated by evil spirits. other stories of haunted mines are linked to legends of secret underground temples of occultists (see subterranean crypts and temples) minnesota zen meditation center this center stemmed from the 1960s, when a group of individuals in minneapo

ife, lady ygraine, operated the first occult church, which included in its membership a range of occult perspectives from wicca to voudou that were in fellowship with the satanism of the leaders. in the mid-1970s, the first occult church was closed and both gidney and lady ygraine affiliated with the church of satan. lady ygraine, who had previously operated two occult shops, the cauldron and the dragon s lair, also founded a new store dedicated to the left-hand path, pandora s box, in port st. lucie, florida. in 1999, in the wake of the church of satan s reestablishment of grottos as local church centers, gidney led in the founding of the nepotism grotto and now serves as the grotto master. mourning star is designed as the expression of a maturing satanic philosophy in the tradition of an

ESOTERISM AND THE LEFT HAND PATH

o the international spiritualist federation congress in london in 1948. the zwaan rays were supposed to be capable of stimulating the psychic senses into activity. subsequently the spirit electronic communication society was founded in manchester, england, on september 10, 1949, and an apparatus was developed that claimed to improve the zwaan effeteesoterism and the left hand path thomas karlsson dragon rouge often describes itself as an esoteric order exploring esoteric knowledge. what then is esoterism and how is it connected to the left hand path? antoine faivre, one of the leading scholars on occult research and esoterism, writes in his book esoterism that esoterism is not an area like art, philosophy or chemistry, but rather a way of thinking. faivre explains: the diffuse etymological

wledge can or must be transferred from teacher to student according to a given pattern, often through initiations. the conditions of this second birth is that a) the teachings are respected and not questioned, since one wishes to be a part of this tradition, and b) that the initiation is supervised by a teacher or master. faivre s definition of esoterism corresponds to the draconian philosophy of dragon rouge. correspondences are the basis of ritual magic and for the practice of the left hand path. the first of the five elementary draconian principles is: all is one. this is an alchemical formula which in alchemistical symbols can be found next to ouroborossymbols: pictures of dragons or serpents biting their tails. the formula is in greek en to pan and is pivotal in alchemistic and hermet

stical symbols can be found next to ouroborossymbols: pictures of dragons or serpents biting their tails. the formula is in greek en to pan and is pivotal in alchemistic and hermetic philosophy. in the system of the left hand path this formula is interpreted as the divine fire is found in man as a reflection of the divine force outside us. in draconian terms this is called the outer and the inner dragon. this corresponds to the tantric thought of brahman/parakundalini which exists inside man as the atman/shaktikundalini. it also corresponds to the luciferian light or the promethean flame which can turn men into gods if it is found inside. man and his soul corresponds to principles in the universe outside us. in draconian philosophy the thought about the living nature is important since thi

sponds to the luciferian light or the promethean flame which can turn men into gods if it is found inside. man and his soul corresponds to principles in the universe outside us. in draconian philosophy the thought about the living nature is important since this philosophy turns against an atomistic and materialistic view of man and nature. especially in old norse and celtic magic can we found the dragon as a symbol of the spirit of nature. but also in the chinese tradition of feng shui. all esoteric knowledge exits in nature, but is hidden from the civilized modern man. the tree of knowledge is more than a metaphor. the middle levels that faivre mentions are represents the astral worlds and the different levels that the magician passes during the alchemical initiation. the magical system o

agon as a symbol of the spirit of nature. but also in the chinese tradition of feng shui. all esoteric knowledge exits in nature, but is hidden from the civilized modern man. the tree of knowledge is more than a metaphor. the middle levels that faivre mentions are represents the astral worlds and the different levels that the magician passes during the alchemical initiation. the magical system of dragon rouge is an initiatoric system where the magician gradually enters certain levels. since the goal is not to become one with god, the path towards the divine is an important process to learn how to control the divine fire. the last criteria of faivre is the perhaps most important aspect of the alchemical initiation process of dragon rouge. the transformation from our human nature to a godlik

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

stian rosicrucian can only exclaim "lead, kindly light, lead thou me on; the night is dark, and i am far from homnl1-7 evil and unclean spirits by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 these be they who be unclean and evil; even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth, the fallen restrictions of the universe; the sloughing of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antit

hey called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst know the life of ages, thou who would follow in the footsteps of our master, o brother of the order of the golden dawn! for as moses lift

etwixt the serpent of evil and the serpent of good, for before the serpent of brass, the serpent of fire could not stand. but at the fall, the serpent of evil, arising in the tree, surrounded twklm and linked her thus to the outer and to the twpylq, for this is the sin of the fall; even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth, through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. therefore, twklm must be cleansed, and thus, is the redemption to come, for christ expiated not sin until after he had overcome the temptation. but surely, all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other and the evil also helpeth the work, for this the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become bright by contras

nsation, we have limited access to this paper to adeptus minor only. g.h. frater n.o.e.l. 6 the princes of the twpylq these are the names of the twelve princes and tribes of the twpylq who are the heads of the months of the year. wryryub (beiriron: so called because they are derived from the fourth evil force, namely lams the black. their colors are dull red and black, and their form is that of a dragon-lion, for a. wrymyda (adimiron: whose colors are like \d (blood, mingled with n, a sickly yellow and grey. their form is that of a lion-lizard, for b. wrymylylx (tzelilimiron: whose colors are like limped blood lwlx bronze and crimson. they are like two savage triangular-headed dogs, for c. wryrjyc (shichiriron: whose colors are black and their form blended as of a reptile, insect and shell

rwmj tylyl tljm lams bhr 8 at the southwest angle are a winged lion and a winged horse drawing in a chariot the younger tylyl, the wife of yadwmsa. she is dark, a woman to the waist and a man below it, and she appears as if drawing down with her hands small figures of men into hell. of the four evil forces before lams the first is lafmq, qemetiel, whose form is that of a vast, black, swan-headed dragon-serpent, and he uniteth under him the force of the rtk of the averse and infernal sephiroth. the second is laylb, belial, a black, bloated, man-dragon; he who denieth a god, and he uniteth the force of the averse hmkj. the third is laytu, athiel, a black bloated man-insect, horrible of aspect, his breadth is greater than his length, and he united the force of the averse hnyb. the fourth for

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

hen newspapers all over america were full of strange and often fanciful stories. the morning news carried no followup, suggesting it did not take the tale seriously enough to dispatch one of its own reporters to the site. in any event, it wasn t the only wild airship yarn the paper was carrying. the day before it printed the aurora story, it recounted a kaufman county sighting of a chinese flying dragon. the legs were the propellers. at farmersville, the paper stated, the occupants of an airship sang nearer my god to thee and distributed temperance tracts. the episode of the aurora martian was forgotten until the 1960s, when public fascination with ufos led to research into the phenomenon s early history. in 1966 a houston post writer revived the aurora story, which he apparently took at f

t is a large apelike cre a t u re unre c o g n i zed by zoology but often re p o rted seen in the forests of the pa c i fic no rt h west of the united states and canada s far west. to those few scientists who are willing to concede its possible existence, sasquatch is thought to be related to homo sapiens primate ancestors. in other words, though intelligent as s 217 218 saint michael casting the dragon satan and his angels down to earth (fortean picture library) animals go, it does not have human, much less superhuman, intelligence. t h e re are, howe ve r, individuals who claim contacteelike dealings with sasquatch, which they describe as highly e vo l ved beings with extraord i n a ry mental p owe r s. southern california psychic joyce pa rt i s e, holding a sealed envelope containing a

FAUST

ach tardy payer, collars far more desires than she has dollars, the husband now has much to bore him; wherever he looks, debts loom before him. her spinning-money is turned over to grace her body or her lover; better she feasts and drinks still more with all her wretched lover-corps. gold charms me all the more for this: male s now my gender, i am avarice! leader of the women. with dragons be the dragon avaricious, it s naught but lies, deceiving stuff! to stir up men he comes, malicious, whereas men now are troublesome enough. women [en masse. the scarecrow! box his ears, the japer! why does the wooden cross threat here? as if his ugly face we d fear! dragons are made of wood and paper. have at him, crowd him, scoff and jeer! herald. peace! by my staff! peace or begone! and yet my aid s s

FIRE OF QAYIN RITE

ice purifies us of sin, ignorance and illusion, hanging inverted in the night firmament, thy one eye of the goat, open and glittering, who lightens our darkness with the fires of the stars, the myriad lanterns and blazing torches of all-knowledge. by the methods of the art rouse the inner fire and fervently invoke the daimon within by the ancient pact. let the forces of the goat be raised and the dragon-serpent of naamah- lilith be stirred through all five senses perfectly focussed upon the fire within the mortal flesh. o flame-breathing daemon and wizardly smith, who forgest the iron weapons of victorious liberation, the precious jewels of wisdom and beauty, hearken to me why am sprung from thy cunning seed, the hidden house of azazel. i am of the children of tubal-qayin. thy mark burns u

FLY THE LIGHT

e name of the patron devil in the grand grimoire, being an emissary of lucifer the light bringer. in this sense, lucifuge can be a shadow which comes from the above light of lucifer, thus a connected force of rebellion and self- liberation. contained on fly the light are 14 tracks, with a running time slightly over 70 minutes. seven tracks symbolize the beast of the apocalypse, being the 7 headed dragon. the remaining seven ascend in a crooked pattern around the tree of daath, or the qlippoth. this movement is thus symbolized as the fly god, beelzebub, as a form of the adversary. fly the light begins with alone and divided, an atmosphere of post-industrial chaos and the machinery of a new religion- luciferian youth. this album does not move in the clean and shiny future as we so often visu

averse, the demon of the sphere is asmoday who origins are ancient persian as aeshma (demon of the wounding spear. the song angel of prostitution ii is connected with yesod- the moon and the averse sphere of lilith, the bride of satan who is represented of the instinctual, dark side of humanity. she was originally called az and had taught the fallen angels how to take form and copulate to produce dragon children in some gnostic and manichaean text. her divinity is sexual perversion, the original priestess of fuck and whore of the shadowed ones (the fallen angels. alone and divided is connected with malkuth, earth and the demoness naamah (meaning pleasant, a bride of samael and considered a sister of cain according to some lore. the line of i am no longer abel to conceal what i have become

itch and satanist who had joined in a covenant with the devil in nod. in addition some initiatory grimoires present cain as being the son of samael (satan) and lilith (through possession of eve via the fruit given by the serpent. cain is thus a symbol of the self which transforms itself through dissatisfaction. fly the light is in part a symbol of the transformation through the seven heads of the dragon of the apocalypse via the angel of prostitution who rides the beast. the son of satan is also represented as a serpent. the dragon itself holds significance in that it is a relation to diabolism, in zoroastrian lore, the avestan word devak means worm which is a dragon or snake. an early form of the antichrist, called zohak and later azhi dahaka is a dragon-king who had two black and venomou

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ness and no one can succeed in it unless he is a resolute philosopher. lists of the images suitable for use on talismans are given, of which the following are a few examples from the lists of planet images.2 two images of saturn "the form of a man with a crow's face and foot, sitting on a throne, having in his right hand a spear and in his left a lance or an arrow "the form of a man standing on a dragon, clothed in black and holding in his right hand a sickle and in his left a spear" two images of jupiter "the form of a man sitting on an eagle, clothed in a garment, with eagles beneath his feet "the form of a man with a lion's face and bird's feet, below them a dragon with seven heads, holding an arrow in his right hand" an image of mars "the form of a man, crowned, holding a raised sword

r hair unbound riding on a stag, having in her right hand an apple, and in her left, flowers, and dressed in white garments" an image of mercury "the form of a man having a cock on his head, on a throne, having feet like those of an eagle, with fire in the palm of his left hand and having below his feet this sign (a magic character' an image of luna "the form of a woman with a beautiful face on a dragon, with horns on her head, with two snakes wound around her. a snake is wound around each of her arms, and above her head is a dragon, and another dragon beneath her feet, each of these dragons having seven heads" as can be seen from these examples, the magic images of the planets are usually recognisably related to the classical forms of these gods and goddesses but with strange and barbaric

of virgo may be added "if this is to be used. this talisman would thus consist of the image of mercury, some signs and characters, and perhaps the virgo image with the child. note that the talisman is not a medical talisman, but to obtain intellectual "gifts" from mercury. to obtain long life, you may make the image of saturn on a sapphire in this form "an old man sitting on a high throne or on a dragon, with a hood of dark linen on his head, raising his hand above his head, holding a sickle or a fish, clothed in a dark robe" homo senex in altiore cathedra sedens uel dracone, caput tectus panno quodam lineo fusco, manus supra caput erigens, falcem manutenens aut pisces,fusca indutus ueste.2) this image is close to one in picatrix and contains elements from two others (saturn images in pica

annum lineum lutosum& in eius manu falcem tenentis: forma hominis senex erecti, suas manus super caput ipsius erigentes& in eis piscem tenentis: forma hominis super draconem erecti, in dextra manu falcem tenentis, in sinistra hastam habentis& nigris pannis induti.3) for a long and happy life, says ficino, you may make on a white, clear, stone an image of jupiter as "a crowned man on an eagle or a dragon, clad in a yellow garment (homo sedens super aquilam uel draconem coronatus. croceam induto uestem.a) there is a very similar image of jupiter in picatrix' de vita coelitus comparanda, 18 (ficino, p. 556. 2 ficino, pp. 556-7. 3 picatrix, lib. ii, cap. 10; sloane, 1305, f. 43 verso. 4 ficino, p. 557. 70 ficino's natural magic (forma hominis super aquilam. omnia suis vestimenta sunt croceas)

for the planets, images for the signs, nor does agrippa fear actually to print the images of the thirty-six decan demons. first of all he explains the general principles of the making of talismans imprinted with celestial images. we need not go into this again and a few examples from his image-lists will suffice. one image of saturn is "a man with a stag's head, camel's feet, on a throne or on a dragon, with a sickle in the right hand, an arrow in the left."4 an image of sol is "a crowned king on a throne, a crow at his bosom, a globe under his feet, robed in yellow".5 an image of venus is "a girl with loose hair wearing long white robes, holding in the right hand a branch of laurel or an apple or a bunch of flowers, in the left hand a comb."6 the saturn image correctly made on a talisman

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

mena are opened up. my chief aim has been to place giordano bruno within such a perspective, and it is my hope that this may of itself clear a road along which others will travel towards new solutions of old problemd angels of chaos by frater elijah copyright 1999 you want the word, that s what you ve come for. my advice is, don t ask! do as i do! seek out gold- but not my gold- and guard it- the dragon (grendel) contents introduction- 0 theory- 1 the formulation of the rite of godhood- 2 rite of godhood/ grendels had an accident- 3 results of the rite of godhood- 4 the summation of the techniques- 5 the bindings- the rite of suffering- 6 6a) the bindings 6b) what are demons? 6c) some journal entries the scarlet brotherhood- 7 phuture- 8 even the gods deserve their pain- the lady s law app

an empty void in my chest. despair god's of existence, your drama shall reap it's wretched sickle on you all. all shall be undone; the pentagram broken; the pact no more. an elicitation, an event something more, a mirror image amongst the swine. my magick is death, my death is life, and my life is ecstasy. this is my path, this shall be the cycle, this call to you oh grendel. adoptive son of the dragon, the word is upon our shoulders. tell of nothing, let us be destroyed by our desire so god may die. act ii my soul screams in orgasmic contradictions- silxofax mantadragonia ziflantamaxia natasz azaximanda callraptuption sunta faxim at rax zenfixamaphillaheme- grendel, who weeps upon existence, i pray unto myself. baphomet, fusion of being and of nothing, let us tear choronzon asunder. migh

perfection in shadow light (see appendix vii. summon using spontaneous words (use of constructed sigils. b) statement of will "it is my will to manifest that which is potential. it is my will to find the potential lying in wait. it is my will to evolve (it is my will to initiate this being into the ax for the immanentization of the pandaemonic epoch by the will and majesty of myself and the great dragon) it is also my will to ask for a sigil of chaos to call and aid me/ us" c) declare "xiqual wec "ongo wec "tomargo wec "phenomenise dark matter! do dark matter! dark matter by whatever means necessary" d) melt the ice cube on your forehead and open the 3'rd eye. e) perform grendel's had an accident, act ii. f) as you say the following words visualize a cosmic chaos-egg around the self. at th

. i/5b: an encouragement of chrnzn to the reader seeking knowledge. he placates the ego (as is it s nature) to the demise of the magus. it knows not of understanding. the reference is of the formula of page i/5a. a jest of elijah to his selves sidelines. i/6a: metaphors of life. thinking; the cause of existence, and therefore pain deduces downward to society. spine diamond refers to the kundalini-dragon-wyrd (entitled by we. the awakening of which is a core principle of magick. the quaklephant jests and jeers at the mage, claiming us thieves of the heavens fire. a mock of ego, to itself. museam is a play on words. also a reference to the ape of thoth, being sleepy. i/6b: a thing of coherence among chrnzn s formless mass. a reference to consciousness. it is always behind our eyes. we being

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

of religious doctrine from the eschatology of the ancient egyptians, london, england, george allen and company, ltd. 1913, second edition, p. 189. another masonic author, george oliver, also noted freemasonry's connection with the druids "the druids had a high veneration for the serpent. their great god, hu, was typified by that reptile; and he is represented by the bards as 'the wonderful chief dragon, the sovereign of heaven [george oliver, signs and symbols, new york, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, 1906, p. 36; emphasis and capitalization in the original] at least, this satanic view of the serpent and the dragon being identical beings is consistent with the bible, as the scripture says they both are symbols of satan [revelation 12:9] when masonic authors pike, hutchinson

FULL MOON RITUALS

n edge of the widely opened skylight; rays of a tide which brings the promise of tonight's full moon shining down upon them in all her splendor. then a last check of the essentials upon the altar for this evening's ritual: a sun-bleached tortoise shell filled with sea-salt, a copper bowl of fresh rainwater, and a small reiku censer with charcoal beside a smaller silver plate covered with powdered dragon's blood and amber. there too is his athame of georgian silver covered in spirals, his bronze torq, and his linden wand. deer whispers "bowl of my mother's best friend, torq of my forebears' freedom, root of my great-grandmother's ancestral tree, and blade of my own finding; it is good that we are here together again" assured that all is ready, he moves back toward the great hall and, after

im must traverse such pain, such thirst in coming here. another pang brings him fully into this strand of the evening's melody..a thin figure draped in a long and tattered gray robe and cloak, gray hair hanging lankly to her waist, sharon slowly makes the final few steps left in her journey back to the castle. she has traveled alone, barefoot and without provision, along the spine of the sleeping dragon in the desolate mountain range overlooking the region of grove and castle, her mission to renew her awareness of that aspect of the goddess now reigning in her life. the death hag is a harsh taskmistress, but her wisdom is worth the effort required to absorb even a fraction of it. sharon rests briefly on the strength of the staff that has helped her through the long days and nights of walki

s so desirous with glittering sea salt ground to the finest of powders "with salt of the earth is this circle cast" deer sings "as mother earth both elaborates and contains the energies of life, so may our circle" back to the altar and replacing the bone bowl, deer touches first the salt within it and then his forehead, lips and chest. finally, deer uses his athame to heap mounds of the amber and dragon's blood upon the now glowing coal within the censer, before beginning his third and final perambulation of the circle. air which had been redolent of scents from the great hall and from this room itself is suddenly stilled as the bittersweet smoke penetrates their entire ritual space. as deer censes the circle and those gathered, he sings "of fire and air is this circle cast. as the sweetne

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

ffering to the tumultuous years in which we live a key to the door which at present bars us from a completer understanding. today we wait on the threshold of this door, fearfully gazing out upon a world monstrous and twoheaded. darkness has taken upon itself a political form which has bereft the nations of their sight; has shrouded their minds and blotted out their wisdom; has sown among them the dragon's teeth of war. we stand today at the foot of the tower of babel- the tower of class strife and international conflict. meanwhile light has scintillated forth in science, the boundless shekinah of this present age. it is girt by no frontier and circumscribed by no class. it shines forth over the north and the south, over the east and the west. into the heights and into the depths it glows

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is doubtless borrowed from the life of the hindoo god crishna, the fact is evident that those who appropriated it, and used it in furbishing the mythical history of christ, had no scruples against fire worship--a religion which we have been taught to regard as belonging exclusively to the pagans. in the ecclesiastical processions of the church of rome is frequently to be observed the figure of a dragon, in the mouth of which "holy and everlasting fire" is observed to be burning. a boy follows the procession with a lighted taper, so that in case the fire is extinguished it may be relighted. in referring to this subject the rev. j. b. deane says "the whole ceremony may be considered as a lively representation of an ophite procession as it advanced through the sinuous paralleiths of karnak

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while the souls of the jews gotoparadise.inanother place the seventy princes before mentioned are said to be also the rulers over planets and great stars of the firmament, for every nation and city is relatedtothe prince of some star in the firmament. a further assortment of the race of devils is of animal type; the chief allusions aretothe goat, the ox, and the ass, with of course the serpent or dragon, rahab, the harlot demon was said to ride an ass, samael an ox, machalath was carried by a scorpion, and lilith by an un-named dragon. it is not meant that the ox and ass are demonic oftheir race, but that some demons resemble such animals. the kabalists wrote of different types of demons existing as the opposites of the angelic beings of each sephira or eman255 ation from god, and they als

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of the ancients to remember what they signify separately and collecth'ely; foritis notalightthing to represent materially theforcesoftheineffablenm1e'[clavicularosicrucianano.11.issuedbythes.r.i.a, 1888]3.theqliphoth oftheqabalahthese be they who be unclean and evil, even the distortion and perversion of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yettenare they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis a

called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, thou who wouldst follow in the footsteps of our master, brother of the golden dawn. for as moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the s

he difference between the two serpents, for before the serpent of brass of numbers, the serpent of fire could not stand. but at the fall, the serpent of evil arising in the tree surrounded malkuth, and linked her thus into the outer and the qliphoth, for this is the sin of the fall, even the separation of the material plane from the sephiroth through the interposition of the coils of the stooping dragon. thus, therefore, must malkuth be cleansed, and this is the redemp255 tion to come. for also christ expiated not sin till after he had overcome the temptation. but surely all things in the creation are necessary, seeing that one existeth not without the other, and the evil also helpeth the work, for thus the greater and more intense the darkness, by so much the more doth the light become br

are also classed under the sephiroth as shewn.thetwelve princes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year these are the names of the twelve princes and tribes of the qliphoth who are the heads of the months of the year:(1)bairiron- so called because they are derived from the fourth evil, namely samael, the black. their colours are dull red and black, and their form is that of a dragon-lion.26thesorcerer and his apprentice"(2) adimiron'-whose colours are like blood mixed with water, a dull yellow and gray. their form.isthatof a lion255 lizard.(3)tzelladimironwhose colours are like limpid blood, bronze and, crimson. they arelikesavagetriangular-headeddogs (4) schechiriron, whose colours are, black, and their form blended of reptile, insect and shell-fish, such as the crab

rawling along thegtoundandeating the earth. and at .the south-west angleare'a winged lion and a winged horse drawing in a chariotthe younger lilith, the wife of asmodai, she is dark, a woman to the waist and a man. below it,andsheappears as dragging down withherhands small figures of men into hell.ofthethreeevil forces before samaelthefirstisqematrielwhqse form is that of a vast black, man-headed dragon-serpent. and he uniteth under him the forceofketherofthe infernal and averse sephiroth. the second, a black, bloated man-dragon, belial, he. who denieth a god; and he uniterh the force of the aversechokmah.thethird is othiel or. gothiel. a black, bloatedwlan-insect, horrible of aspect, his breadth greater than his length: and he uniteth the force of averse binah. the fourth form is samael t

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that this is no ordinary tree but a tree which glyphs the worlds and which encompasses many strata's of reality. in the grimnismal yggddrasil is described as having three great roots, one lies under hel, the realm of the dead, under another dwell the giants and under the third live human beings. a squirrel runs along its branches, an eagle nets in its crown, four deer browse on its branches and a dragon gnaws at its roots. in the volupsa the sacred ash is described as very tall, always green and moist, the source of dew and as having the well of destiny (urd) as its roots. at ragnorak, the" towering ash trembles, and the world tree howls" the ash is of all the trees the biggest and the best. its branches spread out over all the world and extend across the sky. three of the tree's roots sup

erpent 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 secret techniques used within the higher path. the very things than condemn the hylic to earth are turned and used to liberate the pneumatic. the serpent (and related images such as the snake and dragon) is therefore a expressive image of the nature of the gnosis. the winged serpent represents the highest wisdom, while the crawling serpent represents the decay of earth. the duality of the snake is the dualism of the ancient wisdom. israel on the world stage if we continue from our egyptian israelite model, the next question is what happened to the israelite community? the historical eviden

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crown of which we adopt we become as gods and goddesses individual and beautiful in many ways. black magick as revealed in current standards is the art of self-deification through antinomianian processes, that by the self separating from the natural order do we move in-between the world of waking and dreaming. in the art of primal sorcery this is defined as encircling/ensorcelling the self in the dragon s being. the circle in the modern context of magick and ceremonial workings is not designed to keep forces out, such as being a philosophy which if employed in this manner, will lay a foundation which causes the magician to fail from the start. the circle is a span of self control; it is our influence of who we are and what we will become. do not fear forces outside the self, your greatest

ose associations with mephistopheles. lucifer in this aspect is the angel of light, the adversary. lucifer is a title which is beheld by the fire djinn azazel being the first angel, fallen from the stasis of light. by this manner, lucifer is the liberator and developer of humanity with his gift of the black flame, or individualized self-perception. leviathan- west (from lvthn, the crooked serpent/dragon of the sea. leviathan is the daemon of immortality and initiation, that the beast and scarlet whore moves through to arise from the oceans as the beast 666, the solar spirit of manifestation and creativity) satan south (from the root shtn, meaning adversary. satan is the name associated with azazel the fire djinn, who is also lucifer and samael. the goat with one thousand names by form. sat

azel is the fire djinn of islamic sufism. in hebrew azazel is the scape goat, associated with the root oz, meaning goat and devil, sexual force) mahazael north (associated with earth, being cain or the egyptian set as the lord of the earth in typhonian lore. mahazael comes from the root mhzal, meaning to consume and devour and is associated with amaimon, a grand daemon) 11 the rite of the coiling dragon (leviathan, the crooked serpent) the darokin walk of the coiling dragon is the averse trance-way of the adversary, thus the initiate becomes as the image and essence of shaitan through the invocation of the four powers under the infernal princes. in the coiling of this black light and cunning fire, may the sorcerer become isolated and strong against the natural order. the individual is sepa

nces. in the coiling of this black light and cunning fire, may the sorcerer become isolated and strong against the natural order. the individual is separate, yet a fire made vessel of azazel-lucifer, known as azal ucel, the daemonic angel of adversarial awakening. begin the rite in the southern quarter, relative to azazel, the initiator of the path. the sorcerer should construct the circle of the dragon as one uses in this goetia, encircling the self in the announced conjurations of the four quarters. azazel i summon thee fire-djinn of the southern quarter, be the torch which would ignite me, immolate me in your presence, as your child on the path of shadow unto light. samael great dragon transformed, i summon thee as fulmino-lucifer, the morning star of the east, the serpent-angel of the

in thy circle of being! mahazael, incarnate within! azael as the candle burns out and as the sun fall into the darkness, i call unto thee azael spirit of the western gates of twilight and the grave, i summon thee forth. show unto me your mask of the dead and encircle me in the spirits of thy self, i seek to walk between the darkness and the light. i come unto you as the beast from the ocean, the dragon arisen! open forth the path of serpents! open forth the path of the dragon! hekas! hekau! hekas! working with demonic spirits demonic spirits are essential chthonic/infernal forces which are bound to and from the shadow and dark places of the earth. one should approach daemonic spirits as something other than the self. they are a testing ground; the ones who would have you face the skull co

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be traced thus: y. it symbolizes luna in her increase and is thus favorable. when traced thus: 2, it symbolizes luna in her decrease. this means limitation and restriction, which is not favorable. luna at the full moon is traced thus. at the new moon, it is a dark circle: 3. these last two forms are seldom employed and are not good in most cases. should the adept desire to invoke the head of the dragon, the north node of the moon, caput draconis, let him/her trace it thus: p. the tail, cauda draconis, is traced thus: q. these forces are most easily invoked when the sun or moon is within them in the zodiac or in conjunction. remember, from your study of geomancy, p is benevolent, and q is malefic, except in very few cases. when invoking either of these two forces, thou shall vibrate the na

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codemon, counterpart of the angel axir. aaxp: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. ab: angel (filia filarum lucis) associated with luna. ab: name of jupiter heptagon 2. aba: cacodemon of fire angle of earth tablet. ababalond: of an harlot. abai: stooping. subservient angel of fire angle of earth. abaiond: governor of the second division of the aethyr pop (56. abaiuonin: to the stooping dragon. 3 abaivoninu: abai vovin. stooping dragon. abalpt: calling angel of earth angle of earth tablet. abamo: angel, also known as abmo. abaramig: abramg, prepare. abmo: subservient angel of earth angle of air tablet, also known as abamo. aboapri: serve, also see booapis. aboz: kerubic angel of air angle of earth tablet. aboza: kerubic name of air angle of earth tablet. abraasa/ abraassa: provid

micalz. vohim ol giz y ax: with a hundred mighty earthquakes. voir: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet. vomsarg/ vonsarg: every one of you (cf. g. vonph/ vonpho/ uonpo: anger/ wrath/ of wrath (cf. unph. vonph: wrath/ the wrath. vonpovnph: wrath in anger. vonsarg: vomsarg, every one of you/ everyone. vooan/ vaon: truth/ with them that fall. vors: over. vovim/ vovovin vouina/ vovina: dragon/ the dragon. vp: not. vpaah/ vpaahi: wings/ the wings. vran: the elders, also gran. vrbs: beautify/ beautified, also see urbs. vrelp: a strong seer/ a strong seer of things /seething. vrlm: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. vsnarda: governor of the second division of the aethyr ich (32. vssn: subservient angel of water angle of water tablet, also known as vspsn. vta: name of

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comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong, which i have 13 abramg baltoha goho iad soba prepared for my own righteousness saith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until oi salman loncho od vovina carbaf niiso this house fall, and the dragon sink? come away! bagle avavago gohon niiso bagle momao for the thunders have spoken! come away! for t

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our comforter! nof m the eighth key bazm elo i ta piripson oln nazavabh the mid-day, the first, is as the third heaven made of hyacinthine ox casarmg vran chis vgeg ds pillars in whom the elders are become strong, which i have abramg baltoha goho iad soba prepared for my own righteousness saith the lord, whose long mian trian ta lolcis abai-vovin od continuance shall be as buckles to the stooping dragon and like 13 aziagiar rior irgil chis da ds pa-aox unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in busd caosgo ds chis od ip uran teloch cacrg the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until oi salman loncho od vovina carbaf niiso this house fall, and the dragon sink? come away! bagle avavago gohon niiso bagle momao for the thunders have spoken! come away! fo

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h tzboath, blessed be thy name. broken is thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i trample under foot because he hath set his love upon me. he will set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in" step 30 make over the talisman the sign of the rending of the veil, and say "let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend upon this creature of talismans, t

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a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the general exordium the speech in the silence: the words against the son of night: the voice of thoth before the universe in the presence of the eternal gods: the formulas of knowledge; the wisdom of breath; the radix of vibration; the shaking of the invisible: the rolling asunder of the darkness: the becoming visible of matter: the piercing of the coils of the stooping dragon: the breaking forth of the light: all these are in the knowledge of tho-oth. the particular exordium at the ending of the light: at the limits of the night: tho-oth stood before the unborn ones of time! then was formulated the universe: then came forth the gods thereof: the aeons of the bornless beyond: then was the voice vibrated: then was the name declared. at the threshold of the entranc

3. the station of the evil one: this station is in the place of dwsy and is called the station of the evil one, the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuser, and punisher of the brethren, and in egypt is represented mostly with the head of a waterdragon, the body of a lion or leopard, and the hind parts of a water-horse. he is the administrator of the power of the evil triad. 16 the stooping dragon, apophra-l sez the slayer of osiris, szathan toophon. the brutal power of demonic force, bessz. the synthesis of this evil triad "the mouth of the power of destruction" is called ommoo-szathan. 4. the station of harpocrates: the invisible station of harpocrates is on the path of s, between the station of hegemon and the invisible station of the evil triad. harpocrates is the god of silence

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ght about the person. having given the sign as above, it is a protection against all attack and danger of obsession. to make it yet stronger, the form of the god should be taken. if spiritual force is required, formulate it as if standing on a lotus or rising from it. for force in contemplation and meditation, formulate as if seated upon a lotus, but for more material force, as if standing upon a dragon or a serpent like some statues of harpocrates. as a defence and protection, the sign is as strong as the banishing pentagram, though of a different nature, and as the sign of the enterer represents attack, so does this sign represent defence thereto, as a shield is a defence against the sword. from this sign is a formula of invisibility derived. the secret names of this sign are: the sign o

rms cognizable to us in the lower world. hyha, implicit and explicit sound. every being pronounces all its existence, the name of the lord of life, by inspiration and expiration. macroprosopus is amya and aba, mother and father. the two nostrils pass up and down the two breaths, as through the two great pillars. these throw all things into vibration; compare the \ylglgh tycar. the piercing of the dragon s coils suggests the freeing of twklm, which is also referred to as the washing of the garments of the queen, the inferior mother. then comes the breaking forth of the light. over twklm as guardians are wrffm and wpldns as the two pillars, and nephesch ha-messiah, the animal soul of messiah, the shekinah or presence between the kerubim. the particular exordium the bornless ones of time refe

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s thy strength o concealer, and fallen are the powers wherein ye have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high, even amoun have i called my habitation. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i trample under foot because he hath set his love upon me. he will set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in" step 30 make over the talisman the sign of the rending of the veil, and say "let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend upon this creature of talismans, t

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e have trusted. shaken are your fenced cities to their unseen foundations. step 2 hold the sword back up. set talisman back down. say: 19 he shall hide me under the shadow of his wings. his truth shall be forever more in the name of this creature of talismans because i have called upon the most high, even ra have i called to my habitation. i shall tread upon the lion and adder. the young lion and dragon shall i set me upon high, for i am he even as he is in me. lift up your heads, o ye gates. be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory may come in (make the sign of the rending of the veil over the talisman) let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend upon this creature of talismans to fill it with the glory of thy majesty, that forever it may be unto me an aid to a

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ntrated positive and negative forces of nature and of the elements, under the name of yahdnhy we must always remember that ynda is the key of hwhy. 11 the enneangle is referred to the ninth sephira of dwsy. it is representative of the power of the ennead and the enneagon. it also shows the operating power of nature by the dispersal of the rays of the seven planets, and of the head and tail of the dragon of the moon, otherwise known as cauda and caput draconis. when we reflect on the enneagram from every third point, we find that we arrive at the triple ternary operating both in the seven planets with the cauda and caput draconis of 5 and also with the alchemical principles counterchanged and interwoven. it is not akin much to the nature of 5 as it is to the sphere of dwsy. it is only when

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lf there can be no growth, no quickening of the soul-fire. the unique transmission is old fate's blessing: the secret rapport between the gods and the soul; no other may tell of it. its outward signs are inspiration and knowing, married in an indefinable state whereby a man becomes mage. within the cultus sabbati 'the way of the flaming torch' and 'the way of the lightning-bolt' are known as 'the dragon's horns. it is considered a worthy aspiration for a wayfarer to realise the union of the twain: the non-dual path of the double-way. because of this dual emphasis, it is considered that only those with the capacity for receiving teachings and who bear the marks of 'unique transmission- whatever the degree of manifestation- should be invited into the formal sodality. a witch born to the path

mal sodality. a witch born to the path may still spend many years struggling to make manifest that which lies within and yet by vertu of the traditional rites an uncommon fate may be swiftly seized; unto such individuals the process of tuition is in truth a path of remembrance: a reclamation of ancient birthright. mystery rites: the lineages of magistry a customary demonstration of 'attaining the dragon's horns (the union of unique transmission and lineal empowerment) is for an initiate to compose a grand mysterium or mystery-rite. such rites are comprised of diverse 'oracular' utterances, magical ordeals, and highly specialised modes of initiation into specific 'states' of magical rapport with powers and entities. the composer of a mystery-rite is known as its master or mistress, and it i

opportunity into a tryst between the soul of man and the spirit of initiation. in the name of the nameless, so must it be! andrew d. chumbley is the presiding magister of the cultus sabbati and is an initiated kaula-tantrika of the uttara kaula sampradaya. he is the author of the azoetia: a grimoire of the sabbatic tradition (xoanon, 1992 and fulgur, 2000, qutub: the point (fulgur, 1995. and the dragon-book.(private, 1997. a new edition of the azoetia is soon to be available from bcm fulgur, london, wc1n 3xx. the author may be contacted at: p.o.box 1821, chelmsford, cm1 3th graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 15 6 there is no civilization known to history that had the capacity or need to survey that coastline in the relevant period: between 13,000 bc and 4000 bc.7 in other words, the

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: there, crossing the meridian, was the resplendent constellation of scorpius dominated by the first-magnitude star antares a red supergiant 300 times the diameter of the sun. north-east, above cairo, sailed cygnus the swan, his tail feathers marked by deneb, a blue-white supergiant visible to us across more than 1800 light years of interstellar space. last but not least, in the northern sky, the dragon draco coiled sinuously among the circumpolar stars. indeed, 4500 years ago, when the great pyramid was supposedly being built for the fourth dynasty pharaoh khufu (cheops, one of the stars of draco had stood close to the celestial north pole and had served as the pole star. this had been alpha draconis, also known as thuban. with the passing of the millennia, however, it had gradually been

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this is all just silly make-believe. sure. but before settling in your new plot of new jersey swamp-land, you might be glad you had the method(s) described in this book, should you need to summon the jersey devil! fall to! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge 12 august 2005 c. e. 1 preface: ufonauts, ciphers, and the cosmic war and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought book of revelation 12:7 as the secret ceremony of the masonic royal arch nears its climax, the candidates are directed to bring before the king and high priest a strange box with inexplicable writing on all four sides. the high priest, in a ceremony at least hundreds of years old, looks at the box with surprise and exclaims, companion king, this is the ark of the cove

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elaborate or expensive. the ritual of tex is designed for use by beginners. the ritual of iao invokes the feminine current and simulates a journey to the 5th 8 aethyr maz. the ritual of the priestess of the silver star invokes the feminine current and simulates a journey to the 19th aethyr.the ritual of the pyramid invokes the masculine current and simulates a journey to the 18th aethyr zen. the dragon ritual is designed for the advanced magician who desires to assume the responsibilities of the magical dragon. the ritual of vrelp stimulates a journey to the 14th aethyr vta and the city of the pyramids. the ritual of the abyss simulates a journey to the great outer abyss. the imagery used in these seven rituals is designed to simulate as closely as possible actual journeys to these aethyr

-veeneh or vohvee- en. it is derived from the first letters of the words vpaah oxi vabzir in nisan which means "the mighty wings of the eagle that carry you through the void" this phrase adds up to 1175, the number for the sum of the three governors of the 24th aethyr,nia: orakamir= 692 khiasalps= 404 soageel= 79 1175 aiq bkr reduces 1175 to 5, the number for man and motion. the word vovin means "dragon" and its formula is the formula of the magical dragon. the word vovin adds up to 280 where 28 is the number for balt which means "justice" also 280=140x2 where 140 is the number for il-ia meaning "to consume with truth" and aiq bkr reduces 140 to 5. in addition, 280=70x4, where 70 is the number for iad "a god"and 280x2 560,thenumber for omp-zakare meaniing an understanding of mobility" the

and its formula is the formula of the magical dragon. the word vovin adds up to 280 where 28 is the number for balt which means "justice" also 280=140x2 where 140 is the number for il-ia meaning "to consume with truth" and aiq bkr reduces 140 to 5. in addition, 280=70x4, where 70 is the number for iad "a god"and 280x2 560,thenumber for omp-zakare meaniing an understanding of mobility" the magical dragon is a magician of very high rank he is aware of his inner divinity, his holy guardian angel. he is one who has crossed the abyss. his formula is to move ceaselessly through the watchtowers and aethyrs dispensing justice and pproclaiming his word.the formula 187 itself reveals his methodology in its letters: a sense of justice (justice in libra) is the core of a healthy love of life (the devi

oth time and space. the three governors of nia are: orakamir oh-rah-kah-mee-ar khiasalps keh-hee-ah-sal-pens soageel soh-ah-gehel these governors are all intimately connected with forces of motion. nia is the highest of the lower aethyrs. mastery of nia and the lower aethyrs is the primary qualification of the magical grade of philosophus. its mastery is the f i rst ordeal of the vovin or magical dragon. it marks a definite stage in magical development: the primary separation between the novice and the adept. when crowley entered nia he was taken on a journey in a chariot of mother-of-pearl and ivory. his guide stated that "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" this dearly shows how human concepts

ies between the light of the sun and the light of consciousness. step 4. transfer the magical forces embodied in the 262 talisman of the magick square of vrelp to yourself. consider your own body of light as a possible vehicle in which to visit the sun. step 5. imagine your consciousness to be one with the light of the sun. maintain that image for as long as you can. 263 magical operations of the dragon in every ancient language the word 'dragon' signified what it now does in chinese-clang) i.e "the being who excels in intel l igence "the dragons of wisdom"-were the first disciples of the dhyanis, who were their instructors; in short, the primitive adepts of the third race, and later, of the fourth and fifth races" h.p. blavatsky, the secret doctrine as you advance in enochian magick you w

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e to signify the implements they used. we have seen wuotan reappear in longbearded charles, in red-bearded frederick. on comparing the norse hero-legend with the german, we see remarkable instances of this shifting and displacement of names and persons. gudrun in the edda occupies the place of our krimhilt, while grimhildr is her mother's name; in the yilkinasaga mimir is the smith and keginn the dragon, in the volsungasaga reginn is the smith and fafnir the dragon. if these changes took place at haphazard, there would be nothing in them; but they seem to proceed by regular gradation, without leaps. among all branches of the teutonic race there shew themselves innumerable varieties of dialect, each possessing an equal right; so likewise in the people's religion we must presuppose a good ma

lar troubles under which they can be of service are parcelled out among them like so many offices and lines of business, so that almost every disease and its remedy are called by the name of their saint; this division of tasks has the strongest analogy to the directions given in norse and lithuanian mythology for the invocation of the several deities (p. 335. the victorious hero who had slain the dragon made room for michael or george; and the too pagan siegberg (p. 198, which may have meant the same as eresberg (p. 201, was handed over to michael, as the mons martis in france was turned into a mons martyrum, montmartre. it is remarkable that the ossets have converted the dies martis into georgeday, and dies veneris into mary's day (pott 1, 105. 2, 802. the places of osinn and of freyja in

ought from life to death by the sword, and then will salvation ensue. in all these tales the arrival of the future event is linked with the germinating of a tree, just as the world-fight was made to depend on the sprouting of the ash (p. 960, or on the dry tree breaking into leaf (pp. 955-7. another difficulty put in the way of deliverance is, that the maiden in some disgusting shape, as a snake, dragon, toad oy frog, has to be kissed three times (d. sag. no. 13. moneys anz. 3, 89. 7, 476. already in the poem of lanzelot we have this kissing of the dragon's mouth, who after that turns into a fair lady (7881. 7907-90. now and then the apparition of the white dame basking in the sun, beaming and bathing, melts into the notion of a ivater-holde and nixe (p. 491, a scand. hafs-fru (afzelius2

s a snake with woman's head and a buuch of keys about the neck (d. sag. no. 221; and snpph. 970 teanslation. with the notion o mountain-banishment is commonly associated that of an enchanted, yet recoverable treasure. where the ancient hero or god sits in his mountain cavern, just as in the hero's grave or barrow, lies hidden a huge hoard; and the white woman, the snake woman, or simply snake and dragon, are they that guard it. the goth, huzd, ohg. iwrt, as. lieord, on. hodd, seems to be letter for letter the lat. cust in custos, custodia, and this from euro (for cuso, so that our hus (what harbours, shelters) and the lat. curia (house and court) will come under the same root; thus huzd already contained the notion of keeping watch and ward. from thesaurus. it. sp. tesoro, fr. tresor, was

ver and the sun shone sweetly; only a few coins remained, which when thrown away had fallen outside the serpent ring (reusch's samland no. 3. the great hoard on which fdfnir lay was made up of gold that the gods had been obliged to hand over for the covering and cramming of otter, but which loki had pi-eviously taken from the dwarf andvari. sigur'sr, having got it into his power after slaying the dragon, conveyed it all safely away on grani's back, hence gold was named byrd'r grana (granonis sarcina, ohg. nibelungs' hoard. 979 would be kraniii purdi, so, 139. it is remarkable that in a swed. folksong (arvidsson 2, 193) the maiden awaiting her betrothed says: vore det den ungersven (were he the swain) som jag skulle ha, sa forde han det guldet pa gangarens bak! according to our lay of the h

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

anions of dietrich, notably wittich and heime, as asperian was rother s. the kings niblunc and schilbunc had twelve strong giants for friends (nib. 95, i.e. for vassals, as the norse kings often had twelve berserks. but, like the primal woods and monstrous beasts of the olden time, the giants do get gradually extirpated off the face of the earth, and with all heroes giant-fighting alternates with dragon-fighting. 3 king frofti had two captive giant-maidens fenja and menja as mill-maids; the grist they had to grind him out of the quern grotti was gold and peace, and he allowed them no longer time for sleep or rest than while the gowk (cuckoo) held his peace or they sang a song. we have a startling proof of the former pre valence of this myth in germany also, and i find it in the bare proper

in (afzelius 3, 88; therefore they sling rocks at the belfries. gargantua also carries off bells from churches. in many of the tales that have come before us, giant and devil are convertible terms, especially where the former has laid aside his clumsiness. the same with a number of other resemblances between the two. the devil is described as many-headed like the giant, also, it is true, like the dragon and the hellhound. wherever the devil s hand clutches or his foot treads, indelible traces imprint themselves even on the hardest stone. the titans chased from olympus resemble the angels thrust out of heaven and changed into devils. the abode of the giants, like that of heathens and devils in general (p. 34, is supposed to be in the north: when freyr looks from heaven toward lotunheim (sae

the impending ruin of the castle, deut. sag. 1, 202. in the helgaqvrsa, ssem. 140-1, a wise bird (fugl fr63huga$r) is introduced talking and prophesying to men, but insists on a temple and sacrifices before he will tell them more. in one german story, men get to understand the language of birds by eating of a white snake, km. no. 17. sigursr understands it too, the moment the heart s blood of the dragon fafnir has got from his finger-tips to his tongue: and then swallows (igftor) give him sound advice, srem. 190-1. to kill swallows brings misfortune: ace. to sup. i, 378 it occasions four weeks rain; and their nests on the houses no one dares knock down. from saxo s account (p. 327) of the oaken statue of kugivit, we may conclude that the slavs had let swallows build on it in peace (see sup

nce, in the latish solarl. 127b; elsewhere it is ormr, as. wyrm, ohg. warm, goth, vaurms, which in a wider sense includes the snake also. the one encountered by beowulf comes before us emphatically as a winged snake (serpens alatus; nihtes fleogeft 4541, by night he flies, and hence is called uhtscea&a 4536 (nocturnus hostis, aggressor, and lyftsceaffa (aereus hostis, cod. exon -329, 24. also the dragon that keeps krimhild prisoner on the drachenstein comes riding through the air, or flying. but the one that young siegfried had previously killed, when sent out by the smith, lay beside a linde (lime-tree, and did not fly: this is the fdfnir of the edda, a man who had assumed the form of a snake; of him the edda uses skrifta (repere, to stride, ssem. 186. sn. 138; and he is the wyrm or draca

gemund is -called hordes hyrde/ beow. 1767; the one that beowulf fought with receives the epithet c se hord beweotode 4420. fafnir, formerly a giant, lay in (the shape of) a worm/ wearing the oegis-hialm, over inherited gold (ssom. 188b. 189b; the expression is i tyngvi (from lng, heath, and the spot is named gnita-hersi; hence in other cases also the word lyngvi, lyngormr (heath-worm) stands for dragon. the yols. saga c. 17 distinguishes lyngormr a small snake from dreki a large one; so that our ohgr. heimo, os. hema, as. hdma, spoken of on p. 387, may be identical with lyngvi; vilk. saga c. 17, p. 31 expressly calls heima allra orma skemutr (omnium vermium minimus, but as he is venomous, he cannot be the harmless cicada (ohgl muhheimo. popular belief still dreams of glitter ing treasures

HEKAS

r 'hekas' also gave us hekate- the greek name of the goddess who keeps the gateway of the triple cross-roads, hexe- the spell, mark or charm, hag- the black goddess of the old moon, who in khem was represented as hekt the frog-headed mother of incantation. it was in egypt that the role of stellar worship was at an apotheosis in recorded history; as man looked to the heavens there turned the great dragon about the zenith, marking out the year and tracing the ancient circle in the firmament of nu. from thence recall the dracontiae,-the circles of stone which mark the crossroads of hidden and secret tracks of force within the earth, reflecting the web of the star-lit heights; recall the crooked path which crosses the sacred isle of albion and lies throughout all the lands of the earth- where

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

1968. another area, perhaps of more interest to uk eod initiates is ilkley moor, which has a long, and well-documented history of strange phenomena encountered, from ghosts and black dogs to ufos and what modern researchers in the field of earth mysteries call earth lights. the earth lights phenomena has arisen largely from the work of paul deveraux, editor of the ley hunter and co-founder of the dragon project. his theories are drawn from the fact that the earth produces a range of light-forms by natural processes. these .unexplained. light-forms have been interpreted by those who encounter them as ufos or spectral manifestations. the occurrence of these phenomena is commonly found to be specific to a particular region. the lights often .follow. cars, or are reported by observers to behav

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

s remotest affiliations. above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evident pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. it seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. if i say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, i shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. a pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. behind the figure was a vague suggestions of a cyclopean architectural background. the writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack

l his friends no more than he had told the admiralty officials, and all they could do was to give me his oslo address. after that i went to sydney and talked profitlessly with seamen and members of the vice-admiralty court. i saw the alert, now sold and in commercial use, at circular quay in sydney cove, but gained nothing from its non-committal bulk. the crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal, was preserved in the museum at hyde park; and i studied it long and well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship, and with the same utter mystery, terrible antiquity, and unearthly strangeness of material which i had noted in legrasse's smaller specimen. geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous puzzle; for they vo

d weed was seen. each would have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and it was only half-heartedly that they searched- vainly, as it proved- for some portable souvenir to bear away. it was rodriguez the portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted of what he had found. the rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief. it was, johansen said, like a great barn-door; and they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outside cellar-door. as wilcox would have said, the geometry of the place was all wrong. one could not be sure that the sea and the ground were hori

ich might have been allen's there was not a trace. if he had indeed come to be the leader, he must have forced young ward to act as his amanuensis. in this new material one mystic formula, or rather pair of formulae, recurred so often that willett had it by heart before he had half finished his quest. it consisted of two parallel columns, the left-hand one surmounted by the archaic symbol called "dragon's head" and used in almanacs to indicate the ascending node, and the right-hand one headed by a corresponding sign of "dragon's tail" or descending node. the appearance of the whole was something like this, and almost unconsciously the doctor realised that the second half was no more than the first written syllabically backward with the exception of the final monosyllables and of the odd na

the search who had seen and felt so much of cosmic abomination just around the corner. this was on the left-hand wall as one entered the room. the right-hand wall was no less thickly inscribed, and willett felt a start of recognition when he came up the pair of formulae so frequently occurring in the recent notes in the library. they were, roughly speaking, the same; with the ancient symbols of "dragon's head" and "dragon's tail" heading them as in ward's scribblings. but the spelling differed quite widely from that of the modern versions, as if old curwen had had a different way of recording sound, or as if later study had evolved more powerful and perfected variants of the invocations in question. the doctor tried to reconcile the chiselled version with the one which still ran persisten

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

ll of odours and languorous warm sounds. a flute drones its insect music to the night below the curving moon-petal of the heavens. moon over china, weary moon on the river of the sky, the stir of light in the willows is like the flashing of a thousand silver minnows through dark shoals; the tiles on graves and rotting temples flash like ripples, the sky is flecked with clouds like the scales of a dragon. amid the mists of dream the reader cried to the rhythmical stars, of her delight at the coming of a new age of song, a rebirth of pan. half closing her eyes, she repeated words whose melody lay hidden like crystals at the bottom of a stream before dawn, hidden but to gleam effulgently at the birth of day. moon over japan, white butterfly moon! moon over the tropics, a white curved bud open

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

remotest affiliations. above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. it seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. if i say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, i shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. a pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. behind the figure was a vague suggestion of a cyclopean architectural background the writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack o

ll his friends no more than he had told the admiralty officials, and all they could do was to give me his oslo address. after that i went to sydney and talked profitlessly with seamen and members of the vice-admiralty court. i saw the alert, now sold and in commercial use, in circular quay at sydney cove, but gained nothing from its noncommittal bulk. the crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal, was preserved in the museum at hyde park; and i studied it long and well, finding it a thing of balefully exquisite workmanship, and with the same utter mystery, terrible antiquity, and unearthly strangeness of material which i had noted in legrasse's smaller specimen. geologists, the curator told me, had found it a monstrous puzzle; for they vo

d weed was seen. each would have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and it was only half-heartedly that they searched- vainly, as it proved- for some portable souvenir to bear away. it was rodriguez the portuguese who climbed up the foot of the monolith and shouted of what he had found. the rest followed him, and looked curiously at the immense carved door with the now familiar squid-dragon bas-relief. it was, johansen said, like a great barn-door; and they all felt that it was a door because of the ornate lintel, threshold, and jambs around it, though they could not decide whether it lay flat like a trap-door or slantwise like an outside cellardoor. as wilcox would have said, the geometry of the place was all wrong. one could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horiz

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

yew ever seed trees like thet, with big leaves a floppin' over an' daown? and them men- them can't be niggers- they dew beat all. kinder like injuns, i guess, even ef they be in afriky. some o' these here critters looks like monkeys, or half monkeys an' half men, but i never heerd o' nothin' like this un" here he pointed to a fabulous creature of the artist, which one might describe as a sort of dragon with the head of an alligator "but naow i'll show ye the best un- over here nigh the middle "the old man's speech grew a trifle thicker and his eyes assumed a brighter glow; but his fumbling hands, though seemingly clumsier than before, were entirely adequate to their mission. the book fell open, almost of its own accord and as if from frequent consultation at this place, to the repellent t

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

lis, the flame of selfperception and rebellion from which one seeks the balance of self. the destiny and map of ones life is chosen by thought, will and action, thus iblis is the imagination. lucifer is thus the imagination of self, realization and the strength to become something better. this black mass, as performed in two parts through the musick of psychonaut 75, is that of two aspects of the dragon the light and the grave, unto earth the fallen angels descend, the earth opens and the vampyric shades and the dead walk the earth. this ritual was designed as a means of opposition to bigotry and oppression, that lucifer rises to awaken each with the black flame of perception and self-love, while the vampyric archetype announces the communion of the cthonic forces of the earth, the demoniu

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

t links one moment of insight to another; it signifies the ability to serve with both hands alike to both hurt and heal, cure and curse; it denotes the razor- like wisdom that arises from and transcends the conjunction of contraries. more specifically, the via tortuosa relates to a cycle of mystery-rites which may be regarded as initiations into the way of the draconist into the path of the great dragon azhdeha. in essence, the crooked path teachings intend a direct means of autonomous initiation into the knowledge of the magical quintessence. mh: what exactly does the cultus sabbati represent in its outer and public form? ac: cultus sabbati very literally re-presents the sabbatic craft tradition; as a term in the outer it reorientates the actualities and inner dimensions of the tradition

INVOCATION OF OUR LORD OF MIDNIGHT MAHAZHAEL DEVAL

s of our nameless faith and the mystery of the iconostasis, that our deities are often syncretised with the saints and deities of the so-called mortal faiths of man, that is, with the revered and divine personae of our localities presiding churches and holy sites. it is thus our custom to call many souls to walk in the procession of the hidden faith. what follows below is a call, adapted from the dragon-book of essex, for evoking the sovereign witch-father mahazhael. it is intended for the use of a covine or working lodge of arte. the lord mahazhael is revered as the guardian of the northern station and is considered to be the blessed consort of our lady liliya. his time is that of the midwinter sun, the season of misrule and rebirth. his moment is the interstitial cusp of darness and ligh

welleth in the invisable ossuary at the centre of every charnel-ground. exalted art thou as the emperor in the northern gateway of power! all-hail to thee as the leader of the eight gods in the retinue of bha! we revere thee as our protector, our consort and our brother eternal guide to all who stray, self-abandoned to seek paradise in exile! hail to thee as the eight-armed giant, magister of the dragon s brood! we summon thee to the blood-acre by the lych-light of the dying sun. we call to thee with word and deed, above the sign of the open grave. be thou before us as the bone-white man, the skeletal lord of light! let space be thy flesh and bone be thy form: thy stature eclipsing the sky. for lighting-bolts do adorn thee and storm-clouds are a halo around thee. thy face is the skull, the

you! as it is spoken, so mote it be! bilo bilo hu! bha-azha-ka! the officiant should complete the conjuration by offering the bow of mahazhael as a sign bestowing empowerment upon the assembled body of the covine. all brethren should silently pace the circle widdershins to bind the rite. finally all may conjoin in a binding salutation: all hail to the thrice-great clan of azha-qayin! hail to the dragon-masked lord of albion s field! hail to jabal, jubal and tubal-cain, by the horns of the bull, the harp of the minstrel, and the hammer-knell s hymn to fire. hail to the king held high on the elder tree, to the lords and ladies of the meadow, to the good folk of the blood-acre. hail to the thrice-great wanderer, whose faith doth lie beneath his heel. thrice blessed, thrice cursed, thrice cun

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

of change and self-deification. there are two primary faces of the adversary. the celebrant may construct as mask of two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/he

s high i do speak thy words of power zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas zrozo zoas nanomiala hekau zrazza sabai infernum i shall transcend and ascend above all things, myself may only strengthen in this light in this hour i illuminate, i burn with the glory of luciferian light within! above the throne of azothoz is the entering fire ring of set-heh, adversary of the nine gates and seven points of the dragon! i go now between and beyond, within and without! upon the hour of midnightya! zat-i-shaitan! by the gate of the black light, when i name the words against the sun o fire djinn azazel, set-heh, i summon thee forth with serpent s tongue, that my oath before this blackened flame, ignited within. in the dreaming aethyr shall i be known in the wisdom of the moon al zabbat, hekas hekau, serpent

ISIS UNVEILED

zed jtrotigh of the emperor of russia the unfortimate bulgarians and servians. undisturbed by evidence and sarcasm, unbaffled by proof 'the lamb of the vatican' impartially divides his wrath between the liberals of italy "the impious whose breath has the stench of the sepulcher* the "schismatic russian sarmates" and the heretics and spirituidists "who worship at the bottomless pit where the great dragon lies in wait" mr. gladstone went to the trouble of making a catalog of what he terms the "flowers of speech" disseminated through these papal dis- courses. let us cull a few of the chosen terms used by this vice-regent of him who said that "whosoever shall say. thou fool, shall be in danger of hdl-fire" they are selected from authentic discourses. those who oppose the pope are "wolves, phar

d in the three lunar phases, completing the quaternary with the fourth, and typi- fying the death of the moon-god in its gradual waning and final disap- pearance. this death was allegorised by them, and attributed to the triumph of the genius of evil over the light-giving deity; as the later na- tions allegorized the death of their sun-gods, c^iris and apollo, at the hands of lyphon and the great dragon ^thon, when the sun entered the winter solstice. babel, arach, and akkad are names of the sun. the chaldaean orada are full and explicit upon the subject of the divine triad "a triad of deity shines forth throughout the whole worid, of which a monad is the head" admits the reverend dr. maurice "for from this triad, in the bosoms, are all things governed" sajrs a chaldaean oracle" the ph5, p

r scarlet liveries of borne? must we then credit the story that this power was given by christ to simon stylites, the saint who sanctified himself by perching on a pillar (atyloa) sixty feet high, for thirty-sz years digitizecoy google half-convertbd dragons and wolves t7 of his life, without eyer descending from it, in order that, among other miracles related in the guden legend, he might cure a dragon of a aore eye "near simon's pillar was the dwelling of a dragon, so very venom- ous that the stench was spread feu* miles round his cave" this reptile- hermit met with an accident; he got a thorn in his eye, and, becoming bhnd, crept to the saint's pillar, and pressed his eye against it for three days, without touching any one. then the blessed saint, from his aerial seat "three feet in dia

dwelling of a dragon, so very venom- ous that the stench was spread feu* miles round his cave" this reptile- hermit met with an accident; he got a thorn in his eye, and, becoming bhnd, crept to the saint's pillar, and pressed his eye against it for three days, without touching any one. then the blessed saint, from his aerial seat "three feet in diamder" ordered earth and water to be placed on the dragon's eye, out of which suddenly emerged a thorn (or stake, a cubit in length; when the people saw the 'miracle' they glorified the creator, as to the grateful dragon, he arose and "having adored god for two hours, returned to his cave* a half-converted saurian, we must suppose. and what are we to think of that other narrative, to disbelieve in which is "to riak one's aaitaiion" as we were info

o him the benefit to be derived from the holy religion, st. francis never ceased talking until the wolf became as meek as a iamb, and even shed tears of repentance over his past sins. finally, he "stretched his paws in the bands of the saint, followed him like a dog through all the towns in which he preached, and became half a chris- tian* wonders of zoology! a horse turned sorcerer, a wolf and a dragon turned christians! these two anecdotes, chosen at random from among hundreds, if rivaled are not surpassed by the wildest romances of the pagan thau- maturgists, magicians, and spiritualists! and yet, when pythagoras is said to have subdued animals, even wild beasts, merely throu^ a power- ful mesmeric influence, he is pronounced by one-half of the catholics a 152 see the lumtite selected f

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 81. pachamama. earth goddess of peru known for inspiring healing and wholeness and holiness when we open to mother earth and commune with her. nut. egyptian goddess of the night sky who reminds us to open up to the mystery of life and to the unknowable, to let it flow and to trust a higher flow to bring us what we need. nu kua. dragon goddess and restorer of universal order of the hopei, shansi people of northern china. she assists us in creating order from chaos. valkyrie. ancient bird goddess, giving life, death, regeneration. represents our fearless self and can lead us through darkness so that we grow. hel. norse goddess of the underworld, a place of renewal and the embodiment of divine mystery. teaches us to look be

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

sage s triumph over old age and the grave. london, second edition, much enlarged. printed for j. nourse, at the lamb, against catherine street in the strand, in the year 1749" signor gualdi. 31 and thus much for the history of signor gualdi, who was suspected to be a rosicrucian. we shall have further interesting notices of these unaccountable people as we proceed. the egyptian eve trampling the dragon. the labarum. chapter the sixth. the hermetic brethren. he following passages occur in a letter published by some anonymous members of the r.c, and are adduced in a translation from the latin by one of the most famous men of the order, who addressed from the university of oxford about the period of oliver cromwell; to which university the great english rosicrucian, robertus de fluctibus (ro

e assigned in the formal zodiacs of all countries, whether origidal zodiacs, or whether produced in figure-imitations by recognising tradition. the marks or fig. 7. the letter shin 50 the rosicrucians. symbols of the zodiacal signs, virgo-scorpio, are closely similar to each other, with certain differences, which we behold! i show you a sign. virgo. libra. scorpio. the woman conqueror leading the dragon. the restored world, or captivity captive" recommend to the judicious consideration of close and experienced observers. fig. 8. the templar banner: the famous beauseant. fig. 9. fig. 8 is the symbol, or hook, of saturn, the colour of whom, in the heraldic configuration, is sab, sable, or black, divided, party per pale, with the opening light of the first crescent moon of the post-diluvian w

tter-chains. think that he is outside of all things, and deep in the inside of all things; and that thou and thy world are only the thing between: and that outside and inside are both identical, couldst thou fire-worship. 69 understand the supernatural truths! reverence fire (for its meaning, and tremble at it; though in the earth it be chained, and the foot of the archangel michael like upon the dragon be upon it! avert the face from it, as the magi turned, dreading, and (as the symbol) before it bowed askance. so much for this great thing fire! observe the multiform shapes of fire; the name-wreaths, the spires, the stars, the spots, the cascades, and the mighty falls of it; where the roar, when it grows high in imperial masterdom, is as that of niagara. think what it can do, what it is

tiful and godlike as it is to man, is as the shadow of god, and hath nothing of him; but is instituted as the place of purification, being, or punishment: the opposite of god, the enemy of god, and, in its results, apart from the spirit of god, which rescues supernaturally from it, the denier of god! this world and its shows nay, life stands mysti110 the rosicrucians. cally as the devil, serpent, dragon, or adversary, typified through all time; the world terrestrial being the ashes of the fire celestial. the torches borne at funerals are not alone for light: they have their mystic meaning. they mingle largely, as do candles on altars, in all solemn celebrations. the employment of light in all religious rites, and in celebration in the general sense, has an overpoweringly great meaning. fes

g, so brilliant and striking, and yet so terrible, a court, and surrounding the stately catafalque; the very word falcated, as bladed, sworded, or scimitared (as with the guard of waved or sickle-like flames; the lowly, single candle at the bedside of the povertyattenuated dead thus by the single votive light only allied (yet in unutterably mystic and godlike bond) as with the snake, serpent, and dragon. 111 greatest of the earth; the watch-lights everywhere, and in whatever country; the crosses (spiry memorials, or monoliths) which rose as from out the earth, in imitation of the watching candle, at whatever point rested at night, in her solemn journey to her last home, the body of queen eleanor, as told in the english annals (which flamememorials, so raised by the pious king edward in the

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e the phenomenon lasted, but the vapor of which it was composed was projected momentarily from the different sides by the effect of the different explosions. the cloud was about half a league to the northeast of laigle, and was at so great an altitude that the inhabitants of two hamlets a league apart saw it directly overhead. a multitude of meteoric stones fell amid a hissing sound. thunderbird, dragon of lao fzu, p. 27, saucer, all the same thing, all rumble when "hit" hard or when in need of repairs. the shape of that "cloud" is important. it seems to be the only sure clue that this could be anything more than an ordinary exploding meteor. rectangular clouds do not just happen. they almost certainly have to be made. and the cloud appeared to be motionless. meteors do not remain motionle

ce of ice fell from the sky over burgundy, france. it was sixteen feet long, seven feet broad, and two feet thick" that was quite a hailstone! ice for "hangover! yak ad 796: roger of wendover records that small globes were seen circling around the sun. ad 457 "over brittany, 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

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ost fearful sentence of which his evil is most deserving. call the elohim! summon satan to trial" having heard these words of spite, the lord of infinitude gravely nodded, giving his instruction to swift heralds who went on silver wings across the sky, burning like comets against the celestial dome, flying faster than a mongol's bolt, resounding long clarions of silver with voices louder than the dragon's roar, the dragon, leviathan, ancient and vast, bound deep beneath the briny swells of the great ocean, opened up as a wound in the flank of the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever slee

t feared of mummu's brood, made war upon the elohim race, casting down their spires with her tail and consuming their wondrous hosts. no force that heaven could raise against her, could withstand her or prevail. yet in my long travels had taught me much and i knew such lore as others did not know. in those caves beneath the earth i had seen wondrous metals of such strength as to withstand the she-dragon's might and i returned to the eternal night, far below continents and oceans, and, with my own hands, though with giant strength, dug out these precious ores and smelted them in the earth's inner fires, eternal and unquenchable. taking what my toil had fabricated, i further toiled and wrought bands to overcome leviathan, great, indeed, was her power and strength, and bind her for eternity

the damnation you would suffer is not a burden to be borne if its bearing can be avoided. if you would repent this heresy, going now upon your knees before me and you shall alleviate my wrath and my dealing with you shall be merciful. but cultivate this crime yet further and you shall forsake all clemency. i shall destroy you utterly, striking you down with a terrible scourge. more dreadful than dragon-fire is the wrath of adonai yahweh, almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sa

ost fearful sentence of which his evil is most deserving. call the elohim! summon satan to trial" having heard these words of spite, the lord of infinitude gravely nodded, giving his instruction to swift heralds who went on silver wings across the sky, burning like comets against the celestial dome, flying faster than a mongol's bolt, resounding long clarions of silver with voices louder than the dragon's roar, the dragon, leviathan, ancient and vast, bound deep beneath the briny swells of the great ocean, opened up as a wound in the flank of the primeval earth when, in an aeon unremembered in the minds of men and angel, the silver moon was torn out and set to ever turn across the sky, 80 illumining the night with silver light. there, held with bands of adamantine, does leviathan forever s

t feared of mummu's brood, made war upon the elohim race, casting down their spires with her tail and consuming their wondrous hosts. no force that heaven could raise against her, could withstand her or prevail. yet in my long travels had taught me much and i knew such lore as others did not know. in those caves beneath the earth i had seen wondrous metals of such strength as to withstand the she-dragon's might and i returned to the eternal night, far below continents and oceans, and, with my own hands, though with giant strength, dug out these precious ores and smelted them in the earth's inner fires, eternal and unquenchable. taking what my toil had fabricated, i further toiled and wrought bands to overcome leviathan, great, indeed, was her power and strength, and bind her for eternity

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

n# quicksilver (mercury" silver the following terms are used in books about alchemy. they have the meanings gievn below. sol philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of gold- the refined essence of heat and fire luna philosophorum the pure living alchemical spirit of silver--the refined essence of heat and moisture the green lion the stem and root of the radical essence of metals the black dragon death putrefaction decay the king red- the qabalistic microprosopus tiphareth analogous to gold and the sun the queen white- the qabalistic bride of microprosopus malkah analogous to silver and the moon the four orders of the elements are: 1. the spirits of the earth: gnomes 2. the spirits of the air: sylphs 3. the spirits of the water: undines 4. the spirits of the fire: salamanders these

crifice of animals symbolizes the qlippoth, or evil demons of the plane contiguous to and below the material universe. it points out that our passions should be sacrificed. the qlippoth are the evil demons of matter and the shells of the dead. the altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold. ours is black to symbolize our work which is to separate the philosophic gold from the black dragon of matter. this altar diagram shows the ten sephiroth with all the connecting paths numbered and lettered, and the serpent winding over each path. around each sephira are written the names of the deity, archangel and angelic host attributed to it. the twenty-two paths are bound together by the serpent of wisdom. it unites the paths but does not touch any of the sephiroth, which are linked b

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

that astaroth belonged to the order of seraphim. in the grimorium verum, it is maintained that he has set up residence in america. waite, in the lemegeton, refers to astaroth as a great duke in the infernal regions, whereas according to francis barrett in the magus i, he is called diabolus in the greek language. it is said that when he is invoked astaroth manifests as a beautiful angel astride a dragon and carrying a viper in his right hand. according to voltaire, astaroth was an ancient god of syria, whereas j. a. s. collin de plancy argues that he was one of the 7 princes of hell who visited faust. see also demons; faust;magic and magical groups for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. asuras asuras are south

ans.washington, dc: grove s dictionaries of music, 1980. dragons 73 dogma two modern-day fallen angels, bartelby and loki, are condemned to a fate almost as bad as hell when they are sent to wisconsin. although the cast of this 1999 movie is great, the plot is lame and too much time is wasted on boring nonsense and excessive profanity. dragons often depicted as a mixture of several creatures, the dragon is a fantastic beast that appears in mythology and folklore worldwide. although in oriental mythologies the dragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the i

ragon is seen as a beneficent animal and is often a symbol or a portent of prosperity, in most european mythologies it is viewed as a demonic beast hostile to humanity. in christian symbolism, for instance, the dragon represents the chief of the fallen angels, the devil. one of the inspirations for the christian devil via hebrew scriptures (the old testament) is derived from the babylonian female dragon monster, tiamat. in early christian thought, the dragon represents the devil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten horns. with reference to the story of the revolt of

evil or the devil s servant, and has the allegorical role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in chapter 12 of book of revelation, it is described as large and red, with seven heads and ten horns. with reference to the story of the revolt of the angels, the archangel michael is usually represented as the slayer of the dragon, and his angels fight against the dragon and his rebellious angels. the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. in hebrew scriptures, in which the dragon is mentioned several times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large, bla

the dragon is mentioned several times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large, black eyes yahweh is depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostili

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ercury 9 jasmine, jinseng, all odoriferous roots orchid root lead 1010 dittany of crete corn mag. sulph. 11 galbanum peppermint. 12 mastic, white sandal[[nutmeg, mace, storax, all fugitive odours. all cerebral excitants mercury 13 menstrual blood, camphor, aloes, all sweet virginal odours jupiter, pennyroyal& all emmenogogues. 14 sandalwood, myrtle, all soft voluptuous odours all aphrodisiacs. 15 dragon s blood all cerebral excitants. 16 storax sugar. 17 wormwood ergot and ecbolics. 18 onycha watercress. 19 olibanum all carminatives and tonics. 20 narcissus all anaphrodisiacs. 21 saffron, all generous odours cocaine. 22 galbanum tobacco. 23 onycha, myrrh caseara, all purges sulphates 24 siamese benzoin, opoponax. 25 lign-aloes. 26 musk, civet (also 'ian perfumes) orchis [satyrion. 27 peppe

gon s blood all cerebral excitants. 16 storax sugar. 17 wormwood ergot and ecbolics. 18 onycha watercress. 19 olibanum all carminatives and tonics. 20 narcissus all anaphrodisiacs. 21 saffron, all generous odours cocaine. 22 galbanum tobacco. 23 onycha, myrrh caseara, all purges sulphates 24 siamese benzoin, opoponax. 25 lign-aloes. 26 musk, civet (also 'ian perfumes) orchis [satyrion. 27 pepper, dragon s blood, all hot pungent odours. 28 galbanum all diuretics. 29 ambergris[[menstrual fluid] all narcotics. 30 olibanum, cinnamon, all glorious odours alcohol. 31 olibanum, all fiery odours. nitrates 32 assafoe tida, scammony, indigo, sulphur (all evil odours. lead 32 bis storax, all dull and heavy odours. bismuth 31 bis[[no attribution possible] stramonium carbon table of correspondences 14

ps. 18 11$ wyswg gusion like a xenopilus 19 14 ]yarl leraikha an archer in green 20 17% and# cyfwb botis viper (or) human, with teeth and 2 horns, and with a sword. 22 20! wcrwp purson lion-faced man riding a bear, carrying a viper. trumpeter with him. 24 23 \ya aim man with 3 heads a serpent s, a man s (having two stars on his brow, and a calf s. rides on viper and bears firebrand. 25 26 \yb bim dragon with 3 heads a dog s, man s, and gryphon s. 26 29$ twrtca asteroth hurtful angel or infernal dragon, like berot, with a viper [breath bad. 28 32! yadmsa asmoday 3 heads (bull, man, ram, snake s tail, goose s feet. rides, with lance and banner, on a dragon. 29 35= cwjrm marchosias wolf with a gryphon s wings and serpent s tail. breathes flames. clix. goetic demons of decans by day (cadent. c

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 duchess crown tied to her waist, riding great camel. 24 59= ayrw oriax lion on horse, with serpent s tail, carries in right hand two hissing serpents. 25 62# law volac child with angel s wings rides a two-headed dragon 26 65 [lardna andrealphas noisy peacock. 28 68! laylb belial two beautiful angels sitting in chariot of fire. 29 71$ lafnd dantalion man with many countenances, all men s and women s, carries a book in right hand. clxv. goetic demons &c. by night (cadent. clxvi. magical images of col. clxv. 15 39 [lam malphas crow with sore throat. 16 42$ rapw vepar mermaid. 17 45$ and! anyw vin lion on bla

e week is obtained. col. clxxviii. these intelligences are angelic in nature, but possessing material and even earthly dominion. hence they preside over the geomantic figures, whose nature indeed expresses their relation to man. col. clxxxi. line 11. he laughs; bearing a sphere containing 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 ston

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f the slain god. but now it has been given unto me to understand the heart of her mystery, wherefore, o my son, by right of the great love that i bear unto thee, i will inform thee thereof. i liber aleph vel cxi 152 eu de natura s#inu (of the nature of the sphinx) irstly, this sphinx is a symbol of the coition of our lady babalon with me the beast in its wholeness. for as i am of the lion and the dragon, so is she of the man and the bull, in our natures, but the converse thereof in our offices, as thou mayst understand by the study of the book of the vision and the voice. it is thus a glyph of the satisfaction and perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish them

nd perfection of the will and of the work, the completion of the true man as the reconcilor of the highest with the lowest, so for our convenience conventionally to distinguish them. this then is the adept, who doth will with solid energy as the bull, doh dare with fierce courage as the lion, doth know with swift intelligence as the man, and doth keep silence with soaring subtilty as the eagle or dragon. moreover, this sphinx is an eidolon of the law, for the bull is life, the lion is light, the man is liberty, the serpent love. now then his sphinx, being perfect in true balance, yet taketh the aspect of the feminine principle that so she may be partner of the pyramid, that is the phallus, pure image of our father the sun, the unity creative. the signification of this mystery is hat the ad

t to their own nature. but the serpent is the secret nature of man, that is life and death, and maketh his way through the generations in silence. and the eagle is that might of live which is the key of magick, uplifting the body and its appurtenance unto high ekstacy upon his wings. it is by virtue thereof that the sphinx beholdeth he sun unwinking, and confronteth the pyramid without shame. our dragon, therefore, combining the natures of the eagle and he serpent, is our love, the organ of our will, by whose virtue we perform the work and miracle of the one substance, as saith thine ancestor hermes trismegistus, in his tablet of smaragda. and this dragon, is called thy silence, because in he hour of his operation that within thee which saith .i. is abolished in its conjunction with the be

of his arm, and the equilibrating and directing control of his eye. of these three if one fail, he mark is not hit. but hold! is not a fourth element essential in the work? yea, soothly, all were vain without he engine, arrow and bow. this engine is thy body, possessed by thee and used by thee for thy work, yet not part of thee, even as are his weapons to this archer in my similitude. thus is thy dragon to be cherished of thy lion, but if thou lack energy and endurance of thy bull, thy tools lie idle, and if cunning and intelligence, with experience also of thy man, thy shaft flieth crooked. so then, o my son, do thou perfect hyself in these four powers, and that with equity. s the book of wisdom or folly 159 #g de libra, in qua quattuor virtutes quipollent (of the balance, in which the fo

y shaft flieth crooked. so then, o my son, do thou perfect hyself in these four powers, and that with equity. s the book of wisdom or folly 159 #g de libra, in qua quattuor virtutes quipollent (of the balance, in which the four powers are of equal power) y gnana yoga cometh thy man to knowledge; by karma yoga thy bull to will; by raja yoga is thy lion brought to his light; and to make perfect thy dragon, thou hast bhakta yoga for the eagle therein, and hatha yoga for the serpent. yet mark thou well how all these interfuse, so that thou mayst accomplish no one of the works separately. as to make gold thou must have gold (it is the word of the alchemists, so to become the sphinx thou must first be a sphinx. for naught may grow save to the norm of its own nature, and in the law of its own law

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the legend of the golden fleece. jason, who in this story represents the beast, first fits out a ship guided by wisdom or athena, and this is his aspiration to the great work. accompanied by many heroes, he comes to the place of the fleece, but they can do nothing until medea, the scarlet woman, puts into his hands a posset .drugged with somnolence, sleepy with poppy and white hellebore. for the dragon. then jason is able to subdue the bulls, sacred to osiris, and symbolical of his aon and the magical formula of self-sacrifice. with these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein .the dreadful teeth of woe, cadmean stock of thebes. old misery. which refers to a certain magical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore not

ical formula announced by the beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore not further in this place indicated. from this seed armed men sprung to life; but instead of attacking him .mutual madness strikes the warriors witless, and fierce wrath invades their hearts of fury, and with arms engaged, they fell upon each other silently, and slew, and slew. now then, the dragon being asleep, we may step 1 [this epistle was addressed to charles stansfeld jones (frater achad, who at the time crowley believed to be his magical son. t.s] liber ccc 2 quietly past him, and .rending the branches of that wizard oak, with a strong grasp tear down the fleece of gold..1 let us only remember not to repeat the error of jason, and defy ares, who is horus in his warrior mood, th

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

ght i had found the lord i seek. your pardon, lord. these eyes are weary and weak with tears and my vain search. esarhaddon. whom seek you then? psyche. my husband.my sole miracle of men, the count adonis [esarhaddon staggers and falls on the couch. psyche. you know of him? esarhaddon. no. i cannot tell what struck me so. i never heard the name. psyche. indeed, your eyes are liker his than wedded dragon-flies! your brows are his, your mouth is his. yet all fs awry! esarhaddon. may be it is! psyche. oh, pardon. mine is but a mad girl.s glance adonis is this soul fs inheritance. all else is madness. esarhaddon. mad! mad! mad! mad! mad! why say you this? who are you? sad? glad? bad? bad! bad! speak, speak! bleak peak of mystery? weak cheek of modesty? psyche. oh, pardon me! i did not mean to

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ile avagao gohon. niiso! bagile momao siaionu, od mabezoda iad oi asa-momare poilape. niiasa! zodameranu ciaosi caosago od belioerasa od coresi ta a beramiji. the midday, the first is as the third heaven made of 26 hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own righteousness, saith the lord: whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to the stooping dragon, and like unto the harvest of a widow. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, the forty-eight keys or calls 30 which are, and shall not see death until the house fall and the dragon sink? come away! for the thunders (of increase)9 have spoke. come away! for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are divided! come forth! appear! to

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

b 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius frater vnvs in omnibvs from the photograph by henry b. camp the master is represented in the robe of, and described by his name as, a probationer, as if to assert his simplicity. he is in his favourite asana, the dragon, in profound holy meditation. 129 a master of the temple section i april 2, 1886, to december 24, 1909 charles stansfeld jones, whom i shall usually mention by the motto v.i.o, which he took on becoming a probationer of the a\a, made his entry into this world by the usual and approved method, on april 2nd 1886 e. v, having only escaped becoming an april fool by delaying a day to summon up e

h nature than formerly; also the addition of a little stranger to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. during the period from march 2nd to september 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 meditation practices, mostly in the asana known as the dragon, the periods ranging from a few minutes to something over an hour, but most of them comparatively short, the average perhaps being twenty minutes. after this there is a gap, during which he worked morning and evening most days, but made no further record till november 9, from which date to december 31 over eighty practices are recorded. of the details of all this early work it is not necess

1913. i have got a zeal for service since the retirement, wanted to take for new motto i aspire to serve but cannot find latin equivalent[ volo servare would do. but a better idea is i want to help rather than serve. o.m] liber clxv 159 march 22. feel sorry i missed exercise this morning through slackness [when you detect slackness, double the exercise, if it kills you. sure cure! o.m] march 25. dragon asana. mantra a.m.p.h. 9:39 to 10:34 p.m.=55 mins, breaks 14 to 18, mostly very slight. interruptions none. results: dharana, got feeling on skin and automatic rigidity. lost all personality most of the time, but only found this out by break which revived it. brain soon took up mantra automatically. illumination in brain after a while. towards the last saw some visions of sea &c (very sligh

t when this occur, it leads to a kind of ecstasy. had to leave off, as was called to tea by ruby [good, but a virtuous woman is above rubies, and never calls holy men to tea. o.m] apr. 4. control of body. while at office kept left elbow at side for 3 hours. wished to see if this would be quite easy and found i had no difficulty in remembering [good: try something harder. o.m] apr. 6, 9:20 10 p.m. dragon. this meditation was the best lately. quickly felt the prana gripping the body. conceived the blackness of understanding become penetrated by wisdom. brain became luminous. body rigid. tension passed and force concentrated at bridge of nose. concentrated on ajna. personality gone. tried to project consciousness straight up. was suddenly interrupted by r. who was in bed just by my side. hard

minous. body rigid. tension passed and force concentrated at bridge of nose. concentrated on ajna. personality gone. tried to project consciousness straight up. was suddenly interrupted by r. who was in bed just by my side. hardly knew where i was for the moment and had to concentrate on body to regain normal [too big a handicap, having anyone in the room. o.m] apr. 8, 9:25 to 10:11 p.m.=46 mins. dragon. the mind and seer alone remain. turning back on the seer there seem intervals of blank. this is accompanied with no illumination or joy, and one almost wonders why one has gone so far to obtain this. probably desire not entirely obliterated. some disinclination to leave the state [this sounds better. o.m] the equinox 160 apr. 13, 11:21 11:36 p.m. dragon. a certain bliss arose at the though

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nd the worm hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. even as their rapture shore asunder the visible hope, so also the fear invisible fled away and was no more. 37. o ye that are beyond aormuzdi and ahrimanes! blessed are ye unto the ages. 38. they shaped doubt as a sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 26 liber lxv 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self-luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beauti

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t, and that soundly, though with many dreams. awaking with the utmost horror and loathing of the path of the wise.it seemed somehow like a vast dragondemon with bronze green wings iridescent that rose up startled and angry. and i saw thatthe littlest courage is enough to rise and throw off sleep, like a small soldier in complete armour of silver advancing with sword and shield.at whose sight that dragon, not daring to abide the shock, flees utterly away. 2.15. lunch, 3 garibaldis and 3 gaufrettes. wrote two letters. 2.50. going out walk with mantra. 8.03 this walk was in a way rather a success. i got the good mantra effects, e.g, the brain taking it up of its own accord; also the distaste for everything but adonai became stronger and stronger. but when i returned from a visit to b..e on an

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

und and hoodwinked: asar un-nefer! i invoke the fourfold horror of the smoke. unloose the pit! by the dread word of power.that set-typhon hath heard. sazaz sazaz adnatsan sazaz1 the fear of darkness and of death. the fear of water and of fire the fear o. the chasm and the chain the fear of hell and the dead breath. the fear of him, the demon dire that on the threshold of the inane stands with his dragon fear to slay 1 (pronounce this backwards. but it is very dangerous. it opens the gates of hell) liber dclxxi vel pyramidos 5 the pilgrim of the way. thus i pass by with force and care, advance with fortitude and wit, in the straight path, or else their snare were surely infinite. the passing of the second pylon (stagger and fall back to earth. suit action to words) asar! who clutches at my

LIBER E

assing, you will be given more complex and difficult exercises. iii asana.posture 1. you must learn to sit perfectly still with every muscle tense for long periods. 2. you must wear no garment that interferes with the posture in any of these experiments. 3. the first position (the god. sit in a chair; head up, back straight, knees together, hands on knees, eyes closed. 4. the second position (the dragon. kneel; buttocks resting on the heels, toes turned back, back and head straight, hands on thighs. 5. the third position (the ibis. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms st

s. stand; hold left ankle with right hand (and alternately practise right ankle in left hand &c) free forefinger on lips. 6. the fourth position (the thunderbolt. sit: left heel pressing up anus, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus; arms stretched out over the knees: head and back straight. liber e vel exercitiorvm 4 the four positions the ibis the god the thunderbolt the dragon in the ibis the head is tilted very slightly too far back; in the thunderbolt the right foot might be a little higher and the right knee lower with advantage. svb figvra ix 5 7. various things will happen to you while you are practising these positions; they must be carefully analysed and described. 8. note down the duration of the pracitce, the severity of the pain (if any) which accompani

LIBER LVII

tau (see 400, also hta .thou. note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7) gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh.i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.56 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses. wand, a rod of almond. 3+ 60+ 400, the paths of the middle pillar. 474. tod, knowledge, the sephira that is not a sephira. in one aspect the child of chokmah and binah; in another the eighth heads of the stooping dragon, raised up when the tree of life was

ryba, mighty this shows abrahadabra as the word of double power, another phrase that meant much to me at the time. a a a a r a d b h b (3) baa at the top of the hexagram gives ba, amya, b, father, mother, child. rdh by yetzirah gives horus, isis, osiris, again father, mother, child. this hexagram is again the human triad. dividing into 3 and 8 we get the triangle of horus dominating the stooping dragon of 8 heads, the supernals bursting the head of daath. also a r b a a a a h d r b the supernals are supported upon two squares: daba= dd, love, 8. arha= rwa, light, 207. now 8 207= 1656= 18= yj, living, and 207= 9 23, hyj, life. at this time .licht, liebe, leben. was the mystic name of the mother- temple of the g d. the five letters used in the word are a, the crown; b, the wand, d, the cup;

not understand that it is a thousand times better to die than to break the least tittle of a magical oath.78 463. shows what the wand ought to represent. not 364;79 so we should hold it by the lower end. the wand is also will, straight and inflexible, pertaining to chokmah (2) as a wand has two ends. 474. see part i. to the beginner, though, daath seems very helpful. he is glad that the stooping dragon attacks the sanctuary. he is doing it himself. hence buddhists make ignorance the greatest fetter of all the ten fetters. but in truth knowledge implies a knower and a thing known, the accursed dyad which is the prime cause of all misery.80 480. lilith. see liber 418. so the orthodox place the legal 4 before the holy 8 and the sublime zero .and therefore their breaths stink. 543. good, but

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! my father compounded with my mother under the dragon.s tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows i am rough and lecherous .sfoot! i should have been that i am had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. if there is one sound philosophical dictum in the play, it is this (i am not going to argue with astrologers in the twentieth century) it is one we can test. on questions of morality and religion

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

he earth as there is hope in heaven. and the last letter of the verse is (the letter of hope, by qabalah of* whose key number is 17: by taro.hope; whose title is daughter of the firmament, dweller between the waters. the initial h is but the article .the. for 11 is the number of the qliphoth; but when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon there was added unto the tree tod, the knowledge, as the 11th sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil should come the saving of mankind; for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby cometh salvation. wherefore also is 11 the key number of the great saviour fs na

LIBER SAMEKH

af g thou treasure of iaf! h i g thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom! h photheth g abode of the light c h abrasax g c of the father, the sun, of hadit, of the spell of the aon of horus! h aeoou g our lady of the western gate of heaven! h ischure g mighty art thou! h8 mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section e. earth i invoke thee. ma go mother! o truth! h barraio g thou mass! h* gmass h in th

ake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as gun-nefer, h the perfection of gasar h himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the gegg h (or heart) ggirt with a serpent h is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv, which expands this to the utmost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following, b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams

nce for bes being regarded as a demonic or malignant power in egypt) oddly, in some of the graco-egyptian magical papyri, bes is identified with the headless one. 3 the goetia version has giapos h( fiapoj. apophrasz (apovrac) is a coptic spelling of apep (hellenised as apophis, the monster-serpent of egyptian myth; in the g.d. z documents, another element of the evil persona, dubbed the gstooping dragon h (the third part of the evil person was set-typhon; while not explicitly cited, the opening of section c is almost identically worded in the original greek to the opening of an invocation of set-typhon in the demotic and greek magical papyrus of london and leiden. 4 the goetia version has gmosheh h (mousej in the original greek. gankh-f-n-khonsu h was a theban priest of the 25th dynasty wh

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

prince put his hand on my head, and i tell you, honour bright, it was more wake up than ever before, even than when he used to kiss me. after that they said i could go into the bride-chamber, but it was only the most curious via n v. piscis. domus vi v. pulchritudo tkrp ceremonium 5 =6 humilitas supplicium sepulchrum the wake world 11 room that ever was with seven sides. there was a dreadful red dragon on the floor, and all the sides were painted every colour you can think of, with curious figures and pictures. the light was not like dream light at all; it was wake light, and it came through a beautiful rose in the ceiling. in the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. there was a little crucifix in the middle, all

LIBER XLI THIEN TAO

xcellency fs sublime desire, but, on the contrary, would earnestly pray your brilliant serenity to spit upon his grovelling gjoro. h (8) profound thought assures your beetle-headed suppliant that your glorious nobility must meet him before the controversy can be decided (9) true. would your sublimity condescend to defile himself by entering this muck-sweeper fs miserable hovel (10) expect leprous dragon with beri beri at your high mightiness fs magnificent heavenly palace to-morrow (thursday) afternoon at three sharp. thus met kwaw, the poet-philosopher of china; and juju, the godfather of his country. sublime moment in eternity! to the names of joshua and hezekiah add that of kwaw! for though he was a quarter of an hour late for the appointment, the hands went back on the dial of juju fs

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

highest virtue, and its hinder quarters were as a bull fs. moreover it stood upon the white sphere and the red cube; and it is not possible for any elixir to exceed this, unless it be by our path and working. he slayeth sir merlin the wizard. yet our brother perardua.and by now he was right skilful at the athanor!.determined to attain to that higher projection. therefore he subtly prepared a red dragon, or as some alchemists will have it, a fiery flying serpent, whereby he should eat up that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venemous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one

that sphinx of his, that he had nourished with such ingenium and care. now this red dragon hath seven fiery coils, proper to the seven silver stars. also was his head right venemous and greedy, and eight flames were about it; for that sphinx had two wings and four feet and two horns; but the serpent is one, even as the king is one. the chymical jousting of brother perardua 3 he slayeth the great dragon called stooping or twisted. now then is this work utterly burnt up and abolished in that tremendous heat that is in the mouth and belly of the dragon; and that which cometh forth therefrom is in no wise that which went in. yet are these twelve the children of those two-and-twenty. so when he had broken the cucurbirte, he find therein no trace of the seven, but a button of fused gold.as we s

firmament of nu. he slayeth king astur of the arms argent. now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metal; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virture of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mineral gold cannot be changed into any other substance by any means. this vegetable gold is fluidic; it must increase wonderfully and be fixed in the perfection of the sphinx. but this our animal g

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

er of the gods nor of the giants. alvissmal has another such creature in alviss, the gall-wise h dwarf who sues for the hand of thor fs daughter and is kept dispensing synonyms by the god until the sun comes up and turns the dwarf to stone. at this point the heroic poems begin, but the gods are by no means wholly absent, especially from the poems telling the early parts of the story of sigurd the dragon-slayer. odin, hoenir, and loki appear in the prose header to reginsmal (reginn fs poem, and loki appears in the poem itself. there are several allusions to odin, and these poems contain much fascinating information about such mythological beings as norns, dwarfs, and the like. there is a second main manuscript containing many of these poems, but, unlike codex regius of the poetic edda, it i

munon or mennon, who was married to troan, the daughter of king priam; their son was tror, gwhom we call thor. h he was raised by duke loricus, whom he subsequently killed, and he took over the kingdom of loricus, trakia (thrace, gwhich we call thrudheim. then he traveled widely from country to country, explored the entire continent, and alone defeated all berserks and all giants and the greatest dragon and many animals. h he married sibil, a seeress, gwhom we call sif. h he begat an entire family, and eighteen generations later was born voden; gwe call that one odin. h troy was a known place, and agamemnon and priam were historical figures known in iceland from the twelfth century onward. snorri sets thor in that environment; that is, he tells us that there was a historical figure whom th

g from the sea. this notion, which accords with the theories of mircea eliade as expressed, for example, in his the myth of the eternal return, has been expressed most clearly by jens peter schjodt in his 1981 article gvoluspa.cyklisk tidsopfattelse i gammelnordisk religion h (danske studier 76 [1981: 91.95. schjodt points especially to the last stanza of voluspa, which refers to the arrival of a dragon and the sinking of the sibyl. in the best treatment of time in norse mythology, that of margaret clunies ross in volume 1 of her prolonged echoes, especially chapter 7, clunies ross accepts the possibility of underlying traces of cyclic time but offers a linear progression very similar to the one i have outlined here, the differences being that i split the mythic present into periods of ear

ki has just reminded ty lr that fenrir ripped his hand off. ty lr responds: i lack my hand, and you lack hrodvitnir; a baleful loss for each. nor does the wolf have it well, who in bonds shall await the judgment of the gods. the name hrodvitnir (or hrodrsvitnir, another form of the name) means something like gfamous wolf. h see also fenrir; hati hrodvitnisson; mani; sol; ty lr 184 norse mythology dragon-headed post from the oseberg ship burial (werner forman/art resource) hropt alternate name for odin, perhaps the one most commonly found in skaldic and eddic poetry. the meaning of this name is disputed, but some observers think there is a connection with odin fs erotic activity, especially his seduction of rind so as to beget an avenger for baldr. the best evidence for this surmise is the

flow down into hvergelmir, and from it flow these rivers: sid, vid, soekin, eikin, svol, gunnthra, fjorm, fimbulthul, gipul, gopul, gomul, geivimul.these flow into the settlements of the asir. these are named too: thyn, vin, tholl, holl, gra, gunnthrain, nyt, not, nonn, hronn, vina, vegsvinn, thjodnuma. elsewhere in gylfaginning snorri says that there are countless serpents in hvergelmir with the dragon nidhogg. see also eikthyrnir; nidhogg hymir hardheaded giant; host and fishing buddy of thor when thor hooks the midgard serpent; owner of the kettle thor gets to brew the beer of the gods; father of ty lr. thor fs interactions with hymir are found in the (probably late) eddic poem hymiskvida and in snorri fs gylfaginning. according to hymiskvida, hymir has the kettle that the gods need to

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

s. we have the false hope that death will stop all other calamities. learning teaches us how much we may lose in the process. if our virtues are generally faults carried to excess, it is because there is a little badness at the beginning. when we see a great work of art. we live again. psychology has become the best seller. the modern work of bawdy fiction. knowing ourself is like sleeping with a dragon. we know little of truth yet there is nothing without it. thoughts direct and words govern our lives. all secrets of nature are kept by a kind of telling: they are under our nose. systems and logic become a conspiracy against originality, so great ideas are ill birthed. all of us would be lost in freedom. friendship is the best mutual self-indulgence and the only necessary correlator of all

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

th, within the european craft itself is the symbol of tubal cain, the first of the witch blood. tubal-qayin2 as it is sometimes spelled is the blacksmith whose forge is the heart of the witches sabbat craft. the child of asmodeus (called often samael) and lilith, is considered the bringer of gnosis to humanity. other legends give tubal cain as the child of samael and eve, and that in congress the dragon spit filth into her and bore cain. tubal cain was demonized as the brother who killed abel, his so-called brother. it was cain, within the region of the middle east, sparked the forge which brought the initiation given to man by shaitan the opposer, or in a modern context, lucifer. 2 see the book of cain by michael w. ford. 7 the history of the witches sabbat path is one of shadowed presenc

eir manifestation according to your will. it is therefore, very dangerous to open gateways of evocation (to summon outside the body) and invocation (to call inside the body or mind) of any force, as the black magickian seeks to absorb and bring initiations into the psyche to build the individual as a being separate from the universe. the teachings of astral vampirism within the black order of the dragon delve the depths of these concepts further. one would use the dark gods as models of strength and a symbol of immortal manifestation. the shadow form of lucifer is set, who is the ancient prince of darkness. set is the aspect of the infernal yet not self-destructive. if one seeks to become as set, to master chaos and the depths of the subconscious, then one opens a direct communication with

hich does not bleed when looked into which a laughing child devours on sight, eager to 25 awaken from the earth i walk, hidden in perception and form. as the last storm approaches, my name is thus revealed. lucifer shall the fires of heaven be brought down, by your gift of perception? shall all know from which clay becomes fire, and the profane are no longer. the wings of djinn beside that of the dragon, black and billowing answer to your shadowy presence. from this a torch is revealed. lilith from your loins great pleasure is shown, felt and ravished upon ecstasy from the children who feed nightly the bed chamber welcomes your passion shall you reveal the hidden moon, which acts as a door for such sight and beauty? beast and angel, i seek the addiction of your sweet veins. leviathan 26 wh

nd darkness, from which the peacock feathers grow. from my essence is the flow of time, the current of life and light. such shall be hidden and not revealed to the profane, their eyes shut in the forgotten shadows of unbecoming. i speak the words of darkness as being zazas, zazas, natsatanada zazas, the secret oath of opening the abyss, these are my words of manifestation! i create therefore! the dragon which coils in the darkness shall walk with my spirit, while i shall cultivate the light of dawn from which wisdom springs. the green of the earth is fed from the blood of wolves and the living, from which great secrets find their way to my ears. so it shall be! shaitan i am, shadow and light. let the voices fill with my joyous awakening! so it is done. the headless one ritual is the ritual

rning desert sands and the sun, sortha n-din thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao thiaf! east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bringer of illumination and love, who resides in shadow and light, cover and cloak my spirit with thy twelve wings, serpent skin covered from the shedding of the dragon, bring now forth the serpent essence of my soul! melek tau us, beautiful spirit of fire, i summon thee forth! photeth north- set-heh, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in my d

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

of wicca, the pure source must be revealed. to better explain the luciferian path in the terms of which is offered in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon, an assessment of the basic tools, god forms and models of belief are given here: apep the serpent-demon of chaos and the abyssic waters of the tuat. apep is the early embodiment of the sumerian tiamat or the sevenheaded dragon of the apocalypse. in early persian manifestation, ahriman and the archdaevas. in egyptian lore, apep is by cipher and study nothing more than set revealed, his primal draconian aspect of self. apep embodies the very essence of set and may even be considered associated with his shadow or demonic form. in the tenth and eleventh sections of the tuat set-heh is shown as being to the left of th

he offspring of asmodeus/samael and lilith, a child of infernal union. the lore of the sorcerous blacksmith is explained in depth in luciferian witchcraft, liber hvhi and book of the witch moon. leviathan considered primarily "male" and often female, leviathan encompasses the ancient flesh of mummu tiamat, the primal goddess. leviathan is the unity of sexualities, from which all emerges from this dragon of the depths. leviathan or the ouraborus is considered the encircler of ones path, or will. it surrounds and brings in all exteriors as designed by the sorcerer's desire, will and belief. leviathan as featured in yatuk dinoih is the dragon which brings the union of lilith and samael within the magician, that the path is brought forth. shaitan/lucifer lucifer is the bringer of light, the fa

MAGIC AND SPELLS

spellfire ability-the wielding of true spellfire-is right or wrong, legends hold that only one person in all faer n is gifted with true spellfire at a time. gossip identifies that one person today as the lass shandril shessair, an orphaned kitchenmaid from a tavern in highmoon of deepingdale. shandril has spellfire, yes, and a hundred mages hound her for- it, zhentarim and thayans and cult of the dragon and independents, slaughtering each other in their ruthless pursuit of her power. learn this, if you heed nothing else in this book: legends lie. mystra's chosen wield lesser spellfire, if they care to call on it, and some among them command true spellfire. a mage hiding'in the border kingdoms possesses true spellfire, and a cruel and arrogant noble of chessenta, and the wizard r but fm sur

levels) area: s-ft :wide path to close range (25 ft+ 5 ft./2 levels) duration: instantaneous saving throw: reflex half spell resistance: yes ajet of roaring flame bursts from your outstretched hand, scorching any creature in a 5-foot-wide path to the edge of the spell's range. aganazzar's scorcher deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels, to a maximum of 5d8 points of damage. focus: a red dragon's scale. analyze portal divination level: brd 3, portal 2, sor/wiz 3 components: v, s, m/df casting time: 1 minute range: 60 ft' area: a quarter circle emanating from you to the extreme of the range duration: concentration, up to 1 round/level (d) saving throw: see text spell resistance: no you can tell if an area contains a magic portal. if you study an area for 1 round, you know the sizes

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

he mistress of that body heaps every form of sorrow and misery upon the imprisoned consciousness. the waters of life--the secret doctrine--cure the diseases of ignorance; and the spirit, ascending again to its divine source, regains its god-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets. another mystery ritual among the babylonians and assyrians was that of merodach and the dragon. merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays a horrible monster and out of her body forms the universe. here is the probable source of the so-called christian allegory of st. george and the dragon. the mysteries of adonis, or adoni, were celebrated annually in many parts of egypt, phoenicia, and biblos. the name adonis, or adoni, means "lord" and was a designation applied to the s

he candidate watched, the heart changed into an ibis, and the brain into a flashing emerald. in its hand this mysterious being bore a winged rod, entwined with serpents. the aged initiator, raising his wand, cried out in a loud voice "all hail thee, thoth hermes, thrice greatest; all hail thee, prince of men; all hail thee who standeth upon the head of typhon" at the same instant a lurid writhing dragon appeared--a hideous monster, part serpent, part crocodile, and part hog. from its mouth and nostrils poured sheets of flame and horrible sounds echoed through the vaulted chambers. suddenly hermes struck the advancing reptile with the serpent-wound staff and with snarling cry the dragon fell over upon its side, while the flames about it slowly died away. hermes placed his foot upon the skul

use. hermes, while wandering in a rocky and desolate place, gave himself over to meditation and prayer. following the secret instructions of the temple, he gradually freed his higher consciousness from the bondage of his bodily senses; and, thus released, his divine nature revealed to him the mysteries of the transcendental spheres. he beheld a figure, terrible and awe-inspiring. it was the great dragon, with wings stretching across the sky and light streaming in all directions from its body (the mysteries taught that the universal life was personified as a dragon) the great dragon called hermes by name, and asked him why he thus meditated upon the world mystery. terrified by the spectacle, hermes prostrated himself before the dragon, beseeching it to reveal its identity. the great creatur

ied by the spectacle, hermes prostrated himself before the dragon, beseeching it to reveal its identity. the great creature answered that it was poimandres, the mind of the universe, the creative intelligence, and the absolute emperor of all (schure identifies poimandres as the god osiris) hermes then besought poimandres to disclose the nature of the universe and the constitution of the gods. the dragon acquiesced, bidding trismegistus hold its image in his mind. immediately the form of poimandres changed. where it had stood there was a glorious and pulsating radiance. this light was the spiritual nature of the great dragon itself. hermes was "raised" into the midst of this divine effulgence and the universe of material things faded from his consciousness. presently a great darkness descen

mystery which is called life. as the darkness without you is divided against itself, so the darkness within you is likewise divided. the light and the fire which rise are the divine man, ascending in the path of the word, and that which fails to ascend is the mortal man, which may not partake of immortality. learn deeply of the mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality" the dragon again revealed its form to hermes, and for a long time the two looked steadfastly one upon the other, eye to eye, so that hermes trembled before the gaze of poimandres. at the word of the dragon the heavens opened and the innumerable light powers were revealed, soaring through cosmos on pinions of streaming fire. hermes beheld the spirits of the stars, the celestials controlling the univers

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

d. this will provide good insulation from the heat of the burning charcoal. now, again when the moon is waxing (this will always be the case, unless otherwise stated, exorcise the thurible with charged fire and water in the same way that you did your cup. then paint the proper symbols around it, chanting the following words with each symbol and again charging them with light. you may mix a little dragon's blood resin with your paint if you like, for added potency "blessed be thou creature of fire" paint your witch name around the base, repeating the letters and charging them as you do so, and again terminate the spell with the words "so mote it be" this is your complete thurible. with it and your cup you will henceforth perform all your water and fire exorcisms. now that we are equipped wi

e administered orally as a philter; they can be highly poisonous and the effects extremely nasty. i have listed them accordingly. useful sachet powder ingredients lavender vervain orris root("love" or iris root) balm (melissa officinalis) rue (use for a clear head in love matters) hawthorn blossoms periwinkle blossoms (virica major and minor) yarrow (potency lasts seven years- good for marriages) dragon's blood reed (more traditional to the united states, brings back straying lovers) mandrake root (bryonia dioica. don't eat this. highly suitable for cernunnos magic) olive leaves (calming of strife) cowslip flowers satyrion root (any type of orchid. not advisable to eat. highly suitable for cernunnos magic) myrtle leaves or blossoms balm of gilead buds meadowsweet (filipendula ulmarid) jasm

r two other little devices; all your earth amulets and magistelli will, of course, be working overtime. first, you must see that the victim or victims all bear upon their breasts the pentacle of protection. here is the manner of its construction: the pentacle of protection on a tuesday or saturday midnight, with the moon waxing, cast and purify your regular circle, using an incense of either pure dragon's-blood resin or one compounded of one part church incense, one part lignum aloes, one part powdered alum, and five drops of cedarwood oil. then take some of your talisman paper, and from it cut three four-inch squares. exorcise these with fire and water. then, with your pen and ink of art, draw the following five-pointed star on the first of them (see illustration) you will see that it is

must first asperge with water of the loud, resounding sea. failing this combination of herbs, you may use either hyssop and salt or sweet balm and salt to almost equal effect. finally, here is a list of other magical protective herbs to be used either singly or in combination in your rituals and sachets: holda (elderberry (berries or flowers to be gathered at midsummer) madwort (alyssum) marjoram dragon herb (tarragon) angelica fennel bay laurel asafetida grass holy thistle herb (replace after seven days) bishop's-wort (betony) garlic flowers all-heal (mistletoe (may be carved into ring or bracelet) dog roses arum lilies benet, holy herb, or avens (geum urbanum) lucky-hands (unexpanded fronds of male fern- dry-opteris filix mas- dry over sabbat fire) and last, but by no means least, those

dered lodestone or magnetized iron filings and sulphur, mingled with a few drops of blood of a man, a black cat, and the brain of a hart. many of these ingredients are, not surprisingly, poisonous, and two at least of the last difficult, if not objectionable, to get hold of. in view of that, an alternative more modern martial incense may be composed more readily of the following: 4 parts powdered dragon's blood resin 4 parts dried powdered rue 1 part dried ground peppercorns 1 part dried ground ginger 1 pinch sulphur 1 pinch magnetized iron filings or powdered lodestone alternatively, you may burn pure dragon's blood, sulphur, or asafetida in your thurible. the last two are of an extremely offensive and pungent odour and should not be used in large quantities. sulphur especially should be

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON PENTACLES

the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence. editor s note. around the figure of the scorpion is the word hvl. the versicle is from psalm xci. 13 "thou shalt go upon the lion and added, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet" figure 30. the sixth pentacle of mars. it hath so great virtue that being armed therewith, if thou art attacked by any one, thou shalt neither be injured nor wounded when thou fightest with him, and his own weapons shall turn against him. editor s note. around the eight points of the radii of the pentacle are the words "elohim qeber, elohim hath covered (or

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t, and is an author of bloodshed and manslaughter. he teacheth all things past, and to come. if desired he causeth the love both of friends and of foes. he can make a man to go invisible. and he hath under his command 36 legions of spirits. his seal is this, to be, etc (26) bune, or bime- the twenty-sixth spirit is bune (or bim. he is a strong, great and mighty duke. he appeareth in the form of a dragon with three heads, one like a dog, one like a gryphon, and one like a man. he speaketh with a high and comely voice. he changeth the place of the dead, and causeth the spirits which be under him to gather together upon your sepulchres. he giveth riches unto a man, and maketh him wise and eloquent. he giveth true answers unto demands. and he governeth 30 legions of spirits. his seal is this

as is before spoken of regarding beleth.17 he can turn all metals into gold. he can give dignities, and can confirm them unto man. he speaketh with a, very clear and subtle voice. he governeth 26 legions of spirits. his seal is this, etc (29) astaroth- the twenty-ninth spirit is astaroth. he is a mighty, strong duke, and appeareth in the form of an hurtful angel riding on an infernal beast like a dragon, and carrying in his right hand a viper. thou must in no wise let him approach too near unto thee, lest he do thee damage by his noisome breath. wherefore the magician must hold the magical ring near his face, and that will defend him. he giveth true answers of things past, present, and to come, and can discover all secrets. he will declare wittingly how the spirits fell, if desired, and th

al is this, which wear thou, etc (32) asmoday- the thirty-second spirit is asmoday, or asmodai. he is a great king, strong, and powerful. he appeareth with three heads, whereof the first is like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram; he hath also the tail of a serpent, and from his mouth issue flames of fire. his feet are webbed like those of a goose. he sitteth upon an infernal dragon, and beareth in his hand a lance with a banner. he is first and choicest under the power of amaymon, he goeth before all other. when the exorcist hath a mind to call him, let it be abroad, and let him stand on his feet all the time of action, with his cap or headdress off; for if it be on, amaymon will deceive him and call all his actions to be bewrayed. but as soon as the exorcist seeth as

nd blood into wine, also water into wine. he can turn all metals into coin of the dominion that metal is of. he can even make fools wise. he governeth 33 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (62) volac, or valak, or valu, or valac- the sixty-second spirit is volac, or valak, or valu. he is a president mighty and great, and appeareth like a child with angel s wings, riding on a two-headed dragon. his office is to 25 thus in the actual text. 26 or with the face of a lion. give true answers of hidden treasures, and to tell where serpents may be seen. the which he will bring unto the exorciser without any force or strength being by him employed. he governeth 38 legions of spirits, and his seal is thus (63) andras- the sixty-third spirit is andras. he is a great marquis, appearing in t

nd there was great hail such as had not been since the beginning of the world; and by the name adonai, which moses named, and there came up locusts, which appeared upon the whole land, and devoured all which the hail had left; and by the name schema amathia which ioshua called upon, and the sun stayed his course; and by the name alpha and omega, which daniel named, and destroyed bel, and slew the dragon; and in the name emmanuel, which the three children, shadrach, meshach and abed-nego, sang in the midst of the fiery furnace, and were delivered; and by the name hagios; and by the seal31 of adoni; and by ischyros, athanatos, paracletos; and by o theos, ictros, athanatos; and by these three secret names, agla, on, tetragrammaton, do i adjure and constrain thee. and by these names, and by al

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enadiel &c" lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 46 macariel his seal the 9th. wandring spirit in order is called macariel, who hath 40 dukes besides other inferior servants to attend him, whereof we shall mention 12 of the chief dukes which hath 400 servants to attend them, they are all good by nature and obedient to do the will of the exorcist, they appear in diverse forms but mostly in the form of a dragon with a virgins head, and these dukes are to be called in the day as well as in the night, according to the planetary order& their names& seals are as followeth &c. chaniel seal drusiel seal andras seal caroel seal amadiel seal remijel seal naustuel seal verpiel seal germel seal thirsiel seal burfiel seal aromusij seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince macariel who

dukes with many servants to attend him, they are all by nature evil& will not obey willingly& are very false in their doings, they appear in the form of a serpent with a virgins head& face, whereof we shall mention but 10 of the chief dukes which hath 650 companions and servants to attend them, their names& seals are as followeth &c. chabri seal darbos seal narmiel seal frasmiel seal brymiel seal dragon seal curmis seal darpios seal hermon seal adrnsis seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince vriel &c" lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 48 bydiel seal the 11th& last spirit& prince of this wandring order is called bydiel, who hath under his command 20 chief dukes& 200 other dukes more inferior besides very many servants, these dukes changeth every year their office& pla

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

n form for that of a wolf. such a chant may be used in dreaming chants before sleep if the witch so desires lending to the dreaming flesh gathered by shadows. in the ancient lore of persian sorcery, with specifics to zoroastrianism, wolves were hated creatures which were said to be created by ahriman. the term khrafstra is a general word for noxious beasts, attributed to the druj or demons of the dragon ahriman. such imagery is used in the work of the black order of the dragon, a secret guild of witches and sorcerers who develop a left hand path initiatory guild based on (among others) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of witches called coven maleficia of the order of pho

hers) persian sorcery and so-called black magick centered around the dragons ahriman and tiamat, who is of sumerian origin. the botd which is headed by a triad of witches called coven maleficia of the order of phosphorus have worked in vampyric areas of dreaming sorcery for some years. in the botd the initiate works through the symbolism of the transformation of the vampyre to the werewolf to the dragon in a dreaming centered development of what could be called luciferian witchcraft. the ritual contained here is but one example of some of the initiatory focus of this so-called sethianic 8 school. 6 the warlock s book by peter haining, 1970 7 16 lines which signify transformation in the wilderness to the shape of the wolf 8 a term used to define the left hand path alignment with the egyptia

so the changing of various parts of the body according to your will and going forth in the dream or in a meditative state in the ritual chamber. some will take different parts of animals and go forth in a dreaming state, awakening with detail experiences, and having the attributes of the animal parts they formed. another more intense area of the transformative state is from human to man-wolf to a dragon form, which the snout grows sharper teeth, horns emerge from the head and much of the fur dissipates. the flesh changes from ashen gray to a dark black-green scaled form. this is the ahrimanic dragon form, a state of being in which the witch has begun a selftransformative state into a deep communion with ahriman and tiamat the druj of darkness who by their isolation and individual beings, b

o this deity, as set was essentially shaitan the opposer/adversary. the egyptian god seker is also a god form which the sorcerer may visualize and use as a mask of dreaming22. seker is an ancient death-god, who was considered older than osiris and who resided around the city of memphis. seker resided in the tomb and the complete darkness. around his lands were winged serpents, demonic spirits and dragon like beings with three heads. seker was often featured as a mummified man who had a mask of a predatory hawk, who sat on a throne of abyssic shadow. in the story of af ra meeting seker23 in ra-stau where he sits in the kingdom of death, as death itself. it makes reference to seker sitting in majesty, with serpents and demonic spirits surround him. in the book of the dead seker is made refer

t space could not recount ahriman. it was shadow and darkness, nourished in the abyss, with the violet light of the black sun, called al ghul, the point of all hunger known as az, the crowning of the beast. this night, as candle burns and my vessel of darkness is prepared, shall i go forth to the gathering of our spirits thou yatus and wondering demon kin of mine. druj, descend, i shall become as dragon of flesh and seed, fire, smoke and soul. come forth now! so it is done further reading- yatuk dinoih (second edition) the book of cain the toad rite nox umbra azot rthe book of cain by akhtya seker arimanius michael w. ford february-march 2003 succubus publishing phosphorus inner publishing this inspired text was created under meditative and inspired circumstances by its author, michael w

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

men fear to walk, those ghost roads which prove dangerous to those unwilling to face their own darkest aspects of self. this book is a working for myself, as a student of the luciferian path, and as i wrote it, studied it and then prepared this text i have further come into being. i hope those who read this work understand that it is a ritual in progress, that each sentence fans the flames of the dragon and his consort, lilith, the mother of the witch path. cain has presented me with different elements to think about and to further encourage others to develop what is the sabbatic and luciferian path. when staring into the mirror, cain appears his very mask of set-an is shown to me. become! akhtya seker arimanius veneficus, vox barathrum toph prepared march 22nd, known as the day of rebelli

as fire and air in spirit, belial was of earth and found this place comfortable and familiar. belial said unto azazel, who would else wake and join us in this moment of triumph that we are without the highest empyrean realm we now look about to understand we are different, strong and noble in our selves. awake with us djinn! leviathan arose before them. he had taken the form of a great serpent, a dragon who beheld both sexes of human flesh leviathan would seek the oceans and understood the art of sorcery as a totality of being timeless and alive in its sacred flame. leviathan found the nightmares comforting, and dreams would be his fluid waking within worlds. many others rose up and joined with my father, who is the brightest of them all. he was fire and his realm was air, he was both deat

derstood the art of sorcery as a totality of being timeless and alive in its sacred flame. leviathan found the nightmares comforting, and dreams would be his fluid waking within worlds. many others rose up and joined with my father, who is the brightest of them all. he was fire and his realm was air, he was both death and life. i remember my father as possessing adam who rode my mother eve as the dragon, driving deep within her core, enflamed with the spirit of lilith. these were my earth parents, but it was the blood of azazel called often samael and lilith which flows in my veins. it was this passion and possession which brought me into being, the first born of witch blood in the circle of the dragon s emerald crown. azazel gathered all in this secret place, which was of fire and blacken

ith them. my father taught them the sacred arts, hidden and the places of serpents, how to work with the earth to direct and manifest their will. azazel taught man how to hunt, fish and make weapons. he brought them the experience and knowledge to fight and defend, as well as shelter from the elements. i too had been instinctively taught, which is the gift of my father, who walked the path of the dragon who was the dragon. it was the perfected essence of flame which earthen heat could only catch a glimpse of that the fires of spirit burn ever so bright, that in this torch shall my father be revealed. lilith who wrapped her serpents tail around eve s brain, unlocked the depths of her lust and rode this dragon until i was conceived that was then perfection beheld. i walked the paths with my

d mother i held no love for these who would treat me as a dead animal in their family. i would be marked again among the animals, who i could run with. i took this skull and the spirit of abel with it he would walk with me forever this was taught to me in dreaming behold cain, a blood filled skull bowl will show unto you that which the profane cannot see, yet in it s veil will the path of the red dragon be shown, you must come forth by dreaming to see within this bowl, and i shall wait for you there cauled in the crimson drape, veiled from the eyes of the blind. hold this skull and behold the spirits which walk with you, by self-transformation on the meeting path shall this mark be evermore your father, the dragon djinn of old forever walk with you, and in rapt meditation shall we pass fro

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

ficia derived inspiration, dracul, strigoi and moroii. varcolaci is a romanian vampire spirit. this particular vampire spirit is generally a living individual, going forth in a presumably normal life. in the night however this vampire would physically enter sleep and its spirit would rise as what was called varcolaci. the undead spirit is able to rise towards the night sky, in the form of a small dragon or wolf with many heads, to drink blood from the moon. the varcolaci are also able to haunt villages and drain astral life force and blood from the sleeping. the varcolaci vampire is quite powerful on the astral plane, being able to haunt the night in many forms, depending on the primal urge and desire. further explanations and developments of this form are discussed in later chapters of th

n. the varcolaci are also able to haunt villages and drain astral life force and blood from the sleeping. the varcolaci vampire is quite powerful on the astral plane, being able to haunt the night in many forms, depending on the primal urge and desire. further explanations and developments of this form are discussed in later chapters of this book. dracul or dracula is romanian meaning "son of the dragon" and can also mean "son of the devil. dracula is known as vlad tepes, a romanian noble man who lived from 1431 to 1476 and protected the transylvanian country side with terror and honor. vlad was known as the "impaler prince" for his use of impalement and torture. his modern tactics of war and subterfuge proved him to be a successful war lord and prince. his war with the turks lasted his li

1431 to 1476 and protected the transylvanian country side with terror and honor. vlad was known as the "impaler prince" for his use of impalement and torture. his modern tactics of war and subterfuge proved him to be a successful war lord and prince. his war with the turks lasted his life and gave birth to many tales of his vampiric actions and violence. an order he belonged to, the order of the dragon, was a defense against the turkish offensive that was rumored to involve magical activities. strigoi is represented as an undead vampire spirit, sometimes female and also a kin to the word strigoica, meaning "witch. it is the moroii, who are often varcolaci themselves, who meet the strigoi in the night and give communion of blood and other lustful unions of demonic passion. the individual

control its elementals and energies is to transpose the abyss and awaken towards a glorious morning! vampirism is a belief system of altered thinking and new focus. it is not at all different from the beliefs of any serious magus or sorcerer who seeks to build the black walls of individual strength. the subconscious holds ever key needed to awaken these primal atavisms: the serpent, the wolf, the dragon, the bat, the owl and raven are all at our command. the new age of shamanic tribal transformation and atavistic resurgence is at hand. 20 20 the vampiric path is not necessarily a life long dedicated focus, it is night side. in other words any other personal path of magickal power and study such as thelema (2, chaos (3, voudon (4, etc. can be a primary focus of the individual. the developed

of the rites of da'ath is that having entered the reverse side of the tree of life, and passed through the da'athian gates, a plethora of psychic and hidden knowledge becomes available. da ath is a conjunction and child of the qabalistic zones of chokmah (wisdom) and binah (understanding. as israel regardie pointed out in the golden dawn (llewellyn 1971: but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders da ath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge. thus it stands proven claims blavatsky that satan or the red fiery dragon, the lord of phosphorus and lucifer, or light bearer

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ese are: anakim,rephaim, djinn, giants, titans, fallen angels, the watchers, the els, the ari, elders,atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation3 from the end of heaven sons of zadok, sons of seth, the uranids, cyclopeans, promethians, olympians, theelect, asuras, the illies, fomorians, the necromancers, rayless ones, bent ones, thedogons, dagons, the ana, amaraka, nagas, the rakshasas, dragon kings, naddred,the brotherhood of the snake, and the serpent people. they were also referred to asthe djedhi (see jedi. the bible takes the position that the nephilim were a malign presence and insists thattheir leaders committed a great sin by interfering with the evolution of humankind: and the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the devil and satan,the deceiver

t enrich humankind then and now origi-nate from them. lemuria comes from mu or mu-devi which means the land ancestral or land of the ancestors. mu-devi was the hindu mother goddess. shiva was her counterpart and is the great father of mankind. an indian tamil text, silappadikaran, describes a lost continent in the pacific and indian ocean that it calls kumai nadu or kumari kandam, which means the dragon land of the immortal serpents.their rebellion and departure affronted their creators who, from that time onward,would consider their first born avowed adversaries. atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation27 chapter 5the race of adam in a late sumerian mythit is declared that men were created to relieve the gods of the oner-ous task of tilling their fields. men were to do that wo

were scientists. the opposing sides both used and continue to use the serpentsymbol, but with certain differences. the sons of the serpent, with the human dna andhuman sensibilities, use the serpent usually in a winged form, or with a crown, or even asmulticolored. often referred to as the uraeus, the agatho daimon, the feathered serpent, oreven the phoenix, it is a positive symbol, and like the dragon with five toes is connected towisdom, white magic, and mystical practice. the plain non-winged, non-crowned, generallythe race of adam32atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation plain appearing snake, like the dragon with three claws, is a negative symbol used by theoriginal aliens and by underworld criminal syndicates. after the creation of the adamic race, the atlanteans felt c

rt was only evil continually. and it repented the lord that he hadmade man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart. and the lord said, i will destroy manwhom i have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that i have made them (genesis 6-8. and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and thedragon fought and his angels, and prevailed notand the great dragon was cast out that oldserpent, called the devil, and satan which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out intothe earth, and his angels were cast out with him (revelation 12:7-12) woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the land of these almighty gods? these are thegods that smote the egyptians with all manner of

n to the various provinces of the earth. as the histo-rians and mythologists have known, these sundrycultures and their beliefs bear curious yet undeniablesimilarities, mainly because contingents of the samepeople were spreading the knowledge to these differentlocalessame people, similar paradigms and symbol-ism. commensurate with this comes the ambiguoussymbols of the snake, the serpent, and the dragon. prehistoric artatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation57 i shall reverse the world lished what are known as the sumerian and babylonian civilizations, as well as all thehigh profile empires to come. and it is upon the foundations of these dynasties andcultures that the post-diluvian or historical periods rest. the horrendous events that areassociated with these belligerent nat

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

d's problemsthe so-called indigo childrenhow to avoid the worst effects of the generation gaphow to save your children from themselvesdiscipline- whether it is right or wronglog on to www.taroscopes.com and visit the merchandise page for more informatioimpart one vampyrism, theory& practice vampirism and the astral plane the luciferian creed luciferian will and immortality tiamat the words of the dragon- tiamat energy and blood life essence astral projection preparing the luciferian spirit moving the astral body servitor creation astral vampyrism from the material body types of vampirism vampyrism and nocturnal feeding leaving the physical body absorbing astral energy the chakras and vampyrism angra mainyu the practice of vampyrism part two qlippothic black magick and vampyric sorcery the

pirit moving the astral body servitor creation astral vampyrism from the material body types of vampirism vampyrism and nocturnal feeding leaving the physical body absorbing astral energy the chakras and vampyrism angra mainyu the practice of vampyrism part two qlippothic black magick and vampyric sorcery the qlipphoth and their servitors part three vampyric rituals the conjuration of the abyssic dragon the ritual of fearsome rays leviathan mastery of darkness the mirror of arashk shadow of astwihad 6 introduction how this book should be used vampirism has for long been a fascination and desire sought by many. no doubt you have considered what it would be like to fly in the night, drain another of energy and live like a god or goddess. if applied, this grimoire may help you. i strongly adv

, daughters of az. we are the people of the lie (druj, we are the those of demon-flesh awakened and ancient, forever seeking to further illuminate the black flame. our religion is sorcery, that which is ensorcelled by our practice of yatuk-dinoih (witchcraft. life is the great gift of ahriman, as isolate consciousness (the soul or psyche) is separate from the natural order. the black order of the dragon is entirely spiritual in nature, aimed at the theory of gaining immortality via the psyche. it is the physical path of exhaustion, of when the spirit and flesh are one and become stronger with insight and determination. the core essence of the serpent is the eye which hides within the flesh. therein is the power ch an, of nothingness and silence. such is the glaze which captivates and annou

nto a godlike being the serpent hungers for more those who fail become the feast of the shades of the void. those who become are the avatars of set s endless power of being. i am of ahriman s flesh. the wolf is the skin which cloaks the hunger of struggle. the serpent is the skin which directs the gaze of the eye. the bat is the thirst within called trshna, to fall into the abyss and the graal of dragon s blood from the eye of set does his form become darkness, ahriman. that spark within to awaken the senses. from which as shadow do i fall into nothingness to reach a cup to sate the deepest thirst to then discover the five flames of angra mainyu and servitors of the void join in my being to awaken and rise from the sea. the take my divine leadership upon the earth 16 luciferian will and im

nto nothingness to reach a cup to sate the deepest thirst to then discover the five flames of angra mainyu and servitors of the void join in my being to awaken and rise from the sea. the take my divine leadership upon the earth 16 luciferian will and immortality the will of the luciferian is essential in the development of the mind and body of the practitioner of vampirism. the black order of the dragon recognizes both the masculine and feminine demonic archetypes of the path of luciferian witchcraft, namely samael and lilith. in the auspices of the vampyric path, it is ahriman (the black dragon) and tiamat (the red dragon. while tiamat in this aspect is the primordial form of lilith, she appears black from the wisdom of endless time. it is that samael, lilith and leviathan are joined in p

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

monuments and structures; the pyramids, and stonehenge to name a few examples; i have heard stonehenge to be particularly powerful. understandably, ancient man conducted many magic rituals and rites of transformation at these locations. but these special locations on earth s surface don t occur only as hotspots, but also as linear paths that circled the earth. in the past, these paths were called dragon paths or dragon lines, but the modern term for these linear-shaped regions is ley lines. these geometrically inclined paths may not represent the only weak points in the veil but, perhaps, the haunted house represents a less organized--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 51 small, and randomly placed speckle painted on the globe. intention and the tides of time [3.4] all of us are familiar

ontains 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 bride of lucifer. tiamat may also be symbolized by a red dragon, and is known as a devouring goddess. in the bible, lilith goes by the titles whore of babylon, mother of harlots, and babylon the great. this woman is depicted holding a golden cup and wearing many precious stones and robed in the colors purple and scarlet. scarlet is plain red with a slight hint of orange. the imagery commonly relates her as riding a scarlet beast. this woman is described

called the chaos serpent, lurked in the tuat (also called duat, which was the egyptian underworld. the tuat was considered a dark alter-universe. every night the sun god ra would descend into the underworld, and there he would find apep lying in ambush. reminiscent of coronzon and his tenth aethyr, apep s domain was called the tenth region of night. this serpent, also symbolized by a crocodile or dragon, is purported to have a hypnotic gaze. in greece, this monster of chaos was known as apophis. as the story goes set, who is also a god of darkness and chaos and once the defender of ra, did battle with apep and defeated him. it is said that total victory over the chaos serpent is impossible as the wicked demon can regenerate and return to life. many satanists make mention that set did not d

st and is called the guardian of the gate to the abyss. leviathan is commonly described as a writhing mass of demons bound in a single body. leviathan is also closely related to the primal goddess tiamat, because it said that she [leviathan] had been at war with the angel race before the fall of azazel. imagery of water is frequently related to the abyss, and so leviathan is called the serpent or dragon of the depths. i have also heard it remarked that it was another fallen angel, dagon, who bound leviathan in tartarus. satan [5.6] satan is easily the most enigmatic character in all the occult and mythology; no character out there is more shrouded in a cloak of names. i admit much remaining confusion regarding the details of this character because of the name game that magicians tend to pl

he is a demon of lust whose duty it is to estrange newly weds--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 84 it is said that king solomon once had power over asmodeus, and forced him to help build solomon s temple. asmodeus is said to be frustrated and under the dominion of arch-angel raphael. this fallen angel is called the demon of the wounding spear, and is often depicted having 3 heads and riding a dragon. one of his heads is that of a ram, one of a human, and the last of a bull. he is often called the god of the witches, the god of sorcery, the god of the circle, and sometimes called the serpent. asmodeus is responsible for many of humanity s scientific achievements, and has long taught sorcery, mathematics, and the arts. asmodeus, also called aeshma, asmodai, and chashmodai is considered a

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

n this darkness was found a light- the black flame of individual being. the vampyre sorcerer indeed loves life, and the realms of ghosts and shades, we find nourishment in their tombs and black earth. yet when we emerge in the light of shaitan in the noon tide sun, we can appreciate it more. we explore the dreaming sabbat as wolf and blackened shadow, as ahriman the lord of darkness- as demon and dragon, yet in the dawn light we arise and face the beauty of nature. by the antinomian path of self-deification (separation of the natural order) we are able to observe and enjoy the breathtaking world around us- the forests, the water, the night sky- all of this pleasures many take for granted. we are awake and nothing can stand in the way of that. we begin to understand who and what we are, the

ld which we seek to control from within. the forms in the nightside of which we assume (bat. wolf, moth, or a hybrid of each and others) are the extensions of our will and desire. the vampyre is a being which has deified itself through the antinomianian process of death and rebirth, one who has passed through the ancient aspects of set and anubis, the guardians of the threshold. the symbol of the dragon known as tiamat or leviathan is also ahriman, the coiled beast that is of serpent wisdom. the dragon has fueled the myths of dracula, the dragon race from wallachia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another vampy

ia. dracos, draconum is the very shadow of the immortal fountain of life, which the vampyre seeks to bask in eternally. remember, in bram stoker's immortal "dracula" novel, the prince of vampyres is transformed not by another vampyre. but rather his own self-iniliatory work and black magic. dracula itself was based from two historical figures, vlad dracul, whom was of a family of the order of the dragon, and elizabeth bathory, whose family crest depicted three wolf teeth surrounded by a dragon(leviathan, ahriman. the history of bram stoker's novel dracula has its own curious beginnings in association with folklore and historical figures. specifically, in dracula was a woman by raymond t. mcnally, stoker had an original manuscript of the novel which was later deleted, which was published in

"gate of black earth, nephilimic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith's womb shall the vampyre shade awaken hekak vozath ka-sath-ompos shu-seth-evoi-zrazza (by the magic of secret names shall set strengthen the shadow tongue of the serpent) by the blackened fire of my spirit, born in the shadows of the adversary, shall the dragon coil in my being! let the moon be born again in the darkness, from which my desires arise from the grave.the arcane of my self is great, such is the being of which i am! emerge again, awaken from yours sleep of thanatos" the binding of chains the vampyre rite of transformation the sorcerer who has developed the lesser and greater familiar, the very spirit and shadow of the moon and the sun

sion within the moon and the grave i open now the left gate of becoming- zazas zazas nasatanada zazas by the sign of the shadow, arimanius i summon thee! by the eight tomb of the sah, whom is called the quarter song of the grave by the first which is the name zaresha, devouress who waits beyond lilith's caul came now before my cup of lunar blood, congress with my shadow in the sexual union of the dragon and whore by the second which is the name azosha, whom burns the flame of the dead in the emerald light of azrail, guard this temple and grave-bed from which i rest by the third which is the name andar, being the bearer of cunning fire and blackened flame of ahrimanic sight, bring the shadow wisdom to i who seeks to immolate and become. by the fourth which is the name azi dahaka, a great dr

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

ellion, adversity, fire and the destructive power of the sun. the lower is the demonic, being the fall from the light to taste the wisdom of darkness. the higher octave is lucifer, the angel-serpent which brings wisdom to mankind. lucifer is known in the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft lore as among other names, azal ucel, being a sigillic word-manipulation of azazel and lucifer. the face of the dragon-serpent is indeed an angel (angels are described as higher articulations in man) who brings the gift of the black flame to us, spirit and intelligence. it is the ecstasy of the in-between that led to the path unseen -azothoz by michael w. ford in working with the adversary, one must be focused on the great work of becoming like lucifer, thus keeping by will developing in the higher octave

t knew the passions of man and woman thus children of this infernal union born this represents the formula of sex magick within a left hand path perspective. they (samael/lucifer& lilith-awlraun) join in their circle of flame at the shores of the red sea to copulate and breed daemons. the significance of the red sea is the point of the ocean from which leviathan arises, thus leviathan the coiling dragon (the circle) brings the lucifer and lilith in sexual congress, by will they create the first born of witchblood= cain. this is mirrored by the initiate who is able by the solitary act to bring in union both the masculine (lucifer/samael) and the daemonic feminine (lilith) to spawn cain (the united self, the adversary in flesh, baphomet. in the circle of midnight does the self invoke the sha

ry gift of iblis[3. it is the idea of this word, spoken in silence by the sorcerer or witch, to encircle the self in the holy fire of samael and lilith, those who rebelled from the natural order (right hand path= death of being) to bring man and woman intelligence, being known as the black flame. the magician speaks the word of making to become as a god himself; cain is born from the union of the dragon and harlot. the illustrations of azothoz provide a powerful interplay between the invocations and the placement of the actual drawings in the tome. there are 13 illustrations of the grimoire, each holding a focus of the luciferian gnosis is some way or another. the spirit of azothoz beholds the eye of set or saturnus, the adversary. this eye is surrounded by flame, and is at first glance a

luciferian gnosis is some way or another. the spirit of azothoz beholds the eye of set or saturnus, the adversary. this eye is surrounded by flame, and is at first glance a serpent s eye. this is the wisdom driving sigil of the discovery of dreaming and waking knowledge, that which lies hidden. iblis is a powerful sigillic drawing which interplays with the 6th section of the poem, the descending dragon-angel which is azazel, or lucifer. this adversarial spirit is shown with angelic traits (the upper which falls from the sun) to the demonic (which descends but then reaches towards the light again. it is a process of coming into being as the adversary, horned and crowned in the midnight sun, thus emerging shaitan of midnight.[4] the 17th and 18th section of the poem displays the alphabet of

e declaration of separation from the natural order. this allows the magician to grow without outside and society crippling dogma. the sigillic drawings of lilith and samael-asmoday (a mask of shaitan-iblis) are the separate initiators of the path, lilith who comes as the vampyric succubi and the moon dwelling force of water and earth, via the north winds (symbolic of darkness. shaitan-samael, the dragon-angel comes enfleshed as a beautiful figure which holds two skulls, one wolf-like and one of a goat this is the sexual formula of the sun entering the moon, thus shaitan s direction is south and east, depending on his representation, being of wisdom or fire (two octaves of saturn, the higher and lower. the other illustrations are equally important and play a direct correlation between text

MORALS AND DOGMA

y his brother, he opposed an innumerable army of evil ones. to the seven _amshaspands_ he opposed seven _archdevs, attached to the seven planets; to the _izeds_ and _ferouers_ an equal number of _devs, which brought upon the world all moral and physical evils. hence _poverty, maladies, impurity, envy, chagrin, drunkenness, falsehood, calumny, and their horrible array. the image of ahriman was the dragon, confounded by the jews with satan and the serpent-tempter. after a reign of 3000 years, ormuzd had created the material world, in six periods, calling successively into existence the light, water, earth, plants, animals, and man. but ahriman concurred in creating the earth and water; for darkness was already an element, and ormuzd could not exclude its master. so also the two concurred in

upreme being, that he is at once alpha and omega, the beginning and the end--he that was, and is, and is to come _i.e, time illimitable, is zoroaster's definition of zerouane-akherene. the depths of satan which no man can measure; his triumph for a time by fraud and violence; his being chained by an angel; his reprobation and his precipitation into a sea of metal; his names of the serpent and the dragon; the whole conflict of the good spirits or celestial armies against the bad; are so many ideas and designations found alike in the zend-avesta, the kabalah, and the gnosis. we even find in the apocalypse that singular persian idea, which regards some of the lower animals as so many devs or vehicles of devs. the guardianship of the earth by a good angel, the renewing of the earth and heavens

and knowledge, himself time without limit, and wielding all the powers of the supreme being. in this persian faith, as taught many centuries before our era, and embodied in the zend-avesta, there was in man a pure principle, proceeding from the supreme being, produced by the will and word of ormuzd. to that was united an impure principle, proceeding from a foreign influence, that of ahriman, the dragon, or principle of evil. tempted by ahriman, the first man and woman had fallen; and for twelve thousand years there was to be war between _ormuzd_ and the good spirits created by him, and _ahriman_ and the evil ones whom he had called into existence. but pure souls are assisted by the good spirits, the triumph of the good principle is determined upon in the decrees of the supreme being, and

r example [from saba-zeus an oriental name of this deity, the words evoi, saboi, were used, which are in nowise greek; and a serpent of gold was thrown into the bosom of the initiate, in allusion to the fable that jupiter had, in the form of a serpent, had connection with proserpina, and begotten bakchos, the bull; whence the enigmatical saying, repeated to the initiates, that a bull engendered a dragon or serpent, and the serpent in turn engendered the bull, who became bakchos: the meaning of which was, that the bull [taurus, which then opened the vernal equinox, and the sun in which sign, figuratively represented by the sign itself, was bakchos, dionusos, saba-zeus, osiris, etc, and the serpent, another constellation, occupied such relative positions in the heavens, that when one rose th

hald ans, who largely studied the theory of the heavens, the spheres, and the influences of the signs and constellations. the gnostics made souls ascend and descend through eight heavens, in each of which were certain powers that opposed their return, and often drove them back to earth, when not sufficiently purified. the last of these powers, nearest the luminous abode of souls, was a serpent or dragon. in the ancient doctrine, certain genii were charged with the duty of conducting souls to the bodies destined to receive them, and of withdrawing them from those bodies. according to plutarch, these were the functions of proserpine and mercury. in plato, a familiar genius accompanies man at his birth, follows and watches him all his life, and at death conducts him to the tribunal of the gre

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

on to identify the climax of love with that of life. it is then not unnatural for us to ask: can 'death' have some deeper significance than appears? scorpio, the zodiacal sign of death, is really the sexual or reproductive function of nature. it is the earth-transcending eagle, the self-restoring serpent, and the self-immolating scorpion. in alchemy it is the principle of putrefaction, the 'black dragon, whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the rainbow-coloured spring-tide of the man in motley. the nymph of spring, syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but breath to fill the world with music, attracts pan, the goat-god of ecstatic lust, by whose work the glory of summer is established anew. it is obvious that 'the length of thy longing' varies with the number of p

e "beeswing" of port should be good. oil of abramelin: take eight parts of oil of cinnamon, four of oil of myrrh, two of oil of galangal, seven of olive oil. 24. the best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of some beast, no matter what. a: menstrual blood. b: possibly "dragon's blood. these two kinds of 'blood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover the sense of this passage by recollecting the qabalistic statement that "the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour

unto me' is a foolish word; for it is i that go" now, the semen is god (the going-one, as shown by the ankh or sandal-strap, which he carries, because he goes in at the door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that seed of going (the birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true going-principle is the lion-serpent, or dragon; the egg is only the cavern where he takes refuge on occasions" perhaps the birth of a girl is a misfortune in some countries; but this is due to the 'sin' syndrome of the aeon of os iris. in this aeon, the sexes are complementary. it would be a much greater misfortune if no girls were born! liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd aethyr "moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

sed that she possessed none of her own. a marked feature in the representations of this deity is the agis, that wonderful shield given to her by her father as a further means of defence, which, when in danger, she swung so swiftly round and round that it kept at a distance all antagonistic influences; hence her name pallas, from pallo, i swing. in the centre of this shield, which was covered with dragon's scales, bordered with serpents, and which she sometimes wore as a breastplate, was the awe-inspiring head of the medusa, which had the effect of turning to stone all beholders. in addition to the many functions which she exercised in connection with the state, athene presided over the two chief departments of feminine industry, spinning and weaving. in the latter art she herself displayed

roduced by electricity, daughter of oceanus. her amber-coloured hair was of such rare beauty that none of her fair-haired sisters could compare with her, and when she wept, her tears, being too precious to be lost, formed drops of shining amber. page 121 phorcys and ceto personified more especially the hidden perils and terrors of the ocean. they were the parents of the gorgons, the graa, and the dragon which guarded the golden apples of the hesperides. leucothea. leucothea was originally a mortal named ino, daughter of cadmus, king of thebes. she married athamas, king of orchomenus, who, incensed at her unnatural conduct to her step-children,[43] pursued her and her son to the sea-shore, when, seeing page 122 no hope of escape, she flung herself with her child into the deep. they were kin

nce they derived their name [163] they were appointed by hera to act as guardians to a tree bearing golden apples, which had been presented to her by gaa on the occasion of her marriage with zeus. it is said that the hesperides, being unable to withstand the temptation of tasting the golden fruit confided to their care, were deprived of their office, which was henceforth delegated to the terrible dragon ladon, who now became the ever-watchful sentinel of these precious treasures. the names of the hesperides were aegle, arethusa, and hesperia. charites (gratia) graces. all those gentler attributes which beautify and refine human existence were personified by the greeks under the form of three lovely sisters, euphrosyne, aglaia, and thalia, the daughters of zeus and eurynome (or, according t

gth, on the site where thebes afterwards stood, she looked towards heaven and, gently lowing, lay down in the long grass. grateful for this mark of divine favour, cadmus resolved to offer up the animal as a sacrifice, and accordingly sent his followers to fetch water for the libation from a neighbouring spring. this spring, which was sacred to ares, was situated in a wood, and guarded by a fierce dragon, who, at the approach of the retainers of cadmus, suddenly pounced upon them and killed them. after waiting some time for the return of his servants [204]cadmus grew impatient, and hastily arming himself with his lance and spear, set out to seek them. on reaching the spot, the mangled remains of his unfortunate followers met his view, and near them he beheld the frightful monster, dripping

. after waiting some time for the return of his servants [204]cadmus grew impatient, and hastily arming himself with his lance and spear, set out to seek them. on reaching the spot, the mangled remains of his unfortunate followers met his view, and near them he beheld the frightful monster, dripping with the blood of his victims. seizing a huge rock, the hero hurled it with all his might upon the dragon; but protected by his tough black skin and steely scales as by a coat of mail, he remained unhurt. cadmus now tried his lance, and with more success, for it pierced the side of the beast, who, furious with pain, sprang at his adversary, when cadmus, leaping aside, succeeded in fixing the point of his spear within his jaws, which final stroke put an end to the encounter. while cadmus stood s

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

f islam, may itself be reckoned to border on magic. what the papyri may yet reveal of the original cult of set- and of such survivals as have found their way into the wellsprings of western thought--remains to be seen. xeper. compiled by dakhla sba special thanks to the order of setne khamuast for their help in researching this page. revised 13 march 1997 th lumaluma detail from page 104 japanese dragon detail from page 120 voodoo symbols detail from page 91 introduction what is myth? the word myth derives from the greek mythos, signifying word or story. a myth has different meanings for the believer, the anthropologist, the folklorist, the psychologist, the literary critic. that is one of myth s functions to celebrate ambiguity and contradiction. there is no more point expecting a myth to

ddess of wine and wisdom, to seek out the ferryman and cross the bitter waters of death in his search for utnapishtim. after the death of enkidu, gilgamesh set out to solve the mystery of death. he marched to the top of the twin peaks of mashu, guardians of the rising and setting sun, and demanded entry to the underworld from the dreadful scorpion guardians at the gate, who were half-man and half-dragon. inside he journeyed for 12 leagues (30 miles) in utter darkness, before coming to the garden of the gods where he met the goddess siduri, who advised him to seek out the ferryman urshanabi (see below. when gilgamesh reached the far shore, he met utnapishtim and told him of his despair at enkidu s death. because of my brother i am afraid of death. because of my brother, i wander through the

to die as a baby, oedipus feet were pierced with a spike perhaps to prevent his ghost from walking. the city of thebes the city of thebes was the capital of boeotia (not be confused with the egyptian city on the site of present-day luxor, called thebes by the greeks. it was founded by cadmus, the brother of europa (see p. 45, on the instruction of the oracle at delphi. first cadmus had to kill a dragon that guarded the spot and had killed all his men. to populate the city, he sowed the dragons teeth and warriors sprang up. oedipus mother, jocasta, was the daughter of one of the sown men, menoeceus. dead men s bones when people could not answer her riddle, the sphinx killed them, littering the countryside with their bones. early sources describe the sphinx as flying to the city wall, chant

iterally means terrible horse or odin s horse, as odin, when he was sacrificed on the tree to gain knowledge of the magic runes, is described as riding it, in the same sense that norse poets refer to a gallows tree as a horse. the world tree this manuscript shows yggdrasil, the world or cosmic tree, which supports the nine norse worlds. stags and goats nibble at its twigs, its trunk rots, and the dragon nidhogg gnaws its roots, causing it great suffering. but the tree is saved from decay by the three norns fate, being, and necessity who sprinkle the tree each day with water from the well of fate. gag fenrir howled so terribly when he knew he was bound, that one of the gods stuck a sword between his upper and lower jaw as a gag. river of spittle the drool from fenrir s mouth runs down to fo

ne will arise. only odin s sons vidar and vali, and thor s sons modi and magni, will survive, and the gods balder and hod will return to life. they will sit on the new earth and talk of the world that was; in the grass they shall find the golden chess pieces of the gods. two people, lif and lifthrasir, will survive in the branches of the world tree and repopulate the earth. 71 the world tree myth dragon at the roots at the bottom of yggdrasil in niflheim lies the dragon nidhogg, which gluts itself on corpses. he also gnaws at the roots of the world tree, hoping to destroy it. he is at war with the eagle at the top. three roots yggdrasil had three roots. beneath the first was the well of fate guarded by the three norns who control people s lives. beneath the second was the well of wisdom, g

PHOSPHORUS

. two supporting magistra s and the current magister. titles of three coven guardians- coven maleficia vox barathrum the magister of coven/director- yatus akhtya seker arimanius -the utterance/voice of the abyss. a student, emerging as an independent voice or gate of hell, from the angelo-saxon word helan, meaning secret or hidden place. pairikas soror azhdeha iii director and overseer -the fiery dragon, an office of scarlet women. pairikas soror teth ii- director and overseer praecantrix dana dark -the ghost serpent, a witch of solitary and dreaming sorcery 3 each are bound to the circle to further expand, refine and direct the initiatory process under the practice of the luciferian witchcraft, persian and ahrimanean sorcery within a left hand path perspective. the grade structure of phos

dversary. some will find the plethora and multi-cultural symbolism something they resonate with, from ancient egyptian, hebrew, persian, european and english focuses of symbolism from set as the luciferian initiator, hecate, ahriman or lilith. the path is long; the road thorn covered yet the emerald grail filled with the elixir of gold and silver. initiates are able to join the black order of the dragon after they have become unto the grade i the blackened forge of cain. the initiate may indicate their interest in the persian and vampyric sorcery of the botd to a magister or ii of the botd for entry. the botd is closed to those outside of the order of phosphorus. 4 much of the initiatory work of phosphorus is developed from numerous magickal paths, specifically the ideals of saturnus and t

birth. the crimson caul and the birth of lilith within the luciferian circle. a minimum four page essay on the goddess and how this feminine aspect is used within the male or female. see nox umbra, book of cain, book of the witch moon and yatuk dinoih. 3. creation of famulus (familiars) both lesser and greater. submit records and techniques used in creation rites. 4. grimoire working with the red dragon/grand grimoire famulus lucifuge rofocale. pact made with this daemon to invoke and become essentially, to open the way of shadow. 5. cain as the offspring of lilith& samael. tubal qayin and how this force represents initiation into the luciferian mysteries. this is a foundation work to future work with cain in the next grade. the book of cain 6. goetic work and sorcery within the yatuk dino

ho resides in darkness and light azal ucel the ritual of algol 16 (veneficium rite) phosphorus opening of the eye rite the veneficus and initiate shall have the algol sigil above their altar; they shall be robed in black representing wisdom. the algol sigil is a mirror of the self and the possibilities of becoming. the complete symbolism of algol is revealed to initiates of the black order of the dragon. face the algol sigil- i behold the circle of timeless existence, guarded by leviathan i call to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illuminatio

to the four quarters to witness my rite of darkness and flame, and the light which illuminates within. before me, the algol star of the adversary, the corpses piled and devoured by flame that which arises from death reborn, al ghul, rosh ha shaitan, phantom star, daemon of my night born illumination. i dive now from the heavens of light with emerald wings, i fall into the darkness to become as a dragon, to know the ecstasies of light and shadow. al ghul, serpent tongue which arouses perception i invoke thee! i do affirm hecate, goddess of crossroads, enchanter of nightmares, guardian of shades and the howling beasts, bless my path with your eyes which are always seeing bless me with the fallen star of azazel, as lightening i awake! i do affirm ahriman, prince of darkness and the beast in

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

a gnostic god, the holy bible mentions little of him besides the basis of origin "you were the anointed cherub who covers; i established you; you were on the holy mountain of god; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, til iniquity was found in you -holy bible, ezekiel. later on the morning star as is called became the dragon and the devil. shaitan was the base for this materization, which means to oppose, to accuse. lucifer was invariably the first rebel. lucifer is of the spirit of light, from which the foundation of luciferic magick is to ascend towards godhead. the light of the spirit is based within perception and the clarity of an awakened self. perception is the vehicle of knowledge and what the individua

allen seraphim began to rise and take shape. they would scatter unto the various parts of the earth and abyss. from the ashes must the gods and goddesses rise. some descended further, some became as angels of light. leviathan and samael descended, lucifer became and angel of light. belial would become an earth bound spirit who would transform into a demon. astaroth, wandering the earth on a great dragon. leviathan, a daemon who became of the ocean and would exist simultaneously with the astral plane and the depths of the sea. leviathan along with the other fallen angels became an ideal, a focus of strength whose power still remains within all of us. awaiting the moment of becoming, these daemonic atavisms exist on subconscious levels of the mind. the opening of such abyssic gates leads the

nstance of both shadow and light, blood red and jet black. lucifer is the colour of an awakened and enlightened mind. the psyche which is open for magical inspiration. blavatsky understood the significance of balance within the individual, to ascend the individual from the beast like qualities so inherent within our subconscious. blavatsky wrote "thus it stands proven that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the "lord of phosphorus" and lucifer, or "light bearer" is in us; it is our mind-our temptor and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and saviour from pure animalism" asmodeus/ahriman is the fountain head of sorcery and earth based black magic. asmodeus is the god of black witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy and diabolism. the balance of asmodeus/ahriman is to unite the materialistic flesh side

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

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

oint of view he represents the race as a whole and "is the personified symbol of the collective logos, the 'host, and of the lords of wisdom or the heavenly man, who incarnated in humanity" otherwise he represents <59> the individual candidate on the path, prior to the awakening of the "sleeping dogs" within his being, to use blavatsky's apt expression. beneath these three figures sleeps a coiled dragon, silent, unawakened. none it would seem is aware of that latent power, titanic and promethean, coiled beneath- the active magical power centered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the water grade

ered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the water grade, so in this grade of philosophus, the power of fire is shown to have called forth catastrophe. formerly coiled beneath the tree, the hydra-headed dragon in this diagram has usurped its proper place. its several homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tree of knowledge- and remembering in what sense the bible speaks of the verb "to know" we gather that the root of the trouble was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "da

e was an imperfect apprehension of creative power- towards the "darkly splendid world wherein continually lieth a faithless depth" eve, the lower self, ceases to give support to adam. she has yielded to the awful fascination of the awakening psyche. far easier is it to fall than to climb to the distant heights. yet only from one viewpoint is the fall catastrophic. the awareness of the rise of the dragon endows man also with consciousness of power- and power is life and progress. the dragon stands as the symbol of the great enemy to be overcome, and, as the task of equilibration proceeds, the great prize awaiting success <60> the fall as a state of consciousness is analagous to that condition described by various mystics as the dark night of the soul. it is accompanied by a sense of intoler

ented to him a thousand and one means of breaking in spirit his vow to "persevere in the divine science"without breaking it in letter. and it will appear that the mind itself will run riot and become unstable, warning the candidate that it were better for him to enjoy a lull in his magical operations. this state is allegorically referred to by the alchemists in their descriptions of the poisonous dragon which follows upon the corruption of their first matter. vaughan calls it "a horrible devouring dragon- creeping and weltering in the bottom of her cave, without wings. touch her not by any means, not so much as with thy hands, for there is not upon earth such a violent, transcendent poison" but as the mystics teach, if this condition be patiently endured, it passes, a higher spiritual cons

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hadow. chance is my circle without circumference; fate is my centre without position. magick is my force: energy beyond limitation. my body is transition: from now unto now. my words encipher me and create possibilities; as i speak so these words ensorcel reality. as i cease- so doth all- but the design of which i speak. as i cease- so doth all- but that which i am. formula of the opposer: as the dragon doth coil about the infinite, and the wheel of heaven doth turn upon its heart, so let all revolve upon this point. as the circle doth turn through the seasons of change, so now do i turn, as the axis of fate, to manifest the word of mine own self-overcoming: in the day of mine offering there is no-one and no-thing whom i will not sacrifice. in the day of my becoming there is noone and no-t

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rt cold or hot, said the master. as a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors. she who is destined to crush the serpent's head is intelligence, which ever rises above the stream of blind forces. the kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight. hereof are the hieratic mysteries of the duad. but there is one, and the last of all, which must not be made known, the reason, according to hermes trismegistus, being the malcomprehension of the vulgar, who would ascribe to the necessities of science the immoral aspect of blind fatality. by the fear of the unkn

fluences. the talismans of the seven spirits are engraved either on precious stones, such as the carbuncle, crystal, diamond, emerald, agate, sapphire and onyx, or upon metals, such as gold, silver, iron, copper, fixed mercury, pewter and lead. the kabalistic signs of the seven spirits are: for the sun, a serpent with the head of a lion; for the moon, a globe divided by two crescents; for mars, a dragon biting the hilt of a sword; for venus, a lingam; for mercury, the hermetic caduceus and the cynocephalus; for jupiter, the blazing pentagram in the talons or beak of an eagle; for saturn, a lame and aged man, or a serpent curled about the sun-stone. all these symbols are found on engraved stones of the ancients and especially on those talismans of the gnostic epochs which are known by the n

re or the future itself. we shall recur to this work in the twentieth chapter of our ritual. 52 xi[ k the magic chain manus force the great magical agent, by us termed the astral light, by others the soul of the earth, and designated by old chemists under the names of azoth and magnesia, this occult, unique and indubitable force, is the key of all empire, the secret of all power. it is the winged dragon of medea, the serpent of the edenic mystery; it is the universal glass of visions, the bond of sympathies, the source of love, prophecy and glory. to know how to make use of this agent is to be the trustee of god's own power; all real, effective magic, all occult force is there, and its demonstration is the sole end of all genuine books of science. to have control of the great magical agent

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manner. he says, gthere are three which give record in heaven. the father, the word and the holy spirit h; and gthere are three which give testimony on earth. the spirit, the water and the blood. h thus, st. john agrees with the masters of hermetic philosophy, who attribute to their sulphur the name of ether, to their mercury that of philosophical water, and to their salt the qualification of the dragon's blood or menstruum of the earth. blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the father, azotic or mercurial water with the word or logos, and the ether with the holy spirit. but the things of transcendent symbolism can only be understood rightly by the true children of science. the threefold repetition of names with varied intonations were united to triangular combinations in magical ce

point of our pentagram ever presents open. 38 chapter vi the medium and mediator two things, as we have shown, are necessary for the acquisition of magical power. the emancipation of will from servitude and its instruction in the art of domination. the sovereign will is represented in our symbols by the woman who crushes the serpent's head and by the radiant angel who restrains and constrains the dragon with lance and heel. in this place let us affirm without evasion that the great magical agent. the double current of light, the living and astral fire of the earth. was represented by the serpent with the head of an ox, goat or dog, in ancient theogonies. it is the dual serpent of the caduceus, the old serpent of genesis, but it is also the brazen serpent of moses, twined about the tau, tha

h would be dangerous for them, but to make themselves intelligible to adepts by revealing the entire world of analogies which is ruled by the one and sovereign dogma of hermes. for such, gold and silver are the sun and moon, or the king and queen; sulphur is the flying eagle; mercury is the winged and bearded hermaphrodite, throned upon a cube and crowned with flames; matter or salt is the winged dragon; metals in the molten state are lions of various colours; finally, the whole work is symbolized by the pelican and phoenix. hermetic art is, therefore, at one and the same time, a religion, a philosophy and a natural science. considered as religion, it is that of the ancient magi and the initiates of all the ages; as a philosophy, its principles may be found in the school of alexandria and

rpent, and in the fourfold legend of the evangelists, khunrath finds the allegorical key of the great work. one of the pantacles of his magical book represents the philosophical stone erected in the middle of a fortress surrounded by a wall in which there are twenty impracticable gates. one alone conducts to the sanctuary of the great work. above the stone there is a triangle placed upon a winged dragon, and on the stone is graven the name of christ, qualified as the symbolical image of all nature. git is by him alone, h he adds, gthat thou canst obtain the universal medicine for men, animals, vegetables and minerals. h the winged dragon, dominated by the triangle, represents therefore the christ of khunrath. that is, the sovereign intelligence of light and life. it is the secret of the pe

gures of abraham the jew, which imparted to flamel the first desire for knowledge, are no other than the twenty-two keys of the tarot, imitated and resumed elsewhere in the twelve keys of basil valentine, there the sun and moon reappear under the figures of emperor and empress; mercury is the juggler; the great hierophant is the adept or abstractor of the quintessence; death, judgement, love, the dragon or devil, the hermit or lame elder and finally all the remaining symbols are to be found with their chief attributes, almost in the same order. it could have been scarcely otherwise, since the tarot is the primeval book and the keystone of the occult sciences: it must be hermetic, because it is kabalistic, magical and theosophical. so also we find by combining its twelfth and twenty-second

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[for] the sagacious active scots, a [great] many of whom have retained it [that is, the second sight] for a long time, and by surprises and raptures do often foretell what, in kindness, is really [that is, truly] represented to them at several occasions. to which purpose the learned lynx-eyed mr. baxter [commenting] on revelation 12:7, writing of the fight between [the archangel] michael and the dragon, gives a very pertinent note as follows: that he knows not but ere [that is, knows no example of] any great action [that is, battle, especially the secret commonwealth 49 tragical [that] is done on earth [but] that first the battle and [its] victory is acted [out] and achieved in the air, between the good and evil spirits. thus he [states. it seems [therefore] that these [visions] were man'

e often fear to approach with a ship when it is swimming, for if it is captured it at once makes a hole in the vessel, cuts it in pieces, and sinks it suddenly in a whirlpool. the serra makes itself feared by ships because of its crest; it fixes to them as it swims underneath, cuts them to pieces and throws the pieces into the waves, wherefore its crest is to be feared like a sword. and the water dragon, which men say has poison under its wings, is to be feared by those who capture it; whenever it strikes it does harm by pouring out its poison. the torpedo is said to have another kind of destruction, for if any one touches it when it is alive, straightway his arms and his feet grow torpid and so do his other members and they lose their functions just as though they were dead, so harmful is

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es the deceiver. lucifer: isaiah 14:12 how are thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations. lucifer is one of the most used names of satan in today's culture. however, it is interesting to note that this is the only passage in the bible that mentions lucifer by name. lucifer is mentioned nowhere else in the bible. the dragon: revelation 12:7 and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join

velation 12:7 and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought, and his angels. since christian doctrines proclaim that all the evil angels left heaven with lucifer, how is it that their own scripture indicates angels will join with the dragon to fight against michael? for everyone knows departed angels become daemons. so if angels join with the dragon, then this says there are still malcontent angels in the heavens. and if the angels feel like this, woe be unto the soul that ends up there. the deceiver: revelation 20:10 and the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. they will be tormended day and night for ever and ever. here we have another example of

iabolical trinity: the biblical satan has a trinity, as jehovah has a trinity. as jehovah assumes the role of father, satan assumes the role of the father figure. jesus christ is likened to the antichrist. at one point they are both flesh and blood. and the satanic spirit becomes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. the biblical authority of satanic churches and temples: revelation 2:9 i know thy works, and tribulations, and poverty (but thou art rich, and i know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not, but are the synagogue of satan. christians should rally to our cause. their own ultimate prayers can neve

ze and empower this place with their dynamic balance. we call them forth in the images of the great magi of europe. from the south we call the magus of force and fire, aleister crowley. from the east we call dr. john dee, the greatest of scholars and mathematicians. from the north we call faust, the self-created man on the eternal quest. from the west we call merlin, the ancient one who rides the dragon's breath [declaration (read by priest walter gallo in english; then by priest petri laakso and adepts nino waechter and vesa litti in finnish; then by setians sotiris vandis& eleni tzanou in greek; and then by adept tina ostertag in german] the temple of set is a diamond, composed of the myriad facets of its initiates. as we celebrate this european conclave, let us cast our minds back upon

wisdoms. born in death to die in birth, i whose past is your future and my future, your past. i am at one merlin of the wild wood, sage, prophet, councillor and friend of mighty kings, custodian of the sword excalibur. in madness brought on by grief for the futility of humanity's capacity for destruction, became merlin celidonius and fled to the sanctuary of the wild wood to take sanctuary in the dragon's breath. i who by purity of will came to a new intellect and became merlin ambrosius. by that same will i summoned the dragon's breath to create a legend and standards for future generations of humanity. learn from merlin the power and destruction of progression and at the same time its beauty and creation. you o mortal are propelled by progress to your ultimate physical destruction, yet i

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ght sitting next to him, an improbable american in baseball cap, metal--rim spectacles and a neon--green bush--shirt across which there writhed the intertwined and luminous golden forms of a pair of chinese dragons. chamcha had edited this entity out of his field of vision in an attempt to wrap himself in a cocoon of privacy, but privacy was no longer possible "eugene dumsday at your service" the dragon man stuck out a huge red hand "at yours, and at that of the christian guard" sleep-fuddled chamcha shook his head "you are a military man "ha! ha! yes, sir, you could say. a humble foot soldier, sir, in the army of guard almighty" oh _almighty_ guard, why didn't you say "i am a man of science, sir, and it has been my mission, my mission and let me add my privilege, to visit your great natio

rishta. and turns; and runs inside "mishal! sufyan! hind" cries evil mr. chamcha. the ground floor is not as yet ablaze. he flings open the door to the stairs, and a scalding, pestilential wind drives him back _dragon's breath, he thinks. the landing is on fire; the flames reach in sheets from floor to ceiling. no possibility of advance "anybody" screams saladin chamcha "is anybody there" but the dragon roars louder than he can shout. something invisible kicks him in the chest, sends him toppling backwards, on to the caf floor, amid the empty tables _doom, sings his heart _take this. and this. there is a noise above his head like the scurrying of a billion rats, spectral rodents following a ghostly piper. he looks up: the ceiling is on fire. he finds he cannot stand. as he watches, a secti

nes and newspapers he was offered by the stewardesses, saladin chanced upon an old acquaintance in trouble. hal valance's sanitized _aliens show_ had flopped badly in the united states and was being taken off the air. worse still, his advertising agency and its subsidiaries had been swallowed by an american leviathan, and it was probable that hal was on the way out, conquered by the transatlantic dragon he had set out to tame. it was hard to feel sorry for valance, unemployed and down to his last few millions, abandoned by his beloved mrs. torture and her pals, relegated to the limbo reserved for fallen favourites, along with busted entrepreneur.-boffins and insiderdealing financiers and renegade ex-ministers; but chamcha, flying to his father's deathbed, was in so heightened an emotional

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resolved by this knowledge. the first triad vibrate at the highest frequency, through the first three choirs. thus the seraphim are the purest, whilst the thrones are the point at which matter first appears. 1st choir: seraphim the fiery flying serpents of lightning, from the hebrew ser meaning higher being and rapha meaning healer. the name thus suggests the image of the caduceus, the serpent or dragon as a symbol of healing sacred to aesculapius, and the ourobouros of the gnostic ophites. their appearance before humankind is as six winged and four headed beings. the prophet isiah saw flaming angels above the throne of god; each had six wings: two covered the face, two covered the feet and two were used for flying. it is they who endlessly circle the throne of god, chanting the hebrew tri

atholicism. the church, anxious to attract and convert the pagans of roman gaul, endowed micha-el with many of the attributes of the god mercury, and thus also of the greek hermes. chapels dedicated to micha-el thus sprang up throughout europe and britain over earlier temples which had been built on hills and mounds, michael s mounts. these were previously the focal points in earlier times of the dragon power running through the earth. gabri-el jibril, an alternative version of the name, dictated the koran to mohammed and is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or

ted with that of the grigori. thus these arts are not mere low sorcery, but the profound veneration of our ancestry. it is our embracing of the infernal nature that is within all humankind, and its deliberate awakening within the current of witchcraft. this myth itself is reflected in the earlier babylonian tale where humankind are created from the blood of kingu, first of her brood leader of the dragon tiamat s army of chaos. through us, they walk upon the earth. according to the book of enoch, their identities are as follows; agni-el: who taught of enchantments of roots and the secrets of conjure. anma-el: made a sexual pact with a mortal woman to reveal the secret names of god. araqui-el/saraqa-el: taught the signs and secrets of the earth (geography and/or geomancy. araziel/arazyael: g

, it is supposedly he who killed the seven bridegrooms of sarah and fought rapha-el, before being banished to upper egypt. classically, the patron demon of passion, lechery, luxury, sensuality, who wreaks havoc seducing nuns and monks. may appear with three heads, a bull, a ram and a man, and the feet of a rooster or goose, and a serpent s tail. shoots flames from his mouth, and rides an infernal dragon with a lance and banner. lures happily married couples into adultery, and enjoys arranging unsuitable marriages. a beautiful well dressed young man, sometimes a woman, he runs the casinos in hell. on earth, he tempts humans to squander their wealth, following meaningless fads of fashion. the child of lilith and an angel. inventor of carousels, music, dancing and drama. archdemon correspondi

an spirit inherited by the post exile jews (tobias 3: 8, 17. in some ways reminiscent of the assyrian demon pazuzu. astaroth, ashtaroth (persian ashtoreth, the biblical place name ashtoreth-karnaim means ashtoreth of the twin horns. goetia, 29th spirit) in the goetia, a duke commanding 40 legions. who manifests as a beautiful or foul angel carrying a viper in his hand whilst riding backwards on a dragon. tells fortunes, teaches liberal sciences. inspires sloth and idleness. the grimorium verum and grand grimoire make him the great duke of hell. also understood to be the treasurer of hell. also serves as a mentor who inspires newr demons on to greater actions of evil. inspires sloth and idleness amongst humans. his adversary in heaven is st. bartholomew. archdemon corresponding to chesed (m

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rst emotion-provoking words that came to mind- a few stanzas of a poem by rudyard kipling! thus, with this final burst of glory-charged adrenalin, was he able to finalize an effective working! the invocations which follow are designed to serve as proclamations of certainty, not whining apprehension. for this reason they are devoid of shallow offerings-up and hollow charities. leviathan, the great dragon from the watery abyss, roars forth as the surging sea, and these invocations are his tribunals. invocation to satan in nomine dei nostri satanas luciferi excelsi! in the name of satan, the ruler of the earth, the king of the world, i command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me! open wide the gates of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother (s

belioresa od coresi ta beramiji (english) the midday of the first is as the third indulgence made of hyacinthine pillars, in whom the elders are become strong, which i have prepared for mine own justice, saith satan, whose long continuance shall be as bucklers to leviathan. how many are there which remain in the glory of the earth, which are, and shall not see death until the house falls and the dragon doth sink? rejoice, for the crowns of the temple and the robe of him that is, was, and shall be crowned are no longer divided! come forth, appear the ninth key the ninth enochian key warns of the use of substances, devices or pharmaceuticals which might lead to the delusion and subsequent enslavement of the master. a protection against false values (enochian) micaoli beranusaji perejela nap

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xecuted in the cellar of the ipatiev house in 1918, two years after the cruel murder of her batiuska grigori, the guards made a unique discovery. while searching for jewels among her possessions, they found sewn into her bodice a pair of small emerald green dragons given to her by rasputin many years before. could he have trafficked with the odd hermetic order which fringed the russias, the green dragon? there are also many speculations about the true motivations of the fin de si cle khlysty movement. oral communication and fraternal legacy have made the following rite available. requirements for performance participants consist of a priest (celebrant, the woman who serves as altar, two acolytes, an illuminator, a gong-striker, and the congregation. the priest wears a red robe with full sl

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croprosopus, the christ, the lamb of elohim, whose throne is in the tree, from which throne issues the river of the waters of life. 3 the seventy two leaves of the tree of life are zauir anpin or microprosopus. now the twelve sons of jacob go down into egypt, that is the kingdom, malkuth, which has been destroyed in the fall, and cut from the sephirotic tree by the intersecting folds of the great dragon who then becomes its ruler as shown in the great altar diagram of the 4-7 grade. behold, i am against thee, pharoah, king of egypt, the great dragon thai lieth in the midst of the rivers. and the first of the sons of jacob who goeth down is joseph whose two tribes, ephraim and manasseh, balance each other in chesed and geburah. that is to say, that there first comes down into the desolated

hem ha-mephoresch, the 72, are found in the number of the family of jacob s sons is 70; and jacob and joseph equals 72. but the then ruling pharoah, corresponds more to hadar amongst the edomite kings, as representing one of not so evil 4 a tendency. yet as the apocalyptic symbol of the lamb and the airy sign which leads off the schem ha-mephoresch is chesed; one opposed to the evil symbol of the dragon, so is every shepherd an abomination to the egyptians, who yet are friendly with the ox symbol, the kerubic ruler of earth, and therefore is it symbolically said by the children of israel that their business has been about cattle and not about sheep. names and meanings of the 72 verses 1st angel name: vahuaih sign: leo planet: saturn degree: 0 5 meaning: god the exalter psalm 3:4: and thou

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re) with love and joy. the exaltation of inana lady of all the divine powers, resplendent [dazzling] light, righteous woman clothed in radiance, beloved of an and urac! mistress of heaven, with the great pectoral jewels, who loves the good headdress befitting the office of en priestess, who has seized all seven of its divine powers! my lady, you are the guardian of the great divine powers. like a dragon you have deposited venom on the foreign lands. when like ickur [god of storms] you roar at the earth, no vegetation can stand up to you. as a flood descending upon) those foreign lands, powerful one of heaven and earth, you are their inana. raining blazing fire down upon the land, endowed with divine powers by an, lady who rides upon a beast, whose words are spoken at the holy command of an

so a time to remember ancestors. special offerings of rice cakes and wine are made at family shrines and altars, and the family visits the graves of their ancestors. this festival takes place in september or october. confucians also celebrate the chinese new year, usually in february. this several-day-long festival involves dance, costumes, and feasts. it is a highlight of the confucian year. the dragon dance is held on the first day of the year, and represents the return of light, or of positive yang energy. dragon dances can be performed on a stage or as part of a procession world religions: almanac 167 confucianism is confucianism a religion? confucius had little to say about gods or spirituality. in the analects, confucius, responding to a question about how one should serve the dead a

ic tradition and knew all the rituals, were in charge of state ritual offerings and sacrifices to various gods. for the people who believe in and practice confucianism, this path is generally considered a philosophical and scholarly tradition, very much like religions such as buddhism and daoism. 168 world religions: almanac confucianism through town. a string of participants is covered in a long dragon robe and they follow a young girl carrying a red ball or a light, which symbolizes yang power. finally the dragon swallows the red ball, demonstrating a symbolic unity with the gods and an acceptance of the light. family banquets are another high point of the new year s celebration, with several kinds of meat and fish served, along with special rice cakes. red envelopes filled with money ar

ed many times since. extending over almost fifty acres, this complex contains several hundred halls and pavilions, each containing statues of prominent confucians and pillars that have the sayings of confucius carved into them. the center of this complex is the dacheng dia, the great hall of confucius, set in a grove of trees. its two roofs are supported by ten marble columns, each with intricate dragon carvings on them. more dragons appear, painted in gold, on the blue roof beams. inside the hall are statues of confucius and the four men who followed him during his thirteen years of wandering. qufu is also the site of his grave and the graves of thousands of descendants (offspring. the kung family mansion, where the descendants of confucius lived, is a pilgrimage site in the same town. it

ied, and the dao de jing was translated and reached india, japan, and tibet. in the early twelfth century the name of the celestial masters was changed to the way of the orthodox unity. declines in practice after the thirteenth century daoism went into decline. a popular rebellion in 1849 led to the destruction of daoist and buddhist temples throughout the country, including the temple complex at dragon tiger mountain, where the celestial masters had their center of power. the new life movement, begun in the early twentieth century by the chinese leader chiang kai-shek (1897 1975, also suppressed daoist centers. the movement was intended to return china to the path of reason and confucianism. to this end, students were recruited to go laozi, the founder of daoism, is said to have ridden a

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not. at the right is to be seen lepus, representing the art of chemistry, marvellously white, the secrets of which with fire's heat are being explored. to the left one can see freely what the right clavis artis is; one cannot be too subtle with it, like a hen hatching a chicken. in the midst of the mountain, before the door stands a courageous lion in all its pride, whose noble blood the monster-dragon is going to shed; throwing him into a deep grave, out of it comes forth a black raven, then called ianua artis, out of that comes aquila alba. even the crystal refined in the furnace will quickly show you on inspection servum fugitivum, a wonder-child to many artists. the one effecting this all is principium laboris. on the right hand in the barrel are sol and luna, the intelligence of the

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mediaeval authorities and modern editors give very different allocations to the twelve simple letters. chapter vi section 1. three fathers and their generations, seven conquerors and their armies, and twelve bounds of the universe. see now, of these words, the faithful witnesses are the universe, the year and man. the dodecad, the heptad, and the triad with their provinces; above is the celestial dragon, t l i (49) and below is the world, and lastly the heart of man. the three are water, air and fire; fire above, water below, and air conciliating between them; and the sign of these things is that the fire sustains (volatilises) the waters; mem is mute, shin is sibilant, and aleph is the mediator and as it were a friend placed between them. 2. the celestial dragon, t l i, is placed over the

ihvh the tetragrammaton. chapter 6 this chapter is a resum of the preceding five; it calls the universe and mankind to witness to the truth of the scheme of distribution of the powers of the numbers among created forms, and concludes with the narration that this philosophy was revealed by the divine to abraham, who received and faithfully accepted it, as a form of wisdom under a covenant. 49. the dragon, tli, theli. the hebrew letters amount in numeration to 440, that is 400, 30 and 10. the best opinion is that tali or theli refers to the 12 zodiacal constellations along the great circle of the ecliptic; where it ends there it begins again, and so the ancient occultists drew the dragon with its tail in its mouth. some have thought that tali referred to the constellation draco, which meande

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de is the natural state of existence- the primordial condition of i as void: the autonomian vessel of the elder faith. in nomine satilo- 000- wisely we must make our way through the maze of mirror d altars. slowly, slowly, toward and beyond the crack called midnight (an earlier version of this article first appeared in the cauldron, no. 98, nov. 2002. it is adapted from materials contained in the dragon-book of essex by andrew d. chumbley. the initiatic edition of this book was privately published in 1997. an edition for outer distribution is in preparation for publication in forthcoming years. the author is the presiding magister of cultus sabbati and preceptor of the uttara kaula sampradaya) andrew d. chumbley 2ofthe seven scrolls children of the black rose, scroll #1 the sons and daught

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via the union of balancing forces. the sowing of the seed of change that which may transform and carry evolution beyond the abyss, and thus beyond self-image- or that which may destroy. the invoking of energies that coerce to create something beyond self. vii the ruby is the password she of the white robe rides the transparent horse the maiden closes. on broken legs he steps forth he becomes the dragon azoth- satanas the menstruum- the sinister aspect implicit within the homogenous metallic water: the explosive factor in the delicate balancing of life-enhancing elements. change by adversity the accuser. the brutal realities that threaten to devour the abstract, the romantic. insight and control via the understanding of the primal- or destruction by it. viii their name inside the room of s

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

n usual. he to whom catherine theot assured immortal life, looked, indeed, like a man at death's door. on the table before him was a dish heaped with oranges, with the juice of which it is said that he could alone assuage the acrid bile that overflowed his system; and an old woman, richly dressed (she had been a marquise in the old regime) was employed in peeling the hesperian fruits for the sick dragon, with delicate fingers covered with jewels. i have before said that robespierre was the idol of the women. strange certainly! but then they were french women! the old marquise, who, like catherine theot, called him "son" really seemed to love him piously and disinterestedly as a mother; and as she peeled the oranges, and heaped on him the most caressing and soothing expressions, the livid g

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nd who art thou' and i said to him "thus punished as thou art, answerest thou me" but he, with rage, said to me "but how shall i answer thee, for thou art a son of man; whereas i was born an angel's seed by a daughter of man, so that no word of our heavenly kind addressed to the earth-born can be overweening. wherefore also my star is bright in heaven, and men call it, some the wain, and some the dragon's child. i keep near unto this star. so ask me not many things; for thy kingdom also after a little time is to be disrupted, and thy glory is but for a season. and short will be thy tyranny over us; and then we shall again have free range over mankind, so as that they shall revere us as if we were gods, not knowing, men that they are, the names of the angels set over us" 22. and i solomon

rs are apparently the numbers 644] 53. and i solomon, on hearing this, glorified god, and condemned his legion to carry wood from the thicket. and i condemned the lion-shaped one himself to saw up the wood small with his teeth, for burning in the unquenchable furnace for the temple of god. 54. and i worshipped the lord god of israel, and bade another demon come forward. and there came before me a dragon, three-headed, of fearful hue. and i questioned him "who art thou" and he answered me "i am a caltrop-like spirit [1, whose activity in three lines. but i blind children in women's wombs, and twirl their ears round. and i make them deaf [2] and mute. and i have again in my third head means of slipping in [3. and i smite men in the limbless part of the body, and cause them to fall down, and

ophia, identified by philo and the early fathers with the logos, is supposed to have entered into and taken possession of solomon as it afterwards did with jesus. 2. stamatihu, an unknown verb. 3. xalep n] 59. when i solomon heard this, i marvelled at her appearance, for i beheld all her body to be in darkness. but her glance was altogether bright and greeny, and her hair was tossed wildly like a dragon's; and the whole of her limbs were invisible. and her voice was very clear as it came to me. and i cunningly said "tell me by what angel thou art frustrated, o evil spirit" by she answered me "by the angel of god called afar t, which is interpreted raphael, by whom i am frustrated now and for all time. his name, if any man know it, and write the same on a woman in childbirth, then i shall n

sed, might see it, and glorify the lord god of israel, who had given me this authority, with wisdom and power from god, by means of this signet [1. bornemann (zeitschr. f.d. hist. theol. 1844, p. 38) gives the tale of figures. r= 100; a= 1; f= 500; a= 1; m= 8; l= 30. total 640] 60. and i again ordered another demon to come before me. and the came, rolling itself along, one in appearance like to a dragon, but having the face and hands of a man. and all its limbs, except the feet, were those of a dragon; and it had wings on its back. and when i beheld it, i was astonied, and said "who art thou, demon, and what art thou called? and whence hast thou come? tell me" 61. and the spirit answered and said "this is the first time i have stood before the, o king solomon. i am a spirit made into a god

wings on its back. and when i beheld it, i was astonied, and said "who art thou, demon, and what art thou called? and whence hast thou come? tell me" 61. and the spirit answered and said "this is the first time i have stood before the, o king solomon. i am a spirit made into a god among men, but now brought to naught by the ring and wisdom vouchsafed to thee by god. now i am the so-called winged dragon [1, and i chamber not with many women, but only with a few that are of fair shape, which possess the name of xuli, of this star. and i pair with them in the guise of a spirit winged in form, coitum habens per nates. and she on whom i have leapt goes heavy with child, and that which is born of her becomes eros. but since such offspring cannot be carried by men, the woman in question breaks w

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away through the air. as they flew over the strait between europe and asia, helle fell in and was drowned which gives the strait its name, hellespont. phrixus however reached the king of colchis on the eastern shore of the black sea, where he sacrificed the ram to the gods and gave its fleece to king aeetes. he caused it to be hung up in a grove and guarded by a terrible myth and mysteriosophy 75 dragon. it was the greek hero jason, in company with the other heroes heracles, theseus, orpheus, and so on, who undertook to fetch the fleece from colchis. aeetes laid upon jason severe conditions for the attainment of the fleece; but medea, the king s daughter, was skilled in magic and came to his aid. he harnessed two fire-breathing bulls and ploughed a field, sowing it with dragon s teeth. whe

jason severe conditions for the attainment of the fleece; but medea, the king s daughter, was skilled in magic and came to his aid. he harnessed two fire-breathing bulls and ploughed a field, sowing it with dragon s teeth. when these sprang up into armed men, on medea s advice he threw a stone amongst them, whereupon they turned and killed one another. it is by medea s magic that jason lulls the dragon to sleep and so wins the fleece. he then returns with it to greece, taking medea as his wife. the king pursues the fugitives, and in order to delay him, medea kills her little brother apsyrtus and scatters his limbs in the sea. aeetes pauses to collect them and so the pair reach jason s homeland with the fleece. every detail of the story requires elucidation in depth. the fleece is somethin

ark of his covenant became visible there. 148 666: the beast and the abyss the initiate s experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. the apocalypse of john 137 on the christian path, everything that the initiates in the older mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. as osiris was threatened by the evil typhon, so now there is the great dragon, the ancient snake to be defeated. from far back the wisdom of the mystai had used the snake as its symbol of knowledge. the snake knowledge may be a seductive force, however, unless human beings bring to life within themselves the son of god. he it is who crushes the serpent s head: the great dragon was hurled down that ancient snake who is called the devil and satan and seduces all the wo

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, son of setnakt, inscribed on certain border monuments, shows two setian particularities. firstly, it has an unnamed god coming into being in the psychic (subjective) realm as the god xephra- previously it had been held that neith, a goddess of nature, had transformed herself into the xephra beetle. secondly, the spell which gives the magician one of the powers of set, which is to slay apep, the dragon of delusion. with the coming of the xxiind dynasty, egypt entered its long decline. set became a tremendously unpopular deity. his worship ceased everywhere except the oases and the city of thebes, where his cult was absorbed into the cult of montu, the warlord of thebes. the negative and destructive aspects of isolation and destruction were emphasized and as egypt turned more to an idealiz

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anus, roman two-faced "god of the sun" was said to be the "keeper of the keys" to the invisible spirit world. hislop (the two babylons) called him "the source and fountain of all the pagan gods" is the masonic doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world -revelation 12:9 the great serpent of the garden of eden and the lord god are identical. helena blavatsky the secret doctrine w h a t is the true meaning of the curious, arcane symbols found in the great seal of the united states? who designed this fantastic twosided device, and why is it so promine

the new order may be ushered in: ordo ab chao it is when this ambitious goal is achieved that, symbolically, the capstone will be set in place atop the pyramid. then he who lies within the living stones shall come forth to rule. the phoenix (satan and his "son) shall rise from the flames of destruction just as the legendary phoenix bird arose. the phoenix, however, is, in reality a cockatrice, a dragon-bird, a flying serpent. the word "pyramid" incidentally, literally means "amidst the fire" and now you know the true, occultic meaning of the word. peering into the all-seeing eye simply put, freemasons, under the direction of haym salomon, ben franklin, and others, designed the great seal with its all-seeing eye in the capstone amidst the radiant sun background. as followers of egyptianism

tect of the universe "abaddon "mahabone" and "jahbuhlun" ostensibly the illuminati worship a pantheon, a multiplicity of gods. but, not so. these are all fronts for the elite worship of lucifer. he is their true god, the god of light. as albert pike stated in morals and dogma "doubt it not" their god is the serpent now, the bible, in isaiah 14 and revelation 12:9, identifies lucifer as "the great dragon..that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world" so, by whatever name you call him, the god of the illuminati and masonry is the serpent. in fact, in a bridge to light, an official textbook of the supreme mother council, 33, the highest council of the scottish rite, rex hutchens, 33, reveals that "the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent" is none othe

responsibly" sounds like some kind of hellish joke. crown royal is manufactured by seagram& sons, the world's largest distillery. seagram is owned by the bronfman bloodline dynasty of canada, the family of ardent adl jewish zionists. its senior is currently edgar bronfman, who also just happens to be chairman of the world jewish congress. the riddle of the great seal of the united states 279 the dragon is, of course, a mythical form of serpent. indeed, the holy bible in the book of revelation describes satan as "that old serpent, the dragon" well, for those who wish to pay homage to the dragon, the pyramid collection catalog offers such jewelry items as this pendant, ring, and arm band. the llluminati serpent: in the two babylons, hislop writes "in the mythology of the primitive world, th

coiled up in a circle biting its own tail (also uroboros, is pictured as a gnostic rooster combination creature in this illustration from horapollo's selecta hieroglyphica, 1597. the sun and moon symbolize the conjunction of opposites, which is the alchemical doctrine of illuminism. 282 codex magica these two ancient celtic coins from bohemia (second and first centuries b.c) bear the marks of the dragon, or serpent. the first coin has the image of an oroboros serpent/dragon torqued and prepared to bite its own tail. the second coin bears the image of a coiled, horned serpent with ears. the coins signify the adoration and homage paid the serpent as a religious icon of worship-status by the mystery religions. the revival today of the ancient mystery religions is accompanied also by modern-da

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he middle of the our galaxy there is a black sun that shines with a light that we are not capable of seeing and for us it looks like empty darkness. this sun is also a black hole that absorbs all normal light.this black sun can be connected with the highest qliphotic principal thaumiel, rather than with thagirion. the black sun is generating the power called vril, od or the world kundalini or the dragon power. it can be described as the principal that is manifestating the powers of chaos. in the bible and in other mythological descriptions this principal acts as the beast. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that the

ng the powers of chaos. in the bible and in other mythological descriptions this principal acts as the beast. in old norse mythology it is the fenriz wolf, in the goetic qabalah it is the phallic belfegor. in the book of revelation 13:2 is is written: the dragon gave the beast its throne and authority. we can later read that the number of the beast is a human number. this can be understood as the dragon (chaos) is manifested through thagirion by a man, or by mankind. the fact that the number of the beast is a human number shows our relation to the wild animals that civilization and religion have tried to repress. on a more esoteric plane it means that man is not just an animal but also a god since 666 is the number of the sun and therefore the number that makes man divine. dragon rouge www

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

werful tool to illuminate the torch of the witches sabbat. for many years have i entered the gates of the opposer to drink from the graal of the devil, the very cup of ensorcelled venom few may taste. spare s art holds a gateway into this primal gnosis, seek to drink from this cup as well. become through self-love! frater akhtya seker arimanius magister, the order of phosphorus/black order of the dragon 2 3 introduction to the book of pleasure by kenneth grant first published in the book of pleasure, 1975 austin osman spare was born at snowhill, london, in 1886. apart from william blake, john martin, aubrey beardsley, sidney sime, and a mere handful of others, england has produced no artist to equal spare for sheer ability and imaginative fecundity. spare was not only a graphic artist; he

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urnal. chant in the craft, when the witches were sitting in the park repeating earth, air, fire, and water, they were using what is known as a circle chant meditation to raise their power levels. chants can vary from a one word personal mantra, to a formal group invocation. try this, on an overcast day, sit and chant for five minutes ra, ra, hail ra! record the results in your journal. riding the dragon part one relaxation start by taking three slow deep breaths, clear your mind, and begin your rhythmic breathing pattern 4-2-4-2. hyou are standing upon a beach the white sand beneath your feat is as fine, and soft as baby powder. hlooking out to sea, you become aware that the waves are of prismatic light. as you watch, they change from red to orange, then to yellow, then green, on to blue

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and the father and the son as the antichrist, and in 2 john verse 7 he declares that there are many deceivers already at work among the faithful. according to revelation, christ and his angelic armies of light destroy the forces of darkness at armageddon in the final battle of good versus evil. babylon, the false prophet, and the beast (the antichrist) are dispatched to their doom, and satan, the dragon, is bound in a pit for a thousand years. with satan imprisoned and chained, the millennium, the thousand years of peace and harmony, begins. although christ s second coming is said to be mentioned over 300 times in the new testament, the only references to the millennium are found in revelation 20:2 7. christian scholars disagree whether or not there will be an initial resurrection of the j

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ve. absolute kinda irrefutable proof of skunk ape. tampa tribune, february 13, 2001 [online] http//news.tbo.com/news/mgacin7j 3jc.html. sanderson, ivan t. abominable snowmen: legend come to life. philadelphia: chilton, 1961. yeti tales of hairy monsters existing in the asian wilderness can be found in the writings of several venerable chinese scholars who linked these creatures to the time of the dragon, the presumed genesis of asian civilization. despite an occasional report by a european visitor to the region, the apelike creatures did not receive any sort of widespread notoriety until the beginning of the twentieth century. during an expedition into the himalayas in 1906, botanist h. j. elwes was astonished to glimpse a hairy figure racing across a field of snow below him. the scientifi

efforts to track down the yeti for more than a quarter of a century. although each russian province may have its own name for the mys- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 67 an alleged yeti, or abominable snowman, on the 1952 issue of radar magazine (mary evans picture library) theyetis have been linked to the time of the dragon, the presumed genesis of asian civilization. terious giants of the mountain in dagestan, kaptar; in azerbaijan, mesheadam; in georgia, tkys-katsi; while the chechens, ingushes, kabardins, and balkars call it the almasti each startled eyewitness seems to describe the same strange beast. the chinese call the snowman yeren, and in 1977, 1980, and 1982, expeditions searching for the manbeast se

nline] http//www.anomalist.com/features/topcz2001. html. heuvelmans, bernard. on the track of unknown animals. new york: hill and wang, 1958. mackal, roy p. a living dinosaur? in search of mokele- mbembe. new york: e. j. brill, 1987. searching for hidden animals: an inquiry into zoological mysteries. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1980. dragons one of the most universal monster myths is that of the dragon. the awesome, reptilelike beasts appear in the folklore of nearly every country. and the fact that the creature was truly regarded as an actual monster rather than a myth can be demonstrated in several t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 87 writings of the day. edward topsell, writing in his historie of serpents (160

try. and the fact that the creature was truly regarded as an actual monster rather than a myth can be demonstrated in several t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious creatures 87 writings of the day. edward topsell, writing in his historie of serpents (1608, commented that among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the dragon, or that afforded and yielded so much plentiful matter in history for the ample discovery of the nature thereof. while examining the true accounts of dragons in the folklore and records of several cultures, one cannot help wondering if there really were dragonlike monsters prowling the earth, devouring hapless villagers, receiving periodic sacrifices of young maidens, spreading terror into

ales, seen motion pictures, and heard songs of reluctant dragons, kindly dragons, affectionate dragons, magic dragons, and timid dragons. behind every myth smolders some spark of truth and reality. a few scientists hold the theory that a number of dinosaurs might have survived into the age of man. pick up any book on dinosaurs and it is apparent that a tyrannosaurus rex would have made a terrific dragon in anyone s legend. such a huge reptile thudding about the countryside of early europe or asia could certainly fit even the most dramatic descriptions of a dragon. no theorist favoring the surviving dinosaur solution to dragons claims that the great reptiles existed in anything approaching abundance. but even a handful of such ancient monsters existing in isolated lakes and forested valleys

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acy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. the tongs according to the internet movie base, the chinese tongs have been an integral element of violence and mystery in 140 motion pictures in china and the united states. interestingly, the first american film on the subject,the war of the tongs, was released in 1917. in 1985, year of the dragon provoked a great deal of controversy in its portrayal of a racist white cop (mickey rourke) battling hordes of evil chinese gang members. the greatest flaw in the motion picture was blending chinese gangs, the tongs, and the triad into one massive gchinese mafia h kind of amalgamated crime organization. in actuality, although the gangs exist, they are separate from the tongs, a survivor of

ce and working independently of the others. although its influence on the course of chinese politics has been considerable, the triad has never been unduly concerned about which government happens to be in power. m delving deeper gboo how doy: the early history of chinese tongs in new york. h organized crime [online] http/ organizedcrime.about.com/library/weekly/aa0624 01a.htm. booth, martin. the dragon syndicates: the global phenomenon of the triads. new york: carroll and graf, 2001. chin, ko-lin. extortion, enterprise, and ethnicity. studies in crime and public policy. new york: oxford university press, 1996. huston, peter. tongs, gangs, and triads: chinese crime groups in north america. boulder, colo: paladin press, 1995. making the connection blasphemy an irreverent utterance or action

acteristics from those typical of classic western stereotypes. for example, while a rat fills a european with revulsion, the chinese zodiac sees the rodent as hard-working and industrious. in addition, there are five elements. wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.rather than the four of western astrology.earth, air, fire, and water. the animals of the chinese zodiac are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and boar. according to tradition, when the buddha (c. 563.c. 483 b.c.e) lay dying, he called upon the animals to come to bid him farewell. the first 12 to arrive were the ones who are immortalized in the chinese zodiac. astrology has been an integral aspect of daily life in china for centuries and remains so today. although communist doctrine and it

t many of the accidents in the area are intriguing, and that the area does have some natural conditions that sailors and pilots need to be aware of, has not been challenged. however, neither statistics nor documented evidence indicates that the num- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d places of mystery and power 227 the gdevil fs sea h and the dragon fs triangle located in the philippine sea off china fs eastern coast is known for vanishing ships and seamen similar to the legendary bermuda triangle. while sensational theories for the mysterious disappearances speak of extraterrestrials and lost kingdoms under the sea wreaking havoc, others believe that the region displays the same magnetic anomalies as the bermuda triangle. the area, wh

hips and seamen similar to the legendary bermuda triangle. while sensational theories for the mysterious disappearances speak of extraterrestrials and lost kingdoms under the sea wreaking havoc, others believe that the region displays the same magnetic anomalies as the bermuda triangle. the area, which can be marked off on a map by connecting japan, taiwan, and yap island, has become known as the dragon fs triangle after a centuries-old chinese myth. according to the myth, dragons live deep beneath the surface and their movement can suddenly churn up waves, whirlpools, thick fog, and sudden storms. in 1950, japanese officials declared the triangle a danger zone for shipping. in 1952, a research vessel, the kaio maru no. 5, sent by the japanese government to investigate the troubled waters

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pects of his/her being and then seeks to illuminate further the light of imagination; the 3 flame of consciousness and isolate being this is known as the black flame. god forms associated with the black flame and self-illumination are lucifer (called azal ucel, set (the egyptian god, lilith (the goddess of the luciferian path, cain (the isolate one, lord of magicians and witches) and ahriman (the dragon of darkness who takes many forms. such god forms span various cultures and ages, but their essence lives in the idea of the sabbat and luciferian witchcraft and sorcery. the initiate begins the path of shadow, from which he or she models from the legend of lucifer falling from light. it was essential for azazel (lucifer) to grow he had to understand and perceive darkness, to taste the shado

es is indeed a powerful tool aimed at those working in the initiatory aspect of self-deification, yet it is as equally as dangerous. this grimoire is a personal record of its author, akhyta seker arimanius, and a manual of how one may in a balanced manner, work with the shades of the dead. featured in nox umbra is the cultus of akhtya, the persian path of sorcery in relation to ahriman, the beast dragon of darkness. this entails vampyric dream shape-shifting, vampyric self-transformation (without the use of blood or predatory workings, servitor creation and egyptian god forms. explored equally is the goddess archetype in relation to vampyrism, including the methods and process of evoking and summoning forth lilith, the lilitu (succubi) for dreaming congress. nox umbra brings to light a new

eft hand path is a lonely road of non-union with the natural order, that is by the antinomian path of individual strength. rewritten, reworked and encompassing the persian system of sorcery the yatuk dinoih presents the background and idea of ahriman, the prince of darkness, a sorcerous spirit who is made of darkness (the adversary, who takes the shape and shadow form of a toad, serpent, wolf and dragon. ahriman represents the sabbatic and luciferian adversary formula, the 13 initiatory state of transforming and becoming something other than being dissolved in the natural order. this grimoire presents systems of personal sorcery, in which through the individual works through the godforms of ahriman and az. presented also are goetic evocation and invocation formulas of the daevas (demons) a

and luciferian adversary formula, the 13 initiatory state of transforming and becoming something other than being dissolved in the natural order. this grimoire presents systems of personal sorcery, in which through the individual works through the godforms of ahriman and az. presented also are goetic evocation and invocation formulas of the daevas (demons) and druj (lie meaning illusion, sorcery& dragon snake vampyre. completely re-illustrated by elda isela ford, the yatuk dinoih seeks to enflesh and materializes those druj and daemonic forces which have lied dormant, sleeping in the atavistic depths of mankind. night and the witches sabbat -the adversarial foundations of sorcery- by michael w. ford 14 to look into the possibilities of models and how one may shape and assist in self-transf

o this deity, as set was essentially shaitan the opposer/adversary. the egyptian god seker is also a god form which the sorcerer may visualize and use as a mask of dreaming14. seker is an ancient death-god, who was considered older than osiris and who resided around the city of memphis. seker resided in the tomb and the complete darkness. around his lands were winged serpents, demonic spirits and dragon like beings with three heads. seker was often featured as a mummified man who had a mask of a predatory hawk, who sat on a throne of abyssic shadow. in the story of af ra meeting seker15 in ra-stau where he sits in the kingdom of death, as death itself. it makes reference to seker sitting in majesty, with serpents and demonic spirits surround him. in the book of the dead seker is made refer

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r anointing (the head or feet, attributed to kether and malkuth) and embalming (the body, attributed as a whole to malkuth. also symbolic of the suffering endured in the separation of malkuth and kether from each other by the fall. rm: high, exalted, attributes of kether, and also meaning to decay (worm-eaten, thus the process of malkuth and the decay implicit in evolution symbolised by the worm, dragon or serpent. it can be noted that a rearrangement of the letters of kthr gives krth, meaning "to cut off, and "divine punishment, hence referring that any deviation from the crown brings about a fall from the state of grace represented by kether. kl, to comprehend, measure, all every, whole, any, referring to kether as the all and the highest comprehension (the "admirable intelligence" as th

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

little old ladies, tampering with their mail, and following them around in black cadillacs. i wish the answer was that simple. we have been victimized by this phenomenon, not just since 1947 but since ever! it is the foundation of all our religious and occult beliefs, of our philosophies, and our cultures. the ancient chinese marked out the routes of the lights in the sky (lits) and called them "dragon tracks" because, apparently, fearsome dragons appeared along with the mysterious lights. in a later age, these became fairy lights and were associated with the little people who actually plagued whole generations not only in europe but also in north america. for the american indians were telling stories about the little people long before the europeans arrived here. during the witchcraft cr

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan that is identified closely with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated

kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the male counterpart of tiamat, similar to absu. this monster is well known to cult worship all over the world. in china, however, there is an interesting twist. far from being considered a completely hostile creature, dedicated to the erasure of mankind from the page of existence, the dragon is given a place of preeminence and one does not hear of a chinese angel or saint striving to slay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glaston

lay the dragon, but rather to cultivate it. the chinese system of geomancy, feng shui (pronounced fung shway) is the science of understanding the "dragon currents" which exist beneath the earth, these same telluric energies that are distilled in such places as chartres cathedral in france, glastonbury tor in england, and the ziggurats of mesopotamia. in both the european and chinese cultures, the dragon or serpent is said to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingsh

to reside somewhere "below the earth; it is a powerful force, a magickal force, which is identified with mastery over the created world; it is also a power that can be summoned by the few and not the many. however, in china, there did not seem to be a backlash of fear or resentment against this force as was known in europe and palestine, and the symbol of might and kingship in china is still the dragon. in the west, the conjuration, cultivation, or worship of this power was strenuously opposes with the advent of the solar, monotheistic religions and those who clung to the old ways were effectively extinguished. the wholesale slaughter of those called "witches" during the inquisition is an example of this, as well as the solemn and twisted- that is to say, purposeless and unenlightened- ce

knowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energies that compromise the cosmos of our perception, as manifest in the famous chinese yin-yang symbol. but what of inanna, the single planetary deity having a female manifestation among the sumerians? she is invok

THE SHADOWED ONES

know the keys to both heaven and hell. this grimoire shall be written in blood and dried in the noon tide sun. i am both fire and darkness, yet within is a light once adored by that unperceived chaos called god. my sister and lover is that fiery goddess called lilith by some and demoness by others, yet she too drinks of both ecstasies. we are undying and eternal, we may sleep in the flesh of the dragon yet emerge in the heights of both the sun and the moon. the shadows merely remind us of our reflections and self divinities. you too are like us, no bending knee as the mindless, yet an ascended mind beyond that fallen and crumbling crowd-control method called god. you are the only the christ you need, separate and divine. dragon and angel in the flesh, devour and thirst eternally for knowl

learly in the dreaming planes of man. we must seek to know thyself before one may seek onward communication with the watchers, for they do not rule us they offer guidance from those initiates who seek a knowledge most profound. iii the names of the fallen angelick ones and watchers azazel seek when the sun is at its height, by fire and air. this is the enfleshed angel which is at heart and soul a dragon of both darkness and light. by balance of the mind and heart can you seek to become like azazel, who came forth from the void of chaos and created a form of order. that order is always torn asunder by the chaos willed of azazel, just as fire consumes to create anew. azazel tests and confronts, yet strengthens and blesses that which withstands or falls in honesty. this is the essence of the

e may know the path of the goddess in her beautiful and horrifying aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and devotion. leviathan is the dragon guardian of the abyss, who dwells in the deep and unknown realms of the ocean and the darkest depths of the mind. leviathan is different from the watchers in that this fallen seraphim does not hold relation to man or ang

possibility of power. my gift is to bring you to a life not comprehended previously, one which demands the attention and challenge of self-excellence. the children of this adam know not those things which are determined, wherefore they oft-times fall into error. the beasts of the field, and of heaven, and the fish of the sea, all of them are in my hand and under my control kitab el-jelwa i am the dragon clothed in the feathers of the peacock, that which is sacred unto me. i formed this bird to represent the beauty of the hidden soul, what may become from the balance of the mind. by becoming like me you shall to gain control in your world, thus the balance of the earth and the body temple of man and woman must be recognized. seek my bride of earth and stars with my own union so that you may

noon when the sun is in its height does one seek shaitan called iblis in the south with the blade of cain do summon with thy heart the adversary who shall be met in the mirrored adobe of hades, of darkness and shadow gleam by midnight let the sun envenom your spirit, naked in spirit you are left to cloth yourself in serpent skin, to see as the eye of the adversary before all. let the angelick red dragon ascend through your spine and open your senses about you. by the south east does shamsiel carry forth the weapons of the sun and the very pretense of azazel let the fires which envelope him be given freely as a gift to the wise. by the east shall then lucifer-azazel be called forth, who is azal ucel the bringer of light. by the blood baptized vessels of the skull and athame of cain does the

THE SIGIL OF ADVERSARY

ixth is the god of the night sun, seker (he who is shut in, a god of darkness who has a close connection to set in his beginning. use this sigil to invoke the power of death and to isolate the psyche, emerge and begin transforming in the midnight sun of the adversary. the fifth is lerthex, a name of typhon the serpent. this is the body and mind of the magician as he spirals his or her spells as a dragon. use lerthex to visualize a goal and then recite the name as a mantra to manifest the desire. may be used for protection, by imagining a great typhonic dragon to encircle your dwelling. the fourth is saatet-ta, the darkener of the earth. this is the ensorcelled daemon or daeva which the magician may manifest his will and send forth the shadow to bring forth his or her desires. this sigil ma

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

withered gaze that beauty grew- rosy quintessence of alchemic dew! the self-informing beauty! in my heart the many were united: and i knew *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191. and yet: i was wed unto the part and could not grasp the whole. thus, i was broken on the wheel of truth. fled all the hope and purpose of my youth, the high desire, the secret joy, the sin that coiled its rainbow dragon scales within. hope fs being, life fs delight, time fs eager tooth; all, all are gone; the serpent sloughs his skin! the quest is mine! here ends mortality in contemplating the eternal thee. here, she is willing. stands the absolute reaching its arms toward me. i am mute, i draw toward. oh, suddenly i see the treason-pledge, the royal prostitute *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 191

vol. i. p. 236. and he tells venus of her. to which she answers: thine old desire was just to touch the mere impalpable. to formulate the formless c *tannhauser, vol. i. p. 237. again tannhauser bursts into song, one of those magnificent lyrics, flashing like a ruby, warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama. and thus does his song end: whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins? what dragon spouse consumes me with her breath? what passionate hatred, what infernal pains, mixed with thy being in the womb of death? blistering fire runs. scorching, terrific suns, through body and soul in this abominable marriage of demon power subtle and strong and sour, a draught of ichor of the veins of hell! curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean, the soul of the obscene incarnate in the spirit:

refuse to see why this pudibonderie of the old gunco gude h should make the discussion of gnymphomaniacs h a tabooed subject, whilst she trumpets from the top of her holy bordel (st. paul fs) deafening blasts of chaste) gbibliomania. h often these unfortunates are of noble and generous character; who, striving against their fearful adversity, have not the strength of will to cast off and slay the dragon of their despair. the horror of this mental struggle is well depicted in gjephthah h when jared says: those eyes upon me, torturing my soul and threatening revenge? those fingers gross, purple, and horrible, to blister me with infamous tearing at my throat. o hell! vomit thy monsters forth in myriads to putrefy this fair green earth with blood, but make not me the devilish minister of such

ates of wisdom and understanding and attain the kingdom of the holy crown. gself h we must slay, it is the great sin of life:*1. gthe scorpion kisses, and the stings of sin, cling hard within. h*2. the small still voice calls to us, yet we must overcome it, in its conquest alone lies our salvation. gtruth h is our st. george, whose sword is as keen as his of gthe nameless quest, h and hself h the dragon which we must slay *1. songs of the spirit, vol. i, p. 50 *2. ibid. vol. i, p. 54. central, supreme, most formidable, night gathered its garments, drew itself apart; gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite, veil the deep agony, display the heart; even as a gloomy sea, wherein dead fishes be, poisonous things, nameless; the eightfold fear, misshapen crab and worm, the intolerable sperm, lew

from the god-drunken carouse of the night, and ourselves become as gods, shall we conceive god. hic labor, hoc opus est: this is my secret. in a man fs delight to lose the stubborn ecstasy for god! to thus clear knowledge hath my path been trod in deepest hell. in the profoundest sky! this knowledge, the true immortality, i came unto through pain and tears, tigerish hopes, and serpent loves, and dragon fears, most bitter kisses, salted springs and dry; iii those deep caverns and slow-moving years, when dwelt i, in the mount of venus, even i *tannhauser, vol. i, p. 256. crowleyanity quod utilius deus patefieri sinet, quod autem majoris momenti est, vulgo adhuc latet usque ad eliae artistae adventum quando is venerit. god will permit a discovery of the highest importance to be made, it must

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ht to man the gnosis of the black flame, also sought the elixir of life, their devouring desires sought to dance widdershins around the circle of flame, those who by dreaming path shared the very blood offered from the cup of az to then empower and envenom our sorcerous spirits. here the witch takes copulation and is given the knowledge of the fell angel, who is to share with her the blood of the dragon offered from the depths of darkness. i am all sexuality. transudation of hecate here the hag or dark moon of hecate (lilith, by the way of crossroads sheds the flesh to go forth to the sabbat. this ecstasy brings spirit un-form, and the desire of her is shown in her familiars and servitors given spirit flesh. the hands of anubis and hekate are caressing those seeking the realm of the necrom

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

ade them bear mantles of radiance, made them godlike, whoever looks upon them shall collapse in utter terror! their bodies shall rear up continually and never turn away' she stationed a horned serpent, a mushussudragon, and a lahmu-hero, an ugallu-demon, a rabid dog, and a scorpion-man,aggressive umu-demons, a fish-man, and a bull-man bearing merciless weapons, fearless in battle -enuma elish the dragon of the primal oceans of the abyss opened her veins and filled her children with venom as blood, with a spell cracking the sky with the blackened flame of her will. to raise them as gods which shall master all forms of wolves, serpents and those beasts which prey upon others is the desire of tiamat. what she gave to humanity was never cleansed from the ancient darkness in the subconscious, t

veins and filled her children with venom as blood, with a spell cracking the sky with the blackened flame of her will. to raise them as gods which shall master all forms of wolves, serpents and those beasts which prey upon others is the desire of tiamat. what she gave to humanity was never cleansed from the ancient darkness in the subconscious, there is still a coiling serpent within. the ancient dragon which personified the primal sea was tiamat, according to george barton the name tiamat was equivalent to the same stem which meant tamtu, being the primal waters of the abyss. tiamat is the adversary from a atavistic viewpoint, her form too terrible to comprehend. an interesting concept of the demonic feminine as a motivational factor in all life can be found in the archetype of tiamat. th

f stress and turmoil, these atavistic beasts seek to escape from the barbed wire, cruel talons in the mind. the mighty mummu tiamat was called the bringer forth of them all, yet was equally horrifying to her enemies, gods she created tiamat in ancient assyria embodied all of that which was horrifying and violent to mankind, from the blackened oceans of the abyss did she first rise up, a great sea dragon who had partial elements of other predators, the head of a tiger, winged, four talons and a scale covered tail. this form was that which was from nightmares, which still copulates with our dreams and brings us visions of our vast possibility as living beings. tiamat was betrayed by her child, marduk and was joined with him in battle. in this battle did another plot with marduk to capture an

t. rahab, who makes the orbs of light dark with its presence, a shadow cast upon the self-righteous and weak. as ahriman did he first create the predators of the earth, wolves, serpents, flies, scorpions, did his fire of darkness create the six archdaevas who bring wisdom and power to mankind, against the mindnumbing arch-angels of ahura mazda. was it not jahi whose voice of inspiration rouse the dragon from his slumber, bringing chaos and motion into this world? yet ahriman brings order as well, knowing that stasis is death and the spirit must continually move forward. the adversary s origins are found in both the feminine and masculine, that balance must bring the lively intelligence of existence. here is the sacred cup made from the human skull, to drink of it s elixir is to taste the l

y demonic spirits. lilith is the fiery aspect of ahriman or samael and should be considered equal to the fallen angel. in ancient non-zoroastrian writings, m.n. dhalla makes reference to the early hippolytus who wrote that there was a dualistic religion, the father being light and darkness being the mother. with this in consideration, ahriman no doubt was a manifestation of the androgynous primal dragon tiamat, which ahriman and az emerged from later. in the ancient writings of jacob and isaac hacohen of segovia castile, samael and lilith were born by an emanation beneath the throne of glory in the form of a double-faced androgynous angel, said to be in the form of the one above. lilith has a long history and a background in all magical practices. she is the one who is of the astral plane

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

re was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of israel. 2:11 so i came to jerusalem, and was there three days. 2:12 and i arose in the night, i and some few men with me; neither told i [any] man what my god had put in my heart to do at jerusalem: neither [was there any] beast with me, save the beast that i rode upon. 2:13 and i went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. 2:14 then i went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king s pool: but [there was] no place for the beast [that was] under me to pass. 2:15 then went i up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the va

the lord [which is] my refuge [even] the most high, thy habitation; 91:10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 91:11 for he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. 91:12 they shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. 91:13 thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. 91:14 because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will i deliver him: i will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 91:15 he shall call upon me, and i will answer him: i [will be] with him in trouble; i will deliver him, and honour him. 91:16 with long life will i satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. psalm 92 page 361 psalms a psalm [or] song f

oment, until the indignation be overpast. 26:21 for, behold, the lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. 27:1 in that day the lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea. 27:2 in that day sing ye unto her, a vineyard of red wine. 27:3 i the lord do keep it; i will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, i will keep it night and day. 27:4 fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? i would go through them, i would burn them together. 27:5 or let him take hold of my strength [that] he may make peace

ach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. 51:8 for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. 51:9 awake, awake, put on strength, o arm of the lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old [art] thou not it that hath cut rahab [and] wounded the dragon? 51:10 [art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? 51:11 therefore the redeemed of the lord shall return, and come with singing unto zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy [and] sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 51:12 i [even] i [am] he

have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 51:33 for thus saith the lord of hosts, the god of israel; the daughter of babylon [is] like a threshingfloor [it is] time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 51:34 nebuchadrezzar the king of babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. 51:35 the violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon babylon, shall the inhabitant of zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of chaldea, shall jerusalem say. 51:36 therefore thus saith the lord; behold, i will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and i will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. 51:37 and

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

this fact, we give two examples of the triple phallus, which appears to have been, perhaps in accordance with the explanation given by plutarch, an amulet in great favour. the first was found in london in 1842.1 as in the examples found on the continent, a principal phallus forms the body, having the hinder parts of apparently a dog, with wings of a peculiar form, perhaps intended for those of a dragon. several small rings are attached, no doubt for the purpose of suspending bells. our second example2 was found at york in 1844. it displays a peculiarity of action which, in this case at least, leaves no doubt that the hinder parts were intended to be those of a dog. all antiquaries of any experience know the great number of obscene subjects which are met with among the fine red pottery whi

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

n under its left, and above its head mercury is framed in a blazing stellar brilliance. above the sun is the mated pair of solar opposites, mars-venus, and above the moon the mated lunar opposites, saturn- jupiter. the second illustration is from the work azote des philosophes by basil valen- tine. it shows a hermaphrodite, symbolic of mercury and the magus, standing tri- umphant atop the chaotic dragon, which is supported by the earth. within the earth is the alchemical symbol for squaring the circle. above the head of the her- maphrodite is mercury framed in a star. notice the rays that emanate from mer- cury and distinguish it from the other planets. over the right shoulder of the figure is the sun, and over the left shoulder is the moon. below the sun is mars-venus. below the moon is j

sitive and active striving to realize the center of self. referring this to the metaphor of the serpent, at the start the undulating ser- pent draws itself inward for protection from the cold. then it seeks to devour itself to appease its hunger. whereas at the circular stage of motion it held its tail in its mouth, in the spiral stage it begins to swallow its tail. this very common symbol of the dragon devouring its tail is always the desire of chaos to manifest itself through the point, and the corresponding urge in manifest being to reunite with the boundless all. to perceive this truth, project ahead mentally the natural consequence of a ser- pent eating its tail, were it possible to carry this process through to its conclusion. eventually it must vanish from the world. where can it go

forked tongue of the serpent. in this reversal of the game, the egg imprisons the bird, the serpent eats the egg, and the bird devours the serpent. the force now flows in the opposite direction. this form of the game has an ancient air about it that suggests its rightful place is in an age long past and forgotten. the great cackler, who lays the cosmic egg, is locked in an eternal battle with the dragon of the abyss, who ever threatens to consume the egg of cosmos. periodically, the cackler is renewed from the cos- mic egg, just as the phoenix was renewed from age to age from its own egg, or by another myth, from its own corpse. the dragon can consume the embryonic cackler while it lies in the cosmic egg, but once hatched, the cackler has power over the dragon. it is the fiery seed of the

s renewed from the cos- mic egg, just as the phoenix was renewed from age to age from its own egg, or by another myth, from its own corpse. the dragon can consume the embryonic cackler while it lies in the cosmic egg, but once hatched, the cackler has power over the dragon. it is the fiery seed of the dragon that impregnates the cackler, giving rise to the egg, which may contain either cackler or dragon, since both bird and serpent are born from eggs. t he square represents the perfect trinity of forces made manifest. tradition- ally it stands for the physical world, but its meaning may be extended to cover all forms of being from the concrete to the spiritual. the kabbalists recognize this broader significance when they make the fourth emanation of god, called chesed, the seat of formatio

llowing diagram: the central triangle is occupied by the symbol of universal spirit, or light. around it is a larger triangle whose three points hold the sun, moon and earth. congruent with the triangles of sun and earth are triangles that hold venus and mars. congruent with the moon and earth are jupiter and saturn. congruent with sun and moon are the lunar nodes, called the head and tail of the dragon. the lunar nodes are formed by the intersection of the path of the sun with the path of the moon, and thus are composed of the symbols for these two bodies. the traditional symbols for the nodes (q and u) have been cut in half to better dis- play their composition. mercury is located between the nodes of the moon. above mercury is the vari- ant that shares the same base, the cross of the ea

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ace has a strange greenish glow that emanates from fungus on the walls and rocks, and the inhabitants subsist on fish and on mushroom-like plants that sprout in abundance from the soil on the cavern floors. these dwellers in darkness have white skin, white hair, and large black eyes adapted to see in the dim glow. they are surly and not to be trusted. the god is a scaled creature that resembles a dragon, with a long tail, clawed feet, and many sharp teeth. the inhabitants and lesser creatures of the land flee its approach. 4. ansuz literal meaning: the wise god, woden general sense: wisdom, eloquence, persuasiveness, authority, law-giving, magic knowledge ansuz is a land of gently rolling, wooded hills and lush meadows crossed by streams. snow-capped mountains line the horizon. the inhabit

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

igned to trigger the chaotic final destruction of our universe. in my opinion it was the desire, perhaps the necessity, of the enochian angels that this destruction of the world be initiated by humanity itself through the instrument of the forty-eight keys, which open the protective guardian gates of the four watchtowers and allow the entry into our time-space of the forces of coronzon, the great dragon. the gates of the watchtowers cannot be forced open from the outside. they open inward. we must ourselves unlock them with the keys and initiate our own annihilation. this is the terrible legacy of human free will-we are free to choose our own destruction. it was to set the stage for this potential apocalypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns

s uzza and azael lay bound in vast iron chains that were fastened to the roots of the abyss. solomon would put his seal ring into the mouth of the eagle and hide under its left wing, and the power of the name upon the ring would force the dark angels to tell him all the secrets of supernal wisdom. in alchemy, a common image is the swallowing or devouring of the king (dominant conscious mind) by a dragon or other beast, representing the prima materia (unconscious mind. this brings about a state of nigredo (darkness) that eventually leads to the renewal and rebirth of the king (see carl jung, psychology and alchemy [princeton, 19801, p. 417. a distinction should probably be made between swallowing the ring and placing the ring in the mouth. in the first case, the occult virtues of the ring a

as watch-towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirothic pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth points in the celestial heavens (golden dawn, p. 656. the four angelic tables literally become the guardian gates at the ends of the manifest universe, the ultimate bastion against the violent entry of the "death-dragon" telocvovim (him-that-is-fallen, who is mighty coronzon, or lucifer. the notion that the firmament of heaven is sustained above the floor of the world by four supports is very old. the ancient egyptians believed that 182 tetragrammaton four pillars supported the sky at the cardinal points. later these pillars became the scepters of four gods "four elder spirits who dwell in the locks of hai

e queen of heaven described in revelation 12, who is clothed with the sun, has the moon under her feet, and wears a crown of twelve stars. it is not widely recognized by occultists who employ the keys in their magic that the forty-eight keys, taken as a whole, represent a complex ritual working whose sole purpose is to open the four sealed gates of the watchtowers, allowing the entry of the great dragon, coronzon or satan, who will bring about the final destruction of the manifest universe. the keys are an apocalyptic evocation. this function is examined at greater length in appendix a. there is a fable that if the tetragrammaton should ever be spoken in its entirety, it would destroy the world. i believe the enochian keys to be one form of the complete voicing of the terrible name of the

e by correctly and completely executing the enochian evocation of the four watchtowers and forty-eight keys. we must willingly invite the destruction of our universe with the speech from our own lips. the gates at the four corners of creation are locked from the inside. they cannot be battered down by the forces of coronzon, but if we can be deceived into opening them by using the keys, the great dragon can then enter our dimension of reality, our space-time, and transform it to suit his own needs-which are not our needs. we cannot exist in our present forms in the dwelling place of coronzon. in the course of this transformation, we will be destroyed. the enochian angels used dee and kelley as unwitting dupes for their own higher purposes. their impatience with the petty material concerns

VOX SABBATUM

eams of imagination. a luciferian does not embrace alone either light or darkness, the luciferian focuses upon the antinomian path of cain, the solitary and selfmotivated magician1 who by the left hand path2 seek to continually develop the self in a model of lucifer3 who fell from light of selflessness to taste the pleasures and knowledge of darkness, who in turn learned the wisdom of the crooked dragon4 by the predilection of being on the left hand path, the mind is considered luciferian in perception a state of being in continual change and progression. look now to the imagination5 for the entry into the witches sabbat, leave the flesh and come forth to the forge of cain. the witches sabbat behind the initiatory models of what is called diabolism, lies a plethora of shapes and forms for

t. now lucifer would develop the aspect of his being called noctifer, thus ahriman sprang forth through his shadow. noctifer was awakened from a slumber by the first bride of adam, called az lilith. she was fiery, bestial, vampyric and a demoness of insatiable lust. she awoke ahriman (or noctifer) and by this stimulation he kissed her, causing menstruation. she joined soon with shaitan/samael the dragon and spawned cain. ahriman or noctifer wandered the earth and learned its many secrets; he could do so with speed and cunning. he taught further in the form of azazel men and women about warfare, weapons, armor to the opposites such as make up and sorcery. azazel was now shaitan, his shadow doctrine of witchcraft was of ahriman the dragon, shaitan had now transformed into a sense of continua

e set the prince of darkness. set or shaitan had impacted the earth in its wave of creation, of knowledge and prowess did humanity excel. shaitan then moved its consciousness both of darkness and light into the empyrean and infernal (chthonic) realms of above and below. on the earth lucifer or azal ucel has manifested as a symbolic initiator through cain the witch father, born of the union of the dragon and the whore, tubal-qayin as he is often called is the nomad, the sorcerous initiator of those who seek the black light of iblis. for the witches sabbat initiate, lucifer is the black flame of intelligence and will; he represents the foundation of the great work of becoming; he is the anthropomorphic power of self-deification and self-reliance. lucifer exists in the aethyric abode, in the

abaoth is the deific force with a mask of a beast and an angel. let this invocation be most holy and the solar logos shall manifest through the baphometic wisdom of darkness. this calling should be conducted in the high rite of the celestial or luciferian sabbat, called often empyrean or of the highest aethyr or heavens. this is the self-focused rite of the magician becoming as the adversary, the dragon-angel awakening of the isolate intellect. you are essentially becoming as the prince of darkness through the highest rites of theurgy and magick. invoke with your entire essence, with every fiber of your being. the chthonic conjuration that which raises the self towards the aethyric realms as i rise above the earth, i conjure the circle of ageless being, leviathan to be as my chariot. encir

f the isolate intellect. you are essentially becoming as the prince of darkness through the highest rites of theurgy and magick. invoke with your entire essence, with every fiber of your being. the chthonic conjuration that which raises the self towards the aethyric realms as i rise above the earth, i conjure the circle of ageless being, leviathan to be as my chariot. encircle my spirit o crooked dragon, bring forth my bride within me, whom i call onorthochrasaei, named lilith az, to ride the beast of my self! i summon phloxopha, dev of heat and the scorching desert, from the south! i summon erimacho, the dev of dryness from the east! i summon oroorrothos, dev of the cold north of arezura vox sabbatum the witches sabbat 26 i summon athuro, dev of water and the coiling waters of leviathan a

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tion of light to darkness, but later the sun-god became the symbol of right and truth as well as of light, and set the symbol of sin and wickedness as well as of darkness, and ultimately the nature myth was forgotten, and the fight between the two gods became the type of the everlasting war which good men wage against sin. in coptic literature we have the well-known legend of the slaughter of the dragon by st. george, and this is nothing but a christian adaptation of the legend of horus and set. after these things horus, son of ra, and horus, son of isis, each took the form of a mighty man, with the face and body of a hawk, and each wore the red and white crowns, and each carried a spear and chain. in these forms the two gods slew the remnant of the enemies. now by some means or other set

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

parece su mujer en los mundos superiores como estando pre ada y sufre los dolores de parto. cuando vio jes s a su madre, y al disc pulo a quien l amaba, que estaba presente, dijo a su madre: mujer, he ah tu hijo. despu s dijo al disc pulo: he ah tu madre. y desde aquella hora el disc pulo la recibi en su casa. juan 19:26-27 25 the word john can be rearranged as follows: i.e.o.u.a.n, the verb (the dragon of wisdom. indeed, the woman is the mother of the verb and the woman officiates upon the altar of the blessed goddess mother of the world. now brethren, know that the venerable priestess of your divine mother kundalini is your spouse. brothers and sisters, pray and meditate a great deal to your divine mother kundalini as follows: invocation oh isis! mother of the cosmos, root of love, trunk

aitor lives within the astral body. the second traitor is the demon of the mind; that traitor lives within the mental body. the third traitor is the demon of evil will; that traitor lives within the body of willpower (causal body. the bible cites these three traitors in the apocalypse of saint john [in revelations: 16: 13-14: and i saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet; for they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of god almighty. arcano vi bienamados hermanos de mi alma: hoy vamos a estudiar el arcano seis del tarot. amad simos: recordad el sello de salom n

demonios que hacen se ales, para ir a los reyes de la tierra y de todo el mundo, para congregarnos para la batalla de aquel gran d a, del dios todopoderoso. 40 the three traitors constitute the reincarnating ego, the psychological i, the satan that must be dissolved in order to incarnate the inner christ, which is constituted by kether, chokmah and binah. the superior triangle is the resplendent dragon of wisdom whereas the inferior triangle is the black dragon. the sign of the infinite or the tau cross is found in the center of the two triangles; both are phallic (sexual) signs. the soul is found between the two triangles and has to decide between the white dragon and the black dragon. such a dilemma is absolutely sexual. the clue is found in the serpent. the rooster s legs of abraxas ar

alchemist s microcosmos and the alchemist s macrocosmos. the sign of the mercury of the secret philosophy (the ens seminis) cannot be missed in the center of the triangle. man and woman must work with the sun and with the moon, with the gold and with the silver (sexual symbols) in order to perform the great work. nevertheless, this work is very difficult because the male goat of mendes (the black dragon) always tries to make the alchemist fall sexually. it is urgent to work with the four elements of alchemy in order to realize the great work. the alchemical macrocosmos is illuminated by the light; this is the superior triangle of the seal of solomon. the alchemical micro-cosmos is in the shadows, in the region where the souls fight against the black dragon. 7 pronounced nick-oh-lay-tens cu

olar) aaannn rrraaa (chacras pulmonares recordaci n de pasadas encarnaciones) el gran hierofante jes s el cristo cantaba estos mantrams en el laboratorium oratorium de la pir mide de kefren. 52 the seven kabbalistic signs of the planets are: moon: a globe sliced by two half moons. mercury: one caduceus and the cynocephalus11. venus: a sexual lingam. sun: a serpent with the head of a lion. mars: a dragon biting guards of a sword. jupiter: the flaming pentagram or the eagle's beak. saturn: a limping elder, or a serpent entwined on a helicious12 stone. the seven pentacles [talismans] have the power of attracting the seven planetary forces. gold is the sun s metal; silver is the moon s metal; iron is the metal of mars; copper is the metal of venus; quicksilver is mercury s metal, tin is jupite

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er a-aleph b-beth g-gimel d-daleth e, h-heh v,w-vav z-zain ch-cheth t-teth i, j, y-yod k, c-kaph l-lamed m-mem n-nun s-samech o-ayin p, f-peh tz, ts-tzaddi q-qoph r-resh sh-shin t, th-tau hebrew letters and corresponding incenses and tones incense adamant, acacia, galbanum, lavender, gum arabic, sage fenugreek, horehound, mastic, storax camphor, aloes, jasmine, pennyroyal myrtle, sandlewood, rose dragon's blood, geranium, tiger lily borage, mallow, periwinkle, storax orchid, wormwood anise, camphor, lotus, onycha catnip, frankincense, cinnamon lily, narcissis cedar, hyssop, saffron amber, hyacinth, galbanum fern, lotus, violet, myrrh benzoin, pine, opoponax aloes, dill, heliotrope, iris civit, hemp, musk, thistle capsium, dragon's blood, eyebright, rue cloves, galbanum, olive ambrigris, hi

ael gabriel elementals urial planet zodiac saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon earth pluto binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod daath sephiroth and planetary civet, myrhh cedar, juniper tobacco frankincense, olibanum benzoin, rose storax jasmine saturn jupiter mars sun venus mercury moon pluto incenses cassia, cypress, patchouli, myrhh, violet clove, hyssop, nutmeg, pine basil, dragon's blood, calangal, mustard, rue bay, cinnamon, copal, heliotrope, frankincense, sunflower lemon verbena, rose geranium, sandalwood, vanilla lavendar, lime, mace, mastic, spikenard camphor, eucalyptus, galbanum, orris, ylang-ylang dittany, dragon's blood, mandrake, myrhh, wormwood figure 3-b 17. this particular technique is also useful in an alternate method of talisman construction based on

relationship is demonstrated in the equation 9x9=81. by gematria, this points to the fullness of this process at the level of individuation, because eighty-one is the numeration of the word anoki, which means 7. it is only after the separation from the mother, however, that this "i" can be born, and many myths reflect this archetypal individuation process in the hero stories of the slaying of the dragon or serpent, often said by jungians to represent the mother. the word gev, which means middle or interior, also has a value of nine. it really means "the center of things which preserves. and organizes (d'olivet, p. 312. this is perhaps one of the most important functions of moon consciousness, according to case. the moon key in the tarot (see figure 11-e) is called the corporeal intelligenc

he word becomes known. daath, we know, represents knowledge, or the combined concrete expression of wisdom and understanding, its parents on the tree, chokmah and binah. allan bennett, an early golden dawn member, made a penetrating analysis of daath's nature in an equinox article many years ago: when the fall had occurred and the sephira malkuth had been cut off from the tree by the folds of the dragon, there was added unto the tree daath, the knowledge, as the eleventh sephira, to preserve intact the ten-ness of the sephiroth. showing how by that very eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil should come the saving of mankind, for daath is the priceless gift of knowledge and intellect whereby comes salvation. wherefore also is eleven the key number of the great savior

st times, but here are some timehonored magical planetary mixtures: saturn: 1. myrrh gum or resin, cypress (wood or oil, rue oil (one drop, violet flowers, pine 2. storax gum, elm wood, musk, civit, cassia 3. mandrake root, henbane, musk, scammony resin, civit jupiter 1. copal gum, cedar wood, hyssop, orris root 2. galbanum gum, saffron, ash or oak wood, poplar leaves, cinquefoil mars 1. benzoin, dragon's blood resin, helleborne root, pepper, or tobacco 2. pine wood, holly, dried absinthe, sulfur (pinch, galangal sun 1. saffron, aloeswood, wood of balsam, ambergris oil 2. cinnamon, frankincense, yellow sandalwood, heliotrope flowers 3. laurel, cloves, frankincense, acacia flowers, vanilla venus 1. benzoin, red sandalwood, nutmeg, damiana, rose 2. lign aloes, myrtle, mint or verbena, galban

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n to experiment even more with "their" saurian/reptilian bodies, totally infiltrating the minds and very cells of these "thunder lizards, to such a great extent or degree that the two essentially became so integrated as to become indistinguishable [as suggested in revelation chapter 12, regarding the war in heaven between michael- the designated leader of the ultimate warriors of spirit, and "the dragon" or "the serpent- the self-proclaimed dictator of the ultimate warriors of flesh, conducting experiments by re-arranging the reptilian molecular structure and dna over time and cross-breeding the most agile, intelligent, and most "humanoid" reptilian sub-species with each other [some of which actually possessed "semi opposable" thumbs, until finally they were able to "mold" a reptilian form

word, the shield, and the altar of the "cross. this symbol of the marriage/union of the creator's perfect justice with the creator's perfect mercy is, i have learned, a weapon that the forces of darkness can never overcome, and the one weapon that will defeat them in the end. reptilian humanoids [homo-subterreptus] case files "and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him- revelation chapter 12, vs. 7-9 case file #1: from "the reptilians: humanity's historical link to th

manufacture, and do some genetic manipulations to form various subservient cross breeds. the reptilians: for the most part, we are dealing with another species that is humanoid in shape, but reptilian in heritage. their leader elite are the 'draco. they even have special 'wings, which are flaps of skin, supported by long ribs. these can be folded back against the body. they are also known as the "dragon race" and their symbology usually includes the winged serpent. there are elements of their species which do not have wings- the "soldier class" of the species and 'scientists. they are all "cold blooded" and have to have a balanced environment to maintain body temperature. the "soldier class" of the species can bury themselves in the ground and wait long periods of time in order to ambush t

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ng the watch. people often jumped through the fires for good luck. in addition to these fires, the streets were lined with lanterns, and people carried cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another. these wandering, garland-bedecked bands were called a 'marching watch. often they were attended by morris dancers, and traditional players dressed as a unicorn, a dragon, and six hobby-horse riders. just as may day was a time to renew the boundary on one's own property, so midsummer's eve was a time to ward the boundary of the city. customs surrounding st. john's eve are many and varied. at the very least, most young folk plan to stay up throughout the whole of this shortest night. certain courageous souls might spend the night keeping watch in the center o

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lle and joan de cornwale of taignmouth who are witches; and the said dionysia consorts with them' the name dionysia suggests to me that her parents belonged to some such cult and that the priest who christened her had no objections, though many church councils had fulminated against cults of diana and the moon. john, agnes and joan are all witch names, according to dr. margaret murray; wormhille (dragon hill) might be accidental, or it might have some meaning. one would have expected the local bishop to have secured a conviction; but the court apparently would have none of this and thought 'why shouldn't witches have a good time or practise their arts' as in ireland, they had no objections to lady kyteler's 'dirty work at the cross-roads. actually in those days the courts seem to have beli

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achery in the familiar cultivated land, there is nothing rough or harsh, but sweet music striking on the ear. without grief, without sorrow, without death, without any sickness, without debility, that is the sign of emne uncommon is an equal marvel. a beauty of a wondrous land, whose aspects are lovely, whose view is a fair country, incomparable is its haze. then if silvery land is seen, on which dragon stones and crystals drop, the sea washes the wave against the land, hair of crystal drops from its mane. wealth, treasures of every hue, are in ciuin, a beauty of freshness, listening to sweet music, drinking the best of wine. golden chariots in mag rein, rising with the tide to the sun, chariots of silver in mag mon, and of bronze without blemish. yellow golden steeds are on the sward ther

be a vigorous bed-fellow to caintigern: he shall be called to his son in the beautiful world, fiachna will acknowledge him as his son. he will delight the company of every fairy-mound, he will be the darling of every goodly land, he will make known secrete-a course of wisdom in the world, without being feared. he will be in the shape of every beast, both on the azure sea and on land, he will be a dragon before hosts at the onset, he will be a wolf in every great forest. he will be a stag with horns of silver in the land where chariots are driven, he will be a speckled salmon in a full pool, he will be a seal, he win be a fair-white swan. he will be throughout long ages a hundred years in fair kingship, he will cut down battalion, a lasting grave he will redden fields, a wheel around the tr

redden fields, a wheel around the track. it will be about kings with a champion that he will be known as a valiant hero, into the strongholds of a land on a height i shall send an appointed end from islay. high shall i place him with princes, he will be overcome by a son of error; manannan the son of lir will be his father, his tutor. he will be his time will be short fifty years in this world: a dragon-stone from the sea will kill him in the fight at senlabor. he will ask a drink from loch lo, while he looks at the stream of blood; the white host will take him under a wheel of clouds to the gathering where them is no sorrow. steadily then let bran row, not far to the land of women, emne with many hues of hospitality thou wilt reach before the setting of the sun. thereupon bran went from m

peed in the slowness, the full in the empty. the cook creating a meal with his own hands has as much honor in his eyes as a famous singer or high official. he has no profits to gain, no salary to lose; no applause, no criticism. when he looks up, it is not in envy. when he looks down, it is not with arrogance. many look at him, but nobody sees him. calm and detached, he is free from all danger, a dragon hidden among men. i have three treasures the te of piglet pg. 220 i have three treasures, which i guard and keep. the first is compassion. the second is economy. the third is humility. from compassion comes courage. from economy, comes the means to be generous. from humility comes responsible leadership. today, men have discarded compassion in order to be bold. they have abandoned economy i

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

tt every 2160 years, the sign is changed. precedent to aries, the sun at the vernal equinox# 125. 126. chapter twenty the apocalyptic numbers 1st resurrection, revelation xx. 5. 2nd death, xx. 14. 2 witnesses, xi. 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 2 olive trees and 2 candlesticks (before throne of god of the earth, xi. 4. 2-horned beast who spoke like a dragon, xiii. ii; his number is 666. 3 woes, ix. 12. 1/ 3 part of vegetation killed, viii. 7 do. of sea became blood and do. of fish died, viii. 8 do. of waters became bitter, viii. 11-do. of sun, moon, stars, viii. 12. 3 days, bodies lay unburied, xxi. 9. 4 quarters of the earth, xx. 8. 4 beasts, full of eyes and have 6 wings, iv. 6-9( beasts should be living beings. w. 4 horses, white, red, pale

pets, viii. 2. given to 7 angels. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 7 thunders utter their voices, x. 3. 7 plagues held by 7 angels, xv. i. 7 vials of wrath, xv. 7. 7 spirits of god, v. 6. 127. 7 horned and 7 eyed lamb, v. 6; near the throne are the 7 spirits of god. 7 headed and 10 horned scarlet beast, on which is a woman, xvii. 3. 7 headed and 10 horned dragon with 7 crowns, xii. 3. 7 headed and 10 horned beast rose out of sea, xiii. i. 10 crowns on ten horns of beast which had 7 heads, xiii. i. 10 horned dragon with 7 heads, xii. 3. 10 horned beast with 7 heads rose out of sea, xiii. i. 10 horned scarlet beast with 7 heads, on which was a woman, xvii. 3. 12 tribes of israel. 12 apostles of the lamb, xxi. 14. 12 gates of new jerusalem and 12 ange

ad of the woman, xii. i. 24 elders around the throne, on 24 seats, iv. 4-10. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 42 months, the gentiles tread over the outer court of temple, xi. 2. 42 months, the 7 headed beast to have power to blaspheme xiii. 5. 144 cubits, the height of the walls of the new jerusalem, xxi. 17. 666, the number of the beast. 1000 years, the dragon bound for, xx. 2-3. 1000 years, souls of the faithful to live and reign, xx. 4. 1260 days, the two witnesses prophesy, xi. 3. 1260 days, the woman to be in the wilderness, xii. 6. 12,000 of each tribe chosen. 12,000 furlongs, length of the sides of the new jerusalem, xxi. 16. 144,000 chosen from the whole of the tribes. 100,000,000, or ten thousand times ten thousand angels, round the thron

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it reveal thy essence as azal'ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me" i encircle myself in the dragon's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lilith, who speaks with me through dreams! i carry the serpent's skin of azal'uce

g desert sands and the sun, sortha'n-din- thy stave and fork unto the flame that is my soul shall be illuminated in this blackened light. shaitan the adversary, my soul enflamed! arogogoruabrao- thiaf! 5 east- lucifer revealed as azazel, bringer of illumination and love, who resides in shadow and light, cover and cloak my spirit with thy twelve wings, serpent skin covered from the shedding of the dragon, bring now forth the serpent essence of my soul! melek tau'us, beautiful spirit of fire, i summon thee forth! photeth north- set-heh, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in my d

north- set-heh, isolator and strengthening force of storms, that chaos which i have tempered in thy elegance of darkness. i go forth and become as the eye of algol, separate and alone in my being. typhon, present unto me the tcham knive from which i shall stand forth in my dreaming and waking! sender of nightmares ascend through me! ooo west- let now the serpent encircle me, leviathan the coiling dragon of timeless being. i summon your essence unto me! great chthonic daimon of endless being, i seek to drink deep of your cup and behold the mysteries of the depths! mriodom aoth, sabaoth, atheleberseth, abraoth! by the very circle of which i build- i walk unto the crown of lucifer- that emerald which shine the essence of heaven and hell. that angelickan watcher of the sun shall come now forth

. set is the mask of azazel, the lord of flame. within witchcraft cain is considered the offspring of samael and lilith, thus being the same as baphomet. the angelic/demon higher spirit of cain is azal'ucel, which is reflected in this very rite of self-empowerment. it is through set that all upon the luciferian path pass through, in the skin of cain or otherwise. west- a calling to leviathan, the dragon essence which is immortal, or eternal. the encircling of leviathan is a will directed focus of the individuals being or "i" announcing the forced antinomianian separation from the natural order, and through leviathan grows strong in this circle of timeless being. the mysteries of the depths is revealed as knowledge and wisdom of the subconscious. by tapping into the subconscious, one is abl

two sides, which shall be placed upon the center of the altar. a phallic symbol or stone god may be near the mask as well, symbolizing the solar creative force of the beast 666- 9 one- the fallen seraph lucifer, the angelick essence of the black flame, the very source of our wisdom, being and becoming. two the seraph of flame, the djinn iblis of fire, daemon of the blackened flame, serpent beast dragon wolf goat. satanas is the devil-cloaked initiator of the path of the wise, those who laugh at the warnings of a cringing society. robe thyself in crimson, the color of flame and movement. the symbol of the averse pentagram, being downward pointing to indicate the union of the fallen angels with humanity to create divinity. in the sethian witchcraft current the sorcerer becomes as set him/he

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

t move. unlike 164 our earth waves, they seem to be waves from a center. it is a symbol of generative force and is veh. the waves come from a common center, but now there comes an opposing force like a black border, which seems to prevent the outcoming of the waves. the waves are much lighter and brighter; they are more like tongues than waves and are curved and short. they seem to flow where the dragon encircles the astral plane and become merged in it" the only common denominator in both visions here is the central force or focal point where the jewel or waves emanate. the black border is not present in my vision, though i have often heard of the mongols called the "black horde" i may be stretching a point slightly by this inference. vision of enochian letter d' or 'gal "encounter a dark

meant. the next section of visionary experiences comes from the pyramid squares of the angels of the bonorum. these differ considerably from the pyramid squares of the elemental tablets. vi s i o n o f ba l i g o n (the king of the hour of venus. rose up through the pyramid into blue space and a blue-green landscape. met the guide also in blue. who showed me a winding path like that of a leaping dragon, constantly in motion, like the sun's path over the earth. for motion applied to direction is the task here. i asked to see the king and was shown a man dressed in yellow with a crown. he utilized precision and accuracy of motion, but only as it applied to his quadrant" the visions of the enochian aethyrs were done some years before i had the chance to see crowley's work on the same subject

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ered into the knowledge of evil. therefore, in the allegorical account of the creation in genesis, it is said that man is checked from putting forth his hand to take of the tree of life, so as not to involve the higher sephiroth in the "fall" which (he being unbalanced in himself) would only have precipitated disaster. in the 4=7 diagram we find represented the fall and the consequent rise of the dragon, which in the 3=8 grade is represented coiled beneath malkuth in the kingdom of the shells; but it only raises its head to the sephiroth by right of the crowns of the kings of edom. these latter represent the worlds of unbalanced force, before the creation is established. furthermore, they symbolize the places of the sephiroth which are hollowed, and before the light fills the cavities (the

e holy one the yechidah the divine self; which stands, as it were, before the synthetical god of all things. that is the only real way to become the greatest adept, and is directly dependent on your life and your actions in life. and upon the lid of the pastos this process is symbolically resumed: there we see the suffering man, pitiful and just, before whose injustice and purity the heads of the dragon fall back, but on the upper half there is depicted a tremendous and a flaming god, the fully initiated man: the adept who has attained his supreme initiation. it will be noticed that in the 4=7 diagram the heads of the dragon have seized the sephiroth but, as before remarked, on the lid of the pastos they are falling back from the figure on the cross: they are dispossessed only by the sacri

a6 cups talabo curse anima d darkness (with) ores darts (fiery) malipereji day basajinu death teloahe death (of) teloahe defaced (lettered) to micigi delivered (ie. gave) zodouurenuslpi deliverers (pleasant) obelisonuji depth (in the) pi-adipehe descend (ye) destroy quaae diamonds cubigadio differ (let them) dili tam diminish pered zodare dispose (to) ponape division yirepoin down (bring) dariloa dragon (the) vouiria dryness (with) oresicoue drunken oressba, oresaha dwell perth dwelling place (the) fabiejita dwelling place (their) farejita dwelling (living) pa-ra-dial e eag le vabezodire earth (the) caosiji, caosaga earth (of the) caos3jo earth (for the) caosiji earth (than the) caosaginu earthquakes gizodyazod east (the) ra-asa east (into the) ra-asy echoing matorib empty agfa ends wag' e

em serve ye) aboiperi shall be tariann shineth (it) so-balo sickles (sharp) pu men sing praises sink karebifi doalimi sit tarnudi six naiod sleep beiida skirts vaualahe spake kameliatza sons nora sons (of ye sons) noroni song of honour sorrow (of) sounds nighty salate, mai south babije spake (he) cam;lialzy spirits (the) stand stars acliveag stewards barazodareji stone (the barren) oreri stooping dragon (the) abaruouinn sting jirossbe stranger gosal strength (our) nramepelifft strong (make me) ozazami strong (wax or become) ao. stronger ji successively stir up zodbolay such i a r e s a such (suits) cciresi sulphur sigalarozi sun rose surges mom sware (ye did) zodnnriza sworn (he hatch) stuizasa sword nozodpesadi swords (of ye) napeai swords napita t talked( i have t. of ye) be-ri-ta temple

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

t for protection, especially if combined with dill and vervain. ruled by the sun. tarragon a mild stimulant, tarragon helps the nervous system to overcome restless exhaustion that can stand in the way of relaxation, while also soothing anxieties so sleep comes easily. it is also good for stimulating the kidneys and is a traditional remedy for toothache and digestive problems. once associated with dragons and serpent goddesses and the ability to cure snake-bites, tarragon has now become associated with rituals and decisions involving shedding what is redundant, as a snake sheds its skin. it is good for regeneration and helps the user to focus on new targets. ruled by mercury. thyme thyme brings good health, improves memory and mental abilities and has powerful antiseptic properties. it is s

ABRAMELIN3

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ty, an alliance of two souls against the world and against fate, with invocation of the great blessing of the most high. death is not the most beautiful of adventures, as frohman said, for death is unavoidable; marriage is a voluntary heroism. that marriage has today become a matter of convenience is the last word of the commercial spirit. it is as if one should take a vow of knighthood to combat dragons--until the dragons appeared. so this poor woman, because she did not understand that respectability is a lie, that it is love that makes marriage sacred and not the sanction of church or state, because she took marriage as an asylum instead of as a crusade, has failed in life, and now seeks alcohol under the same fatal error. wine is the ripe gladness which accompanies valor and rewards to

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

cient horde and be victorious. marduk kurios! brightest star among the stars strongest god among the gods son of magick and the sword child of wisdom and the word knower of the secret name knower of the secret number knower of the secret shape he armed himself with the disc of power in chariots of fire he went forth with a shouting voice he called the spell with a blazing flame he filled his body dragons, vipers, all fell down lions, horse-men, all were slain. the mighty creatures of hubur were slain the spells, the charms, the sorcery were broken. naught but tiamat remained. the great serpent, the enormous worm the snake with iron teeth the snake with sharpened claw the snake with eyes of death, she lunged at marduk with a roar with a curse she lunged. marduk struck with the disc of power

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

of isis rejoicing. commentary( lambda-sigma) the star sapphire corresponds with the star-ruby of chapter 25; 36 being the square of 6, as 25 is of. this chapter gives the real and perfect ritual of the hexagram. it would be improper to comment further upon an official ritual of the a'.a. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 80 [83] 37 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta lambda-zeta dragons thought is the shadow of the eclipse of luna. samadhi is the shadow of the eclipse of sol. the moon and the earth are the non-ego and the ego: the sun is that. both eclipses are darkness; both are exceeding rare; the universe itself is light. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 81 [84] commentary( lambda-zeta) dragons are in the east supposed to cause eclipses by devouring

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

le of correspondences 33 clxxxii. the human body. clxxxiii. legendary orders of being. 11 respiratory organs sylphs 12 cerebral and nervous systems voices, witches and wizards 13 lymphatic systems lemures, ghosts 14 genital system succubi 15 head and face mania, erinyes [euminides] 16 shoulders and arms gorgons, minotaurs 17 lungs ominous appearances, banshees 18 stomach vampires 19 heart horror, dragons 20 the back mermaids (and l, its zodiacal opposite, banshees 21 digestive system incubi, nightmares 22 liver fairies, harpies 23 organs of nutrition nymphs and undines, nereids &c. 24 intestines lami, stryges, witches 25 hips and thighs centaurs 26 genital system satyrs and fauns, panic-demons 27 muscular system furies, chim ras, boars (as in calydon &c. 28 kidneys, bladder &c. water nymph

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

s, of whom i have already given some account. but the next worst are just exactly those who try to create an atmosphere of romance, and succeed only in a crude theatricalism. so, avoiding the swirling turmoil of scylla, i have broken the ship on the barren rock charybdis. editorial q- isn't this basakwards? weh now let me hearten you, brave sister! all the old tales are true! you can have as many dragons, princesses, vampires, knightserrant, glendowers, enchanted apes, jinn, sorcerers and incubi as you like to fancy, and- whoa emma! did i tell you about cardinal newman? well, i will. the one passage in his snivelling apologia which impressed me was a tale of his childhood- before the real poet, lover and mystic had been buried beneath the dung-heap of theology. he tells us that he read the

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

the severities of hwhy hwhy twrwbg the cup of benedictions hkrb l# swk a flowing, wave *mylg mournings, laments *mylb) 644 was silent *mmd a dream *mwlx 645 put in motion, routed *mmh 646 lawful rtwm rejoicing #w#m elohim (a name of god, meaning ggods h. masc. pl. of fem. sing: the angelic choir of netzach *myhl (see i.r.q. 778& no. 41 *md) hwhy hy blemish, spot, stain *mwm 647 lights twr)m great dragons myldgh mnynth standards, military ensigns *mylgd determined *mmz 648 to be hot *mmx 649 trance, deep sleep (cf. 244) hmdrt translation mwgrt 650 natron (prov. 25:20) rtn mem: water *mym very silent *mmwd 651 temurah: permutation hrwmt 653 haggler nrgt i am hwhy thy god *kyhl) hwhy ykn) 654 sunset #m#h )wb children *mydly 655 the holy one, blessed be he )wh kwrb #wdqh the palace of the body

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

- khwan: great, originating, right and fair, piercing and helpful, firm as in the mare. if the true man should move, his feet will stray; for him to follow is his proper way. hoar-frost! the strong one cometh by and by. straight, square and great, advantage springs to aye. maintain, but boast not virtue's majesty. here is a sack made safe by skillful tie. behold the yellow skirt; ill fortune fly. dragons at war: gold, blood and porphyry (correct and firm the conduct, thou shalt spy good fortune from the sky) 3 the chun hexagram moon of fire- chun; firm, correct; great progress this evinces and vantage from appointing feudal princes. hard mere advance, maintain thy place correct. distress, retreat; fear not, a friend is nigh. lost in the wood, seek not a deer to espy. retreating, seek thy m

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

s one lost in a desert of sand, and cry unto thee, thirsting for thee, and then deny thee and curse thee in my madness, until death stop the blasphemies of my lips with the worm and the dust of corruption, and i am set free from the horror of this slavery of sorrow. i am alone, yea! alone, sole habitant of this kingdom of desolation and misery. hell were as paradise to this solitude. o would that dragons came from out the deep and devoured me, or that lions tore me asunder for their food; for their fury would be as milk and honey unto the bitterness of this torture. o cast unto me a worm, that i may no longer be alone, and that in its writhings on the sand i read thine answer to my prayer! would i were in prison that i might hear the groans of the captives; would i were on the scaffold tha

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e. he degrades the courteous gawain to a vulgar lecher- but his lechery is as mild as an old maid's patience; he ruins women as a child plucks a daisy. lancelot commits adultery with kind gloves on; and enoch arden moralises like a sunday-school teacher at a village treat. in the mouth of this soft-spoken counter-jumper the wildest words take on the smoothest sense. by sheer dint of cadence. 396 "dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime" sounds less terrible than a dog-fight "nature, red in tooth and claw with ravine, shriek'd- is but a termagant "ring out, wild bells" suggests no tocsin (as it might, for they symbolise the stupendous world-tragedy of the atonement) but at most the pastoral summons to a simple worship, at least the dinner-gong- a dinner whose turkey cooed

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got the angels in the planetary whirl. they regarded me with curiosity: and were totally unable to comprehend my explanation that i was a "man, returning in time to behold the "beginning of things" now was i able to stand in my sephiroth: and the crown of twelve stars "was upon my head! i then went into the centre of the earth (i suppose) and "stood upon the" 250 top of an high mountain. the many dragons and guardians i was able to overpower by "authority" now the mount was of glistening whiteness, exceeding white as snow: yet dead and unluminous. and i beheld a vision, even like unto that of the universal mercury;48 and i learnt that i myself was sulphur and unmercurial. now having attained the mercurialising of my sulphur i was able (in my vision) to fecundate the mountain (of salt. and

rrection, who are the hope of men's mortality! back, crocodile mako, son of set! depart from me, ye workers of iniquity! behold he is in me and i in him! mine is the lotus, as i rose from the firmament of waters; my throne is set on high; my light is in the firmament of nu! i am the centre and the shrine: i am the silence and the eternal light: beneath my feet they rage, the angry crocodiles; the dragons of death; the eaters of the wicked. but i repress their wrath: for i am hoor-po-krat-ist, the lotus-throned lord of silence. if i said: come up upon the mountains, the celestial waters would flow at my word and the celestial fires flame forth. for i am r enshrouded: khephra unmanifest to men; i am my father hoor, the might of the avenger: and my mother asi, the veiled one: eternal wisdom i

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my son, thou shalt not do amiss 41 if thou restrain the expression, shoot thy glance to rapture's darkling root, discarding name, form, sight, and stress even of this high consciousness; pierce to the heart! i leave thee here: thou art the master. i revere thy radiance that rolls afar, o brother of the silver star! olympas. ah, but no ease may lap my limbs. giants and sorcerers oppose; ogres and dragons are my foes! leviathan against me swims, and lions roar, and boreas blows! no zephyrs woo, no happy hymns paean the pilgrim of the rose! marsyas. i teach the royal road of light. be thou, devoutly eremite, free of thy fate. choose tenderly a place for thine academy. let there be an holy wood of embowered solitude by the still, the rainless river, underneath the tangled roots of majestic tr

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s swing that close the door of chivalry 'sblood! shall it sink, and rise no more, that blaze of time, when men were men? that is thy question, warrior sir palamede the saracen! 11 iv now, with two score of men in life and one fair babe, sir palamede resolves one last heroic strife, attempts forlorn a desperate deed. at dead of night, a moonless night, a night of winter storm, they sail in dancing dragons to the fight with man and sea, with ghoul and gale. whom god shall spare, ride, ride (so springs the iron order. let him fly on honour's steed with honour's wings to warn the king, lest honour die! then to the fury of the blast their fury adds a dreadful sting: the fatal die is surely cast. to save the king- to save the king! hail! horror of the midnight surge! the storms of death, the las

m. presently he saith: 47 "bear me to some remotest den to heal me of my ills immense; for now hath neither might nor sense sir palamede the saracen" 48 xviii sir palamedes for a space deliberates on his rustic bed "i lack the quarry's awful pace (quod he "my limbs are slack as lead" so, as he gets his strength, he seeks the castles where the pennons red of dawn illume their dreadful peaks. there dragons stretch their horrid coils adown the winding clefts and creeks: from hideous mouths their venom boils. but palamede their fury 'scapes, their malice by his valour foils, climbing aloft by bays and capes of rock and ice, encounters oft the loathly sprites, the misty shapes of monster brutes that lurk aloft. o! well he works: his youth returns his heart revives: despair is doffed 49 and eage

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he to tame the two bulls, whose feet were of brass, whose horns were as crescent moons in the night, and whose nostrils belched forth mingling columns of flame and of smoke. there was he to harness them to that plough which is made of one great adamantine stone; and with it was he determined to plough the two acres of ground which had never before been tilled by the hand of man, and sow the white dragons' teeth, and slay the armed multitude, that black army of unbalanced forces which obscures the light of the sun. and then, finally, was he destined to slay with the sword of flaming light that ever watchful serpent which writhes in silent wisdom about the trunk of that tree upon which the christ hangs crucified. all these great deeds did he do, as we shall see. he tamed the bulls with ease

then projected self into it with fearful force. chiah "nearly" passed.185 4. red sphere "darkened" and glorified and return to lighten tiphereth. the result was good. 20th. 1. tejas-apas meditation. 2. meditation on living object with the usual two figure result. 3. astral vision.186 i found myself in a boiling sea with geysers spouting around me. suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery angels, and titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst the waters. above all was built a white temple of marble through which a rose-flame flickered. there stood aphrodite with a torch in one hand and a cup in the other,187 and above her hovered archangels. then suddenly all was an immense void, and as i looked into it i beheld

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

be proud of, but they are puny when compared with those of the rest of europewhere, according to church authorities, in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries over 250,000 people died at the stake for practising witchcraft. 6 the law, the church and the state felt no guilt; like the early map-makers who, knowing that none might prove them wrong, labelled unexplored territory 'here be dragons, they preferred to condemn inexplicable phenomena rather than admit they were baffled. better to blame the devils they knew than let the public suspect there might be greater devils as yet undreamed of the last person in england to die for being a witch was alice mollard of exeter, who was hanged in 1684. in 1736 the act of james i was repealed. it now became illegal to prosecute for witch

he entered the building he felt at home. built as a memorial to a lancashire 61 cotton merchant who was a devout christian, the library was a monument of stone and wood. while at first appearance it looked like a church, a keener glance recognized the hallmark ofa stonemason trained in witchcraft. peering out from the top ofpillars were little stone mice with devils' faces; cats, demons, imps and dragons crouched in corners and crevices, in the boardroom where the interview took place, alex had difficulty keeping his eyes off the magnificent framed papyrus specimens on the walls and the egyptian. bills of sale for servants. the wages, explained the library official, were very low; only eight pounds a week which, in 1963, was about the lowest rate for any job. alex assured him that the mone

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

h is the animating force of the astral body is following the lines of least resistance and really might be considered as bearing upon his physical manifestation in a manner twice as strong as that reaching him through the other two. the logos expresses himself now through the divine ray, his second aspect, and this ray is the sumtotal of the radiation of the lords of wisdom, the heavenly men, the dragons who are unity and who are love. through them this force flows, and they in turn clothe themselves with form, or as h. p. b. expresses it 'the primordial ray becomes the vahan for the divine ray.'68(146) their life animates every atom of substance when built into form, and their life is the sumtotal of logoic magnetism, or the great desire nature of the logos going out after the not-self, p

ation of the life within (the buddhi. there will, therefore, be seen on a racial scale and involving millions simultaneously, a repetition of the self-same struggle which embroils the man who seeks to transcend mind and to live the life of spirit. this will be the final armageddon, the planetary kurukshetra, and will be succeeded by the judgment day when the sons of manas will be cast out and the dragons of wisdom rule. this only means that those in whom the manasic principle is over-potent or under-developed will be considered as failures and will have to wait for a more suitable period for development, while those who are living the buddhic life, and in whom it is waxing stronger spiritual men, aspirants, disciples of various degrees, initiates and adepts will be left to pursue the natur

t influence a profound faculty for identification. this identification does not concern the form nor the soul but only the spiritual point of positive life which in the human unit we call the "jewel in the lotus" it should be remembered in this connection that there is a jewel at the heart of every atom. every jewel has seven facets which are the seven doorways to the seven paths. the "beneficent dragons" are distinguished by their "luminosity" and it is this basic quality which lies behind the injunction given by all spiritual teachers to their pupils in the words "let your light shine forth" when the adept enters through the "luminous door" he has before him four very peculiar and esoteric identifications. this entrance takes place after he has passed the fifth initiation and has demonst

says 'is affected by a wider range of etheric undulations than the eye can take cognisance of' science will hear sounds from certain planets before she sees them. this is a prophecy" mahatma letters to a. p. sinnett, p. 169. 235 68: s. d, i, 196. 236 69: all these will become solar logoi of varying grades. 237 70: s. d, i, 172, footnote. 238 71: from a sensa word meaning "serpents" these are the dragons of wisdom. see s. d, i, 55, 69, 70. 239 72: see the early part of the secret doctrine, volume ii. 240 74: a guru is a spiritual teacher. 241 75: aspirant "the practices which make for union with the soul are: fervent aspiration, spiritual reading, and complete obedience to the master. the word which i have rendered "fervent aspiration" means primarily "fire; and, in the eastern teaching, i

body, which contains the three permanent atoms, the centres of force for the three bodies, the mental, astral and physical. 3. consider the following three statements. s. d. i, 574. a. in the kosmos..the sun is the kama-rupa, or desire body of akasha (the second aspect of brahma. compare 'son of necessity' s. d, i, 74. b. in the system..the sun is the sixth principle, buddhi, and its vehicle (the dragons of wisdom taking form on the fourth cosmic ether, our buddhic plane. c. as an entity..the sun is the seventh principle of brahma or the aspect of active intelligent matter. hence 'rejection' as it is called ensues because consciousness or the development of the ego (logoic or human) is the goal of evolution, and not the matter aspect "the primordial ray is only the vehicle of the divine ra

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looking at this body of work. try an experiment and stop in front of one of the self-portraits and engage the attention of the eyes. give the artist as opportunity to speak and you will hear him. there are many thematic twists and turns in spare s work. there is wonderfully dark and brooding chthonic leaning in the early works, where fabulous animals prowl amongst the dreaming humans. snakes and dragons and other representations of primal forces writhe and proliferate across the paper. and spare himself is often portrayed as the sorcerer and the magickian surrounded by familiar animals. he seems to possess the ability to place his consciousness outside of his species, his gender, society and the age in which he lived and to represent this faculty in his art. and look for the occurrence of

nce of hybrid ectoplasmic columns that snake and writhe in a semi-solid flux. there is a definite sense that these might represent orgasmic energies, the sexual charged stuff with which the magickian makes his magick. this stuff is a recurrent symbol in his work. in the illustrations to the powerful book of ugly ecstasy, this plasma is seen forming and reconstituting into winged serpents and tiny dragons and connecting the ground with the air. in the later more colourful pastels, the symbol of the tree seems to be linked in some way to ancestor worship. pictures such as trees present the viewer with a dark glimpse of plant forms as personalities, as if they were posing for a group photograph. and trees can also be used by the denizens of his more witchcraftbased sabbath pictures to symboli

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

nts to the dharma[-protecting] might demon. i offer a mirror of the heart with cultivated vulture feathers, a bowl of head blood soup, a sharp hatchet, an iron rake, an iron poker (5b) and radiant fire arrows which fall [like] thunderbolts. i offer a collection of rain clouds of unbearable radiant color, a series of hail which destroys the crops of the enemies and hindering demons, an assembly of dragons that call out roars which destroy the sky and the earth, and a great ocean on the ground. i offer the good pathways of the exceedingly good green meadows, the fountains with the eight [auspicious signs] on top, and the thick forests filled with savage beasts together with the deer that roam carefree. i collect the ocean of tormas which bless the nectar and the ocean of the drinks of immort

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

hall we create" 27. the third race became the vahan of the lords of wisdom. it created "sons of will and yoga" by kriyasakti it created them, the holy fathers, ancestors of the arhats- viii. 28. from the drops of sweat; from the residue of the substance; matter from dead bodies of men and animals of the wheel before; and from cast-off dust, the first animals were produced. 29. animals with bones, dragons of the deep, and flying sarpas were added to the creeping things. they that creep on the ground got wings. they of the long necks in the water became the progenitors of the fowls of the air. 30. during the third race the boneless animals grew and changed: they became animals with bones, their chhayas became solid. 31. the animals separated the first. they began to breed. the two-fold man s

the sun (3) what the sun answers (4) transformation of the earth- 1. the lha (a) which turns the fourth (globe, or our earth) is servant to the lha(s) of the seven (the planetary spirits (b, they who revolve, driving their chariots around their lord, the one eye (loka-chakshub) of our world. his breath gives life to the seven (gives light to the planets. it gave life to the first (c "they are all dragons of wisdom" adds the commentary (d (a) lha is the ancient word in trans-himalayan regions for "spirit" any celestial or superhuman being, and it covers the whole series of heavenly hierarchies, from archangel, or dhyani, down to an angel of darkness, or terrestrial spir