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as contradicting what tacitus tells us of the german priests and sacrifices. c esar is all along drawing a contrast between them and the gauls. he had described the latter 6, 16 as excessively addicted to sacrifices; and his' non studere sacrificiis' must in the comiexion mean no more than to make a sparing use of sacrifices. as little did there prevail among the germans the elaborately finished druid-system of the gauls; but they did not want for priests or sacrifices of their own. the german priests, as we have already gathered from a cursory review of their titles, were employed in the worship of the gods and in judging the people. in campaigns, discipline is entrusted to them alone, not to the generals, the w^hole war being carried on as it were in the presence of the deity: ceterum n

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low, up to the caves of pure cold breath, down to the deeps of foul hot death, across the seas, through the fires, past the palace of desires; where he will, whether he will or no, if i go, i care not whither i go. for in me is the taint of the faery blood. fast, fast, its emerald flood leaps within me, violent rude like a bestial faun's beatitude. in me the faery blood runs hard: my sires were a druid, a devil, a bard, a beast, a wizard, a snake and a satyr; for- as my mother said- what does it matter? 44 she was a fay, pure of the faery; queen morgan's daughter by an aery demon that came to orkney once to pay the beetle his orisons. so, it is i that writhe with the twitch of the faery blood, and the wizard itch to attain a matter one may not utter rather than sink in the greasy splutter

to-day i am hungry, hungry for you" thus under the golden bough in the moonlight was the host uplifted, and the shepherd, and the hangman, and the sorceress broke the bread of necromancy, and drank deep of the wine of witchcraft, and swore secrecy over the eucharist of art. now in the place of the dolmen stands the hospital, and where the trilithons towered is built the "hall of science" lo! the druid has given place to the doctor; and the physician has slain the priest his father, and with wanton words ravished the heart of his mother the sorceress. now 187 instead of the mystic circle of the adepts we have the great "bosh-rot" school of folly. miracles are banned, yet still at the word of man do the halt walk, and the lame rise up and run. the devils have been banished, and demoniacal p

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e, and upon the smooth white skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seek me not. and many thousand times he beholdeth me not. and at last i smite myself into him as a vision smiteth into a stone, and whom i call must follow. now i perceive myself standing in a druid circle, in an immense open plain. a whole series of beautiful visions of deserts and sunsets and islands in the sea, green beyond imagination. but there is no subsistence in them. a voice goes on: this is the holiness of fruitless love and aimless toil. for in doing the thing for the things's sake is concentration, and this is the holiest of them that suit not 164 the means to the end. for t

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to the plumed perjury of thoth! i held him holy. holier both than aught the bearers of the bier, thoum-aesh-neith and auramoth, saw in the hiding-house of fear. the sorceries that span the sphere, the spells that harness star and sun, i whispered in his siren ear- once, twice, and thrice for every one! once, twice, and thrice- the boon's begun! with four and five and six it stirs: with seven the druid dance is done, and death drives home his silver spurs! then- the last leap. what crowning curse can bid that cup of curses brim? how may god's maniac ministers lash the last languor out of him? 203 i did it. how? so great and grim the gods are, i may never guess. suffice it, on his mouth i swim a drowning dastard. the caress wakes the lost life. i see him dress the godhead. up he bounds and

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orld, and the remarkable jumping qualities of some of his specimens have their correspondence in the metre of those treacly emulsions which it is our present purpose to study. come with me! behold the scene of action. what? you can see nothing? of course not. it's out of focus, and the limelight is but a farthing dip. never mind; take the 327 slide, and hold it to the light! ah! there's a well_ a druid well; a wood_ a druid wood; a boat (druid) on a druid sea. why druid? because willie is not a british workman. the expletive is harmless enough. look! more wells and woods and boats and apple- blossoms. when in doubt, play apple-blossom. try and scan it as a dactyl. you can't? he can. oh! there are some people in the boat. druid people. a queen with hair like the casting-net of the stars. wh

can't? he can. oh! there are some people in the boat. druid people. a queen with hair like the casting-net of the stars. what's that? never mind. there's nothing rude or offensive about the casting-net of the stars? very good, then; let's get on. what are they doing? drifting. that's dead sure, anyway. drifting. drifting. that's the beautiful celtic glamour of it. druidically drifting druids on a druid sea of apple-blossom in the middle distance. foreground, a well in a wood. background, a casting-net of the stars. dotted about, hounds of various colours, usually red. let's have another slide. same thing, with a fairy floating about. tired? yes. well, sit down and talk about it. tut! tut. how on earth does anybody ever deliberately produce this sort of thing? he doesn't. it just happens. a

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g become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur's court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking ship, and by sword and whip fareth seaward. ix. coming to india, he learneth that it glittereth. vainly fighting the waves,the leaves, and the snows, he is swept in the himalayas as by an avalanche into a valley where dwell certain ascetics, who pelt him with their eyeball

lamede amend his nakedness, his horrent hair, 23 his nails, and made his penance end, clothing himself in steel and gold, arming himself, his life to spend in vigil cold and wandering bold, disdaining song and dalliance soft, seeking one purpose to behold, and holding ever that aloft, nor fearing god, nor heeding men. so thus his hermit habit doffed sir palamede the saracen. 24 viii know ye where druid dolmens rise in wessex on the widow plain? thither sir palamedes plies the spur, and shakes the rattling rein. he questions all men of the beast. none answer. is the quest in vain? with oaken crown there comes a priest in samite robes, with hazel wand, and worships at the gilded east. ay! thither ride! the dawn beyond must run the quarry of his quest. he rode as he were wood or fond, until a

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ient egyptian crypt, as above mentioned. the hierophants, moreover, of egypt, as of babylon, generally styled them[[vol. 2, page] 380 the secret doctrine. selves the "sons of the serpent-god" or "sons of the dragon" during the mysteries "the assyrian priest bore always the name of his god" says movers. the druids of the celto-britannic regions also called themselves snakes "i am a serpent, i am a druid" they exclaimed. the egyptian karnak is twin brother to the carnac of bretagne, the latter carnac meaning the serpent's mount. the dracontia once covered the surface of the globe, and these temples were sacred to the dragon, only because it was the symbol of the sun, which, in its turn, was the symbol of the highest god- the phoenician elon or elion, whom abraham recognised as el elion* besi

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which is declared in 12,200 verses, the magnificence of the egg of brahma, and in which an account of the future kalpas is contained as revealed by brahma" quite so, and much more, perchance[[vol. 1, page] 368 the secret doctrine. of salvation and of resurrection. this is found in and corroborated by the time-honoured custom of exchanging "easter eggs" from the anguinum, the "egg" of the "pagan" druid, whose name alone made rome tremble with fear, to the red easter egg of the slavonian peasant, a cycle has passed. and yet, whether in civilized europe, or among the abject savages of central america, we find the same archaic, primitive thought; if we only search for it and do not disfigure- in the haughtiness of our fancied mental and physical superiority- the original idea of the symbol- v

argued that, the primal cause being absolutely incognizable "the symbol of its first comprehensible manifestation was the conception of a circle with its diameter line, so as at once to carry the idea of geometry, phallicism, and astronomy" and this was finally applied to the "signification of simply human generative organs* hence the whole cycle of events[[footnote(s* bryant is right in saying "druid bardesin says of noah that when he came out of the ark (the birth of a new cycle, after a stay therein of a year and a day, that 364+ 1= 365 days, he was congratulated by neptune upon his birth from the waters of the flood, who wished him a happy new year" the "year" or cycle, esoterically, was the new race of men born from woman after the separation of the sexes, which is the secondary mean

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is hook, caverns, cauldrons, and concealed creatures, also points out the close similarity of "tuatha" and "tuat, the egyptian name for the underworld, through which the pharaohs believed they would travel to immortality. the druids, it is said, continued to use their danaan knowledge on the surface after those peoples were forced underground. the highest level of the druidic pyramid was the arch druid. they were located on islands because land 128 children of the matrix surrounded by water is a particularly powerful energy centre and if it also happens to host major vortex points on the energy grid that power is increased immensely. the arch druids were based on the isle of man (home of an ancient danaan mystery school) in the irish sea, the isle of anglesey off the north wales coast, and

isle" as it was called, off the south coast of england where i have lived for nearly 20 years.53 researcher mark amaru pinkham suggests that the isle of wight could have been (therefore is) the "pivotal vortex" in the northern grid of the planet. no wonder so much satanism involving major illuminati figures goes on there. stonehenge, avebury, glastonbury tor, bath, and iona were other significant druid centres. glastonbury tor (hill or mound) was located in the isle of avalon and avalon means "island of the immortals- a name that is common to many of these "serpent" centres. the island of iona off the scottish coast was formerly known as innis nan druidhneah or "island of the druids. the arch druids were indicated by the seven "serpent eggs" displayed on their breasts.54 the goddess artemi

these "serpent" centres. the island of iona off the scottish coast was formerly known as innis nan druidhneah or "island of the druids. the arch druids were indicated by the seven "serpent eggs" displayed on their breasts.54 the goddess artemis (dana, diana) was also depicted with eggs on her chest. was the legend of the mythical st patrick chasing the snakes out of ireland the destruction of the druid or adder network? if this was so, it happened for public consumption only as the knowledge was taken out of general circulation, but remained very much alive within the secret societies. egyptian serpents you find the same story of serpent symbolism in the country to which so many modern illuminati symbols and codes relate: egypt. the great temple of ammon or amen ra was placed on a massive

wer. bill clinton is an excellent example of a rhodes scholar and so is the former australian prime minister bob hawke. the rhodes scholarship network connects with the round table and the rest of the web, and oxford university is the centre of the llluminati manipulation of global "education. it is no coincidence that an area near the present oxford university was the site of one of the earliest druid initiation schools founded in britain. the round table network in..and the truth shall set you free, i have documented in detail how the european union was founded by llluminati placemen like jean monnet, count richard n. coudenhove-kalergi, joseph retinger, and others. they were the public face for the forces manipulating the creation of the centralised european dictatorship we see today. r

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nites and babylonians as baal- nimrod. thedruids became the carriers of the mystery school tradition in britain, ireland andfrance or britannia, eire and gaul as they were then called, and some of thembecame deeply corrupted by the influence of the reptile-human bloodlines of thebabylonian brotherhood which established control of the aryan priesthood as thecenturies passed. the origin of the word druid is not certain. a gaelic word, druidh,means a wise man or a sorcerer, but it may come from the irish word, drui, whichmeans men of the oak trees.45 the druidic mysteries were taught in the darkness ofcaves, forests and groves with the oak tree symbolising their supreme deity (verymuch in line with the watcher tree-symbolism. they did not worship the oak tree, itwas a symbol and anything whic

dconditioning. hollywood is indeed a place of magic as it casts a spell on humanitysperception of itself and the world. the druids knew about astrology and astronomyand they celebrated the birth of the sun on december 25th. the moon was also veryimportant to them. particularly sacred was the night of the new moon, the sixth day,and the full moon.as with the blue degrees of modern freemasonry, the druid initiates were dividedinto three groups. the teachings given to each level in the forest groves of ancient timesand the freemasonic temples of today are virtually the same. the first level of the druidschool was the ovate who was dressed in green, the druidic colour for learning. thesecond was the bard, who wore sky blue representing harmony and truth. they had thetask of memorising some of

rest groves of ancient timesand the freemasonic temples of today are virtually the same. the first level of the druidschool was the ovate who was dressed in green, the druidic colour for learning. thesecond was the bard, who wore sky blue representing harmony and truth. they had thetask of memorising some of the 20,000 verses of druidic poetry within which themysteries were hidden. the third, the druid, would be dressed in a white robe, theirsymbolic colour for purity and the sun. to become an arch-druid, a spiritual leader,you had to pass six levels of degree. the druids had total power over the population fora long time and some deeply unpleasant rituals emerged after their mystery schoolnetwork was taken over by the babylonian brotherhood. the basic moral code wastaught to all people, b

nd central-south america. the buddhistwheel of life is made of two superimposed crosses and birds with their wings open areused to symbolise the cross in endless logos, coats of arms and badges. one of the mostancient forms of the cross is the tau or tav cross which resembles the letter t. this wasthe cross on which political dissidents were hung by the romans, apparently. it was thesymbol of the druid god, hu, and it is still used today by the freemasons in their symbolof the t square. the egyptians crux ansata, the cross of life, added a circle loop to thetop. the crux ansata and the tau cross were found on statues and other artworkthroughout ancient central america. it was associated with water and the babyloniansused the cross as an emblem of the water gods who they said had brought th

was jules bois, a notorious satanist, and close associate of a fellow satanist,macgregor mathers.21 encouraged by bois, mathers established the british occultsociety, the order of the golden dawn, of which the satanist, aleister crowley, was amost prominent member. the order of the golden dawn and its offshoots andpersonnel, like crowley, were involved with both the nazis and the british satanist,druid, and wartime prime minister, sir winston churchill. the pointed-arm heilhitler salute was in fact a ritual sign of the order of the golden dawn. another famousmember of the golden dawn was the poet, w. b. yeats, a friend of claude debussy.yeats quite brilliantly summed up the aims of the babylonian brotherhood when hedescribed his ideal society..an aristocratic civil isation in its most comp

ance,like the nine sisters and the san juan lodges, which helped to manipulate the frenchrevolution in 1789; he was an initiate of the highly exclusive royal lodge ofcommanders of the temple west of carcassonne; he was also a member of the satanichellfire club with his close friend, the british chancellor of the exchequer, sir francisdashwood, who was linked to many esoteric groups, including the druid universalbond. dashwood had a huge cave dug at his west wycombe (wicca) estate for theirsatanic rituals and sexual magic ceremonies.3 i will discuss the reasons behind theobsession with sex ritual in a later chapter. let me stress again here that i am notcondemning all druids or the wiccan traditions, not at all. i am pointing out the183malevolent use of this knowledge, which can, and is, us

e north, the scandinavian odin or the german wodan or woden. the gods ofthe mystery schools were invariably connected to human sacrifice and it was these veryschools which have, via the now global brotherhood and satanism networks, carriedthe knowledge and the rituals into the present day. the incas of peru sacrificed childrenand human sacrifice was practised from the earliest days in europe. one druid ritualwas to bury a child under the foundations of a new building or to sprinkle the childsblood on the site. the same ritual can be found in many parts of the world. in the storiesof st columba (dove, semiramis, this christian hero is said to have told his monksthat it was fitting for one of them to be buried in the foundations of a new monastery onthe scottish island of lona (the sun) to h

london dated to the time helived there. adolf hitler and the nazis were satanists and so were their opponents likewinston churchill and franklin delano roosevelt. the rothschilds, formerly theinfamous german occult family, the bauers, apparently use the canaanite satanicrituals24 while some of the bloodline families with long connections to the celtic lands,like the st clair-sinclairs, prefer the druid system.25 it was the satanic deity, ashtoreth,which inspired the name, astor, one of the bloodline families which has been heavilyinvolved in satanism.26 the astors have close connections to the british royal familyand they were at the heart of the profumo scandal in 1963 when the british defenceminister, john profumo, was forced to resign after lying to the house of commonsabout his involve

ngalongside a large fire worshipping a 40 foot stone owl (see picture section. the owl isthe symbol of moloch or molech, an aspect of nimrod/baal. moloch demands thesacrifice of children and it was to this deity that the children of the babylonians,hebrews, canaanites, phoenicians and carthaginians, were sacrificially burned. thispicture provided visual support for the claims over many years that druid rituals werebeing performed at the grove with people in red robes marching in procession chantingto the great owl, moloch. the romans called the owl by the same word that meantwitch. the greeks said the owl was sacred to athene, the ancient mesopotamian eyegoddess, and her staring owl-like images have been found throughout the middleeast.27 the owl was also the totem of lilith, the symbol of

, will find italmost impossible to manifest its true self. those chosen for programming are usuallyvery intelligent because people with low intelligence and creativity have been found tobe almost impossible to program to the level required. springmeier and wheeler saythat at the age of three the elite brotherhood children selected for later advancementinto the hierarchy are taken before the grand druid council and formal approval isgiven at a presentation by the queen mother of the council. interesting how georgebush told cathy obrien that madeleine albright, the us ambassador to the unitednations and secretary of state, was the reverend mother of all slaves. i stress againthat this grand druid council has nothing whatsoever to do with the many thousands ofpeople who call themselves druids

es. the origin of the vampirestories are the blood drinking and blood sucking rituals of the brotherhood and theirenergy sucking rituals, also. the vampire stories put the truth before our eyes in a waythat we think is only fiction. this is something the brotherhood loves to do via its biggestvehicle for communication, hollywood, a name which comes from the holly bush, theholly (holy) wood of the druid magicians. hollywood is called a place of magic. exactlywhat it is. its playing with our minds, manipulating illusions.there are so many similarities between the kennedy assassination, the ritual killingof a sun king, and that of diana, princess of wales, in what i am convinced to havebeen a ritual murder of the moon goddess known to the ancients as diana. it wasplanned that kennedy would di

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rhood, and if so, how the house bears in relation to them. observe not only whether it is near any of them, but whether it is in a direct line between any two of them. look up the history of the district, and see whether it affords any further information. roman remains are often at the bottom of the trouble, for the legions brought some very queer cults with them in the days of rome's decadence. druid remains, too, should be suspect if they are near neighbours. enquire also concerning any unusual objects in the house, such as images of the deities of primitive cults or savage weapons. it is quite possible that powerful elementals are attached to these. enquire whether the trouble seems to lift when the patient goes away to another place. if the reply is in the affirmative, it may safely b

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s. at the time, the common wisdom was that they were of roman origin, and aubrey was the first to realize that they were far older. he expanded upon his beliefs in an unpublished manuscript, monumenta britannica. aubrey gained a certain fame in later life. he was a guest of many of the intellectual elite and at one point was visited by john toland, later to be elected the first chief of a revived druid order. aubrey died in oxford in 1697. while aubrey published little during his life, his manuscripts were saved and in 1719, his text perambulation of surrey became the basis of rawlinson s natural history and antiquities of surrey. a number of his works, including extracts from monumenta britannica, were issued in the nineteenth century. within the modern druid movement, many believe that a

uring his life, his manuscripts were saved and in 1719, his text perambulation of surrey became the basis of rawlinson s natural history and antiquities of surrey. a number of his works, including extracts from monumenta britannica, were issued in the nineteenth century. within the modern druid movement, many believe that aubrey was more than a gentleman scholar. they have concluded that he was a druid himself, that he participated in a druid grove that met at mount haemus, and that he passed along some authority to john toland. there is no hard evidence to support such belief. sources: carr-gomm, philip. the elements of the druid tradition. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1991. august order of light an oriental order introduced into england in 1882 by maurice vidal portman. its object w

nted june 16, 1970, after which bonewits published a very successful book about his academic sojourn under the title real magic (1971. while at berkeley, bonewits roomed with robert larson, who had previously attended carleton college. in the 1960s carleton was the site for the formation of the reformed druids of north america. the idea of druidism appealed to bonewits, and he and larson formed a druid grove in berkeley. bonewits was ordained as a druid priest in 1969. in 1974 he moved to minneapolis to become editor of the occult journal gnostica (1974.75. he also established a druid group in minneapolis and founded the aquarian anti- defamation league, a short-lived pagan defense organization. in 1976 bonewits returned to berkeley. he finished the compilation of the druid holy writings

onewits was ordained as a druid priest in 1969. in 1974 he moved to minneapolis to become editor of the occult journal gnostica (1974.75. he also established a druid group in minneapolis and founded the aquarian anti- defamation league, a short-lived pagan defense organization. in 1976 bonewits returned to berkeley. he finished the compilation of the druid holy writings, which he published as the druid chronicles (evolved, and in 1978 he established the periodical druid chronicles (later pentalpha journal. in the early 1980s bonewits separated from the druids and was initiated as a priest in a gardnerian pagan group, the new reformed orthodox order of the golden dawn (no relation to the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in 1983 he moved to new york, where he and shenain bell founded ar nd

1978 he established the periodical druid chronicles (later pentalpha journal. in the early 1980s bonewits separated from the druids and was initiated as a priest in a gardnerian pagan group, the new reformed orthodox order of the golden dawn (no relation to the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in 1983 he moved to new york, where he and shenain bell founded ar ndraiocht fein (gaelic for our own druid faith. bonewits was named archdruid. in 1988 he married deborah lipp, a gardnerian priestess. together they run a pagan way group, and bonewits remains as head of ar ndraiocht fein. a national leader in the pagan/wicca community, bonewits is a major advocate of formal theological training for pagan leaders. sources: bonewits, p. e. i. authentic thaumaturgy. albany, calif: the chaosium, 1978

ruid faith. bonewits was named archdruid. in 1988 he married deborah lipp, a gardnerian priestess. together they run a pagan way group, and bonewits remains as head of ar ndraiocht fein. a national leader in the pagan/wicca community, bonewits is a major advocate of formal theological training for pagan leaders. sources: bonewits, p. e. i. authentic thaumaturgy. albany, calif: the chaosium, 1978. druid chronicles (evolved. berkeley, calif: berkeley drunemetron press, 1976. real magic. coward, mccann& geoghegan, 1971. rev. ed. berkeley, calif: creative arts book co, 1979. bonewits, p(hilip) e(mmons) i(saac) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 202 boniface viii (benedetto gaetano (ca. 1228.1303) pope who gained an unenviable notoriety in dante s inferno as prince of the new ph

ted more closely to the type of black magic that desires power for the sake of power alone rather than any of the more transcendental type. it included the power to render oneself invisible, to change the bodily shape, to produce an enchanted sleep, to induce lunacy, and to cast spells and charms that caused death. power over the elements was also claimed, as in the case of broichan, a caledonian druid who opposed saint columba, as related in st. adamnan s life of st. columba: broichan, speaking one day to the holy man, says: tell me, columba, at what time dost thou propose to sail forth? on the third day, says the saint, god willing and life remaining, we propose to begin our voyage. thou wilt not be able to do so, says broichan in reply, for i can make the wind contrary for thee, and bri

entieth century in a more or less debased condition in british celtic areas; thus the existence of guardians and keepers of wells, said to possess magic properties, and the fact that certain familiar magic spells and formulas are handed down from one generation to another are proof of the survival of druidic tradition. females are generally the conservators of these mysteries, and that there were druid priestesses is fairly certain. there are also indications that to some extent witchcraft in scotland was a survival of celtic religiomagical practice. amulets were worn extensively by the celts, the principal forms in use being phallic (to fend against the evil eye, coral, the serpent s egg. the person who passed a number of serpents together forming such an egg from their collected spume ha

path of soul liberation. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1975. the teachings of the masters of perfection. lakemont, ga: csa press, 1979. center for spiritual development the center for spiritual development in san diego, california, is the home base for the activities of druidess and metaphysical counselor katherine torres. torres is a member of the order of bards, ovates and druids, the oldest of the druid organizations, and has operated as a new age minister for several decades. she completed her ph.d. in metaphysical science and transpersonal psychology at westbrook university. torres writes widely for new age periodicals but is best known for her work on several divinatory tools, the sacred path wheel and faces of womanspirit. the sacred path wheel was developed from torres years of experie

ife journey. torres has also developed a new tarot-like deck of divination cards, the faces of womanspirit, designed to assist females to connect with their femininity and the goddess. it is used as a new age tool, assisted by the book guide that accompanies the deck, to facilitate one s particular move into the realm of light. in developing the faces of womanspirit, torres drew especially on her druid background. sources: torres, katherine. faces of womanspirit. la mesa, calif: transpersonal development, 1999. the sacred path wheel. carlsbad, calif: two feathers soaring lightly, 1991. soul magic: understanding your journey. tempe, ariz: new falcon publications, 1985. center for studies on new religions (cesnur) the center for studies on new religions (il centro studi sulle nuove religioni

of world religions. the parliament reconvened in capetown, south africa in 1999, and in the united religions initiative. in addition, cog members in different localities participate in regional interfaith groups. cog has established a religion badge called the hart and crescent award. this may be earned by young persons age 11 or older who is a member of any nature-oriented religion (witchcraft, druid, asatru, native american, etc. members of the boy scouts, girl scouts, and other youth organizations can also earn the award. an adult version, the distinguished youth service award, is for any adult who volunteers excellent service to youth. the award has been accepted by the girls scouts of america, but so far rejected by the boy scouts of america. the hart and crescent award have been gra

ures on the buddhist path to peace. ithaca, n.y: snow lion publications, 1988. the meaning of life from a buddhist perspective. translated by jeffrey hopkins. boston: wisdom publications, 1992. my land and my people: memoirs of the dalai lama of tibet. 1962. reprint, new york: potala corp, 1983. transcendent wisdom. translated by b. alan wallace. ithaca, n.y: snow lion publications, 1988. dalan a druid who figures in the medieval irish legend of conary mor, high king of ireland. dale, laura a(bbott (1919.1983) prominent member of the american society for psychical research (aspr) who for 25 years edited the society s journal. dale was born august 22, 1919, in cornwall, new york, and attended private schools in new york city before studying at the sorbonne in paris. her research included ex

burning, it was a happy sign, but if it burned without crackling, the prognostication was false. d aquin, mordecai (d. 1650) a learned rabbi of carpentras who died in 1650. he became a christian and changed his name from mordecai to philippe. he was the author of an interpretation of the tree of the hebrew kabala. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. d aquin, mordecai 375 the dark a druid of irish medieval legend who turned saba into a fawn because she did not return his love. when the fawn was protected by the hero finn mac cummal, she changed back to a beautiful woman and became mac cummal s wife. dark they were and golden eyed well-known british bookshop formerly in st. anne s court, london, specializing in science fiction, occultism, atlantis, ufos, and yoga. it was start

. le miracle, illusion ou realite (the miracle, illusion or reality. n.p, 1961. mise en evidence de l effet psychocinetique (revelation of the psychokinetic effect. n.p, 1960. de cressac bachelerie, bertrande, and marige george chevalier. la metapsychique.probleme crucial (parapsychology: a crucial problem. n.p, 1960. dectera a figure of irish medieval romance. she was the daughter of cathbad the druid and mother of cuchulain. dectera and 50 other maidens disappeared from the court of conor mac nessa. three years later, while pursuing a flock of birds that were spoiling the crops, the king and courtiers came upon a magnificent palace inhabited by a youth of noble mien, a beautiful woman, and 50 maidens. these were recognized as dectera and her companions, and the youth as lugh, the sun god

the first century b.c.e. where, among other duties, they oversaw the human sacrifices that were then part of the celtic religion. from that time forward, a number of romans chronicled their life, especially after the conquest of britain in the next century. gradually, christianity was introduced into england and then in the fifth century into ireland. over the next few centuries, it replaced the druid religion. the ancient druid tradition, largely passed through the oral tradition, was rendered into written form in the middle ages in two primary texts, the mabinogion and the book of taliesin. various elements of druidism passed into folklore and survived in local customs and folk songs. numerous archeological remains have been discovered and through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

t druidism may be traced to the time of the monolithic culture that built stonehenge and related structures across the british isles. druidism may have survived in remote corners of rural britain, and some have suggested that it could be found on the island of st. kilda as late as the eighteenth century. the fragments of literature on ancient druidism leave considerable room for interpretation of druid belief and practice (thus providing the base for the broad spectrum of belief and behavior among contemporary druids. it is known that the community was organized around the three groups of functionaries. the bards were the keepers of the wisdom tradition. they memorized the key material of the tradition, much of which was put into poetic form and made it available to the people. the ovates

dition. they memorized the key material of the tradition, much of which was put into poetic form and made it available to the people. the ovates were the mediums/shamans of the community. among their duties was the establishment of contact with ancestors in the spirit realm. they also engaged in divination of various kinds, including the reading of entrails, in attempts to predict the future. the druid priests were the most powerful leaders in the community. they presided over worship and group ceremonies, and often served as advisors to the secular rulers. the druid religion was nature-based and its worship cycle was marked by the movements of the sun and moon. the year was marked by the changing positions of the rising sun, the solstices and equinoxes, and the four additional festivals h

s in gaul, it was noted by julius caesar and strabo that they oversaw the sacrifice of humans. caesar mentioned the immense images which they filled with living victims and burned to death, a practice that was vividly pictured in the 1975 movie the wicker man. modern druidism modern interest in druidism can be traced to an amateur antiquarian, john aubrey (1676.1697, who delved into the classical druid texts and suggested that the druids had worshiped at the old stone monuments in wiltshire. his work began the association of druidism and stonehenge. a modern druidism emerged into public notice in the next century when, in 1717, deist writer john toland (1670.1722) was elected the chief of the first modern druid order, an tigh geatha gairdeachas. reportedly druids from previously existing g

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but though the daezmonium meridianum is often used for the ephialtes, nevertheless it is more correctly any sudden and violent attack which is deprives the patient of his senses. in some parts of germany, the name given to this disorder is das alpdructen, either from the mass which appears to press on the sufferer or from alp or alf (elf. in franconia it is die drud or das druddructern, from the druid or weird women, and there is a belief that it may not only be chased away, but be made to appear on the morrow in a human shape, and lend something required of it by the following charm: druid tomorrow/ so will i borrow. these druids, it seems were not only in the habit of riding men, but also horses, and in order to keep them out of the stables, the salutary pentalpha (which bears the name

orrow/ so will i borrow. these druids, it seems were not only in the habit of riding men, but also horses, and in order to keep them out of the stables, the salutary pentalpha (which bears the name of drudenfuss (druids foot) should be written on the stable doors, in consecrated chalk on the night of st. walburgh. it should also be mentioned that the english familiar appellation trot as traced to druid, a decrepit old woman such as the sagas might be, and the same might perhaps be said of a scottish saint, triduana or tredwin. in the glossarium suiogothicum of johann ihre (1769, a somewhat different account of the mara is given. here again, we find the witch-riding of horses, against which a stone amulet was suggested by the antiquarian john aubrey, similar to one described below. among th

cording to the roman historian pliny, a vessel of this substance has a magical property.when added to liquor it reveals poison by displaying colored semicircles: the fluid also sparkles and hisses as if on the fire. orchis, root of in ancient times, the root of the satyrios orchis from the orchid family was believed to be a sure remedy against enchantment. order of bards, ovates& druids a british druid order that claims to continue the traditions of the ancient bardic and druid order. one order is concerned with the arts, history, and archaeology and performs outdoor ceremonies. the initiatory order undertakes mystical studies. public ceremonies are arranged at ancient sites based on the summer and winter solstices and the equinoxes of march and september. after the distance program was in

e spirit teachings. at an early stage he was appointed one of moses s guardians and was left in charge of him during the absence of the controls imperator and doctor. pryse, james morgan, jr (1859.1942) james morgan pryse, jr, founder of the gnostic society, was born on november 14, 1859, in new london, ohio, the son of a welsh presbyterian minister. his father, who belonged to the welsh order of druid bards, filled pryse with the legends of the druids along with the presbyterian faith. as a young man pryse pursued a law career but gave it up for journalism. he moved around frequently during his early adulthood, joined in the effort to create a colony at topolobampo, mexico, and from his new jersey residence edited the topolobampo periodical. after moving to los angeles, pryse joined the t

prets as extraterrestrial contacts, but then interpreted as a call to the ministry. after two years as a methodist minister, he left to become an archeologist. his life traveling the world on archeological digs allowed him to pursue his search for what he had come to see as the spirituality he believed lay behind and contrasted with the religious establishment. he also was able to study with arch druid thomas maughn and margaret lumley brown, an associate of dion fortune, founder of the fraternity of the inner light. in the early 1970s he was led to dianic wicca, that form of contemporary witchcraft that most emphasized feminism. he also changed occupation within television. over the next quarter of a century, he moved from cameraman to stage manager to director in television programming

ry midsummer. thousands of hippies, living a nomadic life in battered automobiles (often unlicensed, reminiscent of the american dust bowl days, descended on the fields surrounding stonehenge and set up makeshift camps, intending to gain access to stonehenge to celebrate the summer solstice. but the site has been fenced off with barbed wire and the solstice ceremony restricted to a modern revival druid organization and no more than six hundred ticket-holding visitors. to prevent the hippies from overrunning the site, farmers annually barricaded paths and byways with trailers and machinery, while hundreds of police stood by in riot gear. for many years there was a ritual battle between hippies and police. rocks, bottles, and other objects were thrown, while police with helmets and batons fo

blished monumenta britannica, and in 1719 began to make annual visits to study the stone remains in wiltshire. in 1717 a new druidic order had emerged in england, and john toland was named its first chief. stukeley became the second chief following toland s death in 1722. he took the name chyndonax and became known to his friends as the archdruid. his 1740 book on stonehenge argued that it was of druid origin, and a later volume made a similar argument for the nearby formation at avebury. while aubrey had first broached the idea, it was stukeley who popularized it and gave it substance with his publications. in 1726 stukeley moved back to lincolnshire, where he laid out a temple to the druids centered on an apple tree covered with mistletoe. his understanding of druidism was consistent wit

f the sun and of preaching a sermon after receiving a new set of spectacles from a text in paul s letter to the corinthians, now we see through a glass darkly. he died on february 25, 1765, in queen square, kent, where he had retired. among the artifacts he left behind that were sold at auction in 1766 was a wooden model of stonehenge he had carved. sources: carr-gomm, philip. the elements of the druid tradition. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1991. sturdevant, william d(esmond (1922) professor of art who was active in the field of parapsychology. he was born july 3, 1922, in des moines, iowa. he attended drake university, des moines (b.s. education, 1945; m.s. education, 1947) and following graduation became an art instructor at new mexico western college, silver city (1947.48. he afte

giving a reading. it might be a slip of paper with a name on it, unseen to the psychic, who gives information relative to that named person while holding the paper. it might alternatively be an object that the psychic holds while giving impressions through psychometry, i.e, apparently being sensitive to impressions from that object. toland, john (1670.1722) john toland, first chief of the revived druid movement in england, was born on november 30, 1670, near londonderry, ireland. originally named junius janus, he took the name john to avoid being a butt of jokes by his youthful schoolmates. though raised a catholic, he converted to protestantism as a teenager. some irish protestants saw to his education and eventually sent him to glasgow. he earned his m.a. at edinburgh in 1690. he complet

igion. he died two years later on february 11, 1722, at putney, where he had been living since 1718. while there were rumors of an earlier druidic organization, possibly traceable to john aubrey, an early writer on druidism whom toland had met in 1694, from toland s term as the druidic leader there is an organizational continuity of modern druidism. sources: carr-gomm, philip. the elements of the druid tradition. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1991. toland, john. christianity not mysterious. n.p, 1696. pantheisticon. putney, 1720. tomczyk, stanislawa (mrs. everard feilding (ca. 1920) non-professional polish medium, the subject of the experiments of julien ochorowicz in 1908.9, at wisla, poland. tomczyk was regularly hypnotized by ochorowicz for therapeutic purposes, when she became cont

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mbols, 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, churchward, and oliver identify masonry as coming from the druid religion, this admission is extremely damning "masons. admire the druids and some of them even claim that masonry came from druidism. of course, the druids were occultic priests, practiced astrology, and offered human sacrifices [dr. c. burns, masonic and occult symbols illustrated, p. 28] wonderful. this statement means that freemasonry practices both white magic and black magick witchcraft

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

, emblems which indicate the fructifying powers of nature, whilst the egyptian sacred tree, which is surmounted by the ostrich plume, the emblem of truth, is indicative of light, intelligence, or the life of the soul. in a discourse delivered by dr. stukeley in 1760, attention was directed to the grove of abraham as "that famous oak grove of beersheba, planted by the illustrious prophet and first druid--abraham; and from whom our celebrated british druids came, who were of the same patriarchal reformed religion, and brought the use of sacred groves to britain"[17 [17] barlow, symbolism, p. 98. the fact has been ascertained that in arabia, in very ancient times, there was a goddess named azra who was worshipped under the form of a tree called samurch, and that in yemen tree-worship still pr

hat mysterious child, offering your gifts to him, with profound humility. he is the almighty word, which created the heavens"[124 [124] ibid, 169. waite notices the conclusion of faber that this prediction was long before the birth of christ, and states that one of the reasons for such a conclusion was, that in the old irish history a similar prophecy appears--a prophecy which was delivered by a "druid of bokhara" the identity of this irish prophecy with the one in the east ascribed to zarathustra or zoroaster, is so singular that faber thinks it can be accounted for only on the hypothesis "of an ancient emigration from persia to ireland by the northwest passage, which carried the legend with it" by those who have investigated the origin of the early gospels, it is stated that the story of

recisely as isaiah had literally foretold; or reading in the hebrew made, the anointed om the savior. this was the name of jesus of bethlehem" we have observed the fact that at the time of the birth of christ the entire world was expecting a savior--a new incarnation of the sun. the end of a cycle had come and the entire earth was to undergo a process of renovation. in a poem by virgil, who was a druid, the birth of a wonderful child is celebrated, and the prophecy of a heathen sibyl is seen to be identical with that of isaiah "the last period sung by the sibylline prophetess is now arrived; and the grand series of ages. that series which recurs again and again in the course of our mundane revolution begins afresh. now the virgin astrea returns from heaven; and the primeval reign of saturn

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king of rome.theroman god, terminus, was represented as a stone, and so the pillar became used as a landmark. toland tells us the druids showed great reverence for stones,religious and masonic symbolism of stones 263and especially for upright pillars and for tri-lithons, such as are stilltobe seen at stonehenge in wiltshire, which has been considered as a centre of the solar worship of the celtic druid priesthood. much additional information may be found inirishdruids,by james bonwick, 1894. stone circles, dolmens, rocking stones and cromlechs once deemed sacred still exist, and there were also great stones with holes in them through which children were passed to ensure good fortune. bishop schoning of trondhjem states that in the 18th century the people reverenced certain white stones, lo

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d that he vowed he would never touch a stone of the accursed building again. certain it is that a man was employed to destroy the tower, that he did destroy only half of it, leaving the part which is still standing, and that in consequence he did not get his agreed pay.146thesorcerer and his apprenticesir archibald dunbar told mealsoofatraditionofhis boyhoodofwitches holding orgies within the old druid circle atthefarm of templestones, whereat the illuminatien was given by candles made of hares' fat, the effect of which was said to be that it constrained the women present to east off their clothes and nevercease dancing till the candles bad burnt themselves out, there is. little but vague tradition of .this formula, but. it is interesting that baptista porta mentions asimiliareffectas comi

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

time (yugas, historical models of cyclic time, rene guenon and julius evola and evola and "the revolt against the modern world. 6 the gnostic view of time ii the great year, egyptian star gnosis and heraldic cycles. 7 the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic identity message, origins, the israel connection, el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible, the sacred serpent, israel on the world stage, the druid connection, the essene link, the essenes, jesus and the foundations of gnosticism, table of contents the gnostic handbook hyperlinked index just click the gnostic handbook page 3 8 conditional immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven and hell, hell on earth and what is heaven. 9 the mystery of deification what is the a

e meaning of the world kabbalah) and embodying the secrets of creation. when israel was taken into captivity a large segment of these teachings went with her and were transmitted to different locations around the globe and remnants remain in forms alien to what many would consider to be judaic or christian at all! one of the major focus points of this tradition was within ireland and england. the druid connection a classic example is found in the druidic traditions. it is believed by many that the druids became the priestclass of israel in exile after they had settled in ireland and england. many facets of the early druidic faith resemble what we know of the original israelite mysteries. the secret alphabet which the israelites used was sustained by the druids and for mnemonic purposes was

ucted (by the hands of christ himself) for the salvation of his people. the almighty has made it manifest by many miracles and mysterious visitations that he continues to watch over it as sacred to himself. a letter from st.augustine to pope gregory amazing as it may seem even the druids believe that jesus came to britain and taught them the esoteric teachings, for example, taliesin, the bard and druid (circa ad 550) states christ, the word from the beginning, was from the beginning our teacher and we never lost his teachings. there are many volumes examining the details of jesus' trek to britain, some of the more important examine the historical record of glastonbury which can be traced right back to the chapel built by jesus himself. for this reason the site has continued to remain sacre

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te. for example, in babylon, records and legends of the older qadesh israelite priesthood were expunged and a emphasis placed on the pharisaic priesthood. these multiple streams and authors can be discovered by reading any modern text on biblical criticism, however, only when seen in the light of the aryan-israelite/edomite gnostic theurgy page 195 dichotomy do they take on special relevance. the druid connection it is believed by many that the druids were the post diaspora priestclass of israel. many facets of the early druid faith resemble what we know of the israelite mysteries. the secret alphabet of the israelites was used by the druids and, for mnemonic purposes was related to trees (and later to birds and animals. certainly the native religion of the celts and many other indo-europe

ist himself) for the salvation of his people. the almighty has made it manifest by many miracles and mysterious visitations that he continues to watch over it as sacred to himself. a letter from st.augustine to pope gregory. gnostic theurgy page 201 amazing as it may seem, even the druids believe that jesus came to britain and taught them the esoteric teachings, for example, taliesin the bard and druid (circa 550 ce) states "christ, the word from the beginning, was from the beginning our teacher and we never lost his teachings. there are many volumes examining the details of jesus' trek to britain, some of the more important examine the historical record of glastonbury which can be traced right back to the chapel built by jesus and joseph. for this reason the site has continued to remain s

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ives boifen as synon. with conjuring, and the m. nethl. ut hoeten is sanare (reinh. 5394 (s//d"r or sawd"r is a poetic word for a fire to cook by 'a sey'si bera' sffim. 54, to set on the fire, take to cook, make to boil- eoth de nomin. vet. germ. med. p. 139^ foreign terms are less interesting, e.t. as. dry magus, pi. dryas, drycrceft magia, whose celtic origin is betrayed by the familiar name of druid; ir. draoi wizard, draoidheachd sorcery. nigrovianzie already in medieval 23oets, ms. 2, 10' der list von nigromanzi' parz. 453, 17. 617, 12, list m. answering to on. iffrott, which snorri uses of magic; nigromancie, maerl. 2, 2g1' der swarzen buoche wis' seid-man. juggler. 1037 now, as the concocting of remedies and that of poisons easily fall into one, the ohg. luppi, as. lyf, mhg. luppe

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r photograph- evidently a time-exposure taken in deep shadow- was of the mouth of a woodland cave, with a boulder of, rounded regularity choking the aperture. on the bare ground in front of, it one could just discern a dense network of curious tracks, and when i studied the picture with a magnifier i felt uneasily sure that the tracks were like the one in the other view. a third pictured showed a druid-like circle of standing stones on the summit of a wild hill. around the cryptic circle the grass was very much beaten down and worn away, though i could not detect any footprints even with the glass. the extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless: mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a. misty horizon. but if the most disturbin

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

rkness via the commission of antisocial acts. some experimental musicians had utilized reversed recording at least as far back as the 1960s, but for the innocuous purpose of creating weird sounds rather than for the purpose of broadcasting secret messages. christians who disliked rock music had originally denounced the genre as satanic due to the unconscious influence of what was described as its druid beat. this critique shifted to denouncing the influence of backward masked messages during the early 1980s. the first book-length expos was jacob aranza s 1983 backward masking unmasked. in the same year that aranza s book was published, the band m tley cr e responded to what was already a popular craze by jokingly inscribing their shout at the devil album: this record may contain backward m

en things that trivialize the occult are part of a demonic plot to make the dark side appear harmless and attractive. chick is especially alarmed by halloween, for example, and devotes at least three tracts to warning readers that the holiday is nothing more than bait for recruiting impressionable young people into satan s legions. chick goes so far as to assert that halloween actually began as a druid holiday during which child sacrifices took place. other ways in which american culture trivializes the occult is via certain images presented by the entertainment media. in the tract bewitched? for instance, we learn that satan s favorite tv show is bewitched. after watching an episode, the prince of darkness remarks, haw, haw, delightful so disarming so innocent yet so effective. as one mig

the churches have been infiltrated by witches, presumably members of such satanic cults. furthermore, liberal theologians and liberal christian ministers who dilute the gospel are demons in disguise, purposefully leading christians astray. chick is especially concerned about the threat of rock music, which he portrays as satan s pet project. rock music, we learn, is derived from ancient, demonic druid music (druidism appears to be the only form of extrabiblical paganism he is aware of) in the chick comic spellbound, we see heavily guarded music studios at which priests of the devil conduct dark rituals for every master disk. ten demons are assigned to each record album to insure that it has the desired effect. in the tract angels? satan notes that, my music pushes murder, drugs, free sex

christians took such infernal images with deadly seriousness. according to some conservative christians who disliked the genre, rock music companies routinely incorporated satanic rhythms into their albums for the purpose of leading innocent young people into the service of the prince of darkness. this was supposedly accomplished via the unconscious influence of what was described as rock music s druid beat. the druid beat strategy for denouncing rock became unnecessary after musicians began flaunting their association with the devil. the rolling stones was one of the first major rock groups to flirt with satan. the pivotal event in this flirtation was the altamont rock festival in 1969. the stones had hired members of the hell s angels motorcycle club to handle security during the festiva

states can take place in different ways. sometimes this dichotomization occurs automatically, as in south asian traditions in which the net effect of one s accumulated karma propels the departed soul to reincarnate in pleasant or unpleasant circumstances. similarly the religious notion of metempsychosis, the process by which souls enter a new body in the pythagorean doctrine as well as in ancient druid and irish literature, is related to the belief in immortality and indirectly implies a judgment on the fate of the souls. in zoroastrianism and in certain other religions, the deceased must cross a bridge, which presents an easy passage for good souls but which is difficult for evil souls. here, again, the mechanism by which this occurs is impersonal. as the name of the present entry, judgme

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o my son, as i take leave of thee in this epistle, that the summit of wisdom is the opening of the way that leadeth unto thecrown and essence of all, to the soul of the child horus, the lord of the on. this way is the path of the pure fool. amoun. o liber aleph vel cxi 208 zw de oraculo summo (of the last oracle) nd who is this pure fool? lo, in the sagas of old time, legend of scald, of bard, of druid, cometh he not in green like spring? o thou great fool, thou water that art air, in whom all complex is resolved! yes, thou in ragged raiment, with the staff of priapus and the wineskin! thou standest up on the crocodile, like hoorpa- kraat; and the great cat leapeth upon thee! yea, and more also i have known thee who thou art, bacchus diphues, none and two, in thy name iao! now at the end o

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

g become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to arthur.s court, bearing tidings of a questing beast. the knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. lancelot findeth him upon scawfell, clothed in his white beard. he returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, herleth him to the heaven. viii. sir palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a druid worship the sun upon stonehenge. he rideth eastward, and findeth the sun setting in the west. furious he taketh a viking ship, and by sword and whip fareth seaward. ix. coming to india, he learneth that it glittereth. vainly fighting the waves,the leaves, and the snows, he is swept in the himalayas as by an avalanche into a valley where dwell certain ascetics, who pelt him with their eyeball

palamede amend his nakedness, his horrent hair, his nails, and made his penance end, clothing himself in steel and gold, arming himself, his life to spend in vigil cold and wandering bold, disdaining song and dalliance soft, seeking one purpose to behold, and holding ever that aloft, nor fearing god, nor heeding men. so thus his hermit habit doffed sir palamede the saracen. 21 viii know ye where druid dolmens rise in wessex on the widow plain? thither sir palamedes plies the spur, and shakes the rattling rein. he questions all men of the beast. none answer. is the quest in vain? with oaken crown there comes a priest in samite robes, with hazel wand, and worships at the gilded east. ay! thither ride! the dawn beyond must run the quarry of his quest. he rode as he were wood or fond, until a

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ers of the oak. 2. we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed. 3. there we performed many wonderful things by midnight. 4. by the waning moon did we work. 5. over the plain came the atrocious cry of wolves. 6. we answered; we hunted with the pack. 7. we came even unto the new chapel and thou didst bear away the holy graal beneath thy druid vestments. 8. secretly and by stealth did we drink of the informing sacrament. 9. then a terrible disease seized upon the folk of the grey land; and we rejoiced. 10. o my god, disguise thy glory! 11. come as a thief, and let us steal away the sacraments! 12. in our groves, in our cloistral cells, in our honeycomb of happiness, let us drink, let us drink! 13. it is the wine that tinges everyt

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l "the original and primitive inhabitants of britain, at some remote period, revived and reformed their national institutes. their priest, or instructor, had hitherto been simply named gwydd, but it was considered to have become necessary to divide this office between the national, or superior, priest and another whose influence [would] be more limited. from henceforth the former became der-wydd (druid, or superior instructor, and [the latter] go-wydd, or o-vydd (ovate, subordinate instructor; and both went by the general name of beirdd (bards, or teachers of wisdom. as the system matured and augmented, the bardic order consisted of three classes, the druids, beirdd braint, or privileged bards, and ovates (see samuel meyrick and charles smith, the costume of the original inhabitants of the

atter] go-wydd, or o-vydd (ovate, subordinate instructor; and both went by the general name of beirdd (bards, or teachers of wisdom. as the system matured and augmented, the bardic order consisted of three classes, the druids, beirdd braint, or privileged bards, and ovates (see samuel meyrick and charles smith, the costume of the original inhabitants of the british islands) the origin of the word druid is under dispute. max m ller believes that, like the irish word drui, it means "the men of the oak trees" he further draws attention to the fact that the forest gods and tree deities of the greeks were called dryades. some believe the word to be of teutonic origin; others ascribe it to the welsh. a few trace it to the gaelic druidh, which means "a wise man" or "a sorcerer" in sanskrit the wo

further (see the history of magic) not only was the mistletoe sacred as symbolic of the universal medicine, or panacea, but also because of the fact that it grew upon the oak tree. through the symbol of the oak, the druids worshiped the supreme deity; therefore, anything growing upon that tree was sacred to him. at certain seasons, according to the positions of the sun, moon, and stars, the arch-druid climbed the oak tree and cut the mistletoe with a golden sickle consecrated for that service. the parasitic growth was caught in white cloths provided for the purpose, lest it touch the earth and be polluted by terrestrial vibrations. usually a sacrifice of a white bull was made under the tree. the druids were initiates of a secret school that existed in their midst. this school, which close

h the primitive british or irish harp--an instrument strung with human hair, and having as many strings as there were ribs on one side of the human body. these bards were often chosen as teachers of candidates seeking entrance into the druidic mysteries. neophytes wore striped robes of blue, green, and white, these being the three sacred colors of the druidic order. the third division was that of druid (derwyddon. its particular labor was to minister to the religious needs of the people. to reach this dignity, the candidate must first become a bard braint. the druids always dressed in white--symbolic of their purity, and the color used by them to symbolize the sun. in order to reach the exalted position of arch-druid, or spiritual head of the organization, it was necessary for a priest to

d by them to symbolize the sun. in order to reach the exalted position of arch-druid, or spiritual head of the organization, it was necessary for a priest to pass through the six successive degrees of the druidic order (the members of the different degrees were differentiated by the colors of their sashes, for all of them wore robes of white) some writers are of the opinion that the title of arch-druid was hereditary, descending from father to son, but it is more probable that the honor was conferred by ballot election. its recipient was chosen for his virtues and click to enlarge the arch-druid in his ceremonial robes. from wellcome's ancient cymric medicine. the most striking adornment of the arch-druid was the iodhan moran, or breastplate of judgment, which possessed the mysterious powe

ious power of strangling any who made an untrue statement while wearing it. godfrey higgins states that this breastplate was put on the necks of witnesses to test the veracity of their evidence. the druidic tiara, or anguinum, its front embossed with a number of points to represent the sun's rays, indicated that the priest was a personification of the rising sun. on the front of his belt the arch-druid wore the liath meisicith- a magic brooch, or buckle in the center of which was a large white stone. to this was attributed the power of drawing the fire of the gods down from heaven at the priest's command this specially cut stone was a burning glass, by which the sun's rays were concentrated to light the altar fires. the druids also had other symbolic implements, such as the peculiarly shap

as belong to osiris and isis, bacchus and ceres, or any other supreme god and goddess representing the two principles of all being" godfrey higgins states that hu, the mighty, regarded as the first settler of britain, came from a place which the welsh triads call the summer country, the present site of constantinople. albert pike says that the lost word of masonry is concealed in the name of the druid god hu. the meager information extant concerning the secret initiations of the druids indicates a decided similarity between their mystery school and the schools of greece and egypt. hu, the sun god, was murdered and, after a number of strange ordeals and mystic rituals, was restored to life. there were three degrees of the druidic mysteries, but few successfully passed them all. the candida

sun god. the supreme test, however, was being sent out to sea in an open boat. while undergoing this ordeal, many lost their lives. taliesin, an ancient scholar, who passed through the mysteries, describes the initiation of the open boat in faber's pagan idolatry. the few who passed this third degree were said to have been "born again" and were instructed in the secret and hidden truths which the druid priests had preserved from antiquity. from these initiates were chosen many of the dignitaries of the british religious and political world (for further details, see faber's pagan idolatry, albert pike's morals and dogma, and godfrey higgins' celtic druids) the rites of mithras when the persian mysteries immigrated into southern europe, they were quickly assimilated by the latin mind. the cu

he feminine principle; the mundane universe is recognized as her symbol. she represents nature as receptive and terrestrial, and as fruitful only when bathed in the glory of the solar orb. the mithraic cult is a simplification of the more elaborate teachings of zarathustra (zoroaster, the persian fire magician. click to enlarge the ground plan of stonehenge. from maurice's indian antiquities. the druid temples of places of religious worship were not patterned after those of other nations. most of their ceremonies were performed at night, either in thick groves of oak trees or around open-air altars built of great uncut stones. how these masses of rock were moved ahs not been satisfactorily explained. the most famous of their altars, a great stone ring of rocks, is stonehenge, in southweste

lace of power and glory, at the summit of the royal arch of heaven, was the principal reason why that constellation was held in such high esteem and reverence by the ancients. the astrologers distinguished leo as the 'sole house of the sun' and taught that the world was created when the sun was in that sign 'the lion was adored in the east and the west by the egyptians and the mexicans. the chief druid of britain was styled a lion (stellar theology and masonic astronomy) when the aquarian age is thoroughly established, the sun will be in leo, as will be noted from the explanation previously given in this chapter regarding the distinction between geocentric and heliocentric astrology. then, indeed, will the secret religions of the world include once more the raising to initiation by the gri

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

m some part of the cross. the tau cross there are three distinct forms of the cross. the first is called the tau (more correctly the tav. it closely resembles the modern letter t, consisting of a horizontal bar resting on a vertical column, the two arms being of equal length. an oak tree cut off some feet above the ground and its upper part laid across the lower in this form was the symbol of the druid god hu. it is suspected that this symbol originated among the egyptians from the spread of the horns of a bull or ram (taurus or aries) and the vertical line of its face. this is sometimes designated as the hammer cross, because if held by its vertical base it is not unlike a mallet or gavel. in one of the qabbalistic masonic legends, chiram abiff is given a hammer in the form of a tau by hi

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between their lands and the city of tiahuan-aco and claim that their ancestors traveled for years by this route. the indian chiefsalso assured that the tunnels were..carved out by rays that destroy the living rock. and that their creators were..beings who live near the stars (from uriel s machine by christopher knight and robertlomas) in celtic mythology, the tuatha de danaan, a powerful tribe of druid warriors,descended into the underworld through what are called the sidhes. we could fill vol-umes with the references of alien visitation in connection with the hollow earth.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation13 earths first deluge these accounts of the ancients have been dismissed for centuries and often ridiculedand misunderstood. for instance, the visitors are sometimes d

xplained on the grounds of truth (vitruvius, 1st century bc,roman architect, engineer, writer)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation149 epilogue: time to change the road youre on thus god must never be worshipped under roofs, only the sky-vault, and preferably amongsttrees. the temples are groves. the air as spirit naturally held men's souls between incarna-tions (ross nichols, high druid of england)the modern world is not at all cognizant of the splendid achievement of the ancient civiliza-tions of two lands at least, namely egypt and greece, in so relating their minds to the orderof nature that their life in general flowered out in a state of health and wholesomeness thathas hardly been matched in the history of the world since. history discloses that the daily lifeof the e

omewhat the same as the egyptian pharaohs who claimed to act for maat.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation247 appendix b: book abstracts hesus and the druidsboth in spain and gaul, caesar must have heard of hesus, the messiah, whose effigy stood at everycrossroad, whose crosses were worn upon the breast of every warrior, and whose second coming, whichhad long been predicted by the druid astrologers, coincided very closely with the period of his owninvasion of those countries. this is curiously similar to the coming of cortez and pisarro to the incas.winter solstice 48 b.c. julius caesar is deified at the temple of jupiter ammon. he was now the son of god. tiberiusrefused to be deified as a god. declaring himself to be mortal, he was upbraided.augustuswhen the tremendous com

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having to rely on his own skill and presence of mind to reach the opposite shore safety. the death of hu was represented in his hearing, with external mark of sorrow, while he was in utter darkness. he met with many obstacles, had to prove his courage, and expose his life against armed enemies; represented various animals, and at last, attaining the permanent light, he was instructed by the arch-druid in regard to the mysteries, and in the morality of the order, incited to act bravely in war, taught the great truths of the immortality of the soul and a future state, solemnly enjoined not to neglect the worship of the deity, nor the practice of rigid morality; and to avoid sloth, contention, and folly. the aspirant attained only the exoteric knowledge in the first two degrees. the third wa

osed triangularly, upheld the _tripod_ of gold. a similar column was placed on a pillar in the hippodrome at constantinople, by the founder of that city; one of the heads of which is said to have been broken off by mahomet the second, by a blow with his iron mace. the british god hu was called "the dragon--ruler of the world" and his car was drawn by serpents. his ministers were styled _adders. a druid in a poem of taliessin says "i am a druid, i am an _architect, i am a prophet, i am a _serpent (gnadi" the car of the goddess ceridwen also was drawn by serpents. in the elegy of uther pendragon, this passage occurs in a description of the religious rites of the druids "while the sanctuary is earnestly invoking _the gliding king, before whom _the fair one_ retreats, upon the evil that covers

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on the worship of male-female polarity, the observance of the agricultural seasons, and magick. worship of the male-female aspects of nature usually is expressed as allegiance to the horned god and the great mother goddess. ritual follows the movement of the sun and moon. neo-pagans see themselves as reviving the pre-christian religion of europe and the mediterranean basin, and manifest as norse, druid, or egyptian in format. by far the wiccans compose the largest segment of the neo-pagan community. wicca or witchcraft is derived from the ancient paganism practiced in western europe, especially the british isles. magick, an essential element in modern wicca, seeks mastery of all the cosmic forces believed to control the world. witches believe in the ancient principal of "as above, so below

23. what is the city of the pyramids? a. binah b. magickal initiation c. the human brain d. kether 24. the word 'occult' means a. hidden knowledge b. ancient knowledge c. hermetic science d. metaphysical 25. according to aristotle) is the proper color of elements in transmutation" a. yellow b. red c. black d. white 26. a pantheon of gods called "loas" are from what system of magic? a. tibetan b. druid c. nordic d. voodoo 27. animism is the belief in a. a soul b. a supreme god c. animal gods d. anthropomorphic gods part ii the second part of this test requires that the answers be written in the provided blanks. please print, type or write legibly, because answers which cannot be easily read will be counted as errors. 1. the highest instinct in man is. 2. the strongest force in man is. 3. t

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cognized for having led a virtuous and holy life) the celtic goddess brigid (or brigit, for example, was canonized (made a saint) by the catholic church. brigid is a goddess of poetry, healing, and fertility. she continues to be honored at thousands of springs and wells in ireland. further, catholic cathedrals were built on many celtic religious sites. by the seventh century of the common era the druid religion practiced by the celts had been destroyed, and the few surviving practitioners were driven into hiding. ancient druids organized their society around three classes of people. the bards were given responsibility for the arts and philosophy. they were the keepers of the people s traditions and preservers of the tribes memories. the ovates were the healers, the ones responsible for the

ones responsible for the processes of death and regeneration, or renewal. they were also prophets because they could speak with ancestral spirits. finally, the druids and druidesses (who gave the religion its name) were the society s professional class and included teachers, priests, astronomers, musicians, scientists, and judges. these were the specialists who conducted public rituals. the word druid comes from the indo-european words drus, meaning oak, and wid, meaning to know. so a druid was one who knew the oak, that is, could understand the mysteries of the ancient forests and could lead people in outdoor religious rituals. world religions: almanac 379 neo-paganism druid beliefs and practices druidism was a polytheistic religion practiced in many countries. druids were never organize

e, likely as a religious shrine. the fact is, though, that construction on stonehenge began some time around 2,900 bce and was completed some time around 1,600 bce, more than one thousand years before the arrival of the celtic druids. world religions: almanac 381 neo-paganism factions, of which one, the british circle of universal bond, survived to become the obod. another movement is the british druid order, founded in 1979 and claiming three thousand members. in the united states the reformed druids of north america were formed in the late 1950s or early 1960s (the date is uncertain, and this movement gave rise to a number of others, including ar ndraiocht fein, a movement that emphasizes scholarly research and that has forty-three groves in the united states and two in canada. in austra

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rdition of jerry seinfeld and associates 22 scorched by the sun solar signs, circles, and serpents 459 23 "i fell in to a burning ring of fire" arnold schwarzenegger's 483 masonic ring, newt gingrich's t-rex dinosaur, and other mysterious messages on rings and neckties of the elite 24 ok-sign of the divine king 501 2 5 victory for the devil fabulous exploits of sir winston churchill 517 and other druid priests and llluminati servants 26 "every man and woman is a star" 537 27 lightning fall from heaven 557 28 blood red red stars, clenched fists, hammers and sickles, 563 and other signs and symbols of communist intrigue footnotes and references 589 index 599 more resources for you 621 about the author, texe marrs 623 introduction the occult script a colossal and monstrous conspiracy but let

he solar order of the temple, the modern-day knights templar, the vatican's knights of malta and knights of columbus, the order of the odd fellows, the order of ahepa, the order introduction 13 of skull and bones, the bohemian club, the pilgrims society, and a thousand or more other secret societies and orders, not to mention the many jewish cabalistic groups, satanic churches, and witchcraft and druid sects. knowledge of secret signs opens doors british satanist aleister crowley, a man who fancied himself the "wickedest man on the planet" was grand master of the ordo templi orientis (o.t.o) and also founded the mysterious and luciferian, order of astrum argentinium. he once ruefully and knowingly intimated that after he had independently learned and practiced how to do the secret handshak

useum) rejected truth and was consigned to hell. in heaven, jesus, of course, is believed to sit at the right hand of god, not the left. in ecclesiastes, a book of the old testament in the bible, it is said that "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left (eccles. 10:2) witches throughout history have danced in ritual circles to the left, that is, counterclockwise. druid priests do likewise as they dance and march around the holy stone at tara, shrine of mother earth. to blaspheme god, some satanists and witches derive pleasure in giving the sign of the cross with their left hands. but while witches and deep occultists are aware of the sinister nature and meaning of the left hand symbolically, one of the foremost masonic authorities evidently has a more favo

earth is to be hell and hell on earth: as above, so below. this is the meaning of the double-headed eagle; the androgynous joining of man and woman; the mixing of the yin and yang; the checkerboard, black and white floors of the masonic lodges; the mirror images of the rosicrucians; the sulphurous tale of beauty and the beast; the witches parable of the lovely lady vs. the crone on her broom; the druid/satanic/catholic alternating of black and white priest vestments; the front and obverse (hidden) sides of the great seal of the united states; the reversing of the cross and the reading of the lord's prayer backwards in satanic worship, ad naseum. all fields, all things, must be reversed. negative must be transmuted into positive. bad will be good. black shall be white. the ugly shall be adj

burns explains that because illuminism was so determined to keep the true nature of the order under wraps, its founder, weishaupt, ordered that the actual words "illuminati" and "illuminism" never be used in correspondence. instead they were to be replaced by the astrological symbol for the sun; that is, the circle with a dot in the middle.7 burns also gives evidence that the point within an arch-druid from pagan great britain in his ceremonial robes (from wellcome's ancient cymric medicine) scorched by the sun 463 the circle was used by the druids of britain, whose stone temples were circular with a single stone erected in the center. they believed this design conferred magical powers. flower power and magic circles the daisy flower, the marigold, and the sunflower also are indicative of

is a dead ringer for jack ruby, the jewish gangster and homosexual who assassinated lee harvey oswald. the nature conservancy, a radical environmental group, boasted in its march/april 1998 magazine that cnn founder ted turner, presidents bush and clinton, and vice president gore often wore oak-leaf ties to denote their support for environmental causes. the oak tree and its leaves are a staple of druid witchcraft and are popular as symbols among nature followers of the forest horned god pan. 488 codex magica president harry truman (left) and secretary of state dean acheson, both illuminati initiates, each wear neckties imprinted with "sun god" symbols. president gerald ford, a 33rd degree mason, wears a necktie with the "cross of baphomet" emblem of the occultic oto and british satanist al

wisdom" of course, this is not referring to the christian god, but to the ineffable, unknown god called ain soph in the cabala and as the evil, satanic "god of forces" in the bible's book of daniel. illustration in the herder dictionary of symbols (chiron publications, wilmette, illinois, 1986. 516 codex magica twenty-five victory for the devil fabulous exploits of sir winston churchill and other druid priests and illuminati servants a remarkable thing occurred with the hand so lifted, is that its shadow resembles the head and horns of the goat of baphomet..the symbol of black magic. the complete book of witchcraft b r i t a i n' s legendary world war ii prime minister, sir winston churchill, made the "v" sign famous. it was standard for the cigar-smoking, paunchy politician; he flashed th

he rabbis teach that the meaning of the hebrew letter for v (vau) is "nail" and nail is a secret title for satan (its corrupt meaning comes from the nails driven into the hands of jesus crucified) vau, or v, is the sixth letter in the hebrew alphabet, and, of course, the book of revelation reveals that the name of the beast, or antichrist, is coded with the number of triple 6, or 666. churchill a druid priest where did winston churchill learn of the satanic powers of the "v" sign? few people are aware that churchill was a freemason. stephen knight wrote an explosive expose, the brotherhood, that rocked the british isles when it was published some 15 years ago.5 in it, he unmasked many british nobles, police, judges, and politicians who were masons. among them: winston churchill, who, knigh

se, the brotherhood, that rocked the british isles when it was published some 15 years ago.5 in it, he unmasked many british nobles, police, judges, and politicians who were masons. among them: winston churchill, who, knight documented, was initiated in 1903 at lodge no. 3000 of the united lodge of great britain. however, even fewer people are aware that churchill was not only a mason but a witch druid! dr. stanley monteith, occult and secret society researcher and host of radio liberty out of california, states "churchill was an adept of the occult, having been inducted into the druids in 1908, and having pledged the occult oaths required of those who have entered into the world of freemasonry."6 monteith's sobering statements are backed up by miranda j. green's the world of the druids an

berty out of california, states "churchill was an adept of the occult, having been inducted into the druids in 1908, and having pledged the occult oaths required of those who have entered into the world of freemasonry."6 monteith's sobering statements are backed up by miranda j. green's the world of the druids and by john daniel's scarlet and the beast, two excellent resource books.7 rites of the druid witchcraft sea the rites and ceremonies of the druid witchcraft sect which has chapters both in great britain and in the united states are remarkably similar to those of freemasonry. they hearken back to the ancient mystery religions. 520 codex magica the burning man in the wicker cage some scholars are convinced that human sacrifice was practiced by the druids. julius caesar, roman general

e united states are remarkably similar to those of freemasonry. they hearken back to the ancient mystery religions. 520 codex magica the burning man in the wicker cage some scholars are convinced that human sacrifice was practiced by the druids. julius caesar, roman general who conquered britain for imperial rome, wrote of how brutal and furiously savage were the people under the influence of the druid priesthood. he also described the horror of the rite in which the druid priests and people would periodically choose a victim to be confined inside a huge wicker effigy. the wicker was set ablaze and the human victim consumed by the flames as the people celebrated and paraded in a circle carrying candles. even today, at the ruins of stonehenge in england, modern-day druids meet on festival o

g candles. even today, at the ruins of stonehenge in england, modern-day druids meet on festival occasions, wearing the appropriate white garb and carrying out rites and worship of the ancient gods. meanwhile, in nevada each year, hundreds of thousands attend the incredible "burning man" festival at which the sacrificial ritual of the burning wicker man is recreated.8 archbishop of england also a druid amazingly, the british press recently carried news reports, including pictures, of the druid initiation of a man, rowan williams, who just happens to be archbishop of canterbury, head of the church of england. williams told reporters that he saw no incompatibility in his duties as a pagan druid priest and those he has assumed as archbishop of the presumably christian anglican church of engla

while it is true that the true christian church, though tiny in numbers, lives on and is undefeated, the majority of modern-day pastors, ministers, and churchmen have departed from the faith and have no concept at all of genuine christian doctrine. the spectacle of the top, so-called "christian" clergyman of the entire british commonwealth, archbishop williams, being initiated as a wizard in the druid witchcraft sect and publicly boasting of it is proof positive that the devil and his illuminati have become the unacknowledged "masters" who run the christian establishment behind-the-scenes. the big name clergy and evangelists today merely follow the script laid down for them by their elite controllers. page from webster's dictionary where v sign is pictured but never defined or explained!

and evangelists today merely follow the script laid down for them by their elite controllers. page from webster's dictionary where v sign is pictured but never defined or explained! such words as "vulcanism "vulcanize" and "vulgar" are defined, however, in close proximity. vulcan is the ancient god of fire and destruction. victory for the devil 521 sir winston churchill, a crypto jew, a mason, a druid witch, and war-time prime minister of great britain, flashes his famous "v" sign. long used to represent a number of occultic tasks, including divine man, sexual license, and fire, churchill's frequent use spurred the use of the device by an uninformed populace as a sign of victory. 522 codex magica young winston churchill arrives for his druid initiation ceremony. was churchill taught the t

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rfs, the most innocent stories, were henceforth satanic, and the women who knew about the old legends and magic traditions were transformed 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 292 mystery religions and cults forthe common folk of europe, the middle ages were a time of fear, oppression, and despair. into witches. the traditional gatherings, the druid s festival on the eve of may day, the bacchanals, the diana feasts, became the witches sabbath the broom, symbol of the sacred hearth became an evil tool. the sexual rites of old, destined to stimulate the fertility of nature, were now the manifestations of a forbidden carnal lust. mating at random, a survival of communal customs now [were] an infringement of the most sacred laws. to the chu

eek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or body of thought that is all-encompassing and adhered to in an organized church or institution. ecstatic intense emotion of pleasure, happiness, joy or elation. electrodes two conductors through which electricity

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eek diaspora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning opinion or tenet, and from dokein, to seem good. a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or body of thought that is all-encompassing and adhered to in an organized church or institution. ecstatic intense emotion of pleasure, happiness, joy or elation. electrodes two conductors through which electricity

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ings of britain (1135) a classic work by geoffrey of monmouth (c. 1100.1154. merlin became the prophet associated with the quest for the holy grail.other accounts detail how merlin became trapped in a hawthorn tree, where he dwells forever. some scholars think, this version restores the story of myrddin, trapped by his madness in the forest. sources: monroe, douglas, ed. the lost books of merlyn: druid magic from the age of arthur. st. paul, minn: llewellyn, 1998. white, t. h. the book of merlyn: the unpublished conclusion to the once and future king. austin: university of texas press, 1988. merlin: real or fiction? the difficulty that most practitioners of abramelin magick encounter is that there are few words in any language that are able to fulfill the requirements of such productive sq

he truly began practicing magic, creating his own rituals based on those that he was able to find in books. bonewits entered berkeley as a psychology major but through the individual group study program was able to fashion his own course of study. robert larson, bonewits fs roommate, introduced him to druidism and initiated him into the reformed druids of north america. bonewits was ordained as a druid priest in october 1969. in 1970 he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in magic and thaumaturgy, the first person to do so at a western educational institution. the media attention revolving around bonewits fs degree resulted in his obtaining a book contract, and in 1971 real magic was published, presenting his insights on magic, ritual, and psychic abilities. in 1973 bonewits moved to

ng his insights on magic, ritual, and psychic abilities. in 1973 bonewits moved to st. paul, minnesota, where he married folksinger rusty elliot, and where he assumed the editorship of gnostica, a neopagan journal published by carl weschcke of llewellyn publications. the job lasted less than two years, but bonewits remained in the minneapolis/st. paul area for about another year and established a druid grove called the schismatic druids of north america. during this same period, bonewits combined interests with a number of jewish pagans and created the hasidic druids of north america. in 1973 he stated publicly that the alleged antiquity of wicca could not be supported by historical data. bonewits asserted that the craft as it was practiced in the twentieth century did not go back beyond g

anti-defamation league (aadl, a civil liberties organization for members of minority and alternative belief systems. bonewits and his wife divorced in 1976, and he decided to return to berkeley, where he was elected archdruid of the reformed druids of north america. after disagreements with longtime members, bonewits left the organization, and the druidic publication that he had established, the druid chronicler (later pentalpha journal, soon folded without his involvement. in 1979 he married selene kumin, but that relationship ended in 1982. in 1983 he 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 78 magic and sorcery was initiated into the new reformed order of the golden dawn, and in that same year he married actress sally eaton. bonewits and

and sacred objects. edison, n.j: castle books, 1988. trees many trees and plants are used as objects of power. hazel, the wood of choice for magic wands, was commonly used for divining rods as a means for locating sources of underground water so that wells could be dug. a hazel rod was used by st. patrick (fifth century c.e) to draw out the snakes of ireland, which he then cast out to sea. to the druid and other magicians, trees are a good source of radiant vitality and may be drawn upon for relief, and even cure, of backache conditions. many who are attuned to nature seek to create a tree charm to bring them strength. the prospective charm maker 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 objects of mystery and power 187 hazel is the wood of c

e the gauls inhabited this region on the river eure about 60 miles southwest of paris, some ancient priests of an unknown religion constructed a dolmen (two or more large upright stones with a space in between and covered by a large horizontal rock) and a well within a mound. the druids, celtic priests of gaul and britain, made the mound and dolmen a center for the study of their religion. here a druid priest had a vision of a virgin who would bear a child. to honor the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 230 places of mystery and power selection of books on the bermuda triangle (fortean picture library) 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 231 cahokia moun

elmed. under the supervision of druids, the theory goes, stonehenge was a sacred ceremonial site. the famous slaughter stone at stonehenge, which shows traces of red after a rain, was believed to have been an altar where druids performed human sacrifices. it was subsequently discovered that the redness derives from iron minerals in the slaughter stone. william stukeley (1687.1765) perpetuated the druid link to stonehenge in the 1740s with his book, stonehenge: a temple restor fd to the british druids (1740. stukeley identified the avenue leading into stonehenge as a procession route. back during the 1720s, he had discovered parallel lines of banks and ditches near stonehenge. he called the phenomenon a cursus, a latin word for racetrack, since he thought the lines were joined at the ends t

ring the 1720s, he had discovered parallel lines of banks and ditches near stonehenge. he called the phenomenon a cursus, a latin word for racetrack, since he thought the lines were joined at the ends to form an oval. stukeley contributed to a growing trend in great britain to recognize ancient britons, especially druids, as gbards h (poets) living in communion with nature. stukeley himself gwent druid h and joined an order that practiced secret druidic rites, and he assumed the name of chyndonax after a fabled french druid priest. sir j. norman lockyer (1836.1920, who was once director of the solar physics observatory in london and the founder of the journal nature, published the dawn of astronomy in 1894. the book argued that ancient temples in egypt were aligned for stellar observations

g hydrocarbons derived from petroleum and used as a cement or mortar for surfacing roads. cubit from the latin cubitum, meaning forearm or elbow. an ancient unit of length, 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 279 based on the distance from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow which approximated 17 to 22 inches. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. frieze from the latin phrygium (opus, meaning work or craftmanship. a decorative architectural band, usually running along a wall, just below the ceiling, often sculpted with figurines or ornaments. fulcrum from the latin fulcire, meaning gto prop up or support. h t

ora meaning to scatter or disperse. refers to the period in history when the jewish people were forced to scatter in countries outside of palestine after the babylonian captivity. dogma from greek stem word dogmat, meaning gopinion h or gtenet, h and from dokein, gto seem good. h a belief or set of beliefs, either political, religious, philosophical, or moral and considered to be absolutely true. druid someone who worships the forces of nature as in the ancient celtic religion. can also refer to a priest in the celtic religion. ecclesiasticism principles, practices, activities, or body of thought that is all-encompassing and adhered to in an organized church or institution. ecstatic intense emotion of pleasure, happiness, joy or elation. electrodes two conductors through which electricity

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gh the point by means of spiral motion. it is the only way to get from there to here. it is also why the dervishes of turkey spin themselves into delirium and call their god the axis of the world. i symbols of the spiral acting along the ray abound. the cone is the traditional headgear of the wizard. cave paintings in france depict men dancing in cone, s common- shaped hats. merlin, the counselor druid at the court of king arthur i ly pictured in illustrations as a magician in a tall sky-blue cone hat with stars and planets painted on it. in the popular press, witches are always shown wearing black cone hats-the black color intended to suggest both evil and the unknown. although practicing members of wiccan covens laugh at these pictures, they are not so far off the mark as real witches mi

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ld certainly result in either death, madness, or (hopefully) the power of inspiration to become a great poet or bard (this is, by the way, identical to certain incidents in the first branch of the 'mabinogion) this was also the night when the serpents of the island would roll themselves into a hissing, writhing ball in order to engender the 'glain, also called the 'serpent's egg 'snake stone, or 'druid's egg. anyone in possession of this hard glass bubble eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 23 would wield incredible magical powers. even merlyn himself (accompanied by his black dog) went in search of it, according to one ancient welsh story. snakes were not the only creatures active on midsummer's eve. according to british faery lore, this night was second on

ifice performed by druids in all of history! nor is there any archeological evidence to support the charge. if, for example, human sacrifices had been performed at the same ritual sites year after year, there would be physical traces. yet there is not a scrap. nor is there any native tradition or history which lends support. in fact, insular tradition seems to point in the opposite direction. the druid's reverence for life was so strict that they refused to lift a sword to defend themselves when massacred by roman soldiers on the isle of mona. irish brehon laws forbade a druid to touch a weapon, and any soul rash enough to unsheathe a sword in the presence of a druid would be executed for such an outrage! jesse weston, in her brilliant study of the four hallows of british myth 'from ritual

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stess belts a sword on and is thought of as a man for the occasion. but although woman can on occasion take man's place, man can never take woman's place. this may derive from the time of the associations of druidesses of whom the romans spoke as witches. whether these were true druidesses i do not know. it seems to have been a separate religious organisation, possibly under the rule of the chief druid, much in the same way that there was a priest or someone who might turn up at a witches' meeting and be acknowledged chief who came to be called 'the devil' in mediaeval times. i think the use of the witches' circle, in magic, may have come from the druid, or rather the pre-druid, people, who built stonehenge and avebury and who made use of it to concentrate the powers generated. it is a dir

this. it is quite possible that the main parts of the cult might have been brought over from italy about the time of the renaissance or even later; but if they were, it would have been as a fully developed witch cult, which was then joined on to the local covens. i fancy that certain practices, such as the use of the circle to keep the power in, were local inventions, derived from the use of the druid or pre-druid circle. at one time i believed the whole cult was directly descended from the northern european culture of the stone age, uninfluenced by anything else; but i now think that it was influenced by the greek and roman mysteries which originally may have come from egypt. but while it is fascinating to consider the cult existing in direct descent from ancient egypt, we must take into

ctice, she always appoints her husband if he has sufficient rank; but she may appoint anyone who is eligible, including herself; she belts on a sword and acts as a man. in the old days it was often a distinguished visitor who was appointed. in the times when the people of the heaths held their meetings the high priest was a man of great learning in the cult, probably a tribal chief, or possibly a druid, and most likely everyone would know who he was. he was the horned god, received divine honours and possibly took precedence of the high priestess; but when the people of the mixed races became strong in the cult, i think there came a time when the masked (unknown) man took his place, and he was most likely a norman manorial lord or local churchman who protected the cult in secret. it is ver

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

s confucius the man on learning reciprocity religion gentlemen from the old testament psalm 104 psalm 8 from the new testament sermon on the mount i corinthians 13 sayings from the zoroastrian prayer for guidance sayings of mohammed morning star overwhelming sayings of the unitarians out of the stars sayings of baha u llah on the soul sayings from the poets a faery song the prophet fergus and the druid sayings of the psychologists green book volume two celtic, native american,african, hindu& greek writings english poetry stopping by the woods jabberwocky welsh and irish poetry the waterfall sadness in spring rain outside winter and warfare mountain snow bright trees spoils of annwn cad goddeau leadership sunshine through my window suggested further reading thirteen fold mysteries nichol s

t even while it systematically shuns dogmatism, it can and must still lead. it must provide the opportunity for discovery, which many of its members have never had. it must, in short, provide in its written meditations a taste of the writings of the world s great religions, in the hope that this taste will stimulate a wider search for knowledge and wisdom in the quest for religious truth. as arch-druid, you are charged with preparing meditations which will prove meaningful to the congregation. in order to do this, you must choose selections from the buddhists, the hindus, the taoists, the muslims, and many others, as well as from the bible. you must provide a wide variety in order to give truth a chance. the best method is to study widely yourself. but this can be too time-consuming. i the

nd themselves in desperate need of a meditation at the last minute, i offer the following collection. it is hoped that the collection, although short, is representative and especially useful for reformed druids. david a. frangquist editor, 1966 preface to 1976 edition in the first few years after the foundation of reformed druidism at carleton college, there became attached to the office of arch- druid three collections of written material, which became known collectively as the three books of the arch-druid. handed down over the years from arch-druid to arch-druid, they have acquired for the druids at carleton some measure of venerability, such as the scant age of the reform can confer. the first of these, the book of the worship of the earth-mother, preserves much of the liturgy used in

own religious scruples; and while much is still drawn from the book of worship, its influence is less than it once was. the second book, the archives, though of much historical interest, has hardly ever borne much influence on the religious activity at carleton. by contrast, the book of written meditations has waxed large in the consciousness of the carleton grove, larger even, perhaps, than the druid chronicles. these meditations were gathered by david frangquist as an aid to lazy arch-druids (or so he said, and the collection was bound in green covers which readily distinguish it from the black covers of the book of worship and the blue covers of the archives; indeed at carleton it is called simply the green book and that has become in effect its title. these meditations found their way

n beliefs; areas rarely explored before that time. as a result, the green book has not received much attention since due to its monotheistic and asian foci. however for me, the green book is a powerful reminder of the breadth of sources that reformed druidism can and should draw upon during the searches for religious truth. i have been especially encouraged to follow david s request that the arch-druid should collect and distribute meditations conducive to druidism (a vague and daunting task. i have, as of 1994, published two other volumes of meditation; which are just as dubious 228 legally as the original green book. however, my green books have failed to garner as much enthusiasm as the first green book. perhaps it is a far more difficult task than i understood when i first began to pub

ding publisher, 1995 another fine product of the drynemton press publishing history 1st printing 1966 c.e. 2nd printing 60s& early 70s 3rd printing 1976 c.e. 4th printing seventies and eighties 5th printing 1993 c.e. 6th printing 1996 c.e. in arda note: no particular statement, dogmatic point or doctrine expressed in these collected works should be construed as being the beliefs of one particular druid or of all reformed druids. they are exercises and words to be thought upon and not necessarily agreed with. sayings of the ancient druids (on religion) one god supreme the universe does sway with rev rence his omnipotence obey; and know, that all we possibly can name, from heav n itself originally came; let no mean thoughts of dissolution fright, or damp you spirits with the dews of night. t

ve: give to these children, new from the world, rest far from men. is anything better, anything better? tell us it then: we who are old, old and gay, o so old! thousands of years, thousands of years, if all were told: selection from: w.b. yeats. a faery song, from the rose. in m.l. rosenthal, selected poems and two plays of william butler yeats. new york: collier books, 1962. p.12 (fergus and the druid) fergus. this whole day have i followed in the rocks, and you have changed and flowed from shape to shape, first as a raven on whose ancient wings scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed a weasel moving on from stone to stone, and now at last you wear a human shape, a thing grey man half lost in gathering night. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch knights? fergus. this w

now at last you wear a human shape, a thing grey man half lost in gathering night. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch knights? fergus. this would i say, most wise of living souls: young subtle conchubar sat close by me when i gave judgment, and his words were wise, and what to me was burden without end, to him seemed easy, so i laid the crown upon his head to cast away my sorrow. druid. what would you, king of the proud red branch kings? fergus. a king and proud! and that is my despair. i feast amid my people on the hill, and pace the woods, and drive my chariot-wheels in the white border of the murmuring sea; and still i feel the crown upon my head. druid. what would you, fergus? fergus. be no more a king, but learn the dreaming wisdom that is yours. druid. look on my thi

he crown upon my head. druid. what would you, fergus? fergus. be no more a king, but learn the dreaming wisdom that is yours. druid. look on my thin grey hair and hollow cheeks and on these my hands that may not lift the sword, this body trebling like a wind-blown reed. no woman s loved me, no man sought my help. fergus. a king is but a foolish labourer who wastes his blood to be another s dream. druid. take, if you must, this little bag of dreams; unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. fergus. i see my life go drifting like a river from change to change; i have been many things a green drop in the surge, a gleam of light upon a sword, a fir-tree on a hill, an old slave grinding at a heavy quern, a king sitting upon a chair of gold and all these things were wonderful and great; bu

dreams; unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. fergus. i see my life go drifting like a river from change to change; i have been many things a green drop in the surge, a gleam of light upon a sword, a fir-tree on a hill, an old slave grinding at a heavy quern, a king sitting upon a chair of gold and all these things were wonderful and great; but now i have grown nothing, knowing all. ah! druid, druid, how great webs of sorrow lay hidden in the small slate-coloured thing! selection from: w.b. yeats. fergus and the druid, from the rose. in m.l. rosenthal, selected poems and two plays of william butler yeats. new york: collier books, 1962. p.7-8 (the prophet) and an old priest said, speak to us of religion. and he said: have i spoken this day of aught else? is not religion all deeds

exceptions, originally from old books and are probably safely past the copy-right limit, so feel free to share. it was originally titled celtic and english writings and released in 1993, during a flurry of activity when i released new printings of two volumes of green books, the book of the african jedi knight, book 2 of poetry, the dead lake scrolls, the dead bay scrolls and a new edition of the druid chronicles. i was a bit overly busy. the original edition of the green book of meditations, volume two had quite a different content than this edition, editted for arda. the english poetry section is the same, but the irish and welsh poetry section was rearranged in order to reduce space. i removed the 7 translations by matthews and nichol s to avoid copyright problems here. similiarly i hav

e went snicker-snack! he left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back -and hast thou slain the jabberwock? come to my arms, my beamish boyl 0 frabjous day calooh! callay- he chortled in his joy. twas brillig, and the slimy toves did gyre and gamble in the wabe; all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. 247 irish& welsh poetry most of the druidic material used by modern druid groups has survived in the form of obscure poetry. many groups go to great lengths to read into many of these poems for druidical material, hidden by the bards during the persecutions. since some of you will progress on to more serious druid groups, it is good to be familiar with some of the more stressed reading material. only the english translations have been provided. in the original, th

f tethra? what person, what god, forms weapons in a fort? in a fort that nourishes satirists, chants a petition, divides the ogam letters, separates a fleet, has sung praises? a wise satirist. amergin s song (from taliesin by edward williams) at once, the wind dropped and the sea became flat calm. the milesians sailed on and despite some losses, landed finally at inber colptha. there amergin, the druid, spoke this rhapsody: i am the wind upon the sea, i am a wave upon the ocean, i am the sound of the sea, i am a stag of seven points, i am a bull of seven fights, i am a bull a cliff, i am a hawk upon a cliff, i am a teardrop of the sun, i am the fairest of blossoms, i am a boar of boldness, i am a salmon in a pool, i am a lake on a plain, i am a word of skill, i am a battle-waging spear of

picked up along the way? perhaps they will inspire you to search more widely for what you already know, or vice a versa? as always, all opinions expressed here belong to their authors or cultures and do not necessarily represent the views of other reformed druids. the main resources for this last collection in the green books were the following: racial proverbs by swlwyn gurney champion, 1938. a druid s path: readings along the way by sterling lee few, jr (aka treebeard1@aol.com) of adf, keltria, and obod. unpublished as yet. 1995. crazy wisdom by nisker, 1990. wisdom from the ancients: proverbs, maxims and quotations. compiled by menahem mansoor of the university of madison wisconsin in 1994. the dune series by frank herbert, 1966. quotations for the new age by rosenberg, 1978. peter s q

ld state if my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture that is immortality enough for me. and as much as anyone deserves. ed abbey. earth-wise, we are as altars on which the divine fires can burn. the stone of the druids is still within our bodies, as it was within theirs; for holy sacrifice or sacrilegious exploitation. graham howe, the mind of the druid in metaphysics, the notion that the earth and all that s on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. it is an indoor philosophy. ed abbey we shall never achieve harmony with the land anymore than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. in these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. aldo leopold education

ing only surprise for a week. amharic do not become too hard, lest you get broken. ukrainian sharp acids corrode their own containers. albanian to an inverted vessel, nothing adheres. sikh if the evil will not leave you, then leave it. bosnian he who embraces much collects little. french no hemlock is drunk out of earthenware mugs. latin pass at a distance from him who chops wood. maltese to be a druid was to be a master of the art of living. graham howe, mind of the druid to remain whole, be twisted. to become straight, let yourself be bent, to become full, be hollow. tao te ching. einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. jacob bronowski do not catch everything that swims. russian concrete is heavy, iron is hard but the grass will prevail. ed abbey when logic fails, an

n ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the north star, to serve as a guiding point. ed abbey the number of things we can really make our own is limited. we cannot drink the ocean be we ever so thirsty. a cup of water from the spring is all we need. john burroughs the largest tree was once a seed; and the most complex of all our machines was once only an idea. graham howe, the mind of the druid the willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows a wall against the wind. this is the willows purpose. rev. mother gauis mohaim, dune here is a man who uses a pearl like that of the marquis of sui to shoot at a bird at a distance of 10,000 feet. all men will laugh at him. why? because the thing he uses is of great value and what he wishes to get is of little. and

e chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward. planet steward, stephen levine metaphysics is a cobweb the mind weaves around things. planet steward, stephen levine questions are more likely to make good communications than dogmatic statements, which usually only create resistance, shutting the door which they were designed to force open. graham howe, the mind of the druid the fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. george benard shaw a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. saul bellow i consider myself a hindu, christian, moslem, jew, buddhist and confucian. mohandas ghandi to become a popular religion, it is only

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nces in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is good for healing, peace, protection and inner harmony. myrt

other and crone, is an icon also seen throughout the classical world. moon time the earliest calendars were based on the lunar cycle and moon time is still used in the modern world in both pagan and religious rituals: the chinese new year is a lunar festival and the chinese ritual year follows the moon and the native americans calculate their months by the moon. the coligny calendar of the gallic druids, which runs from full moon to full moon, was named after the place in france where it was discovered in 1897, engraved on bronze. similar calculations were inscribed in stone at knowth, one of the sacred ancient megalithic sites in ireland. many of the original lunar calendars were based on the natural and agricultural world and helped in establishing an agricultural calendar, noting times

or any cause; the interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields. sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attributed with both fertility and healing powers. winter

tonehenge in wiltshire, are aligned to the summer solstice sunrise, as are a number of stone medicine wheels in america and canada. these places, built on centres of great power, have accumulated not only the power of the thousands of midsummer suns that have shone on this day since their creation, but the hopes and prayers of those who have and still gather at such places. these include priests, druids, healers, warriors, monarchs and ordinary men and women who connect with fusion of sky and earth energies, the sacred and ceremonial marriage of god and goddess on this most magical of days. there is a long-standing pagan tradition of lighting bonfires on beacon hills to strengthen the power of the sun before it began its decline. on midsummer day, fire wheels were rolled down the hillsides

over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast formed a sympathetic magical gesture to ensure that there would be enough food during the winter, by displaying and then eating in celebration the finest fruits of the harvest. druids traditionally climb to the top of a hill to take leave of the summer sun as the nights will get longer. michaelmas, the day of st michael, the archangel of the sun, is celebrated on 29 september. st michael was patron saint of high places and replaced the pagan sun deities in christianity. today, global rituals concentrate on positive steps to ensure enough food, shelter and resources for v

evic lords of the watchtower. dhoop: an incense stick like a slender rope, from india. the divinity: generic term for the ultimate source of goodness, light and creation. djinn: an invisible, shapeshifting creature of fire and air, originating in the middle east. in islamic tradition, djinns live in a parallel universe and so are invisible, created, it is said, before mortals from smokeless fire. druids: celtic high priests and wise men (and women) who preserved a common culture, religion, history, laws, scholarship, healing, magic and science amongst the disparate celtic tribes. there is historical evidence of druids in ireland, england, wales and gaul and it would seem that they also held sway in the celtic settlements of spain, italy, galatia and the danube valley, although under a diff

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might be tempted to waste more time on you; but there is blake. blake is more obscure than you are; but we have this guarantee, based on experience, that when we do attain to his meaning, it starts up 329 luminous, titanic, splendid. with you, we discover only commonplace_ the commonplace of a maudlin undertaker replying to the toast of the ladies at the annual dinner of the antique order of arch-druids. blake fashioned his intricate caskets of symbol to conceal pearls; you pile up dead leaves to cover rotten apples. you are attis with a barren fig-leaf. it is true that a sort of dreary music runs monotonously through your verses, only jarred by the occasional discords. it is as if an eternal funeral passed along, and the motor-hearse had something wrong with the ignition_ and the exhaust

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chinnation scant of grace, as if a thirty couple hounds were in his belly! knight, awake! ah! well he woke! his love an scorn grapple in death-throe at his throat "lead me away (quoth he "my men! woe, woe is me was ever born so blind a bat, so gross a goat, as palamede the saracen" 87 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit's cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scar

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arly aryan, dating from the time of momu- the thinker; then again the development of the kundalini- serpent fire- world's mother, also termed rousing the brahm- is said to be shown as issuing from the foreheads of early 165 egyptian kings; apollonius of tyana, a contemporary of our jesus, visited the gymnosophists of the upper nile, but said that they were not equal to those of india. the british druids must have had a knowledge of the "serpent fire" in their secret instruction, or why exclaim "i am a serpent" the mythraic mysteries, and all the eranoi societies, were equally protected by the laws of solon seven centuries b.c, and mr pryse observes that only once does the word halleluiah occur in the bible, yet we know that it formed the close of a chant in the "rites of purification" in a

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ims were investigated in depth by the sfpd, the fbi, and the us army cid. no charges were ever made in any jurisdiction, and the evidence has shown dr. aquino and lilith aquino to be innocent of any such activity. full details can be read in the alt.pagan post, dated sun jun 02, 22:14, from: scratch@gladstone.uoregon.edu, subj: re: curio courts the caw. 7.6.5 other occultists- why should wiccans, druids, and other types of pagans defend those who call themselves "satanists" against the christian majority? i've never understood why wiccans, druids, and others might think we want their defending. there are ethical and social reasons to do it, and that's why setians generally defend other pagans against discrimination and other forms of attack, but satanists don't need others to defend them

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es traces des giants, and of various learned works on the ruins of stonehenge* carnac and west hoadley, give far better and more reliable information upon this particular subject. in those regions- true forests of rocks- immense monoliths are found "some weighing over 500,000 kilograms (cambry. these "hinging stones" of salisbury plain are believed to be the remains of a druidical temple. but the druids were historical men and not cyclopes, nor giants. who then, if not giants, could ever raise such masses (especially those at carnac and west hoadley, range them in such symmetrical order that they should represent the planisphere, and place them in such wonderful equipoise that they seem to hardly touch the ground, are set in motion at the slightest touch of the finger, and would yet resist

nature, and were made referable to metaphysics and psychology as much as to physiology "the principle of sevening- as the author says "was introduced, and the number seven supplied a sacred type that could be used for manifold purposes; and it was so used. for "the seven souls of the pharaoh are often mentioned in the egyptian texts. seven souls or principles in man were identified by our british druids. the rabbins also ran the number of souls up to seven; so, likewise, do the karens of india" and then, the author tabulates the two teachings- the esoteric and the egyptian- and shows that the latter had the same series and in the same order (esoteric) indian. egyptian. 1. rupa, body or element of form. 1. kha, body. 2. prana, the breath of life. 2. ba, the soul of breath. 3. astral body. 3

p. 4[[vol. 2, page] 754 the secret doctrine nor were all such cyclopean structures intended for sepulchres. it is with the so-called druidical remains, such as carnac in brittany and stonehenge in great britain, that the travelling initiates above alluded to had to do. and these gigantic monuments are all symbolic records of the world's history. they are not druidical, but universal. nor did the druids build them, for they were only the heirs to the cyclopean lore left to them by generations of mighty builders and "magicians" both good and bad. it will always be a subject of regret that history, rejecting a priori the actual existence of giants, has preserved us so little of the records of antiquity concerning them. yet in nearly every mythology- which after all is ancient history- the gi

and four hundred thousand years earlier they must have been in proportion to men in our days as the brobdingnagians were to the lilliputians. the atlanteans of the middle period were called the great dragons, and the first symbol of their tribal deities, when the "gods" and the divine dynasties had forsaken them, was that of a giant serpent. the mystery veiling the origin and the religion of the druids, is as great as that of their supposed fanes is to the modern symbologist, but not to the initiated occultists. their priests were the descendants of the last atlanteans, and what is known of them is sufficient to allow the inference that they were eastern priests akin to the chaldeans and indians, though little more. it may be inferred that they symbolized their deity as the hindus do thei

deity as the hindus do their vishnu, as the egyptians did their mystery god, and as the builders of the ohio great-serpent mound worshipped theirs- namely under the form of the "mighty serpent" the emblem of the eternal deity time (the hindu kala. pliny called them the "magi of the gauls and britons" but they were more than that. the author of "indian antiquities" finds much affinity between the druids and the brahmins of india. dr. borlase points to a close analogy between them and the magi of persia; others will see an identity between them and the orphic priesthood of thrace: simply because they were connected, in their esoteric teachings, with the universal wisdom religion, and thus presented affinities with the exoteric worship of all. like the hindus, the greeks and romans (we speak

a close analogy between them and the magi of persia; others will see an identity between them and the orphic priesthood of thrace: simply because they were connected, in their esoteric teachings, with the universal wisdom religion, and thus presented affinities with the exoteric worship of all. like the hindus, the greeks and romans (we speak of the initiates, the chaldees and the egyptians, the druids believed in the doctrine of a succession of worlds, as also in that of seven "creations (of new continents) and transformations of the face of the earth, and in a seven-fold night and day for each earth or globe (see "esoteric buddhism. wherever the serpent with the egg is found, there this tenet was surely present. their dracontia are a proof of it. this belief was so universal that, if we

is septempartite because of the seven globes or spheres which compose the chain. hence the further meaning given in vendidad xix. 39, showing that "qaniratha alone is combined with imat 'this (earth, while all other karshvares are combined with the word 'avat 'that' or those- upper earths" nothing could be plainer. the same may be said of the modern comprehension of all other ancient beliefs. the druids understood the meaning of the sun in taurus, therefore, when, while all the fires were extinguished on the 1st of november, their sacred and inextinguishable fires alone remained to illumine the horizon, like those of the magi and the modern zoroastrians. and like the early fifth race and later chaldees, the greeks, and again like the christians, who do the same to this day, without suspect

a peasant girl say to boor standing by her "teach an maddin nag (behold the morning star, pointing to the planet venus, the maddena nag of the chaldeans[[vol. 2, page] 760 the secret doctrine. strabo speaks of an island near to britannia "where ceres and persephone were worshipped with the same rites as in samothrace (lib. iv) and this island was sacred ierna" where a perpetual fire was lit. the druids believed in the rebirth of man, not as lucian explains "that the same spirit shall animate a new body, not here, but in a different world" but in a series of re-incarnations in this same world; for as diodorus says, they declared that the souls of men, after determinate periods, would pass into other bodies* these tenets came to the fifth race aryans from their predecessors of the fourth ra

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tarian script. from their earliest adaption into germanic usage they served for divinatory and ritual uses. there are more variations of runes to be found than any other alphabet, it seems. there are three main types: germanic, scandinavian and anglo-saxon. they each, in turn, have any number of subdivisions/ variations (see following page. ogam bethluisnion the early kelts and their priests, the druids, had 175 176/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft looking first at the germanic, there are basically twenty-four different runes employed, though variations can be found in different areas. a common name for the germanic runes is futhark, after the first six letters('th' is one letter: f. in the scandinavian (danish and swedish-norwegian, or norse) are found sixteen runes, again with (in

rouble there is (as w. b. crow explains in precious stones: their occult power and hidden significance) that "there are different scales of correspondences and under one circumstance one scale should be applied, whilst under another a different scale holds good. no natural object is pure sun, pure moon or pure saturn. the safest way to use stones for healing, then, is in the manner of the ancient druids: go by the color of the stone and apply the same principles used in color healing above. for example, you know that yellow is good for intestinal and bowel disorders and menstrual problems. for these problems, then, wear a yellow stone such as yellow diamond, jasper, topaz, beryl, quartz, amber, etc. the stone should be placed on the afflicted area for at least an hour each day and should b

rescent moon, p.o. box 652, camarillo, ca 93011-0652. circle wicca circle was begun in 1974 by selena fox and jim alan. its headquarters are at circle sanctuary, a 200 acre nature preserve and organic herb farm in the rolling hills of southwestern wisconsin. circle coordinates circle network "an international exchange and contact service for wiccans, neo-pagans, pantheists, goddess folk, shamans, druids, eco-feminists, native american medicine people, seers, ceremonial magicians, mystics and others on related paths" they publish an annual source, which i recommend to the seeker, the circle guide to pagan resources. i also recommend their quarterly newspaper, circle network news. circle sponsors a variety of seminars, concerts and workshops at their home base and around the country. at leas

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nces in love; it is frequently used in mother goddess magick. lily of the valley lily of the valley increases mental abilities, brings happiness and restores joy. marigold marigold is used for dreams and guarding against infidelity. it is effective in rituals concerning legal matters, luck and money. mimosa use mimosa for protection, love, prophetic dreams and purification. mistletoe known to the druids as the all-healer, mistletoe is for healing sorrows, overcoming injustice and finding what is lost. it is also good for male potency. moss moss is used for good fortune, prosperity, money and permanence, whether in work or relationships. it frequently appears in water magick and divination (use with candles on water. myrrh myrrh is good for healing, peace, protection and inner harmony. myrt

other and crone, is an icon also seen throughout the classical world. moon time the earliest calendars were based on the lunar cycle and moon time is still used in the modern world in both pagan and religious rituals: the chinese new year is a lunar festival and the chinese ritual year follows the moon and the native americans calculate their months by the moon. the coligny calendar of the gallic druids, which runs from full moon to full moon, was named after the place in france where it was discovered in 1897, engraved on bronze. similar calculations were inscribed in stone at knowth, one of the sacred ancient megalithic sites in ireland. many of the original lunar calendars were based on the natural and agricultural world and helped in establishing an agricultural calendar, noting times

interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields [insert pic p257- sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, seite 156 wicca01.txt county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero gods of old ireland. every village would have its beltain fire, which was attributed with both fertility and h

tonehenge in wiltshire, are aligned to the summer solstice sunrise, as are a number of stone medicine wheels in america and canada. these places, built on centres of great power, have accumulated not only the power of the thousands of midsummer suns that have shone on this day since their creation, but the hopes and prayers of those who have and still gather at such places. these include priests, druids, healers, warriors, monarchs and ordinary men and women who connect with fusion of sky and earth energies, the sacred and ceremonial marriage of god and goddess on this most magical of days. there is a long-standing pagan tradition of lighting bonfires on beacon hills to strengthen the power of the sun before it began its decline. on midsummer day, fire wheels were rolled down the hillsides

over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast formed a sympathetic magical gesture to ensure that there would be enough food during the winter, by displaying and then eating in celebration the finest fruits of the harvest. druids traditionally climb to the top of a hill to take leave of the summer sun as the nights will get longer. michaelmas, the day of st michael, the archangel of the sun, is celebrated on 29 september. st michael was patron saint of high places and replaced the pagan sun deities in christianity. today, global rituals concentrate on positive steps to ensure enough food, shelter and resources for v

evic lords of the watchtower. dhoop: an incense stick like a slender rope, from india. the divinity: generic term for the ultimate source of goodness, light and creation. djinn: an invisible, shapeshifting creature of fire and air, originating in the middle east. in islamic tradition, djinns live in a parallel universe and so are invisible, created, it is said, before mortals from smokeless fire. druids: celtic high priests and wise men (and women) who preserved a common culture, religion, history, laws, scholarship, healing, magic and science amongst the disparate celtic tribes. there is historical evidence of druids in ireland, england, wales and gaul and it would seem that they also held sway in the celtic settlements of spain, italy, galatia and the danube valley, although under a diff

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nd are, to place these serpent bloodlines in all positions of power worldwide and thus form a reptilian, centrally controlled, fascist state. we are now getting very close to that. the danaans also settled on cyprus (later controlled by the knights templar) and in ancient times it was known as la-dan or the "isle of dan".55 the name of the isle of man in the irish sea, a place so important to the druids, has the same origin, no doubt. the taurus mountains in turkey, the baleric islands, and syria (sirius) were 42 children of the matrix among other danaan settlements and they travelled from atlantis to britain where they became known as tuatha de danaan or the "people of the sea. these carried the anunnaki reptilian bloodlines. the female amazons were another branch of the atlanteans and le

ed by the same leader (a fact very significant to the christian story. but official history still says they were not connected and this is taught in schools and universities to this day. waddell proved that this sumer empire was also established in the british isles and ireland, and introduced the same religious and cultural themes there. this was the inherited knowledge later administered by the druids, successors in europe to the atlantean/lemurian mystery school priests. these rulers of the sumer empire, he established, were what i am calling in this book the white "nordic" race, the blueeyed blonds. what waddell did not realise, of course, is that these bloodlines were of extraterrestrial origin and that their ruling bloodlines had interbred with a reptilian 46 t atlantis revisited 47

temples are located on these points. the ancient atlantean- lemurian-sumerian knowledge has been passed on through this covert network while being systematically suppressed among the people. religion has condemned it as "evil, and science" has dismissed it as nonsense. and the source of both religion and "science" is the same illuminati network. surprised? it is claimed by historians that british druids built the stone circles, but they confuse using them with building them. groups use them today for rituals, but no one is suggesting that these groups built them! archaeologists find druidic remains on these sites and assume they created them. they do the same with the later mayans of central america and the incas of south america. the later druidic religion and knowledge was brought by the

sh isles was an atlantean/lemurian colony before the deluge and the bloodlines returned there as the phoenicians, egyptians, and other names, when the sumer empire began to expand to the centres of its former motherlands. the carriers of the atlantean/lemurian knowledge in britain and other parts of europe were called the naddred or adders, a welsh name for serpent.49 they are better known as the druids, a gaelic word in ireland meaning a wise man, sorcerer, or serpent, and they were called the "snake priests. an irish manuscript claims that the adepts of the druidic arts descended from the tuatha de danaan "the people of the serpent goddess dana".50 apparently the tuatha de danaan were also called the sumaire. these were the former atlantean peoples who settled in asia minor (turkey) and

nt pagan ritual sites. notre dame("our lady) in paris was built on a site of worship to the goddess artemis/diana- el. the reptilian bloodline, the merovingians, worshipped this goddess on that same location and notre dame is covered in reptilian gargoyles. the great cathedral at chartres, not far from paris, was built by the knights templar on a sacred pagan ritual site. it was so important that druids came from all over europe to attend the ceremonies. chartres cathedral, like notre dame, was a centre for worship of the "black madonna- or el, the dragon queen. until the late 18th century, pilgrims to chartres participated in a "christian" ritual that paid homage to el or the black madonna. after praying and taking mass in the cathedral, they would descend through a northern passageway to

anis eventually became the royal line of pharaohs, people like seti("set's man) and setnakt("set is mighty. this was the serpent cult. holle-wood, the land of el-lusion i can't emphasise enough that to understand what we call the present we have to understand the past, and this is why the anunnaki- illuminati have concentrated so much effort on rewriting history. even hollywood is an example. the druids were tree worshippers, especially the oak. the holly was their most sacred symbol because it was sacred to mother holle or hel, the goddess of the underworld. thus we have holle or holly-wood (hel-wood, the "place of magic" and home of the illuminati's mass propaganda and conditioning machine in california. the holly wood was a favourite source of magic wands. the holly or "holy" was associ

is and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulainn of ireland; deva tat, codom, and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes; mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillaham of the druids; thor, son of odin, of gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentaut and quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divine teacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi, ieo, lao-kium, chiang-ti, and tien of china; ixion and quirnus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; mohammed or mahomet of arabia, dahzbog of the slavs; jupiter, jove, and quirinius

ms its most important rituals at the key vortex points on the global grid because their sickening ceremonies suppress the frequency of the earth's energy field and therefore keep humanity in the same vibrational prison. it is also easier for an entity to manifest in these interdimensional vortexes. the isle of wight has always been a sacred place for those who know of the earth's energy grid. the druids had three centres for their elite figure 35: the isle of wight, the "diamond isle, off england's south coast. a sacred centre for the druids and a massive location for satanism today "arch druids (hence archbishop) in the british isles. they were located on the "magical isles, the isle of man, the isle of anglesey in north wales, and the isle of wight. researcher brian desborough says that

the blood-sucking vampire in what we call romania. this is the region of dracula, and many of the most important illuminati bloodlines are connected with the area. lavey, it is claimed, discovered marilyn monroe working in the strip clubs and used his contacts to make her a movie star. more like she was a multiple personality mind-slave. hollywood (holly-wood or helle-wood, the sacred wood of the druids) is awash with satanists, as is the entertainment industry in general. among lavey's connections in entertainment and politics were president john f. kennedy, frank sinatra, sammy davis jr, peter lawford, and jayne mansfield. sammy davis jr was an early member of the church of satan and the actress jayne mansfield, who died when she was beheaded in a "car crash" in 1967, was a high priestes

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became theterm for eating human flesh, cannibal.13 moloch, the name of that flying lizard imentioned earlier, was another name for nimrod-tammuz. tam means to perfect andmuz means to burn. you can see the symbolism of tammuz-moloch, therefore, in therituals of burning children alive in honour of this deity which, staggeringly, still go ontoday. the beltane ritual later performed in britain by the druids on may 1st, may day,involved the burning of children in the belly of a huge wicker effigy of a man. this wasinherited from the babylonians when the brotherhood expanded across europe. indeedit may well be that the reptilians had once based themselves in what is now the unitedkingdom and ireland before they moved their main focus to the near east and africa.the feast of tammuz was on june 23

a perfect description of america approached from the atlantic. this is surely thetrue origin of the name america, and not amerigo v espucci, the explorer from florencewho was the contractor for christopher columbus in spain. the isle of man was alsopopulated by the irish aryans and it became a very sacred land. it was one of twoplaces in britain, anglesea in north wales was other, where the arch druids werebased. these were the highest ranked members of the ancient british priestly class, whoinherited their knowledge from the phoenicians and later the babylonian brotherhood.the isle of mans three legs symbol is not unlike that ancient phoenician symbol for thesun, the swastika. irish connections with ethiopia have also been identified. anamerican researcher, winthrop palmer boswell, wrote

een identified. anamerican researcher, winthrop palmer boswell, wrote a book called irish wizards inthe woods of ethiopia in which she showed the similarities between irish andethiopian folk stories. the baobab tree is held in great reverence by ethiopians andberbers and banba is an old name for ireland.73this reverence for trees in north africa was expressed in the british isles andeurope by the druids and the giant or titan race, the reptilian-human crossbreeds ofthe ancient near east, were often symbolised as trees because of their height. in his1833 book, phoenician ireland, joachim de villeneuve, insisted that irish druidswere the snake priests of the phoenician seafarers. this would certainly explain theorigin of the balor of the evil eye, the irish version of the north african god b

om the irish word, drui, whichmeans men of the oak trees.45 the druidic mysteries were taught in the darkness ofcaves, forests and groves with the oak tree symbolising their supreme deity (verymuch in line with the watcher tree-symbolism. they did not worship the oak tree, itwas a symbol and anything which grew upon it, like mistletoe, became sacred. theholly bush was another sacred symbol of the druids and this is where we get thename hollywood in los angeles, the centre of the global film industry which wascreated by modern initiates of the babylonian brotherhood. it has remained in theircontrol and hollywood is one of their most important vehicles for mass mindconditioning. hollywood is indeed a place of magic as it casts a spell on humanitysperception of itself and the world. the druid

total power over the population fora long time and some deeply unpleasant rituals emerged after their mystery schoolnetwork was taken over by the babylonian brotherhood. the basic moral code wastaught to all people, but the secret knowledge was, as with all these networks, preservedfor initiates under the strictest secrecy. eliphas levi, the famous esotericist, said of theirhealing methods:74the druids were priests and physicians, curing by magnetism. their universal remedieswere mistletoe and serpents eggs, because these substances attract astral light in aspecial manner. the solemnity with which mistletoe was cut down drew upon this plant thepopular confidence and rendered it powerfully magnetic.46the druids, like the other mystery religions, were carriers of advanced knowledgewhich has

eggs, because these substances attract astral light in aspecial manner. the solemnity with which mistletoe was cut down drew upon this plant thepopular confidence and rendered it powerfully magnetic.46the druids, like the other mystery religions, were carriers of advanced knowledgewhich has been kept from the people, and some of them used it for less than positivereasons. i am not condemning the druids as a whole and i certainly do not wish to casta negative interpretation on the work of modern druids. knowledge is neutral and thesame knowledge can be used with good or malevolent intent. but there is no doubt thatthe druidic religion was infiltrated and began to manifest the classic rituals andbehaviour of the reptilians, including human sacrifice. the brotherhood today still usesdruidic

pt; odin of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal and taut ofphoenicia; indra of tibet; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese;tammuz of syria and babylon; attis of phrygia; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of thebonzes; adad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god

race in the middle-near east. the gothiccathedrals which were funded and designed by the templars included westminsterabbey, york minster in northern england, chartres in france not far from paris, andnotre dame in paris itself. notre dame (our lady: isis/semiramis/ninkharsag) wasbuilt on a site dedicated to the goddess diana, and chartres was placed on an ancientsacred site which once attracted druids from all over europe. the famous chapel ofkings college, cambridge which was based upon the cabalistic tree of life symbol,was described as one of the last great gothic structures built in britain.3 its design wasapparently inspired by the 14th century cathedral at albi in the languedoc in southernfrance, one of the primary centres for both the templars and the cathars. in the 12thand 13th

use, but this is nonsense. one wasfound on the floor of a 1,200 year old muslim mosque which stood on the site of presentday tel aviv.1 the jewish writer, o.j. graham, in his work, the six pointed star, says..the six pointed star made its way from egyptian pagan rituals of worship, to the goddessashteroth and moloch. then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft (includingarab magicians, druids and satanists. through the cabala to isaac luria, a cabalist inthe 16th century, to mayer amschel bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, tozionism, to the knesset (parliament) of the new state of israel, to the flag of israel, and itsmedical organisation, equivalent to the red cross.2so the very name rothschild comes from an ancient esoteric symbol connected toegypt as moloch (nimrod)

and king george ii of greece were masons.one example of this was in 1943 when churchill sent 5,000 troops to athens to restoregeorge to the throne even though the beleaguered monarch was detested by all sides andthe troops were needed elsewhere.20 the churchill family has close links with therothschilds and the esoteric underground. winston churchill joined the albion lodge ofthe ancient order of druids at blenheim palace on august 15th 1908.21 his father, lordrandolph churchill, was funded by the house of rothschild while he was chancellor ofthe exchequer in the mid 1800s and his closest friend was nathaniel rothschild. whenrandolph died, he was in debt to the rothschilds to the tune of 65,000, a fantasticamount in those days.22 winston, too, was in debt to them and he was a good friend o

the world. in the storiesof st columba (dove, semiramis, this christian hero is said to have told his monksthat it was fitting for one of them to be buried in the foundations of a new monastery onthe scottish island of lona (the sun) to hallow the ground. a saint oran volunteeredand as a result, it was believed, he went straight to heaven.1 roman accounts by thehistorian, tacitus, reveal how the druids deemed it a duty to cover their altars with theblood of their captives and how they consulted the gods via human entrails. the samestories can be found in ireland and scotland. irish myth says that ireland was firstpeopled by a greedy group of gods called the formorians who demanded two thirds ofthe children born each year. the phoenicians and their kinsmen, the carthaginians,sacrificed hum

ic inthemselves. they are times in the annual planetary cycle when very powerful energiesof various kinds are manifesting on the earth and the rituals and ceremonies of both apositive and negative nature are performed on these dates. the cycle produces theenergy and the satanists simply harness that energy for their own purposes, just as thepositive rituals do, like those performed by most modern druids. other dates forwidespread satanic ritual include every full moon because the reflected energy of thesun is at its most powerful on those occasions. note also the significance to satanists ofmay 1st, the day the bavarian illuminati was formed in 1776 and the day of celebrationin the brotherhood-created communist and socialist calendar.the key of solomon is a book of occult magic which legen

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lucifer has risen, when man has become god, then it shall be known that the aeon of lucifer has begun. concerning christianity the earliest christians approached christianity as a philosophy compatible with other philosophical beliefs. the gnostic christians saw no conflict between the christian religion and the mystery schools of greece and rome. among the celts, christianity was adopted by the druids and was practiced alongside the earlier pagan religion. the greeks and romans approached christianity from an intellectual perspective. the scriptures were accepted within the context in which they had been written and were not interpreted as the literal word of god. the acceptance of christianity as the official religion of rome (and creation of the roman catholic church) signaled the end

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er of high ranking ancient roman priests who were considered oracles, performing divinations (q.v) for the good of the state or private citizens. augurs were astrologers, and diviners which interpreted such omens as the flight of birds or the occurrence of thunder and lightening. they were of the noble class, and wore white robes, trimmed in purple. there is an old legend that states that several druids of gaul and britain were converted to a roman religion, and were made augurs for their territories after rome had conquered them. aura: an emanation of energy, or "halo" of colored light given out by, and forming a force-field surrounding all physical objects, including the human body, beasts, plants, and rocks, which people with psychic vision can see or other sensitives can sense. the obs

ention here, but western occultism favors astrology (q.v, palmistry (q.v, the tarot (q.v, numerology (q.v, and more recently, the runes (q.v. dowsing: a method for seeking out material objects, and living beings, usually with the use of a "fork" or other instrumental aid. druidism: an ancient celtic brotherhood of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal s

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onym of captain john allen bartlett (1861.1933, retired british marine officer, who was the psychic medium of part of the glastonbury scripts in the experiments of frederick bligh bond (1864.1945, detailed in bond s book gate of remembrance (1918. all hallow s eve one of the ancient four great fire festivals in britain, supposed to have taken place on november 1, when all fires, save those of the druids, were extinguished, from whose altars the holy fire had to be purchased by the householders for a certain price. the festival is still known in ireland as samhein, or la samon, i.e, the feast of the sun, while in scotland, it has been given the name of hallowe en. all hallow s eve, as observed in the church of rome, corresponds with the feralia of the ancient romans, when they sacrificed in

have the shape of snakes, were kept by malays to protect them against snakebite. this correspondence of root to animal likeness is known as the doctrine of signatures. the celts used many kinds of amulets, such as the symbolic wheel of the sun god found frequently in france and great britain, pebbles, amulets of the teeth of the wild boar, and pieces of amber. the well-known serpent s egg of the druids was also probably an amulet of the priests. indian amulets are numerous, and in buddhist countries their use was universal, especially where that religion had degenerated. in northern buddhist countries, it was common to wear an amulet around the neck. these generally represented the leaf of the sacred fig tree and were made in the form of a box that contained a scrap of sacred writing, pra

ome of it with a colleague, anthony a. wood, for a volume on the antiquities of oxford. the only book he published, miscellanies, was a collection of ghost stories and other accounts of the supernatural. at one point during the reign of charles ii (1660.85, he composed an unpublished manuscript on the wiltshire stone monuments in which he presented his major thesis that they were a product of the druids. at the time, the common wisdom was that they were of roman origin, and aubrey was the first to realize that they were far older. he expanded upon his beliefs in an unpublished manuscript, monumenta britannica. aubrey gained a certain fame in later life. he was a guest of many of the intellectual elite and at one point was visited by john toland, later to be elected the first chief of a rev

osely identified with druidism. celtic origin and its relation to druidism, however, is a question upon which much discussion has been lavished. some authorities, including sir john rhys, believe it to have been of non- celtic and even non-aryan origin; that is, the earliest non- aryan or so-called iberian or megalithic people of britain introduced the immigrant celts to the druidic religion. the druids were magi as well as hierophants, in the same sense that the american indian medicine man was both magus and priest. that is, they were medicine men on a higher scale, possessing a larger share of transcendental knowledge than the shamans of more barbarous races. they may be linked to the shaman and the magus of medieval times. many of their practices were purely shamanistic, while others w

do so, says broichan in reply, for i can make the wind contrary for thee, and bring dark clouds upon thee. the saint says: the omnipotence of god rules over all things, in whose name all our movements, he himself governing them, are directed. what more need be said? on the same day as he had purposed in his heart the saint came to the long lake of the river ness, a great crowd following. but the druids then began to rejoice when they saw a great darkness coming over, and a contrary wind with a tempest. nor should it be wondered at that these things can be done by the art of demons, god permitting it, so that even winds and waters are roused to fury. for it was thus that legions of devils once met the holy bishop germanus in mid-ocean, what time he was sailing from the gallican gulf (the b

favouring breezes, and reached the desired haven. let the reader, therefore, consider how great and saintly was that vulnerable man through whom almighty god manifested his glorious name by such miraculous powers as have just been described in the presence of a heathen people. the art of rainmaking, bringing down fire from the sky, and causing mists, snowstorms, and floods was also claimed by the druids. many of the spells probably in use among the druids survived until a comparatively late period.the names of saints being substituted for those of celtic deities. in pronouncing incantations, the usual method employed was to stand upon one leg and point with the forefinger to the person or object on which the spell was to be laid, at the same time closing an eye, as if to concentrate the fo

erved in the monastery of st. gall, dating from the eighth or ninth century, contains magic formulas for preserving butter and healing certain diseases in the name of the irish god diancecht. these bear a close resemblance to babylonian and etruscan spells, and this goes to strengthen the hypothesis often put forward that druidism had an eastern origin. all magic rites were accompanied by spells. druids often accompanied an army to assist by their magic in confounding the enemy. the concept of a druidic priesthood descended down to the beginning of the twentieth century in a more or less debased condition in british celtic areas; thus the existence of guardians and keepers of wells, said to possess magic properties, and the fact that certain familiar magic spells and formulas are handed do

xy book; oxford university press, 1961. druidism druidism was the ancient magical religious faith found to be operating in gaul and later england and ireland as the romans pushed northward that has been revived as a twentiethcentury neo-pagan religion. the name derives from an old welsh term for oak, implying that they are the people who know the wisdom of the trees. julius caesar encountered the druids in gaul in the first century b.c.e. where, among other duties, they oversaw the human sacrifices that were then part of the celtic religion. from that time forward, a number of romans chronicled their life, especially after the conquest of britain in the next century. gradually, christianity was introduced into england and then in the fifth century into ireland. over the next few centuries

assed through the oral tradition, was rendered into written form in the middle ages in two primary texts, the mabinogion and the book of taliesin. various elements of druidism passed into folklore and survived in local customs and folk songs. numerous archeological remains have been discovered and through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, efforts to reconstruct the history and belief of the druids have proceeded. it is now generally believed that the druids were firmly in place by the sixth century b.c.e, and evidence has emerged that suggests that druidism may be traced to the time of the monolithic culture that built stonehenge and related structures across the british isles. druidism may have survived in remote corners of rural britain, and some have suggested that it could be fou

its worship cycle was marked by the movements of the sun and moon. the year was marked by the changing positions of the rising sun, the solstices and equinoxes, and the four additional festivals halfway between these four that marked important points in the agricultural seasons. these were known by different names in different locations and at different times. among the major contemporary british druids, these are known as: samhuinn (october 31.november 2) winter solstice (december 21 or 22) imbolc (february 1) spring equinox (march 21) beltane (may 1) summer solstice (june 21 or 22) lughnasadh (august 1) fall equinox (september 22) today, the most notable date in the calendar is the summer solstice, when british druids gather at stonehenge for a sunrise service. the druids were especially

e in the calendar is the summer solstice, when british druids gather at stonehenge for a sunrise service. the druids were especially associated with oaks and the mistletoe that grows as a parasite on it. according to pliny, they gathered the mistletoe in a ritualized manner, used it in their rites, and drank its juice for its medicinal value. among the most controversial practices associated with druids was human sacrifice. in their priestly service among the celtics in gaul, it was noted by julius caesar and strabo that they oversaw the sacrifice of humans. caesar mentioned the immense images which they filled with living victims and burned to death, a practice that was vividly pictured in the 1975 movie the wicker man. modern druidism modern interest in druidism can be traced to an amate

erged into public notice in the next century when, in 1717, deist writer john toland (1670.1722) was elected the chief of the first modern druid order, an tigh geatha gairdeachas. reportedly druids from previously existing groups from across england, scotland, ireland, wales, and brittany attended the inaugural meeting in london. toland spent the last years of his life working on a history of the druids, excerpts of which were posthumously published. building on aubrey s work, the physician william stukeley (1687.1765) did extensive observations in wiltshire and brought the monumental structures to public attention. he published a book on stonehenge in 1740 and on avebury three years later. he described druidism as the aboriginal patriarchal religion and reputedly succeeded toland as the s

chology) and theosophy to create what it considers to be universal christianity. the resulting synthesis of thought, termed the delfinist thought, places great emphasis on the virtues of love, comprehension, compassion, justice, humility, and faith. cardona has taught that women and men are equals in the spiritual as in the material world. following the example of ancient atlantis and the ancient druids, the church ordains females and welcomes them into the bishopric. the first woman cardinal, rev. mother olga roman, was elevated in 1974. ecsomatic experiences one of many terms for out-of-the-body travel, also known as oob, astral projection, or etheric projection. the term ecsomatic is used by parapsychologist celia e. green, director of the institute of psychophysical research, oxford, e

. fragarach (the answerer) in ancient irish legend, a sword that could pierce any armor. it was one of the magical gifts brought by lugh from the land of the living. another gift was the horse of mananan, named aonbarr, able to travel on land and sea (see also danaans) france early belief in sorcery according to occultist eliphas levi, the practice of magic in pre-roman france originated with the druids and was nearly identical to that of the draids in britain, from which it derived. it is unlikely that roman magic gained any footing in gaul, but there is little evidence of whether this was or was not the case. in his book the history of magic (1913, levi states that in the early frankish period of the merovingian dynasty, fredegond, wife of hilperic, king of soissons, destroyed many peopl

ips to italy. higgins is remembered today primarily for two books he authored. one, apolcalypsis is a 1,500 page volume that became a major source used by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, in the preparation of her early work, isis unveiled. the subtitle to higgins book read, an attempt to draw aside the veil of the saitic isis. an earlier volume, the celtic druids, became a building block of the contemporary revival of druidism. in his magnum opus, higgins demonstrated his assimilation of a vast amount of eclectic material assembled through his encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. higgins, godfrey 725 reading and travels. apocalypsis presents a history of the human race from a gnostic esoteric perspective. god, the unknowable one, produ

e two, he died on august 9, 1833; it was published in 1836. the publication was pursued by his son. sources: godwin, joscelyn. the theosophical enlightenment. albany: state university of new york press, 1995. higgins, godfrey. apocalypsis, an attempt to draw aside the veil of the saitic isis; or an inquiry into the origin of languages, nations and religions. 2 vols. london, 1933, 1836. the celtic druids. london: rowland hunter, 1829. higginson, gordon (1918.1993) president of the spiritualists national union (snu) in britain for 23 years and one of the country s leading mediums. in spiritualist circles he was popularly known as mr. mediumship. higginson first sat in a spiritualist circle with his mother at age 3. he manifested mediumship at age 12. his mother, fanny higginson, demonstrated

h works contain numerous references to sorcery, and practices are chronicled in them that bear a close resemblance to those of the shamans and medicine men of tribes around the world. the ancient irish cycles frequently allude to animal transformation, one of the most common feats of the witch, and in hibernian legend most heroes have a considerable working magic available to them. wonder-working druids also abound. seymour claimed that, in celtic ireland dealings with the unseen were not regarded with such abhorrence, and indeed had the sanction of custom and antiquity. he added that .the celtic element had its own superstitious beliefs, but these never developed in this direction, by which he meant witchcraft. he lacked support for this observation. an absence of records of such a system

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o discover whether a child was bewitched, three oak-apples were dropped into a basin of water under the child s cradle, at the same time preserving the strictest silence. if the oak-apples floated, the child was not fascinated, but if they sank, the child was believed to be bewitched. oak tree much folklore belief surrounds the oak tree. from ancient times it has been regarded as sacred tree. the druids venerated the oak and performed many of their rites under the shadow of its branches. when st. augustine (the sixth-century archbishop of canterbury) preached christianity to the ancient britons, he stood under an oak tree. the ancient hebrews also evidently held the oak as a sacred tree. it is believed that abraham received his heavenly visitors under an oak. rebekah s nurse was buried und

onies. the initiatory order undertakes mystical studies. public ceremonies are arranged at ancient sites based on the summer and winter solstices and the equinoxes of march and september. after the distance program was initiated in 1988 over 7,000 people have joined the order. address: po box 1333, lewes, e. sussex, bn7 1dx england. website: http/ www.druidry.org. sources: order of bards, ovates& druids. http//www.druidry.org. march 8, 2000. order of elect cohens an occult masonic group founded by martinees de pasqually (ca.1710.1774) in bordeaux, france, in 1760. the french title rite des elus cohens refers to cohens, the hebrew word for oram, arthur t(albot) encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1148 priests. the rituals for the order s magical invocation of spirits, with th

est veneration and still later canonized. in ancient greece, the prophetic class were generally found attached to the oracles and in rome were represented by the augurs. in egypt, the priests of ra at memphis acted as prophets as, perhaps, did those of hekt. among the ancient celts and teutons prophecy was frequent, the prophetic agent usually placing him or herself in the ecstatic condition. the druids were famous practitioners of the prophetic art, and some hint of their utterances may be still extant in the so-called prophecies of merlin. in america, as has been stated, prophetic utterance took practically the same forms as in europe and asia. captain jonathan carver, an early traveler in north america, cited a peculiar instance where the seers of a certain tribe stated that a famine wo

ng the sentence of death, the sheriff was emphatically reproved. in more recent centuries witchcraft has been dealt with under laws pertaining to rogues, vagabonds, gamesters, and practitioners of fortune- telling. magic and demonology magic appears to have been common in scotland until a late period. in the pages of adamnan, abbot of iona (ca. 625.704 c.e, st. columba and his priest regarded the druids as magicians, and he countered their sorcery with what was believed to be a superior celestial magic of his own. thus does the religion of one race become magic in the eyes of another. notices of sorcery in scotland before the thirteenth century are scanty, if we except the tradition that macbeth encountered three witches who prophesied his fate to him. there is no reason to believe that th

ed.ac.uk. june 19, 2000. lang, andrew. the book of dreams and ghosts. london, 1897. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1974. lowry, betty. scotland s lady ghost scream in shades of gray and green. the denver post. october 31, 1999. pp. t03. cock lane and common-sense. london: longmans, green, 1894. reprint, new york: ams press, 1970. macgregor, alexander. highland superstitions connected with the druids, fairies, witchcraft, second-sight, hallowe en, sacred wells and lochs. stirling, scotland: eaneas mackay, 1922. scotland encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1370. the prophecies of the brahan seer. stirling, scotland: eaneas mackay, 1935. maclagan, robert craig. the evil eye in the western highlands. london: david nutt, 1902. reprint, u.k: e. p. publishing, 1972. reprint, no

pert 1397. seven experiments that could change the world: a do- it-yourself guide to revolutionary science. n.p: riverhead books, 1995. sheldrake, rupert and matthew fox. natural grace. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1996. shelta thari an esoteric language spoken by the tinkers (a gypsy-type people) of britain and ireland and possibly a descendant of an inner language employed by the ancient celtic druids or bards. it was in 1876 that the first hint of the existence of shelta thari reached the ears of charles godfrey leland. it seems strange that george borrow, the first authority on romany and gypsy lore, had never stumbled upon the language, and that fact may be taken as evidence of the jealousy with which the nomadic classes guarded it. leland related how he and e. h. palmer were wanderin

ortant markers. the sun entered capricorn at the winter solstice and cancer at the summer solstice. while important markers in constructing a horoscope, the solstices were little used in its interpretation. in modern times, as paganism has been revived, the summer solstice has become a major occasion for ritual gatherings, among the oldest and certainly the most famous being the gatherings of the druids at stonehenge. until quite recently, the summer solstice was celebrated in germany with a picnic and bonfire. couples would attempt to jump the bonfire as a sign of the strength of their relationship. neo-pagans mark the solstices as two of the major festival occasions (called sabbats. the ancient winter solstice, called yule, has survived in a radically altered form as the christian s chri

onsiderable engineering skill in mining and transporting the huge stones. prior to modern archaeological investigations, stonehenge was surrounded by confusing legends of origin and use. radiocarbon dating has now established a date of around 2000 b.c.e. for the first monument, the second a few centuries later, and the third about the middle of the second millennium b.c.e. it is possible that the druids inherited an oral tradition of the significance of stonehenge and used it for sacred rituals involving sun worship. folklore credits such sites with magical power, and they have been associated with witchcraft rites. in france young girls would slide down such ancient stones with bare buttocks in the belief that it would make them fertile. early christian missionaries attempted to absorb or

the middle ages by such writers as snorri sturluson and saemund sigfusson (the eddas) and saxo grammaticus, and such epics or pseudohistories as the nibelungenlied, shed some light on teutonic magic practice and beliefs. from these writers one can arrive at several basic conclusions (1) that magic with the teutons was nonhierophantic, and was not the province of the priesthood, as with the celtic druids, for example (2) that women were its chief conservators; and (3) that it principally resided in the study and elucida- tetford, william n. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1552 tion of the runic script. in the same manner as in early egypt it was part and parcel of the ability to decipher the hieroglyphic characters. it seems that all kinds of people dabbled in the practic

ited. journal of the society for psychical research 41, 712 (june 1962. sturge-whiting, j. r. the mystery of versailles: a complete solution. london: rider, 1938. vervain a sacred herb used to cleanse the table of zeus before a feast in ancient greece. in rome it was also strewn on the altars of jupiter, and water containing vervain was also sprinkled in houses to cast out evil spirits. among the druids particularly it was employed in connection with many forms of superstition. they gathered it at daybreak, before the sun had risen. later sorcerers followed the same usage, and demonologists believed that in order to evoke demons it was necessary to be crowned with vervain. during the crusades it was believed that when the nails were driven into the hands of christ, vervain sprang upon calv

the wheat and swallows him. she carries him for nine months and is delivered of him, but cannot kill him because of his beauty, so she wraps him in a leather bag and casts him into the sea to the mercy of god. he is carried into the weir of gwyddno garanhir and found by prince elphin, who has come to catch fish in his net. elphin renames him taliesin, which can mean beautiful brow or great value. druids wales is also considered a center for the cult of the druids (brought by the celts, who came into wales as early as 200 b.c.e. they were said to practice human sacrifice, although it has also been claimed that the victims were criminals. they also employed methods of divination. the druids are thought to have come from ancient gaul, where they were suppressed in the roman conquest as a riva

it has also been claimed that the victims were criminals. they also employed methods of divination. the druids are thought to have come from ancient gaul, where they were suppressed in the roman conquest as a rival source of power and prestige. the historian pliny the elder recorded their association with the mistletoe plant in their sacred rites. he also mentioned a mysterious object used by the druids, which he named the serpent s egg. it was roughly the size and shape of a small apple, and it was said that a mass of hissing serpents threw this egg into the air. if it could be caught in a white cloak before touching the ground, it would convey powers of magic to the possessor, such as the ability to float against a river current, and success in legal undertakings. witchcraft and demonolo

eople in american hotels. by 1980, outdoor festivals began at campgrounds across the united states, beginning in the midwest and spreading to both coasts, the south, and the rocky mountains. these provide a venue for the exchange of songs, ritual formats, and the merchandising of clothing, jewelry, and other artifacts of the pagan lifestyle. sources: adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess- worshippers, and other pagans in america today. boston: beacon, 1979, 1981. buckland, raymond. buckland s complete book of witchcraft. st. paul: llewellyn publications, 1986. crowley, vivianne. wicca. london: thorsons, 1996. ewen, c. l estrange. witch hunting and witch trials. london: kegan paul, 1929. farrar, stewart. what witches do: the modern coven revealed. new york: coward

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uno comes to religious magic, he significantly omits all mention of the antiquity, sanctity and power of the hebrew language, of the sephiroth, and of the hebrew and pseudo-dionysian orders of angels.1 it is true that the cabalists occur in the list of prisci magi with which the de magia opens, where it is stated that the magus is the wise man, as were hermes trismegistus among the egyptians, the druids among the gauls, the gymnosophists among the indians, the cabalists among the hebrews, the magi among the persians, the sophi among the greeks, the sapientes among the latins.2 still, to a magician familiar with the correct tradition, it would be rather noticeable that bruno nowhere mentions the superior power in magic of the hebrew language. on the contrary, he devotes a significant passag

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morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpent entwined around the egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids. it referred to the creation of the universe [p. 496; teaching of the 25 degree, knight of the brazen serpent] freemasonry does not believe that the universe was created by the god of the bible. this statement really supports that concept, as it dogmatically states that the serpent entwined around the egg is a symbol of the creation of the universe. freemasonry idolizes the druids. pike not

to the creation of the universe [p. 496; teaching of the 25 degree, knight of the brazen serpent] freemasonry does not believe that the universe was created by the god of the bible. this statement really supports that concept, as it dogmatically states that the serpent entwined around the egg is a symbol of the creation of the universe. freemasonry idolizes the druids. pike not only mentions the druids in this sentence, but other masonic authors are even bolder in their admission that freemasonry venerates them because their mysteries' religion is identical to the druids. our mode of teaching the principles of our profession [masonry] is derived from the druids. and our chief emblems originally came from egypt [william hutchinson, mason, the spirit of masonry, revised by george oliver, ne

religion is identical to the druids. our mode of teaching the principles of our profession [masonry] is derived from the druids. and our chief emblems originally came from egypt [william hutchinson, mason, the spirit of masonry, revised by george oliver, new york, bell publishing, originally published in 1775, p. 195] another masonic writer (albert churchward, states that masons are "our present druids [albert churchward, signs and symbols of primordial man: the evolution 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

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not only a symbol of the deity, but it was jupiter himself, while the earth from which it sprang was the great mother. throughout europe, in all ages, the oak has received divine honors. the fact that under its branches jew, pagan, and christian alike swore their most solemn oaths, shows that its veneration was not confined to any particular nation or locality. the sacredness of the oak among the druids is well attested by all writers who have dealt with this interesting people. in rome its branches formed the badge of victory worn by conquering heroes, this emblem being the highest mark of distinction which could be conferred upon them. forlong assures us that the oak was even more worshipped at the west than was the sacred ficus at the east. like it, the wood of the oak must be used "to

cred fire from heaven and gladden in the yule (suiel or seul) log of christmas-tide even christian fires, as well as annually renew with fire direct from ba-al, on beltine day, the sacred flame on every public and private hearth, and this from the temples of meroe on the nile, to the farthest icy forests and mountains of the sklavonian"[15 [15] faiths of man in all lands, vol. i, p. 68. among the druids, the mistletoe was also sacred especially when entwining the oak. together they represented the tree of life, or the two generating agencies throughout nature. of the species of it which grows on the oak, borlaise says that they deified the mistletoe and were not to look upon it but in the most devout and reverential manner "when the end of the year approached, they marched with great solem

it which grows on the oak, borlaise says that they deified the mistletoe and were not to look upon it but in the most devout and reverential manner "when the end of the year approached, they marched with great solemnity to gather the mistletoe of the oak in order to present it to jupiter, inviting all the world to assist in the ceremony"[16 [16] borlaise. according to the latin writer pliny, the "druids have nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree on which it grows, provided it be an oak" this plant, which is called all heal, although sought after with the greatest religious ardor, is seldom found, but should the people who go forth at christmas time in large numbers succeed in finding it they immediately set about preparing feasts under the tree upon which it grows; at the sam

y ages absolutely unconnected with the grosser ideas with which it subsequently became associated. chapter iii. sun-worship--female and male energies in the sun "when we inquire into the worship of nations in the earliest periods to which we have access by writing or tradition, we find that the adoration of one god, without temples or images, universally prevailed"[23 [23] godfrey higgins, celtic druids. underlying all the ancient religions of which we have any account, may be observed the great energizing force throughout nature recognized and reverenced as the deity. this force embraces not only the creative energies in human beings, in animals, and in plants, but in the earlier ages of human history it included also wisdom, or law--that "power by which all things are discriminated or de

hee. never shalt thou build again these walls of pain, nor raise the roof-tree of deceits, nor lay fresh rafters on the clay; broken thy house is, and the ridge-pole split! delusion fashioned it! safe pass i thence--deliverance to obtain"[60 [60] edwin arnold, the light of asia. regarding the opinions of the ancients on the subject of the eternity of matter, higgins, in his learned work on celtic druids, says "the eternity of matter is a well known tenet of the pythagoreans, and whether right or wrong there can be no doubt that it was the doctrine of the oriental school, whence pythagoras drew his learning. it was a principle taken or mistaken from, or found amongst, the debris of that mighty mass of learning and science of a former period, of which, on looking back as far as human ken can

n an earlier age which by the most ancient peoples of whom we have any historic records has been lost or forgotten. it has been said that if this cycle of the neros "were correct to the second, if on the first of january at noon a new moon took place, it would take place again in exactly 600 years at the same moment of the day, and under all the same circumstances"[61 [61] godfrey higgins, celtic druids, ch. ii, sec. 14. the varaha calpa has the famous cycle of 4,320,000,000 years for its duration. this system makes the cali yug begin 3098 years b.c. a dodecan consisted of 5 days, and 72 dodecans formed a natural year of 360 days. according to the earlier calculations, 360 solar diurnal revolutions constituted a natural year. the doctrine of the ancients concerning these cycles is thus set

of some of the oldest mummies show that the early egyptians understood the art of making glass. it is now known that the lens as a magnifying instrument was in use among them. attention has been drawn to the fact that the astronomical observations of the ancients would have been impossible without the aid of the telescope. diodorus siculus says there was an island west of the celtae in which the druids brought the sun and moon near them. an instrument has recently been found in the sands of the nile, the construction of which shows plainly that 6000 years ago the egyptians were acquainted with our modern ideas of the science of astronomy. william huntington, who has travelled widely in india, borneo, the malay peninsula, and egypt, says "i think, on the whole, the most interesting experie

filled it to overflowing with a wealth of golden pieces, for it is the still living representative in the nineteenth century a.c. of 'the golden boat' of hea of the nineteenth century b.c'[77 [77] forlong, rivers of life, vol. ii, p. 95. the symbol of neith or muth, athene or minerva, the great universal female principle of the egyptians, greeks, and romans, was the shield and serpent. in celtic druids i find that nath, the egyptian neith, the "goddess of wisdom and science whose symbol was the shield and serpent, was worshipped among the ancient irish" the male god associated with her was naith, and according to higgins represented "the opposite of neith" in rivers of life is observed a reference to the assyrian goddess hea by lucian. in a note forlong says that no doubt hea is the same

she is identical with the dea syria of chaldea, and the venus urania of persia" at the present time there is direct and indisputable evidence that sacred fires once flamed over the whole of britain. a few days prior to bealtine season, every flame was ordered extinguished, to be relighted on the first of may by holy fire drawn directly from the sun. of fire-worship toland observes "on may-day the druids made prodigious fires on these cairns, which being every one in sight of some other could not but afford a glorious show over a whole nation. these fires were in honor of beal, or bealan, latinized by the roman writers into belanus, by which name the gauls and their colonies understood the sun, and therefore, to this hour, the first of may is, by the aboriginal irish, called la bealtine, or

his hour, the first of may is, by the aboriginal irish, called la bealtine, or the day of belan's fires. may-day is likewise called la bealtine by the highlanders of scotland, who are no contemptible part of the celtic offspring. so it is with the isle of man: and in armorica a priest is called belee, or the servant of bel, and the priesthood belegieth"[136 [136] quoted by godfrey higgins, celtic druids, ch. v, p. 181. down to a comparatively recent time, in the british isles, the youth of both sexes used to arise long before daybreak on may-day, and in large companies set out for the woods, there to gather flowers, boughs, and branches, which, on returning at night, were used to decorate their homes. this festival is said to be the most ancient of any known, and during the earlier and pur

ost ancient of any known, and during the earlier and purer ages of human faith was celebrated in honor of returning spring. in later ages, however, after passion had become the only recognized god, may-day was celebrated with "all manner of obscenity and lewdness" although the uneducated masses among the gauls worshipped apollo, mercury, and mars without understanding their true significance, the druids, who are thought to be pythagorians, invoked one great power, the animating force which pervades the universe, the essence of which they believed resides in fire. it is related that although after the introduction of romish christianity, may fires still continued to be lighted on bealtine day, the more impressive ceremonies took place on the 23d of june, on the eve of the nativity of st. jo

warfare. the rites of potin, or photin, bishop of lyons, who was honored in provence, languedoc and the lyonais as st. fontin, also the rites performed in many of the christian churches as late as the 16th century, prove that the devotees of the christian system were not at this time a whit behind their pagan predecessors in their zeal for "heathen abominations" the only difference being that the druids, a people who still retained a faint conception of ancient nature worship, had not become entirely divested of the purer ideas which in an earlier age of the race had constituted a creative force. that the war of the sexes was revived, and that for many centuries much strife was engendered over the exact importance which should be ascribed to the female element in the deity may not be doubt

it inhabited by the fir-bolgs, a colony of celts. after conquering the island they engrafted upon it the religion, laws, learning and culture of the mother country. in a later age the scythians, whose religion was similar to that of the fir-bolgs, united with them and succeeded in making themselves masters of the situation. hence the intermingling of races and tongues among the ancient irish. the druids adopted, or appropriated, the religion and culture of the tuath-de-danaans, who, it is claimed, were the real hibernians. the scythians changed the name of irin to scotia--the latter being retained until the 11th century. according to the annals of the ancient irish, scotland was formerly called scotia minor to distinguish it from scotia major, or ireland. because of their isolated position

nd notwithstanding the fact that the romish church gradually usurped the ecclesiastical functions in ireland, the last named people who for ages had been regarded as the depositaries of the ancient faith and the ancient system of laws, were highly respected by the people for their sanctity and learning. many of the greek and roman writers who have dealt with this subject agree in ascribing to the druids a high degree of scientific knowledge and mechanical skill. the principles of justice set forth in their judicial system, their love of learning, and the standard attained in the sciences and arts, prove the early people of ireland to have been equal if not superior to any of the early historic nations. in referring to the number and magnitude of the monumental remains in ireland, and while

e and mechanical skill. the principles of justice set forth in their judicial system, their love of learning, and the standard attained in the sciences and arts, prove the early people of ireland to have been equal if not superior to any of the early historic nations. in referring to the number and magnitude of the monumental remains in ireland, and while commenting on the mechanical skill of the druids, the rev. smedley says "i was present at the erection of the luxor obelisk in paris, and yet i think that i would have felt greater emotion if i had witnessed the successful performance of the old celtic engineer who placed on its three pedestals of stone the enormous rock which constitutes the druidical altar here at castle may" it is believed that this people understood the art of mining

ertility, or sun worship, were retained by christianity, furnish strong evidence of the fact that the latter system is but part and parcel of the former. chapter xvi. stones or columns as the deity "throughout all the world, the first object of idolatry seems to have been a plain unwrought stone, placed in the ground as an emblem of the generative or procreative powers of nature"[157 [157] celtic druids, ch. vi, p. 209. in the language of symbolism the upright stone prefigures either a man, reproductive energy, or a god, all of which at a certain stage in the human career had come to mean one and the same thing; namely, the creator. in the earlier ages of male worship, upright stones as emblems of the deity were plain unwrought shafts, but in process of time they began to be carved into th

n works of defence, it is thought to prove the religious character of abury. in a description given of this shrine by higgins is the following "these ramparts inclose an area of 1400 feet in diameter, which on the edge nearest the ditch was set round with a row of rough, unhewn stones, and in the center was ornamented with two circular temples, composed of the same native stones"[159 [159] celtic druids. description of plates, p. xx. the space of ground included within the vellum has been estimated at twenty-two acres, and the outward circumvallation was computed at 4800 feet. the number of stones that formed this outer circle was originally one hundred, of which, in the year 1722, there were eighteen standing, and twenty-seven thrown down. in the village of rudstone in yorkshire there sta

ost precious offering to the god of pro-creation was that of human victims. in india, when a new colony or city was founded, in order to insure its prosperity, large numbers of children were delivered over as a bribe or offering of reconciliation to the god of virility. the enormous extent to which human sacrifice has prevailed in india, in egypt, in mexico, among the carthaginians, the jews, the druids, and even among the greeks and romans, is well attested. from the records of extant history, it would seem that human sacrifice usually accompanies a certain stage of sun-worship. among the aztecs in mexico, a country in which the sun was a universal object of reverence and in which one of the prescribed duties of the boys trained in the temple was that of keeping alive the sacred fires, th

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ayti, the southern parts of the united states and the west indian islands who are the descendants of west africans deported as slaves many generations ago, there is a system of magic and divination called obeah or voodooism: it is generally associated with the blood sacrifice of some victim, often of a cock, and with a performance with serpents. celtic races among the celts of ancient britain the druids were the priestly, cultured, ruling class; of these the men were notable for skill in curing wounds, and in the relief of disease, while the druidesses were famous for their magical arts and powers of divination.theoldtestamenttheold hebrew books witness that all forms of divination and magic were forbidden to the children of israel, who were deemed to be under a theocracy, or the direct gu

spiration and for many peculiaritiesof doctrine and procedure. freemasonry hasbeenaffiliated by essayists to the ancient mysteries of egypt and greece, to the collegia of rome, to the essene brotherhood and to the culdees of old, as well as to the much later vehm-gerichte of westphalia, the steinmetzen, the trade guilds, the french compagnonageand the rosicrucians; even our origin from the celtic druids of britain and nor255 mandy has.been inferred. i have upon a former occasion expressed my dissent from the assertion that modern freemasonry has relation to the essene fraternity, which practised a form of ultra-strict judaism, and whose members were celibates who lived in almost monkish seclusion about the time of the establishment of the christian religion. in these notes upon the cult of

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, and a class which wanted to destroy the traditional power of the qadesh (see later discussion of this group) and mould the yahwahist tradition into a militaristic style cult. this moulded old testament (combined with the talmud) became the text of modern jewry. when the israelites migrated to other lands after the assyrian captivity they re-established many of the gnostic traditions. hence, the druids and those of the celtic faith probably had more in common with the original israelite gnosis that modern judaism and christianity. we can see how the struggle between various divergent traditions has been edited into the old testament, joseph s coat of many colours, for example, a sumerian symbol of a qadesh priest became a simple piece of clothing. baal has been demonised to become the ene

ts the welsh language has more words taken from hebrew than any other language world-wide. this and many other historical facts suggest that the traditions of early england rather than being darkly pagan were actually gnostic and probably embodied more truth than what was being taught in the churches that were attacking them for heresy! a later tradition regarding the relationship of jesus to the druids adds even further light on these connections. in regards to jesus traveling to britain the details are sketchy but reliable. the evidence suggests that israel was more of a cosmopolitan region than many scholars have realised, it had links with many peoples and many cultures. joseph of arimathea was a very rich man and it is now believed he bought and traded tin and other items from bases i

t of yahweh. there are many other biblical examples, certainly the homo-erotic relationship between david and jonathan in the old testament springs to mind. while we do not wish to belabour the point certainly all early aryan traditions suggest a special elite homosexual (or at least gender variant) priestly class. the epic of gilgamesh has a special relationship between gilgamesh and enkidu, the druids and celts were renowned for homosexual priest activity and certainly the shaman traditions of early cultures focused on gender variant activity. this understanding of reproduction is central to the gnostic view of sexuality. while reproduction may be necessary for the propagation of the species, it is by its very nature difficult as it tends to bring our focus back towards the material worl

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o contain it, only those who have been transfigured, those who have developed the higher will will survive. only those who have broken free from the cycles of eternal re-occurrence will ascend. this secret teaching formed one of the inner doctrines of the early esoteric schools. the original brahmins and buddhists taught it, but only to initiates of the highest grades. kendrick in his text on the druids, states that the druids also believed in conditional immortality, and taught that only the warrior aristocracy could survive death. others simply returned to the earth, a form of immortality to be sure, but only as a dead body disintegrates into the soil, as nutrients return to the earth, not as a discrete and aware being. in thus spake zarathustra fredrich nietzsche discuses the struggle t

at is those things which exist within the ebb and flow of the unconscious. the imagery of birds and flight illustrates the way in which the mind can now reach new levels of illumination. the image of flight is found in many esoteric traditions ranging from the chariots and vehicles that fly to the higher worlds which are found within the kabbalah and the vedas to the sacred birds of the celts and druids. from the chakric perspective the fifth day is the throat centre. the logos regenerates the mind and new levels of consciousness are reached. it is the blue centre, the colour of devotion. the sixth day this marks the appearance of the reborn man. he has subjugated his instincts and mind, liberated his innermost self and united the male and female principles within gnostic theurgy page 87 h

rally, however, recent research now suggests that they used specialised alphabets for ritual purposes. the most commonly used form was known as ogham, named after the celtic sun god ogha from whom it supposedly derived. ogham s use was primarily esoteric and is believed to have developed on the west gnostic theurgy page 111 coast of ireland, probably as a refinement of the finger languages of the druids. another esoteric celtic system is known as the tree alphabet. one poetic and not too scholarly form of this code was published in the white goddess by robert graves (faber and faber 1948. the tree alphabet or beth luis nion is based on the druidic mysteries, it is composed of twenty nine letters divided into four groups. each group is related to various esoteric concepts, seasonal rites an

israel and the progenitors of the anglo- saxon-celtic people were one and the same. and when, in addition to this circumstantial evidence cognisance is taken that gnostic theurgy page 194 these people have fulfilled what the prophets wrote of israel, the probability becomes a certainty. sharon turner, anglo-saxon historian. the ancient traditions of israel hence became the building blocks of the druids, celts and anglo-saxons, while the tribes of judah who returned to palestine, became the people we know as the essenes. there are two major problems that arise when we discuss the people of israel- the question of modern jews and the nature of the old testament. the biggest bone of contention is the identity of modern jewry. the answer according to the gnostic tradition is explosive. the pe

o experts in the field of linguistics welsh has borrowed more words from hebrew than any other language. this and many historical facts suggest that the traditions of early england rather than being darkly pagan were actually gnostic, and embodied more truth than what was being taught in the churches that were attacking them for heresy! a later tradition regarding the relationship of jesus to the druids sheds even further light on these connections. the essene link when some of the people of judah returned to palestine after the captivity, not all accepted the roman rule and integrated into the secular state. though the pharisees and saducees continued the corrupt form of talmudic (edomite) form of judaism, some of those who returned, kept the original israelite-aryan faith and separated t

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rt of the original text "a selection of the most celebrated treatises on the theory and practice of the hermetic art' 2 godfrey higgins (1773-1835, anacalypsis, an attempt to draw aside the veil of thesaltic isis; or, an inquiry into the origins oflanguages, nations, and religions, c (2 vols, 1836. ayton probably possessed some fasicles from the 1878 glasgow reprint. higgins also wrote the celtic druids (1829, a book which reflected his preoccupation with phallic worship. he built a house for pauper lunatics at wakefield. 3 themysteries ofmagic: a digest of the writings ofeliphaslevi with a biographical and critical essay by a. e. waite (redway, 1886. this anthology was largely based upon levi's dogme et rituel de la haute magie (1856; revised edition 1861. waite discussed the project with

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nity of assimilating the particular phases of that belief which obtained elsewhere in europe. consequently, when the anglo-normans came over, they found that the native celts had no predisposition towards accepting the view of the witch as an emissary of satan and p. 8 an enemy of the church, though they fully believed in supernatural influences of both good and evil, and credited their bards and druids with the possession of powers beyond the ordinary. had this country never suffered a cross-channel invasion, had she been left to work out her destiny unaided and uninfluenced by her neighbours, it is quite conceivable that at some period in her history she would have imbibed the witchcraft spirit, and, with the genius characteristic of her, would have blended it with her own older beliefs

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d lecher &c. consider, also, in the solemn and terrible sense, the name crom-lech, or crown, or arched entry or gate, of death. the druidical stones were generally called cromlechs when placed in groups of two* with a coping or capstone over, similarly to the form of the greek letter pi (p, p, which was imitated from that temple of stones which we call a cromlech. cromlechs were the altars of the druids, and were so called from a hebrew word signifying to bow. there is a druidic temple at toulouse, in france, exhibiting many of these curious druidical stones. there is a large, flat stone, ten feet long, six feet wide, one foot thick, at st. david s, pembrokeshire. it is called in cymric l ch* the whole forming a capital, chapter, chapitre, chapel, cancel, or chancel, hence our word, and th

, pro, or before, the pylon or passage. every egyptian temple has its propylon. the pyramid also in nubia has one. we refer to the ground plans of the temples of denderah, upper egypt; the temple of luxor, thebes; the temple of edfou, upper egypt; the temple of carnac (or karnak, thebes. colonel (afterwards general) vallancey, in the fourth volume, p. 80, of his general works, cited in the celtic druids, p. 223 (a valuable book by godfrey higgins, says: in cornwall they call it (i.e, the rocking-stone) the logan-stone. borlase, in his history of cornish antiquities, declares that he does not understand the meaning of this term logan, as applied to the druidical stones. had dr. borlase been acquainted with the irish mss, significantly adds colonel vallancey, he would have found that the dru

borlase, in his history of cornish antiquities, declares that he does not understand the meaning of this term logan, as applied to the druidical stones. had dr. borlase been acquainted with the irish mss, significantly adds colonel vallancey, he would have found that the druidical oracular stone called loghan, which yet retains its name in cornwall, is the irish logh-oun, or stone into which the druids pretended that the logh, or divine essence, descended when they consulted it as an oracle. logh in the gnostic abraxas. 47 celtic is the same as logos in the greek; both terms mean the logos( word) or the holy ghost. sanchoniathon, the phoenician, says that ouranus contrived, in boetulia, stones that moved as having life. stukeley s abury, p. 97, may be here referred to for further proofs o

ded when they consulted it as an oracle. logh in the gnostic abraxas. 47 celtic is the same as logos in the greek; both terms mean the logos( word) or the holy ghost. sanchoniathon, the phoenician, says that ouranus contrived, in boetulia, stones that moved as having life. stukeley s abury, p. 97, may be here referred to for further proofs of the mystic origin of these stones, and also the celtic druids of godfrey higgins, in contradiction to those who would infer that these poised stones simply mark burial-places, or foolish conclusions of shallow and incompetent antiquaries. the basilidans were called by the orthodox docet, or illusionists. the deity of the gnostics was called abraxas in latin, and abrasax in greek. their last state, or condition for rescued sensitive entities, as they t

the singular customs which they practised, have afforded sufficient analogies and affinities to maintain the occult and remote origin of druidism. a welsh antiquary insists that the druidical system of the metempsychosis was conveyed to the brahmins of india by a former emigration from wales. but the reverse may have occurred, if we trust the elaborate researches which would demonstrate that the druids were a scion of the oriental family. the reader is referred to toland s history of the druids, in his miscellaneous works, vol. ii. p. 163; also to a book published in. london in 1829, with the title, the celtic druids; or. an attempt to show that the druids were the priests of oriental colonies, who emigrated from india, by godfrey higgins. a recent writer confidently intimated that the kn

l. ii. p. 163; also to a book published in. london in 1829, with the title, the celtic druids; or. an attempt to show that the druids were the priests of oriental colonies, who emigrated from india, by godfrey higgins. a recent writer confidently intimated that the knowledge 102 the rosicrucians. of druidism must be searched for in the talmudical writings; but another, in return, asserts that the druids were older than the jews. whence and when the british druids transplanted themselves to this lone world amid the ocean, no historian can write. we can judge of the druids simply by the sublime monuments which are left of them, surviving, in their majestic loneliness, through the ages of civilisation. unhewn masses or heaps of stones tell alone their story; such are their cairns, and cromlec

g snakes are fed with cow s milk. here we have the unexpected and unexplained connection of the ideas of snake and cow. the whole subject is replete with mystery, as well as the interchange of the references to the cross and the dragon found in the insignia of all faiths, and lurking amongst all religious buildings. on a phoenician coin, found at citium or cyprus, and engraved in higgins s celtic druids, p. 117, may be seen a cross and an animal resembling a hippocampus, both of which, or objects closely similar, appear on ancient sculptured stones in scotland. the same two things, a cross and a strange-looking animal, half mammal, half fish or reptile, but called by mr. hodgson, of newcastle-upon-tyne, a basilisk, appear together on a mitliraic sculptured slab of the roman period, found i

r than the priest or high-priest john, otherwise saint john, or the saint- esprit. the recognition of the+ in the great llama, al- ama, ama, anima (soul, spirit, alma, el-om &c, meaning white, is very curious. the antiquary bryant is positively of opinion, from the very names of columba and iona, that this island lona was anciently sacred to the arkite divinities. the great asylum of the northern druids was the island of hu or iona, vs colan, or columba (mythology and rites of the british druids, by edward davies, 1809, p. 479. the glories around sacred persons and objects, which have straight-darting and curvilinear or wavy or serpentine rays alternately, are continual in theological or heraldic illustration; which waved and straight rays alternately imply a deep mystery. they are constan

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and heeded that which he spoke and took it to themselves as truth. others yet he persuaded by the agency of the sorceries that he had learned. to health did he restore the sick, to wholeness he restored the cripple. any that would know the secret charms might accomplish such things as these and deeds greater yet or more subtle. indeed to the eastern disciples of the ancient zarathustra or to the druids of the west such acts were simple things that jesu performed as great. yet by these fraudulent persuasions did he win to himself many for at that time many sought some new way for it seemed to them that the old way had failed when shalem to the aeneans fell. you might offer to a thirsty man poison and he would drink. yet that he proclaimed himself the son of god 338 was as a blasphemy to th

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the christ within the bosom of the father. it was also considered to be a reflection of the blazing star which should be in the centre of the lodge ceiling, it being in this respect the same as the ever-burning ruby lamp. it symbolized his light that gburns ever in our midst h and gshineth even in our darkness h. some students of masonry see the same symbol once more in many of the temples of the druids and scandinavians, which were formed of a circle of stones with one, generally taller than the rest, in the centre. 116. pedestals and columns 117. gour lodges are supported by three great pillars- wisdom, strength and beauty, h says the masonic ritual, gwisdom to contrive, strength to support and beauty to adorn; wisdom to conduct us in all our undertakings, strength to support us under al

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til the twelfth century that celtic christianity was finally brought into line with the usages of roman catholicism(*enc. brit, loc. cit) 488. the holy island of iona, once the heart of the old celtic church, lies off the west coast of scotland among the inner hebrides. it was called hy or icolmkill (the island of columba of the church, and by the highlanders innis nan druidhneah (the isle of the druids, implying that before the coming of s. columba in a.d. 563 it had been a hallowed centre of the ancient worship of the celts(*enc. brit, art. iona) the monks of iona spread their learning over sootland and northern england, and the early celtic bishops owned the abbot of iona as their spiritual head. in 717 the monks of iona were expelled from scotland by the pictish king nechtan; but their

inal missionaries, rites belonging to the mithraic line of succession, which, as we have already seen, were practised among the essenes; and there may also in all likelihood have existed among them a succession of jewish masonry unconnected with the roman collegia. 490. the druidic mysteries 491. these various lines of tradition were assimilated to some extent with the indigenous mysteries of the druids, which, however, had lost much of the splendour of former times; and even the outer christian rites became touched with that peculiar beauty which is the heritage of the celt. we find confirmation of the ancient legend that the splendid celtic race called the tuatha de danaan, which flourished in ancient ireland, came originally from greece through scandinavia; and the same is true of other

that the splendid celtic race called the tuatha de danaan, which flourished in ancient ireland, came originally from greece through scandinavia; and the same is true of other offshoots of the celtic stock which settled in wales, cornwall and brittany. they all formed a branch of that fourth sub-race from which the later greeks and romans were also descended; and the origin of the mysteries of the druids may be traced to the great world teacher, in his incarnation as orpheus, the singer of hellas, though they were also influenced somewhat by the still older mysteries of ireland which date from atlantean times. the lyre of apollo became the harp of angus; and the old worship of god as the divine beauty manifesting through music thus passed down into britain. 492. the druidical mysteries had

ay references in classical authors, we know of them today chiefly through the bardic songs attributed to the welsh poet taliesin, of the sixth century a.d, who claimed druidic initiation. culdees of york blended christian mysticism with these pre-christian rites, and so linked them with modern masonry. 493. there have been many other mysteries, such as those of ireland, closely connected with the druids, and of scandinavia, wherein the death and resurrection of balder was the chief theme, and no doubt all these were connected with the source of our present masonry, being branches of the same tree, even though external traces of their rela-tionship in the past have disappeared. 494. the holy grail 495. as part of this indirect heritage from the greek mysteries came the well-known symbol of

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

teria. santerians, who traditionally sacrifice fowl, lambs, and goats, and leave the remains in public places, have been often attacked by animal-rights groups. various attempts have been made to forbid animal sacrifices. santerians have, however, rightly pointed out that animal sacrifices are both ancient and ubiquitous in world culture. among those who sacrificed human beings were the celts and druids, who drank the blood of their victims; the aztecs, who often ate the dismembered body of the victims as an act of ritual cannibalism; and the khonds of southern india, who fertilized the soil with pieces of the bodies of the victims. the sacrifice of firstborn children was common in several cultures, such as among the nobility of carthage during the punic wars. the sacrifice of unbaptized c

soul to the devil, is transported into contemporary los angeles to accomplish satan s plan for destroying the world. a witch-hunter follows him into the future, and enlists the aid of a young woman to foil the evil plot. in the first sequel (1993, the warlock again tries to bring about armageddon, this time in northern california. he faces new antagonists: two teenaged descendants of the ancient druids. in the most recent installment (1999) easily the most lackluster of the series the warlock tries to create his bride of darkness. watchers (grigori) according to jewish legend, the grigori( watchers) are a superior order of angels, whose proper place is either the second or fifth heaven. they are said to look like human beings (except much larger, never sleep, and are forever silent. altho

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

chinnation scant of grace, as if a thirty couple hounds were in his belly! knight, awake! ah! well he woke! his love an scorn grapple in death-throe at his throat .lead me away (quoth he .my men! woe, woe is me was ever born so blind a bat, so gross a goat, as palamede the saracen. 78 xxxiv sir palamede the saracen hath hid him in an hermit.s cell upon an island in the fen of that lone land where druids dwell. there came an eagle from the height and bade him mount. from dale to dell they sank and soared. last to the light of the great sun himself they flew, piercing the borders of the night, passing the irremeable blue. far into space beyond the stars at last they came. and there he knew all the blind reasonable bars broken, and all the emotions stilled, and all the stains and all the scar

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

by memory, nor by imagination, nor by prayer, nor by fasting, nor by scourging, nor by drugs, nor by ritual, nor by meditation; only by passive love shall he avail. 47. he shall await the sword of the beloved and bare his throat for the first stroke. 48. then shall his blood leap out and write me runes in the sky; yea, write me runes in the sky. 23 vi 1. thou wast a priestess, o my god, among the druids; and we knew the powers of the oak. 2. we made us a temple of stones in the shape of the universe, even as thou didst wear openly and i concealed. 3. there we performed many wonderful things by midnight. 4. by the waning moon did we work. 5. over the plain came the atrocious cry of wolves. 6. we answered; we hunted with the pack. 7. we came even unto the new chapel and thou didst bear away

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ise new arcane spells, seeking a purer understanding of the art or a simple weapon other spellcasters lack. the temples of fallen deities and the ruins of ancient cities hold scrolls of powerful and dangerous spells, forgotten by the lesser clerics and wizards who populate faerun today. the spells and domains described in the player's handbook form the common knowledge of faer n's bards, clerics, druids, paladins, rangers, sorcerers, and wizards. any character may acquire these spells in the. usual fashion. the domains and spells described here represent the secrets and special knowledge available to certain groups and individuals, plus a few faer nian spells that have become common parlance among the land's spellcasters. t. cleric domains in addition to the domains described in the player

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ish word drui, it means "the men of the oak trees" he further draws attention to the fact that the forest gods and tree deities of the greeks were called dryades. some believe the word to be of teutonic origin; others ascribe it to the welsh. a few trace it to the gaelic druidh, which means "a wise man" or "a sorcerer" in sanskrit the word dru means "timber" at the time of the roman conquest, the druids were thoroughly ensconced in britain and gaul. their power over the people was unquestioned, and there were instances in which armies, about to attack each other, sheathed their swords when ordered to do so by the white-robed druids. no undertaking of great importance was scatted without the assistance of these patriarchs, who stood as mediators between the gods and men. the druidic order i

the white-robed druids. no undertaking of great importance was scatted without the assistance of these patriarchs, who stood as mediators between the gods and men. the druidic order is deservedly credited with having had a deep understanding of nature and her laws. the encyclop dia britannica states that geography, physical science, natural theology, and astrology were their favorite studies. the druids had a fundamental knowledge of medicine, especially the use of herbs and simples. crude surgical instruments also have been found in england and ireland. an odd treatise on early british medicine states that every practitioner was expected to have a garden or back yard for the growing of certain herbs necessary to his profession. eliphas levi, the celebrated transcendentalist, makes the fol

of medicine, especially the use of herbs and simples. crude surgical instruments also have been found in england and ireland. an odd treatise on early british medicine states that every practitioner was expected to have a garden or back yard for the growing of certain herbs necessary to his profession. eliphas levi, the celebrated transcendentalist, makes the following significant statement "the druids were priests and physicians, curing by magnetism and charging amylets with their fluidic influence. their universal remedies were mistletoe and serpents' eggs, because these substances attract the astral light in a special manner. the solemnity with which mistletoe was cut down drew upon this plant the popular confidence and rendered it powerfully magnetic* the progress of magnetism will so

formation from tyrian and phoenician navigators who, thousands of years before the christian era, established colonies in britain and gaul while searching for tin. thomas maurice, in his indian antiquities, discourses at length on phoenician, carthaginian, and greek expeditions to the british isles for the purpose of procuring tin. others are of the opinion that the mysteries as celebrated by the druids were of oriental origin, possibly buddhistic. the proximity of the british isles to the lost atlantis may account for the sun worship which plays an important part in the rituals of druidism. according to artemidorus, ceres and persephone were worshiped on an island close to britain with rites and ceremonies similar to those of samothrace. there is no doubt that the druidic pantheon include

ber of greek and roman deities. this greatly amazed c sar during his conquest of britain and gaul, and caused him to affirm that these tribes adored mercury, apollo, mars, and jupiter, in a manner similar to that of the latin countries. it is almost certain that the druidic mysteries were not indigenous to britain or gaul, but migrated from one of the more ancient civilizations. the school of the druids was divided into three distinct parts, and the secret teachings embodied therein are practically the same as the mysteries concealed under the allegories of blue lodge masonry. the lowest of the three divisions was that of ovate (ovydd. this was an honorary degree, requiring no special purification or preparation. the ovates dressed in green, the druidic color of learning, and were expected

c mysteries related that admission to their midnight ceremony was gained by means of a glass boat, called cwrwg gwydrin. this boat symbolized the moon, which, floating upon the waters of eternity, preserved the seeds of living creatures within its boatlike crescent. p. 23 integrity from the most learned members of the higher druidic degrees. according to james gardner, there were usually two arch-druids in britain, one residing on the isle of anglesea and the other on the isle of man. presumably there were others in gaul. these dignitaries generally carried golden scepters and were crowned with wreaths of oak leaves, symbolic of their authority. the younger members of the druidic order were clean-shaven and modestly dressed, but the more aged had long gray beards and wore magnificent golde

of anglesea and the other on the isle of man. presumably there were others in gaul. these dignitaries generally carried golden scepters and were crowned with wreaths of oak leaves, symbolic of their authority. the younger members of the druidic order were clean-shaven and modestly dressed, but the more aged had long gray beards and wore magnificent golden ornaments. the educational system of the druids in britain was superior to that of their colleagues on the continent, and consequently many of the gallic youths were sent to the druidic colleges in britain for their philosophical instruction and training. eliphas levi states that the druids lived in strict abstinence, studied the natural sciences, preserved the deepest secrecy, and admitted new members only after long probationary period

that the druids lived in strict abstinence, studied the natural sciences, preserved the deepest secrecy, and admitted new members only after long probationary periods. many of the priests of the order lived in buildings not unlike the monasteries of the modern world. they were associated in groups like ascetics of the far east. although celibacy was not demanded of them, few married. many of the druids retired from the world and lived as recluses in caves, in rough-stone houses, or in little shacks built in the depths of a forest. here they prayed and medicated, emerging only to perform their religious duties. james freeman clarke, in his ten great religions, describes the beliefs of the druids as follows "the druids believed in three worlds and in transmigration from one to the other: in

a knowledge of all things, and to get power to conquer evil. there are also, they say, three kinds of knowledge: knowledge of the nature of each thing, of its cause, and its influence. there are three things which continually grow less: darkness, falsehood, and death. there are three which constantly increase: light, life, and truth" like nearly all schools of the mysteries, the teachings of the druids were divided into two distinct sections. the simpler, a moral code, was taught to all the people, while the deeper, esoteric doctrine was given only to initiated priests. to be admitted to the order, a candidate was required to be of good family and of high moral character. no important secrets were intrusted to him until he had been tempted in many ways and his strength of character severe

vided into two distinct sections. the simpler, a moral code, was taught to all the people, while the deeper, esoteric doctrine was given only to initiated priests. to be admitted to the order, a candidate was required to be of good family and of high moral character. no important secrets were intrusted to him until he had been tempted in many ways and his strength of character severely tried. the druids taught the people of britain and gaul concerning the immortality of the soul. they believed in transmigration and apparently in reincarnation. they borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. they believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. the druids taught that all men would be

. they believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. the druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcome the inherent evil of their own natures. before a candidate was intrusted with the secret doctrines of the druids, he was bound with a vow of secrecy. these doctrines were imparted only in the depths of forests and in the darkness of caves. in these places, far from the haunts of men, the neophyte was instructed concerning the creation of the universe, the personalities of the gods, the laws of nature, the secrets of occult medicine, the mysteries of the celestial bodies, and the rudiments of magic and

bound with a vow of secrecy. these doctrines were imparted only in the depths of forests and in the darkness of caves. in these places, far from the haunts of men, the neophyte was instructed concerning the creation of the universe, the personalities of the gods, the laws of nature, the secrets of occult medicine, the mysteries of the celestial bodies, and the rudiments of magic and sorcery. the druids had a great number of feast days. the new and full moon and the sixth day of the moon were sacred periods. it is believed that initiations took place only at the two solstices and the two equinoxes. at dawn of the 25th day of december, the birth of the sun god was celebrated. the secret teachings of the druids are said by some to be tinctured with pythagorean philosophy. the druids had a ma

un god was celebrated. the secret teachings of the druids are said by some to be tinctured with pythagorean philosophy. the druids had a madonna, or virgin mother, with a child in her arms, who was sacred to their mysteries; and their sun god was resurrected at the time of the year corresponding to that at which modern christians celebrate easter. both the cross and the serpent were sacred to the druids, who made the former by cutting off all the branches of an oak tree and fastening one of them to the main trunk in the form of the letter t. this oaken cross became symbolic of their superior deity. they also worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. the moon received their special veneration. caesar stated that mercury was one of the chief deities of the gauls. the druids are believed to have wo

tars. the moon received their special veneration. caesar stated that mercury was one of the chief deities of the gauls. the druids are believed to have worshiped mercury under the similitude of a stone cube. they also had great veneration for the nature spirits (fairies, gnomes, and undines, little creatures of the forests and rivers to whom many offerings were made. describing the temples of the druids, charles heckethorn, in the secret societies of all ages& countries, says "their temples wherein the sacred fire was preserved were generally situate on eminences and in dense groves of oak, and assumed various forms--circular, because a circle was the emblem of the universe; oval, in allusion to the mundane egg, from which issued, according to the traditions of many nations, the universe

d egyptian hermeticism, oriental occultism, chaldean astrology, and persian philosophy in his followers, and in his doctrines sought to unite the schools of early christianity with the ancient pagan mysteries. to him is attributed the formulation of that peculiar concept of the deity which carries the name of abraxas. in discussing the original meaning of this word, godfrey higgins, in his celtic druids, has demonstrated that the numerological powers of the letters forming the word abraxas when added together result in the sum of 365. the same author also notes that the name mithras when treated in a similar manner has the same numerical value. basilides caught that the click to enlarge the death of simon the magician. from the nuremberg chronicle. simon magus, having called upon the spiri

h son skiold as its sovereign, and passed over to sweden, where gylf, who did homage to the wonderful stranger, and was initiated into his mysteries, then ruled. he soon made himself master here, built sigtuna as the capital of his empire, and promulgated a new code of laws, and established the sacred mysteries. he, himself, assumed the name of odin, founded the priesthood of the twelve drottars (druids) who conducted the secret worship, and the administration of justice, and, as prophets, revealed the future. the secret rites of these mysteries celebrated the death of balder, the beautiful and lovely, and represented the grief of gods and men at his death, and his restoration to life (general history of freemasonry) after his death, the historical odin was apotheosized, his identity being

markings and colorings. among the egyptians, the bull was a beast of burden. hence the presence of the animal was a reminder of the labors patiently performed by nature that all creatures may have life and health. harpocrates, the god of silence, holding his fingers to his mouth, often accompanies the statue of isis. he warns all to keep the secrets of the wise from those unfit to know them. the druids of britain and gaul had a deep knowledge concerning the mysteries of isis and worshiped her under the symbol of the moon. godfrey higgins considers it a mistake to regard isis as synonymous with the moon. the moon was chosen for isis because of its dominion over water. the druids considered the sun to be the father and the moon the mother of all things. by means of these symbols they worshi

n imperfect number--is in itself almost conclusive. furthermore, the arrangement of the greek and hebrew letters does not agree closely enough with the english to permit the application of the number sequences of one language to the number sequences of the others. further experimentation with click to enlarge the numerical values of the hebrew, greek, and samaritan alphabets. from higgins' celtic druids. column 1 names of the hebrew letters. 2 samaritan letters. 3 hebrew and chaldean letters. 4 numerical equivalents of the letters. 5 capital and small greek letters. 6 the letters marked with asterisks are those brought to greece from phoenicia by cadmus. 7 name of the greek letters. 8 nearest english equivalents to the hebrew, greek, and samaritan letters. note. when used at the end of a w

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

berland. at bewcastle or fanum cocidi the temple of cocidius there was both a fort and a temple. the strong roman military presence soon became a part of the local mix and cocidius quickly became associated with mars& also silvanus the son of mars) as mars cocidius who was widely worshiped by the civil and military population alike. the roma n military had a tradition (for the most part, jews and druids aside) of respecting the genius loci (local gods, since like all soldiers they needed as much luck as they could get. so they took on the local cult but gave it a roman gloss. my private worship has for some years been reserved for the roman/etruscan trinity of laran (mars, turan (venus) and lupercus (faunus sometimes called silvanus. this came about as the result of a strange chain of even

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

leaf-shaped flint tips. their religion, which was connected in some way with the moon and stars, was conducted amidst stone circles, surrounded by a bank and ditch (the original witch circle, in fact. the prytani appear to have kept very much to themselves, isolating themselves within raths, or large circular encampments, the only contact between the two races being made by the celtic shamans, or druids, a word probably signifying wise ones, or wizards. much or all of the druidic lore would appear to have been drawn from contact with the prytani. indeed many druids were probably born of prytanic fathers to celtic mothers. the legendary merlin was maybe one such as this, born of "mortal" mother and fathered by a "devil" or "elf" in fact elves were but the teutonic names bestowed upon the re

in england at least the cult of the moon goddess predated the druidic, solar religion, and that it is from this early prytanic religion that four of the great annual witch festivals are derived. these are the nights of october 31 (halloween; february 2 (candlemas; april 30 (beltane, and august 1 (lammas. of these, beltane and halloween are the more important. the four solar fire festivals of the druids are also observed, though to a lesser extent. these are midwinter, spring, midsummer, and autumn as marked by the solstices and equinoxes, and these together with the preceding four make eight sabbats, or festivals, of the witches' year. the practical import of the sabbats is this: halloween, candlemas, beltane, and lammas mark the beginning of each quarter of the solar-tide cycle; first th

in the medieval christian mind always was, i deal with storm raising and its more far-reaching concomitant, weather working, under this particular chapter heading as a matter of convenience rather than one of hard definition. far back into recorded history, powerful practitioners of the occult have generally been credited with powers of weather working. from kublai khan's eastern shamans, to the druids of the british isles, they have all possessed one skill in common, the mysterious power of controlling wind, rain, mist, and thunderbolt. during the middle ages, however, in christian lands, at any rate, this skill, where demonstrated, was seen simply as another manifestation of ever-present satan's power. the orthodox christian doctrine ran thus: almighty god in the depths of his wisdom an

sacrifice, a renewal of power for the rest of the coven; a recharging of the coven entity, in fact. whether this form of sacrifice was, in fact, ever indulged in by witches is a moot point. it is certainly a practice common to many primitive societies. the witch god and witch goddess it seems, however, to be more connected with the beliefs fostered by established priesthoods, such as that of the druids as recorded by caesar, rather than of secret witch covens. the whole concept of guilt, scapegoats, and atonement is totally absent from witchcraft. the only rituals nowadays containing elements of sacrifice are those of cakes and wine and various libations thereof. the occasional use of minute amounts of blood in certain operations is by no means seen as a method of deity appeasement or ato

as celebrated as the summer festival, while in others, midsummer was accorded the same honour instead, with identical symbolism. of the two varieties, however, the so-called great sabbats of candlemas, beltane, lammas, and hallows appear to be the older, antedating the solstices and equinoxes which sprang directly from the advent of a more sophisticated astronomical science, characteristic of the druids. but nowadays all eight appear on the witches' calendar,and you can take your choice which you will celebrate. of course, most witches celebrate the grand sabbats of hallows and beltane, if not all four. some ardent practitioners even fit all eight in, but they are generally performed more on the scale of esbats than sabbats. ideally, a sabbat should be held in a place hallowed by tradition

MEANING OF MASONRY

the masses who are insufficiently prepared for deeper teaching; and concurrently therewith there has been an interior, advanced doctrine, a more secret knowledge, which has been reserved for riper minds and into which only proficient and properly prepared candidates, who voluntarily sought to participate in it, were initiated. whether in ancient india, egypt, greece, italy or mexico, or among the druids of europe, temples of initiation have ever existed for those who felt the inward call to come apart from the multitude and to dedicate themselves to a long discipline of body and mind with a view to acquiring the secret knowledge and developing the spiritual faculties by means of experimental processes of initiation of which our present ceremonies are the faint echo. it is far beyond my pre

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

we embody it, then we subliminally regard nature and its order asontologically inferior. nature is ignorant we think. if it could bring about a propensityin its highest creation that undermines its own order, then, by implication, it cannot beintelligent or worthy of reverence and care. it is this attitude which then leads to thedesecration of nature, animals, and indigenous peoples as well. the druids did notpermit themselves the luxury of cutting a single living thing with a sharpened edge.compare this to todays savagery and carnage. in a sincere desire to discover the origins of evil and in a need to circumvent the drive,personally and collectively, we have turned to the philosophers and to the scientistsand priests. for all their musings and pontification, the academic philosophers ha

ith briars my joys and desires (from william blake s the garden of love)fortunately, not all civilizations were founded on the atlantean pattern. the ecocentri-cally minded indigenous peoples of the world, descendants of the lemurians, neverforgot their shamanic duties as is revealed in their works and words and in the mannerin which they existed. the native american indians, the aboriginals, the druids, thepharaonic priests, and the matriarchal societies all attended to this sovereign duty.they were caretakers and protectors, and they encoded into their sundry rituals andceremonies the harmonics and vibrational intonations which resonated with the merk-aba of the planet.the sons of the serpents and their adamic wards propagated and disseminated theirwealth of knowledge. they created their

e maltwood the glastonbury zodiac brindsley la pour trench sky people; temple of the stars; men among mankind william bramley gods of eden arthur david horn mankind s extraterrestrial origins r. a. boulay- flying serpents and dragons: the story of mankind's reptilian past. david wood genesis: first book of revelation barbara marciniak bringers of the dawn; earth godfrey higgins anacalypsis/celtic druids morgan llewellyn- bard john matthews- book of taliesin ross nichols the book of druidry charles squire celtic myth& legend jim fitzpatrick the book of conquests/the silver arm erich v on daniken city of gold/chariots of the gods david icke the biggest secret/children of the matrix douglas adams- the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy/restaurant at the end of the universe mark lerner -the big

celand in 1783 that ended the direct control of asgard. golden asgard with its palaces wasdestroyed by flames while its queens were inside. the gods died fighting and the gotterdamerungensued (p. 66)indiathe social system of india drifted into the caste system that they have there today. the gods are still ontop today (p. 67)serpent cultthe following peoples identified themselves with the serpent:druids, chiefs of v otan (popul vuh, babylonians, cretans, the pharaohs, the indians and israelites.(see p. 68.)appendix b: book abstracts242atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation there are no snakes on most of the islands and there never were. so how did the image and name ofit come into the civilizations that existed on these islands?the ascendancy of jehovahafter the catastrophe t

olution, volcanic eruptions, extraordinary meteorological phenomena, pestilence,starvation, the desperation of the populace, leading finally to wholesale flight and then to catastrophe.(p. 42)chaldea, the culdees, and druidsmay come from the word celi de, meaning people of god. this becomes the culdees, the gnostic sectthat spread to the british isles, or perhaps even came from there, forming the druids (see p. 51.)samothracethis great city and peoples, considered by beaumont to have actually been in gotland, sweden, wasreported by historian diodorus to have been destroyed by a terrific deluge (see footnote on p. 60.)dragons teetha term used to describe ancient monoliths and sacred sites, like avebury or canac.the credibility of historian manethomanetho, high priest of the temple of isis a

, and of the twoprincesses, one named scota, who played a large part in the genealogy of the milesian kings of ireland,and who is described as a daughter of a pharaoh, as she was, for he adopted them both (p. 129)the serpents eggcrafted by the god ptah in the underworld. this could be a reference to genetic science (see p. 137.)the pherylltfrom the word for iron, this was a fraternity of powerful druids who knew metallurgy and practiced itdeep underground. from them comes the concept of the cauldron of power. it is thought that these werethe fashioners of the weapons of power and destruction, in the periods before and after the deluge, theones with the knowledge of such industry. this is where we get the coming of the magi or the wise ones,bearing strange gifts.ancient weapons of poweri ha

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

mpires are born, and often discover at around puberty that they are different from most people; this type usually claim to have many past-lives, as opposed to the human, whose soul is fresh and will only die once. this cycle of death and rebirth is often symbolized with a serpent eating its own tail. the many names these converted ones have gone by throughout the centuries are: witches, warlocks, druids, vampires, and of coarse the jedi. although freemasons do in fact conduct real rituals of transformation, they also reenact those rites by having initiates lowered into a pyramid while blindfolded. the good folks at yale s skull and bones fraternity also reenact the ritual of death and rebirth by climbing into a coffin and being reborn as bonesmen. after which they are allegedly told that t

MORALS AND DOGMA

be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables. in fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? the truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason" moral disorders produce physical ugliness, and in some sort realize those frightful faces which tradition assigns to the demons. the first druids were the true children of the magi, and their initiation came from egypt and chald a, that is to say, from the pure sources of the primitive kabalah. they adored the trinity under the names of _isis_ or _hesus, the supreme harmony; of _belen_ or _bel_ which in assyrian means lord, a name corresponding to that of adona; and of _camul_ or _cama l, a name that in the kabalah personifies the di

lts to a magus, or to a layman renowned for his virtues, or to the sun. fasting and maceration were prohibited; and, on the contrary, it was his duty suitably to nourish the body and to maintain its vigor, that his soul might be strong to resist the genius of darkness; that he might more attentively read the divine word, and have more courage to perform noble deeds. and in the north of europe the druids taught devotion to friends, indulgence for reciprocal wrongs, love of deserved praise, prudence, humanity, hospitality, respect for old age, disregard of the future, temperance, contempt of death, and a chivalrous deference to woman. listen to these maxims from the hava maal, or sublime book of odin "if thou hast a friend, visit him often; the path will grow over with grass, and the trees s

ient edifices; and these mathematical figures and instruments, adopted by the templars, and identical with those on the gnostic seals and abrax, connect their dogma with the chaldaic, syriac, and egyptian oriental philosophy. the secret pythagorean doctrines of numbers were preserved by the monks of thibet, by the hierophants of egypt and eleusis, at jerusalem, and in the circular chapters of the druids; and they are especially consecrated in that mysterious book, the apocalypse of saint john. all temples were surrounded by pillars, recording the number of the constellations, the signs of the zodiac, or the cycles of the planets; and each one was a microcosm or symbol of the universe, having for roof or ceiling the starred vault of heaven. all temples were originally open at the top, havin

superadded. listen, my brother, to _our_ explanation of the symbols of the degree, and then give them such further interpretation as you think fit. the _cross_ has been a sacred symbol from the earliest antiquity. it is found upon all the enduring monuments of the world, in egypt, in assyria, in hindostan, in persia, and on the buddhist towers of ireland. buddha was said to have died upon it. the druids cut an oak into its shape and held it sacred, and built their temples in that form. pointing to the four quarters of the world, it was the symbol of universal nature. it was on a cruciform tree, that chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows. it was revered in mexico. but its peculiar meaning in this degree, is that given to it by the ancient egyptians _thoth_ or _phtha_ is rep

gree, rejected the puerilities and absurdities with which many of them were disfigured, and made of them a connected system of moral, religious, and philosophical instruction. sectarian of no creed, it has yet thought it not improper to use the old allegories, based on occurrences detailed in the hebrew and christian books, and drawn from the ancient mysteries of egypt, persia, greece, india, the druids and the essenes, as vehicles to communicate the great masonic truths; as it has used the legends of the crusades, and the ceremonies of the orders of knighthood. it no longer inculcates a criminal and wicked vengeance. it has not allowed masonry to play the assassin: to avenge the death either of hiram, of charles the 1st, or of jacques de molay and the templars. the ancient and accepted sc

he mysteries; to which those only were admitted who had been prepared by certain ceremonies called initiations. the most widely disseminated of the ancient worships were those of isis, orpheus, dionusos, ceres and mithras. many barbarous nations received the knowledge of the mysteries in honor of these divinities from the egyptians, before they arrived in greece; and even in the british isles the druids celebrated those of dionusos, learned by them from the egyptians. the mysteries of eleusis, celebrated at athens in honor of ceres, swallowed up, as it were, all the others. all the neighboring nations neglected their own, to celebrate those of eleusis; and in a little while all greece and asia minor were filled with the initiates. they spread into the roman empire, and even beyond its limi

points. and our expression, that our lodges extend upward to the heavens, comes from the persian and druidic custom of having to their temples no roofs but the sky. plato developed and spiritualized the philosophy of pythagoras. even eusebius the christian admits, that he reached to the vestibule of truth, and stood upon its threshold. the druidical ceremonies undoubtedly came from india; and the druids were originally buddhists. the word _druidh, like the word _magi, signifies wise or learned men; and they were at once philosophers, magistrates, and divines. there was a surprising uniformity in the temples, priests, doctrines, and worship of the persian magi and british druids. the gods of britain were the same as the cabiri of samothrace. osiris and isis appeared in their mysteries, unde

harmoniously only there. symbolical instruction is recommended by the constant and uniform usage of antiquity; and it has retained its influence throughout all ages, as a system of mysterious communication. the deity, in his revelations to man, adopted the use of material images for the purpose of enforcing sublime truths; and christ taught by symbols and parables. the mysterious knowledge of the druids was embodied in signs and symbols. taliesin, describing his initiation, says "the secrets were imparted to me by the old giantess(_ceridwen, or _isis, without the use of audible language" and again he says "i am a _silent_ proficient" initiation was a school, in which were taught the truths of primitive revelation, the existence and attributes of one god, the immortality of the soul, reward

soul and a future state, solemnly enjoined not to neglect the worship of the deity, nor the practice of rigid morality; and to avoid sloth, contention, and folly. the aspirant attained only the exoteric knowledge in the first two degrees. the third was attained only by a few, and they persons of rank and consequence, and after long purification, and study of all the arts and sciences known to the druids, in solitude, for nine months. this was the symbolical death and burial of these mysteries. the dangerous voyage upon the actual open sea, in a small boat covered with a skin, on the evening of the 29th of april, was the last trial, and closing scene, of initiation. if he declined this trial, he was dismissed with contempt. if he made it and succeeded, he was termed thrice-born, was eligibl

n the actual open sea, in a small boat covered with a skin, on the evening of the 29th of april, was the last trial, and closing scene, of initiation. if he declined this trial, he was dismissed with contempt. if he made it and succeeded, he was termed thrice-born, was eligible to all the dignities of the state, and received complete instruction in the philosophical and religious doctrines of the druids. the greeks also styled the [greek ?p?pt, thrice-born; and in india perfection was assigned to the yogee who had accomplished many births. the general features of the initiations among the goths were the same as in all the mysteries. a long probation, of fasting and mortification, circular processions, representing the march of the celestial bodies, many fearful tests and trials, a descent

th; and, with its tail in its mouth, of eternity. in the ritual of zoroaster, the serpent was a symbol of the universe. in china, the ring between two serpents was the symbol of the world governed by the power and wisdom of the creator. the bacchanals carried serpents in their hands or round their heads. the serpent entwined round an egg, was a symbol common to the indians, the egyptians, and the druids. it referred to the creation of the universe. a serpent with an egg in his mouth was a symbol of the universe containing within itself the germ of all things that the sun develops. the property possessed by the serpent, of casting its skin, and apparently renewing its youth, made it an emblem of eternity and immortality. the syrian women still employ it as a charm against barrenness, as did

m tertullian, origen, and st. jerome, that the hebrew _tau_ was anciently written in the form of a cross. in ancient times the mark _tau_ was set on those who had been acquitted by their judges, as a symbol of innocence. the military commanders placed it on soldiers who escaped unhurt from the field of battle, as a sign of their safety under the divine protection. it was a sacred symbol among the druids. divesting a tree of part of its branches, they left it in the shape of a tau cross, preserved it carefully, and consecrated it with solemn ceremonies. on the tree they cut deeply the word thau, by which they meant god. on the right arm of the cross, they inscribed the word hesuls, on the left belen or belenus, and on the middle of the trunk tharamis. this represented the sacred _triad. it

which they meant god. on the right arm of the cross, they inscribed the word hesuls, on the left belen or belenus, and on the middle of the trunk tharamis. this represented the sacred _triad. it is certain that the indians, egyptians, and arabians paid veneration to the sign of the cross, thousands of years before the coming of christ. everywhere it was a sacred symbol. the hindus and the celtic druids built many of their temples in the form of a cross, as the ruins still remaining clearly show, and particularly the ancient druidical temple at classerniss in the island of lewis in scotland. the circle is of 12 stones. on each of the sides, east, west, and south, are three. in the centre was the image of the deity; and on the north an avenue of twice nineteen stones, and one at the entranc

considered not so much as an object of worship, as rather the most pure and lively emblem of, and first emanation from, the eternal god; and thought that man required something visible or tangible to exalt his mind to that degree of adoration which is due to the divine being. there was a surprising similarity between the temples, priests, doctrines, and worship of the persian magi and the british druids. the latter did not worship idols in the human shape, because they held that the divinity, being invisible, ought to be adored without being seen. they asserted the unity of the godhead. their invocations were made to the one all-preserving power; and they argued that, as this power was not matter, it must necessarily be the deity; and the secret symbol used to express his name was o.i.w. t

god who was "the author of everything that existeth; the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" idols and visible representations of the deity were originally forbidden, and he was directed to be worshipped in the lonely solitude of sequestered forests, where he was said to dwell, invisible, and in perfect silence. the druids, like their eastern ancestors, paid the most sacred regard to the odd numbers, which, traced backward, ended in unity or deity, while the even numbers ended in nothing. 3 was particularly reverenced. 19(7+3+3: 30 (7x3+3x3: and 21 (7x3) were numbers observed in the erection of their temples, constantly appearing in their dimensions, and the number and distances of the huge stones. they were

d that the only method of becoming acquainted with it, is by being initiated into the mysteries of the _ism abla. h o m was the first framer of the new religion among the persians, and his name was ineffable. amun, among the egyptians, was a name pronounceable by none save the priests. the old germans adored god with profund reverence, without daring to name him, or to worship him in temples. the druids expressed the name of deity by the letters o-i-w. among all the nations of primitive antiquity, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul was not a mere probable hypothesis, needing laborious researches and diffuse argumentation to produce conviction of its truth. nor can we hardly give it the name of _faith; for it was a lively _certainty, like the feeling of one's own existence and iden

idden from us" the poets inspired by the divinity, the wisest philosophers, all the theologians, the chiefs of the initiations and mysteries, even the gods uttering their oracles, have borrowed the figurative language of allegory "the egyptians" says proclus "preferred that mode of teaching, and spoke of the great secrets of nature, only in mythological enigmas" the gymnosophists of india and the druids of gaul lent to science the same enigmatic language, and in the same style wrote the hierophants of ph nicia. the division of things into the active and the passive cause leads to that of the two principles of light and darkness, connected with and corresponding with it. for light comes from the ethereal substance that composes the active cause, and darkness from earth or the gross matter w

om whom everything has proceeded, and to whom all returns: and that all moral law springs not from the relation of things, but from his wisdom and essential justice, as the omnipotent legislator. and this true word is with entire accuracy said to have been _lost; because its _meaning_ was lost, even among the hebrews, although we still find the name (its real meaning unsuspected, in the hu of the druids and the fo-hi of the chinese. when we conceive of the absolute truth, beauty, or good, we cannot stop short at the abstraction of either. we are forced to refer each to some living and substantial being, in which they have their foundations, some being that is the first and last principle of each. moral truth, like every other universal and necessary truth, cannot remain a mere abstraction

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and how one may acquire riches through the application of magical rites and ceremonies. the magic of herbs herbs have always been a staple item in the witch s world of chants, spells and rituals. they have a long wiccan tradition, being used for all kinds of weird and wonderful purposes. the historical record shows that they were part of the wiccan tradition amongst the ancient egyptians, celts, druids, romans and greeks. herbs can be obtained in one of two ways. from the countryside where they grow in abundance, or ready-packed for sale in occult supply stores. witches have also been known to employ the humble lemon in their spellcasting. a traditional formula for ascertaining if the man on a woman s mind is going to be hers or not is the following: carry all day in a pocket or purse two

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l have occasion to return to the talismans of paracelsus, while following gaffarel upon the great question of occult iconography and numismatics. bewitchment may be cured also by substitution, when that is possible, and by the rupture or deflection of the astral current. the folk-traditions on all these points are admirable and undoubtedly of remote antiquity; they are remnants of the teaching of druids, who were initiated in the mysteries of egypt and india by bewitchments 79 wandering hierophants. now, it is well known in vulgar magic that a bewitchment that is, a determined will resolved on doing evil, invariably has its result, and cannot draw back without risk of death. the sorcerer who liberates anyone from a charm must have another object for his malevolence, or it is certain that h

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er is definitely constructive, but wears the robes of the shimmering rainbow to confuse and baffle- a protective disguise that only the worthy will penetrate. those who do so will be allowed to perceive and partake of xem. within a few days, a letter arrived to priestess reynolds from magister barrett with his own pertinent comments on the working: i'm not sure why, but i get an impression of the druids from it. probably because of the green robes, which makes me think of their ovates. i'm not saying it had anything special as regarding the druids- that was just the first impression i experienced in reading your report. green was associated with venus in western magick and symbolized vegetative principles in khem. i am particularly interested in the words and use of "nine" and "deceiver" w

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the watchers. camio, camael (goetia, 53rd spirit. formerly of the angelic order of angels. appears as a thrush, a man carrying a sharp sword, seems to answer in burning ashes or coals. gives understanding of the speech of birds, bulls, dogs and other animals, and of the voices of the waters. foretells the future. in occult lore he also is identified as the angel governing the sphere of mars. the druids had a god of war called camael, and it is not impossible that this may be the source of his name. cassiel angel ruling saturn and saturday, also listed as a demon in the magus, francis barret. carnivean, carniveau. patron devil of lewd and obscene behaviour, who tempts into shamelessness. once a prince of powers, was one of the demons cited as possessing the body of sister seraphica of loud

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e spring equinox! the eve of may has been memorialized as the night that all of the demons, specters, afreets, and banshees would come forth and hold their wild revels, symbolizing the fruition of the spring equinox. halloween- all hallows' eve, or all saints' day- falls on october 31st or november 1st. originally, all hallows' eve was one of the great fire festivals of britain at the time of the druids. in scotland it was associated with the time when the spirits of the dead, the demons, witches, and sorcerers were unusually active and propitious. paradoxically, all hallows' eve was also the night when young people performed magical rituals to determine their future marriage partners. the youth of the villages carried on with much merry-making and sensual revelry, but the older people too

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. wicca, for example, was reconstructed from the beliefs of the ancient celts (pronounced kelts, an ethnic group found world religions: almanac 373 neo-paganism in western europe and the british isles. celts worshipped the goddess of fertility and the god of the hunt. other neo-pagans identify themselves specifically as followers of asatru, a god from ancient norse (scandinavian) mythology, or as druids, another religion based on ancient celtic practices( mythology is the collected stories of a culture or religion dealing with the origins, heroes, gods, and beliefs of a group of people) while many neo-pagan religions have their roots in celtic traditions, others have their origins in the gods and goddesses of the roman empire (c. 31 bce 476 ce. sometimes the central and south american reli

cticed their religion at the local, tribal level. the archaeological record shows that at least 374 different gods and goddesses were worshipped. at least three hundred were probably local tribal gods. the main group of gods and goddesses number perhaps thirty-three (a sacred number among ancient celts) and include arawn, brigid, cerridwen, danu, herne, lugh, morgan, rhiannon, and taranis. modern druids work to reconstruct the myths and practices of ancient druidism, but they have few records from which to work. they have determined that the ancient celts had a ritual similar to baptism, an initiation ceremony also found in christianity, though some scholars believe that references to this ritual were forgeries created by christian monks. the druids believed that the god bile (also known a

s had a ritual similar to baptism, an initiation ceremony also found in christianity, though some scholars believe that references to this ritual were forgeries created by christian monks. the druids believed that the god bile (also known as bel or belenus) transported the dead to the otherworld, where life continued in much the same way that it did on earth. believing that the soul was immortal, druids believed that after death the soul was reincarnated, or reborn, into the body of another living thing. after a soul learned what it could from the ongoing cycle of reincarnation, it moved to a higher realm, eventually arriving at the source, the flame of existence of which humans represent sparks. druids celebrate midsummer s day, the start of summer, with a ritual at stonehenge, england. n

summer s day, the start of summer, with a ritual at stonehenge, england. neo-pagan religions are closely linked to nature, and their holy days often include the first day of the start of the four seasons. archive photos/getty images. 380 world religions: almanac neo-paganism current practitioners of druidism have also reconstructed several ancient practices and symbols. they know that the ancient druids practiced divination, or techniques designed to read into the future. some of these techniques included interpreting dreams, examining the flights of birds, meditation, and reading the pattern of sticks scattered on the ground. they have also rediscovered the awen symbol (awen is welsh for inspiration, consisting of three pillars with the outer two sloped toward the one in the center. druid

equivalent of the modern may day. it is a time to celebrate the blossoming of flowers and the birth of domesticated animals. 4. lughnasad (also lughnasadh and lamma, celebrated on august 1, is the feast of lugh, the god of light, and marks the start of the harvest season. there are a number of modern druidic movements, primarily in great britain and north america. the order of bards, ovates, and druids (obod) was formed in the eighteenth century under the name ancient order of druids. this original group separated into the druids and stonehenge about 2 miles (3 kilometers) west of the town of amesbury, wiltshire, in southern england stands a cluster of stone, wood, and earth structures called stonehenge. both archaeologists (scholars who study the physical remains of ancient civilizations

tone, wood, and earth structures called stonehenge. both archaeologists (scholars who study the physical remains of ancient civilizations) and millions of tourists stand before these structures in awe, wondering who built them, when, and why. they also wonder how the structure was built, given that some of the massive stones were transported from as far away as wales. some people believe that the druids built stonehenge, likely as a religious shrine. the fact is, though, that construction on stonehenge began some time around 2,900 bce and was completed some time around 1,600 bce, more than one thousand years before the arrival of the celtic druids. world religions: almanac 381 neo-paganism factions, of which one, the british circle of universal bond, survived to become the obod. another mo

nbotham, joyce. paganism: an introduction to earth-centered religions. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 2002. o hara, gwydion. pagan ways: finding the spirituality in nature. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications, 2002. pennick, nigel. the pagan book of days: a guide to the festivals, traditions, and sacred days of the year, 2nd ed. rochester, vt: destiny books, 2001. web sites junker, karen. druids. religious movements homepage. http//religiousmovements. lib.virginia.edu/nrms/drud.html (accessed on june 5, 2006. a pagan primer. about.com. http//altreligion.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite. htm?zi=1/xj&sdn=altreligion&zu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecauldron. com%2fnewpagan.php (accessed on june 5, 2006. robinson, b. a. neo-pagan pagan religious traditions. ontario consultants on religious tolerance

leading authority on wicca, a modern religious movement that falls under the broader heading of neo-paganism (neo meaning new. neo-paganism encompasses a number of modern groups that find religious truth in ancient practices and beliefs. some neo-pagans, for example, identify themselves specifically as followers of asatru, a god from ancient norse (scandinavian) mythology. others call themselves druids, whose religion is based on ancient celtic practices( the celts were an early ethnic group found primarily in western europe and the british isles) other groups include shamans( priests or priestesses who use magic rituals to cure the sick or foretell the future, members of such movements as goddess spirituality or sacred ecology, and wicca. many of these terms tend to overlap in meaning be

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elf a symbol of idolatry "stone worship was perhaps the earliest form of fetichism. eussebius cites porphyry as saying that the ancients represented the deity by a black stone, because his nature is obscure and inscrutable. the reader here will be reminded of the black stone, hadsjar el aswad, placed in the south-west corner of the kaaba at mecca, which was worshipped by the ancient arabians. the druids, it is well known, had no other images of their gods but cubical or sometimes columnar stones. to use the language of dudley, the pillar or stone 'was adapted as a symbol of strength and firmness. a symbol, also, of the divine power, and, by a ready inference, a symbol or idol of the deity himself. the god hermes [mercury] was represented without hands or feet, being a cubical stone, becaus

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mia, first as a potter mark, and in later egyptian dynasties as a mason s mark. symbolically, it was connected to the souls separate journey through the universe. gerald gardner (considered the founding father of modern wicca) utilized the inverted pentagram as representive of the second degree of wicca. the gnostics called the pentagram the blazing star and related it to night time magic. pagan, druids, celts, pythagoreans, greeks and romans all used the pentagram- with one point or two points upward as various symbols of perfection, truth and magic. within the paradigm presented in this book, the pentagram in its inverted (two points up) position is restored to its original purity as a symbol of the separate soul journeying through the universe- experiencing that which extends beyond the

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story of secret societies, by arkon daraul, citadel press, secaucus, new jersey, 1961) the eagle is the sun the herder dictionary of symbols notes that the eagle has long been a symbol of power, endurance, and heavenward flight. it also symbolizes the sun (and the sun god) and spiritual majesty. coil's masonic encyclopedia says that "to the pagans, the eagle was an emblem of jupiter, and with the druids it was a symbol of their supreme god" the eagle appears in the insignia of many nations, including ancient rome, nazi and modern-day germany, czarist russia, and the united states of america. the rothschilds adopted the double-headed eagle as the logo of the rothschild family dynasty. the eagle is also represented in the great seal of the u.s.a. and it is revered as a holy sign by sufi mosl

e books were for the "stupids" the masses. while reading the new millennium the reader ignorant of the uses of symbolism probably ignored the fact that at the top of every page, a point within a circle could be found. this was robertson's "hidden code" to his elite pals that he was still on their side and was just taking the ignorant masses for a ride. the sign of the mafia, the illuminati and of druids according to dr. cathy burns, in hidden secrets of the eastern star, the point within the circle is "the sign of the infamous mafia or cosa nostra" rather than the "black hand" as many believe.6 but the real shocker is the importance given this sign by adam weishaupt and the order of the illuminati. burns explains that because illuminism was so determined to keep the true nature of the orde

vine man, sexual license, and fire, churchill's frequent use spurred the use of the device by an uninformed populace as a sign of victory. 522 codex magica young winston churchill arrives for his druid initiation ceremony. was churchill taught the true, occult meaning of the fiery and destructive "v" hand sign that he later made so famous it became used around the world (photo: from the book, the druids, by peter berresford ellis) victory for the devil 523 in this ancient engraving, dionysius the areopagite, an athenian "convert" to christianity, gives the double "v" sign-"as above, so below" with left hand toward hell. dionysius was a mystical christian, a gnostic heretic who is thought to have been the author of an occultic treatise entitled the mystical divinity (from the book, mystics

ngraving, dionysius the areopagite, an athenian "convert" to christianity, gives the double "v" sign-"as above, so below" with left hand toward hell. dionysius was a mystical christian, a gnostic heretic who is thought to have been the author of an occultic treatise entitled the mystical divinity (from the book, mystics and mysteries of alexandria, by manly p. hall, 33) the green man, sign of the druids, is found carved on wood and in concrete in the architectural details of buildings, altars, and structures throughout the british isles. an insightful movie, the green man, starring peter finch, touched on the connection of the green man, sexual perversity, and the devil's demon powers. this brass plate is decorated with a circle and, inside, the universal sign of the masonic lodge, which i

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fter someone has stated something like, i ve never had a toothache, then quickly adds, knock on wood. many authorities on folklore and traditions believe that the custom may have originated in the practice of touching wood upon every occasion of happiness or good fortune in gratitude and veneration to christ who died upon a wooden cross. others state that their research indicates that the ancient druids of great britain and northern europe began the practice with their belief that the trees housed deities. touching the trees in a respectful manner encouraged the gods and goddesses within to grant one s physical selves health and prosperity and one s spirit eternal life. through the process of cultural evolution within the mass consciousness, the custom of touching or knocking on wood came

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ed testimonies of those who were put on trial for witchcraft by the inquisition. zell fs analogy makes the point that today fs wiccans may no longer be tortured or burned alive at the stake, but they still suffer from persecution of character at the hands of unknowing, indifferent, or biased journalists, clergypersons, and educators. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today. boston: beacon press, 1986. buckland, raymond. buckland fs complete book of witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987, 1997. cunningham, scott. wicca: a guide for the solitary practitioner. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publicat

wicca are scientists, engineers, radio personalities, law enforcement officers, television stars, politicians, and the complete spectrum of active and productive men and women. there are associations, centers, festivals, gatherings, and hundreds of websites to satisfy both the serious and the curious regarding the practice of wicca. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today boston: beacon press, 1986. buckland, raymond. buckland fs complete book of witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987, 1997. gardner, gerald b. the meaning of witchcraft. new york: samuel weiser, 1959. leland, charles g. aradia: the gospel of the witches. reprint, new york: buckland museum of witchcraft and magick, 1968

llyn publications, 1987, 1997. gardner, gerald b. the meaning of witchcraft. new york: samuel weiser, 1959. leland, charles g. aradia: the gospel of the witches. reprint, new york: buckland museum of witchcraft and magick, 1968. murray, margaret alice. the witch-cult in western europe. oxford: clarendon press, 1962. margot adler (1946) margot adler is the author of drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today (1986) and heretic fs heart: a journey through spirit and revolution (1997. she received her b.a. from the university of california at berkeley in 1968, has a master fs degree from columbia fs graduate school of journalism, and was a nieman fellow at harvard in 1982. in the early 1970s, adler hosted three free-form radio shows on pacifi

ther topics related to paganism, wicca, and god- 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 magic and sorcery 77 margot adler is the granddaughter of reknown psychiatrist alfred adler. dess spirituality. many of her workshops involve ecstatic singing, chanting, and seasonal celebrations. m delving deeper adler, margot. drawing down the moon: witches, druids, goddess-worshippers and other pagans in america today. boston: beacon press, 1986..heretic fs heart: a journey through spirit and revolution. boston: beacon press, 1997. ga time for truth. h beliefnet [online] http//www. beliefnet. com/story/40/story_4007.html. grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000. philip emmons (isaac) bonewits (

from england to the united states in february 1962 and was responsible for the introduction of contemporary witchcraft into the united states at that time. buckland fs father was stanley thomas buckland, married to eileen lizzie wells. his father was a higher executive officer in the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 79 neo druids gathered around stonehenge (archive photos, inc) british ministry of health. in his spare time stanley buckland wrote, and had published, plays, short stories, poetry, and music, and he influenced and encouraged raymond in the same pursuits. at the age of 12, buckland was introduced to spiritualism by his father fs brother, george, a spiritualist. this led buckland, an avid reader, to inves

d was promptly crowned king of the may. in triumph he held aloft green branches decorated with beautiful may flowers and sang an old folk song, the essence of which seems to have been, gi have won, i bring you summer! h later, as the custom evolved, a young tree was cut down and decorated with ribbons and flowers. this tree was set up triumphantly in the village and everyone danced around it. the druids worshipped the tree, and it is possible that the maypole originated with them. but long before the time of charles i (1600. 1649) in england the tree had given way to the pole. huge poles were planted in the ground and decorated with green branches and flowers. long streamers were attached to the top, and each dancer held on proudly to his or her end of the ribbon. t h e g a l e e n c y c l

modern languages, histories, and other forms of culture emerged. in the second half of the twentieth century, however, advanced techniques for dating ancient objects showed that stonehenge actually preceded the rise of mycenean cuture. the most popular modern theory connects stonehenge with celtic culture that thrived in britain before the romans came. a priestly caste among the celts called the druids were believed to have supervised construction of stonehenge and other stone circles in the region. druids were keepers of lore and leaders of ceremonial rites among celts. they have been associated with magic powers, human sacrifice, and various mystical rites, but many of those attributes were bestowed on them by non-celtic historians and are, therefore, suspect. as christianity spread thr

e and other stone circles in the region. druids were keepers of lore and leaders of ceremonial rites among celts. they have been associated with magic powers, human sacrifice, and various mystical rites, but many of those attributes were bestowed on them by non-celtic historians and are, therefore, suspect. as christianity spread through great britain by the fourth century, celtic culture and the druids were eventually overwhelmed. under the supervision of druids, the theory goes, stonehenge was a sacred ceremonial site. the famous slaughter stone at stonehenge, which shows traces of red after a rain, was believed to have been an altar where druids performed human sacrifices. it was subsequently discovered that the redness derives from iron minerals in the slaughter stone. william stukeley

ent britons as he had of egyptians after studying stonehenge and nearby pre-historic, megalithic structures. lockyer believed that stonehenge served as a calendar. it was known that celts had divided their year into eight parts. according to lockyer, stonehenge and other megalithic sites were used to determine key points of the year, such as the coming of warm weather for planting. lockyer viewed druids, the keepers of celtic lore and knowledge, as astronomer priests responsible for devising the megalithic calendars. the astronomical orientation of stonehenge, meanwhile, was largely ignored by archaeologists. however, it received a tremendous boost during the 1960s and 1970s when boston university astronomer gerald hawkins studied the site and used a computer to compare historical solar an

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

mesticated. ittherefore belongs to the hunting and pastoral periods, and is in itself an indication of the extremeprimitiveness of the cult and points to a very early origin, reaching back possibly to the palaeolithic era.cormac, archbishop of cashel in the tenth century,[40] refers to these meetings when he says that "in his timefour great fires were lighted up on the four great festivals of the druids, viz: in february, may, august, andnovember. seven centuries later, in 1661, isobel smyth of forfar[4l] acknowledged that "by these meetingsshe met with him (i.e, the devil) every quarter at candlemas, rood day, lammas, and hallowmass. thisshows the continuity of the old religion underlying the official religion of christianity.as the great sabbaths were always held on the same dates every

ng of fire was made round him. when the flames became uncomfortably hot hejumped through them to safety, leaving his burlesque royal insignia to be destroyed. this is a very late formof the sacrifice; but in pre-christian europe the incarnate god was undoubtedly burnt alive, and it is verycertain that the custom did not die out with the coming of christianity. the burnt sacrifice performed by the"druids" was, i suggest, the offering of the substitutes for the divine king.the "lease of life" granted to certain witches appears to have been another form of substitution for the royalor divine victim. in the evidence at some of the trials the devil is said to have promised that for a term ofyears the witch should have wealth and power, but at the end of the time he should claim her, body and so

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

mythology shows the world being destroyed by fire and ice, the very primal elements from which they believed the world was created from, before the new, perfected world was born; the zoroastrians believed that the forces of light and darkness would destroy each other and the whole world in a cataclysmic battle at the end of time, cleansing the world for a re-emergence and regeneration; the celtic druids cited a belief that one day water and fire would overcome the world, a perfect echo of the common indo european wisdom, and a fine parallel to the worlddoom ragnarok of the germanic neighbors; some greek traditions spoke of the ekpyrosis, the fires that would destroy the world at the end, burning away the old to make way for the new, regenerated world. the idea of human rebirth or reincarna

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

- the robe of the justified osiris is of these colours, which are those of the creative energy fulfilled as white. emperor scale: blue pearl grey- derived from the king and queen scale by simple admixture. queen scale: grey- refers to the cloudy appearance of the human seed, and the transmission of the white of kether to the black of binah. also the grey traditionally associated with wisdom (i.e. druids, merlin, even gandalf "greybeard" of the fictional world of "the lord of the rings. chapter six; binah, the angel of the tides a useful analogy of the creative process represented by the uppermost three sephiroth of the tree, the supernal triad, is that of water flowing from a tap. the source of the water is the kether, whilst the pouring stream is the chockmah aspect of the system. if one

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

er by the spirits of olympus. the fourth is hesiodiacal, and homerical magick, which teacheth the operations by the spirits called cacod mones, as it were not adversaries to mankinde. the fifth is romane or sibylline magick, which acteth and operates with tutelar spirits and lords, to whom the whole orb of the earth is distributed. this is valde insignis magia. to this also is the doctrine of the druids referred. the sixth is pythagorical magick, which onely acteth with spirits to whom is given the doctrine of arts, as physick, medicine, mathematics, alchymie, and such kinde of arts. the seventh is the magick of apollonius, and the like, and agreeth with the romane and microcosmical magick: onely it hath this peculiar, that it hath power over the hostile spirits of mankinde. the eighth is

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

ency toward a balanced androgyny, where male and female qualities approach equal strength, is more evi- dent in people naturally suited to magic. magus is an ancient persian word meaning priest. the magi, or priest cast of persia, were skilled in the arts of magic, astrology and healing. in ancient times the word magus became synonymous with "wise man" the irish historians applied the term to the druids who opposed the preaching of st. patrick. it may rightly be given to anyone, male or female, who seeks to work magic by accessing the spirit. there is no separate word for a female magus, because in old persia all of the priests were men, but in the modern age "magus" applies equally to men or women, in the same way that the title "aviator' originally given only to men because there were no

nt tree or shrub. it is likely tree ogham would never have gained the popularity it now enjoys in celtic magic were it not for the classical scholar and novelist robert graves, who speculated extensively about the occult significance of the tree ogham in his highly influential work the white goddess. this book, first written in 1948, has become one of the bibles of goddess-worshippers, neopagans, druids, and witches. most of what is generally available on tree ogham comes directly from graves. the ogham characters take their occult meanings from the mythic associa- tions of the trees with which they are linked. for example, the first few, beth, is named after the birch, and therefore carries all the mystical and magical associa- tions of the birch tree. usually ogham is written across the

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ation winds up and focuses energy, whereas counterclockwise circumambulation unwinds and releases it. passage between two pillars of stone is symbolically 53. murray, 240. 46. soul flight akin to being born between the legs of a woman, and passing from a place of darkness into a place of light. at one time, the stone circles were thought to have been erected by the priestly and scholarly order of druids that was great in power in britain and northern france just prior to the time of christ. archeology has revealed that they are much older than the druids, older even than the celts themselves. they were built by the prehistoric neolithic people who inhabited britain before the coming of the celts from the mainland. work on the earliest version of stonehenge began around 2180 bc. it did not

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

k of vibratirzg the name 43 new initiates, and natural disasters all have caused the loss of magical knowledge at different times in human history. we know that the teutonic rune masters of ancient europe used chants in conjunction with the rune symbols, but we no longer know what those chants were. more importantly, we do not know how they were vibrated, because they were never written down. the druids of the celts conveyed their magical wisdom verbally. because of the strong bardic tradition of the later druids, it very likely consisted of vocalizations of words of power, but again, the technique as well as the particular chants has been lost. the female worshippers of dionysus among the ancient greeks employed bloodcurdling cries that were reported to freeze the blood of any man foolish

elike shape, with a central column and "branching" channels that connect the ten fruit of the sephiroth. in teutonic myth, it is the ash that forms the framework of the world, but in celtic lore the oak plays a more important role as the support upon which grows the sacred mistletoe, the symbol of the life force that endures through the darkness of winter. mistletoe was harvested from oaks by the druids, with golden sickles, to serve a ritual function. oak wood was used wherever great mass and strength were needed, such as the axles upon which millstones turned, the frames of houses, and the keels and ribs of ships. thus the oak is an excellent tree from which to construct the axle of the universe. when we consider that mistletoe is a symbol of life, we can appreciate how perverse is the i

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

man saturnalia all the way to ancient egypt. needless to say, such a tree should be cut down rather than purchased, and should be disposed of by burning, the proper way to dispatch any sacred object. along with the evergreen, the holly and the ivy and the mistletoe were important plants of the season, all symbolizing fertility and everlasting life. mistletoe was especially venerated by the celtic druids, who cut it with a golden sickle on the sixth night of the moon, and believed it to be an aphrodisiac (magically- not medicinally! it's highly toxic) but aphrodisiacs must have been the smallest part of the yuletide menu in ancient times, as contemporary reports indicate that the tables fairly creaked under the strain of every type of good food. and drink! the most popular of which was the

's 3rd' or o.e.d, encyclopedia('benet's, or standard mythology reference (jobe's 'dictionary of mythology, folklore& symbols) would confirm the correct date for lady day as the vernal equinox. by celtic reckoning, the actual beltane celebration begins on sundown of the preceding day, april 30, because the celts always figured their days from sundown to sundown. and sundown was the proper time for druids to kindle the great bel-fires on the tops of the nearest beacon hill (such as tara hill, co. meath, in ireland. these 'need-fires' had healing properties, and sky-clad witches would jump through the flames to ensure protection* sgt. howie (shocked 'but they are naked' lord summerisle 'naturally. it's much too dangerous to jump through the fire with your clothes on* frequently, cattle would

not heard the last of him* eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 29 they let him stand till midsummer's day, till he looked both pale and wan, and little sir john's grown a long, long beard and so become a man* incidentally, this annual mock sacrifice of a large wicker-work figure (representing the vegetation spirit) may have been the origin of the misconception that druids made human sacrifices. this charge was first made by julius caesar (who may not have had the most unbiased of motives, and has been re-stated many times since. however, as has often been pointed out, the only historians besides caesar who make this accusation are those who have read caesar. and in fact, upon reading caesar's 'gallic wars' closely, one discovers that caesar never claims to h

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

lly the same as danish folk charms today, so it is at least conceivable that other knowledge might also survive. the scandinavian sagas show striking resemblances to the european witch beliefs of today, riding on staffs, wild waving hair, sending the soul out of the body, changing of shapes and many other things. the religion of the ancient celts was quite different from the scandinavian, but the druids were, priests, doctors and teachers causing good or bad harvests, making women and cattle fruitful, and causing a magic (hypnotic) sleep. the accounts of both latin and gaelic writers give us a fair idea of the high estimation the natives had for their druids, and both in gaul and in ireland it was believed that the cult originated in britain. so they sent their 'theological students' there

lose so great a warrior to the tribe, and knew that he would be reborn again among his descendants. the book of the dun cow tells us that the famous fin mac coul was reborn in ulster in the person of king mongan, two hundred years after his death. there was also a class of diviners called druidesses and mentioned by caesar in his de bella gallica, who were looked on as even more ancient than the druids; they were shape-changers and seem to have had all the characteristics of witches. they made rain by sprinkling water over or beside nude virgins. christians accused them of 'baptising' children into heathenism. their association could only be entered by initiation, and learning and practising their secret lore. their magic power was much feared by early christians, who ascribed it to the d

eem to have had all the characteristics of witches. they made rain by sprinkling water over or beside nude virgins. christians accused them of 'baptising' children into heathenism. their association could only be entered by initiation, and learning and practising their secret lore. their magic power was much feared by early christians, who ascribed it to the devil. if we only knew really what the druids believed and taught, whether there was only one form of belief and whether they had various sects among them, it would be easier to say whether there was any connection or not with witchcraft. the latter may have been purely orthodox, thought of as extremely high or ultra low in type, the fanciful religion of a lot of women, a vile heresy, or simply the religion of the natives that no decen

or ultra low in type, the fanciful religion of a lot of women, a vile heresy, or simply the religion of the natives that no decent person might have anything to do with. it is quite possible that it was several of these things at different times and in different parts of the country. my own impression is that it was thought of as the religion of the pre-celtic peoples with their own gods, and the druids thought it good and right that people should have and worship their own gods. but slowly celtic ideas crept in. i think the myth of the goddess is clearly such. that is, a minor celtic goddess crept in and by her beauty and sweetness wrought great changes in a primitive hunters' cult. this is simply a wild guess on my part, and i give these personal opinions because i am not permitted to de

be called 'the devil' in mediaeval times. i think the use of the witches' circle, in magic, may have come from the druid, or rather the pre-druid, people, who built stonehenge and avebury and who made use of it to concentrate the powers generated. it is a direct descendant of the circles used in the prehistoric cave magic, though of course it may have come from the east. the romans suppressed the druids in the areas they effectively occupied, but i think it possible that a women's section may have carried on even there, perhaps in secret; or maybe they were tolerated and some romans and greeks who belonged to the various mysteries, particularly that of mithras, finding similar organisations, became members, so the goddesses became identified with their classical goddess; hence the wording

to the new world and many of those who went to haiti from 1512 onwards were of the finest african stock and perhaps carried with them a synthesis of the cults then existing in the congo. it is easy to show how close the parallels are between the voodoo they practised and mediaeval witchcraft. the mysteries of delphi and eleusis, or the roman cults, probably had the same origin. the ritual of the druids is said to copy that of osiris; odin himself is believed to be merely a frosty version of osiris. witchcraft almost everywhere had two main derivatives to which its other formative influences became attached; the fertility cults persisting from the indigenous inhabitants of any area, and the latter "magical" practices derived through direct or distorting channels from the centralising egypt

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

eads are put handy, so that if any witch hasn't brought a necklace, she promptly borrows one for the occasion. i remember one girl coming wearing a small string of pearls being told 'you know, dear, you mustn't do that; get a proper one from the box, one that can be seen' they cannot give me any other reason than that a witch must wear a necklace that is obvios,part six three green books reformed druids like stories and short pithy wisdom sayings. over the years, various arch-druids have collected good stories to share with their fellow grove members, especially during the meditative part of the order of worship. some consider the meditation to be the very heart and purpose of the ritual, so chose a selection carefully. if you can t find one, perhaps one of these may work for you. at carle

carefully. if you can t find one, perhaps one of these may work for you. at carleton, the first green book (named after its cover, proved influential, but the 2nd and 3rd volumes seem much less so. the drynemtum press babababababababababababababab 224 table of contents 1966 introduction by frangquist 1976 introduction by shelton 1996 note by scharding green book volume one sayings of the ancient druids on politics on religion on various things sayings of the hindus rig-veda: to the waters the arthura veda: hail! upanishads:self rig-veda: creation bhagavad gita: atman sri-ramakrishna sayings from the buddhists four noble truths questions not edification rain cloud mahayana ideal sayings from zen masters two mice miracles gutei s finger dialogue for lodging haiku sayings of the taoist sages

ime the short cut to deal with the enemy various other quotes art, beauty, and poetry community and conversation custom, justice, and law death and fate earth and ecology education and learning fear and freedom fools and humor leadership practical simplicity prayer priests religion silence travel truth wisdom 227 the green book volume one the original 1966 introduction those who join the reformed druids are, in one sense or another, religious rebels. they are usually fed up with the hypocrisies and inadequacies of the institutionalized churches. they seek a satyric outlet, and they find it in druidism. but they are seldom antireligious. on the contrary, they often feel that there is in fact some truth to be found in religion, and this belief is affirmed in the basic tenets. a common compla

, in one sense or another, religious rebels. they are usually fed up with the hypocrisies and inadequacies of the institutionalized churches. they seek a satyric outlet, and they find it in druidism. but they are seldom antireligious. on the contrary, they often feel that there is in fact some truth to be found in religion, and this belief is affirmed in the basic tenets. a common complaint among druids is that the truth has been obscured because they have been forced, more or less against their will, into various particular religious molds. they seek to be freed freed in order to freely seek, and to make independent judgments on what passes for religious truth. druidism, as an institution, must remain independent. it can never hope to profess absolute truth; for when it does, it then will

me-consuming. i therefore strongly urge you to purchase, for your own edification, an excellent and useful collection: viking portable #5, henry ballou s world bible. it is available in paper for less than $2.00, or in hardcover for slightly more. the selections are short and illuminating, and the editor exhibits a bias which can almost be called druidic. it makes a good beginning. for those arch-druids who are lazier still, or who suddenly find themselves in desperate need of a meditation at the last minute, i offer the following collection. it is hoped that the collection, although short, is representative and especially useful for reformed druids. david a. frangquist editor, 1966 preface to 1976 edition in the first few years after the foundation of reformed druidism at carleton college

rdingly left the pages unnumbered. there have been additions since david s time, but they have been few. for this edition we have included several selections that have long wanted adding; the yeats poems, for example, which have almost become part of the carleton liturgy. we have resisted the temptations to make a few excisions. we should especially have liked to excise the sayings of the ancient druids which are no more druidic than is stonehenge, and which certainly cannot be said to represent the beliefs of the reformed druids; yet david included it, and we shall not gainsay him. herewith, then is the green book, in substantially the same form as it was bequeathed to carleton by david. may you find joy in the reading! richard m. shelton ellen conway shelton editors, 1974 note by the cur

particular reason, i have kept their selections in the order that they were presented to me (including a rebellious selection from the old testament that is mischievously hiding in the buddhist section of the green book. i have neither deleted nor added any new selections to the first volume, but you may feel free to add new selections or take out selections (especially the ones from the ancient druids, if you wish. as stated before, the green book, was near to the heart of druidism until the early 80 s when carleton druidism lapsed. when it revived in the mid-80s, carleton students had taken a greater interest in neo-paganism, wiccan and native american beliefs; areas rarely explored before that time. as a result, the green book has not received much attention since due to its monotheist

hill-flowers, from the blossom of trees and bushes. from the roots of the earth was i made, from the broom and the nettle, from the water of the ninth wave. math enchanted me before i was made immortal, gwydion created me with his magic wand. from emrys and euryon, from mabon and modron, from five fifties of magicians like math was i made made by the master in his highest ecstasy by the wisest of druids was i made before the world began, and i know the star-knowledge from the beginning of time. bards are accustomed to praises. i can frame what no tongue utters. 1 slept in purple, i was in the enclosure with dylan eil mor, i was a cloak between lords, two spears in the hand of the mighty, when the torrent fell from the height of heaven. i know four hundred songs which bards both older and y

w along the shore. i myself am a power in battle, a cause of blood from a hundred chieftains. crimson is my shield, gold my shield-rim. only geronwy, from the dales of edrywy, is better than i. long and white are my fingers. since i was a shepherd, since i was learned, i have traveled the world; i have made my circuit, i have dwelled in a hundred islands, in a hundred caers. o wise and proficient druids do you prophesy of arthur or is it i you celebrate? i know what is to be you what has been; i know the saga of the flood, christ s crucifixion, the day of doom. golden, jeweled, 1 shall be richly bedecked luxury shall attend me because of virgil s (or the ffyrllt s) prophecy. leadership be not too wise, not too foolish, be not too conceited, nor too diffident, be not too haughty, nor too hu

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

te also 3 stones of the arch, 3 principals and 3 sojourners; 3 veils; and in the craft lodges, 3 officers, 3 degrees, 3 perambulations. in the roman cultus, the number 3 is of constant occurrence, as for example see virgil, eclogue 8, the pharmaceutria; the priests used a cord of 3 colored strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar. terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa colore. the druids also paid a constant respect to this number and even their poems are noted as being composed in triads. it is not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent importance of the christian trinity. in old paintings we often see a trinity of jesus with john and mary. in the timaeus of plato, the divine triad is called theos--god, logos--the word and psyche, the soul. indeed it is impossible

hree jewels are transferable from one brother to another at the periodical changes of officers. in the hebrew, book of creation, the sepher yetzirah, the hexad is spoken of. the units representing the four quarters of the world; north, south, east and west, and also height and depth, and in the midst of all is the holy temple. see my translation; cap. i. v. ii, and notes. third edition. 1911. the druids had a mysterious religious preference for the number 6. they performed their principal ceremonies on the 6th day of the moon, and on the 6th day of the moon began their year. they went 6 together to gather the sacred mistletoe (misseltoe, and in monuments and plates now extant we often find 6 of their priests grouped together. see mayo, ii. 239. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vi

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

iona and all the britains that are in the sanc tuary of the gnosis xth degree o.t.o, avatar of bacchus diphues in the place o f the xith degree o.t.o, logos of the aeon of ra hoor khuit, grand master of t he knights of the holy ghost, grand master of the knights of the temple, eidolo n of the rosy cross, alastor the destroyer spirit of solitude, wanderer of the waste, of the blood of kerval arch-druids hereditary to the oak, whose holy ang el his guardian is aiwaz 93, the god first dawning upon man in the land of sume r, whose breast beareth the token adventure upon mountains beyond any man of hi s fellows, whose body and blood bear witness of the wounds of astarte, and the shames of priapus, even i in the abbey of thelema at cephaloedium that am hidde n, did convene therein to counsel al

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