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and it shows by its imagery, the light of the hidden knowledge dawning in the darkness of creation; and you are now to begin to analyze and comprehend the nature of that light. to this end, you stand between the pillars, in the gateway where the secrets of the neophyte grade were communicated to you. prepare to enter the immeasurable region. and tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden, and out of the ground made tetragrammaton elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. this is the tree that has two paths, and it is the tenth sephira malkuth, and it has about it seven columns, and the four splendors whirl around it as in the vision of the mercaba

. i am the left hand kerub of the ark and the feminine power, as metatron is the right hand kerub and the masculine power, and i prepare the way to the celestial light. heg: hiereus: step back to south and north of altar respectively. hiero: takes neophyte by right hand with his left, and pointing to the altar and diagram says: hiero: and tetragrammaton placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower, and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and in the birds. when the times are en

nt the paths which connect the tenth sephirah malkuth with the other sephiroth. the letters tau, qoph and shin make the word quesheth a bow, the reflection of the rainbow of promise stretched over our earth, and which is about the throne of god (hegemon points out the flaming sword, saying) heg: this drawing of the flaming sword of the kerubim, is a representation of the guardians of the gates of eden, just as the hiereus and hegemon symbolize the two paths of the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil. hiereus: in this grade, the red cross is placed within the white triangle upon the altar, and it is thus the symbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero

eaning the number ten. also, in chaldee it is called thraa, the gate, which has the same number as the great name adonai, written in full: aleph, daleth, nun, yod, which both equal 671 in total numeration. it is also called the gate of death, the gate of tears, and the gate of justice, the gate of prayer, and the gate of the daughter of the mighty ones. it is also called the gate of the garden of eden and the inferior mother, and in christian symbolism, it is connected with the three holy women at the foot of the cross. the tenth path of the sepher yetzirah which answereth to malkuth is called the resplendent intelligence, because it exalts above every head and sitteth upon the throne of binah. it illuminateth the splendor of all the lights, the zohar me-ou roth and causeth the current of

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the supernal altar, whereon michael the great high priest sacrificeth the souls of the just. the 5th is shachaqim referred to hod, wherein is the manna. the 6th is raquie wherein are the sun and moon, the stars and planets and all the 10 spheres; it is referred to yesod. the 7th is velun referred to malkuth. following this is shamayim containing 18,000 worlds, and also gehennah, and the garden of eden. the 9th is 18,000 more worlds wherein abide shekinah and metatron. and the 10th is thebel wherein standeth the earth, between eden and gehennah. heg: leads theoricus to tablet of 10 averse sephiroth in north. heg: before you are the 10 averse and evil sephiroth of the qlippoth or shells, collected into 7 palaces wherein is the apocalyptic mystery of the 7 heads and 10 horns. the qlippoth of

ficers part iii hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar: red cross and white triangle 3 red lamps at corners of triangle cup of water diagram of eden before the fall diagram of eden after the fall lamen badge of water required materials for the temple: banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: shin, resh, mem, peh, ayin kamea of mercury 2 diagrams of daath enochian water tablet 7 planes of tree of life to 7 planets diagram of 4 worlds and letters of holy names alchemical symbols of mercury, sulphur, and salt mercurial fig

the firmament and the triangle the consuming fire below, which is opposed to the celestial fire symbolized by the upper part of the caduceus. heg: places admission badge aside and leads theoricus to hierophant and then returns to his place. hiereus: heg: rise and face inwards towards the altar. hiero (rising and facing inwards to the altar) before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden. at the summit are the supernal sephiroth summed up and contained in aima elohim, the mother supernal, the woman of the 12th chapter of the apocalypse clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head the crown of 12 stars, kether. and whereas the name tetragrammaton is joined to the elohim when it is said tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden so this repres

the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which latter is from malkuth, which is the lowest sephira between the rest of the sephiroth and the kingdom of the shells, which latter is represented by the great red dragon coiled beneath, having 7 heads (the 7 infernal palaces) and ten horns (the 10 averse sephiroth contained in the 7 palaces. and a river nahar went forth out of eden (namely the supernal triad) to water the garden (the rest of the sephiroth) and from thence it was divided into four heads in daath whence it is said in daath the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down dew. the first head is pison which flows into geburah where there is gold, it is the river of fire. the second head is gihon the river of waters, flowing into chesed. the third is hidde

louds drop down dew. the first head is pison which flows into geburah where there is gold, it is the river of fire. the second head is gihon the river of waters, flowing into chesed. the third is hiddekel the river of air flowing into tiphareth. and the fourth river which receiveth the virtue of the other three is euphrates which floweth down upon malkuth, the earth. this river going forth out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, of waters of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of god and the lamb on either side of which was the tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit. and thus do the rivers of eden form the cross, and on that cross the great adam the son who was to rule the nations with a rod of iron is extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to gedulah and ge

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ber of the dawning creation. heg: turns up the lights and then conducts the practicus to the foot of hierophant's throne, handing practicus the calvary cross of 12 squares. hiero: the calvary cross of 12 squares fitly represents the zodiac, which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians called the heavens; the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads which finds their correlatives in the four triplicities of the zodiac (places cross aside) the 29th path of the sepher yetzirah which answereth to the letter qoph, is called the corporeal intelligence, and it is so called because it formeth every body which is formed beneath the whole order of worlds, and the increment of them. it is there, the reflection of the sphere

is enochian fire tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 3 cups of water 3 small altars part ii advancement path 28 hiero: honoured hegemon, you have my command to present the practicus with the necessary admission badge and to admit him (her. heg: rises goes to door, opens it, presents practicus with solid pyramid of elements and admits him. heg: and ever forth from their central source the rivers of eden flow. heg: leads practicus to south east before pillars. hiero: frater (xyz) the path now open before you is the 28th leading from the grade of theoricus to the grade of philosophus. take in your right hand the solid pyramid of the elements and follow the guide of the path. heg: circumambulates hall once with practicus. hiero: as they approach rises, the red lamp in his hand. they halt before

male figure with the star of the heptagram on her brow is the synthesis of isis, of nephthys and of athor. she also represents the planet venus, through whose sphere the influences of chesed descend. she is aima, binah and tebunah, the great supernal mother, aima elohim pouring upon the earth the waters of creation, which unite and form a river at her feet; the river going forth from the supernal eden, which overfloweth and faileth not. note well that in this key she is completely unveiled, while in the 21st key, she is only partly so. the two urns contain the influences from chokmah and binah. on the right springs the tree of life and on the left the tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights. and therefore does this key represent the restored world after the f

he tree of knowledge of good and evil, whereon the bird of hermes alights. and therefore does this key represent the restored world after the formless and the void and the darkness, the new adam, the countenance of the man which falls in the sign aquarius. and therefore doth the astronomical symbol of this sign represent as it were, the waves of water, the ripples of that river going forth out of eden. but therefore, also it is justly attributed unto air and not unto water, because it is the firmament dividing and containing the waters. hierophant and practicus go to east. hiero: before you is shown the manner of writing the holy name in each of the four worlds at length, by giving the spelling of each letter. you will note that the spelling of the letter yod alone alters not. it is a symb

part iv temple officers hierophant: red robe, r&w nemyss, gold shoes, white collar, lamen, scepter. hiereus: black robe, b&w nemyss, red shoes, red collar, lamen, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar 3 red lamps white triangle and red cross calvary cross of 6 squares diagrams of eden before and after the fall lamen of 6 squared calvary cross required materials for the temple banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: kaph, nun, peh, tzaddi, qoph kamea and sigils of venus diagram of tree of life with daath diagram of tree of life in four worlds burnt offering diagram of brazen sea enochian fire tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 3 cups of water 3 small alt

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

of god oip teea pdoce which are borne upon the banners of the south, and the numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fire. the meaning of the other tablets have been already explained to you. hiero: pract: move to the altar. hiero: the triangle surmounting the cross upon the altar, represents the fire of the spirit surmounting the cross of life and of the waters of eden. you will note that it thus forms the alchemical emblem of sulphur. the red lamps at the angles of the triangles are the three fold forms of fire. hiero: pract: proceed to the east. hiero: the portals in the east and north east conduct to the higher. the others are those of the paths you have already traversed. this grade is also related to the planet venus. its kamea or mystical square is fo

ABRAMELIN3

ng this chapter (e) no. b consists of b d squares taken from a square of c f squares. selac means to cast down, to cut down or fell (as trees. perhaps thus signifying the cut wood with which a trellis is made. no. c consists of b d squares from a square of c f squares. heseb may mean the environs of a place. no. d consists of b j squares from a square of e j squares. aodonia, from hebrew root odn eden, a delightful place, etc. no. e is a square of e j squares. atsarah= either a store-house or treasury or to flow, according to its derivation. no. h (the order of the numbering of the squares is here changed) consists of b a squares taken from a square of c f squares. sorek means to wind about. no. i consists of b j squares from a square of i b squares. akropolis is a greek word signifying ci

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

re replaced rose cross, cup of wine, chain and dagger) second "associate adeptus minor, let the aspirant now be admitted (third adept opens door and admits aspirant who holds wand and crux of the chief. he is then placed in front facing the vault door) second "before the door of the tomb as symbolic guardians, are the elemental tablets, and the kerubic emblems, even as before the mystical gate of eden stood the watchful \ybwrk, and the sword of flame. these kerubic emblems be the powers of the angles of the tablets. the circle represents the four angles bound together in each tablet through the operation of the all pervading m, while the cross within forms with its spokes the wheels of ezekiel's vision. and therefore are the cross and the circle white to represent the purity of the divine

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ife force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, mikhael offering souls of just wyhh 7 millstones where manna for just is ground for future whyh 8 sol, luna, planets, stars, and 10 spheres yhwh 9 hyhw jwr ruach the intellect 10 has no use. follow 390 heavens, 18,000 worlds, earth, eden and hell. hhyw yhhw hwhy la cpn nephesh the animal soul, which perceives and feeds. xcix* archangels of assiah. c* angels of assiah. ci. english of col. c. cii* the revolutions of adonai in assiah. 0. 1 wrffm metatron cdqh twyj chaioth ha-qadosh holy living creatures ynda 2 layxr ratziel \ynpwa auphanim wheels nyda 3 layqpx tzaphkiel \ylara aralim active ones, thrones dyna 4 layqdx tzadkiel \

aann latyn layyh hymwm hywal laylk 5 garden of mansions, made of yellow copper yawhw layly hywwl hylhp layna hymuj 6 garden of eternity, made of yellow coral lafys hymlu lakln layyy lauhr lazyy 7 garden of delights, made of white diamond hychm lahll lshlm hywhj lahhh lakym 8 garden of paradise, made of red gold hyhtn hyaah hylww hyhly labmw lahhy 9 latry hyhac hylas layru lawnu layjm 10 garden of eden, or everlasting abode, made of red pearls or pure musk layyr lamwa hylcu lahym hybmd laqnm cxxxii. pairs of angels ruling coins. cxxxiii* titles and attributions of the wand suit [clubs] cxxxiv. titles and attributions of the cup or chalice suit [hearts] 0. 1. the root of the powers of fire the root of the powers of water 2 labkl hyrcw% in a the lord of dominion$ ind the lord of love 3 hywjy

an \wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definiti

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

pound letter mgn, symbolizing thereby the subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminates the manifested life of vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of generation and knowledge, the virgin moon and the serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commemoration of the legend so grossly deformed in the hebrew legend of the garden of eden, and its even more malignantly debased falsification in that bitterly sectarian broadside, the apocalypse. sound work invariable vindicates itself by furnishing confirmatory corollaries not contemplated by the qabalist. in the present instance, the master therion was delighted to remark that his compound letter mgn, constructed on theoretical principles with the idea of incorporating the new

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

e me" but this refers to the arming of vedana with sanna, the overcoming of emotion by clarity of perception. it is also spoken, liber lxv, v, 14, of the sword of adonai "that hath four blades, the blade of the thunderbolt, the blade of the pylon, the blade of the serpent, the blade of the phallus" but this sword is not for the ordinary magician. for this is the sword flaming every way that keeps eden, and in this sword the wand and the cup are concealed- so that although the being of the magician 92 is blasted by the thunderbolt, and poisoned by the serpent, at the same time the organs whose union is the supreme sacrament are left in him. at the coming of adonai the individual is destroyed in both senses. he is shattered into a thousand pieces, yet at the same time united with the simple<

alive and remain shall be caught up together with them into the clouds to meet the lord in the air; and so shall we be for ever with the lord" the stupid interpretation of this verse as prophetic of a "second advent" need not concern us; every word of it is, however, worthy of profound consideration "the lord" is adonai- which is the hebrew for "my lord; and he descends from heaven, the supernal eden, the sahasrara cakkra in man, with a "shout" a "voice" and a "trump" again airy symbols, for it is air that carries sound. these sounds refer to those heard by the adept at the moment of rapture. this is most accurately pictured in the tarot trump called "the angel" which corresponds to the letter shin, the letter of spirit and of breath. the whole mind of man is rent by the advent of adonai

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is filled )lmn coin (b+m ?termination of abr-amelim? mlym) 122 compelled by force hswn) revolutions [of souls] mylwglg evil possessing spirit qwbyd 123 a name of god implying kether, chokmah and binah (3, 4& 5 letters) myhl) hwhy hh) war hmxlm a blow; plague (gn pleasure, delight gn( an attack upon others, a violation, injury mgp high priest lwdgh nhk 124 an oak; hardness nswx pleasure, delight: eden nd( 125) thine hand (ps. 139:5; see s.d. 5:16) hkpk 126 a window hnml) darkness hlyp) a name of god )lg) ynd) hwhy hospitality nwlm horse sws on: a name of god (cf. 120; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h nw( humble, afflicted wn( 127 material, natural (ar (b+wm 128 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war clx goodly strength; proof nysx god the eternal one wnyhl) hwhy 129 pleasur

e end bq( qabalist lbqm the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3 )bhd mlc 173 lighten mine eyes yny( lg i am hwhy thy god kyhl) hwhy ykn) 174 torches mydypl the splendour encircling him bybs wl hgwn 175 suction hqyny duplicity hlpkm a slipping, falling hlypn 176 an advisor, counselling c(wy to eternity mlw(l illegitimate lwsp trial, temptation nwysn 177 lord of lords mynwd)h nwd) the garden of eden nd( ng to cry out for help q(z plenitude of plenitudes ywlmh ywlm 178 the lower part, the loins myclx good pleasure, choice, decision, will cpx quicksilver yx psk constant, fixed (wbq 179 a binding hdq( 180 a spring, fountain (ct. 4:15; see 143) nyy(m 181 vicious; faulty hlwsp 182 a jealous (or, zealous) god (deut. 4:24 )nq l) outcry, clamour hq(z layer of snares; supplanter; jacob bq(y angel

f hwhy; lit. fem. gwanderers h) tw++w#m unfruitful, barren trq( strengthening *nykm a name of god *n( points, pricks, dots *mydwqn giants *mylpn thine enemy *kr( 771 the bearded countenance: a title of tiphareth nypn) ry# 772 seven years myn (b# 773 the stone (or stone channel) of drinking hyt#h nb) high priest *lwdgh nhk 774) the daughter of seven (b# tb an oak; hardness *nswx pleasure, delight: eden *nd( 775 most piercing, most vehement )twnydrqd nine h(#t 776 hospitality *nwlm on: a name of god (cf. 120; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h *nw( 777 gthe flaming sword h (if the path from binah to chesed be taken as 3, for gimel connects arikh anpin with zauir anpin) t r p n l+ g d) one is the spirit of the elohim of lives myyx myhl) xwr tx) the world of shells, the qliphoth twpylqh

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.1248 and 210 in liber legis and liber 418, and extol their superiority. for while the first is the sublime formula of the infinite surging into finity, and the latter the supreme rolling-up of finity into infinity, the 120 can symbolise at the best a sort of intermediate condition of stability.49 for how can one proceed from the 2 to the 0? 120 is also u, a very important name of god.50 124. du, eden. 131. lams, satan so-called, but really only samael, the accuser of the brethren, unpopular with the rabbis because their consciences were not clear. samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the threhold, without whom the sanctuary might be profaned. we must defeat him, it is

comment that the unity may be found in thick darkness and in sudden death. this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 65 particularly the wake world (liber xcv) t.s. 66 but see note to this number in part i. t.s. 67 see the equinox of the gods t.s. liber lviii 40 120. see part i. and references. 124. du, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil.68 156. ulabab. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulf

understand their validity, and the infinite wisdom of the grand arithmetician of the universe. 671. useful, as shown in part i. 741. useful chiefly as a denial of the unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair. 777. useful in a similar way, as affirming that the unity is the qliphoth. but a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove man out of eden. a burnt child dreads the fire. the devils also believe, and tremble. worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt. also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the kundalin, the female magical soul. note 7 as the meeting-place of 3, the mother, and 10, the daughter; whence netzach is the woman, married but no more. 800. useful only in 5= 6 sym

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

t hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed

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it is but given us on the usury of our lives. still from the counting-house of heaven thou hast endowed us with a spirit of grandeur, an imagination of the vastness of being. thou hast taken us out of ourselves, and we have counted with thee the starry hosts of night, and unbraided the tangled tresses of the comets in the fields of space. we have walked with thee at mamre, and talked with thee in eden, and listened to thy voice from out the midst of the whirlwind. and at times thou hast been a father unto us, a joy, strong as a mighty draught of ancient wine, and we have welcomed thee! but thy servants- those self-seeking, priestly usurers- see! how they have blighted the hearts of men, and massed the treasure of souls into the hands of the few, and piled up the coffers of the church. how

ffed prudes, who loose forth on us an evil-smelling gas from their cabbage-crammed duodenary canals. yea! it shall pass by, this gastro-epileptic school of neurological maniacs; for in a little time we shall catch up with this moulting ostrich, and shall slay him whilst he buries his occipital cortex under the rubbish-heap of discharging lesions. then the golden tree of life shall be replanted in eden, and we little children shall dance round it, and shall banquet under the stars, feasting off the abandon of the wilderness and the freedom of the hills. artists we shall 189 become, and in the storm shall we see a woman weeping; and in the lightning and the thunder the sworded warrior who crushes her to his shaggy breast. away with laws and labours. lo! in the groves of pan the dance catches

y me with the sword of thy rapture" then i cried unto her in a loud voice saying "o queen of the lusts of flesh! o queen of the lands haunted by satyrs! o mistress of night! o mother of the mysteries of birth and death! who art girt in the flames of passion, and jewelled with emerald, and moonstone, and chrysoleth. lo! on thy brow burns the star-sapphire of heaven, thy girdle is as the serpent of eden, and round thine ankles chatter the rubies and garnets of hell. hearken, o lilith! o sorceress of the blood of life! my lips are for those who suckle not good, and my kisses for those who cherish not evil. and my kingdom is for the children of light who trample under foot the garment of shame, and rend from their loins the sackcloth of modesty. when two shall be one, then shalt thou be crowne

heavy soil, and the miner to rob the yellow gold from the bowels of the earth. everywhere will you find her dancing down empires, and weaving the destiny of nations. she never sleeps, she never slumbers, she never rests; ever wakeful, day and night, her eyes glisten like diamonds as she danceth on, the dust of her feet burying the past, disturbing the present, and clouding the future. she was in eden, she will be in paradise! i followed her, i abandoned all for her; and now i lie, as a fevered man, raving in the subtle web of her beauty. lo! there she stands swaying between the gates of light and darkness under the shadow of the three of the knowledge of good and evil, whose fruits are death; yet none that have not tasted thereof can tell whether they be sweet or bitter to the tongue. the

strength of my might; i am alone, and all things are mine in the mystery of my loneliness "evoe" life burns in the brasier of love as a ruby flame in a sapphire bowl. i am dead, yet i live for ever" arise, o sleeper, for the night of loneliness hath rolled up the hangings of her couch, and my heart is burning like a sun of molten brass; awake before the beast riseth and enter the 227 sanctuary of eden and defile the children of dawn. thou child-man, cast off the cloak of dreams who before thy sleep wast enraptured with the strength of love. fair and fresh didst thou come from the woods when the world was young, with breast like the snowy hills in the sunlight, and thine hair as a wind-ravished forest of oak, and thine eyes deep and still as the lakes of the mountains. no veil covered thee

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s 0.12 and 210 in liber legis and liber 418, and extol their superiority. for while the first is the sublime formula of the infinite surging into finity, and the latter the supreme rolling-up of fi9nity into infinity, the 120 can symbolise at the best a sort of intermediate condition of stability. for how can one proceed from the 2 to the 0? 120 is also on, a very important name of god. 124. odn, eden. 131. smal, satan so-called, but really only samael, the accuser of the 120 brethren. unpopular with the rabbis because their consciences were not clear. samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the threshold, without whom the sanctuary might be profaned. we must defeat him, i

5= 1+ 4- 14- 8+ 6= 86. 91. merely venerable. 111. priceless, because of its 37 x 3 sumbolism, its explanation of aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the unity may be found in "thick darkness" and in "sudden death" this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 120. see part i. and references. 124. odn, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil. 156. babalon. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 12 x 13= 156. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st john's intentional obscurity. 165. 11 x xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fu

understand their validity, and the infinite wisdom of the grand arithmetician of the universe. 671. useful, as shown in part i. 741. useful chiefly as a denial of the unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair. 777. useful in a similar way, as affirming that the unity is the qliphoth. but a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove man out of eden. a burnt child dreads the fire "the devils also believe, and tremble" worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt. also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the kundalini, the female magical soul. note 7 as the meeting-place of 3, the mother, and 10, the daughter; whence netzach is the woman, married but no more. 800. useful only in 5= 6 sy

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e babe. glory unto thee, who art twined about the world as the vine that clingeth to the bare body of a bacchanal. also, though i be planted so firmly upon the earth, yet is my blood wine and my breath fire of madness. with these wings, though they be but little, i lift myself above the crown of the yod, and being without fins i yet swim in the inviolate fountain. i disport myself in the ruins of eden, even as leviathan in the false sea, being whole as the rose at the crown of the cross. come ye unto me, my children, and be glad. at the end of labour is the power of labour. and in my stability is concentrated eternal change. for the whirlings of the universe are but the course of the blood in my heart. and the unspeakable variety thereof is but my divers hairs, and plumes, and gems in my t

hat every man that is called nemo hath a garden that he tendeth. and every garden that is and flourisheth hath 77 been prepared from the desert by nemo, watered with the waters that were called death. and i say unto him: to what end is the garden prepared? and he saith: first for the beauty and delight thereof; and next because it is written "and tetragrammaton elohim planted a garden eastward in eden" and lastly, because though every flower bringeth forth a maiden, yet is there one flower that shall bring forth a man-child. and his name shall be called nemo, when he beholdeth the face of my father. and he that tendeth the garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be nemo. he doeth naught but tend the garden. and i said: pleasant indeed is the garden, and light is the toil of

ed in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he created 20 the fourth of the mystic numbers of jupiter is 136. for love, is tempted by the snake, nechesh, who is messiah her child. and the snake is the magical power, which hath destroyed the primordial equilibrium. and the garden is the supernal eden, where is ayin, 70, the eye of the concealed one, and the creative lingam; and daleth, love; and nun the serpent. and therefore this constitution was implicitly in the nature of eden("cf" liber l, i, 29, 30, so that the call of the aethyrs could not have been any other call than that which it is. but they that are without understanding have interpreted all this askew, because of the mystery o

h he exalted them unto the plane of love. and yet again it is written: he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness. now, if one of these were to cast off his cloak he should behold the brilliance of the lady of the aethyr; but they will not. and yet again there is another cause wherefore he hath permitted them to enter thus far within the frontiers of eden, so that his thought should never swerve from compassion. but do thou behold the brilliance of love, that casteth forth seven stars upon thine head from her right hand, and crowneth thee with a crown of seven roses. behold! she is seated upon the throne of turquoise and lapis lazuli, and she is like a flawless emerald, and upon the pillars that support the canopy 121 of her throne are sculptu

forget their names (this is, the arising of nemo) the work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced (that is, in the great work man must lose his personality) his building, let it be a cave for the beast of the field("his building" means the vault of the adepts, and the "cave" is the cave of the mountain of abiegnus, and the "beast" is he upon whom babalon rideth, and the "field" is the supernal eden) confound her understanding with darkness (this sentence is explained by what has been said concerning binah) for why, it rejoiceth me concerning the virgin and the man (kelly did not understand this call at all, and he would not believe this sentence was written so, for it seemed to contradict the rest of the call, so he altered it) one while let her be known and another while a stranger (th

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"i am sure it would be too long a journey" says a second "i could not afford it; i too will return "there are no guides here" says a third "how foolish for me to attempt so high a peak" 228 "i am not strong enough" says a fourth "i have no chart "my business won't let me "my wife is against it" thus god enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted eve in the garden of eden, and abraham in the land of moriah. but the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his great travel to the summit of the mountain of god; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way satan follows behind him in the form of a sleuth-hound ever tempting him from the right path

t the four cardinal points of the hall without, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple: and they are placed according to the winds, viz: behind the stations of the hierophant, dadouchos, hiereus and stolistes. between them are placed the stations of the four vicegerents of the elements; and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant,9 which later represents the temple itself; of which the guardians are the kerubim, and the vicegerents in the palaces of the rulers ameshet at the n.e, thoumathph at the s.e, ahephi or ahapshi at the s.w, kabetznuph at the n.w. of the place of the evil triad this is the place of yesod, it is termed the place of the evil one, of the slayer of osiris. he is the tempter, accuser

im the symbolism of the temple as follows "the three portals facing from the east are the gates of the paths which alone conduct to the inner "the letters shin, tau, and qoph, make by metathesis hb:taw hb:shin hb:qof (qesheth, which signifies a bow, the rainbow of promise stretched over our earth. this picture of the flaming sword of the kerubim is a representation of the guardians of the gate of eden; just as the hiereus and the hegemon symbolise the two paths of the tree of knowledge of good and evil "you will observe that in this grade the red cross is placed within the white triangle upon the altar, and this placed, it is identical with the banner of the west "the triangle refers to the three above-mentioned paths connecting malkuth with the above sephiroth, while the cross is the hidd

e banner of light, and the symbol of equated forces "hierophant (falling back and making with fan the sign of aquarius, aquarius, before zelator "in the sign of the man, child of air, art thou purified- pass thou on" illustration on page 267 approximated below. hb:taw_ hb:shin_ hb:qof tablet of air_ lamp/ dais pentacle_ h fan. lights shaded_ black white_ kerux hegemon_ tablet of earth_ fan_ hell_ eden/ salt salt/ red lamp) o_ cup_ hiereus_ diagram 20. arrangement of the temple for the 32nd path in the 2= 9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-tw

he planets: he hath assigned unto them the twelve constellations of the zodiac" he then explains that to the thirty-second path of the sepher yetzirah is attributed the seven abodes of assiah; to the four elements, the kerubim, and the qliphoth.5 267 it represents the connecting-link between assiah and yetzirah. it is the rending of the veil of the tabernacle; and it is the passing of the gate of eden. after which he enters upon the symbolisms of the twenty-first key of the tarot, the naked female form of which represents the bride of the apocalypse, the qabalistic queen of the canticles, the egyptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 26

ptian isis of nature. her two wands are the directing forces of the positive and negative currents. she is the synthesis of the thirty-second path uniting malkuth and yesod. illustration on page 268 approximated_ diagram 21. the cubical cross of twenty- two squares. 5 "see 777" cols. civ, cviii, pp. 20 and 23; and revelations, chap. i. illustration on page 268 described "diagram 22. the garden of eden and the holy city" this is a circular device. in the center is a simple tree of life with circles and lines with the circle of tipheret at the center point itself. four lines completely cross the circle through the center, forming a symmetrical cross and "x. seven squares, composed of vertical and horizontal lines, are nested each within the other such that the innermost and next innermost in

ner of two concentric circles which define the limits of the figure, a narrow ring being formed between them. eight additional radials extend inward between the original four lines from the outermost circle to the outer edge of the outermost square, forming twelve equal divisions of the outer ring in all. the "hegemon" then explains his tablet, which contains the occult symbolism of the garden of eden and the holy city of the apocalypse; and the "kerux" also his- the seven infernal mansions and the four seas.6 after which the "hierophant" confers on the zelator the title of the thirty- second path; the zelator then quits the temple for a short time before passing to the grade of theoricus. the ceremony of theoricus is opened by the "hierophant" who says to the zelator "frater pereclinos de

confers on the zelator the title of the thirty- second path; the zelator then quits the temple for a short time before passing to the grade of theoricus. the ceremony of theoricus is opened by the "hierophant" who says to the zelator "frater pereclinos de faustis: as in the grade of 1= 10 there were given the symbolical representations of the tree of knowledge of the good and evil of the gate of eden and of the holy place: so in the 2= 9 of theoricus the 'sanctum sanctorum' with the ark and the kerubim is shown: as well as the garden of eden, with which it coincides, while in the thirty-second path leading thereunto, through which you have just passed, the kerubic guardians are represented; and the palm-trees, or trees of progression in the garden of eden. honoured "hegemon" conduct the z

is placed figures/ lamp a drawing_ of the tree of life lights unshaded with serpent tree of life& paths, but no sephiroth_ cup/ lamp_ kerubim of flaming sword_ kerux hiereus hegemon_ hb:taw_ geomantic figures alchemical sephiroth_ diagram 23. arrangement of the temple for the ceremony of theoricus in the 2= 9 ritual. the "hierophant" then says "the symbols before you represent alike the garden of eden,7 and the holy of holies: before you stands the tree of life formed of the sephiroth and their connecting paths. the connecting paths are twenty-two in number, and are distinguished by the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, making with the ten sephiroth themselves the thirty-two paths of wisdom of the sepher yetzirah" the letters, he then points out to him, form the symbol of the serp

eomantic figure.18 the "hierophant" now confers upon the theoricus the title of lord of the thirteenth path, who quits the temple for a short time. by means of the symbol of the stolistes- the chalice of lustral water- the theoricus 273 seeks entrance to the temple. the "hierophant" rises, and facing the altar, addresses the theoricus thus "before you is represented the symbolism of the garden of eden, at the summit is the supernal eden containing the three supernal sephiroth. and in the garden were the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which latter is from malkuth. and a river nahar went forth out of eden, namely, from the supernal triad, to water the garden- the rest of the sephiroth. and from thence it was divided into four heads, in da th. the first head is

274 the mystic title of "monokeros de astris,"20 which means "the unicorn from the stars" and gives him the symbol of maim- water. the closing of the temple now takes place, and the prayer to the undines is rehearsed, and in the name of elohim tzabaoth is the dismissal pronounced. illustration on page 275 discussed (too complex for a full description. weh note- this figure represents a theory of eden on the tree of life that is very much different from the symbolism of traditional qabalah, as presented in the "sepher yetzirah" and other sources. the same is true of the particular method of division of this tree into the trees of life and the knowledge of good and evil "diagram 33. the garden of eden" this figure can be divided into three units, one atop the other. at the top is a large ri

, with wings extending far beyond the larger ring. five stars are above the points of her crown, her hands appear to either side of the sun, and her lower gown and feet rest on a crescent moon (horns upward. to the left of her right hand is hb:mem-final hb:yod hb:heh hb:lamed hb:aleph. to the right of her left hand is hb:heh hb:vau hb:heh hb:yod. written on the crescent below her is "the supernal eden" flames are seen about the crescent, and these extend downward over the upper arm of the central unit of the figure. at the bottom of the figure is a seven-headed serpent, the heads crowned and the body curled in a circle to define the unit. the tail extends off and downward to the lower left. each head is on one of the seven circles of a miniature of diagram #27. the central portion is a cal

and this is the number of the dawning creation" the hegemon having illuminated the temple, the "hierophant" then explains to the practicus the calvary cross of twelve squares "the calvary cross of twelve squares fitly represents the zodiac; which embraces the waters of nu, as the ancient egyptians termed the heavens, the waters which be above the firmament. it also alludes to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads, which find their correlation in the four triplicities of the zodiac" illustration on page 277 approximated below_ hb:shin hb:taw hb:qof_ salt/ lamp air tablet salt brass_ serpent_ banner of east/ heiroph. hegemon. lamp ant_ black/ white) incense_ incense_ spirit 18th key dee tablet/ lamp of tarot lamp/ tablet of earth of fire/ geomant_ ic tal- a ismans_ hexagram_ hie

he vault of the adepts. the fratres and sorores then give the signs of the various grades from 0= 0 to 4= 7. the "hierophant inductor" then says to the associate adept: v. h. associate adept, what is the additional mystic title bestowed upon a philosophus, as a link with the second order "associate adept" phrath "hierophant inductor" to what does it allude "associate adept" to the fourth river of eden "hierophant inductor" what is this sign "associate adept" the sign of the rending of the veil (gives it).25 "hierophant inductor" what is the answering sign "associate adept" the sign of the closing of the veil (gives it).26 "hierophant inductor" what is the word "associate adept" pe. hb:peh "hierophant inductor" resh. hb:resh "associate adept" kaph. hb:koph "hierophant inductor" tau. hb:taw

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e my word for nothing: try all things; hold fast that which is good! madrid "august 1908" o.s. 89 annie besant: an autobiography. t. fisher unwin, third impression, 5s. it is a splendid oasis in the desert of silly memoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life. how surely and steadily has mrs. besant moved, urged by the one unselfish thought, high-minded love for humanity, from her eden through the hell of revolt to the paradise that so few earn! and she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. priceless and unenvied reward of suffering! true it is, that the chosen of the masters must leave all. the lightest breeze can stir the feather of our lady maat; there must be no breath of passion or of thought, if we would live in those halls of hers "elysian

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we can discover in it, or at least the only one really original, is, that erasmus darwin was born in 1788. this makes him only thirty years younger than his son charles; and yet these are the good people who make such a fuss about ahaziah being two years older than his father jehoram! the r. p. a. annual, 1910. 6"d" net. from the cover of this review we learn that it contains "a striking poem" by eden phillpotts, whose name evidently tokens his true occupation: it is called "from the shades" and might well remain there. phillpotts informs us that it was "inspired) by the spectacle of paul's statue which now stands on the triumphal pillar of marcus aurelius at rome" we have read of many crimes attributed to this unfortunate saint by modern freethinkers, but none equal to this. poor faustina

hee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unfailing cruse of joy, that art filled with the tears of the fallen! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning lust of the moon, that art clothed in the mist of the ocean! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou one measure of all things, that art dam of the great order or worlds! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou frail virgin of eden, that art ravished to the abode of hell! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dark forest of wonder, that art tangled in a gold web of dew! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou tortured shriek of the storm, that art whirled up through the leaves of the woods! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou dazzling opal of light, that flamest in the crumbling skull of space! i

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rging of these lines is a twofold one. you have the descent into matter of the entity, of the central life, and the incarnation of spirit, and then you have the working up, out of matter, of that life or spirit, plus all that has been gained through the utilisation of form. by experimenting with matter, by dwelling within the form, by the energising of substance, by the going out of the garden of eden (the place where there is no scope for necessary development, and by the wandering of the prodigal son in the far country, you have the various stages which are pictured in the christian bible where man makes the discovery that he is not the form, but that he is the one who utilises it. he is intelligence, and therefore he is made in the image of the third person of the trinity; he is love, a

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onnected with the location of the two poles, north and south, and is the centre around which the globe rotates, and is the source of the legend of a sacred fertile land within the sphere of polar influences. the mythic land of exceeding fertility, of abundant luxuriance, and of phenomenal growth, vegetable, animal and human would naturally lie where prana is received. it is the esoteric garden of eden, the land of physical perfection. surface radiation demonstrates, after distribution, as planetary prana. in man. the organ of reception is the spleen through its etheric counterpart. after distribution over the entire body via the etheric network it demonstrates in surface radiation as the health aura. seventh. thus in all the three bodies will the resemblance clearly be seen, and the workin

arry of the personal life- 659- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust being of mental matter, devachan might be regarded as a centre, or heart of peace, within the periphery of the sphere of influence of the mental unit. the four spirillae form four protecting streams of force. a correspondence to this stream of force can be seen in the four rivers which emanated from the garden of eden. out of this garden man is driven into the world of physical incarnation and the angel with the flaming sword protects the entrance, driving him back from entry until the time comes when evolution has progressed so far that he can come to the portal laden with stones which can withstand the action of fire. when he submits these stones to the fire and they stand the test, he can enter "heaven"

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lution of new species with an objective impossible to explain to those not yet initiate. the production of nutritive forms which will serve the needs of- 59- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the lesser devas and angels will be one of the results. in the animal kingdom the effect will be the elimination of pain and suffering and a return to the ideal conditions of the garden of eden. when man functions as a soul, he heals; he stimulates and vitalizes; he transmits the spiritual forces of the universe, and all harmful emanations and all destructive forces find in the human kingdom a barrier. evil and its effects are largely dependent upon humanity for a functioning channel. humanity's function is to transmit and handle force. this is done in the early and ignorant stages

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of the whole. the constellation aquila is always regarded as interchangeable with the sign scorpio, the serpent, and it is therefore frequently used in this connection when considering the fixed cross of the cosmic saviour. scorpio is the serpent of illusion from which the christ nature finally frees us, and it is to the illusory wiles of this serpent scorpio that adam succumbed in the garden of eden. the "face of the ox" is the biblical symbol for the sign taurus, the bull, which was the religion immediately antedating the jewish revelation, and which found its exponents in egypt and in the mithraic mysteries. upon this fixed cross all the world saviours, not excepting the christ of the west, have been eternally crucified, as reminders to man of the divine intent based upon the divine sa

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eaceful world and to a worldwide expression of the will-to-good. as these qualities supersede the old and undesirable ones, the door where evil dwells will symbolically slowly close through the sheer weight of public opinion and through right human desire. nothing can possibly stop it. thus the original plan will be restored on earth; this is symbolically referred to in the bible as the garden of eden; the angel with the flaming sword will no longer guard the door of initiation into the kingdom of god, but will be transformed into the angel of the presence. simultaneously, the door into the world of spiritual reality will open before mankind, and the door where evil dwells will be closed. these few thoughts may serve to make this invocation live- 122- discipleship in the new age- volume ii

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ng, soul and body, so that duality gives place to unity and the pairs of opposites are blended [61] the symbols eurystheus, having watched hercules achieve mental control and then ride the bull of desire over into the temple of the soul, now sets him the task of fetching the golden apples from the garden of the hesperides. the apple has long figured in mythology and in symbology. in the garden of eden, as we know, the serpent gave the apple to eve; and with the giving of that apple, and with its acceptance came the knowledge of good and of evil. this is a symbolic method of telling us the story of the appearance of mind, and of how it began to function in that early creature, which was neither animal nor strictly human. with the coming of mind came also the knowledge of duality, of the pul

ow it began to function in that early creature, which was neither animal nor strictly human. with the coming of mind came also the knowledge of duality, of the pull of the pairs of opposites, of the nature of the soul, which is good, and of the nature of the form, which is evil if it holds the soul and hinders it from full expression. it is not evil per se. it is to be noted that in the garden of eden one single apple was given to the human being, the symbol of separateness, isolation. hercules had to hunt for the golden apples in another garden, and in the garden of the hesperides the apples were the- 38- the labours of hercules symbol of plurality, of synthesis, and of the many, nourished by the one tree of life. hercules was told only three facts: that there was a garden containing a tr

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t state we must note the views of the kabalah upon man in his primal state. man was the final word of creation, he was a r sum of all forms, and so transcended the angels in his faculties. the first man had no fleshy body, no material envelope: adam and eve were clothed only in ethereal forms, and were not subject to appetites or passions, they dwelled in light in the gn oidn, garden of aidin, of eden, of pleasant peace (zohar ii. 229b. the man and the woman before their descent to this world were as one--androgynous; at incarnation they were separated into sexes. the first human pair broke the first commandment, they sinned and were doomed to a complete descent into matter; the lord god made them "coats of skin" he gave them material bodies, and with these came the need of food, and the p

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of consciousness (another antinomy. given the above description of antinomianism it is possible to understand that it is a proportional construct. it is the perfect reconciliation of opposites not into unity, but rather, into a separate syncretism from which aleister crowley's formulaic conception of 0=2 becomes fully revealed as the antinomian formula for spiritual disse sthe forgotten books of eden translated in the late 1800's by dr. s. c. malan and dr. e. trumpp. translated into king james english from both the arabic version and the ethiopic version which was then published in the forgotten books of eden in 1927 by the world publishing company. apocalypses moses part of the "forgotten" books of eden from-the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha of the old testament r.h. charles oxford: the c

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ere said to have populated the earth in plenty, and attacked the children of seth. in manichaean lore, the queen of demons and spiritual initiator of cain, lilith az, taught the fallen angels to form physical bodies and join with others sexually. it is suggested also by writers 7 kaufmann kohler, w.h. bennett and louis ginzberg that the children of cain spent their days at the foot of a mountain (eden) practicing in wild orgies with the music of lucifer through that created by jubal. women, the first pairikas or faeries/witches, in their beautiful appearances, invited the sons of seth (children of god) and copulated with them, bearing other children. this jewish folklore presents the earliest forms of the witches sabbat as a luciferian celebration and practice of sexual magick. to philo, l

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, from the end of the third race, has the same phallic significance as the "tree[[footnote(s* in the esoteric philosophy it is male and female, or hermaphrodite; hence the bearded venus in mythology* therefore, putting aside its religio-metaphysical aspect, the cross of the christians is symbolically far more phallic than the pagan svastica[[vol. 2, page] 31 the horses of sukra's car. of life" in eden anouki, a form of isis, is the goddess of life; and ank was taken by the hebrews from the egyptians and introduced by moses, one learned in the wisdom of the priests of egypt, with many other mystical words. the word ank in hebrew, with the personal suffix, means "my life" my being, which "is the personal pronoun anochi" from the name of the egyptian goddess anouki* in one of the most ancient

s, the "gods" being the life and animating "soul-principle" of the various regions of the universe. nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range beyond those manifested gods. the boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and mesopotamia. in assyrian ak meant creator, the letter k pronounced kh (ah) gutturally. according to swedenborg's mysticism adam was not a man but a chu

rd root-race, and the tzite tree of the popol-vuh, out of which the mexican third race of men was created, are all one* this may be plainly seen by any reader. but the occult reason why the norse yggdrasil, the hindu aswatha, the gogard, the hellenic tree of life, and the tibetan zampun, are one with the kabalistic sephirothal tree, and even with the holy tree made by ahura mazda, and the tree of eden- who among the western scholars can tell* nevertheless, the fruits of all those "trees" whether pippala or haoma or yet the more prosaic apple, are the "plants of life" in fact and verity. the prototypes of our races were all enclosed in the microcosmic tree, which grew and developed within and under the great mundane macrocosmic tree; and the mystery is half revealed in the dirghotamas, wher

ich, like the molten brass round the clay model of the sculptor, the physical frame of his body was built by, through, and from, the lower forms and types of animal terrestrial life "the soul and the form when descending on earth put on an earthly garment" says the zohar. his protoplastic body was not formed of that matter of which our mortal frames are fashioned "when adam dwelt in the garden of eden, he was clothed in the celestial garment, which is the garment of heavenly light. light of that light which was used in the garden of eden (zohar ii 229 b "man (the heavenly adam) was created by the ten sephiroth of the jetziric world, and by the common power they (the seven angels of a still lower world) engendered the earthly adam. first samael fell, and then deceiving) man, caused his fall

change and seasons succeeded. cold forced men to build shelters and devise clothing. then man appealed to the superior fathers (the higher gods or angels. the nirmanakaya of the nagas, the wise serpents and dragons of light came, and the precursors of the enlightened (buddhas. divine kings descended and taught men sciences and arts, for man could live no longer in the first land (adi-varsha, the eden of the first races, which had turned into a white frozen corpse" the above is suggestive. we will see what can be inferred from this brief statement. some may incline to think that there is more in it than is apparent at first sight[[footnote(s* the commentary explains that the apes are the only species, among the animals, which has gradually and with every generation and variety tended more

first sight[[footnote(s* the commentary explains that the apes are the only species, among the animals, which has gradually and with every generation and variety tended more and more to return to the original type of its male forefather- the dark gigantic lemurian and atlantean[[vol. 2, page] 202 the secret doctrine. edens, serpents, and dragons. whence the idea, and the true meaning of the term "eden? christians will maintain that the garden of eden is the holy paradise, the place desecrated by the sin of adam and eve; the occultist will deny this dead-letter interpretation, and show the reverse. one need not believe and see in the bible divine revelation in order to say that this ancient book, if read esoterically, is based upon the same universal traditions. what eden was is partially s

is the holy paradise, the place desecrated by the sin of adam and eve; the occultist will deny this dead-letter interpretation, and show the reverse. one need not believe and see in the bible divine revelation in order to say that this ancient book, if read esoterically, is based upon the same universal traditions. what eden was is partially shown in isis unveiled* it was said that "the garden of eden as a locality is no myth at all; it belongs to those landmarks of history which occasionally disclose to the student that the bible is not all mere allegory. eden, or the hebrew[[hebrew] gan-eden, meaning the park or the garden of eden, is an archaic name of the country watered by the euphrates and its many branches, from asia and armenia to the erythraean sea (a. wilder says that gan-duniyas

te, or the chief of the hierophants was known as java-aleim. instead of becoming a neophyte, and gradually obtaining his esoteric knowledge through a regular initiation, an adam, or man, uses his intuitional faculties and, prompted by the serpent (woman and matter, tastes of the tree of knowledge- the esoteric or secret doctrine- unlawfully. the priests of hercules, or mel-karth, the "lord of the eden" all wore "coats of skin" the text says "and java-aleim made for adam and his wife[[hebrew 'chitonuth our" the first hebrew word "chiton" is the greek[[chiton, chiton. it became a slavonic word by adoption from the bible, and means a coat, an upper garment "though containing the same substratum of esoteric truth as does every early cosmogony, the hebrew scripture wears on its face the marks o

igin. its genesis is purely a reminiscence of the babylonian captivity. the names of places, men and even objects, can be traced from the original text to the chaldeans and the akkadians, the progenitors and aryan instructors of the former. it is strongly contested that the akkad tribes of chaldea, babylonia and assyria were in[[footnote(s* vol. i, pp. 575, et seq[[vol. 2, page] 203 the garden of eden, a college. any way cognate with the brahmans of hindostan; but there are more proofs in favour of this opinion than otherwise. the shemite or assyrian ought, perchance, to have been called the turanian, and the mongolians have been denominated scyths. but if the akkadians ever existed, otherwise than in the imagination of some ethnologists and philologists, they certainly would never have be

n jewish garb- genesis excluded, which is esotericism pure and simple. but it is really from the euxine to kashmir and beyond, that science has to search for the cradle- or rather one of the chief cradles- of mankind and the sons of ad-ah; and especially in after times, when the garden of ed-en on the euphrates became the college of the astrologers and magi, the aleim. but this "college" and this eden belong to the fifth race, and are simply a faint reminiscence of the adi-varsha, of the primeval third race. what is the etymological meaning of the word eden? in greek it is [hedone, signifying voluptuousness. in this aspect it is no better than the olympus of the greeks, indra's heaven (swarga) on mount meru, and even the paradise full of houris, promised by mahomet to the faithful. the gar

long to the fifth race, and are simply a faint reminiscence of the adi-varsha, of the primeval third race. what is the etymological meaning of the word eden? in greek it is [hedone, signifying voluptuousness. in this aspect it is no better than the olympus of the greeks, indra's heaven (swarga) on mount meru, and even the paradise full of houris, promised by mahomet to the faithful. the garden of eden was never the property of the jews; for china, which can hardly be suspected of having known anything of the jews 2,000 b.c, has such a primitive garden in central asia inhabited by the "dragons of wisdom" the initiates. and according to klaproth[[vol. 2, page] 204 the secret doctrine. the hieroglyphical chart copied from a japanese cyclopaedia in the book of fo-kone-ky, places its "garden of

doctrine. the hieroglyphical chart copied from a japanese cyclopaedia in the book of fo-kone-ky, places its "garden of wisdom" on the plateau of pamir between the highest peaks of the himalayan ranges; and describing it as the culminating point of central asia, shows the four rivers- oxus, indus, ganges, and silo- flowing from a common source, the "lake of the dragons" but this is not the genetic eden; nor is it the kabalistical garden of eden. for the former- eden illa-ah- means in one sense wisdom, a state like that of nirvana, a paradise of bliss; while in another sense it refers to intellectual man himself, the container of the eden in which grows the tree of knowledge of good and evil: man being the knower thereof. renan and barthelemy st. hilaire, basing themselves "on the most solid

basing themselves "on the most solid inductions" think it impossible to doubt any longer, and both place the cradle of humanity "on the region of the timaus" finally, the asiatic journal* concludes that "all the traditions of the human race gathering its primitive families at the region of their birth-place, show them to us grouped around the countries where jewish tradition places the garden of eden; where the aryans (zoroastrians) established their airyana-vaego or the meru. they are hemmed in to the north by the countries which join the lake aral, and to the south by baltistan, or little tibet. everything concurs in proving that there was the abode of that primitive humanity to which we have to be traced" that "primitive humanity" was in its fifth race, when the "four-mouthed dragon" t

h it was the copy of the cradle, verily, of the first thinking divine man. it was the paradesa, the highland of the first sanskrit-speaking people, the hedone, the country of delight of the greeks, but it was not the "bower of voluptuousness" of the chaldeans, for the latter was only the reminiscence of it; and also because it was not there that the fall of man occurred after the "separation" the eden of the jews was copied from the chaldean copy. that the fall of man into generation occurred during the earliest portion of what science calls the mesozoic times, or the age of the reptiles, is evidenced by the bible phraseology concerning the serpent, the nature of which is explained in the zohar. the question is not whether eve's incident with the tempting reptile is allegorical or textual

every contemporary author on oriental speculations, to be the devoted servants of the "prince of the air" and irretrievably damned. he describes satan and his antichrist in this wise "satan is the 'anointed cherub' of old. god created satan, the fairest and wisest of all his creatures in this part of his universe, and made him prince of the world, and of the power of the air. he was placed in an eden, which was both far anterior to the eden of genesis. and of an altogether different and more substantial character, resembling the new jerusalem. thus, satan being perfect in wisdom, and beauty, his vast empire is our earth, if not the whole solar system. certainly no other angelic power of greater or even equal dignity has been revealed to us. the archangel michael himself is quoted by jude

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set on foot by the roman catholic church against occultism, masonry, and heterodox mysticism generally. the days of constantine were the last turning-point in history, the period of the supreme struggle that ended in the western world throttling the old religions in favour of the new one, built on their bodies. from thence the vista into the far distant past, beyond the "deluge" and the garden of eden, began to be forcibly and relentlessly closed by every fair and unfair means against the indiscreet gaze of posterity. every issue was blocked up, every record that hands could be laid upon, destroyed. yet there remains enough, even among such mutilated records, to warrant us in saying that there is in them every possible evidence of the actual existence of a parent doctrine. fragments have s

e elohim, all signifying "great men "titans "heavenly men" and, on earth "the giants" the seven was a sacred number with every nation; but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the hebrews. with these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the male causative one, forming as shown by the kabalists the[[hebrew with numbers above] or otz "the tree of the garden of eden* the "double hermaphrodite rod" of the fourth race. whereas with the hindus and aryans generally, the significance was manifold, and related almost entirely to purely metaphysical[[footnote(s* this was the symbol of the "holy of holies" the 3 and the 4 of sexual separation. nearly every one of the 22 hebrew letters are merely phallic symbols. of the two letters- as shown above- one, the ayin

ble-interpreters say of the cherubim "the word signifies in hebrew, fullness of knowledge; these angels are so called from their exquisite knowledge, and were therefore used for the punishment of men who affected divine knowledge (interpreted by cruden in his concordance, from genesis iii, 24) very well; and vague as the information is, it shows that the cherub placed at the gate of the garden of eden after the "fall" suggested to the venerable interpreters the idea of punishment connected with forbidden science or divine knowledge- one that generally leads to another "fall" that of the gods, or "god" in man's estimation. but as the good old cruden knew nought of karma, he may be forgiven. yet the allegory is suggestive. from meru, the abode of gods, to eden, the distance is very small, an

ysical, material life, which has no spirituality in it[[vol. 1, page] 244 the secret doctrine[[first column continued from previous page] life" is a misnomer and a useless puzzle to the student] 2. ruach progresses by the evolution of ideas. 3. neschamah is progressive without oblivion and destruction. 4. the soul has three dwellings. 5. these dwellings are: the plane of the mortals: the superior eden; and the inferior eden. 6. the image (man) is a sphinx that offers the riddle of birth. 7. the fatal image (the astral) endows nephesch with its aptitudes; but ruach is able to substitute for this (vitiated) nephesch the image[[first column continued on next page[[second column continued from previous page] thus, assimilating itself to the monad, shares its immortality. 2. buddhi becomes cons

rozen waters and cleared the mist. these waters (chaos, called the streams of elivagar, distilling in vivifying drops, fell down and created the earth and the giant ymir, who only had "the semblance of man (the heavenly man, and the cow, audhumla (the "mother" or astral light, cosmic soul) from whose udder flowed four streams of milk (the four cardinal points: the four heads of the four rivers of eden, etc, etc) and which "four" allegorically are symbolized by the cube in all its various and mystical meanings. the christians- especially the greek and latin churches- have fully adopted the symbol, and see in it a commemoration of life eternal[[footnote(s* his triadic goddesses are sati and anouki* phtah was originally the god of death, of destruction, like siva. he is a solar god only by vi

retired to the jungle and passed the rest of his days in religious meditations. he had accomplished his duty to nature as mortal man and its co-worker, and henceforth gave all his thoughts to the spiritual immortal portion in himself, regarding the terrestrial as a mere illusion, an evanescent dream- which it is. with the semite, it was different. he invented a temptation of flesh in a garden of eden; showed his god (esoterically, the tempter and the ruler of nature) cursing for ever an act, which was in the logical programme of that nature* all this exoterically, as in the cloak and dead letter of genesis and the rest; and at the same time esoterically he regarded the supposed sin and fall as an act so sacred, as to choose the organ, the perpetrator of the original sin, as the fittest an

upon the occult manifestations of a purely abstract force or principle now called "god" the very establishment of such worship shows, in its details and rites, that the philosophers who evolved those systems of nature, subjective and objective, possessed profound knowledge, and were acquainted with many facts[[footnote(s* during that period which is absent from the mosaic books- from the exile of eden to the allegorical flood- the jews worshipped with the rest of the semites dayanisi[[hebrew "the ruler of men" the "judge" or the sun. though the jewish canon and christianism have made the sun become the "lord god" and jehovah in the bible, yet the latter is full of indiscreet traces of the androgyne deity, which was jehovah the sun, and astoreth the moon in its female aspect, and quite free

d invisible, having her place in heaven, and helping to the generation of species- the moon, in short. her occult aspects and powers are numberless, and, in one of them, the moon becomes with[[footnote(s* his clear realization of it is, that the egyptians prophesied jehovah) and his incarnated redeemer (the good serpent, etc, etc; even to identifying typhon with the wicked dragon of the garden of eden, and this passes as serious and sober science[[vol. 1, page] 400 the secret doctrine. the egyptians hathor, another aspect of isis* and both of these goddesses are shown suckling horus. behold in the egyptian hall of the british museum, hathor worshipped by pharaoh thotmes, who stands between her and the lord of heavens. the monolith was taken from karnac; and the same goddess has the followi

is not, and what is beyond them" its boughs are hiranyagharba (brahma or brahman in his highest manifestations, say sridhara and madhusudana, the highest dhyan chohans or devas. the vedas are its leaves. he only who goes beyond the roots shall never return, i.e, shall reincarnate no more during this "age" of brahma. it is only when its pure boughs had touched the terrestrial mud of the garden of eden, of our adamic race, that this tree got soiled by the contact and lost its pristine purity; and that the serpent of[[vol. 1, page] 407 the seven-headed dragons. eternity- the heaven-born logos- was finally degraded. in days of old- of the divine dynasties on earth- the now dreaded reptile was regarded as the first beam of light that radiated from the abyss of divine mystery. various were the

ame breath that satan- the devil- was a son of god and the most beautiful of his archangels, rather than believe that father and son are a gigantic, personified and eternal lie, we prefer to turn to pantheism and to pagan philosophy for information. once that the key to genesis is in our hands, it is the scientific and symbolical kabala which unveils the secret. the great serpent of the garden of eden and the "lord god" are identical, and so are jehovah and cain one- that cain who is referred to in theology as the "murderer" and the liar to god! jehovah tempts the king of israel to number the people, and satan tempts him to do the same in another place. jehovah turns into the fiery serpents to bite those he is displeased with; and jehovah informs the brazen serpent that heals them. these s

st in the ocean of spiritual ignorance. but they who know true wisdom, and whose minds are pure, behold this whole world as one with divine knowledge, as one with thee, o god! be favourable, o universal spirit[[vol. 1, page] 422 the secret doctrine. respective opponents and foes- the demons. thus while (according to the kabalists) jehovah assumes the shape of the tempting serpent in the garden of eden; sends satan with a special mission to tempt job; and harasses and wearies pharaoh with sarai, abraham's wife, and "hardens" his heart against moses, lest there should be no opportunity for plaguing his victims "with great plagues (genesis xii, exodus- vishnu is made in his purana to resort to a trick no less unworthy of any respectable god "have compassion upon us, o lord, and protect us, wh

whatever direction, we are forced to draw a marked line between blind faith, evolved by theologies, and knowledge due to the independent researches of long generations of adepts; between, in short, faith and philosophy. there have been- in all ages- undeniably learned and good men who, having been reared in sectarian beliefs, died in their crystallized convictions. for protestants, the garden of eden is the primeval point of departure in the drama of humanity, and the solemn tragedy on the summit of calvary, the prelude to the hoped-for millennium. for roman catholics, satan is at the foundation of kosmos, christ in its centre, and antichrist at its apex. for both, the hierarchy of being begins and ends within the narrow frames of their respective theologies: one self-created personal god

BLUE EQUINOX

sential of your self, that the life of which you are become partaker, while itself subject ot the law of action and reaction, ebb and flow, systole and diastole, is yet insensible to the afflications of that life which you formerly held to be your sole bond with existence. the equinox 116 and here must you resolve your self to make the mightiest endeavours: for so flowered are the meadows of this eden, and so sweet the fruit of its orchards, that you will love to linger among them, and to take delight in sloth and dalliance therein. therefore i write to you with energy that these enjoyments are dependent upon duality, so that their true name is sorrow of illusion, like that of the normal life of man, which you have set out to transcend. be it according to your will, but learn this, that (a

BOOK OF JASHAR

and human are ready to accept this gift of fire, and they immediately begin learning to use it, but their companions faben and flo are not ready and they flee. as in genesis, flaming swords mark the division between animal innocence and human sophistication, but here the direction of the swords is reversed. in genesis, the angels wield flaming swords to drive adam and eve away from the garden of eden. here, however, the flaming swords drive faben, flo, and the other animals away from the newly created domain of humanity. the word "wilderness" first appears at this point, to denote the land not yet tamed by people. at this moment, the wilderness includes the whole earth except for the little campsite that is warmed by human and eve's fire. long before the invention of radio, the light of t

received his lore and his ideas. after all, genes and ideas both are patterns that can endure across generations (one stored in chromosomes and the other in synapses. so in a cultural sense, people of seth's family might also be children of abel whom cain foresaw. a desecration of trees by people is the pivotal event leading to the fall of humanity in genesis. the biblical story of the garden of eden is echoed in our modern ecological myth of the great primeval forest that has been destroyed by the growth of civilization. destruction of trees is also a central theme in the jashar apocryphon, but the story here is a complex counterpoint to both genesis and modern ecological thinking. in the first place, the tension is not just between trees and people, but between trees and herbivorous ani

ecology. but then the early humans, with their sophisticated hunting technology, became effective predators of the great herbivores, reduced their populations, and so allowed the forest to spread. thus, the expansive paleolithic forests are presented here as a creation of humanity, during the period when people knew how to hunt but had not yet learned to farm. we may notice that this paleolithic eden is like a garden not only in the sense of being dominated by plants, but also in the sense of being artificially sustained by human activity. at the end of section 3, the narrative leads us to look at the world from above, as if from god's perspective. our attention is diverted from the forests to the glaciers, which spread and flow during the long ice age, reminding us of the primeval jinn-p

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

rsion of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent in the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with green and gold, the color of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good. fo

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n you can be sure that the forces involved are powerful ones. any changes will be fairly drastic changes; any setbacks will be severe setbacks; any advancements will be very major advancements. interpretation but how do you interpret the cards? there are books written on the tarot, most of which offer possible interpretations for each card. you might purchase one of them (i would recommend one of eden gray's: either the tarot revealed or a complete guide to the tarot. read through the book, to get an idea of the traditional interpretations. then, put the book away. once again let me stress that no two people are alike. if you are reading for two different people and the same card happens to come up in the same position for both of them, it is highly unlikely that it will have the same mean

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are responsible for the publication of this volume. may the white brilliance of the supreme crown descend upon you. and may you rest in peace beneath the shadow of the wings of that mighty one, whose name no man may utter [191] e p i l o g o s* the meditation on malkuth i am the clarion call of the beyond, reverberating myself throughout the garden of delight. i am thy breath of life, o child of eden, pervading thee with the perfumed fragrance of my spirit. thy very self am i, o israel, and self of all that is. deluded by the illusion of personal independence, the uninstructed mistake the descent of my power from the life breath of ruach [193] the book of t o k e n s for an ascent of power from my manifestations in malkuth. know ye that never does power have its beginning in that which is

COVENANT OF SAMYAZA

, and their minds were illuminated and they became self-realized, even as satanael himself. this was the gift of satanael unto man, that he should possess intelligence, and the desire to know, and self-consciousness, that he no longer be servile unto demiurge, nor live as the beasts of the field. a cry of fear and wrath rose up from demiurge, that man has become as god. he drove adam and eve from eden, and guarded the tree of life lest man also gain immortality. but the spark of illumination had been kindled within man and shall not be extinguished, and demiurge shall not be able tosmother the light of satanael, who is truly called lucifer, light- bringer- iv- i, samyaza, and others of the sons of god, looked at the affairs of man and at the intervention of satanael, and were envious of th

oo strong among man, and m'shiha died a humiliating death, spurned by his own people- viii- whenever man seeks light and calls upon samyaza, and upon satanael himself, there shall we send the gibborim and nephilim for these are what the graikoi truly called 'daimons, the guardian geniuses and inspiration of culture, which the graikoi new will, that man should not return to the divine sterility of eden, or became again as beasts of the field. the light of satanael shall endure, even though it be but a tiny spark within a few at those times of ignorance and fear when man in weakness turns to demiurge and his m'shiha and other slave creeds. and that spark shall return as a blazing flas.a spell for crossing the desert by setnakt the divine formula of xepera xeper xeperu, whose physical form ha

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i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held in captivity in babylon and, when they were freed by the persians, they took many of the babylonian stories and beliefs back to palestine. these found their way into the old testament of the bible and throu

mind and we love out of existence 460. and the truth shall set you free the misunderstandings of the past, we are destined to be the first generations for thousands of years who will leave our children a better world than the one we found. that is our gift to, and from, this glorious planet. my fellow expressions of god, what a great time to be alive. sources 1 louise hay, you can heal your life (eden grove, london, 1988. first published by hay house inc, usa, 1984. 2 love can build a bridge (n. judge, j. jaruis, p. overstreet, c london records 90 ltd) postscript good evening, mr president s this book went to press, i attended a performance of a stage show and obtained the tickets from the box office in the normal way. as i walked up the stairs into the arena, i met a friend who was lookin

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he advanced esoteric knowledge. it was structured as 13 schools (levels of initiation, they say, with each one more advanced than the one below.40 this is the classic structure of secret societies throughout history. those who passed the initiation into the 13th school would then be allowed to teach the knowledge themselves as a member of the "order of the serpents. william bramley in the gods of eden (avon books, new york, 1993) calls this the brotherhood of the snake. you can see snake and serpent symbolism in the logos of llluminati companies and the logo of the leading uk communications network, british telecom, is one example (figure 7. lemurian kings and queens were 13thlevel initiates of the "dragon bloodline, according to the lemurian fellowship. as i with the serpent cult or serpe

do not have to delve into the translations for long to see that much of the biblical old testament is simply an edited rewrite of these sumerian stories. the tablets talk of how king sargon was floated on a river in a basket of rushes, as i mentioned earlier. the bible tells this same story of "moses. the tablets describe a place called e.din("the abode of the righteous ones. the bible speaks of eden the garden of "god. the story of genesis is a summary of the same basic story that is told in the sumerian tablets in far more detail. interestingly, many of the terms translated into the english version of the old testament as "god" come from words that actually mean gods, plural, and the sumerians said the founders of their civilisation were a race of beings that came to this planet from el

e, although the vast majority of mormons have no idea that this is going on. they are just the sheep controlled by forces they do not understand. and who started the mormons? joseph smith, hiram smith, and brigham young. they were all highdegree freemasons and from the merovingian (anunnaki) bloodline. this theme of reptilian-human hybrids can be seen in the story of adam and eve in the garden of eden (edin to the earlier sumerians "the abode of the righteous ones) in jewish lore, eve, who was tempted by the serpent, of course, was the ancestral mother of the nefilim and associated with the hebrew words meaning life and snake.20 satan("the adversary) is described in the old testament and the hebrew torah as the "old serpent" or "dragon" and he was said to be the ruler of the nefilim who fl

the agenda they had planned for the earth. eventually the human slaves were given the ability to procreate and this involved an infusion of far more mammalian genes, according to r.a. boulay in his excellent and highly recommended book, flying serpents and dragons, mankind's reptilian past (the book tree, usa, 1997. this change from clone to pro-creator is presented symbolically in the garden of eden story with eve being condemned to suffer the pains of childbirth. sex between their creations was the "forbidden fruit" symbolised in the eden story, boulay suggests. the "god" responsible for this development was enki. he was the serpent in the garden "tempting" eve and he was later to become extremely unpopular with the rest of the anunnaki leadership because of the explosion in the human p

o cyclops at athens was to 'ops, the serpent deity..the symbolic worship of the serpent was so common in greece that justin martyr accuses the greeks of introducing it into the mysteries of all their gods."6 the hebrew serpents i have mentioned that in hebrew myth, the biblical "nefilim, the "sons of the gods, are called awwim, which means devastators or serpents. hebrew legends also describe the eden serpent as a being who walked and talked like a human. the hebrew book of ancient oral tradition, the haggadah, speaks of this serpent as a creature with two legs that stood upright to the "height of a camel".7 the slavonic apocalypse of abraham says the serpent with eve had hands, feet and wings,8 just like many other ancient and modern descriptions of the draco. the hebrew stories came from

sumerian, atlantean, and lemurian accounts, many of them changed and twisted to suit the priesthood and to lose most of the direct reptilian references. these can be identified, however, by following the trail from which their terms and names derived. the name of the hebrew winged "angels, the seraphim, means serpent and they were described as having six wings- just like the one in the garden of eden featured in the apocalypse of abraham.9 flying angels in religious texts are symbolic of the reptilians, some of which, according to ancient and modern descriptions, have wings and can fly. this is also symbolised in the flying reptilian gargoyle figures, which the bloodlines have on their homes, cathedrals, churches, and other buildings, including the british houses of parliament. seraph in

rpent, the image of whom they displayed on wooden crosses. the naaseni (nagas) later became known as the ophites, a greek term for serpent. the greeks said that serpents were creatures of great knowledge, which spoke through their oracles- psychic channellers. in other words, communications from another dimension, or density. the story of moses contains much serpent symbolism, also. the garden of eden, edin, heden the serpent that "tempted" eve in the biblical garden of eden is the best-known serpent symbolism of all. this was an edited rewrite of the far more ancient sumerian story of edin, the "land of the gods or the righteous ones. there is again a common theme of the serpent gods in a garden, and james churchward suggests in the children of mu that these "gardens" all refer to lemuria

he describes how the earth was once encircled by a canopy of water vapour (the "firmament) that was destroyed in a cataclysm. this water vapour protected the planet from the harsh effects of the sun, and the whole planet was moist and humid and had a constant temperature. it was a place of enormous abundance and vast forests. this is a common description of the golden age- the lemurian "garden of eden. but, he says, that when the chitauri destroyed this canopy (symbolised by the biblical 40 days and 40 nights of rain) the whole climate changed as the sun's rays baked once green and abundant lands like egypt and began to form the deserts. scientists agree that egypt, now part of the sahara desert, was once a green and pleasant land. this could explain the water erosion found on the sphinx

th the violence, human sacrifice, and blood-drinking rituals of "the mother-son cult of the serpent-dragon. scene two sees the arrival of the great reformer, the tall, red-bearded, eindri or thor (indara, who brought civilisation (see picture section. waddell believes that he is also the origin of adam and this part of the story, he says, is massively misrepresented in the adam and eve, garden of eden story in the hebrew old testament. i think there is a lot more to the adam and eve story and what it represents than this, however, and i think if waddell had been alive today he would have accepted that himself. i feel the edda accounts include symbolic, as well as literal, accounts and some originated in lemuria "adam, as thor/indara, fought the serpent cult of the "edenites, waddell's tran

da of the battles between the nordics of thor/indara and the serpent cult of el, wodan, and balder, can explain many ancient and modern mysteries, symbols, and biblical texts (figure 24. the edda tells how the dragon queens 159 thor/indara and the nordic/aryans came down from the danube region of europe into the domain of the serpent cult in the near and middle east, especially the place known as eden. after many battles between the nordics and the serpent cult a peace treaty was agreed between the entity known as thor/indara/ adam and the leaders of the serpent cult, el, wodan, and balder, the edda tells us. there is a portrayal of a meeting between thor/indara and el on a babylonian seal of about 3000bc. the "peace treaty" also led to the marriage between thor/indara/adam and a priestess

and el on a babylonian seal of about 3000bc. the "peace treaty" also led to the marriage between thor/indara/adam and a priestess of the serpent cult known as "eve" or "gunn-ifa, the edda says. the story of the marriage of her-thor (ar- thur) and his "queen" guin-eve-re, is a version of this, waddell suggests.37 he adds that "eve, despite being the "chief vestal priestess" of the serpent cult of eden, was, nevertheless, a gothic "aryan. however, the edda says that she was a "ward" of el and "born of the sea-froth or seafoam kin. she was later represented by the greeks as "aphrodite" or "sea-froth, and aphrodite was said to be born from the sea- the amphibious anunnaki? the constant connection of the goddess with the sea can be seen with the phoenician barati, who became the british "brita

rpents 160 children of the matrix thor/indara/adam's old capital of pteria, which is now bogaz koi in turkey (figure 25 "adam and eve" are depicted exchanging a cross-like emblem and a "globe" object, which waddell says is an apple from the rowan or mountain ash tree. this tree was thor/indara/adam's symbol for his "tree of knowledge" and the apple from this tree could be the one in the garden of eden story, the "forbidden fruit, he says. in the edda, the serpent leader, el, taunts eve for changing sides and becoming a priestess "of the rowan. the edda refers to eve as "idun, who dispenses life-giving apples to the goths from their sacred tree. idun was adueni or atueni to the sumerians and this later became athene, mother goddess of the greeks (figure 26. the levite fairy tales waddell sa

rowan. the edda refers to eve as "idun, who dispenses life-giving apples to the goths from their sacred tree. idun was adueni or atueni to the sumerians and this later became athene, mother goddess of the greeks (figure 26. the levite fairy tales waddell says the levite priests of the hebrews took this symbolism and produced the make-believe story of adam and eve with the serpent in the garden of eden in which they were punished for eating from the tree of knowledge, the rowan tree, symbolic of the nordic religion. the levites were serpent worshippers of el and the old testament gods, the elohim, were the reptilians of the serpent cult. the edda also refers to the serpent cult as the valkyrs of ur and the levites made their invented character of abraham hail from "ur of the chaldees. the c

, says waddell. baal worship would therefore be serpent worship. another name for balder was egil and this is almost identical to egel, the hebrew for "a bull calf" and the "golden calf" worshipped in the old testament.39 "golden calf" worship= serpent worship? balder was symbolised as a bull or steer and became the "steer god" of israel or isra- el. he is referred to in the edda as the "steer of eden. balder is also called "the young hydra. in greek mythology, the hydra is a nine-headed serpent monster with poisonous breath and when one head was severed, two would grow in its place. it was killed in the second of the 12 labours of the sun god, hercules. the edda says that thor/ indara/adam called his cappadocian capital, himin or "heaven" and that balder("abel) of the serpent cult went to

eve and adam. this is the origin, waddell says, of st michael casting out satan/lucifer from heaven.40 figure 26: the sumerian goddess adueni or atueni depicted as athene in a greek vase painting of the 5th century bc. she is dressed as a warrior goddess of the amazons or valkyries. note the snakes around her shoulders and the mass of swastikas on the robe 162 children of the matrix the battle of eden the edda tells of a war between the serpent cult and the forces of thor/indara for control of eden. as waddell remarks, the whole feel of the wolf-tribe, serpent cult, offensive in the "battle of eden" includes the anticipation of bombing by aeroplanes, red-hot missile projections, the belching forth of fire and poisonous clouds of smoke. he says it vividly suggests the "hellish methods of de

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reforethe levites, knew the sumerian stories and accounts. it was from these recordsoverwhelmingly, that the levites compiled genesis and exodus. the source is obvious.the sumerian tablets speak of e.din (the abode of the righteous ones. thisconnects with the sumerian name for their gods, din.gir (the righteous ones of therockets. so the sumerians spoke of edin and genesis speaks of the garden of eden.this was a centre for the gods, the anunnaki. the sumerian tablets speak of king8sargon the elder being found as a baby floating in a basket on the river and brought upby a royal family. exodus speaks of moses being found as a baby floating in a basketon the river by a royal princess and how he was brought up by the egyptian royalfamily. the list of such coincidences goes on and on.the old te

eaven.our father who art in heaven? an, or anu to the akkadians, stayed mostly inheaven with his wife, antu, and he made only rare visits to the planet they callede.ri.du (home in the faraway built, a word which evolved into earth. or at leastthat is the zecharia sitchin translation. the descriptions could also imply that anustayed mostly in the high mountains of the near east where the garden of eden,the place of the gods, is reckoned on good evidence to have been, and he made onlyrare visits to the plains of sumer. a sumerian city was called eridu. anu sent twosons to develop and rule the earth, the tablets say. they were enki, the guy theysay created homo sapiens, and his half-brother enlil. these two would later becomegreat rivals for ultimate control of the planet. enki, the first bor

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

anet from space andfrom their underground bases, the surface population quickly surrender to superiorweaponry. then the reptilians strip the planet of its resources like water, minerals anddna information. the infiltration of human society via secret societies is a key methodof reptilian control, as i shall detail. the american writer and researcher, williambramley, concluded in his book, gods of eden, that the anunnaki created a secret societycalled the brotherhood of the snake and this has been used to manipulate humanity in theway described in the chapters that follow.19 this brotherhood of the snake is the corecentre of todays global secret society network which is controlled by the reptilians.inner-terrestriais?in their physical expression, the anunnaki are one of the many inner-earth

kurdistan, the olive skinned of medium height with dark eyes, and the much taller,white skinned people, often with blue eyes. you will note that these traits wereconsidered the master race by the nazis and this was because the nazis knew thehistory and the connection with the reptilians. andrew collins in his book, from theashes of angels, presents compelling evidence that the biblical garden of eden washigh up in this region of iran-kurdistan and, of course, the theme of the serpent is at theheart of the eden story. in neighbour-mg media, the kings were known by the iraniansas mr which means snake in persian.53 mars= snake? they were called the dragondynasty of media or the descendants of the dragon54. i have no doubt that the43reptilian draco interbred with humans to produce crossbreeds

3ibid.14herbert s. zim and robert h. baker, stars, a golden guide (golden press, new york, 1985, p58.15graham hancock, quest for the lost civilisation (channel four t elevision, 1998).16professor phillip calahan, ancient mysteries and modern visions (acres, kansas city, usa,1984).17see the john rhodes website, http//www.reptoids.com18john rhodes, writing on his website.19 william bramley, gods of eden (avon books, new york).20nexus magazine, april-may 1994, pp 52-54.21explorations in grand canyon, arizona gazette, april 5th 1909.22john rhodes, the human-reptilian connection, privately published and distributed paper in1993.23ibid.24ibid.25ibid.26ibid.27cathy obrien and mark phillips, trance formation of america (reality marketing inc, lasvegas, nevada, usa, 1995).28ibid, pp 165, 166.29ibid

ondon, 1997, p 35.47a genesis apocryphon, the translation of part of the dead sea scrolls by naham avigad andyigael yadin, published in 1956 by the hebrew university in jerusalem.48firdowsi, the shah nameh of the persian poet firdausi, translated by james atkinson(frederick warne, london, 1886).49christian obrien, with joy obrien, the genius of the few- the story of those whofounded the garden of eden (turnstone press, wellingborough, england, 1985).50from the ashes of angels, pp 268, 269.51ibid.52l. a. waddell, the phoenician origin of britons, scots and anglo saxons (the christian bookclub of america, hawthorne, california, first published 1924, p 65.53from the ashes of angels, p 191.54ibid.55second book of enoch, 1:4-5.56revelation, 12:9.57ibid, 20:2-3.58geza vermes, the dead sea scroll

low. likewise many christian fanaticsquote this stuff as the word of god! it is not the word of god, it is the word of thelevites under the direction of the reptile full-bloods and crossbreeds of the babylonianbrotherhood. the sumerian tablets prove beyond question that genesis was a muchedited and condensed version of sumer records. the sumerian story of edin became thelevites biblical garden of eden. remember the story of moses being found in thebulrushes by the egyptian princess? the same tale was told by the sumerians-babylonians about king sargon the elder. the story of moses is make-believe, as is theegyptian captivity, the exodus, at least in the form described, and also the creation ofthe 12 tribes via jacob.these texts were written by the levites, the heads of which were reptilian

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urce of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch 60: 7-8 these twin dragons in the beginning were said to be angels, but took monstrous form and fell to earth, leviathan, represented as often female and male, and behemoth being a male, to respectively, the abyss of oceans and the earth. in this lore, lucifer fell yet retained something of his former self a role which each angel played differently depending on their individual persona

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very head and sits upon the throne of binah. it illuminates the splendours of all the lights, and causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether. titles given to malkuth: the gate. the gate of death. the gate of the shadow of death. the gate of tears.the gate of justice. the gate of prayer. the gate of the daughter of the mighty ones. the gate of the garden of eden. the inferior mother. malkah, the queen. kallab, the bride. the virgin. god-name: adonai malekh or adonai ha aretz. archangel: sandalphon. choir of angels: ashim, souls of fire. mundane chakra: cholem ha yesodoth, sphere of the elements. spiritual experience: vision of the holy guardian angel. virtue: discrimination. mystical qabala page 181 vice: avarice. inertia. correspondence in the micro

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efs upon the subject, and these beliefs can very often afford us a clue, even if we do not accept the very anthropomorphic explanations by which they are accompanied. it was believed that the arch-demon lilith had a very great deal to do with these matters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries be

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ldeth the four winds, and girdeth her self together as the brightnesse of the morning, which is visited with a few, and dwelleth alone as though she were a widow. this enormously important quotation deserves a brief examination in general, before referring to its significance for coronzon. gabriel declares that the early biblical description of man and his expulsion from the garden in the land of eden is essentially correct. in the beginning man was free of sin- innocent- and by virtue of this innocence was able to converse not only with the angels of god, but with god directly. he knew all creatures and things in the garden and was able to name them accurately because he spoke in the language of the angels themselves, and this language contains no error. coronzon envied man's happiness an

s in the garden and was able to name them accurately because he spoke in the language of the angels themselves, and this language contains no error. coronzon envied man's happiness and perceived that man's "lesser part" was weak and imperfect- by this, humanity's tendency to sexual desire is intended by the angel. however, man's pure essence was perfect, and continues to be perfect. the garden of eden is described in metaphorical terms, as a "garden of felicity" having been induced to sin by coronzon in a manner not described by gabriel, man is driven into the "earth which was covered with brambles" part of the curse of this expulsion, not explicitly mentioned in the corresponding section of the book of genesis, is the loss of the holy language of the angels. the revelation of gabriel that

s, known collectively as the supernals. to reach the supernals in a spiritual sense, it was necessary for the seeker to cross the abyss. the abyss may be entered through the doorway of the eleventh quasi-sephirah, daath, located just below the supernals on the middle pillar of the tree. kenneth grant has treated the connection of the realm of coronzon with daath at length in his book nightside of eden, which is to a large extent a commentary and expansion on an essay by crowley titled liber ccxxxi, first published in 1912 in volume 1, issue 7 of crowley's periodical the equinox. grant writes about this essay "the present work, therefore, which is based upon an extremely sinister grimoire known as liber 231, continues to transmit the 93 current as revived by crowley in the twentieth century

to a large extent a commentary and expansion on an essay by crowley titled liber ccxxxi, first published in 1912 in volume 1, issue 7 of crowley's periodical the equinox. grant writes about this essay "the present work, therefore, which is based upon an extremely sinister grimoire known as liber 231, continues to transmit the 93 current as revived by crowley in the twentieth century (nightside of eden, page xii. in a footnote he adds "the number 231 is the sum of the numbers of the tarot cards, 0-21; it is, therefore, the extension of the number 22. liber 231 (or ccxxxi as it is more usually designated) treats of the 22 atus of thoth as applied to the 22 paths of the tree of life, and the 22 cells of the qliphoth. crowley has treated openly of the atus (see the book of thoth, but of the 22

er name of the death dragon, coronzon. below is a table of qliphothic sigils corresponding to the 22 hebrew letters, the 22 tarot trumps, and the 22 channels on the tree of the sephiroth. it was presented by crowley as part of his liber ccxxxi, and published in the equinox, volume 1, issue 7. this table and its qliphothic spirits provides the structure for part two of kenneth grant's nightside of eden. it was reproduced by grant on page 138 of that work above the title "the sigils of the 22 sentinels of the tunnels of set (sigils of the qliphoth, from crowley's equinox, 1912) about the nature of the eleventh false sephirah, daath, gareth knight observed: the abyss is the void between force and form and the place where the transmutation takes place is the 'hidden' sephirah daath--meaning kn

icult than others on this web site, but the importance of coronzon in the more subtle aspects of western occultism, and the general lack of knowledge concerning the fallen one, impelled me to treat this topic in greater than usual depth. i recommend that those interested in understanding coronzon study crowley's vision and the voice, casaubon's true and faithful relation, and grant's nightside of eden. for an analysis of the numerical significance of coronzon's name, and how my interpretation differs from that of aleister crowley, see my response to a visitor's e-mail, what is coronzon, elsewhere on this site. return he home resources demons bios fiction tyson the truth about demons (beast with seven heads and ten horns from revelation) in general, a demon may be defined as a malicious spi

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n begun to take the shape we know. there are numerous intelligent, educated individuals who entertain this possibility. notable among them is kenneth grant, who is arguably the rightful head of the ordo templi orientis, and the author of many books on magic and the occult. those interested in the reality that may underlie the cthulhu mythos should study grant's outer gateways and his nightside of eden, both recently reprinted by skoob books. a very clear distinction must be made between the underlying mythic current that lends lovecraft's stories their intuited sense of plausibility, and the actual details contained in the stories, most of which are completely fictional and had no existence outside of lovecraft's fertile imagination. the actual names and characteristics of the great old on

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of dividing the waters of the red sea and in causing water to gush from a rock in the desert. when aaron cast his rod before pharaoh and his magicians (exodus 7, the rod transformed into a serpent, hence the occult use of aaron s rod with a motif of a serpent. an old jewish legend states that aaron s rod was created on the sixth day of creation and was retained by adam after leaving the garden of eden, subsequently passing into the hands of a succession of patriarchs. an apocryphal christian legend states that the rod was cut from the tree of knowledge, eventually came into the possession of judas, and was the beam of the cross on which christ was crucified. the hazel wand used by water diviners in dowsing echoes the water finding by aaron s rod in the desert. some form of wand has always

plato s two dialogues timaeus and critias, from which it emerged as a topic of fascination and speculation over the centuries. it entered occult perspectives through the writings of helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, in the nineteenth century and has been a topic of popular speculation in the twentieth century. for many, atlantis has replaced the biblical garden of eden as a mythical original home for the human race. for plato, atlantis was a useful myth for conveying several lessons he wanted to make about government and the nature of city-states. in the twentieth century it has been integrated into a myth about overreliance on technology as opposed to personal spiritual and psychic awareness. plato described atlantis as a large land located beyond the stra

helix press, 1964. caduceus the caduceus, an esoteric symbol picturing two serpents coiled around a rod, is one of the most ancient symbols in the middle east. serpents always carried very opposite connotations. they were beautifully decorated creatures who symbolized wisdom. in many cases they also carried a deadly venom and their bite killed. the ancient hebrews saw the serpent in the garden of eden as the instrument of humanity s fall from innocence. while in the wilderness, many were bitten by serpents and, according to the story, moses lifted up a brass image of a serpent coiled around a rod (num. 21:8.9. those who looked upon the serpent were healed. throughout mesopotamia, the serpent was associated with healing deities. thus did it find its most common use as the symbol of physicia

with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the royal army medical corps from 1940 until 1947. cherniack took a parapsychological interest in the phenomena of mediumship. cherubim an order of angels, often represented as figures wholly or partly human and with wings proceeding from the shoulders. the first mention of these beings was in connection with the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden, and they are frequently spoken of in later biblical history. sometimes the cherubim have two or more faces, and sometimes are of composite animal form. chesed the jewish kabalist name for mercy (see also kabala) chesme a cat-shaped well (or fountain) spirit or nymph of the turks. she was said to lure youths to death much in the same manner as the germanic lorelei. chevalier, marie george (18

born in england in 1852. he stated that he became friendly with a hindu priest during a famine in india in the nineteenth century, and the priest led him to a collection of ancient clay tablets hidden in a cave and taught him a language called naacal, by which the tablets could be deciphered. according to churchward, these tablets told the story of the lost continent of mu, a primitive garden of eden destroyed by volcanic action. no one ever saw the naacal tablets, and it is likely that they never existed. more important in building churchward s vision of mu were the writings of augustus le plongeon, an archaeologist who had spent the last decades of the nineteenth century studying the mayan remnants in the yucatan. he believed that he had deciphered the hieroglyphics that told the story

the charge that he was gullible. sources: olcott, henry s. people from the other world. hartford, conn: american publishing, 1875. reprint, rutland, vt: charles e. tuttle, 1972. podmore, frank. modern spiritualism. london: methuen, 1902. reprinted as mediums of the nineteenth century. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1963. shindler, m. d. a southerner among the spirits. memphis, tenn, 1877. eden, jerome (1925.1989) writer on ufo phenomena who claims to have observed ufos on several occasions and has interpreted them in light of the orgone energy theories of wilhelm reich. eden was born august 23, 1925, in new york city. he studied at new eddy brothers, horatio encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 474 york university (b.a) and columbia university (m.a. he served in world

horatio encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 474 york university (b.a) and columbia university (m.a. he served in world war ii and the korean war, later becoming managing editor of the american water works association journal, the city and military editor of the idaho falls post register, and the director of the eastern idaho special services agency. he also edited and published the eden bulletin. in 1971 he claimed he suffered severe conjunctivitis and high fever following observation of a beam of light from a ufo. his 25-year study of ufos led him to believe that they are responsible for drought conditions on earth. his conclusions are in line with those of the later work of wilhelm reich in the field of weather changing (cloud busting) and flying saucers. eden himself was

gistered with idaho s department of agriculture as a weather modification operator. he has experimented with a cloud-busting apparatus similar to one described by wilhelm reich. he founded the ppcc (planetary professional citizens committee, which is concerned with the problem of ufos in relation to the development of global deserts, and publishes the quarterly ppcc bulletin (which superseded the eden bulletin. eden died on january 18, 1989. sources: eden, jerome. animal magnetism and the life energy. hicksville, n.y: exposition press, 1974. the desert makers: a study of the creation of deserts in man, his atmosphere and planet. n.p: ppcc, 1981. do not disturb: the emotional plague in education. valdez, ala: eden press, 1959. orgone energy.the answer to atomic suicide. n.p, 1972. planet in

exposition press, 1974. the desert makers: a study of the creation of deserts in man, his atmosphere and planet. n.p: ppcc, 1981. do not disturb: the emotional plague in education. valdez, ala: eden press, 1959. orgone energy.the answer to atomic suicide. n.p, 1972. planet in trouble.the ufo assault on earth. hicksville, n.y: exposition press, 1973. suffer the children. new york, 1959. view from eden.talks to students of orgonomy. n.p, 1976. mesmer, f. a. memoir of f. a. mesmer, doctor of medicine, on his discoveries, 1799. translated by jerome eden. mount vernon, n.y: eden press, 1957. edinburgh college of parapsychology originally founded under the name edinburgh psychic college and library by ethel miller in 1932 at 30 heriot row, edinburgh, scotland. the college was affiliated with th

london in a limited edition, dealing with the tree of life, the golden dawn, aleister crowley, austin osman spare, and vinum sabbati. sources: grant, kenneth. aleister crowley and the hidden god. london: muller, 1973. cults of the shadow. new york: samuel weiser, 1976. images and oracles of austin osman spare. london: muller, 1975. the magical revival. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. nightside of eden. london: muller, 1977. outside the circles of time. london: frederick mueller, 1980. symonds, john, and kenneth grant. the confessions of aleister crowley. new york: hill& wang, 1969. grapevine (newsletter (1) former monthly newsletter of the psychic information exchange. included articles on the paranormal, selfdevelopment lessons, notices of meetings, and book reviews. apparently no longer

in s pineal gland, unrecognized in modern medicine, but known by yogis for thousands of years. the mystic chakra is the spirit, the higher self, the connection with the brahman. it is said to be beyond human comprehension and gurus warn again attempting to attain seventhchakra consciousness until the nervous system is fully prepared. there are foreshadowings of the biblical story of the garden of eden in the poetic myth of the serpent and the tree with the fruit of knowledge or of sexual force, and there are similar myths in many ancient religions, suggesting a lost secret of the relationship between sex and mysticism. esoteric groups in many countries have guarded this secret. there is evidence of meditation systems in ancient egypt, china, and tibet that, under one name or another, taugh

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

mary celeste hoax by laurence j. keating (london, 1929. several years before the creation of sherlock holmes, author sir arthur conan doyle published j. habakuk jephson s statement in cornhill magazine (january 1884, a romantic fictional yarn with an air of verisimilitude. the story was republished in doyle s volume of short stories the captain of the polestar (london, 1890. sources: fay, charles eden. mary celeste: the odyssey of an abandoned ship. salem, mass: peabody museum, 1942. gould, rupert t. the stargazer talks. london, 1944. reprinted as more oddities and enigmas. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1973. keating, laurence j. the great mary celeste hoax: a famous sea mystery exposed. london: heath-cranton, 1929. stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 199

magnetism, and referred the facts of the crisis to the imagination of the patient. this had the effect of quenching public interest in mesmerism, as animal magnetism was called at the time. mesmer s ideas were kept alive by a few of his students and reemerged in force during the next century. mesmer lived quietly for the rest of his life and died at meersburg, switzerland, march 5, 1815. sources: eden, jerome, trans. memoir of f. a. mesmer, doctor of medicine, on his discoveries, 1799. mount vernon, n.y: eden press, 1957. goldsmith, margaret l. franz anton mesmer: the history of an idea. garden city, n.y: doubleday, 1934. reprint, london: arthur barker, 1934. wyckoff, james. franz anton mesmer. englewood cliffs, n.j: prentice-hall, 1975. wydenbruck, nora. doctor mesmer. london: john westho

ts with what was termed the shadowside or backside of the kabalistic system, work which resembled satanism to many magicians. since grant s death, the work of the british oto has continued independently of the larger oto movement, one branch of which is headquartered in germany and one in the united states. sources: grant, kenneth. cults of the shadow. london: frederick muller, 1975. nightside of eden. london: frederick muller, 1977. outside the circles of time. london: frederick muller, 1980. king, francis. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. new horizons newsletter encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1112 the new motor a strange machine constructed in 1854 by spiritualist medium john murray spear in association with another medium, charles hammond

. when sloane was 25 years old, satanas appeared again. in structuring our lady of endor coven, sloane was heavily influenced by his reading of the gnostic religion, a scholarly treatise on gnosticism by hans jonas. in gnosticism, the creator god (of the christians, is considered a lesser deity than another god. satan is that god s messenger. satan brought knowledge of god to eve in the garden of eden. that god takes no direct interest in this world, except for his concern that the sparks of deity trapped in this world return to their origin. this return occurs through gnosis, occult wisdom. sloane taught that this gnostic form of satanism was the oldest religion, dating to the worship of the horned god pictured in the ancient cave paintings of europe. as developed by sloane, the religion

e; old persian pairi, around, dig, to mould, form, shape (hence to form a wall of earth. the word moved into greek (paradeisos, latin (paradisus, and hebrew (pardes. it literally denotes an enclosure or park planted with fruit trees and abounding with various animals, i.e, a pleasure garden or park. josephus referred to solomon s garden at etham and to the hanging gardens of babylon as paradises. eden is not termed a paradise in the hebrew text of gen. 2:8, but a place where god planted a garden. the term, however, was inserted in the text in the greek septuigant translation, which read that god planted a paradise in eden. while the biblical paradise is located in reference to several well-known geographic reference points such as the euphrates and hiddekrl (tigris) rivers, the failure to

, however, was inserted in the text in the greek septuigant translation, which read that god planted a paradise in eden. while the biblical paradise is located in reference to several well-known geographic reference points such as the euphrates and hiddekrl (tigris) rivers, the failure to find such a paradisical place in that area in modern times has suggested the possibility that the paradise of eden might be found elsewhere. paradise has been sought for or located in many regions of the earth: on the banks of the euphrates and of the ganges, in tartary, armenia, india, china, mesopotamia, syria, persia, arabia, palestine, ethiopia, and near the mountains of libanus and anti-libanus. some place it in judea, what is now the sea of galilee; others in armenia or syria, near mount ararat, tow

workmanship of adam. it has the appearance of having been placed there at a very distant period, but who really placed it there, or for what purpose, it is impossible to discover. however, long before percival travelled to sri lanka, this apparently oversize footprint had been venerated equally by buddhists and hindus, who ascribe it respectively to gautama, buddha, or the god siva. some believed eden represented the whole earth, which was of surprising beauty and fertility before the fall. a curious notion prevailed to a great extent among the various nations that the old world was under a curse and the earth became very barren. this view is reflected in the apostle paul s letter to the romans (8:22) where he refers to the whole of creation groaning in pain. eastern philosophies of paradi

ink paradise was merely a figurative or allegorical locality. some of the peoples of hindustan had traditions of a place resembling paradise on the banks of the river ganges; their accounts were completely blended with mythology and legends respecting the deluge and the second peopling of the world. one writer who had diligently studied the indian puranas (religious and mythological works) placed eden on the imaus mountains of india. he stated: it appears from scripture that adam and eve lived in the countries to the eastward of eden; for at the eastern entrance of it god placed the angel with the flaming sword (gen. 3:24. this is also confirmed by the puranics, who place the progenitor of mankind on the mountainous regions between cabul and the ganges, on the banks of which, in the hills

angel with the flaming sword (gen. 3:24. this is also confirmed by the puranics, who place the progenitor of mankind on the mountainous regions between cabul and the ganges, on the banks of which, in the hills, they show a place where he resorted occasionally for religious purposes. it is frequented by pilgrims. at the entrance of the passes leading to the place where i suppose was the garden of eden, and to the eastward of it, the hindoos have placed a destroying angel, who appears, and it is generally represented with a cherub; i mean garudha, or the eagle, upon whom vishnu and jupiter are represented riding. garudha is represented generally like an eagle, but in his compound character somewhat like a cherub. he is represented like a young man, with the countenance, wings, and talons of

ngs of the wind. garudha is called vahan [literally the vehicle] of vishnu or jupiter, and he thus answers to the cherub of scripture; for many commentators derive this word from the obsolete root c harab, in the chaldean language, a word implicitly synonymous with the sanscrit vahan. in the fabled mount meru of hindu mythology there is also a descriptive representation of a mosaic-like garden of eden. meru is a conical mountain; the exact locality of which is not fixed, but hindu geographers considered the earth as a flat table with the sacred mountain of meru rising in the middle. it became at length their decided conviction that meru was the north pole, from their notion that the north pole was the highest part of the world. some hindu writers admitted that mount meru must be situated i

city of damascus.a city which the emperor julian the apostate styled the eye of all the east, the most sacred and most magnificent damascus. for example, m. de lamartine observed: i understand that arabian traditions represent this city and its neighbourhood to form the site of the lost paradise, and certainly i should think that no place upon earth was better calculated to answer one s ideas of eden. the vast and fruitful plain, with the seven branches of the blue stream which irrigate it. the majestic framework of the mountains.the glittering lakes which reflect the heaven upon the earth.its geographical situation between the two seas.the perfection of the climate. every thing indicates that damascus has at least been one of the first towns that were built by the children of men.one of

meadow divided by the river barrady, and is alleged that adam was formed from its red earth. this field was designated ager damascenus by the latins, and nearly in the center formerly stood a pillar, intended to mark the precise spot where the creator breathed the breath of life into the first man. other philosophies of paradise other traditions that existed among ancient nations of the garden of eden doubtless inspired the magnificent gardens that were designed and planted by eastern princes, such as the golden garden, which was consecrated by pompey to jupiter capitolinus of aristobulus, king of the jews. nor is mythology deficient in similar legends. there are the gardens of jupiter, of alcinous, of the fortunate islands, and of the hesperides. these not only contain descriptions of the

de the traditions of the tree of knowledge and of the original promise made to the woman. the garden of the hesperides produced golden fruit, guarded by a dangerous serpent.this fierce reptile encircled with its folds a mysterious tree.and hercules procured the fruit by encountering and killing the serpent. the story of the constellation, as related by eratosthenes, is applicable to the garden of eden and the primeval history of mankind. this serpent, said that ancient writer, alluding to the constellation, is the same as that which guarded the golden apples, and was slain by hercules. for, when the gods offered presents to juno on her nuptials with jupiter, the earth also brought golden apples. juno, admiring their beauty, commanded them to be planted in the garden of the gods; but findin

s. sources: corbett, cynthia l. power trips. santa fe, n.mex: timewindow publications, 1988. sutphen, dick. sedona: psychic energy vortexes. malibu, calif: valley of the sun publishing, 1986. ppcc bulletin organ of the planetary professional citizens committee, established as an international organization concerned with ufos and the orgone energy concepts of wilhelm reich. it was edited by jerome eden, and superseded his personal journal, the eden bulletin. ppcc operated as a small organization in the 1970s and 1980s and supported the idea ufos were connected with the development of global deserts. it was published from eden s home in careywood, idaho. prana according to hindu yoga teachings, a subtle vitality contained in the air, modified by the human body to govern essential functions

n secular and other non-native contexts. each issue also contains a news column, a book review column, and a directory of individuals and organizations that offer resources for studying shamanism. shaman s drum may be contacted at p.o. box 97, ashland, or 97520. sources: shaman s drum. ashland, ore, n.d. shamballah fabulous mystical city of ancient legend, believed to be the site of the garden of eden. shanti nilaya a healing and growth center founded in escondido, california, in 1978. the name means final home of peace and the organization is concerned with the work of physician elisabeth kubler-ross, author of the book on death and dying (new york, 1970. an extension of kubler-ross s earlier well-known life-death and transition workshops, shanti nilaya offers short- and long-term therape

EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

on of the sephiroth, the fallen restrictions of the universe; the sloughing of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yet ten are they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth. seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life by the waters of the river in the garden of wisdom is the serpent of the paths. it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of temptation is that of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil. it is the antithesis and the opposer; the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse; the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou, therefore, the celestial serpent as of brass; glistening with green and gold, the colors of vegetation and of growth. banish thou, therefore, the evil and seek the good, th

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

e called the elohim in the old testament created animal or adamic man, otherwise known as the present human race. the creation occurred via what would now be called genetic engineering, and it was done by a renegade band of elohim called the jehovah. the jehovah, knowing that their experiment was an unauthorized one, removed their creation to an obscure location what the bible calls the garden of eden on mars. in due course, another extraterrestrial race, known as the serpent people, learned of the garden and visited it, curious about experiments that had created women. the serpent people gave the heretofore- innocent inhabitants of the garden wisdom and scientific knowledge, and they also introduced them to sexual intercourse and reproduction. many of the adamic women bore children sired

FAUST

ers can excel, they guard the greatest treasure well. pygmies we are in our places truly, know not how it did befall. whence we came, don t ask unduly, for we re here now once for all. as a joyous place to settle, suitable is every land; if a rocky rift shows metal, straightway is the dwarf at hand. male and female, busy, ready, exemplary is each pair; we know not if once already this the case in eden were. our lot gratefully we treasure, for we find things here are best; mother earth brings forth with pleasure in the east as in the west. dactyls. hath in a night the earth the little ones brought to birth, the smallest she will create too, they will find each his mate too. eldest pygmies. hasten, in spaces pleasant take places! haste, the work heeding, not strong but speeding! peace is sti

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

years later by the sudden appearance of brahmi sanskrit in the indus valley. sinatic and brahmi have many similar letterforms, and both were replaced by later alphabets claimed in present times to be the originals (i.e. sinatic replaced by ezra and brahmi replaced by deva negari. some qabalists and tantrikas maintain that there is a parent alphabet, called the gan aden alphabet(]da ]g, garden of eden, from which both hebrew and sanskrit are derived. a speculative representation of the gan eden alphabet composed of twentytwo families of letters with an aggregate of seventy members is seen in figure 2.2 on page 59. there is also said to be a gan aden torah, an unbroken sequence of letters that may be broken into words and sentences in innumerable ways. hence, the written torah is one such t

e torah.9 the torah contains many power names, mantra, and visual imagery suitable for use in yogic meditation. examples of these mantra and imagery will 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% be discussed later in the book, in the detailed section on the meditation practices of the mystical qabalah. 2 f# aramaic, palmyrene, and nabataen alphabets( 5 6$ 47 78 9 *4*;4& e) e a 1 6 9$ a 1= 91 54" f" 2' 8: 05 2 f# gan eden alphabet 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8( it is said, the sefer hashmoth (book of the names) is as much like a book, as the sabbath is like the regular days of the week. 10 on the one hand, the sefer hashmoth is a book of divine names of fundamental importance to qabalistic meditation and magical/occult practices. as such, it is a valuable key that can help open locks guarding the mysteries that lay hidd

f a of unity, from% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 5 which emanate the twenty-two supernal letters in the world of atziluth. the names in the world of b riyah subsequently evolute from the twenty-two letters in atziluth. the names in figure 6.3 include all the names in the sefer hashmoth. the totality of names in b riyah form the basis for all possible breakdowns of the unbroken letter sequence of the gan eden torah in the world of yetzirah. the beginning of the first verse and the end of the last verse of the written torah in the world of asiyah are seen atop the perimeter of the outer circle. figure 6.3 generation of the torah in the four worlds when a mystic goes into complete extinction of the differentiated self in nirvikalpa samadhi, his/her body becomes' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% cold and corpse-lik

er yetzirah (book of formation) has several twodimensional trees, and the double-pyramid three-dimensional tree of life. it also has the two hundred and thirty one two-letter permutations of the wall, the array of the sunset, and the battle. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% the tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings) is especially replete with imagery. the torah gives us adam and chava (eve) and the garden of eden, noah and the great flood, the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs, the life saga of master mosheh and the liberation from egyptian slavery, the extraordinary sequence of events in the desert of sinai, the ark of the covenant, and more. in zohar b reshith 21a-21b, several verses in the torah are cited as meditation images for abraham( sitting at the door of his tent at noon),2 yitza aq(

f modern scientific cosmology to the qabalistic model of the work of creation (ma aseh b reshith. in extending his analysis to include the successive development of the natural forces, the work of the chariot mentor took the creative license of inserting the word ruach into the first verse, correlating it with the gaseous state of matter. the first line of torah b reshith in the format of the gan eden (garden of eden) torah as a continuous stream of letters is /rah tav,ymsh ta,yhlaarbtysarb one possible way to break this line into words is /rah_tav_,ym_(xvr)_sh_ta_,yhla_ arb_tys_arb in the beginning there was an explosion: 1 1. tyswarb (bara-shith: it created six it: the pure energy before creation. size of universe (cm =10e-33, weight of universe (gm =0 at planck constant (10e-34 cm, syst

t: the fourth and final celestial head of meshiach l hvhy corresponding to the filter of the letter tav. adam kadmon: anthropomorphic allusion to vast face as the celestial man created (i.e. world of b riyah) in the image of elohim; depicted in merkabah literature as riding upon the celestial chariot, or seated upon the throne of el shadai. adam, as the archetype of the first man in the garden of eden, reflects the male (yang) aspect of small face in the lower world of yetzirah, with chavah (eve) representing the feminine (yin) aspect of small face as the energy of consciousness. with the allusion of the eating of the apple of the knowledge of good and evil, the action drops down into the world of asiyah, and consciousness becomes dualistic. adonai (hebrew: my master: a principal name of s

the negatively-existent roots of the tree. corresponds to nirvakalpa samadhi in the hindu yoga system, and satori in zen. faqir (arabic: mendicant: a term for a sufi reflecting the ideal of spiritual poverty. galgalim (hebrew: wheels: qabalistic term for reincarnation, envisioned as the rotation (or migration) of the geviyah through successive physical bodies (nefesh) in the world of asiyah. gan eden (hebrew: garden of eden: an archetype and an idyllic place in sefirah beauty/the last in the world of yetzirah. gan eden alphabet: the source alphabet in the astral world of yetzirah from which differentiate both the hebrew and sanskrit alphabets in the world of asiyah. gate: a passageway associated with one of the hebrew letters that dynamically links one sefirah to another on the tree of li

FLY THE LIGHT

ace of the songs. founder and vocalist michael ford (keteb) structured fly the light around the vision of man and woman falling into the depths of darkness (as with the legend of satan) to discover the inner fire (black flame) of self-consciousness and divinity, to then mutate and transform into something godlike. this model is loosely attributed to the averse or black tree of life known as black eden or the qlippoth. songs such as chaos unveiled and fleshstretcher with their violent patterns and machine like rhythms are attributed to the qlippothic sphere of geburah averse, the demon of the sphere is asmoday who origins are ancient persian as aeshma (demon of the wounding spear. the song angel of prostitution ii is connected with yesod- the moon and the averse sphere of lilith, the bride

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

heir account of the nature of man and the character of his fall. it is true that the mosaic genesis, like the egyptian genesis, says that man was made in the image of god and was given dominion over all creatures, but it is never said in the mosaic genesis that this meant that adam was created as a divine being, having the divine creative power. not even when adam walked with god in the garden of eden before the fall is this said of him. when adam, tempted by eve and the serpent, wished to eat of the tree of knowledge and become like god, this was the sin of disobedience, punished by the exile from the garden of eden. but in the egyptian genesis the newly created man, seeing the newly created seven governors (the planets) on whom all things depend, wishes to create, to make something like

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

t night under the full moon, this vision did not seem as powerful as the first vision, but i was granted another sigil. this one resembles the hand of eris (sigil omitted call [2) it is like the uniting of worlds, touching of heaven and hell. i went out later that night. today is 11/5/98 some observations of [1] whose number is 76 and is related to the phoenix. according to grant. k. nightside of eden p.62(abbreviated kg:noe:p "the final head is named the 'messenger of the fatal wind' and it is identified with the breath of fire, with serk, scorpio, sirocco, and typhon, the typhoon. in the egyptian list this head is described as 'hissing to come forth and turn back; seeing by night and bringing by day, a perfect description of bennu or phoenix type of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the who

ssic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered with solar phallic energy (set as midnight sun. an interesting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page of chapter 7 of nightside of eden page 76, grant brings reference to "the book of dyzan, and then this heralds chapter 8 (the number of submind and chaos. there also seems to be some relation to watery primordial teratomas which shall herald a return to chaos- the old ones, water signs: scorpio)"my sun is in scorpio. the relation to babalon also holds some connection with binah and we definitely have some crone type destructi

j. carroll. samuel weiser, inc. 1992. liber choronzon- frater elijah. self published, copyright pending 1999. liber nigris the story of frater nigris and i am i- frater nigris liber null& psychonaut- peter j. carroll. samuel weiser, inc. 1987. maat magick a guide to self initiation- nema. samuel weiser, 1995. magick without tears- aleister crowley. new falcon publications, 1991. oto. nightside of eden- kenneth grant. skoob publishing; 1977, 1994. outer gateways- kenneth grant. skoob publishing; 1994. prime chaos- phil hine. chaos international, new falcon publications, inc. 1993, 1999. prometheus rising- robert anton wilson. new falcon publications, 1983. rebels& devils the psychology of liberation- edited by christopher s. hyatt, ph.d. new falcon publications, 1996. revival of magick and

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

operties were concerned; until then it could no more cleanse the sin-stained soul than could a dry basin be utilized to cleanse the body. nor could solomon speak the word, the formula for this wonderful work. none but hiram knew it. this work was to be his masterpiece, and if he succeeded, his art would have lifted him above the human, and made him divine like the elohim jehovah. in the garden of eden, his divine progenitor samael, had assured his mother, eve; that she might become "as the elohim" if she ate of the tree of knowledge. for ages his ancestors had wrought in the world; through the accumulated skill of the sons of cain, an edifice had been reared, wherein jehovah hid himself "behind the veil" and communed only with his chosen priests, the sons of seth. the sons of cain were thr

uble sex of his people precluded the clashing of interests which now obtains, and which will continue until another divine ruler shall present himself to embody within in his own person the qualifications of the dual office of king and priest after the order of melchisedec, and until sex generation be abolished. in this connection it is significant that the bible narrative begins in the garden of eden, where mankind were male-female and innocent; then in the next chapter we are told of the division of sexes, the transgression of the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge, and the infliction of the penalty--painful parturition and swift death. from then on the old testament tells of war, struggle and strife and in the last chapter makes the prophecy that there shall a sun of righteousn

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

ry proven to worship satan, as it adores and worships the serpent part 4 of 5 serpent worship in freemasonry the serpent is a very important symbol within both freemasonry and christianity. it was also important in ancient civilizations. it shouldn't be a shock to you to learn that freemasonry worships the serpent. most pagan groups have done this for the past 5,000 years. remember the serpent in eden? albert pike speaks greatly about the importance of the worship of the serpent in morals& dogma in the various pagan mysteries' religions of antiquity. you will recall that on another page pike was quoted saying that "masonry is identical to the ancient mysteries" which means that all their teachings in all their books are precisely the same as the ancient, pagan, satanic mysteries "the serpe

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

own in the equilibrium between the mysterious and the intelligible. as there is the greater mystery between god and the mind of man, so also is there the lesser mystery between mind and the body of mankind. the knowing are few; the ignorant are many. what to the one is supreme goodness, to the other may prove to be a deadly poison. as adam eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil lost eden, so throughout the ages have the wise kept wisdom to themselves, imparting to the multitudes only just sufficient knowledge to fill them with wonder, and guarding against giving too much lest wonder intoxicates them and turns them mad. when this wisdom has been observed an equilibrium has been established in the social order, and when it has not been observed chaos has always held sway. a soc

s mystery is vulgarized it becomes anarchy. look around: everywhere we see turmoil, strife, jealousy, fear, and greed; satan brooding over the four corners of the world and the drums of war beating nearer and nearer. behind this turmoil crouches the machine, the baphomet of the age of iron. he should have been the servant of man, yet he has become his master. he should have mitigated the curse of eden and have transformed toil and labour into leisure and contentment. why has he failed to do so? because the mysteries of physical science, having slipped the leash of secrecy, have, like maenads, coursed madly about the world. once the searchers after the mysteries of nature worked in a gloom of fear, locking away their knowledge in ciphers and cryptograms; now they stride into their laborator

alance or poise is not so easy, and in place of attempting to do so in a few sentences we will let this central principle evolve slowly on its own in this and the next four chapters. esoterically, the object of this philosophy is a return of the universe into the structure of the first adam; this mystery we will attempt to explain later on. exoterically it is the return of israel to the garden of eden- the megalomania of the all-conquering jew. the relationship between these two objects is that the second constitutes the protective shell of the first. the second maintains the jewish peoples intact, and this intactness enables qabalistic wisdom to evolve. outside this protective duty, the second has no relationship to the first, no more than the shell of an egg- lifeless substance- has a re

gs. and all that exists is by the grace of the existence of the human form.35 (see diagram 1 on page 20) secret wisdom of the qabalah page 17 plate 1: the caduceus of hermes secret wisdom of the qabalah page 18 plate 1: the winged wand of egypt secret wisdom of the qabalah page 19 diagram 1: the divine man secret wisdom of the qabalah page 20 as man is a duality in unity, so also is the garden of eden. there is the heavenly eden to which there is no human approach, and the earthly eden which is approached by thirty-two paths- the 22 letters and 10 numerals. no one knows the earthly eden but the little face [the seven lower sephiroth, and no one knows the heavenly eden but the great face [the three supernal sephiroth. should the upper eye [kether] cease looking into the lower eye [malkuth

vital, intellectual, and spiritual planes, the vau extended from malkuth to kether. in the second account of the creation the androgenic man is formed of the dust of the ground, and the lord god, that is tetragrammaton elohim, and not merely elohim as in the first account, gbreathed into his nostrils the breath of life h (that is the nephesh, gand man became a living soul h. 11 next the neshamah (eden, the garden of the intellect, is planted and man is put into it but is oblivious of the knowledge of good and evil, because as yet he possesses no rua h (that is power of judgment, and it is only after the temptation of eve that the rua h is established and the androgenic man becomes fully active. until this transformation takes place it would appear that the androgenic man is only occultly t

qabalistic interpretation is as follows: the rib is the letter od, which when removed from the four letters od heh vau heh leaves heh vau heh, or eve. the actual transmutation from od vau od to od heh vau heh we have already described. the od, as it will be remembered, also symbolizes the ten sephiroth of the yetziratic world, which are reflected in the assiatic world in the form of the garden of eden, which mystically is the garment of god. the od being extracted, the mystical eye is closed- that is, the vision of the yetziratic tree of life is cut off from the world of assiah; consequently, though adam and eve perceived that they were naked, they were not ashamed- that is they could not perceive the nakedness of the assiatic world- because the yetziratic vision having vanished there was

, therefore, the implement of the redemption of god. this is the secret the qabalah hints at but never clearly expresses. the accomplishment of the messianic act. in the second chapter of genesis tetragrammaton created adam qadmon in his own form. he took gdust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul h. 1 next adam was placed in the garden of eden, that is in malkuth, which is magically divided by four rivers. 2 this means that man, or the humanity of adam, becomes the shin surrounded by the four elements, or the four magical powers of courage, will, knowledge, and silence. in the centre of the garden is planted a tree, symbolic of the living force, from the root of which spring three trunks. as already explained in a former chapter, t

ds- the passive shall be subservient to the active, which means that equilibrium cannot be established. lastly, tetragrammaton acknowledges the active force by saying: behold, the man is become as one of us [the elohim, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. so he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of eden, cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 6 herein is hidden a profound mystery: the man alone is cast out of eden, but not so the woman- the final heh remains in the garden of mystery; the vau is cast outside. this separatio

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

ythian people, had the head of a woman and the body of a serpent.[73] even the mexicans declare that "he, the serpent, is the sun, tonakatl-koatl, who ever accompanies their first woman" their primitive mother, they said, was kihua-kohuatl, which signifies a serpent. in referring to this mexican tradition, forlong remarks "so that the serpent here was represented as both adam and adama; and their eden, as in jewish story, was a garden of love and pleasure"[74 [73] herodotus, book iv, 9 [74] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 143. the traditions extant among all peoples seem to connect the introduction of the serpent into religious symbolism, with a time in the history of mankind when they first began to recognize the fact, that through the abuse of the reproductive functions, evil, or human wretch

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

chael, gabriel, raphael and auriel. dr a. kingsford also found a correspondence with a quaternary of noah, with his three sons, shem, japhet, and ham, who peopled the four quarters of the ancient world.thelater kabalists referred the four letters ihvh again to the human relations of father, mother, son and daughter, and to birth, life, death and resurrection: the four letters also to the river of eden, euphrates, hiddekel, gihon and pison, and the four spheres of creation, the worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah, and assiah. grseco-roman mythology had four rivers in itshell-styx,acheron, cocytus and phlegethon. in this matter of rivers, w.j. colville ends an analogy with four parts of the arterial system of the human body: springing from the heart is first the innominate artery feeding the

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

version of the sephiroth: the fallen restriction of the universe, the rays of the coils of the stooping dragon. eleven are their classes, yettenare they called. seven are the heads, yet an eighth ariseth, seven are the infernal palaces, yet do they include ten. in the tree of life, by the waters of the river, in the garden of wisdom, is the serpent of the paths; it is the serpent of the celestial eden. but the serpent of the temptation is that of the tree of knowledgeofgoodand evil, the antithesis and opposer of the other: the red coiled stooping dragon of the apocalypse, the serpent of the terrestrial eden. regard thou therefore the celestial serpent, as of brass, glistening with. green and gold, the colour of vegetation and of growth: banish thou therefore the evil and seek the good, tho

. there is a hieroglyphic form of writing hebrew words. by using the symbols to which the letters correspond in the yetziratic attribution. 35. this is the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life.kbg 225h 225t225y.mch225 chs225 n36. this is the symbol ofsalton the tree of life.ky .m36 the sorcererand his apprentice37. the calvary cross of 12 squares refers to the zodiac and to the eternal rivers of eden divided into four heads.naharn38. the four rivers of paradise issuing from the one river are: the spiritnaharthe one river.6pison6hiddekel'i'"1my'phrath\jgmox39. the square pyramid is attributed to the four elements: on the apex is the word ethmnmeaning essence: on the base is olamho'w,meaning world. 40. the calvary cross oftensquares refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition. it is

ring, and insense also the zodiac is the western analogueoftheshakra, the great wheel of the divine lawoftheeastern. forifyouonce:grasp it, the symbology of each is practically the same; the zodiac, the tree, the. serpent, these arethegreat glyphs.theserpent of eternal generation, the divine serpent,theserpent of. light and of wisdom, the infernal serpent of darkness and of sensuality;thetree of eden and the tree of calvary, the tree of death andthetreeoflife'-thattree aspiring upwards asthetree of life towards the shakra or the zodiac,thegreatwheel of the divine law. this is the glyph as expounded both. in east and west. we need to gobuta very little bit further on.firstweget the fish. andatthetime of christ the sun passed outofthe constellation of aries at the vernal equinox, andintothe

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

done (p. 170. he goes on to give a ponderous and diffuse account of the rituals themselves, but. there is a much clearer and briefer description in waite s secret tradition in freemasonr (1911, vol. 2, pp. 234 235. in the grade which is equivalent to that of entered apprentice [i.e. enlightened phremason, or green brother, the candidate is informed that he stands at the threshold of the garden of eden and the place of the tree of life. the proposal, however is to build a temple, in which an important part is assigned to him who is received. in connection with this. the ritual is said to consist of six labours. terminating in the symbolic introduction of our race into its future dwelling-place. which is seemingly the ur-home, the place of the river of life and the tree of life. the corner

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

y to a deeper understanding of the real nature of aquarius. while the new-agers claim it will be an age of love and mung-beans, since the ruler of aquarius is saturn, we can expect a bumpy ride first. while saturn is also the lord of the golden age (the satya yuga, this emphasises the dual nature of the planetary daemon, tester, destroyer and guardian of the the gnostic handbook page 60 garden of eden. the key philosophical emphasis within guenon s historical analysis is on the duality of quantity and quality, quality being the character of the golden age (and indeed the principle of gold see our discussions of this later) and quantity, the kali yuga attribute. whether it be the decay of the nature of currency, or the clash between craftsmanship and the rule of the machine, this cycle of d

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

becomes a fallen being. his name lucifer means light bearer and accordingly, we have a light bearer who is transformed into a dark force. this is followed by a second fall, this time directly involving humanity, where adam and eve, depending on interpretation, break gnostic theurgy page 16 one of creators commandments or in some way or another break cosmic law, and are expelled from the garden of eden (in gnostic terms the expulsion from eden represents the soul entering matter. there are many variantions on this theme. in some gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it s final manifestation is sophia or wisdom. out of a yearning to know the original creator she gives birth to a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

wer, strengthen this emblem, and through the sphere of the splendid orb of shemesh, may confer upon it such power and virtue, as to lead me by it towards the solution of the great secret. i invoke lapr, great archangel of trapt and lakym ruling the sun to aid and empower me in this work of art" step 9 let the adept recite the following from the book of genesis "and a river nahar went forth out of eden to water the garden and from whence it was parted and came into four heads" let the adept invoke the hexagram of the planets over the white portion of the rose cross. the hexagrams should be encircled. let the adept also vibrate the necessary names during the invocation of the hexagrams. take caution to use both the portion representing either the day or night house of the planet when holding

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

d adept. very honored fraters and sorors, assist me to open the portal of the vault of the adepti. give the signs of a neophyte, zelator, theoricus, practicus, and philosophus (done) very honored associate adept, what is the additional mystic title bestowed on a philosophus as a link with the second order. associate adept "phrath" third adept "to what does it allude" hodos "to the fourth river of eden" third adept "what is the sign" hodos "the sign of the rending asunder of the veil" third adept "what is the word" hodos "peh" third adept "resh" associate adept "kaph" third adept "tav" hodos "the whole word is paroketh, meaning the veil of the tabernacle" 5 third adept "in and by that word, i declare the portal of this vault of the adepti duly opened (makes qabalistic sign of cross "unto th

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z1

avy and darkening wings. he formulates behind the throne of stolistes and he is a power of the great god ahaphshi and his operation is by the sign b, called ta-aur in egyptian. 2. the children of horus: between the invisible stations of the kerubim are those of the four vice-gerants of the elements and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places marked by the four rivers of eden in the warrant; for the body of a warrant, authorizing the formation and establishment of a temple, represents the temple itself of which the guardians are the kerubim and the vice-gerents in the places of the rivers. ameshet (man-headed) is placed in the northeast, between the man and the bull. ameshet or amesheth (the spelling is coptic and differs according to the force intended to be invo

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

dreams. many of our rites are derived through the medium of lucid or clear-eyed dreaming; their messages being 'fleshed out' using the bases of traditional ritual structures, but enhanced and developed as the dream so dictates. it is indeed considered a talent and a blessing from the gods if someone has the power to dream viridically- that is to dream true, with a mind made green 'fertile as old eden. as in the matter of unique transmission, if someone receives a dream of initiation into the sabbatic mysteries, then that dream is considered to impart its own lineal transmission: the lineage of the silver thread. it does not comport the same empowerment as that of formal ritual induction, but then neither does a formal rite carry the same power as a dream wherein one meets with the gods fa

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

he heart of heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. their eyes were covered and they could only see what was close, only that was clear to them. in this way the wisdom and all the knowledge of the first men were destroyed.4 anyone familiar with the old testament will remember that the reason for the expulsion of adam and eve from the garden of eden had to do with similar divine concerns. after the first man had eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the lord god said, behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever [let us] send him forth from the garden of eden. 5 the popol vuh is accepted by scholars a

puzzling to find such similarities between these traditions and those recorded in the genesis story. moreover, like so many of the other old world/new world links we have identified, the character of the similarities is not suggestive of any kind of direct influence of one region on the other but of two different interpretations of the same set of events. thus, for example: the biblical garden of eden looks like a metaphor for the state of blissful, almost godlike, knowledge that the first men of the popol vuh enjoyed. the essence of this knowledge was the ability to see all and to know all. was this not precisely the ability adam and eve acquired after eating the forbidden fruit, which grew on the branches of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? finally, just as adam and eve were d

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

e magical lodges of modern times which refer to a star or the stars directly or indirectly tend to be transformative and thus of the great white brotherhood. ciphers for decoding messages between the black lodges and their alien sponsors have always existed. but confusions of a deliberate nature exist; the ancient gnostics uncovered a cipher which clearly indicates that the story of the garden of eden in its conventional form is turned on its head. the serpent is clearly the symbol of knowledge, wisdom, the kundalini yogic force, the will-current that is, it is the symbol of liberation and self-mastery. the jealous gods, as read in the original manuscripts, are clearly the forces of blockage, self-denial and repression which is to say, the intelligences governing the black lodge. this know

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

for those that have seen the full design of the tree of life elsewhere, and wonder why it is not shown here, that is because other items were considered as part of the programwherebyman 5 got back to god, and here we are only concerned with the descent of divinity. sometimes the lightening-flashwas termed a sword, because of the fierysword whichgodwas supposed to have placed before the garden of eden to prevent humans going back there before they had solved all the problems they would have to face in the outside world. that was also why this design became known as the tree of life, because having fallen by the tree of knowledge, man would have to rise (or evolve) by the family tree of life connecting us with god by a series of step-by-step efforts until we had enough knowledge to bridge t

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

(chateau en pair) occurs as early as tristan, ed. michel 2, 103, conf. 1, 222 paradise. 821 joy is christian too. also: f stigen ze himel uf der scelden berc, climb tlie mount of bliss, wackern. basle mss. p. 5. the christian faith tells of two places of bliss, a past and a future. one is where the departed dwell with god; the other, forfeited by our first parents sin, is represented as a garden, eden. both are translated trapasetcro? in the lxx, whence paradisus in the vulg; this is said to be a persian word, originally denoting garden or park, which is confirmed by the armenian bardez (hortus. the only passage we have the advantage of consulting in ulph, 2 cor. 12, 4, has vaggs, the ohg. wane (campus amoenus, hortus. our ohg. translators either retain paradisi, fragm. theot. 41, 21, or u

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

te a return to the .union. with cosmos and chaos that we initially feel that we have .lost. the benefits of this experience is an increased ability to survive, not by fighting the environment or becoming passively resigned to what happens to you, but understanding the basic unity of self and environment, and the extent to which one can be a self-determining agent. 12 further reading: nightside of eden- kenneth grant shamanic voices- joan halifax the great mother- neumann fear& loathing in las vegas- hunter s. thompson cities of the red night- william s. burroughs the book of pleasure- austin osman spare thundersqueak- angerford& lea the masks of god- joseph campbell an introduction to psychology- hilgard, atkinson& atkinson liber null- pete carroll this essay was published in nox magazine

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set of 5=6 materials, and i was able to verify these against the 5=6 curriculum herein presented. therefore, i may reasonably infer that these materials faithfully represent the homsi/hogdi materials. the overwhelming bulk of the materials, i.e, initiations, knowledge lectures, golden dawn papers and rituals circulated among members of specific grades, flying rolls, diagrams such as the garden of eden before and after the fall, and other similar documents, consist of materials prepared by s.l.m. macgregor mathers, w. wynn westcott, florence farr and other members of the original hermetic order of the golden dawn founded by mssrs. westcott, woodman, and mathers in london in 1888. these materials passed into the public domain, if they ever were protected, approximately 100 years ago. in supp

INFERNAL UNION

ces or brings to our awareness, the timeless treasures of knowledge and strength hidden only by our previously ignorant minds. samael is according to legend, the fallen angel taught by belial .he is also known as asmodeus or ashmodei, the yezidi archangel ashamdon, and is the solar aspect of ahriman it seems, whose other name is ashmedai. he is the male serpent who possessed adam in the garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. hi

ISIS UNVEILED

ably, before the old egyptian temples were desecrated and ruined in the incessant in- va^ons of persians, greeks, and other conquering hordes. the hiero- phants had their atotwment enacted in the mystery of initiation ages before the gnostics, or even the essenes, had appeared. it was known among hierophants as the baptism of bixx>d, and was considered not as an atonement for the 'fall of man' in eden, but simply as an ex- piation for the past, present, and future sins of ignorant but nevertheless polluted mankind. the hierophant had the option of offering eitb^ his pure and sinless life as a sacrifice for his race to the gods whom he hoped to rejoin, or an animal victim. the former [mode of expiation] depended entirely on his own will. at the last moment of the solemn 'new birth' the init

it had nearly the same significance as with the christians. cerea was bread, and bacchus was vrine^ the former meaning regeneration of life from the seed, and the latter the grape the emblem of wisdom and knowledge; the accumulation of the spirit of things, and the fermentation and subsequent strength of that esoteric knowledge being justly symbolized by wine. the mystery related to the drama, of eden; it is said to have been first taught by janus, who was also the first to introduce in the temples the sacrifices of 'bread' and 'wine' in commemoration of the 'fall into generation' as the symbol of the 'seed "i am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman" says jesus, alluding to the secret knowledge that could be imparted by him "i will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until th

knows his paths except macro- prokypus (long-face) the superior active god' not as i am written will i be read; in this world my name will be written yehovah and read adonai* say the babbins, very correctly. adonai is the adam kad- mon; he is father and mothbb both. by this double mediatorship the spirit of the 'ancient of the ancient' descends upon the micro- protopus (short-face) or the adam of eden. and the "lord god breathes into his nostrib the breath of life" when the woman separates herself from her androgyne, and becomes 544. idrak zulak, bt) a53; kabb. denvdala, 11, p. 364; compare ptthagorma' monad. 545. cod.nax.,l,pl. 546. idrah zulah,ix, 355. 547 /tfroa ra66ai, viii, il09. 54s. atmuge otu d. b. sokar, p. 11 (berlin. 1857; zoaor, m, p. 230, anut ed. digitizecoy google gnostic op

from the center of li^t, acquiring at every new and lower sphere of being (worlds each inhabited by a different race of human beings) a more solid physical form, and losing a portion of his dimne faculties. in the 'fall of adam' we must see, not the personal transgression of man, but simply the law of the dual evolution. adam, or 'man' begins his career of existences by dwelling in the garden of eden "dressed in the celestial garment, which ia a garment of keaneiuy light" zokar, u, p. 229 b; hut when expelled he is "clothed" by god, or the eternal law of evolution or necessarianism, with "coats of akin" but even on this earth of material d^radation in which the divine spark (soul, a comiscation of the spirit) was to begin its physical progression in a series of imprisonments from a stone

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

spent here attracts events filled with symbolism and deep, meaningful possibilities for it is a field of infinitely creative potential, a field of grace, true nourishment and love. this is the field through which all holiness and true messengers come. this is the zone from which all the holy books were born. and the delta fields bring it all, for from its field springs paradise and the garden of eden of the bible s god. the delta zone is also the home of the elohim and the archangels and pure lore. the opening of the inner doors and the heart and crown chakra plug in meditations, allows for our inner fields to be tuned constantly to the delta and theta fields on an energetic level, thus providing a very strong foundation for the elements to gather around us and respond (these meditations

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

rificed by their parents, as being the best and dearest oblation that could be made, and the strongest arguments that nothing ought to be withheld from god. this was expiation for that sad result, the consequence of the original curse, issuing from the fatal curiosity concerning the bitter fruit of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, with loss of eden, according to milton. that peculiar natural sense of shame in all its forms lesser and larger, and with all the references inseparably allied to propagation in all its multitudinous cunning (so to speak, wherever the condemned material, tissues reach, puzzled the thoughtful ancients as to its meaning. this they considered the convicted adversary, or lucifer, lord of light that is, material li

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ast few decades begins with an obscure, homespun production: work of the chariot. book of formation (sepher yetzirah. the letters of our father abraham [wc #1b. 2nd edition, hollywood: work of the chariot, 1971 [also at www.workof thechariot.com] the 2nd edition includes two appendices: 1. diagrams; 2. shuo kua/i ching with diagrams; plus sy in hebrew and gezer/sinatic, and a depiction of the gan eden alphabet. this version has been neither well known nor, until recently [see the website shown above, generally available. it is included here in part because it is the version of sy on which david blumenthal (understanding jewish mysticism [1978, pp. 13-46) based his translation in no small way. while blumenthal made revisions and additions here and there, he presented a virtual copy of work

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE FIVE

attributed. the king and queen of the suit are placed besides chokmah and binah, the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. admission badges used in the grade of philosophus first is the calvary cross of twelve squares. it admits to the path of qoph, the 29th path, and refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden, divided into four heads as follows: naher- the river 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gihon 4. phrath euphrates the pyramid of the four elements admits to the path of tzaddi, the 28th path. on the sides of the pyramid are the hebrew names of the elements. on the apex is the word eth, meaning essence and on the base is the word olam, meaning world. the next badge is the calvary cross of ten squares ad

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

sm (divided into the body and the soul by the two abya systems) is transformed into altruism during 6,000 years. during this period, only souls undergo correcf r o m t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e z o h a r 65 tion. egoism, inherent in them under the influence of the body, is destroyed and altruism, inherent in them by nature, is acquired. even the souls of the righteous do not reach gan eden (the garden of eden a certain level in the system of the light worlds abya) until all egoism is destroyed and they rot in the earth (malchut of the world assiya. the third state is the state of the corrected souls after the revival of the dead, after the correction of the bodies. it is the situation when egoism, inherent in the body, turns into altruism and the body becomes worthy of receivin

LAITMAN M THE PATH OF KABBALAH

tance; it can be good or bad, uplifting or depressing. one cannot obtain the correct desires under the direct instruction of the creator without being in egypt. our initial desires are very small, and even if we stretch them to the limit they can only bring us as far as beit-el. that is, we can practice the ordinary torah and feel as one who has already entered the house of god, and the garden of eden. but in fact, this is not the case! the torah should bring us first to the recognition of evil, to the feeling that we are complete egoists, and that all our desires are completely opposite to spirituality. if we experience that state, if we understand and internalize it, not only because that is what the books say, then we can accept that that is also our own situation. our recognition of ou

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

what he can. the central panel of the triptych shows a large hay wagon surrounded from all stations of life. the demon, who assumes human, animal, and vegetable forms, gives a fictitious value to the goods and pleasures of life on the earth and leads the procession of humanity from the garden of heaven, situated on the left wing, toward hell, on the right wing. 32 bosch, hieronymus the visions of eden and hell are also the theme of the last judgement, of four panels in the doges palace in venice (the fall of the damned, hell, paradise, and the ascent into the empyrean, which is rendered as a great cylinder seen in perspective in a blue light) and of the garden of earthly delights. the closed wings of the famous triptych represent the world on the third day of creation, a transparent sphere

iriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. fallen angels in theology, the fall refers to humanity s fall from grace into sin. it is the fall that is responsible for what is called original sin, meaning that everyone is born in sin and thus in need of salvation because of adam and eve s disobedience of god s command to not eat of the tree of good and evil in the garden of eden. simply by being born into this world, every human being inherits the sin of our distant ancestors. although many contemporary theologians have reinterpreted the story of the fall less literally, this is the essence of the biblical narrative. less well known is the story of the fall of the angels. for whatever reason some accounts say that lucifer was jealous of god s love of adam, but in any

to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, the gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. some gnostics carried this inversion even further, making such biblical characters as the serpent in the garden of eden story and cain gnostic heroes. although not many contemporary groups would identify themselves as gnostics in the traditional sense, one often finds that modern satanists have carried out a similar inversion of values. god, particularly the god worshiped by christians, is actually repressive and evil, whereas satan is good. one of the few groups to explicitly make use of gnosticism was our la

inn. then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals. according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. in an interesting variation on tradition, sufis (islamic mystics) reinterpreted iblis s disobedience as an act of love for god, and as an act of obedience to the law that only god should be worshiped. to bow down to adam, in other words, would have been an acknowledgment of another god other than god

163) then iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations, and exiled from heaven. they subsequently became demons, with iblis playing the role of the islamic satan. ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals.according to the koran, iblis s first misdeed was to lead adam and eve astray in the garden of eden. the koran also notes that at the end of time iblis and his hosts will be tossed into hell. muslim tradition also mentions specific dark angels, such as malik, who guards hell. the koran asserts that malik is aided by nineteen other angel guards (sbires or zabayniya).when the sinful residents of hell beg malik for help, he tells them that they must stay in hell forever because they denied the

ad later met with the jinns leaders and accepted their allegiance is the site of the mosque of the jinn in mecca. iblis, the islamic satan, was transformed from an angel into a jinn when he refused god s command that he worship adam (who was created out of mere clay. subsequently, iblis and other angels who shared his viewpoint were removed from their stations. iblis and the jinn were exiled from eden and subsequently became demons (also included amongst the outcasts were five of iblis s sons) ejected from the presence of god, these former angels turned to trickery and causing trouble for mortals. one example of good behavior by the jinn is when aladdin, in the book arabian nights, is assisted by a friendly jinni (genie) when he rubs his magical lamp. the jinn were also referred to as good

what amounts to an extension of this life. also, by adopting the notion of resurrection, none of the jewish notions about the essential goodness of this world and this life needed to be abandoned. as the citation from the book of daniel implies, the notion of resurrection was tied to a notion of judgment, and even to separate realms for the judged. in rabbinical thought, the model for heaven was eden. the rabbinic word for hell, gehenna, is taken from the name of a valley of fire where children were said to be sacrificed as burnt offerings to baal and moloch. jewish legend paints hell in all of the vividness with which medieval christians pictured their hells, even associating particular tortures with particular sins, as in the following description: some sinners were suspended by their e

hen said to have copulated with lucifer and his demons, producing hundreds of lilin, demonesses who became the succubi of both jewish and medieval christian legend. she was regarded as a queen of evil spirits, from whom the jews protect themselves by the use of amulets engraved with the names and images of the three angels sanvi, sansavi, and semangelaf who god allegedly sent to bring her back to eden after she deserted adam. during the eighteenth century, a common practice was protecting new mothers against lilith with such amulets, and sometimes magic circles were drawn around the bed in order to protect the newborn child. it was believed that if a child laughed in its sleep, it meant that lilith was present. she could be sent away by tapping the child on the nose. it was further claimed

d for him for all eternity. in heaven the archangel s name had been lucifer, on earth it was satan. the angels who joined his rebellion were also expelled from heaven and became the demons of whom lucifer is the lord. another reference to the daystar can be found in ezekiel s prediction of the coming downfall of the king of tyre. here lucifer is an angel, blazing with brilliant jewels, who was in eden, the garden of god, walking up and down among the stones of fire. lucifer may have been the hero of an earlier story in which the morning star tries to steal the role of the sun but is defeated. this story is derived from the observation that the morning star is the last star proudly to defy the sunrise. however, as the sun s rays strengthen, his light fades. it has also been suggested that t

lucifer may have been the hero of an earlier story in which the morning star tries to steal the role of the sun but is defeated. this story is derived from the observation that the morning star is the last star proudly to defy the sunrise. however, as the sun s rays strengthen, his light fades. it has also been suggested that the story is another version of the fall of adam and his expulsion from eden, the divine spirit who tried to rival god being the first man himself. lucifer s name was applied to satan by st. jerome, writing in the fourth century, and other church fathers, when commenting on the verse, i beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven (luke 10:18. the name lucifer has been applied by milton to the demon of sinful pride in paradise lost, and in christopher marlowe s play doc

LIBER 777

e force 3 blessings, all good things hhwy hmcn neshamah the intuition 4 snow, rain, spirit of life, blessings hywh 5 angels singing in divine presence ywhh 6 altar, mikhael offering souls of just wyhh 7 millstones where manna for just is ground for future whyh 8 sol, luna, planets, stars, and 10 spheres yhwh 9 hyhw jwr ruach the intellect 1010 has no use. follow 390 heavens, 18,000 worlds, earth, eden and hell. hhyw yhhw hwhy la cpn nephesh the animal soul, which perceives and feeds. xcix* archangels of assiah. c* angels of assiah. ci. english of col. c. cii* the revolutions of adonai in assiah. 0. 1 wrffm metatron cdqh twyj chaioth ha-qadosh holy living creatures ynda 2 layxr ratziel \ynpwa auphanim wheels nyda 3 layqpx tzaphkiel \ylara aralim active ones, thrones dyna 4 layqdx tzadkiel \

nn latyn layyh hymwm hywal laylk 5 garden of mansions, made of yellow copper yawhw layly hywwl hylhp layna hymuj 6 garden of eternity, made of yellow coral lafys hymlu lakln layyy lauhr lazyy 7 garden of delights, made of white diamond hychm lahll lshlm hywhj lahhh lakym 8 garden of paradise, made of red gold hyhtn hyaah hylww hyhly labmw lahhy 9 latry hyhac hylas layru lawnu layjm 1010 garden of eden, or everlasting abode, made of red pearls or pure musk layyr lamwa hylcu lahym hybmd laqnm cxxxii. pairs of angels ruling coins. cxxxiii* titles and attributions of the wand suit [clubs] cxxxiv. titles and attributions of the cup or chalice suit [hearts] 0. 1. the root of the powers of fire the root of the powers of water 2 labkl hyrcw% in a the lord of dominion$ ind the lord of love 3 hywjy

\wnakc spare angels. line 9. jesod has this additional title \lwu-dwsy-qydx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definiti

LIBER ALEPH

in, and its ink of his heart.s blood. k liber aleph vel cxi 4 d legenda de amore (fables of love) he fault, that is fatality, in love, as in every other form of will, is impurity. it is not the spontaneity thereof which worketh woe, but some repression in the environment. in the fable of adam and eve is this great lesson taught by the masters of the holy qabalah. for love were to them the eternal eden, save for the repression signified by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. thus their nature of love was perfect; it was their fall from that innocence which drove them from the garden. in the love of romeo and juliet was no flaw; but family feud, which imported nothing to that love, was its bane; and the rashness and violence of their revolt against that repression, slew them. in the

LIBER LVII

ple of solomon the king. in equinox i (3) contained an account of the g.d. adeptus minor ritual. see also the golden dawn. t.s] 49 [al i. 24-25; 6 50= 0.12] 50 [cf. gen vi. 3. t.s] 51 [also if we use the same fudge that crowley used to get logos to 93, 120= l, lux (there are at least two other ways by which lvx can be equated with 120 but they are both hideous fudges. t.s] 36 liber lviii 124. do, eden. 131. lams, satan so-called, but really only samael, the accuser of the brethren, unpopular with the rabbis because their consciences were not clear. samael fulfils a most useful function; he is scepticism, which accuses intellectually; conscience, which accuses morally; and even that spiritual accuser upon the threhold, without whom the sanctuary might be profaned. we must defeat him, it is

m, 5= 1+ 4= 14= 8+ 6= 86. 91. merely venerable. 111. priceless, because of its 37 3 symbolism, its explanation of aleph, which we seek, and its comment that the unity may be found in .thick darkness. and in .sudden death. this is the most clear and definite help we have yet had, showing samadhi and the destruction of the ego as gates of our final victory. 120. see part i. and references. 124. do, eden. the narrow gate or path between death and the devil.71 156. olabab. this most holy and precious name is fully dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john.s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fu

understand their validity, and the infinite wisdom of the grand arithmetician of the universe. 671. useful, as shown in part i. 741. useful chiefly as a denial of the unity; sometimes employed in the hope of tempting it from its lair. 777. useful in a similar way, as affirming that the unity is the qliphoth. but a dangerous tool, especially as it represents the flaming sword that drove man out of eden. a burnt child dreads the fire .the devils also believe, and tremble. worse than useless unless you have it by the hilt. also 777 is the grand scale of 7, and this is useless to anyone who has not yet awakened the kundalini, the female magical soul. note 7 as the meetingplace of 3, the mother, and 10, the daughter; whence netzach is the woman, married but no more. 800. useful only in 5= 6 sym

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

t hierophant who had initiated him of old. now read he well the riddle of the goat (blessed be his name among us for ever! nay, not for ever, and therewith the teacher made him a master of sixfold chamber, and an ardent sufferer toward the blazing star. for the sword, said the teacher, is but the star unfurled.2 and our father being cunning to place aleph over tau read this reverse, and so beheld eden, even now and in the flesh. whence he sojourned far, and came to a great emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. and the emperor (who is solomon) told him of sheba.s land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. so he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

no question that these gods of greece were human beings. the tendency to attach divine attributes to great earthly rulers is one deeply implanted in human nature (see atlantis) the same author sustains his views by noting that the deities of the greek pantheon were nor looked upon as creators of the universe but rather as regents set over it by its more ancient original fabricators. the garden of eden from which humanity was driven by a flaming sword is perhaps an allusion to the earthly paradise supposedly located west of the pillars of hercules and destroyed by volcanic cataclysms. the deluge legend may be traced also to the atlantean inundation, during which a "world" was destroyed by water, was the religious, philosophic, and scientific knowledge possessed by the priestcrafts of antiqu

agon, and many of the heroes of antiquity were told to go forth and slay the dragon. hence, they drove their sword (the monad) into the body of the dragon (the tetrad. this resulted in the formation of the pentad, a symbol of the victory of the spiritual nature over the material nature. the four elements are symbolized in the early biblical writings as the four rivers that poured out of garden of eden. the elements themselves are under the control of the composite cherubim of ezekiel. the pythagoreans held the hexad--6--to represent, as clement of alexandria conceived, the creation of the world according to both the prophets and the ancient mysteries. it was called by the pythagoreans the perfection of all the parts. this number was particularly sacred to orpheus, and also to the fate, lac

s of patient delving into the intricacies of the human constitution and the infinite wonders revealed by such a study. in nearly all the sacred books of the world can be traced an anatomical analogy. this is most evident in their creation myths. anyone familiar with embryology and obstetrics will have no difficulty in recognizing the basis of the allegory concerning adam and eve and the garden of eden, the nine degrees of the eleusinian mysteries, and the brahmanic legend of vishnu's incarnations. the story of the universal egg, the scandinavian myth of ginnungagap (the dark cleft in space in which the seed of the world is sown, and the use of the fish as the emblem of the paternal generative power--all show the true origin of theological speculation. the philosophers of antiquity realized

e was held. in the ancient mysteries the serpent entwining a staff was the symbol of the physician. the serpent-wound staff of hermes remains the emblem of the medical profession. among nearly all these ancient peoples the serpent was accepted as the symbol of wisdom or salvation. the antipathy which christendom feels towards the snake is based upon the little-understood allegory of the garden of eden. the serpent is true to the principle of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself. therefore the knowledge of self resulted from man's disobedience to the demiurgus, jehovah. how the serpent came to be in the garden of the lord after god had declared that all creatures which he had made during the six days of creation were good has not been satisfactorily answered by the interpre

monsters. one of the harpies perched upon a cliff and there prophesied to neid that his attack upon them would bring dire calamity to the trojans. next: flowers, plants, fruits, and trees sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 93 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient peoples as appropriate symbols of god's creative power. the garden of eden, the ark, the gate of the temple, the veil of the mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the holy grail are important yonic symbols; the pyramid, the obelisk, the cone, the candle, the tower, the celtic monolith, the spire, the campanile, the maypole, and the sacred spear are symbolic of the phallus. in treating the subject of priapic worship, too many modern authors judge pagan sta

central column of their sephirothic diagram to the tree of life and the two side branches to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil "unbalanced forces perish in the void" declares the secret work, and all is made known. the apple represents the knowledge of the procreative processes, by the awakening of which the material universe was established. the allegory of adam and eve in the garden of eden is a cosmic myth, revealing the methods of universal and individual establishment. the literal story, accepted for so many centuries by an unthinking world, is preposterous, but the creative mystery of which it is the symbol is one of nature's profoundest verities. the ophites (serpent worshipers) revered the edenic snake because it was the cause of individual existence. though humanity is st

d. from the yetziratic world the light of the ten spheres is reflected into the world of assiah, the lowest of the four. the ten globes of the original atziluthic world here take upon themselves forms of physical matter and the sidereal system is the result. the world of assiah, or the elemental world of substance, is the one into which humanity descended at the time of adam's fall. the garden of eden is the three upper worlds, and for his sins man was forced into the sphere of substance and assumed coats of skin (bodies. all of the spiritual forces of the upper worlds, a, b, c, when they strike against the elements of the lower world, d, are distorted and perverted, resulting in the creation of hierarchies of demons to correspond with the good spirits in each of the higher worlds. in all

a physical garden in any particular part of the earth but rather in a higher sphere (the angelic world) watered by four mystical streams of life. after his banishment from paradise, adam alighted on the island of ceylon, and this spot is sacred to certain hindu sects who recognize the old island of lanka- once presumably connected with the mainland by a bridge--as the actual site of the garden of eden from which the human race migrated. according to the arabian nights (sir richard burton's translation, adam's footprint may still be seen on the top of a ceylonese mountain. in the islamic legends, adam was later reunited with his wife and after his death his body was brought to jerusalem subsequent to the flood for burial by melchizedek (see the koran) the word adm signifies a species or rac

t intend to brand the latter institution as the direct cause of the fall of man. for some inexplicable reason, however, religion has ever regarded intellectualism--in fact every form of knowledge--as fatal to man's spiritual growth. the ignaratitine friars are an outstanding example of this attitude. in this ritualistic drama--possibly derived from the egyptians--adam, banished from the garden of eden, represents man philosophically exiled from the sphere of truth. through ignorance man falls; through wisdom he redeems himself. the garden of eden represents the house of the mysteries (see the vision of enoch) in the midst of which grew both the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. man, the banished adam, seeks to pass from the outer court of the sanctuary (the exter

not be deceived by the spirits of darkness. they love the creatures of the waters, for the watery element (d) proceeded from the fiery water (x. mortal man cannot endure the society of these fiery spirits, but gains wisdom from them through the creatures of the waters in which they continually mirror themselves. figure 59 represents this solar system, with w and x as the locality of the garden of eden. table vii, figures 1-5, 7, 8 (table viii has figure 6) figure 1 is the triune divine sulphur, the all- perfect out of the all-perfect, the soul of creatures. the threefold divine one is symbolized by three interlaced circles designated alchemically salt, sulphur, and mercury. in the central triangle is the divine name ehieh. geist means spirit. the other words require no translation. figure

f khem, is one of the two oldest sciences known to the world. the other is astrology. the beginnings of both extend back into the obscurity of prehistoric times. according to the earliest records extant, alchemy and astrology were considered as divinely revealed to man so that by their aid he might regain his lost estate. according to old legends preserved by the rabbins, the angel at the gate of eden instructed adam in the mysteries of qabbalah and of alchemy, promising that when the human race had thoroughly mastered the secret wisdom concealed within these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man might again enter into the garden of the lord. as man took upon himself "coats of skins (physical bodies) at the time of his fall, so these sacred sciences were

h is the divine fiery water, the first outflow of the word of god, the flaming river pouring from the presence of the eternal. schamayim, the fiery androgynous water, divides. the fire becomes the solar fire and the water becomes the lunar water. schamayim is the universal mercury--sometimes called azoth--the measureless spirit of life. the spiritual fiery original water--schamayim--comes through eden (in hebrew, vapor) and pours itself into four main rivers [the elements. this is the river of living water- azoth [the fiery mercurial essence] that flows out from the throne of god and the lamb. in this eden [vaporous essence or mist] is the spiritual earth [incomprehensible and intangible, or the dust aphar, out of which god formed adam min haadamah, the spiritual body of man, which body mu

nly three of the arms visible. next: the cross and the crucifixion sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 181 the cross and the crucifixion one of the most interesting legends concerning the cross is that preserved in aurea legenda, by jacobus de vorgaine. the story is to the effect that adam, feeling the end of his life was near, entreated his son seth to make a pilgrimage to the garden of eden and secure from the angel on guard at the entrance the oil of mercy which god had promised mankind. seth did not know the way; but his father told him it was in an eastward direction, and the path would be easy to follow, for when adam and eve were banished from the garden of the lord, upon the path which their feet had trod the grass had never grown. seth, following the directions of his fat

on guard at the entrance the oil of mercy which god had promised mankind. seth did not know the way; but his father told him it was in an eastward direction, and the path would be easy to follow, for when adam and eve were banished from the garden of the lord, upon the path which their feet had trod the grass had never grown. seth, following the directions of his father, discovered the garden of eden without difficulty. the angel who guarded the gate permitted him to enter, and in the midst of the garden seth beheld a great tree, the branches of which reached up to heaven. the tree was in the form of a cross, and stood on the brink of a precipice which led downward into the depths of hell. among the roots of the tree he saw the body of his brother cain, held prisoner by the entwining limb

ymbolism in his article on the cross and crucifixion in the encyclop dia britannica, thomas macall fallow casts much light on the antiquity of this ideograph "the use of the cross as a religious symbol in pre- christian times, and among non-christian peoples, may click to enlarge history of the holy cross. from berjeau's history of the holy cross (1) adam directing seth how to reach the garden of eden (2) seth placing the three seeds from the tree of life under the tongue of the dead adam (3) the queen of sheba, refusing to place her feet upon the sacred tree, forded the stream (4) placing the sacred tree over the door of solomon's temple (5) the crucifixion of christ upon a cross made from the wood of the holy tree (6) distinguishing the true cross from the other two by testing its power

MEANING OF MASONRY

ly for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great mystical temple was prevented for the time being by the conspirators' attempt to extort from hiram the master's secrets, and its construction is delayed until time and circumstances- god's time, and the circumstances we create for ourselves--restore to u

were, a cable-tow ar ound his neck; because when once stirred by a genuine desire for the higher knowledge that real initiation is intended to confer, he can never turn back on what he learns thereof without committing moral suicide; he can never be again the same man he was before he gained a glimpse of the hidden mysteries of life. and as the angel stood with a flaming sword at the entrance of eden to guard the way to the tree of life, so will the man whose initiation is not a conventional one find himself threatened at the door of the higher knowledge by opposing invisible forces if he rashly rushes forward in a state of moral unfitness into the deep secrets of the centre. better remain ignorant than embark upon this unknown sea unwisely and without being properly prepared and in posse

ted to form" the genuine secrets of a master mason" it is the loss of a word, or rather o f the word, the divine logos, or basic root and essence of our own being. in other words the soul of man has ceased to be god-conscious and has degenerated into the limited terrestrial consciousness of the ordinary human being. it is in the condition spoken of in the cosmic parable of adam when extruded from eden, an exile from the divine presence and condemned to toil and trouble. the quest after this lost word is declared by the wardens to have been so far abortive, and to have resulted in the discovery, not of that reality, but of substitutional images of it. all which implies that, in the strength of merely his natural temporal intelligence, man can find and know nothing more in this world than sh

fallen soul-fragment and bring it back to its primitive pure and perfect condition. i emphasize that the method was necessarily to be not a haphazard, but a scientific one. anyone may fall from a h ousetop and break his bones; skilled surgery and intelligent effort by some friendly hand are required to heal the patient and get him back to the place he fell from. so with humanity. it fell--out of eden, as our scriptures describe the lapse from super-physical to physical conditions--why and how, again we must not stay to enquire. it fell, through inherent weakness and lack of wisdom. unable to effect its own recovery it required skilled scientific assistance from other sources to bring about its restoration. whence could come that skill and scientific knowledge if not from the divine and no

out of that primordial incorruptible mother-earth which the greeks personified as demeter, just as the mosaic narrative speaks of god forming man out of the dust of the ground. her straying from her arcadian home and heavenly mother in quest of flowers (or fresh experiences on her own account) in the fields of enna, corresponds with the same promptings of desire that led to adam's disobedience in eden and his fall thence to this outer world. all unruly desires end in dissatisfaction and bitterness, and" enna (signifying darkness and bitterness) is the same word as still meets us in gehenna. one may, however, profit by one's mistakes. it is they which breed wisdom, and it is the riches of wisdom and experience that are signified by pluto, the god of riches, into whose kingdom persephone fal

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

anced knowledge and practice must be instilled in order for the witch or warlock to take to the dream flesh. be sure though, the sorcerer who can leave the flesh and journey throughout the night and da ath is a dangerous and powerful magickian, but also vulnerable to more malefic forces if will and discipline are not implemented. proceed with caution and care, for there is a wolf in the garden of eden. the witches sabbat shadows cast are but initiation points of which we open forth the gates of dreams, that waking and dreaming state of which we shall become in an all encompassing arcana of self. 78 78 imbolg february 2nd. this festival is of fire. the powers of fire reside in creation and destruction, the flames either caress or break down. if at all possible, this rite should be conducted

l and effective guide through magick and evocations. 6. magick in theory and practice by aleister crowley. 7. austin osman spare referred to this concept in the book of pleasure. please when seeking a copy do not settle for the text format only, many of which appear on the internet. the art must be viewed in order to understand the concepts. 8. aleister crowley and the hidden god and nightside of eden by kenneth grant. skoob publishing. 9. the desert of set is the abyss, the dwelling of choronzon whose number is 333. the demonic force can be useful in workings of da ath 10. an early associate of coven nachttoter before the formation of the coven maleficia who used art as a channeling point for qlipothic forces. 11. liber 49 by jack parsons and the vision and the voice by aleister crowley

remonial rite which proclaims and affirms the will on a conscious level. 18. see images and oracles of austin osman spare chapter four 1. the goetia of solomon the king, edited by aleister crowley. 2. i advise caution in workings which involve this demon. if invoked instead of evoked the results can strain the mind towards madness and strife if not controlled by will. chapter five 1. nightside of eden by kenneth grant also vision and the voice by aleister crowley. 2. the book of lies, a manual of the abyss by aleister crowley. the book of lies is based upon the number of 333, being choronzon, the gate of the abyss. the book also gives significant and useful information on l.a.y.l.a.h. which is hebrew for night and death. 3. a term which is said to open the gates of hell or the abyss. i con

abyss by aleister crowley. the book of lies is based upon the number of 333, being choronzon, the gate of the abyss. the book also gives significant and useful information on l.a.y.l.a.h. which is hebrew for night and death. 3. a term which is said to open the gates of hell or the abyss. i confirm this rumor. 4. see the witches sabbat/axiomata by a.o. spare, fulgur of london 1992 5. nightside of eden by kenneth grant the tecopyright 2002 michael tsarionprinted in the united sta tes of americaall rights reservedno part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.first edition august 2002revised first edition o

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

et us make man in our image, after our likeness(genesis 1:26) the race that they subsequently created, the sons of the serpents, possessed thedna of their alien fathers, as well as that of the indigenous earth people, the homosapiens (in the bible, the correct translation of create is build) these geneticallycreated offspring were made to serve the needs of their creators in the garden ofedinu or eden. they are homo atlantis. the original pre-visitation earth inhabitants were probably the cro-magnon, engis, homoerectus or neanderthals. there could have been some other race altogether, but given thesuppression of data in these subjects, it is doubtful if we will ever know the truth about ourearth ancestors. recent findings seem to indicate that both neanderthal and cro-magnonraces were gene

e and servitude, but that it waswithin them to become gods themselves, and thatif they left the garden and came to lemuria (oce-ania, they would be shown all that had been hid-den from them and be awakened to their truenatures. finally, because of this intercession, agreat multitude of the adamic race did follow theirwise visitors to their island paradise. they weretaken to lemuria by spacecraft. eden by william blake atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation33 the race of adam due to the relocation of the adamic race, we find a compulsion in the psychology of humansto seek for some lost paradise or far away shore where life is sublime and untroubled. thisinstinct appears especially strong in members of the female sex.because of the allegiance of the eves and their curiosity tow

enda.their aristocratic scions were to be historys main dramatis personae. as a result oftheir bias, the date of their arrival was artificially pushed back to over 400,000 years.this was a political move to give their line ancestral supremacy. the biographies ofthe gods and the details of past events were also embellished and distorted, while thefacts pertaining to the happenings in the garden of eden were doctored to the absurdform that exists today. these stories are said to come out of asia minor, but they actu-ally refer to events that happened many millennia prior to the dates proffered. professor w. b. emery writes in archaic egypt:at approximately 3400 years b.c. a great change took place in egypt and the country passedrapidly from a state of advanced neolithic cultureto two well or

th the summoning of pan-dimensional entities, who weremistaken in the days of antiquity as demons and angels (see the classic british sci-fi seriesdr. who, specifically the following episodes: planet of the spiders, daemons, masque of themandragora, snakedance, t error of the zygons, the silurians, face of evil, state of decay,return of the mara, pyramids of mars, horns of the nimon, nightmare in eden, etc. strangely, even with the brave attempts of writers and movie-makers, it still comes as ashock to most to realize that the quaint anecdotes of magic in the renaissance and eliza-bethan periods are actually references to science. sorcery and science are not as discon-nected as is commonly insinuated, and it is not happenstance that almost all of the pre-industrial scientists, cosmologists

e as saturn, or for saturn. the hebrewsidentified saturn with lucifer or satan, god of restriction, materialism, negativity, andchaos, who also fell from heaven.the sumerians state that the first human kings on earth were the offspring of custodial rul-ers who mated with the human women. those matings entitled the half-human offspring tobecome the early monarchs on earth (william bramley, gods of eden)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation97 chapter 16serpents in the streetsgreat capitol cities of the world have precise geometric shapes because of sir johndee's pact with the macrobes. since the entire human race was offered up in the pact,what better way than to have humans live right in the center of enormous satanic ritualprecincts? we call these precincts cities. in the bo

o expectthe end of the world. john ephesus (in the chronicle of michael the syrian) recorded the eventand wrote:there was a sign from the sun, the like of which had never been seen and reported before.the sun became dark and its darkness lasted for eighteen months..everyone declared thatthe sun would never recover its full light again.for more on this kind of phenomena and the causes, see gods of eden by william bramley. haarp is used for other purposes also. the stargate prevents the humanoid descen-dants of the nephilim from leaving this planet, but does not prevent other beings fromentering the atmosphere of earth. most sightings today are of the nephilim craftswhich can move freely through the atmosphere but cannot penetrate the barrier. theseother visitors (whose ships are occasionall

ble given the number of films produced thatfeature and promote this theme. but is there anything rational in it? now, it so happens that the pages of the ancient scriptures and myths also mention thesame aspiration, only it is not that of the human race, of any patriarch, or prophet. inthe bible and the ancient myths, one hears of lucifer, or the dark angels, despisingtheir sojourn in paradise or eden and consumed with mania and false aspiration, even-tually leaving or being cast out of their home into the abyss and banished as defilersand ingrates. perhaps the reality is that today the ones who are spiritually despondentand filled with the sense of futility are actually the true children of the earth, whilethose who appear content and adjusted are from out there, transplanted centuries ag

you from?122atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation those who align with their alien dna and who police those who have a problem withthe present conditions of the planet. it is the fallen ones who seek to encourage their human slaves to think that they toohave descended from the depths of space. the fact is, as the pagans have understood,that this earth is our one and only garden of eden. how is it that from this paradiseone can look out to the nether and fantasize that home is somewhere out there? onlysatan and his hordes and those they have deluded the world would do such a bizarrething. these ancient stories are extremely pertinent to the condition of the present.genesis means the genes of isis. isis is the queen of the earth, and we of the earthare her offspring, sufferin

ona drives, and histhinking became atomistic and linear rather than holotropic and synergistic. this artifi-cial life commenced in a relatively short period of time. with the advent of post-dilu-vian monotheistic religions, the rise of the anthrocentric philosophies and the declineof the primordial egalitarian and ecocentric stellar and lunar cults, homo atlantiswas thrown out of paradise, out of eden. deprived of his umbilical connection to theearth mother, man took his first step on the road to oblivion.perhaps we will never fully understand the mystery of that original mutation from egalitar-ian to state society. certainly no standard explanations are adequate (david watson, thepathology of civilization. there is no evidence either from ethnographic accounts or archaeological excavation

e ages of the moon?who but i, showeth the resting place of the sun?(song of amergin, bard of prehistoric ireland)epilogue: time to change the road youre on152atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation selected sourcesmary kaine the kingston zodiac catherine 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

n page 184 men among mankind on page 187temple of the stars on page 191 the destruction of atlantis on page 193 atlantis the antediluvian world on page 197 atlantis the eighth continent on page 200 world of the odd and the awesome on page 203 the return of the serpents of wisdom on page 205past shock on page 209 flying serpents and dragons on page 210 genesis of the grail kings on page 211gods of eden on page 227 astronomical revelations on page 231 the priesthood of the illes on page 235the secret architecture of our nations capitol on page 243 middle ages revisited on page 246 one foot in atlantis on page 250 britain the key to world history on page 254the abduction and manipulation of humans using advanced technology on page 261 the master chronology: the psychosocial, biological and el

not has any genus shown evidence of brain mutation of a comparable magnitude sinceantiquity (p. 51)appendix b: book abstracts166atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation when the earth nearly died by allan and delairante-diluvian before the floodpost-diluvian after the floodtholiformthe upright axis of the earth, prior to the tilt.lost home of kanethe polynesian name for the garden of eden, the place of origin of mankind. kane is from can, cain orcahen, meaning serpent.prediluvian advancementmany of the previously-cited traditions refer unmistakably to various antediluvian structures (for exam-ple, houses, temples, towers, canals, land vehicles (carts, chariots, aquatic vessels (rafts, canoes, andarks, and implements (ploughs, bows, arrows, spades).false geological chronologies

er-stand how god could so cruelly visit the world (p. 291)the crooked serpentby his spirit he hath garnished the heavens: his hand hath formed the crooked serpent (job 26:13)this can also be translated: his artful hands brought forth the winding serpentnashon (people of the serpent)a tribe within judaism, of which david was a member. is this where we get the word, nation?asgardsame as the semitic eden, a place of gardens and temples. the abode of the gods.the asasa race of intelligent giants that must have been mortal since it is said that they perished also in the greatconflagrations. the norse custom of setting their dead onto the waters in a boat is a vestige of the timewhen the race sought the land of the gods, during or after the cataclysms.adima and hevathe primal couple in the bhaga

p. 224)the merovingianscarried the grail tradition as it passed into the west officially. these kings had blood ties to the israelitefamilies and, therefore, to the egyptian dynasties.plantagenet erain 1408, at the time of britains plantagenet era, there was the establishment of the dragon court (seep. 225).atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation227 appendix b: book abstracts gods of eden by william bramleyslave race humansby the sweat of your face will be your bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken,for dust you are and to dust you will return (genesis 3:17-19)the popul vuh recordslet us make him who shall nourish and sustain us! what shall we do to be invoked, in order to beremembered on earth? we have already tried with our first creations, our f

n poet dante alighieri (1265-1321) dividedhis divine comedy into 100 cantos: one canto for the introduction, 33 cantos for the inferno, 33 can-tos for the purgatorio, and 33 cantos for the paradiso. masons and their confederates may note thatdante placed the traitors to their guests in a deep pit of hell in his 33rd canto of the inferno.the seduction of secret societies is as old as the garden of eden, when the serpent beguiled eve, sayingto her, ye shall not surely die: for god doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall beopened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil (genesis 3:4-5. in one form or another, cultsand secret societies falsely promise something better than what god has to offer, promising immortalityatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipula

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

t s curious that ancient man would still tell a collective story regarding creation and history. the most well-known and prototypical of these creation stories comes from the bible. in the first book of the bible, god creates the universe, earth, animals, and humanity in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. the first 2 humans, named adam and eve, were given a paradisiacal land called the garden of eden. it is at this point a character called the serpent, who is unambiguously described as the enemy of god, tricks eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high god forbade. the serpent s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking eve as the gods. after biting into the forbidden fruit, eve s eyes were opened and she came to know good and evil. eve then c

e lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man s loss of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace. just as the christians have the garden of eden, the persians have heden. heden was, according to persian tradition, the first habitation of humans. it was a paradise, where suffering and toil were unknown. it wasn t until the primal couple was seduced by an evil spirit in the form of a serpent were they expelled from heden. in greek mythology, the garden of hesperides was a land to the far west of the globe, where golden apples of immorta

regarding this text is largely unchanged makes for an even greater tragedy. the book of enoch is essentially the first 6 chapters of the bible s genesis expanded into an entire book; it does not, in any way, relate information that is contradictory to the bible. in the book of enoch, azazel is described as being among the leaders of 200 angels, also called watchers, who came down to the garden of eden; the text is unambiguous about the serpent from the garden of eden being in fact a group. the bible, albeit a bit more subtly, also makes it clear that this serpent was in fact a group, when it mentions the sons of god (which is of coarse plural. in the bible, the serpent tempts eve into eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, yet in the book of enoch there was no fruit, b

e from zeus. the statue of liberty, whose likeness is based on the goddess ishtar, who was said to have fallen with azazel, also bears the torch of illumination. this flame is a direct reference to magical knowledge and self-deification through magical means. it is important not to mistake this azazel, and those who were with him, for the traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden taught humanity much magic, and did not have the support of the most high god. our humble civilizer, on the other hand, spoke of morals and the sciences while never teaching magic, and he also had the support of the most high god. jehovah, jove, or god, is the righteous brother and ruler whose names are also many. to the jews, he was yahweh. to the christians he is jehovah. in persia he was k

ynn's "the soul travelers" 24 are connected by a guarded nexus point. what s more is that heaven itself is often spoke of as being broken into 7 pieces, the 7 heavens. each level of the heavens is ruled by an arch-angel, and in some cases these heavens have been mistaken for earthly locations. for example, i ve heard occultists, texts of the christian apocrypha, and muslims speak of the garden of eden as a location that resides in the 3rd heaven, as opposed to a terrestrial location. then there is hell, sometimes called the abyss, the qliphoth, the averse, or acausal realms. similar to how the heavens are broken into 7 pieces, hell is also considered to exist as separate parts and, like the heavens, each partition has its own ruler. but unlike the material and heavens realms, the 7 hells d

essentially the averse--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 34 (or negative) universe that is the mirror image of the celestial universe, an anti-universe if you will. the kabalistic tree of life represents the celestial realms, while the tree of knowledge of good and evil represents the qliphoth, this anti-universe. if you recall, these are the two trees adam and eve encountered in the garden of eden. the demons, or qliphothic spirits, represent another classification of spirits. the word demon has come to mean any negative spirit which is hostile to mankind. these beings are extremely chaotic and may not always have a conception of the consequences of their actions. demons are adverse to humans, and are either in the qliphoth, or roaming the earth feeding life-force and causing strife an

ires been rightly labeled the damned. theories and interpretations regarding the mark of the beast abound in religious and conspiracy circles but, in the occult, this phrase has only one meaning: permanent spiritual transformation. it is said that those endowed with the mark of the beast can shape shift into hideous creatures at will (and take on personalities of a more chaotic sort. the fruit of eden has just as many interpretations (and in just as many circles, but in the occult this fruit represents magical transformation. if you recall, the serpent from the garden of eden tells eve that the forbidden fruit will remake her as the gods. that s quite a claim! christians have long interpreted the fruit of eden as fruit of the more literal variety (which is just laughable. and, as stated in

r guardian demon. this ritual can test the limits of one s sanity, and can even induce insanity. being joined with, and having conscious control of, both of your guardian spirits is often symbolized by the colors white and black in close proximity. the 2 pillars, checkerboard patterns, and similar arrangements represent the perfect spiritual being, humanity deified. the 2 trees from the garden of eden represent the celestial sephiroth and the infernal (averse) sephiroth, in the east lies the tree of life, and in the west lies the tree of knowledge. in replacement of white and black, union of the angelic and the infernal may also be symbolized by the concepts of east and west; east being the divine direction, while the west is the infernal direction. a double-headed eagle looking left and r

l at some point lost the favor of god, but was redeemed. it has also been remarked about gabriel that it was he, at the behest of the god, that confused the languages and divided man into his many current sub-races. islam and the prophet mohammed are said to have been guided by the teachings of gabriel. it was the duty of arch-angel raphael to bind azazel (lucifer) and cast him from the garden of eden and into darkness. raphael physical description is one of a handsome youth, arrayed in purple robes. it is said that raphael is among the gentlest of spirits, especially compared to the other arch-angels. jesus christ [5.3] frequently equated with osiris, jesus christ is often spoke of a demon hunter and civilizer. with the story of osiris predating the story of jesus christ by more than a 1

agician who was a spy for queen elizabeth i and the original 007, along with his partner sir edward kelly referred to this being as choronzon. they claimed that out of the 30 aethyrs (30 dimensions, the domain of choronzon was to be found in the tenth aethyr, and dimension dubbed zax. they also titled him he that is fallen, and even associated him with the leader of the serpent from the garden of eden, who equates to the fallen angel azazel/semyaza from the apocryphal book of enoch. aleister crowley, who thought of himself as a reincarnation of sir edward kelly, once attended an invocation of choronzon. crowley described the being as extremely deceitful and manipulative. he found choronzon to be extremely unstable, and incapable of concentrating his thoughts. choronzon, who was said to be

el taught man the sciences and sorcery. and of coarse you have the aforementioned pemba, who was expelled from heaven after stealing male seeds from the gods and spread those corrupted seeds upon the earth. prometheus stole fire, which is symbolic for the male creative principle, whereas pemba stole male seeds. it was satan, speaking through the mouth of azazel, that deceived eve in the garden of eden. after his fall from the throne of heaven, lucifer led the other angels to the black void of the universe, and declared this chaotic dimension their new home. this chaotic universe these fallen angels inhabited, a place called hell by most, was ever-changing; the things contemplated on in the minds of the angels came instantly into being. this chaotic realm became a reflection of the collecti

and i shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. and the lord said unto him, therefore whosoever slayeth cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. and the lord set a mark upon cain, lest any finding him should kill him. and cain went out from the presence of the lord, and dwelt in the land of nod, on the east of eden. and cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, enoch. firstly, who does cain suspect will kill him if he and his parents are allegedly the only people on the planet? secondly, how would a literal mark on the body stop anyone from slaying you? and thirdly, who s this girl he met in the land of nod w

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

that in the dreaming hours when you desire, you may take this form and go forth unto the plane of the ghost roads "i walk in the twilight, i am the beast noble and strong, in this the wolfs skin i am shadow and darknes! am as ahriman, the form of the abyss! moyset, herren come forth unto my being, for we are as one "sah umpesha zrazza masehaka hekas" so it is done. the ritual of entering of black eden a vampyric samhain ritual of becoming "as the circle is cast, we who partake of the varcolac cultus of the undead shall become something beyond, who shall embrace the animals of the earth as our sacred companions, whom in the twilight of dreaming shall assume forms which please us, and taste the elixir of the skull- cup of az, dragon goddess of the abyss "i summon thee by the many names of th

beyond the grave, take now your throne upon the great dragon arimanius, offer unto me the chalice of life, that which shall sustain our flesh and spirit-az, i summon thee "o' night haunting consort of the serpents of the abyss, whom takes theform of owls and beasts, lilitu, witch queen of the caul, the mark ofcain- lilitu- bless this grave shroud- walk with me in dreams "i seek now to enter black eden, as the form of belial, wolf- cloaked and bat- winged, in the phantom dream shall i arise from the blackened earth of the tomb, by the in-between of life and death, i have come into being "zrazza usha umpestu zrazza "i pledge myself to the vampyric path, that which shall rely upon my strength of spirit and luciferian being, i behold myself as both god and goddess, lover and devouress. as i sa

, that which shall rely upon my strength of spirit and luciferian being, i behold myself as both god and goddess, lover and devouress. as i say these words i write the book of myincantations, from which those of the path may summon me unto a conclave of dreaming. hearken my voice from the grave and remember always -i have become unto the ghost light ofazrail" consider the ritual of entering black eden as a point of determined direction, or willed becoming. the vampyric shroud is a symbol of binding one to the earth in the unnatural direction, the very willed focus of the left hand path. in the closing reference of the self in identification with both god and goddess, lover and devouress, this is acknowledging the daemonic feminine as a strong and creative part of self. we who awake to this

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

[3] the throne of twilight is the awakening undertaken by the initiate, by he and she whom invokes and envisions the luciferian light. that lucifer is iblis, the imagination and the very foundation of free thought that defines the propagation of the will. from sethanic witchcraft& the left hand path, the introduction to azothoz by the present author [4] see nox umbra, the ritual of entering black eden, the vampyric-luciferian dreaming sigil of the devil-made flesh [5] a ritual performed via book of the witch moon, by the present author and a private version practiced in coven maleficia, the triad of the order of phosphorus. see the book of cain by the present author [6] widdershins is a movement counter-clockwise, a way of going reverse about a circle. see arkon daraul, a history of secret

MORALS AND DOGMA

erative _power, the productive _capacity, and the _result. the immaterial man, according to the kabalah, is composed of _vitality, or _life, the breath of life; of _soul_ or _mind, and _spirit. salt, sulphur, and mercury are the great symbols of the alchemists. to them man was body, soul, and spirit. four is expressed by the square, or four-sided right-angled figure. out of the symbolic garden of eden flowed a river, dividing into _four_ streams--pison, which flows around the land of gold, or light; gihon, which flows around the land of ethiopia or darkness; hiddekel, running eastward to assyria; and the euphrates. zechariah saw _four_ chariots coming out from between two mountains of bronze, in the first of which were _red_ horses; in the second _black; in the third _white; and in the fou

s ways, if once and together brought to life, would make a nation of people; left to live and increase, would have doubled the population of the civilized portion of the globe; among which civilized portion it chiefly is that religious wars are waged. the treasure and the human labor thus lost would have made the earth a garden, in which, but for his evil passions, man might now be as happy as in eden. no man truly obeys the masonic law who _merely_ tolerates those whose religious opinions are opposed to his own. every man's opinions are his own private property, and the rights of all men to maintain each his own are perfectly equal. merely to _tolerate, to _bear with_ an opposing opinion, is to assume it to be heretical; and assert the _right_ to persecute, if we would; and claim our _tol

ve been so ordered, unless it was either better for himself, or for some other persons, or for some things. to complain and lament is to murmur against god's will, and worse than unbelief. the mason, whose mind is cast in a nobler mould than those of the ignorant and unreflecting, and is instinct with a diviner life--who loves truth more than rest, and the peace of heaven rather than the peace of eden--to whom a loftier being brings severer cares--who knows that man does not live by pleasure or content alone, but by the presence of the power of god--must cast behind him the hope of any other repose or tranquillity, than that which is the last reward of long agonies of thought; he must relinquish all prospect of any heaven save that of which trouble is the avenue and portal; he must gird up

us and the scarab us; all of them types of what, except by types, more or less sufficient, could not be expressed at all. the primitive man recognized the divine presence under a variety of appearances, without losing his faith in this unity and supremacy. the invisible god, manifested and on one of his many sides visible, did not cease to be god to him. he recognized him in the evening breeze of eden, in the whirlwind of sinai in the stone of beth-el: and identified him with the fire or thunder or the immovable rock adored in ancient arabia. to him the image of the deity was reflected in all that was pre-eminent in excellence. he saw jehovah, like osiris and bel, in the sun as well as in the stars, which were his children, his eyes "which run through the whole world, and watch over the sa

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

he initiation process, the candidate is reborn, and joins the single eye in the pyramid. the new world order, or rather the philosophy its deliverers hold to be true, is one and the same as the new age ideal of man s divinity and self-transformation. in order to partake in this gnostic fufillment of the great plan one must awaken to the original sin of lucifer, as proposed to eve in the garden of eden, that we can be as gods (gen. 3:5) so it is not suprising to find that christians, specifically, are cited as the main obstacle hindering the success of this new age-new world order. the reason for this, is the new age belief in many saviors and enlightened teachers, masters and gurus its all good and fine when the goal is the false teaching of man s divinity. the new agers see many ways to s

hrist. this is your first duty (the externalization of the hierarchy, p.614) the ancient mysteries, being practiced by both freemasonry and the new age, were giving to humanity by the hierarchy. the real purpose of masonry taught to man, from the hierarchy is the expediting of the spiritual evolution, to transform their nature into a god-like superman. the serpent caused the fall in the garden of eden by giving eve this very same message. man is a god in the making. and as the mystic myths of egypt, on the potter s wheel, he is being molded. when his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the triple crown of godhood (manly p. hall, the lost keys of freemasonry, p. 92) european mysticism was not dead at the time the united states of america was founded. the hand of th

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

divine soul, and covers and conceals it. so too, the desire and pleasure of the animal soul (when properly aligned with g-dliness through the above mentioned five levels) is a "garment" for the desire and pleasure of the divine soul (however, the difference between them is like the difference between the physical pleasure of comprehending a physical phenomenon and the pleasure of the souls in gan eden (spiritual paradise. of course, there is no comparison between the two. the main reason for this is that the source of the divine soul is in the "lights (orot, whereas the source of the animal soul is in the external shells (kelipot. therefore, the animal soul can only access divinity through a mashach (a screen) as explained in part one. in contrast, the divine soul accesses g-dliness direct

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

is termed gsweetening h the gevurah. this is the meaning of g cto work it, h [which, according to the sages, refers to] the active commandments, for [by performing the active commandments] we draw down masculine water upon us. g cand to guard it h refers to the passive commandments, which guarded the garden so that evil could not attach itself. gand g-d took the man and place him in the garden of eden to work it and to guard it. h5 the sages comment: g eto work it f refers to the active commandments, while eto guard it f refers to the passive commandments. h6 here, the active commandments elicit the masculine water while the passive commandments are feminine water. the passive commandments are clearly associated with gevurah, the judgmentality that guards the garden from intrusion by force

on, without which it cannot exist. 13 genesis 1:31. 14 rashi ad loc, etc. 15 shemot rabbah 15:26. 16 genesis 25:1-6. 17 rashi on genesis 28:15. 18 genesis 1:2. 19 bereishit rabbah 8:1. the arizal on parashat lech lecha 94 the name of the messiah is listed as one of the seven things that preceded the creation of the world.20 (the other six are the torah, teshuvah, purgatory [gehinom, the garden of eden [the abode of the soul in the afterlife, the throne of glory, and the temple. all these are related to the process of achieving the purpose of creation) it had been glost h in sodom, as it is written, gi have found david, my servant, h21 and our sages said that this means that g-d found [the seed of david fs soul] in sodom, in the person of lot, abraham fs nephew. lot fathered (through incest

is food, jacob later told esau, ghe brought it to me before you came and i ate of all [mikol] of it, and i blessed him, and blessed he shall remain. h9 the sages say10 that by this isaac meant that he tasted all the tastes he sought to taste in it, i.e, that it was heavenly food, like the manna. when isaac smelled jacob before eating his food, he said that he recognized the smell of the garden of eden on him, so we may presume that this was the taste he sought to taste in the food (and did, as well. for jacob, the allusion is in the episode of his encounter with esau after returning from laban. jacob prepared a gift for esau, but esau tried to refuse it. jacob persisted, however, and said, gplease take my blessing, which has been brought to you, for g-d has been gracious to me, and i have

n of rosh hashanah regarding the first blessing of the amidah, with reference to the four beginnings of the year. according to this, there are four partzufim within rachel alone, which sometimes combine to form one collective partzuf, just like the supernal ima. based on the above, it is explained in chassidut that the two hei fs manifest in the cave of machpelah are the lower and upper garden of eden, the abode the soul in the afterlife. in the lower garden of eden, the soul receives its reward for the physical performance of the commandments it fulfilled in this world, while in the upper garden of eden it receives its reward for the intellectual and emotional intentions it invested into performing these commandments. the two hei fs become manifest as the two levels of the garden of eden

m-alef-lamed hei. the alef is one of the letters that often elides, so samlah can justifiably be considered a contraction of samael hei. the sixth king was shaul from rechovot hanahar. this is [the evil] gevurah, which is derived from binah, which is called rechovot hanahar[ gthe widening of the river h, as it is written, gi am binah, gevurah is mine. h5 in the verse, gand a river went forth from eden to water the garden, h6 eden signifies chochmah, the river flowing out of it signifies binah, and the garden signifies malchut. chochmah is depicted as a wellspring, as in the verse, gthe source of wisdom is like a bubbling stream. h7 binah, as we know, is the expansion of the initial insight of chochmah, which surfaces from the supra-conscious mind like water bubbling forth from a subterrane

1+ 5= 156 [joseph] suckles from the divine name kel kana havayah. the phrase kel kana( ga zealous g-d h or ga jealous g-d h) appears 6 times in the torah.4 the last time is the verse, gfor a zealous g-d [kel kana, havayah your g-d, is among you c. h this [name] signifies the supernal yesod of [ima, signified in turn by, the first hei [of the name havayah, also known as the river that issues from eden. in the phrase, gand a river went out of eden to water the garden, h geden h signifies chochmah, the griver h is binah, and the ggarden h is malchut. it happened that [the brothers acted on their jealousy] of his father, for he sent him [to check on them, saying, gare your brothers not pasturing their flocks in shechem? h5 by this, he meant [mystically] that some of them are situated spiritua

. you might think that there are five exiles.egypt, babylonia, media, persia, greece, and the present exile.so how can we speak of only four? the answer is that egypt and babylonia were equivalent, equally deep and of the same nature. our sages indicated this by saying gpishon refers to babylon h;3 gpishon refers to egypt. h4 the four rivers that originated in the river that watered the garden of eden express the conscious of divine oneness present in the garden splitting into the consciousness of plurality that informs reality outside the garden. thus, they epitomize the idea of exile, i.e, the state of lower or non-g-d-consciousness that leaves us with the impression that the world is governed by a plurality of opposing forces. this gives rise to the disorientation and confusion that cha

the consciousness of plurality that informs reality outside the garden. thus, they epitomize the idea of exile, i.e, the state of lower or non-g-d-consciousness that leaves us with the impression that the world is governed by a plurality of opposing forces. this gives rise to the disorientation and confusion that characterizes the state of exile. homiletically, the verse ga river went forth from eden to water the garden; from there it divided and became four heads h5 is taken to allude to the four archtypal empires. 1 exodus 10:1-2. 2 habakkuk 1:4. 3 bereishit rabbah 16:4. 4 rashi on genesis 2:10. 5 genesis 2:10. the arizal on parashat bo (2) 6 in the egyptian exile, evil clothed the gneck h of holiness, i.e, the three highest sefirot all at once. in the babylonian exile, evil clothed the

n order for the creative drama to unfold, creation fs perspective must be allowed to prevail over the creator fs. thus, as soon as it was created, the moon was immediately diminished.13 this gsin h of the moon and its subsequent banishment from the daytime is seen as the precursor to the sin of adam and eve with the fruit of the tree of knowledge and their subsequent banishment from the garden of eden. thus, it is written, glet there be luminaries [in the heavenly sky, h14 the word for gluminaries h being written without the expected vav fs, so that it may be read gcurse, h as in gthe curse of g-d is upon the house of the wicked. h15 and immediately after this [the luminaries] are referred to as being ggreater h and glesser. h the word for gluminaries h (me forot) is usually spelled mem-al

arnation in this context is let the wicked person run the course of his wicked path, so the refinement and separation of good from evil can be accomplished. thus, the good in them is separated out and is given to one who is worthy of it, becoming part of the root of [this latter person fs] soul, as our sages said, gif he merits, he takes both his portion and his fellow fs portion in the garden of eden, h3 and [only] the complete evil remains in him, all of which is pure refuse. he [thus] is doomed to destruction, and has no hope whatsoever, since he [no longer] possesses any spark of goodness. but of those who are mostly good, i.e, righteous people, the inverse is true. each time they are reincarnated, they become purer than they were the previous 1 exodus 20:3-6. 2 ecclesiastes 7:20. 3 ch

m and eve of their ability to selflessly see reality through g-d fs eyes, and made man the subjective, self-referencing creature he is today. 1 leviticus 12:1-3. 2 shabbat 146a; rashi (1st printing [1474, on genesis 3:14. the arizal on parashat tazria (2) 454 this [also] explains why adam was created from the dirt of the place of his atonement, and why [this dirt] was not taken from the garden of eden. for g-d knew that he would sin, and had he been created from the dirt of the garden, there could never be any atonement for him. g-d therefore [created adam outside the garden] and brought him into it [afterwards. according to tradition, adam was created on what would later be known as the temple mount, or mount moriah, specifically from the spot where the outer altar of temple would later s

el.8) jacob rectified the sin of adam; he is therefore considered himself to be a rectified version of adam, the consummate human being. this relates to the 130 years during which adam consorted with liliths and spirits derived from samael, the numerical value of whose name is also 130 [plus the kolel. as we have mentioned previously, adam separated from eve after the expulsion from the garden of eden, and did not return to her until 130 years later, when they together had their third son, seth. during this hiatus, he did not succeed in remaining celibate, but rather his sexual force was spent on succumbing to the fantasies offered him by samael fs wives, and he thus sired legions of demons who propagated the energy of selfish sensual fulfillment( gevil h) throughout reality. samael: samec

itually by committing the primordial sin. the purpose of jacob fs stay with laban was to work on rectifying adam fs sin. as he later told esau, jacob gdwelt with laban, h the word gdwelt h alluding numerically to the 613 commandments he kept in order to perfect reality.10 having done this, jacob prepared to return to the land of israel. inasmuch as the land of israel is an analog to the garden of eden, his return there was to be the spiritual equivalent of adam fs return to the garden, the restitution of reality to its pristine divine state. but when jacob returned to the land of israel (which, as we have seen, is a metaphor for marital relations) after his stay with laban, he had to first prepare to confront esau (another personification of samael. the night before their encounter, he wre

other a troublemaker. lilith considered eve such a troublemaker, usurping her perceived husband. in her angry jealously of eve, she seeks to destroy eve fs children through infant mortality, crib death, etc (g-d forbid. but she cannot rule over someone who sanctifies himself during marital relations, for such a person elicits a flow of seed from a supernal source, i.e, the river of the garden of eden. this becomes for [the married couple] a delight [oneg, rather than a plague [nega. this is alluded to in the verse, ghappy are you who sow upon all the waters h17.[the waters] of life, referring to someone who sanctifies himself [during marital intercourse. if marital relations are conducted in a spirit of selflessness, love, and holiness, the children produced are immune to lilith fs machin

of seed elicited during holy intercourse. according to the sages, if the woman was infertile, the water makes her fertile; if she hitherto produced ugly children, she will henceforth produce beautiful children, and so on.21 for eve [the impurity of the primordial snake] turned into the blood of menstruation, which causes tzara fat, and her delight [oneg] turned into plague [nega [the process of] eden-river-garden [became the plague. one cause of tzara fat is intercourse with a menstruating woman.22 during menstruation, a woman is acutely conscious of herself and her physical feelings, and therefore not capable of focusing on marital relations in a selfless, loving way. marital relations are therefore forbidden during this time, and someone who engages in them will be affected by the woman

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

, we find the following which we can add to the data already obtained: virgo=isis-who was nature, the mother of all things. scorpio=apophis-death, the destroyer. sol=osiris-slain and risen, the egyptian resurrection and vegetative god. here we now begin to get a definite sequence of ideas that proves somewhat meaningful. the simplicity of a natural state of affairs in, shall we say, the garden of eden representing the springtime of mankind, is shattered by the intrusion of the knowledge of good and evil, sexual perception. this is due to the intervention of the destroyer apophis, the red dragon, or lucifer, the lightbearer, who changed all things-by illuminating all things. thus the fall-as well as the fall of the year. this is succeeded by the advent of osiris the resurrection god who is

and precious. i knew not that there were any sins, or complaints or laws. i dreamed not of poverties, contentions, or vices. all tears and quarrels were hidden from my eyes. everything was at rest, free and immortal. i knew nothing of sickness or death or exaction. in the absence of these i was entertained like an angel with the works of god in their splendour and glory; i saw all in the peace of eden. all time was eternity, and a perpetual sabbath" such is the stone of the philosophers, the quintessence, the summurn bonum, true wisdom and perfect happiness. psellus, the neoplatonist, has written that the function of initiatory magic was "to initiate or perfect the human soul by the powers of materials here on earth; for the supreme faculty of the soul cannot by its own guidance aspire to

this essential state of enlightenment, this interior self, osiris glorified through trial and perfected by suffering, which is represented by the hierophant on the dais. he is seated in the place of the rising sun, on the throne of the east, and-with but two or three exceptions never moves from that station in the temple. as the qabalah teaches, the everlasting abode of the higher self is in the eden of paradise, the supernal sanctuary which is ever guarded from chaos by the flaming sword of the kerubirn whirling every way on the borders of the abyss. from that aloof spiritual str6nghold it gazes down upon its vehicle, the lower man, evolved for the purpose of providing it with experience- involved in neither its struggles or tribulations, yet, from another point of view, suffering acutel

een performed and certain items of qabalistic knowledge necessary to the magical routine committed to memory <51> before proceeding further in the analysis of the grades, there is one rather fine prose passage in the zelator grade which must be given here- a passage of beauty, high eloquence, and lofty significance "and tetragrammaton 30 the golden dawn placed kerubim at the east of the garden of eden and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the path of the tree of life, for he has created nature that man being cast out of eden may not fall into the void. he has bound man with the stars as with a chain. he allures him with scattered fragments of the divine body in bird and beast and flower. and he laments over him in the wind and in the sea and'in the birds. and when the times ar

utcome- the coagulation of previously dissolved elements- would not be very dissimilar to that which previously existed. but with the technique of initiation, the chaos is lifted up and fermented so to speak, that from it, with the aid of the invoked white light of the divine spirit, a higher species of being, illumined and enlightened, may develop. in two altar diagrams- one called the garden of eden, shown in the practicus grade, and the other called the fall shown in the philosophus grade, all these ideas are expanded and synthesized. they should be carefully studied and receive long meditation, for in them are many clues to the spiritual and psychological problems which beset the traveller on the path, and they resume the entire philosophy of magic. many hints, moreover, which may be f

neath these three figures sleeps a coiled dragon, silent, unawakened. none it would seem is aware of that latent power, titanic and promethean, coiled beneath- the active magical power centered in man, his libido, neutral, of vast potentialities but neither good nor evil in itself. very similar in some respects is the diagram revealed in the philosophus grade. as the divine peace of the garden of eden was manifested during the water grade, so in this grade of philosophus, the power of fire is shown to have called forth catastrophe. formerly coiled beneath the tree, the hydra-headed dragon in this diagram has usurped its proper place. its several homed heads wind their way up into the very structure of the tree of life, even unto daath at the foot of the supernals. lured downwards by the tr

s, deceptive effect of the apparent power of material forces. 19. sun=the splendour of the material world. mercury acting through the sun upon the moon. 20. judgment=the splendour of the material world. mercury acting through fire upon the cosmic elements. 21. universe=the foundation of the cosmic elements and of the material world. luna acting through saturn upon the elements <144> the garden of eden before the fall this diagram is described in the practicus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to the practicus on entering the sephirah hod which he has reached by the paths of shin and resh from malkuth and yesod respectively. at the summit are the three supernal sephiroth summed up into one-aima elohim, the mother supernal-the woman of the apocalypse (chap. 12) clothed with the

y the paths of shin and resh from malkuth and yesod respectively. at the summit are the three supernal sephiroth summed up into one-aima elohim, the mother supernal-the woman of the apocalypse (chap. 12) clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and on her head the crown of twelve stars. it is written 'so the name jehovah is joined to the name elohim, for jehovah planted a garden eastward in eden' from the three supernals follow the other sephiroth of the tree of life. below the tree, proceeding from malkuth is the tree of knowledge of good and of evil which is between the tree of life and the world or assiah or shells, represented by the coiled up dragon with seven heads and ten horns-being the seven infernal palaces and the ten averse sephiroth (these are described in the text of th

or assiah or shells, represented by the coiled up dragon with seven heads and ten horns-being the seven infernal palaces and the ten averse sephiroth (these are described in the text of the rituals but are not read to the candidate at his grade. when studying this diagram, these descriptions should be looked up, but they are not required for the exam) the river naher flows forth from the supernal eden and in daath it is divided into four heads- pison: fire-flowing to geburah where there is gold <145> gihon: water-the waters of mercy, flowing into chesed. hiddikel: air-flowing into tiphareth. phrath (euphrates: earth- flowing into malkuth. 74 the golden dawn: volume i book one it is written 'ln daath the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down dew" the word naher has the meaning 'pere

water-the waters of mercy, flowing into chesed. hiddikel: air-flowing into tiphareth. phrath (euphrates: earth- flowing into malkuth. 74 the golden dawn: volume i book one it is written 'ln daath the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down dew" the word naher has the meaning 'perennial stream1-'never failing waters' as opposed to other words mearung torrent or brook. the river going out of eden is the river of the apocalypse, the waters of life, clear as crystal proceeding from the throne, on either side of the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruit. thus the rivers form a cross and on it the great adam, the son who is to rule the nations, was extended from tiphareth and his arms stretch out to geburah and gedulah, and in malkuth is eve, supporting with her hands the two pillars

evil and not the good, and in that can the evil will have power over thee. in true religion there is no sect. therefore take heed that thou blaspheme not the name by which another knowethhis god for if thou doest this thing in jupiter, thou wilt blaspheme yhvh; and in osiris yeheshuah''ask of god and ye shall have, seek and ye shall find. knock, and it shall be opened unto you <150> the garden of eden after the fall this diagram is described in the philosophus ritual. it shows in a glyph the teaching proper to a philosophus on entering the sephirah netzach which he has reached by the three paths of qoph, tzaddi, and peh from the sephiroth-malkuth, yesod and hod respectively. the great goddess eve, being tempted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven

ly. the great goddess eve, being tempted by the fruits of the tree of knowledge whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower sephiroth, but also downward to the kingdom of shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. then the sephirotic tree was shattered. she fell and with her fell the great adam. and the great red dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and eden was desolated-and the folds of the dragon enclosed malkuth and linked it to the kingdom of the shells. and the heads of the dragon rose into the seven lower sephiroth, even up to daath at the feet of aima elohirn. thus were the four rivers of eden desecrated and the dragon mouth gave forth the infernal waters in daath-and this is leviathan, the piercing and crooked serpent. but tetragrammaton

e into the seven lower sephiroth, even up to daath at the feet of aima elohirn. thus were the four rivers of eden desecrated and the dragon mouth gave forth the infernal waters in daath-and this is leviathan, the piercing and crooked serpent. but tetragrammaton elohim placed the four letters yhvh of the name and the flaming sword of the ten sephiroth between the devastated garden and the supernal eden, that this should not be involved in the fall of adam. and it became necessary that a second adam should arise to <151> restore the system, and thus, as adam had been spread on the cross of the four rivers, so the second adam should be crucified on the infernal rivers of the four armed cross of death-yet to do this he must descend into the lowest, even malkuth the earth, and be born of her (p

g and queen of the suit are placed beside chokmah and binah respectively; the knight and knave by tiphareth and malkuth. the tarot trumps thus receive the equilibrium of the sephiroth they connect. the admission badges used in the grade of philosophus are as follows: the calvary cross of twelve squares, admitting to the path of qoph, the 29th path, refers to the zodiac and to the eternal river of eden divided into four heads: nahar- the river 1ns 1. hiddikel 2. pison 3. gihon 4. phrath the pyramid of the four elements admits to. the path of tzaddi, the 28th path. on the sides are the hebrew names of the elements. on the apex is the word eth- essence, and on the base the word olam meaning world. the calvary cross of ten <157> squares admits to the path of peh, mars- the 27th path. the ten s

es the sentinel; the kerux, the stolistes, and the dadouchos. the sentinel is without the portal of the hall and has a sword in his hand to keep out intruders. it is his duty to prepare the candidate. hiero frater dadouchos, your station and duties? dad my station is in the south to symbolise heat and dryness, and my duty is to see that the lamps and fires of the temple are ready at the garden of eden after the fall refer to page 76 -1 garden of eden before the fall refer to page 73. the banner of the easl the banner of the west refer to page 117. l, the mundum refer to page 95-98. neophyte ritual 119 <15> hiero st01 hiero ketwr hiero heg hiero hiereus hiero opening, to watch over the censer and the incense and to consecrate the hall and the fratres and sorores and the candidate with fire

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

rolthen god arose, his thunders hurl222d, and bade the elements arisein air he hung the pendant world, and o222er it spread the azure skies;stars in circles caused to run, and in the centre fixed the sun.then man he called forth out of dust, and formed him with a living soulall things committed to his trust, and made him lord of all, the wholebut yet ungrateful unto heaven he proved, and was from eden driven.from thence proceeded all our woes, nor could mankind one comfort shareuntil the rosicrucians rose and formed another eden here:where true pleasure ever reigns, and native innocence regains.here crystal fountains flow, here naught that222s vile can enter inthe tree of knowledge here doth grow, whose fruit we taste, yet free from sinwhile sweet friendship does aboundand guardian angels

RUBY TABLET OF SET

i the answers to the third part of this test are to be written in statement form, and several questions require explanations of the answers given, hence simple words or phrases are unsatisfactory. while the answers need not be lengthy, they should be as complete as possible- reflecting your understanding (as well as knowledge) of the subject. 1. explain the promise of the serpent in the garden of eden. 2. what is a telesmic image; its purpose; its construction? 3. what is the significance of a magickal name and what are the guidelines for selecting one? 4. what is meant by the term "holy guardian angel" 5. explain what is meant by macrocosm and microcosm. 6. what is gematria? 7. how does a magician master the natural and magickal forces? 8. what is necromancy? 9. explain the doctrine of op

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

ce of the elder gods and through this guardians of the spaces of the double-houses. these conjurations are called properly enough octriga this cell are connected to the letter teth, connected to the leo, the serpent and lust, in addition we have the letter resh connected with the sun and the head. this cell speaks of the integration of the infernal lust in the building of the magus. the apples of eden has been eaten and the serpent is glowing in its gnostic rain of golden and moon-like jewels. it s hue ready to shine forever upon the path of the crooked way. the importance of the oracle is clearly understood in the light of the serpent being the bringer of light and the head being the sun it self. this is the joining of the great inner sage with its great afflatus in the outer that is resp

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

hich he had unaccountably come to disbelieve in his angelhood, he was faced with a thick bank of clouds, through which, peer and blink as he might, he could make out little more than shadows- or could it be that the material now filling his thoughts, the echo, to give but a single example, of how his lieutenant-angels ithuriel and zephon had found the adversary _squat like a toad_ by eve's ear in eden, using his wiles "to reach/the organs of her fancy, and with them forge/illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams, had in fact been planted in his head by that same ambiguous creature, that upstairs-downstairs thing, who had confronted him in alleluia's boudoir, and awoken him from his long waking sleep- then rekha, too, was perhaps an emissary of this god, an external, divine antagonist and

SATANGEL

ook of enoch there are four seraphim, corresponding to the four winds. later commentators have amended this to mean that there are four princes who rule over them. they are; metatron or satan, kemu-el, nathana-el, and gabri-el. 2nd choir: cherubim the hebrew kerub is commonly translated as knowledge, or one who intercedes. they are the first angels mentioned in the bible, stationed by god east of eden the cherubim and the ever turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. they are described by theodorus, bishop of heraclea, as beasts which might terrify adam from the entrance of paradise. in the hebrew tradition they are described as having four faces and four wings, or alternatively by john of patmos in revelations as having six wings and six eyes. they are considered the bearers of

s possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb of an earthly mother. she/he appears to zacharias to announce

men. he heals abraham of the pain of his (belated) circumcision, and in the prayer of joseph heals jacob of his wounded knee, sustained whilst fighting with uri-el. as with the seraphim, rapha-el is commonly associated with the serpent. he is a chief ruling over the second heaven, and the order of virtues, regent of the sun, and the angel of science and knowledge. guardian of the tree of life in eden, and according to his own admission in the book of tobit, one of the seven angels of the throne. although officially a virtue he has the six wings of a seraph, yet at the same time is of the cherubim, dominions and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identifi

ook/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both seraphim and cherubim. identified as the cherub who stands at the garden of eden with a fiery sword, and who watches over thunder and terror. appears as the angel of repentance in the apocalypse of st. peter; uri-el, the angel of god, will bring forth an order, according to their transgression, the souls of those sinners. they will burn them in their dwelling places in everlasting fire. and after all of them are destroyed with their dwelling places, they will be punished

to the corruptions of the earthly plane. if they were truly angels, their form was nevertheless monstrous. generally they are described as serpents and dragons with seven heads, each with two faces, and as twelve wings. as in the above passage they were seduced by the potentials of the flesh and descended onto mount hermon 12,000 years ago. they cohabited with human females of the lowlands below eden to father the nephilim, giants who later went on to build the tower of babel and brought an end to the aeon of enoch. rabbi elkiezer of the 8th century puts the blame squarely on the women. the angels who fell from heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes painted with antimony in the manner of harlots, and, being seduced, took wives from am

samael, sammael, samiel (hebrew, poison of god. thus sammael is the angel of poison, the bright and poisonous one, or the poison of god. he is also identified as the angel of death in apocalyptic writings, a name of satan from the third century onwards. identified by enoch as the chief of the satans. known as a great serpent with twelve wings (ie grigori) he is also accused of causing the fall of eden, and of fathering cain. isaiah, in his visit to heaven, saw the hosts of sammael squabbling with each other. prince amongst sorcerers, a handsome redheaded young man of intense beauty, with an intense appreciation for human art. indeed he is said to have been the first art critic. he is also most well known for his erotic relations with lilith. together, they are identified as the lord and la

enthusiasm for the moon, gracefully retiring before he could be thrown out. taught the canaanite priestesses the tides and courses of the moon and its relevance to sorcery. satan (hebrew, adversary. originally a seraphim with twelve wings. of whom the book of henoch tells of his rebellion and expulsion by god, hurled by the angel michael into the abyss. identified as the serpent in the garden of eden, as prosecutor before the heavenly court (zechariah 3:1, job 1:6, 2:7, seducer and tempter (1 chronicles 21:1, the embodiment of evil (mark 4:15. sedim (hebrew, possibly from mesopotamian sedu. devils to whom the apostate israelites made sacrifice (deuteronomy 32:7, psalm 106:36. seere (goetia, 70th spirit. a prince commanding 26 legions. appears in the east as a beautiful man on a winged hor

(grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. teaches chemistry, alchemy, and all sleight of hand. tubal-cain son of lamech and zillah, master of metal working. the first blacksmith, whose forge is the fires of hell, and whose name is the watchword. tunnels of set the 22 qlippothic paths of the dark side of the tree of life, elaborated by crowley and later by kenneth grant in nightside of eden. each is ruled by a demonic inteligence. tzaphoni (aramaic, northern one. a title of lilith. uvall, vual, voval (goetia, 47th spirit. duke commanding 37 legions. appears as a mighty dromedary. speaks poor egyptian, procures love, tells fortunes, obtains friendships. valefor (goetia, 6th spirit. duke commanding 10 legions. appears as a lion with the bellowing head of an ass. gives good familia

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ne could laughingly look up from the pit toward a tyrannical heaven. ideally, carpeting of one s hellscape would be fire red, though this may be of less importance to many. certainly though, it would make for a dramatic, concluding effect (standard ritual paraphernalia: satanagram altarpiece, altar, sword, etc, would be utilized as outlined further on. truly, we need no man-made heaven, garden of eden or place of perfection; nor did mythical adam and eve. they gained the knowledge and shed the shackles thus they became: satanic -13- beings and children of the night. they became the first human images of defiant individuality, in spite of becoming outcasts. finally, we need no steeple and spire to experience our truth, for as always, it permeates the deepest strata of our kind the devil ove

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ile//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library 17. ibid, p. 18. 18. cavendish. richard. the black arts (pan books ltd: london, 1967, p. 296. 19. lamm, asim mathep, the qliphoth (mathep lamm. 1991. 20. cavendish, richard. the black arts (pan books ltd: london, 1967, p. 296. 21. grant, k. nightside of eden (skoob books publishing: london. 1994, dustjacket 22. order of nine angles 'the abyss' in hostia volume i (thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. 23. the right hand and left hand paths are distinguished primarily in that whilst the right hand path primarily accepts an absolute duality, understood to a certain extent in the belief in an absolute morality, the left hand path accepts an interaction o

ks ltd: london, 1967. collins, andrew. the black alchemist. abc books: leigh-on-sea, 1988. collins, andrew. the second coming. century: london, 1993. dark lily. the voice of the left hand path. no's 1- 15. dark lily: london, 1987- 1993. fenrir. volume iv. nos 1& 2 order of nine angles. rigel press: york, 1996. gettings, fred. dictionary of demons. rider: london, 1988. grant, kenneth. nightside of eden. skoob books publishing: london, 1994. holy bible, the. oxford university press: london, 1937. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible avon books: new york, 1969. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic rituals avon books: new york, 1972. lurker, manfred. dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons routledge: london, 1988. man, myth& magic. 12 volumes. bpc publishing ltd: london. 1971. newt

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to the tirthankara. olo du` mare: the name of the supreme god in santer a. om: often spelled aum; the sacred syllable and symbol of jainism (and hinduism, used for purposes of meditation. oral torah: interpretations of the torah and ways to apply their laws. orders: religious communities. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. orishas: name given to the lesser gods of santer a. orthodox: the name of one of the sects of judaism, generally referring to traditional jews who are conservative in their outlook. oshogatsu: the shinto new year. ostara: neo-pagan holiday held at the time of the spring equinox. pagan: pre-christian or non-christian; also referring

church, the belief that paying money to the church would allow a person to get into heaven or be forgiven for sins that were not yet committed. messiah: the expected deliverer and king of the jews, foretold by the prophets of the old testament; used by christians to refer to jesus christ. original sin: the sin that fell upon humankind when adam and eve ate of the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity

esus was of the same substance as god the father. the doctrine of atonement speaks of reconciliation between god and humankind, a settlement ending the separation between god and humans. this separation was caused, according to some interpretations, by original sin (the doctrine of original sin says that sin, or disobedience to god, began when adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit in the garden of eden) this original sin had to be paid for, and it was the suffering and death of jesus on the cross that redeemed humanity. others see this separation in a more psychological (dealing with the human mind) manner. for example, the word sin has roots that are similar to the word sunder, meaning to split or to divide. in this interpretation original sin represents the sense of alienation, or distanc

re are fourteen gods listed next. hades did not live on olympus, although most myths about him associate him with the olympian gods, and dionysius was a later addition to the pantheon: plotinus s idea of emanation, his belief that people wanted to return to the divine mind, can be seen in the christian story of the fall, when adam and eve were tempted into sin and were forced out of the garden of eden. public domain. 220 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy zeus was a sky god, but he also represented order. he maintained order in the universe and in the home, protected strangers who arrived asking for hospitality, punished people who broke their sworn word, and served as god of intellectual thought. zeus s wife hera was the goddess of marriage, childbirth, and women

re the events of the life of her son, jesus. mary is believed to have been born around 22 bce, and the year of her death is unknown. tradition holds that she was the child of saint joachim and saint anne and that she was conceived without original sin (original sin refers to the sin of adam and eve, who disobeyed god s order and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden; it is the notion that all humans are born sinners) mary s birth without this original sin is called the immaculate conception. because of her own immaculate conception, mary was able to give birth to a pure son of god, without sin, while also remaining a virgin. she is often referred to as the virgin mary or the blessed virgin. as a young woman mary was engaged to joseph, a carpenter. during

suffered and died to atone for humanity s sins and that people could achieve spiritual salvation through faith in christ. indeed, paul was one of the first new testament writers to comment on the nature of world religions: biographies 307 saint paul original sin, the concept that all of humanity is born in a state of sin due to the disobedience of adam and eve, the first humans, in the garden of eden. he stated that people could achieve salvation in heaven only by overcoming their basic sinfulness through faith in christ. paul was a principal figure in the debate over jewish law and the extent to which followers of christ were obligated to obey it. while paul himself followed some elements of jewish law, he argued that salvation was to be achieved through faith in christ, not through the

at the center of which is the creator-god marduk. in this epic, humans are depicted as slaves of the gods. at one point marduk says, let me create a primeval man./the work of the gods shall be imposed (on him, and so they shall be at leisure. other mesopotamian epics and poems speaks of events similar to those in the judeo-christian bible, including the temptation by the serpent in the garden of eden. consider the following. explain how weather, climate, and geography could influence and shape the view of the world held by ancient peoples. compare the account of the flood in tablet xi of the gilgamesh epic with a flood story from another culture or religious tradition, focusing on similarities and differences. an example is the flood survived by noah and his family in the biblical book of

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is in place of the heh. 29. what is the letter vav? he said: there is an upper heh and a lower heh. 30. they said to him: but what is vav? he said: the world was sealed with six directions. they said: is not vav a single letter? he replied: it is written (psalm 104:2 "he wraps himself in light as a garment [he spreads out the heavens like a curtain" 31. rabbi amorai asked: where is the garden of eden? he replied: it is on earth. 32. rabbi ishmael expounded to rabbi akiba: what is the meaning of the verse (genesis 1:1"[in the beginning god created (et) the heaven and (et) the earth [why is the word et added in both places] if the word et (an untranslated preposition that connects a transitive verb to its predicate noun) were absent, we would think that "heaven" and "earth" were gods [for w

the earth created" taking all three nouns as subjects of the sentence] he replied: by the divine service! you may have reached out for the true meaning, but you have not sorted out, and therefore you speak in this manner. but [in the case of "heaven] the word et comes to include the sun, moon, stars and constellations, while [in the case of "earth] it comes to add trees, plants, and the garden of eden. 33. they said to him: it is written (lamentations 2:1 "he threw the beauty of israel from heaven to earth" from here we see that it fell. he replied: if you have read, you did not review, and if you reviewed, you did not go over it a third time. what does it resemble? a king had a beautiful crown on his head and a beautiful cloak on his shoulders. when he heard evil tidings, he cast the crow

eart. the heart is also given over to it. and what is this heart? it is the 32 hidden paths of wisdom that are hidden in it. in each of their paths there is also a form watching over it. it is thus written (genesis 3:24, to watch the way of the tree of life. 99. what are these forms? they are that regarding which it is written (genesis 3:24, and he placed the cherubim to the east of the garden of eden, and the flame of a sword revolving, to guard the way of the tree of life. what is the meaning of, he placed to the east (kedem) of the garden of eden? he placed it in those paths that preceded (kadmu) the place that was called the garden of eden. it was also before the cherubim, as it is written, the cherubim. it was furthermore before the flame, as it is written, the flame of a sword revolv

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seed of evildoers, children..124 seven grades: v v y h h v h v h h d vy emits d d h h y vh h h emits v d v v 125 the son (rb, bar) conceals adam who is male and female, which are v d. and it is written: children that deal corruptly. it created six (tysarb, b reshith, it created (arb, bara).126 it created six is the word. it created is half a word. father and son. the hidden and the manifest. the eden of above is hidden and concealed. the lower eden comes forth in its strides and is revealed ,yhla hy hvhy. at (ta) adonai ehyeh (hyha ynda)127 right and left into one united. the heavens and as it is written: and the beauty and the victory..128 into one united. the earth(/rah) as it is written how mighty is your name in all the earth,129 the whole earth is full of your glory.130 it was a firm

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forth again those happy, golden schemes which part from the young ambition of art, to play in the air, to illumine the space like rays that kindle from the sun. and with these projects mingled also the vision of a love purer and serener than his life yet had known. his mind went back into that fair childhood of genius, when the forbidden fruit is not yet tasted, and we know of no land beyond the eden which is gladdened by an eve. insensibly before him there rose the scenes of a home, with his art sufficing for all excitement, and viola's love circling occupation with happiness and content; and in the midst of these fantasies of a future that might be at his command, he was recalled to the present by the clear, strong voice of mervale, the man of common-sense. whoever has studied the lives

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source and fountain of all the pagan gods" is the masonic doubleheaded eagle symbolic of his predecessor, janus? thirteen the riddle of the great seal of the united states, and the all-seeing eye of the illuminati's serpent of wisdom and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world -revelation 12:9 the great serpent of the garden of eden and the lord god are identical. helena blavatsky the secret doctrine w h a t is the true meaning of the curious, arcane symbols found in the great seal of the united states? who designed this fantastic twosided device, and why is it so prominently featured as art and decor on our most common item of currency the u.s. one dollar bill? answering the riddle the symbols on the great seal at first

the secret doctrine, helena blavatsky praised satan as the teacher of humanity.6 he is to be thanked, blavatsky says, for setting men on the path to divinity and liberty. it is, she emphasizes, the cabala that "unveils the secret" to what secret is she referring? listen, as blavatsky flatly states the core doctrine of the mysteries, of occultism, of illuminism: the great serpent of the garden of eden and the lord god are identical.7 ah, we have here the reality of supreme evil in this core teaching. paul knew of this mystery teaching, he wrote of the "mystery of iniquity" and said of the ancient religionists, that they "knew god, but glorified him not as god" and changed the glory of god "into the likeness of creeping things" that is, serpents (romans 1:23. the devourer of self barbara wa

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ll of the neophyte g.h. fratre sub spe (supplement to z1) r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the canopic gods g.h. fratre sub spe (supplement to z1) the symbolism of the four genii of the hall of the neophyte in a temple of the grade of neophyte, the four gods, ameshett, ahephi, tmo-oumathu, kabexnuv, are said to be vice-gerants of the elements, and answering to the rivers of eden as drawn in the warrant of the temple, are said to rule in the four corners of the hall between the stations of the kerubim. in egyptian mythology, these gods are also said to be the children of horus, and partake of his symbolism. if now, we regard the neophyte ceremony as representing the entrance into a new life, regeneration- mors janua vitae- the egyptian symbolism wherein that idea was

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ept a treasure house of souls in paradise available for their respective incarnations on earth. 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 afterlife mysteries 13 muslims pray in the direction of mecca during an islamic holiday at coney island, new york (ap/wide world photos) the islamic paradise is in many ways an extension of the legendary garden of eden in the bible. it is a beautiful place filled with trees, flowers, and fruits, but it really cannot be expressed in human terms. it is far more wonderful than any person could ever imagine. all who obey god and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the grace of god of the prophets who teach, the sincere lovers of truth, the witnesses [martyrs] who testify, and the righteous who do

e ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (genesis 2:7. in the second chapter of genesis, yahweh, the god of israel, shapes the form of adam from the clay, then breathes into him the breath of life, so that adam becomes nephesh, or a living soul. interestingly, yahweh also bestows the breath of life into the animals that flourished in the garden of eden, and they, too, are considered living souls. nephesh is closely associated with blood, the life-substance, which is drained away from the body at death, thus establishing in hebrew tradition the recognition that a living person is a composite entity made up of flesh and nephesh, the spiritual essence. the body is the sheath of the soul, states the talmud, sanhedrin 108a. the early hebrews bel

philosophers, the karaites, a jewish sect which rejected rabbinism and talmudism, taught transmigration of the soul. anan ben david, who founded the karaites in baghdad about 765, said that all human souls have a common origin in the primordial human, adam kadmon, whose spiritual essence sends forth sparks which form individual souls. when the later adam of genesis committed sin in the garden of eden, his fall brought about confusion among higher and lower souls throughout creation, which resulted in the need for every soul to pass through a series of incarnations. although anan ben david s teachings were severely criticized as contrary to orthodox belief, gilgul became a part of the kabbalah, the compilation of mystical works collected in thirteenth-century spain. transmigration of souls

hly prejudiced writings of such church fathers as irenaeus, hippolytus, and epiphanius, who condemned the gnostics as heretics and devil-worshippers. the library that was found in upper egypt consists 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 278 mystery religions and cults simon magus: the earliest known gnostic. magnus construed that the garden of eden, the exodus from egypt, and the red sea crossings were symbols. marcion (85 160 c.e: organizer of gnostic congregations. these eastern mediterranean congregations lasted into the third century c.e. christian leaders from rome excommunicated marcion for writing a book called antitheses. he believed the death of christ was a hallucination, because jesus did not have a physical body. valentinus:

eyond the god that created the cosmos. the most high god takes no part in the affairs of the world; thus satanists believe their faith to be the only true religion, insofar as revealed religion to mortals can be understood. satanism, according to certain of its exponents, is the oldest of all world religions, and it is the only one that by doctrine lays claim to having its origin in the garden of eden. adam s firstborn son, cain, is thought to have celebrated the first satanic mass, and today, any lone satanist can celebrate a valid mass if the occasion arises. in the case of established covens, an ordained priest performs the office of the liturgy. satanism, they maintain, is also the oldest form of worship according to discoveries made by archaeologists, who have discovered drawings of t

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he evil eye will overlook them. any compliment that may be directed at a woman s child will quickly prompt the exclamation, mashallah (by the grace of god) from the wary mother. four-leaf clover the superstition that the finding of a four-leaf clover can bring good luck is so old that its origin is lost in antiquity. one of the oldest legends has it that eve, upon being ejected from the garden of eden, took a four-leaf clover with her. because the clover was a bit of green from paradise, its presence in one s own garden came to be looked upon as an omen of good luck. according to some traditions, a young woman seeking a husband should go in search of a four-leaf clover. if she is fortunate enough to find one, she is to eat it. the first unmarried man she encounters after eating the clover

in sumer 6,000 years ago when cuneiform writing was developed to record a dramatic starburst. literally overnight in evolutionary terms, the sumerians gave the world the first love song, the first school system, the first directory of pharmaceutical concoctions, a law code, and the first parliament. the roots of the judeo-christian religious beliefs grew from the tree of knowledge, the garden of eden, which tradition places in that same area. the origins of western culture were nursed in sumer, and it has come to be acknowledged as the cradle of civilization all because of a starburst. astronomers recognize that the nearest and brightest supernova that has ever been witnessed by humankind was vela x, now a faintly flashing pulsar about 1,300 light-years from our solar system. george micha

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- inventor, who also bestowed the capacity for the word- or language- on man. the christian idea was that this endowment was against the will of the father god- and some pagan mythologies present a similar portrait; the best example is how prometheus had to steal fire from zeus and the gods to give it to mankind, and how he suffered for that, much in the manner that the serpent/enlightener of the eden story suffered. what most people don t realize is that the suffering element comes not purely from the divine reality, but from a mixture of the human experience of the fire along with what the son represented. to begin with, the cunning fire is dangerous, just like physical fire. with it, mankind was capable of great wonders, and great horrors. innocence was gone once mankind began the awake

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majority. but the kingdom of truth, which is that of god, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. there exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this tradition is transcendental magic. there only are found the absolute of knowledge and the eternal bases of law, guardian against all madness, all superstition and all error, the eden of the intelligence, the ease of the heart, and the peace of the soul. we do not say this in the hope of convincing the scoffer, but only to guide the seeker. courage and good hope to him; he will surely find, since we ourselves have found. the magical dogma is not that of the mediums. the mediums who dogmatize can teach nothing but anarchy, since their inspiration is drawn from a disordered

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g edge of scientific thought in the realms of psychology and cosmology, as well as providing an unparalleled guide to the hidden world of the modern occultist. acknowledgements i acknowledge the lessons of my teachers and colleagues of the invisible college, particularly frater daleth for the operation of sol; soror jasinth for love and company in the circle of the moon; soror brina for reopening eden; and the participants in the illuminated congregation of melchizedek, past, present and future, who seek to maintain and preserve the greatest work of all. propositum perfectio est f.i.a.t (5=6) cognitatione sui secumque colloquio firmitatem petere (6=5) dedications to sue, whose friendship was given through a long dark night of the soul. to carolyne. with love contents chapter one: the tree

in other cases step outside of the structure that the belief has meaning within. the golden dawn society referred to this as one example of a "confusion of the hierarchies. other examples are common in the new age movement as well, where beliefs are taken out of context of the systems which make sense of them (one that springs to mind is that of "karma. a gematria example occurs in "nightside of eden, written by kenneth grant, the outer head of the typhonian ordo templi orientis (oto. he links samael, attributed to geburah, with the greek god pan on the basis that smal= 131 by gematria, and he states that the letters peh-aleph-nun (pan) also value 131. this includes a number of confusions, namely; if there were a hebrew word pan, it would equate to 581, as a nun final has a value of 500;

relate to the choice of progression from the ego-dominated world into the self-aware one. the angel of temperance again presides over this choice, and in the older decks is shown by a man choosing between two women (or choosing whether to be associated with one woman or not, with the advice of another, depending on ones interpretation of the glyph, and in the waite deck by the biblical garden of eden, where this "choice" is made as the "original sin" of the christian mythology. empress: the empress embodies nature, and thus relates to the generative aspect of yesod as the "foundation" or "ground" of growth. it is important that yesod is maintained as a firm foundation, otherwise the state of the blasted tower is brought about continually, and ones interactions with the world of assiah (ma

malkuth, but after a different manner" the primary and terminary letters of the word are mem and tau, both of which are extensions of 4, the value of daleth. as aleister crowley points out in his "essay upon number, 4 relates to "the solid existing in time, matter as we know it" it is interesting to note also that 496= 4 x 124; that is to say, the number of manifestation acting upon the number of eden (a'adn=124, the archetypal kingdom. the primary and terminary letters of malkuth spell mth and thm, which mean "to die, corpse, man" and "complete, perfect, whole" respectively. this suggests the nature of the sephiroth of malkuth microcosmically as the world of man and death, and macrocosmically as the completion of the universal process as a whole system. as extensions of the number 4, the

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m the compulsion to nature's instinctual commands, and become freed from what levy bruhl has called the participation mystique. it is a phrase coined to express that peculiar unity with nature which primitive man felt and enjoyed, that participation the unconsciousness of nature which only became disrupted as evolution of mind made itself apparent, a slinking serpent within the peaceful garden of eden.4 but mankind, despite thousands years of evolution, has not yet freed itself as a whole from this subjection to the unconsciousness of nature whereby it moves feels without deliberation and without conscious volition. here and there we do find an individual who has realized the snare burden in which he has lived, and attempted accordingly to release hmself from the bonds in which he had been

ve been crossing themselves, in one form or another, since the beginning of civilization. 3. the more common name for this sephrah is chesed, whch means "mercy" its other title, gedulah, means "glory" or "greatness" 4. the serpent is often a symbol of wisdom. on the qabalistic tree of life, the serpent of wisdom represents the paths that connect the various sephroth. in the story of the garden of eden, the serpent suggested that adam and eve eat fruit from the tree of knowledge. this means that they became sentient t m- ing beings who were set apart from "the unconsciousness of nature" 5. a tingling sensation can also sometimes be felt in the face. the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 65 6. scientists are now becoming aware of what magicians have known for centuries- that all matt

ojection- the incorporation of the characteristics of a person or an object into one's own psyche which occurs unconsciously. 34. the descent of the neshamah into the individual's field of awareness occurs through the "holy union" of the "king" and the "queenn-the higher and lower self symbolized by tiphareth and malkuth. 35. certain golden dawn t e a h g s, such as the symbolism of the garden of eden before and after the fall, are specifically designed to aid in the integration of the shadow by using myth and metaphor which can be understood on many levels. see our book self-lnitiation into the golden dawn tradition, 367-371 and 554-556. 36. assagioli, psychosynthesis, 39. chapter seven the art of relaxation i n the foreword to the second edition of the middle pillar, regardie expressed a

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importance; it can be good or bad, uplifting or depressing. one cannot obtain the correct desires, under the direct instruction of the creator, without being in egypt. our initial desires are very small, and even if we stretch them to the limit they can only bring us as far as beit-el, meaning practice the ordinary torah and feel as one who has already entered the house of god, and the garden of eden and the next world is ready for him. but in fact, this is not the case! the torah should bring one first to the recognition of evil, to 243 of 273 the feeling that he is a complete egoist, and that all his desires are completely opposite to spirituality. if he experiences that state, if he understands and internalizes it, not only because that is what the books say, then he accepts that that

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d-bun-walk, where we may rest and take our fill; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the knowledge of good and of evil, singing old songs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly. here are the jewels of heaven, of havilah, and of eden, with not a little of the fire of hell, the flames of gehenna, and the darkness of duat. if we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot; we cannot hold, as hanuman of ind, a mountain in one hand and a forest in the other, neither can we gaze on a celestial meru or olympus; but as we look, and here it is only the searcher who is rewarded, we find a little jewel, then anothe

n of his own, as they smiled back on him all the love he bore her, yielding, he caught her up as a flame would another, and the giron rod of law h grew misty, for they were one, one in body, mind and soul; alone for that moment, sole inhabitants of this world. infinite. the moment is over, the girl rises up a woman, the wreath of lilies is now a crown of roses, she has plucked the golden fruit of eden, henceforth she is a priestess of sorrow; the crushed and bruised flowers cry to her gsuch as we were we are not, such as thou wert thou canst never be again. h the horrid spell falls upon her, and she writhes from his arms a snake. charicles trembling, fearful, at last becomes aware that fate has overtaken them; then all the fury of manhood rises in him: erect, sublime, he swore so fierce an

find it in the conception of prana or life spirit of ancient india; the atharvaveda says: greverence to prana, to whom the universe is subject, who has been lord of all, on whom all is supported. h prana is the purusha or aum, the totality of brahman, vishnu, and siva, of past, present, and future. the wisdom of the book of proverbs, and the later book of wisdom; it is also the same power as the eden illa-ah of the zohar, the be f raisheeth of many qabalists and talmudists, the logos of philo and st. john, and the sophia of plato. all the above are absolute ideals, and so can bear only a relationship and no proportionate value whatever to our finite understanding, they can only be watched, and have never been realized; and for this reason is it that they have never been appreciated by the

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ust for the sake of study, but to build a stronger alphabet of desire for the aspiring sorcerer who will always be apt to transverse the spheres of both light and shadow, the angelic and the demonic. further reading: the witches sabbat (fulgur limited) from inferno to zos (fulgur limited) zos speaks by kenneth and steffi grant (fulgur limited) cults of shadow by kenneth grant (skoob) nightside of eden by kenneth grant (skoob) aleister crowley and the hidden god by kenneth grant (skoob) chaos magick and luciferian sorcery by michael ford 2001 confusion is the result of a system of failure. in order to build and proceed into any useful areas one must be willing to strip away belief that have been programmed since birth. we all have this challenge, as within modern society this is a consisten

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

before it grew: for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground. 2:6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 2:7 and the lord god formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 2:8 and the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 2:9 and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2:10 and a river went out of eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 2:11 the name of the first [

12 and the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone. 2:13 and the name of the second river [is] gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia. 2:14 and the name of the third river [is] hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of assyria. and the fourth river [is] euphrates. 2:15 and the lord god took the man, and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it. 2:16 and the lord god commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. 2:18 and the lord god said [it is] not good that the man should be alone; i will make him an help meet for him. 2:19 and

s name eve; because she was the mother of all living. 3:21 unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins, and clothed them. 3:22 and the lord god said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 3:23 therefore the lord god sent him forth from the garden of eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 3:24 so he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 4:1 and adam knew eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare cain, and said, i have gotten a man from the lord. 4:2 and she again bare his brother abel. and abel was a keeper of she

be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass [that] every one that findeth me shall slay me. 4:15 and the lord said unto him, therefore whosoever slayeth cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. and the lord set a mark upon cain, lest any finding him should kill him. 4:16 and cain went out from the presence of the lord, and dwelt in the land of nod, on the east of eden. 4:17 and cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, enoch. 4:18 and unto enoch was born irad: and irad begat mehujael: and mehujael begat methusael: and methusael begat lamech. 4:19 and lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one [was] adah, and the name of the other zillah. 4:20 and adah b

ot thy god in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of assyria. 19:11 behold, thou hast heard what the kings of assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 19:12 have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed [as] gozan, and haran, and rezeph, and the children of eden which [were] in thelasar? 19:13 where [is] the king of hamath, and the king of arpad, and the king of the city of sepharvaim, of hena, and ivah? 19:14 and hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and hezekiah went up into the house of the lord, and spread it before the lord. 19:15 and hezekiah prayed before the lord, and said, o lord god of israel, which dwelle

sons, be not now negligent: for the lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. 29:12 then the levites arose, mahath the son of amasai, and joel the son of azariah, of the sons of the kohathites: and of the sons of merari, kish the son of abdi, and azariah the son of jehalelel: and of the gershonites; joah the son of zimmah, and eden the son of joah: 29:13 and of the sons of elizaphan; shimri, and jeiel: and of the sons of asaph; zechariah, and mattaniah: 29:14 and of the sons of heman; jehiel, and shimei: and of the sons of jeduthun; shemaiah, and uzziel. 29:15 and they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the lord, to cleanse the house of

l, and ismachiah, and mahath, and benaiah [were] overseers under the hand of cononiah and shimei his brother, at the commandment of hezekiah the king, and azariah the ruler of the house of god. 31:14 and kore the son of imnah the levite, the porter toward the east [was] over the freewill offerings of god, to distribute the oblations of the lord, and the most holy things. 31:15 and next him [were] eden, and miniamin, and jeshua, and shemaiah, amariah, and shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: 31:16 beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward [even] unto every one that entereth into the house of the lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to

t not thy god, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of assyria. 37:11 behold, thou hast heard what the kings of assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? 37:12 have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed [as] gozan, and haran, and rezeph, and the children of eden which [were] in telassar? 37:13 where [is] the king of hamath, and the king of arphad, and the king of the city of sepharvaim, hena, and ivah? 37:14 and hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and hezekiah went up unto the house of the lord, and spread it before the lord. 37:15 and hezekiah prayed unto the lord, saying, isaiah page 432 37:16 o lord of hosts

to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the lord: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged. 51:2 look unto abraham your father, and unto sarah [that] bare you: for i called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 51:3 for the lord shall comfort zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like eden, and her desert like the garden of the lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. 51:4 hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, o my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and i will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. 51:5 my righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isl

y market. 27:20 dedan [was] thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. 27:21 arabia, and all the princes of kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy merchants. 27:22 the merchants of sheba and raamah, they [were] thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. 27:23 haran, and canneh, and eden, the merchants of sheba, asshur [and] chilmad [were] thy merchants. 27:24 these [were] thy merchants in all sorts [of things] in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. 27:25 the ships of tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. 27:26

f him that slayeth thee. 28:10 thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for i have spoken [it] saith the lord god. 28:11 moreover the word of the lord came unto me, saying, 28:12 son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of tyrus, and say unto him, thus saith the lord god; thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 28:13 thou hast been in eden the garden of god; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 28:14 thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and i have set thee [so] thou wast upon the holy

thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 31:8 the cedars in the garden of god could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of god was like unto him in his beauty. 31:9 i have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of eden, that [were] in the garden of god, envied him. 31:10 therefore thus saith the lord god; because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 31:11 i have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: i have driven him out for his wickedness. 31:12 an

od; in the day when he went down to the grave i caused a mourning: i covered the deep for him, and i restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and i caused lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 31:16 i made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when i cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of eden, the choice and best of lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 31:17 they also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 31:18 to whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of eden? yet shalt thou be brought do

best of lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 31:17 they also went down into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. 31:18 to whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. this [is] pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the lord god. 32:1 and it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month [that] the word of the lord came unto me, saying, 32:2 son of man, take up a lamentation for pharaoh king of

our own ways, o house of israel. 36:33 thus saith the lord god; in the day that i shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities i will also cause [you] to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 36:34 and the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 36:35 and they shall say, this land that was desolate is become like the garden of eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities [are become] fenced [and] are inhabited. 36:36 then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that i the lord build the ruined [places, and] plant that that was desolate: i the lord have spoken [it] and i will do [it] 36:37 thus saith the lord god; i will yet [for] this be enquired of by the house of israel, to do [it] for them; i will

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

received the names, no doubt suggested by its form, of cuckoo s pintle, or priest s pintle, or dog's pintle; and, in french, those of vit de chien and vit de prestre; in english it is now abbreviated into cuckoo-pint, or, sometimes, cuckoo-point. the whole family of the orchides was distinguished by a corresponding word, accompanied with various qualifications. we have in william coles s adam in eden (fol. 1659) the different names, for different varieties, of doggsstones, fool-stones, fox-stones; in the older herbal of gerard (fol. 1597) triple ballockes, sweet ballockes, sweet cods, goat s-stones, hare s-stones &c; in french, couillon de bouc (the goat was especially connected with the priapic mysteries) and couille, or couillon de chien. in french, too, as we learn from cotgrave and th

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

manifest in the mate- rial universe. it takes the form of a blindingly brilliant pearl or blue-white radiance, like the radiance of a star, but it is featureless and formless, suf- fusing the physical surroundings in which it is experienced. accompanying the light is a sense of awe, and often a fear so intense that the individual bathed in it may wish to hide, as adam and eve hid in the garden of eden. this is the illumination saul experienced as he journeyed to damascus "and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to earth. trembling and astonished (acts 9:3-6. this is the light christ was said to radiate at times "and his face did shine like the sun, and his raiment was white as the light (matthew 17:2. all true prophets have experienced the light, which is

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bors and nurtures the human race, who have fallen from grace "because she is the bed of an harlot, and the dwelling place of him that is fallen "him that is fallen" is usually taken to mean coronzon, the great dragon, who is the same as the rebellious angel called satan in the apocalypse, cast by michael down to the earth (rev. 12:9. however, the fallen one is also adam, cast out of the garden of eden for the sin of rebellion against divine authority. fallen lucifer and fallen adam play the same dramatic figure on different stages. lucifer is cast out of heaven because he dares to think for himself. this creates division within the perfect unity of heaven, and god cannot allow this conflict to persist. adam, by eating the apple, also commits an independent act and forever splinters himself

inst divine authority. fallen lucifer and fallen adam play the same dramatic figure on different stages. lucifer is cast out of heaven because he dares to think for himself. this creates division within the perfect unity of heaven, and god cannot allow this conflict to persist. adam, by eating the apple, also commits an independent act and forever splinters himself off from the perfect harmony of eden. the purpose of the armageddon is the reunion of heaven and earth, and the reunion of god and man, through the man-god amalgam of the warrior messiah. those humans who give up their power of independent judgment- a power reserved only to god-will be permitted into the heavenly city of new jerusalem. the rest who remain defiant will be tortured and killed by the angels of wrath. meanwhile, the

s rebellious human beings. 234 tetragrammaton little wonder the gnostics regarded this patriarchal god of the old bstament as a misbegotten monster who made adam solely for the purpose of delivering sacrifices and worship, and then when adam became aware of his own divine spark and began to think for himself, turned against his creation like a petulant child. little wonder they saw the serpent in eden as an emissary of the true god, who is much higher and more detached than yaldabaoth (as they called the god of moses. that is why the gnostics worshipped the serpent. the serpent was the symbol of freedom and transcendent wisdom, twin birthrights of all human beings, withheld from adam by jealous yaldabaoth. in gnostic myth, the soul of the world voluntarily allows herself to be degraded and

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

d by the fire of the sun are transformed into clouds that ascend up to the sky, and after a period of digestion are converted into lightning and thunder. this same process is repeated in the sexual laboratory of the alchemist. our motto is thelema: that is willpower. the entrance into the old, archaic temples was commonly a hidden hole in some mysterious spot in the dense jungle. we departed from eden through the door of sex, and only through that door can we return to eden. eden is sex. it is the narrow, straight and difficult door that leads us into the light. in the solitude of these mysterious sanctuaries, the neophytes were submitted to the four initiatic ordeals. the ordeals of fire, air, water and earth always defined the diverse purifications of the neophytes. la cruz tiene cuatro

on. the sign of the infinite or the tau cross is found in the center of the two triangles; both are phallic (sexual) signs. the soul is found between the two triangles and has to decide between the white dragon and the black dragon. such a dilemma is absolutely sexual. the clue is found in the serpent. the rooster s legs of abraxas are made by the double tail of a serpent. the tempting serpent of eden exists as well as moses serpent of brass [nachash] interlaced around the tau, in other words, entwined around the sexual lingam (the phallus; the yoni is the uterus. normally the serpent is enclosed within the chakra muladhara (church of ephesus. the serpent slumbers in that coccygeal center entwined three and a half times. the serpent must inevitably leave from its church. if the serpent ris

aso. los tres traidores suelen apoderarse de los poderes que deliberan y ejecutan. los bodhisattvas suelen a veces recibir mensajes de los mundos superiores. los ignorantes confunden a los bodhisattvas con los m diums del espiritismo. 45 there exist the medium and the mediator (bodhisattva. the medium is negative whereas the mediator is positive. the medium is a vehicle of the tempting serpent of eden. the bodhisattva, the mediator, is a vehicle of the serpent of brass nachash that healed the israelites in the wilderness. great masters use to dictate messages through the lips of their bodhisattvas. people do not understand this and mistake the mediators with the detrimental mediums of spiritism because people allow themselves to be carried away by false appearances. within the seal of solo

in order to enslave him in the physical world. we have never known of an acrobatic hatha yogi with internal illuminated powers. three rays of illumination of intimate selfrealization exist: the yogi, the mystic and the perfect matrimony. however the three rays inevitably have the need for sexual magic. anything that is not directed through sexual magic is a useless waste of time. we come out from eden through the doors of sex and only through those doors can we return to eden. eden is sex in itself. the seventh arcanum is represented by a crowned warrior that carries a triangle above his crown and he is standing upon the cubic stone of yesod (sex. the two sphinxes, one white and one black, are pulling his chariot; this symbolizes the masculine and feminine forces. his armor is the divine s

mbolismo de la gran obra. no se puede trabajar con el rbol sephir tico sin ser alkimista y kabalista. el sabio del arcano nueve, debe buscar el tesoro en la novena esfera. hay que estudiar las teor as y trabajar con el grano "no puede existir pr ctica sin teor a. 63 the ninth sphere an occultist sentence affirms that one can only depart through the same door that one has entered. we departed from eden. eden is sex in itself. therefore only through the doors of sex can we enter into eden. the fetus (after having accomplished its entire process of gestation) arrives at the moment when it must depart through the same door that its seed-germ entered. this is the law. the physical body of the human being is the outcome of nine months of gestation within the maternal womb. by means of philosophi

t elaborates the blood and the semen in the human organism. this is vulcan that transmutes the seminal liquor into christic energy. the vital body is the vehicle of the soul-consciousness in the human being. the consciousness is the flame and the vital body is the wick. vulcan exists within the microcosmos and within the macrocosmos, in the human being and in nature. the great vulcan of nature is eden, this is the etheric world. cosmic rhythms any alchemist fledgling (after having been crowned) is getting away little by little from the sexual act. the connubial secret is more distant each time according to certain cosmic rhythms marked by the oriental gong. this is how the sexual energies are sublimated and transmuted in a continuous ecstasy. the alchemist fledgling that worked in the magi

bis rises through the right and typhon descends through the left of the fatal wheel. this is the wheel of the centuries, the wheel of reincarnations and of karma. upon the wheel appears the mystery of the sphinx grasping the flaming sword between its lion s paws. this is the wheel of antithesis. the serpent of brass that healed the israelites in the wilderness and the terrible tempting serpent of eden are mutually combating each other. the entire secret of the tree of knowledge is enclosed within this wheel; the four rivers of paradise flow from this unique fountain, one of them runs through the thick jungle of the sun watering the philosophical earth of gold and light and the other circulates tenebrously and turbulently into the kingdom of the abyss. light and darkness, white magic and bl

restrictions, reactions; it is a product of matter, the outcome of the inheritance of our race, family, habits, customs, prejudices, desires, fears, appetites, etc. the sinful adam with his lunar consciousness reincarnates with the goal of supposedly gaining experience within the school of life. however, life s experiences complicate and strengthen the sinful adam. the once innocent humanity from eden is now the terrible and perverse humanity of the atomic and hydrogen bombs. the innocent child (with the experiences of life) is converted into a sly, distrustful, malicious, avaricious [and] fearful person, that is the lunar consciousness. the devil is a devil and can never acquire perfection. the great master h.p. blavatsky stated: strengthen your soul against the stalking of the i, make he

m s importante y m s r pido del ser humano. los siete cuerpos aparecen dentro del coraz n; esto muestra que los cuerpos existen en ambos alquimistas (el hombre y la mujer, el sol y la luna) ya que estos se engendran cuando combinamos el elixir rojo (el sol) y el elixir blanco (la luna) en la novena esfera (representada por la escalera de jacob, el centro sexual) 93 [in the center of the garden of eden we find a cherub (an androgynous being) located between the man and the woman. he holds the star of david in his right hand, indicating to us that he is the outcome of the union of the two triangles, the two elixirs (sun and moon, man and woman. they combine the substances of their seven bodies (above and below) by crossing the four elements (fire, air, water and earth) of sex, which are repr

om-shaped body. in reality, this phantom converts itself into an empty shell when the true mind is born. then, the old mental corpse is disintegrated and reduced to cosmic dust. the fifth musical octave generates the true causal body. when we reach this level, we incarnate the soul, then, we have a real existence. prior to this instant, we do not have a real existence [en el centro del jard n del eden encontramos a cherub (un ser andr gino) colocado entre el hombre y la mujer. l sostiene la estrella de david en su mano derecha, indic ndonos que l es el resultado de la uni n de los dos tri ngulos, los dos elixirs (el sol y la luna, el hombre y la mujer. ellos combinan las substancias de sus site cuerpos (arriba y abajo) cruzando a trav s del sexo los cuatro elementos (fuego, aire, agua y ti

. these are super-men. the mystery of baphomet it is indeed true and certain that the mystery of baphomet is sexual alchemy. we transform the lead of our personality into the gold of the spirit based on rigorous comprehension and sexual transmutation. this is how the i is annihilated. the rose elaborates its perfume with the mud of the earth; the perfume of the rose is transmuted mud. the door of eden sex is the door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his sword drives out from the threshold all of those who are not prepared. the enemy is within us; we need to work with the demon in order to dissolve it. we need to stea

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e creator's perfect justice with perfect mercy joined and thus opening the way back to the creator's heart, for calvary is the very "heart" of the universe for those who are willing to received the "divine blood transfusion, but only once they have acknowledged their need. as for satan however, his vampirial nature and that of the dark spirits which he had assimilated went to work in the realm of eden to search for yet another "host" that the luciferian hive could, parasite-like, attach itself to. the "serpent" was the ideal candidate. the serpent was, according to the book of genesis, originally an upright-standing being with a semblance of free agency and sentience. if this were not the case then the creator would not have "judged" this "beast, much less cursed it to go about upon it's b

sover lamb] or to quench the spirit of life and allow the world to continue to die like a spiritual desert-planet void of life-giving waters. the renewed spirit of humankind would take dominion over the material forces of chaos within themselves and in turn without, or they would allow the forces of death, darkness, and destruction to continue as they had done since edenic times. however, back to eden, once the evil-one was in residence within the mind and body of the "serpent, the weak will of this beast was quickly overcome. the serpent had offered itself and also its "seed" to the luciferians, and they were intent on taking full advantage of this and in not giving up any ground. it is not too hard to imagine that the serpent may have acquired supernatural powers over humanity and nature

oved to be a sulfa drug normally prescribed for infections of the urinary tract" the possible significance of the "sulfa" drugs will become apparent later on in these 'files. case file #9: from: robin collyns [article source/title uncertain..old sumerian, babylonian, egyptian, and greek legends refer to the "serpent" deities who were believed to have once resided in the "underworld. the garden of eden in this context takes on additional interest and significance, possibly of paramount importance. pristine legends from australia and the pacific islands offer innumerable references to serpent deities/beings who were anciently associated with the creation enigma in the area..the spiral serpent symbol is found throughout the pacific and is associated universally with the creation enigma. from

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

d in a chain of spheres, say the hindus. the figure of 4, as ragon remarks, is the upright man, carrying the triangle or divinity, a type of the trinity of godhead. on the hebrew magical word agla, see the chapter on the kabalah, page 27. note 4 elements, 4 sides of a square and 4 angles; 4 qualities, cold, hot, dry, damp and 4 humors. 4 seasons of the year; 4 quarters of the horizon. 4 rivers of eden; euphrates, gihon, hiddekel and pison; 4 rivers of the infernal regions according to the greeks, phlegethon, cocytus, styx and acheron; 4 elements of metaphysics; being, essence, virtue, action. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 4 masonic virtues. 4 evangelists and gospels; matthew, mark, luke, john, related to the four kerubic forms of the man, lion

ndiale was an occasional roman catholic fast to avert calamities, from this arose the r.c. system of neuvaines. there is a masonic order of nine elected knights, in which 9 roses, 9 lights and 9 knocks are used. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the mahometans have 99 names of the deity. some jews have taught that god has 9 times descended to earth; 1st in eden, 2nd at the confusion of tongues, 3rd at the destruction of sodom, 4th to moses at horeb, 5th at sinai, 6th to balaam, 7th to elisha, 8th in the tabernacle and 9th in the temple at jerusalem; and that his 10th comes as the messiah will be final. 91. the ancients had a fear of the number nine and its multiples, especially 81; they thought of them of evil presage, indicating change and fragilit

e recitation of the four blessings. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott abraham was tested 10 times; 10 miracles were performed in egypt to help the children of israel, and 10 at the red sea. ten plagues were made to afflict the egyptians. ten times the jews offended god in the wilderness. ten times did the shekinah come down into the world; at the garden of eden; at the tower of babel; at sodom; in egypt, see exodus iii. 8; at the red sea, psalm cviii. 9; on mount sinai; at the temple; in the pillar of cloud; on the mount of olives, see zechariah xiv. 4; the 10th is omitted in the original reference, avoth d rabbi nathan, chapter 34. there are 10 hebrew words to designate idols and 10 for joy. sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; gideon took

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

yomin ila in, supernal days, 171 and yomin qadma in, primeval days. 172 the tenor of this temporality is brought into clearer focus in the following passage from the thirteenth-century work sefer ha-yihud by the proven al kabbalist asher ben david: on the basis of the tradition all of these attributes in the six extremities are also called garden [gan, as it says, the lord god planted a garden in eden in the east (gen 2:8, that is to say, from before [mi-qedem]173 the creation of the world. and, in truth, eden refers to hokhmah, the inception of all the emanations [ro sh le-khol ha-sefirot, which is intimated in the word bere shit (ibid, 1:1, and the targum yerushalmi translates it as be-hokhmata[ by means of wisdom, and the rabbis, blessed be their memory, said,174 even [the word] bere sh

refers to hokhmah, the inception of all the emanations [ro sh le-khol ha-sefirot, which is intimated in the word bere shit (ibid, 1:1, and the targum yerushalmi translates it as be-hokhmata[ by means of wisdom, and the rabbis, blessed be their memory, said,174 even [the word] bere shit is [to be considered] a saying [in the tally of the ten sayings by means of which the world was created. hence, eden is the inner wisdom [ha-hokhmah ha-penimit] in which are engraved the thirty-two paths of wisdom, and it is like a spring and like the root for all of them and for the garden. and the garden is like a tree that has many branches, from its head to its foundation, and it is nourished constantly from the root, which is the spring that comes forth from ein sof, and it spreads forth from the sourc

all of them and for the garden. and the garden is like a tree that has many branches, from its head to its foundation, and it is nourished constantly from the root, which is the spring that comes forth from ein sof, and it spreads forth from the source without separation and without cessation, without day or hour, even a second, and this is the intent of what is written the river goes forth from eden to irrigate the garden (gen 2:10. river [nahar] is from nehora, and this is the inner light [ha-or ha-penimi] that issues constantly from eden. therefore it says goes forth [yose] and it did not say went forth [yasa] for it does not cease, and in every moment it emanates in the attributes [we-khol et hu mitpashet ba-middot].175 along similar lines, azriel of gerona applied the rabbinic idiom

rcy (hesed shel emet) involves attending to the needs of the deceased.74 this designation, which on a basic level intones that there is no expectation of recompense in such a case, portends in a deeper sense that, through such an act, truth infuses death with life to the point that the one is comprised in the other (lihyot met kalul be-alef, just as the two trees were intertwined in the garden of eden or, invoking another symbolic idiom, utilized by de le n at the conclusion of this passage, just as the oral torah is contained in the written torah.75 the nexus of death and truth the truth of death in the death of truth as an element opposing untruth points to the mystical enlightenment that discerns that death is contained in life, that the demonic is in the divine. interestingly, one zoha

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