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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

ddesses even stand side by side' sva hialpi ther hollar va^ttir, frigrj ok frcyja, ok fleiri go(5 (more gods, sem jju feldir mer far af hondom' sffim. 240^ so they do at the burning of baldr's body, sn. 66, conf. 37. and that danish folk-song has likewise' friggc, fru og thor. the on. usually has gg where the as. has eg and ohg. cc or kk, namely, where a suffix i had stood after g or k: thus, on. egg (acies, as. ecg, ohg. ekki; on. bryggja (ponsj, as. brycge, ohg. prukka; on. hryggr (dorsum, as. lirycg, ohg. hrukki. in the same way we get an as. fricg, ohg. frikka, frikkia, even farther away from frouivd than frigg from freyja. it is the confounding of these two beings that will explain how adam of bremen came to put fricco instead of fro for freyr (supra, p. 212; he would equally have sai

mpassed by such means. so, when athene flies away as a bird, it expresses the divinity of her nature and the suddenness of her departure. but the swan or bvill, into which zeus transformed himself, can only be explained on the supposition that leda too, and lo and europa, whom he was woomg, were thought of as swan-maidens or kine. the form of animal would then be determined by the mythus, and the egg-birth of the dioscuri can be best understood in this way (see suppl. in the asiatic legends, it seems to me, the manifestations of deity are conceived deeply and purely in comparison, and nowhere more profoundly than in those of india. the god comes down and abides in the flesh for a season, for the salvation of mankind. wherever the doctrine of metempsychosis prevailed, the bodies of animals

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother would put any small coins she could spare into a money pot and warm it near the fire to 'incubate' the money into sufficient to mend the roof or buy new coats for the winter. a young wife eager to be pregnant would secretly prick a fertilised hen's egg with a needle on the night of the full moon immediately before making love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint

ld be tied together and placed in a drawer in a bedroom or left out on the window ledge in the moonlight, especially around the time of the full moon. for fertility, a miniature poppet might be placed in a tiny woven cradle on the window ledge from the new to the full moon. it would then be wrapped in silk until the end of the moon cycle and kept in an enclosed space, for example, a large painted egg made of pottery or wood. the would-be father would make the cradle and the mother would sew and fill the doll. some practitioners attach hair from the person to be healed or the object of the love spell to the poppet, but i consider that this is an intrusion of privacy. instead, i would suggest that if you wish to add extra power, you make your featureless dolls in an appropriate colour. herba

gick speak of the new moon, they may mean the time when the crescent first appears in the sky. but if you prefer, you can, as some modern practitioners do, count the dark of the moon only as those three last waning days and start new moon magick from the literal calendar day. it's a bit like deciding exactly when a chicken comes to life: you don't actually see it until the chicken pops out of the egg but you know it's alive even when it's invisible, inside the shell. i prefer to wait for the crescent because to me those last days of the old moon are still very precious. i can remember waking before it was light in spain and seeing that last waning crescent with its accompanying star, shining like a jewel in the warm sky. the answer, as always, is to do what you feel is best for you. workin

sea, you may be able to coincide your lovemaking with the high tide (a secluded beach is brilliant if the weather is good, although i have known people do this hundreds of miles from the sea. but if the tide is out of sync, then you still have lunar energies aplenty. you could even plan an overnight stay in a hotel with a room overlooking the shore so you can hear the sound of the waves* take an egg and carefully with a needle make a hole in it to drain out all the fluid. you can cook this and eat it or feed this to an animal to avoid waste. if you do not want to use a real egg, you can buy painted wooden or even agate ones in two halves that slot together* cut your shell in half and in one half place either a moonstone or a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* m

a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* make love when you wish* on the night the full moon is in the sky, take a tiny paper knife and gently prick the crystal still inside the shell saying: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* make love in the full moonlight if it is shining or at any time that night even if it is not, so that you can see the egg on the window ledge or if you are outdoors on a nearby rock* as you reach orgasm, repeat, silently if your partner is nervous of magick: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* leave your egg in the moonlight* the next morning, place the two halves together and wrap the egg with the crystal inside, together with the knife, in a white silk scarf in a drawer in your bedr

air and spiral round, waving them and chanting, my power renewed, the dream is true, the wish is free, so shall it be* gradually, slow down and reduce your chant to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure oliv

nent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (the coconut is the most potent fertility fruit) or a tiny straw basket, and set your little boat sailing on a river or the outgoing tide. if you cannot sail it, bury your egg and coconut shell beneath a willow or alder tree and water the soil with moon water (water that has been collected when the full moon shines on it* make love whenever you wish during the mo

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

nother problem that confronts the editor is the suspected frequency of the copyist's glosses; that is, there do seem to be occasionally bits of sentence or fragments of literature that would seem to be inconsistent with the period in which the text was written. however, no final word can be said on this matter. the difficulty arises in the age-old question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg. for instance, in the magan text, the final verses read though from the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "stoop not down, therefore, into the darkly shining world" which might have been of greek origin and not zoroastrian. it is a question for scholars. the etymology of certain words is a game that has fascinated both the editor and perhaps a score or more of sumerian researches of the past. the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

n, and 13 is 1, the phallic unity. daleth is the yoni. and 91 is amn (amen, a form of the phallus made complete through the intervention of the yoni. this again connects with the io and oi of paragraph 1, and of course io is the rapture-cry of the greeks. the whole chapter is, again, a comment on liber legis, 1, 28-30. notes (9) 1001= 11 sigma. the petals of the sahasraracakkra (10) joy= 101, the egg of spirit in equilibrium between the pillars of the temple [35] 13 book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 34 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda iota-gamma pilgrim-talk o thou that settest out upon the path, false is the phantom that thou seekest. when thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the sodom-apple. thus hast thou been lured along that path, whose terr

s this well or ill? emphasise gift, then man, then spend, then seventy years, and lastly peace, and change the intonations--each time reverse the meaning! i would show you how; but-for the moment--i prefer to think of laylah. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 157 [160] commentary( omicron-epsilon) the title is explained in the note, but also alludes to paragraph 1, the plover's egg being often contemporary with the early strawberry. paragraph 1 means that change of diet is pleasant; vanity pleases the mind; the idee fixe is a sign of insanity. see paragraphs 4 and 5. paragraph 6 puts the question "then is sanity or insanity desirable" the oak is weakened by the ivy which clings around it, but perhaps the ivy keeps it from going mad. the next paragraph expresses the diffi

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

uld draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of

. lxxv. the five elements (tatwas. lxxvi. the five skandhas. clxxxviii. the body. clxxxix. cxc. bodily functions. 11 vayu the blue circle sankhara breath speaking though 23 apas the silver crescent vedana chyle, lymph holding nutrition 31 agni or tejas the red triangle sa a blood moving moving 32 bis prithivi the yellow square rupa solid structures, tissues excreting matter 31 bis akasa the black egg vi nanam semen, marrow generating magick cxci. the four noble truths (buddhism) 11 sorrow s cause 23 sorrow s ceasing 31 noble eight-fold path 32 bis sorrow 31 bis. table iii 20 lxxvii. the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. intelligences of the planets. cxciv (transliteration) 12# 8 (260) layryt tiriel 13= 9 (3321 \yqhc hwrb duw \ycycrtb aklm malkah be tarshishim va a ad be ruah shehaqim. 14

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

: christ taking refuge: ambivalent: in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the fool: o :aleph (an ox: 1 :air (the con :the free breath. the (the babe: english a: dition of: svastika. the holy in the egg: more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus, bacchus: tial vehicle: reine thor" who knows diphues: sexually: nothing. horus. etc: undevelop: christ-bacchus as the: ed. life: innocent babe, pursued: i.e. the: by herod-here: organ of: hercules strangling: possible: the serpents. the: expression: unconscious self not: yet determined in any: direct

th the: universe: iota-alpha-digamma varies in significance with successive aeons. 33 "aeon of isis" matriarchal age. the great work conceived as a straightforward simple affair. we find the theory reflected in the customs of matriarchy. parthenogenesis is supposed to be true. the virgin (yod-virgo) contains in herself the principle of growth- the epicene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yod in tetragrammaton. a the babe is pursued by the dragon, who casts a flood from his mouth to swallow it. see "rev" vi

means by which one realises oneself in a series of episodes. the second main point is the completion of the a babe bacchus by the o pan (parzival wins the lance, etc. 37 the first process is to find the i in the v- initiation, purification, finding the secret root of oneself, the epicene virgin who is 10 (malkuth) but spelt in full 20 (jupiter. this yod in the "virgin" expands to the babe in the egg by formulating the secret wisdom of truth of hermes in the silence of the fool. he acquires the eye-wand, beholding the acting and being adored. the inverted pentagram- baphomet- the hermaphrodite fully grown- begets himself on himself as v again. note that there are now two sexes in one person throughout, so that each individual is self-procreative sexually, whereas isis knew only one sex, an

imen of the planets useful in alchemical work. ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty operations of the magick of the inmost light (see liber 813) the formula of thelema may be summarized thus: theta "babalon and the beast conjoined- epsilon unto nuith (ccxx, i, 51- lambda the work accomplished in justice- eta the holy graal- mu the water therein- alpha the babe in the egg (harpocrates on the lotus) that of "agape" is as follows: dionysus (capital alpha- the virgin earth gamma- the babe in the egg (small alpha- the image of the father- the massacre of the innocents, pi (winepress- the draught of ecstasy, eta. the student will find it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. there is also the gnostic

anifested existence, which alternates with a pralaya, during which creation is latent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is the holy spirit who begets god in flesh upon the virgin, according to the formula familiar to students of "the golden bough. a is also the "babe in the egg" thus produced. the quality of a is thus bisexual. it is the original being- zeus arrhenothelus, bacchus diphues, or baphomet. u or v is the manifested son himself. its number is 6. it refers therefore, to the dual nature of the logos as divine and human; the interlacing of the upright and averse triangles in the hexagram. it is the first number of the sun, whose last number<sun being 6

the final yod signifies "mine" etymologically and essentially the mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed- the hermit of the taro- the use of the name is therefore to invoke one's own inmost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of nuit and hadit. if the second a is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the holy ghost and the formulation of the babe in the egg, which precedes the appearance of the hermit "my lord! my secret self beyond self, hadith, all father! hail, on, thou sun, thou life of man, thou fivefold sword of flame! thou goat exalted upon earth in lust, thou snake extended upon earth in life! spirit most holy! seed most wise! innocent babe. inviolate maid! begetter of being! soul of all souls! word of all words, come forth, most hidden l

ings "line 3" he now asserts that he is himself the "angel" or messenger of his angel; that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as "un-nefer" the perfection of "asar" himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the "egg (or heart "girt with a serpent" is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv. which expands this to the uttermost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams, sigils, and signs. his direction 277 is widdershins. he thus makes th

nbiassed, unbounded; in act gentle, patient and persistent. hermes to hear, dionysus to touch, pan to behold. a virgin, a babe, and a beast! a liar, an idiot, and a master of men! a kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! thy wand to all cups, and thy disk to all swords, but betray not thine egg! moreover also is iaf verily 666 by virtue of number; and this is a mystery of mysteries; who knoweth it, he is adept of adepts, and mighty among magicians! now this word sabaf, being by number three score and ten<ritual throughout in the light of his personal researches in t

:left upper :vayu- the blue :sankhara :ruach: point: circle: 23 :hb:nshmh: salt :right upper:aupas- the silver :vedana :neshamah: point: crescent: 31 :hb:chyh: sulphur :right lower:agni or tejas :san n a :chiah: point: the red triangle :32 "bis :hb:npsh: salt :left lower :prithivi- the :rupa :nephesh: point: yellow square :31 "bis :h:ychydh :topmost :akasa- the black :vin nanam :iechidah: point: egg: table iii: lxxvii: lxxxi: lxxxiii: the planets: the attribution of: and their numbers: metals: the hexagram: 12: mercury 8: mercury: left lower point: 13: moon 9: silver: bottom point: 14: venus 7: copper: right lower point: 21: jupiter 4: tin: right upper point: 27: mars 5: iron: left upper point: 30: sun 6: gold: centre point: 31: saturn 3: lead: top point: 319 table iv :xcvii: cxvii: cxvii

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

what he wanted from the sacrifice- when at long last the camel appears on the premises- then he who, having ample means to carry out the whole operation without risk of failure, goes through the ceremony without ever having experienced a moment's anxiety about his ability to bring it to a successful conclusion. it think personally that the error lies in calculating. the injunction is "to buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling" you have no means of judging what is written in their ledger; so..reason is a lie& all their words are skew-wise" al ii, 32. let me add that it is a well-attested fact of magical experience- beginning with tarquin and the sibylline books- as well as a fact of profane psychology, that if you funk a fence, it is harder next time. if the boy falls off th

oad skirts of the qabalah! it's disk, sword, cup and wand again! sorry, but c'est trop fort pour moi. disks. to master earth, remember that the disk is always spinning; fix this idea, get rid of its solidity. commonly, the first tests of the young aspirant refer to cash "that's god's sol solid in this world" the proper magical attitude is very hard to describe (i'm not talking of that black hen's egg any more; that is simple) very sorry to have to say it, but it is not unlike that of the spendthrift. money must circulate, or it loses its true value. a banker in new york once told me that the dollar circulated nine times as fast as the english equivalent, so that people seemed to themselves to be nine times as rich (i told you about the oe100 note in a special letter on money. but here i am

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

d at one's own acts, and have to reason out their connection. but let it be understood that when the will has thus really raised itself to the height of destiny, the man is no more likely to do wrong than he is to float off into the air. one may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this development of the will and ethics. the answer is yes. in the grand grimoire we are told "to buy an egg without haggling; and attainment, and the next step in the path of attainment, is that pearl 73 of great price, which when a man hath found he straightway selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that pearl. with many people custom and habit- of which ethics is but the social expression- are the things most difficult to give up: and it is a useful practice to break any habit just to get into the w

inaccessible, let him choose any one with whom he has constant intercourse, explain the circumstances, and ask him to act. the person should if possible be trustworthy; and let the chela remember that if he should be ordered to jump over a cliff it is very much better to do it than to give up the practice. and it is of the very greatest importance not to limit the vow in any way. you must buy the egg without haggling. in a certain society the members were bound to do certain things, being assured that there was "nothing in the vow contrary to their civil, moral, or religious obligations" so when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. the vow lost all its force<crowley expressly cites this clause in the golden dawn initi

at they might attain to samadhi by the same method. others attribute to it a more profound signifcance-which it is impossible to go into at this moment, for we must turn to- humpty dumpty sat on a wall; humpty dumpty got a great fall; all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't set up humpty dumpty again. this is so simple as hardly to require explanation. humpty dumpty is of course the egg of spirit, and the wall is the abyss--his "fall" is therefore the descent of spirit into matter; and it is only too painfully familiar to us that all the king's horses and all his men cannot restore us to the height. only the king himself can do that! but one can hardly comment upon a theme which has been so fruitfully treated by ludovicus carolus, that most holy illuminated man of god. his ma

s the magician from the elements; it is the silence and secrecy with which he works, the hiding of himself in the occult life of magick and meditation. this is the "going away into the wilderness" which we find in the lives of all men of the highest types of greatness. and it is also the withdrawing of one's self from life as such. in another sense it is the "aura" of the magician, that invisible egg or sheath which surrounds him. this "aura" must be shining, elastic, impenetrable, even by the light, that is, by any partial light that comes from one side. the only light of the magician is from the lamp which hangs above his head, as he stands in the centre of the circle, and the robe, being open at the neck, opposes no obstacles to the passage of this light. and being open, and very wide o

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

her of the mob, or of the multitude nwmh b) quarrel, dispute nydm personal [belongings, small private property hlwgs giving up, presenting, remitting xlws out! avaunt! go away! cwx crushed, fine, thin qd king david dwd klm 105 to subvert, ruin, change kph skullcap, yarmulka hpk 106 nun: a fish nwn attained qbd stibium (a type of kohl) kwp line, string, linen thread; norm wq your god mkyhl) 107 an egg hcyb chain; flaming arrow qz the shield (or star) of david (the hexagram) dwd ngm 108 2x2 3x3x3: hence used as the number of beads on a rosary by some sects the ears mynz) the fruit of a deep valley lxnh yb)b a wall cyx to force, do wrong to smx to love very much nnx to shut up, obstruct msx the middle ycx to measure out, share; a decree, statute; tall (masc; task; boundary (cf. 113) qx builde

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

life, may be half read by him whose eyes are lightened enough by the manhood of his love. thus then do i learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my life, in the life of the master, and offer my blood to his heart. 0. know naught! all ways are lawful to innocence. pure folly is the key to initiation. silence breaks into rapture. be neither man nor woman, but both in one. be silent, babe in the egg of blue, that thou mayest grow to the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 bear the lance and graal! wander alone, and sing! in the king's palace his daughter awaits thee. i. the true self is the meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way! calculate well the formula of thy way! create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. work t

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

the highest crown, and the number of cards in the tarot, rota, the all-embracing wheel. hoor-paar-kraat- see ii, 8. aiwass is called the minister of hoor-paar-kraat, the god of silence; for his word is the speech of the silence. the new comment aiwass is the name given by ouarda the seer as that of the intelligence communicating. see note to title. hoor-paar-kraat or harpocrates, the "babe in the egg of blue, is not merely the god of silence in a conventional sense. he represents the higher self, the holy guardian angel. the connexion is with the symbolism of the dwarf in mythology. he contains everything in himself, but is unmanifested. see ii:8. he is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. aleph is attributed to

of things) of air. now as "one" or aleph he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the

absurd, but tends to perpetuate the false idea. it is a mistake to 'spoil' a child, or humour a malade imaginaire. one must, on the contrary, chase away the shadows by lighting a fire, which fire is: do what thou wilt! al ii,49 "i am unique& conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned& dead! amen [this is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg" the old comment 49. continues the curse against the slave-soul. amen. this is of the 4, i.e. should be spelt with 4 letters (the elements. aleph-mem-taw-shin not aleph-mem-nun. the fifth, who is invisible, is ayin, 70, the eye. now aleph-mem-taw-shin, 741+ 70= 811= iao in greek, and iao is the greek form of yod-he-vau-he, the synthesis of the 4 elements aleph-mem-taw-shin (this ayin is perhap

k, and iao is the greek form of yod-he-vau-he, the synthesis of the 4 elements aleph-mem-taw-shin (this ayin is perhaps the o in n.o.x, liber vii, i, 40) the new comment we are to conquer the illusion, to drive it out. the slaves that perish are better dead. they will be reborn into a world where freedom is the air of breath. so then, in all kindness, the christians to the lions! the "babe in the egg" is harpocrates; it is his regular image. i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse. it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether. amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but mercury among the planets. mercury has th

ood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover the sense of this passage by recollecting the qabalistic statement that "the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour, that is, the being symbolized by the egg and serpent hieroglyph of the phoenician adepts. the second kind is also a form of baphomet, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the lion-serpent in its original form. the process of softening and smoothing down is thus in this case that of vitalizing the eagle. it is inadvisable to word this explanation, in terms too intelligible to the profane, since uninitiated attempts to make use o

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

he understandeth that it is not, la, 31. but the above is only the secondary or hieroglyphic magical meaning. the plain english still discusses the technique of initiation. the 'fool, is one such as described in my note on verse 57. the vain, soft, frivolous, idle, mutable sot will make nothing either of this book, or of my comment thereon. but this fool is the child harpocrates, the "babe in the egg, the innocent not yet born, in silence awaiting his hour to come forth into light. he is then the uninitiated man, and he has four ordeals to pass before he is made perfect. these ordeals are now to be described. al iii,64 "let him come through the first ordeal& it will be to him as silver" the new comment the "tree of life" in the qabalah represents ten spheres arranged in three pillars, the

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e infinitely small and the infinitely great. the clash of these produces a finite positive idea which happens (see tycarb29 for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher s thesis) to be light, rwa. this word rwa is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. a is the egg of matter; w is, the bull, or energy-motion; and r is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of rwa thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of rwa is this analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundum. it will be noticed that every number and letter h

t (also change in stability. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 8= 23. 9. the ennead, stability in change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32. 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh fierce and active. 6. the son partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touchi

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uly absolute 0, for 0 is, as i have shown, dependent on the idea of categories. if these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which this 0 is absolute. not only must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predicates. by 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 0n, where n is the final term of a natural scale of dimensions, categories, or predicates. our cosmic egg, then, from which the present universe arose, was nothingness, extended in no categories, or graphically, 00. this expression is in its present form meaningless. let us discover its value by a simple mathematical process! 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1- multiply by1= n n then 0 0 0 1 n 1 n. now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in some unknown finite number extended in

s; the third daty, a star-glass; the fourth day, a beetle s wing; the fifth day, a crab; the sixth day, a bow; the seventh day, a quiver; the eighth day, a stag; the ninth day, an horn; the tenth day, a sandal of silver; the eleventh day, a silver box of white sandal wood; the twelfth day, a whisper; the thirteenth day, a black cat; the fourteenth day, a phial of white gold; the fifteenth day, an egg-shell cut in two; the sixteenth day, a glance; the seventeenth day, an honeycomb; the eighteenth day, a dream; the nineteenth day, a nightmare; the twentieth day, a wolf, black-muzzled; the twenty-first day, a sorrow; the twenty-second day, a bundle of herbs; the twenty-third day, a piece of camphor; the twenty-fourth day, a moonstone; the twenty-fifth day, a sigh; the twenty-sixth day, a refu

maiden is blind. our father: she shall be what she doth not. and a second virgin came forth to him and said: the second riddle: detegitur yod. quoth our father: the moon is full. so also a third virgin the third riddle: man and woman: o fountain of the balance! to whom our father answered with a swift flash of his sword, so swift she saw it not. came a fourth virgin, having a fourth riddle: what egg hath no shell? and our father pondered a while and then said: on a wave of the sea: on a shell of the wave: blessed be her name! the fifth virgin issued suddenly and said: i have four arms and six sides: red i am, and gold. to whom our father: eli, eli, lama sabachthani (for wit ye well, there be two arcana therein) then saith the sixth virgin openly: power lieth in the river of fire. and our

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be the world with all the various feelings of the individual pinch of destiny, all the various spiritual attitudes, left out from the description- they being as describable as anything else- would be something like offering a printed bill of fare as the equivalent for a solid meal. religion makes no such blunders. a bill of fare with one real raisin on it instead of the word 'raisin' and one real egg instead of the word 'egg' might be an inadequate meal, but it would at least be a commencement of reality. the contention of the survival-theory that we ought to stick to non-personal elements exclusively seems like saying that we ought to be satisfied forever with reading the naked bill of fare. it does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their re

d of light. i am the ancient child, the great disturber, the great tranquilliser. i am yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. my name is alpha and omega- the beginning and the end. my dwelling-house is built betwixt the water and the earth; the pillars thereof are of fire, and the walls are of air, and the roof above is the breath of my nostrils, which is the spirit of the life of man. i am born as an egg in the east, of silver, and of gold, and opalescent with the colours of precious stones; and with my glory is the beast of the horizon made purple and scarlet, and orange, and green, many-coloured as a great peacock 191 caught up in the coils of a serpent of fire. over the pillars of aethyr do i sail, as a furnace of burnished brass; and blasts of fire pour from my nostrils, and bathe the land

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l shiver and leap with the shock, and that also must both be suffered and overcome. 8 4. after the lightning flash, resteth in the zenith a minute point of light. and this light shall radiate until a right cone be established upon the sea, and it is day. with this thy body shall be rigid, automatically; and this shalt thou let endure, withdrawing thyself into thine heart in the form of an upright egg of blackness; and therein shalt thou abide for a space. 5. when all this is perfectly and easily performed at will, let the aspirant figure to himself a struggle with the whole force of the universe. in this he is only saved by his minuteness. but in the end he is overthrown by death, who covers him with a black cross. 6. so lying, let him aspire fervently unto the holy guardian angel. 7. now

hat he is bitten by a serpent, feeling even in his body the poison thereof. and let each bite be healed by an eagle or hawk, spreading its wings above his head, and dropping thereupon a healing dew. but let the last bite be so terrible a pang at the nape of the neck that he seemeth to die, and let the healing dew be of such virtue that he leapeth to his feet. 8. let there be now placed within his egg a red cross, then a green cross, then a golden cross, then a silver cross; or those things which these shadow forth. herein is silence; for he that hath rightly performed the meditation will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9 9. let him now remain in the pyramid or cone of light, as an egg, but no more of blackness. 10. then let his

next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves 10 and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow hathor. and it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. let it become blacker than all blackness. and in this meditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the bla

s (see hb:taw hb:yod hb:shin hb:aleph hb:resh hb:bet, in "the sword of song" for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher's thesis) to be light, hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph. this word hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. hb:aleph is the egg of matter; hb:yod is taurus, the bull, or energy-motion; and hb:resh is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of hb:resh hb:vau hb:aleph is thus analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum

change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32 (note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh- authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh- fierce and active. 6. the son- partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and tou

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her and the light becometh fivefold1. lux in luce, christus in cruce; deo duce sempiterno. and be the glory for ever and ever unto the most high god, amen! then i returned within my body, giving glory unto the lord of light and of the darkness. in saecula saeculorum. amen (on composing myself to sleep, i was shewn an extremely brilliant hb:dalet in the character of the passing of the river, in an egg of white light. and i take this as the best of omens. the letter was extremely vivid and indeed apparently physical. almost a dhyana "november 17, 1900, die" a note concerning the thirty aethyrs: the visions of the 29th and 30th aethyrs were given to me in mexico in august, 1900, and i am now (23.11.9) trying to get the rest. it is to be remarked that the last three aethyrs have ten angels att

like a scorpion. the breasts are human, but they are all scored with blood; and he cries: o thou who hast broken down the veil, knowest thou not that who cometh where i am must be scarred by many sorrows? 11 and i answer him: sorrow is not, save in the darkness of the womb of her by whom came evil. i pierce the mystery of his breast, and therein is a jewel. it is a sapphire as great as an ostrich egg, and thereon is graven this sigil: illustration on page 12 described: this is in the form of two "u" shapes, very elongated in the risers. the one to the right is lower than the first, and its left riser extends 2/3's of the way up inside the center of the one to the left. the left "u" turns back down to the far left, ending 1/5th the way down in a tiny circle. the right bends abruptly horizon

s, invisibly about me, but the might of the aethyrs beneath my feet beareth me 15 down. and they avail not to sever the kamailos. there is one in green armour, with green eyes, whose sword is of vegetable fire. that shall avail me. my son is he- and how shall i bear him that have not known man? all this time intolerable rays are shooting forth to beat me back or destroy me; but i am encased in an egg of blue-violet, and my form is the form of a man with the head of a golden hawk. while i have been observing this, the goddess has kept up a continuous wail, like the baying of a thousand hounds; and now her voice is deep and guttural and hoarse, and she breathes very rapidly words that i cannot hear. i can hear some of them now. untu la la ulula umuna tofa lama le li na ahr ima tahara elula e

oured into the sea, that the fishes of the sea may breathe thereof and die. and he shall be mingled with dung and spread upon the earth, so that the herbs of the earth may feed thereof and die; and he shall be burnt utterly with fire, and the ashes thereof shall calcine the children of flame, that even in hell may be found an overflowing lamentation. and now on the breast of the angel is a golden egg between the blackness of the wings, and that egg grows and grows all over the aethyr. and it breaks, and within there is a golden eagle. and he cries: woe! woe! woe! yea, woe unto the world! for there is no sin, and there is no salvation. my plumes are 19 like waves of gold upon the sea. my eyes are brighter than the sun. my tongue is swifter than the lightning. yet am i hemmed in by the armie

l-men. and he sayeth: the spade of the husbandman is the sceptre of the king. all the heavens beneath me, they serve me. they are my fields and my gardens and my orchards and my pastures. 29 glory be unto thee, who didst set thy feet in the north; whose forehead is pierced with the sharp points of the diamonds in thy crown; whose heart is pierced with the spear of thine own fecundity. thou art an egg of blackness, and a worm of poison. but thou hast formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. thou art the basilisk whose gaze turns men to stone, and the cockatrice at the breast of an harlot that giveth death for milk. thou art the asp that has stolen into the cradle of the babe. glory unto thee, who art twined about the world as the vine that clingeth to the bare body of a bacchanal

e 10th aethyr, that is accurs d, and that hath 42. all this while the dewdrops have turned into cascades of gold finer than the eyelashes of a little child. and though the extent of the aethyr is so enormous, one perceives each hair separately, as well as the whole thing at once. and now there is a mighty concourse of angels rushing toward me from every side, and they melt upon the surface of the egg in which i am standing in the form of the god kneph, so that the surface of the egg is all one dazzling blaze of liquid light. now i move up against the tablet- i cannot tell you with what rapture. and all the names of god, that are not known even to the angels, clothe me about. all the seven senses are transmuted into one sense, and that sense is dissolved in itself (here occurs samadhi) 33

nd now the table recedes from me. far, far it goes, streaming with light. and there are two black angels bending over me, covering me with their wings, shutting me up into the darkness; and i am lying in the pastos of our father christian rosenkreutz, beneath the table in the vault of seven sides. and i hear these words: the voice of the crowned child, the speech of the babe that is hidden in the egg of blue (before me is the flaming rosy cross) i have opened mine eye, and the universe is dissolved before me, for force is mine upper eye-lid and matter is my lower eye-lid. i gaze into the seven spaces, and there is naught. the rest of it comes without words; and then again: i have gone forth to war, and i have slain him that sat upon the sea, crowned with the winds. i put forth my power and

december 3, 2.50-3.15 p.m "the angel re-appears" the blackness gathers about, so thick, so clinging, so penetrating, so oppressive, that all the other darkness that i have ever conceived would be like bright light beside it. his voice comes in a whisper: o thou that art master of the fifty gates of understanding, is not my mother a black woman? o thou that art master of the pentagram, is not the egg of spirit a black egg? here abideth terror, and the blind ache of the soul, and lo! even i, who am the sole light, a spark shut up, stand in the sign of apophis and typhon. i am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. chaos is my name, and thick darkness. know thou that the darkness

ight, a spark shut up, stand in the sign of apophis and typhon. i am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. chaos is my name, and thick darkness. know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. the egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the scorpion. the pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the adepts is lighted by the rose. and in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. but upon the great sea shall the master of the temple find neither star nor moon. and i was about to answer him "the light is within me

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t thou forsaken me? and i have to stop and put it down! a good thing; for it calms me. 3.45. at the d me, master of myself. the mantra goes just 30 times a minute, 1800 times an hour, 43,200 times a day. to say it a million times would take longer than mrs. glyn's heroine did to conceive. yet i will get the result if i have to say it a hundred and eleven million times. but oh! fertilise my akasic egg today! this remark, one should notice, is truly characteristic of the man john st. john. i see how funny it is; but i'm quite serious withal. ye dull dogs! 28 [the "akasic egg" is the sphere of the personality of man. a theosophic term. ed. 3.55. n.b. mantras might with advantage be palindromes. 3.56. i try to construct a magic square from the mantra. no good. but the mantra is going much bett

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arrier-pigeon by my correspondent, i decided to send an extra porter with the first bird, in case of the next message being of an equal or superior volume, and as i know something about pigeons, as before mentioned, i managed that in a very clever way. i say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not i, but nevertheless it had to be found- like the egg of the late c.c. i bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the man-cover's messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. when i noticed the first symptoms of love i bless the new pair and let them go. the new wife- as i thought she would- followed her husband. they returned to me with the following strange document, and i think i must warn the reader against a certain feeling of sympathy

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nce "thou("i.e" god, ateh, the all "in extension" but by metathesis of these six letters is obtained heh-yod-heh aleph-mem-taw "truth was" as if affirming solemnly the presence in the creation of the supernal truth. now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and "cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun "i.e, hb:vau (6 "the seal of creation- and we have bet-vau-tzaddifinal, an egg. where we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere 178 of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune m a u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is dalet-taw-nun

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ight of thy name, adonai, to whom be the kingdom, the sceptre and the splendour: the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley. o thou! hoor-po-krat-ist [middle pillar] child of the silence! o thou! hoor-po-krat-ist [mystic circumambulation] lord of the lotus! o thou! hoor-po-krat-ist [silence] thou that standest on the heads of the dwellers of the waters! thee, thee i invoke! o thou, babe in the egg of blue! lord of defence and protection! thou who bearest the rose and cross of life and light! thee i invoke! behold i am! a circle on whose hands the twelvefold kingdom of my godhead stands. i am the alpha and the omega. my life is as the circle of the sky. i change but i cannot die! o ye! the bennu birds of resurrection, who are the hope of men's mortality! back, crocodile mako, son of set!

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e beheld not countenance. 0. and as the limitless stretched forth its wings, an unextended unextendable light became; colourless, formless, conditionless, effluent, naked, and essential, as a crystalline dew of creative effulgence; and fluttering as a dove betwixt day and night, it vibrated forth a lustral crown of glory. 1. and out of the blinding whiteness of the crown grew an eye, like unto an egg of an humming-bird cherished on a platter of burnished silver. 2. thus i beheld thee, o my god, the lid of whose eye is as the night of chaos, and the pupil thereof as the marshalled order of the spheres. 7 3. for, i am but as a blind man, who wandering through the noontide preceiveth not the loveliness of the day; and even as he whose eyes are unenlightened beholdeth not the greatness of this

g; bear me in the unity of thy might, and pour me forth from out the cup of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 5. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the formulator of law; nor the cheat of the maze of illusion: o thou who art not the foundation-stone of existence; nor the eagle that broodeth upon the egg of space! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; swathe me in the unity of thy might, and teach me wisdom from the lips of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 32 6. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the fivefold root of nature; nor the fire-crested helm of her master: o thou who art not

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the curcurbite or the alembic. b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials &c, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and in silence. g. the beginning of the actual process: the regulation and restriction of the proper degree of heat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. h. the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic: the grinding thereof

heat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. h. the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic: the grinding thereof to form a powder in a mortar. this powder is then to be placed again in the curcurbite. the fluid already distilled is to be poured again upon it. the curcurbite or philosophic egg is to be closed. i. the curcurbite or egg philosophic being hermetically sealed, the alchemist announces aloud that all is prepared for the invocation of the forces necessary to accomplish the work. the matter is then to be placed upon an altar with the elements and four weapons thereon: upon the white triangle, and upon a flashing tablet of a "general" nature, in harmony with the matter selec

present, but is to be set apart for future use) after the invocation of the alchemic mercury a certain brilliance should manifest itself in the whole fluid (that is to say, that it should not only be clear, but also brilliant and flashing. now expose it in an hermetic receiver for seven days to the light of the sun: at the end of which time there should be distinct flashes of light therein (or an egg philosophic may be used; but the receiver of the alembic, if closed stopped, will answer this purpose) t. now the residuum or dead head is to be taken out of the curcurbite, ground small, and replaced. an invocation of the forces of jupiter is then to be performed over that powder. it is then to be kept in the dark standing upon a flashing tablet of jupiter for seven days. at the end of this t

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roods and prophecies and tombs- old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman's tangled tale (god's patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword- the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale "this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he "but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature's nest" with that he fled the dismal tract. 33 he was so sick and ill at ease and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then- nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 34 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the fl

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ini (shakti) and shiva. 141 revelation, xxi, 1-4. 142 "the bhagavad-g ta" ii, 69, 70; vi, 32. cf "konx om pax" pp. 73-77. 143 the ordinary egyptian winged-globe is here meant, but as visualized by the mind's eye; the meditation then takes place on the image in the mind. so with the following practises. 144 tejas-ak sa is the element of fire. it is symbolized by a red triangle of fire with a black egg in the centre. see "777, col. lxxv, p. 16. see diagram 84. the object clear; but the mind wandered. apas-v yu145" result not very good. winged-globe and flam" meditation on both of these was only ing sword.146 fair. 107 pendulum147 (e).148" good as regards plane kept by the pendulum; but thoughts wandered. winged-globe" the result was pretty good. tejas-v yu (e" fair. ankh149 (a green" not bad

object.153 winged-globe. 29 m. seven breaks. result would have been much better but for an epi- cene enuch with an alleged flute. my mind revolved various methods of killing it. tejas-ak sa. 18" seven breaks. r. r. et a. c.154 19" seven breaks. pendulum" after 3 m. lost control and gave up. winged-globe (e. 10" ten breaks.155 108 145 apas-v yu is the element of water and is symbolized by a black egg of spirit in the silver crescent of water. see "777, col. lxxv, p. 16. see diagram 84. 146 the golden dawn symbol of the flaming sword. see diagram 12. 147 by this is meant watching the swing of an imaginary pendulum. the difficulty is to keep it in one plane, as it tries to swing round; also to change its rate. 148 in these records "m" means morning and "e" evening. 149 the egyptian key of li

olve to increase my powers very greatly by the aid of the most high, until i can meditate for twenty-four hours on one object" illustration facing page 108 partly approximated and partly described "diagram 84. the five tatwas, with their twenty-five sub-divisions- fat spindle circle in crescent square in equilateral outline w. outline moon in outline triangle in points vert. outline w. outline w "egg" horns up point up ak sa vayu apas prithivi tejas or agni_ egg inside circle in crescent in square in triangle in egg egg egg egg egg ak sa-ak sa ak sa-vayu ak sa-apas ak sa-prithivi ak sa-tejas_ egg inside circle in crescent square in triangle in circle circle in circle circle circle vayu-ak sa vayu-vayu vayu-apas vayu-prithivi vayu-tejas_ egg in circle in crescent square in triangle in cresc

re in triangle in egg egg egg egg egg ak sa-ak sa ak sa-vayu ak sa-apas ak sa-prithivi ak sa-tejas_ egg inside circle in crescent square in triangle in circle circle in circle circle circle vayu-ak sa vayu-vayu vayu-apas vayu-prithivi vayu-tejas_ egg in circle in crescent square in triangle in crescent crescent in crescent crescent crescent apas-ak sa apas-vayu apas-apas apas-prithivi apas-tejas_ egg in circle in crescent square in triangle in square square in crescent square square prithivi- prithivi-ak sa prithivi-vayu prithivi-apas prithivi prithivi-tejas_ egg in circle in crescent in square in triangle in triangle triangle triangle triangle triangle tejas-ak sa tejas-vayu tejas-apas tejas-prithivi tejas-tejas- object meditated upon. time. remarks. black egg and white ray 10" five break

h. all this p. attempted with the following result: the figure of d.a: leaning on an ice-axcw was clearly seen, but at first it was a shade difficult to fix. the figure at once went 35 to my left, and stayed there; then i observed a scarlet tiphereth above the head and the blue path of hb:gemel (gimel) going upwards. around the head was bluish light, and tiphereth was surrounded by 156 the ak sic egg of spirit set between the pillars of mercy and severity with a ray of light descending upon it from kether. 157 there golden dawn symbol here meditated upon consisted of a white triangle surmounted by a red cross. see diagram 4. 158 this meditation took place whilst p. was on a journey. 159 these meditations are called objective cognitions, by concentrating on certain nerve centres super-physi

soror f.165 in hong-kong every saturday evening at nine o'clock, which should ready her at 4.6 p.m. on sunday by hong- kong time. she is to start at 10 a.m. sunday by hong-kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. saturday. these spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of 112 may; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. enclosing myself in an egg of white light i travelled to hong- kong. this city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. i found f. in a room of white and pale green. she was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels. we conversed awhile. i remember trying 162 in the position many of the egyptian gods assume. 163 qy: is this from habit of expecting living things to move? i can, i think, su

ght, returning to mexico city on the 18th only to leave it again two days later on an expedition to the nevado de touca. on the 16th of april he journeyed to amecameca, from which place he visited soror f, by projection, and thence up popocatapetl, encamped on whose slopes he resolved the hb:shin of hb:shin into seven mental operations: 1. ray of divine white brilliance descending upon the ak sic egg set between the two pillars. 2. aspire by the serpent, and concentrate on flashing sword. imagine the stroke of the sword upon the da th junction (nape of neck. 3. make the egg grow gray, by a threefold spiral of light. 4. make the egg grow nearly white (repeat spiral formula) 5. repeat 2. above head. triangle of fire (red. 6. invoke light. withdraw. see golden dawn symbol. 7. let all things v

od, and i refuse to discuss what is not" cries buddha "but there is sorrow and i intend to destroy it" if i can only get people to start on the upward journey they will very soon cease to care if there is a god or if there is a no-god; but, if i give them the slightest cause to expect any reward outside cessation of sorrow, it would set them all 130 cackling over the future like hens over a china egg, and soon they would be back at the old game of counting 205 "the questions of king milinda" iv. i, 48. see also the story of the holy quail in rhys davids "buddhist birth stories" p. 302. these iddhis are also called abhijny s. there are six of them (1) clairvoyance (2) clairaudience (3) powers of transformation (4) powers of remembering past lives (5) powers of reading the thoughts of others

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

s delivered["he kneels to" sol. happy, yea, happy! happy is he that hath looked forth upon the bier that goeth to the house of rest! his heart is lit with melody; peace in his house is master of fear; his holy name is in the west 59 when the sun sinks, and royal rays of moonrise flash across the day's["he rises and faces altar" i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6

my own invention. the truffes au champagne of the cafe riche are more to be desired than all the hashish dreams of all the wicked, and than all the divine dreams of all the good. we shall walk there, and drive back. this incense shall be kindled, and this lamp left burning" he took a strange object from a locked cabinet. it had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. the three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpents just a little closer together. instantly a coruscating flame leapt between them, minute, dazzling, radiant. it 126 continued to burn with a low hissing noise rarely interrupted by a dry crackle "it is well" sa

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

ll i find it 'where books are" in a library' was the reply. but it was not in the library when he went the next day; it had been stolen.:the librarian suggested he try the library at manchester university, and there alex was able to read a copy of the magus hy sir francis barrett, first published in the .early nineteenth century. in it he found described the layout of a black circle containing an egg-shaped crystal through which angels would .manifest themselves. mter 70 making detailed notes of the incantations, alex, joinedhy bill, began his search for the crystal in. antique shops in the city. eventually they found one. for ten nights they set up t e new circle within the old and gazed thr?\lghtheincens sme>ke in the crystal, and on the tenth night the angel appeared in it. its messagew

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

of the seven planes is divided into seven subplanes, of which the highest is called the atomic subplane. there are therefore forty-nine subplanes, and seven of these are atomic. aura. a subtle invisible essence or fluid which emanates from human and animal bodies, and even from things. it is a psychic effluvium, partaking of both mind and body. it is electro-vital, and also electro-mental. auric egg. an appellation that has been given to the causal body owing to its form. bodhisattva. literally, he whose consciousness has become intelligence, or buddhi. those who need but one more incarnation to become perfect buddhas. as used in these letters the bodhisattva is the name of the office which is at present occupied by the lord maitreya, who is known in the occident as the christ. this offic

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

urified the rupa levels. the fire destroyed the lands in the days of the lesser sixth- 21- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust when the sixth appeared the land was changed. the surface of the globe circled through another cycle. men of the higher fifth mastered the lower three. the work was shifted to the plane whereon the pilgrim stood. the lesser triangle within the lower auric egg became the centre of cosmic dissonance. stanza xi the wheel of life turns within the wheel of outer form. the matter of fohat circulateth, and its fire hardeneth all the forms. the wheel that is not glimpsed moveth in rapid revolution within the slower outer case, till it weareth out the form. the forty-nine fires burn at the inner centre. the thirty-five circulating fiery vortices extend alon

se on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. manas t he triad. from the standpoint of evolution we regard the higher two and the highest one as the correspondence to the absolute as he manifests in duality. this is prior to objectivity, which requires the presence of the three. in manifestation we might regard the principles as follows: first principle..the sphere of manifestation, the monadic egg. second principle..atma..will. third principle..buddhi..p. ure reason, wisdom. fourth principle..manas..pure mind, higher mind. fifth principle..manas..lower mind. sixth principle..k. ama-manas. seventh principle..pure emotion, or feeling. these are the principles for the microcosm viewed as having transcended the physical bodies altogether, and thus the tabulation deals entirely with the subj

e fourth globe is of paramount interest, inasmuch as it is the physical plane vehicle for a heavenly man in dense objective incarnation. yet it must not be forgotten that, though manifesting thus objectively, he embodies in totality the chain and the scheme. the idea may be clarified for the student if it is stated that: a scheme, in its totality, corresponds to the monad, or to the monadic auric egg, in connection with a human being and his forty-nine cycles. a chain,37(121) in its totality corresponds to the body egoic of a human being, to the causal body with its seven great cycles mentioned elsewhere in these pages, and hinted at in certain occult books. a globe, with its seven races corresponds to a particular series of incarnations in connection with a man, incarnate or discarnate, f

se centres are recognised also as focal points of active force, manifesting to the vision of the clairvoyant as fiery wheels or the flaming petals of a lotus. b. the causal body. monadic heart centre. in studying the egoic body it should be remembered that the causal body is the correspondence in the monadic manifestation to the heart centre. it is a flaming wheel of fire within the monadic auric egg, which embraces the five planes of monadic manifestation; it is also seen as the twelve-petalled lotus. of these twelve petals, the innermost three are unrevealed, or are embryonic, and hence the causal body is frequently considered as a nine-petalled lotus, or as a wheel of fire with only nine spokes or whorls. this is essentially true as regards the evolutionary process, but when a man has s

and make possible the unfolding of the consciousness of the monad through the medium of the ego in the three worlds of human evolution. in fire by friction, the lunar pitris are represented and constitute the lower self, the personality, or those vehicles by means of which the ego in turn is to acquire experience on the lower planes. yet these three are one in manifestation within the egoic auric egg, and the interchange of energy and vitality proceeds steadily. spirit uses the soul, or the ego, as a vehicle of enlightenment, and the ego uses the lower quaternary as its medium of expression. the evolution of spirit can really therefore be divided into three stages: first. the stage in which the lunar pitris function primarily, and prepare the lower sheaths for occupancy. the lower vibratio

e of these figures is profound. in every case the figure twelve is met with, showing a definite relation to the basic psychic lotuses on egoic levels. twelve multiplied by eight stands for the twelve petals in each case, while in the figure eight lies hidden the idea of duality: a. the four of the quaternary- 508- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust b. the four of the egoic auric egg (the three aspects, and the ring-pass-not) we must note also, that the idea of twelve in connection with the centres is found in three of them: a. the higher head centre, b. the secondary head centre, c. the heart centre. if the student studies this condition, and links up the idea of the three tiers of petals in the twelve-petalled lotus, he may find illumination. more it is not possible to g

and is revealed as part of the teaching given to initiates of the second degree. the second great life impulse, or life wave, initiated by our planetary logos, when brought in conjunction with the first, was the basis of that activity which we call evolutionary energy; it resulted in a gradual unrolling, or revelation, of the divine form. the heavenly serpent manifested, being produced out of the egg, and began its convolutions, gaining in strength and majesty, and producing through its immense fecundity millions of lesser "serpents" the reptile kingdom is the most important part of the animal kingdom in certain aspects, if such an apparently contradictory statement can be made. for all animal life can be seen passing through it during the prenatal stage, or returning to it when the form i

ne. 3. the supreme head centre. it is, therefore, a miniature picture of the whole evolution of spirit and matter for, 1. the lowest centre corresponds to the personality, 2. the middle centre to the ego, or the thinker, 3. the supreme head centre to the monad. in the evolution of the fires of the spine, we have a correspondence to the sutratma with its three points of interest, the monadic auric egg, its emitting point, the egoic auric egg, the medial point, and the body or gross form, its lowest point. another hint of interest lies in the fact that there exist between these spinal centres, certain gaps (if i may so express it) which have (in the course of evolution) to be bridged by the energetic action of the rapidly growing vibration of the force unit. between the triple energy of the

ook, or one form of the dweller on the threshold. 270 5: s. d, i, 215, 242, 295. 271 6: the atom. s. d, i, 113, 566. it is on the illusive nature of matter and the infinite divisibility of the atom that the whole science of occultism is built. 1. everything is atomic god, monads, atoms- 823- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the sphere of solar manifestation..god the mundane egg. the logoic auric egg..macrocosm b. the sphere of monadic manifestation..monads the monadic auric egg..microcosm c. the sphere of the ultimate physical atom..atoms 2. the solar system is a cosmic atom. 3. each plane is an atom or complete sphere. 4. each planet is an atom. 5. each heavenly man is an atomic unit. 6. each human monad is an atom in the body of one of the heavenly men. 7. the caus

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

when the happy one had thus spoken, the master added this further: blind to the fourfold aryan truths of things, and blind to see things as they really are, long was our journeying thro' divers births. gone is the cord of life when these are seen. no more becoming when ill's root is cut" the four elements have been stated for us in the following extract from the secret doctrine (i. 95 "the golden egg was surrounded by seven natural elements, four ready (ether, fire, air, water, three secret" 11. their activities are to be done away with through the meditation process. the "opposing mental attitude" referred to in the previous sutra has distinct reference to the seeds or the latent tendencies as they subsist in the mental body and in the body of desire. this mental attitude has to become on

the more permanent and beautiful temple of solomon, typical of the soul body or causal vehicle, of longer duration and persisting for aeons, and increasingly revealed in its beauty upon the path up to the third initiation. 3. the, as yet, unrevealed and inconceivably beautiful, temple of ezekiel, the symbol of the sheath of the spirit, the home of the father, one of the "many mansions" the "auric egg" of the occultist. in the science of yoga, which has to be wrought out and mastered in the physical body the term "central organ" is applied to the head or the heart, and the distinction is one of time primarily. the heart in the earlier stages of unfoldment upon the path is the central organ; later it is the organ in the head where the true light has its abiding place. in the process of unfol

are the great lives back of all sentient existence. 5. they delight in contemplation of varying kinds. our worlds are but the reflection of god's thought; and they are the sum total of the mind of god. the ancient commentator sums up by making two basic statements which should be noted by the student. he says "this whole well-founded configuration stretches out in the midmost part of the (world) egg. and the egg is a minute fragment of the primary cause, like a firefly in the sky" this means that our solar system is but a cosmic atom and is itself only a part of a still greater spheroidal whole. then he states "by performing constraint upon the door of the sun, the yogin should directly perceive all this" constraint is a term frequently used in translating phrases which mean "the harnessi

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

is not specifically stated in the other six qualities. his six brothers, sons of the one father, chanted these injunctions to him on the day of his renewed activity (on what we call the day of creation: 1. produce the dual form and veil the life. let form appear, and prove itself divine. all is of god. quality..the power to manifest. 2. conform the shell to that which dwells within. let the world egg appear. let ages pass, then let the soul appear. let life emerge within a destined time. quality..the power to evolve- 49- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. let mind control. let the clear shining of the sun of life reveal the mind of god, and set the shining one upon his way. then lead him to the central point where all is lost within

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

ne on which these inter-planetary deities appear. no more can be communicated on this matter. the mystery of the goat lies hidden here. this avatar makes his appearance in the third round of the third chain and disappears in the fifth round of the fourth chain (727) gemini the third sign of the zodiac references in the secret doctrine 1 "castor and pollux, the bright gemini, were born from leda's egg (i. 392) 2 "the legend of castor and pollux is concerned with the mortal half of man, the personality, and the immortal part, the ego or spiritual individual. the personality has nothing in itself to survive and the other half which becomes immortal in its individuality by reason of its fifth principle being called to life by the informing gods, thus connecting the monad with this earth. this

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ctor sent in a practical nurse but she was so incompetent that i suffered severely at her hands and went through three months of great discomfort and agony. we then moved from the seminary to other living quarters. we took a small apartment where, for the first time, i was left alone with a small baby and all the housework to do. up to that time i had never washed a pocket handkerchief, boiled an egg or made a cup of tea, and was a completely incompetent young woman. my experience in learning to do things was such that i have seen to it that the three girls know all there is to know about housekeeping. they are entirely competent. i'm quite sure it was not an easy time for walter evans and it was then that i began to discover living alone with him where we could not be overheard that he wa

cked hundreds of cans. visitors to the factory were brought to watch me and then i paid the price of my good work and had to listen to comments such as "what's a woman like this doing in a factory" and "she looks too good for her job, but is probably no good "she must have done something to have brought herself down to this kind of work "better not be taken in by appearances, she's probably a bad egg" i am quoting literally. i remember once the foreman of the factory was standing by listening to a group talking about me in this way and watching me squirm. the comments had been particularly rude and my hands were literally shaking with fury. after they had passed on he came up to me and said, with the kindest expression on his face "never you mind, mrs. evans, we here call you 'the diamond

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

t decay before it can spring up again; moreover, putrefaction imparts life to many worms and other animalculae. the process of augmentation and quickening is mostly performed in [the] earth, while it is caused by spiritual seed through the other elements. twelve keys of basil valentine 52 of 95 the farmer s wife knows that she cannot hope to obtain chickens except through the decomposition of the egg. if bread is placed in honeys and suffered to decay, ants are generated; worms are bred in the putrefying bodies of men, horses, and other animals; maggots are also developed by the decay of nuts, apples, and pears. the same thing may be observed in regard to vegetable life. nettles and other weeds spring up where no such seed has ever been sown. this occurs only by putrefaction. the reason is

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

about grassy fields of copper. along the surrounding copper hills, there are terrifying storms of copper. within the red copper mountain there is a boiling lake of blood. at the center of the blood lake, there is a dark leather castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copper locks, and stairs of lapis lazuli. here, due to his maliciousness and arrogance, chorwa was reborn in a red egg of blood. his parents were the savage demon lord lekpa (legs pa "excellent" and the violence demoness dongmarma (gdong dmar ma "red-faced woman" the latter is the daughter of the might demon lord dawa t kar (zla ba thod dkar "white skull moon" forefather of all might demons. when the egg burst open, the malicious violence demon tsiu marpo was born. due to his great maliciousness and hatred, si

ominion of dharma.r. 156 women. then, one day322 the king s army exhorted a curse.323 chorwa324 was murdered by a knife. he prayed with his misguided mind,325 "in the latter part of this eon,326 i will become a ferocious, vicious violence demon. may i become the executioner327 of all beings [304] exclaiming that, he, in an instant, at chongri zangtso328 in the western direction, was born in a red egg of blood from the collection of a fierce, malicious mind,329 from the red-faced violence demon, daughter of the might demon lord dawa t kar,330 and from the fiercely afflicted savage demon lord lekpa. within the internal power of the burst egg,331 the malicious violence demon332 tsiu mar333 was born. by means of his great malicious mind of attachment and hatred,334 six malicious violence demon

a charnel ground, there is a dark, brass castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copper locks, and stairs of lapis lazuli. within this, there was a father, the savage demon lord lekpa or that might demon lord named dawa t kar, who became the forefather of all might demons; and a mother, a flesh-eating violence demon named dongmarma. from his [mental] aggregates, chorpo entered an egg of blood within the womb of the flesh-eating demoness. nowadays, in most tantras, it is said that "by means of a collection of maliciousness and arrogance, he was born in a red egg of blood to the fierce-faced savage demon lord lekpa and the violence demoness dongmarma, daughter of the might demon lord dawa t kar" the gods are entreated by those renowned as conquerors, and even from within the

lso called anglingter [ang ling gter [the demon] is called the victorious akse [ag se] of the sky and the mother is a serpent demoness named zangdrinma. the queen of the might demons is named shelmikma [the demoness] is named sasin mamo. these are from the food within the rock stairs of the two hard teachings (117.17-118.2) furthermore, from the root tantra "from within the force inside the burst egg, the malicious violence demon tsi mar arose. from his body of a great malicious mind of attachment and hatred six malicious might demons arose. from his head, the black obstacle might demon arose. from his white bones, the divine might demon arose. from his body heat and radiance, the rock might demon arose. from his blood, the lightning hot defiling might demon arose. from his pus, the serpen

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

existence in the great expanse of heaven. seven hundred years she wandered, seven hundred years she laboured, ere her first-born was delivered. ere a beauteous duck descending, hastens toward the water-mother. lightly on the knee she settles, finds a nesting-place befitting, where to lay her eggs in safety, lays her eggs within, at pleasure, six, the golden eggs she lays them, then a seventh, an egg of iron (kalevala, rune i[[vol. 2, page] 15 stanzas from the book of dzyan. anthropogenesis in the secret volume (verbatim extracts) i. 1. the lha which turns the fourth is subservient to the lha of the seven, they who revolve driving their chariots around their lord, the one eye. his breath gave life to the seven; it gave life to the first. 2. said the earth "lord of the shining face; my hous

lliant bodies of the lords, the fathers, the sons of twilight. 21. when the race became old, the old waters mixed with the fresher waters. when its drops became turbid, they vanished and disappeared in the new stream, in the hot stream of life. the outer of the first became the inner of the second. the old wing became the new shadow, and the shadow of the wing- vi. 22. then the second evolved the egg-born, the third. the sweat grew, its drops grew, and the drops became hard and round. the sun warmed it; the moon cooled and shaped it; the wind fed it until its ripeness. the white swan from the starry vault overshadowed the big drop. the egg of the future race, the man-swan of the later third. first male-female, then man and woman. 23. the self-born were the chhayas: the shadows from the bod

y very little to the reader[[vol. 2, page] 19 the slokas of "dzyan" ready. these were set apart among the seven. they became narrow-headed. the third were ready "in these shall we dwell" said the lords of the flame. 25. how did the manasa, the sons of wisdom, act? they rejected the self-born. they are not ready. they spurned the sweat-born. they are not quite ready. they would not enter the first egg-born. 26. when the sweat-born produced the egg-born, the twofold and the mighty, the powerful with bones, the lords of wisdom said "now shall we create" 27. the third race became the vahan of the lords of wisdom. it created "sons of will and yoga" by kriyasakti it created them, the holy fathers, ancestors of the arhats- viii. 28. from the drops of sweat; from the residue of the substance; matt

'bo ska-arim, translated by isaac myer, qabbalah, pp. 109-111- 19. the second race (was) the product by budding and expansion; the a-sexual (form) from the sexless (shadow. thus was, o lanoo, the second race produced (a (a) what will be most contested by scientific authorities is this a-sexual race, the second, the fathers of the "sweat-born" so-called, and perhaps still more the third race, the "egg-born" androgynes. these two modes of procreation are the most difficult to comprehend, especially for the western mind. it is evident that no explanation can be attempted for those who are not students of occult metaphysics. european language has no words to express things which nature repeats no more at this stage of evolution, things which therefore can have no meaning for the materialist. b

ing part of the nucleus which is nourished by the substance of the cell. then why could not beings have lived thus, and been created in this way- at the very beginning of human and mammalian evolution? this may, perhaps, serve as an analogy to give some idea of the process by which the second race was formed from the first. the astral form clothing the monad was surrounded, as it still is, by its egg-shaped sphere of aura, which here corresponds to the substance of the germ-cell or ovum. the astral form itself is the nucleus, now, as then, instinct with the principle of life. when the season of reproduction arrives, the sub-astral "extrudes" a miniature of itself from the egg of surrounding aura. this germ grows and feeds on the aura till it becomes fully developed, when it gradually separ

vilege. they are semi-immortal; they live and die, each in turn, and every alternate day[[eteremeroi. as the tyndaridae, the twin brothers are an astronomical symbol, and stand for day and night; their two wives, phoebe and hilasira, the daughters of apollo or the sun, personifying the dawn and the twilight* again, in the allegory where zeus is shown as the father of the two heroes- born from the egg to which leda gives birth- the myth is entirely theogonical. it relates to that group of cosmic allegories in which the world is described as born from an egg. for leda assumes in it the shape of a white swan when uniting herself to the divine swan* leda is the mythical bird, then, to which, in the traditions of various peoples of the aryan race, are attributed various ornithological forms of

ical bird, then, to which, in the traditions of various peoples of the aryan race, are attributed various ornithological forms of birds which all lay golden eggs* in the kalevala (the epic poem of finland, the beauteous daughter of the ether "the water mother" creates the world in conjunction with a "duck (another form of the swan or goose, kalahansa, who lays six golden eggs, and the seventh "an egg of iron" in her lap. but the variant of the leda allegory which has a direct reference to mystic man is found in pindar* only, with a slighter reference to it in the homeric hymns* castor and pollux are in it no longer the dioscuri (of apollodorus iii. 10, 7; but become the highly significant symbol of the dual man, the mortal and the immortal. not only this, but as will now be seen, they are

nly abodes. this semi-immortality, which is also to be shared by castor, is accepted by pollux* and thus the twin brothers live alternately, one during the day, and the other during the night* is this a poetical fiction only? an allegory, one of those "solar myth" interpretations, higher than which no modern orientalist seems able to soar? indeed, it is much more. here we have an allusion to the "egg-born" third race; the first half of which is mortal, i.e, unconscious in its personality, and having nothing within itself to survive; and the latter half of which becomes immortal in its individuality, by reason of its fifth principle being called to life by the informing gods, and thus connecting the monad with this earth. this is pollux; while castor represents the personal, mortal man, an

nterpretation are accepted by decharme in his "mythologie de la grece antique "castor and pollux" he says "are nothing but the sun and[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 124 the secret doctrine. if from greek mythology we pass to the mosaic allegories and symbolism, we shall find a still more striking corroboration of the same tenet under another form. unable to trace in genesis the "egg-born" we shall still find there unmistakably the androgynes, and the first three races of the secret doctrine hidden under most ingenious symbology in the first four chapters of genesis- the divine hermaphrodite. an impenetrable veil of secrecy was thrown over the occult and religious mysteries taught, after the submersion of the last remnant of the atlantean race, some 12,000 years ago, lest

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mystic fire. 339 one tree of knowledge. 341- iv. chaos- theos- kosmos. 342 the union of chaos and spirit. 343 the birth of mind. 345- v. the hidden deity, its symbols and glyphs. 349 the gnostic idea. 351 international correlation of gods. 355[[vol. 1, page] xiii contents. page. vi. the mundane egg. 359 egg-born logoi. 363 the winged globe. 365- vii. the days and nights of brahma. 368 human gods and divine men. 369 the rebirth of gods. 371 the puranic prophecy. 377- viii. the lotus as a universal symbol. 379 exoteric and esoteric. 381 the purity of early phallicism. 383 the egyptian lotus. 385- ix. deus lunus. 386 a glance at the lunar myth. 387 a key-note to the moon. 389 copies and ori

te disk within a dull black ground. on the following page, the same disk, but with a central point. the first, the student knows to represent kosmos in eternity, before the re-awakening of still slumbering energy, the emanation of the word in later systems. the point in the hitherto immaculate disk, space and eternity in pralaya, denotes the dawn of differentiation. it is the point in the mundane egg (see part ii "the mundane egg, the germ within the latter which will become the universe, the all, the boundless, periodical kosmos, this germ being latent and active, periodically and by turns. the one circle is divine unity, from which all proceeds, whither all returns. its circumference- a forcibly limited symbol, in view of the limitation of the human mind- indicates the abstract, ever inc

no philosopher among them will view this "death" in any other sense than as a temporary disappearance from the manifested plane of existence, or as a periodical rest. the occultists are, therefore, at one with the adwaita vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet. they show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute all creating or even evolving the "golden egg" into which it is said to enter in order to transform itself into brahma- the creator, who expands himself later into gods and all the visible universe. they say that absolute unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of that "something; and the one all is like space- which is its only mental and physical representation on th

lls through infinitude. the mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus. 2. the vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life. 3. darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep. the ray shoots through the virgin egg, the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg[[vol. 1, page] 29 the secret doctrine. 4. then the three fall into the four. the radiant essence becomes seven inside, seven outside. the luminous egg, which in itself is three, curdles and spreads in milk-white curds throughout the depths of mother, the root that grows in the depths of

sons of the earth, to your instructors- the sons of the fire. learn, there is neither first nor last, for all is one: number issued from no number. 2. learn what we who descend from the primordial seven, we who are born from the primordial flame, have learnt from our fathers. 3. from the effulgency of light- the ray of the ever-darkness- sprung in space the re-awakened energies; the one from the egg, the six, and the five. then the three, the one, the four, the one, the five- the twice seven the sum total. and these are the essences, the flames, the elements, the builders, the numbers, the arupa, the rupa, and the force of divine man- the sum total. and from the divine man emanated the forms, the sparks, the sacred animals, and the messengers of the sacred fathers within the holy four. 4

cret doctrine. first divine world is ready, the first is now the second. then the "divine arupa" reflects itself in chhaya loka, the first garment of the anupadaka. 5. fohat takes five strides and builds a winged wheel at each corner of the square, for the four holy ones and their armies. 6. the lipika circumscribe the triangle, the first one, the cube, the second one, and the pentacle within the egg. it is the ring called "pass not" for those who descend and ascend. also for those who during the kalpa are progressing towards the great day "be with us" thus were formed the rupa and the arupa: from one light seven lights; from each of the seven, seven times seven lights. the wheels watch the ring- stanza vi. 1. by the power of the mother of mercy and knowledge- kwan-yin- the "triple" of kwa

ge to distinguish from what appears to us as unconsciousness[[vol. 1, page] 57 the germ of life. stanza ii- continued. 3. the hour had not yet struck; the ray had not yet flashed into the germ (a; the matri-padma (mother lotus) had not yet swollen (b (a) the ray of the "ever darkness" becomes, as it is emitted, a ray of effulgent light or life, and flashes into the "germ- the point in the mundane egg, represented by matter in its abstract sense. but the term "point" must not be understood as applying to any particular point in space, for a germ exists in the centre of every atom, and these collectively form "the germ" or rather, as no atom can be made visible to our physical eye, the collectivity of these (if the term can be applied to something which is boundless and infinite) forms the n

pecific meaning to a term used by occultists in a generic sense, and which is used in cosmogony with a metaphysical and mystical meaning. ice is not water, neither is steam, although all three have precisely the same chemical composition- stanza iii- continued. 2[[3 "darkness" radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the waters, into the mother deep. the ray shoots through the virgin-egg; the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction is a r

the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction is a reality. the virgin-egg being in one sense abstract egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same. and just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the noneternal periodical germ which becomes later in[[vol. 1, page] 65 nature's symbols. symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol "the promise and po

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ng its occurrence (1) providing i could speak without altering the state of consciousness (2) providing i could find the necessary person [no good..o.m] dec. 15th, 11:50 to 12:9 p.m. astral journey. on first trying to project astral it went rapidly off in a n.e. direction [bad. o.m] then described a curve to the north and so round twice, and became normal again. second attempt. enclosed astral in egg of light, sent it straight up. egg opened; and i opened eyes in space. i saw above me a shining object, oblong in shape, and travelling to it, found it almost like a kite. leaning upon it, i was carried backwards for some distance, during which time i watched a changing landscape below. wishing to descend, i dropped towards the earth, and found body supported by another. when near the ground

ing to these remarks upon the sacred three; but ego, non-ego, and that which is formed from their wedding, are here referred to. there are two triangles of especial importance to mystics; one is the equilateral, the other that familiar to the past master in craft masonry. the last sentence in the text refers to the .seed. of fire, the .ace of wands. the .lion-serpent. the .dwarf-self. the .winged egg. etc, etc, etc. 79. and this, o yogi of success, is what men cali dhyana, the right precursor of samadhi. these states have been sufficiently, and much better, described in book 4, q.v. 80. and now thy self is lost in self, thyself unto thyself, merged in tha t s e l f from which thou first didst radiate. in this verse is given a hint of the underlying philosophical theory of the cosmos. see l

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

hardy herbaceous plant used internally as well as externally in the treatment of rheumatism and neuralgia. frondes populeas are the leaf-buds of the poplar; sium is the water parsnip and acorum vulgare is calamus, used for disorders of the stomach. pentaphyllon is the greek name for the cinquefoil; a flitter-mouse is, of course, a bat. the solanum family includes such as the potato, bitter-sweet, egg-plant and others; somnificum probably indicates one of the nightshade species ofsolanum. the oleum was in all probability the oil used to bind these various innocuous ingredients. witchcraft from the inside raymond buckland, llewellyn publications, 1971 now answer the examination questions for this lesson in appendix b lesson ten: herbalism/ 151 sources 1. tell what some of your personal uses

ough onto it. flatten the dough with your hands and roll with rolling-pin until about x/4 inch thick. use a very small cookie-cutter or cut into small squares and place on an ungreased baking sheet. bake in the oven for about twenty minutes, then lower the heat to 300 and toast until light brown. scotch oatcakes (my personal favorite) need: v4 cup butter or margarine, 1 cup oat flour% cup bran, 1 egg, 1 cup milk% teaspoon salt, v2 teaspoon baking powder, j/2 teaspoon cream of tartar (a sweeter version can be made by also adding% teaspoon vanilla, v2 teaspoon cinnamon, 6 teaspoons sugar. cut the butter into the oat flour and bran. add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. preheat oven to 425. drop the batter, by well-rounded table-spoonsful, onto a greased cookie sheet (or, for neat

ining ingredients and mix thoroughly. preheat oven to 425. drop the batter, by well-rounded table-spoonsful, onto a greased cookie sheet (or, for neater cakes, drop into greased muffin pans. bake 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. serve with butter (and jelly, if desired. corn bread need: 2 cups white meal (coarse ground, 1 cup flour, milk, 1 tablespoon sugar, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon salt. combine all dry ingredients, then add egg and enough sweet milk to make thin batter. pour in hot, well-greased, bread pans. bake in a hot oven until brown. acorn cookies need% cup oil% cup honey, 2 beaten eggs, 2 cups acorn flour (see "acorn bread" above*/2 teaspoon almond extract, cup dried, chopped acorns. blend the oil and honey; beat in the eggs. add the almond extract, a

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

words spoken over them, transformed into potions to bring a desired lover, employment or an unexpected helping hand in times of sorrow. a grandmother would put any small coins she could spare into a money pot and warm it near the fire to 'incubate' the money into sufficient to mend the roof or buy new coats for the winter. a young wife eager to be pregnant would secretly prick a fertilised hen's egg with a needle on the night of the full moon immediately before making love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint

ld be tied together and placed in a drawer in a bedroom or left out on the window ledge in the moonlight, especially around the time of the full moon. for fertility, a miniature poppet might be placed in a tiny woven cradle on the window ledge from the new to the full moon. it would then be wrapped in silk until the end of the moon cycle and kept in an enclosed space, for example, a large painted egg made of pottery or wood. the would-be father would make the cradle and the mother would sew and fill the doll. some practitioners attach hair from the person to be healed or the object of the love spell to the poppet, but i consider that this is an intrusion of privacy. instead, i would suggest that if you wish to add extra power, you make your featureless dolls in an appropriate colour. herba

seite 132 wicca01.txt moon, they may mean the time when the crescent first appears in the sky. but if you prefer, you can, as some modern practitioners do, count the dark of the moon only as those three last waning days and start new moon magick from the literal calendar day. it's a bit like deciding exactly when a chicken comes to life: you don't actually see it until the chicken pops out of the egg but you know it's alive even when it's invisible, inside the shell [insert pic p217- i prefer to wait for the crescent because to me those last days of the old moon are still very precious. i can remember waking before it was light in spain and seeing that last waning crescent with its accompanying star, shining like a jewel in the warm sky. the answer, as always, is to do what you feel is bes

sea, you may be able to coincide your lovemaking with the high tide (a secluded beach is brilliant if the weather is good, although i have known people do this hundreds of miles from the sea. but if the tide is out of sync, then you still have lunar energies aplenty. you could even plan an overnight stay in a hotel with a room overlooking the shore so you can hear the sound of the waves* take an egg and carefully with a needle make a hole in it to drain out all the fluid. you can cook this and eat it or feed this to an animal to avoid waste. if you do not want to use a real egg, you can buy painted wooden or even agate ones in two halves that slot together* cut your shell in half and in one half place either a moonstone or a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* m

a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* make love when you wish* on the night the full moon is in the sky, take a tiny paper knife and gently prick the crystal still inside the shell saying: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* make love in the full moonlight if it is shining or at any time that night even if it is not, so that you can see the egg on the window ledge or if you are outdoors on a nearby rock* as you reach orgasm, repeat, silently if your partner is nervous of magick: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* leave your egg in the moonlight* the next morning, place the two halves together and wrap the egg with the crystal inside, together with the knife, in a white silk scarf in a drawer in your bedr

aving them and chanting, my power renewed, the dream is true, the wish is free, so shall it be. seite 172 wicca01.txt* gradually, slow down and reduce your chant to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure oliv

nent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (the coconut is the most potent fertility fruit) or a tiny straw basket, and set your little boat sailing on a river or the outgoing tide. if you cannot sail it, bury your egg and coconut shell beneath a willow or alder tree and water the soil with moon water (water that has been collected when the full moon shines on it* make love whenever you wish during the mo

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

r the globe, which with toil and labour we were to lift off the chain and set upon the floor, was sufficiently cooled. now the dispute was how to get the globe in half, for we were commanded to divide it in the middle. the conclusion was that a sharp pointed diamond would best do it. now when we had thus opened the globe, there was nothing more of redness to be seen, but a lovely great snow-white egg. it made us rejoice most greatly that this page 71 had been brought to pass so well. for the virgin was in perpetual care lest the shell might still be too tender. we stood round about this egg as jocund as if we ourselves had laid it. but the virgin made it be carried forth, and departed herself, too, from us again, and (as always) locked the door. but what she did outside with the egg, or wh

e did outside with the egg, or whether it were in some way privately handled, i do not know, neither do i believe it. yet we were again to wait together for a quarter of an hour, till the third hole was opened, and we by means of our instruments came to the fourth stone or floor. in this room we found a great copper vessel filled with yellow sand, which was warmed by a gentle fire. afterwards the egg was raked up in it, that it might therein come to perfect maturity. this vessel was exactly square; upon one side stood these two verses, written in great letters. o. bli. to. bit. mi. li. on the second side were these three words: sanitas. nix. hasta (health, snow, lance) the third had only one word: f.i.a.t. but on the behind was an entire inscription running thus: quod. ignis: aer: aqua: te

.t. but on the behind was an entire inscription running thus: quod. ignis: aer: aqua: terra: sanctis regum et reginarum nostr: cineribus. eripere non potuerunt fidelis chymicorum turba in hanc urnam contulit. a. what fire: air: water: earth were unable to rob from the holy ashes of our kings and queens page 72 was gathered by the faithful flock of alchemists in this urn a.d. 1459. now whether the egg were hereby meant, i leave to the learned to dispute; yet i do my part, and omit nothing undeclared. our egg being now ready was taken out, but it needed no cracking, for the bird that was in it soon freed himself, and showed himself very jocund, yet he looked very bloody and unshapen. we first set him upon the warm sand, so the virgin commanded that before we gave him anything to eat, we shou

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

ter the first stories were told about the ancient rulers. many experts believe that the story of panku was molded and influenced by the caravan traders who wound across the deserts and mountains of the middle east, india, africa, and china carrying silk, spices, and other precious items of trade.1 the panku story shares some common elements with creation myths of those far-flung regions: a cosmic egg, separation of the world into opposing forces, and doomed gods. this story introduces the important concept of yin and yang. these opposing forces, which exist in everything found in nature, are not seen as evil and good, but as dark and light, female and male, earth and heaven. one cannot exist without the other. in this story, panku is depicted as a giant. in other versions, he appears in hi

as evil and good, but as dark and light, female and male, earth and heaven. one cannot exist without the other. in this story, panku is depicted as a giant. in other versions, he appears in his withered human form, clothed in bearskin and leaves. 16 once, the world was a mass of swirling darkness. there was no heaven. there was no earth. all the forces of the universe were trapped inside a small egg, tumbling and spinning in utter chaos. inside the egg was a tiny creature named panku. he slept soundly, unbothered by the disorder around him. as he slept, panku grew, and the egg also grew around him. for eighteen thousand years panku slumbered peacefully, until he had developed into a well-formed, muscular giant whose body spanned ninety thousand li (about thirty thousand miles. in perfect

of his deep sleep. the chaos bothered him, but even more important, panku realized that the fragile shell of the universe might rupture at any moment. panku knew he would have to take action, so he waited until the world was in a state of uneasy calm, then grabbed a long meteor. he picked it up like an ax and swung it down with every ounce of his strength. it crashed upon the exact center of the egg with a huge sonic boom. the sound reverberated throughout the world and split all the particles and gases of the universe in two. the light, pure forces of the world drifted up and formed the blue heavens. the heavy, dark forces of the universe sank down and formed the fertile earth. panku was delighted with his new world. it had beauty, order, and peace. to preserve these conditions, he propp

from his suffering, panku sobbed tears of gratitude which fell and created glittering, vast bodies of water that became the oceans. finally his work was over, and panku, the creator, was dead. in his place, he left a world that sparkled and twinkled with splashes of bright blues, vibrant greens, dusky browns, and clear, cold rushing waters. chinese mythology 20 questions and answers q: why was an egg a good symbol for the beginning of the world? a: many creatures are born from eggs, a symbol of life. each egg is round like the world, and contains all the nutrients essential for developing life. q: what were panku s first feelings about chaos, and how did they change? a: initially, he was fascinated by the noise and exploding gases, but later the noise and disorder irritated him, and he lon

ney to the west. the following myth retells the first part of that novel. it features the most well-known character in chinese folklore, the monkey king. his exploits demonstrate monkey s taoist training and powers. he is vain, rude, and greedy, but monkey s magic tricks and saucy personality make him a beloved character. 96 on the mountain of fruit and flowers, a magic rock gave birth to a stone egg. from this stone egg emerged a monkey whose first act was to jump up and bow to the four directions. his eyes flashed like lightning, and his teeth glinted like the stars at night. he played with other monkeys and with wolves, tigers, and deer, but he had an enormous appetite and often gobbled up their share of grass, leaves, berries, and fruit. still, his joyful personality and curious nature

f fruit and flowers. when the jade emperor discovered the destruction, he sent his heavenly army generals to capture the thief. monkey fought them with his embroidery needle, which he transformed into a mighty fighting stick. no one could defeat monkey, not even the hundred thousand heavenly troops who fought him with axes, sticks, and swords. and so it was that the orphan monkey, born of a stone egg from a magic rock, established his supremacy in the fighting arts. monkey 103 questions and answers q: where is the story of monkey taken from? a: the story is from a novel called journey to the west written by a government official named wu ch eng-en. q: how was monkey created? a: monkey was born from a stone egg that came from a magic rock on the mountain of fruit and flowers. when he emerge

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y the thing you are worried about. and that is precisely the sort of thing that is keeping money from coming to you. believe me, i know from experience. and in my case the worry was so bad that i had to farm the psychic work out because i could not stop worrying. how people think about money has a lot to do with how they get it. let me explain it like this. before the stock market laid its famous egg in 1929, there was tremendous economic activity. the businesses were booming, the factories were spewing goods as fast as people good buy them. the president was making a fortune on his vacuum cleaners (that's a joke. think about it) all the facilities and staff that were present before the crash were there after it. so what the hell happened? the minds of the people became so paralyzed that p

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times was an omen of death. the symbolism of the "gate-keeper (peter) denying the sun permission to rise before its due time was a ritual found in a number of solar cults. the crow of the cock also announces the arrival of the sun. remember, too, that basilisk, the mythical king of the serpents, became interchangeable with the term "cockatrice. it was said that the basilisk was born of the cocks egg and in decorative heraldry the basilisk had the head and legs of a cock, a snake-like tail, and the body of a bird covered with serpent scales. the roman god janus, who held the keys, was fused into "peter" when christianity was founded in rome in the form we know it today- janus was eannus, a name for nimrod in babylon. even in the early years of the roman church, which was supposed to have b

ien agenda" includes breeding hybrids using human and alien genetic material, and replacing human society with these hybrids under their control. this is the real reason behind all the abductions in which male sperm is taken or females are impregnated, according to dr jacobs. he says the first stage is to cross human genetics with the "alien. then this genetic material is fused with another human egg and sperm, and this second-stage hybrid is crossed with another human egg and sperm. the result of this would look almost human and when this is crossed with yet another human egg and sperm, the result could walk down the street without being noticed.1 he could be describing here the way the first creation of the anunnaki, what some people call "the adam, was evolved into the human mammal we s

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rry mother) and this itself is derived from the sumerian term, ti.it,which means that which is with life. adam was not created from dust from the ground,but from that which is with life- living cells. the sumerian term, ti, means both rib andlife and again the translators made the wrong choice. eve (she who has life) was notcreated from a rib, but from that which has life- living cells. the human egg for thecreation of the lulu/adam came from a female in abzu, africa, according to thesumerians, and modern fossil finds and anthropological research suggests that homosapiens did indeed come out of africa. in the 1980s, douglas wallace of emoryuniversity in georgia compared the dna (the blueprint for physical life) of 800 womenand concluded that it came from a single female ancestor.5 wesley b

all of the infinite mind because, at our highest expression, that iswhat we all are. everything. we are like droplets in an infinite ocean, individual to anextent, but toget-her we make the whole, the sum total of droplets. without thedroplets there can be no ocean. the question, however, is this: how much of this oceanare we connecting with? if it is a tiny fraction you will live in a cocoon, an egg shell asi call it, delinked from your infinite potential for knowledge, love, understanding andwisdom (see figure 54. you will live a predictable life dominated by worry and fearand believe that you are ordinary and powerless to control your own destiny. if youopen your mind and open your heart and break out of that cocoon you connect withmore and more of infinity and, in doing so, you underst

long, slow wavelength and so can onlytrigger a few of our potential antennas (see figure 57. but love (from which allpositive emotion derives) is a fast, short wavelength and so sparks into action far moreof these antennas (see figure 58. thus when we are under the spell of fear we delinkourselves from our true connection to infinity and live our lives within a small dropletof consciousness, the egg shell. when we express the emotion of love we reconnectwith our multidimensional self and our potential becomes infinite because we becomeinfinite. we reconnect with the ocean, with god.there is another way of putting this. our consciousness is a series of interconnectingenergy fields. we have our intellect, emotions, spirit and so on, all resonating todifferent frequencies, but interpenetrati

ave highlighted are deeply imbalanced because they arefiguw 64: when people are conditioned to close down theirconsciousness they delink from their eternal soul and all the love,wisdom, knowledge and inspiration waiting to be tapped. it is not thatwe need to seek enlightenment- we are enlightened. we just need toremove the barriers of fear which disconnect us from our ownenlightenment outside the egg shell. 493disconnected from those levels of self which resonate to the rhythm of love. but theyare still part of everything that exists, they are still you and me, an aspect of the gloriouswhole we call cod. so if we hate them, we hate ourselves. if we are violent to them, weare violent to ourselves. and it would be all so self defeating. i say: forgive them forthey know not what they do. by f

to my information, but i never answer thatquestion. the only person who knows what is best for you, is you. the trick is to clear thechannel to your higher dimensions so you can connect with the highest level of yourwisdom, love and inspiration to guide you to do what is most appropriate for you. wedont need to sit around in smoke filled rooms or start new political parties. we need toremove the egg shell of low vibrational emotion- fear -and the law of vibrationalattraction will connect us with all the people and organisations we need to transform theplanet. when we get ourselves right, the world must come right because we are the worldand the world is us. what we call society is the sum total of human thinking and feeling.it is a reflection of our attitudes. when we change them, we chan

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sly inaccessible to lumbering interests. the despoiling of the forests with over logging and the concomitant effects of ecological destruction caused viktor to resign in disgust over the greedy, short-sighted, commercial interests. schauberger pursued private research. his first development was a machine which would provide good drinking water that was alive with natural vital energy. this was an egg shaped container which had a small impeller in the bottom of the container. the impeller would spin at high speed and cause the water to form into a natural vortex (i.e, a three dimensional spiral) pattern. viktor had discovered that when water or any other fluid or gas was spun in a vortex it would pick up an energy charge. laboratory experiments by myself and others have shown that water spu

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

a condition of pure becoming, rashith ha gilgalim, the first swirlings, the commencement of whirling motions as it is called by the qabalists- primum mobile as it is called by the alchemists. chokmah, the second sephirab, is called by the rabbis mazloth, the sphere of the zodiac. here we have introduced the concept of the circle with its segments. creation has moved onwards. out of the primordial egg has developed the serpent that holdeth his tail in his mouth, as mme blavatsky chronicles in her invaluable storehouses of archaic symbolism, the secret doctrine and isis unveiled. 16. in a similar manner to that in which kether overflowed into chokmah does chokmah overflow into binab, the third sephirab. the paths pursued by the emanations in these successive overfiowings is represented upon

ill the word was clothed with speech by lips of man" 13. therein we have the clue to the riddle. the gods are the creations of the created. they are made by the adoration of their worshippers. it is not the gods that do the vork of creation. this is done by the great natural forces working each according to its nature; the gods come in their processiofl after the swan of the empyrean has laid the egg of rnaul festation in the darkness of the cosmic night. mystical qabala page 149 14. the gods are emanations of the group-minds of races; they are not emanations of eheieh, the one and eternal. nevertheless, they are immensely powerful, because by means of their influence over the imaginations of their worshippers they link the microcosm with the macrocosm; for by meditation on the ideal beaut

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

in my room one afternoon chatting with a friend; it was just getting dusk, and we were talking by the light of a gas-fire. suddenly we were both aware simultaneously of a presence in the room and turned spontaneously in the same direction. my friend sensed an antagonistic presence, and i, being more psychic, saw who it was, and had no difficulty in perceiving the form of my indian associate in an egg-shaped sphere of misty yellow light. i told my friend to quit the room and wait in the hall, and as 87 of 103 soon as the door closed behind her, i made use of the pentagram i have described, together with certain names of power that are unsuitable for disclosure in these pages. immediately the appearance in the corner by the door shattered and vanished, at the same time there was a resounding

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

reads- mes pepi pen au atf tem an xepert pet an gave birth to pepi this father tmu [when] not was created heaven, not xepert ta an xepert reth an mest neteru an xepert met was created earth, not were created men, not were born the gods, not was created death. 2. recueil de travaux, i. vii, p. 170 (l. 466. 3. religion und mythologie, p. 101. 4 a number of valuable facts concerning the place of the egg in the egyptian religion have been collected by lef bure, revue de l'histoire des religions, t. xvi, paris, 1887, p. 16 ff] p. xcix according to the divine intelligence maa. under the influence of thoth, or that form of the divine intelligence which created the world by a word, eight elements, four male and four female, arose out of the primeval nu, which possessed the properties of the male a

speculations, conjectures, and theories of the egyptian priests.[8] the light of the sun gave birth to itself out of chaos, and the conception of the future world was depicted in thoth the divine intelligence; when thoth gave the word, what he commanded at once took place by means of ptah and khnemu, the visible representatives of the power which turned thoth's command into deed. khnemu made the egg of the sun,[9] and ptah gave to the god of light a finished body.[10] the first paut of the gods consisted of shu, tefnut, seb, nut, osiris, isis, set, nephthys and horus, and their governor tmu or atmu.[11] the legend of ra and isis. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod07.htm (8 of 10 [8/10/2001 11:23:38 am] egyptian account of the creation. in a late copy of a work entitled the "book of

tary head) of the gods" he is the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (4 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] depicted in human form, sometimes with a crown upon his head and sceptre i in his right hand; and sometimes he has upon his head a goose,[4] which bird was sacred to him. in many places he is called the "great cackler" and he was supposed to have laid the egg from which the world sprang. already in the pyramid texts he has become a god of the dead by virtue of representing the earth wherein the deceased was laid [1. see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 385. 2. see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 395. 3. recueil de travaux, t. v, p. 10 (l. 61. 4 see lanzone op. cit. tav 346] p. cxiii ausar or osiris, the sixth member of the company of the gods of annu, was the son of

he nile riseth at thy will. thou only form, the maker of all that is, one only, the creator of all that shall be. mankind hath come forth from thine eyes, the gods have come into being at thy word, thou makest the herbs for the use of beasts and cattle, and the staff of life for the need of man. thou givest life to the fish of the stream and to the fowl of the air, and breath unto the germ in the egg; thou givest life unto the grasshopper, and thou makest to live the wild fowl and things that creep and things that fly and everything that belongeth thereunto. thou providest food for the rats in the holes and for the birds that sit among the branches. thou one, thou only one whose arms are many. all men and all creatures adore thee, and praises come unto thee from the height of heaven, from

on m -xerou (in recueil de travaux, tom. i, p. 10 ff. 4. compare# and# brugsch, dict. g og, pp. 185, 186. 5. tatunen, or tenen was, like seb with whom he was identified, the god of the earth; his name is often joined to that of plate i. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod13.htm (2 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:24:37 am] ptah, and he is then described as the creator of gods and men, and the maker of the egg of the sun and of the moon. see lanzone, dizionario, p. 1259; wiedemann, religion, p. 74; pierret, panth on, p. 6; and naville, la litanie du soleil, pp. 118, 119, and plate xxiv, 1. 3. this god was, in one aspect, a destroyer of created things; compare, naville, op. cit, p. 89. 6. a name for the boat of the evening sun. 7. see infra, p. 257, note 2. 8 the enemy of ra was darkness and night, o

behold, he is ra, the first-born of the gods. his mother suckleth him, she giveth her breast from the sky [rubric] the words of this chapter are to be said after [the deceased] is laid to rest in amenta, etc. text [chapter xxii][2 (1) chapter of giving a mouth (2) to osiris ani, the scribe and teller of the holy offerings of all the gods. may he be victorious in neter-khert (3 "i rise out of the egg in the hidden land. may my mouth be given (4) unto me that i may speak with it before the great god, the lord of the underworld (5) may my hand and my arm not be forced back by the holy (6) ministers of any god. i am osiris, the lord of the mouth of the tomb; and osiris, the victorious scribe ani, hath a portion 3 with him (7) who is upon the [1. the god addressed is anubis, who in the vignett

of 14 [8/10/2001 11:27:39 am] fight) by the persea tree hard by, in annu, it concerneth the children of impotent revolt when justice is wrought on them for what they have done. as to [the words "that night of the battle" they concern the inroad [of the children of impotent revolt] into the eastern part of heaven, whereupon there arose a battle in heaven and in all the earth "o thou who art in the egg (i.e, ra, who shinest from thy disk and risest in thy horizon, and dost shine like gold above the sky, like unto whom there is none among the gods, who sailest over the pillars of shu (i.e, the ether, who givest blasts of fire from thy mouth [who makest the two lands bright with thy radiance, deliver] the faithful worshippers from the god whose forms are hidden, whose eyebrows are like unto th

y from the flame which cannot be passed (4; he is turned aside from the path thereof and he is not burned in the fire. i lie down with the hamemu (5) i come unto the lion's lair, killing and binding; and i follow the path by which he came forth" vignette: ani carrying a sail, emblematic of breath and air. text [chapter liv (1) chapter of giving breath in the underworld. saith osiris ani "i am the egg of the great cackler, and i watch and guard that [1. for the texts see naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bll. 73, 74. 2. the variants are# and] p. 311 great place[1 (2) which the god seb hath proclaimed upon earth. i live; and it liveth; i grow strong, i live, i sniff the air. i am (3) utcha-aab,[2] and i go round behind [to protect] his egg. i have thwarted the chance of set, the mighty one of stre

r as the bounds of shu (3; and i give breath unto those who become young [again. i open my mouth, and i see with mine eyes"[3] vignette: a man holding a sail in his left hand. text [chapter lvi: chapter of sniffing the air upon earth [he saith"(2) hail, tmu, grant thou unto me the sweet breath which is in thy two nostrils. i embrace the mighty throne which is in unnu,[4] and i watch and guard the egg of the great cackler. i grow, and it groweth; it groweth, and i grow; i live, and it liveth; i sniff the air, and it sniffeth the air" vignette: ani standing, with a staff in his left hand. text [chapter xxix (i) the chapter of not letting the heart of a man be taken away from him in the underworld. saith osiris ani, triumphant "turn thou back, o messenger of all the gods (2) is it that thou a

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plan took shape in his brain that would help him attain the fame he craved. selecting the largest and finest specimen of the macedonian snakes that he could find, he carried it secretly to his destination. the temple that the credulous natives of abonotica had raised to apollo was surrounded by a moat, and alexander, ever ready to seize an opportunity wherever it presented itself, emptied a goose egg of its contents, placed within the shell a newly hatched serpent, and sunk it in the moat. he then informed the people that apollo had arrived. making for the moat with all speed, followed by a curious multitude, he scooped up the egg, and in full view of the people, broke the shell and exposed to their admiring eyes a little, wriggling serpent. when a few days had elapsed, he judged the time

as well as the threat of a war with the natives. for a generation salem village had been afflicted by economic tensions and the entire colony faced the threat of open hostilities breaking out as colonists continually expanded into indian lands. it began in the depths of winter when the daughters of parish minister the rev. samuel parris began to play games of fortunetelling using the white of an egg as a crystal ball. panic ensued when one of the girls saw a coffin in the egg. the fearfulness soon found expression in unexplained fits, which disrupted the household and on occasion the church services. a physician suggested witchcraft and while that suggestion was under consideration, a young woman in the village suggested to tituba and john indian, a caribbean indian couple (not african as

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

other s pillow it slowed down, and when close to her she shrank away from it. at this moment something dropped from the end of the tube, which was close to her, on to the pillow and the tube of cloudy material then floated back to the top of the door and vanished. thinking that the article which had dropped from it was a ball of wool, mother picked it up, and found to her amazement that it was an egg. she instantly sprang to the door, but found no one upstairs. henry sausse in his book des preuves? en voila observed many instances of his medium forming her hand into a cup, in trance and in full light, in the cavity of which a small cloud was seen to form, transforming itself instantly into a small spray of roses, with flowers, buds and leaves complete. the gradual progress of an apported o

pinion that a forgery, steeped in recent human magnetism, may be more capable of being handled by the invisible operators than the originals, which have to be searched for in mounds. bailey produced at least 100 such tablets and told doyle that they were passed as genuine by the british museum. at the sitting in question, besides an assyrian tablet, bailey apported a jungle sparrow s nest with an egg in it. the nest was two inches high and showed no sign of any flattening, which ought to have been the case had it been concealed on the medium s person. on marco falcomer s intervention, the milan society for psychical studies made arrangements with bailey for a european visit. from february to april 1904, 17 sittings were held in milan. bailey was put in a sleeved-sack of thin black satin. t

al statues, male and female. the doctrine had many points of resemblance to that of the ophites and the jewish kabala. sources: legge, francis. forerunners and rivals of christianity from 333 b.c. to 330 a.d. 2 vols. 1915. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1964. basilisk (or cockatrice) a fabulous reptilian monster of ancient and medieval legend believed to be generated from a cock s egg hatched by a serpent or a toad in a dunghill. accounts of this monster vary, but it was generally said to have either the face of a cock or a distorted human face, with the wings and feet of a fowl and the tail of a serpent. it was represented this way in heraldry. it was reputed to be a deadly creature with a destructive power similar to that of the fabulous gorgons of greek legend. a human b

ival of druidic tradition. females are generally the conservators of these mysteries, and that there were druid priestesses is fairly certain. there are also indications that to some extent witchcraft in scotland was a survival of celtic religiomagical practice. amulets were worn extensively by the celts, the principal forms in use being phallic (to fend against the evil eye, coral, the serpent s egg. the person who passed a number of serpents together forming such an egg from their collected spume had to catch it in his cloak before it fell to earth and then flee to avoid the reptiles vengeance. totemic amulets were also common. sources: de jubainville, h. d arbois. les droides et les dieux celtiques a forme d animaux. paris, 1906. gomme, g. l. ethnology in folklore. new york: d. appleton

ry, and a black hen was used for the same purpose in germany. the greek sirens, the shedim of the talmud, and the izpuzteque, whom the dead aztec encounters on the road to mictlan, the place of the dead, all have cock s feet. cocks are also sacrificed in the voudou and santeria ceremonies of the west indian islands. there is a widespread folk belief that once in seven years the cock lays a little egg. in germany it is necessary to throw this over the roof, or tempests will wreck the homestead; but should the egg be hatched, it will produce a cockatrice or basilisk. in lithuania the cock s egg should be put in a pot and placed in the oven. from this egg is hatched a kauks, a bird with a tail like that of a golden pheasant, which, if properly tended, will bring its owner great good luck. a c

s egg should be put in a pot and placed in the oven. from this egg is hatched a kauks, a bird with a tail like that of a golden pheasant, which, if properly tended, will bring its owner great good luck. a chronicle of basel in switzerland mentions that in the month of august 1474 a cock in that town encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. cock 305 was accused and convicted of laying an egg and was condemned to death. he was publicly burned along with his egg, at a place called kablenberg, in sight of a great multitude of people. in oldenburg, germany, a black cock was used to divine witches. the heart, lungs, and liver were pierced with needles and placed in a sealed vessel over a fire, while everyone present kept strict silence. when the heart boiled or became ashes, the witch

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in possession, and noise. prophecy and divination prophecy and divination have been quite popular in myanmar, and were in some measure controlled by the use of the deitton, an astrological book of indian origin. observation of the direction in which the blood of a sacrificed animal flowed, the knots in torn leaves, the length of a split bamboo pole, and the whiteness or otherwise of a hardboiled egg were utilized as methods of augury. but by far the most important mode of divination in use in the country was the bones of fowls. it was indeed an almost universal way of deciding all the difficulties of burmese existence. those wing or thigh bones in which the holes exhibit regularity were chosen. pieces of bamboo were inserted into these holes, and the resulting slant of the stick defined t

ved to remove anything noxious. the onyx was also believed to create strife, cause melancholy, and cure epilepsy. according to the bible, an onyx was the eleventh stone in the breastplate of the high priest (exod. 28:20, but it is possible that this stone (in hebrew, shoham) is known today as beryl. oomancy a system of divination using the outer and inner forms of eggs. one method was to break an egg into a glass of water and interpret the shapes assumed by the white (see also ooscopy) sources: waite, arthur edward. the occult sciences. n.p, 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. oom the omnipotent title given to pierre bernard, pioneer of hatha yoga study in the united states and founder of the new york sanskrit college in 1909. oneiromancy encyclopedia of occultism& paraps

ited states and founder of the new york sanskrit college in 1909. oneiromancy encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1144 ooscopy and oomantia two methods of divination using eggs, similar to oomamcy. an example of ooscopy was related by the roman historian suetonius (ca. 98.138 c.e, who stated that livia, when anxious to know whether she should be the mother of a boy or girl, kept an egg in her bosom at the proper temperature, until a chick was born. the name oomantia denoted a method of divining the signs or characters appearing in eggs. john brand, an english clergyman, described the custom of giving away pasche or paste eggs at easter. these are eggs stained with various colors. the custom was religiously observed in russia, where it was derived from the greek church. gilde

nglish clergyman, described the custom of giving away pasche or paste eggs at easter. these are eggs stained with various colors. the custom was religiously observed in russia, where it was derived from the greek church. gilded or colored eggs were mutually exchanged by men and women, who kissed one another and, if any coolness existed previously, became good friends again on these occasions. the egg is one of the most ancient symbols of new birth and has been applied to natural philosophy as well as the spiritual creation of man. sources: brand, john. observations on popular antiquities. 2 vols. london, 1813. waite, arthur edward. the occult sciences. n.p, 1891. reprint, secaucus, n.j: university books, 1974. opal gemstone of quartz or silica, praised by pliny the elder (ca. 23.79 c.e, wh

erfect, observe the manner in which you ought to operate. the election then being destroyed, as i have said, to arrive at the desired end (which is, to make of it a universal medicine for human as well as metallic bodies, take your election, rendered light and volatile by the method above described. take of it as much as you would wish to reduce it to its perfection, and put it in a philosophical egg of glass, and seal it very tightly, that nothing of it may respire; put it into an athanor until of itself it resolves into a liquid, in such a manner that in the middle of this sea there may appear a small island, which daily diminishes, and finally, all shall be changed to a colour black as ink. this colour is the raven, or bird which flies at night without wings, and which, through the cele

harsh vinegar and allow it to putrefy. on the surface of the vinegar it will raise itself in the form of fiery earth of the colour of oriental pearls. this is the first operation in the grand work. for the second operation, take in the name of god one part of gold and two parts of the spiritual water, charged with the sal-ammoniac, mix this noble confection in a vase of crystal of the shape of an egg: warm over a soft but continuous fire, and the fiery water will dissolve little by little the gold; this forms a liquor which is called by the sages chaos containing the elementary qualities.cold, dryness, heat and humidity. allow this composition to putrefy until it becomes black; this blackness is known as the crow s head and the darkness of the sages, and makes known to the artist that he i

hem in a cardboard model of the great pyramid, which he claimed accumulated the same radiations as the king s chamber of the pyramid. it was bovis s claims which were later picked up by karl drbal. in 1950, at the scientific and technical congress of radionics and radiesthesia, held in london, england, noel macbeth claimed that a cardboard model pyramid could mummify organic substances such as an egg and that this energy was connected with that radiated by the hands of gifted human healers. such claims had also been made in britain during world war ii, when there was a shortage of razor blades. through the 1970s into the 1980s, experimentation with pyramids was one of the prominent new age fads. for the most serious, pyramid tents and energy generators are marketed by pyramid products of g

cript in ancient days, as is vouched for by the story of the sibylline books or the passage in acts xix, 19; not a few of them that practised curious arts brought their books together, and burned them in the sight of all. it is curious to find the charm for raising hatred was practically the same among the semites and the peoples of hungary and the balkan states.that is, through the agency of the egg of a black hen. we find, too, many minor sorceries the same among the semites as among european races. to be invisible was on attainment much sought after, and it was thought that if one wore a ring of copper and iron engraved with certain magic signs this result would be secured. the heart of a black cat, dried and steeped in honey, was also believed to be effective (for various instances of

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

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mal while still alive, apparently as part of its study of the effects of pollution on earthly creatures. myrna hansen told a similar story under hypnosis, of an abduction in new mexico in 1980, during which a calf was brought into a ufo and mutilated while still alive. according to ufologist linda moulton howe, a rancher near waco, texas, came upon two greenish humanoids with almond eyes and big, egg-shaped heads as they were carting away one of his calves. terrified, he fled the scene. when he had recovered his nerve a couple of days later, he, his wife, and his son went to the scene. there they found, in howe s words, the calf s hide pulled back over the skull and folded inside out on the ground. about a foot from the empty hide was a complete calf backbone without ribs (howe, 1989. in j

ation between witnesses and ufo beings. to some ufologists, many never very enthusiastic about ce3s to start with, that suggested the despised contactees, even if neither man acted much like one. these ufologists were more comfortable with a ce3 report from socorro, new mexico, on april 24, 1964, from lonnie zamora, a police officer of undisputed reliability. around 6 p.m. zamora spotted a small, egg-shaped ufo resting in an isolated area on the city s outskirts. close to the object were two small figures dressed in white coveralls, apparently examining the craft. on seeing zamora, they ran behind the craft and disappeared. the flame-spewing ufo departed with a roar. police, project blue book, and civilian investigators found burn marks and impressions at the site. despite its hostility to

39, 4 (april: 81 87; pt. iii. 39, 5 (may: 68 76. owen, ron, 2000. private communication to jerome clark (january 6. dead extraterrestrials claims that the bodies of extraterrestrials have been found in the wreckage of spacecraft are older than the post world war ii ufo age. as long ago as 1864, a french newspaper (la pays, june 17) reported the discovery, by two american geologists, of a hollow, egg-shaped rock. inside it were various odd artifacts. they also found the mummified remains of a tiny humanoid about three feet tall with a bald head and an elephantlike trunk growing out of its forehead. on october 13, 1877, a provincial paper in argentina set the identical tall tale in that country, adding the detail that the discoverers had taken the body and artifacts to a local saloon to put

younger abductees, who may or may not have given their consent. david m. jacobs, who has written extensively on the issue of hybrids, believes these particular beings are from a late stage of the process. his investigations lead him to believe that first-stage hybrids are halfhuman/ half-alien. these entities tend to look almost alien. in the next stage, jacobs speculates, the aliens join a human egg and sperm and assimilate genetic material from the firststage hybrid. into the zygote (jacobs, 1998. the third-stage hybrid, created from human sperm and egg and genetic material from a second-stage individual, looks more human. only in the latest stages, the fifth or sixth, do the hybrids resemble humans enough to walk among us and, just as important, reproduce. they retain the strong mental

ientists argued that either lemuria or gondwanaland had survived into historical time. lemuria entered the occult tradition through helene petrovna blavatsky, founder of theosophy. in the secret doctrine (1889, blavatsky wrote that the present human race evolved through a series of root races. the third root race lived on lemuria. these beings had three eyes, one in the back of the head, and were egg-laying hermaphrodites (possessing attributes of both sexes; some had four arms. aside from these features, they were generally apelike in appearance. other occult writers went on to create their own lemurians. through astral clairvoyance the english theosophist w. scott-elliot learned that it was on lemuria that human beings entered physical bodies. the original lemurians were twelve to fiftee

s. see also: abductions by ufos; contactees; olliana olliana alliano further reading sprinkle, r. leo, ed, 1982. proceedings: rocky mountain conference on ufo investigation. laramie, wy: school of extended studies, university of wyoming. metatron metatron is a divine interface between god and the outer worlds meaning us on the outer layers of physical creation the hardened shell around the cosmic egg of light (arvey, 1994. metatronic energy is transmitted once a week to the earth, and seekers can gain access to it if they are attuned to the proper frequency. much of the information metatron sends is of a densely technical nature. a good part of the channeled material comes through james j. hurtak, who records it in the book of knowledge: the keys of enoch (1982. hurtak, however, is far fro

o me that they were without teeth. that and other things led me to believe that they neither ate nor drank, and that life was sustained by some sort of gas. each of them had swung under the left arm a bag to which was attached a nozzle, and every little while one or the other would place the nozzle in his mouth, at which time i heard a sound as of escaping gas (bullard, 1982) each also carried an egg-sized device that cast an intense but not unpleasant light when opened. 226 shaw s martians at this point the beings whom shaw presumed to be from mars tried to carry him and his friend away, but weighing as little as they did, they lacked the strength. so they turned around and flashed lights in the direction of a nearby bridge. the two men then perceived an airship, some one-hundred fifty fe

illiam morrow and company, 1995. breakthrough: the next step. new york: harpercollins publishers, 1996. the secret school: preparation for contact. new york: harpercollins publishers. strieber, whitley, and anne strieber, eds, 1997. the communion letters. new york: harperprism. swords, michael d, 1987. communion: a reader s guide. mufon ufo journal 229 (may: 3 6. sunar and treena dean anderson of egg harbor, wisconsin, was atop a riding lawn mower at a golf course when a flying saucer landed. it was 4:15 a.m, august 22, 1976. a door opened, and two beings, a man and a woman, floated out on a beam of light. as they stepped toward anderson, the saucer vanished. they shook anderson s hand, and the man said, we come in peace. i am sunar, from jupiter. this is treena. she comes from saturn (bar

chores on the morning of april 24, 1964, newark valley, new york, dairy farmer gary t. wilcox had a premonition that something out of the ordinary was going to happen that day. driving his tractor up a hill, he glimpsed a shiny object just inside a nearby clump of woods. he stopped the tractor, got off, and walked toward the woods. the closer perspective allowed him to see that the object was an egg-shaped structure, twenty feet long and sixteen feet wide, hovering two feet above the ground. all the while it emitted a sound that to wilcox s ears was like a car idling. just after he touched the ufo, two martians came up from under it. wilcox did not learn of their planet of origin immediately, but the figures did not look earthly. four feet tall and two feet wide, they were clad in silver

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d is done, at once i put my armour on. up with the low, down with the high, the crooked straight, the straight awrythat, only, makes me feel aglow, and on this earth i ll have it so. herald. then take thou that, a master-blow from my good staff, thou wretched hound, then straightway writhe and twist around!how swift the two-fold dwarfish clump balls up into a loathsome lump!but see! lump turns to egg- a wonder! puffs itself up and bursts asunder. thence comes a pair of twins to earth, adder and bat- a wondrous birth! on in the dust one crawls and creeps, the black one round the ceiling sweeps, and where they haste to join again, to be the third i am not fain. murmuring. come! they re dancing now back there!no! i want to flee from herefeel ye not the ghost-like breed creeping, wheeling, rou

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furthering universal unity and good-will as a visual language which all could understand.3 at this point, therefore "egyptian letters" join humanist latin as, like it, making for universal tolerance and mutual understanding, the dearest dream of erasmus. but this is a perfectly rational use of egyptianism. terrible, in terms of destruction of art and learning, were the results in england when the egg which erasmus had laid was hatched by the reformation. the smashing of the "idolatrous" images in the churches was matched by the destruction of books and manuscripts in monastic and college libraries. when in 1550, in the reign of edward vi, the government commissioners visited oxford, bonfires were made of the contents of the libraries, and, 1 the clouds of vagueness which hover over discuss

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y of myself and the great dragon) it is also my will to ask for a sigil of chaos to call and aid me/ us" c) declare "xiqual wec "ongo wec "tomargo wec "phenomenise dark matter! do dark matter! dark matter by whatever means necessary" d) melt the ice cube on your forehead and open the 3'rd eye. e) perform grendel's had an accident, act ii. f) as you say the following words visualize a cosmic chaos-egg around the self. at this point partake of the sacrament. start spinning around and around, as a dervish. spin faster and faster while saying the following: what was hidden has been found, what was silent now is sound, from the darkness to the light, will of god, strength and might. what is mine is mine to keep, send my will, shred the sleep, from the darkness to the light, binah-hokmah my will

as a dervish. spin faster and faster while saying the following: what was hidden has been found, what was silent now is sound, from the darkness to the light, will of god, strength and might. what is mine is mine to keep, send my will, shred the sleep, from the darkness to the light, binah-hokmah my will, my might- the gnosis part- from within the dark earth sears- visualize a crack in the chaos-egg- transmutations, powers and fears- the crack widens- from the darkness to the light, i declare this now by will and by might- kia- an explosion as the egg cracks open, gnosis ensues. collapse- note: a sigil should manifest during the trance. this is ones own chaos sigil from the universe. recover iv. banishing a) performance of grendel's had an accident, act iii. as one speaks (slowly) imagine

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

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

eturn 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 relationship to the yolk within it- living substance. that the israelites will find the promised land in the conquest of the world is a lie, a lie which protects a sublime truth- the reabsorption of the world into the pure spirit of god. to the masses of the jewish peoples such a statement will be considered blasphemous. yet in the zohar we read: with his ordinary un

of god. to the masses of the jewish peoples such a statement will be considered blasphemous. yet in the zohar we read: with his ordinary understanding, man cannot understand the revelation of mysteries. all that i am about to reveal to you can be revealed only to the masters, who know how to keep the balance because they have been initiated. 12 the shell, the white, and the yolk form the perfect egg. the shell protects the white and the yolk, and the yolk feeds upon the white; and when the white has vanished, the yolk, in the form of the fledged bird, breaks through the shell and presently soars into the air. thus does the static become the dynamic, the material the spiritual. if the shell is the exoteric principle and the yolk the esoteric, what then is the white? the white is the food o

, and all matter appears immaterial! lift another curtain, and the immaterial becomes even more spiritual and sublime! as each succeeding curtain is lifted we are transported to ever-higher planes of sublimity until the highest is reached!22 the curtains are the divisions (abysses) between the superconscious thought of god and the conscious thought of man. the ultimate curtain is the shell of the egg- materiality; but before this final curtain can be lifted, a host of intellectual curtains- the white of the egg- have to be dissolved by transmutation into spiritual energy. spiritual deliverance, or attainment, is consequently an act of creation. finally we come to this conclusion: it is not god, or the universe, which is the supreme mystery, but man, man himself, the link between god and th

on (duality) left to judge it by. they were in fact bereft of all power of directly perceiving the shekinah, or supernal light. there is yet another mystery included in the letter od. its hieroglyphic is the human hand. when opened it symbolizes the microcosm: the four fingers the material elements( od, heh, vau, heh, and the thumb the spiritual element (shin. when closed it symbolizes unity, the egg out of which all things emanate. as its numerical value is 10 it also symbolizes the two hands; the erect or good pentagram and the inverted or evil pentagram (see diagram 4 on page 53. ten is a combination of unity and zero; therefore mystically there is a relationship between od and aleph, and od and what is beyond aleph- the beginning. the numerical value of aleph is one, the two arms of wh

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

g as the paternal menu of a new age, while the triad, brahma, vishnu, and siva, is exhibited in the person of his three sons. but the ark-preserved menu--satyavrata and his three sons are certainly noah and his three sons, shem, ham, and japhet" hesiod teaches that, after the flood, chaos, night, and black erebus first appeared.[45] at this time, when there was no earth, no heaven, and no air, an egg floated on the face of the deep, which, being parted, brought forth love, or cupid. out of chaos this god created or formed all things. now cupid is the same as the greek phanes, and phanes is noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was produced. the greek god phanes is the same as the egyptian osiris, who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts" or by the evil p

ut of chaos this god created or formed all things. now cupid is the same as the greek phanes, and phanes is noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was produced. the greek god phanes is the same as the egyptian osiris, who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts" or by the evil principle [45] the theogony "as cupid is indifferently said to have been produced from an egg at a time when the whole world was in disorder, and from the womb of the marine goddess venus, the egg and the womb of that goddess must denote the same thing. accordingly we shall find that, on the one hand, venus is immediately connected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she is identical with derceto and isis, and is declared to be that general receptacle out of which all

peculiar symbol of isis was a ship; and when we learn that the form assumed at the period of the deluge, by the indian isi or bhavani, who is clearly the same as the egyptian isis, was the ship argha, in which her consort siva floated securely on the surface of the ocean. venus, therefore, or the great mother, the parent of cupid from whom all mankind descended, must be the ark: consequently, the egg, with which she is connected, must be the ark also. aristophanes informs us that the egg out of which love was born, was produced by night in the bosom of erebus. but the goddess night, as we learn from the orphic poet, was the very same person as venus; and he celebrates her as the parent of the universe, and as the general mother both of the hero-gods and of man. the egg therefore produced b

also. aristophanes informs us that the egg out of which love was born, was produced by night in the bosom of erebus. but the goddess night, as we learn from the orphic poet, was the very same person as venus; and he celebrates her as the parent of the universe, and as the general mother both of the hero-gods and of man. the egg therefore produced by night was produced by venus: but venus and the egg meant the same thing: even that vast floating machine, which was esteemed an epitome of the world, and from which was born that deity who is also literally said to have been set afloat in an ark. sometimes the order of production was inverted; and, instead of the egg being produced by night or venus, venus herself was fabled to have been produced from the egg. there is a remarkable legend of t

st floating machine, which was esteemed an epitome of the world, and from which was born that deity who is also literally said to have been set afloat in an ark. sometimes the order of production was inverted; and, instead of the egg being produced by night or venus, venus herself was fabled to have been produced from the egg. there is a remarkable legend of this sort which ascribes venus and her egg to the age of typhon and osiris, in other words, to the age in which noah was compelled by the deluge to enter into the ark"[46 [46] origin of pagan idolatry, book i, ch. iv. the preserver of the persians, who is seated on a rainbow in front of their rock temples, is mithras, who is identical with noah. sometimes this ancient mariner is represented as riding on the back of a fish, and again as

cy. the true origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. there have been and shall again be in the course of many revolving ages, numerous destructions of the human race; the greatest of them by fire and water, but others in an almost endless succession of shorter intervals"[47 [47] quoted by plato; also by clement of alexandria. we have observed that the symbol of the universe was an egg. the egg was also the symbol of the earth and of the ark, which meant universal womanhood. from the mundane egg the triplicated deity sprang. there can be little doubt at the present time that adam, noah, menu, osiris, and dionysos all represent the fructifying power of the sun. in process of time they each came to figure as male reproductive energy, and during certain periods of the earth's h

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

tes of the two principles by which everything is produced, and to dispute over their relative importance in the office of reproduction. much light has been thrown upon these speculations by the kosmogonies which have come down to us from the phoenicians, babylonians, and other peoples of past ages. in the phoenician kosmogony, according to the mokh doctrine as recorded by philo, out of the kosmic egg toleeleth (female "sprang all the impregnation of creation and the beginning of the universe" in this exposition of the beginnings of things, it is distinctly stated that the spirit which in after ages came to be regarded as something outside or above nature "had no consciousness of its own creation" commenting on the above, bunsen is constrained to admit that it is usually understood as being

beginnings of life; but as yet there was no order. men were there with the wings of birds and even with the feet of beasts. there were also quadrupeds and men with fishes' tails, all of which had been produced by a twofold principle. over this incongruous mass a woman presided. this woman is called omoroka by the babylonians and by the chaldeans thalatth. the latter name, signifies "bearing" or "egg producing" in the babylonian kosmogony, according to endemus, the pupil of aristotle, the beginning of the universe was called tauthe, which being interpreted means "mother of the gods" associated with her sometimes appears the male principle--apason. in the history of berosus, there is given an account of oaunes--a mythical teacher of babylon, who appeared with the head of a human being and t

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

was the subjectofastral travelling by means of tattwa vision.thetattwas are coloured symbolsofthe elements asused-oras the golden dawn occultistsbelievedthem to beused-byhinduadepts, who recognized five elements rather than the four accepted inthewest.theyare: teias,aredequilateral triangle; apas, a horizon255 tal silver crescent; vayu, a blue circle; prithivi, a yellow square; and akasa, a black egg. by superimposing thesesymbolsupon each other in various waysitis possible to obtain thirty different symbols, eachofwhich produces a different typeofvision, appropriate to the elements concerned, when used as a focus for occult meditation. firstorderstudents learned the theoryofobtaining clair255 voyance through meditation upon these symbols,butastral travelling, or 'travelling in the spirit

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, shade and material body. the modern theosophist describes this system as the descent of the supernal triad into the lower quaternary. these principles, however, are not quite definite; for some thinkers divide manas, mind, into a higher and a lower, and speak of an antahkarana or thread soul uniting them; other compli255 cations are also heard of, such as the mysterious vehicle called the auric egg. ancient egyptian mythology alsoexhibitsa beliefin several indistinct principles, such as the ka, the ren or name, the ba or soul, the ab and sahu, all dwelling in the khat, the material body. the romans spoke of corpus the body, vita the life essence, animus or mens the mind, and anima the soul: the greeks recognised several principles, such as the psyche the soul, nous or phren the mind, thu

ing a pointed cap and holding a dagger and a torch, sometimes a solitary figure, in other cases two men like shepherds are the witnesses of the miraculous birth: hence m. was called in ancient stone inscriptions -petragenetrix,theosexpetros(firmicus maternus) andpetrogenesmithras.in some designs the two men are torch-bearers, one holding up his torch, the other holding his down. a serpent with an egg in some cases lies around the rock. 2. mithras and the tree. he stands beside a leafy tree, and appears to be tearing off some leaves for clothing and eating the fruit; in some cases he is again seen leaving the tree fully clothed (query- emblematic of the fall of man of genesis of the old testament) 3. mithras and the- rock. he appears again with the phrygian cap, but kneeling and shooting an

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elementary form of manifested matter is revolution in theformof a vortex-ring, as shewn in an experiment in the lecture on'theborderlandofphysics'.ifwe rotate ahomogeneous-sphere j;apidly,and look at the axis of revolu255 tion, it appears like a point;butturnit to oneside,andthe axis appears like a line forming the diameter of the circle. in old times theoriginof matter was often symbolized by an egg, thus we hear of the cosmic egg, the world egg, etc; and we see the appropriateness of the symbol, if we.look at the egg as a hollow sphere, representing dormant put complete vitality;soon as incubation commences there appears a germinal spot, soon separable into .three layers(forwe cannot get away from the mysticthree. and thus the first point in physical life is the establishment of a three

axis, and from the inclination of that axis to the plane of its orbit; and two centres, two poles, a positive pole and a negative pole. and these poles govern the tatwic currents, or the life currents, as they pass over the globe. well now, as in the macrocosm so in the microcosm, as above sothetatwas193below, as inthegreat so inthesmall; and we find precisely the same thing in the hatching of an egg.ifyou carefully examine eggs from day to day, from the first day of incubation up to the timeofhatching, you will see the gradual formation of first one centre and then another within the yolk of the egg- a little knot apparently of the yolk matter.thereis a certain difference among occult writers as to whether it is the positive or the negative pole which is formed first, or whether both come

g occult writers as to whether it is the positive or the negative pole which is formed first, or whether both come into existence together.fromthe philosophy of the tatwas, there should be very little doubt that it is the negative or south pole that comes into existence first.butat all events, whichever comes first, or whether they comebothtogether ornot,these two knots which form the yolk of the egg into a polar body representthenorth andthesouth poles, represent the two centres of action, represent ultimatelytheheart and the brain, the vascular system and the nervous system; and from one to the other passes a line, a thread, a groove, a canal, the medullary canal. and here you have the first origin of the completed chick which is to emerge from that egg; and here too we have the germ of

jtistence of the universe in whichweare;theofthe solar system,andthe formationofthe solar system from a nebular into a system such as we now know it. all that .seems tolerably simple, 267and th.etheory-oftatwas seemstoexplain beyond alldoubtwhat. was ata1j, events a reasonableandrational theory. about the comingintoexistenceofthings. moreover, theanltl0gies whichweget,suchas.oftheincubation of an egg,andothers of that kind, seemto'give us such wonderful correspondences, and. the whole line of the story of creation, as developed in the theory ofthetatwas. so exactly corresponds withandillustrates the story as told in thebookofgenesis, and. the story as told in the cosmogony in other racesandother religions.thereis no getting away from the fact that here is somegrelj.tsystem, which,ifnotabso

here is no reason, and isaythis absolutely with knowledge, why this amount of knowledge should be blinded at all; because it is, i believe,ofvety great use in the medical profession ifitis carefully studied.thetatwas211now then, as we know, the universe is born from the akasa, which is, according to some writers, of a circular shape, according to others an elliptical shape, according to others an egg shape, butitmatters not. some of the upanishads have laid down the circular shape, and babbitt in his theory of atomic philosophy has laid down this egg shape. but whatever shape it may be, there is some definite shape which is cut off and isolated, by the first running of the akasa tatwa, the first flutter of the divine breath, etc. a certain portion of space was isolated which was to become

ion, and all at the same time. so atthesame time we may have the vayutatwawhirling into aspherical-formsome small whirlwind of theair;and at the very same time and very same place we may have tropical heat bringing into. operation the taijas tatwa, and at a very little distance.offwe may have frost and snow -apasinoperation.orwe may watch all the tatwas coming into operation in the hatching of an egg-orthegermination of a seed. soifyou wish to watchthetatwas in daily life you. must realise that they are not subject to time. carry these points in your headsofthe meaning oftatwictime, the meaning of dayandnight, sunrise andsunset,andthe meaning of sun and moon in their different connotation; and also how perplexity arises fromsomanytarwiccurrents, which are continually radiating on to the ea

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

my a. the curcurbite or the alembic b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g. the beginning of the actual process. the regulation and restriction of the proper degree of heat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. 18 h. the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic; the grinding thereof

eat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. 18 h. the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic; the grinding thereof to form a powder in a mortar. this powder is then to be placed again in the curcurbite. the fluid already distilled is to be poured again upon it the curcurbite or philosophic egg is to be closed. i. the curcurbite or philosophic egg being hermetically sealed, the alchemist announces aloud that all is prepared for the invocation of the forces necessary to accomplish the work. the matter is then to be placed upon an altar with the elements and four weapons thereon; upon the white triangle and upon a flashing tablet of a general nature, in harmony with the matter selected

rked with at present, but is to be set apart for future use) after the invocation of the, a certain brilliance should manifest itself in the whole fluid, that is to say, it should not only be clear, but also brilliant and flashing. now expose it in a hermetic receiver for seven days to the light of the a; at the end of which time there should be distinct flashes of light therein (or a philosophic egg may be used; but the receiver of the alembic if close stopped will answer this purpose) t. now the residuum or dead head is to be taken out of the curcurbite, ground small and replaced. an invocation of the forces of k is then to be performed over that powder. it is then to be kept in the dark standing upon a flashing tablet of k for seven days. at the end of this time, there should be a sligh

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ore you. step into it. step 11 assume the god form of hoorpokratist. say "hoorpokratist, thou art lord of the silence. hoorpokratist, thou art lord of the sacred lotus. o thou, hoorpokratist, thou that standest in victory on the heads of the infernal dwellers of the waters wherefrom all things were created, thee, thee i invoke, by the name of hyha and the power of alga. oh thou divine babe in the egg of blue, lord of defense and silence, thou bearest the rose and cross of life and light! thee, thee i invoke for my exaltation to that light. oh ye divine one who is the hope of man's immortality, come unto me and aid me. behold! he is in me and i in him. mine is the lotus, as i rise as hoorpokratist from the firmament of waters. my throne is set on high. my light is as that of ra in the firma

are the wheels of thy 6 chariot! lift up your heads, o ye gates! be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory and of silence and of night may come in! thus, do i formulate a barrier without mine astral form that it may be unto me a wall and as a fortress, and as a sure defense. and, i now declare that it is so formulated, to be a basis and receptacle for the shroud of darkness, the egg of blue with which i shall now girdle myself" step 12 trace active and passive invoking spirit pentagrams. vibrate hyha, alga. vibrate the enochian invocation of the portal grade. say "and unto ye, o ye forces of the spirit of life whose dwelling is in the invisible, do i now address my will. in the great names of your ruling angels elexarph, comananu, tabitom, and by all the names and letters

names of your ruling angels elexarph, comananu, tabitom, and by all the names and letters of the holy tablet of union, by the mighty names of god: hyha, alga \yhla hwhy, and by the great lord of silence, hoorpokratist, by your deep purple darkness, and by the white and brilliant light of the crown above my head, do i conjure ye. collect yourselves about me, and clothe this my astral form with an egg of blue, the shroud of darkness. gather yourselves, ye flakes of astral light, and shroud my form in your substantial night. clothe me and hide me, but at my control. darken man's eyes that he see me not. gather at my word divine, for ye are the watchers, and my soul is the shrine" step 13 perform the analysis of the keyword and the qabalistic cross. formulate the black egg around you, and ima

d hide me, but at my control. darken man's eyes that he see me not. gather at my word divine, for ye are the watchers, and my soul is the shrine" step 13 perform the analysis of the keyword and the qabalistic cross. formulate the black egg around you, and imagine the results of success. say" let the shroud of concealment encircle me at a distance of eighteen inches from the physical body. let the egg be consecrated with o and n (place the o and n on either side of you "o auramo-oth and thaum-aesh- neith, ye goddesses of the scales of the balance, i invoke and beseech you, that the vapors of this magical n and this consecrating m be as a basis on the material plane for the foundation of this shroud of art" step 14 formulate the shroud mentally. say "i, of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, do

o and n on either side of you "o auramo-oth and thaum-aesh- neith, ye goddesses of the scales of the balance, i invoke and beseech you, that the vapors of this magical n and this consecrating m be as a basis on the material plane for the foundation of this shroud of art" step 14 formulate the shroud mentally. say "i, of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, do hereby formulate to myself the blue-black egg of hoorpokratist as a shroud of concealment that i may attain knowledge and power for the accomplishment of the great work, and to use the same in the service of the eternal genius. and i bind and obligate myself, even as i was bound to the cross of obligation, and do spiritually swear and affirm that i will use this power to a good purpose only, to 7 help me eventually to aid and serve my fel

ound the parchment. and i declare that all is now ready for the due fulfillment of this ceremony of the magic of light" step 15 go to the east of the altar, facing west, with the left hand on the triangle, and the right hand holding the black band of the lotus wand upright. say "come unto me, o shroud of darkness and of night, by the power of the name hwchy, hcwhy, formulate about me, thou divine egg of the darkness of light. i conjure ye, o particles of astral darkness, to enfold me as an unseen guard and shroud of utter silence and of mystery. in and by the names hyha, alga, and \yhla hwhy, i conjure thee. in and by the name exarp, in and by the name hcoma, in and by the name nanta, in and by the name bitom, those holy names of the sacred tablet of union, in the name of \yhla hwhy, which

te brilliance of the genius about and within me, i invoke ye and conjure ye. i exorcise ye potently. i command and constrain ye. i compel ye to absolute, instant, and complete obedience, and that without deception or delay. for the light of my genius is upon me, and i have made hwhy my hope gather, ye flakes of astral light, to shroud my form in your substantial night. clothe me and hide me in an egg of blue. darken man's eyes, and blind him in his soul, so that he see me not. gather, o gather at my word divine, for ye are the watchers, my soul the shrine" step 16 turn around three times. resume former position. say" in the name of the lord of the universe, and by the aspiration of thine own higher soul, o shroud of darkness and of mystery, i conjure thee, that thou encirclest me, so that

stic circumambulation take place in the place of darkness go round, knock when passing east and west and east again. pass to the south, halt, formualte the pillars of fire and cloud, reaching from darkness to the heavens. formulate shroud between them, and pass to the west. invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible save by virtue of the name of darkness" step 18 formulate forcibly the egg of dark blue-black. say "darkness is my name, and concealment. i am the great one invisible of the paths of the shades. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness, for within me, though unseen, is the magic of the light divine" go round, knock as before, halt in north, formulate pillars, and the blueblack egg between them. then pass to east. step 19 do the rose cross, keeping your hands clos

am the great one invisible of the paths of the shades. i am without fear, though veiled in darkness, for within me, though unseen, is the magic of the light divine" go round, knock as before, halt in north, formulate pillars, and the blueblack egg between them. then pass to east. step 19 do the rose cross, keeping your hands close to your body. dedicate it to containing your aura within the black egg. say "invisible, i cannot pass by the gate of the invisible, save by the virtue of the name of light" step 20 formulate the shroud forcibly. say" i am the light shrouded in darkness. i am the wielder of the forces of the balance" 9 step 21 concentrate the shroud mentally. go to the west of the altar, and remain standing. say "o thou divine creature of the creative darkness of spirit, formulate

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

rs and the tablet of union. let it be so. a beginner's meditation. 1. stand up straight, hands at your sides and feet together. 2. visualize the lines of force of the etheric body. see it as going from the top of your head downward along the outside 286 of your body and then flowing back into your body from your feet and upward through the center of your body to return to your head. i t should be egg-shaped on the outside and column-shaped on the inside of your body. 3. maintain this visualization until you can feel the current flowing through your body. it should have a masculine feel to it. 4. let the direction of the current be reversed. maintain the flow and notice the distinct feminine feeling to this current. 5. continue oscillating between the two polarized currents and let them fil

powerful elder horus, do i command you. 336 see a pale yellow ray of light emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the intelligent angels of air has entered your cup. step 13. hold the talisman of fire of air high above the cup and say, may the harmonious angels of air come to me now. those who are fair to what they compare; by the power of exgzd (ehtz-egg-zod-deh) and the cat goddess bast the lady of the night, do i command you. see a pale yellow ray of light flecked with red emanate from the talisman and strike the contents of the cup. know that the power of the harmonious angels of air has entered your cup. step 14. hold the talisman of earth of fire high above the cup and say, may the wrathful angels of fire come to me now. those who enflame

s (mah-zod-bah oh-rah-seh) by your power, all those who look upon me will see your robe of darkness that i may pass by unnoticed. step 5. theformulation. face the three governors of paz and say, thus do i formulate a barrier without my astral form that it may be to me a wall and as a fortress, and i now declare that it is so formulated, to be a basis and receptacle for the shroud of darkness, the egg of blue which is wrapt around my physical form. thus do i charge you, collect yourselves about me, and clothe this my astral form with an egg of blue, 342 a shroud of darkness, and shroud my form in your substantial night. clothe me and hide me, but at my control. da r ken man' s e ye s that he see me not. gather at my word, for you are the watchers, and my soul is the shrine. now i wear a rob

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jc on a c j, can tell what women are witches by their congregating round him and trying to filch the snake or a piece of it (vuk sub v. vjeschtitza, pometno, blagovjest. this remarkable account opens the way to explanations. we too had similar means of recognising witches. he that has about him a harroiv's tooth he has picked up, or grains of corn found baked into the loaf, or a maundy thursday's egg, will see the witches at church ivith milking-j) ails on tlieir heads, sup. i, 636. 685. 783. just the same in denmark, sup. 169. bergman p. 219 says, in dalarne the witches rarely come to church: it is really a sheaf of straw or a swine-trough, that occupies their place, only no one is the wiser but they of the blakulla sisterhood. i do 1 it is chiefly in sweden that even innocent children, h

riven-backed, fissura dorsi. in dan' ellekone bagtil huul som et deigtrug' thiele 4, 26. all these resemblances are important. in the appendix i quote a spell, where the alb is thus addressed' with thy hacli lihe a doughtrough' both elf and witch are beautiful only in front, behind they are disgustingly deformed, like gurorysse p. 945, or dame world in coni-ad's poem. out of the llaundy thursday egg, when hatched, comes a fowl of gay plumage, which changes colour every year: take such an egg with you to church on easter sunday morning, and in sunshine you can tell all the women who belong to the devil; but they smell it out, and try to crush the egg in your pocket, so you must be careful to camy it in a little box, for if they succeed in crushing it, your heart will be broken too. tobler

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

lo3r (p. 241) instead of osinn, yili, ye (p. 162; they come to the roaring (of the sea, ad aestum, trapa qlva troxvfaoia/soio 6a- xao-o-7, and find askr and embla powerless and inert. then n (8pherif) und ^beflozzen mit dem wendelmer, darin swebt die bal ma5 on r ti "i df^es ist conf" berthold basel mss. p. 287, and wackern. p. 20 the creation of heaven and earth out of the parts of an egg is poetically painted m kalewala, rune 1 (see suppl- indian legend has likewise fhpt ir f u wi the 6^ h. ven and earth bein8 eggshells, somadeva 1, 10. conf. birth of helen and the dioscuri out of an egg. extr from suppl creation. 561 0$inn endowed tliem with spirit, hcenir with reason, loisr with blood and complexion (see suppl. the creation of dwarfs is related in two passages which do not a

s merzafoli lacht, denn wott i gad goh lo, swit i koh mocht; 1 a line seems wanting here, to tell us that cuckoo, like a sensible cuckoo (en preu cucu, fugl frofthuga sr, began to sing, one cucu. cuckoo. 679 they imagine that lie never sings before the 3rd of april, and never after midsummer: am dretta abarella moss der gugger griiena haber schnella; but he cannot sing till he has eaten a bird s egg. if you have money in your pouch when you hear him. sing the first time, you will be well off all that year, if not, you will be short the whole year (sup. i, 374; and if you were fasting, you will be hungry all the year. when the cuckoo has eaten his fill of cherries three times, he leaves off singing. as the cuckoo s song falls silent at midsummer, vulgar opinion holds that from that time he

holy: at the ursar-well the ases and norns hold their council, the giants well is watched by a wise man mimir (p. 379, i know not whether a sage old giant himself or a hero, anyhow a semidivine being, or nearly so. every day the norns draw water from their well, to water the boughs of the ash: so holy is this water, that it imparts to anything that gets into the well the colour of the white of an egg; from the tree there trickles a bee-nourishing dew, named huntings/all (fall of honey. on its boughs, at its roots, animals sit or dart about: an eagle, a squirrel, four stags, and some snakes; and all have proper names. those of the stags are elsewhere names of dwarfs, notably ddinn and dvalinn. the snake ni&hoggr (male pungens, caedens) lies below, by hvergelmir, gnawing at the root. the squ

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

l is a 'standing dish'inhis catalogue&when he has one ordered he sends to my[friendslater who charges him243x-ii-6a piece, and then sells ,them at2-2-0.the'key' millard sold me was taken out ofbnrrett-butof course i will supply you with a very excellent formula as given to me by chev. expressly for the instruction ofmyfriends. as i said before slater's crystal balls are very 'i.uperior to the big egg-shaped article&if you make up your ,mind to have one i will get him to makeitifhewill let me have it';112431-ii-6,which i have no doubt he will. as to the rosicrucian college, i little dreamed that when myf'11tentionwas drawn to the secret lodge in the east (from which resulted the revelation from the spanish monk i read to you) that i should become a member of the rosicrucian college in the n

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

the elements of its own destruction. 58 handbook of egyptian mythology emergence of the creator summary: the creator attains consciousness and becomes lonely. he/she differentiates the elements of chaos by speaking their names. the first light or the first sound begins the process of creation. the creator appears as the sun god. he may be born to a cow, emerge from a lotus on the water or from an egg, or alight in the form of a bird on the first mound of solid land. the creator was the unique one in the nun who existed in this womblike environment as one who is in his egg. the creator was in an inert state, yet this state contained the potential for all life. passages in the coffin texts stress that the self-created god came into being alone. for a group-oriented culture such as that of th

was usually shown as a cow and was considered the mother of all the primeval beings, including apophis. mehet-weret was envisaged as giving birth to the sun child and lifting him up on her horns. a new kingdom hymn tells us that with the first light the sky became like gold and the primeval waters like lapis-lazuli. mythical time lines 59 the sun might also be thought of as emerging from a cosmic egg laid by a primeval bird (see under birds in deities, themes, and concepts) or, less often, by a snake or a crocodile. the role of the primeval bird could also be to break the silence. some cosmogonies allude to a goose known as the great honker or cackler whose strident cry was the first sound. the shining benu bird (see benu bird in deities, themes, and concepts) brought both the first noise

in order to bring this about, she has to revive the sexual powers of osiris, just as the hand goddess aroused the penis of the creator to create the first life. a relief at abydos shows the all-important moment when isis in bird form uses her wings to fan the breath of life into osiris. hymns celebrate the exaltation of isis when she knows that she has conceived the child who is king even in the egg. summoned by her cry of triumph, other deities acknowledge and bow down to the unborn horus. at some point, the myth of the death of osiris and the restoration of his body by isis was combined with the cult of anubis as protector of the dead and overseer of funerary rites. all aspects of an egyptian funeral were given mythical precedents in the mummification, entombment, and revivification of

and the judgment of the divine tribunal: that horus, son of osiris, should always rule. ideally, every new king (horus) had to succeed his father (osiris, even if history had to be 86 handbook of egyptian mythology reedited to accomplish this so that intervening reigns or lack of blood relationships were ignored. many kings claimed that they, like horus, had been chosen to rule while still in the egg. in practice, it was the inauguration rituals that turned the chosen heir into the living horus. since the office of kingship was so vital to the stability of egyptian society, interruptions in the royal succession had to be explained as direct interventions by deities. the accession of individual kings might be validated by giving them a divine parent. one such royal birth myth is found in th

the necropolis of thebes to unite with its goddess, hathor, and bring new life to the dead. amun tended to be the subject of speculative theology rather than mythical narratives, but he did play a role in the creation myths of hermopolis. one of his incarnations was as the great shrieker, a primeval goose whose victory shout was the first sound. in some accounts this primeval goose laid the world egg; in others, amun fertilized or created this egg in his ram-headed serpent form known as kematef( he who has completed his moment. the temple of medinet habu in western thebes was sometimes identified as the location of this primal event. a cult statue of the amun of karnak regularly visited this temple to renew the process of creation. by the end of the new kingdom, amun was often depicted as

have been the prototype for the classical myth of the phoenix, a creature of which there was never more than one at a time. in the fifth century bc, the greek writer herodotus claimed to have visited heliopolis and been told about a marvelous red-gold bird known as a phoenix. this bird was said to visit the temple of the sun at heliopolis every 500 years carrying the ashes of its parent inside an egg of myrrh. it was presumably from this egg that the next phoenix would eventually hatch. see also atum; birds; primeval mound; ra references and further reading: r. t. rundle clark. the phoenix. in myth and symbol in ancient egypt. london: 1959, 245 249. s. quirke. benu bird of ra, the phoenix of egypt. in the cult of ra sun-worship in ancient egypt. london: 2001, 27 30. primary sources: pt 600

foreign prisoners are pictured among the struggling birds, emphasizing that the bird-catching ritual is part of the eternal war between order and chaos. as the divine order was created out of the swamps of chaos, water birds such as the goose, the heron, or the ibis were associated with the first stages of creation. a primeval goose, named gengen or negeg, shrieked or cackled as it laid the world egg. one of the tasks of the virtuous dead was to guard this egg. the remains of the primeval egg were said to be preserved in the temple of the ibis god, thoth. in the temple of horus at edfu, the first bird was said to be a hawk who alighted on a mat of vegetation floating on the primeval waters. many other gods and a few goddesses had a hawk form, including anti, montu, sokar, sopdu, hathor, ne

tion and birth of divine kings show khnum making the royal body and its ka or double on his potter s wheel. this seems to be taking place in the celestial realm as a necessary prelude to the king s physical birth. in temples of the first millennium bce, the births of gods were celebrated in similar scenes. khnum creates and animates the physical forms of these baby gods, starting with shaping the egg in the womb. at the roman period temple of esna, khnum s role as maker of bodies was celebrated at the festival of the potter s wheel. hymns sung at this festival praised the lord of the wheel as the one who fashioned gods and men. when khnum was viewed as a universal creator, his name was joined with those of other creator deities such as amun, ptah, or ra. his wheel was spun to remake the co

o go home. the prince did not dare to keep the statue any longer and sent it back to egypt with many rich gifts for the temple of khonsu. the temple of khonsu at karnak is very well preserved. on one of its walls is a text known as the khonsu cosmogony. this type of text tries to explain the origins of the world. in this version, khonsu is identified with the great snake who fertilized the cosmic egg and traveled to thebes in his name of khonsu (the traveler. see also amun; baboons; moon; mut references and further reading: g. hart. khonsu. in a dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses. london and boston: 1986, 112 115. r. a. parker and l. h. lesko. the khonsu cosmogony. in pyramid studies and other essays presented to i. e. s. edwards, edited by j. baines. london: 1988, 168 175. primary

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torrents of water, and ruled over by a god called qa-ha-hetep. a variant gives the name of this aat as ha-sert, and that of its god as fa-pet. click to view aat vi. click to view aat vii. click to view aat viii. p. 40 click to view aat ix. click to view aat x. aat ix. akesi, a region which is unknown even to the gods; its god was maa-thetef, and its only inhabitant is the "god who dwelleth in his egg" aat x. nut-ent-qahu, i.e, the city of qahu. it was also known by the name apt-ent-qahu. the gods of this region appear to have been nau, kapet, and neheb-kau. aat xi. atu, the god of which was sept (sothis. aat xii. unt, the god of which was hetemet-baiu; also called astchetet-em-ament. click to view aat xi. click to view aat xii. p. 41 aat xiii. uart-ent-mu: its deity was the hippopotamus-go

ese four lie dead, or helpless, and are called eneniu, i.e, the "inert" and twenty stand with their backs bowed, and their arms tied at their elbows behind them, in an agonizing position. here, it is clear, are beings who are fettered and stand awaiting their doom. the charges made against them are to the effect that: 1. they blasphemed ra upon earth. 2. they invoked evil upon him that was in the egg. 3. they thrust aside the right. 4. they spoke against khuti. the god referred to as being "in the egg" is, of course, a form of the sun-god, and we know from the livth chapter of the book of the dead, that the egg was laid by kenkenur, or the "great cackler" the good khuti is the form of the sun-god at sunrise and sunset, and thus we see that all the sins which were committed by the eneniu an

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ing the highest god as well as the smallest mineral atom. brahm, on the other hand, the male and the alleged creator, exists in page 147 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt his manifestation periodically only, and passes into pralaya, i.e, disappears and is annihilated as periodically (see below) brahm 's day a period of 2,160,000,000 years, during which brahm, having emerged out of his golden egg (hiranyagarbha, creates and fashions the material world (for he is simply the fertilizing and creative force in nature. after this period the worlds being destroyed in turn by fire and water, he vanishes with objective nature; and then comes the night of brahm (see below. brahm 's night a period of equal duration to brahm 's day, in which brahm is said to be asleep. upon awakening he recommenc

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

a very nice bit of country. i should not like to ask either of those you mention, i so i must wait till you return, when i shall be much obliged to you to send them to me. years ago i invented a cure for cockroaches, and have cleared several houses of them. it is calomel, i.e. submuriate of mercury. get a quarter of an ounce of it at the chemist's. then take a piece of dough about the size of an egg, and mix half of the 1/4 oz with it, break it up into small pellets, and put it into any small holes about the kitchen fire-place, or where they most congregate. if there is an ash-pit, as there is to most kitchen fire-places, take up the grating, and put the pellets into any small holes or corners in the brick-work. they eat it greedily. after the first application, you will see quite a few c

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

hence the call came. then those who had heard it called everyone on the line, and found that only the fryes did not reply. the truth appeared an hour later, when a hastily assembled group of armed men trudged out to the frye place at the head of the glen. it was horrible, yet hardly a surprise. there were more swaths and monstrous prints, but there was no longer any house. it had caved in like an egg-shell, and amongst the ruins nothing living or dead could be discovered. only a stench and a tarry stickiness. the elmer fryes had been erased from dunwich. viii. in the meantime a quieter yet even more spiritually poignant phase of the horror had been blackly unwinding itself behind the closed door of a shelf-lined room in arkham. the curious manuscript record or diary of wilbur whateley, del

s seized and steadied him. all he could do was moan half-inaudibly 'oh, oh, great gawd. that. that' there was a pandemonium of questioning, and only henry wheeler thought to rescue the fallen telescope and wipe it clean of mud. curtis was past all coherence, and even isolated replies were almost too much for him 'bigger'n a barn. all made o' squirmin' ropes. hull thing sort o' shaped like a hen's egg bigger'n anything with dozens o' legs like hogs-heads that haff shut up when they step. nothin' solid abaout it- all like jelly, an' made o' sep'rit wrigglin' ropes pushed clost together. great bulgin' eyes all over it. ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin' aout all along the sides, big as stove-pipes an all a-tossin' an openin' an' shuttin. all grey, with kinder blue or purple rings. an'

tted away. in the centre of the dust-laden floor rose a curiously angled stone pillar home four feet in height and two in average diameter, covered on each side with bizarre, crudely incised and wholly unrecognizable hieroglyphs. on this pillar rested a metal box of peculiarly asymmetrical form; its hinged lid thrown back, and its interior holding what looked beneath the decade-deep dust to be an egg-shaped or irregularly spherical object some four inches through. around the pillar in a rough circle were seven high-backed gothic chairs still largely intact, while behind them, ranging along the dark-panelled walls, were seven colossal images of crumbling, black-painted plaster, resembling more than anything else the cryptic carven megaliths of mysterious easter island. in one corner of the

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

it's easier than starting from scratch, it is possible to use the bisquick muffin mix. first, fry crisp a half pound of italian sweet sausage until practically all the oil is out of it. then season it with ginger and add a half pound of very finely chopped candied fruits. next, add about one quarter of a package of bittersweet chocolate chips, two cups of bisquick, a half cup of brown sugar, one egg, three-fourths cup of milk, and one-fourth cup of black coffee. it's easiest to take the bisquick, the milk, the egg, the sugar, the coffee and the ginger, and mix them all together. add the sausage, then the fruit, and finally the chocolate. bake until done in a 400 degree oven. the recipe makes fifteen small love cakes. feed the cakes to your husband or lover over the weekend, and it will ke

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

e magician should perform any act on one of the mental planes, this would be registered in the akasa principle, and in spite of being invisible, his activity could be found out by means of clairvoyance. to prevent this, the magician has to wrap his whole body with a black cover as soon as he has filled his mental body with akasa. it does not matter whether this cover has the shape of a ball or an egg. he must not forget to seclude himself from all with akasa, underneath his feet as well as above his head. before going somewhere else in this condition of invisibility, he ought to concentrate on the fact that his activity should be neutralized by the akasa; that means it should not be written into the akasa, i.e, leave no trace at all. this concentration is necessary for otherwise the magici

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e three children, a girl, to his own house, partly out of compassion for her parents, but chiefly, as he tells us "that i might be a critical eye-witness of things that would enable me to confute the sadducism of this debauched age--and certainly her antics should have provided him with a quiverful of arguments against the "sadducees "in her fits she would p. 189 cough up a ball as big as a small egg into the side of her windpipe that would near choak her, till by stroaking and by drinking it was again carry'd down. when i pray'd in the room her hands were with a strong, though not even, force clapt upon her ears. and when her hands were by our force pull'd away, she cry'd out, they make such a noise, i cannot hear a word. she complained that glover's chain was upon her leg; and assaying t

ISIS UNVEILED

sairtt jerome "nothing can impose better on a people than eerbiage; the less they understand the more they admire. our fathers and doctors have often said, not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity forced them to" but to return to our sophia-achamoth and the belief of the genuine primitive christians. after having produced ilda-baoth hda from ht, a child, and baoth from tmf, the egg, or vitro, booth, a waste, a desolation sophia-achamoth suffered so much from the contact with matter, that after extraordinary struggles she escaped at last out of the muddy chaos. although unacquainted with the pleroma, the region of her moliier, she reached the middle space and succeeded in shaking off the material parts which had stuck to her spiritual nature; after which she imme- diately

rit moving on the water? svayambh^ the unknown essence of the br&hmanas, is identical with ain-soph, the unknown essence of the kabalists. as with the latter, the ineffable name could not be pronounced by the hindas, under the pen- alty of death. in the ancient primitive trinity of india, that which may be certainly considered as pre-vedic, the germ which fecundates the moth^-prindpu, the mundane egg, or the universal womb, is called nora, the spirit, or the holy ghost, which emanates from the primordial essence. it is like sephira, the oldest emanation, called the primordvd jmnl, and the white head, for it is the point of divine light appearing from within the fathomless and boundless darkness. in manu it is "naha" or the spirit of god, which moves on "ayana [chaos, or place of motion, an

o turn qui turn( zod. iii, 14. 509. jones: ordin. qf manv, ch. i. 510. chunpollioii-pijem: bgjrfle aneietate, p. 141. digitizecoy google/ all woeld-religions fundamentally edenltcal 215 tion of later and still mate material powers" in the hindfl cos- mogony, svajfamihil emits nam and ndri, its bisexual emanation, and dividing its parts into two halves, male and female, these fecundate the mmidane egg, within which develops brahmft, or rather viraj, the creator "the starting-point of the egyptian mythology" says champollton "ia a triad. namely, kneph, neith, and pht; and ammon, the male, the father; muth, the female and mother; and khons. the son" the ten sq>hiroth are copies taken from the ten prajdpatu created by virdj, called the 'lords of ail beings' and answering to the biblical fatria

rough himself' feela impelled to manifest himself, he is thus described in the hindi! sacred books "having been impelled to produce various beings from his own divine digitizec by google 2 isis unveiled substance, lie first manifested the waters which devebped within them- selves a productive seed "the seed became a germ bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams; and in that egg he was bom himself, in the form of brahua, the great principle (tf all the beings (jfanu, i, slokat 8, 9. the egyptian eneph, or chnuphis, divine wisdom, represented by a serpent, produces an egg from his mouth, from whi^ issues plai. in this case pta^ represents the universal germ, as well as brahma, who ia of the neuter gender, when the final a has no accent over it* other- wise it becomes s

case pta^ represents the universal germ, as well as brahma, who ia of the neuter gender, when the final a has no accent over it* other- wise it becomes simply one of the names of the deity. the former was the model of the three lives of the nasarenes, as that of the kabalistic 'faces' partzuphiu, which, in its turn, furnished the model for the christian trinity of irenaeus and his followers. the egg was the primi- tive matter which served as a material for the building of qie visible universe; it contained, as well as the gnostic pleroma. the kabalistic shekhinah, the man and wife, the spirit and life" whose li^t includes all other lights" or life-spirits. this first manifestation was symbolized by s serpent, which is at first divine wisdom, but, fauifm inio generation, becomes polluted

ri^t, the in thu water (or primeval chaos) the u ee female on the kft, and the four 'infinite' androgyne, which, with the uniting principles in the center. prom the eternal cauae. tonus the first abstract invisible dew fallmg bom the higher triad, rendered by atm. dqjowted the 'head' sephira creates primeval water, germ of universal life. it is the mundane f^^m taking shape. it ia the first step egg, in which took plaoe the geatotion of toward the solidification of spirit, which punaha, or the manifested brahm. the through various modifications will produce germ which fecundated the motiter prina- e th( rafinrei eartk and aaler lo irie (the water) ia called word, the divme uite a liring toul" says moses. spirit or holy ghost" and the waters when sephira emerges like an active themselves a

r, p(j,rer from within the latent deity, she u nm, while the spirit which brooded over fmnalc; when she assumes the office (rf a it is called niriyana^ creator, she becomea a male; hence, she "in that ^g, the great power aat in- androgyne. she is ihe 'father and active a whole jwor (qf tt* crtalor. at the m other ad iti' of the hindfl cosmogony. doae of which, by hia thought alone, he' cauaed the egg to divide itadf* the i. c c b smitb [ch. v (hw ths snt n upper half became beaven. the lower, the t t. th. iw, j^ ftj 08^ in rif-vtia snjals u skuiiic i. pvoi ^mhtbepubncldltiir aii>-9iipli: a< uh cnatot, bj lu" uollv u tlie abaohitc "tor it it dsind tl ^i^t of god (seidura) uovinc oq tlie fcisoftlie boa -mi: bond, ud uh h(atin p ticl> a "t?^1 siki hm. the oainrhl 086 'h7iii lo ui mutrts" i, b

umanity a* a cosectite totality within ing at the nme time tpirit and matter. the unity of the creative god and the uni- hiit wtdd within the infinite universe it venal ^lirit. the microcoam within the macrocomn. as toa bn? tb* trinit? ol sum, ud a, in the jewish kabala. it is tbe tymbol of bbht of the womb of the universe, the terreatrial dpk, tli tgg, whose archetype is the golden mun- dpk dane egg. it is from within this spiritual bosom of mother natute that proceed all the great savion of the onivene the avatar* of the invisible deity "of him who it and yet is not, from the not-being, etenial cause, is bom the being^ j n u puruaha" says manu, the legislator. wuntfacis puni^ia i* the 'divine male' the tecond god, and the avatar, or the logos of paia- brahman and his divine ton, who in h

intereating to koill hd>r km, i, 7, in connexion with thii pansge "wiio [ii keu> his annls [mesmiigera] spirits, sod his ministet [servants, those who minister] b flame of fire' llie rcaemblance is too striking tor us to avoid the conclusion qm, the author of hebretci was as familiar with the kabala as adept* usually an. digilizocb, google 374 isis unveiled "and now again re-enter into the golden egg of his thou^t tlie germs of all that exist, as the divine manu tells us. during his peaoefal rest the animated beings, endowed with the principles of action, cease thor functions, and all feeing (matuu) becomes dormant. when tbey are all absorbed in the sopbeme soui, this soul of all the beings sleeps in complete repose till the day when it resumes its form and awakes again from its primitive

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

with his birth out of the pure and undefiled virgine marie, unto the bees, which were in verie deede a great blasphemie, if the bees were not of so great valour and virtue (value and dignity. beehive of the romish church: hone s ancient mysteries described, p. 283. in the second edition of nineveh and its palaces, by bonomi (london, ingram, 1853, p. 138, the head-dress of the divinity ilus is an egg-shaped cap, terminating at the top in a fleur-de-lis; at p. 149, the dagon of scripture has the same; at p, 201, fig. 98, the same ornament appears; at p. 202, fig. 99, a bearded figure has the usual fleur-delis. in the same page, the tiaras of two bearded figures are surmounted with fleurs-de-lis. at p. 332, fig. 211, the assyrian helmet is surmounted with a fleur-de-lis; at p. 334, fig. 217

y moses in the wilderness, is termed in the targum a saviour. it was probably a serpentine crucifix, as it serpent-worship. 201 is called a cross by justin martyr. all the foregoing is allegorical, and hides deep gnostic myths, which explain serpent-worship, united with the adoration paid to a perpendicular. the three most celebrated emblems carried in the greek mysteries were the phallus, i; the egg, o; and the serpent, f; or otherwise the phallus, the loni or umbilicus, and the serpent. the first, in each case, is the emblem of the sun, or of fire, as the male, or active, generative power. the second denotes the passive nature, or feminine principle, or the element of water. the third symbol indicates the destroyer, the reformer, or the renewer (the uniter of the two, and thus the preser

an and classic glyphs. 233 maypole, with all its curious additions; and we add their explanation. in the upper portion we have the apex of the phallus, the quatre-feuilles, and the discus or round. the lower portion is the linga, lingham, or phallus, wreathed; fig. 143. alternate direct and crooked radii, or glories, set round sacred objects. figs. 144, 143. collar of esses. 146 147 148 fig, 146. egg-and-tongue moulding, caryatic prostyle, pandroseum (temple of erechthaeus, athens) fig. 147. moslem: the crescent and star; also plantagenet. fig. 148. honeysuckle, greek stele. fig. 149. egg-aud-tongue moulding, roman example. also the pole of the ship argo( arco; otherwise the tree of knowledge. the ribbons of the maypole should be of the seven prismatic colours. fig. 156 shows the union of

emblems of the religions of india, china, greece, and rome are closely similar, and are set forth in the ornaments on the friezes of the temples of all those countries, explaining their general principles. your popular societies are an emanation from the lodges of the freemasons, in like manner as these proceeded from the funeral pile of the templars( castle of the tuilerics, year viii) thus the egg-and-tongue moulding( egg and adder's tongue, for the egg and the serpent were two of the emblems of the egyptian and greek mysteries, the griffin, the lion of st. mark, the honeysuckle-and-lotus ornament the convolutions and volutes, the horns as floriations springing from the lighted candelabra, the lotus and tori of egypt, and the greek ornaments and roman templar ornaments, are all related

idan anchor. fig. 186. ur on. fig. 187. winged disc. the horns of the talmud account for the mythological minotaur, the bucentaur, pan and priapus, the fig. 183. egyptian torus, lotus enrichment, and various lunar symbols. ionic, corinthian, and gothic volves. 251 sagittary or centaur, the sign" sagittarius, and perhaps all bicorporate human and animal forms. 188. 189. 190. fig. 188. ionic greek: egg-and-tongue moulding (two of the emblems of the mysteries. fig. 189. grecian moulding, expressing religious mysteries. fig. 190. corinthian temple of vesta. central flower, probably the egyptian lotus. in the group of figures below, showing the various classical forms of the volutes, or flourished horns, in the fig. 191. pantheon at rome. fig. 192. volute. fig. 193. corinthian. fig. 194. ionic

ahove are different versions of the phallus with its meanings) he is displayed with characteristics of apollo, or the sun rising in the east, in the quadriga, or four-horsed chariot. the gnostic abraxas. 271 fig. 240: abraxas brandishing his whip, as if chasing away the evil genii. on his shield, the titles if. iaw. neat work. green jasper (the gnostics, p. 201. the ur on or winged solar disc, or egg, from which issue, on reversed sides, the two emblematical asps, has fig. 239. fig. 240. certain characteristics which ally it with the scarab us. both ur on and scarab us are symbols continual on the fronts of the egyptian temples, and they are principally placed over the portals: they are talismans or charms. fig. 241. jacinth: gnostic gem. fig. 242. mithraic sacrifice: gnostic. fig. 248: os

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

note, too, the thick shower on trees, fences, and the ground. in the american journal of science of 1833-1834, in many observations upon the meteors of november, 1833, are the following reports of falls of gelatinous substance (1) that according to newspaper reports "lumps of jelly" were found on the ground at rahway, new jersey. the substance was whitish, or resembled the coagulated white of an egg (2) that mr. h.h. garland, of nelson county, virginia, had found a jellylike substance of about the circumference of a twenty-five cent piece (3) that according to a communication from a.c. twining to professor olmstead, a woman at west point, new york, had seen a mass the size of a teacup, which looked like boiled starch (4) that according to a newspaper of newark, new jersey, a mass of gelat

KETAB E SIYAH

is death for the dogs. 46. dost thou fail? art thou sorry? is fear in thine heart? 47. where i am these are not. 48. pity not the fallen! i never knew them. i am not for them. i console not: i hate the consoled& the consoler. 49. i am unique& conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned& dead! amen (this is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg) 50. blue am i and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes& my spangles are purple& green. 51. purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. 52. there is a veil: that veil is black. it is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow& the pall of death: this is none of me. tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuo

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE ONE

s glorious. whose throne anubis built in the day when osiris said "lo! a man wins his way to amentet. i come before you, to drive away my faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun "between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the stren

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

also look at the development of creation from within, from the creator outward to a point that draws farther from him, like moving from the innermost, the most personal and hidden, to something external and less important. we can also speak about the development of creation as though the creator surrounds it, wrapping it with his goal and controlling it from all sides. creation is within, like an egg inside a brooding hen. there are other descriptions of just one thing: the relationship between the creation and creator. the actual words are merely tools that t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 370 we use, depending on which attributes, characteristics, qualities and interrelations we are talking about. w h at i s a s p i r i t ua l v e s s e l? q: if a vessel is designed to receive l

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

raw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from egyptian teaching. we read in egyptian hieroglyphics of gthe one and the four, h referring to horus and his four brothers. of that we also read in the stanzas of dzyan; and another expression common to both is gthe one from the egg h. in egypt the egg was the symbol for the setting sun, which is often seen in that shape when about to touch the horizon. that egg passed into the underworld, and was hatched there, and out of it came the young sun the next morning, rising in his strength, which was called gthe flame born of a flame h. all this bore a deeply mystical significance, which was explained in the mysteries. 23. whe

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

sely to the egyptian scheme of initiation than the eleusinian rites. they were celebrated throughout greece and asia minor, but principally at athens; they were carried to rome, and afterwards formed a link in the chain of masonic descent. their central legend deals with the slaying of dionysus by the titans and his subsequent resurrection. 405. the mysteries commenced with the consecration of an egg, symbolizing the mundane egg from which all things came. the candidate was crowned with myrtle, clothed in the sacred robes, exhorted to have courage, and then led through dark caverns amid the howling of wild beasts and other fearful noises, while flashes of lightning revealed monstrous apparitions to his sight. after three days and nights of this kind of experience, he was laid on a couch in

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

ss, which is eternal and periodically shows itself in a series of different forms, including the most dense one, the physical body. at the moment of death, the spark leaves the physical, whereas after three days the less dense bodies leave the more dense. since the spark can be attracted to a vortex created during the sex act of two individuals, a new set of bodies may be created when the woman s egg is fertilized. through this process of reincarnation the spark evolves until it no longer needs a physical body. everyone will complete this evolution, and the purpose of the fraternity is to help people to speed this process, through a set of lessons and involvement in ritual practice. among the teachings of the fraternity is a course of philosophy in two levels, after which the neophytes can

shiva s consort] stands alone [and] the supreme lord looks at the goddess as he dances the tandava dance. this goddess of supernal felicity in turn drinks in the nectar of the dance of her husband while she herself, abiding in yoga, enters the body of the trident-wielding god. quitting his tandava dance as he pleases, the blessed pinaka-bearer [shiva] whose nature is light burns up the orb of the egg of brahma [i.e, the manifested cosmos. then, while the gods brahma, vishnu and the pinaka-bearer alone remain, the earth, with all her properties, dissolves into the waters (dimmitt and van buitenen 1978, 44) finally, the air fills with great clouds that rain down a ferocious deluge until the world perishes in watery darkness. to cite heinrich zimmer s evocative description from his classic my

niece, abigail williams, soon began to tell them stories about her native barbados, including tales of voodoo. the girls were fascinated with the subject, and were joined by other girls in the village, ranging from age twelve to twenty. they began telling each other s fortunes and tried to discover the trades of their future husbands through a primitive crystal ball that they made by floating an egg white in a glass of water. it is said that one saw the likeness of a coffin, representing death. beginning with betty parris in january 1692, the girls began having fits, crawling into holes, making strange noises and contorting their bodies. rev. parris decided to consult the village physician, dr. william griggs, who could find no medical precedent for the girls condition. thus he diagnosed

LIBER HAD

according to the practice in liber cdlxxiv "this is the fourth practice of meditation("ccxx. ii" 27-33. 17. let the aspirant observe duly the feasts appointed by the a. a. and perform such rituals of the elements as he possesseth, invoking them duly in their season "this is the second practice of magick art("ccxx. ii" 35-43. 18. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as a babe in the egg of the spirit (akasha. ed) that is invisible within the 4 elements "this is the ninth practice of intelligence("ccxx. ii" 49. 19. the aspirant seated in his asana will suddenly commence to breathe strangely, and this without the operation of his will; the inspiration will be associated with the thought of intense excitement and pleasure, even to exhaustion; and the expiration very rapid and fo

LIBER 777

uld draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. time and the gregarious nature of man have raised gods as ideas grew more universal; sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes. thus, where shall we put isis, favouring nymph of corn as she was? as the type of motherhood? as the moon? as the great goddess earth? as nature? as the cosmic egg from which all nature sprang? for as time and place have changed, so she is all of these! what of jehovah, that testy senior of genesis, that lawgiver of leviticus, that phallus of the depopulated slaves of the egyptians, that jealous king-god of the times of the kings, that more spiritual conception of the captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medi val battleground of

on 26 black diamond the secret force, lamp on 27 ruby, any red stone the sword. 28 artificial glass[[chalcedony] the censer or aspergillus. 29 pearl the twilight of the place and magic mirror. 30 crysolith the lamen or bow and arrow iao: inri 31 fire opal the wand or lamp, pyramid of b[[the thurible. 32 onyx a sickle. 32 bis salt the pantacle or[[bread and] salt. 31 bis black diamond[[the winged egg. table i (continued) 13 xlii* perfumes. xliii* vegetable drugs. xliv* mineral drugs. 0[[no attribution possible. carbon 1 ambergris elixir vit aur. pot. 2 musk hashish[[cocaine] phosphorus 3 myrrh, civet belladonna, soma silver 4 cedar opium. 5 tobacco nux vomica, nettle[[cocaine, atropine] iron, sulphur 6 olibanum stramonium, alcohol, digitalis, coffee. 7 benzoin, rose, red sandal damiana, ca

of the heavens about kether. 31 bis the root of the powers of air the root of the powers of water. lxxv. the five elements (tatwas. lxxvi. the five skandhas. clxxxviii. the body. 11 vayu the blue circle sankhara breath 23 apas the silver crescent vedana chyle, lymph 31 agni or tejas the red triangle sa a blood 32 bis prithivi the yellow square rupa solid structures, tissues 31 bis akasa the black egg vi nanam semen, marrow cxci. the four noble truths (buddhism) clxxxix. cxc. bodily functions. 11 sorrow s cause speaking though 23 sorrow s ceasing holding nutrition 31 noble eight-fold path moving moving 32 bis sorrow excreting matter 31 bis. generating magick table iii 20 lxxvii. the planets and their numbers. lxxviii. intelligences of the planets. cxciv (transliteration) 12# 8 (260) layryt

LIBER ALEPH

t cosmos, or of his viceregent in the little. t liber aleph vel cxi 36 ai de liberatate iuvenum (of the liberty of childen) thou that art the child of mine own bowels, how shall i write to thee concerning children? for herein is the gordian knot in our whole rope of wisdom, and it may not be severed by sword, no, not of a greater than alexander the two-horned. and it is a balance like that of the egg, and the violence of a columbus will but crack the tender shell which we must first of all preserve. now sentinel to this fortress standeth a certain paradox of general application, and in this large order i will declare it, so that its particular sense may enlighten thee hereafter. and this is the paradox, that there are bonds which lead to slavery, and bonds which lead to freedom. all we are

ll of man on every plane of his by-coming; and the word of the law is thelema .do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. now because .love is the law, love under will. do i write this epistle for thee, that thou mayst fulfil this inmost will of mankind, making them capable of light, life, love and liberty by the acceptance of this law. and the hindrance thereunto is but as the shell of its egg to an eaglet, a thing foreign to itself, a protection till the hour strike, and then. no more! o liber aleph vel cxi 76 bc mandatum ad filium suum (charge to his son) ere i reach forth mine hands against thee in the sign of the enterer, o son of my bowels, for with all my magical might i will that thou fight manfully and labour with diligence (with sword and trowel; say i) in this work. for th

onquereth all, and their corruption and disintegration is also the victory of babalon. n liber aleph vel cxi 140 ei rhapsodia de domina nostra (rhapsody on our lady) lessed be she, ay, blessed unto the ages be our lady babalon, that plieth her scourge upon me, to mega qhrion, to compel me to creation and to destruction, which are one, in birth and in death, being love! blessed be she, uniting the egg with the serpent, and restoring man unto his mother, the earth! blessed be she, that offereth beauty and ecstasy in the orgasm of every change, and that exciteth thy wonder and thy worship by the contemplation of her mind many-wiled! blessed be she, that hath filled her cup with every drop of my blood, so that my life is lost wholly in the wine of her rapture! behold, how she is drunken thereo

and thy dragon grow in like measure, for the excess of the feminine is dead weight. the intellectual without virility is a dreamer of follies, and the laborious giant without courage is a slave. b liber aleph vel cxi 162# de natura silentii nostri (of the nature of our silence) he nature of this silence is shewn also by the god harprocrates, the babe in the lotus, who is also the serpent and the egg, that is, the holy ghost. this is the most secret of all energies, the seed of all being, and therefore must he be sealed up in an ark from the malice of the devourers. if then by thine art thou canst conceal thyself in thine own nature, this is silence, this, and not nullity of consciousness else were a stone more perfect in adeptship that thou. but, abiding in thy silence, thou art in a city

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

ng its occurrence (1) providing i could speak without altering the state of consciousness (2) providing i could find the necessary person [no good. o.m] dec. 15th, 11:50 to 12:9 p.m. astral journey. on first trying to project astral it went rapidly off in a n.e. direction [bad. o.m] then described a curve to the north and so round twice, and became normal again. second attempt. enclosed astral in egg of light, sent it straight up. egg opened; and i opened eyes in space. i saw above me a shining object, oblong in shape, and travelling to it, found it almost like a kite. leaning upon it, i was carried backwards for some distance, during which time i watched a changing landscape below. wishing to descend, i dropped towards the earth, and found body supported by another. when near the ground

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

roods and prophecies and tombs. old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman fs tangled tale (god.s patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword.the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale .this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he .but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature.s nest. with that he fled the dismal tract. he was so sick and ill at ease and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then. nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 29 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the flame

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

thou forsaken me..and i have to stop and put it down! a good thing; for it calms me. 3.45. at the dome, master of myself. the mantra goes just 30 times a minute, 1800 times an hour, 43,200 times a day. to say it a million times would take longer than mrs. glyn.s heroine did to conceive.1 yet i will get the result if i have to say it a hundred and eleven million times. but oh! fertilise my .k..ic egg to-day! this remark, one should notice, is truly characteristic of the man john st. john. i see how funny it is; but i fm quite serious withal. ye dull dogs [the..k..ic egg. is the sphere of the personality of man. a theosophic term..ed] 3.55. n.b..mantras might with advantage be palindromes. 3.56. i try to construct a magic square from the mantra. no good. but the mantra is going much better

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

ontemplates self, in silence) i will not look uon thee more, for fatal is thy name. begone! false phantom, thou shalt pass before the frowning forehead of the sun. i know thee, and i pass thee by. for more than thou am i. at altar. formulating hexagram. now witness ye upon the earth, spirit and water, and red blood! witness above, bright babe of birth, spirit, and father. that are god! as babe in egg, being born. for silence duly is begot and darkness duly brought to bed. the shroud is figured in my thought, the inmost light is on my head. unbind. sign of enterer. attack! i eat up the strong lions. i! fear is on seb, on them that dwell therein, behold the radiant vigour of the lord! sign of silence defence! i close the mouth of sebek, ply my fear on nile, asar that held not in! behold my r

LIBER HAD

imself according to the practice in liber 474. this is the fourth practice of meditation (ccxx. ii. 27-33. 17. let the aspirant observe duly the feasts appointed by the a a and perform such rituals of the elements as he possesseth, invoking them duly in their season. this is the second practice of magick art (ccxx. ii. 35-43. 18. let the aspirant apply himself to comprehend hadit as a babe in the egg of the spirit (akasha. ed) that is invisible within the 4 elements. this is the ninth practice of intelligence (ccxx. ii. 49. 19. the aspirant seated in his asana will suddenly commence to breathe strangely, and this without the operation of his will; the inspiration will be associated with the thought of intense excitement and pleasure, even to exhaustion; and the expiration very rapid and fo

LIBER HHH

all shiver and leap with the shock, and that also must both be suffered and overcome. 4. after the lightning-flash, resteth in the zenith a minute point of light. and this light shall radiate until a right cone be established upon the sea, and it is day. with this thy body shall be rigid, automatically; and this shalt thou let endure, withdrawing thyself into thine heart in the form of an upright egg of blackness; and therein shalt thou abide for a space. 5. when all this is perfectly and easily performed at will, let the aspirant figure to himself a struggle with the whole force of the universe. in this he is only saved by his minuteness. liber hhh sub figura cccxli 3 but in the end he is overthrown by death, who covers him with a black cross. let his body fall supine with arms outstretch

at he is bitten by a serpent, feeling even in his body the poison thereof. and let each bite be healed by an eagle or hawk, spreading its wings above his head, and dropping thereupon an healing dew. but let the last bite be so terrible a pang at the nape of the neck that he seemeth to die, and let the healing dew be of such virtue that he leapeth to his feet. 8. let there be now placed within his egg a red cross, then a green cross, then a golden cross, then a silver cross; or those things which these shadow forth. herein is silence; for he that hath rightly performed the meditation will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. let him now remain in the pyramid or cone of light, as an egg, but no more of blackness. 10. then let his bo

5. next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power; and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow hathor. and it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. let it become blacker than all blackness. and in this meditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the svb

LIBER LVII

28 [i.e, crowley. t.s] 18 liber lviii great. the clash of these produces a finite positive idea which happens (see tycarb29 for a more careful study, though i must not be understood to indorse every word in our poet-philosopher.s thesis) to be light, rwa. this word rwa is most important. it symbolises the universe immediately after chaos, the confusion or clash of the infinite opposites. a is the egg of matter; w is b, the bull, or energy-motion; and r is the sun, or organised and moving system of orbs. the three letters of rwa thus repeat the three ideas. the nature of rwa is this analysed, under the figure of the ten numbers and the 22 letters which together compose what the rosicrucians have diagrammatised under the name of minutum mundum. it will be noticed that every number and letter

change. derived from 2 and 3 by multiplication, 9= 32 (note all numbers divisible by nine are still so divisible, however the order of the figures is shifted) 10. the decad, the divine end. represents the 1 returning to the 0. derived from 1+ 2+ 3+ 4. 11. the hendecad, the accursed shells, that only exist without the divine tree. 1+ 1= 2, in its evil sense of not being 1. section ii 0. the cosmic egg. 1. the self of deity, beyond fatherhood and motherhood. 2. the father. 3. the mother. 4. the father made flesh.authoritative and paternal. 5. the mother made flesh.fierce and active. 6. the son.partaking of all these natures. 7. the mother degraded to mere animal emotion. 8. the father degraded to mere animal reason. 9. the son degraded to mere animal life. 10. the daughter, fallen and touchi

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

s; the third daty, a star-glass; the fourth day, a beetle.s wing; the fifth day, a crab; the sixth day, a bow; the seventh day, a quiver; the eighth day, a stag; the ninth day, an horn; the tenth day, a sandal of silver; the eleventh day, a silver box of white sandal wood; the twelfth day, a whisper; the thirteenth day, a black cat; the fourteenth day, a phial of white gold; the fifteenth day, an egg-shell cut in two; the sixteenth day, a glance; the seventeenth day, an honeycomb; the eighteenth day, a dream; the nineteenth day, a nightmare; the twentieth day, a wolf, black-muzzled; the twenty-first day, a sorrow; the twenty-second day, a bundle of herbs; the twenty-third day, a piece of camphor; the twenty-fourth day, a moonstone; the twenty-fifth day, a sigh; the twenty-sixth day, a refu

maiden is blind. our father: she shall be what she doth not. and a second virgin came forth to him and said: the second riddle: detegitur yod. quoth our father: the moon is full. so also a third virgin the third riddle: man and woman: o fountain of the balance! to whom our father answered with a swift flash of his sword, so swift she saw it not. came a fourth virgin, having a fourth riddle: what egg hath no shell? and our father pondered a while and then said: on a wave of the sea: on a shell of the wave: blessed be her name! the fifth virgin issued suddenly and said: i have four arms and six sides: red i am, and gold. to whom our father: eli, eli, lama sabachthani (for wit ye well, there be two arcana therein) then saith the sixth virgin openly: power lieth in the river of fire. and our

uly absolute 0, for 0 is, as i have shown, dependent on the idea of categories. if these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which this 0 is absolute. not only must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predicates. by 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 0n, where n is the final term of a natural scale of dimensions, categories, or predicates. our cosmic egg, then, from which the present universe arose, was nothingness, extended in no categories, or graphically, 00. this expression is in its present form meaningless. let us discover its value by a simple mathematical process! 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 1- multiply by1= n n then 0 0 0 1 n 1 n= 8. now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in some unknown finite number extended

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

h, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence thou (i.e, god, ateh, the all) in extension. but by metathesis of these six letters is obtained tma hyh .truth was. as if affirming solemnly the presence in the creation of the supernal truth. now let us take the first and last letters of the verse and .cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun..i.e, w (6 .the seal of creation .and we have wb, an egg. where we see the whole universe enclosed in the cosmic egg of hindu and egyptian mythology: and the formulation of the sphere of the universe (or magical mirror in man. as it were the egg of the black swan of time, the kala hamsa, the triune a m u, or word of power or of seb, the bird of life, whose will was heard in the night of time. the total numeric value of the verse is fntd= 4459, of wh

LIBER SAMEKH

al yod signifies gmine h etymologically, and essentially the mercurial (transmitted) hermaphroditic virginal seed. gthe hermit h of the tarot. the use of the name is therefore to invoke one fs own imost secrecy, considered as the result of the conjunction of nuit and hadit. if the second a is included, its import is to affirm the operation of the holy ghost, and the formulation of the babe in the egg, which precedes the appearance of the hermit. this is also an agonizing appeal to the earth, the mother; for at this point of the ceremony the adept should be torn from his mortal attachments, and die to himself in the orgasm of his operation (a thorough comprehension of psychoanalysis will contribute notably to the proper appreciation of this ritual) liber samekh svb figvra dccc 10 aepe gthou

gfifteen by function h instead of gfive h, etc, and gin act free, firm, aspiring, ecstatic, h rather than ggentle, h etc. as in the present text. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 26 a kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! take ten that by one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six!27 the wand to all cups, and thy disk to all swords, but betray not thine egg! moreover also is iaf verily 666 by virtue of number;28 and this is a mystery of mysteries; who knoweth it, he is adept of adepts, and mighty among magicians! now this word sabaf, being by number threescore and ten* is a name of ayin, the eye, and gthe devil h our lord, and the goat of mendes. he is the lord of the sabbath of the adepts, and is satan, therefore also the sun, whose number of ma

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

h variant. for the father s sperm cells, these proportions will be the same. a simple matrix shows what kinds of results can be expected in the progeny of these two parents: mother s eggs (rh /rh) rh rh father s sperm cells rh rh /rh rh /rh (rh /rh) rh rh /rh rh /rh what is evolutionary biology? 41 each box in the matrix represents a potential baby resulting from the fertilization of a particular egg by a particular sperm cell. we see that when eggs and sperm cells combine, there is a 25%chance (one box out of four) that the baby will be genetically rh /rh, a 50% chance (two boxes out of four) that it will be rh /rh (and thus identical to both parents for that trait, and a 25% chance (one box out of four) that the baby will be rh /rh. this is exactly what is observed in countless other exa

ature and number of mtdna gene variants found among many individuals is easy to obtain. as we detailed in chapter 3, the existence of gene variants in living organisms informs us of their evolutionary past. another interesting characteristic of mtdna is that it is passed down exclusively from mothers to their children. children do not inherit mtdna from their fathers. this is because the mother s egg contains many mitochondria, whereas the portion of the father s sperm cell that enters the egg to fertilize it contains none. this, then, means that mtdna can be used to trace the genealogies of women but not those of men. indeed, when a son inherits his mother s mtdna, he cannot pass it down to his children: mtdna always goes through women alone. but this also means that analyzing dna from bo

reproductive isolation, following the appearance of new species, has been well documented in plants. hybrid formation between related (but not identical) species is not unusual in the plant kingdom. when this happens, two different genomes are united in one plant. a hybrid plant is often sterile because the chromosomes from the two parental species do not match and fertile germ cells (pollen and egg) cannot form. however, accidental chromosome doubling (a type of massive mutation) can occur in hybrids during germ cell formation, a phenomenon that restores fertility. for example, bread wheat, leaf mustard, and oil seed rape are the results of hybrid formation between known ancestors. it has been shown that these fertile new hybrids can no longer mate with their ancestral species because th

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uments--the equinoxes and solstices--the astrological ages of the world--the circular zodiac of tentyra--an interpretation of the zodiacal signs- the horoscope of the world. 53 the bembine table of isis plato's initiation in the great pyramid--the history of the bembine table--platonic theory of ideas--the interplay of the three philosophical zodiacs--the chaldean philosophy of triads--the orphic egg. 57 wonders of antiquity the ever-burning lamps--the oracle of delphi--the dodonean oracle--the oracle of trophonius--the initiated architects--the seven wonders of the world. 61 the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagoras and the school of crotona--pythagoric fundamentals--the symmetrical solids--the symbolic aphorisms of pythagoras--pythagorean astronomy--kepler's theory of the universe

ase--medicinal properties of herbs--the use of drugs in the mysteries--the sect of the assassins. 109 the qabbalah, the secret doctrine of israel the written and unwritten laws--the origin of the qabbalistic writings--rabbi simeon ben jochai--the great qabbalistic books--the divisions of the qabbalistic system--the sepher yetzirah. 113 fundamentals of qabbalistic cosmogony ain soph and the cosmic egg--the qabbalistic system of worlds--the qabbalistic interpretation of ezekiel's vision--the great image of nebuchadnezzar's dream--the grand man of the universe--the fifty gates of life. 117 the tree of the sephiroth the thirty-two paths of wisdom--the greater and the lesser face--kircher's sephirothic tree--the mystery of daath--the three pillars supporting the sephirothic tree--the four lette

ummim. 133 the fraternity of the rose cross the life of father c.r.c--johann valentin andre--the alchemical teachings of the rosicrucians--significance of the rose cross--the rosicrucian temple--the adepts of the rose cross. 137 rosicrucian doctrines and tenets the confessio fraternitatis--the anatomy of melancholy--john heydon on rosicrucianism--the three mountains of the wise--the philosophical egg--the objects of the rosicrucian order. 141 fifteen rosicrucian and qabbalistic diagrams schamayim, the ocean of spirit--the seven days of creation--the symbolic tomb of christian rosencreutz--the regions of the elements--the new jerusalem--the grand secret of nature. 145 alchemy and its exponents the multiplication of metals--the medal of emperor leopold i--paracelsus of hohenheim--raymond lul

g, these illumined philosophers left their formul that others, too, might attain to understanding. but, lest these secret processes fall into uncultured hands and be perverted, the great arcanum was always concealed in symbol or allegory; and those who can today discover its lost keys may open with them a treasure house of philosophic, scientific, and religious truths. click to enlarge the orphic egg. from bryant's an analysis of ancient mythology. the ancient symbol of the orphic mysteries was the serpent-entwined egg, which signified cosmos as encircled by the fiery creative spirit. the egg also represents the soul of the philosopher; the serpent, the mysteries. at the time of initiation the shell is broke. and man emerges from the embryonic state of physical existence wherein he had rem

forests and rivers to whom many offerings were made. describing the temples of the druids, charles heckethorn, in the secret societies of all ages& countries, says "their temples wherein the sacred fire was preserved were generally situate on eminences and in dense groves of oak, and assumed various forms--circular, because a circle was the emblem of the universe; oval, in allusion to the mundane egg, from which issued, according to the traditions of many nations, the universe, or, according to others, our first parents; serpentine, because a serpent was the symbol of hu, the druidic osiris; cruciform, because a cross is an emblem of regeneration; or winged, to represent the motion of the divine spirit* their chief deities were reducible to two--a male and a female, the great father and mo

d ladder. in ancient egypt it was during this period--when the vernal equinox was in the sign of taurus--that the bull, apis, was sacred to the sun god, who was worshiped through the animal equivalent of the celestial sign which he had impregnated with his presence at the time of its crossing into the northern hemisphere. this is the meaning of an ancient saying that the celestial bull "broke the egg of the year with his horns" sampson arnold mackey, in his mythological astronomy of the ancients demonstrated, makes note of two very interesting points concerning the bull in egyptian symbolism. mr. mackey is of the opinion that the motion of the earth that we know as the alternation of the poles has resulted in a great change of relative position of the equator and the zodiacal band. he beli

earth that we know as the alternation of the poles has resulted in a great change of relative position of the equator and the zodiacal band. he believes that originally the band of the zodiac was at right angles to the equator, with the sign of cancer opposite the north pole and the sign of capricorn opposite the south pole. it is possible that the orphic symbol of the serpent twisted around the egg attempts to show the motion of the sun in relation to the earth under such conditions. mr. mackey advances the labyrinth of crete, the name abraxas, and the magic formula, abracadabra, among other things, to substantiate his theory. concerning abracadabra he states "but the slow progressive disappearance of the bull is most happily commemorated in the vanishing series of letters so emphaticall

table as a whole is susceptible of many interpretations. if the border of the table with its hieroglyphic figures be accepted as the spiritual source, then the throne in the center represents the physical body within which human nature is enthroned. from this point of view the entire table becomes emblematic of the auric bodies of man, with the border as the outer extremity or shell of the auric egg. if the throne be accepted as the symbol of the spiritual sphere, the border typifies the elements, and the various panels surrounding the central one become emblematic of the worlds or planes emanating from the one divine source. if the table be considered from a purely physical basis, the throne becomes symbolic of the generative system and the table reveals the secret processes of embryolog

o. the chaldean oracles of zoroaster also contains many allusions to the theogonic principles which are demonstrated by the table. the theogony of hesiod contains the most complete account of the greek cosmogony myth. orphic cosmogony has left its impress upon the various forms of philosophy and religion--greek, egyptian, and syrian--which it contacted. chief of the orphic symbols was the mundane egg from which phanes sprang into light. thomas taylor considers the orphic egg to be synonymous with the mixture from bound and infinity mentioned by plato in the philebus. the egg is furthermore the third intelligible triad and the proper symbol of the demiurgus, whose auric body is the egg of the inferior universe. eusebius, on the authority of porphyry, declared that the egyptians acknowledged

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of white tape (large enough to stand in) on the floor outside the circle to the west. in this is placed a skull. now this may be an actual skull if you have recourse to one, a replica of one made by you, or a drawing of one, never mind how crude, also composed by you. in the small triangle on the altar should be placed a photograph of the deceased flanked by the lamps of art and an hourglass (an egg timer will do for this. you should have on hand a generous supply of necromancy incense (see end of this chapter under "herbs and incenses, and also writing material to record the shade's answers. finally, on your breast must hang the important pentacle of protection (this applies to any companions as well. at the first stroke of midnight, approach the west side of the altar table, facing east

orms, ranging from the simple matter of "binding" someone (enforcing one's will, to the more exotic and difficult practices such as the "binding" of animals (snake charming, and control of physical phenomena like the gathering or splitting up of clouds (weather working) and controlled poltergeist phenomena (smashing windows, levitating ashtrays, etc. the human body radiates energy, which forms an egg-shaped cocoon about it which modern occultists call the aura. exactly what the nature of this energy is and where it comes from we don't know; the prevalent theory among witches is that it is produced via the nervous system. it is known variously by the names od, odyle, magnetism, telergy, or simply witch power. red-haired people are said to possess this energy in free-floating form available

of love such as the composition of philters, the planetary spell, etcetera. traditionally, witches used to make this of musk, lignum aloes, red coral powder, tincture of ambergris, and rose petals, mingled with a few drops of pigeon's blood and the desiccated brain of a sparrow! however, modern witches generally omit the last two ingredients and substitute an old culinary standby, the white of an egg, strangely enough. this, apart from its magical effectiveness, also can be used as a binding agent for the powders, should you wish to compose ready-made incense cones or pastilles as opposed to loose granules. all or any of the flowery perfumes are appropriate to these operations, so if you should wish to substitute for the ambergris, which even in its synthetic form can be quite expensive, y

pell of the last chapter. as a beginner witch who intends to pursue the path, it is essential that you place yourself and your home under some sort of protective spell from the outset. there are a good many amuletic spells for doing this. here are two of them. the first is suitable only if you happen to live in a house as opposed to an apartment. on the day of the new moon, purchase a fresh hen's egg. the fresher the egg, the better- a fertile one is best of all. that midnight, observing your usual discreet precautions, kindle a tellurian incense in your thurible (see end of chapter) and place salt and water in your cup, clearly pronouncing these actions to be "in hertha's name" now, holding your athame in your right hand, the egg in the other, tread a path three times deosil (clockwise) r

es drone lazily in the distance. with each step of your ritual, see, in your mind's eye, your feet leaving blue, glowing footprints of witch power on the ground behind you. you are surrounding your house with a giant protective circle of light! when you have finished your circumambulations (hopefully without encountering mishap such as arrest by the local police for loitering, you should seal the egg into a previously prepared and exorcised black box cushioned within by some dark fabric- a piece of your discarded clothing is ideal. this box you must now bury deeply and permanently, either as nearly under the threshold of the house as you can manage or beneath your hearth, if you have one. you will probably have to pry up a loose floorboard for this. failing these things, simply wall the bo

d clothing is ideal. this box you must now bury deeply and permanently, either as nearly under the threshold of the house as you can manage or beneath your hearth, if you have one. you will probably have to pry up a loose floorboard for this. failing these things, simply wall the box up in the house somewhere, in the attic or preferably the cellar. the important thing to remember here is that the egg must be incorporated into the basic fabric of the house, if not the foundations. wherever you decide upon, you should first exorcise the spot with your earth incense and salt and water. then place the box in the space provided, calling upon hertha three times to protect your house from all misadventure and to bless all those within it with harmony and good fortune. having done this, spit thric

d draw a very simple plan or sketch of your house, surrounding it with three concentric circles, drawn clockwise and beginning with the outermost. repeat your jingle with each circle. this pictorially represents the magical security of your home. cense and seal with the triple cross and "so mote it be" and fold the paper into a packet, tying it firmly with red ribbon, knotted thrice. as with your egg, conceal it immediately in a consecrated place in hertha's name, making it part of the structure of your home. these two devices, the egg and square of saturn, should suffice to cover any everyday contingencies such as occasional bursts of hostile vibrations set up by the family rows over the dinner table, or those set humming by casual "overlooking" of the envious next-door neighbour or visit

ur action is being performed "in hertha's name" the stones should be hung or placed as near your hearth as possible. failing that, if you live in an apartment and neither possess a hearth nor, in spite of your burgeoning witchly image, feel inclined to have one installed, simply hang them in the room you happen to spend most of your time in- den, kitchen, maybe even bedroom. as in the case of the egg, don't pass the holystone through fire and water; no purification or charging is necessary. it is an amulet, not a talisman, and is used au naturel, straight out of the earth. magical herbs of beneficence will be dealt with at the end of this chapter, so i will now move on to discuss the witch ball. this amulet can take two forms. the more fanciful, and less traditional, is that of a hollow gl

ts of blood in certain operations is by no means seen as a method of deity appeasement or atonement for a sin, but solely as a means for conveying a certain type of magical energy held to be resident in the blood (many present-day witches who are often of an extremely nonviolent nature even draw the line at using a few drops of blood, preferring to use that old magical substitute, the white of an egg) traditionally, there may be as many as three leaders to a coven, again recalling dion fortune's dictum about one god, one goddess, and an initiator. the male leader representing the "masculine" power generally takes first place; the female, the "feminine" second; and the second male "executor" or "officer" third. different covens have different titles for their leaders, all equally traditiona

MEANING OF MASONRY

ymbolism of all this is singularly rich in allusion to certain interior processes of introspection well defined in the experience of the contemplative mystics and well attested in their records. the place entered emblematizes once again the material and psychical organism, a dense compact of material particles coating the more tenuous interior spirit of man as a shell surrounds the contents of an egg" roll away the stone" it will be recalled, was the first injunction of the master at the raising of lazarus. this obstruction removed, the psychical organism becomes detached from the physical and the mind is free to become introverted and work exploratively upon its own ground, to search the contents of its own unplumbed depths, to probe deeper and deeper into itself, eradicating defects and

numbers of really earnest and qualified aspirants were only a pe rcentage of the total of those who entered the mysteries, for in the spiritual life, as in the world of nature, the biological phenomenon prevails that the available raw material greatly exceeds the perfected product. every year far more seeds are borne, far more eggs are laid or spawned, than reach maturity, although every seed and egg is potentially capable of growth and fruition. plato, speaking of the mysteries in his own day, quotes a still older authority that" the thyrsus bearers (or candidates for initiation) are numerous, but the bacchuses (or perfected initiates) are few" the same truth is restated in the words in the gospels" many are called, but few are chosen" one qualification above all was essential to the* the

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t which could in time and growth as a child form a strong will. 139 139 those who would actually desire to form a moon spirit into a baby through natural congress would proceed with the same invocations, forming a spirit net which would seize the evoked daemon. at the moment of ejaculation, with the man ejaculating within the woman the spirit should be drawn within the body of the woman until the egg is fertilized. if the woman is not pregnant some days after the elemental will either dissipate or be absorbed by the female during a later banishing ritual. the sorcerer must reach into another reality during this rite, another dimension if it is to be successful. at the moment of orgasm or undertaking the death posture a clear vision of the spirit must be formulated, clearly seen and project

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

eggs, o leader of brahmanas, and vinata produced twoeggs. their delighted assistants placed the two sisters' eggs in moist vessels, where they remained forfive hundred years. when the years had passed, the sons of kadru hatched from their eggs, but from vinata's two eggs hertwo sons were not to be seen. that austere and godly woman, anxious to have children, was ashamed.thus vinata broke open one egg and saw therein her son. authorities say that the upper half of thechild's body was fully developed, but the lower half was not yet well formed. this son was aruna, the charioteer of surya, the sun god. his brother was the powerful garuda, divineeagle, who became the carrier of vishnu. garuda is an avowed enemy of serpents who are his food.krishna mentions him among the most prominent represen

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

man named yima that a terrible winter of frost and snow is upon him. ahura mazda commands yima to build an underground enclosure to protect 2 of every creature and a small group of choice people. in--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 6 serbian legends, a rooster who acts as the messenger of god becomes increasingly ignored by a decadent humanity. man s greed unleashed a torrent of water from a egg that can be paralleled to a pandora s box. only one man, kranyatz, survived this flood by hanging on to a grape vine. the people of southeast asia say that a flood consumed all of humanity, save a small number of men and women aboard a raft. the mandan s, a native american tribe, tell the story of lone man who, together with the creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. lone man, who was very

MORALS AND DOGMA

he moral universe. wisdom, power, and harmony constitute one masonic triad. they have other and profounder meanings, that may at some time be unveiled to you. as to the ordinary and commonplace explanation, it may be added, that the wisdom of the architect is displayed in combining, as only a skillful architect can do, and as god has done everywhere--for example, in the tree, the human frame, the egg, the cells of the honeycomb--strength, with grace, beauty, symmetry, proportion, lightness, ornamentation. that, too, is the perfection of the orator and poet--to combine force, strength, energy, with grace of style, musical cadences, the beauty of figures, the play and irradiation of imagination and fancy; and so, in a state, the warlike and industrial force of the people, and their titanic s

ustible whole, from sun to grub, there is no scorn: all need each other. light does not carry terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it does with them; night distributes the stellar essence to the sleeping plants. every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. germination includes the hatching of a meteor, and the tap of a swallow's bill, breaking the egg; and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of a socrates. where the telescope ends the microscope begins. which of them the grander view? a bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers--a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. there is the same and a still more wonderful interpenetration between the things of the intellect and the things of matter. elements and principles are mingled, com

t color, representing the seven planetary spheres by the appropriate color of each planet. meru itself was said to be a single mountain, terminating in three peaks, and thus a symbol of the trimurti. the great pagoda at tanjore was of six stories, surmounted by a temple as the seventh, and on this three spires or towers. an ancient pagoda at deogur was surmounted by a tower, sustaining the mystic egg and a trident. herodotus tells us that the temple of bal at babylon was a tower composed of seven towers, resting on an eighth that served as basis, and successively diminishing in size from the bottom to the top; and strabo tells us it was a pyramid. faber thinks that the mithriac _ladder_ was really a pyramid with seven stages, each provided with a narrow door or aperture, through each of wh

s of his _voice_ or the word; and which _thought_ or _spirit_ was personified as the goddess neith. she, too, was a divinity of _light, and mother of the sun; and the feast of lamps was celebrated in her honor at sais. the creative _power, another manifestation of deity, proceeding to the creation conceived of in her, the divine _intelligence, produced with its word the universe, symbolized by an egg issuing from the mouth of kneph; from which egg came phtha, image of the supreme intelligence as realized in the world, and the type of that manifested in man; the principal agent, also, of nature, or the creative and productive fire. phre or re, the sun, or celestial light, whose symbol was [mystic symbol, the point within a circle, was the son of phtha; and tiphe, his wife, or the celestial

mportant a part throughout, everywhere the first instruments of the divine will and vengeance, are the seven amshaspands of parsism; as the twenty-four ancients, offering to the supreme being the first supplications and the first homage, remind us of the mysterious chiefs of judaism, foreshadow the eons of gnosticism, and reproduce the twenty-four good spirits created by ormuzd and inclosed in an egg. the christ of the apocalypse, first-born of creation and of the resurrection, is invested with the characteristics of the ormuzd and sosiosch of the zend-avesta, the ainsoph of the kabalah and the carpistes [greek ?a?p?st] of the gnostics. the idea that the true initiates and faithful become kings and priests, is at once persian, jewish, christian, and gnostic. and the definition of the supre

s were enclosures of huge unhewn stones, some of which still remain, and are regarded by the common people with fear and veneration. they were generally either circular or oval. some were in the shape of a circle to which a vast serpent was attached. the circle was an eastern symbol of the universe, governed by an omnipotent deity whose centre is everywhere, and his circumference nowhere: and the egg was an universal symbol of the world. some of the temples were winged, and some in the shape of a cross; the winged ones referring to kneph, the winged serpent-deity of egypt; whence the name of _navestock, where one of them stood. temples in the shape of a cross were also found in ireland and scotland. the length of one of these vast structures, in the shape of a serpent, was nearly three mil

e of wheat. i am the mother of orus the king. in my honor was the city of bubaste built. rejoice, o egypt, rejoice, land that gave me birth. and on the other was this "i am osiris the king, who led my armies into all parts of the world, to the most thickly inhabited countries of india, the north, the danube, and the ocean. i am the eldest son of saturn: i was born of the brilliant and magnificent egg, and my substance is of the same nature as that which composes light. there is no place in the universe where i have not appeared, to bestow my benefits and make known my discoveries" the rest was illegible. to aid her in the search for the body of osiris, and to nurse her infant child horus, isis sought out and took with her anubis, son of osiris, and his sister nephte. he, as we have said, w

which he speaks, and which three modes were employed in the mysteries of bacchus, were symbols of the passage of the soul into different bodies. the relations of the human soul with the rest of nature were a chief object of the science of the mysteries. the man was there brought face to face with entire nature. the world, and the spherical envelope that surrounds it, were represented by a mystic egg, by the side of the image of the sun-god whose mysteries were celebrated. the famous orphic egg was consecrated to bacchus in his mysteries. it was, says plutarch, an image of the universe, which engenders everything, and contains everything in its bosom "consult" says macrobius "the initiates of the mysteries of bacchus, who honor with special veneration the sacred egg" the rounded and almost

"the initiates of the mysteries of bacchus, who honor with special veneration the sacred egg" the rounded and almost spherical form of its shell, he says, which encloses it on every side, and confines within itself the principles of life, is a symbolic image of the world; and the world is the universal principle of all things. this symbol was borrowed from the egyptians, who also consecrated the egg to osiris, germ of light, himself born, says diodorus, from that famous egg. in thebes, in upper egypt, he was represented as emitting it from his mouth, and causing to issue from it the first principle of heat and light, or the fire-god, vulcan, or phtha. we find this egg even in japan, between the horns of the famous mithriac bull, whose attributes osiris, apis, and bacchus all borrowed. orp

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total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see liber 418, protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. he declares himself, in this verse 7, the "minister of hoor-paar kraat" hoor-paar-kraat, or harpocrates, the "babe in the egg of blue, is not merely the god of silence in the conventional sense. he represents the higher self, the holy guardian angel. the connection is with the symbolism of the dwarf in mythology. he contains everything in himself, but is unmanifested. see chapter two, verse 8. he is the first letter of the alphabet, aleph, whose number is one, and his card in the tarot is the fool, numbered zero. ale

ings) of air. now, as one, or aleph, he represents the male principle, the first cause, and the free breath of life, the sound of the vowel a being made with the open throat and mouth. as zero, he represents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the

said william gibson, and the author of the bhagavad gita before him. it is not with these few well-chosen words that i look for praise from the united givers fund, the salvation army, and such other illustrious institutions. 49. i am unique& conqueror. i am not of the slaves that perish. be they damned& dead! amen (this is of the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg) i am not very well satisfied with the old comment on this verse (published in the equinox i, 7) it appears rather as if the amen should be the beginning of a new paragraph altogether (that is not so; see the facsimile of the mmss) amen is evidently a synthesis of the four elements, and the invisible fifth is spirit. but harpocrates, the babe in the egg, is virgo in the zodiac indeed, but merc

ood' are not to be confused. the student should be able to discover the sense of this passage by recollecting the qabalistic statement that "the blood is the life, consulting book 4 part iii, and applying the knowledge which reposes in the sanctuary of the gnosis of the ninth degree of o.t.o. the 'child' is "babalon and the beast conjoined, the secret saviour, that is, the being symbolized by the egg and serpent hieroglyph of the phoenician adepts. the second kind is also a form of baphomet, but differs from the 'child' in that it is the lion-serpent in its original form. the process of softening and smoothing down is thus in this case that of vitalizing the eagle. it is inadvisable to word this explanation in terms too intelligible to the profane, since uninitiated attempts to make use of

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

he secondary or hieroglyphic magical meaning. the plain english still discusses the technique of initiation. the 'fool' is one such as described in my note on verse 57. the vain, soft, frivolous, idle, mutable sot will make nothing either of this book, or of my comment thereon (the 'comment' mentioned in the verse is the comment in class a) but this fool is the child harpocrates, the "babe in the egg, the innocent not yet born, in silence waiting his hour to come forth into light. he is then the uninitiated man, and he has four ordeals to pass before he is made perfect. these ordeals are now to be described. 64. let him come through the first ordeal& it will be to him as silver. the "tree of life" in the qabalah represents ten spheres arranged in three pillars, the central one of these con

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

was part of the egyptian royal regalia, signifying power and fertility. symbol of rebirth shu s staff is in the form of a snake. because snakes have the ability to slough off their skins, they became a symbol of rebirth with lifegiving powers. geb s goose geb is sometimes represented as a goose, and one of his names is the great cackler a reference to the cackle he gave when he produced the great egg from which the benu bird emerged at the dawn of time (see p. 13. goddess of order maat, the goddess of order and justice, who is often described as the daughter of re, accompanies the god, who sits oppposite her. nut, the mother of all nut arches her body to make the dome of the sky. each night she swallowed the sun, giving birth to it again each morning. because of her role as the mother of t

cat goddess bastet uraeus the enraged cobra is the symbol of the sun god (and of the pharaohs, who wore it on their foreheads; it is often depicted attached to the sun disc. according to one myth, the world was created by the archer goddess neith from the primeval waters of nun. she created the gods by saying their names, and then (in cow form) gave birth to the all-powerful re. re was born in an egg, and when he emerged from the egg he was dazzled by the light, and cried: mankind was formed from his tears. nun, fertility of the nile the god nun, who represents the primeval waters or flood, holds up the barque of the sun. to some extent the mythology of ancient egypt simply reflects the land of egypt itself. egypt was described by the greek historian herodotus as the gift of the nile, and

us, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed goddess, beloved wife sister of zeus, goddess of the moon and stars, shine joy and peace upon us orphic hymn to hera the creation t he greeks had several creation myths. in one, euronyme, the goddess of all things, divided the sea from the sky, and then gave birth to a world egg, from which hatched the planets, earth, and all creatures. in another, eros was born from the cosmic egg and, as the first god, set the universe in motion. before that, all was chaos. gaia, mother earth, inspired by eros, then brought forth uranus, the sky, and mated with him, to produce the first immortals, the forefathers of the olympian gods. cronos, the child-eater cronos (saturn) was the

ter, poseidon offered to stand surety for the debt, and so the lovers were freed. golden goddess aphrodite is called golden by the poet hesiod. she is also called laughter-loving, although here the joke is on her. imp of desire some sources say that eros (cupid) was aphrodite s son by either ares, hermes, or even by her father zeus. others say that he was the first god, and hatched from the world egg at the beginning of time. cunning net when hephaestus learned of aphrodite s betrayal, he made a net of fine metal to catch the lovers. hephaestus was the blacksmith god and was worshiped in athens as the patron of craftsmen. aphrodite, hephaestus, and ares by tintoretto, originally jacopo robusti (1518 94) this painting shows hephaestus fixing a net to the bed to trap ares and aphrodite toget

human lovers. walking by the river eurotas, she was overpowered by zeus in the guise of a swan. as a result, she laid two eggs, from which hatched four children helen and clytemnestra, and polydeuces and castor although only helen and polydeuces are considered to be zeus offspring. leda is then later deified as nemesis, the goddess of just retribution. in some early versions leda merely finds the egg containing helen, daughter of zeus and nemesis. in this story, nemesis tries to evade zeus by shape-shifting, turning from one animal into another in her attempts to escape. but zeus follows suit, trumping each change with his own, until she finally turns into a goose and he mates with her in the form of a swan. she drops her egg in a marsh, where leda finds it. alternatively, zeus, again disg

l into another in her attempts to escape. but zeus follows suit, trumping each change with his own, until she finally turns into a goose and he mates with her in the form of a swan. she drops her egg in a marsh, where leda finds it. alternatively, zeus, again disguised as a swan, pretends to be in danger, takes refuge in the bosom of nemesis and then ravishes her. hermes (mercury) then throws the egg between leda s thighs so that she gives birth to it. leda and the swan by francesco melzi or melzo (1493 1570) this painting combines leda s rape by zeus in the form of a swan, with the hatching of the two eggs that she laid as a result giving birth to the twins helen and polydeuces, and castor and clytemnestra. helen was to become the cause of a famous tenyear war between the trojans and the

x, became important roman deities. when castor was fatally wounded in a quarrel with their twin cousins lynceus and idas, polydeuces begged his father zeus not to let him outlive his brother. taken to olympus, polydeuces refused to accept his immortality while castor remained in the underworld. so they compromised, spending one day on olympus and the next in hades, realm of the dead. born from an egg leda laid two eggs as a result of her encounter with zeus, and the four children born from them all achieved renown. sources differ as to the fatherhood of the individual children, but generally helen and polydeuces are regarded as zeus children, and clytemnestra and castor as the children of leda s husband tyndareus. inseparable twins castor and polydeuces were inseparable from birth, even th

a, maui was said to be tangaroa s son. horrified at the sight of his mother s first gray hairs, maui tried to conquer death by forcing himself upon the sleeping goddess of death, hine-nui-te-po. but the birds in the trees found the sight so funny that they laughed and woke the goddess, who crushed maui to death. shell-born god tangaroa was the first god. he lived in a shell that was round like an egg. nothing existed but the shell and the void. finally tangaroa broke his shell and called out, who s there? but there was nothing. maker of all things since tangaroa was born into emptiness, he made the world from both his shell and his body. the top half of the shell became the sky, and the bottom, the rock and sand. his back bone made a mountain range, his entrails made the clouds, his flesh

t off his head. this remained immortal and declared war on the moon god, soma, alternately swallowing and regurgitating him, in an attempt to find more of the immortal elixir (also called soma. cosmic ocean in the beginning, according to the holy book rig veda, there was neither being nor non-being, just darkness swathed in darkness. this is usually described as a primal ocean, on which the world egg floated. gifts of the ocean the ocean yielded many gifts including the sacred parijati tree, which perfumed the whole world with its blossoms, and airavata, the colossal white elephant (on the left, the mount of the god indra. devas the devas, holding onto the tail of the snake vasuki, are the gods. there are usually said to be 33 of them. their home is on mount meru. brahma brahma, one of the

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

s glorious. whose throne anubis built in the day when osiris said "lo! a man wins his way to amentet. i come before you, to drive away my faults. as ye did to the seven glorious ones who follow their lord osiris. i am that spirit of earth and sun,'between the two pillars of flame. i am ra when he fought beneath the ashad tree, destroying the enemies of the ancient of days. i am the dweller in the egg. i am he who turns in the disc. i shine forth from the horizon, as the gold from the mine. i float through the pillars of shu in the ether. without a peer among the gods. the breath of my mouth is as a flame. i light upon the earth with my glory. eye cannot gaze on my daring beams, as they reach through the heavens and lick up the nile with tongues of flame. i am strong upon earth with the str

bic. it consists of a tube, a ead, and a receiver added thereto for purposes of distillation. 8, the athanor or philoso hical furnace is to produce a raduated heat. the balneum mariae is t 1 e modern water bath-a vesse of hot water in which was placed the vessel to be heated. f the balneum arenae or sand bath is a vessel of sand in which is placed the vessel to receive a dry heat. the philosophic egg is an oval glass vessel in which is placed the water or liquid to be acted upon, and which may be hermetically sealed. this represents the alchemical symbol of <168> sulphur on the tree of life. it does not touch the four lower se hiroth. the cross terminates in ti hareth, where y, as it were, the f g supernal triang e is to be grasped, and tiphareth is o o the purified man. o 0 the hexagram o

parts of your own body such as nervous system, respiratory system, digestive system, get some simple text-book such as is used in ambulance work, or attend a course of first-aid lectures so that, before starting to work on your subtle body, you may know something about your physical body. your physical body is interpenetrated by a subtle body or aura which also surrounds the physical body like an egg of light. you should now begin to practise controlling this aura or sphere of sensation. this means that you must first try to get our emotional reactions under conscious control. instead of automaticall y' l iking this, disliking that, you must try to understand the mechanism which underlies these feelings. to assist you in this, the study of psychology is recommended. there are many books on

epresented by "d. now as to the treatment of these vital organs in the process of mummification. seeing that during life they were under the guardianship of the great gods mentioned, so in death they were dedicated each to one <127> of these, who were the four genii of the under-world, or the lesser gods of the dead. these vital organs then, being taken out and separately embalmed, were placed in egg-shaped receptacles, symbolic of akasa, under the care of canopus, the pilot of menelaus, and the god of the waters of creation, the eternal source of being, whose symbol was a jar; and under the especial protection of that one of the genii of the underworld or vice-gerents of the elements to whom that particular organ was dedicated. hence each eggshaped package was enclosed in a jar whose lid

a-the curcurbite or the alembic. b-the alchemist. c-the processes and forces employed. d-the matter to be transmuted. e-the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f-general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g-the beginning of the actual process. the regulation and restriction of the proper degree of heat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. h-the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic; the grinding thereof to f

f heat and moisture to be employed in the working. first evocation followed by first distillation. h-the taking up of the residuum which remaineth after the distillation from the curcurbite or alembic; the grinding thereof to form a powder in a mortar. this powder is then to be placed again in the curcurbite. the fluid already distilled is to be poured again upon it. the curcurbite or philosophic egg is to be closed <185> i-the curcurbite or egg philosophic being hermetically sealed, the alchemist announces aloud that all is prepared for the invocation of the forces necessary to accomplish the work. the matter is then to be placed upon an altar with the elements and four weapons thereon; upon the white triangle and upon a flashing tablet of a general nature, in harmony with the matter sele

ture use) after the invocation of the alchemic mercury a certain brilliance should manifest itself in the whole fluid, that is to say, it should not only be clear, but also brilliant and flashing. now expose it in an her398 .the golden dawn: volume 111 book five metic receiver for seven days to the light of the sun; at the end of which time there should be distinct flashes of light therein (or an egg philosophic may be used; but the receiver of the alembic if close stopped will answer this purpose) t-now the residuum or dead head is to be taken out of the curcurbite, ground small and replaced. an invocation of the forces of jupiter is then to be performed over that powder. it is then to be kept in the dark standing upon a flashing tablet of jupiter for seven days. at the end of this time t

n the power is invoked. hoor-po-hat-ist, thou lord of the silence. hoor-po-hat-ist, lord of the sacred lotus. 0 thou hoor-po-krat-ist (pause a moment or huo to contemplate the force invoked) thou that standest in victory on the heads of the infernal dwellers of the waters wherefrom all things were created. thee, thee i invoke, by the name of eheieh and the power of agla. 0 thou divine babe in the egg of blue, lord of defence and silence, thou that bearest the rose and cross of life and light! thee, thee i invoke for my exaltation to that light. behold! it is written: i am a circle on whose hands stands the twelvefold kingdom of my godhead. i am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, for my life is as the circle of infinite heaven. i change, but death does not come nigh me. 0 ye d

here are the wheels of thy chariot! lift up your heads, 0 ye gates! be ye opened, ye everlasting doors, that the king of glory and of silence and of night may come in! thus do i formulate a barrier without mine astral form that it may be unto me a wall and as a fortress, and as a sure defence. and i now declare that it is so formulated, to be a basis and receptacle for the shroud of darkness, the egg of blue with which i shall presently girdle myself <233> trace active and passive spirit pentagrams and vibrate the enochian invocation of portal grade. and unto ye, 0 ye forces of the spirit of life whose dwelling is in the invisible, do i now address my will. in the great names of your ruling angels elexarph, cornananu, tabitom, and by all the names and letters of the holy tablet of union, b

REGARDIE TALISMANS

nts may be of several kinds, though for the purpose of this interpretation, i have conveniently selected the tattvic system of the east, as follows- earth: prithivi, a yellow square. heh (final) of tetragrammaton. air: vayu, a blue circle. vav of tetragrammaton. water: apas, a silver crescent. heh of tetragrammaton. fire: tejas, a red triangle. yod of tetragrammaton. ether (spirit: akasa, a black egg. shin of pentagrammaton. this immediately provides an artistic schema for the creation of talismans. a fire talisman could be constructed out of bright red-coloured papers, similar to the japanese origama, in the form of an upright triangle. appropriate inscriptions, writings, and sigils could be written on it in green ink or paint. the result would be a flashing talisman, that is, the use of

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

e long-sought method of regularly producing and directing magnetic phenomena. as to divinatory instruments, they 101 are simply a means of communication between diviner and consultant, serving merely to fix the two wills upon the same sign. vague, complex, shifting figures help to focus reflections of the astral fluid, and it is thus that lucidity is procured by coffee-grouts, mists, the white of egg, etc, which evoke fatidic forms, existing only in the translucid that is, in the imagination of the operators. vision in water is operated by the dazzlement and fatigue of the optic nerve, which then resigns its functions to the translucid and produces a brain illusion, in which reflections of the astral light are taken for real images. hence nervous persons, of weak sight and lively imaginati

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

the contrary, increases in the measure that it nourishes. exalted by a noble sentiment of nationality, dazzled by the idea of immense revolution, let a revealer of hidden things come forward and seek to popularize the discoveries of science among gross and ignorant men, destitute of the most simple elementary notions; let him say, for example, that the earth revolves and that it is shaped like an egg: what resource has the barbarian who hears him except to believe? is it not plain that every proposition of this nature becomes for him a dogma from on high, an article of faith? and is not the veil of a wise allegory sufficient to make it a mythos? in the schools of seers the terrestrial globe was represented by an egg of pasteboard or painted wood, and when young children were asked, ewhat i

at resource has the barbarian who hears him except to believe? is it not plain that every proposition of this nature becomes for him a dogma from on high, an article of faith? and is not the veil of a wise allegory sufficient to make it a mythos? in the schools of seers the terrestrial globe was represented by an egg of pasteboard or painted wood, and when young children were asked, ewhat is this egg? f they answered, eit is the earth. f those older children, the barbarians, hearing this, repeated, after the little children of the seers: ethe world is an egg. f but the book of hermes 145 they understood thereby the physical, material world, while the seers meant the geographical, ideal, image-world, created by mind and the logos. as a fact, the priests of egypt represented mind, intelligen

d, eit is the earth. f those older children, the barbarians, hearing this, repeated, after the little children of the seers: ethe world is an egg. f but the book of hermes 145 they understood thereby the physical, material world, while the seers meant the geographical, ideal, image-world, created by mind and the logos. as a fact, the priests of egypt represented mind, intelligence, kneph, with an egg placed upon his lips, to express clearly that the egg was here only a form of comparison, an image, a mode of speech. choumountou, the philosopher of the ezour-veda, explains after the same manner to the fanatic biache what must be understood by the golden egg of brahma. h we must not despair altogether of a period which still concerns itself with these serious and reasonable researches; we ha

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

he charmer dares [to] give [the examples of] elisha's following of eliljah when touched, and [of] simon and andrew relinquishing all to follow their true master, for justification of his [charms and] pranks. in this receipt [that is, charm, besides the words [employed, they bestow sometimes a dose composed of spittle and other liquidities [a glain, because of its [resemblance to] having an addled egg, similarly intermixed. the secret commonwealth 66 there is another charm called sgiunach that attracts fishes plentifully to the angler. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_60.htm (6 of 11 [10/9/2001 12:35:20 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 60-69) but in the more usual charms of curing, besides a general prayer, called the seachd phaidir or seventh and perfect prayer [which is] s

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der, for example, the following hieroglyphic inscription accompanying an image of the scarabbeetle xepera, principle of cyclical regeneration and immortality: i was the spirit in the primeval waters.10 he who had no companion when his name came into being. the most ancient form in which i came into being was as a drowned one. i was he who came into being as a circle. he who was the dweller in his egg. i was the one who began everything, the dweller in the primeval waters. first the wind emerged for me, and then i began to move. i created my limbs in my glory. i was the maker of myself; i formed myself according to my desire and in accord with my heart. the chimaera: if each pharaoh was held to be divinely appointed, what was the actual selection procedure? and how could a human-supervised

t perish. be they damned& dead! amen [this is of the 4; there is a fifth who is invisible& therein am i as a babe in an egg] a restatement of the themes in #ii-18/21. amon is the "conqueror. the warrior lord of thebes [see #i-5. he was the patron of uast, the iv (4th) nome of upper egypt. patron of the v (5th) nome was amsu, portrayed as one of the children of horus the younger [hence "babe in an egg. 50. blue am i and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes& my spangles are purple& green. see #i-60. yet there is also an aspect of harwer that is closer to set [whose color is red] than to nuit [whose colors are blue& gold. purple is the color of a magus, and green the blending of the colors of nuit. 51. purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. the "

nschel iii date: july 5, xix html revision: dec 15, 1997 ce subject: xeper reading list: 2l, 17d no actual object can be as absolute as these forms. instead, everything changes at least a little, partaking of xeper, and everything remains somewhat the same, partaking of the immutable. change is continuous and pervasive throughout the objective universe. weather becomes stormy and then clears. the egg becomes the wriggler who becomes the mosquito. a sphere of gas becomes a fiery star and then a relatively cool dwarf. child becomes man. we do not recognize these changes as xeper. they are beautiful but natural, worldly, mundane reflections of the principle. all change is a manifestation of xeper, and every being and every object undergoes change. change is the manifestation of xeper. willful

t. xensu, the moon god of later times, occupied a very important position as the 'messenger' of the great gods, and the 'traveler' who journeyed through the sky under the form of the moon. as the new moon he is likened to a fiery bull, and he caused to shine upon the earth the beautiful light of the crescent moon, and through his agency women conceived, cattle became fertile, the germ grew in the egg, and all nostrils and throats were filled with fresh air. xensu. the space-traveling messenger who carries the words of the gods throughout the universe. as is the case with all among the elect who have acquired the name of an ancient entity, i feel a special affinity with the attributes connected with xensu. seeing the moon in its full brilliance has a truly uplifting effect on me. a sense of

ledge already present. crowley's statement on trump vi is, in its original form, the story of creation and sheds far more light on the atu than any number of miscellaneous book of thoth notations. i cannot but notice the incipient remanifestation factors heading together- the king and queen, the lance and grail bearers, the mobius strip in movement around the central figure's arms, and the orphic egg, among others. each figure portrays budding actions which will reach outward to influence the other figues and themselves in the futures they are forging. the eve, lilith and cupid forms are not necessarily static even if they appear singular and/or in the background. and what would an atu of love be without eros somewhere in the picture. love being the law under will, the winged shaft bearer

par excellence. in the center of the picture [why the hand? i suspect that portion of the anatomy struck dclxvi as symbolic of the force and working of the will. he could have (and has) done worse] it is, to use one of the book of thoth's words, a fertile card. surrounding the central human figure are depictions of life: the green productive grain stalks, the sperm with its embryonic figure, the egg with the yet-to-be surrounded by the watchful serpent, the hermit himself absorbed in concentration, and even the cerberus/anubis figure in the card's lower right corner. ipsissimus crowley devotes some little space to the lamp of the sun held by the figure and all but describes it as the core symbol of the light of the universe. once again there are dual interpretations open to the observer

"is given by the serpent, who is, moreover, the main theme of the sign" the passage continues by pointing out that its manner of propulsion are like the twin phases of life which are called life and death and then repeats that the serpent is the principal symbol of male energy. it is definetely a phallic symbol and as such stands for the creative effect of active energy on the passive, sperm and egg being one of the best representations of such energy's impact and results. the serpent has had a place of long standing in occult tradition and it is not inappropriate that it should turn up as one of the suspect its presence, like that of the scorpion and the eagle, to be similar in function to the three figures on the old temple of set stele from the year x with its three ascending forms of

thout sense or circumstance. i then travelled to a shore, where a whirlpool cast lost souls upon the shingle. dazed and confused, they gave their names and an account of themselves to a seated magisterial figure, then re-entered the water when directed to do so, swallowed once again by the whirlpool. the magistrate had two merciless eyes, but his other features were blank, his face smooth like an egg. i then entered the darkness of hell, the shadows pierced by roaring flames. screams of pride and fury filled the air, but here in the crucible of its own desires, the ego burned like a star, rising triumphant, burning through all barriers in the fierce intensity of its heat. the twenty-eighth aethyr- bag sunday 6th june xxviii aes, 1:36 a.m. i stood upon a barren plain of crumbling, black roc

cation: v2- c22.1- 2 author: constance l.m. moffatt ii date: may xiv publication: scarab wings i.2 html revision: dec. 18, 1998 ce subject: shetat reading list: i, shetat i am! from the gentle side of bast i am created. lo, though i seek the warmth of the sun, i am a fierce creature of the night. as i walk through life with you, i am shetat, the hidden one! hail, set! working: cracking the cosmic egg purpose: to explore the cracks in the cosmic egg, and to further fracture the surface of that egg, increasing the flexibility and opportunity for change in this universe. setup: standard altar, with pentagram of set placed on or hanging above it. on the altar are blade and/or wand, one black candle, bell, and censor with lit charcoal. classification: v2- c31- 1 author: robert menschel iv date:

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ondon, capital of vilayet, winked blinked nodded in the night. while at himalayan height a brief and premature sun burst into the powdery january air, a blip vanished from radar screens, and the thin air was full of bodies, descending from the everest of the catastrophe to the milky paleness of the sea. who am i? who else is there? the aircraft cracked in half, a seed-pod giving up its spores, an egg yielding its mystery. two actors, prancing gibreel and buttony, pursed mr. saladin chamcha, fell like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar. above, behind, below them in the void there hung reclining seats, stereophonic headsets, drinks trolleys, motion discomfort receptacles, disembarkation cards, duty-free video games, braided caps, paper cups, blankets, oxygen masks. also- for there ha

lling at his fingers, his head bowed "what i want to know, sir" he mumbled "is, which is it to be? annihilation or salvation? why have you returned" gibreel thought rapidly "it is for judging" he finally answered "facts in the case must be sifted, due weight given pro and contra. here it is the human race that is the undertrial, and it is a defendant with a rotten record: a history-sheeter, a bad egg. careful evaluations must be made. for the present, verdict is reserved; will be promulgated in due course. in the meantime, my presence must remain a secret, for vital security reasons" he put his hat back on his head, feeling pleased with himself. maslama was nodding furiously "you can depend on me" he promised "i'm a man who respects a person's privacy. mum- for the second time "is the word

am sighs heavily "done" the lights of the palace are extinguished as the people walk towards it, at the same measured pace as before. then, from within the darkened palace, there rises a hideous sound, beginning as a high, thin, piercing wail, then deepening into a howl, an ululation loud enough to fill every cranny of the city with its rage. then the golden dome of the palace bursts open like an egg, and rising from it, glowing with blackness, is a mythological apparition with vast black wings, her hair streaming loose, as long and black as the imam's is long and white: al--lat, gibreel understands, bursting out of ayesha's shell "kill her" the imam commands. gibreel sets him down on the palace's ceremonial balcony, his arms outstretched to encompass the joy of the people, a sound that dr

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

rs slain in battle and conduct them to odin s hall, valhalla. frigg, or frigga, as odin s wife, is the patroness of married women and of the household and hearth. skadi is the goddess of skiing, hunting, death, and independence. ostara is the goddess of fertility who is honored at the spring equinox. a variation of her name is eostre, from which the word easter is derived. her symbols include the egg and the hare (rabbit, common symbols of easter in the west. asatru also honors the landvaettir, or the land spirits that inhabit the streams, earth, and forests. asatru belief says that the universe was created when muspelheim, or the land of fire, and niflheim, or the land of ice, moved toward each other over an empty space called ginnungigap. when they collided, the universe was born. the ea

unt in the qur an, the scripture of islam, is similar: allah is he who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods. allah is islam s name for god. common themes despite the difference in creation myths throughout the world, they tend to have a number of elements or themes in common. the first of these elements is the idea of creation as a kind of birth, often from an egg. for example, in some versions of the japanese shinto religion s creation myth, contained in the sacred text called tales from the kojiki, the chaotic mass of elements that existed at the time of creation was in the shape of an egg. in greek mythology, the god of love, eros, emerged from an egg laid by the bird nyx. the shell pieces became gaia, the goddess of earth, and uranus, the god of the

xample, in some versions of the japanese shinto religion s creation myth, contained in the sacred text called tales from the kojiki, the chaotic mass of elements that existed at the time of creation was in the shape of an egg. in greek mythology, the god of love, eros, emerged from an egg laid by the bird nyx. the shell pieces became gaia, the goddess of earth, and uranus, the god of the sky. the egg especially stands out in the creation myths of early chinese daoists, who told the story of a great cosmic egg from which the god pangu emerged when the shell split. the top half of the shell became the sky, and the bottom half became earth. an african creation story virtually every culture in the world has a creation story that explains how the world came about. the cultures of africa present

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

identified with him that insect became at once the symbol of the god and the type of the resurrection. but the dead human body, from one aspect, contained the germ of life, that is to say, the germ of the spiritual body, which was called into being p. 39 by means of the prayers that were recited and the ceremonies that were performed on the day of the funeral; from this point of view the insect's egg ball and the dead body were identical. now, as the insect had given potential life to its eggs in the ball, so, it was thought, would a model of the scarab, itself the symbol of the god khepera, also give potential life to the dead body upon which it was placed, always provided that the proper "words of power" were first said over it or written upon it. the idea of "life" appears to have attac

"my mouth and my nostrils are opened in tattu (busiris, and i have my place of peace in annu (heliopolis) which is my house; it was built for me by the goddess sesheta, and the god khnemu set it upon its walls for me "hail, thou god tem, grant thou unto me the sweet breath which dwelleth in thy nostrils! i embrace the great throne which is in khemennu (hermopolis, and i p. 110 keep watch over the egg of the great cackler; i germinate as it germinateth; i live as it liveth; and my breath is its breath" 1 but yet another "exceeding great mystery" had to be performed if the deceased was to be enabled to enter into heaven by its four doors at will, and to enjoy the air which came through each. the north wind belonged to osiris, the south wind to ra, the west wind to isis, and the east wind to

tingeth, and fall down headlong "o poison of [mestet and] mestetef, mount not upwards "o poison of petet and thetet, draw not nigh! o matet, fall down headlong" the goddess isis then uttered certain words of the charm which had been given to her by the god seb in order to keep poison away from her, and said "turn away, get away, retreat, o poison" adding the words "mer-ra" in the morning and "the egg of the goose appeareth from out of the sycamore" in the evening, as she turned to the scorpions. both these sentences were talismans. after this isis lamented that she was more lonely and wretched than all the people of egypt, and that she had become like an old man who hath ceased to look upon and to visit fair women in their houses; and she ordered the scorpions to turn away their looks from

heads upon one neck, under his feet was to be a figure of the crocodile mak, and p. 175 to the right and left of him were to be the dog headed apes, i.e, the transformed spirits of the dawn, who sang hymns of praise to ra when he rose daily. 1 again, let us suppose that some water monster wished to attack a man in a boat. to avoid this the man stood before the cabin of the boat and, taking a hard egg in his hand, he said "o egg of the water which hath been spread over the earth, essence of the divine apes, the great one in the heaven above and in the earth beneath, who dost dwell in the nests which are in the waters, i have come forth with thee from the water, i have been with thee in thy nest, i am amsu of coptos, i am amsu, lord of kebu" when he had said these words he would appear to th

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

ton administration (photo: austin american-statesman newspaper, may 16, 1999) anne graham lotz, billy graham's daughter, at a ymca prayer breakfast (photo: charlotte, nc newspaper, april 2, 1999) ok-sign of the divine king 505 this drawing by an anonymous artist is very revealing it its carefully crafted symbology. we see at top and bottom the illuminati's "ok" sign. then, mere's the oval-shaped "egg" the "el diablo" devil's horns, the two dialectic birds. roddy doyle: the more popular this widely read novelist grows, the darker and better his books become roddy doyle, popular irish novelist (newsweek, july 1, 1996, p. 64) pat robertson, mason, illuminist, knight of malta, and elite propagandist in the field of religion. 506 codex magica ok-sign of the divine king 507 president george w. b

THE CANOPIC GODS SYMBOLISM

cast forth by the liver and gall bladder, which therefore will be represented by d. now, as to the treatment of these vital organs in the process of mummification. seeing that during life they were under the guardianship of the great gods mentioned, so in death they were dedicated each to one of the gods of the dead. these vital organs then, being taken out and separately embalmed, were placed in egg-shaped receptacles, symbolic of akasa, under the care of canous, the pilot of menelaus, and the god of the waters of creation, the eternal source of being, whose symbol was a jar; and under the special protection of that one of the genii of the underworld or vice-gerents of the elements to whom that particular organ was dedicated. hence each egg-shaped package was enclosed in a jar whose lid w

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is the case, its severance may mean death. dr. alexander cannon saw the various strata of physical and nonphysical human beings a bit differently. in his sleeping through space (1938, cannon related the view of the master-the-fifth of the great white lodge of the himalayas, kushog vogi of northern tibet, who believed that the astral body surrounds the physical body like an eggshell surrounds the egg within it and is linked up with the physical body by invisible vibrations on the ether in the air being carried to the mind centers on the plexuses of the involuntary nervous system. in cannon s view, the astral body is the scriptural golden bowl and the etheric body is the linking silver cord. the astral body, he wrote, is mainly the emotional body and has to do with emotions, moods, and feel

a tablet found in the hills near ancient sumer some years back contained a 15-digit number:195,955,200,000,000. many ancient cultures have legends of amphibians or serpent people who, like oannes, the half-human, half-fish, instructed the early inhabitants of mesopotamia in the arts of civilization. there was quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of the aztecs, who descended from heaven in a silver egg, and there are the nagas, the handsome, semidivine serpent people with supernatural powers who figure in the hindu and buddhist traditions. throughout the dim corridors of history, there are frequent mentions of legendary sky people, who were considered to have been emissaries of the flying serpent. the snakeworshiping aztecs and mayans are not far removed from the chinese, who worshiped a cel

peared normal in shape but possibly they were small adults or large kids. zamora radioed headquarters to report the accident, then proceeded to drive closer to the automobile and its occupants. when he was about 150 feet from the gully, he stopped his patrol car to continue on foot. by now he could clearly see that he had found something far more bizarre than an upended automobile. he saw a white egg-shaped object supported on girderlike legs that had smoke and flame issuing from its underside. he heard a loud roar and feared the object was about to explode. he turned and ran to shield himself behind the patrol car, bumping his leg and losing his glasses on the way. in his report, he wrote: it was a very loud roar. not like a jet. it started at a low frequency quickly, then the roar rose i

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made about wicca is that practitioners of the religion are not satanists. they do not worship the devil or glory in the exaltation of evil. worship of and agreements with the devil presuppose his existence, and the wiccans do not believe in the satan of christianity. oberon zell (formerly tim zell, primate of the neo-paganistic church of all worlds, st. louis, missouri, and publisher of the green egg) does not believe satanism can be classed as a religion, but is merely a christian heresy. according to zell, a true pagan religion is one that originated in nature and is characterized by natural modes of expression, contrasted with those religions that owe their existence to a philosophy taught by one or more great prophets and formulated in various creeds and dogmas. those who follow wicca

in the first centuries b.c.e, however, amulets had a long history of being worn for luck and protection. egyptians considered amulets necessary for protection of the living and the dead. an amulet with a heart on it was often placed with the dead to help represent them in judgment about their fate in the afterlife. likenesses of scarabs (a kind of beetle) were also prominent. a scarab encloses an egg in mud or dung and rolls it along to a spot where it can be warm and safe. egyptians considered this a metaphor for the journey of the sun each day. the scarab amulet became a common emblem for regeneration and was placed with the dead. sumerians, who inhabited mesopotamia (present-day iraq) and were contemporaries of the egyptians, had amulets inscribed with images of animals and gods. they a

owledge had been made known to certain individuals, the philosopher fs stone had become the symbol of the alchemical pursuit. according to tradition, albertus magnus actually came to possess such a wonder of transmutation, and helvetius was given a small piece of the philosopher fs stone by a mysterious man in black. some alchemists believed that the stone was somehow hatched like a chick from an egg if one could only find the proper ingredients with which to create the substance of the shell and the gyolk. h others believed that the philosopher fs stone, that most marvelous of all catalysts, oozed somehow out of the moon or from one of the stars and fell to earth where it solidified into the magical stone of transformation. as the works of more of the alchemists have come to light, it bec

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

d. at that time it is free, and does not suffer. it partakes of the universal life, and receives the imprint of the memories of nature which will later determine the configuration of its body and the form of its features. that happy age may be called the childhood of the embryo. adolescence follows; the human form becomes distinct, and its sex is determined; a movement takes place in the maternal egg which resembles the vague reveries of that age which follows upon childhood. the placenta, which is the exterior and the real body of the foetus, feels germinating in itself something unknown, which already tends to break it and escape. the child then enters more distinctly into the life of dreams. its brain, acting as a mirror of that of its mother, reproduces with so much force her imaginati

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

ation. thus, the formula of malkuth can be expressed as initiation, adjustment, synchronicity, revelation, and synthesis. chapter fourteen; the klippoth the word "klippoth" is the plural of the word spelt qoph-lamed-peh-heh, meaning "shell, husk, skin, peel or rind. this indicates at once that the klippoth are the shells or leftovers of a process, in the same way that an eggshell is related to an egg, or the peel related to a.n apple. in the cosmology of kabbalah, these shells or "envelopes" were said to hold their abode beneath the world of assiah into which adam descended at the fall. much of the development of this idea was made by issac de loria (1534-1572) who in his commentary on the "book of concealment" added his own viewpoint to the original zoharic teachings. commenting on the fo

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

tudent remembers the tree of life he will see that the middle pillar is a series of five spheres arranged in a single upright column. the exercise proceeds by the visualization of these sephiroth as circles or spheres of light in various sigruficant parts of the physical body. more accurately, they are to be realized as centers already existent in the aura, which is for this purpose defined as an egg-shape of subtle electric matter, a magnetic field which surrounds and interpenetrates the material body of man. the object of this visualization is to awaken these sephiroth in balanced activity as a means of providing the higher genius, as the it may be named, with a psychic mechanism by which it may freely function within consciousness at the intent of the ego. it will be recalled, as stated

ders of the heart and lungs fall under the realm of the fourth chakra. 5. visuddha, the throat chakra, is located in the hollow of the throat. the thyroid and parathyroid glands are associated here, along with the vocal chords and the pharyngeal plexus. the name visuddha means "purity" the traditional color for this center is purple. an alternate color is gold.11 its symbol is the akasha or black egg of spirit. the fifth chakra controls respiration, auditory functions, cleansing, sensations, intuition, perception, psychc ability, communication, creativity, and self-expression. it is a center of focus and direction (when psychc blockage occurs at this center, it is usually described as a feeling of being "all choked up" or having "a lump in the throat) malfunctions of the thyroid, as well a

o concentrate on the various symbols and correspondences that the chakra system provides. these include geometric symbols, colors, gods and goddesses, sanskrit letters, animals, and sounds used as mantras. chakra correspondences chakra tattva element symbol muladhara prithivi earth square svadisthana apas water crescent manipura tejas fire triangle anahata vayu air hexagram visuddha akasha spirit egg ajna maha-tattva lightimind winged orb sahasrara bindu bliss lotus mantra god lam brahma vam vishnu ram rudra yam isa ham sadashiva om sambhu- paramshiva goddess dakini rakini lakini kakini shakini hakini maha shakti chakra awareness exercise 1. be seated in a meditative position on the floor or in a chair. relax but be sure that your spine is straight. begin to breathe slowly and rhythmically

eathe deeply, then intone the mantra "ya-ng (yah-ng. emphasize the "ng" sound, extending it out with the remaining breath. on the following inhalation, mentally intone the word "ya-mu (yah-m, extending the "m" of the mantra. repeat this mantra cycle three or four times. 172 theb alancbee tweemni nda nd magic 6. imagine a violet disk of light in the hollow of your throat. visualize a black oval or egg shape within this disk. as you foms on the throat center, breathe in and imagine that you can hear the heartbeat of the universe. you are aware of angelic choirs singing softly in some far-off heaven, and you have the feeling that if you opened your mouth to speak, your words would drip honey and have the aroma of jasmine. breathe out and again visualize the black oval w i t h the violet disk

ssociated with the north in the lbrp. augoeides: greek word meaning "higher genius" usually refers to the hga or higher self. ahih: see eheieh ajna: sanskrit word meaning "order" or "command" refers to the brow or thrd eye chakra. 252 the balancbee tweenm inda nd magic akasha: derived from a sanskrit word meaning "to shine" the tattva associated with the element of spirit. its symbol is the black egg. amen: a notariqon or acronym for the hebrew phrase adonai melekh na'amon, meaning "lord, faithful king" its implied meaning is "so be it" or "so mote it be" anahata: sanskrit word meaning "unstruck sound" refers to the heart chakra. analysand: a person who is undergoing psychotherapy. analytical psychology: a term used by c. g. jung to describe his particular method of psychotherapy. anima: a

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

they could get. the two men had been fishing from a pier on the pascagoula river when at 8 p.m. on october 11, 1973, they heard a loud pulsing, humming sound. then they saw a brilliant flickering blue light moving over the water toward them. both men became paralyzed "i felt immobilized" hickson said later "i couldn't move. but i know i was scared to death" as the light drew closer it took on an egg-shaped appearance. young parker lost consciousness, fainting dead away, so the two-witness sighting now became a one-witness event. hickson said two five-foot-tall beings came out of the object. they were grayish with wrinkled skin, no necks, pointed ears, and crablike claws. they picked up the two men("it was like just floating in the air) and carried them into the object where "a big eye" so

a young college student from adelphi, maryland, was driving home alone outside of washington, d.c. as he was crossing the then-partially completed cutoff on interstate 70, leading from route 40 to route 29, he saw a large object on the road directly ahead. at first he thought it was a tractor-trailer jackknifed across the road. then he realized it was a bone-white reflective object shaped like an egg and standing on four legs. as he pulled to a stop a few feet from the object he could make out two figures standing next to the thing. their appearance terrified him. one of the men walked to his car with a broad grin on his face. he was about five feet ten, wore light blue coveralls, thick-soled boots or shoes, and he had a ruddy or suntanned complexion with large eyes "like thyroid eyes" the

led out to tom. another man was in the car. tom later recalled only that he wore a gray coat, had black hair, and never spoke. tom got into the car "it was a very old buick" he reported "but it was very well kept. it looked brand-new. it even smelled brand-new" they drove for about thirty minutes to a remote spot on a back road in maryland. when tom got out of the car he was astonished to see the egg-shaped object waiting for them. he was put into a circular room containing nothing but a couple of bucket seats and a gray tv screen. vadig and his companion disappeared into another part of the ship. after a few minutes the tv screen came alive, the object shuddered, and tom watched the image of the earth receding to a tiny speck on the screen. three or four hours passed. he was still dressed

h "this is lanulos" vadig announced with pride in his voice. he repeated the name several times so it would stick in tom's memory. their vehicle traveled through a large city with low, flat buildings and signs written in some kind of oriental-looking characters. the people, male and female, were all nude "there were some real lookers there, too" tom commented. after the tour, they returned to the egg-shaped craft and took off again. tom sat alone in the same circular room watching the television screen for hours. finally they arrived back on earth at the same place from which they had left. tom, vadig, and the silent man returned to the old buick and drove for about thirty minutes until they reached his apartment house "i'll see you in time" vadig declared, then the car drove off. tom ran

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

nother problem that confronts the editor is the suspected frequency of the copyist's glosses; that is, there do seem to be occasionally bits of sentence or fragments of literature that would seem to be inconsistent with the period in which the text was written. however, no final word can be said on this matter. the difficulty arises in the age-old question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg. for instance, in the magan text, the final verses read though from the chaldean oracles of zoroaster "stoop not down, therefore, into the darkly shining world" which might have been of greek origin and not zoroastrian. it is a question for scholars. the etymology of certain words is a game that has fascinated both the editor and perhaps a score or more of sumerian researches of the past. the

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

ame! i adore the insuperable might: i bow before the unspoken name. for i am yesterday, and i to-day, and i to-morrow, born now and again, on high, on high travelling on dian fs naked horn! i am the soul that doth create the gods, and all the kin of breath. i come from the sequestered state; my birth is from the house of death. i have risen! i have risen! as a mighty hawk of gold! from the golden egg i gather, and my wings the world enfold. i alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; companies of spirits follow me; adore the lords of night. yea, with gladness did they paan, bowing low before my car, in my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. i have risen! i am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, i the first-born of the mother in her ecstasy of old. lo! i

to bed with that loaded weapon, expecting nothing of so innocent a toy; and then one day as he presses his fetish fondly to his heart, there is a deafening crash; and that child who was once a man, flashes up through the golden gates of paradise, or is hurled headlong down to hell. he may become spontaneously, in the twinkling of an eye, a st. francis preaching to his little sisters the birds, or egg-nogg who persists in a state of abnormal flatulency, because he considers himself identical with a bottle of ginger-beer. the state of illumination above mentioned is by no means an easy one to attain to, and the study of philosophy alone helps us, if we follow it under the shaded light of a critical scepticism; for as a chemist reduces his compounds to their component parts, and then to their

uly absolute 0, for 0 is, as i have shown, dependent on the ideas of categories. if these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which the 0 is absolute. not only must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predicates. by 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 0n, where n is the final term of a natural scale of dimensions, categories, or predicates. our cosmic egg, then, from which the present universe arose, was nothingness, extended in no categories, or, graphically, 00. this expression is in the present form meaningless. let us discover its value by a simple mathematical process! 00= 01-1= 01/01 [multiply by 1= n/n] then 01/n x n/01= 0 x gnow the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely small results in some unknown finite number extende

THE BOOK OF GATES

ily on a stick which he grasps in his right hand. 2. four male beings who are lying prostrate on their backs. 3. twenty male beings, with their backs bowed, and their arms tied together at their elbows behind their backs. the our beings are described as "the inert" and the twenty as "the apostates of the hall of ra, who have blasphemed ra upon earth, who have invoked evils upon him that is in the egg, who have thrust aside the right, and have spoken words against khuti" click to view the inert apostates and blasphemers of ra. the text referring to the inert and the apostates reads- p. 97 "tem worketh on behalf of ra, glorifying the god, p. 98 and singing praises to his soul, and distributing evil things to his enemies [he saith-'the word of my father ra is right (maat) against you, and my

e, and let your offerings be for ra 'your khenfu cakes are in the tuat, your offerings are to you, the offerings which are, yours by maat are p. 189 decreed) for you. herbs. among you. sar germinate. and they say unto ra-'let plants spring up in the fields of the tuat, and let ra shine upon the members of sar. when thou dost shine the young plants come into being, o great god, thou creator of the egg' their food offerings are of grain, their drink is of tcheser ale, and their libations are made with cool water. offerings are made unto them upon earth of the grain from the fields of the tuat" of the reapers it is said "these are they who have their sickles and who reap the grain in their field. ra saith unto them-'take ye your sickles, and reap ye your grain, for it is granted unto you. you

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

of sol, and as by shape symbolical of the phallus. some mountains are female, from shape or tradition. the ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the phallus. the yoni or kteis; revered as the house of the phallus, and his complement. the snake; revered as giver of death, and as a symbol of the spermatozoon. he has often the head of the lion; to indicate the mighty power of the spermatozoon. the egg; revered as solar, and in itself as the vehicle of phallic energy. the eagle; and many other winged creatures; also wings attached to the symbols. this represents the flight of life from one resting-place to another, and is therefore a proper attribute of the phallus. the tree; is but the flowering phallus. the stars; these being the concourse of the brethren of the sun are venerable for the w

ubstance of the sacrament will be the elixir of life itself. it will be one and not two; neither male nor female, neither solid nor liquid. it will contain all possibilities, and without it no possibility could be. it is the fire of prometheus in the well-tended lamp of vesta; it is the kneph of the priests of memphis, the disc of the sun in the arms of khephra; and the serpent entwined about the egg. ask of our brethren the alchemists, and of the adepts of the rosy cross. the first answer: it is nothing but the lion with his coagulated blood, and the gluten of the white eagle; it is the ocean wherein both sun and moon have bathed. the others: it is the dew upon the rose that hath concealed the cross. ask of the ancients: they reply that the oldest of the gods is saturn. beware lest thou a

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

avier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 6:4 for the arrows of the almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of god do set themselves in array against me. 6:5 doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6:6 can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? 6:7 the things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. 6:8 oh that i might have my request; and that god would grant [me] the thing that i long for! 6:9 even that it would please god to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 6:10 then should i yet have comfort; yea, i would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for i have not concealed the word

o you, ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 11:10 for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11:11 if a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if [he ask] a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 11:12 or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 11:13 if ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall [your] heavenly father give the holy spirit to them that ask him? 11:14 and he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. and it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. 11:15 but some of them said, he casteth out devils thro

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

orm of witchcraft. it matters little what the metaphysician or the moralist may inculcate; the animal sticks to his subconscious ideas" aleister crowley the confessions "as attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in america, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also- magical religion" j. gordon melton institute for the study of american religion, green egg, 1975 "curse them! curse them! curse them! with my hawk's head i peck at the eyes of jesus as he hangs upon the cross i flap my wings in the face of mohammed& blind him with my claws i tear out the flesh of the indian and the buddhist, mongol and din" liber al vel legis 3:50- 53 "if you are on the path, and see the buddha walking towards you, kill him" zen saying, paraphrased slightly "previou

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

lf-illumined (autaughk2. it is to be observed that the word prihpoj, afterwards the name of a subordinate deity, is here used as a title relating to one of his attributes; the reasons for which i shall endeavour to explain hereafter. wings are figuratively attributed to him as being the emblems of swiftness and incubation; by the first of which he pervaded matter, and by the second fructified the egg of chaos. the egg was carried in procession at the celebration of the mysteries, because, as plutarch says, it was the material of generation( lh thj genesewj3) containing the seeds and germs of life and motion, without being actually possessed of either. for this reason, it was a very proper symbol of chaos, containing the seeds and materials of all things, which, however, were barren and use

whatever were then extant. of these, probably, was orpheus, as well as thamyris, both of whose poems, plato says, could be read with pleasure in his time. 1 see sophocl. oedip. tyr, ver. 1436. 2 orph. hym. 5. 3 symph. i. 2. of priapus 21 matter, by the efforts of his divine strength. the incubation of the vital spirit is represented on the colonial medals of tyre, by a serpent wreathed around an egg;1 for the serpent, having the power of casting his skin, and apparently renewing his youth, became the symbol of life and vigour, and as such is always made an attendant on the mythological deities presiding over health.2 it is also observed, that animals of the serpent kind retain life more pertinaciously than any others except the polypus, which is sometimes represented upon the greek medals

ital motions for many minutes after it has been taken from the body, and even renew them, after it has been cold, upon being moistened with warm water, and touched with a stimulus. the creator, delivering the fructified seeds of things from the restraints of inert matter by his divine strength, is represented on innumerable greek medals by the urus, or wild bull, in the act of butting against the egg of chaos, and breaking it with his horns.4 it is true, that the egg is not represented with the bull on any of those which i have seen; but mr. d hancarville5 has brought examples from other countries, where the same system prevailed, which, as well as the general analogy of the greek theology prove that the egg must have been understood, and that the attitude of the bull could have no other m

characteristic organs of both sexes, which i take to represent organized matter in its first stage; that is, immediately after it was released from chaos, and before it was animated by a participation of the ethereal essence of the creator. in a beautiful gem belonging to r. wilbraham, esq.,3 one of these androgynous figures is represented sleeping, with the organs of generation covered, and the egg of chaos broken under it. on the other side is bacchus, the creator, bearing a torch, the emblem of ethereal fire, and extending it towards the sleeping figure; whilst one of his agents seems only to wait his permission to begin the execution of that office, which, according to every outward and visible sign, he appears able to discharge with energy and effect. the creator himself leans upon o

rue orphic system, in the little analysis which i have here endeavoured to give. this was probably the true catholic faith, though it differs considerably from another ancient system, described by aristophanes;4 which is more poetical, but less philosophical. according to this, chaos, night, erebus, and tartarus, were the primitive beings. night, in the infinite breast of erebus, brought forth an egg, from which sprung love, who mixed all things together; and from thence sprung the heaven, the ocean, the earth, and the gods. this system is alluded to by the epithet wogenoj, applied to the creator in one of the orphic litanies:5 but this could never have been a part of the orthodox faith; for the creator is usually represented as breaking the egg of chaos, and therefore could not have sprun

, macrobius, and apuleius, and the choral odes of the greek tragedies. these principles were the subjects of the ancient mysteries, and it is to these that the symbols on the medals always relate; for they were the public acts of the states, and therefore contain the sense of nations, and not the caprices of individuals. as m. d hancarville found a complete representation of the bull breaking the egg of chaos in the sculptures of the japanese, when only a part of it appears on the greek monuments; so we may find in a curious oriental fragment, lately brought from the sacred caverns of elephanta, near bombay, a complete representation of the symbol so enigmatically expressed by the head above mentioned. these caverns are ancient places of worship, hewn in the solid rock with immense labour

, removed into an unknown country, where it was saleable to all such of the inhabitants of this world as had sufficient wealth and credulity. it was the celestial or therial principle of the human mind, which the ancient artists represented under the symbol of the butterfly, which may be considered as one of the most elegant allegories of their elegant religion. this insect, when hatched from the egg, appears in the shape of a grub, crawling upon the earth, and feeding upon the leaves of plants. in this state, it was aptly made the emblem of man, in his earthly form, in which the therial vigour and activity of the celestial soul, the divin particula mentis, was supposed to be clogged and incumbered with the material body. when the grub was changed to a chrysalis, its stillness, torpor, and

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ated the universe of forms from a single point within itself by an act of divine wiu. within this point the diversity of the physical world-the ten thousand things of chinese philosophy--grew by rational stages from desire to idea to form to materiality, in a way analogous to the growth of a living creature in the womb. the ancients tried to express this idea by presenting the universe as a giant egg floating in the endless womb of god. around the egg of creation is a shell that can- not be breached from either side without destroying the respective universe that is violated. thus mankind cannot know god without destroying god (which is impos- sible, and god cannot enter the created universe that is made of its own outpour- ings without destroying creation. this is why it is said in the bi

expand from the impact. the ripples have no separate substance in themselves, being formed of the waters of the sea, yet they are distinct from the flat surface. and when the ripples have reached the extent of their travel and returned to their starting point, the sea will be as it was before. the interface between the unmanifest and the manifest, which is usually pic- tured as a shell around the egg of the universe, will hereafter be called the veil of unknowing. throughout history human beings have tried to peer behind it, always without success. the act of attempting to understand the all from the viewpoint of the material world is absurd and doomed to failure. it is this noble but futile effort that renders science a tragedy rather than a comedy. however, the barrier between the univer

t is nonsense. the unmanifest is without dimension or change. it should be thought of as around and within, permeating every atom of the universe but not a part of the material world. it is equally sound to think of it as enfolding all things, or as completely present in every point of every separate thing. part of the problem in understanding may have been the ancient model of the universe as an egg floating on a sea of gray mist. this suggests that there is an out- side of the universe-a contradiction in terms-where the nebulous being called god lives. using such a model uncritically, no one could gain a workable concep- tion of the all. a better understanding for the modern age can be attained by picturing the universe as a great doughnut-shape, called in geometry a torus, with a very t

y. the crest of this wave is the present moment. the rising fore slope of the wave is what humans recognize as the future, and the descending back slope is their past. humans are so constituted that they can only perceive the back slope of the wave of time-space, not the fore slope. the model demonstrates that the farthest reaches of the universe and the dimensionless center from which the cosmic egg was born are the same. the out- side and the inside are one; the universe is the in-between. this model of the universe, which was formulated by the author around 1983, is very similar to a cosmological model presented by the mathematician stephen hawking in his book a brief history of time (bantam books, 1988, page 138. hawking has committed the error of representing the universe as a sphere

ide. inside is order; outside is anarchy. in magic a circle is used as a wall of protection to divide the greater hostile world from the zone of law. the most obvious magic circle is the human body. humans look upon the inside of their skins as their own property to do with as they see fit. mystics extend the personal sphere to the aura, a supposed invisible field of energy that is shaped like an egg around the body and that pro- tects the perceived self from hostile psychic "vibrations" just as the body insulates it from extreme heat and cold. animals have their territorial limit, another kind of magic circle. the border of a country is a magic circle established by a society. just as the human mind will limit an idea into a single symbol-its name-so that it can be manipulated, the magus

t. the son of the pharaoh, when he matured sexually as a man and left the gender-neutral state of preadolescent childhood behind him, replaced his father on the throne as king. he married his own sister, who then took the place of the queen, his mother. as queen, she gave birth to a child, renewing the cosmic cycle. the chinese game can be inverted by substituting the more meaningful sym- bols of egg, bird, and serpent for rock, paper, and scissors. the hand signs used are the same: the fist is the egg; the flat of the hand forms the wing of the bird; and the two extended fingers become the forked tongue of the serpent. in this reversal of the game, the egg imprisons the bird, the serpent eats the egg, and the bird devours the serpent. the force now flows in the opposite direction. this fo

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

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

onates within the sphere around your feet. 12. while holding the astral vision of a thick vertical column of spiritual light that extends continuously from the sphere over your head down to the sphere that envelopes and warms your feet, with three more spheres set at intervals like great glowing beads at your neck, heart-center, and pelvis, imagine that your entire body is surrounded by a glowing egg of soft white light. further imagine that the light is circulating downward from the sphere of kether to the sphere of makuth, then flowing out and up along the pearly shell of your aura like a shimmering curtain that completely surrounds you, until it reaches the sphere of kether once again. continue to circulate the light in this fashion for several minutes while shifting your awareness from

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e quarter days are nominal; they vary slightly from year to year. these changes or transitions open occult doorways that allow the fairies to wander the surface of the earth. the astral world of fairies and the material world of mankind overlap in some way on the quarters of the year. they are magic days laden with possibilities. for example, there is a myth that on the equinoxes you may stand an egg up on end on any flat surface, and it will not fall over. while not true physically, it conveys a mythic truth that the equinoxes are days on which magic happens. in the quotation above, robert kirk expressed the opinion of his century that women are less adapted to seership than men. this was a prejudice of the same sort that once held men to be better weavers than women, and that continues t

ious sets of symbols to act as astral doorways. those most often used to initiate astral projection were the tattwas-five simple colored shapes derived from hindu hilosophyth at embody the four lower elements of fire, water, air, 139. regardie, 102. chapter seven: the golden dawn 109 and earth-and the fifth universal binding element, or quintessence, known as ether or spirit. akasa (spirit)-black egg vayu (air)-sky-blue circle tejas (fire)-red equilateral triangle apas (water)-silver crescent prithivi (earth)-yellow square these symbols were painted, or cut erom colored craft paper and glued, on to cards, upon the backs of which were written the divine and angelic names corresponding with the tattwa. the symbols themselves were made about two inches in size upon blank cards around the dime

(water)-silver crescent prithivi (earth)-yellow square these symbols were painted, or cut erom colored craft paper and glued, on to cards, upon the backs of which were written the divine and angelic names corresponding with the tattwa. the symbols themselves were made about two inches in size upon blank cards around the dimensions of ordinary playing cards, for convenience of handling. the black egg is shown inverted with the small end down. the silver crescent reclines with both points upward. the red triangle has a single point uppermost. the sides of the yellow square are vertical. each tattwa symbol was placed on five cards, and upon each was painted or glued a smaller secondary symbol in the middle of the large primary symbol. this introduced an active seed element on the passive or

y mild emotional depression that further hinders success. lunar foods are beneficial as a general rule. you will remember from the passage quoted from agrippa that these include things that are bland, white, insipid in taste, or slightly salty. pasta prepared in pale cheese is a good sort of meal, as are pale steamed or stewed vegetables, the white flesh of fishes such as halibut and haddock, and egg omelets. choosing the proper diet is mainly a matter of common sense. avoid foods that remain with you for long periods, or make you feel heavy and bloated, or that give you a headache, gas, or an upset stomach. eat what you enjoy, as long as it is light on your stomach and does not remind you of its presence in your body hours later. the kind of diet adopted for serious hatha yoga practice is

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ssions either by writing them down in words, or by drawing them as pictures. inward perception iv: tattwa awareness g et a piece of heavy cardboard, of the kind you would find making up a shoe box or as backing for a writing pad, that is white on both sides. draw and cut out the five tatnva symbols, each about two inches on its longest dimension: a circle, a triangle, a crescent, a square, and an egg. with colored pencils, markers, or paints, color on both sides the crescent mist-gray or silver, the triangle red, the egg black, the circle blue, and the square yellow. make the colors as even and as opaque as possible (see figure 7-1 on following page. it is best to perform this exercise in a cycle of five consecutive weekdays, one day for each symbol, in the following order: monday- crescen

ers, or paints, color on both sides the crescent mist-gray or silver, the triangle red, the egg black, the circle blue, and the square yellow. make the colors as even and as opaque as possible (see figure 7-1 on following page. it is best to perform this exercise in a cycle of five consecutive weekdays, one day for each symbol, in the following order: monday- crescent, tuesday-triangle, wednesday-egg, thursdaycircle, friday-square. lie on your back in the reclining posture and with your right hand place upon your forehead the symbolic shape that corresponds with the day of the week on which you are doing the exercise. on monday, use the crescent, on friday use the square, and 24 reclining exercises so on. the tattwa symbols are aligned as in the accompanying illustration-the horns of the c

hand place upon your forehead the symbolic shape that corresponds with the day of the week on which you are doing the exercise. on monday, use the crescent, on friday use the square, and 24 reclining exercises so on. the tattwa symbols are aligned as in the accompanying illustration-the horns of the crescent should be even and point toward the top of your forehead, as should the large part of the egg. perform the stepped relaxation technique, successively tensing and relaxing your left leg, right leg, left arm, right arm, pelvic region, lower torso, rib cage, shoulders, neck, jaw, and head. for several minutes allow yourself to drift free of your body, as though lying in the bottom of a boat upon a flowing river. become aware of the pressure of the cardboard symbol upon your forehead. visu

il the symbol fills your sight and surrounds you completely. as it surrounds you, pass through its center and open your astral eyes, while keeping your physical eyelids gently shut. when you open your astral eyes after passing through the gateway of the silver crescent, visualize all around you beautiful blue; after passing through the red triangle, bright scarlet; after passing through the black egg, pearl white; after passing through the blue circle, rich yellow; after passing through the yellow square, deep black. hold these colors around your point of awareness for half a minute or so before allowing them to fade. you may at this point spontaneously see an astral landscape or image that expresses the element connected with the symbolic shape on your forehead. the silver crescent will p

low; after passing through the yellow square, deep black. hold these colors around your point of awareness for half a minute or so before allowing them to fade. you may at this point spontaneously see an astral landscape or image that expresses the element connected with the symbolic shape on your forehead. the silver crescent will produce watery visions; the red triangle fiery visions; the black egg ethereal or spiritual visions; the blue circle airy visions; the yellow square earthy visions. o/\w silver p r i t h (earth) yellow (spirit) 0 figure 7-1. five tattwa symbols of the elements inward perception iv: tattwa awareness 25 a vision can sometimes be encouraged by imagining the element that corresponds with the symbol. even if no vision results, you should spend several minutes filling

ward, falling as rain, rolling as waves of the sea. on tuesday, after passing through the red triangle and opening your astral eyes to a scarlet radiance on all sides, imagine fire blazing, running along sticks of wood, glowing in the form of embers, showering bright clouds of sparks heavenward, and burning with a silent constant flame. on wednesday, after passing through the gateway of the black egg and opening your astral eyes to a featureless pearl-white radiance, visualize the shimmering bands of a rainbow all around you, each colored band dancing with tiny sparks of brilliant white light. the seven bands are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. on thursday, after passing through the gateway of the blue circle and opening your astral eyes to bright yellow on all sides

the greeks, the spiritus of the romans, and the chi of the chinese. it is the ether that was supposed by primitive science to pervade all of space between the stars and act as a conducting medium for light. due to its universal nature, it was assigned both white (all colors) and black (no colors. the rainbow, which also embodies all colors, is appropriate to represent it. when imagining the black egg against the black background of space, visualize an aura of silvery light around its edge. this radiant aura will distinguish the shape of the egg from the darkness behind it. the founder of the golden dawn, s. l. macgregor mathers, specifically instructed against placing the tattwa symbols on the forehead, on the grounds that it would cause headaches. i have not found this to be the case. on

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ure 1. it will be observed that the binary symbol of i, who is abba, the primal masculine principle, and that of the first h, who is aima, the primal feminine principle, are completely distinct. when they combine sexually, half of their binary coding is passed into each of their offspring, just as a human child receives half of its genetic code in the sperm of its father and the other half in the egg of its mother. the binary symbols for v and the second h both contain a solid line and a broken line, the solid line from the father and the broken line from the mother. this is the reason crowley describes the second h as the "twin sister" of v-they are made up of the same parts, but in an inverted order. in the case of 28 tetragrammaton v, the masculine solid line is dominant, whereas in the

the "twin sister" of v-they are made up of the same parts, but in an inverted order. in the case of 28 tetragrammaton v, the masculine solid line is dominant, whereas in the second h it is the broken feminine line that determines gender. when in turn the v and second h combine to generate offspring, the seed of the v is purely masculine, composed only of the solid line in the binary code, and the egg of the second h is purely feminine, composed only of the broken line. in this sense, when brother and sister mature and come together to reproduce new life, they assume the pure gender identities of their parents. as immature children, they are both male and female in one, but as sexually mature adults they are of single gender. it may be more useful to think of the i and the first h not as co

f the broken line. in this sense, when brother and sister mature and come together to reproduce new life, they assume the pure gender identities of their parents. as immature children, they are both male and female in one, but as sexually mature adults they are of single gender. it may be more useful to think of the i and the first h not as complete male and female human figures, but as sperm and egg. with this in mind, it is easier to grasp how the v can be distinct from the i and yet at the same time embody the i within himself; and how the second h can be both the product of the first h and also hold the first h latent within herself. this binary system was not entirely unfamiliar to the western world in ancient times. it appears in the symbols of geomantic divination, which was known t

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e seven years' famine mentioned in the book of genesis shows that there is nothing improbable in a famine lasting so long in egypt. arab historians also mention several famines which lasted for seven years. that which took place in the years 1066-1072 nearly ruined the whole country. a cake of bread was sold for 15 dinanir (the dinar= 10s, a horse was sold for 20, a dog for 5, a cat for 3, and an egg for 1 dinar. when all the animals were eaten men began to eat each other, and human flesh was sold in public "passengers were caught in the streets by hooks let down from the windows, drawn up, killed, and cooked"[fn#45] during the famine which began in 1201 people ate human flesh habitually. parents killed and cooked their own children, and a wife was found eating her husband raw. baby fricas

ebes, the beloved one. the beneficent god, the son of amen, born of mut, begotten of heru-khuti, the glorious offspring of neb-tchert,[fn#154] begetting [as] the bull of his mother [fn#155] king of egypt, governor of the deserts, the sovereign who hath taken possession of the nine nations of the bow [who] on coming forth from the womb ordained mighty things, who gave commands whilst he was in the egg, the bull, stable of heart, who hath sent forth his seed; the king who is a bull [and] a god who cometh forth on the day of battle like menthu,[fn#156] the mighty one of strength like the son of nut"[fn#157 [fn#150] i.e, the image who rises like the sun day by day, or the image of [many] crowns [fn#151] or, mighty one of the thigh, i.e, he of the mighty thigh [fn#152] the nations of nubia who

f the stinging [of scorpions" and isis, the goddess, the great mistress of spells (or, words of power, she who is at the head of the gods, unto whom the god keb gave his own magical spells for the driving away of poison at noon-day, and for making poison to go back, and retreat, and withdraw, and go backward, spake, saying "ascend not into heaven, through the command of the beloved one of ra, the egg of the smen goose which cometh forth from the sycamore. verily my words are made to command the uttermost limit of the night. i speak unto you [o scorpions] i am alone and in sorrow because our names will suffer disgrace throughout the nomes. do not make love, do not cry out to the tesheru fiends, and cast no glances upon the noble ladies in their houses. turn your faces towards the earth and

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s a clear and perfect alchemical allegory of the processes of death and resurrection that inevitably occur in the esoteric preparation of the philosophical stone. the entire inner preparation of the stone and the metallic transmutation are represented in this allegory. the entire human material employed in this work dies, it becomes rotten, corrupted and becomes blackened within the philosophical egg, then it becomes marvelously white. the entire summary of the great work is found within the philosophical egg. the masculine and feminine sexual principles are contained within the egg. thus, like the fledgling that emerges from the egg, or like the universe of brahma that emerges from the golden egg, the master emerges the same way from the philosophical egg. in the eighth key an illustratio

ucitan jam s los dos testigos del apocalipsis. ese es el camino que conduce al abismo y a la muerte segunda. todo aquel que eyacule su licor seminal se aleja de su dios interno. 56 the yogis who practice the urdhavareta yoga (positive sexual magic) do not ejaculate their ens seminis. in this case, the combination of shuhsa (solar atoms) and raja (lunar atoms) is performed within the philosophical egg, in other words, within our own sexual laboratory of the alchemist. thus, this is how the two witnesses resurrect. these are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the god of the earth. and if any man will hurt them, fire comes out of their mouthes, and devours their enemies: and if any man would want to hurt them, it is necessary that he must be thus killed. these have

al sensations are transmuted into sensations of ineffable ecstasy. the age of mystical ecstasy is always preceded by the age of sexual enjoyment. thus, the human life span of mystical ecstasy begins where the human life span of sexual enjoyment ends. after having attained the venusian initiation, in other words, after the adam christ has been born within us, we must then extract the philosophical egg from the rottenness of the matter and deliver it to the son of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical

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tary signs, the sigils, and hebrew letters which spell the god-names, angels, etc) have remained the same in the qabalistic tradition. tattwa combinations, on the other hand, are almost endless. as used in the golden dawn, they comprise twenty-five variants of the five principal elements, i. e, earth, air, fire, water, and ether, represented by a square, a circle, a triangle, a moon shape, and an egg shape. they have been attributed to tarot keys with some success. i have a number of students who use them regularly. but there are some inconsistencies and a number of different interpretations. tattwa images and their possible uses can be found in the works of mathers (1971) and regardie (1984. case attributes tattwa images to zodiacal signs and the internal planetary chakras, which in turn

pter on chakras, it is conceived as a silvery white light which emanates outside the body completely. as mathers has noted "daath is the throne of spiritual consciousness and spiritual consciousness does not partake of the body but is the light which radiates (1971, p. 133. later on, in the technique we will give for meditation on the eight planetary chakras, daath is conceived as a silvery white egg, within which swirl all of the colors of the rainbow, which are then distributed to the chakras as necessary. in this system it acts as the transmitter of the energies of the life-force, and is the sun behind the sun, since it resides behind tiphareth in the abyss. the number of daath, 474, also adds up to six, which is the number of tiphareth, the sun sphere on the tree. properly visualized

of the colors of the rainbow, which are then distributed to the chakras as necessary. in this system it acts as the transmitter of the energies of the life-force, and is the sun behind the sun, since it resides behind tiphareth in the abyss. the number of daath, 474, also adds up to six, which is the number of tiphareth, the sun sphere on the tree. properly visualized, it is not just the etheric egg surrounding the body, but the point of contact through which we are made aware of the great transformation. in tantra, this concept is thought of as the bindu point, which, through great concentration, can release tremendous power. it is the chakra that will open up vast new areas of consciousness in the future. it is represented by pluto because true plutonian energy is transformative beyond

sky gives yellow-orange for the square symbol, and therefore its complementary color is either violet or indigo. these three are the primaries and their complements. the moon symbolizes water and to it is attributed either white or shades of violet or blue. it signifies the emotional nature as well as the spark of revelation from the unconscious. its symbol is incorporated in the water signs. the egg shape represents akasha and is most often painted indigo or black. it is the color of saturn and its shape includes mysteries on the tree of life relating to daath and yesod, as well as its original mother, binah (the yesod seal, it will be recalled, mimics binah's magical seal) it symbolizes the most hidden aspects of occultism, and death and the blackness of the unknown night. it holds the k

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ted eyes, small openings in place of ears, 3-digit webbed hands and who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (31 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:59] feet- except in the case of snakes etc. which lost their limbs through atrophication over 1000's of years- have claws, are covered with "scaly" ribbed skin, and have no external reproductive organs, being egg-layers, and are aggressive and predatory in nature. the top-secret document indicated that the passage of the object and creatures would be implemented on the 23rd of june, 1989 to wright patterson afb. actually, sources do indicate that wright patterson did in fact go on red alert on that date. subsequent documents supplied by the intelligence source to q.i. indicate that the creatures seemed

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er, too, celebrates the victory of a god of light (jesus) over darkness (death, so it makes sense to place it at this season. ironically, the name 'easter' was taken from the name of a teutonic lunar goddess, eostre (from whence we also get the name of the female hormone, estrogen. her chief symbols were the bunny (both for fertility and because her worshipers saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg (symbolic of the cosmic egg of creation, images which christians have been hard pressed to explain. her holiday, the eostara, was held on the vernal equinox full moon. of course, the church doesn't celebrate full moons, even if they do calculate by them, so they planted their easter on the following sunday. thus, easter is always the first sunday, after the first full moon, after the vernal eq

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

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slave nevertheless. if plain water were satisfying enough, then fish would not take the hook. however poor the crocodile becomes, it hunts in the river, not in the forest. proverbs on leadership people count what they are refused, not what they are given. the ears of the leader are like a strainer; there are more than a thousand openings to them. power must be handled in the manner of holding an egg in the hand: if you hold it too firmly it breaks; if you hold it too loosely it drops. the hen knows when it is dawn but she leaves the crowing to the cock. more wisdom of the african world editor s note: these quotes were taken from wisdom of the african world edited by reginald mcknight and published by the classic wisdom series of the new world library. even the most incorrigible maverick h

ave his wits about him. bondei when two elephants struggle it is the grass that suffers. swahili mediocrity is safe. nikki giovanni an elephant does not die of one broken rib. tsonga the lion which kills is not one that roars. xhosa a man dies before we appreciate him. jabo always being in a hurry doesn t hinder death, neither does going slowly hinder living. swahili because it rained the day the egg was hatched the foolish chicken swore he was a fish. wole soyinka. the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. lorraine hansberry he who hopes fares better than he who wishes, and he who wishes fares better than he who despairs. morocco what is a cynic but a romanticist turned sour? lewis nkosi when you have been bitten by a snak

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as spoke of two kinds of enjoyment. first, lasciviousness and indulgence of the belly, like the murderous songs of sirens; second, honest and just indulgences, which bring on no repentance. hierocles says two things are necessary to life, the aid of kindred, and benevolent sympathy of one s neighbors. a notable ancient egyptian hieroglyphic was formed of two serpents in connection with a globe or egg, representing the world. another celebrated pair, in connection with worship, is the association of a tree and a serpent, referring as some say to the mosaic account of the tree of knowledge and the tempter serpent. some have supposed that it is only since the condemnation on thy belly shalt thou go that the serpent has been limbless and obliged to crawl. note, it has been argued, and by a gre

imal kingdom shows all sexual generation to arise from pairs of contrasted beings, the male and female; the microscope now discovers to us the spermatozoon and the ovum, but the truth was known of old to phinumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott losophers of india, egypt and the gnostics, in whose lore we find human generation to spring from the serpent and the egg# 41. chapter s ix the triad. three, 3. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott hotius observes that the triad is the first odd number in energy, is the first perfect number and is a middle and analogy. the pythagoreans referred it to physiology; it is the cause of all that has triple dimension. it is also cause of good counsel, intelligence and knowledge, and

magazine of the other numbers, because other numbers are branches from it. also called fate, which comprises all sorts of events. age, power; atlas, because it supports the 10 spheres of heaven; phanes; memory; urania; and the first square, because it consists of the first four numbers. two old conceits were that the tenth wave of the sea is always larger than others; and that birds laid the 10th egg of a larger size than the others. the word ten was used by the hebrews, instead of a large number, so that care must be exercised in translating this; thus nehemiah interprets ten generations of deuteronomy xxiii. v. 3 to mean for ever. nehemiah xiii. 1. the kabalists called 5, 6 and 10 circular numbers, because when squared, the result shows the same number in the unit figure, thus: 5x5=25 an

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

thing, you may like to create a special set of symbols for a variety of rituals. these you can keep in a separate box within your main store of magick artefacts so they do not get scattered or broken. you may include a thimble to symbolise domestic affairs, a tiny padlock for security at home, a wooden toy boat for travel, a silver locket for fidelity, a key charm for a house, tiny painted wooden eggs for fertility in any venture- just to suggest a few. you can also use small fabric dolls to represent people, for example in a love spell. tarot cards also provide excellent symbols for magick: the emperor for power, the empress for fertility, the ten of pentacles for prosperity, the lovers for romance, the world or the eight of wands for travel, temperance for harmony, justice for matters of

s is so often the case, myth and religion are intertwined in the sources of their festivals that share the same dates. in the old celtic tradition, lugh, the god of light overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the eas

r life changes, new beginnings, sowing the seeds for new projects that will bear fruit in the future, for herb gardening, for all matters of fertility and for putting new ideas into practice. matters concerning children and young people and new flowering love are specially favoured. associations candle colours: yellow and green for the clear light from the east and the budding vegetation symbols: eggs, any spring flowers or leaves in bud, a pot of sprouting seeds, pottery or china rabbits, feathers crystals: aquamarine, jade, tourmaline, fluorite flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: celandine, cinquefoil, crocus, daffodil, honeysuckle, primroses, sage, tansy, thyme and violets a spring equinox cleaning ritual use this ritual to welcome the winds of positive change. you can perform it on any

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e above another, seventy-two columns of three letters each are obtained; each column is then treated as a name of three letters, and the explanation of these is sought for in certain verses of the psalms which contain these names; and these latter would be the verses of the psalms alluded to in the text, which the seventy-two poor persons were told to recite. 16 this would not necessarily exclude eggs or milk. 17 so in the ms. 18 note again the number of seventy-two. 19 this is evidently said ironically. 20 he probably means the copies he himself had been ordered by abramelin to make, and not the originals. 21 et tu connoiteras la deference dont je me sers avec toy. the sacred magic 34 22 mist res, evidently a slip for maistres, masters. 23 a coin of base money formerly in use, its value b

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

alled "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge and training with which to carry out a complex magickal ritual, just as a cook is expected to be able to master the scrambling of eggs before he conjures an "eggs benedict; the grimoires, or black books, were simply variations on a theme, like cookbooks, different records of what previous magicians had done, the spirits they had contacted, and the successes they had. the magicians who now read these works are expected to be able to select the wheat from the chaff, in much the same fashion as an alchemist discerning the delib

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

ra book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 101 bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse which were else too sweet. it prevents one from slopping over into sentimentality [105] 48 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta mu-eta mome raths(22) the early bird catches the worm and the twelveyear- old prostitute attracts the ambassador. neglect not the dawn-meditation! the first plovers' eggs fetch the highest prices; the flower of virginity is esteemed by the pandar. neglect not the dawn-meditation! book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 102 early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise: but late to watch and early to pray brings him across the abyss, they say. neglect not the dawn-meditation [106] commentary( mu-eta) this chapter is perfec

red similar difficulties in convincing their hearers (3) their food was not equal to that obtainable at rumpelmayer's (4) in a few days i am going to rejoin laylah (5) my mission will succeed soon enough (6) death will remove the nuisance of success. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 144 [147] 69 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-theta the way to succeed-and the way to suck eggs! this is the holy hexagram. plunge from the height, o god, and interlock with man! plunge from the height, o man, and interlock with beast! the red triangle is the descending tongue of grace; the blue triangle is the ascending tongue of prayer this interchange, the double gift of tongues, the word of double power-abrahadabra!-is the sign of the great work, for the great work is accomplished i

nt is intellectually aware of the severity of the whole course. you must give up the world for love, the material for the moral idea, before that, in its turn, is surrendered to the spiritual. and so on. this is a laylah-chapter, but in it laylah figures as the mere woman. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 156 [159] 75 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-epsilon plovers' eggs(38) spring beans and strawberries are in: goodbye to the oyster! if i really knew what i wanted, i could give up laylah, or give up everything for laylah. but "what i want" varies from hour to hour. this wavering is the root of all compromise, and so of all good sense. with this gift a man can spend his seventy years in peace. now is this well or ill? emphasise gift, then man, then spend, the

as it is of english, simple, austere, and terse, should need a commentary. but it does so, or my most gifted chela and myself would hardly have been at the pains to write one. it was in response to the impassioned appeals of many most worthy brethren that we have yielded up that time and thought which gold could not have bought, or torture wrested. laylah is again the mere woman. note (38) these eggs being speckled, resemble the wandering mind referred to. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 158 [161] 76 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta omicron-digamma phaeton no. yes. perhaps. o! eye. i. hi! y? no. hail! all ye spavined, gelded, hamstrung horses! ye shall surpass the planets in their courses. how? not by speed, nor strength, nor power to stay, but by the silence that s

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ule of silence, and in protecting philosophy from the profane. yet still she hopes that the mischief may not prove mortal, and begs that things may go on much as usual until that secret session decide on some plan of action. it has always been fatal when somebody finds out too much too suddenly. if john huss had cackled more like a hen, he might have survived michaelmas, and been esteemed for his eggs. the last fifty years have laid the axe of analysis to the root of every axiom; they are triflers who content themselves with lopping the blossoming twigs of our beliefs, or the boughs of our intellectual instruments. we can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. this digression has outstayed its welcome; i

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE BANNED LECTURE

in this particular sport of suppressing earnest enquirers, it was not much good trying to play on people s greed. for everyone knew that even if the jews had wealth, they managed to hide it very successfully, and that they had a nasty was of arranging for protection with peo le who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. so the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. i was in venice just before the war, when halley s comet was around, and although the pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benediction and told the

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

a very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 about lieutenant-colonel flare. gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53 the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley. this encroaches upon your frail cerebral cortex, and turns its fairway to a vortex. your cerebellum with cockroaches is crammed; your lobes that thought they caught x are like mere eggs a person poaches. but soon from yoga, business worries, and (frankly i suspect the rubble is riddled by specific trouble) will grow like eggs a person curries. th

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

s of, and let him bear the insignia of his grade. and at the least he shall be a neophyte. three days and three nights shall he have been in the tomb, vigilant and fasting, for he shall sleep no longer than three hours at any one time, and he 7 no angel has been mentioned. the seer was lost to being. shall drink pure water, and eat little sweet cakes consecrated unto the moon, and fruits, and the eggs of the duck, or of the goose, or of the plover. and he shall be shut in, so that no man may break in upon his meditation. but in the last twelve hours he shall neither eat nor sleep. then shall he break his fast, eating rich food, and drinking sweet wines, and wines that foam; and he shall banish the elements and the planets and the signs and the sephiroth; and then shall he take the holy tab

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cks that crow upon their middens under the impression that they are reincarnations of sir francis drake, i suppose that the origin-of-religion lunatics are the silliest. 386 listen to charles callow-hay on stonehenge! here's logic for you "stonehenge is built in the form of a circle "the sun appears to go round the earth in a circle" argal "stonehenge is a solar temple" or, for the minor premiss "eggs are round" argal "stonehenge was dedicated to eugenics" listen to johnny bobson on cleopatra's needle "the needle is square in section "the old egyptians thought the earth had four corners" argal "the needle was built to commemorate the theory" or, even worse "the needle is square in section "it must have been built so for a religious reason" argal "the egyptians thought that the earth had fo

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

sun. aum! ha_ my destiny is done. the word is spoken and concealed. olympas. i am stunned. what wonder was revealed? marsyas. the rite is secret. olympas. profits it? marsyas. only to wisdom and to wit. olympas. the other did no less. marsyas. then prove both by the master-key of love. the lock turns stiffly? shalt thou shirk to use the sacred oil of work? not from the valley shalt thou test the eggs that line the eagle's nest! climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet_ not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one_ loose, jagg d, clad in mist! another_ firm, smooth, lov

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calmness, when the force of love is concentrated over the unlimited extension of silence('silence' is really choice. 287 "virtue" he defines as "the bent of mind towards self-command (and evidently practises it. his morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really "take the cake "there are three kinds of animate creations in the world" he writes "they are the creations from (1) the womb (2) eggs (3) perspiration" another gem "how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female" answer "if the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. while, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born) at one of his male meetings- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed- he related to us his pet

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ages are known as the six chakkras.81 to these six is added a 78 h. p. blavatsky in "instruction no. 1" issued to members of the first degree of her eastern school of theosophy (marked "strictly private and confidential) deals with those kos'as on p. 16. but it is quite impossible here to attempt to extract from these instructions the little sense they may contain on account of the numerous auric eggs, ak sic envelopes, karmic records, d v chanic states, etc, etc. on p. 89 of "instruction no. iii" we are told that the sushumn "is" the brahmarandhra, and that there is "an enormous difference between hatha and raja yoga" plate iii of instructions no. ii is quite theosophical, and the third rule out of the probationers' pledge "i pledge myself never to listen, without protest, to any evil thi

between good and evil "let us not lose ourselves in vain speculations of profitless subtleties" says the dhammapada "let us surrender self and all selfishness, and as all things are fixed by causation, let us practise good so that good may result from our actions" just as if it could possibly be done if "all things are fixed" the buddhist, in theory having postulated that all fowls lay hardboiled eggs, adds, the ideal man is he who can only make omelettes. 212 "the questions of king milinda" iv, 2, 5. no "soul "in the highest sense,"213 gotama had to postulate some vehicle which would transmit the sorrow of one generation to another, of one instant of time to the next; and, not being able to use the familiar idea of atman, he instead made that of karma do a double duty "he does not die unt

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

there shall be'no sacrifice of either animal or human life. surely your kali is no different' the conversation assumed a nightmare quality as the three indians, with smiles.never leaving their .faces, shrugged .off alex's refusalcl.nd insisted that they had chosen him and that he could not refuse the honour 'if you must have a life force sacrificed on the altar' alex argued 'why not use new-laid eggs? this has been done in europe with excellent results 'perhaps' mr r. interrupted delicately 'perhaps you might be persuaded if we were to increase the fee by, say, five hundred pounds' alex assured him that it was not a question of money. i-ie could marvel at his own honesty, for here was an opportunity to gain wealth such as he had not seen since he ended his .practice of black magic, and he

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ouring through the newly stimulated centres, and dire danger to the brain, the spine, or the heart would eventuate. it must, of course, here be recognised that no hard or fast rules can ever be laid down, except the initial one that for all applicants for initiation meat, fish, and fermented liquors of all kinds, as well as the use of tobacco, are absolutely forbidden. for those who can stand it, eggs and cheese are sometimes better eliminated from the diet, but this is not in any way compulsory. it is advisable always that those who are in process of developing psychic faculties of any kind should not permit themselves to eat eggs and very little cheese. milk and butter come under a different- 115- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust category, and most initiates and app

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

east idea" to return to belfast. it was discovered by my superiors that i had quite a flair for saving souls and i made such a good record that miss sandes sent for me to join her at the artillery practice camp in central ireland and there get some real training. it was lovely green country and i shall never forget the day i arrived there. in spite, however, of the beauty, my major impression was eggs. nothing but eggs everywhere. there were eggs in the bath tub; there were eggs in every pan; there were eggs in the drawers of my dressing table; there were eggs in boxes under my bed. if i remember rightly, there were one hundred thousand eggs in the house and they had to be in some kind of container. i discovered that we used seventy-two dozen eggs in the coffee shop of the soldiers home ev

pan; there were eggs in the drawers of my dressing table; there were eggs in boxes under my bed. if i remember rightly, there were one hundred thousand eggs in the house and they had to be in some kind of container. i discovered that we used seventy-two dozen eggs in the coffee shop of the soldiers home every night and as there were three homes in that district serviced by us, we used innumerable eggs. therefore, eggs had precedence over everything except the gospel. my first job each morning, after a quiet hour under a tree in the fields with my bible, was to bake buns hundreds of buns often later in the day to load them into a pony cart (only the pony was a donkey) and take them over to the huts where were gathered the men at night. one day that donkey greatly humiliated me. i was procee

not move and they would come limping into the hut and tell me that a crumb of one of my buns had dropped on a foot. i grew accustomed to the noise of the great guns and to the fact that the men were deaf the evenings that their batteries had been firing. i grew accustomed to drunkenness and learnt not to mind a drunken man and i learnt, also, how to handle him, but i never got accustomed to fried eggs, particularly when accompanied by cocoa. i suppose i have sold more cocoa, eggs and cigarettes than most people. those were happy, busy days. i adored miss sandes, as who did not? i loved her for her beauty, for her mental strength, for her knowledge of the bible, for her understanding of humanity and also for her rippling sense of humour. i loved her most, i believe, because i discovered tha

ssession of the soldiers home to such an extent that they got quite seriously out of hand. the lady in charge, i fancy, got a little scared, though she probably was not as scared as i was. a gang of soldiers were having a grand time night after night trying to break the place up. about twenty of them would come down from barracks together. they would go into the coffee-shop, order cocoa and fried eggs and then spend the rest of the evening shying jugs of cocoa and fried eggs at the walls- 43- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust the result can easily be imagined. the mess was abominable and their attitude was worse. so i was sent up to see what could be done. i was simply terrified and did not know what to do. i spent the first few evenings wandering in and out of the co

ldier very well and never found them talking as portrayed by rudyard kipling. in fact, the average tommy atkins resents his portrayal of them. i played thousands of games of checkers (draughts, as we call it in england) and became very good at the game, not because i play it scientifically, but because i had an uncanny way of guessing what my opponent was going to do. the smell of cocoa and fried eggs was forever in my nostrils. i used to "vamp" as it was called, the popular songs on the piano in the reading-room until i got sick to death of hearing the men roar out "just like the ivy, i will cling to you" etc, or "all the little pansy faces looking up at me to smile" which were the popular songs of the day. the men had their own versions of the words of them, however, which i tried my har

a proud man and (being inwardly shocked by the publicity) from that day on he never laid a finger on me. he sulked and would not talk for days on end and gave me the bulk of the work to do but i had no further cause to be afraid of him. we took a shack of three rooms in the depths of wild country not far from pacific grove and i started in to keep hens, and to make a little money by selling their eggs. i found out very quickly that unless you could keep hens on a very large scale (which involves capital) you don't make much money. hens are such silly things; they have such silly faces; they have such stupid habits; they are completely devoid of intelligence; the only exciting part about poultry keeping is hunting the eggs, and that's a dirty job. but i did manage to feed the family, and th

y job. but i did manage to feed the family, and the shack was only $8.00 a month and not worth that. my life at this time was entirely monotonous looking after three babies, one morose husband and several hundred stupid hens. we had no bathroom or indoor toilet. even keeping the children and the place clean was a problem. we had practically no money and part of the grocer's bill was paid with the eggs, which the grocer always took because he was my friend. i used to go out in the surrounding woods with a wheelbarrow, the children trotting after me, and collect the wood for the fires. i cannot, therefore, say that this was a pleasant time. again, i don't feel humorous about it. it was like an entirely new incarnation and the contrast between this humdrum life of a house-keeper and a mother

so many of them so very much. i cordially disliked a few. i came to two conclusions, that in spite of all the talk about a balanced diet, they were not a particularly healthy lot, and i found, also, that the more rigid and sectarian the approach to vegetarianism, the more critical and superior the person appeared to be. there were vegetarians at krotona who would eat neither cheese, nor milk, nor eggs because they were animal products and they felt that they were very, very good and well on the way to spiritual enlightenment. but no one's reputation was safe in their hands. i have wondered about this and i have definitely come to the conclusion that it is better to eat beefsteak and have a kind tongue than to be a strict vegetarian and, from a pedestal of superiority, look down upon this w

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

arns to master the state of possession and utilize the process for the communal benefits associated with the occupation. this training involves being sent to a monastery, usually one closely associated with the particular possessing deity, and learning various recitations, invocations, meditations on the deity, and purification rites. these purifications include dietary restrictions, such as from eggs, pork, or fish, and even vows of celibacy. this process of constant purification is practiced up to a certain age as a means to prepare the body for a career of successful possessions.186 despite this intense training, many oracles are illiterate. havnevik explains that a proper lay education was undesirable for some prospective oracles because, as she puts it "education could give the medium

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ifficult to imagine or realise than the growth of the foetus from an imperceptible germ, which foetus develops into a child, and then into a strong, heavy man. but this race again changes its mode of procreation according to the commentaries. it is said to have emanated a vis formativa, which changed the drops of perspiration into greater drops, which grew, expanded, and became ovoid bodies- huge eggs. in these the human foetus gestated for several years. in the puranas, marisha, the daughter of kandu, the sage, becomes the wife of the prachetasas and the mother of daksha. now daksha is the father of the first human-like progenitors, having been born in this way. he is mentioned later on. the evolution of man, the microcosm, is analogous to that of the universe, the macrocosm. his evolutio

e very interesting polyp stauridium passes alternately from gemmation into the sex method of reproduction. curiously enough, though it grows merely as a polyp on a stalk, it produces gemmules, which ultimately develop into a sea-nettle or medusa. the medusa is utterly dissimilar to its parent-organism, the stauridium. it also reproduces itself differently, by sexual method, and from the resulting eggs stauridia once more put in[[footnote(s* see plato's "banquet[[vol. 2, page] 178 the secret doctrine. an appearance. this striking fact may assist many to understand that a form may be evolved- as in the sexual lemurians from hermaphrodite parentage- quite unlike its immediate progenitors. it is, moreover, unquestionable that in the case of human incarnations the law of karma, racial or indivi

erpents and nagas- the oviparous brood; kasyapa was grandsire, through his wife tamra, of the birds and of garuda, king of the feathered tribe; while by his wife surabhi, he was the parent of cows and buffaloes, etc, etc. in the secret doctrine, the first nagas- beings wiser than serpents- are the "sons of will and yoga" born before the complete separation of the sexes "matured in the man-bearing eggs* produced by the power (kriyasakti) of the holy sages" of the early third race[[footnote(s* an allegorical reference to the "sacred animals" of the zodiac and other heavenly bodies. some kabalists see in them the prototypes of the animals* in "hesiod" zeus creates his third race of men out of ash-trees. in the "popol vuh" the third race of men is created out of the tree tzita and the marrow o

the artufas (or initiation caves. in a report sent in 1812 to the cortes by don baptista pino it is said "all the pueblos have their artufas- so the natives call subterranean rooms with only a single door where they (secretly) assemble. these are impenetrable temples. and the doors are always closed to the spaniards. they adore the sun and moon. fire and the great snake (the creative power, whose eggs are called sibac* there is a notable difference esoterically between the words sarpa and naga, though[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 182 the secret doctrine. in these were incarnated the lords of the three (upper) worlds, the various classes of rudras, who had been tushitas, who had been jayas, who are adityas" for, as explained by parasara "there are a hundred appellations o

ind is the most mysterious of all the hitherto developed five races. the mystery of the "how" of the generation of the distinct sexes must, of course, be very obscure here, as it is the business of an embryologist and a specialist, the present work giving only faint outlines of the process. but it is evident that the units of the third race humanity began to separate in their pre-natal shells, or eggs* and to issue out of them as distinct male and female babes, ages after the appearance of its early progenitors. and, as time rolled on its geological periods, the newly born sub-races began to lose their natal capacities. toward the end of the fourth sub-race, the babe lost its faculty of walking as soon as liberated from its shell, and by the end of the fifth, mankind was born under the sam

f marine animals. animals living either about the mean high-water mark, or about the mean low-water mark, pass through a complete cycle of tidal changes in a fortnight. now it is a mysterious fact that in the higher and now terrestrial vertebrata. many normal and abnormal processes have one or more weeks (septenates) as their periods. such as gestation of mammals, the duration of fevers" etc "the eggs of the pigeon are hatched in two weeks (or 14 days; those of the fowl in three; those of the duck in four: those of the goose in five; and those of the ostrich in seven (bartlett's "land and water) this number is closely connected with the moon, whose occult influence is ever manifesting itself in septenary periods. it is the moon which is the guide of the occult side of terrestrial nature, w

vindicate occultism. meanwhile, the most uncompromising materialists are driven by necessity into the most occult-like admissions. strange to say, it is the most materialistic- those of the german school- who, with regard to physical development, come the nearest to the teachings of the occultists. thus, professor baumgartner, who believes that "the germs for the higher animals could only be the eggs of the lower animals; who thinks that "besides the advance of the vegetable and animal world in development, there occurred in that period the formation of new original germs" which formed the basis of new metamorphoses, etc- thinks also that "the first men who proceeded from the germs of animals beneath them, lived first in a larva state" just so, in a larva state, we say, too; only from no

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white. the former is credited with fighting and exterminating the winged serpents which came every spring from arabia and infested the country. the other was sacred to the moon, because the latter planet is white and brilliant on her external side, dark and black on that side which she never turns to the earth. moreover, the ibis kills land serpents, and makes the most terrible havoc amongst the eggs of the crocodile, and thus saves egypt from having the nile infested by those horrible saurians. the bird is credited with doing so in the moonlight, and thus being helped by isis, as the moon, her sidereal symbol. but the nearer esoteric truth underlying these popular myths is, that hermes, as shown by abenephius (de cultu egypt, watched under the form of that bird over the egyptians, and ta

tual king and man who lived 3,102 years b.c" applies also, name and all, to the great deluge at the time of the first sinking of atlantis. he is the "yudishthira* born on the mountain of the hundred peaks at the extremity of[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] the idea alone of one who established the most rigorous vegetarianism and respect for animal life- even to refusing to eat eggs as vehicles of a latent future life- dying of a meat indigestion, is absurdly contradictory and has puzzled more than one orientalist. but this explanation, unveiling the allegory, explains all the rest. the varaha, however, is no simple boar, and seems to have meant at first some antediluvian lacustrine animal "delighting to sport in water (vayu purana* according to colonel wilford, the conc

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

hours in a warm place. knead for ten minutes. roll out like thick pastry. roll up in the manner of a jelly-roll. shape into two loaves and place in greased bread pans. let rise, covered, for another two hours. bake for forty minutes in an oven preheated to 375. remove from the oven and brush the tops of the loaves with oil or melted butter. indian hominy bread need: 2 cups cooked grits, 2 beaten eggs, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 2 teaspoons salt, 1/2 cup milk. add milk, butter and eggs to warm grits. pour in greased pan. bake at 375 for thirty minutes. serve hot (note: thin cakes of this mixture may also be fried on a hot griddle. indian pumpkin bread need: 1 cup cornmeal% cup pumpkin (cooked, water enough to moisten mixture. mix the ingredients and work until the dough is easy to handle

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

thing, you may like to create a special set of symbols for a variety of rituals. these you can keep in a separate box within your main store of magick artefacts so they do not get scattered or broken. you may include a thimble to symbolise domestic affairs, a tiny padlock for security at home, a wooden toy boat for travel, a silver locket for fidelity, a key charm for a house, tiny painted wooden eggs for fertility in any venture- just to suggest a few. you can also use small fabric dolls to represent people, for example in a love spell. tarot cards also provide excellent symbols for magick: the emperor for power, the empress for fertility, the ten of pentacles for prosperity, the lovers for romance, the world or the eight of wands for travel, temperance for harmony, justice for matters of

s is so often the case, myth and religion are intertwined in the sources of their festivals that share the same dates. in the old celtic tradition, lugh, the god of light overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess, to whom the hare was sacred (this is the origin of the easter rabbit. at the spring equinox, bonfires were lit and the corn dolly of the previous harvest (or in christian times a judas figure) was burned on the eas

r life changes, new beginnings, sowing the seeds for new projects that will bear fruit in the future, for herb gardening, for all matters of fertility and for putting new ideas into practice. matters concerning children and young people and new flowering love are specially favoured. associations candle colours: yellow and green for the clear light from the east and the budding vegetation symbols: eggs, any spring flowers or leaves in bud, a pot of sprouting seeds, pottery or china rabbits, feathers crystals: aquamarine, jade, tourmaline, fluorite flowers, herbs, oils and incenses: celandine, cinquefoil, crocus, daffodil, honeysuckle, primroses, sage, tansy, thyme and violets a spring equinox cleaning ritual use this ritual to welcome the winds of positive change. you can perform it on any

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

sses, and problems were blamed on conjure. some explanations were illustrative of the hazards of rural agricultural life. the white sheriff j. e. mcteer, the chief law enforcement officer of beaufort county, south carolina, in the late 1940s, told of a case in which witchcraft was cited as the force that caused the children and the mule of one black farmer to sicken and die, made his hens produce eggs with double yolks, and ruined his crops. correspondingly, a nineteenth-century plantation owner in georgia explained how the rivalries between his african american workers, jane and anna, were linked to a series of farm mishaps. undergirding these problems, he noted, were very real conflicts between the women. though anna milked, jane churned, and every effort to make butter failed. jane said

right under the skin. after it had been perceptible for three days the lizard was to be cut out with a razor, or the man would die" having no other explanation for the story, chesnutt turned to evidence from his observations of the natural world. he guessed that the tradition of bodily intrusions may have "derived its existence\ 106\ from the fact that certain tropical insects sometimes lay their eggs beneath the skins of animals, or even of men, from which it is difficult to expel them until the larvae are hatched" he concluded that blacks drew these ideas from their observations of subcutaneously burrowing insects and parasites.[31] the usual species of animal invaders in conjure accounts included reptiles, turtles, spiders, scorpions, frogs, groundpuppies (salamanders, worms, and snails

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

expert said that part of the rifle would have needed to be buried six inches into a wall for earl ray to have shot dr king from where he was supposed to be. but james earl ray was convicted. just another lone assassin. no conspiracy. sure. a central character in the king assassination appears to have been jack youngblood, a us intelligence operative, who has been named by some researchers as the "eggs and sausages man, because he began to appear regularly at a cafe close to the rooming house where james earl ray was staying. when shown a picture of youngblood, james earl ray confirmed that it was the man who had been following him prior to the king assassination. one of youngblood's associates was frank fiorini, who later changed his name to frank sturgis. this man was one of the watergate

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

much further than genesis in explaining this interbreeding. they describe how the anunnaki systematically set out to create a slave race, later called homo sapiens, to serve their agenda and how they began this quest, amid much trial and error, using what we call today test-tube methods. this is described in the tablets, and they tell of how the sperm of anunnaki males was used to fertilise human eggs before they were transplanted to anunnaki females to be birthed. all this appears to have first happened hundreds of thousands of years ago, but has continued ever since on various scales. i think many of the stories mentioned in the tablets refer to events in lemuria and atlantis. all this makes more understandable the countless stories told today by people claiming to have been abducted by

irthed. all this appears to have first happened hundreds of thousands of years ago, but has continued ever since on various scales. i think many of the stories mentioned in the tablets refer to events in lemuria and atlantis. all this makes more understandable the countless stories told today by people claiming to have been abducted by non-human entities that forced them to have sex or took their eggs. the babies that result often disappear in early pregnancy with no medical explanation. of course, there are many "abduction" experiences that are simply invented or have other, more earthly, explanations, but to dismiss them all, given their number and often consistency of detail, would be just as ridiculous as believing every word of every one. the sumerian tablets tell of how the original

lastonbury tor, bath, and iona were other significant druid centres. glastonbury tor (hill or mound) was located in the isle of avalon and avalon means "island of the immortals- a name that is common to many of these "serpent" centres. the island of iona off the scottish coast was formerly known as innis nan druidhneah or "island of the druids. the arch druids were indicated by the seven "serpent eggs" displayed on their breasts.54 the goddess artemis (dana, diana) was also depicted with eggs on her chest. was the legend of the mythical st patrick chasing the snakes out of ireland the destruction of the druid or adder network? if this was so, it happened for public consumption only as the knowledge was taken out of general circulation, but remained very much alive within the secret societi

inati would seem to relate to the dna transmitted through the female and possibly originating in the constellation of orion. i have heard this dna source symbolised in various cultures as the dragon queens, the orion queen or queens, and the "snake mother. from what i am told by insiders and serious researchers, the full-blown reptilian society has its own version of queen bees, which produce the eggs from which the bloodlines and their offshoots, originate. artemis, a key illuminati goddess, is depicted with eggs all over her chest and she is associated with bees. one of the prime symbols of the merovingian bloodline, so connected to artemis/diana worship, is the bee and the hive. you also find this symbolism in freemasonry. the reptilians and greys have been described over and over by ab

/lndara, the king of sumer who battled with the serpent cult according to the british edda texts thor (st george) slays the dragon in a persian sculpture of around 600bc horus, the egyptian son of god, slaying set or seth, the "demon crocodile. from an egyptian bas-relief of about 1,000bc and now in the louvre museum in paris picture section 187 the goddess artemis (dana. diana) with her symbolic eggs in a statue at the ephesus museum. artemis/diana was the main deity of the merovingian bloodline and both are symbolised by bees. honey, and the hive on the left is an ancient egyptian portrayal of the "virgin mother, isis, and her saviour son. horus. on the right is the classic pose of the virgin mother, mary, and her saviour son, jesus, in a church at godshill on the isle of wight in englan

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

y schoolnetwork was taken over by the babylonian brotherhood. the basic moral code wastaught to all people, but the secret knowledge was, as with all these networks, preservedfor initiates under the strictest secrecy. eliphas levi, the famous esotericist, said of theirhealing methods:74the druids were priests and physicians, curing by magnetism. their universal remedieswere mistletoe and serpents eggs, because these substances attract astral light in aspecial manner. the solemnity with which mistletoe was cut down drew upon this plant thepopular confidence and rendered it powerfully magnetic.46the druids, like the other mystery religions, were carriers of advanced knowledgewhich has been kept from the people, and some of them used it for less than positivereasons. i am not condemning the d

to earlychristians as december 25th. the legend of mithra said he was crucified and wasresurrected on march 25th. the date of easter is no longer fixed to the first day ofaries, but the symbolism remains. the christian religious day is. sunday. christianchurches are build east-west with the altar to the east. this means that the congregationface east- the direction of the rising sun. even easter eggs, like hot cross buns, are nota christian tradition. dyed eggs were sacred easter offerings in egypt and persia,among other places. how ironic that the authorities at westminster abbey havequestioned whether they should have a christmas tree because it is a pagan symbol.the whole flippin religion is pagan!figure 16: the last supper by leonardo da vinci. look how he symbolises jesus as the sun

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

st in occultism, when i was still buying nay experience by the expensive but effectual method of running my head into obstacles, i made the acquaintance of a woman who was interested in psychic matters. she was a person of the most extreme sensitiveness to anything unclean or ugly, fastidious to a degree in her personal habits, living almost exclusively on uncooked vegetarian foods, even refusing eggs as too stimulating. although not an animal lover, she was morbidly humanitarian, reading with gusto those papers which give lurid and detailed descriptions of vivisection experiments. had i been older and wiser i should have recognised the significance of her ultra-cleanliness and ultra-sensitiveness as marking the ab-reaction of a sadistic temperament- sadism being a pathology of the emotion

ation of the force. there are many formulae extant designed to enable a force to be brought through without the necessity of the magician himself being the channel. in my opinion they are one and all ineffectual; the only possible substitute for the magician himself being a trance medium. it is for this reason that ritual magic so often fails to come off. you cannot make custards without breaking eggs, and if you mean to be a magician you have got to "go the whole hog" when it is a question of bringing through the angelic aspect of a force, the matter is on a clear footing. to be the channel of such a force is a great privilege and is an initiation in itself. the operator has simply to eliminate from his nature all incom patibles and maintain his concentration without wavering. the worst t

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

that could hold the fluid in solution would have been welcomed like iced nectar by us. we seemed to become mere automata, moving without will of our own, but held to the fearful work by a blind, aimless, dogged persistency that nothing but death could stop. the throbbing afternoon was well advanced when vikka and i reined up our ponies on the edge of a stretch of sand that was hot enough to roast eggs. a mile or more to the westward loomed a mountain spur, whose blue tint throbbed in the flaming sunshine, as if it were the phantasmagora of a disordered brain. the apache trail led in that direction, and we were morally sure that geronimo and his band were gathered there, unless, with that persistency which was a feature of their retreat, they had pressed through and were fleeing into the br

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

could not remain in the same room with a cat; marshal de schomberg had the same weakness; ladislas, king of poland, was much disturbed at the sight of apples; scaliger trembled at the sight of cress; erasmus could not taste fish without having the fever; tycho-brahe felt his knees give way when he met a hare or a fox; the duke of epernon fainted at the sight of a leveret; cardan could not stomach eggs; ariosto, baths; the son of croesus, bread; caesar of lescalle, the sound of the vielle or violin. the causes of these antipathies might be found in childhood impressions. a lady who was very fond of pictures and engravings fainted when she found them in a book. she explained her terror thus: when she was a child her father had one day seen her turning over the leaves of the books in his libr

lock of lead said to be found in roman strata at rome and bearing the name of augustus, a quantity of gravel alleged to have come from central america and quite unlike anything seen in australia, two perfect clay tablets covered with cuneiform inscriptions and several thousands of years old, said to have been brought direct from the mounds at babylon, and finally, a bird s nest containing several eggs and the mother bird undoubtedly alive. he was famous for living apports, jungle sparrows, crabs, turtles. once an 18-inch-long shark, at another time a 30-inch snake appeared mysteriously in the seance room. the apport of jungle sparrows passed the test of a committee of investigation in milan. six years later, however, bailey got into trouble in grenoble. the investigators claimed that he sm

ent is on record to test the theory that heavy apports brought about no variation in the weight of the medium. it was done in w. h. terry s house in melbourne in 1876 with mrs. paton, a medium who specialized in apporting her personal property. sometimes it was a cup of tea she had forgotten to drink before leaving home, once a burning hot flat iron, at another time a glass of wine and a plate of eggs. her phenomena were mostly recorded between 1872 and 1878. there could hardly be anything to surpass in wonder the accounts of the apports said to be experienced by general lorrison (major-general a. w. drayson) at portsmouth. the medium was a mrs. maggs, the wife of a local editor and a writer herself. in a strictly private circle, apports arrived by the thousand. the household was supplied

her phenomena were mostly recorded between 1872 and 1878. there could hardly be anything to surpass in wonder the accounts of the apports said to be experienced by general lorrison (major-general a. w. drayson) at portsmouth. the medium was a mrs. maggs, the wife of a local editor and a writer herself. in a strictly private circle, apports arrived by the thousand. the household was supplied with eggs straight from brooklyn from a spirit circle and return gifts were sent through similar means to countries as distant as spain, australia, india, and china. it is claimed that once a letter was apported, was read, a corner torn off for identification and then reapported. ten days later it arrived, addressed to general drayson. the torn-off piece fitted in and the contents were identical. in ex

rs felt over his body, especially in hollow parts where objects could be hidden. bailey, however, refused to allow himself to be entirely undressed, saying he was afraid of catching cold. the apports consisted mostly of small articles: two or three live birds; a fish with an acrid, penetrating, saline odor; and a babylonian tablet enveloped in a hard coating of sand. some of the birds, nests, and eggs disappeared before the end of the seance. in the dark bailey demonstrated the rapid growth of a seed in a flower pot and the presence of phosphorescent lights and luminous shapes. the committee s desire to have a specially designated object transported from one room to another was not realized. the report, signed by mr. baccigaluppi, a. brioschi, dr. clericetti, o. cipriana, dr. f. ferrari, a

ed. bailey, charles 145 chical research was represented by two well-known members, bailey was undressed, examined, and shut into a cage. several controls came, a hindu took possession, but when addressed in hindustani by a professor of oriental languages, he immediately subsided into broken english. later a bird nest appeared in the medium s hand. the control, however, tore it asunder. two small eggs were also produced but they were broken by the control when passing them to a member of the committee. after the seance, the committee desired to examine the medium s boots more thoroughly, but he left the house, and as a result an unfavorable verdict was returned. on july 28, at another test sitting, during a period of complete darkness, two small birds appeared between the mosquito netting

drapery. it was wrenched from his hand, and the medium, sick and dazed, was carried to dr. mac- carthy for medical aid. in the same year bailey sat for six weeks in rothesay, scotland, for a circle selected by james coates. coates reported in light (august 1, 1914) that bailey was not only a genuine but a unique medium. they obtained apports: ruby sand and an indian sparrow s nest containing two eggs. the eggs were in coates s possession for two weeks, and after being blown, the contents were found fresh. bailey was also induced to try a trumpet. the personal indication of the voices was most convincing. impressions of hands and feet were also obtained on plasticine. in psychic research (june 1931, harry price published extracts from a letter written to him by h. l. williams, a retired ma

let a french grimoire of black magic supposedly first printed in 1740, but probably much later. la poule noire actually bears the imprint of egypt, 740, and the year 740, but this is manifestly false. it has been reprinted in paris from time to time in editions for collectors, but without any indication of its true origin. the full title translates as the black pullet; or, the hen with the golden eggs, comprising the science of magical talismans and rings, the art of necromancy and of the kabalah, for the conjuration of aerial and infernal spirits, of sylphs, undines, and gnomes, serviceable for the aquisition of the secret sciences, for the discovery of treasures, for obtaining power to command all beings, and to unmask all sciences and bewitchments. the whole following the doctrines of s

old. probably a nineteenth-century concoction, the story seems to be based on the the seventeenth-century volume comte de gabalis (see elementary spirits. the whole work, if interesting, is distinctly derivative. it contains many illustrations of talismans and magical rings. the procedure for bringing the black pullet into existence describes that a black hen should be set to hatch one of its own eggs, and that during the process a hood should be drawn over its eyes so that it cannot see. it is also to be placed in a box lined with black material. the chick thus hatched will have a particular instinct for detecting the places where gold is hidden. sources: the black pullet: science of talismanic magic. new york: samuel weiser, 1972. blackwell, anna (ca. 1870) british author and publicist f

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

ence. those wing or thigh bones in which the holes exhibit regularity were chosen. pieces of bamboo were inserted into these holes, and the resulting slant of the stick defined the augury. if the stick slanted outwards it decided in favor of the measure under test. if it slanted inwards, the omen was unfavorable. other materials of divination were the entrails of animals and the contents of blown eggs. astrology burmese astrology derived both from indian and chinese sources, and powerfully affected the entire people, most of whom had a private astrologer who would be consulted for knowledge of the trend of the horoscope regarding the near future. burmese would be active and enterprising on lucky days, but nothing would induce them to undertake any form of work should the day be pyatthadane

came from. it often happened that things were brought from her own house over a distance of two miles. occasionally, the objects were very heavy or difficult to handle like a glass of wine. a stone apported from the seashore was found to weigh 14 pounds and came with a mass of seaweed with shrimp-like creatures on it. one of the most notable apported household objects was a soup plate with twenty eggs on it. paton was not usually entranced during her apport phenomena, but was often markedly convulsed. she worked under strict test conditions: she was searched before a seance and completely enveloped in a large mosquito net bag, which was tied and sealed. the apports arrived on a table in the dark, but on some occasions, arrived even in bright light. one of the most astonishing apports occur

eter toth, greg nielsen, and pat flanagan. through the 1970s, it was a common theme at psychic and new age gatherings. the idea of pyramid energy goes back to the 1920s. as early as 1928, at lyons, a 33-year old frenchman named georges gaillard demonstrated the ability to mummify two mutton chops by holding them in his hands for a minute. the french radiesthetist antoine bovis reported that meat, eggs and other organic substances could be mummified by placing them in a cardboard model of the great pyramid, which he claimed accumulated the same radiations as the king s chamber of the pyramid. it was bovis s claims which were later picked up by karl drbal. in 1950, at the scientific and technical congress of radionics and radiesthesia, held in london, england, noel macbeth claimed that a car

and were ingenious in making quintiscence, which should convert other metals into pure gold. in the treasurer s accounts there are numerous payments for the quinta essentia, including wages to the persons employed, utensils of various kinds, coals and wood for the furnaces, and for a variety of other materials such as quicksilver, aqua vitae, litharge, auri, fine tin, burnt silver, alum, salt and eggs, and saltpeter. the scottish monarch appears to have collected around him a multitude of quacks of all sorts for mention is made of the leech with the curland hair, of the lang dutch doctor, of one fullertone, who was believed to possess the secret of making precious stones, of a dr. ogilvy who labored hard at the transmutation of metals, and many other empirics, whom james not only supported

continued to demand that the bishops examine her claims and prophecies and agreed to abide by their decision, but the church dignitaries were unwilling to become involved. her mission continued to grow in spite of various unfortunate setbacks. one of these was the case of the infamous mary bateman, thief and abortionist, who had obtained a seal from southcott and claimed that her hens were laying eggs with an inscription announcing the coming of christ. mary bateman was executed for the murder of rebecca perigo, whom she had unmercifully fleeced for years by selling her charms against evil. for a time this scandalous episode of one of the sealed followers caused much embarrassment to the movement. but southcott s writings sold well, and many people who had followed the unfortunate richard

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

, self-conscious andself-disrrustful--aconditionreinforced,nodoubt,bythe. frequentunsettlingmoves fromonetemporaryhomeinkentishtownto 225 another.4duringtheearlypartof1870 heattendedthebellevue academyunderits principal,georgewhite,a prolificauthorofbotheducational and religiousworks,whomwaiteunkindlydescribed as 'a vast, loosely incorporated and impassionedman,whowas affirmed credibly to eat six eggs at his earlydinneron fridays' andwhosetimewas spent'fretting23_'thechurchofromeifoundwould suit. 22andfumingand raging over an academyofthird-rate day-boys'.5later intheyear he transferred totheschoolofamrkirkbyinupperparkroad,belsize park, at first as a day-boy and later as a boarder.here'presumably imusthave learned something,butintruthiknownotwhat,andmusthave beenunderthis nondescript guid

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

condition within which lifeless matter could engender a living organism. before looking at this condition, we must recall a law that has been recognized in biology since the time of pasteur "life comes from life" that is, a living organism can be generated only from another living organism. for example, mammals are born from their mothers. in many other species of animals the young are born from eggs that had been laid by the mothers. plants grow out of seeds. single-cell organisms such as bacteria divide and multiply. nothing has ever been observed to the contrary. throughout the history of the world no one has ever witnessed lifeless matter giving birth to a living being. of course, there were those in ancient egypt, greece and the middle ages who thought they had observed such an outco

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

r circle of life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzafkiel( watcher or observer of god. formatively by the angelic order of the aralim (thrones or seats. expressively by the planet shabetai (saturn. humanly by the supply of unfertilised ova or eggs in the female (here male and female forces meet, mate and fertilise. in a perfect condition of creation this would result in a state of beautiful harmony as at sphere 6, but since the object is a material world, this is pushed out of place by the act, and the gap between god and man becomes the great abyss, across which the lifestream goes to) 4 mercy or generosity. origination governed by go

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

to herakles, drenched in dragon's blood, is well known. 8 iibel ovgen, parz. 407, 8 are spiteful eyes; whereas' ein boesez ouge' 71, 16 is a weak, sore eye. 1100 magic' some evil eye lias been at it; to look at a beast with sbarp eyes. in virgil's eel. 3, 103' nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos' the renner 18014 says, tlie glance of the eye kills snakes, scares wolves, hatches ostrich-eggs, breeds leprosy. eadulfi ardentis homil. 42' cavete ab illis qui dicunt, quosdam ocuus urentibus alios fascinare* persius 2, 34 has urentes oculi; andfascinare, jsaakaivetv with the ancients meant chiefly this kind of sorcery. the on. expression is sion-hverfing, look-throwing' sundr stauk sula for sion iotuns' asunder burst the pillar at the look of the giant, sgem. 53. stigandi can by his l

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

nd numerous inscriptions (forcellini sub v. the present custom is thus described by armstrong sub v. bealtainn: t in some parts of the highlands the young folks of a hamlet meet in the moors on the first of may. they cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by cutting a trench in the ground of such circum ference as to hold the whole company. they then kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. they knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. after the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake in so many portions, as similar as possible to one another in size and shape, as there are persons in the company. they daub one of these portions with charcoal until it is perfectly black. they then put all the bits of the

er s pond by the spital-gate, make a fire of them, and jump over it; ihis keeps them in health the whole year (conf. sup. i, 918. they invite passers by to have a leap, who pay a few kreuzers for the privilege. in the fulda country also the boys beg for wood to burn at night, and other presents, while they sing a rhyme: da kommen wir her gegangen mit spiessen und mit staogen, und wollen die eier (eggs) langen. feuerrothe bliimelein, an der erde springt der wein, grebt ihr uns der eier ein zum johannisfeuer, der haber is gar theuer (oats are so dear. haberje, haberju! frifre frid! gebt uns doch ein schiet (scheifc, billet (j. v. u. f. deutschl. 1790. 1, 313) similar rhymes from franconia and bavaria, in schm. 3, 262. in the austrian donauliindchen on st. john s eve they light fires on the h

n. 209. the on. gaukr is likewise arrogans morio. hans sachs occa sionally uses gauchberg 2 in the same sense, ii. 4, 110d (kempten ii. 4, 220a, extr. from goz 1, 52. yet originally in grauchsberg the bird himself may very well have been meant in a mystic sense which has fallen dark to us now (see suppl. 3 in other ways too the cuckoo stands in ill repute, he passes for an adulterer, who lays his eggs in other people s nests; hence the romans used cuculus in the sense of moechus (plauti asinaria, twice in last scene, and our goucli, goucheun formerly meant bastard (nib. 810, 1. aw. 1, 46, as the swiss gugsck still means an unbidden rival suitor. he even comes out as a fiendish being, or the fiend himself, in phrases everywhere known from of old: cuckoo knows, cuckoo take him, cuckoo sent h

iniere, in lorraine poucherosse, covrosse (couveuse, brood-hen, qui conduit des poussins) 3; gris. cluotschas or cluschas the cluck-hens; ital. gallinelle; boh. slepice s kurdtky hen with chickens; hung, fiastik, fiastyuk from tik, tyuk gallina, and fiazom pario. the sign of the cluck-hen seems to me intergrown with our antiquity. nursery tales bring in a peculiar feature, viz. that three nuts or eggs having been given as a pre sent, out of them come a golden dress, a silver dress, and a cluckie with seven (or twelve) chickies, the three gifts representing sun, moon and seven-stars. kinderm. no. 88 (2, 13. so in the introd. to the pentamerone, out of the miraculous nut comes a voccola co dudece polecine. now the hungarian tale in gaal p. 381 has golden hen and six chickens/ meaning the ple

strongest claim to consideration. to what was said on p. 290 i can add some signi ficant facts. the heathen easter had much in common with the may-feast and the reception of spring, particularly in the matter of bonfires. then, through long ages there seem to have lingered among the people easter-games so-called, which the church itself had to tolerate: i allude especially to the custom of easter eggs, and to the easter tale which preachers told from the pulpit for the people s amusement, connecting it with christian reminis cences. in the mhg. poets, mines herzen osterspil, ostertac, my heart s easter play or day, is a complimentary phrase for lady love, expressing the height of bliss (ms. 2, 52b. 37b. iw. 8120. frib. trist. 804; conr. troj. 19802 makes the osterlichen tac mit lebender wu

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

s, the local crocodile god khenty-khety came to be regarded as a form of horus. yet on magical stelae, horus the savior was asked to drive away all the crocodiles of the river. at edfu, crocodiles were reviled as followers of seth. a crocodile son of seth called maga was a fearsome opponent for horus, son of osiris. in temple texts at edfu, the king promises to kill all crocodiles and crush their eggs. in the afterlife, the souls of the dead had to evade the crocodiles of the four directions, who were enemies of the four bas of the sun god. in enigmatic scenes in new kingdom royal tombs, the nocturnal sun has to pass through the body of the crocodile penwenti, who symbolizes the primeval waters, in order to be reborn. greek and roman writers recorded a bizarre egyptian belief that ichneumo

HEAVEN HELL

ness" and in front of them, is the mystic sceptre which represents "set the watcher" who "waketh up and travelleth with the god" to the left of the path of afu-ra we see first the god p-ankhi, i.e "he who is endowed with the property of life" and kheper-ankh, in the form of a beetle, who is pushing before him an oval of sand, which either contains his germ, or is intended to represent the ball of eggs which the scarabaeus sacer rolls before him, and which he wishes to take through the division into the eastern horizon of the sky (vol. i, p. 216. then we have the two serpents menenui supporting a disk, and goddesses of the north and south p. 175 [paragraph continues (vol. i, p. 217. to the right of these are the goddesses netheth and kenat, who spring from the axe setfit, which supports a d

im, he receives him, and places the newly-born sun-god in the opening in the centre of the semi-circular wall which ends this p. 194 vestibule of the world of light, where he is seen by the people on earth in the form of a disk. this disk either represents a transformation of the sun-god effected by shu, or the celestial ball containing the germs of life, of which the type on earth is the ball of eggs which the sacred beetle is seen rolling along the ground. the mummified form in which the dead sun-god travelled through the tuat is now useless, and we see it cast aside and lying against the wall which divides the tuat from this world; that there shall be no doubt about this it is described by the words "image (or, form) of af" turning now to the beings who are on the right and left of the

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

n be restored, and had sought new worlds to conquer by experimenting on the reanimation of detached parts of bodies. he had wild and original ideas on the independent vital properties of organic cells and nerve-tissue separated from natural physiological systems; and achieved some hideous preliminary results in the form of neverdying, artificially nourished tissue obtained from the nearly hatched eggs of an indescribably tropical reptile. two biological points he was exceedingly anxious to settle- first, whether any amount of consciousness and rational action be possible without the brain, proceeding from the spinal cord and various nerve-centres; and second, whether any kind of ethereal, intangible relation distinct from the material cells may exist to link the surgically separated parts

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

t is not considered important if the beetle dies. the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the saying goes, but mix in a little witchcraft just to be sure. witches know that if you add melissa officionalis (lemon balm) to your fellow's bath, his straying will stop; he'll stay where he oughter; and a bit of anise added to the cake makes any tired old lover turn into a rake. figs, dates and eggs are supposed to be the sexiest foods. oysters and fish, too. fish is very high in vitamin e, which may have some effect on sexual activity. when a man is having difficulty getting a woman pregnant, doctors often advise increasing the vitamin e intake for her and the man, so there must be something vital in it. the chinese eat seahorse, and they consider this the ultimate stimulant for sexual

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

e, the child continued in a most terrible paroxysm; whereupon they sent for the minister, who scarce had laid his hand upon her when she was turned by the demon in the most dreadful shapes. she began first to rowl herself about, then to vomit needles, pins, hairs, feathers, bottoms of thread, pieces of glass, window-nails, nails drawn out of a cart or coach-wheel, an iron knife about a span long, eggs, and fish-shells p. 196 and when the witch came near the place, or looked to the house, though at the distance of two hundred paces from where the child was, she was in worse torment, insomuch that no life was expected from the child till the witch was removed to some greater distance. the witch was apprehended, condemned, strangled, and burnt, and was desired to undo the incantation immediat

ltogether from him, and thought that the jury might well bring them in guilty. p. 221 the twelve good men and true lost no time in doing so, and, in accordance with the statute, the prisoners were sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and to stand in the pillory four times during that period. it is said that when placed in this relic of barbarism the unfortunate wretches were pelted by the mob with eggs and cabbage-stalks to such an extent that one of them had an eye knocked out. and thus ended the last trial for witchcraft in ireland. it is significant that witch-trials stopped in all three countries within a decade of each other. the last condemnation in england occurred in 1712, when a woman in hertfordshire, jane wenharn, was found guilty by a jury, but was reprieved at the representatio

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

es) then when you are comfortable with this. in maybe 3 to 6 months. stop your consumption of all other animal or marine flesh. next after you have adjusted to the no meat or chicken or fish diet. in other words if it has a face don t eat it, then cease your consumption of all other animal derived products divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 50 such as cheese, eggs, butter, honey etc. and become a vegan. for level 2 nourishment you may settle here but for those open to level 3 nourishment. next when you are comfortable with this go to raw foods only, and then only fruit and then finally light liquids such as water and herbal tea and prana only. this conversion process can take up to 5 years depending on where you are right now with your dietary habits

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

non-eating of meat. we cannot deny the physical, psychological, and spiritual effect which all foods have. this effect may be described as the 'heaviness' factor of foods. various foods are so ranked in the chart, lighter to heavier. 1. lettuce and other greens. 2. fruits and most vegetables. 3. wheat, rice, and other grains. 4. nuts, beans, and other legumes. 5. cheese, dairy products, including eggs. 6. fish, seafood. 7. chicken, poultry. 8. beef, pork, other red meats. note that meats, especially red meats are the 'heaviest' foods. generally, foods which are harder to digest, or which are higher in protein are 'heavier' than those which are not. animal products are heavier than plants. foods high in carbohydrate (candy, bread, starch) are heavy. however, the 'heaviness' of foods is not

s consciously while fully awake (some may think that they do. although there are many techniques used to produce an astral projection, they boil down to nine of them. they all sort of overlap. 1) diet- certain dietary practices may aid in oobe, especially at first. these include fasting, vegitarianism, and in general the eating of 'light' foods as discussed in a a previous lesson. carrots and raw eggs are thought to be especially beneficial, but all nuts are to be avoided. over-eating should be avoided. and no food should be eaten just before an oobe attempt. if you intend to practice during sleep, for example, allow 2 to 4 hours of no food or drink (except water) before bedtime. in general, we see here the same kind of dietary restrictions advocated for kundalini yoga. 2) progressive musc

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

rdependency scientific research has found numerous examples of interdependency. one such example is the yucca plant, which has a symbiotic (interdependent) relationship with the yucca butterfly. the female butterfly helps fertilize the flower by transmitting powder from the stamens of one flower and placing them precisely on the style of another flower. subsequently, the female butterfly lays her eggs in the place where the flower seeds will develop. when the larva hatch, they feed off the growing buds of the yucca plant. however, they leave enough buds on the plant to allow the continuation of the plant. by sustaining this kind of relationship, both plant and butterfly ensure the continuation of their species. without poverty or lack in an essay written in 2002, prof. theodore c. bergstro

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

e enemy as evil or as somehow allied with the devil. political cartoonists have also relied upon infernal associations to attack opponents. then there are ads and products that rely upon hell s association with heat to promote their products, such as the names of and ads for hot sauces. the product name red devil was taken from the company s line of canned, deviled meats (deviled meat and deviled eggs are so-called because of the hot spices that are sometimes included. this association can also be inverted. in a 1997 radio commercial for cool iced tea, for instance, comedian penn jillette begins by saying, i m in hell, seated next to some former irs auditors. in the background, one hears various sounds associated with the underworld shrieks, flames, and the like. despite the heat, however

LIBER CCXLII AHA

y destiny is done. the word is spoken and concealed. olympas. i am stunned. what wonder was revealed? liber ccxlii 34 marsyas. the rite is secret. olympas. profits it? marsyas. only to wisdom and to wit. olympas. the other did no less. marsyas. then prove both by the master-key of love. the lock turns stiffly? shalt thou shirk to use the sacred oil of work? not from the valley shalt thou test the eggs that line the eagle fs nest! climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, the sheer wall of the precipice! master the cornice, gain the breach, and learn what next the ridge can teach! yet.not the ridge itself may speak the secret of the final peak. olympas. all ridges join at last. marsyas. admitted, o thou astute and subtle-witted! yet one.loose, jagged, clad in mist! another.firm, smooth, loved

LIBER LIBERI VEL LAPIDIS LAZULI

s the cry of him: iiioooshbthio-ioiiiiamamthibi- ii. 16 liber liberi vel lapidis lazuli 29. nor did i sing this for a thousand times a night for a thousand nights before thou camest, o my flaming god, and pierced me with thy spear. thy scarlet robe unfolded the whole heavens, so that the gods said: all is burning: it is the end. 30. also thou didst set thy lips to the wound and suck out a million eggs. and thy mother sat upon them, and lo! stars and stars and ultimate things whereof stars are the atoms. 31. then i perceived thee, o my god, sitting like a white cat upon the trellis-work of the arbour; and the hum of the spinning worlds was but thy pleasure. 32. o white cat, the sparks fly from thy fur! thou dost crackle with splitting the worlds. 33. i have seen more of thee in the white ca

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

very fine range; we could well have spared it this last summer. 579. so much for this absurd affair.52 .about lieutenant-colonel flare..gilbert, bab ballads. 636. auto-hypnosis.53.the scientific adversary has more sense than to talk of autohypnosis. he bases his objection upon the general danger of the practice, considered as a habit of long standing. in fact, lyre and lancet. recipe for curried eggs. the physiologist reproaches poor mr. crowley .this encroaches upon your frail cerebral cortex, and turns its fairway to a vortex. your cerebellum with cockroaches is crammed; your lobes that thought they caught .x. are like mere eggs a person poaches. but soon from yoga, business worries, and (frankly i suspect the rubble is riddled by specific trouble) will grow like eggs a person curries

LIBER V VEL REGULI

ule of silence, and in protecting philosophy from the profane. yet still she hopes that the mischief may not prove mortal, and begs that things may go on much as usual until that secret session decide on some plan of action. it has always been fatal when somebody finds out too much too suddenly. if john huss had cackled more like a hen, he might have survived michaelmas, and been esteemed for his eggs. the last fifty years have laid the axe of analysis to the root of every axiom; they are triflers who content themselves with lopping the blossoming twigs of our beliefs, or the boughs of our intellectual instruments. we can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. this digression has outstayed its welcome; i

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

rh positive (rh) and rh negative (rh. let us assume that mendel was right and that each individual possesses two copies of each gene. in this example, we assume that both parents each harbor one copy of the rh variant and one copy of the rh variant. thus, they both are rh /rh. mendel also hypothesized that when reproductive cells form, the two copies of each gene separate, meaning that germcells, eggs and sperm cells, end up containing a single copy of each gene. thus, the mother in our example will produce 50% eggs containing the rh variant and 50%eggs containing the rh variant. for the father s sperm cells, these proportions will be the same. a simple matrix shows what kinds of results can be expected in the progeny of these two parents: mother s eggs (rh /rh) rh rh father s sperm cells

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ow: none (see text) spell resistance: no you can point to a collection of little, unsecured items and cause them to fly off in all directions simultaneously. the spray of items makes a burst with a 10-foot radius. if the items are fairly hard or sharp (such as stones, sling bullets, coins, or the like, creatures in the burst take 1d8 points of damage. a successful reflex save negates this damage. eggs, fruit, and other soft objects can be used, but the damage then dealt is subdual damage. illusion (shadow) level: hrp 2, sor/wiz 2 components: v, s, m casting time: 1 action range: personal target: you duration: 10 minutes/level (d) shadow mask you cause a mask of shadows to form around your face. it does not impede your vision, cannot be physically removed, completely hides your features, an

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

edicine states that every practitioner was expected to have a garden or back yard for the growing of certain herbs necessary to his profession. eliphas levi, the celebrated transcendentalist, makes the following significant statement "the druids were priests and physicians, curing by magnetism and charging amylets with their fluidic influence. their universal remedies were mistletoe and serpents' eggs, because these substances attract the astral light in a special manner. the solemnity with which mistletoe was cut down drew upon this plant the popular confidence and rendered it powerfully magnetic* the progress of magnetism will some day reveal to us the absorbing properties of mistletoe. we shall then understand the secret of those spongy growths which drew the unused virtues of plants an

s, which correspond to the seventy-two flowers, knops, and almonds upon the seven-branched candlestick of the tabernacle, and the seventy-two men who were chosen from the twelve tribes to represent israel. the only two signs not already mentioned are gemini and sagittarius. the constellation of gemini is generally represented as two small children, who, according to the ancients, were born out of eggs, possibly the ones that the bull broke with his horns. the stories concerning castor and pollux, and romulus and remus, may be the result of amplifying the myths of these celestial twins. the symbols of gemini have passed through many modifications. the one used by the arabians was the peacock. two of the important stars in the constellation of gemini still bear the names of castor and pollux

n and presents an imperfect lens and retina and, in its long stalk, nerve fibers" crocodiles were regarded by the egyptians both as symbols of typhon and emblems of the supreme deity, of the latter because while under water the crocodile is capable of seeing--plutarch asserts- though its eyes are covered by a thin membrane. the egyptians declared that no matter how far away the crocodile laid its eggs, the nile would reach up to them in its next inundation, this reptile being endowed with a mysterious sense capable of making known the extent of the flood months before it took place. there were two kinds of crocodiles. the larger and more ferocious was hated by the egyptians, for they likened it to the nature of typhon, their destroying demon. typhon waited to devour all who failed to pass

eserver of crops and especially worthy of veneration because it drove out the winged serpents of libya which the wind blew into egypt. the ibis was sacred to thoth, and when its head and neck were tucked under its wing its body closely resembled a human heart (see montfaucon's antiquities) the black and white ibis was sacred to the moon; but all forms were revered because they destroyed crocodile eggs, the crocodile being a symbol of the detested typhon. nocturnal birds were appropriate symbols of both sorcery and the secret divine sciences: sorcery because black magic cannot function in the light of truth (day) and is powerful only when surrounded by ignorance (night; and the divine sciences because those possessing the arcana are able to see through the darkness of ignorance and material

n of the middle ages was dr. johannes faustus, more commonly known as dr. faust. by a study of magical writings he was enabled to bind to his service an elemental who served him for many years in various capacities. strange legends are told concerning the magical powers possessed by dr. faust. upon one occasion the philosopher, being apparently in a playful mood, threw his mantle over a number of eggs in a market-woman's basket, causing them to hatch instantly. at another time, having fallen overboard from a small boat, he was picked up and returned to the craft with his clothes still dry. but, like nearly all other magicians, dr. faust came at length to disaster; he was found one morning with a knife in his back, and it was commonly believed that his familiar spirit had murdered him. alth

ne is designated the second day; the globe to the left with the mountains, the third day; the globe to the right with the planetary rings, the fourth day; and the globe below bisected by a dotted line, the fifth day. the square in the central ring containing the human form is marked the sixth day. this chart is a diagrammatic exposition of the three layers of the macrocosmic and microcosmic auric eggs, showing the forces active within them. table iv, figure. 53. figure 53 has been designated the symbolic tomb of christian rosencreutz. the upper circle is the first world--the divine sphere of god. the triangle in the center is the throne of god. the small circles at the points of the star symbolize the seven great spirits before the throne, mentioned in the book of revelation, in the midst

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

housand years tribes all over the world sacrificed their kings. compassion being the vice of kings, the kings were, quite often, willing to be sacrificed. this was a magickal operation to buy energy for the people, but it was based on a wrong interpretation of the bloody sacrifice, for which see book four, part three. the result of these ten thousand years of killing the goose that lay the golden eggs if alchemists will pardon the atrocious pun is that aspirants may become obsessed by the idea that they must die for the benefit of the "lower brethren; or "mankind; or what not. they are enthusiastically encouraged in this illusion by the 'black brethren; who are only too eager to get rid of aspirants. the 'savior complex; as wilhelm stekel called it, is extremely insidious because it is con

ONYX TABLET OF SET

or she should be able to take useful aspects of life from a variety of sources- from their job, their education, books on seemingly non-occult subjects and so forth. this ability to build tools out of life is perhaps the greatest art an adept can show. this is related to #3! 9. cunning. the left hand path initiate always has an ace in the hole for any situation. he or she does not put all of his eggs in one basket, he or she has cunning, a type of knowing and thought formed by a complex but coherent constellation of attitudes and skills which combine flair, extensive networking, wisdom, forethought, subtlety of mind, misdirection, observation of people's nonverbal cues, resourcefulness, vigilance, opportunism, various skills and experience acquired over the years. it is applied to conditi

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

hough the grain and money parts were broken, to this very day the sampo continues to grind out salt. the birth of v in m inen in the beginning there was only sea and air. weary of being alone, ilmatar, the daughter of the air, lay down on the sea and conceived a child. but for 700 years, she could not give birth. eventually, a seabird, sent by the sky god, old man, nested on her knee and laid six eggs of gold and one of iron. three hatched and the rest smashed into the sea. the bottom half of the eggs became the earth, and the upper half became the heavens the yolk was the sun, the white the moon, and the mottled shell became the stars and the clouds. still ilmatar did not give birth, so she began to shape the world, dividing land and sea. her son, v in m inen, the first man, was born 30 y

d the northern shore of port stephens, the initiation ceremony involved a process of death and rebirth, during which the initiate was thrown onto a fire and then lifted up and held over it until it was burned out. emu tracks these arrows represent the tracks of an emu with a broken leg. another warlpiri myth tells of an emu that travels across the fire dreaming country eating bush food and laying eggs. this sacred landscape records its tracks. snake cave footprints flames reigniting bunjil, supreme creator bunjil the eaglehawk is the supreme creator deity of the koori peoples of victoria. he had two wives and a son, binbeal, the rainbow. bunjil made the mountains and rivers (including port phillip bay, and the flora and fauna, and taught humankind how to live. then he asked bellin- bellin

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

really wanted to ask could not have been this question but only the second question. so [again] why did she preface it with the first question? furthermore: what kind of question is the [second] question she asked, i.e, what has [g-d] been doing since then? who doesn ft know that g-d oversees all the details [of life] and sustains and provides for everything gfrom the horns of the re feim to the eggs of the lice, h7 that he causes the rain to fall, makes the dew blossom, makes the wind blow, gprovides for the needs of every living thing, h8 and so on ad infinitum? the re feim is a large bison-like animal. the image is that g-d provides for all creatures, from the greatest to the least. besides which, our sages stated in reference to the verse gmention not the sins of my youth, h9 that sin

on that this indeed happened is if after the mourning period he is no longer attracted to her. 12 the arizal on parashat ki teitzei 765 .translated from likutei torah and sefer halikutim 767 parashat ki teitzei [second installment] one of the mitzvot given in this parashah is that of gsend away the nest h: gif on the way you happen upon a bird fs nest, in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, the mother sitting on the chicks or the eggs, do not take the mother together with the children. send away the mother, and [only then] take the children, so that it be well with you and you live long. h1 [before discussing this mitzvah] we must first inform you concerning one prefatory concept regarding the supernal coupling of abba and ima. know that the union of z feir anpin and nukva occu

RUBY TABLET OF SET

cretions of the body, it should not be noticeable. i've not found a suitable substitute for the petrolatum (petrolatum is just plain white petroleum jelly, otherwise known by the brand name vaseline. there is a new vegetable source baby jelly available from frontier cooperative herbs, but i have not had a chance to try it. bring an inch of water to boil in a shallow saucepan, such as for poaching eggs. using a 1 cup measuring cup, melt some paraffin or wax shavings. when melted, remove the cup and put a 2 cup measure into the water. pour the 4 tablespoons of melted wax into the 2 cup measure (use a metal spoon and heat it briefly in the boiling water before scooping the melted wax) using the same spoon, while it is still warm, spoon out 2 tablespoons of the petrolatum and add it to the mel

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

omatoes and labelled in large block letters, bombs. shortly before the prime minister's arrival, one of them tapped a policeman on the shoulder and said "excuse, please. when mr. wilson, self--styled prime meenster, comes in long car, kindly request to wind down weendow so my friend can throw with him the bombs" the policeman answered "ho, ho, sir. very good. now i'll tell you what. you can throw eggs at him, sir "cause that's all right with me. and you can throw tomatoes at him, sir, like what you've got there in that box, painted black, labelled bombs "cause that's all right with me. you throw anything hard at him, sir, and my mate here'll get you with his gun" o days of innocence when the world was young. when the car arrived there was a surge in the crowd and chamcha and jumpy were sep

gitated "damn damn damn "ladies present" gibreel, still a little drug-woozy, warned; but sisodia windmilled his arms, indicating that he was trying to force words past his overexcited teeth. finally "damage limitation. my intention. not betrayal, you mumust not thithithink" to hear sisodia tell it, nobody back in bombay really wanted to sue gibreel, to kill in court the goose that laid the golden eggs. all parties recognized that the old projects were no longer capable of being restarted: actors, directors, key crew members, even sound stages were otherwise committed. all parties further recognized that gibreel's return from the dead was an item of a commercial value greater than any of the defunct films; the question was how to utilize it best, to the advantage of all concerned. his landi

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

and concern with not harming or polluting the environment. according to jain belief, sin and acting sinfully means in large part to do any kind of harm to other living creatures, not just jainism and vegetarianism some people think of jainism as almost identical with strict vegetarianism. vegetarians do not eat meat. strict vegetarians also will not consume animal-based products, such as milk and eggs. the two are thought of in relation to each other because of the jain concept of ahimsa, or nonviolence, and many vegetarians wish not to harm living beings, even for food. while this view oversimplifies the religion, the emphasis on vegetarianism in jain life has led to the development of what is called a jain menu, which defines suitable dishes to be served both in the home and at restauran

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

three" chapter 5.iii. in der welt weit aus der einsamkeit wollen sie dich locken "faust (in the wide world, out of the solitude, will these allure thee) the next morning, at breakfast, mrs. mervale looked as if all the wrongs of injured woman sat upon her brow. mr. mervale seemed the picture of remorseful guilt and avenging bile. he said little, except to complain of headache, and to request the eggs to be removed from the table. clarence glyndon impervious, unconscious, unailing, impenitent was in noisy spirits, and talked for three "poor mervale! he has lost the habit of good-fellowship, madam. another night or two, and he will be himself again "sir" said mrs. mervale, launching a premeditated sentence with more than johnsonian dignity "permit me to remind you that mr. mervale is now a

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

urs. a remarkable peculiarity exists in the structure and situation of the hind legs, which are placed so near the extremity of the body, and so far from each other, as to give the insect a most p. 37 extraordinary appearance when walking. this peculiar formation is, nevertheless, particularly serviceable to its possessors in rolling the balls of excrementitious matter in which they enclose their eggs. these balls are at first irregular and soft, but, by degrees, and during the process of rolling along, become rounded and harder; they are propelled by means of the hind legs. sometimes these balls are an inch and a half or two inches in diameter, and in rolling them along the beetles stand almost upon their beads, with the heads turned from the balls. these manoeuvres have for their object

he goes on to say that, having made a ball of dung, the beetle rolls it from east to west, and having dug a hole, he buries it in it for eight and twenty days; on the twenty-ninth day he opens the ball, and throws it into the water, and from it the scarabai come forth. the fact that the scarab flies during the hottest part of the day made the insect to be identified with the sun, and the ball of eggs to be compared to the sun itself. the unseen power of god, made manifest under the form of the god khepera, caused the sun to roll across the sky, and the act of rolling gave to the scarab its name kheper, i.e "he who rolls" the sun contained the germs of all life, and as the insect's ball contained the germs of the young scarabs it was identified also with the sun as a creature which produce

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

ogical warfare page 56 eating raoul .and others "how would you like to bite into a part-human bacon cheeseburger" asks michael colgan, ph.d, in the journal nutrition a fitness (sic (vol. 10. no. 1& 2. in five years they'll be at a burger stand near you, predicts the author. the u.s. department of agriculture's research center in beltsville, md, has been inserting human genes into fertilized swine eggs, and a herd of "hupigs" now resides at the center. one goal of such research is to manufacture "spare parts for humans" that is, genetically engineered organs to replace diseased human organs; another goal is to "design" animals for more efficient meat production. the usda creatures reportedly suffer from coordination so poor that they can barely walk. they also are subject to arthritis and l

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

elist upton sinclair (1878 1968) published a record of experiments in telepathically transmitted drawings, which had been conducted with his wife and his brother-in-law, r. i. irwin. mrs. sinclair was always the percipient, the receiver, and when irwin was the agent, the sender, he transmitted from more than 40 miles away. the agent would make a set of drawings of such simple items as a nest with eggs, a flower, or a tree, and enclose each sketch in an opaque 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 mysteries of the mind 181 twins being tested for telepathy capabilities (fortean picture library) envelope. at the agreed-upon time, or later, mrs. sinclair would lie down on a couch and allow her mind and body to enter a state of complete relaxa

riptural references to the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 198 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends aprofessional guest, quartrozieme, can be called on short notice so a host can avoid having only 13 people at dinner party. death or resurrection of jesus. christian tradition borrowed the symbols of a rabbit and colored eggs for children to hunt on easter morning from an even older religious tradition in northern europe that portrayed the rabbit as the escort of the fertility goddess eastre (easter. as christianity spread through europe, the adaptation and incorporation of the rites and symbols of eastre into the celebration of jesus resurrection transferred to the rabbit the dubious distinction of people attribu

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

they coined the word khimaira (chimera) to describe them. others noted that the eerie aerial lights changed colors up and down the visual spectrum and the word specter was born. several times each year tall, hairy creatures with red eyes are still seen throughout the united states and, in fact, throughout the world. like many forms of chimeras, they are usually accompanied by the smell of rotten eggs hydrogen sulfide. the "fire and brimstone" of the ancients. the same odor frequently surrounds the fabled flying saucers and their space-suited pilots. seeing a spaceman disembark from a flying saucer is no more remarkable than seeing an angel descend in a luminous cloud (and angels are still reported hundreds of tunes each year. the report of a nine-foot-tall humanoid strolling down the main

ailed it back to jane special delivery. she phoned me the next day "why did you bend the disc and tear up the paper" she demanded. she had just received the envelope and found that the parchment in the sealed inner envelope had been ripped into three pieces. the metal disc was bent, as if it had been folded double and then unfolded again. it had also turned charcoal black and smelled like "rotten eggs" the implication was clear. someone had the ability to intercept the u.s. mails and tamper with things in sealed envelopes! ii while jane was holding clandestine meetings with mr. apol and his mysterious lady friend, jaye p. paro was being entertained by the redoubtable princess moon owl, a character who would become a legend on long island by the end of 1967. at 3:30 p.m. on june 11, 1967, j

hted, pulled herself together, and delivered a hilarious thirty-minute monologue about life on the planet ceres in the asteroid belt. she seemed to be familiar with all the new york/ long island ufo buffs and eccentrics, denouncing some as "phonies" and praising others. as the interview progressed, jaye became increasingly uncomfortable. cerians had a problem with body odor "she stank like rotten eggs" jaye said afterward. the smell was slight at first but gradually became overpowering. the princess admitted to being "seven ooongots" old. or about 350 earth years. while the interview was in progress, i was sitting in my new york apartment and my telephone was going crazy. it rang several times but there was no one on the other end (until this period i had had very few problems with my pers

others too" i am an amateur herpetologist and once kept three-fanged cobras in my new york apartment. until my concerned neighbors squealed to the board of health. some of the descriptions of the entities impressed me as resembling some kind of reptile rather than human mammals. i didn't mention this reptile notion to anyone. but on july 24, lia visited jane and refused to talk about anything but eggs. she took some eggs from jane's refrigerator and sucked out the contents like a reptile! jane was perplexed by this exhibition and called me soon afterward. that evening i received a phone call from harold salkin, a washington, d.c, ufo researcher. he wanted to tell me that people all over washington had been receiving strange phone calls during the past week. we had a perfect connection unti

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

alled "the veils of negative existence" by another arab. these were the sorcerer's handbooks, and generally not meant as textbooks or encyclopedias of ceremonial magick. in other words, the sorcerer or magician is supposed to be in possession of the requisite knowledge and training with which to carry out a complex magickal ritual, just as a cook is expected to be able to master the scrambling of eggs before he conjures an "eggs benedict; the grimoires, or black books, were simply variations on a theme, like cookbooks, different records of what previous magicians had done, the spirits they had contacted, and the successes they had. the magicians who now read these works are expected to be able to select the wheat from the chaff, in much the same fashion as an alchemist discerning the delib

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

crutable; its greatest foe is lust, and the most fearful form of lust is marriage: whom god hath joined let no man put asunder. we have already seen marriage described in gthe honourable adulterers h and in gthe star and the garter h; we get a pregnant glimpse of it again in the one speech, ga bargain fs a bargain, a thousand a year and a flat in mayfair are better than farmer tyson fs butter and eggs. h*1. in these few words are practically summed up the raison d fetre of all mariages de convenance. the affluent marry out of sensuality, or to engender sons to inherit their selfishness, the middle orders trot their daughters round the london ballrooms just as strumpets fall in to the cry of descendez, mesdemoiselles! women marry for title, clothing, shelter, and food; men because they thin

ally become subservient to an interested priesthood, so have all religions (however spiritual they may have been in their youth) been materialized and sacrificed on the altar of gain. to this rule christianity forms no exception; once crudely and sincerely spiritual, it has become deceitfully materialistic. god, who was formerly an almighty pleroma, is now but the moke which carries the priest fs eggs to market; and christ, the saviour and redeemer, the stick with which the wretched old jennet is beaten along. christianity is no longer what its name implies, the system of doctrines as taught by christ, but diametrically the reverse, the system of desires as wrought by man. it is no longer gsell all, h but gseize all h; or ggive all, h but gget all. h mammon is the god of to-day, and modern

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again. 22:5 the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman s garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the lord thy god. 22:6 if a bird s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 22:7 [but] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days. 22:8 when thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall

bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? 39:11 wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? 39:12 wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [it into] thy barn? 39:13 [gavest thou] the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? 39:14 which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, 39:15 and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. 39:16 she is hardened against her young ones, as though [they were] not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; 39:17 because god hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. 39:18 what time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorn

it of the stout heart of the king of assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 10:13 for he saith, by the strength of my hand i have done [it] and by my wisdom; for i am prudent: and i have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and i have put down the inhabitants like a valiant [man] 10:14 and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have i gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 10:15 shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood. 10:16 there

nd your god, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear. 59:3 for your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 59:4 none calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 59:5 they hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 59:6 their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands. 59:7 their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thou

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

universal jupiter, the aweful and venerable, the general principle of life and motion, was transformed into the god who thundered from mount ida, and was lulled to sleep in the embraces of his wife; and hence the god whose spirit moved2 upon the face of the waters, 1 nem. v, ver. 1. 2 so the translators have rendered the expression of the original, which literally means brooding as a fowl on its eggs, and alludes to the symbols of the ancient theology, which i have before observed upon. see patrick s commentary. 102 on the worship and impregnated them with the powers of generation, became a great king above all gods, who led forth his people to smite the ungodly, and rooted out their enemies from before them. another great means of corrupting the ancient theology, and establishing the poe

nd holds both it and the one forming the body with a bridle.2 this bas-relief was taken down in 1829, and is now preserved in the museum of n mes. a still more remarkable monument of this class was found in the course of excavations made at n mes in 1825. it is engraved in our plate xxvi, and represents a bird, apparently intended for a vulture, with spread wings and phallic tail, sitting on four eggs, each of which is designed, no doubt, to represent the female organ. the local antiquarians give to this, as to the other similar objects, an emblematical signification; but it may perhaps be more rightly regarded as a playful conception of the imagination. a similar design, with some modifications, occurs not unfrequently among gallo-roman antiquities. we have engraved a figure of the triple

n a private collection in london, with a duplicate, which appears to have been cast from the same mould, though the plate is cut through, and they were evidently intended for suspension from the neck. both came from the collection of m. baudot of dijon. the lady here bridles only the principal phallus; the legs are, as in the monument last described, those of a bird, and it is standing upon three eggs, apple-formed, and representing the organ of the other sex. 1 plate xxv, fig. 3. 2 a french antiquary has given an emblematical interpretation of this figure. perhaps, he says, it signifies the empire of woman extending over the three ages of man; on youth, characterized by the bell; on the age of vigour, the ardour of which she restrains; and on old age, which she sustains. this is perhaps m

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

etail, walked in and stared at him silently. this terrified fox into a screaming fit, not because it was frightening in itself, but because he could not tell which version of his mother was real and which was the double. sometimes before falling asleep, he saw a strange background of small, misty-blue or mauve circles that vibrated. to his young mind, they resembled a gelatinous cluster of frogs' eggs, and were on the limit of visibility. the blue circles would fill with tiny grinning faces having piercing steel-blue eyes, and fox would hear a chorus of mocking voices chant in rhythm to the vibration of the circles"'that is it, you see! that is it, you see""07 the background of blue circles persisted into adulthood, minus the faces, and occurred during many experiences of astral projection

response to active influences classed as lunar. the renaissance magician cornelius agrippa (1486-1535) summarized the nature of lunar things in his occult philosophy: these things are lunary, amongst the elements, viz. the earth, then the water, as well that of the sea, as of the rivers, and all moist things, as the moisture of trees, and animals, especially they which are white, as the whites of eggs, fat, sweat, phlegm, and the superfluities of bodies. amongst tastes, salt and insipid; amongst metals, silver; amongst stones, crystal, the silver marcasite, and all those stones that are white, and green. also the stone selenites i.e. lunary, shining from a white body, with a yellow brightness, imitating the motion of the moon, having in it the figure of the moon which daily increaseth, or

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

fanged cobras in my new york apartment. until my concerned neighbors squealed to the board of health. some of the descriptions of the entities impressed me as resembling some kind of reptile rather than human mammals. i didn't mention the reptile notion to anyone. but on july 24, lia (an alleged alien tied-in with the men in black) visited jane (a contactee) and refused to talk about anything but eggs. she took some eggs from jane's refrigerator and sucked out the contents like a reptile! jane was perplexed by this exhibition and called me soon afterward" and on pp. 176-177 of signet's 1975 paperback edition of 'mothmen, in reference to this same 'contactee' keel states..meanwhile, jane's phantom friends were visiting her daily and helpfully giving her surprising information about my own '

the who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (20 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:19:58] vertical gutters in ayers rock testify to these wars" case file #10 from "venomous reptiles" by shirman a. minton jr (charles ceaibrer sons, n.y. 1969: the following observations are made in minton's book: a) all reptiles have scales b) all are cold-blooded c) all lay eggs d) all reptiles with well-developed limbs have clawed toes e) there are 'lizards' with elongated snake-like bodies- a type of 'missing link' between the lizards and the snakes f) the modern evidence (scientific) indicates that all modern snakes once (in the distant ancestral past) possessed limbs which became "atrophied" through non-use, perhaps due to the fact that they became aquatic or sem

ig caves. with imperfect respiration providing just enough oxygen to supply tissues and maintain the processing of food and combustion, their temperature can be raised only a few degrees above the ambient [this suggests that 'heat' weapons, like flame-throwers and so on, may prove to be very effective and fatal to this species under battle conditions. the reproductive system is ovouniparous, with eggs hatching in the oviduct prior to birth. the underdeveloped reptiloid [for faster activities, physical activities] cerebellus results in a slowness and simpler city of movement. the reptiloid eye is composed of thousands of microscopic facets, each facet with its own independent protective lid. the eye is almost never closed entirely during waking hours; rather, sections of the organ are shut

cks of the "repti-poltergeists, it's worked for me- branton] it proceeded to transmit into "d's" mind the "official" version of its species history here on earth, i.e. how they survived the cataclysm of the dinosaurs by living underground, became intelligent, were alternately worshipped by humans as gods and reviled by humans as monsters etc etc etc. during her visit she saw a clutch of reptilian eggs. she said she wanted to take an axe to them (ihop eat your heart out. i don't think any amount of syrup will make that omelette taste any good "j" case file #34 from "anunnaki" anunnaki@pathway.net to "unexplained3> date: wed, 2 dec 1998 13:41:51 -0500> subject [motu] missing car hi, here is a good one for you. this is a true story. i might have told it before ,but felt i should again. around

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

contact; it is not one of the forces generally known to science, and mind, will, imagination, belief evidently play big parts. as textbooks say, you need enthusiasm and optimism; if you think it is all rot, or only a child's game, you will at best get childish results. we all know that wireless works, and this seems a sort of natural wireless. this power has been in use for many years for testing eggs. i believe that dowsers are often used by the police to trace the bodies of missing people. i simply think that this is the force that witches use when they speak of raising power or magic. and the great art of using this power would seem to be to believe firmly that you can do it and to have the fierce determination to make it work. now the witch rites and ceremonial are of a nature to fix y

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

to practice circumcision on male infants upon the 8th day after birth. the jews at the chanukah or feast of dedication lit 8 candles and it lasted 8 days. this is the engkainia of john x. 22. as to conjuring among the ancient jews, it is said in talmud, succah, 53. i, that levi played with 8 knives; samuel in the presence of the king sapor of persia used 8 cups and abaji before rabbi rava used 8 eggs. eight prophets were descended from rahab the harlot, viz, neraiah, seraiah, maasiah, jeremiah, hilkiah, hannemeel and shallum. note also that huldah the prophetess was the grandchild of rahab. 87. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the last 8 verses of deuteronomy, the mosaic law, the pentateuch, were written by joshua. bava bathra, 14. i. rabbi nathan

nd uncleanness of each thing; so says the talmud. 50. the number of the gates of binah (binh) the understanding. the kabalah states that even moses only reached the 49th. see my sepher yetzirah, third edition, 1911. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 116. 58. noah, nch. 60. aristotle stated that the crocodile lives naturally 60 years, and sits 60 days on 60 eggs. the chinese have a time cycle of 60 years, and call it kya-tse. the people of malabar call this period chi-tam. the talmud refers to 60 deadly drugs and 60 sorts of wines; the sow bears her litter in 60 days. 61. the number ain, negative existence of the deity. 64. aletheia, truth. 65. the number of adonai, translated lord (adni) and of hs, hes, keep silence. 67. the number of binah, superna

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