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above' the world of men and women created to unhappiness is a reflection of the world of divine beings created to happiness. it is described in the sepher yetzirah, or the book of formation, as an abyss of height and an abyss of death, an abyss of the east and an abyss of the west, an abyss of the north and an abyss of the south. the altar is black because, unlike divine beings who unfold in the element of light, the fires of created beings arise from darkness and obscurity. on the altar is the white triangle to be in the image of immortal light, that triune light which moved in darkness and formed the world out of darkness. there are always in all things two contending forces and always one uniting them. these three have their image in the threefold flame of our being, and the threefold

ymbols would be on the white. the following is a section from the z-1 document which can be found in the golden dawn by israel regardie, lewellyn publications "the base of the two pillars are respectively in netzach and in hod, the white pillar being in netzach and the black pillar in hod. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the earth element in malkuth. the columns are respectively in black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counter-charged color any appropriate egyptian designs and emblematic of the soul "the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of test and trial, and between the pillars is the doorway of the region immeasur

on into the physical universe is comprised of the three letters aleph, mem and shin. these also correspond to the three elements of air, water and fire consecutively. these three united form earth, the final manifestation into physical existence. with these three elements we have two contending, opposite forces, fire and water, with air acting as the reconciler between them. the letter mem is the element of water, therefore is considered spirituality or consciousness. the letter shin represents the element of fire, symbolizing the three fold flames of divinity, the holy spirit. in hebrew, the word for holy spirit is ruach elohim (pronounced roo-ach eh-low-heem) these two letters with the third, aleph, form the "three mother letters. it is through these three letters that the physical unive

represents intellect and rational thought. it also represents the structuring and measuring capacities of the mind as opposed to the emotional and intuitional aspects of netzach. hod has no exact parallel in the tarot, but is closely linked to the card judgement, ascribed to the path between hod and malkuth. yesod: the ninth emanation on the tree of life. yesod is associated with the moon and the element water. regarded as a female sphere, it is the seat of sexual instinct and corresponds to the genital chakra on the archetypal man, adam kadmon. on the tree of life, yesod has the function of channeling the energies of the higher down to the earth below, malkuth. occultists associate yesod with the astral plane, because if the sephiroth above malkuth are regarded as a map of the unconscious

ard along with the empress card, chariot card, or universe card is almost the ideal situation for abundance. wheel of fortune -reversed bad luck and ill fortune. justice this is a karmic card meaning justice and balance, strength and force, it can also mean an act of judgment coming on you. equilibrium. justice -reversed imbalance, hatred, bigotry, biasness and a total lack of equilibrium in that element. hanged man this indicates enforced sacrifice and punishment, also indicates loss. it can also be a card that can indicate some fatality in an area. this is generally a card of suffering. however, the person that usually goes through this suffering usually emerges wiser. in the purely esoteric spiritual nature this can be a positive card but normally for the kinds of reading that you will

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ove. the world of men and women created to unhappiness is a reflection of the world of divine beings created to happiness. it is described in the sepher yetzirah, or the book of formation, as an abyss of height and as an abyss of depth, an abyss of the east and an abyss of the west, an abyss of the north and an abyss of the south. the altar is black because, unlike divine beings who unfold in the element of light, the fires of created brings arise from darkness and obscurity. on the altar is a white triangle to be the image of that immortal light, that triune light, which moved in darkness and formed the world of darkness and out of darkness. there are two contending forces and one always uniting them. and these three have their image in the three-fold flame of our being and in the threefo

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e hall and face east. all salute. dad: makes sign of the cross with censer and swings forward 3 times and says: i consecrate with fire. stol: makes cross with cup, and sprinkles with water three times towards east, saying: i purify with water. kerux: salutes zelator sign. kerux: the temple is cleansed. kerux: stol: dad: return to place, kerux leading and passing with neophyte sign. hiero: let the element of this grade be named that it may be awakened in the spheres of those present and in the sphere of the order. heg: the element of earth. hiereus (knocks) let us adore the lord and king of earth. all face east. hiero: adonai ha-aretz. adonai melekh. unto thee be the kingdom and the power (cross on self) and the glory (he makes cross and circle with sceptre before him as he says malkuth, et

ing you have passed the threshold. the sign is given by raising the right hand to an angle of 45 degrees. it is the position in which the hierophant interposed for you between the hiereus and the hegemon. the token is given by grasping fingers, the thumb touching thumb to form a triangle. it refers to the ten sephiroth. the word is adonai ha-aretz, and means adonai the lord of the earth, to which element this grade is allotted. the mystic number is 55, and from it is formed the password nun he. it means ornament, and when given is lettered separately. the badge of this grade, is the sash of the neophyte with the narrow white border, a red cross within the triangle, and the number 1 within a circle and 10 within a square, one on each side of the triangle. hiero: invests neophyte with the sa

good and of evil. hiereus: in this grade, the red cross is placed within the white triangle upon the altar, and it is thus the symbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero: points out the tablet of the north, saying: hiero: this grade is especially referred to the element of earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the north. it is the third or great northern quadrangle or earth tablet, and it is one of the four great tablets of the elements said to have been given to enoch by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine an

by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine and angelic names, in what our tradition calls the angelic secret language. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god emor dial hectega which are borne upon the banners of the north, and there are also numberless names of angels, archangels, and spirits ruling the element of earth. kerux: comes forward retrieves fylfot cross from altar and hands it to hierophant. hiero: the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfot, hammer of thor, and swastika, is formed of 17 squares out of a square of 25 lesser squares. these 17 represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. in this grade, the lights on the pillars are unshaded, showing that

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a. sax. brosinga mene with the eddie brisinga men, affords perfectly conclusive evidence. 4. the precisely similar way in which both there and here the religious mythus tacks itself on to the heroic legend. as the gothic, fraukish and norse genealogies all run into one another, we can scarcely deny the connexion of the veiled myths also which stand in the background. 5. the mingling of the mythic element with names of plants and constellations. this is an uneffaced vestige of the primeval intimate union between religious worship and nature. 6. the gradual transformation of the gods into devils, of the wise women into witches, of the worship into superstitious customs. the names of the gods have found a last lurking-place in disguised ejaculations, oaths, curses, protestations^ there is som

e two wolves at his feet; kunstbl. 1843, no. 19, p. 80. gold coins also were discovered near the village of gomminga in oeland, one of which represents odin with the ravens on his shoulder; the reverse has ruues, kunstbl. 1844, no. 13, p. 52. wodan. 149 noticeable for its double form: bijii&l esa bijlindi, sn. 3; sicm. 46' has biblindi. as bif (germ, beben) signifies motus, aer, aqua, the quaking element, and the as \vsq is lenis, ohg. lindi, on. linr (for linnr; an as. biflise, beoflise, ohg. pepalindi, might be suggested by the soft movement of the air, a very apt name for tlie all-penetrating god; but these forms, if they gave rise to the norse term, are no longer found in as. or ohg. wuotan's dominion both over the air and over the water explains, how it is that he walks on the waves

un goes into the sea, sets; cegi-sior pelagus is like the goth, mari-siiivs; the as. eagor and egor (mare) is related to ege, as sigor to sige. i attach weight to tlie agreement of the greek co/ceai/o 'f2keav6element awakened awe, and the sense of a god's immediate presence. as "woden was also called "vvoma (p. 144, and osinn orni and yggr, so the as. poets use the terms woma, sweg, bruga and egesa almost synonymously for ghostly and divine plienomena (andr. and el. pp. xxx xxxii. oegir was therefore a highly appropriate name, and is in keeping with the notions of fear and horror developed on p. 207-8

und. he is never called farbauta sonr, but always after his mother, loki laufeyjar sonr (sffim. 07' 72^ 73, which had its origin in alliteration, but held its ground even in prose (sn. 64) and in the locke loje, loke lovmand, loke lejemand of the later folk-songs. this laufey (swed. lofo) is first of all the name of a place, which was personified, and here again there is doubtless reference to an element. by his wife slgyn loki had a son nari or narvi, and by a giantess angrloda three children, the aforesaid fcnrir, the serpent idrm.unrjandr and a daughter hd. it is worthy of notice, that he himself is also called loirir (aiirius, and one of his brothers helhlindi, which is likewise a name of 05inn. i just throw out these names, mostly foreign to our german mythology, in the hope of enlist

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cus. honoured hegemon, see that the temple is properly guarded (done) heg: very honoured hierophant, the temple is properly guarded. hiero: honoured hiereus, see that none below the grade of practicus is present. hiereus: fraters and sorors give the sign of practicus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant all present have attained the grade. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what particular element is this grade attributed? heg: to the element of water. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what planet does this grade especially refer? hiereus: to the planet mercury. hiero: honoured hegemon, what paths are attached to this grade? heg: the 31st and 30th paths of shin and resh. hiero: honoured hiereus to what does the 31st path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of fire. hiero: hono

d. the grade of practicus is referred to the sephira hod, and the 30th and 31st paths which are those of resh and shin are bound thereto. the sign of this grade is thus given; stand with the heels together, raise the arms till the elbows are level with the shoulders bring the hands across the chest touching the thumbs and tips of fingers thus forming a triangle apex downwards. this represents the element of water to which this grade is attributed, and the waters of creation. the grip or token is the general grip of the first order. the grand word is elohim tzabaoth which means the elohim of hosts and of armies. the mystic number is 36 and from it is formed the pass word of this grade, which is eloah, one of the divine names. it should be lettered separately when given. unto this grade and

badge of this grade which you will now be entitled to wear is the sash of a theoricus with the addition of a purple or violet cross above the white cross and the numbers 3 and 8 within a circle and a square, respectively, left and right of its summit, and below the numbers 32, the numbers 30 and 31 in purple or violet, between narrow parallel purple lines. this grade is especially referred to the element of water and therefore, the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the west forms one of its principal emblems (hierophant goes to west in front of water tablet followed by theoricus) it is known as the second or great western quadrangle, or tablet of water, and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 holy secret names of

goes to west in front of water tablet followed by theoricus) it is known as the second or great western quadrangle, or tablet of water, and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 holy secret names of god empeh arsel gaiol which are borne upon the banners of the west. and numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of water. the meaning of the tablet of earth and air were explained to you in the preceding grades. hiero: theor: proceed to east. hierophant indicates cross and triangle on the altar. hiero: the cross above the triangle represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of the waters, and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at the angles. while

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see that the temple is properly guarded. heg: very honoured hierophant the temple is properly guarded. hiero: honoured hiereus, see that none below the grade of philosophus is present. hiereus: honoured fraters and sorors, give the sign of philosophus (done) hiereus (saluting) very honoured hierophant, all present have attained the grade of philosophus. hiero: honoured hegemon, to what particular element is this grade attributed? heg: to the element of fire. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what planet does this grade especially refer? hiereus: to the planet venus. hiero: honoured hegemon, what paths are attached to this grade? heg: the 29th, 28th and 27th paths of qoph, tzaddi and peh. hiero: honoured hiereus, to what does the 29th path refer? hiereus: to the reflection of the sphere of pisces

on the cross of the infernal rivers in daath. yet to do this he must descend unto the lowest first even unto malkuth and be born of her. the grade of philosophus is referred unto the sephira netzach and the 27th, 28th, and 29th paths are bound thereto. the sign of the grade is given by raising the arms above the head making with the thumbs and fingers a triangle apex upwards. this represents the element of fire, to which this grade is attributed, and also the spirit which moved upon the waters of creation. the grip or token is the general grip of the first order. the grand word is a name of nine letters tetragrammaton tzabaoth, which means the lard of armies. the mystic number is 28 and from it is formed the pass word of the grade which is koch (kaph, cheth) meaning power. it should be le

this grade, which you will now be entitled to wear, is the sash of a practicus, with the addition of a bright green cross above the violet cross and the numbers 4 and 7 within a circle and a square respectively left and right of its summit, and below the number 37, the numbers 27, 28 and 29 in bright green between narrow parallel lines of the same color. this grade is especially referred unto the element of fire and therefore the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. hiero: pract: move to the south. hiero: it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle, or tablet of fire and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 great holy secret names of god oip teea pdoce which ar

cipal emblems. hiero: pract: move to the south. hiero: it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle, or tablet of fire and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 great holy secret names of god oip teea pdoce which are borne upon the banners of the south, and the numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fire. the meaning of the other tablets have been already explained to you. hiero: pract: move to the altar. hiero: the triangle surmounting the cross upon the altar, represents the fire of the spirit surmounting the cross of life and of the waters of eden. you will note that it thus forms the alchemical emblem of sulphur. the red lamps at the angles of the triangles are the three fold f

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

his first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, representing the air element, over the symbol activates the innate power of rushing winds that cut through inertia and bring welcome change, harnessing the energies of wide skies in which there are no limits, soaring like eagles, carrying your wishes to the sun. you can unite other elemental forces by using the appropriate tools and substances. similarly, you might begin a chant, a medley of goddess names or a mantra

you need to ground the energies by sitting or lying on the ground and letting excess energies fade away into the earth as you press down with your hands and feet. the four elements i have mentioned the use of the elements in rituals. in magick, there are four elements- earth, air, fire and water. they all contain symbolic qualities and powers that together form the energies used in rituals. each element controls a quadrant in the magical circle. earth, in the north, represents the stability, security and strength of old stone circles, mighty castle walls, tall craggy rocks and mountain peaks. it is also associated with the time of midnight and winter. salt is often used to represent earth in spells and rituals. air, in the east, is action, freshness and power for change, the winds blowing

nd in summer. candles are used to represent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own element. magick in the southern hemisphere in magick, time and direction have an important place and it is necessary to understand that there may be differences according to which hemisphere of the globe you are working in. in the northern hemisphere, magical circles are cast clockwise, or 'deosil, which means 'in the direction of the sun. in the southern hemisphere, however, practitioners casting

e directions. the altar need not be large but you will need to have room to move all the way round it. many rituals demand that you move in a circle with the altar in the centre, although some place the altar in the north of the circle and you stand to the south, facing north. the central position of the altar/circle represents the realm of spirit, or akasha. akasha is the name given to the fifth element formed by the combination of the four ancient elements of earth, fire, air and water that were considered in classical times to be the components of all life and matter. it is greater than the other four. in formal magic, artefacts and lighted candles are kept on an altar but this is not vital. it is quite possible, even if you are using a communal room in an apartment or house, to leave y

wards so that light from the cosmos can also enter. do this before joining hands if you are creating the circle as a group. in a conventional coven, the high priestess casts and uncasts the circle, but you may prefer to allow the person leading the ritual to cast the magical boundaries. casting a dual circle you can create a dual circle if you wish* first consecrate the salt symbolising the earth element in the north of the altar by stirring it three times with an athame, wand or crystal, and visualise radiance pouring into it* stir the water, also three times deosil with the athame, wand or pointed crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life joins life to create a great

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eof in which they immediately act. therefore also they are at the same time subject to the general current of the force, wherein they live, move, and have their being; though superior to the immediate and particular part of it which they direct. such races, superior to man in intuition, and magical powers; inferior to him in other ways; superior to him in their power in a particular current of an element; inferior to him in only partaking of the nature of that one element; are of necessity to be found constantly recurring in all the mythologies of antiquity. the dwarfs and elves of the scandinavians; the nymphs, hamadryads, and nature spirits of the greeks; the fairies good and bad of the legends dear to our childish days the host of mermaids, satyrs, fauns, sylphs, and fays; the forces in

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sephiroth modified by the letter of the lesser angle. thus kether in the airy, lesser angle is the kether of w. in the watery lesser angle, it is the kether of h, and so on. the letters, in this case, as elsewhere explained, refer to the four worlds. referring to the other squares of the lesser angles, in the kerubic rank the outside square is always attributed to the letter corresponding to the element of the lesser angle. in the tablets of a and c, the name reads right to left in the two upper quarters; in the two lower quarters it reads from left to right. in the tablets of b and d, left to right in the upper, but in the two lower quarters from right to left. thus in the four tablets the name reads: a vhyh (f) yh(f)vh h(f)yhv hvh(f)y c vhyh (f) yh(f)vh h(f)yhv hvh(f)y 15 b vh(f)y

mighty, even as geburah represents strength and fiery power. to tiphareth is the a, lord of the fire of the world, even as tiphareth is, as it were the heart and center of the a of life. 18 the remaining four squares of the sephirotic cross have no planetary or astrological attributions. the ten squares of the sephirotic cross also stand for the ace and small cards of the suit represented by the element of the lesser angle. thus wands are attributed to the d angle, pentacles to the b angle, etc. the kerubic squares are allotted, as their name implies, to the four kerubim whose emblems follow the order of the letters of tetragrammaton: y h lion e eagle h king queen w h (final) man k bull b prince princess these last are of the suit corresponding to the element of the lesser angle as expl

ng the above rules: diagram k: earth angle of water tablet one final set of attributions concerns the tablet of union, which is referred to m. it is employed, as before shown, in binding together the tablets, and in building up angelic names. its attributions are to the four aces of the elements and to the court cards. the aces represent the root force, and the essential spiritual noumenon of the element. the court cards are the vice-gerents of the root force in the element. m a c b d a ace swords prince swords queen swords princess swords king swords c ace cups prince cups queen cups princess cups king cups b ace pentacles prince pentacles queen pentacles princess pentacles king pentacles d ace wands prince wands queen wands princess wands king wands 20 the foregoing methods of attributin

of this will be shown hereafter, but for the moment we must consider the method of producing the sides of these pyramids, and their attributions. with the exception of the tetragrammaton letter, upon which everything else depends, all the other attributions appear and are included in the definition of the nature of the pyramid. each side of the pyramid is colored according to its own appropriate element, or left white for m. it by no means follows, for example, that a square from the airy angle of a will build up a completely yellow pyramid. but every key of attributions diagram m attribution of the 21 great name to the four lesser angles diagram n airy angle of all four tablets has at least one airy side. on a flat surface, the pyramid is represented by dividing the square into four tria

ced. the following will be the standard of reference, so that later should mention be made of triangle no. 2, the following diagram will show its position. diagram o the pyramid is supposed to be in position on the tablet, so that triangle no. 2 points to the top of the tablet. to work out the pyramid of any square completely, it is necessary to know the attributions of the four triangles and the element of each. since every tablet comprises four distinct divisions, each of these must be considered separately as each produces a different type of pyramid. the rules for analyzing the pyramid based on the squares will be concisely put, thus: great cross: triangle no. 1: sign of zodiac, small card of tarot. triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: planet of decan. triangle no. 4: elemental symbol of

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

within forms with its spokes the wheels of ezekiel's vision. and therefore are the cross and the circle white to represent the purity of the divine spirit. inasmuch as we do not find the elements unmixed, but each bound together with each, so that in the a we find not only that which is subtle and tenuous, but also the qualities of heat, moisture, and dryness, bound together in that all wandering element; and further also that in d, c and b we find the same mixture of nature. therefore, the four elements are bound to each kerubic emblem counterchanged with the color of the element wherein they operate; even as in the vision of ezekiel each kerub had four faces and four wings. forget not therefore that the tablets and the \ybwrk are the guardians of the tomb of the adepti. let thy tongue ke

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

s may be developed. in biology the cell divides endlessly, but never becomes anything different; but if we unite cells of opposite qualities, male and female, we lay the foundations of a structure whose summit is unattainably fixed in the heavens of imagination. similar facts occur in chemistry. the atom by itself has few constant qualities, none of them particulary significant; but as soon as an element combines with the object of its hunger we get not only the ecstatic production of light, heat, and so forth, but a more complex structure having few or none of the qualities of its elements, but capable of further combination into complexities of astonishing sublimity. all these combinations, these unions, are yoga (8) yoga means union. how are we to apply this word to the phenomena of min

proton of our atoms, is nothing but yoga and the result of yoga. all we have to do to obtain emancipation, satisfaction, everything we want is to perform this universal and inevitable operation upon the absolute itself. some of the more sophisticated members of my audience may possibly be thinking that there is a catch in it somewhere. they are perfectly right (16) the snag is simply this. every element of which we are composed is indeed constantly occupied in the satisfaction of its particular needs by its own particular yoga; but for that very reason it is completely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the be-all and end-all of its existence. for instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue be

, and saw it was a hippopotamus' everyone who has done any scientific investigation knows painfully how every observation must be corrected again and again. the need of yoga is so bitter that it blinds us. we are constantly tempted to see and hear what we want to see and hear (19) it is therefore incumbent upon us, if we wish to make the universal and final yoga with the absolute, to master every element of our being, to protect it against all civil and external war, to intensify every faculty to the utmost, to train outselves in knowledge and power to the utmost; so that at the proper moment we may be in perfect condition to fling ourselves up into the furnace of ecstasy which flames from the abyss of annihilation. love is the law, love under will (part 2 of 8* yoga for yahoos. second lec

under will (part 2 of 8* yoga for yahoos. second lecture. yama* do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. stars and placental amniotes! and ye inhabitants of the ten thousand worlds! the conclusion of our researches last week was that the ultimate yoga which gives emancipation, which destroys the sense of separateness which is the root of desire, is to be made by the concentration of every element of one's being, and annihilating it by intimate combustion with the universe itself. i might here note, in parenthesis, that one of the difficulties of doing this is that all the elements of the yogi increase in every way exactly as he progresses, and by reason of that progress. however, it is no use crossing our bridges until we come to them, and we shall find that by laying down serious

fool as to think you could dodge the difficulties of research by the aid of a set of conventions which have little or nothing to do with actual conditions. formidable indeed are the obstacles we have created by the simple process of destroying our fetters. the analogy of the conquest of the air holds excellently well. the things that worry the pedestrian worry us not at all; but to control a new element your yama must be that biological principle of adaptation to the new conditions, adjustment of the faculties to those conditions, and consequent success in those conditions, which were enunciated in respect of planetary evolution by herbert spencer and now generalised to cover all modes of being by the law of thelema. but now let me begin to unleash my indignation. my job- the establishmen

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ividual towards the godhead; and the method of such elevation is by religion, love, and art. these three things are indissolubly bound up with wine, for they are species of intoxication. yet against all these things we find the prohibitionist, logically enough. it is true that he usually pretends to admit religion as a proper pursuit for humanity; but what a religion! he has removed from it every element of ecstasy or even of devotion; in his hands it has become cold, fanatical, cruel, and stupid, a thing merciless and formal, without sympathy or humanity. love and art he rejects altogether; for him the only meaning of love is a mechanical--hardly even physiological--process necessary for the perpetuation of the human race (but why perpetuate it) art is for him the parasite and pimp of lov

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

od, with a talisman against the four elements. then i set them one by one upon a narrow and lofty tower, balanced, so that the least breath of wind would blow them off into destruction. those whom the air spared i next threw into nile where most it foams and races. only a few the water gave back again. these, however, did i bury for three days in the earth without sepulchre or coffin, so that the element of earth might combat them. and the rare ones whom earth spared i cast upon a fire of charcoal. now who is prepared for these ordeals (being firstly attuned to the elements) findeth them easy. he remains still, though the tempest rage upon the tower; in the water he floats easily and lightly; buried, he but throws himself into trance; and, lastly, his wrappings protect him against the fire

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

g is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives

feated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that he had a hand in putting together the grimoire of one gerald gardner, founder of a contemporary witchcraft movement, called the book of shadows. the moon has an extremely important, indeed indispensable, role in the tantrick sex magick rites that so preoccupied crowley and the o.t

seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his word is arrababaal and his seal is this: the thirty-eighth name is lugaldurmah the lord of the lofty places, watcher of the skies and all that travels therein. naught traverses the starry element, but that this power is aware. his word is arataagarbal and his seal is this: the thirty-ninth name is aranunna giver of wisdom, counsellor to our father, enki, knower of the magickal covenant and of the laws and of the nature of the gates. his word is aramanngi and his seal is thusly: the fortieth name is dumuduku possessor of the wand of lapis lazuli, knower of the secret name and the se

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elements. the best attribution of elohim is aleph, air; lamed, earth; he, spirit; yod, fire; mem, water. but the order is not good; lamed is not satisfactory for earth, and yod too spiritualised a form of fire (but see book 4, part iii) paragraphs 1-6. out of nothing, nothing is made. the word nihil is taken to affirm that the universe is nothing, and that is now to be analysed. the order of the element is that of jeheshua. the elements are taken rather as in nature; n is easily fire, since mars is the ruler of scorpio: the virginity of i suits air and water, elements which in magick are closely interwoven: h, the letter of of breath, is suitable for spirit; abrahadabra is called the name of spirit, because it is cheth: l is earth, green and fertile, because venus, the greenness, fertilit

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and as its nature is to move continually, it must be understood not as static, but as dynamic, not as a noun but as a verb. 3. develop in due harmony and proportion every faculty which you possess "wisdom says: be strong "but exceed! exceed "be strong, o man, lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any god shall deny thee for this" 4. contemplate your own nature. consider every element thereof both separately and in duty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 relation to all the rest as to judge accurately the true purpose of the totality of your being. 5. find the formula of this purpose, or "true will, in an expression as simple as possible. leave to understand clearly how best to manipulate the energies which you control to obtain the results most favourable to it

of the race being necessary in many respects to your own, that well-being, like your own, principally a function of the intellegent and wise observance of the law of thelema, it is of the very first importance to you that every individual should accept frankly that law, and strictly govern himself in full accordance therewith. you may regard the establishment of the law of thelema as an essential element of your true will, since, whatever the ultimate nature of that will, the evident condition of putting it into execution is freedom from external interference. governments often exhibit the most deplorable stupidity, however enlightened may be the men who compose and constitute them, or the people whose destinies they direct. it is therefore incumbent on every man and woman to take the prop

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or these trilateral names. the symbolic representation of the universe 14 the following rules explain how the sides of the pyramids of which the squares are formed are attributed to the sephiroth, planets, elements and zodiacal signs.11 1. great central cross. this has 36 squares, for the decantes of the zodiac. on the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases

ilii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to right. the upper sides of the pyramids are all attributed to the element of spirit, the lower sides to the element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. 2. calvary crosses. each has 10 squares. the upper sides of the pyramids are uniformly given to spirit, the lower sides to the sephiroth, in the order shewn.13 the left-hand sides are attributed to the element of the tablet, the rig

wer sides to the element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. 2. calvary crosses. each has 10 squares. the upper sides of the pyramids are uniformly given to spirit, the lower sides to the sephiroth, in the order shewn.13 the left-hand sides are attributed to the element of the tablet, the right-hand sides to the sub-element of the lesser angle.14 3. kerubic squares. the upper sides pertain to the element of the tablet, the lower sides to the subelement. right- and left-hand sides in this case correspond, according to a somewhat complex rule which it is unnecessary to give here.15 the attributions to the court cards of the tarot naturally follow.16 4. lesser squares. the upper side of each pyramid is governed

on the file above it. the lower side is governed by the kerub also, but in order descending as the are from right to left above [see angle of air of water; the kerubs go earth, fire, water, air (from the square marked d, the fifth from the left in the top rank of the tablet, and downward the lower sides of the squares marked o, d, e, z go earth, fire, water, air] the left-hand side refers to the element of the tablet, the right-hand side to the sub-element of the lesser angle.17 5. the black cross or central tablet. the upper and lower sides are equally attributed to spirit. the left-hand sides to the element of the file, in this order from left to right: spirit, air, water, earth, fire. the right-hand sides to the element of the rank in this order: air, water, earth, fire. liber lxxxiv 1

ablet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the vau

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ation very shortly. one must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt "who" one is "what" one is "why" one is. this done, one may put the will which is implicit in the "why" into words, or rather into one word. being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. after that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions. let us make an analogy. a nation must become aware of its own character before it can be said to exist. from that knowledge it must divine its destiny. it must then consider the political conditions of the world; how other countries may help it or hinder it. it mu

yourself: positive, as the first method is negative. it is the pottingout and watering of a particular flower in the garden, and the exposure of it to the sun. in the third, identity is attained by sympathy. it is very difficult for the ordinary man to lose himself completely in the subject of a play or of a novel; but for those who can do so, this method is unquestionably the best. observe: each element in this cycle is of equal value. it is wrong to say triumphantly "mors janua vitae, unless you add, with equal triumph "vita janua mortis. to one who understands this chain of the aeons from the point of view alike of the sorrowing isis and of the triumphant osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer apophis, there remains no secret veiled in nature. he cries that name of god which

ings by the mere rearrangement of them. one 26 must not rely upon the false analogy of the xylenes to rebut this argument. it is quite true that geometrical isomers act in different manners towards the substance to which they are brought into relation. and it is of course necessary sometimes to rearrange the elements of a molecule before that molecule can form either the masculine or the feminine element in a true magical combination with some other molecule. it is therefore occasionally inevitable for a magician to reorganize the structure of certain elements before proceeding to his operation proper. although such work is technically witchcraft, it must not be regarded as undesirable on that ground, for all operations which do not transmute matter fall strictly speaking under this headin

in literature which can be put in the same class. the point is this: in a single sentence is combined sublimity and enthusiasm with sneering bitterness, scepticism, grossness and scorn. it is evidently the supreme enjoyment to strike a chord composed of as many conflicting elements as possible. the pleasure seems to be derived from gratifying the sense of power, the power to compel every possible element of thought to contribute to the spasm. if the theory of reincarnation were generally accepted, the above considerations would make out a strong case. frater perdurabo was quite convinced in one part of his mind of this identity, long before he got any actual memories as such<
the past, the evidence of its truth is cumulative. every incarnation that we remember must increase 58 our comprehension of ourselves as we are. each accession of knowledge must indicate with unmistakable accuracy the solution of some enigma which is propounded by the sphynx of our own unknown birth-city, thebes. the complicated situation in which we find ourselves is composed of elements; and no element of it came out of nothing. newton's first law applies to every plane of thought. the theory of evolution is omniform. there is a reason for one's predisposition to gout, or the shape of one's ear, in the past. the symbolism may change; the facts do not. in one form or another, everything that exists is derived from some previous manifestation. have it, if you will, that the memories of oth

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

n after affiliation, you would not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to work in cooperation with them. i am afraid you have still got the idea that the great work is a tea-party. contact with other students only means that you criticize their hats, and then their morals; and i am not going to encourage this. your work is not anybody else's; and undirected chatter is the worst poisonous element in human society. when you talk of the "actual record" of the "being called jesus christ" i don't know what you mean. i am not aware of the existence of any such remagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 cord. i know a great many legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character. 9 it would be better for you to get a copy of the equinox of the god

. to magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 78 remind you, and to amplify certain points of the above, let me quote from magick pp. 152-3 footnote 2 "all elements must at one time have been separate- that would be the case with great heat. now when atoms get to the sun, we get that immense extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination. by the way, that atom (fortified with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; thus a real development is possible. one can then see a reason for any e

get any book for free on: www.abika.com 140 as you will have gathered from the above, a talisman is a much more restricted idea; it is no more than one of the objects in his pantacle, one of the arrows in the quiver of his lamen. as, then, you would expect, it is very little trouble to design. all that you need is to "make considerations' about your proposed operation, decide which planet, sign, element or sub-element or what not you need to accomplish your miracle. as you know, a very great many desirable objects can be attained by the use of the talismans in the greater and lesser keys of solomon the king; also in pietro di abano and the dubious fourth book of cornelius agrippa. you must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin the mage

o write them out from his own ingenium. yes! this is weakness on my part, and i am very naughty to encourage you to shirk the hardest path. i used often to make the background of my talismans of four concentric circles, painting then, the first (inmost) in the king (or knight) scale, the second in the queen, the third in the prince, and the outermost in the princess scale, of the sign, planet, or element to which i was devoting it. on this, preferably in the "flashing" colours, i would paint the appropriate names and figures. lastly, the talisman may be surrounded with a band inscribed with a suitable "versicle" chosen from some holy book, or devised by the magician to suit the case. in the british museum (and i suppose elsewhere) you may see the medal struck to commemorate the victory ove

inating or spell binding, often to one's harm; a mysterious, irresistible, alluring influence (personally, i have always used, or heard, it much less seriously "attractive" hardly more. skeat, surprisingly, is almost dumb: p. part. of "to enchant" and "from l. fascinum, a spell" yes, surprisingly; for the word is one of the many that means the phallus. the implication is that there is some sexual element in the exciting and alluring quality, which lifts it altogether above mere "pleasing" to my mind the implication is that there is some quality inherent which is cognate to that too totally irrational quasimagnetic force which has been responsible not only for innumerable personal tragedies- and comedies- but for the fall of dynasties and even the wreck of empires "christ" is reported as ha

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s and the works of congreve. and the context makes this even clearer, for he sits in a corner, that is in the place of christ, the corner stone, eating, that is, enjoying, that which the birth of christ assures to us. he is the comforter who replaces the absent saviour. if there was still any doubt of his identity it would be cleared up by the fact that it is the thumb, which is attributed to the element of spirit, and not one of the four fingers of the four lesser elements, which he sticks into the pie of the new dispensation. he plucks forth one who is ripe, no doubt to send him forth as a teacher into the world, and rejoices that he is so well carrying out the will of the father. let us pass from this most blessed subject to yet another. tom, tom, the piper's son, stole a pig and away h

indeed the toil of ascending from avernus, and escaping to the upper air. in order to do it, it is most necessary to understand our tendencies, and to will the development of one, the destruction of another. and though all elements in the pantacle must ultimately be destroyed, yet some will help us directly to reach a position from which this task of destruction becomes possible; and there is no element therein which may not be occasionally helpful. and so- beware! select! select! select! this pantacle is an infinite storehouse; things will always be there when we want them. we may see to it occasionally that they are dusted and the moth kept out, but we shall usually be too busy to do much more. remember that in travelling from the earth to the stars, one dare not be encumbered with too

ongues of flame, and its value is 300> its cup is a hemisphere, and supported from its edge is a plate pierced with holes. this censer is of silver or gold, because there were called the perfect metals; it is upon perfection that the imperfect is burned. upon this plate burns a great fire of charcoal, impregnated with nitre. this charcoal is (as chemists now begin to surmise) the ultimate protean element: absolutely black, because it absorbs all light; infusible by the application of any known heat; the lightest of those elements which occur in the solid state in nature; the essential constituent of all known forms of life. it has been treated with nitre, whose potassium has the violet flame of jupiter, the father of all, whose nitrogen is that inert element which by proper combination bec

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of all beings appear in forms congruous with the nature of necessity. the tao is also the way- in the following sense. nothing exists except as a relation with other similarly postulated ideas. nothing can be known in itself, but only as one of the participants in a series of events. reality is therefore in the motion, not in the things moved. we cannot apprehend anything except as one postulated element of an observed impression of change. we may express this in other terms as follows. our knowledge of anything is in reality the sum of our observations of its successive movements, that is to say, of its path from event to event. in this sense the tao may be translated as the way. it is not a thing in itself in the sense of being an object susceptible of apprehension by sense or mind. it i

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ted men and women, taking various parts of the brain, especially the cerebellum, the pineal gland, and the pituitary body, and cul tivated them in solutions of zro under the invisible rays of black phosphorus. the best results of this work was a race of translucent jelly-folk of great intellectual development; but so far from being able to travel through space, they could hardly move in their own element. another school argued that as zro in vapour combined the virtues of the liquid and the solid zro, so a fiery state might be produced which would so impregnate their bodies as to make them 'mates of the aether. this school held that fiery zro already existed in nature "in the heart of the living atla, and asserted that those who died by absorption into atla passed straight to venus. many o

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'unveiling' is the assertion of the independent godhead of every man and every woman! further, as khabs (see verse 8) is "star, there is a further meaning; this book is to reveal the secret self of a man, i.e. to initiate him. al i,3 "every man and every woman is a star" the new comment this thesis is fully treated in "the book of wisdom or folly. its main statement is that each human being is an element of the cosmos, self-determined and supreme, co-equal with all other gods. from this the law "do what thou wilt" follows logically. one star influences another by attraction, of course; but these are incidents of self-predestined orbits. there is, however, a mystery of the planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts; but i shall not discuss it fully in this place. man is the midd

mon sense. i here quote (with one or two elucidatory insertions) the original note originally made by me on this subject. may 14, 1919, 6.30 p.m. all elements must at one time have been separate- that would be the case with great heat. now when atoms get to the sun, when we get to the sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination. by the way, that atom, fortified with that memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. therefore, by the lapse of time and by virtue of memory, a thing (although originally an infinite perfection) could become something more than itself; and thus a real development

res in combination. by the way, that atom, fortified with that memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. therefore, by the lapse of time and by virtue of memory, a thing (although originally an infinite perfection) could become something more than itself; and thus a real development is possible. one can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations (god, that was a magnificent conception) because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory of his own reality of perfection which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. therefore you have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and ut

of such apparently comprehensible and commonplace entities as integers. there is only one conclusion to be drawn from these various considerations. it is that the nature of every number is a thing peculiar to itself, a thing inscrutable and infinite, a thing inexpressible, even if we could understand it. in other words, a number is a soul, in the proper sense of the term, an unique and necessary element in the totality of existence. we may not turn to the second phrase of the text "there is no difference. it must strike the student immediately that this is, on the face of it, a point blank contradiction of all that has been said above. what have we done but insist upon the essential difference between any tow numbers, and show that even their sequential relation is little more than arbitr

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 the "element (in the old classification 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

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future plans of poet. jesus dismissed with a jest. the jest. that worthy yankee millionaire, and wealthy nephews, young and fair, 745 the pleasing crawfords! lost! lost! lost !78 the holy spirit, friend! beware! ah! ten days yet to pentecost! come that, i promise you but stay! at present tis ascension day! 750 at least your faith should be content. i quarrel not with this event. the supernatural element? i deny nothing at the term it is just nothing i affirm. 755 the fool (with whom is wisdom, deem the scriptures rightly) in his heart saith (silent, to himself, apart) this secret \yhla ya 79 see the good psalm! and thus, my friend! 760 my diatribes approach the end and find us hardly quarelling. and yet you seem not satisfied? the literal mistranslated thing must not by sinners be denied

s none (i think) before me ever loved. 225 you know i scorn the fear of hell, by worship and all else unmoved pentecost 31 recapitulation of principal cosmic theories. bard checkmates himself. consciousness and christianity. dhyana and hinduism. sammasamadhi and buddhism. you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, 230 save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, 235 but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. 240 this matters to the present action little or nothing. here s your theories! think if you like: i fin

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wardly, while the inner state is our very experience itself; its reality and that of our experience are one. a conscious field "plus" its object as felt or thought of "plus" an attitude towards the object "plus" the sense of a self to whom the attitude belongs- such a concrete bit of personal experience may be a small bit, but it is a solid bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere abstract element of experience, such as the 'object' is when taken all alone. it is a "full" fact, even though it be an insignificant fact; it is of the "kind" to which all realities whatsoever must belong; the motor currents of the world run through the like of it; it is on the line connecting real events with real events. that unshareable feeling which each one of us has of the pinch of his individual de

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abnormal psychology. by isador h. coriat, m.d "stage fright is also a condition of pathological fear" to such a degree of absurdity can specialization bring an unbalanced mind. fear is only pathological when it has no reasonable basis. this is enough to show the worthlessness of this ill-written book. it is amusing to find the author quoting mrs. verral as conclusive proof against any supernormal element in automatic writing, while mr. hill quotes the same experiments as conclusive proof for it. but mr. hill is a student of science; dr. coriat a flatulent gastrologian. eric tait. man- king of mind, body, and circumstance. by james allen. the important disclosures of this unpretentious volume mark a new epoch in human thought. good is better than evil. bad habits should be broken. health is

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ually in the exterior world; nothing less than giants and paynim and men-at-arms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. in this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. it became probable that the elements were but isomers of one element; matter was seen to be but a modification of mind, or (at least) that the two things matter and mind must be joined before either could be perceived. all knowledge comes through the senses, on the one hand; on the other, it is only through the senses that knowledge comes. we then continue our conquest of matter; and we are getting pretty expert. it took much longer to perfect the telescope

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g. d. in the outer to the 5 =6, associate adept speaking "before you upon the altar is the diagram of the sephiroth and paths with which you are already well acquainted, having marked thereon the grade of the order corresponding to each sephira, and the tarot trumps appropriated to each path "you will further note that the first order includes: malkuth, answering to neophyte and zelator, and the element of earth. yesod to theoricus and air. hod to practicus and water. and netzach to philosophus and fire "of these the last three grades alone communicate with the second order, though cut off from it by a veil which may 242 illustration goes here. this is a tree of life with the sephiroth as circles, containing the information noted below on this approximation. the paths are straight lines

" the plan of the temple as arranged in this grade is shown on the adjoining diagram; therein it will be seen that it contains two pillars or obelisks. these two pillars, which are respectively in netzach and hod, need careful explanation. they represent mercy and severity, the former being white and in netzach, the latter black and in hod. their bases are cubical and black to represent the earth element in malkuth; the columns are respectively white and black to manifest eternal balance of the scales of justice. 245 4 hb:yod stands for chokmah, and hb:heh for binah, hb:vau for the rest except malkuth which is the final h. 5 father and (glorified) mother. 6 the theosophical term "higher self" is usually termed in the g. d "genius" abramelin calls it "holy guardian angel "vide" preface. 7 t

ary visions, which we shall enter upon in due course. suffice it to say that by december he had passed the easy examination necessary before he could present himself as a candidate for the 1= 10 grade of zelator. 261 ritual of the 1= 10 grade of zelator1 the opening in this ritual is very similar to that in the last; the chief exception being that this grade is more particularly attributed to the element of "earth. the temple having been declared open, the "hierophant" says "except adonai build the house their labour is but lost that build it. except adonai keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain! frater neophyte, by what aid do you seek admission to the 1 =10 grade of zelator of the g. d" illustration on page 262 approximated below: 1 the following five rituals are considerably abr

the three above-mentioned paths connecting malkuth with the above sephiroth, while the cross is the hidden wisdom of the divine nature which can be obtained by their aid. the two construed mean: life in light" illustration, approximated below: diagram 12. the flaming sword. illustration: approximated below\ diagram 13. the altar symbol in the 1= 10 ritual "this grade is especially referred to the element earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch-tower on the terrestrial tablet of the north. you will observe that the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfat. is formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty- five lesser squares. 263 these seventeen squares represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs. in this grade the lamps on the pil

e temple closed. by the end of january 1899, p. was sufficiently advanced to be admitted to the grade of theoricus. it was about this time also that he met mr. d, a certain brother of the g. d. known as fra. i.a. this meeting, as we shall eventually see, ranks only second in importance to his meeting with fra. v.n. ritual of the 2= 9 grade of theoricus this grade is particularly attributed to the element of air; it refers to the moon, and is attached to the thirty-second path of tau, which alludes to the universe as composed of the four elements, to the kerubim, the qliphoth, the astral plane, and the reflection of the sphere of saturn. after this has been explained, the advancement of the zelator takes place, after which the ritual of the thirty-second path is celebrated "hierophant" to z

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n many ways, so that at least there may be found one acceptable to each seeker who is open to conviction. i 1. we perceive in the sensible world, sorrow. ultimately that is; we admit the existence of a problem requiring solution. 2. we accept the proofs of hume, kant, herbert spencer, fuller, and others of this thesis: the ratiocinative faculty or reason of man contains in its essential nature an element of self-contradiction. 3. following on this, we say: if any resolution there be of these two problems, the vanity of life and the vanity of thought, it must be in the attainment of a consciousness which transcends both of 3 them. let us call this supernormal consciousness, or, for want of a better name "spiritual experience" 4. faith has been proposed as a remedy. but we perceive many inco

i k' s equilibrium of passives i\ h n# i name a g l a (agla. g/ n/ g* the signs of the portal("see" illustrations: extend the hands in front of you, palms outwards, separate them as if in the act of rending asunder a veil or curtain (actives, and then bring them together as if closing it up again and let them fall to the side (passives (the grade of the "portal" is particularly attributed to the element of spirit; it refers to the sun; the paths of samekh, nun and ayin, are attributed to this degree<magick in theory and practice, crowley gives by mistake instead: samekh, resh and tzaddi> see "777" lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: a l h i m v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g 20 the signs of 4 degree= 7 square: raise the arms above the head and

ad: samekh, resh and tzaddi> see "777" lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: a l h i m v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g 20 the signs of 4 degree= 7 square: raise the arms above the head and join the hands, so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle("see" illustration (the grade of 4 degree= 7 square is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of qof, tzaddi and peh are attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777" lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: a l (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3 degree= 8 square: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tip

77" lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: a l (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3 degree= 8 square: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards("see" illustration (the grade of 3 degree= 8 square is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of resh and shin are attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: i h v h o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2 degree= 9 square: stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if

or other attributions "see "777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: i h v h o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2 degree= 9 square: stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight("see" illustration. 21 (the grade of 2 degree= 9 square is particularly attributed to the element air; it refers to the moon; the path of taw is attributed to this degree. for other attributions "see "777" lines 9 and 11. the pentagrams of earth i' b n\ a v\ n o- i name: a d n i (adonai. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the sign of 1 degree= 10 square: advance the right foot, stretch out the right hand upwards and forwards, the left hand downwards and backwards, the palms open (the grade of 1 degr

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d knoweth it not. he riseth not yet glorified, but as still upon the cross. themis now takes the cup, or lotus, and dagger, or cross, and the death symbol is dipped in the resurrection symbol, and the marks of lvx are again imprinted on him, as if to seal the prayer of the second adept. the postulant now takes the rose cross and lifts it (as before for symbolism. note also that this is the fourth element in the consecration (four pillars &c, in 0= 0 ritual. he then upholdeth the rose cross as if that were the object of his accepting the chain. and now, having gained the right to take his ruach with him in the darkness, he may demand the opening of the pastos. the altar is moved "new heavens and new earth &c. the pastos lid also "osiris no longer divided into glory and suffering, but centra

in himself the first letter of the name of god, the virgin impregnated by the one idea_ the vision of adonai incarnated in her son. illumined by this one supreme longing which had burnt up his coarser desires, he passed through the next ritual to 234 the illusive foundation of yesod, which in its apparent equilibrium contains a falsified reflection of the supreme path of the fool. for, though its element is air, it is not the aethyr of zero, the breath of equilibrium, any more than air as a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen is the ether of space. from yesod he could look back upon malkuth and be filled with an intense pity for all who still cling to its illusive splendour; so also could he look up towards kether (kether in yesod, though he knew it not, and burn with a joy not unmingled with s

d holding verendum, by path of hb:taw or malkuth""the potent exorcism" come unto me, o shroud of darkness and of night. i conjure ye, o particles of darkness, that ye enfold me, as a guard and shroud of utter silence and of mystery. in the name ahih and by the name ahih! in the name agla and by the name agla! in the name exarp and by the name exarp! in the name hcoma and by the name hcoma! 74 the element of spirit. 75 the names on the tablet of spirit. 76 the tablet of spirit. in the name nanta and by the name nanta! in the name bitom and by the name bitom! in the name tetragrammaton elohim and by the name tetragrammaton elohim! in the name hoor-po-krat-ist and by the name hoor-po-krat-ist! by your deep purple darkness! by my white brilliant light! i invoke ye: i conjure ye: i exorcise ye

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egs instruction. inspired by his angel, he demands the doctrine of being rapt away into the knowledge and conversation of him. the master discloses the doctrine of passive attention or waiting. this seeming hard to the pupil, it is explained further, and the method of resignation, constancy, and patience inculcated. the paradox of equilibrium. the necessity of giving oneself wholly up the the new element. egoism rebuked. the master, to illustrate this destruction of the ego, describes the visions of dhyana. he further describes the defence of the soul against assailing thoughts, and shows that the duality of consciousness is a blasphemy against the unity of god; so that even the thought called god is a denial of god-as-he-is-in- himself. the pupil sees nothing but a blank midnight in this

empty thyself; the ghosts of night flee before the living light. who clutches straws is drowned; but he that hath the secret of the sea, lives with the whole lust of his limbs, 17 takes hold of water's self, and swims. see, the ungainly albatross stumbles awkwardly across earth_ one wing-beat, and he flies most graceful gallant in the skies! so do thou leave thy thoughts, intent on thy new noble element! throw the earth shackles off, and cling to what imperishable thing arises from the married death of thine own self in that whereon thou art fixed. olympas. then all life's loyal breath is a waste wind. all joy forgone, i must strive ever? marsyas. cease to strive! destroy this partial i, this moan of an hurt beast! sores keep alive by scratching. health is peace. unknown and unexpressed b

only cry the shriek of its last agony! olympas. surely it struggles. marsyas. bitterly! and, mark! it must be strong to die! the weak and partial reason dips one edge, another springs, as when a melting iceberg reels and tips under the sun. be mighty then, a lord of thought, beyond wit and wonder balanced_ then push the whole mind under, sunk beyond chance of floating, blent rightly with its own element, not lifting jagged peaks and bare to the unsympathetic air! this is the second veil; and hence as first we slew the things of sense upon the altar of their god, so must the second period slay the ideas, to attain to that which is, beyond the brain. olympas. to that which is_ not thought? not sense? marsyas. knowledge is but experience made conscious of itself. the bee, 29 past master of g

astenest on this soul of mine, that it is gone, gone from all life, and rapt away into the infinite starry spray of thine own aeon. alas for me! 46 i faint. thy mystic majesty absorbs this spark. olympas. all hail! all hail! white splendour through the viewless veil! i am drawn with thee to rapture. olympas. stay! i bear a message. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again, though, blazing through each nerve and vein, the light yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god's. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble l

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ug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. with me this was never the case. opium and liquors fix themselves as a habit be becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. the lassitude which succeeds their exaltation demands a renewed indulgence, and accordingly every gratification of the appetite is parent to the next. but no such element entered into the causes which attached me to hasheesh. i speak confidently, yet without exaggeration, when i say that i have spent many an hour in torture such as was never known by cranmer at the stake, or gaudentio di lucca in the inquisition, yet out of the depths of such experience "i" have always come without a trace of its effect in diminished strength or buoyancy. had the first expe

h nor became silent, for the door was violently shaken from the outside "come in" he said. the door was pushed open, then shut again, but no one had entered. the disciples exchange a glance of amusement; one of them said "has a lady entered" they were all made merry by that exhibition of neptunian spirit of apropos. but elph nor pistouillat, like the french southerner he was, missed the courteous element in life, and began to curse the twelve young men. he was a bad-tempered man, and a very theatrical one. he rose and walked to him who had caused them all to laugh "i know you, sir" elph nor said, purple in the face "i know you, unwholesome monkey. your father was a dealer in pork sausages and cooked ham, a trader in swine. nothing better could be expected from you than your pig- like groan

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made use of in the yoga shastras and in the vedanta. the union of kundalini (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" t

cult prac- tice, as isis behaved like a living 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 morni

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hile on the other was a sombre and fantastic lamp, whose fascination was its horror. if i swam lazily towards either of these, it was because their light, confused and difficult on the one part, and tenebrous on the other, was yet light in comparison with that aimless and abiding gloom which had now settled upon the bosom of 55 the river. and these lamps were above the river, children of a nobler element. and in the river is the great leviathan that devours men. but before i had come within the sphere of attraction of either of these, suddenly mine eyes were gladdened with a marvellous vision. infinitely far off, as it seemed, a ray of sunlight shot through the saturnine gloom of the skies, and lit the surface of the water. and then i perceived that upon the river there floated, within tha

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

on of horus, air god and lord of the west, keeper and guardian of the intestines, with the disturbance of the air with. this music descend from thy cardinal point, purify and sanctify the area of this holy sanctum. lord duamutef, royal son of horus, pire god and lord of the east, keeper and guardian ofthe stomach, with the burning of the ritual fire before the great mother isis, the all-consuming element, sanctify and purify this.sanctum from all.violations. lord imset, royal son of horus, water god and lord of the south, keeper and guardian of th liver, with the sprinkling of this. sacred water sanctify. and .deanse this holy.sanctum of all its impurities and the vanities of men. cladinwhiterobes which opened down the front, andwith feetbare. they burnt kyphi--incense--during the rites. o

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

n ancient call great god cernunnos invocation esbat cone of power wine blessing cake blessing ritual elements invocation to the horned god besom chant welcome to the public domain version of the alexandrian book of shadows compiled by sekhet sophia. layout& html by atho sabbats yule candlemas vernal equinox beltane midsummer lammas michaelmas (fall equinox) hallowmass various notes notes on earth element notes on water element notes on fire element notes on air element witches' wheel ways of making magic power properly prepared the meeting dance of calls the cone of power of the ordeal to get the sight to leave the body the working tools making tools to make anointing ointment various instructions the witches' round the laws the old law 1. the law was made and ordained of old. 2. the law w

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

kers the "not-self" or that which is objective to each one of us. as we all know, the work of the chemist is to reduce all known substances to their very simplest elements, and it was thought not long ago that this had been satisfactorily accomplished. the conclusions of the chemist placed the number of the known elements between seventy and eighty. about twenty years ago, however (in 1898, a new element was discovered which was called radium, and this discovery entirely revolutionised the world's thought about matter and substance. if you will go to the textbooks of the last century, or search the old dictionaries, seeking for the definition of the atom, for instance, you will usually find newton quoted. he defined the atom as "a hard, indivisible, ultimate particle" a something which was

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

in idle plaints and sorrowful demonstration, but lifting up the burden of the world; working, and wasting no energy in talk. yet withal he should speak where encouragement is needed, using the tongue for constructive ends; expressing the love force of the world, as it may flow through him, where it will serve best to ease a load or lift a burden, remembering that as the race progresses, the love element between the sexes and its- 43- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust expression will be translated to a higher plane. then, through the spoken word, and not through the physical plane expression as now, will come the realisation of that true love which unites those who are one in service and in aspiration. then love between the units of the human family will take the form

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

n; an astral form, a second aspect; and a physical form, the third aspect. the mental vibration sets the key measure and seeks to utilise and co-ordinate the physical body at will. it deals with or links up the consciousness to the three forms in one direction; it repulses and causes separation in another. the astral vibration deals with the quality, with the attractive measure. it is the psychic element. the physical is the meeting ground of consciousness with the material form. this last is the result produced by the union of the key measure and the quality of tone. b. seven centres of force which hold the three forms in one coherent whole, and cause their vitalisation and their co-ordination. they put the triple unit into correlation with their main centre of consciousness on the higher

erein lies the clue; all the objective display we see around us in connection with the heavenly men, and with the cells of their bodies, lies hidden in this. herein may be found the mystery of the five kumaras, who are awaiting the final resolution, and herein is secreted the knowledge of divine alchemy, which is based on the five elements, and is concerned with their transformation into a primal element through the medium of an intermediate stage. 1. in the planets. occult students need, in considering these points, to remember very clearly the distinction between transmutation and the final resolution; between the process of transforming the five elements, esoterically understood, and the final resolution of the transmuted essences into their synthesis. this has a vital bearing upon our

ernal potency) burns up its sheaths, and escapes by radiation from within its ring-pass-not. this is seen in an interesting way as occurring during the process of the final initiations when the causal body is destroyed by fire. the fire within burns up all else and the electric fire escapes. the true alchemist therefore in days to come will in every case seek to stimulate the radioactivity of the element or atom with which he is working and will centre his attention upon the positive nucleus. by increasing its vibration, its activity, or its positivity, he will bring about the desired end. the masters do this in connection with the human spirit and do not concern themselves at all with his 'deva' aspect. the same basic rule will be found to apply in the case of a mineral as well as of a ma

self in a veil of negative substance. these two factors in turn will be regarded as emanations from a still greater force centre, which is expressing purpose through them both. a thought form, as constructed by man, is the union of a positive emanation and a negative. these two are the emanations of a unity, the coherent thinker. c. to carry out specific purpose. we touch here upon the most vital element in the building of thoughtforms. in our first point we touched upon the aspect of consciousness, or "response to sensation, or feeling" and thus brought into our study of the building process the second aspect logoic, that of the ego, or the realisation of essential duality. in our second point the more objective aspect was somewhat elaborated, and the tangible form dealt with, thus bringi

density and concretion on the three lower levels are brought about. c. the formulas for organic transmutation, or the key to the processes whereby the elements as we know them can be disintegrated and recombined. only when scientists are prepared to admit the fact that there is a body of vitality which acts as a focal point in every organised form, and only when they are willing to consider each element and form of every degree as constituting part of a still greater vital body, will the true methods of the great goddess nature become their methods. to do this they must be prepared to accept the sevenfold differentiation of the physical plane as stated by eastern occultism, to recognise the triple nature of the septenary manifestation. a. the atomic or shiva energy, the energy of the firs

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

the form; but within that gross form is a subtler one which we can only contact through acute perception or clarified sense. in the commentary found in woods' translation the following words may serve to elucidate, and, if meditated upon by the more advanced students, will be found to be of profound occult significance. the atom of earth is produced by the five fire elements, among which the fire element of odour predominates. likewise the atom of water is produced from the four fire elements among which the fire element of taste predominates. likewise the atom of fire is produced from the three fire elements, excluding the fire element of odour and of taste, and among which the fire element of colour predominates. likewise the atom of wind is produced from the two fire elements beginning

se the atom of water is produced from the four fire elements among which the fire element of taste predominates. likewise the atom of fire is produced from the three fire elements, excluding the fire element of odour and of taste, and among which the fire element of colour predominates. likewise the atom of wind is produced from the two fire elements beginning with odour and of which two the fire element of touch predominates. likewise the atom of air from the fire element sound alone" if this idea is extended to the macrocosm, we will find that we can meditate upon the external form of god in nature both with and without judicial action of the mind. then, experience in meditation having been gained, and by an act of the will, the student can meditate on the subtle subjective nature of god

psychical state, just as the mind picture of a stage with the actors on it, is a psychical state or field. when the pure vision, as of the poet, the philosopher, the saint, fills the whole field, all lesser views and visions are crowded out. this high consciousness displaces all lesser consciousness. yet, in a certain sense, that which is viewed as part, even by the vision of a sage, has still an element of illusion, a thin psychical veil, however pure and luminous that veil may be. it is the last and highest psychic state" 51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the great teacher patanjali, having led us through the various stages of the expanding consciousness, from "seeded" meditation to that in which the senses and the

hese are six in number and concern that which lies back of the specific; they deal with that which is subjective and intangible, and with the force display which produces the specific forms. technically these are called in the hindu books the tanmatras. they have to do with consciousness more than form and are the "special modifications of buddhi or consciousness (ganganatha jha. they are: i. the element of hearing, or that which produces the ear, the rudiment of hearing, 2. the element of touch or that which produces the mechanism of touch, the skin, etc, the rudiment of touch, 3. the element of sight, or that which produces the eye, 4. the element of taste, or that which produces the mechanism of taste. 5. the element of smell, or that which produces the mechanism of smell. back of these

lly in the next book, but it is well to point out here that this quality of "going forth" towards the ideal or of straining towards the objective must be so profound in the aspirant to yoga that no difficulties can turn him back. only when this quality- 106- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust has been developed and proved and when it is found that no problem, no darkness and no time element can hinder, is a man permitted to become the disciple of some master. fiery effort, steady persistent longing and enduring faithfulness to the ideal visioned are the sine qua non of discipleship. these characteristics must be found in all three bodies, leading to the constant disciplining of the physical vehicle, the steady orientation of the emotional nature and the mental attitude which

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

mind standardized and held down by our mass system and by the method of cramming the memory with ill digested facts? if herbart is right when he says that the "chief business of education is the ethical revelation of the universe" then perhaps dr. moran is also right when he points out that "one of the underlying causes, perhaps the greatest, of our materialistic age is the lack of the spiritual element in our formal education" some of us feel also that there exists an even wider goal than an ethical revelation; and that it is possible that humanity is the custodian of an illumination and a glory which will only be realized in its fulness when the masses achieve some of the magnificence which has characterized the world figures of the past. is it not in line with evolutionary development

that of a growing consciousness in man of a universe which is a revelation of a life and of deity, and in which mankind plays its part in the greater whole. ludwig fischer calls our attention to the fact that all our faculties "are founded on the mysterious and unconscious something which dominates the whole of our intellectual life" and points out the necessity for what he calls the non-rational element in the answers which we give to the complex questions of every day. his conclusions as to the basic situation which man has to face in connection with thought and our progress into higher and non-rational realms are true and forceful. he says- 54- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust "one way of advancing only is possible. the way is led by the intuition of minds of a mor

clarity of that which has been experienced. then a fresh cycle of devotion and discipline is initiated, until again the vision is seen and the beloved contacted anew. from certain angles the self-centeredness of the western mystic is notable, and his failure to use the intellect most remarkable. we must except, however, such mystics as boehme, ruysbroeck, or meister eckhart, in whose writings the element of the intellect is strongly stressed, and the quality of knowledge most apparent. note what meister eckhart himself says "there is one power in the soul: intellect, of prime importance to the soul for making her aware of, for detecting, god..the soundest arguments expressly state (what is the truth) that the kernel of eternal life lies rather in knowledge than in love..the soul is not dep

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

oncern itself with the unfoldment of that soul and its discovery by man. 5. knowledge might be divided into three categories: first, there is theoretical knowledge. this includes all knowledge of which man is aware but which is accepted by him on the statements of other people, and by the specialists in the various branches of knowledge. it is founded on authoritative statements and has in it the element of trust in the writers and speakers, and in the trained intelligences of the workers in any of the many and varied fields of thought. the truths accepted as such have not been formulated or verified by the one who accepts them, lacking as he does the necessary training and equipment. the dicta of science, the theologies of religion, and the findings of the philosophers and thinkers everyw

of the astronomer, which- 21- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust produces the undeniable intelligent activity which all demonstrate. it can be called attractive energy, coherency, sentiency, aliveness, awareness or consciousness, but perhaps the most illuminating term is that the soul is the quality which every form manifests. it is that subtle something which distinguishes one element from another, one mineral from another. it is the intangible essential nature of the form which in the vegetable kingdom determines whether a rose or a cauliflower, an elm or a watercress shall come into being; it is a type of energy which distinguishes the varying species of the animal kingdom and makes one man different from another in his appearance, nature and character. the scientist

a symbolism underlies this: for as the blood is oxygenated so is the life of the man in the three worlds permeated by spiritual energy. b. there is the imposition of a peculiar rhythm, brought about by the particular spacing and time limit of the breaths inhalation, retention, and exhalation and this will vary according to the counts. c. there is a subtle effect of prana (which is the subjective element underlying the air breathed in and out) which affects most potently the body of prana, the vital or etheric body. students should remember that subtle effects are more powerful than the physical effects. they produce results in two directions; on the physical body and on the etheric body. the entire vital body assumes a- 122- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust particular

magical work in the outer world. it might therefore be said that there are three stages in the form-making process. first, the soul or spiritual man, centered in the soul consciousness and functioning in "the secret place of the most high, visualizes the work to be done. this is not a sequential act, but the finished completed work of magic is visioned by a process that does not involve the time element or spatial concepts at all. secondly, the mind responds to the soul (calling attention to the work to be performed- 146- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust and is swept into thought-form making activity by this impression. according to the lucidity and illumination of the mind-stuff so will be the response to the impression. if the mind is a true reflector and receiver of

ower scale of the evolutionary ladder, are other groups of lives, wrongly entitled devas, which work in obedience to the law, and are controlled by the higher entities. there are, for instance, the denser forms of gaseous life, termed often salamanders, the elementals of the fire. these are directly under the control of the lord agni, lord of the mental plane, and, in this mental age, we have the element of fire entering into the mechanics of living as never before. eliminate the products which are controlled by heat and you will bring our civilisation to a stop; you will bring all means of transportation to an end and all modes of lighting; you would throw all manufactories into the discard. basically again, these fiery lives, are found in all that burns, and in the warmth that holds all

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

al work to be done by the new groups, and students today who can grasp this idea have the opportunity to do some of this pioneering work. always the individual of advancement and of poise has been able to do this intuiting, and to concretise the idea. groups of students meditating synchronously should now attempt to do the same. the effort to synchronise effort does not relate so much to the time element as to unity of intent and of purpose- 14- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust there is to be found today in the realm of the intuition much of wonder; this can be contacted. it is now the privilege of the race to contact that "raincloud of knowable things" to which the ancient seer patanjali refers in his fourth book; the race, through i

ssing his power through their bodies, and their united effort leads to abstraction and a return to the center whence the initial impulse came. the first ray purpose therefore is to produce death, and some idea of that purpose may be gleaned if we study some of the names by which the ray lord is called: the lord of death the opener of the door the liberator from form the great abstractor the fiery element, producing shattering the crystallizer of the form the power that touches and withdraws the lord of the burning ground the will that breaks into the garden the ravisher of souls the finger of god the breath that blasts the lightning which annihilates the most high- 45- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the qualities and characteristics

n. it is among the thinkers of the race that the first assured recognition of the soul will come, and this event will be the result of the study and analysis, by the psychologists of the world, of the nature of genius and the significance of creative work. some men and women in the world tower above their fellow men, and produce that which is superlative in its own field; their work has in it the element of divinity and of immortality. the work of creative artists, the intuitive perception of great scientific investigators, the inspired imagination of the poets of the world and the vision of the illumined idealists, have all to be accounted for and explained, for the laws under which such men and women work have yet to be discovered. the close study, by the psychologist, of the abnormal an

cularly when considering any of the various quintuples found in manifestation with such frequency. this book is a basic treatise for initiatory training. take, as an illustration of this, the words found in book iii.44, and note the illumination thrown upon the evolutionary cycle and on the symbolic development of the five kingdoms in nature "one-pointed meditation upon the five forms which every element takes produces mastery over every element. these five forms are the gross nature, the elemental form, the quality, the pervasiveness and the basic purpose" you have, therefore, an analogy for consideration: 1. the gross nature. the mineral kingdom. 2. the elemental form. the vegetable kingdom. 3. the quality. the animal kingdom. 4. the pervasiveness. the human kingdom. 5. the basic purpose

of this kingdom has been water, and this new development, this bringing together of fire and water in this kingdom, has constituted the subjective fact which brought the steam age into being. the vast forest fires, which form such a menace at this time in different parts of the world, are also related to this "initiation by fire" of a kingdom hitherto controlled and directed in its growth by the element of water. similarly, the coming in of the seventh ray inaugurated a tremendous event in the mineral kingdom. this i referred to in an earlier book. through the effect of sound and fire, the mineral kingdom has also been initiated, and in the great world war, in the steel factories and the other factories where metal is transmuted into articles for the use of man, the world of minerals, and

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

the non-essentials of traditional interpretation and have omitted to teach the secret and the technique of the christian life. we have over-emphasised the doctrinal and dogmatic aspects, and have deified the letter, whilst all the time the soul of man was crying out for the spirit of life, which the letter veiled. we have agonised over the historical aspects of the gospel narrative, over the time element, and over the verbal accuracy of the many translations, while failing to see the real magnificence of christ's accomplishment and the significant teaching it holds for the individual and for the race. the drama of his life and its practical application to the lives of his followers have been lost to sight in the undue importance attached to certain phrases which he is supposed to have utte

ose great ideals and that example of sacrifice and of service which today (two thousand years after he walked among men) are becoming the keynote of the best minds of the age. the story of ideas, how they come and how they make their impact upon the human consciousness, thus changing the course of human affairs, is the story of history; but curiously enough, ideas constitute the one unpredictable element of the future. some individual of outstanding personality steps out from the rank and file of the race, and thinks through into being some great and dynamic idea based on truth. he formulates it into such terms that his fellowmen can grasp it and eventually live by it. new trends, new incentives and new impulses then emerge, and thus history is made. it might be said with truth that withou

e the rewards of the man who puts humanity first and himself second. but having done so, he discovers that the door into the kingdom is flung wide open and that he can enter in. but he has first to suffer. it is the way. it is through supreme service and sacrifice that we become followers of christ and earn the right to enter into his kingdom, because we do not enter alone. this is the subjective element in all religious aspiration, and this all the sons of god have grasped and taught. man triumphs through death and sacrifice. that superhuman spirit, christ, did this perfectly. in him was no sin because he had perfectly transcended the ephemeral lower self. his personality was subordinated to his divinity. the laws of transgression touched him not, because he crossed no boundaries and infr

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

e on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust understanding, for there are those who have so much theory about service and its expression that they fail to serve and also fail to comprehend with understanding the period of pain which ever precedes enlarged service. their theories block the way to true expression and shut the door on real comprehension. the mind element is too active. when the personal lower self is subordinated to the higher rhythms and obedient to the new law of service, then the life of the soul will begin to flow through the man to others, and the effect in a man's immediate family and group will be to demonstrate a real understanding and a true helpfulness. as the flow of life becomes stronger through use, the effect will spread out

humanity to recognise ideas, and avoiding the rocks of fanaticism, and the dangerous shoals of superficial desire train the world thinkers so ardently to desire the good, the true and the beautiful, that the idea which should materialise in some form on earth can shift from the plane of the mind and clothe itself in some form on earth. these disciples and servers work consciously with the desire element in- 88- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust man; they work scientifically with its correct evocation. their technique is scientific because it is based upon a right understanding of the human material with which they have to work. some people have to be galvanised into activity by an idea. with these the first ray disciple can be effec

the physical body .s econd ray of love-wisdom. certain ideas should here be considered. they are here given in the form of statements, but we will not elaborate them, simply leaving them to the student for his pondering and careful thinking. 1. only initiates are in a position to sense, determine, or discover the nature of their monadic ray or that of their disciples. the monadic ray is that life element in man with which they have definitely to deal as they seek to prepare him for initiation. it is the "unknown quantity" in a man's nature. it does not, however, greatly complicate his problem in the three worlds of ordinary human endeavor, as it remains relatively quiescent until after the third initiation, though it basically conditions the etheric body itself. 2. the three rays (termed

rue implications and not interpreted in terms of its present childish presentation, then man will shoulder the responsibility of living with a daily recognition of the past, an understanding of the purpose of the present, and with an eye to the future. this will also greatly lessen the growing tendency towards suicide which humanity is showing. it will be apparent to you, therefore, that the time element can enter into the problem most helpfully and it is here that a real understanding of the law of rebirth, or of the law of opportunity (as i would prefer to call it) will be of definite usefulness. above everything else, it will bring into the attitude of both psychologist and problem case, the idea of hope, the thought of fulfillment and of ultimate achievement. it will also be essential

t be bettered, but not through bloodshed and exploitation. secondly, the middle classes, so called, both higher and lower. these are the bulk of the nations, the bourgeoisie intelligent, diligent, enquiring, narrow-minded, essentially religious, though frequently repudiating the forms of religion. they are torn and devastated by the economic conflict, and are, without exception, the most powerful element in any nation, because of their capacity to read, to discuss, to think, to spend money, and to take sides. they form the bulk of the partisans in the world, the fighters for a cause, and are formed into great groups, either for or against this, that, or the other party. they love to recognise and choose a leader, and are ready to die for a cause, and to make endless sacrifices for their id

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to their more advanced development. the evolutionary progress from century to century presents a steadily ripening and developing human mind upon which the master can work. the standard of discipleship is consequently as steadily rising. this, in itself, demands a new approach, a wider presentation of truth and the permitting of a greater freedom of action upon the part of the disciple. the time element is also different. in the old days, the master gave his disciple a hint or a point upon- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust which to ponder and meditate or he might indicate some need for changed habits of thought. then the disciple went away sometimes for years or an entire lifetime and reflected and thought and attempted to alter his attitudes without any particular sense of pressure. today

n this distinction. 4. right observation of reality upon the soul plane. this leads to right mental perception, to freedom from illusion and glamour and to the illumination of the brain. 5. correct manipulation of force, involving, therefore, an understanding of the types and qualities of force and their right creative weaving into service upon the outer plane. 6. a true comprehension of the time element, with its cyclic ebb and flow and the right seasons for action a most difficult psychic power to master, my brothers, but one which can be mastered through the use of patient waiting and the elimination of hurry. all these powers, the disciple must eventually develop, but the process is necessarily slow. next comes the quality of mental polarisation. what exactly is this power or quality?

ence to the definite organisation of your life. you must and should fulfil all your needed and right obligations to those with whom your lot is cast, but you should also have definite times for the life of a disciple. in putting the situation thus before you, my duty ends. the way, the means and the methods are yours to decide. release will come for you through the right comprehension of the time element and due discrimination between the essentials and the non-essentials. upon these i ask you to ponder. a more intense inner life and a more vital life of service are, i know, your ideals, but the one is dependent upon the other. i seek now to change entirely your meditation. the earlier one given has accomplished its intended preliminary purpose. i suggest to you, therefore, the following

whereby you can project your thought consciously in such a manner that healing can take place where and when needed. in the one case, you train yourself to be a "point of contact" for the healing forces of the planet. in the other, you train yourself to be a "channel of distribution" ponder on these two objectives, but expect not yet to be able to reach them. in the work of the disciple, the time element counts not. growth, deep rooted and established, is the goal, and growth, if sound and good, is slow. in connection with your own character development, seek to bring about two things: 1. a decentralisation and self-forgetfulness which will offset and negate that spiritual diffidence and dissatisfaction with yourself that does colour much of your thought. 2. a tenderness which will grow ou

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ce lies in the hands of the young people everywhere. they are the parents of the coming generations and the engineers who must implement the new civilization. what we do with them and for them is momentous in its implications; our responsibility is great and our opportunity unique. this chapter deals with the children and adolescents, under sixteen years old. these two groups are the most hopeful element in a world which has fallen to pieces before our eyes. they are the guarantee that our world can be rebuilt and if we have learned anything from past history and its dire consequences in our lifetime rebuilt along different lines, with different objectives and incentives and with well-defined goals and carefully considered ideals. let us remember, however, that visionary, mystical hopes an

arkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality and from ignorance to wisdom. if the great organized religious groups of churches in every land and composing all faiths do not offer spiritual guidance and help, humanity will find another way. nothing can keep the spirit of man from god. i. the failure of the churches let us remember: christ has not failed. it is the human element which has failed and which has thwarted his intentions, and prostituted the truth which he presented. theology, dogma, doctrine, materialism, politics and money have created a vast dark cloud between the churches and god; they have shut out the true vision of god's love, and it is to this vision of a loving reality and to a vital recognition of its implications that we must return. is ther

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

acquiescence. christ demonstrated this submission when he said "i came not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me (john vi.38) he proved his acquiescence when he cried "father, not my will but thine be done" submission has in it the elements of conquest by circumstances and of a recognition which may not understand but which submits to that which is imposed. acquiescence has in it the element of an understanding intelligence, and this marks a great step forward. both admit the fact of a divine over-shadowing will in the life of mankind today; both are preparatory to a recognition of christ's work in bringing about right human relations. at present, the submission of mankind to the divine will is a negative submission; the true submission is a positive attitude of spiritual expe

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

it works out in two ways: 1. as the will of god in world affairs, which is ever the will-to-good. steadily if you study human history intelligently you will see that there has been a regular and rhythmic progression toward unity and synthesis in all departments of human affairs. this unity in multiplicity is the eternal plan a unity in consciousness, a multiplicity in form. 2. as the destructive element in world affairs. this refers to man's use of this force of will which is seldom as yet the will-to-good in active expression, but something which leads to self-assertion (of the individual or the nation) and to war with its accompaniments separation, selfish diplomacy, hate and armaments, disease and death. this is the force which pours into the world from the major world centre, shamball

and all who did not think as they did are regarded as lost. when the jew and the narrow-minded religious devotees recognise their identity with all other people and express this identity through right relationship, we shall see a very different world. the world problem is essentially a religious problem and behind all strife in every department of world thought today is to be found the religious element. when the nature of the present struggle is better understood and its subjective causes are considered instead of the superficial objective reasons, then real progress will be made in the process of releasing humanity from the thraldom and the narrowness of the present civilisation and from the influence of the forces and energies which are responsible for the situation. these will be unde

the fate of the whole. the isolationist or the super-racial attitudes of the bewildered german people are the attitudes of the separative tendencies of the form nature with its wrong emphasis; but so also is the attitude, veiled under beautiful words and misty idealism, of any neutral power who stands aloof from the happenings of the present. the hierarchy is not neutral. it is one with the right element in every nation and set against all separative, isolationist and materialistic attitudes. such attitudes prevent the apprehension of the true spiritual values and hinder human development. identification with all and participation in world conditions voluntarily and not from force is the way out today for all peoples. ponder on this. 1. the nations and their ruling signs. it is, however, o

tal through the soul of the city, energised by virgo and, forget not, that virgo is the polar opposite of pisces and the infant christ in virgo comes to full flower in pisces. here lies the hope of france. you will remember perhaps that some years ago i indicated that from france will come a great psychological or soul revelation which will bring illumination to world thought. if the true piscean element can be drawn forth and the selfishness and the self-protective interests of the french nation can be offset, france then stands free some day to lead the world spiritually as she has effectively in past history from the more political and cultural aspects, but this can only happen when the personality ray is subordinated to the soul ray and leo can respond to the aquarian influence in the

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

disappear and the will-to-good will become factual goodwill upon the outer physical plane. in the statements given above in connection with the three great planetary centres you have the basis for the new and coming approach to divinity which will be known under the expression: invocative and evocative religion. it is this new science of impression which forms the subjective basis and the uniting element which binds together the entire realm of knowledge, of science and of religion. the fundamental ideas which underlie these great areas of human thought all emanate from intuitional levels; they finally condition the human consciousness, evoking man's aspiration to penetrate deeper into the arcana of all wisdom, for which knowledge is the preparatory stage. this science of impression is the

yet, at the same time, remain creatively free as regards their reaction to these contacted impressions; this reaction- 44- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust is necessarily dependent upon the type and quality of the mechanism which registers the impression. this mechanism has been developed by the life within the form throughout the creative period and as far as the time element has been involved the indwelling entity in any kingdom in nature has been free, and the time has been long or short, and the reaction to impression has been rapid or slow, according to the will of the controlling life. in the mineral kingdom, this reaction is very slow, for inertia or tamas controls the spiritual life within the mineral form; in the vegetable kingdom, it is more rapid, and

eat distorter of essential truth. impressions from the ashram or from the spiritual triad (which are the only type of impressions with which i am here concerned) pass through three stages: 1. the stage of mental recording. the clarity and the accuracy of this recording will be dependent upon the condition of the channel of reception, the antahkarana; in this recording, curiously enough, a certain element of time enters in. it is not time as you know it upon the physical plane, which is but the registration by the brain of passing "events; it is the higher mental correspondence to time. into this, i cannot here enter as the theme is too abstruse; for time, in this connection, is related to distance, to descent, to focus, and to the power to record. 2. the stage of brain reception. the accur

rays which condition a man's "periodical vehicles" as h.p.b. expresses it. these are: the monadic ray, the soul ray and the personality ray. to the watching and attentive master it is also apparent which ray is the controlling ray, but this is not possible to anyone below the grade of master. disciples and other onlookers must form their conclusions from the "nature of the sphere of radiation" an element of error can creep in at this point, which is not possible to a master; it must, however, be remembered that until the sixth initiation of decision "the monad guards two- 100- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust secrets, but loses three when it takes control and the soul fades out" this, i may not further elucidate. i have here given a somewhat new slant or picture

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

number of the christ. 10. the greater builders and the lesser builders, working on the second and third planes of our solar system, have their activities reflected in the work of the lunar lords and the elemental- 22- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust lives. 11. you will note that the human hierarchy (on chart 9-iv-4) is assigned no particular element as it has to fuse and synthesise them all. this is part of the great tests of initiation under scorpio. 12. this chart is drawn up in relation only to the fourth creative hierarchy, the human. it is not drawn in relation to the other planetary manifestations (the chart has been compiled from the very limited stock of knowledge that has thus far been revealed on the subject, and it is as co

will later elaborate but which at the present time mean little. there is another point in connection with the planetary influences which i would like to mention here because it emphasises again the synthetic position of virgo and its contribution as a major focal point for the distribution of energy to the fourth creative hierarchy. jupiter rules four signs and each of them represents a different element out of the four which are expressing themselves in the three worlds of human evolution. the following tabulation will make this somewhat clearer: virgo p isces sagittarius a quarius earth..water..f. ire..air hidden christ..hidden saviour..h. idden master..h. idden server. jupiter ruler and the conveyor of expansion in this sign, virgo, the place and the mode of expression of the planets ar

the individual aspirant. it can lead to the focussing of all the life tendencies upon a world of truer values and reality and thus inaugurate the new and better civilisation for which we all hope. looking at the world today if you could but see it as we the teachers on the inner side can see it, you would become aware of such a re-focussing and re-orienting on all sides. again, however, the time element comes in (that brain-conditioned sense of awareness) and the problem with which the hierarchy is now concerned is to see that the present conflict does not persist unduly long, to awaken all the nations, without exception, to a sense of the dramatic import of the present time and of their right share and their responsibility and thus to engineer a climax wherein the correct world lesson ma

ary schools are responsible for the energy flowing through the `four castes' in all parts of the world. its teachers are spoken of as `graduates of the ruddy flame' and are frequently portrayed as clothed in red robes. they work under the first logoic aspect and train those whose work is along the lines of the destroyer. neptune (6th) this school concerns itself with the development of the desire element and its graduates are called the `sons of vishnu (cosmic fire. 1177-1179) the schools on saturn, the sun, the moon and on pluto are not given but complete the twelve planets- 413- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrolhu- copyright 1998 lucis trust to produce a condition of utter exhaustion. the physical vehicle was given no respite. the heart and blood condition grew st

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

the brittle brilliancy and the glare of modern hollywood today. it was then a gentler and sweeter place. i would like to go on record of the lasting impression which i carried away when i left the town, of the soundness, the kindness, the expansiveness and the understanding of the leading movie people. i have met many of the movie people and they are grand and human folk. of course there is a bad element but i would like to know in what section of human society you will not find a bad element- 82- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust there are evil people in all groups and communities and sets and organisations. there are outstandingly good people also and people of a dead level mediocrity who have not enough development to be either very good or very bad. i was driving

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

a free and open mind as far as may be, realising that your understanding of these laws is limited by- 13- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. old theologies, with their static, distorted, and erroneous points of view. the teaching of theology is most misleading, but is, alas, generally accepted. 2. world thought, strongly tinged with the desire element, and with little in it of real thought. men interpret these dimly sensed laws in terms of finality and from their little point of view. the idea of retribution runs through much of the teaching on karma, for instance, because men seek a plausible explanation of things as they appear to be, and are themselves fond of dealing out retribution. yet there is far more general good karma than bad

ety can negate the desired effects. 2. in radiatory healing, the process is simpler and safer for the healer simply gathers power into himself and then radiates it out on to the patient in the form of a steadily outflowing stream of radiant energy. this stream of energy should be directed to the centre nearest to the location of the disease. in this work there is no risk to the healer, but if the element of will enters into his thought or the stream of energy projected is too strong, there may be danger to the patient. the impact of the force which is being radiated upon him may not only produce nervous tension, but may lead to an increase in the power of the disease and its intensification by stimulating the atoms and cells involved in the activity of the force responsible for the trouble

he structure of power and vitality and the network of energies and forces which compose the human organism should be studied. a mental grasp of the processes of healing is needed; and the reasons which make them seem difficult and complicated, unnecessary and wasteful of time, are as follows: the inability of even the most advanced human mind to grasp themes and subjects as a whole. the synthetic element is as yet lacking. at present, the teaching and processes involved must be mastered step by step, detail by detail, precept by precept, application by application. but the future holds the promise clear, and the ability of the human eye to function synthetically, to grasp a landscape, for instance, in its broad and salient outlines and to do this simultaneously and in a flash of vision is

mpletely withdrawn from the head and the heart. at the same time, reverence and an unhurried attitude have their rightful place in the process. the family of the dead person need a few hours in which to adjust themselves to the fact of the imminent disappearance of the outer and usually loved form; due care must also be given to the formalities required by the state or the municipality. this time element has reference mainly to those who are left behind, to the living and not to the dead. the claim that the etheric body must not be rushed into the cremating flames, and the belief that it must be left to drift around for a stated period of several days, have also no true basis at all. there is no etheric need for delay. when the inner man withdraws from his physical vehicle he withdraws sim

the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust experience, for this, once learnt, will greatly facilitate this third activity upon the astral plane after death. 4. having completed this "isolating of experience" the man will then seek and automatically find those whom the third seed influence indicates as possessing a constant part in the group experience of which he is an element, consciously or unconsciously. the relation once again established (if those sought have not yet eliminated the physical body, the man acts as he would on earth in the company of his intimates and according to his temperament and point in evolution. if those who are closest to him and whom he deeply loves or hates are still in physical incarnation, he will also seek them out and just again

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

r into the position of inward search, not outer demand for a reply which can be memorised and which rests upon the authority of the older person. if this seems to you as yet impossible, remember that the children who will or have come into incarnation, after the period of increased stimulation found between the years 1935 and 1942, will normally and naturally respond to this evocation of the mind element. one of the major functions of those who train the infant minds of the race will be to determine, as early as possible in life, which of the seven determining energies are controlling in each case- 22- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust the technique to be later applied will then be built upon this important initial decision hence again, the growing responsibility of the e

the care of the family. once an animal or a bird can fend for itself physically, it is cast off by the parent or parents and left to its own resources. in the case of the human family, the physical care of the child, as well as its psychological unfoldment, has gradually been extended until either the parent or the church, the community or the state, is responsible for him for many years the time element varying according to the country of birth and social status. this has entirely altered the aspect of affairs and the first group, therefore, of which any individual child becomes normally aware is the family group as a unit in the community. in that particular group relationship, throughout the ages (both symbolically and indeed in fact, the following factors underlying the very structure

een the two which, as time elapses, will become more clear. there can be no new birth, no creation of the "body of light" and no "manifestation of the sons of god" apart from the process of physical incarnation. there can be no fusion of the opposites of soul and personality apart from the physiological processes of sex, and i say this deliberately, for it is in the relation of the sexes that the element of time enters into the experience of the soul, and the understanding of this will come when the doctrine of reincarnation is properly comprehended and taught universally. it is here that sex magic and the inner tantric teachings have gone so woefully astray, and been centralised upon individual development and the attainment of some experience which is presumed to promote spiritual attain

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ves, but the deep inner integration and the activity of the divine nature in each of you is more definitely vital than before. i do not say that it is as yet in full right outer expression. it can and does produce at times a surface turmoil, but this, if rightly handled, need cause no true disturbance. give to each other real love in the times that lie ahead, for it is the fusing and illuminating element in the life of the disciple. let not your love remain theoretical, but give that true understanding which ignores mistakes, recognises no barriers, refuses all separating thoughts, and surrounds each other with that protecting wall of love that meets all need wherever possible physical, emotional and mental. it is this which blends the group into one organised whole, which the masters of t

easily to be found, owing to the rapid construction of the antahkarana by enlightened souls functioning upon the physical plane and working desperately to aid humanity. their spiritual desperation is what is needed to provide the required "point of tension" from whence the antahkarana can be built. there is a basic distinction between desperation and pessimism. desperation is related to the time element and to a correct and discriminative perception of the need. pessimism is related more to an unjust appraisement of the quality of humanity. all these things are at this time characteristic of the hierarchy. i would remind you that when you think of the hierarchy you think in terms of the masters (as most people do) or of the higher initiates. this is not correct. every accepted disciple is

he makes his great decision on the basis of the seen opportunity, and through his response to the seven phases of that cosmic vision, he treads one or other of the seven paths. for this great "crisis of vision" all the lesser visions have prepared the master; after his decision is made there is no longer any vision as we comprehend the term. there is a factual perception of such a nature that the element of time as evidenced by remoteness, by the distance between this and that, between here and there forever disappears. this is, necessarily, a somewhat meaningless statement to the majority of people. for the aspirant, whether his goal is the path of discipleship or one of the seven paths leading away from known planetary experience, there is persistently that which conveys to consciousness

his definition, however, lies a real or true time of which the initiate becomes increasingly aware. the great law of karma has received little attention from the standpoint of time; yet it is that which determines the sequence of evolution, of evolutionary progress, the period of karmic recognitions, and the conclusion of a karmic cycle. the ordinary teaching on karma (particularly as to the time element) has been terribly prostituted by the purely selfish rendering given to it by those early theosophical teachers who misunderstood and misinterpreted what h.p.b. said. they had little chance to do much else than relate it to individual affairs, if they were going to familiarise the public with the concept, but they nevertheless did much harm with their puerile setting of times and seasons

ection which the master provides. at the indicated second initiation he receives a quality of stimulation which enables him to "see" the- 261- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust astral plane as it essentially is; with this revelation comes also the recognition of the basic human necessity to "make it holy" or to "render whole" that which provides the most disturbing element in the existence of mankind. i cannot here deal with psychic construction, with astral impulses or glamours, nor can i spend time referring to the usual astral conditions so well known and so carefully followed by the mass of men. each human being has eventually to make his own definite decision anent the astral plane and his release from its control, and has then to follow (for several li

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

and waiting to bestow that which is desired, reached for and claimed. 3. the new group of world servers. they are the more advanced members of the human family, sensitive to hierarchical inspiration and to human need and to spiritual unfoldment as a determining factor in world affairs. 4. small groups which correspond to the illumined minds of the individuals intuitional and acting as a cohesive element and a fusing factor between humanity and the hierarchy. they are gathered out of the new group of world servers. let me now present you with another vital consideration. looking back over your individual lives, you will be conscious that it was the points of crisis and the cycles of tension which constituted for you the major opportunities and the moments of "moving forward" of these oppor

us human being which is the inciting cause of the present conflict. had the sons of god not "come in unto the daughters of men (which is the biblical and symbolic way of expressing the great relationship between spirit and matter which was established in the human kingdom, had the spiritual entities which are humanity itself not taken unto themselves material forms, and had the positive spiritual element not attached itself to the negative material aspect, the present world conflict would not be taking place. but the divine plan of evolution was based upon the production of this relationship between spiritually conscious man and the form aspect, and thus the great law of duality came into action, bringing about the "fall of the angels" as they descended from their sinless and free state of

ines of demarcation between what constituted purely physical life and that which though still material could be the goal of effort and thus acquired, began to control the purely animal nature; man began to be acquisitive and to surround himself with that which he wanted. the lines of cleavage between the instinctual animal and acquisitive man began to be more clearly defined. gradually the mental element unfolded among these pioneers just as the intuitive element is today unfolding among the mental types; men began to acquire some form of mental perception and to bring what little mind they had to the processes of increasing their material possessions. the stage of civilisation (which is basically a recognition of group relation) began. a period of urban existence superseded that of a pure

pted disciple; it produced also a ferment of thought in the world which has served to awaken the mentality of the masses to possibilities and to horizons hitherto only visioned by advanced and initiate thinkers. the man in the street today has absorbed ideologies to an unforeseen extent, and the attempt to make him an active factor in our modern civilisation is not too harmful in view of the time element, as divinely conceived, and from the point of view of the staunch and basic integrity of the divine human being. time and divinity, events and instinctual goodness, will in the long run triumph. the intermediate agonies are distressing but not final, and they are not triumphant from the angle of the dark forces. these forces face (as a result of the war and of the resurrecting human spirit

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

the lesser aspect is ever the invoking factor, and this constitutes an unalterable law lying behind the entire evolutionary process. it is necessarily a reciprocal process, but in time and space it might be broadly said that the lesser ever invokes the higher, and higher factors are then evoked and respond according to the measure of understanding and the dynamic tension displayed by the invoking element. this many fail to realise. you do not work at the evocative process. that word simply connotes the response of that which has been reached. the task of the lesser aspect or group is invocative, and the success of the invocative rite is called evocation. when, therefore, your life is fundamentally invocative, then there will come the evocation of the will. it is only truly invocative when

ing as is the rhythm of the heart itself the physical heart. the higher mind is intended to become increasingly the field of the initiate's effort, and hence the constant need for him to build the antahkarana. in this rule we are therefore dealing with the work to be done by a group of pledged disciples and initiates; they are learning together to make an approach to shamballa (involving the will element; this is as much a goal of the hierarchy as approach to the hierarchy is the goal of advanced humanity. it concerns the interrelation of great centres of force. this is a point which esoteric students should attempt to grasp for it completes the planetary chain of hierarchy and throws a light upon the way of the higher evolution. great movements and progressions have always taken place upo

that the consecrated personality under control of the monad, via the antahkarana, and in cooperation with the one known god walks the ways of earth as a channel for the three divine qualities (love, will and intelligence, but also as a channel for that which these three qualities will enable him later to sense, know and reveal. these are solemn and important statements. they have within them the element of prophecy, but it is prophecy which has no relation to the salvation of humanity in any sense at all. it is related to an active appearance which will, under the law of synthesis, indicate that which the three great planetary centres of divine life are unitedly intended to reveal. something lies behind the three divine aspects of so great an importance, beauty and revelatory strength tha

o the second ray, and is an aspect or quality of the law of synthesis. it was this magnetic power of the first ray to which the christ referred when he said "i, if i be lifted up (the ascension initiation. a.a.b, will draw all men unto me" he faced then those initiations which would qualify him to become what is esoterically called "a shamballa recipient" there is, in magnetic action, more of the element of the will and of an expressing purpose. in explanation it might be said that the radiation of the hierarchy, which is definitely second ray in nature, and which is projected as attractive radiation, is implemented by the magnetic aspect. this as the old commentary puts it is "a point of focussed fire, found in the centre of the jewel. it stirs to life the quality of love which permeates

y of goals" i know not how else to translate the archaic phrase which describes the objective of the master's training on this path. the exclusive has to become the inclusive in an entirely newly apprehended world of realisation, whilst the inclusive has to master the technique of exclusiveness and become exclusive in a new realm of realisation; it is an exclusiveness which has in it no slightest element of the great heresy of separateness. i may not here even indicate the type or quality of the intentions of the ray lords which the master of the sixth initiation has to learn to comprehend. the training given him ends in another tremendous decision which will place him in a group of lives on some sacred planet or in some solar system which will be a correspondence to shamballa on our littl

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

which we all possess, a creative imagination. but in some form or another, the aspirant who has left nereus will meet the serpent and will have to wrestle with him. as the myth states, for a long time hercules could not conquer, but when he lifted the serpent high up into the air, he prevailed. there is a great truth underlying this symbolism. the air has always been regarded as the symbol or the element related to the christ plane, called in the theosophical terminology and in the east, the buddhic plane. the astral plane is the distorted reflection of the buddhic plane, and it is only when we carry glamor up into the clear light of the christ soul that we shall see truth as it is, and become invincible. most solemnly, i would urge upon all aspirants to forego all interest in psychic phen

to be a peacemaker. he can usually understand both sides of an issue, and this ability serves him well as a mediator and arbitrator. the energies he employs are persuasion, courtesy, and cooperation; when these fail, he disdains harsher methods. he is naturally inclined towards group work, and is attracted by all programs of action that promote brotherhood and unity. there is a strongly feminine element in the libran, and this is natural, since venus rules the zodiacal sign. the hard, driving thrust of modern life is too aggressively masculine; the softer grace and artistic beauty of the feminine component should act [135] as a complementary influence. the libran instinctively understands this. he knows that masculine assertiveness must be modified by the subtler savor of feminine sweetne

eing. god, incarnate in matter. such is the story of the solar system, the story of our planet, the story of every man. as we look at the starry heavens above us, we have this great drama, eternally pictured for us [211] summary of lessons learned in each zodiacal sign the following abstract of notes on the zodiacal signs is offered as a basis for further study and quick reference. aries, the ram element: fire sign (as are also leo and sagittarius. quality: initiating. beginnings. will or power expresses itself through the great creative processes. in the early stages, activities are directed toward the material side of life; later, toward the spiritual. polar opposite: libra. an air sign (balance. rulers: exoteric, mars; esoteric, mercury. keywords: from the angle of form "let form again

xpresses itself through the great creative processes. in the early stages, activities are directed toward the material side of life; later, toward the spiritual. polar opposite: libra. an air sign (balance. rulers: exoteric, mars; esoteric, mercury. keywords: from the angle of form "let form again be sought; from the angle of soul "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule. taurus, the bull element: earth sign (as are also virgo and capricorn- 121- the labours of hercules quality: desire, for the mass of men; will or directed purpose for the disciple. polar opposite: scorpio, water sign (conflict of duality; desire overcome; triumphant discipleship. rulers: exoteric, venus; esoteric, vulcan. keywords: from the angle of form "let struggle be undismayed; from the angle of soul "i see a

labours of hercules quality: desire, for the mass of men; will or directed purpose for the disciple. polar opposite: scorpio, water sign (conflict of duality; desire overcome; triumphant discipleship. rulers: exoteric, venus; esoteric, vulcan. keywords: from the angle of form "let struggle be undismayed; from the angle of soul "i see and when the eye is opened, all is illumined. gemini, the twins element: air sign (as are also libra and aquarius. quality: duality. love-wisdom. fluidity. control of every pair of opposites. the underlying love of deity reaches our solar system through gemini. polar opposite: sagittarius. a fire sign (one-pointedness; preparation for initiation. rulers: exoteric, mercury; esoteric, venus. keywords: from the angle of form "let instability do its work; from the

ANTINOMIANISM

orted to mean having no morals or ethics. this is absolutely and historically innacurate. what the concept of non-obligatory moral law means is that morality cannot be an obligation to doctrine as emphasized by religion or culture. rather, morality must issue as a principle from the individuals own soul, heart and conscience as opposed to doctrinally instituted and enforced. obviously there is an element of self responsibility and personal development involved here. antinomianism as a praxis of spiritual dissent manifests as both a methodology and a practicum to personal spiritual freedom. antinomianism represents a historical methodology and post- modern evolution of individualized thought that seeks freedom from the confines of cultural, social and genetic/memetic programming. the path o

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

ey derived from masonry or were masonry itself at the highest, in the proper understanding thereof. when the story of a secret perpetuation of the old knights templar- outside the order of christ- arose in france or germany, but as i tend to conclude in france, it was and remains the most notable case in point of this appeal and claim. it rose up within masonry, and it came about that the templar element overshadowed the dreams and pretensions of other masonic chivalries, or, more correctly, outshone them all. i am dealing here with matters of fact and not proposing to account for the facts themselves within the limits of a single study. the chevalier ramsay never spoke of the templars: his affirmation was that the hypothetical building confraternity of palestine united ultimately with the

and some time subsequently von hund retunied thither, with the result that he derived templar teaching from clermont, on which he built up the observance system. but, whatever the point is worth, this story is not only at issue with that of von hund himself, but with the current chronology of the observance. to involve matters further, the chapter is reported otherwise to have derived its templar element from something unspecified at lyons which is referred to 1738. the utmost variety of statement will be found, moreover, as to the content of the clermont rite, the templar character of which has been also challenged. it is proposed otherwise that the chapter was founded on a scale of considerable magnitude, that it was installed in a vast building, and that it attracted the higher classes

rations- otherwise knight of god- presented a peculiar, as it was also an early version of the perpetuation story, from which it follows that the clermont rite was templar. i have so far failed to trace any copy of the ritual in this country with the exception of that which has been placed recently in my hands, an example of the discoveries that await research in continental archives. the templar element- which may be called the historical part- is combined with a part of symbolism, for though allegory is said to be abandoned in the fourth degree, its spiritual sister is always present in ritual. the aspect which it assumes in the present case is otherwise known in masonry, the chapter representing the holy city, the new jerusalem, with its twelve gates, as a tabernacle of god with men. th

n somewhere in the world a rumour of secret survival, in which case the root matter of their stories would not have been pure invention. the antecedent material would then have been worked over and adapted to masonic purposes, inspired by the oration of ramsay. it is to be presumed that when this speculation is left to stand at its value, there is no critical mind which will dream of an authentic element in hugh de payen's supposed discovery of the powder of projection at or about the site of the jewish temple. this romantic episode stands last in a series of similar fictions which are to be found in the history of alchemy. when we are led to infer therefore by the records before me that the chapter of clermont reached its end circa 1763, we shall infer that it was in a position no longer

ginning privately circa 1755, and that a few persons were knighted, but von hund had enough on his hands owing to the seven years' war, so that from 1756 to 1763 there could have been little opportunity for templar grades under his custody, either on his own estates or elsewhere. meanwhile the clermont rite was spreading in germany and in 1763 there were fifteen chapters in all. there is hence an element which seems nearer certitude rather than mere speculation in proposing that the templar claim on masonry was imported from france into germany, that von hund's business was to derive and vary, not to create the thesis. of the great success which awaited the strict observance, once it was fairly launched, of its bid for supremacy over all continental masonry and of the doom which befell it

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

cause it is a thing that he has always been twelve keys of basil valentine 53 of 95 used to, and for which he is unable to find an explanation. but you who should know more than the vulgar herd, must search into the causes of things, and endeavor to understand how the process of generation and resuscitation is accomplished by means of decomposition, and how all life is produced out of decay. each element is in its turn decomposed and regenerated by that which is contained in it. for you should know that every element contains the three others. in air, for instance, there is fire, water, and earth. this assertion may appear incredible, but it is nevertheless true. in like manner, fire includes air, water, and earth, since otherwise it could generate nothing. water contains fire, air, and ea

ned in it. for you should know that every element contains the three others. in air, for instance, there is fire, water, and earth. this assertion may appear incredible, but it is nevertheless true. in like manner, fire includes air, water, and earth, since otherwise it could generate nothing. water contains fire, air, and earth; for if it did not, there could be no growth. at the same time, each element is distinct, though each contains the others. all this is: found by distillation in the separation of the elements. in order to rationally prove this to you, who are investigating the separation of nature. and purpose to understand the division of the elements, lest you should think my words inventions, and not true, i tell you that if you distil earth, you will find that, first of all, th

or can any of the three other elements exist without air. it is air that gives to earth its power of production, to fire its power of burning, to water its power of generating fruit. again, air can consume nothing, nor dry up any moisture, without that natural heat which must be imparted to it by fire. for everything that is hot and dry contains fire. from these considerations we conclude that no element can exist without the others, and that in the generation of all things there is a mingling of the four elements. he who states the contrary in no wise understands the secrets of nature, nor has he investigated the properties of the elements. for if anything is to be generated by putrefaction, the process must be as follows: the earth is first decomposed by the moisture which it contains; f

nce is kindled and quickened by twelve keys of basil valentine 55 of 95 the natural heat of fire: for without natural heat no generation can take place. again, if that which has received the spark of life, is to be stirred up to motion and growth, it must be acted upon by air. for without air, the quickened substance would be choked and stifled in the germ. hence it manifestly appears that no one element can work effectually without the aid of the others, and that all must contribute towards the generation of anything. thus their quickening cooperation takes the form of putrefaction, without which there can be neither generation, life, nor growth. that there can be no perfect generation or resuscitation without the co voperation of the four elements, you may see from the fact that when ada

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

ntury b.c.e. while the buddha is the conqueror of delusion and vice, the king is the conqueror of men. with a buddhist king, the two attributes are combined; people are conquered in order to be liberated eventually.93 tessa bartholomeusz, in her study on just-war rhetoric in buddhist sri lanka, explains how such parallels were drawn between sri lankan kings and a.oka. however, as she argues, this element of conquest is superseded by the only circumstance in which violence is acceptable in a buddhist context: defense. nonetheless, it is possible to envision almost any instance of violence as one of defense. in the buddhist milieu of sri lanka, violence is perpetrated in reaction to what buddhist practitioners feel is an encroachment on their religion. thus, actions must be taken to remove f

popularity of a given deity cult.106 for now, the most important similarity between the deities of these categories is that they are all iconographically represented and even propitiated in remarkably similar fashion. aside from minor variations in the ritual program, the only core distinction is the aim of the ritual. iconography is important for this very reason, as it is a foundational visual element in summoning these deities. furthermore, all of these figures are the central deity of their own dominion, surrounded by their own retinue. the explicit iconographic descriptions above provide us with a detailed account of tsiu marpo s immediate entourage and the subsequent 104 see cantwell 1997, p. 110 for the liberation killing ritual performed against the chinese. see this full article

this are multiple, but in the context of tsiu marpo and otherworldly protector deities, the purpose is primarily to convey a deity who engenders the dual powers of military and royal might. these powers are used to destroy the enemies of buddhism, as is expected of a protector deity. visual representations are also part of a much grander iconographic tradition where visualization is an important element in summoning deities for ritual purposes. the act of this summoning and 117 mpg, p. 300.2: og min cho phrul bstan pa i zhing khams na/ zhe sdang gdug pa me dpung bar ba'i klong/ rakta chags pa i rba klong khrugs pa i dkyil/ dmar nag gru gsum bar ba i dkyil khor na/ bcom ldan das dpal rta mgrin rgyal po nyid/ khams gsum dbang du sdud pa i ting nge dzin bsgoms par sngags so. 61 subsequent pr

goms par sngags so. 61 subsequent propitiation is initiated by establishing the abode of the deity within the world through the symbolic drawing of the ma..ala. while snellgrove and davidson have provided excellent descriptions behind the history and purpose of the ma..ala, i would actually combine their two approaches and extend it further within the context of tibet. the ma..ala is an important element because of its ability to reshape the landscape. through the process of ritual, the ma..ala is drawn as a sacred location to be distinguished from the surrounding profane environment, as snellgrove posits. yet this is only one layer of its greater significance. once drawn, the ma..ala acts as a conduit, a central ground by which the entire tibetan landscape is transformed and reestablished

and hang his entrails on the statues in his private chapel.168 a final feature of oracles worth examining is the moral state of the oracle. it is never quite clear why a particular individual is chosen; that a number of oracle lineages are hereditary provides one explanation.169 in most cases, an individual is chosen by a deity for his own reasons, though tibetans speculate that there is a moral element to this choice. some claim that an oracle must live a blameless and virtuous life in order to be a vessel pure enough for a deity to inhabit temporarily.170 yet this is not universally held, as it is also claimed that oracles tend to be of low moral quality; however, this may be specific only to local oracles, where a distinction is drawn between the aristocratic and lower class laity, the

BLACK SERPENT1

e of the enns with the dagger. flereous first, work clockwise leaving lucifer for last. an incense of sorcery invokes atmosphere. light the candles from flereous to lucifer. then- carrying an incense wand or burner in one hand and a dagger in the other (doesn't matter which) approach each point and kneel reciting the enn for lucifer and wave the dagger through the smoke. finally, invite the fifth element (satan, spirit) from the center of the ritual space. kneel at the altar in prayer "we pray thee lucifer, bestow upon us the strength of your design. let the eagle bring us a new understanding. your light shall be our protection and guide us through this life to enlightenment. we are as the wind. we humbly pay homage to thee in our offer of incense that you may know our respect for your vas

e leaving leviathan for last. an incense of calamus and frankincense invokes atmosphere. light the candles from belial to leviathan. then- carrying a chalice of water (with sea salt) in one hand and a dagger in the other (doesn't matter which) approach each point and kneel reciting the enn for leviathan and dip the dagger into the water and sprinkle it above each candle. finally, invite the fifth element from the center of the ritual space. kneel at the altar in prayer "we pray thee leviathn, bestow upon us the strength of your design. let the serpent wise deal death to the lies of our enemies. allow our empathy to be our protection. allow our anger to be swift with justice. be present that our enemies will not conquer us. we are as the swift flowing tide ebbing to and fro. we humbly pay h

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

darkness, wherein resided most hideous beings- men with wings, four and two-faced men, human beings with two heads, with the legs and horns of a goat (our "goat-men* hippocentaurs, bulls with the heads of men, and dogs with tails of fishes. in short, combinations of various animals and men, of fishes, reptiles and other monstrous animals assuming each other's shapes and countenances. the feminine element they resided in, is personified by thalatth- the sea, or "water- which was finally conquered by belus, the male principle. and polyhistor says "belus came and cut the woman asunder, and of one half of her he formed the earth, and of the other half the heavens, and at the same time he destroyed the animals within her" as pertinently remarked by i. myer "with the akkadians each object and po

vaka (electric fire) is the father of the fire of the pitris (see vayu purana. but this is an explanation on the material and the terrestrial plane. the flames are evanescent and only periodical; the fires- eternal in their triple unity. they correspond to the four lower, and the three higher human principles* the suras, who become later the a-suras* atma, buddhi and manas. in devachan the higher element of the manas is needed to make it a state of perception and consciousness for the disembodied monad[[vol. 2, page] 58 the secret doctrine. whose esoteric interpretations may differ from our own- we shall have to explain to them the foregoing by certain passages in their own exoteric books, namely, the puranas. in the allegories of the latter, brahma, who is collectively the creative force

al sphere; while the lhas are spirits of the highest spheres- whence the name of the capital of tibet, lha-ssa. besides a statement of a purely physical nature and belonging to the[[vol. 2, page] 64 the secret doctrine. evolution of life on earth, there may be another allegorical meaning attached to this sloka, or indeed, as is taught, several. the flames, or "fires" represent spirit, or the male element, and "water" matter, or the opposite element. and here again we find, in the action of the spirit slaying the purely material form, a reference to the eternal struggle, on the physical and psychic planes, between spirit and matter, besides a scientific cosmic fact. for, as said in the next verse- 9. mother-water, the great sea wept. she arose, she disappeared in the moon, which had lifted

of the two- solid matter such as minerals and earths. from the "waters of space" the progeny of the male spirit-fire and the female (gaseous) water has become the oceanic expanse on earth. varuna is dragged down from the infinite space, to reign as neptune over the finite seas. as always, the popular fancy is found to be based on a strictly scientific foundation. water is the symbol of the female element everywhere; mater, from which the letter m, is derived pictorially from[[diagram] a water hieroglyph. it is the universal matrix or the "great deep" venus, the great mother-virgin, issues forth from the sea-wave, and cupid or eros is her son. but venus is the later mythological variant of gaia (or gaea, the earth, which, in its higher aspect is nature (prakriti, and metaphysically aditi, a

perfect harmony with the divine nature, he says 'but their parts' owing to a too close proximity to earth, and their commingling with the earthly (which is matter, and therefore the realm of evil 'are sometimes according, and sometimes contrary to (divine) nature' when those circulations- which eliphas levi calls' currents of the astral light- in the universal ether which contains in itself every element, take place in harmony with the divine spirit, our earth and everything pertaining to it enjoys a fertile period. the occult powers of plants, animals, and minerals magically sympathize with the' superior natures' and the divine soul of man is in perfect intelligence with these 'inferior' ones. but during the barren periods, the latter lose their magic sympathy, and the spiritual sight of

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

lly that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the hindu, the zoroastrian, the chaldean, nor the egyptian religion, neither to buddhism, islam, judaism nor christianity exclusively. the secret doctrine is the essence of all these. sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. it is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of dzyan? the writer, therefore, is fully prepared to take all the responsibility for what is contained in this work, and even to face the charg

at are the "forces. 508 the view of the occultists. 510 scientific and occult theories on heat. 515 the atoms of science. 519- vii. an attack on the scientific theory of force by a man of science. 523 ether and atoms. 527- viii. life, force, or gravity. 529 dr. richardson on nervous ether. 531 the senses and their action. 535 too much "life" may kill. 539- ix. the solar theory. 540 the primordial element. 542 elements and meta-elements. 546 the tree of life and being. 549 prof. crookes on the elements. 552- x. the coming force. 554 mr. keeley, an unconscious occultist. 557 inter-etheric waves. 561 the secrets of sound and odour. 565- xl. on the elements and atoms. 566 metaphysical chemistry. 569 what are the seven planets. 575 the cyclic fall of the gods. 577[[vol. 1, page] xvi contents. p

t every intra-cosmic planet and body, as being something organised, hence finite. the expression, therefore "it proceeds from without inwardly, etc" refers in the first portion of the sentence to the dawn of the mahamanvantaric period, or the great re-evolution after one of the complete periodical dissolutions of every compound form in nature (from planet to molecule) into its ultimate essence or element; and in its second portion, to the partial or local manvantara, which may be a solar or even a planetary one* by "centre" a centre of energy or a cosmic focus is meant; when the so-called "creation" or formation of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by the occultists life and by science "energy" then the process takes place[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1

when it expands the mother diffuses and scatters; when it contracts, the mother draws back and ingathers. this produces the periods of evolution and dissolution, manwantara and pralaya. the germ is invisible and fiery; the root (the plane of the circle) is cool; but during evolution and manwantara her garment is cold and radiant. hot breath is the father who devours the progeny of the many-faced element (heterogeneous; and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous. cool breath is the mother, who conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives them back into her bosom, to reform them at the dawn (of the day of brahma, or manvantara" for clearer understanding on the part of the general reader, it must be stated that occult science recognises seven cosmical elements- four entirely physical, and

and 7th races of this round, and will become known in the 6th and 7th rounds respectively* these seven elements with their numberless sub-elements[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] from within outwardly, every atom being said to contain in itself creative energy of the divine breath. hence, whereas after an absolute pralaya, or when the pre-existing material consists but of one element, and breath "is everywhere" the latter acts from without inwardly: after a minor pralaya, everything having remained in statu quo- in a refrigerated state, so to say, like the moon- at the first flutter of manvantara, the planet or planets begin their resurrection to life from within outwardly* it is curious to notice how, in the evolutionary cycles of ideas, ancient thought seems to be re

BLUE EQUINOX

th the sting of his whips, and making of laughter itself a sacrament adjuvant to love, even as in the wine of rheims is sparkle and bite, like as they were ministers to the high priest of intoxication. it is also fit that i write to you of the importance of purity in love. now this matter concerneth not in any wise the object or the method of the practice: the one thing essential is that no alien element should intrude. and this is of most particular pertinence to the aspirant in that primary and mundane aspect of his work wherein he establisheth himself in the method through his natural affections. the equinox 112 for know, that all things are masks or symbols of the one truth, and nature serveth alway to point out the higher perfection under the veil of the lower perfection. so then all

. while other variety artists are like different vintages of burgundy, claret, port, champagne, and other wines, she breaks the entire series by producing cocaine. in literature, there are poe and whitman. neither of these great men had the broad base of education. they have shot up by the mutation of a spiritual de vries. alexander harvey reminds me constantly of poe, but he is a poe without the element of tragedy or morbidity; while his comic spirit is more ineffably delightful than that of any other human being, past or present, with whom i am familiar. poe.s comedy was labored, clumsy, hard-working foolery. alexander harvey.s is perfectly spontaneous, and of such exquisite delicacy and acuteness, that he reminds one of the bistoury of a crazy surgeon. in shelley s elopement, he has tak

BOOK T

13/10/2002 such are the titles of the abodes or atouts of thooth; of the mansions of the house of my father. the descriptions of the seventy-eight symbols of this book "t" in a circle, composed of two white bars; together with their meanings. of the aces first in order and importance are the four aces, representing the force of the spirit, acting in, and binding together, the four scales of each element: and answering to the dominion of the letters of the name in the kether of each. they represent the radical forces. the four aces are said to be placed on the north pole of the universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the connecting link between yetzirah and the material plane or universe. i. the root of the powers of fire ace of wands a white radiating angeli

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ses of the moon are important to the proper working of magick. taking the two main phases: the time from the new moon, through the first quarter, to the full moon is known as the waxing moon. from the full, through the last quarter, to the new is known as the waning moon. when the moon is growing in size, it is waxing; when it is decreasing in size, it is waning. extermination. there is a certain element of sympathetic magick just in this time of working. for example, as the moon grows, so grows the opportunity (or whatever) for which you are working. or, as the moon dwindles, so declines the bad habit you are trying to overcome, or the wart you are trying to remove. the second basic of magick is feeling. you must want whatever you are working at to really happen. you must want it with all

lustration. they then return to the altar. the bell is rung three times. priest/ess "may you all be here in peace and in love. we bid you welcome. let now the quarters be saluted and the gods invited" the covener closest to the east turns outward and moves to stand facing the east candle, with her/his athame raised. s/he draws an invoking pentagram (see diagram) and says: covener "all hail to the element of air; watchtower of the east. may it stand in strength, ever watching over our circle" s/he kisses the blade of her/his athame and returns to the circle. the covener closest to the south then turns to face the south candle. with athame raised, s/he draws an invoking pentagram and says: covener "all hail to the element of fire; watchtower of the south. may it stand in strength, ever watch

and says: covener "all hail to the element of fire; watchtower of the south. may it stand in strength, ever watching over our circle" s/he kisses the blade of her/his athame and returns to the circle. 60/ auckland's complete book of witchcraft the covener closest to the west then turns to face the west candle. with athame raised, s/he draws an invoking pentagram and says: covener "all hail to the element of water; watchtower of the west. may it stand in strength, ever watching over our circle" s/he kisses the blade of her/his athame and returns to the circle. the covener closest to the north then turns to face the north candle. with athame raised, s/he draws an invoking pentagram and says: covener "all hail to the element of earth; watchtower of the north. may it stand in strength, ever wa

g. you're totally baffled at intimate exchanges with people you wouldn't normally go near. you are amazed at dreaming of doing things that are physically impossible in your everyday life. you end up with total frustration in your attemp'ts to make any sense of the strange goings-on in your elusive dreams. yet you still feel that somewhere there must be an answer. but where? what is the key? as an element of the universal consciousness, your super-conscious awareness is totally versed in universal symbolism. since the super-conscious mind tends to speak in its own language, your dreams can be expected to contain some of this language of universal symbols. but even though it has its own language, the super-conscious mind is aware that you will respond best to those symbols with which your co

s to be! the channeled information is merely stating that, as conditions exist at the moment, this is the probable result. if the individual desires a different outcome, it is within her or his power to bring it about. we create our own reality. the aura the "body" of wo/man is actually composed of seven distinct elements. the first three (solid, liquid and gas) form the physical body. the fourth element is called the etheric body and interpenetrates the physical. generally the etheric body extends beyond the confines of the physical body by about an inch. next is the astral body. it extends several inches beyond the etheric body. then, beyond the astral body, are the mental and spiritual bodies. due to their elasticity, and the speed at which they function, it is impossible to define phys

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

d are truly represented by that letter and its number. 5 and 6 these two paragraphs of the meditation should be compared with the symbolism of the first tarot key. the magician is obviously the on-looker, and he corresponds to the "superior nature. the four subtle principles mentioned in the sixth section are also shown in the symbolism of this key, as the implements on the table. the wand is the element of fire. the cup stands for the element of water. the sword is a symbol of air. the coin or pentacle represents the element of earth. note well that the text says "the wise conceal" the true "principles" under the names of the elements of ancient physics. the meditation on gimel* 1. thou hast seen, o israel, how, for the sake of creation, the one life that i am seemeth to divide itself, be

n as it is declared in genesis [121] t h e b o o k of t o k e n s 3 remember, also, that i, the lord, make myself manifest in a fourfold manner, and then consider what is the meaning of the letter mem with respect to its numbering as forty. here thou shalt see the figure of the four-fold elemental division of my nature, working through the ten sephiroth. all this is held in the primal water. that element of creative potency is the matrix of all things. 4 hear and forget not. i am both father and mother, and as mother, i am she who bringeth forth and nourisheth. yet this my maternal nature remaineth virgin and unsullied, though it be the womb of birth for countless thousands. 5 absorb thyself in this great sea of the waters of life. dive deep in it until thou hast lost thyself. and having l

in the mirror of the clear waters of hod. for when the surface of those waters is disturbed by no slightest ripple of thought. then shall the glory of my self, which is thy true self, be mirrored unto thee [123] comment on mem* m e m, pronounced mayim. transcribed as "m. the number 40. meaning: water. the stable intelligence. 1 the letter-name mem, m i m, means water. in the book of formation the element of water is assigned to this letter, and qabalists say "mem is mute, like water" the letter-name, m i m, adds to 90, which is the value of dawmam, d v m m" still, silent, dumb. the meditation opens with an explicit statement of the qabalistic doctrine that the life-power's self-reflection is the cause of all manifestation. the 23rd path of wisdom, assigned to the letter mem, is called "the

t flash which divideth the one into the two, and in its return absorbeth the two into the perfect unity [182] comment on shin* s h i n, pronounced sheen. transcribed as "sh. the number 300. meaning: tooth, or fang. the perpetual intelligence. 1 "circle" is used here because every circle has 360 degrees, and 360 is the value of the letter-name shin, sh i n "flame, because of the attribution of the element of fire to the letter shin. note also that the circle is the geometrical symbol of outgoing and return. 2 the key-word in this paragraph is "fang, which is one meaning of the letter-name shin. 3 this paragraph contains a repetition of the reference to the number of the letter-name, 360, as that of the degrees of a circle. 4 this paragraph is based upon the shape of the letter, which resemb

i h v h, is four-lettered, each letter corresponding to one of the four elements and to one of the four qabalistic worlds. the letters of this name are represented by the four animals described in the vision of ezekiel "they four had the face of a lion, of an eagle, of a man, and of an ox" these living creatures correspond to the four aspects of the absolute. the lion corresponds to life, to the element of fire, to atziluth, the archetypal world, to yod in i h v h, and to the sephirah chokmah, root of fire. the eagle corresponds to mind, to the element of water, to briah, the creative world, to the first heh in i h v h, and to the sephirah [189] t h e book of t o k e n s binah, the root of water. the man corresponds to the third aspect, truth or law, to the element of air, to yetzirah, th

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

his first stage. the action this is the stage where you use actions to endow the symbol with magical energies. this is part of the continuous process of translating your magical thoughts and words from the first stage, the inner plan, to manifestation as the impetus for success or fulfilment in the everyday world. these energies amplify your own. for example, passing incense, representing the air element, over the symbol activates the innate power of rushing winds that cut through inertia and bring welcome change, harnessing the energies of wide skies in which there are no limits, soaring like eagles, carrying your wishes to the sun. you can unite other elemental forces seite 20 wicca01.txt by using the appropriate tools and substances. similarly, you might begin a chant, a medley of godde

you need to ground the energies by sitting or lying on the ground and letting excess energies fade away into the earth as you press down with your hands and feet. the four elements i have mentioned the use of the elements in rituals. in magick, there are four elements- earth, air, fire and water. they all contain symbolic qualities and powers that together form the energies used in rituals. each element controls a quadrant in the magical circle. earth, in the north, represents the stability, security and strength of old stone circles, mighty castle walls, tall craggy rocks and mountain peaks. it is also associated with the time of midnight and winter. salt is often used to represent earth in spells and rituals. air, in the east, is action, freshness and power for change, the winds blowing

nd in summer. candles are used to represent fire. finally, in the west is water, that falls as refreshing rain, tides that ebb and flow, watercourses always finding a way, moving ever onwards, never backwards. water is associated with autumn and sunset. it represents the changing responsive, human emotions of life cycles, and personal ebbs and flows of energies. water is used to represent its own element [insert pic p042- magick in the southern hemisphere in magick, time and direction have an important place and it is necessary to understand that there may be differences according to which hemisphere of the globe you are working in. in the northern hemisphere, magical circles are cast clockwise, or 'deosil, which means 'in the direction of the sun. in the southern hemisphere, however, prac

e directions. the altar need not be large but you will need to have room to move all the way round it. many rituals demand that you move in a circle with the altar in the centre, although some place the altar in the north of the circle and you stand to the south, facing north. the central position of the altar/circle represents the realm of spirit, or akasha. akasha is the name given to the fifth element formed by the combination of the four ancient elements of earth, fire, air and water that were considered in classical times to be the components of all life and matter. it is greater than the other four. in formal magic, artefacts and lighted candles are kept on an altar but this is not vital. it is quite possible, even if you are using a communal room in an apartment or house, to leave y

wards so that light from the cosmos can also enter. do this before joining hands if you are creating the circle as a group. in a conventional coven, the high priestess casts and uncasts the circle, but you may prefer to allow the person leading the ritual to cast the magical boundaries. casting a dual circle you can create a dual circle if you wish* first consecrate the salt symbolising the earth element in the north of the altar by stirring it three times with an athame, wand or crystal, and visualise radiance pouring into it* stir the water, also three times deosil with the athame, wand or pointed crystal, asking the light and the goddess to enter it* add a few grains of salt to the water and stir it, saying: may power thus be doubled, thus increased, as life joins life to create a great

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ts composition, the charm consolidates some of the most significant icons of african american spirituality: the bible, a token of christian redemption; a root, a supernatural emblem and touchstone to an ancient heritage; and the most precious relic that nana owns, the bequest of a slave parent to a child.a twisted cord of her own mother's hair. bound together and made inseparable with twine, each element of the hand illustrates the charm's singularity of spirit. although the scene occurs in a motion picture, the real, historical implications present in it run as currents throughout this book. daughters of the dust enumerates the fundamental interests of one family on the eve of their dispersal, their concern for survival, their hopes for future generations, and their attempts to respect th

ed many african americans to view the spiritual realm as directly impinging on human experience. it is perhaps owing to such a perspective that the emphasis on supernatural mediation in black religious life both before and after emancipation can be understood. african american spirituality put a premium on experiences of empowerment, which were potentially available to all believers. this dynamic element of black spirituality has historically taken many forms. the exuberant practices of african american communal worship "shouting" and spirit possession, mystical visions and revelations.these aspects of black belief served to bring the individual and community into a transcendent experience that effaced the boundaries between self and spirit. conjuring.the practice of appropriating invisibl

aimed that she learned her magical knowledge "from my daddy and mammy\ 48\ and de old folks" she added "most of dem things works iffen you tries dem"[25] over time, certain ingredients emerged as staple components in the material rhetoric of conjure practices. the gravel and earth gathered from the surfaces of cemetery graves and stone markers, sometimes called "goopher dust" was a near-universal element in the pharmacopoeia of african american supernaturalism. a rabbit's feet or the highly sought after bone of a black cat endowed a practitioner with great power. materials were selected both for their sympathetic associations and for aesthetic purposes: red pepper to produce heat or irritation; lodestone to draw desirable forces magnetically; bone fragments to signify the passage of powers

a youth in the 1880s, the ring shout was considered "a very questionable form of worship" that was "distinctly frowned upon by a great many colored people" johnson noted that the "semi-barbaric" practices were already in decline owing to pressures from members of the community who discouraged their practice "the more educated ministers and members, as far as they were able to brave the primitive element in the churches" he observed, were among those who "placed a ban on the ering shout. f"[33] and yet, despite the concerted efforts of black and white educators and missionaries, african american conjuring practices endured. a possible but unintended result of the efforts of the cultural reformers may have been the assimilation of conjure and other supernatural beliefs into black christian

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

on, the chinese are still changing and evolving their mythology, just as their country s history also continues to evolve. today, television producers, moviemakers, animation artists, and computer game designers carry out the tradition of reinventing ancient myths to fit modern times. despite having many themes and variations throughout the centuries, most chinese myths contain one common central element: the survival of ordinary people against great odds, sometimes aided by the gods, sometimes punished or inhibited by them. the quest for food and shelter is an essential one, facing chinese people even today, as overpopulation and natural disasters continue to strike. individual acts of self-sacrifice and initiative are still essential to solve problems faced by the common man. now, as in

d=fire, yellow=soil, white=metal, black=water. in their study of chinese festivals, authors carol stepanchuck and charles wong write: the elements, which are five natural forces, work together in a cyclical order to represent periods of rise and decay, production and destruction. wood prevails over earth; metal prevails over wood; fire over metal; water over fire; and earth over water.3 no single element is powerful enough to destroy all others. nuwa restores order by balancing the forces of the universe. in his classic chinese mythology, anthony christie proposes the following interpretation [t]he activities of the goddess [are] full of difficulties, but one thing is clear: her task is to restore order. the commentators say that the ash of reeds is efficacious [effective] in the repair of

ple. tao translated as the way, or a nature force. tao te ching a collection of eighty-one verses written by the philosopher lao-tzu, forming the basic ideas of taoism. taoism a religion based on the belief in the tao, or the way. it was originally a philosophy based on the 81 verses of the poet lao-tzu. trigram a design made of three broken and/or solid lines. each design stands for an important element heaven, earth, fire, water, wind, storm, mountain, laa commentary on the seal of the nine angles by michael a. aquino vi gme.tr. generally speaking, some of these angles were taken from pythagoras, who talked in terms of the significance of 'numbers" rather than "angles. from my readings on the subject, i am convinced that plato's discourses upon geometry and the significance of the variou

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

planes and angles' is yog- sothoth, who is, as the shaper of energy and matter, described as the author of earth in its matter/energy/evolutionary configuration. note that in pure duality there is no room for judgment between the two; there is only one or the other. in duality geometry creates a single extension (a line. third angle: this is a very critical stage, because the existence of a third element introduces the notion of choice between the two opposites, either absolutely or relatively (aristotelian system) or of choice to aspire or not to aspire to universal perfections= platonic/pythagorean system. this is nyarlathotep, otherwise set, otherwise lucifer/satan, otherwise prometheus, otherwise thoth, who has created the power of perspective and the independent psyche of judgment. he

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

air and vibrating "hekas hekas este beh beloi" the chief is holding the wand by the white band. this is 3 symbolic of the equilibrated forces of over the governance of the four elements, beneath the divine wings of hwhy. through the chief adept holding the wand by the white band, he is symbolically forcing any and all negative energy down through the wand to the end of the black band and into the element of l. it is a simple matter to banish negative forces using the l.b.r.p. which uses the banishing earth pentagram. now, it is in the hands of the third adept to perform the opening banishing using the lotus wand. he, of course, will hold the wand by the white band as he draws the pentagrams (in this instance banishing with the black end symbolized of over matter. the connection and synthes

he d.w.b, the old current of energy is broken and a new energy is installed. the various calling of the elemental forces are now employed via the watchtower. all four watchtowers are activated through the four enochian tablets. this relates directly to the sun's cycle through the heavens and through the four elements which are held together by the tablet of union. this is the fifth principle, the element of. tools on the altar there are five tools on the altar. they are the air dagger (m, crucifix (o, chalice (n, chain (l, and the censer for the symbol of sitting on the letter c. as the tools are replaced on the altar after their use in the invocation of the watchtower, it begins the first magnetic re-charging of the ceremony. door of the vault the four kerubs on the door of the vault are

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

ush persuaded ronald reagan to appoint the younger draper to be administrator of the united nations development programme, an organisation connected with the world bank and charged with supervising population control! eugenics and master race policies were passed on across the generations of these ruling families of the elite. during george bush's tenure in the white house, the population control element of the aid budget soared. his legal counsel from 1980 was boyden gray, who became the chief legal advisor to the president during the bush administration. gray would have been able to give him plenty of advice on population control. when boyden was a boy after the war, his father, gordon gray (prescott bush's close friend, launched the project which provided the basis of today's global ste

had branches in many other parts of the world, and the riia's united states branch, the council on foreign relations (cfr) in new york (which had branches across the united states. in the post-war years, these would be joined by the bilderberg group (bil, the trilateral commission (tc, and the club of rome (cr) to form a highly effective network of manipulation which comprises a very significant element of the secret government of the world- a government that is far more powerful than any elected authority (figure 7. you will find the membership of these organisations among the elite of global politics and political 'advisors, banking, oil companies, multinational corporations, media owners, executives and journalists, the military, the law, and education. they the secret government 139 w

ormed the breakaway social democratic party, now the liberal democrats. if the royal institute of international affairs were not so shy about its membership list, you would find many names active within these two organisations involved at the riia also, i'm sure. the european atlantic group and the atlantic council are both part of the new world order network. the trilateral commission43 the next element of the secret government network was unveiled in 1972-1973 by david rockefeller (comm 300, the head of the chase manhattan bank, leading bilderberger, and leading manipulator of the council on foreign relations, of which he was the long-time chairman. david rockefeller is one of the most high profile, and most obvious, new world order manipulators on the planet, although he is really a pup

ave not been elected. the elected people are only figureheads for the guys who have a lot more power than even the president of the united states [valerian "you mean the president is powerless "not exactly powerless. he has the power to make decisions on what is presented to him. the intelligence agencies tell him only what they want to tell him."76 bush was not heading an independent cia, but an element within the so called 'inner fed' of the secret government which consists of the cia, nsa, fbi, nasa, and the federal reserve. much of the funding for this cartel of manipulation comes from its involvement in the hard drugs trade. many of the people involved in the bay of pigs invasion in the early 1960s, who would also turn up in the 1980s in the iran-contra drugs-for-arms scandal, would 2

up the cia network in europe after the war. i say 'employed. in fact gehlen psychological fascism 371 has said that it was more like a partnership between the cia (headed by the hitlersupporting allen dulles) and the worldwide nazi network. gehlen said that the collaboration with dulles was a "gentlemen's agreement" which "for a number of reasons was never set out in black and white .such was the element of trust that has been built up between the two sides during .intensive personal contact, that neither had the slightest hesitation in founding the entire operation on verbal agreement and a handshake".14 the 'verbal agreement' wouldn't have anything to do with the danger of written evidence seeping out and blowing the story, i suppose. writer and researcher, noam chomsky, says that gehlen

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

those from sirius, the pleiades and orion, although there were indeed other extraterrestrial races, which also shared involvement. this is where the reptilian variety comes into play. as where sirians, pleiadeans and those from orion did interact in cooperation with each other under the mutually agreed upon conditions of the program, i would have to classify the reptilians as a renegade or rebel element which did not adhere to the 'rules' or doctrines of the titan research project as set down by the three main project participants."1 these two races, the blue-eyed blonds and the reptilians, would seem to have been at war in many parts of the galaxy with factions on both sides also joining together to create alliances for their mutual benefit. this reptilian race is the dominating force be

ct the same..menes, manj, manis, etc, the emperor of the sumerian empire and son of king sargon. as waddell says in egyptian civilisation and its sumer origin "the identity of minos with menes now becomes apparent, not only from the identity in their personal tradition, and the equation in their names, but also in the essentials of their culture and civilisation; and the sumerian sign for the man element in menes' name in the egyptian and indus valley inscriptions (manj and manja) reads also dialectically min."18 the sumerians, egyptians, and minoans also used identical systems for their calendars and their concepts of astronomy were identical. the most famous story of minoan crete is that of the son of king minos. his son was said to be the minotaur, the half man, half bull, which defende

yramids, and the major freemasonic temples are located. energy= power if you know how to use it 60 children of the matrix correlation between these sites and "faults" in the earth's magnetic field are obvious, and studies have shown that "paranormal" events and experiences, including "ufo" sightings, tend to happen mostly at or near these magnetic faults in her book, where science and magic meet (element books, shaftesbury, england, 1991, serena roney-dougal points out that of the 286 stone circles in britain, 235 are built on rocks more than 250 million years old, the statistical chances of which are more than a million to one. robert graves, the poet and writer on mythology and mysticism, said "there are some sacred places made so by the radiation created by magnetic ores. my village, fo

agon court was re-launched in the 15th century as the hungarian court of the dragon and was strongly connected with "dracula. gardner calls himself "chevalier de saint germain and attache to the grand protectorate of the imperial and royal dragon court and order- ordo dragonis, sarkany rend, 1408. he loves titles, old larry. he has written a number of books, including bloodline of the holy grail (element books, shaftesbury, dorset, 1996, in which he claims that the merovingians and their offshoots, like the british house of stuart, were seeded by jesus and mary figure 18: the united nations is a whollyowned subsidiary of the illuminati. its symbol includes the laurel leaves and the world in 33 sections- a constantly recurring esoteric number, as in the 33 degrees of the scottish rite of fr

cientific" research in us universities, the tax-exempt foundations like the rockefeller foundation, were dictating what the outcome of that research would be before it had even started! without such an agreement, the funding was not handed over (see..and the truth shall set you free. this policy is to suppress an undesired outcome because, in carl sagan's words "all inquiries carry with them some element of risk. there is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions" the whole "scientific" system is structured to suppress knowledge, not advance it, because the illuminati is desperate for us to remain in ignorance of who we are and the nature of life. if enough people knew the truth, their game would be up. scientists, and their offshoot, the medical profession, are so

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

t published 1836, republished in 1972 by health research,p0 box 850, pomeroy, wa, usa 99347, volume i, p 368.7the great pyramid mystery8ibid.9ibid.10ibid.11ibid.12ibid.13ibid.14ibid.15ibid.16first book of enoch, 7:2-6.17the universe (life national picture library, time-life international, netherlands, 1964, pp 85-94.18ibid.19ibid.20adrian g. gilbert and maurice m. cotterell, the mayan prophecies (element books,shaftesbury, england, 1995).21quoted in the occult conspiracy, p 28.22manly r hall, the secret teachings of all ages (the philosophical research society, losangeles, california, 1988, p al.23from the ashes of angels, p 93.24l. a. waddell, the phoenician origin of britons, p 11.25ibid, p 13.26capt e. raymond, missing links discovered in assyrian tablets (artisan sales, thousandoaks, c

all ages, p clxxxiii.29ibid, p clxxxiii.10230barbara g. walker, the womans encyclopaedia of myths and secrets (harper collins, sanfrancisco, 1983).31jordan maxwell, the book your church doesnt want you t o read, p27.32it is from this that we inherit the christian term, curate.33john allegro, the book your church doesnt want you to read, pp 228-233.34laurence gardner, bloodline of the holy grail (element books, shaftsbury, 1996, p 63.35alan albert snow, director of the institute for judeo-christian origin studies, the book yourchurch doesnt want you to read, pp 63-66.36on mankind, their origin and destiny, p 368.37acts 24:538albert snow, astrology in the dead sea scrolls, the book your church doesnt want you t oread, p 65.39psalms 80:8.40isaiah 5:7.41the occult conspiracy, p 14.42jordan ma

aid that the basis of the physical world was what he called prime or firstmatter. this, he said, was a non-physical energy which you could not see or touch. hebelieved that prime matter could manifest as physical form through the four elements ofearth, fire, water and air. these elements are different from each other, but each isconnected by a common bond of dryness, moisture, heat or cold. every element has twoof these qualities, one of which dominates. earth is cold and dry and drynesspredominates. fire is hot and dry and heat predominates. water is moist and cold andcold predominates. air is hot and moist and moistness predominates. the idea is thatone element can be transformed into another through the bond they have in common, egfire becomes air through the common bond of heat. substa

aterialise in the satanists circle. thesacrificial victims, who have been bred from birth for the role, are ritually killed byslashing the throat from left to right. this is the origin of the freemasonic sign ofpulling the flat hand across the throat from left to right, a movement which meansyoure dead. the blood from the victims is collected and mixed with arsenic, whichappears to be a necessary element for those of the human-reptilian bloodlines. this ispoured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes.this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from theintestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the messehin ancient egypt. the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists stand

n, nc28513, united states.6ibid, p 50.7ibid, p 12.8the womans encyclopaedia of myths and secrets, pp 754, 755.9the t alisman of the united states, p 67.10ibid,p69.11ibid, p 79.12ibid, p 116.13secret and suppressed, p 90.14the secret t eachings of all ages, p cxx1x.15ibid.368chapter eighteenall the queen s forces andall the queen s menin so many ways, the house of windsor encapsulates almost every element of thisstory. they are of a black nobility bloodline who are knowingly working to thebrotherhood agenda and when you look behind the facade what you find is very darkindeed. the windsors are the highest profile reptilian family on the planet and theyoperate at the heart of the global manipulation. they are still gofers of a kind and notat the very top of the pyramid, but they are close to

DEMONIC BIBLE

seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his word is arrababaal and his seal is this: the thirty-eighth name is lugaldurmah the lord of the lofty places, watcher of the skies and all that travels therein. naught traverses the starry element, but that this power is aware. his word is arataagarbal and his seal is this: the thirty-ninth name is aranunna giver of wisdom, counsellor to our father, enki, knower of the magickal covenant and of the laws and of the nature of the gates. his word is aramanngi and his seal is thusly: the fortieth name is dumuduku possessor of the wand of lapis lazuli, knower of the secret name and the se

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

"without limit" one of the kabbalistic three so-called negative veils of existence (q.v. a description of the ultimate, unknowable divinity. ain soph aur: hebrew for "limitless light" one of the kabbalistic three so-called negative veils of existence (q.v. a part of the of the ultimate, unknowable divinity. air: one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of being warm and moist. the element of the direction of the east. the primary color is yellow. aiwass (aiwaz: the name of aleister crowley's (q.v) holy guardian angel (q.v. crowley spent many years trying to determine if aiwass was merely his higher self or was, in fact, a non-physical being. akasha: see azoth. also, the records of all that has occurred, is occurring, and will occur in the universe. alchemy: the art of trans

of cardinal (q.v) and fire (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mars (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color red. keywords include: courage, forceful, animation, outgoing, ardently, egotistically, ardently, impulsively, vigorously, aggressively, enthusiastically. artificial elemental: an entity similar to an elemental, but created by a magician from an element (q.v) or a combination of elements for a specific purpose. aspirant: from the french from the latin "ad" and "spirare" meaning "to breath. in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, an aspirant is the title of the zero degree of (associate) membership, and correlates to the earth of earth in the sephiroth of malkuth (i.e. the black colored quarter of malkuth. the primary principle of thi

umental aid. druidism: an ancient celtic brotherhood of scholarly priests that underwent a modern revival in minnesota in the early 1960's. druids worship in groups called groves (q.v) and venerate the goddess through trees, especially the oak. like modern witches (q.v, they believe in reincarnation- e- earth: 1) one of the five magickal elements. it has the qualities of coolness and dryness. the element of the north. 2) one of the planetsof the solar system. the planet that all human beings are from. eastern occultism: the magickal systems of india, china, tibet, japan, and other nations of the far east. it's range is roughly coequal with that of buddhism (q.v. in the late 1800's, the writings of helena p. blavatski (q.v) and the theosophical society (q.v, were primarily responsible with

one of the four magickal elements (q.v) being: fire= salamanders; air= sylphs; water= undines; and earth= gnomes. these attributions were made by the ancient german occultist, paracelsus. 3) a "nature spirit" one of the living beings of the astral (q.v) world. less individuated than human beings, sub rational, highly sensitive, emotional, and imaginative creatures with the primary make up of one element (q.v) and that element's attributes. elemental, artificial: an entity similar to an elemental, but created by a magician from an element (q.v) or a combination of elements for a specific purpose. elemetaries: the actual group name for elementals (q.v) according to classic grimoires (q.v. elements: there are five recognized magical elements in our system of magick/mysticism. these include a

to an elemental, but created by a magician from an element (q.v) or a combination of elements for a specific purpose. elemetaries: the actual group name for elementals (q.v) according to classic grimoires (q.v. elements: there are five recognized magical elements in our system of magick/mysticism. these include air (q.v, earth (q.v, water (q.v, fire (q.v, and spirit (q.v. some systems have a four element system of air, earth, water, and fire; some systems utilizes a three element system of air, water, and fire. these names and systems are indicative of western esoteric systems. empathy: from the greek "en" meaning "in" and "pathos" meaning "feeling" literally translated as "in feeling" the psychic (q.v) or psionic discipline of feeling the emotional state and/or responses of other souls or

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the order, and they would not have dared to have done so if they could not have been sure of preserving the secret of their interest in matters occult. consequently the strict secrecy concerning the names of members and the places of meeting was and always will be essential. secrecy is also necessary concerning initiation rites if they are to be psychologically effective; for they should have an element of surprise for the candidate; and the possession of their secrets, from which the rest of the world is excluded, builds up a group mind out of the pooled mentalities of the initiated brethren according to certain well-understood psychological laws. secrecy concerning practical formulae of ceremonial magic is also advisable, for if they are used indiscriminately, the virtue goes out of the

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it in these pages. 13. the qabalists further placed upon the paths of the tree the signs of the zodiac, the planets, and the elements. now there are twelve signs, seven planets, and four elements, making twenty-three symbols in all. how are these to be fitted on to the twenty-two paths? herein is another "blind" but the solution is simple. upon the physical plane [page 24] we are ourselves in the element of earth, therefore that symbol does not appear upon the paths which lead into the unseen. remove this, and we are left with twenty-two symbols, which fit accurately and, correctly placed, are found to correspond perfectly with the tarot trumps, each elucidating the other in the most remarkabl& fashion, and giving the keys to esoteric astrology and tarot divination. 14. the essence of each

station. 15. it would not profit us to go more deeply into the endless ramifications of this symbolism at the present moment, for it is carrying us beyond the three sephiroth we have already studied. let us proceed to a further consideration of the mysterious daath, which never appears on the tree, and to which no deity-name or angelic host is assigned and which has no mundane symbol in planet or element, as have all the other stations on the tree. 16. daath is produced by the conjunction of chokmah and binah, as has been already noted. the supernal father, abba, marries the supernal mother, ama, and daath is the issue. now daath is called some curious things by the qabalists; we will note a tew of them. 17. in verse 38 of the book of concealed mistery (mathers' english translation from th

d by the qabalists to be under the presidency of the yod of the sacred name of tetragrammaton. we may justly deduce from this that in any other fourfold system whatever is said to be also under the presidency of yod will refer to the atziluthic, or purely spiritual aspect of that force or subject. among other associations given by different authorities are the wands suit of the tarot pack and the element of fire. it will be apparent to anyone who has any knowledge of occult matters that as soon as we know the element to which a symbol is assigned, we know a good deal, for it opens up all the ramifications of astrology for us, and we can trace out its astrological affinities through the triplicities of the zodiac and the affinities of the planets with thern. as soon as we know what zodiacal

he twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet; the signs of the zodiac, the planets, and the elements. now there are twelve signs in the zodiac, seven planets, and four elements, making in all twenty-three symbols. how are these to be arranged on twenty-two paths? here is another qabalistic blind to puzzle the uninitiated. the answer is quite simple when it is known. our consciousness being in the element of earth, we do not need the symbol of earth in our calculations when we make contact with the unseen, so we leave it out and then find ourselves with the correct set of correspondences. malkuth is all the earth we need for practical purposes [page 72] the third set of symbols to go upon the paths are the twenty-two trumps or major arcana of the tarot pack. with these three sets of symbols

dency of the holy names governing their sephirothic attributions only, and should not be confused with other pantheons; for although we may go to other systems for intellectual enlightenment, we are unwise to attempt to mix the methods of practical working and unfoldment of consciousness. 17. for instance, the seventeenth path, between tiphareth and binab, is assigned by the sepher yet rah to the element of air. we are far wiser to work it with the rite of the element of air and the holy names assigned thereto, and to approach it through the appropriate tattva, rather than confuse the issue with the associations of the assorted collection of deities, castor and pollux, janus, apollo, merti, and other incompatibles assigned to it by crowley, whose correspondences present an inextricable tan

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sis of the nature of psychic attack iii. a case of modern witchcraft iv. projection of the etheric body v. vampirism vi. hauntings 1 of 103 vii. the pathology of non-human contacts viii. the risks incidental to ceremonial magic part ii differential diagnosis ix. distinction between objective psychic attack and subjective psychic disturbance x. non-occult dangers of the black lodge xi. the psychic element in mental disturbance part iii the diagnosis of a psychic attack xii. methods employed in making a psychic attack xiii. the motives of psychic attack. i xiv. the motives of psychic attack. ii part iv methods of defence against psychic attack xv. physical aspect of psychic attack and defence xvi. diagnosis of the nature of an attack xvii. methods of defence. i xviii. methods of defence. ii

tinguish very carefully between psychic experience and subjective hallucination; we have to be sure that the person who complains of a psychic assault is not hearing the reverberation of his own dissociated complexes. the differential diagnosis between hysteria, insanity and psychic attack is an exceedingly delicate and difficult operation, for so frequently a case is not clear-cut, more than one element being present; a severe psychic attack causing a mental breakdown, and a mental breakdown laying its victim open to invasion from the unseen. all these factors have to be borne in mind when investigating an alleged occult attack, and it shall be my task in these pages not only to indicate the methods of occult defence, but also to show the methods of differential diagnosis. it is very nece

of a few days, as bruises will. evil odours are another manifestation of an astral attack. the characteristic smell is of decomposing flesh, and it comes and goes capriciously; but while it is manifesting, there is no doubt whatever about it, and anyone who is present can smell it, whether they are psychic or not. i have also known a frightful stench of drains arise when a ritual belonging to the element of earth was being incorrectly performed. another curious phenomenon is the precipitation of slime. i have not actually seen this myself, but i have first-hand information upon good authority of one such case. the marks are sometimes as if an army of slugs had been marching in ordered formation; sometimes there is a broad smear of slime, and at others, distinct footprints, often of giganti

te that elemental forces, not human, are at work. poltergeist phenomena also occur, in which objects are flung about, bells rung and other noisy manifestations take place. of course there may be multiplicity of phenomena, more than one type appearing in the same case. needless to say, the possibility of some natural, material explanation must never be ignored, even in cases where the supernatural element appears most obvious. it should always be diligently sought in every possible direction before any supernormal hypothesis is considered worthy of attention. but on the other hand, we should not be so wedded to materialistic theories that we refuse to take a psychic theory as a working hypothesis if it shows any possibility of being fruitful. after all, the proof of the pudding is in the ea

rialistic theories that we refuse to take a psychic theory as a working hypothesis if it shows any possibility of being fruitful. after all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if, working on an occult hypothesis, we are able to clear up a case which has resisted all other methods of handling, we have pretty good evidence in support of our contention. we must also bear in mind that the element of deliberate fraud may enter into the most unexpected places. i have seen a drug addict successfully pass himself off for a considerable length of time as the victim of an occult attack. a recent writer in the british medical journal declared that whenever he came across a case of bell-ringing, knocks, the dripping of water and oil from ceilings, and other untoward happenings, he always l

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entals are spirits connected with the four elements of ancient philosophy and traditional western magic. the ancient greeks and romans thought that everything in the world was composed of a mixture of four fundamental qualities, which they called fire, water, air and earth. magicians assigned a class of elemental spirits to each of these elements. an elemental spirit partakes of the nature of its element, and is able to control the forces associated with its element. for example the elemental spirit of air is airy and controls the forces of the wind. do not confuse the elements with the physical materials fire, water, air and earth. these substances merely express in their natures the qualities of the elements whose names they bear. they are a good way of understanding the elements. if you

element. for example the elemental spirit of air is airy and controls the forces of the wind. do not confuse the elements with the physical materials fire, water, air and earth. these substances merely express in their natures the qualities of the elements whose names they bear. they are a good way of understanding the elements. if you consider the qualities of earth, you will gain an idea of the element earth. material soil is heavy, relatively dry in its natural state, cool to the touch, and tends to clump together or be found in clods. the element earth is present not only in soil, but in all things heavy, dry and cool. metals embody the earth element. so do crystals. so does wood, although wood also contains latent within it the element fire. no natural substance is a pure element. no

the work horses of modern magic. any purpose a magician may have can be placed under one or the other of the four elements, and in this way recommends itself to a specific class of elemental. elementals are summoned and banished through the use of the pentagram, which may be drawn in a variety of ways. there are five general ways to draw the pentagram, linked to the four elements and to the fifth element of spirit or light, also known as the quintessence. elemental light does not have its own class of elementals. each form of the pentagram linked with one of the four lower elements may be traced in two ways, to evoke or banish. for example, the pentagram of air, which controls the sylphs, may be drawn in one manner to invoke or call the spirit, and in another manner to banish or send away

o evoke or banish. for example, the pentagram of air, which controls the sylphs, may be drawn in one manner to invoke or call the spirit, and in another manner to banish or send away the spirit. i want to make this clear about the pentagram- there is only one pentagram, which is a star with five points and interlocking lines. it is traced by a single, continuous line that returns to itself. which element the pentagram belongs to is determined by which of the five points begins this line. whether the pentagram invokes or banishes is determined by which direction, sunwise (clockwise) or widdershins (counterclockwise, the pentagram is traced. the elemental association of the pentagram, and whether it invokes or banishes, can only be determined by observing the actual process of its formation

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ctical magic. it was popularized by french occultists such as eliphas levi, and from this venue found its way into the system of magic used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the technique for using the pentagram in golden dawn magic has become almost a universal feature of all systems of magic in english-speaking nations over the past century. in the golden dawn, the quintessence or fifth element of light or spirit is associated with the single upper point of the pentagram. the remaining four elements are assigned the lower points in the same pattern that is observed in the fixed signs of the zodiac, which are aquarius, scorpio, leo and taurus. each of these signs has an elemental attribution in astrology. the sign aquarius, located at the upper-left of the zodiac wheel, is linked

f light or spirit is associated with the single upper point of the pentagram. the remaining four elements are assigned the lower points in the same pattern that is observed in the fixed signs of the zodiac, which are aquarius, scorpio, leo and taurus. each of these signs has an elemental attribution in astrology. the sign aquarius, located at the upper-left of the zodiac wheel, is linked with the element air, and consequently air is placed on the left arm of the pentagram. the sign scorpio, located at the upper-right of the zodiac, is linked with water, and so water is placed on the right arm of the pentagram. the sign leo, on the lower-right of the zodiac, is linked with fire, so fire is placed on the right leg of the pentagram. the sign taurus, on the lower-left of the zodiac, is linked

the sign leo, on the lower-right of the zodiac, is linked with fire, so fire is placed on the right leg of the pentagram. the sign taurus, on the lower-left of the zodiac, is linked with earth, so earth is placed on the left leg of the pentagram. once the elements are related to the points of the pentagram, it becomes possible to use this figure to invoke or banish the powers and spirits of each element by inscribing the pentagram in different ways. the golden dawn system for invoking and banishing the elements is, in my opinion, unnecessarily complicated, but i will describe it here since it is employed almost universally in modern magic, and many readers will want to learn it. during rituals, it is customary to inscribe the pentagram upon the air in the direction that is associated with

nt by inscribing the pentagram in different ways. the golden dawn system for invoking and banishing the elements is, in my opinion, unnecessarily complicated, but i will describe it here since it is employed almost universally in modern magic, and many readers will want to learn it. during rituals, it is customary to inscribe the pentagram upon the air in the direction that is associated with the element being invoked or banished. to invoke is to call forth, and to banish is to send away. pentagrams are inscribed with the right index finger, or more formally with a ritual instrument of projection such as the wand or sword. modern witches use a dagger called an athame. the correct way of drawing the pentagram is seldom taught, and perhaps is not that widely known. it was described in one of

ccording to dion fortune, is to draw the pentagram too small on the air. finally, be sure to connect the end of the continuous line that forms the pentagram with its starting point. the pentagram is a closed figure. there is a general rule for golden dawn invocation and banishing by the pentagram, which helps somewhat to remember the method "invoke towards, and banish from, the point to which the element is attributed" spirit is unique and separate from the other four elements. the golden dawn method to invoke and banish it is involved, and different from the method for invoking and banishing the lower elements. according to the golden dawn teachings, the occult currents running on the pentagram from the active elements of fire and air, and the occult currents running from the passive elem

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he witness is being truthful, second whether the witness has correctly interpreted the evidence of his or her senses, and third whether the witness actually saw anything or merely hallucinated. there is no way to be certain that a person is not lying. the value of the polygraph is vastly overrated. indeed, the reverential awe accorded the lie detector machine by some branches of government has an element of primitive superstition. human beings lie for numerous reasons, and sometimes for no reason that they themselves can specify. once a lie has been repeated for a long enough time, it may become real to its inventor. even when we can be fairly confident that the witness is trying to be completely truthful, there is an ever-present possibility of self-deception. when there is insufficient i

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

cueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 71 (l. 582] p. lvii 2. mu-k er pet xa-k er ta thy essence is in heaven, thy body to earth.[1 (vith dynasty) 3. pet xer ba-k ta xeri tut-k heaven hath thy soul, earth hath thy body.[2 (ptolemaic period) constancy in the belief in the resurrection. there is, however, no doubt that from first to last the egyptians firmly believed that besides the soul there was some other element of the man that would rise again. the preservation of the corruptible body too was in some way connected with the life in the world to come, and its preservation was necessary to ensure eternal life; otherwise the prayers recited to this end would have been futile, and the time honoured custom of mummifying the dead would have had no meaning. the never ending existence of the soul is asser

epresented. a large number of fa ence figures of this triune god are found in graves, and specimens exist in all museums. he is represented as a dwarf standing upon a crocodile, and having a scarab us upon his head; the scarab is the emblem of the new life into which the deceased is about to break, the crocodile is the emblem of the darkness of death which has been overcome. according to some the element of ptah in the triad is the personification of the period of incubation which follows [1. naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 34, ll. 4, 5. 2. lanzone: op. cit, tavv. 87-91. 3. lanzone, op. cit, tav. 368] p. cix death and precedes the entry into eternal life, and the symbols with which he is accompanied explain the character attributed to this god.[1] the god ptah is also united with the gods

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tting away from a cascade, or from a dangerous whirlpool by swimming. the man who fears water will never reign over the undines; he who is afraid of fire cannot command the salamanders; as long as we are subject to dizziness we must leave the sylphs in peace, and not irritate the gnomes; for inferior spirits only obey a power that is proved to them by showing itself their master even in their own element. when we have acquired by boldness and practice this incontestable power, we may impose upon the elements the mandate (verbe) of our will, by special consecrations of air, fire, water, and earth. this is the indispensable beginning of all magic operations. we exercise the air by blowing from the direction of the four cardinal points while saying: spiritus dei ferebatur super aquas, et insp

ELLIS LOW TWELVE 1907

d president diaz ow the fate of the mexican republic once hung on the masonic honor and fidelity of a brooklyn man is the point of a remarkable political story that has been revived in every brooklyn lodge by the recent visit to the mexican capital of a member of kings county lodge, f. and a. m. it is the story of a country made stable by the strength and ability of one man, and it contains every element of heroic manhood, unquestioned bravery, passionate politics and grim humor, running the gamut from the fate of a nation to that of a fistic encounter in which future president diaz was sent sprawling across the deck of an american steamship by a purser who proved to be the greatest friend he ever had. the facts given below are vouched for by leading masons in brooklyn and are in detail as

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

satan fiercely combats any alternatives to its desired monopoly. 6. earned hostility most organizations laying claim to satan s name are hostile against the church of satan. according to the satanic bunco sheet the church of satan views the attacks mostly as sourgrapes attacks, meaning that the organizations are envious of something that only the church of satan provides [21. there is probably an element of truth in the statement, because a larger portion of the groups tend to select names that are very close to the name the church of satan, indicating their primary source of inspiration. we thus find groups emerging named the first church of satan, new church of satan, the church of satanic brotherhood, the original church of satan, etc. lending further credibility to the church of satan

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ychic science were published during a time when the interest in physical phenomena was peaking. spence wrote from a spiritualist perspective, and was very hopeful that scientists would find the means of proving the validity of physical phenomena. he fully accepted the existence of materializations, teleportations, and apports. fodor s work, written just a decade and a half later, acknowledged the element of fraud in spiritualism, while at the same time, retained the prominent psychical researcher s confidence in the larger body of data gathered by his colleagues. since fodor and spence even as fodor was writing, however, a revolution was starting within the ranks of psychical research. j. b. rhine, a young biologist, suggested an entirely new direction for research. psychical research, rhi

ed encounter with the being aboard the craft. again that year, other less notable abduction cases were reported, but equally important, a made-for-tv movie about the hill case ran on nbc on october 20. an increasing number of cases were reported annually through the end of the decade. abadie, jeannette encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 2 as the abduction reports often included an element of memory loss, the encounters themselves were frequently years if not decades prior to any investigator hearing of the abduction incidents. typical was the betty andreasson case. though her reported abduction occurred in 1967, the investigation by raymond fowler did not begin until 1976 and his book recounting the story did not appear until 1979. however, his the andreasson affair (1979)

ist is impaired. they are taken aboard a spaceship, sometimes levitation being an instrumental part, and are subjected to an invasive physical examination. generally, the victim is forced to forget the incident and only years later, prompted by troubling emotions possibly manifest in nightmares, the victim engages in psychotherapy or hypnosis, during which the memory of the abduction emerges. the element of memory loss coupled with the intrusive invasion of the body during the examination has given rise to comparisons of the abduction stories with a very similar story of satanic ritual abuse in which under psychotherapy and/or hypnosis, stories emerge of people having been forced to participate in a satanic ritual where they were raped. subsequently they forgot the incident(s. together, th

ingly he would assemble the women at night to join in dance and song. then, the next day, the people would go to the grave of the obambo, or ghost, and make a crude image, after which a bamboo bier, on which a body is conveyed to the grave, and some of the dust of the ground were carried into a little hut erected near the house of the visited, and a white cloth was draped over the door. a curious element of the ritual, which seems to show that these people had a legend something like the old greek myth of charon and the river styx, was a song chanted during the ceremony with the following line: you are well dressed, but you have no canoe to carry you across to the other side. possession in most preindustrial cultures, epileptic diseases were assumed to be the result of demoniac possession

of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. alchemy 23 on the part of the alchemical mystic that he might lay himself open through his magical opinions to the rigors of the law. meanwhile, several records of alleged transmutations of base metals into gold have survived. these were reportedly achieved by nicholas flamel, van helmont, martini, richthausen, and sethon. in nearly every case the transmuting element was said to be a mysterious powder or the philosophers stone. modern alchemy a correspondent writing to the british newspaper liverpool post in its saturday, november 28, 1907, edition gave an interesting description of a veritable egyptian alchemist whom he had encountered in cairo not long before: i was not slow in seizing an opportunity of making the acquaintance of the real alchemist l

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rodney stark and william sims bainbridge. berkeley: university of california press, 1985. jefferson, william. the story of maharishi. new york: pocket books, 1976. mahesh yogi, maharishi. the science of being and art of living. london: international srm publications, 1966. mason, paul. the maharishi: the biography of the man who gave transendental meditation to the west. shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element books, 1994. orme-johnson, david w, and john t. farrows, eds. scientific research on the transcendental meditation program: collected papers, i. seelisberg, switzerland: maharishi european research university press, 1977. white, john. everything you want to know about tm, including how to do it. new york: pocket books, 1976. mahatma letters communications allegedly from the mahatmas (maste

the successive taking of vows of nonviolence (ahimsa, truthfulness, nonstealing, sexual abstinence, and nonpossessiveness. each vow leads to a releasing of karma. in jainism, karma is pictured as a sticky substance that adheres to one s life force and prevents liberation. this substance is attracted by violence and the most violent are said to be covered in black karma. jainism forms an important element of the eastern teachings that came into the west, especially england, beginning late in the nineteenth century. these teachings influenced the development of various nonviolent perspectives, some of which became identified with spiritualism and the metaphysical community including the antivivisection movement and vegetarianism. sources: chalpple, christopher key. nonviolence to animals, ea

. charlottesville, va: hampton roads publishing co, 1998. mcnallen, stephen a (1948) stephen a. mcnallen, the pioneer advocate of modern norse neo-paganism in north america, was born in breckenridge, texas, on october 15, 1948. he attended midwestern university in wichita falls, texas, and during his college days discovered the deities of the ancient norsemen and began to identify with the viking element in his own ancestry. he eventually dedicated himself to odin and the whole of the norse pantheon, though he kept this commitment to himself and a few friends. however, in the winter of 1971.72, as his college career was coming to an end, he released the first issue of the runestone. previously he had placed an ad in fate magazine, and compiled a list of potential subscribers from it. from

g to the locality of its production. the mercury of the philosophers stone needed to be a purified and revivified form of the ordinary metal; as the arabian alchemist geber stated in his summa perfectionis: mercury, taken as nature produces it, is not our material or our physic, but it must be added to. mercury seems to have been an entirely different substance than any ordinary metal or chemical element. depending upon one s interprepation of alchemy as a system of spiritual growth, mercury could be one of several substances or states of consciousness. merlin a legendary british enchanter who lived at the court of king arthur. he emerged as a character in geoffrey of manmouth s historia regum britanniae (completed around 1135 c.e. geoffrey later wrote a complete book on merlin, vita merli

d. the committees, in their verdict, stated that they found no evidence of a magnetic fluid, and the cures might be due to vivid imagination. de jussieu was the only member who dissented. he claimed to have discovered something.animal heat.that radiated from the human body and could be directed and intensified by willpower. later magnetists adopted the theory. it marked the discovery of the human element in animal magnetism. the next important development is attached to the name of marquis de puysegur. he began his cures at busancy in the same year that animal magnetism was officially turned down. he did not employ the baquet. he magnetized a tree, which he fastened cords around and invited the sufferers to tie themselves to it. one of his invalid patients, a 23-year-old peasant named vict

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t be separated.-see "wolfhang lazius" lib. iii, c. 8, and "camden brittania" p. 572. for, say they, inasmuch as gold is so pure that it bears repeated meltings without wasting, so if it be dissolved into an oily residuum, such should support fire without being consumed. it may suitably be explained in this place that the oldest alchemists held peculiar views on flame and fire. fire was to them an element-one of four; there were two contraries in nature, three principles, and four elements. fire, as such, should not need what we call fuel to consume; but only as a means of detaining it in a certain place.-see "licetus, de lucernis" cap. 20-21 and "theophrastus" they said there may be a relation between fire and fuel of three sorts-if the strength of the fire exceed that of the humour, it pr

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

ry. incredibly vivid and real. the percipient feels great love and warmth emanating from this being, who is usually interpreted as a divine figure from the individual s own religious tradition. some see it as god or christ, others as an angel. all, however, feel that the being is an emissary, or a guide. moody characterized the meeting with the being of light as perhaps the most incredible common element in the accounts. other researchers who followed in moody s wake, however, only ambiguously replicated this particular finding. kenneth ring, margot grey, and others found fewer such encounters in their own samples of people who had undergone near-death experiences. many neardeath accounts described the observation of an overwhelmingly loving, beautiful light surrounding them and suffusing

FAUST

en from the goal you nevermore can stray. seek to bewilder men- that is my view. but satisfy them? that is hard to do.what is attacking you? pain or delight? poet go hence and seek yourself another slave! what! shall the poet take that highest right, the right of man, that right which nature gave, and wantonly for your sake trifle it away? how doth he over every heart hold sway? how doth he every element enslave? is it not the harmony that from his breast doth start, then winds the world in turn back in his heart? when nature forces lengths of thread unending in careless whirling on the spindle round, when all life s inharmonic throngs unblending in sullen, harsh confusion sound, who parts the changeless series of creation, that each, enlivened, moves in rhythmic time? who summons each to

are you then? mephistopheles part of that power which would the evil ever do, and ever does the good. faust a riddle! say what it implies! mephistopheles i am the spirit that denies! and rightly too; for all that doth begin should rightly to destruction run; twere better then that nothing were begun. thus everything that you call sin, destruction- in a word, as evil representthat is my own, real element. faust you call yourself a part, yet whole you re standing there. mephistopheles a modest truth do i declare. a man, the microcosmic fool, down in his soul is wont to think himself a whole, but i m part of the part which at the first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to light, the haughty light that now with mother night disputes her ancient rank and space withal, and yet twill

y as cannibals, as if we were five hundred swine! mephistopheles behold how happy is this folk- it s free! faust i think now i would like to go away. mephistopheles but first give heed to a display of glorious bestiality. siebel [drinks carelessly; the wine is spilt upon the ground and turns into flame. help! hell s on fire! it s burning me! mephistopheles [conjuring the flame. be quiet, friendly element! to the young men. this time twas but a flame that purgatory sent. siebel what s that? just wait! for that you will pay dear. you don t know who we are, that s clear. frosch don t try that game a second time, i say! altmayer i think we d better bid him gently go away. siebel what, sir! you venture to provoke us and carry on your hocus-pocus? mephistopheles silence, old wine-butt! siebel br

o his guitar. what dost before thy lover s door, katrin, before the world with light is laden? let, let it be! he lets in thee as maid, but he will let thee out no maiden. maids, heed aright! is it done quite? ah, then good-night! poor things, he will not linger! for your own sake, no robber take, when love he d make, save with the ring on finger! valentine [steps forth. whom lure you here? god s-element! o you rat-catcher, cursed slinger! to the devil first the instrument! to the devil afterwards the singer! mephistopheles he s broken my guitar! there s no more use in it. valentine a skull s now going to be split! mephistopheles [to faust. don t give way, doctor! quick! don t tarry! keep close by as i lead the way. out with your duster, out, i say! thrust hard at him and i will parry. val

d ship every trough is too. you ll fly not less today you flew. both choruses and when we glide the peak around, then sweep along upon the ground; bedeck both far and wide the heather with all your witchdom s swarm together. they settle down. mephistopheles they crowd and shove, they rush and clatter, they hiss and whirl, they pull and chatter, they sputter, stink and burn and flare! a real witch-element, i swear! keep close or soon we ll be a parted pair. where are you? faust [at a distance. here! mephistopheles already snatched up there? then i must exercise my rightful sway. make way! squire voland comes! make way, sweet folk, make way! here, doctor, hold to me! and now in one quick rush let us get out of all this crush; it is too crazy even for the likes of me. hard by there something

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

istianity, and even farther removed from its judaic roots. today, a growing body of scholars is questioning many aspects of christianity that have been popularly held for a long time. a picture is emerging that shows that the history, theology, and practice of christianity have been directly effected and shaped by dominant factions, resulting in the marginalization and suppression of the mystical element as being in opposition to accepted doctrine. as soon as paul entered the picture, a dichotomy arose among the early christian devotees between those coming from a traditional jewish background and the growing group of gentile christians. in this regard, it is interesting to consider the letter written by master yeshuvah s brother james, the leader of the jerusalem church, as an indicator o

rowing interest in the enigmatic revelation of john spurred by the advent of a new millennium. many christians are also finding new meaning and inspiration in the testimonials left by christian saints and mystics of their experiences on the path. these documents, along with new interpretations of the teachings of master yeshuvah in the peshitta, are reinforcing the understanding that the mystical element flourished in the early church, and that the entire history of christianity is replete with mystics. many of the ideas and practices of the mystical qabalah are reflected in those of mystical christianity. the mysteries of the last supper and the crucifixion have long been compared with the mystical significance of pesach (passover. the sacraments of the body and blood of christ in the euc

icular time, place, and people involved. sufis have their own lists of divine names or attributes, which they recite as a regular component of their spiritual practices. one list is composed of ninety-nine names, and another one of a thousand and one. many of the names in the sefer hashmoth (book of 8- f e 30 the names) are also found in the qur an. in the same way that the name hvhy is a central element in the meditation and ancillary practices of many qabalists, most sufi meditation practices center upon the name allah, the principal divine name in the qur an (see figure 1.2. the name allah is found in the sefer hashmoth (book of the names) as aleh (hla lit. these, with one lamed l instead of two. the addition of the second lamed l extends the name into asiyah (qabalistic world of activi

noise. since the room is to be completely dedicated to the lord hvhy, it would be appropriate to attach a mezuzah (small encased scroll) on the right doorpost. jews have placed mezuzim on their doorposts since ancient times to distinguish their households as jewish, as a talisman to ward off evil, and as a device to trigger remembrance of the divine when entering and leaving a house. the central element in the mezuzah scroll is the affirmation of unity, the shema. a shrine should be installed, if possible, on the eastern wall of the room. it is said that shrines are spiritually alive and build themselves. a shrine within the context of the mystical qabalah is an utterly personal construct. it is not an altar as it is construed within the context of the practical qabalah, but a place where

nd form, the aspirant on the path of the tree of perfection after the ayin cultivates dispassion and discrimination to systematically renounce and negate every experience, until the individuated consciousness dissolves in the ayn like a salt doll walking into the ocean. hence, exercises which cultivate discrimination (sanskrit viveka) and one-pointed concentration (sanskrit samyana) are a central element in the vast face practices of most mystical traditions. such practices might involve the use of inscrutable imagery (e.g. the koans found in some schools of zen buddhism, open-ended questions (e.g. who am i, or strings of thought intended to lead the mind beyond finite rationality. consider the following examples: 1. imagine objects of increasingly larger size until greater than the size o

FLY THE LIGHT

of a new religion- luciferian youth. this album does not move in the clean and shiny future as we so often visualize, but a past of when machinery and mankind were at odds with each other, when one wished to become another by the subconscious desire of mankind. pounding rhythm, abrasive and chanting vocals, harmonies and disharmonies move in layers over industrial and ebm stylized songs, with an element darkness and chaos intensely behind the surface- like a tv screen flashing images which can only be hinted at binaural beats and phi frequencies used in the musick of p 75 are programmed around numerical significance or points of cabalistic idea, this is done by two tones being at different frequencies in each ear, causing then by the difference of the number between tones, the brainwave i

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

an amazing prodigy. man, as i said, had in him the nature of the assembly of the seven, composed of fire and breath. nature from her union with man brought forth seven men corresponding to the natures of the seven governors, being both male and female and rising up towards the sky" the generation of the seven first men was made in the following fashion. female was the earth, water the generative element; the fire brought things to maturity, and from ether nature received the vital breath, and she produced the bodies with the form of man. as for man, from life and fight which he had been, he changed to soul and intellect, the life changing to soul and the light to intellect. and all the beings of the sensible world remained in this state until the end of a period. at the end of this period

s, described in the regeneration of tat, the world was reflected in his mind. after his regeneration, he cried to god through the creatures, and became eternity, the aion, as here. the principle of world-reflection in the mind thus belongs to both types of gnosis, but with a different emphasis. in the one the adept is released by bis vision from evil powers in matter and there is a strong ethical element. in the other, the vision is of god in nature, a kind of pantheism; the material world is full of the divine, and the gnosis consists in fully grasping it, as it is, and holding it within the mind. for the renaissance enthusiast, believing all to be the work of one man, the most ancient egyptian, hermes trismegistus, these distinctions would be blurred (4) egyptian philosophy of man and of

nd divine rites, so that the idols had the power of doing good and evil" these terrestrial or man-made gods result from a composition of herbs, stones, and aromatics which contain in themselves an occult virtue of divine efficacy. and if one tries to please them with numerous sacrifices, hymns, songs of praise, sweet concerts which recall the harmony of heaven, this is in order that the celestial element which has been introduced into the idol by the repeated practice of the celestial rites may joyously support its long dwelling amongst men. that is how man makes gods.3 hermes adds as examples of such gods, the worship of asclepius, of his own ancestor, hermes, and of isis (implying the cult of the statues of these divinities; and he mentions here, too, the egyptian worship of animals (i r

nd presupposed are the same whether the magician is using these forces to try to obtain concrete material benefits for himself, or whether he is using them religiously, as in the hieratic magic described in the asclepius, for insight into the divine forces in nature and to assist his worship of them. into the hellenistic astrology which is the background of the philosophical hermetica an egyptian element had been absorbed, namely the thirty-six decans, or thirty-six gods who ruled over the divisions into ten of the 360 degrees of the circle of the 1 for a good summary of the subject, see festugiere, i, pp. 89 ff. 45 he hermetic literature divides into two branches. on the one hand there are the philosophical treatises, such as those in the corpus hermeticum, and the asclepius, to which can

owards shadows or reflections of it.1 there are some references in this to the cabalists and to the imagery of solomon in his canticle. it is illustrated by a wheel divided into thirty lettered divisions, with a sun at the centre of it.2 all the "intentions" are towards the sun, not merely the visible sun, but the divine intellect of which it is an image. the lettered wheel is certainly a lullist element in the book, and reflects the lullist principle of basing an art upon divine attributes, represented by letters. it probably connects, too, with those lectures on "thirty divine attributes" which bruno gave in paris and of which we do not have the text.3 then come thirty short chapters on "concepts of ideas"4; these are vaguely neoplatonic, with several mentions of plotinus. without making

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

rdinates for which are to be found in the call of cthulhu) as already stated, nodens is the only member of the elder gods to be mentioned by name, and lovecraft gives no further information concerning him. the sign of the elder gods is described as an upright pentagram containing an eye-shaped sigil. the points of the pentagram symbolize the four elements, plus that of spirit, the fifth or hidden element. combined, they balance the mono-elemental nature of the old ones, suggesting that the elder gods may exist on a higher plane the eye suggests the opening if the ajana chakra, or third eye, symbolizing the facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amon

f the deep ones flourishes in an atmosphere of moisture and coldness, the exact opposite of the fire and heat generated by the initial ceremonies which include the lycanthropic rites that evoke the inhabitants of the lake. the participants at this stage actually immerse themselves in the ice-cold water where a transference of sex-magical energy occurs between priests and priestesses while in that element. 10 through the use of this magical rite, bertiaux claims to have established contact with these creatures, which assume an almost tangible substance. perhaps lovecraft himself has left us with a rather unsatisfactory explanation of the true provenance of the cthulhu mythos. certainly, it appears to hold a great value for those individuals currently practising the black arts. in the words

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

artly correct. the individual elements making up such a sigil may consist of established symbols, but the end result is definitely individual because of the selection of the basic symbols and the simplification/stylization and decoration, which is executed here again. the sigils from our last examples could be enlarged in the manner of figure 22. let us not forget that alienation is a significant element of sigil construction. now that we have covered the important aspects of the pictorial method, let us take a look at the mantrical spell method. of course, you may also use h s the pictorial method/ 53 chapter 5 the mantrical spell method the mantrical spell method basically employs acoustic sigils. the principle of constructing mantrical sigils is quite simple: the sentence of desire is t

igil, perhaps by applying the word method (whereby the chosen word itself serves as raw material) and combining it with the glyph of the major category. the four xamples of figure 23 clarify this process. you will observe that we are taking the basic symbol and combining it with the letters of the term. of course, these relationships are open to argument. for example, one could assign pain to the element of fire, which would imply a strong, nearly spastic feeling; pain within the element of earth would tend to be dull and lethargic, etc. one may also work with sub-elements such as earth of water, air of water, fire of water, etc. use your own intuition. you may also utilize the pictorial method. love, for example, might be or (symbols of gunion h, e the alphabet of desire/ 71 figure 23 72/

r their construction. you should keep the sigils obtained by this method in a special gdictionary h for later use. 2nd example suppose that some time later you wish to get a proper job (perhaps for the time after your examination, which you have, of course, passed. however, you don ft want to specify the precise type and location (company, department, etc) of your job in order to retain a certain element of choice. thus you may formulate: this my wish to get a proper job the words ga h and gto get h are not really needed. your experience with the alphabet of desire is beginning to pay off, for now you will need only two additional sigils one for gjob h and another for gproper, h the others having been construed already in your previous working. by the same method as before, you may obtain

training in his book initiation to h inate attention was given in e time of the inquisition. modem technology has largely rt has nearly disappeared in our culture. on the other hand, we. working with a ost gprimitive h peoples still do this. even a gcity magician h like franz bardon recommends it on the fourth level of g in ermetics. sujja su fa fno-ta also covers it in the first part of her book element-magie. remember the witches f familiars to which such inord th succeeded in subduing the animal aspects in our lives. thus, this magical a can, with its help, create agood counterbalance to the modem tendency of over- emphasizing artificiality and technology it will usually take years and decades of practice until you are ready to work with atavistic nostalgia in a predictable and reliable

an 8 spare, p. 59ff. 9. marcus m. jungkurth, zos kia (berlin: stein der eisen, 1983, pp. 256-264. w 1 comments/ 131 xi/84, pp. 221- 29. g scribble. d farch smith does oint out, however, that some aesthetic corrections may his thesis is enlightening and witty and annot be discarded completely, although a convincing ided more clarity to his rocedures. 11. for example, refer to sujja su fa fno-ta fs element- magie (bad honnef: edition magus, 1983, pp. 51- 56. 12. cf. my article gmythen in tuten. vom magischen umgang mit analogien h in unicorn, 2 13. ray sherwin, the book of results (leeds: the sorcerer fs apprentice press, p. 32ff 14. see timothy d farch smith fs introduction to francis barrett fs the magus (secaucus, nj: citadel press, 1977, pp. vi-vii. his explanation is a bit tricky. the m

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us to the ancient alchemists, the angels from the moon which rules the saline tides of the sea were designated by the term "salt" they had found that a certain amount of salt in the blood is necessary to the mental processes, also that excess salt in the blood produces insanity, as best proven by the experiences of shipwrecked sailors who become lunatics when they drink water containing the lunar element salt. thus also they established a connection between the moon and mind. the fiery lucifer spirits who have taken such a baneful part in man's evolution became associated with the fiery element "sulphur" the alchemists said that man is rendered unconscious and dies by continuous inhalation of this element; so man, the spirit, was rendered unconscious of and dead to the spiritual realms by

in order to enable him sometime to create by his own mind, to form thoughts and speak the word of power that shall make his thoughts flesh. three great creative hierarchies were particularly concerned in bringing about this change: the angels from the moon, the mercurians, and the lucifer spirits from mars. the alchemists connected the angels from the moon, which rules the saline tides, with the element salt, the lucifer spirits from mars with the element sulphur, and the mercurians with the metal mercury. they used this symbolic presentation partly because of the religious intolerance which made it unsafe to promulgate any other teaching than that sanctioned by the orthodox church of that day, and partly because humanity as a whole was not yet ready to accept the truths which were embodi

element sulphur, and the mercurians with the metal mercury. they used this symbolic presentation partly because of the religious intolerance which made it unsafe to promulgate any other teaching than that sanctioned by the orthodox church of that day, and partly because humanity as a whole was not yet ready to accept the truths which were embodied in their philosophy. they also spoke of a fourth element, azoth, a name composed of the first and last letters of our classical languages and intended to convey the same idea as "alpha and omega--that of all-inclusiveness. this referred to what we now know as the spiritual ray of neptune, which is the octave of mercury and which is the sublimated essence of spiritual power. the alchemists knew that the moral and physical nature of man had become

, which are the vantage ground of the sensuous and passionate lucifer spirits. this tripartite spinal cord was to the alchemists the crucible of consciousness; they knew that in the sympathetic section of the cord which governs the functions that have to do particularly with the upkeep and welfare of the body, the lunar angels were specially active and this segment was therefore designated as the element salt. the segment governing the motor nerves which expend the dynamic energy stored in the body by our food they saw clearly to be under the dominance of the martial lucifer spirits, and they, therefore, named that segment sulphur. the remaining segment, which marks and registers the sensations carried by the nerves, was named mercury, because it was said to be under the dominance of spiri

ginal word has been corrupted to mislead all not entitled to the knowledge. but all things change on this terrestrial sphere, and this applies also to the methods of initiation and the requirements thereof. hiram abiff failed in his great effort to make the molten sea at the time when he was building solomon's temple, because he, the son of the fiery lucifer spirits, did not know how to blend the element fire with the water poured into his mold by the sons of seth, the creatures of the water god, jehovah. at that time he was given a new hammer and a new word. the hammer was in the form of a cross. the word was written upon a disc, before he was finally slain by his adversaries. and so he slept until as lazarus, the widow's son of nain, he was raised by the strong grip of the lion's paw, th

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t law of analogy is everywhere the master key of all spiritual mysteries, and, although masonry and catholicism do not begin till we arrive at the earth period, they have their prototype in the earlier periods; we shall therefore briefly touch upon the essential facts. in the saturn period, the earth-in-the-making was dark; heat, which is the manifestation of the ever invisible fire, was the only element then manifest; embryonic mankind was mineral-like, the only lower kingdom of evolving life. unity was everywhere observable, and the lords of mind who were human then, were at one among themselves. in the western wisdom teaching we speak of the highest initiate of the saturn period as the father. in the sun period the root of a new element, air, was evolved, and coalesced with the true fir

gods. the hammer wherewith the norse god thor struck fire from the sky finds its counterpart in the thunderbolt of jove; like hiram, the assir belong to the hierarchy of fire, the lucifer spirits, the sons of cain, striving for positive mastership through individual effort, and therefore upholding the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin mary. faith is the prime factor in their salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obe

by the masses. masonic traditions tell us that hiram's preparations were so perfect that success would have been assured, had not treachery triumphed. but the incompetent craftsmen whom hiram had been unable to initiate into the higher degrees, conspired to pour water into the vessel cast to receive the molten sea; for they knew that the son of fire was unskilled in the manipulation of the watery element, and could not combine it with his wonderful alloy. thus, by frustrating hiram's cherished plan and spoiling his masterpiece, they aimed to revenge themselves upon the master. solomon had been privately informed of the nefarious plot, but jealousy on account of the queen of sheba bound his tongue and stayed his arm, for he hoped that when the ambitious plan of hiram failed, the affections

ife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace (3) the third age, when a divine christ, who, like melchisedec, shall fill the dual office of king and priest, and shall rule over a urged and glorified humanity, which has risen from sex-love to soul-love. part vi spiritual alchemy when we expose a piece of iron to the air, the oxygen contained in the latter element oxidizes the iron and in time disintegrates it. this process is commonly known as rusting. the blood comes in contact with the air every time it passes through the lungs, and as a needle is drawn to a magnet, so does the oxygen of the inspired air coalesce with the iron the blood. a process of combustion takes place, which is similar to the rusting or oxidation we observed in the iron expo

he golden color which designates the saint. when that has been achieved, the greatest feat of alchemy has been performed; the base metal has been changed to gold, the wonderful alloy of the molten sea has been made from the dross of the earth. all that then remains is to "pull the plugs" and pour it. the natural golden color is the christ ray finding its chemical expression in the oxygen, a solar element, and as we advance upon the path of evolution towards universal brotherhood even those who are not professedly religious acquire a tinge of gold in their auras due to the higher altruistic impulses common to the west. paul speaks of this as "christ being formed in you" for when we have learned to mix the alloy by spiritual lives, when we vibrate to the same pitch as he, we are christ-like

FULL MOON RITUALS

d the circle. her heart pounded in time with boudica's song as she called north, and she smiled as boudica spiraled back to her place in the circle. with dancing feet, carielle moves to the altar and takes up the incense. gracefully, she steps quickly to the east point and raises the incense up, spiraling it three times. as the incense smoke curls upward, carielle calls "ancient ones of the east, element of air, keepers of the ancient wisdoms, of intellect and beauty, first breath and last, we welcome you to our rite! be with us now" slowly, the wind picks up, barely noticeable at first. spiraling 'round, the wind causes carielle's red hair to brush and dance against her face, and she smiles as she hears the voices whispering upon the wind. the incense smoke spirals upward, making shapes i

ature of elemental fire. rebirth, like the legendary phoenix who was reborn from its own ashes to live again. the warmth of small fire burning in the fireplace, or the fires that rage to burn away underbrush to re-energize the land. typo steps forward and looks starkly serious at those gathered around the circle, with the castle candle held high above his head he calls "ancient ones of the south, element of fire, you who light the world with the suns glow you who light my heart with desire we bid you welcome to this rite be with us now this night" typo spins back to his place in the circle with the castle candle now held firmly by both hands close to his chest. his thoughts turn briefly to his wife and how easily she brings out the spirit of fire in his heart and mind. typo hands the candl

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

world, the lower world, and the image of god. yet this quadruplicity is in itself a duality- the knower and the image of god; because this image includes the upper and lower worlds. the absorption of the knower in the image is the great work- the re-establishment of unity or equilibrium. concerning the first of these two dualities, isaac myer writes: secret wisdom of the qabalah page 14 the basic element of most of the ancient, and to this day, of many of the modern religions of the world is, the idea of a perfect invisible universe above, which is the real and true paradigm or ideal model, of the visible universe below, the latter being the reflection, a simulacrum or shadow, of the invisible perfect ideal above. this idea was fully understood by the ancient egyptians, as was shown in the

ziratic vision having vanished there was no comparison (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

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

e functions were henceforth confided to two separate individuals. as originally, throughout nature, the female was the visible organic unit within whom was contained the exclusive creative power, and as throughout the earlier ages of life on the earth she comprehended the male, it is not perhaps singular that, even after the appearance of mankind on the earth, the greater importance of the mother element in human society should have been recognized; nor, as the power to bring forth coupled with perceptive wisdom originally constituted the creator, that the god-idea should have been female instead of male. from the facts to be observed in relation to this subject, it is altogether probable that for ages the generating principle throughout nature was venerated as female; but with that increa

nthrone one all-powerful male god whose chief attributes were power and might. notwithstanding the efforts which during the historic period have been put forward to magnify the importance of the male both in human affairs and in the god-idea, still, no one, i think, can study the mythologies and traditions of the nations of antiquity without being impressed with the prominence given to the female element, and the deeper the study the stronger will this impression grow. during a certain stage of human development, religion was but a recognition of and a reliance upon the vivifying or fructifying forces throughout nature, and in the earlier ages of man's career, worship consisted for the most part in the celebration of festivals at stated seasons of the year, notably during seed-time and har

tsoever seed is sown" although, through the accumulation of property in masses and the capture of women for wives, men had succeeded in gaining the ascendancy, and although the doctrine had been propounded that the father is the only parent, thereby reversing the established manner of reckoning descent, still, as we shall hereafter observe, thousands of years were required to eliminate the female element from the god-idea. we must not lose sight of the fact that human society was first organized and held together by means of the gens, at the head of which was a woman. the several members of this organization were but parts of one body cemented together by the pure principle of maternity, the chief duty of these members being to defend and protect each other if needs be with their life bloo

an earlier work, that only through the gens was the organization of society possible. without it mankind could have accomplished nothing toward its own advancement. thus, throughout the earlier ages of human existence, at a time when mankind lived nearer to nature and before individual wealth and the stimulation of evil passions had engendered superstition, selfishness, and distrust, the maternal element constituted not only the binding and preserving principle in human society, but, together with the power to bring forth, constituted also the god-idea, which idea, as has already been observed, at a certain stage in the history of the race was portrayed by a female figure with a child in her arms. from all sources of information at hand are to be derived evidences of the fact that the earl

basket of this fruit is said to have been the most acceptable offering to the god bacchus, and therefore, by his devotees, was regarded as the most sacred symbol. the favorite material for phallic devices was the wood of the sacred fig, for it was by rubbing together pieces of it that holy fire was supposed to be drawn from heaven. by holy fire, however, was meant not so much the natural visible element which was kindled, as that subtle substance contained in fire or heat which was supposed to contain the life principle, and which was sent in response to the cravings of pious devotees for procreative energy, which blessing, among various peoples, notably the jews, was indicative of special divine favor. by pagans, jews, and christians, the pomegranate has long been regarded as a sacred em

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ngaway to sea, no chanceoftaking totheroadwithouta horseorofentering the listsofchivalry.rubbishonce again,butit was something to enter theworldof adventurous romance even from the backstairs, or from london purlieus'(sly,p.35. for this addiction, however, there was to be no cure.thechristmasof1870broughtwithittheextranumberofthelondonjournaland egan'sthehorrorsofhoathleyhall-addinga supernatural element tothehighadventureofthe bays ofengland.thespell wasnowcomplete. asmuchasicouldofdangerous rubbish' and reflected, at theendofhisme,thatishould never have entered thoseotheroccult. paths,andcomeoutofthemto proceed further, hadinot-amidstmy last.attemptatschooling-comeacrossthe__dangerousrubbish27shadowlessrider,his leagueofthe crossofblood, and thefortythievesoflondon,whowere led by blackhu

rmetofeel in any way surethatthe general resemblance to my dead sisterwhichi traced initwas morethanatrickof imagination.he added,withastonishing naivety 'moreover, as often in the mostgenuine materializations there was a faint phantasmal resemblance to the general contours of the medium'sownfeatures,buttransfiguredoutof all knowledge. rita, hethought,wasgenuine, for'in this seance, the essential element of fraud waswanting-i.e.there was no gain likely to accruein any way financially or otherwise tothemedium. it didnotoccur to him at the time that enthusiastic, unsolicited testimonials could be extremely beneficialtomrrita. later, he revised his opinion and in his autobiography described rita as'thelast kind of person in lookswhomone would be prepared to trust on sight.theordinary observer

r. mrs herman, a protestant scholar of mysticism, describedthe book as:'aprofound and illuminatingstudy-byone.whowritesoutofanunparalleled knowledge of mysticalliterature, andwhois not only a master of the interpretation of mystical doctrine and experience,buthimself a mystic of the first order'(themeaning andvalue ofmysticism,1916, p.387).she yet pointedoutthat'hedoes scant justicetothe mystical element in protestantism. allthereviewers pointedoutthe book 's principal fault: it isnotwritten in languagethatcan be understood by themaninthestreet,althoughdivineonionis for all men. thisdifficulty-thathe wrote as a specialistfor specialists255 waite was never able to overcome in his writing. butwhen.his words were accompanied by the ritual of his order there was a change.withinthefellowship of

fe, a consciousness of his divine nature and destiny. as real man he suffered,butas divine man he knew-e-knew, that is 'whence he came and why; he knew that it was for the working of a mystery; he knew that this mystery was an epitome of the experience of each individual soul on the. way of return godward. he went through the high dramatic enactmentwitha conscious and plenary realisation of every element therein, from the most even to the least; and hence for us there is vitalism and grace in all (pp.185-6).redemption is 'by the finding of life ingod'and it is a continuing process,notaonce for all event. waitewasa christian,buthe was certainlynotorthodox.themystic, specifically the christian mystic, seeks divine union, which is 'realization in god';butthis can only be obtained, for waite

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followed long and complicated squabbles over the order's essential nature, involv255 ing much pamphleteering and canvassingofsupport. dissatisfied with the inconclusive outcomeofall this, annie homiman, yeats and brodie- innes all resigned from office and the provisional council that now governed the order began to draw up a new constitution that would effectively remove almost the entire magical element from the order's teaching and practices. nothing came of this and in may1902three chiefs were elected for one year: percy bullock,drr. w. felkin and brodie-innes (who was unhappy with the prospectofan annualelection-hebelieved that chiefs should be appointed for life. felkin had come to london in1896from edinburgh, where he had qualified, although not in the same college, both as a medical

onlytoexternal sense. it is a double cube because the things which are below are a reflection of those which are above, as we are told by the emerald tablet; the worldofman and womanappendixc119born to sorrow is a reflectionofthe world above where dwell beings created for joy.thealtar is black because the fires of created things arise from darkness and obscurity, which divine beings unfold in an element of light.thewhite triangle is placed on the altar as an image of the triune light which moved in the darkness, forming the world in darkness and out of darkness.thereare two contending powers and one always uniting them.thesethree are imaged in the triple flame of ones being and in the triplicity of the world of sense.theyare thetriadof life.thered cross above the triangle is.asymbolofhim

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tiesshould be read as an introduction to deeper personal research.thework of franz hartmann, namedmagic, white and black,i can recommend to serious enquirers, for it elucidates the real aims of the higher magic, with which alone we are concerned, and it clears away many misconceptions which exist in the minds of the uninitiated. to such as desire to follow more closely the old testament religious element, i should advise a perusal of the commen255 taries ofdrallen barnes on daniel andthebook of revelation, and the symbolical descriptions of the book of46themagicalmasonezekiel. on the christian aspect i recommendthe perfect way,orthe findingofchrist,by the latedra. kingsford; in this volume will be found worked out the broader scheme of christian teaching which is so apt to be obscured by s

ch. in the context alsoitis stated 'that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts 'as the one dieth so dieth the other. but orthodoxy denies an immortal soul to beasts,butgrants it to man. is the wise solomon then a fool? or does orthodoxy desert the wise solomon?ifthe ruach of those passages be the human soul, then animals have it also;paceshelomoh; or else ruach is a name here for some element of the lower quaternary, prana,i.e.,life, or the material breath. again in genesis xxxii. 16,ruachmeans space:'putaspacebetwixt drove and drove. ecclesiastes xii. 7,'thespiritshall return unto god who gave it; here apparentlyruachmeans the manasic ray of theosophy.ithas been considered by some commentators that asruachwas properly tranlated into the greekpneuma,thatruachwas essentially the

as.mens,the intellect, higher menas.spiritus,an afflatus from above, spirituality, the higher aspirations; like the high ruach of the kabbalists, and symbolic more nearly of our theosophical conception of atma-buddhi. there was a difference recognised even in common conver255 sation in ancient rome between the higher and the lower minds, between 'buddhi manas' and 'kama manas, between the manasic element of the triad and the kamic element of the tetrad- note the roman use of the two words,animaandanimus,from one root.animawas animal soul; what theanimalhad.animuswas the human soul. they said,animavivimusetsentimus,animosapimusetintel255legimus.'by the animal soul we live and perceive, by the human soulwebecome wise and we understand' otherwise,animaestvitd3,the animal soul pertains to life

ity and the principles of man when man is viewed as a quaternary being.thecharacters, masks or personae are harlequin, colum255 bine, clown and pantaloon, and if we consider man as partly celestial and partly terrestrial, we may look upon him as already suggested as being of fourfold essence, recognising, for example, a ray of divinity--the spirit, the human soul, the animal soul or the passional element, and the material body; thus showing two higher principles from the celestian world and two from mundane sources. you will recall the harlequin, who is always veiled and is carrying a magic wand; he represents the invisible and highest light beaming over the human soul: he is clothed in a starry costume of many colours, representing the seven divine and planetary forces as they are shown t

al power, and needs to be always supervised and checked, lest he sink into the paths of folly and sin.thepantaloon isthematerial body ofman,driven hither and thither by the clown, the animal mind whose thoughts are common and acts are coarse and material..the body is a mere slave and servitor, and has to suffer for the sins and follies broughtuponhim by the clown representing the lower, passional element in man.theaction of the pantomime shows the poor, despised pantaloon as an old and feebleman,despicable, and the sport of circumstances, and the subject for all maltreatment: he is the down-trodden, ignorant fool, always abused bythelow-minded clown, who is so often a cheat and swindler, and too selfish to preserve the safety or the health of his servant: he is shown as an oldman,also, to

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the lion, in july, the fiery heat is mostthe symbolism of the 4 ancients 21fymbollsmofthecourseof thezelatorpastthe4aticiehtseastfire.it .july.,redwate:r.mi.,3ai.anr.imt.oeeritblueair.2!!lanl'ient;jan, 225yellowwest.nwnj.nv',u",vmz255.;u":u22thesorcerer and his apprenticeevident. in the scorpion,inoctober..come the water floods, andin.aquarius,injanuary, come the keen and biting winds,ofwhich the element air is the type. note that the aspirant is led, asitwere backwards,up theseasonsin his course past thefrom \vest toe.ast.i.,i. but the' hebrew rabbis said that the divine namej"nrrihvh rushesthroughthe.foreac.hletter presides oyer an element-yod over fire, he over water, vau over air, andhepvereltrth,andthattherefore he who could pronounce itwould make both heaven andearthtotterandquake,se

ael.6.raphael 'y auriel or uriel\lgabriel28. theofthe four elements.t>.arel.'m'm..6.chassanren'y phorlakh\ltaliahad29.therulers of the four elements.t>.seraph:"e-.6.ariel'vkerub\ltharsis30.the kings of the four orders of elementals. salamanderst>.djin.sylphs.6.panllda. gnomes'y ghob or gob. undines\7nicksa;31. in 'the formation of a magical pentacle or talisman consider first under what planet or element etc, it falls. then collect all the names of the sephira to which it belongs as well as those of its angels, intelligences, etc, also the sigils numbers, geomantic characters, lineal figures, thereunto belonging, then classify and arrange. 32.themethod of forming the tree of life with the cards of the tarot pack is as follows. the four aces are placed on thethe azoth lecture35throne of ket

with me one eternal unity; therefore translatingthatinto the microcosm,theunionofthe material, carnal, and earthly man with the higher selforhigher triad. now what keeps them apart?itis kama rupa,the barofself. when that is removed the self is cast out. then the material in man is the emblem of matter, viz, water, the lower triangle. hydrogen, or the root of hydrogen, may be the final primordial element, the half hydrogenofwhich i spoke before,butthis drawn up into, intertwining. with, and interlacing with, the higher triad.andthat is the [mal atonement, or at -one-ment, the reunion of the materialwiththesupernal, of the humanwiththe divine, the perfected atonement, whea spiritandmatter" nolongerseparate, shall be one. therefore is the interlaced triangle the seal of the great solomon. th

ou must know every atom; you must measure192 the sorcererand his apprenticeand analyse the minutest part; and therefore, to every scientist, in every possible walk of science, the philosophy of the tatwic vibrations says,'goon;the more you can fmd out the better: my science does not.conflict with yours in the very slightest degree' the five tatwas, the five vibrations, are as follows: shape sense element akasa dotted globe sound vayu circle touch air taiias triangle colour fire apas crescent taste water prithivi square smell earth and every one of these is dual- positive and negative, to use the phrase which has got into common use in electrical science; it is not a very accurate one, but it will pass. and those five are attributed to the five ordinary planets- i do not say with particular

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

ts, to a great extent, in the kabbalah. the strange thing is, that judaism is a monotheistic religion, incepted with the revelation of the torah to moses (peace be upon him. but, within this religion is a system called the kabbalah, that adopts the basic practices of magic forbidden by the religion. this substantiates what we have presented above, and demonstrates that the kabbalah is actually an element that has entered judaism from the outside. but, what is the source of this element? the jewish historian fabre d'olivet says that it came from ancient egypt. according to this writer, the roots of the kabbalah stretch back to ancient egypt. the kabbalah is a tradition learned by some of the leaders of the israelites in ancient egypt, and passed down as a tradition by word of mouth from gen

t it is a beginning this is a great mystery.42 in the same book, it is clear that when freemasons speak of the "great architect of the universe" they mean nature, or, that they worship nature: apart from nature there can be no power responsible for our thought or our activities the principles and doctrines of masonry are scientific facts based on science and intelligence. god is the evolution. an element of it is the power of nature. so the absolute reality is the evolution itself and the energy that encompasses it.43 the magazine mimar sinan, a publishing organization especially for turkish freemasons also gives expression to the same masonic philosophy: the great architect of the universe is a leaning toward eternity. it is an entering into eternity. for us, it is an approach. it entails

ds, they want to reject the basic truths that lie at the foundation of monotheistic religion (isindag calls them vain beliefs and dogmas. these truths are the ultimate realities such as that man is created by god and is responsible to him. in short, masons aim at destroying the elements of faith that constitute the essence of religion. they want to reduce the role of religion as merely a cultural element that expresses its ideas on a number of general moral questions. the way to accomplish this, according to the masons, is to impose atheism on the society in the guise of science and reason. ultimately though, their goal is to remove religion from its position as even a cultural element, and establish a totally atheist world. in an article by isindag, in the magazine mason, entitled "positi

clear connection between ancient egyptian and masonic rituals. no matter how much those who attempted to interpret the magic flute as "a story about the far east" at its foundation are egyptian rituals. it is the gods and goddesses of the egyptian temples that influenced the creation of the characters of the magic flute.75 obelisks another important symbol of masonry is what was once an important element in ancient egyptian architecture the obelisk. an obelisk is a tall, vertical tower with a pyramid as its peak. obelisks were inscribed with ancient egyptian hieroglyphs, and lay buried for centuries under the ground until they were discovered in the nineteenth century, and removed to western cities such as new york, london and paris. the largest obelisk was sent to the usa. this exportatio

ocial organization, it is actually about the secrets of human existence. that is, the outward appearance of masonry as charitable or social organization is actually a guise to hide the philosophy of the organization. in reality, masonry is an organization that aims to systematically impose a specific philosophy on its members as on the rest of society. as we said at the beginning, the fundamental element of this philosophy, one which has transpired to masonry from pagan cultures, especially that of ancient egypt, is materialism. dcf materialism revisited the compass and square depicted with the eagle, one of ancient egypt's most important symbols. materialism in masonic sources i. belief in absolute matter today's masons, as did the pharaohs, priests and other classes of ancient egypt, bel

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, it was the period in which the priesthood prepared the symbolism, legends and vessels for the influx of energy which would occur at the changeover to the new cycle. the cycle itself encompasses four different co-ordinates, these can be related to the four letters of the divine name (yhvh, the four elements, the four canopic jars of mummification and the four phases of the temple. heraldic cycle element god- name pisces year initiation fire yod 1844 transmission air he 1904 consolidation water vau 1964 manifestation earth he 2024 horus son head neter contents direction duamutef jackal neith stomach north qebsennuf hawk selkit intestines south hapi baboon nephthys lungs east amset man isis liver west probably the most expressive image of the four elements of the heraldic cycle are seen ref

hile the priestly messiah was to give israel a new spiritual impetus. these two roles need to be carefully considered. in present scholarship there is a tendency to confuse literalist and fundamentalist forms of judaism with the gnostic forms of the israelite mysteries. accordingly, the king messiah tends to be seen in purely political and revolutionary terms, while certainly there is a political element to the message of the davidic messiah we must realise that since matter is only a temporal manifestation, for the messiah to save israel as a whole (as a collective of particles of light, the physical world must be redeemed! this is why there is such an apocalyptic emphasis in essene and gnostic literature, for the davidic messiah to complete his task all matter must be trasnformed back to

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

ble to create a certain result (i.e. a code produces a function in the given software. these languages have no value except that they communicate certain agreed functions which trigger certain results. the occult languages are the same, their value is in the agreed meaning to the symbols and the resulting increase in knowledge that occurs. in neither occult or computer languages is there a social element, the code represents certain actions or realities and causes certain effects. since language today has a social and communicative function we tend to lose sight of its esoteric significance. as part of our study of kabbalah we need to re-consider the role of the written word and examine its possible occult value. gnostic theurgy page 102 the mystery of hebrew a secret of secrets for those

many techniques for using your diary in a creative way. a couple we will cover here are elemental self analysis and identity work. for elemental self analysis take four pages in your dairy and mark them with the titles of the four elements. each day for one month sit down and consider your personality, be brutally honest with yourself. list your various personality traits and list them under the element you think they should be related to. for example, enthusiasm may be related to fire, and over-emotionalism to water. even when you feel there is no more to write keep going, consider all major and minor aspects of yourself, good and bad, known and secret and classify them. at the end of the month make some master lists gnostic theurgy page 148 of what you have found, consider the following

should be related to. for example, enthusiasm may be related to fire, and over-emotionalism to water. even when you feel there is no more to write keep going, consider all major and minor aspects of yourself, good and bad, known and secret and classify them. at the end of the month make some master lists gnostic theurgy page 148 of what you have found, consider the following questions under what element are most of my personality traits? under what element are most of my negative traits? under what element are most of my positive traits? after you have done this ask some of your friends (ones you can trust) what personality traits they find notable about you, both good and bad. add these to your lists, but in red. ask yourself the above questions again and compare what other perceive abou

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infernal princes) samael east (being the angel of fire who is azazel. samael is the demon prince who is married to lilith and father of tubal-cain. the root word of samael is sml, which translates idol or image) azael west (associated with azrael, the angel of death or the egyptian anubis, the god of the dead. azael represents the west and the realm of twilight) azazel south (associated with the element fire, as azazel is the fire djinn of islamic sufism. in hebrew azazel is the scape goat, associated with the root oz, meaning goat and devil, sexual force) mahazael north (associated with earth, being cain or the egyptian set as the lord of the earth in typhonian lore. mahazael comes from the root mhzal, meaning to consume and devour and is associated with amaimon, a grand daemon) 11 the r

tself a grand grimoire of shadowed knowledge. our soul must be enflamed as the serpent and must work accordingly as the devil in flesh, the tester of the limits and the initiator upon earth. work always with a goal in mind and do not dabble with the spirits of the goetia. you have been warned. working with angelic spirits angelic(k) spirits are celestial or empyrean forces, based primarily in the element air. they are commonly associated with lucifer and are the higher articulated solar and lunar shadow forms of the initiatic guide, by one conjoined with the demonic spirit the self develops in balance, rather than repression and self-deception. such angels are fallen, and contain a demonic or infernal aspect to their character. approach this with respect and seek to become like the essence

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

o the energies. so when you have internally reached a state of openness, you can then judge for yourself that the presence of the archangels are truly undoubted. within its performance the magician traces a protecting circle, while his imagination is formulating an astral circle of fire within which to pursue his work. at the north, south, east, and west of this circle banishing pentagrams of the element earth are traced with the wand or sword. as these pentagrams are formed in midair with the elemental weapon, every effort should be made to impart vitality and reality to them. the blind performance of this ritual, as is so true of every aspect of theurgy, is quite useless, and is a waste of both time and energy. the imagination, simultaneously, should be stimulated to create these pentagr

manner indicated, is the cleansing of the entire sphere/aura of personality. only a little practice will demonstrate to us as to whether we are succeeding in obtaining the required effect. there should be a clear sense, unmistakable in its manifestation, as of cleanliness, even of holiness and sanctity, as though the whole being were gently but thoroughly purged, and that every impure and unclean element had been dispersed and annihilated. just as a plunge into a cool running stream on a hot midsummer day leaves one blessed with the sense of refreshment and purification, so also should be this ritual. the rationale of its action depends on the purification of the constituents of the nature of the magician. every molecule, every cell astral, mental and physical is concerned, inasmuch as the

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

and void. go clockwise to the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "agla" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters (remain in the north and say "in the divine name adonai ha-aretz, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel uriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel phorlakh and the ruler kerub be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the hermetic cross. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of periclinus de faustis and the symbol of aretz. as a wanderer in the wilderness, i invoke the powers of earth to bear wit

n this ceremony! may the angel phorlakh and the ruler kerub be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the hermetic cross. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of periclinus de faustis and the symbol of aretz. as a wanderer in the wilderness, i invoke the powers of earth to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of earth and the active realm, so that i may obtain greater understanding of hidden things and thereby advance in the great work" circumambulate the temple three times, saluting with the neophyte signs when passing the east. go to the west and face east. give the adoration to the lord of the universe: holy art thou, lord of the universe (projection sign) holy art thou, whom nature hath not

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

in in the east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "eheieh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name elohim tzabaoth, i open this temple in the element of water. may the archangel gabriel look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel taliahad and the ruler tharsis be also in attendance! i have gained admission to this temple through the badge of the cup of stolistes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of monocris de astris and the symbol of maim. as a unicorn of the stars i invoke the powers of water to bear witness

vor upon this ceremony! may the angel taliahad and the ruler tharsis be also in attendance! i have gained admission to this temple through the badge of the cup of stolistes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of monocris de astris and the symbol of maim. as a unicorn of the stars i invoke the powers of water to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of water and the creative realm, so that i may obtain greater understanding of hidden things and thereby advance in the great work" circumambulate the temple three times, saluting with the neophyte signs when passing the east. go to the west and face east. give the adoration to the lord of the universe: holy art thou, lord of the universe (projection sign) holy art thou, whom nature hath n

nspirations or emotions that he may be communicating to you. you may stay in this state for as long as you wish. you may end the meditation here, simply thanking her for coming into your presence" give the practicus sign go to the west of the altar. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram over the cup of wine. place the wand aside. drink the wine. as you partake of the element, meditate on the talismanic emblem for an extended period of time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of elohim tzaboth! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare t

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

east. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram. thrust the wand through the center of the figure and vibrate "yod heh vav heh" do this also in the south, west, and finally in the north; drawing the same pentagram and intoning the same word in all four quarters. return to the east (remain in the east and say "in the divine name shaddai el chai, i open this temple in the element of earth. may the archangel raphael look with favor upon this ceremony! may the angel chassan and the ruler aral be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the caduceus of hermes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of poraios de rejecttis and the symbol of ruach. i have been brought from amoung rejected. as a lord/lady of the 32nd p

d the ruler aral be also in attendance! i have gained admission in this temple through the badge of the caduceus of hermes. hear me! i arn one who has received the mystic title of poraios de rejecttis and the symbol of ruach. i have been brought from amoung rejected. as a lord/lady of the 32nd path, i invoke the powers of air to bear witness to my spiritual endeavor. grant me the knowledge of the element of air and the astral realm, so that i may obtain greater understanding of hidden things and thereby advance in the great work" circumambulate the temple three times, saluting with the neophyte signs when passing the east. go to the west and face east. give the adoration to the lord of the universe: holy art thou, lord of the universe (projection sign) holy art thou, whom nature hath not f

GOLDEN DAWN SUPREME BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

ed in this curriculum (the sirp, the sbrp, the brh, and regardie's opening by watchtower) call for the initiate to give the lvx signs after tracing the spirit pentagrams. this is because traditionally, advanced rituals of this type were performed only by initiates in the grade of adeptus minor (or higher. the lvx signs are the grade signs of an adeptus minor, not necessarily the grade sign of the element of spirit. the fifth element is conferred on an initiate in the portal grade, and therefore the grade signs of spirit are the opening and closing of the veil, just as the grade sign for air is that of the theoricus. it is therefore apropriate for the portal initiate to freely substitute the portal signs for the lvx signs [rendering for the sirp, closing for the sbrp. we realize, however, t

GOLDEN DAWN SUPREME INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

sted in this curriculum (the sirp, the sbrp, the brh, and regardie's opening by watchtower) call for the initiate to give the lvx signs after tracing the spirit pentagrams. this is because traditionally, advanced rituals of is type were performed only by initiates in the grade of adeptus minor (or higher. the lvx signs are the grade signs of an adeptus minor, not necessarily the grade sign of the element of spirit. the fifth element is conferred on an initiate in the portal grade, and therefore the grade signs of spirit are the opening and closing of the veil, just as the grade sign for air is that of the theoricus. it is therefore apropriate for the portal initiate to freely substitute the portal signs for the lvx signs [rendering for the sirp, closing for the sbrp. we realize, however, t

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e that the portion (the top point) is attributed to the scepter of hermes, the rays of c, and the. this is the point of quintessence, the alchemical b. the color is of purity and is therefore colored white. the sephiroth attributed unto its two angles are rtk and hmkj. the two side points or arms of the pentagram are attributed unto m on the left and n on the right. the left arm attributed to the element of m is represented by the sword, z, and man. the kerubic emblem of k is also attributed to the left arm. this arm is colored yellow. the top horizontal line which partly forms the arm is attributed to twklm. twklm is of the center pillar of which all the above sephiroth are of the sephirotic element of m. in addition, the top portion of twklm is attributed to m. this is represented by the

hile the symbol of the macroprosopus is the hexagram. the pentagram is a most potent symbol and is the signet star of the microprosopus. it represents the operation of the eternal and divine spirit and the four elements under the divine presidency of the name, hwchy. to understand this profound mystery is of the greatest importance to the adept. the right arm of the pentagram is attributed to the element of n. it is represented by the kerubic, h, and the cup. the color of this point of the pentagram is blue. the horizontal line forming the top portion of this point is attributed to the sephiroth of hnyb. this is because hnyb is the sephira from which the clear eternal waters spring forth. the bottom two lines forming the m point of the pentagram and the n point of the pentagram are: m dwsy

oint is attributed to the sephiroth of hnyb. this is because hnyb is the sephira from which the clear eternal waters spring forth. the bottom two lines forming the m point of the pentagram and the n point of the pentagram are: m dwsy n dsj observe closely that dwsy is conjoined unto twklm and dsj is conjoined unto hnyb. n to n, m to m. the bottom left point of the pentagram is attributed unto the element of l. this point of the pentagram is attributed to the kerubic emblem b, h final and the pantacle. the color of this point in the pentagram is to be colored russet. the two angled lines forming this point in the pentagram are attributed unto the sephiroth of dwh and jxn. the bottom right foot or point of the pentagram is attributed unto the element of o. this point of the pentagram is attr

re the opposing force. let the adept take due care, to in all cases make certain the pentagram is proportional, and the ends fully closed. observe that the invoking pentagram of m begins from n and n begins from the angle of m. o, like l, begins with. the adept should take notice that an active-passive elemental relationship exists within the symbol of the pentagram. trace the kerubic sign of the element in the center of the pentagram. should you need to limit or confine the elemental energy as in talisman working, then draw a circle clockwise around the pentagram; otherwise, do not draw a circle around it. the basic rule is that thou shall invoke toward and banish from the point to which the element is attributed. m has a watery symbol, k. it is the container of rain and moisture. o is sy

in the pentagram symbol to n, o, l, and then m. in the l.b.r.p, the pentagrams begin from the lower left point, moving toward the apex. this is the banishing earth pentagram. to perform the l.i.r.p, the pentagram is drawn in the reverse, beginning from the top apex and moving toward the lower left. this is known as the invoking pentagram of l. here, then, is a simple concept that the energy of an element may be invoked or banished using the same line, putting into consideration the starting point of invoking or banishing. in the s.b.r.p./s.i.r.p, there are four pentagrams associated with the element of, two invoking, and two banishing. the two that refer to invoking pentagrams are called equilibrating pentagrams, the two banishing pentagrams are called closing pentagrams. these are both di

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st. the white end may be used to banish by tracing the opposing banishing symbol of the force of which you are trying to banish. so, for example, when banishing a tough elemental of o, the opposing elemental force would be that of n. let the adept also realize that the white portion is always pointed toward the direction or quarter that you are invoking from. so, if you are invoking, for example, element of o, and you are holding a or e, you then face their particular direction. if you are invoking the higher spiritual natures, it is important to hold the white band upwards. as a matter of fact, it is a sacrilege to hold the white band downwards, for that would provide the infiltration of evil forces through the lotus wand and into the adept's sphere of sensation. so, the white end must al

use the proper house for invocation. this was covered in the outer order material, but it is re-emphasized here. again, we will list these as: planet day night l k j k i l c g b 5 d d b c f f a h a e e now, when working with triplicities it is important that we understand the first zodiacal sign of the triplicity or kerubic emblem the kerubic is always the most powerful action of that particular element in the triplicity. for example, in l, we would have b, and in o, we would have e. e would bring violent heat, the heat of summer. a, however, would be good for beginnings, of warmth and spring. i would be good for the waning of heat and the entering of the cool period of autumn. so again, it is important that the adept study the zodiacal natures in the outer order grade material, so that i

sign while saying the adoration to the lord 6 of the universe. pause for a moment after you have made the sign of silence, and allow yourself to feel the energy in the temple. step 4 perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram at the four quarters of the room, tracing the proper pentagram in each quarter with the appropriate divine names. be sure to give the correct grade sign after each element. since you are invoking, you will use the white portion of your lotus wand. after you are done with the s.i.r.p, you will now move back to the eastern quarter, facing east, and holding your lotus wand by the white portion give the 5=6 grade sign. then, looking upwards to the heavens while holding your wand up high, close your eyes and say "o harpocrates, lord of silence who art enthroned u

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ed in the order of the supreme ritual of the hexagram. each arm has an appropriate colored pentagram on it. at the apex of the pentagram is drawn the symbol of, followed by the four kerubic symbols on the lower arms. these are in the order as in the supreme ritual of the pentagram. on each of the floriated ends of the crop are the three alchemical principles. they are in different orders for each element. this shows their different operations within each element. the upper arm is allotted to the element of m, the lowest arm to l, the right arm to n, and the left arm to o. you will observe that active and passive are in perfect harmony. m arm the background color is yellow on the m arm and represents the flowing philosophic mercurial nature without hinderance of mobility or movement. this a

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rvient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aor: cacodemon, counterpart of the angel ormn. aorx: subservient angel of earth angle of earth tablet. aosmi: angel, also known as aomi. aot: cacodemon of air angle of air tablet. aoth: name of mercury (corrected) perimeter. aourrz: calling name of fire angle of air tablet. aox: cacodemon of fire angle of air tablet. aozpi: holy name of god, ruling the element of air. apa: cacodemon of water angle of air tablet. apachana "the slimy things made of dust" apahr: angel, also known as aphr. apata: demonic name (reversal of atapa) commanding cacodemons of fire of water. 7 apbr: subservient angel of water angle of fire tablet. apd: cacodemon of earth angle of earth tablet. apdoce: aapdoce, senior of fire. aphlafben: dee's good angel that appeared to de

r: that increase. ardza: commanding angel of air angle of air tablet. arfaolg: angelic king ruling in the north-north-east. argedco (meaning unknown; invoke) arinna/ arinnaq/ arinnap: senior of saturn on the fire tablet. arizl: angel, also known as arzl. arn: cacodemon of earth angle of water tablet. arp: conquer, also see zilodarp. arphe: descend. arsl: four lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of water. arth: gladness. arzl: angel, companion of rzla. kerubic angel of air angle of air tablet. arzulgh: name of an evil spirit, counterpart of befafes. as: was. 8 asav: subservient angel of fire angle of water tablet. ascha: god. asgv: subservient angel of air angle of fire tablet. ash: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet, counterpart of the angel shal. asi: cacodemon of fire angle

he heads of scorpions. daziz: heads/ their heads. ddnh: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. de: of/ to. dedvilh (meaning unknown. de gnetaab: of your government. deimola: name of sol (names not pronounceable by man) deo: name of the seventh aethyr. des: name of the twenty-sixth aethyr. dfmn: subservient angel of air angle of air tablet. dial: four lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of earth. dialiva: governor of the third division of the aethyr arn (6. diari: angel, also known as diri. dilzmo: differ (v. dinmt: angel, companion of tdim. dimt: kerubic angel of water angle of water tablet. diom: subservient angel of earth angle of fire tablet, also known as dixom. diri: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet, also known as diari. diu/ duiv/ div: angle. dixom: a

the aethyr bag (83. g: with/ in/ you/ your. g a: thirty-one. g chis ge: are not the. 24 ga: name of an angel who appeared to dee and kelley("last breath of the living. ge: not/ is not/ are not/ our. gabriel: name of yesod outer heptagon. gag (meaning unknown) gah: spirit/ spirits. gahire (meaning unknown) gahoachma: i am what i am (a title of god. gaiol: five lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of water. gal: name of the enochian letter representing d. galaas: name of jupiter perimeter. galas: name of jupiter (corrected) perimeter. galethog: name of luna perimeter. galgol (meaning unknown) galsuagaph (meaning unknown) galvah: name of an angel who appeared to dee and kelley on june 14, 1583. his name means "end" ganislay: name of a demon. ganiurax (meaning unknown) ganr: subservie

ure/ creatures. haniel: name of netzach outer heptagon. hap: cacodemon of water angle of fire tablet. harg: hath planted. has: cacodemon of air angle of fire tablet. hath: works (n. hbr: cacodemon of water angle of fire tablet, counterpart of the angel brap. 27 hcnbr: angel ruling cnbr and companions. hcoma: spirit of water on the tablet of union. hctga: five lettered holy name of god, ruling the element of earth. hddn: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet. he: see luiahe/ song. heeoa: angel (filius lucis, associated with mars, name venus heptagram. heidene: name of mars (names not pronounceable by man) helech: in ours. hgv: cacodemon of air angle of fire tablet. hhl: cacodemon of water angle of earth tablet. hia: cacodemon of water angle of earth tablet. hiaom: angel ruling iaom

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should have an altar that is draped in black. upon the altar is the red cross and the white triangle as in the neophyte grade in the hall of the neophyte. in addition to the cross and triangle upon the altar a rose is placed as a symbol of m, a lamp or small censer as a symbol of o a chalice to symbolize n, and bread and salt to represent types of l. the chalice filled with wine representing the element of n should be placed between the triangle and the cross as the mystical repast of the four elements of the 0=0 initiation. the adept should be dressed in the regalia of the second order. in addition to the implements that are set on the altar, there should be some incense (preferably a rose amber blend) and a second chalice of nplaced in the south and north part of the temple or working a

place his lotus wand on the altar. 3 note: when the lotus wand is set on the altar, the lotus should always be facing east. if the adept is working in a confined space, he may then place it in a holder which is upon his body or set it along this side of the altar. step 4 let the adept pick up the second nchalice which is in the north. beginning in the north, consecrate the four quarters with the element of n. this may be accomplished by sprinkling nfrom the left to the right to the center and tracing a large cross. let the adept now recite the following "so therefore first the priest who would governeth the works of fire must sprinkle with the lustral waters of the loud and resounding sea" beginning in the south, do likewise with o, consecrating the four quarters, and again incensing with

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earing the rose cross lamen, holding and utilizing the consecrated lotus wand and magical sword of the art. it is possible to consecrate all four tools on the same day. however, we recommend, if possible, consecrating them on different days. at least there should be an approximate twenty-four minute interval between each consecration. the adept will be wise in determining the tattwa hour for each element and consecrating each element in that hour. for example, you would consecrate the fire wand within the hour of the o tattwa. special note: the easiest way to determine the tattwa hour is to find the time of sunrise. remember, akasha will always begin with sunrise and last for twenty-four minutes, followed by vayu, tejas, apas and prithivi. this cycle will last throughout the day until the

west of the altar and facing east, recite the adoration to the lord of the universe "holy art thou lord of the universe, holy art thou which nature hath not formed, holy art thou the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and of the darkness (follow this adoration with the usual sign of the enterer, followed by the sign of harpocrates) 4 step 7 let the adept perform the s.i.r.p. of the specific element required, utilizing the lotus wand and holding the appropriate band of the kerubic figure. draw the appropriate invoking spirit pentagram and invoking elemental pentagram for the particular element that is being used. end with the qabalistic cross, holding the lotus wand by the white band. step 8 as the adept begins to consecrate each individual tool after the opening, he or she shall stan

and holding the appropriate band of the kerubic figure. draw the appropriate invoking spirit pentagram and invoking elemental pentagram for the particular element that is being used. end with the qabalistic cross, holding the lotus wand by the white band. step 8 as the adept begins to consecrate each individual tool after the opening, he or she shall stand facing the altar and the quarter of the element whose implement is being consecrated and empowered. step 9 let the adept hold the lotus wand by the appropriate corresponding kerubic band. trace in the air over the implement that is being consecrated a circle followed by the appropriate spirit pentagram and the appropriate invoking pentagram for that particular element. this should almost be an imaginary astral type of experience, as if

in to vibrate the names with full meaning and intensity. draw the hebrew letters and sigils over the implement in the air with the lotus wand, holding the wand by the appropriate band (it is appropriate for the adept to place the names of the divine, the angelic names, and the hebrew spelling on a separate 3x5 card so that as you are reciting the script, you may simply look at the 3x5 card of the element that you are consecrating. at the end of this lesson, see the chart with the divine and angelic names in hebrew) recite the following and insert the proper divine or angelic name in the space provided "o thou who art from everlasting, thou who hast created all things, and doth clothe thyself with the forces of nature as with a garment. by the holy and divine name (trace the letters in the

e, whereby thou art known especially in the quarter we name (trace the letters in the air while vibrating appropriate quarter. i beseech thee to grant unto me the strength and insight for my search after the hidden light and wisdom. i entreat thee to cause thy powerful archangel (trace the letters in the air while vibrating the appropriate archangelic name, who governeth the works of (name of the element, to guide me in the pathway and furthermore to direct 5 thine angel (trace the letters in the air while vibrating the appropriate angelic name) to watch over my footstep therein. may the ruler of (name of the element, the powerful prince (trace the letters in the air while vibrating the appropriate name of the prince, by the gracious permission of the infinite supreme, increase and strengt

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onsist of 10 squares. each square is referred to one of the sephiroth on the tree of life. the sephirotic cross represents the sephiroth modified by the letter of the lesser angle. rtk in the a lesser angle is rtk of w. in the d lesser angle it be rtk of y, etc. kerubic squares: in the kerubic ranks thou shall note that the outside square is always attributed to the letter that corresponds to the element of the lesser angle. how they are read: a names read right to left in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read c from left to right. b names read left to right in upper two quarters; in lower two quarters read a from right to left. note: each square has a double attribution to the tetragrammaton. thus for example, column w rank y does not coincide in nature with column y rank w (anym

nal when treated as a whole. let the adept take clear notice that in reality they are represented as being pyramids. like the entrance badge of the 28th path, there be practical magical significance and importance as the adept will, in the future learn, that each square has a mixed nature and entereth into an entire world. each side of the pyramid is to be colored according to its own appropriate element, or thou shalt leave it white to represent the nature of m. thou shalt not confuse nor assume that a square in the airy angle of a shall be completely colored yellow, but every square in the a tablet in every angle has at least one yellow side denoting its airy nature. thus, every square is tinted with the element of a,while some greater and some to a lesser degree. observe the diagram of

e is tinted with the element of a,while some greater and some to a lesser degree. observe the diagram of the truncated pyramid below. this diagram illustrateth a standard reference. the position of the numbers should be memorized. section or triangle number two pointeth to the top of the tablet. thou mayest work out a pyramid of any square by knowing the attributions of the four triangles and the element of each. each tablet is comprised of four separate and distinct divisions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. truncated pyramid great cross 24 triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tar

isions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. truncated pyramid great cross 24 triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tarot. triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 the planet of the decan triangle no. 4 element symbol of the tablet the no. 2 square of the great cross is always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, water

s always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, watery, or airy nature. triangle no. 3 is to be colored by that of the element ruled by the planet and attributed to it. let the adept take note that the elemental attributions are significantly different in the enochian system. here they are: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given, consideration is not

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nal when treated as a whole. let the adept take clear notice that in reality they are represented as being pyramids. like the entrance badge of the 28th path, there be practical magical significance and importance as the adept will, in the future learn, that each square has a mixed nature and entereth into an entire world. each side of the pyramid is to be colored according to its own appropriate element, or thou shalt leave it white to represent the nature of m. thou shalt not confuse nor assume that a square in the airy angle of a shall be completely colored yellow, but every square in the a tablet in every angle has at least one yellow side denoting its airy nature. thus, every square is tinted with the element of a, while some greater and some to a lesser degree. observe the diagram of

is tinted with the element of a, while some greater and some to a lesser degree. observe the diagram of the truncated pyramid below. this diagram illustrateth a standard reference. the position of the numbers should be memorized. section or triangle number two pointeth to the top of the tablet. thou mayest work out a pyramid of any square by knowing the attributions of the four triangles and the element of each. each tablet is comprised of four separate and distinct divisions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. great cross triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tarot. triangle no. 2 m

rate and distinct divisions. thou must consider each of these independently so as to produce a specific type of pyramid akin to the nature of that section. here be the rules for analyzing a pyramid. the rules are concise and direct and should be memorized. great cross triangle no. 1 sign of the zodiac, small card of the tarot. triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 the planet of the decan triangle no. 4 element symbol of the tablet the no. 2 square of the great cross is always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, water

s always m and painted white, indicating the operation of m within the element. triangle no. 4 is to be colored in the element of the tablet, thus we have yellow for a, blue for c red for d, and black for b. thou shall color triangle no. 1 according to the triplicity of the sign attributed to it. in other words, earthy, firey, watery, or airy nature. triangle no. 3 is to be colored by that of the element ruled by the planet and attributed to it. let the adept take note that the elemental attributions are significantly different in the enochian system. here they are: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given consideration is not a

lesser angle. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 3 kerubic symbol answering to letter of the name. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of lesser angle. thou will note that no. 1 and no. 3 always match in color in the kerubic square. no. 2 showeth us the elemental color of the tablet, while no. 4 showeth the elemental color of the lesser angle. servient squares: triangle no. 1 element of the great tablet with astrological attributions. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of letter ruling the column with the tarot trump. triangle no. 3 elemental emblem of the lesser angle with geomantic figure. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of letter ruling rank with hebrew letter corresponding to the tarot trump to be found in triangle no. 2. note: thou shalt paint these pyramids in the f

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the planets. the wise and prudent adept will work to incorporate these audio symbols into his/her practical workings. let the z.a.m. of our sacred order study well this document and remember that gcolors are forces and the child of forces art thou. h addendum 1: collection of information on color by g.h. frater d.d.c.f. the 5 elements in the 4 scales of king, queen, prince, and princess. hm as an element: king: white merging into grey. sigil of m in king scale:h o queen: deep purple merging into black. sigil of m in queen scale: 8 prince: 7 rainbow colors with purple outermost. sigil of m in prince scale: princess: 5 colors: white, red, yellow, black and blue outermost. sigil of m in princess scale: h d as an element king: glowing orange scarlet. sigil of d in king scale: queen: vermilion

ion flecked with crimson and emerald green. flash pink (flecks can be appropriate hebrew letter t fs) sigil of d in princess scale: 9 king: deep blue. sigil of c in king scale: queen: white and dull sapphire green. sigil of c in queen scale: prince: deep olive green. sigil of c in prince scale: princess: white flecked with purple; a glow like mother of pearl. sigil of c in princess scale: a as an element. king: bright pale yellow. sigil of a in king scale: queen: sky blue. sigil of a in prince scale: 10 prince: blue green. sigil of a in prince scale: princess: emerald with golden flecks; whirl in centre. sigil of a in princess scale: b as an element: king: black and 3 tertiaries (citrine, olive and russet. sigil of b in king scale: queen: amber yellow. sigil of b in queen scale: solid cube

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he key to the formation of the tunic and nemyss is the crux ansata, for the nemyss makes the oval, and the arms and body of the tunic, the cross. the symbolism of the temple the bases of the two pillars are respectively in jxn and dwh; the white pillar being in jxn and the black pillar in dwh. they represent the two pillars of mercy and severity. the bases are cubical and black to represent the l element in twklm. the columns are respectively black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counterchanged color any appropriate egyptian designs, emblematic of the soul. 5 the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the o of test and trial, and between the pillars is the porchway of the region immeasurable. the

d manifesting it unto the outer order as though the crucified one, having raised the symbol of self-sacrifice, had thus touched and brought into action in matter the divine triad of light. around the cross are the symbols of the four letters of the name jehovah with the c of hwchy being only implied and not expressed in the outer order. at the east is the mystical rose, allied by its scent to the element of m. at the south is the red lamp, allied by its flame with the element of o. at the west is the cup of wine, allied by its fluid form to the element of n. at the north are bread and salt, allied by their substance to the element of l. the elements are placed upon the altar according to the winds "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods, hath said 'these are the elements

to affirm the unknown life, which is inspired from the beyond, sent out to a, the commencement of the spring of the year, the life which after being inspired is breathed forth again; and also the possible use of that breath between the inspiration and the expiration, in the combination between it and the forces of the microcosm) the whole is a rehearsal of the properties of the reflection of the element of m down through the middle pillar of the sephiroth. this represents the reflection of the m from rtk, through trapt, dwsy, and even to the citrine part of twklm. the subtle aether is, in rtk, inspired from the divine light beyond; then reflected into trapt, wherein it is combined with the reflexes from the alchemical principles in that great receptacle of the forces of the tree. in dwsy

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elopment of which is further shown in the inner knowledge of the succeeding grades of the outer order. in the true knowledge of the application of the symbolism of the enterer lies the entrance to the knowledge of practical magic: and therefore are all the formulae drawn from the ritual classed under five several heads, according unto the letters of the name yeheshuah. for to the letter yod y the element of fire belong the works of ceremonial magic, as the evocation of the spirits of the elements, etc. unto the first heh h the consecration and charging of telesmata, and the production of natural phenomena, as storms, earthquakes, etc. unto the letter vau w divination in all its branches; and the art of making the link between the subject of the work and the process of divination. and to th

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er and final releae magical eucharist r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 (note: this should be preferably performed between four to five adepts. otherwise it may be performed entirely by one adept) opening by watchtower (after the watchtower, the four elements are brought to the center altar (one adept each brings forth one of the elements "behold, the holy symbol of (name of element (this is said while they set it on top of the altar) chief adept "for osiris onnophris, who found perfect before the gods hath said (point toward the altar 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, and glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering (lifts up the rose on high (first adept rings the bell during iao) al

others and sisters of the red rose upon the golden cross, to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smell the rose. to feel with me the warmth of this sacred lamp as a symbol of fire (waves hand over the lamp. 5 to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (dips the bread into the salt and eats it. and finally, to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of the element of water (makes a cross with the cup then drinks it (the chief adept then looks to the first adept, makes the sign of the enterer toward first adept and the first adept returns with the sign of silence. this is repeated until all are done, in which the third adept, or the last adept, makes the sign of the enterer to the chief adept who responds with the sign of silence (first, second and t

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f jesus, formed of the holy letter c, representing the \yhla jwr, placed within the center of the name hwhy. it has also been interpreted as: igne natura renovatur integra; igne natura renovando integrat; igne nitrum roris invenitur; intra nobis regnum dei" j.s.m. ward, in his book on free masonry and the ancient gods, provides us with yet more understanding of the letters: i.n.r.i. hebrew hebrew element element i y yam n n n nur o r r ruach m i y yebeshas l the sepher yetzirah gives us a deeper and more profound meaning for inward meditation by assigning the astrology to the keyword: i.n.r.i. hebrew astrology i y f n n h r r a i y f! f is the pure virginal state of nature. this sign relates unto the great goddess isis! h is the sign of death and regeneration. it is also a sign of energy i

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thee? in myself i am nothing. in thee i am self, and exist in thy self-hood from nothing. live thou in me, and bring me unto that self which is in thee. amen (all rise) chief adept "fraters and sorors of the r.r. et a.c, let us purify and consecrate this temple. magus of water, i command thee to perform the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and to purify this hall and all members with the element of water" magus of water "mighty chief, all thy commands shall be obeyed (magus of water performs l. b. r. p. and then takes water chalice off west altar and brings it to the east facing chief adept) magus of water (draws invoking water pentagram in the air and swings "in the name of hcoma and by the name of mph arsl gaiol, i purify thee with water (magus of water stands in the east facing

he center, vibrating "exarp, bitom, eheieh, hcoma, nanta, agla. in the sign of the head of the man (draws aquarius symbol. before us raphael. in the sign of the eagle (draws eagle symbol. behind us gabriel. in the sign of the lion (draws leo symbol. on our right michael. in the sign of the head of the ox (draws taurus symbol. and on our left auriel (second adept draws invoking pentagrams, of each element in each quarter using lotus wand, starting in the east) chief adept "for before us flames the pentagrams and behind us shines the six rayed star (perform the qabalistic cross (remaining behind the altar "prepared in body, mind and spirit, we now invoke thee ye great lords of the watchtowers of the universe. guard well this magic circle, and let no evil or impure spirit enter therein. stren

ms have finished the invocation, chief adept proclaims in the thoth god form) chief adept "this is he the lord of the gods, thoth, tahuti. behold, he is in me and i am in him. the god who commandeth is in my mouth, the god of wisdom is in my heart, my tongue is the sanctuary of truth, and a god sitteth upon my lips, elohim gibor. i am eternal, and everything acts according to my design, and every element of the firmament and of the ether, upon the earth and under the earth, on dry land and in the water, of whirling air and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god the vast one, is obedient unto me. therefore, in the name of elohim gibor and through the power of kamael, come forth unto all members of the rose and cross, and all loyal subjects of the outer to defend and protect, to

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hy body must be formed from the swift-flowing m. step 9 place the talisman before the air tablet, and make the invoking circle and pentagram of active spirit with the spirit wheel, and the air pentagram with the k kerub. say: in the name of hwhy, in the name of yjla ydc, and in the name of lapr, your archangel, spirits of m, ye i command. bind unto this creature of talismans the substance of your element of m (make cross) in the three great secret holy names of god borne upon the banners of the east, oro ibah aozpi, spirits of m, give unto me the substance of your realm that it may be mine forever, binding it unto this creature of talismans which i have created (make invoking circle) in the name of bataivah, great king of the east, spirits of m, concentrate upon this creature of talismans

realm that it may be mine forever. bind it unto this creature of talismans which i have created (make the invoking circle) in the name of iczhchal, great king of the north, spirits of l, concentrate unto this creature of talismans the substance of your realm, that the all-potent forces may descend and rest upon it, even the grace and mercy of cmc. creature of talismans, i have bound unto thee the element of enduring stability, so pass thou on. make the 1=10 grade sign. step 13 take up the talisman, and pass between the pillars. place it on the ground between them, and strongly formulate around it a sphere of sensation. say: creature of talismans, so that the power of ra may manifest through thee, i give thy body the life of spirit. step 14 make the passive and active spirit pentagrams, and

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t would also refer to hnyb, the third sephira. we see clearly that hnyb is an amalgamation of the top three supernals. this is emphasized in the lesson "understanding of the human personality in the world of the qabalah" the top three sephiroth are referred to as the greater neschamah, whereas hnyb is referred to as the lesser neschamah. the triangle would also refer to the planet of l and to the element of o. the color of l is black and that of o is red. therefore, the black triangle would represent l and a red triangle would represent the element of o. note also that a white triangle represents the supernals. we also have another triad, the three principles of nature: p, 3, and q. all of these symbols can be exemplified in the triangle, which would give reference to hnyb. the square is a

f gross matter. the inverted pentagram is also a representation of the elevation or adoration of anarchy above order. it is also the elevation of conflicting forces driven simply by chance or haphazardness above the elevation of the divine unknowable one. the upright pentagram represents the force of and the four elements governed by the five letters of the name of the restorer of all things. the element of is fused between the spiritual/higher and the mundane/lower, hwchy. with a circle drawn around the pentagram, it represents the \ybwrk and the wheel of. one final point of symbolism of the pentagram is that it becomes a tremendous force for the letter h, the feminine aspect, the letter of the great supernal mother \yhma amya. if we reflect from every second point of the symbol of the he

the octangle. it is this symbol that naturally shows the dispersal of the rays of the elements in their dual aspects. remember that there is a dual aspect to everything under the leadership and presidency of the eight letters of the name. the octangle, when it is reflected from each third point, yields eight triangles. these eight triangles become representative of the triad operating within each element in its dual form. thus, we have the positive and the negative under the power of the third aspect of the triad which becomes ynda hwhy, but is written as if it is bound together as yahdnhy if we take the octagram and reflect it from every fourth point, we have the star of b, and this certainly is akin to the nature of b. it is a further potent symbol representing the binding together of co

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

hic connectivity. in its case, the original motivation of the lineage is oneirically derived and its method of implementation is in accord with dream-tuition. where the lonely road guides us, where the black book- the grimoire unknown- is revealed as a tome of some mage's labours and from his own hand is passed on to another, there let the spirit pass all power by the leaves of the book. omen and element: the transmission of spirit-knowledge by chance and circumstance in addition to the above contexts, initiatory transmissions of another kind may be gained through sudden 'chance' events. perhaps only those who have experienced such matters directly will possess an inkling of what i am attempting to convey, but sometimes the most subtle of events- the fall of a feather- the turn of a card

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

a small, bucket-shaped object in his right hand. with his left he appeared to be raising or lowering a lever. the head-dress he wore was an odd and complicated garment. to my eye it seemed more functional than ceremonial, although i could not imagine what its function might have been. on it, or perhaps on a console above it, were two x-shaped crosses. i turned my attention to the other principal element of the sculpture, 13 the cities of ancient mexico, p. 37. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 134 the feathered serpent. on one level it did, indeed, depict exactly that: a plumed or feathered serpent, the age-old symbol of quetzalcoatl, whom the olmecs, therefore, must have worshipped (or at the very least recognized. scholars do not dispute this interpretation.14 it is generally acce

ar symbols. the reader will recall that the myth presents osiris as the victim of a plot. the conspirators initially dispose of him by sealing him in a box and casting him adrift on the waters of the nile. in this respect does he not resemble utnapishtim, and noah and coxcoxtli and all the other deluge heroes in their arks (or boxes, or chests) riding out the waters of the flood? another familiar element is the classic precessional image of the worldtree and/or roof-pillar (in this case combined. the myth tells us how osiris, still sealed inside his coffer, is carried out into the sea and washed up at byblos. the waves lay him to rest among the branches of a tamarisk tree, which rapidly grows to a magnificent size, enclosing the coffer within its trunk.42 the king of the country, who much

limb again. still using the corner as a guideline, he rapidly disappeared into the darkness above. somewhat less confidently, santha and i followed. time and motion the 35th course of masonry was a hard one to clamber over, being made of particularly massive blocks, much larger than any of the others we had 1 the pyramids of egypt, p. 8. 2 peter lemesurier, the great pyramid: your personal guide, element books, shaftesbury, 1987, p. 225. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 275 so far encountered (except those at the very base) and estimated to weigh between 10 and 15 tons apiece.3 this contradicted engineering logic and commonsense, both of which called for a progressive decrease in the size and weight of the blocks that had to be transported to the summit as the pyramid rose ever high

adient of 1:10 would have required a ramp 4800 feet long and more than three times as massive as the great pyramid itself (with an estimated volume of 8 million cubic metres as against the pyramid s 2.6 million cubic metres).10 heavy weights could not have been dragged up any gradient 8 ibid, p. 220. 9 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 139. 10 peter hodges and julian keable, how the pyramids were built, element books, shaftesbury, 1989, p. 123. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 277 steeper than this by any normal means.11 if a lesser gradient had been chosen, the ramp would have had to be even more absurdly and disproportionately massive. the problem was that mile-long ramps reaching a height of 480 feet could not have been made out of bricks and earth as edwards and other egyptologists sup

shu, geb, osiris, set, horus, thoth. 17 the gods of the egyptians, volume i, p. 400; garth fowden, the egyptian hermes, cambridge university press, 1987, pp. 22-3. see also from fetish to god in ancient egypt, pp. 121-2; egyptian magic, pp. 128-9; new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 27-8. 18 manetho, quoted by the neo-platonist iamblichus. see peter lemesurier, the great pyramid decoded, element books, 1989, p. 15; the egyptian hermes, p. 33. 19 see, for example, diodorus siculus, volume i, p. 53, where thoth (under his greek name of hermes) is described as being endowed with unusual ingenuity for devising things capable of improving the social life of man. 20 osiris and the egyptian resurrection, volume ii, p. 307. 21 myth and symbol in ancient egypt, p. 179; new larousse encyclo

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

can be communicated in words. its study demands practice. you will not become a magician simply by reading this or any other book you must put what you read hito practical application. enochian magick is a very special category of magick. after learning of the watchtowers and aethyrs, for example, you must then experience them. crowley's magick is also associated in various degrees with a sexual element, which fact alone usually distinguishes it from most other magical systems. this sexual element is not considered in enochian magic. however, certain forces and atmospheres encountered in the enochian system are decidedly sexual in nature. these forces constitute an essential difference between the more general enochian magic and the more specific enochian magick. 6 how to use this manual

est in a graduated series of cosmic planes. there are many invisible worlds surrounding this earth. the reason they are invisible is because they are composed of matter that is so tenuous that our eyes cannot see it. there are many degrees of matter's density. the most dense is the physical plane. the next, more ethereal and very close to the physical plane, is the etheric plane symbolized by the element earth. the next more ethereal world is the astral plane which is usually divided into a lower half, symbolized by the element air, anda higher half symbol ized by the element fi re. the highest plane conceivable to human consciousness is the spiritual plane symbolized by the element spirit (the enochian system uses spirit as a fifth element. aboye this is the divine piane which is inconcei

and so it is shown in the diagram as a larger sphere. 14 the hermetic axiom "as aboye so below" is used in enochian magick to explain how each cosmic plane can be divided into subplanes. there is an air of water subplane, and an earth of fire subplane, and so on. in addition, at the outer boundary of each cosmic plane is located a ring-passnot. this effectively prohibits passage of a lower cosmic element frito a higher sphere. earth can not pass finto water, nor air finto fire. these are outlined in figure 2. you must take care not to confuse the cosmic element earth with physical earth. nor is the cosmic element water the familiar h20 of physical chemistry. western occultism uses these terms because of their correspondences. cosmic water is somewhat like physical water. for example, it is

hicle to correspond with each cosmic plane. immediately aboye or behind the physical body is the etheric body. next, is the astral body followed by the mental and spiritual bodies. the physical body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the physical cosmic plane. the astral body is the vehicle through which you view and interact with the astral cosmic plane whose symbolic cosmic element is water. the physical body is limited by a ring-pass-not to the physical cosmic plane. the etheric body is limited to the etheric cosmic plane. the astral body cannot enter the mental cosmic plane, and so on. man below the first aethyr lil is dualistic. however, aboye lil, man is monadic. this monadic nature, often called "monadic essence" in occult terminology, is symbolized by a circle

s that the aura of man is a magical mirror of the universe. in enochian magick, your aura is your personal replica of the magical universe. 18 man is like a circle whose center is nowhere (microscopic) and whose circumference is everywhere (infinite. enochian magick represents this center by the god hadit. the circumference is represented by the goddess nuit. 19 the five elements "the earth is an element, and whatever is produced from it. so is the water and all produced there from. so then that is an element which produces. andan element is a mother, and there are four of them, air, eire, water, earth. from there four matrices everything in the whole world is produced" paracelsus figure 1 shows that the cosmic elements of earth, water, air, fire, and spirit are not to be taken as chemical

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6 and 5. the ninth sphere is a pale moon-coloured semi-yellow, with a very faint touch of orange and green mixed. at the tenth sphere comes a complete change to the tree-colours of the four seasons. light green for leaves at spring, dark green for summer, russet at autumn, and black for the bare branches of winter as a complementary balance in the brilliance of keter. this also brings in the time-element. the colours tell their own story with the middle pillar of light shining first from space into our sun, which reflects to the moon and thence to our earth for the enlightenment of man and our fellow creatures. so we see the direct line of light from god itself with which we should try and align ourselves if everything is really going to mean anything worthwhile for us during our earth liv

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

ac in the same arrangement in which they appear on the rose cross lamen and in the correct colors. the second ring contains the divine names attributed to the planets and to the corresponding sephiroth in the order of the vault of the adepti's planetary walls. the inner ring contains the names of the archangels of the elements as well as the divine names of the sephiroth that are the root of each element. thus the magic circle contains all the divine names in balanced disposition attributed to the sephiroth, zodiac, planets, and elements. the magic circle may be on the floor with chalk, if necessary, but it is far more versatile and effective to construct it of round piece of white fabric about seven feet in diameter. the names corresponding to the forces should be painted on the fabric in

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

iver has not only to take up the brooks that convey fresh waters to it from hill and mountain, but to disembogue itself at last in the wide ocean: nations border upon nations, and peaceful intercourse or war and conquest blend their destinies in one. from their combinations will come unexpected results, whose gain deserves to be weighed against the loss entailed by the suppression of the domestic element. if the language, literature and faith of our forefathers could at no time resist at all points the pressure of the foreign, they have one and all undergone the most disruptive revolution by the people^s passing over to christianity, we had long plagued ourselves to derive all languages from the far-off hebrew; it was only by closely studying the history preface. xxv of the european idioms

sing confidence in one's own strength and virtue (p. 6. the former is expressed in 0. norse by gosga (irrisio deorum, o.h. germ, kotscelta (blasphemia. and this revolt of heathens against heathenism increased as christianity came nearer: thus the nialssaga cap. 105 says of hialti, that he was charged with scofiing at the gods' vai'5 sekr a j>ingi um gosga; conf. laxd. p. 180. kristnisaga c, 9. an element atoc^elov, vtroataatf) is firm ground, basis, for which the goth still has a good teutonic name' stabs- staff, whence the romance stoffa, etoflfe, and so our stuff again, or 'stoma (whence our ungestiim, ohg. ungistuomi, unquiet. it meets the eye of man in all its glory, while deity remains unseen: how tempted he must feel to give it divine honours! but his senses and his mind link every e

s that no evil spirit was originally meant; it is no other than wuotan carrying through the clouds his foster-son (p. 146; and so we get at the real meaning of the question, what devil brings you here? a devil carries a belated canon from bayeux to rome iu time for pontifical mass; and by the same magic klinsor and ofterdingen get from hungary to the wartburg. there is no surer test of the mythic element having a deep foundation, than its passing into the beast-fable. the esthonian tale of the man and the bear going halves in the cultivation and produce of a field (reinh. cclxxxviii, which turns on the same distinction of upper and under growth that we saw at p. 715, is told in our km. no. 189 of a peasant and the devil, and in this form we find it as early as rabelais bk 4, cap. 45 47. rl

hence comes our folter, fr. poultre, poutre. that on. extortion of a full declaration 'j>ma til sagna' p. 1043, need not have been borrowed from witch-trials. the signing away to the devil, abjuring of god and adoring of the goat in witch-stories seems to be of heretic origin; at the same time the abjurer parodies the abrenuntiatio diaboli enjoined on catechumens^ in every other point the heathen element preponderates. even the goat, and the offering of hlach beasts (pp. 52. 493. 1009, cannot but remind us of the old worship of gods; it is remarkable that a dalecarlian tradition makes the devil not occupy the chair of state, but lie under the table, hound with a chain (just as with those spinsters in german legend, p. 1011. the witches there have much to tell about this chain: when its lin

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which raises him above the giant s intractableness and the dwarf s cunning, and betwixt the two he stands victorious. the giant both does and suffers wrong, because in his stupidity he undervalues everybody, and even falls foul of the gods; j the outcast dwarf, who does discern good and evil, lacks the right courage for free and independent action. in order of creation, the giant as the sensuous element came first, next followed the spiritual element of elvish nature, and lastly the human race restored the equilibrium. the abrupt ness of these gradations is a good deal softened down by the giants or dwarfs forming frequent alliances with men, affording clear evidence that ancient fiction does not favour steep contrasts: the very earliest giants have sense and judgment ascribed to them (se

egarded as being really created, while the giants and gods come, as it were, of themselves out of chaos. to the production of men and dwarfs there went a formative agency on the part of gods; giants and gods, without any such agency, made their appearance under the mere action of natural heat and the licking of a cow. giants and gods spring out of a combination of fire with water, yet so that the element converted into ice must recover its fluidity before it becomes capable of production. the giant and the cow drip out of the frost, buri slowly extricates himself in three days from the thawing mass of ice. this dripping origin reminds us of some other features in antiquity; thus, 03inn had a gold ring draupnir (the dripper, from which every ninth night there dripped eight other rings of eq

here come before zeus; with zeus and 03inn begins the race of gods proper, and poseidon and hades complete the fra ternal trio, like vili and ye. the enmity of gods and titans is therefore that of ases and giants; at the same time, there is just as much resemblance in the expulsion of the titans from heaven (theog. 813) to the fall of the rebel angels into the bottomless pit; so that to the giant element in the titans we may add a daemonic. when the works and days makes the well-known* five races fill five successive ages, the act of creation must needs have been repeated several times; on which point neither the poem itself nor plato (cratyl. 397-8, steph) gives sufficient information. first came the golden race of blissful daimones, next the silver one of weaker divine beings, thirdly, t

the remarkable words: hnigo heilug votn af himinfiollom/ fell holy waters from heaven s hills. the sclaveni as early as procopius (b. goth. 3, 14) a-e/sovo-l trora/xou (worship rivers; and as late as helmold (1, 47) it is said of the slavs at faldera: lucorum et fontium ceterarutnque superstitionurn multiplex error apud eos habetur (see suppl. above all was the place honoured, where the wondrous element leaps up from the lap of earth; a spring is in our older speech ursprinc(-ges, and also prunno. 2 often enough the first appearing of a spring is ascribed to divine agency or a miracle: wuotan, balder, charles the great, each made the reviving fountain flow out of earth for his fainting host (p. 226. other springs are charmed out of the rock when struck by a staff or a liorse s hoof; 3 a s

inges han underm velse, e in beschin der tac (ere day beshine it. parz. 254, 6. tit. 5456. 5732.l curious customs shew us in what manner young girls in the pyrenees country tell their own fortunes in spring water on may-day morning. we need not suppose that the peculiar properties of medicinal springs are the point here; no, it is the normal efficacy of the refreshing, strengthening, re-animating element.2 many places in germany are called heilbrunn, heilborn, heiligenbrunn, from the renewing effect of their springs, or the wonderful cures that have taken place at them. heilbronn on the neckar is called heilacprunno in the oldest documents.3 but certain springs and wells may have stood in especial repute. of high renown are the on. mimisbrunnr and ur&arbrunnr (p. 407, which sn. 17 calls br

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

fied. accordingly, types of atoms differ from one another solely on the basis of the number of positive units of electricity in their nuclei, i.e, on the basis of their "inner nature" the simplest type of atom, hydrogen, has only one unit of positive electricity (associated with the proton) in its nucleus. the next simplest, helium, has two units, the next has three units, etc. as may be expected element number 106 has 106 units of positive electricity in its nucleus. thus, for the modern scientist the "inner nature" of an atom is associated with the number of units of positive electricity in its nucleus. when we, as rosicrucians, say inner nature, we refer to that nature which atoms have and which is a result of the smaller particles composing them. our members will remember that matter i

dern scientists continue to use in arriving at their formulations. regardless of the errors that scientists of the future may find in our formulations, the same age-old principles will find their application in whatever formulations prove to be suitable in any time. ternary elements another form of elements is that composed of two atoms of one kind and one of another. the three atoms composing an element generally would not be of the same nature; they would repel each other according to the law of like repelling like. the molecule ozone, being composed of three atoms of oxygen is a notable exception. usually, however, when an element is composed of three atoms, two of them are alike and one is unlike. the unlike atom is always in the center. the reason is that the two similar atoms, in the

44. 1 atom of nitrous oxide, composed of 2 of azote (nitrogen) and 1 of oxygen. 17 no. 45. 1 atom of nitric acid, composed of 1 of azote (nitrogen) and 2 of oxygen. 19 no. 46. 1 atom of carbonic acid, composed of 1 of carbon and 2 of oxygen 19 no. 47. 1 atom of carburetted hydrogen, composed of 1 of carbon and 2 of hydrogen 7 in each case of the above four ternary elements, the "weight" of the element is given at the end of the line. it will be noticed that two of them, while totally different in nature, have the same "weight. quaternary elements now we come to those elements composed of four primary atoms. in fact, the four examples of quaternary elements given in plate 1 are molecules composed of several atoms. first, note the manner in which these atoms unite when there are three of

ydrogen, composed of 1 atom of sulphur and 3 of hydrogen 16 no. 51 is a molecule of alcohol, composed of 1 atom of hydrogen and 3 of carbon 16 plate two let us examine now two other forms of elements, called quinquenary and sextenary. these are illustrated as nos. 52 and 53. in no. 52 we have a very different arrangement of five atoms. three of them are alike and two of them are unlike. in this element, called nitrous acid, we have a combination of nitric acid and nitrous gas. by referring to no. 41 on plate 1, you will find that nitrous gas is composed of one atom of azote (nitrogen) and one atom of oxygen. the two combined make nitrous gas. by referring to no. 45 on plate 1, you will also see that nitric acid is composed of one atom of azote (nitrogen) and two atoms of oxygen. in other

n of them. for in no. 52 we can see both the triangle and the square. its "weight" is 31 according to dalton. by modern formulations the weight would be 76. in no. 53 a different problem is presented. here we have six atoms of three different natures. it represents a molecule of acetous acid and is composed of two atoms of carbon and two of water. but whereas carbon is composed of only one simple element, water is composed of two atoms (one of hydrogen and one of oxygen) the manner in which these six atoms arrange themselves is interesting, yet in no other way could these six be placed and still maintain their attraction and repulsion. and now we come to septenary elements. no. 54 represents nitrate of ammonia. it is composed of one atom of nitric acid, one of ammonia, and one of water, as

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faculty of receiving, when in a mesmeric induced sleep, the influx of all the floating, though unpublished, ideas of the time is professor bush's note, at p.227.what is here said of the dia-magnetic principle was entirely new to me at the time, having never heard of the term. on subsequently asking the speaker(davis)for a more particular explanation, he replied, in substance, that an imponderable element had recently been discovered, the motion of which intersected the current producing the direction of the magnetic needle. on my enquiring the name of the discoverer, the clairvoyant passed off(i.e.,spiritually, the body assuming the inclined position, asisexplained on p. 38, and on returning, he remarked,'itsoundslike-heis known as professor faraday'"emerson'srepresentativemen,p. 5i.bohn.t

ilosophy.theywill, however, i fear, beoflittle comparative interest to you, as it was not until the c. a. became my guardian spirit that i could bring my experiments to anything like satisfactory conclusions.156therosicrucianseerofthe most high we have the distinct assurance that the universe is at his will but a void. proposition2-'thatspace is illimitable' proposition3-'thatit is filledwith the element or elements which are the materials or material of which all separate existences are formed.lc.a.-inthat he is wrong. because in space there is no material for any thing. space is the roominwhich--material may be-.space has no limits; because the whole of creation,-every thing created, known and unknown,-there is room for them all. proposition4-'thatthis element or these elements contain i

formed.lc.a.-inthat he is wrong. because in space there is no material for any thing. space is the roominwhich--material may be-.space has no limits; because the whole of creation,-every thing created, known and unknown,-there is room for them all. proposition4-'thatthis element or these elements contain inherent unchangeable qualities' c.a.-icannot understand what he considers the nature of that element can be, which fills all space, and from which are created all things. proposition5-'thatthe element or elements filling the universe, with their inherent unchangeable qualities, are eternal, and constitute "deity" or the "all in all" of the universe' c.a.-hedoes not recognise the almighty as a distinct and separate power from nature. in that, of course, he is wrong. i cannot help remarking

, with their inherent unchangeable qualities, are eternal, and constitute "deity" or the "all in all" of the universe' c.a.-hedoes not recognise the almighty as a distinct and separate power from nature. in that, of course, he is wrong. i cannot help remarking that he is too elaborate in his opinions. strong opinions more simply expressed, would be better understood. proposition6-'thatthe eternal element or elements filling the universe is what men mean by nature; and the eternal unchanging qualities of the element or elements, what they mean by god' c.a.-beforei can distinguish the truth from the error ofhis arguments, i must better understand his way of expressing them. you must tell him, in the first place, that he makes the first false step when he recognizes nature and nature's god as

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

e to sneferu but not to his successor khufu (cheops, the builder of the great pyramid at giza (see under kings and princes and magicians in deities, themes, and concepts. writing in the fifth century bce, the greek historian herodotus reported a legend that king khufu had been cursed by the gods for closing down their temples to divert resources to his pyramid. archaeological evidence suggests an element of truth to this tradition. local temples seem to have received little royal support during the fourth and fifth dynasties. the huge pyramid complexes of this era seem to concentrate wholly on the divinity of the king, but this is partly an accident of preservation. reliefs and statues in the badly damaged pyramid temples did once show the king interacting with many of the deities of egypt

mplex and intensely imagined realm of the gods. the most frequently mentioned deities are anubis, atum, geb, horus, isis, nephthys, nut, osiris, ra, seth, shu, and thoth (see deities, themes, and concepts. these include most of the deities who make up the ennead of heliopolis, and it is often argued that the pyramid texts largely represent the theology of the solar temple at heliopolis. a stellar element was also important in the pyramid texts. the king was destined to join the imperishable stars, and the god osiris was identified with the constellation of orion and the goddess isis with the dog star, sirius.20 the cult of osiris is hardly known before the fifth dynasty, but he gradually became the most important funerary god. one thing the pyramid texts are not is a collection of narrativ

not narratives, some spells in the coffin texts describe major events in the egyptian creation story and even provide evidence for egyptian views about the end of the world (see return to chaos under linear time in mythical time lines. the creator god atum-ra and his offspring shu and tefnut are particularly prominent. many texts deal with transformations of the sun god into various forms. a new element is a stress on the dangers faced by the sun god during his celestial voyages, such as attacks by the chaos monster apophis. the prominence of the solar cult leads some egyptologists to believe that the coffin texts were, like the pyramid texts, mainly generated by the priests of heliopolis. other egyptologists point to the huge range of deities that feature in this collection and see the c

oks is provided by the passing of time55 or by the geography of the underworld, which was imagined as divided into caverns or re- 24 handbook of egyptian mythology gions separated by guarded gates. every underworld book presents a different view of the topography of the afterlife, yet from the late eighteenth dynasty on, royal tombs included more than one book in their decoration.56 the pictorial element is dominant in most of the underworld books. with a few exceptions, the text is mainly in the form of captions to the images. underworld books such as the book of gates and the book of caverns are essentially more detailed forms of the maps of the underworld found on middle kingdom coffins. each hour or gate or cavern is represented by giant tableaux of hundreds of deities, demons, and mon

ee elements: the creation of a body, the transfer to that body of some part of the divine essence of the creator, and the animation of the body by the breath of life. some creator deities were more strongly associated with one of these elements than with the others. khnum, for example, was chiefly a creator of bodies, whereas shu and amun-ra were both gods of the unseen breath of life. the second element, the transfer of the divine essence, eventually led to the concept that all deities, or even all living beings, were not just made by a transcendent creator but were in some sense forms of the creator. from the new kingdom onward, this was a distinctive feature of egyptian religious thought. the creator was sometimes referred to as the one who made himself into millions or he who made hims

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

of these "experiences" are really the "i" or the ego, nor do they give "mr. smith" the feeling that he is himself, for he forgets the greater part of his daily experiences, and they produce the feeling of egoity in him only while they last. we theosophists, therefore, distinguish between this bundle of "experiences" which we call the false (because so finite and evanescent) personality, and that element in man to which the feeling of "i am i" is due. it is this "i am i" which we call the true individuality; and we say that this "ego" or individuality plays, like an actor, many parts on the stage of life. let us call every new life on earth of the same ego a night on the stage of a theater. one night the actor, or "ego" appears as "macbeth" the next as "shylock" the third as "romeo" the fo

solute thinks? page 33 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a. no, it does not; for the simple reason that it is absolute thought itself. nor does it exist, for the same reason, as it is absolute existence, and be-ness, not a being. read the superb cabalistic poem by solomon ben jehudah gabirol, in the kether-malchut, and you will understand: thou art one, the root of all numbers, but not as an element of numeration; for unity admits not of multiplication, change, or form. thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the wisest of men are lost, because they know it not. thou art one, and thy unity is never diminished, never extended, and cannot be changed. thou art one, and no thought of mine can fix for thee a limit, or define thee. thou art, but not as one existent, for the understandi

r they know that, if any man, whether he be learned or not, consider himself so great as to despise other men, he is like a blind man holding a candle-blind himself, he illumines others -ooo- on the source of the human soul q. how, then, do you account for man being endowed with a spirit and soul? whence these? a. from the universal soul. certainly not bestowed by a personal god. whence the moist element in the jelly-fish? from the ocean which surrounds it, in which it lives and breathes and has its being, and whither it returns when dissolved. q. so you reject the teaching that soul is given, or breathed into man, by god? a. we are obliged to. the "soul" spoken of in genesis is, as therein stated, the "living soul" or nephesh (the vital, animal soul) with which god (we say "nature" and im

ly three principles in fact; but then, in reality, their sthulopadhi, or the physical body, in its waking conscious state, their sukshmopadhi, the same body in svapna, or the dreaming state, and their karanopadhi or "causal body" or that which passes from one incarnation to another, are all dual in their aspects, and thus make six. add to this atma, the impersonal divine principle or the immortal element in man, undistinguished from the universal spirit, and you have the same seven again. they are welcome to hold to their division; we hold to ours [see 'secret doctrine, part 1, p. 182 for a clearer exposition] q. then it seems almost the same as the division made by the mystic christians: body, soul, and spirit? a. just the same. we could easily make of the body the vehicle of the "vital d

ental and spiritual condition. but such is the materialism of the age that the more we explain the less people seem capable of understanding what we say. divide the terrestrial being called man into three chief aspects, if you like, and unless you make of him a pure animal you cannot do less. take his objective body; the thinking principle in him-which is only a little higher than the instinctual element in the animal-or the vital conscious soul; and that which places him so immeasurably beyond and higher than the animal-i.e, his reasoning soul or "spirit" well, if we take these three groups or representative entities, page 57 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt and subdivide them, according to the occult teaching, what do we get? first of all, spirit (in the sense of the absolute, and

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

workable in practice, the power of the servitor was boosted. in 1993, the activity of eureka was linked with the neptune-uranus conjunction with the result that, on april 22nd, as neptune& uranus began to retrograde, eureka went .offline. the immediate result of this was that i suddenly found it much harder to get into a flow of creative thinking. it seemed that eureka had become such a dominant element in the dynamics of my own creative process that, once it was removed, i found it much harder to get into the appropriate frame of mind. i had become dependent upon the servitor. eventually, the servitor was recalled and disassembled in such a way that a .splinter. of it.s original power survived as a focus for illumination. having been made wiser by this experience, i only occasionally use

gives a sense of continuance. it becomes a motor attitude, and one.s attention is freed (if this is desired. rhythms also become .mirrored. by our brain activity, and they have powerful physiological effects on us. music therapists have found that people suffering from aphasia or huntingdon.s chorea (both neurological disorders which impair speech) can carry a tune, and group singing is a common element in therapeutic voice training. anthropologists have done a great deal of work examining the role that music plays in hallucinogenic journeys. the presence of music as a ritual accessory to hallucinogenic drug use can be observed on a wide cross-cultural base. marlene dobkin de rios, in her book hallucinogens: a cross-cultural perspective, suggests that the ritualised use of music within ha

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

choed above even the hill noises and the dogs' barking on the night wilbur was born, but no known doctor or midwife presided at his coming. neighbours knew nothing of him till a week afterward, when old wateley drove his sleigh through the snow into dunwich village and discoursed incoherently to the group of loungers at osborne's general store. there seemed to be a change in the old man- an added element of furtiveness in the clouded brain which subtly transformed him from an object to a subject of fear- though he was not one to be perturbed by any common family event. amidst it all he showed some trace of the pride later noticed in his daughter, and what he said of the child's paternity was remembered by many of his hearers years afterward 'i dun't keer what folks think- ef lavinny's boy

fact that 'lavinny's black brat' had commenced to talk, and at the age of only eleven months. his speech was somewhat remarkable both because of its difference from the ordinary accents of the region, and because it displayed a freedom from infantile lisping of which many children of three or four might well be proud. the boy was not talkative, yet when he spoke he seemed to reflect some elusive element wholly unpossessed by dunwich and its denizens. the strangeness did not reside in what he said, or even in the simple idioms he used; but seemed vaguely linked with his intonation or with the internal organs that produced the spoken sounds. his facial aspect, too, was remarkable for its maturity; for though he shared his mother's and grandfather's chinlessness, his firm and precociously sh

e stench-filled reading-room till the examiner came and the prostrate thing could be covered up. meanwhile frightful changes were taking place on the floor. one need not describe the kind and rate of shrinkage and disintegration that occurred before the eyes of dr armitage and professor rice; but it is permissible to say that, aside from the external appearance of face and hands, the really human element in wilbur whateley must have been very small. when the medical examiner came, there was only a sticky whitish mass on the painted boards, and the monstrous odour had nearly disappeared. apparently whateley had had no skull or bony skeleton; at least, in any true or stable sense. he had taken somewhat after his unknown father. vii. yet all this was only the prologue of the actual dunwich ho

hated it. i hated the mocking moon, the hypocritical plain, the festering mountain, and those sinister mounds. everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers. presently, as i gazed abstractedly at the moonlit panorama, my eye became attracted by something singular in the nature and arrangement of a certain topographical element. without having any exact knowledge of geology, i had from the first been interested in the odd mounds and hummocks of the region. i had noticed that they were pretty widely distributed around tempest mountain, though less numerous on the plain than near the hilltop itself, where prehistoric glaciation had doubtless found feebler opposition to its striking and fantastic caprices. now, in t

ound on the pawtucket west road. then suddenly i came- by a rare piece of chance, since it was not in the main body of records and might easily have been missed- upon something which aroused my keenest eagerness, fitting in as it did with several of the queerest phases of the affair. it was the record of a lease in 1697, of a small tract of ground to an etienne roulet and wife. at last the french element had appeared- that, and another deeper element of horror which the name conjured up from the darkest recesses of my weird and heterogeneous reading- and i feverishly studied the platting of the locality as it had been before the cutting through and partial straightening of back street between 1747 and 1758. i found what i had half expected, that where the shunned house now stood, the roule

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

he first sources of the other beings can only be guessed at with bated breath. all this, of course, assuming that the non-terrestrial linkages and the anomalies ascribed to the invading foes are not pure mythology. conceivably, the old ones might have invented a cosmic framework to account for their occasional defeats, since historical interest and pride obviously formed their chief psychological element. it is significant that their annals failed to mention many advanced and potent races of beings whose mighty cultures and towering cities figure persistently in certain obscure legends. the changing state of the world through long geologic ages appeared with startling vividness in many of the sculptured maps and scenes. in certain cases existing science will require revision, while in othe

tissue from which to breed stone lifters and subsequent beasts of burden for the cavern city, and other protoplasmic matter to mold into phosphorescent organisms for lighting purposes. at last a mighty metropolis rose on the bottom of that stygian sea, its architecture much like that of the city above, and its workmanship displaying relatively little decadence because of the precise mathematical element inherent in building operations. the newly bred shoggoths grew to enormous size and singular intelligence, and were represented as taking and executing orders with marvelous quickness. they seemed to converse with the old ones by mimicking their voices- a sort of musical piping over a wide range, if poor lake s dissection had indicated aright- and to work more from spoken commands than fro

cond carving- a sort of palimpsest formed after the obliteration of a previous design. in nature it was wholly decorative and conventional, and consisted of crude spirals and angles roughly following the quintile mathematical tradition of the old ones, yet seemingly more like a parody than a perpetuation of that tradition. we could not get it out of our minds that some subtly but profoundly alien element had been added to the aesthetic feeling behind the technique- an alien element, danforth guessed, that was responsible for the laborious substitution. it was like, yet disturbingly unlike, what we had come to recognize as the old ones art; and i was persistently reminded of such hybrid things as the ungainly palmyrene sculptures fashioned in the roman manner. that others had recently notic

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

gion; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-traveled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, rather than advance with their more fortunately placed brethren of the thickly settled districts. among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of "white trash" in the south, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of native american people. joe slater, who came to the institution in the vigilant custody of four state policemen, and who was described as a highly dangerous character, certainly presented no evidence of his perilous disposition when i first beheld h

HP LOVECRAFT THE LURKING FEAR

hated it. i hated the mocking moon, the hypocritical plain, the festering mountain, and those sinister mounds. everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers. presently, as i gazed abstractedly at the moonlit panorama, my eye became attracted by something singular in the nature and arrangement of a certain topographical element. without having any exact knowledge of geology, i had from the first been interested in the odd mounds and hummocks of the region. i had noticed that they were pretty widely distributed around tempest mountain, though less numerous on the plain than near the hilltop itself, where prehistoric glaciation had doubtless found feebler opposition to its striking and fantastic caprices. now, in t

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

le metal. its condition was almost perfect, and one could have spent hours in studying the striking and puzzlingly untraditional designs- some simply geometrical, and some plainly marine- chased or moulded in high relief on its surface with a craftsmanship of incredible skill and grace. the longer i looked, the more the thing fascinated me; and in this fascination there was a curiously disturbing element hardly to she classified or accounted for. at first i decided that it was the queer other-worldly quality of the art which made me uneasy. all other art objects i had ever seen either belonged to some known racial or national stream, or else were consciously modernistic defiances of every recognized stream. this tiara was neither. it clearly belonged to some settled technique of infinite m

ilure- for who could crouch blindly while a legion of croaking, baying entities of unknown source flopped noisomely past, scarcely more than a hundred yards away? i thought i was prepared for the worst, and i really ought to have been prepared considering what i had seen before. my other pursuers had been accursedly abnormal- so should i not have been ready to face a strengthening of the abnormal element; to look. upon forms in which there was no mixture of the normal at all? i did not open my eyes until the raucous clamour came loudly from a point obviously straight ahead. then i knew that a long section of them must be plainly in sight where the sides of the cut flattened girt and the road crossed the track- and i could no longer keep myself from sampling whatever honor that leering yell

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

er you have done that is of any significance to what you are and the way you live. even relatives might affect your life and people you react to. you must even list all your possessions, a complete assessment of everything connected to you. write it all out. it should be clearly and briefly stated, line by line, item by item, covering you from top to bottom, everything you consider a contributing element to your physical appearance or mental attitudes. when you have written all these things out, draw a two-column checklist beside it. examine each item on the list from the point of "what, of all these things, do i consider important to myself" the questions for a yes and no in each of the columns are "what do i like? what is it that bugs me" it can't be a matter of what your mother thinks i

ty, chance, or death (william shakespeare) when you are dealing with numbers, there is a comfortable and organized system that exists around you. there are numerical values to everything, every form of life. every piece of energy, every chemical reaction has a mathematical equation to represent it. even the atomic structure of things is organized in a way that can be represented by numbers. every element known to man has a numerical value based on its atomic weight or the number of protons and electrons in its individual atoms. numbers are basic to life; they are inherent in all things. so if we want to establish control over things, as witches do, it is natural that we explore the relation between us and the numbers that mean something to our lives. we are not ruled by numbers, although s

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

blue. the head region of the female is electrical, therefore red, the region of the genitals is magnetical, consequently blue. as for the male, it happens to be in inverted order. above the hermaphrodite there is a globe as a sign of the earth sphere, above which the magician is illustrated with the four elements. above the male, there are the active elements, that of the fire in red and the air element in blue color. above the female there are the passive elements, the water element in green and the element of the earth in yellow color. the middle along the magician up to the globe is dark purple, representing the sign of the akasa principle above the magician s head, with an invisible ribbon for a crown, there is a gold-edged silvery white lotus flower as a sign of the divinity. in the

l part of it, but point directly to the practical use, because it is here that the greatest arcanum is to be found. in the oldest book of wisdom, the tarot, something has already been written about this great mystery of the elements. the first card of this work represents the magician pointing to the knowledge and mastery of the elements. on this first card the symbols are: the sword as the fiery element, the rod as the element of the air, the goblet as that of the water and the coins as the element of the earth. this proves without any doubt that already in the mysteries of yore, the magician was destined for the first tarot card, mastery of the elements having been chosen as the first act of initiation. in honor of this tradition i shall give my principal attention to the elements for, a

iple of the water prithivi principle of the earth in accordance with the indian doctrine, it has been said that the four somehow grosser tattwas have been descended from the fifth tattwa, the akasa principle. consequently akasa is the cause ultimate and to be regarded as the fifth power, the so-called quintessence. in one of the following chapters, i shall inform the reader about this most subtle element akasa in detail. the specific qualities of each element, beginning with the highest planes right down to the grossly material level, will be mentioned in all the following chapters. by now the reader has surely realized that it is no easy task to analyze the great mystery of creation, and word it in such a way that everybody gets the chance of penetrating the topic to form a plastic pictur

reader so far that he is able to deal with the subject in the proper way and to find the practical key to the branch of knowledge most suitable for him, i will be glad to see that the purpose of my book has been fulfilled. 2. the principle of fire as it has been said before, akasa or the etheric principle is the cause of the origin of the elements. according to the oriental scriptures, the first element born from akasa is believed to be tejas, the principle of fire. this element as well as all the others manifest their influence not only in our roughly material plane but also in everything created. the basic qualities of the fiery principle are heat and expansion. in the beginning of all things created therefore must have been fire and light, and in the bible we read: fiat lux there shall

ent as well as all the others manifest their influence not only in our roughly material plane but also in everything created. the basic qualities of the fiery principle are heat and expansion. in the beginning of all things created therefore must have been fire and light, and in the bible we read: fiat lux there shall be light. the origin of the light, of course, is to be sought in the fire. each element and therefore that of fire, too, has two polarities, i.e, the active and the passive one, which means positive) and negative. plus will always signify the constructive, the creative, the productive sources whereas minus stands for all that is destructive or dissecting. there are always two basic qualities, which must be clearly distinguished in each element. religions have always imputed t

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

ophite-sabbatic lore within the cultus, its historical provenance is primarily rooted in oral transmission. nonetheless, beyond the passing of word from mouth to ear, there are many diverse linkages which prefigure the complex form seen in the present-day mythos. in previous generations traditional craft has shared certain features with the societies of horsemanry; reverence for cain is one such element. in turn, comparable ideas about the role of tubal-cain and naamah can be seen in the allied rites of freemasonry. traditional craft has also made good use of many ritual magic texts such as the key of solomon and agrippa s books of occult philosophy. these works also provide avenues for allied figures, such as lucifer, asmodeus, lilith, and the arch-daemonic guardians of the magical circl

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

, in religion and politics, but as a rule they were distinct, and this became even more marked after the spread of the reformation. it was therefore in the anglo-norman (and subsequently in the p. 4 protestant) portion of the country that we find the development of witchcraft along similar lines to those in england or the continent, and it is with this that we are dealing in this book; the celtic element had its own superstitious beliefs, but these never developed in this direction. in england and scotland during the medi val and later periods of its existence witchcraft was an offence against the laws of god and man; in celtic ireland dealings with the unseen were not regarded with such abhorrence, and indeed had the sanction of custom and antiquity. in england after the reformation we se

rror lest the devil should carry him off that he begged mr. blair to sit up with him all hallow-night, which he did, spending the time very profitably in prayer and exhortation, which encouraged the man to defy satan and all his works. the upshot of the matter was, that he became very charitable to the poor, and seems to have entirely renounced his intemperate habits. 1 rejecting the supernatural element in the above as being merely the fruits of a diseased mind, there is no reason to doubt the truth of the story. mr. blair also met with some strange cases of religious hysteria, which became manifest in outbursts of weeping and bodily convulsions, but which he attributed to the devils "playing the ape, and counterfeiting the works of the lord" he states that one sunday, in the midst of pub

he actual process, which, as we shall see, the mayor contemplated, p. 107 but did not actually carry out. the suspected witch is taken, her right thumb tied to her left great toe, and vice versa. she is then thrown into the water: if she sinks (and drowns, by any chance) her innocence is conclusively established; if, on the other hand, she floats, her witchcraft is proven, for water, as being the element in baptism, refuses to receive such a sinner in its bosom "florence newton was committed to youghal prison by the mayor of the town, 24th march 1661, for bewitching mary longdon, who gave evidence against her at the cork assizes (11th september, as follows "mary longdon being sworn, and bidden to look upon the prisoner, her countenance chang'd pale, and she was very fearful to look towards

the threat of what the apparition could and might do to him scared him into a promise of justice. about five years later, when the story was forgotten, costlet began to threaten the boy with an action, but, coming home drunk one night, he fell off his horse and was killed. in the above there is no mention of the fate of davis. p. 142 whatever explanation we may choose to give of the supernatural element in the above, there seems to be no doubt that such an incident occurred, and that the story is, in the main, true to fact, as it was taken by glanvill from a letter of mr. thomas alcock's, the secretary to bishop taylor's court, who must therefore have heard the entire story from taverner's own lips. the incident is vividly remembered in local tradition, from which many picturesque details

hcraft had taken place in ireland, of which law had heard, and from the report of which he formed his opinion relative to the certain amount of commonsense displayed by the magistrates in that country, in contradistinction to scotland, where the very slightest evidence sufficed to bring persons to torture and death. in the following tale 1 the ghostly portion is rather dwarfed by the strong fairy element which appears in it, and, as we have already shown, many witchcraft cases in scotland were closely interwoven with the older belief in the "good people; lord orrery, when giving the account to baxter, considered it to be "the effect of witchcraft or devils" the reader is free to take what view he likes of the matter! the lord orrery mentioned therein is probably roger, the second earl, who

ISIS UNVEILED

allic worship, tfaaumaturgical wondos wrought by satan, human sacri- fices, incantations, witchcraft, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently overlook a few insignificant details, among which is the undeniable presence of heathen phauicism in the christian symbols. a strong spiritual element of this worship may be easily demonstrated in the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mother of god; and a physical element equally proved in the fetish-worship of the holy livju of sts. cosmo and damiano at laemia, near naj; a successful traffic in which er-votos in wax was carried on by the clergy annually, until bardy a century ago* we &id it rather unwise on the part of ca

penetrated by few e^orers. the neces- sity which it involved of being well acquainted with the dead languages naturally limited the number of students' besides there was less popular need for it so long as people could not replace the christian orthodoiqr by something more tan^ble. it is one of the moat un- deniable facts of psychology, that the average man can as little exist out of a religious element of some kind, as a fish out of the water. the voice of truth "a voice stronger than the voice of mighty thun- derings" speaks to the inner man in the nineteenth century of the christian era, as it spoke in the corresponding century b. c. it is a useless and unprofitable task to offer to humanity the choice between a future life and annihilation. the only chance that remains for those frien

law(.1 sam, 155. cbm. ccjemmi: the mgfholon of uu bindat. p. 331. digitizecoy google so isis unveiled xviii, 25-27) is accepted as a standard by christians, they would do well not to cast into the teeth of heathen the impudicities of their faiths. remembering the suggestive parable of jesus, they ou^t to cast the beam out of thor own eye before plucking at the mote in their neighbor's. the sexual element is as marked in christianity as in any one religions* certainly, nowhere in the vedaa can be found the coarseness and downright immodesty of language, that hebraists now discover throughout the mosaic bible. it would profit little were we to dwell much upon subjects which have been disposed of in such a masterly way by an anonymous author whose work electrified england and

f i^oar. hie ptewnce of the woman tt rnn identifie* tbe two u symbolic of ids, or ut natare; and a man bowing down b adoration thereof ihows tbe mme idea as ii depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the madonna element and reforming the faith to protestantism. the enforcement of the late dogma of the immaculation was prompted by this very secret reason. the science of symbology was mulring too rapid progress. blind faith in the pope's infallibility and in the immaculate nature of the virgin and afker atkestral female lineage to a certain remove could alone save the church from the indiscreet revelations

dless and utterly meaningless speculations about the' son of man' would have been impossible; and humanity would now have but one religion and one god. it is this absence of all proof, the lack of the least positive clew about him whom christianity has deified, that has caused the present state of perplexity. no pictures of christ were possible until after tbe days of constantine. when the jewish element was nearly eliminated among the followers of the new religion. the jews, apostles, and disciples, whom the zoroastrians and the p&rsts had inoculated with a holy horror of any form of images, would have considered it sacrilegious to represent in any way or shape their master. the only authorized image of jesus, even in the days of tertullian, was an auegorical representation of the 'good s

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

they have been too well and too long established. it should become apparent then that the mechanisms of preparing the geomantic symbols to be used for the divination are almost completely under the control of these unconscious factors. we may assume, by the same token, that they have personalities of their own which, in geomancy, are called the governing genii of the planets operating through the element of earth. introduction 9 jung's definition of the collective unconscious, which is involved in these concepts, is so appropriate that i feel compelled to quote it at some length. in his book modern man in search of a soul, he wrote 'it (the unconscious) contains, besides an indeterminable number of subliminal perceptions, an immense fund of accumulated inheritance factors left by one gener

is topic to indicate that care, too, has to be exercised on this matter just as it has with regard to the formulation of the question itself. the presiding genius 43 chapter six the presiding genius all previous exoteric works dealing with geomancy are defective in this one particular area at least, the omission of that procedure which is an initiated technique. geomancy is divination through the element earth. in one of the rituals of the hermetic order of the golden dawn the initiate is sworn to invoke, in his workings, the highest name of god that he knows. in this way, whatever he does will come under the guidance and benediction of the highest spiritual force that he knows. thus the ruler of the element of earth has to be magically invoked so that it may truly govern this work of prog

orn to invoke, in his workings, the highest name of god that he knows. in this way, whatever he does will come under the guidance and benediction of the highest spiritual force that he knows. thus the ruler of the element of earth has to be magically invoked so that it may truly govern this work of prognostication. it comprises three separate gestures: 1. the invocation of the god-name ruling the element earth. 2. tracing the appropriate invoking earth pentagram. 3. summoning the appropriate presiding genius which rules over the question at hand. in the qabalah, which is the occult philosophy upon which this initiated interpretation of geomancy is predicted, the element of earth is placed under the divine aegis of that aspect of god attributed to malkuth, the tenth sephirah on the tree of

fe. the divine name is adonai ha-aretz meaning 'the lord of the earth (its pronunciation can be described thus: ahdoh- nye hah-ah-retz) when opening the divinatory process by the method to be described, this name should be softly intoned or vibrated so that one's mind may be exalted above temporal and mundane preoccupations. in this way it is tuned in, as it were, to the highest. furthermore, the element of earth is attributed to one of the five points of the pentagram, the geometrical figure always used in the sanctuary of the gnosis to invoke all elements. with the pentagram standing up on the two lower angles, the topmost point at the summit, then the lower left point represents the earth angle. the fundamental rule of invocation is 'move towards the angle to invoke. move away from the

of the pentagram, the geometrical figure always used in the sanctuary of the gnosis to invoke all elements. with the pentagram standing up on the two lower angles, the topmost point at the summit, then the lower left point represents the earth angle. the fundamental rule of invocation is 'move towards the angle to invoke. move away from the appropriate angle to banish. since we wish to invoke the element of earth, we must start therefore at the topmost single point and move downwards to the left, viz: 44 a practical guide to geomantic divination the weapon employed for invoking is the coloured pen or pencil used to record the geomantic symbols as already described. first of all, however, take the small plastic cup or tumbler employed to shake the dice, and invert it near the top of form no

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

universe is therefore an elaborated carrier of all the other six elements. the further the process of unfolding proceeds towards the material sphere, the weaker the influence of the higher elements progressively becomes as the influencing field of their source of luminosity is reduced. the following seven elements are to be understood as being interpenetrating and interwoven with each other. each element emanates from the one before it and thus each successively contains growing complexity, containing not only its own characteristic individuality, but also the aspects of the preceding elements. 1) cosmic monad: the first and unmanifest logos which breaks into the seven elements of: earth, fire, water, air, akasa& cosmic fire. it is the cosmic monad from which the food of gods flows in its

the reservoir of all psychic, moral and physical emanations of the earth. it is on this wave length that the food of gods can flow into our physical form via the violet light and through the higher aspects of our awakened mind. 7) physical universe: the body or garment of the six more ethereal elements preceding it. these seven elements with their numberless sub-elements are aspects of the first element, the cosmic monad and are connected to the seven human senses, of which people who exist in the beta field usually only use five. in order to access the channel of the food of gods, we need to activate our 6th and 7th senses and utilize the elements that work with them. the relationship between the elements and our physical senses are as follows: astral light: hearing; 2. air: touch; 3. fi

utilize the elements that work with them. the relationship between the elements and our physical senses are as follows: astral light: hearing; 2. air: touch; 3. fire: sight; 4. water: taste; 5. earth: smell; 6. akasa: intuition; 7. sea of fire: knowing for those open to the metaphysical aspects of this, in dimensional biofield science, the quantum field is an aspect of akasa, which is the second element of the constitution of the universe. the first element is termed a principle and is boundless, inconceivable and the root from which all the other six elements of the universe grow and each element evolves from the one preceding it. akasa is semi-manifest, being the origin of the cosmic soul, the source of all intelligent order and laws in the universe. akasa and cosmic fire are the elemen

ences in these zones. here the meeting of beings of great light is common as we learn how to match and hold frequency fields with those on the buddhic wave, or the christ wave, or the madonna frequency. all is possible in these realms for all doors are open and as we think things, they often manifest automatically before us, delivered by a universe that sees us as gods in form. there is one other element that determines how and when we have this experience and that is grace. frederick buechner wrote something that touched me re grace, he said: the grace of god means something like: here is your life. you might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn t have been complete without you. here is the world. beautiful and terrible things will happen. don t be afraid. i am with you

is immortality. kriya-yoga can be used to direct light through the grids as in the work of the geomancers and the dimensional biofield science technicians and it is kriya- yoga that sustains the bio-shield devices. kriya-yoga also feeds our chakras and their associated meridians. agni-yoga is often practiced by rebirthers and those who utilize the power of the elements as agni-yoga works with the element of fire which ignites the fire within as the origin of universal creation. agni-yoga allows us to draw a stream of nourishment through the central sun via our lower tan tien, or sacral chakra, and it is this ability that differentiates us from the solar feeders. agni-yoga connects us with lord helios, the intelligence that controls the light dispersion through the sun. divine nutrition: th

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s it were, of very fire, like waters of the rock! truly, out of sparks can be displayed a whole acreage of fireworks. forests can be conceived of flame-palaces of the fire; grandest things soul-things last things all things! wonder no longer, then, if, rejected so long as an idolatry, the ancient persians, and their masters the magi, concluding that they saw all in this supernaturally magnificent element, fell down and worshipped it; making of it the visible representation of the very truest; but yet, in man s speculation, and in his philosophies, nay, in his commonest reason, impossible god: god being everywhere, and in us, and, indeed, us, in the god-lighted man; and 70 the rosicrucians. impossible to be contemplated or known outside, being all! lights and flames, and the torches, as it

r would the specks and spots and stars of fire stop in this dense world-medium, in this tissue or sea of things, could it farther and farther fasten upon and devour the solids: eating, as it were, through them. but as this thick world is a thing the thickest, it presses out, thrusts, or gravitates upon, and stifles, in its too great weight; and conquers not only that liveliest, subtlest, thinnest element of the solids, the finest air, by whatever chemical name oxygen, azote, azone, or what not it may be called; which, in fact, is merely the nomenclature of its composition, the naming of the ingredients which make the thing (but not the thing. the denseness of the world not only conquers this, we repeat; but, so to figure it, matter stamps upon, effaces, and treads out fire: which, else, wo

lt over a floor as underplacing all things, we recognise, we espy, we descry, and we may, lastly, admit the mysterious sacredness of fire. for why should we not admit it? of course, it will not for a moment be supposed that we mean anything like or in its nature similar to ordinary fire. we hope that no one will be so absurd as to suppose that this in any manner could be the mysterious and sacred element for which we are contesting. where we are seeking to transcend, this would be simply sinking back into vulgar reason. while we are seeking to convict and dethrone this world s reason as the real devil, this would be distinctly deifying common sense. of common sense, except for common-sense objects, we make no account. we have rather in awed contemplation the divine, ineffable, transcendent

day after, it is the publication of unsuspected tales from the norse: but all go to heap up the proofs of our consanguinity with the peoples of history, and of an original general belief, we might add. what meaneth the altar, with its mysterious lights? what mean the candles of the catholic worship, burning even by day, borne in the sunshine, blazing at noon? what meaneth this visible fire, as an element at mass, or at service at all? wherefore is this thing, light, employed as a primal witness and attestation in all worship? to what end, and expressive of what mysterious meaning, surviving through the changes of the faiths and the renewal of the churches, and as yet undreamt, burn the solemn lamps in 108 the rosicrucians. multitude, in their richly worked, their highly wrought, cases of s

fire-subjects mean, of which men guess so little, and know less? what should this whole principle of fire and of sacrifice be? what should it signify, but the rendering over and the surrender-up, in all abnegation, of the state of man, of the best and most valued entities of this world, past and through the fire, which is the boundary and border and wall between this world and the next? that last element of all, on which is all, fire, having most of the light of matter in it, as it hath most of the blackness of matter in it, to make it the fiercer; and both being copy, or shadow, of the immortal and ineffable spirit-light, of which, strange as it may sound, the sun is the very darkness! because that, and the whole creation, as being degree, or even, in its wonders, as greater or less, beau

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e of individuals while in the company of their peers. there is not much hypothecating to be done with these. the stories can be told, and the cases lumped together as one big unexplained group of events. no explanation other than that of abduction by intelligently navigated aerial or celestial craft can be advanced: it is almost a case of proof by default. with planes, there is perhaps some added element other than metal fatigue which involves striking some apparently solid object while in the air, or being rent by unimaginable forces just before falling (because of this additional evidence i have put the accidents to planes into a separate section of part three, below) planes seem to hit something which crushes them or tears them apart, which is nevertheless invisible, and which strikes w

o the eye. ark in stasis, then came out of stasis. from such analysis we come by easy stages to conceive of a force, ray, or focal point, in some force-field either; unknown to us, or at least not understood, which produces rigidity in a localized or sharply delimited volume of air, or possibly in space itself. we are thinking of something like crystals of ice freezing within a body of water. the element remains the same but its physical attributes change suddenly and drastically. deh o, they can't prove it yet! another example might be the passage of a limited but powerful magnetic field through a scattering of iron filings or iron powder. before the approach of the magnetic flux, the powder lies loose, flexible, and penetrable. yet, when the flux enters it, invisibly and imperceptibly to

these spatial wanderers could be so close to the earth that parallax would be noticeable between observers only a few score miles apart. it has remained for us, awakening to the importance of those old observations, to make what we can of parallax studies for determining the distance of the objects sighted. it is not astonishing that our findings substantiate earlier analyses, but there may be an element of amazement in finding that these bodies are being navigated within the earth-moon system. there is something more of astonishment, however, in finding that the astronomical observations include two distinct and divergent types of bodies: the solid, geometrically shaped structures, and the illdefined nebulous clouds. both have been recorded by impeccable witnesses. both have been shown to

ction of greatest gravity, on the surface of the spatial iceberg exactly as, and for the same reasons that, the sun and moon pull water toward the proximate side of the earth in their production of ocean tides. we come to the inevitable conclusion, therefore, that this series of falling ice cannot be explained other than as vast masses of ice in orbital motion, in which case they are an intrinsic element of the space life or space craft, and that their very inconsistency indicates intelligence in space. since they are not consistent with natural laws, there must be direction behind them. falling stones what, indeed, do "falling stones" have to do with ufo's? we shall list, herein, but a few of the more interesting and entertaining examples of stones having fallen from space, and we can not

of which require water for their environment, or at least a moist habitat. many falls are reported in clear weather from a clear sky, but most are associated with torrential downpours of water not an ordinary rain. in some cases, isolated and strange-looking clouds are responsible, and some of these suddenly appear in otherwise cloudless skies. the descriptions of these storms and clouds have an element of similarity and the haunting suggestion arises that these storms and clouds are the result of artificial conditions as opposed to ordinary meteorological forces. this does not prove that hydroponic tanks exist for the convenience of our space race; however, whether these tanks are for supplies or experimentation, it substantiates our thesis for either a race originally from earth which d

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ysical objects. 4) telepathic receiver- the ability to directly receive thought (communication) at a distance, with no physical connection to the sender. there are many everyday examples of this, in which we think something just as another person is about to say it. this is an easy one to test for through experiment. very dramatic cases of telepathy have been recorded; there is often an emotional element in such cases. 5) a medium, as in a seance. 6) experience with a ouija board, pendulum, or automatic writing. 7) precognition- to forsee the future. again, highly emotional events are the ones most likely to be 'tuned in. examples of pk pk, the abreviation for psychokinesis, is the active or sending side of psychic phenomena. the theory here is that psychic force is sent out from the indiv

into four basic principles or *elements- earth, water, fire, and air. that viewpoint has mostly changed with advances of science, but the four elements are still accepted in magick, for they are more closely linked with the emotions than modern explanations of the world. many occultists think of the magical elements as forces, or as *qualities* of energy; especially within the astral world. each element has a symbol and color (common symbols are- fire: a triangle pointing up; air: a triangle pointing up and with a horizontal line through the middle of it; water: a triangle pointing down; earth: a triangle pointing down and with a horizontal line through the middle of it) colors of the elements are- earth: brown and green; water: blue; fire: red; air: yellow..the eastern tattvic system use

or the magician may surround himself with as many appropriate correspondences as he can to vividly affect the senses; thus making his magical contact with the inner planes more lucid. the magical elements have correspondences with the tarrot cards as the four suits. the four quarters (directions of the universe as used in magick ritual) and the archangels also correspond with these same elements- element suit quarter archangel= earth pentacles north uriel water cups west gabriel fire wands south michael air swords east raphael elementals the magical elements are said to be peopled by spirits and mythological entities called elementals or nature spirits. these are grouped into four main categories- gnome (earth) undine (water) salamander (fire) sylph (air) the basics of magick get any book

side of sushumna (nearest your right hand) is the *pingala* nadi, having yang qualities. chakras are visible to clairvoyant sight as varously colored rotating circles or funnels. in the east they are described as petaled flowers or lotuses. sources disagree on the colors. the first chakra, located at the base of the spine at the perineum is the *root chakra, muladhara. it primarily relates to the element of earth and to psychic smell. the second chakra, known as the *sacral center, svadhisthana, is located above and behind the genitals. its dominant element is water, and it is related to psychic taste. third of the chakras is the *solar plexus, manipura, located at the navel and corresponding with the emotions and with the element of fire; also with psychic sight (clairvoyance. the *heart

adhisthana, is located above and behind the genitals. its dominant element is water, and it is related to psychic taste. third of the chakras is the *solar plexus, manipura, located at the navel and corresponding with the emotions and with the element of fire; also with psychic sight (clairvoyance. the *heart chakra, anahata, is the fourth chakra, located over the heart and corresponding with the element of air, and also with psychic touch. the fifth chakra is the *throat chakra, vishuddha, the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 16 located at the base of the throat (thyroid) and corresponding with psychic hearing (clairaudience. the remaining two chakras are very important. they relate mostly to elevated states of consciousness. the *frontal chakra (or 'third eye) ajn

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ll offer thee no blissful nirvana- witness now the nature of the mind that dwells within me. and he spoke to me of essence, and of creative instance, and of design according to impulse and not to law. and in my confusion i answered, then i must consider myself incomplete, for thou host shown me things which i cannot easily comprehend. but i would hear more of this will, for it doth seem a radical element, of neither divine nor chaotic origin. and lucifer answered, thou who knew not independence of will shall now be the first to realize these qualities apart from my own self. and thy response forebodes much, for, had thou rejected concept of challenge, i should have held my own thought for impossible delusion. but as thou, tasting of knowledge, demand more, i shall name thee beelzebub, lord

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

e will to enjoy brings forth needs, and these generate movement towards attaining the desired object. in this case (the first level) the will to enjoy is very small. it therefore affects only the sum of all the elements, and is not separately manifested in each of the inanimate elements of nature. at the next level (vegetative, the will to enjoy is bigger, and already manifests in each particular element. hence, each element at the vegetative level already possesses the ability for individual movement (for example, plants open their petals and turn toward the sun. this level includes such processes as absorption and excretion, yet beings at this level still lack the sensation of individual freedom of will. at the third level (animate, the will to receive pleasure grows even larger. desire

el already possesses the ability for individual movement (for example, plants open their petals and turn toward the sun. this level includes such processes as absorption and excretion, yet beings at this level still lack the sensation of individual freedom of will. at the third level (animate, the will to receive pleasure grows even larger. desire produces individual sensations in each particular element and creates a unique life for everyone, one that differs from those of the others. however, there is no sense of empathy with others at this level. these beings still lack the necessary compassion or joy with regard to others. at the last, fourth level (human, the will to enjoy creates the sensation of others. for example, the difference between the third and the fourth levels is similar t

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lity of his desires. it is also in the fact that man s desires constantly increase and change, both during the lifetime of an individual, and throughout the generations. examining the evolutionary history of other species, such as primates, indicates that several thousand years ago, primates were practically identical to those living today. while it is true that primates, too, change, as does any element in nature, these are biological changes, like the geological changes occurring in minerals. humankind, however, has gone through substantial changes over time. chapter one: desire is ever ything 39 evolution of the human desire for pleasure the evolution of the desire for pleasure caused man to sense a constant need to develop, to invent, and to discover new things. a greater desire means

sand. they tried their hardest to pick him up by pushing their trunks and their tusks under his body. some even broke their tusks in the process. lastly, friends of a female elephant that had been hit by a poacher s bullet to her lungs, bent under her to prevent her from falling. a communal society among animals the animal world presents some spectacular examples of communal societies where each element works to benefit the whole. such societies include ants, mammals, and birds. biologists avishag and amotz zahavi researched the communal life of the arabian babbler, a songbird found in large numbers in the arid lands of the middle east. they described many altruistic phenomena. the arabian babblers live in groups, co-operate in defending their territory, and collectively tend to the singl

nsequently, a new entity a bacterial colony was formed, which was better suited to the environmental conditions. a bacteria is actually a community of bacteria that functions as a single organism. by these very rules, unicellular creatures began to evolve and became multicellular creatures, ultimately comprising complex bodies of plants, animals, and people. 60 from chaos to harmony each distinct element has a personal, egoistic interest. however, the essence of evolution is that elements with personal interest unite into a single body and work for the collective interest of that body. sahtouris regards the process that humanity is presently undergoing as a necessary step to forming a single human family a community that will provide for the interest of us all, provided we function as heal

the balance is breached, the organism begins to disintegrate. thus, the ability to reconstruct the balance is a necessary condition for the existence of life. 62 from chaos to harmony in fact, the body expends its entire protective power on maintaining the balance. when we speak of a strong body or a weak body, we refer to its ability to preserve its balance. preserving the balance requires each element to act altruistically regarding the system it is part of, and which provides the basis of nature s comprehensive harmony and perfection. if a certain element does not abide by life s principle of altruism, it thus breaches the balance. these two terms altruism and balance are therefore intertwined by way of cause and effect. in all creatures but man, there is a balancing software that make

g pleasure from their suffering. only man can experience satisfaction at another s sorrow. there is a well-known maxim that states that it is much safer to walk next to a satiated lion than next to a satiated human being. the egoistic goals that have grown in us from generation to generation, often at the expense of others, are in sharp contrast to nature s fundamental aim: to give each and every element an optimal existence. this is why human egoism is the only detrimental force in the world, the only force that tips the balance in nature s overall system. in his essay, peace in the world, baal hasulam writes, the equal side in all the people of the world is that each and every one of us stands ready to abuse and exploit all the people for his own private benefit with every means 64 from

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family, a planetary civilization. however, this civilization should not be a monolithic culture where everyone follows the same ideas, and one person or nation dictates those ideas to everybody else. rather, it should be a diverse civilization whose elements join together to maintain and develop the whole system, the planetary civilization of humankind. 18 kabbalah revealed this diversity is the element of harmony, the element of peace. every society that has survived has possessed it. only western and westernized societies have forgotten it. in the process of creating technical and economic progress, they have fragmented the integrity, the oneness of the system. it is high time we restore it. as i learned through my acquaintance with dr. laitman s writings, kabbalah in its authentic form

xminerals, plants, and animals x instinctively follow nature s altruistic law. only human behavior is in contrast with the rest of nature and with the creator. moreover, the suffering we see around us is not just our own. all other parts of nature also suffer from our wrongful actions. if every part of nature instinctively follows its law, and if only man does not, then man is the only corrupted element in nature. simply put, when we correct ourselves from egoism to altruism, everything else will be corrected, as well xecology, famine, war, and society at large. enhanced perception there is a special bonus to altruism. it may seem as if the only change will be putting others before ourselves, but there are actually far greater benefits. when we begin to kabbalah: then and now 35 think of

, we re unable to assess our situation correctly. that s not to say that catastrophes never happened before, but our time is unique in the sense that today it is happening on all the (narrow) road to freedom 127 fronts, instantaneously xin every aspect of human life, and around the globe. 2. discovering why it exists. a crisis occurs when there s a collision between two elements, and the superior element forces its rule on the inferior one. human nature, or egoism, is discovering how opposite it is from nature, or altruism. this is why so many people feel distressed, depressed, insecure and frustrated. in short, the crisis isn t really happening on the outside. even though it certainly seems to take up physical space, it is happening within us. the crisis is the titanic struggle between th

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ithout reservation, and to be what he wants us to be. we would not have the least concern for ourselves, and would give no thought to ourselves. in fact, we would cease to be aware of our own selves and would transfer all our feelings from ourselves to him, trying to approach him and to live by his thoughts and his will. perceiving the creator- 17- from the above, it should be clear that the only element lacking in our world is our perception of the creator. the attainment of such a perception should be our sole purpose in this world. this is the one goal we should spare no effort to achieve, for only when we can perceive the creator can we receive his help. this would save us from both the calamities of this life and from a spiritual death, thereby according us spiritual immortality witho

w to continually check and correct our course, we are sure to deviate from the correct path. furthermore, if we make even the slightest deviation at any point along the journey, then our error will increase with every step as we continue moving forward. consequently, we will get farther and farther from our set goal. before our souls descend into this world, they are a part of the creator, a tiny element of him. this element is known as "the root of the soul" the creator places the soul into the body so it can elevate the body s desires when the soul rises and merges with the creator again. in other words, the soul is placed into the body when a person is born into this world to overcome the desires of the body. by overcoming the desires of the body, the soul ascends to the same spiritual

the soul rises and merges with the creator again. in other words, the soul is placed into the body when a person is born into this world to overcome the desires of the body. by overcoming the desires of the body, the soul ascends to the same spiritual level it descended from, experiencing far greater pleasures than it had in its initial state when it was part of the creator. at this point, a tiny element is transformed into a whole spiritual body, and is 620 times greater than was the original element before it descended into this world. thus, in its complete state, the spiritual body of the soul consists of 620 parts, or organs. each part is considered to be a spiritual law or spiritual act (mitzvah. the light of the creator or the creator himself (which are the same) that fills every par

true spiritual pleasure. for this reason, drugs are subconsciously seen by society as the most dangerous addiction, although they present no immediate hazard to other people- 86- attaining the worlds beyond 9 a plea for help the only thing that the creator created in us is our egoism. if we can nullify the effects of our egoism, then we will once again perceive only the creator, and the egoistic element will no longer exist. when working on ourselves, we should try to cultivate both a sense of our own inferiority in relation to the creator, and a sense of pride in the fact that as human beings we are the center of creation. we are accorded this position if we fulfill the purpose of all creation; otherwise, we are no more than animals. as a result of experiencing these two contradictory st

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action. this process precedes the formation of any matter known to us, long before the material formation of our universe. since this will to receive stems from the light s action, it senses the light (the pleasure) at a very minimal level. at this point the will to receive has no independent desire for the light. to make it independent and further develop the will to receive, we must add another element: the will s awareness of its own existence. the creator (light) gives the will to receive the sensation that it exists, that there is a giver, meaning something that gives it the pleasure it is experiencing. thus, once the will to receive senses pleasure, it begins to sense the giver of the pleasure within the pleasure. t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 29 similarly, when we receive a gift

eator. this evolution results from an interior collision in the creature between the two factors the pleasure and the giver of the pleasure. in reality, all that exists is these two elements. pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 34 state three also marks the awakening of a new desire in the creature: envy toward the creator. in this respect, envy is a positive and useful element because it propels us to evolve further. finally, at the end of state four, the creature feels that it is bringing pleasure to the creator. thus, it considers itself holding the same status as the creator, and feels the pleasure that comes with having achieved the creator s status, the pleasure from giving, from being a creator. this state of being creates in the creature a desire to enjoy

a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 46 is like a decent person who has gone astray and now reawakens to return to decency. in fact, in order to cross the barrier that separates the corporeal world from the spiritual world, we must change our intention from relating to each other hatefully to relating to each other with love. the same rules apply to all parts of creation, from the lowest element of reality to the highest. it all depends on the perspective of the observer who discovers the rules. however, until a science is mathematically established, it cannot be considered a science. for example, quantum physics relates to a reality confined by time and space. but what we are talking about here is beyond time and space. hence, as long as quantum physics is not extended to include

erceive fifty million bits of information per second, gathered as streams of information in the consciousness. the subconscious processes the information mathematically, but it only processes a tiny fragment of the information some fifty bits of information per second. evidently, there is a huge gap between the received fifty million bits of information and the processed fifty bits. the important element to note is that the subconscious sends to the brain only the information that the brain determined in advance would be meaningful. the rest of the information is dismissed by the subconscious. these findings appear to corroborate the kabbalah perspective with regard to the will to receive. it is still unknown whether cutting-edge science and prominent researchers realize that the evolution

ing events in the universe. they will even insist that there is no other model. reality is made solely of a universe and a toy train within it; there is no builder, no engineer who designs and builds the toy train. alongside this view, there is a branch of modern science called quantum mechanics. this branch acknowledges that the theory we just presented is incorrect, and that there is in fact an element of complete freedom in the physical universe where particles of atoms do not behave mechanically, but choose how to behave. i am using the word choose in quotation marks because our language is too limited to explain it sufficiently. the real problem is that science cannot say anything about the nature b e t w e e n k a b b a l a h a n d s c i e n c e 57 of whatever makes those choices, he

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expression in this world, how they climb up and down, to and from our world with a variety of forms we call, phenomena and physical, chemical, and biological processes, as well as moral and other processes. because we are unable to learn all those processes as one collective, we study them as separate, specific sciences. nevertheless, everything is connected and dependent on every other force and element of nature. pa r t f i v e: r e l i g i o n, p r e j u d i c e a n d k a b b a l a h 307 after all, the subject matter is one, and we just separate the research into pieces to make it easier on us. the wisdom of kabbalah ties all these phenomena of spirit and matter together. this means that from the point of view of kabbalah, music, astronomy, biology, and medicine externally express a uni

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ow (it is flowing always while an external world exists) but that the second aspect of the divine is also outpouring his life, and causing the evolution of living forms. thus this emblem refers to the two outpourings, and shows that the master presides over all three representations. 263. this figure, called the tau, has another very important meaning, for the upright line signifies the masculine element, and the horizontal line the feminine, in the deity- thus slowing that god manifests as mother as well as father, as we are told in the stanzas of dzyan(*the secret doctrine, vol. i, p. 59 et passim) i shall refer to this again later when writing of the h.r.a. in ancient egypt it took to a large extent the place of the cross and, conjoined with the circle or oval, it became the ankh, the s

lutionary unfoldment, three principal ones; the physical plane, the plane of desire and emotion, and the mental plane, or that of the abstract intelligence which links up to the still higher planes of the spirit. these three levels of the world are reproduced in man. the first corresponds with his material physique, his sense-body; the second with his desire and emotional nature, which is a mixed element resulting from the interaction of his physical senses and his ultra-physical mind; the third with his mentality, which is still further removed from his physical nature, and forms the link between the latter and his spiritual being. c 278. thus the universe and man himself are constructed ladder-wise, in an orderly organized sequence of steps; the one universal substance composing the diff

eive more than they give; yet each one should try as the thurifer turns to him to give as much as he possibly can. 326. this use of incense is perfectly scientific. all occult students are aware that, as was said in the last chapter, there is no such thing as really dead matter, but that everything in nature possesses and radiates out its own vibration or combination of vibrations. every chemical element has thus its own set of influences, which are useful in certain directions and useless or even hostile in others. it is in this way quite possible, for example, to mingle certain gums which, when burnt as incense, will strongly stimulate the purer and higher emotions; but one could just as easily make another mixture whose vibrations would promote the most undesirable feelings. this is a m

e i.p.m, he carries it to the r.w.m, who by means of a small taper lights from it the tall candle standing on his right, and then puts out his taper with an extinguisher. he must not blow it out, because that would suggest the pollution of the sacred fire by the breath, which is unclean. it is for the same reason that the parsis, who are sometimes called fire-worshippers, because they regard that element as the greatest symbol and expression of the divine, will on no account pollute it with refuse. the r.w.m. says: gmay the light of wisdom illumine our work h (here he lights his candle; ghis wisdom is infinite. h the s.d. then carries the light to the w.s. and j.w.s, who light their candles and speak appropriately of the strength and the beauty of t.g.a.o.t.u. 338. in this ceremony we are

c secret, nor to exhibit any lack of caution with regard to the w c s and s c s which we have solemnly sworn never to reveal, but in other matters there is sometimes incaution; for example, on one occasion i heard some brn. discussing in a tramcar the excellent manner in which a certain j.d. performed his work in the lodge. this is, of course, no betrayal of any of the secrets, but it contains an element of distinct danger, for it is so easily possible when speaking of the ceremony to make some reference from which an intelligent and inquisitive bystander might deduce more than he ought to know. 374. the e.a. s c n 375. after it has been seen that the lodge is close tyled, the next thing to be done is to see that all is right within- that all present are freemasons. as a matter of fact we

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al thousand years. it was shown that the old legends of the labyrinth of crete and the terrible minotaur, supposed to dwell in its innermost depths, were based on fact, not on fancy. it is now known also that at the time of the first dynasty in egypt there flourished in the island of crete a civilization as powerful as the egyptian. with regard to it sir arthur evans says: 225. the proto-egyptian element in early minoan crete is, in fact, so clearly defined and is so intensive in its nature as almost to suggest something more than such a connection as might have been brought about by primitive commerce. it may well, indeed, be asked whether, in the time of stress and change that marked the triumph of the dynastic element in the nile valley, some part of the older population then driven out

d the fact that the due-gard of the 1 shows that the e.a. must confine himself to what is taught in the v.s.l) cryphius, the occult, a degree in the taking of which the mystic was perhaps hidden from others in the sanctuary by a veil, the removal of which was a solemn ceremonial; miles, the soldier, signifying the holy warfare against evil in the service of the god; leo, the lion, symbolic of the element of fire, which played so great a part in the persian faith; perses, the persian, clad in asiatic costume, a reminiscence of the ancient origin of the religion; heliodromus, the courier of the sun, with whom mithra was identified; and pater, the father, a degree bringing the mystic among those who had the general direction of the cult for the rest of their lives. 420. it is not easy to trac

craft or master was merely a question of age and skill, and it is ordered in the schaw statutes of 1598 that admission to it should take place in the presence of apprentices, thus precluding any secrets peculiar to the degree(*history of the lodge of edinburgh. d. murray-lyon, p. 10) as the years passed by more and more non-operatives were admitted into the scottish lodges, until the speculative element entirely predominated. 573. english minutes 574. an indication of the secret transmission of speculative masonry is found in the lodge of the acception attached to the masons company of london, whose records go back to 1356(*gould. concise history, p. 105) we first hear of that lodge in 1620-21, when it was clearly a body distinct from the company, for the king s master mason, nicholas sto

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versals on individual material things; the summa contra gentiles, four books in which he argues against nonbelievers and heretics; against the errors of the greeks, in which he expresses his opinion about the doctrinal points disputed by greek and latin christians; and the unfinished summa theologica, a three-part treatise on sacred doctrine that contains the principles of thomistic theology. the element that provides the summa with conceptual unity is the dionysian circle, implying the going forth of all things from god and the return of all things to god. part one includes questions and treatises about creation, the angels, the human being, and divine government. the two divisions of the second part are about virtues, vices, law, and grace, and the questions contained aquinas, thomas 13

ge, a genuine, complex language of unknown origin with a solid grammar and syntax. each letter of the enochian alphabet features a john dee (national library of medicine) 64 demiurge numerical value a gematria and is associated with elemental, planetary, and tarot properties. the nineteen calls, or keys, of enochian were used by dee and kelly to conjure the angels. the first two keys conjured the element spirit, the next sixteen conjured the four elements, whereas the nineteenth key invoked any of thirty aethyrs or aires, probably representing levels of consciousness. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts, either filled with letters or left blank, to which the angels would p

hanks to the use of the enochian language, a complex tongue of unknown origin. its melodic sound is similar to sanskrit,greek, or arabic. each enochian letter features a numerical value, and is associated with elemental, planetary, and tarot properties. 82 ereshkigal the nineteen calls, or keys, of enochian were used by dee and kelly in order to conjure the angels. the first two keys conjured the element spirit, the next sixteen conjured the four elements, whereas the nineteenth key invoked any of thirty aethyrs or aires. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts filled with letters to which the angels would point with a rod in order to spell out messages. after the deaths of de

nvocation then continues with a long list of names that have been applied to the prince of darkness. the core of the ceremony which in the laveyan system is typically a lust, compassion, or destruction ritual immediately follows this invocation. see also curses; anton lavey;magic and magical groups for further reading: green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead: shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. the exorcist the exorcist (originally released in 1973; rereleased in 2000) is, as the title indicates, the story of an exorcism. it was the most successful horror movie of all time. this film quickly became a cultural phenomenon. audiences were spell- the exorcist (1973 (kobol collection/warner brothers) 86 expressions

d and the odyssey, which themselves were the inheritors of older heritages from the mycenean-minoan culture. the chief deity was the mother goddess, who brought both good and evil, though even evil was understood to be part of the natural cycle of things. this included death, which was believed to be essential for new life. the mother goddess herself was ruler of the nether regions and thus a key element in the cult of the dead. at argos she was known as hera (the lady, at eleusis she was known as demeter (mother earth, at sparta she was orthia, and at ephesus she was artemis. the epic poem, the iliad, dating to about 800 b.c.e. and traditionally assigned to the authorship of homer, signals the ascendancy of the olympian gods brought by the hellenic people. homer s view of hades is reflect

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he air which has been till then retained in the lungs. all this must be done with all the force of which you are capable (e) then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger note 2- 1. this injunction does not apply to gods like phthah or harpocrates whose natures do not accord with this gesture. 2. or the thumb, the fingers being closed. the thumb symbolises spirit, the forefinger the element of water -378- upon the lips, so that you are in the characteristic position of the god harpocrates (f) it is a sign that the student is performing this correctly when a single "vibration" entirely exhausts his physical strength. it should cause him to grow hot all over or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. it is a sign

rium of passives n\ a v# n name alga (agla. o/ i k/ s i/ h n\ i g/ n* g the signs of the portal (see illustrations: extend the hands in front of you, palms outwards, separate them as if in the act of rending asunder a veil or curtain (actives, and then bring them together as if closing it up again and let them fall to the side (passives (the grade of the "portal" is particularly attributed to the element of spirit; it refers to the sun; the paths of s, r and z are attributed to this degree. see 777 lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: myhla v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g -380- the signs of 4= 7. raise the arms above the head and join the hands, so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4= 7

sun; the paths of s, r and z are attributed to this degree. see 777 lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire. i' b n* a name: myhla v\ n o- i (elohim. k\ s i\ h n# i g n g -380- the signs of 4= 7. raise the arms above the head and join the hands, so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4= 7) is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of q, z and p are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777 lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: la (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3= 8. raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a

e. for other attributions see 777 lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water. i' b n\ a v# n o- i name: la (el. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 3= 8. raise the arm till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3= 8) is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and s are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: hvhy o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2= 9. stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hand bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see i

and s are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777, lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air. i' b n\ a v* n name: hvhy o- i (ye-ho-wau. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the signs of 2= 9. stretch both arms upwards and outwards, the elbows bent at right angles, the hand bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2= 9) is particularly attributed to the element air; it refers to the moon, the path of t is attributed to this degree. for other attributions see 777 lines 9 and 11. the pentagrams of earth i' b n\ a v\ n o- i name: ynda (adonai. k' s i\ h n\ i g n g the sign of 1= 10. advance the right foot, stretch out the right hand upwards and forwards, the left hand downwards and backwards, the palms open (the grade of 1= 10) is particularly attri

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e successfully, the graft is fixed by a woman while the man copulateth with her per vas nefandum. we also narrate for the sake of completeness their method- perfected by modern adepts- let us here give honour and worship to the name of our lay-sister ida nelidoff- of attaining spiritual ecstasy by sexual means. and this method we have called eroto-comatose lucidity. xiv of the consummation of the element diune, whether quantity be as important as quality, and whether its waste be sacrilege it is said by the o.h.o. that of this perfect medicine a single dew-drop sufficeth, and this may be true. yet it is humbly and with all deference and worship our opinion that every drop generated (so far as may be possible) should be consumed. firstly, that this most precious of all gifts of nature be no

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be by the shadows of shadows. grace be unto lady babalon. thus it is written in the book of the law .remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass& are done; but there is that which remains. learn then that it is in the contemplation of division that sorrow is, for division is the formula of choronzon. it is herefore discreet for thee to unite each element of sorrow with its opposite; in whose triumph of hymen is ekstacy, until by apprehension of the new great opposite the idea is again seen as sorrow. this then is the issue from sorrow; and thou mayst understand that i now also am confident in the necessity of this my fall to prepare the formula of my exaltation. therefore, my son, thus hail me: blessing and worship to the beast, the prophe

ll; and the bodily organ corresponding degeneratheth therewith. but this is an effect of much time, so that in thy hell thou art like to find elements vain, or foolish, or contrary to thy present weal. yet, o my son, this hidden wisdom is not thy true will, but only the levers (i may say so) thereof. notwithstanding, here lieth therein a faculty of balance, whereby it is able to judge whether any element in itself is presently useful and benign, or idle and malignant. here then is a root of conflict between the conscious and the unconscious, and a debate concerning the right order of conduct, how the will may be accomplished. l liber aleph vel cxi 130 dw de ratione pr sidio voluntatis (of reason, the minister of the will) my son, in this case is there darkness, yet this comfort as a lamp t

ied by thy life, the bull, the power of works, and guided by thy liberty, the man, the wit to adapt action to environment. these are three virtues in one, necessary to all proper motion, as i may say in a figure, the lust of the archer, the propulsive force of his arm, and the equilibrating and directing control of his eye. of these three if one fail, he mark is not hit. but hold! is not a fourth element essential in the work? yea, soothly, all were vain without he engine, arrow and bow. this engine is thy body, possessed by thee and used by thee for thy work, yet not part of thee, even as are his weapons to this archer in my similitude. thus is thy dragon to be cherished of thy lion, but if thou lack energy and endurance of thy bull, thy tools lie idle, and if cunning and intelligence, wi

major adept, when i was clothed about with he body called alphonse louis constant. now the goat flieth not as doth the eagle; but consider this also that it is the true nature of man to dwell upon the earth, so that his flights are oft but phantasy; yea, the eagle also is bound to his eyrie, nor feedeth upon air. therefore this goat, making each leap with fervour, yet all times secure in his own element, is a true hieroglyph of the magician. mark also, his path sheweth one continuous in exaltation upon a throne, and so is it the formula of the man, as the other was of the woman. n the book of wisdom or folly 175 #r de oculo hoor (of the eye of hoor) say furthermore that this path is of the circle, and of the eye of horus that sleepeth not, but is vigilant. the circle is all-perfect, equal

or problem, and thy mind ready therewith. for by the property of this grass all passeth with speed incalculable of wit, and an hesitation should confound thee, breaking down thy ladder, and throwing back thy mind to receive impression from environment, as at hy first beginning. verily; the nature of this method is solution, and the destruction of every complexity by explosion of ecstasy, as every element thereof is fulfilled by its correlative, and is annihilated (since it loseth separate existence) in the orgasm that is consummated within the bed of thy mind. i the book of wisdom or folly 181 #y sequitur de hac re (further concerning this matter) hou knowest right well, o my son, how a thought is imperfect in two dimensions, being separate from its contradiction, but also constrained in i

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is written .liber lxi. 32 .for perfection abideth not in the pinnacles, or in the foundations, but in the ordered harmony of one with all..3 second, if any part of this love exceed, there is disease therein. as, in the love of othello for desdemona, love fs jealousy overcame love fs tenderness, so may it be in this love of a particular deity. and this is more likely, since in this divine love no element may be omitted. it is by virtue of this completeness that no human love may in any way attain to more than to forthshadow a little part thereof. 1 [fallacy of failing to distinguish between different senses of .to be. coupled with non distributio medii. t.s] 2 [this is the concluding line of the famous passage in cap. 42 of the egyptian book of coming forth by day (book of the dead) where

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egs instruction. inspired by his angel, he demands the doctrine of being rapt away into the knowledge and conversation of him. the master discloses the doctrine of passive attention or waiting. this seeming hard to the pupil, it is explained further, and the method of resignation, constancy, and patience inculcated. the paradox of equilibrium. the necessity of giving oneself wholly up the the new element. egoism rebuked. the master, to illustrate this destruction of the ego, describes the visions of dhyana. he further describes the defence of the soul against assailing thoughts, and shows that the duality of consciousness is a blasphemy against the unity of god; so that even the thought called god is a denial of god-as-he-is-in-himself. the pupil sees nothing but a blank midnight in this e

st. empty thyself; the ghosts of night flee before the living light. who clutches straws is drowned; but he that hath the secret of the sea, lives with the whole lust of his limbs, takes hold of water fs self, and swims. see, the ungainly albatross stumbles awkwardly across earth.one wing-beat, and he flies most graceful gallant in the skies! so do thou leave thy thoughts, intent on thy new noble element! throw the earth shackles off, and cling liber ccxlii 4 to what imperishable thing arises from the married death of thine own self in that whereon thou art fixed. olympas. then all life fs loyal breath is a waste wind. all joy forgone, i must strive ever? marysas. cease to strive! destroy this partial i, this moan of an hurt beast! sores keep alive by scratching. health is peace. unknown a

hriek of its last agony! olympas. surely it struggles. liber ccxlii 14 marsyas. bitterly! and, mark! it must be strong to die! the weak and partial reason dips one edge, another springs, as when a melting iceberg reels and tips under the sun. be mighty then, a lord of thought, beyond wit and wonder balanced.then push the whole mind under, sunk beyond chance of floating, blent rightly with its own element, not lifting jagged peaks and bare to the unsympathetic air! this is the second veil; and hence as first we slew the things of sense upon the altar of their god, so must the second period slay the ideas, to attain to that which is, beyond the brain. olympas. to that which is?.not thought? not sense? marsyas. knowledge is but experience made conscious of itself. the bee, past master of geom

ou fastenest on this soul of mine, that it is gone, gone from all life, and rapt away into the infinite starry spray of thine own aon. alas for me! i faint. thy mystic majesty absorbs this spark. olympas. all hail! all hail! white splendour through the viewless veil! i am drawn with thee to rapture. marsyas. stay! i bear a message. heaven hath sent the knowledge of a new sweet way into the secret element. olympas. master, while yet the glory clings declare this mystery magical! marsyas. i am yet borne on those blue wings into the essence of the all. now, now i stand on earth again, though, blazing through each nerve and vein, the light yet holds its choral course, filling my frame with fiery force like god.s. now hear the apocalypse new-fledged on these reluctant lips! olympas. i tremble l

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ace.10 thus gm in oc la et cetera, form bases for these trilateral names. the following rules explain how the sides of the pyramids of which the squares are formed are attributed to the sephiroth, planets, elements and zodiacal signs.11 1. great central cross. this has 36 squares, for the decantes of the zodiac. on the left side of the pyramid, linea patris has the cardinal signs, the sign of the element itself at the top, in the order of tetragrammaton (fire, water, air, earth) going upwards. linea filii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases

ilii has the common signs in the same order. linea s.s. has the cherubic signs, that of the element on the left, in the same order, right to left. but the order of the decans in each sign is reverse, and thus the planets which fill the right-hand side of the pyramids go in the first two cases downwards, and in the third from left to right. the upper sides of the pyramids are all attributed to the element of spirit, the lower sides to the element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. liber lxxxiv 13 2. calvary crosses. each has 10 squares. the upper sides of the pyramids are uniformly given to spirit, the lower sides to the sephiroth, in the order shewn.13 the left-hand sides are attributed to the element of the

element of the tablet. each square is also referred to the small card of the tarot which corresponds to the decan (see 77712. liber lxxxiv 13 2. calvary crosses. each has 10 squares. the upper sides of the pyramids are uniformly given to spirit, the lower sides to the sephiroth, in the order shewn.13 the left-hand sides are attributed to the element of the tablet, the right-hand sides to the sub-element of the lesser angle.14 3. kerubic squares. the upper sides pertain to the element of the tablet, the lower sides to the sub-element. right- and left-hand sides in this case correspond, according to a somewhat complex rule which it is unnecessary to give here.15 the attributions to the court cards of the tarot naturally follow.16 4. lesser squares. the upper side of each pyramid is governed

on the file above it. the lower side is governed by the kerub also, but in order descending as the are from right to left above [see angle of air of water; the kerubs go earth, fire, water, air (from the square marked d, the fifth from the left in the top rank of the tablet, and downward the lower sides of the squares marked o, d, e, z go earth, fire, water, air] the left-hand side refers to the element of the tablet, the right-hand side to the sub-element of the lesser angle.17 5. the black cross or central tablet. the upper and lower sides are equally attributed to spirit. the left-hand sides to the element of the file, in this order from left to right: spirit, air, water, earth, fire. the right-hand sides to the element of the rank in this order: air, water, earth, fire. the symbolic r

blet of union: also precedes, in the second place, all invocations of key tablet angels. not used in invocations of 4 other tables. 3, 4, 5, 6: used in invocations of angels of tablet of union, also of angels of 4 terrestrial tablets, thus. 3: used to invoke angels of the letters of the line e x a r p for those of tablet oro as a whole and for the lesser angle of this tablet, which is that of the element itself, viz. i d o i g o. so for others. the remaining 12 keys refer to the remaining lesser angles of the tables, the order of the elements being air, water, earth, fire. pronounce elemental language (also called angelic or enochian) by inserting the next following hebrew vowel between consonants, e.g. e after b (beth, i after g (gimel, a after d, etc.2 the opening of the portal of the va

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xterior world; nothing less than giants and paynim and men-atarms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. in this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. it became probable that liber dccclx 4 the elements were but isomers of one element; matter was seen to be but a modification of mind, or (at least) that the two things matter and mind must be joined before either could be perceived. all knowledge comes through the senses, on the one hand; on the other, it is only through the senses that knowledge comes. we then continue our conquest of matter; and we are getting pretty expert. it took much longer to perfect the telescope

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y. futility of whole discussion, in view of facts. ascension day 21 that worthy yankee millionaire, and wealthy nephews, young and fair, the pleasing crawfords! lost! lost! lost !78 .the holy spirit, friend! beware. ah! ten days yet to pentecost! come that, i promise you.but stay! at present .tis ascension day! at least your faith should be content. i quarrel not with this event. the supernatural element? i deny nothing.at the term it is just nothing i affirm. the fool (with whom is wisdom, deem the scriptures.rightly) in his heart saith (silent, to himself, apart) this secret.\yhla ya.79 see the good psalm! and thus, my friend! my diatribes approach the end and find us hardly quarelling. and yet.you seem not satisfied? the literal mistranslated thing must not by sinners be denied. go to y

d all else unmoved 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 our logical method. classical allusion, demonstrating erudition of poet. whether or not spirit and matter are distinct, let us investigate the fundamental necessities of thought. impermanence of the soul. 28 the sword of song you know for me the soul is nought36 save a mere phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same37 or else the prey of putrefaction. this matters to the present action little or nothing. here.s your theories! think if you like: i find it wea

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eat one of the night of time. t e and f such are the titles of the abodes or atouts of thooth; of the mansions of the house of my father 8 liber lxxviii the descriptions of the seventy-eight symbols of this book i; together with their meanings of the aces first in order and importance are the four aces, representing the force of the spirit, acting in, and binding together, the four scales of each element: and answering to the dominion of the letters of the name in the kether of each. they represent the radical forces. the four aces are said to be placed on the north pole of the universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the connecting link between yetzirah and the material plane or universe. i. the root of the powers of fire ace of wands a white radiating angeli

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that great voice proceeded from the universe, and not from himself. in both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the god-form and name should be absolutely blotted out; and the longer it takes for normal perception to return, the better* see illustration in equinox vol. i. no. 1 .blind force. or the thumb, the fingers being closed. the thumb symbolizes spirit, the forefinger the element of water [note added in the version of .liber o. in magick in theory and practice. see illustration in equinox vol. i. no. 1 .the silent watcher. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 6 iv 1. the rituals of the pentagram and hexagram must be committed to memory. they are as follows. the lesser ritual of the pentagram (i) touching the forehead, say ateh (unto thee (ii) touching the breast, say malku

ame: a h i h (eheieh. equilibrium of passives, name: a g l a (agla. the signs of the portal (see illustrations: extend the hands in front of you, palms outwards, separate them as if in the act of rending asunder a veil or curtain (actives, and then bring them together as if closing it up again and let them fall to the side (passives).11 (the grade of the .portal. is particularly attributed to the element of spirit; it refers to the sun; the paths of s, n, and o are attributed to this degree. see .777. lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire invoking aa banishing name: a l h i m (elohim. the sign of 4 =7: raise the arms above the head and join the hands so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4 =7 is particularly attr

rit; it refers to the sun; the paths of s, n, and o are attributed to this degree. see .777. lines 6 and 31 bis. the pentagrams of fire invoking aa banishing name: a l h i m (elohim. the sign of 4 =7: raise the arms above the head and join the hands so that the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, formulating a triangle (see illustration (the grade of 4 =7 is particularly attributed to the element fire; it refers to the planet venus; the paths of q, x, and p are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water invoking aa banishing name: a l (el. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 8 the sign of 3 =8: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers

attributions see .777. lines 7 and 31. the pentagrams of water invoking aa banishing name: a l (el. liber o vel manvs et sagitta 8 the sign of 3 =8: raise the arms till the elbows are on a level with the shoulders, bring the hands across the chest, touching the thumbs and tips of fingers so as to form a triangle apex downwards (see illustration (the grade of 3 =8 is particularly attributed to the element of water; it refers to the planet mercury; the paths of r and c are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air invoking aa banishing name: i h v h (ye-ho-wau. the sign of 2 =9: stretch both arms upwards and out-wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (th

the paths of r and c are attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 8 and 23. the pentagrams of air invoking aa banishing name: i h v h (ye-ho-wau. the sign of 2 =9: stretch both arms upwards and out-wards, the elbows bent at right-angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards as if supporting a weight (see illustration (the grade of 2 =9 is particularly attributed to the element air; it refers to the moon; the path of t is attributed to this degree. for other attributions see .777. lines 9 and 11) the pentagrams of earth invoking aab a n i s h i n g name: a d n i (adonai. the sign of 1 =10: advance the right foot, stretch out the right hand upwards and forwards, the left hand downwards and backwards, the palms open (see illustration (the grade of 1 =10 is particul

LIBER SAMEKH

bolically apt, i say not in the form of a ray of light, of a fiery sword, or of aught save that bodily vehicle of the holy ghost which is sacred to baphomet,22 by its virtue that concealeth the lion and the serpent that his image may appear adorably upon the earth for ever. let then the adept extend his will beyond the circle in this imagined shape, and let it radiate with the light proper to the element invoked, and let each word issue along the shaft with passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it should thrust itself leapingly forward. let also each word accumulate authority, so that the head of the shaft may plunge twice as far for the second word as for the first, and four times for the third as for the second, and thus to the end. moreover, let the adept fling f

y plunge twice as far for the second word as for the first, and four times for the third as for the second, and thus to the end. moreover, let the adept fling forth his whole consciousness thither. then at the final wword, let him bring rushing back his will within himself, steadily streaming, and let him offer himself to its point, as artemis to pan, that this perfectly pure concentration of the element purge him thoroughly, and possess him with its passion. in this sacrament being wholly at one with that element, let the adept utter the charge ghear me, and make, h etc, with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto* having experience of success in the practices of liber dxxxvi, gbatracofrenobooko

enthusiasm, so that he consciously partakes their purpose, and sees in its simplicity the solution to all his perplexities. thus then shall the adept be aware that he is being swept away liber samekh svb figvra dccc 22 through the column of his will-symbol, and that his angel is indeed himself, with intimacy so intense as to become identity, and that not in a single ego, but in every unconscious element that shares in that manifold uprush. this rapture is accompanied by a tempest of brilliant light, almost always; and also in many cases by an outburst of sound, stupendous and sublime in all cases, though its character may vary within wide limits* the spate of stars shoots from the head of the willsymbol, and is scattered over the sky in glittering galaxies. this dispersion destroys the co

is soul is stripped of its sheaths (c) to arouse in him an enthusiasm so intense as to intoxicate and anasthetize him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of spiritual vivisection,33 just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire (d) to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element, and fling them simultaneously into the aspiration towards the holy guardian angel, and (e) to attract the angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes him. the method of the ritual is thus manifold. there is firstly an analysis of the adept, which enables him to calculate his course of action. he can decide what must be banished, what purified, what concentrated* he can then

the aspiration towards the holy guardian angel, and (e) to attract the angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes him. the method of the ritual is thus manifold. there is firstly an analysis of the adept, which enables him to calculate his course of action. he can decide what must be banished, what purified, what concentrated* he can then concentrate his will upon its one essential element, overcoming its resistance.which is automatic, like a physiological reflex.by destroying inhibitions through his ego-overwhelming enthusiasm. the other half of the work needs no such complex effort; for his angel is simple and unperplexed, ready at all times to respond to rightly-ordered approach [qy. gconsecrated h] a high degree of initiation is required. this means that the process of a

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ountenance. by establishing itself as an equilibrium,10 a the one-naught conceived as l the two-naught. this l is the son-daughter horus-harpocrates just as the other l was the ritual of the mark of the beast 11 the father-mother set-isis. here then is tetragrammaton once more, but expressed in identical equations in which every term is perfect in itself as a mode of naught. sht supplies the last element; making the word of either five or six letters, according as we regard sht as one letter or two. thus the word affirms the great work accomplished: 5 =68. sht is moreover a necessary resolution of the apparent opposition of la and al; for one could hardly pass to the other without the catalytic action of a third identical expression whose function should be to transmute them. such a term m

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

l. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the element hrimnir, which is derived from the word for soot on a cookpot. the element and- could refer to (or could have been understood by snorri as referring to) the front of the cook, who would be facing the cookpot as he worked his culinary magic. see also eldhrimnir; sahrimnir andlang the second of three heavens in the cosmology of snorri fs gylfaginning. no other text refers to this place or to

. the key passage is stanza 18 of grimnismal. andhrimnir in eldhrimnir has sahrimnir boiled. in gylfaginning, snorri understands the passage as a cook (andhrimnir) cooking pork (the pig sahrimnir) in a huge pot (eldhrimnir, and indeed the rest of this stanza seems to call sahrimnir the best of pork and refers to the mysterious nourishment of the einherjar. all three of the names are joined by the element hrimnir, which is derived from the word for soot on a cookpot. gfire-sooty h as the cookpot is the most appropriate of the three. see also andhrimnir; sahrimnir eldir servant of agir; loki fs first verbal opponent in lokasenna. the prose header to lokasenna says that people greatly praised agir fs two servants (who cannot have had much to do, as the beer carried itself into the hall, and o

you say is true, a great many of them are there, but many more shall there yet be, and yet it will seem too few, when the wolf comes calling. but never will there be so great a crowd of men in valholl, that the flesh of that pig, who is named sahrimnir, will run out on them. he is boiled each day and is whole again by evening. the names of the cook, the pot, and the eternal pork are joined by the element hrimnir, which is derived from the word for soot on a cookpot. the element deities, themes, and concepts 263 and- could refer to (or could have been understood by snorri as referring to) the front of the cook, who would be facing the cookpot as he worked his culinary magic, and gfire-sooty h would make sense for the pot, but the pig fs name is far from clear. it certainly looks as if it me

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

and in such a fitting manner, was a mortuary technician. while the triple hermetic circle used by coven nachttoter/the order of phosphorus differs from the original, the foundation is in itself similar if not the same. the triple hermetic circle is presented here anew, that the student makes use this by daring to do so. the reworked version is attributed to the four elements as follows: direction element god form planet north earth set saturn/sothis east fire horus mars/sun south water thoth moon west air anubis venus while pathal attributions are based on the elements in a different manner, this hermetic version in the directions and elements were first developed by hamara t however the god forms were developed through the order of phosphorus. one may develop their own circle based on the

thoth moon west air anubis venus while pathal attributions are based on the elements in a different manner, this hermetic version in the directions and elements were first developed by hamara t however the god forms were developed through the order of phosphorus. one may develop their own circle based on the pathal elements within a left hand path manner as the following for an example. direction element god form archetypical image planet south fire satan-shaitan peacock saturn/mercury east air lucifer eye venus north earth belial goat or ram sun/saturn west water leviathan serpent/snake moon 18 while the alternate version may be used for many witches sabbat callings and works of lesser or greater black magick, the suggested use of the triple hermetic circle of the different representation

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

high. as typhon has long been associated with set the common traits of his nature are clear. consider the nature of typho as the greeks called him, his nature was of the beast and he corrupted the natural order, the course of nature. set was of this nature as well, an anti-nature in that his spirit was against the natural laws and went forth upon its own course. in the luciferian path, the common element of practice is to forge with your own identification of mythology, your own path against others. that is, by antinomian practice from a spiritual foundation, the adept becomes like set or ahriman, not in any western evil definition, rather in the spiritual sense. the names of the adversary in ancient egypt (as set and apophis) were many, a few examples are: nak, sabau, apophis, suti, baba

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

rna world. other reasonable hypotheses for the origins of life invoke comets and meteorites delivering complex organic materials to earth, or underwater volcanic activity driving complicated chemical reactions. these are also plausible scenarios, but at the risk of irritating some colleagues, we think they are less developed than the sequence we explain below. hydrogen is by far the most abundant element in the universe. it is present in its molecular form (h2) in high concentrations in the atmospheres of the giant gas planets, notably jupiter and saturn. thus, hydrogen is thought to have been part of the primeval atmosphere of all planets right after the formation of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. hydrogen is no longer found at significant concentrations in the atmospheres

e and raining down on the surface. did they remain chemically stable long enough for them to react with one another and make the first large molecules necessary for life to get started? to answer this, we must consider that these organics were continuously produced for millions of years and must have accumulated to some extent. next, it was recently discovered that a common mineral containing the element boron is able to stabilize the sugar ribose that is a critical component of rna. in the absence of boron-containing minerals, ribose is quite unstable and would not have survived long enough to react with other organic molecules. the discovery of the stabilizing effect of boron-containing minerals was completely serendipitous. earth s crust contains hundreds of different minerals that all

eting each other to form hypercycles could have been vanishingly small. but in fact, since life appeared from chemical systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium, elementary statistical calculations are no longer adequate to estimate the chemical diversity of the rna world. rather, one must use a mathematical technique of conditional probabilities called markov chains, in which the addition of an element to a chain is neither totally random nor totally determined. each element thus has a given probability of being incorporated at a certain point in a chain. this statistical method applies well to rna molecules that grow by incorporating one element (a nucleotide) at a time. a simple example from the english language illustrates markov chains: there are more ways to complete a sentence that

was available) to build the tree of life as described in chapter 3. we know very well that these complicated ribosomal structures are not irreducibly complex because at least one-third of their proteins can be eliminated by mutation without causing any lethal harm to the mutant cells. this proves that ribosomes are not whole modules that were holistically designed, in which case removing just one element would destroy the whole, as per id reasoning. this is not at all what is happening. in fact, scientists now think that ribosomes may have started out as naked rna molecules (not complexed with proteins) in the rna world and then became associated, step by step, with a variety of proteins. in the words of harry noller, the principal investigator in whose laboratory the fine structure of rib

ronment. flagellum: a whiplike structure present in some prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells used to propel these cells in a liquid medium. fundamentalism: belief in the bible or other sacred books as factual, incontrovertible historical records. fusion: in physics, the action of merging two or more atomic nuclei together; in biology, the action of merging two or more living cells together. gene: an element of heredity. genes are made of dna or, in some viruses, of rna. genome: the suite of all genes present in an organism. glucose: a sugar whose metabolism produces energy. gravitation (theory of: the theory that explains gravity. gravity: the force that makes two material bodies attract each other. great chain of being: the ordering of living and nonliving things according to the putative ab

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

e which have swayed the world of thought during the last twenty-six centuries. the greek school of philosophy had its inception with the seven immortalized thinkers upon whom was first conferred the appellation of sophos "the wise" according to diogenes laertius, these were thales, solon, chilon, pittacus, bias, cleobulus, and periander. water was conceived by thales to be the primal principle or element, upon which the earth floated like a ship, and earthquakes were the result of disturbances in this universal sea. since thales was an ionian, the school perpetuating his tenets became known as the ionic. he died in 546 b.c, and was succeeded by anaximander, who in turn was followed by anaximenes, anaxagoras, and archelaus, with whom the ionic school ended. anaximander, differing from his m

ol perpetuating his tenets became known as the ionic. he died in 546 b.c, and was succeeded by anaximander, who in turn was followed by anaximenes, anaxagoras, and archelaus, with whom the ionic school ended. anaximander, differing from his master thales, declared measureless and indefinable infinity to be the principle from which all things were generated. anaximenes asserted air to be the first element of the universe; that souls and even the deity itself were composed of it. anaxagoras (whose doctrine savors of atomism) held god to be an infinite self-moving mind; that this divine infinite mind, not click to enlarge babbitt's atom. from babbitt's principles of light and color. since the postulation of the atomic theory by democritus, many efforts have been made to determine the structur

le of all things to be twofold: mind (which was incorporeal) and air (which was corporeal, the rarefaction and condensation of the latter resulting in fire and water respectively. the stars were conceived by archelaus to be burning iron places. heraclitus (who lived 536-470 b.c. and is sometimes included in the ionic school) in his doctrine of change and eternal flux asserted fire to be the first element and also the state into which the world would ultimately be reabsorbed. the soul of the world he regarded as an exhalation from its humid parts, and he declared the ebb and flow of the sea to be caused by the sun. after pythagoras of samos, its founder, the italic or pythagorean school numbers among its most distinguished representatives empedocles, epicharmus, archytas, alcm on, hippasus

n at the moment when men first doubted the possibility of discovering ultimate truth. observing all so-called knowledge to be mere opinion at best, the less studious furthermore concluded that the wiser course to pursue was to accept that which appeared to be the most reasonable of the teachings of any school or individual. from this practice, however, arose a pseudo-broadmindedness devoid of the element of preciseness found in true logic and philosophy. the neo-pythagorean school flourished in alexandria during the first century of the christian era. only two names stand out in connection with it--apollonius of tyana and moderatus of gades. neo- pythagoreanism is a link between the older pagan philosophies and neo-platonism. like the former, it contained many exact elements of thought der

inian philosophers, birch into the physical world was death in the fullest sense of the word, and the only true birth was that of the spiritual soul of man rising out of the womb of his own fleshly nature "the soul is dead that slumbers" says longfellow, and in this he strikes the keynote of the eleusinian mysteries. just as narcissus, gazing at himself in the water (the ancients used this mobile element to symbolize the transitory, illusionary, material universe) lost his life trying to embrace a reflection, so man, gazing into the mirror of nature and accepting as his real self the senseless clay that he sees reflected, loses the opportunity afforded by physical life to unfold his immortal, invisible self. an ancient initiate once said that the living are ruled by the dead. only those co

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concerning the holy grail, that mysterious relic which is woven inextricably into the arthurian romances. the cauldron, bowl, or cup symbolizes the receptive passivity of the great womb of nature, out of which all things are born and to which all return. it is seen as female in nature and is analogous with night, darkness, space, and, of course, the all-encompassing sea. water is the traditional element of the wise related to it. the cup or chalice is used to contain the salt water of exorcism or, alternatively, the wine of libation. this is the sacramental wine which is consumed in some ceremonies, and also used to consecrate things at times. the cup is also used to compose philters in. during persecution times the use of the chalice or cup was generally discontinued, owing to the fact t

i shall dwell on its positive aspect. whereas simple love philters will generally only conjure sweet yearnings of tender passion (unless of course heavily dosed with aphrodisiac drugs, the love knot is highly potent traditionally, when it comes to unashamedly stirring up lust, and is often used as a last resort along with the puppet spell. like many other really powerful spells, it introduces the element of time into its working; water cannot break rocks swiftly, unless used in great quantities, but a steady drip-drip can do wonders with erosion. often the deep mind is far more receptive to the drip-drip variety of persuasion than it is to the blockbursting approach of instant all-out magical attack. the love knot spell all you have to do to accomplish this piece of witchery is to possess

f the same symbolism you have already encountered in the last chapter, namely that of hertha, the great mother, seen in her negative aspect as the dark, terrible, stony bringer of inertia, and dame habondia in her aspect of noticula-hecate, lady of night and death. the mars spells, however, introduce you to the fourth and final witch entity: he partakes of the nature of the last remaining magical element to be covered in this book, namely, fire. you have, of necessity, already encountered this being in two places already, although without too much contact. he is none other than cernunnos, the horned one. the first instance being your manufacture of the athame with all its implied martial symbolism, the second the section on sex magic. he is a spirit of fire and energy, as symbolized by the

time as you do. now, as in your necromancy and vassago rituals, bear the photograph around the circle, clockwise, carrying your wand in your right hand as you do. display the image at the four quarters, beginning with the east, and chant the victim's name at each of them. finish at the north. this completes your identification of the photograph with the victim. now you must embark upon the darker element of the ritual. moving, always clockwise, to the west of the circle, face east across the altar, replace your wand, and take in your left hand the pen of art. with it, draw the circle cross of death or the reversed pentagram on the photograph, very slowly and deliberately, chanting as you do "i [witch name] inflict upon thee [victim's name] such and such sorrow or misfortune" or some statem

peration by tying three deliberate knots in the cord, two on the outside, one last in the centre, with words to the effect of "as these knots are loosed, so mote the weather be" at the time the effect is desired, the operator should take the cord in hand and turn to the correct direction, east for gales, south for thunderstorms, west for rain. he must then summon up all the powers of the required element from the depths of his being with all the force of his will, faith, and imagination. traditionally, he should at this point whistle thrice for a wind, clap thrice for thunder, or spit thrice for rain. a metrical incantation of intent devised by the operator should then be thundered forth, punctuated by the untying of the three knots in reverse order to that in which they were tied. should

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he earth, which can all render service to that man who learns their nature, and knows how to attract them. furthermore, i wish to make thee understand that god hath destined to each one of us a spirit, which watches over us and takes care of our preservation; these are called genii, who are elementary like us, and who are more ready to render service to those whose temperament is conformed to the element which these genii inhabit; for example, shouldest thou be of a fiery temperament, that is to say sanguine, thy genius would be fiery and submitted to the empire of ba l. besides this, there are special times reserved for the invocation of these spirits, in the days and hours when they have power and absolute empire. it is for this reason that thou wilt see in the following tables to what p

this operation, i, the servant of god, most humbly entreat ye. amen. having then caused the workmen to fill in the hole, thou shalt license the spirits to depart, thanking them for the favour they have shown unto thee, and saying: the license to depart. o ye good and happy spirits, we thank ye for the benefits which we have just received from your liberal bounty; depart ye in peace to govern the element which god hath destined for your habitation. amen. figure 10. the key of solomon page 54 chapter xv. of the experiment of seeking favour and love. if thou wishest to perform the experiment of seeking favor and love, observe in what manner the experiment is to be carried out, and if it he dependent upon the day and the hour, perform it in the day and the hour required, as thou wilt find it

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paulina 23 further, the invocation used makes no mention of the cabalistic ruler of the day and hour. it does mention elements of the seals, and also refers to the angels rays; this term is frequently used in medieval documents when discussing the action of the planets on the world, but i have never seen it used in relation to the cabalistic system of attributes. so every symbolic and operational element of this magick seems geared towards using the lord of the ascendant as the power ruling the hour. the preliminary mention of the ruler of the day, with its implied reference to the cabalistic method of rulership, is not supported by anything that comes afterwards. for the seals shown in part 1 of the book, the author chose the date of his example carefully. march 10, 1641 in the old style

MEANING OF MASONRY

der exists. he finds, indeed, that it is" a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" but that explanation, whilst true, is but partial and does not carry him very far. for many members of the craft to be a mason implies merely connection with a body which seems to be something combining the natures of a club and a benefit society. they find, of course, a certain religious element in it, but as they are told that religious discussion, which means, of course, sectarian religious discussion, is forbidden in the lodge, they infer that masonry is not a religious institution, and that its teachings are intended to be merely secondary and supplemental to any religious tenets they may happen to hold. one sometimes hears it remarke d that masonry is" not a religion; which i

behind all the official religious systems of the world, and behind all the great moral movements and developments in the history of humanity, have stood what st. paul called the keepers or" stewards of the mysteries" from that source christianity itself came into the world. from them originated the great school of kabalism, that marvellous system of secret, oral tradition of the hebrews, a strong element of which has been introduced into our masonic system. from them, too, also issued many fraternities and orders, such, for instance, as the great o rders of chivalry and of the rosicrucians, and the school of spiritual alchemy. lastly, from them too also issued, in the seventeenth century, modern speculative freemasonry. to trace the genesis of the movement, which came into activity some 25

us something better. let us not complain. if we look back upon the progress of the craft during the last 150 years we cannot but congratulate ourselves upon the enormous, if gradual, strides made in masonic progress and decorum even in the rough-ashlar stage of our conception of it. anyone familiar with the records of old lodges will have been brought into close touch with times when almost every element of reverence and dignity seems to have been lacking. lodges were held in the public rooms of taverns. whatever official furniture decorated these primitive temples, quart-pots and" churchwardens" figured largely among the unauthorized equipment. in one of the great london galleries there hangs a famous picture called" night" by the great artist and moralist of his age, hogarth. his purpose

both of the past and the present? why should they exist at all? i might reduce the matter to the compass of a small and personal point by asking why have you come to hear this lecture, and why should i have been striving for many years to acquire the information that enables me to give it--if it be not the fact--as indeed it is, that every man in his reflective moments realizes the sense of some element of his own being having become lost; that he is conscious, if he be honest with himself, of the sense of moral imperfection, of ignorance, of restricted knowledge about himself and his surroundings; that he is aware, in short, of some radical deficiency in his constitution, which, were it but found and made good, would satisfy this craving for information, for completeness and perfection

the due balance of which we are established in strength and health, whilst lack of balance is attended by disease. the pillars therefore typify, in one of their aspects, perfect integrity of body and soul such as are essential to achieving spiritual perfection. in the terms of ancient philosophy all created things are composed of fire and water; fire being their spiritual and water their material element, and so the pillars represented also these universal properties. in one of the apocryphal scriptures (2 esdras, 7; 7-8, the path to true wisdom and life is spoken of as an entrance between a fire on the right hand and a deep water on the left, and so narrow and painful that only one man may go through it at once. this is in allusion to the narrow and painful p th of real initiation of whic

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emost being, a direction point of your individual focus and a means or tool to achieve your will. the traditional magickal tools are significant to the witch as she/he will develop and build each as a part of the self, extensions of your being. dagger-athame (will, wand (fire, sword (air) chalice (water) pentagram (earth. such instruments should be employed during invocations and evocations. each element would hold a significant point within the ritual undertaken. for instance, if one was invoking hecate the pentegram used would be an inverse pentagram, such as the varcolaci sigil, while one invoking babalon would implement the seal of babalon, known simply as the seven pointed star of babalon. the athame-dagger, wand, sword and chalice would always be used. ceremonial training is the most

moon. mythology has painted a vision of the witch mother with two or sometimes all three heads being that of beasts. each animal represents an atavistic desire which manifests in her current of lunar energy. this power would propel her towards the goddess incarnation of the witch cult and many lines of sorcery. the moon is represented as a significant feminine force, based and connected with the element water. hecate is rumored to be of thracian origin although her base was within the roman and greek pantheons. though daughter of two light based deities, perses and asteria, hecate dwelled in the underworld along with hades and persephone. her individual powers were discovered through the shadows deep within her own being. residing with her as well was thanatos (god of death, hypnos (god o

in highly intense rites which can either be hermetic or ceremonial in nature. it is however of major importance that the sorcerer does not become obsessed with his creations, as elementals can become uncontrollable. such spirits can be made manifest or created through an act of atavistic resurgence, which is described in the creation rite. elementals should be bound by the powers of a particular element such as water, fire, air or earth. the sorcerer would also bind an elemental to an object, as for instance a vase, a sigil painted or drawn on paper, a box, a doll, etc. if one wished to destroy or absorb the elemental once its task was complete then the ideal method would be to destroy the object in the course of a banishing ritual. when elementals are born of atavistic desires then the c

ls in enochian are most useful, since this is an ancient and barbaric magickal language. within its angelic alphabet are phonetic keys to the aethyrs, 121 121 to the evokation of spirits and higher sorcery. a banishing ritual serves to clear the mind of any non-magickal thoughts, a sort of temporary "exorcism" if you will. invocation rinmps zipll, vovim londoh marb levanael, rinmps zipll, demonic element- fire of earth, dragons' kingdom according to levanael, ol vinu a. laoaxrp, torzul pambt ol i invoke thee. laoaxrp, arise unto myself, strength stir umplif lring mospleh dsaaai apata. up the horns of dsaaai apata (fire of water element) focus with intent upon the sigil, give it life by the inspiration glowing within every ounce of your individual being! it is most important that you unders

a burning sphere of individual power, which may be used in such a way as to create and maintain a state of personal balance. however, these are by no means pointless "black" magick rites, they define a moral code, that contains the black and the white in integrated form. black is represented as hidden, of the shadow, secret and apart. white is the emanating power which ascends from this "shadow" element. no rite within this grimoire is meant for "evil" purposes or "doing harm. they are meant as a means of recovering and reintegrating lost powers and abilities buried in the psyche. this by a self-initiated process of extreme sense reversion and exploration. choronzon is not meant to be in any way worshiped or revelled in. the point is to remain hidden and seek to understand this force of b

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

mysterious of all, we have the following from the mouth of one of theacclaimed co-founders of the theory of evolution, alfred wallace himself: some intelligent power has guided or determined the development of man and in the fascinating book mankind child of the stars, max h. flint and otto o.binder detail a very important anomaly..molybdenum, a very rare metal plays an important role as a trace element in the physiol-ogy of all earth creatures. it is surprising, therefore, that life so dependant on a rare metalshould arise on a molybdenum-poor world like ours these acclaimed scientists, point out that there are many other specialists with seriousdoubts about the relation of evolution theory to the origin and ascent of man. theystate: we are not quarreling with natural selectionas it appl

ve, they live, it came from outer space,the brain from the planet arrous, the creature w alks among us, w ar of the worlds, thetripods, six million dollar man, freejack, tron, planet of the apes, the eiger sanction,the time machine, things to come, cabinet of dr. caligari, the golem, android, five mil-lion y ears to earth, star wars, he-man: masters of the universe, what planet are youfrom, fifth element, fallen, independence day, moonraker, and jacob s ladder) in earlier chapters, we reviewed theories of how alien beings arrived and colonized theplanet earth, influencing her entire history. we also looked into the probable mannerin which evil came into the world and into the personality of man. we hinted that itmay not be at all natural, meaning that it may not arise due to the inviolate

heosophical glossary).the most common symbol used by the merovingians was the serpent, or the dragon. indeed,the most well known amphibian god was dagon, whose name connotes dragon. one of themerovingian kings bore the name dagobert.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation91 chapter 14silicon nightmaresthe second important enochian key concerned the nature and properties of thestrange element,silicon. the relationship between carbon and silicon, it was revealed,was one of the most important denominators to the problem. the main obstacle wasthe availability of this and other minerals. to avail this element, and to use it in thecorrect manner, was not at all in the capability of the elizabethan intelligentsia, noteven to those with alien dna. even the beginning steps were nigh on

tigations into the beginnings of religion have accumulated steadily throughout the pasthalf-century. it is only by great efforts of censorship, by sectarian education of an elabo-rately protected sort, and the like, that ignorance about them is maintained (h. g. wells,the fate of homo sapiens. the conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the massesis an important element in a democratic society. those who manipulate this unseen mecha-nism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in the ourcountry we are governed, our mind s are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggestedlargely by men we have never heard of we are dominated by a relatively small number ofatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation115 lambs to

eteors did notexist. he said, it is impossible for stones to fall from the sky because there are no rocks in the sky.caucasian mummies in chinaphysicians in shanghai who studied the preserved corpse came up with some baffling new informationabout the blonde mummy of china. whoever she was, she died with high levels of cholesterol in hermusclesand inexplicable traces of the silvery white metalloid element antimony in her lungs (p. 6)giant crater of antarcticaimagine a hole so huge it would fill the space between chicago and indianapoliswhat could havemade such an enormous hole? according to weihaupt, the answer is a mammoth meteorite. weighing inat around 13 billion tons and measuring 2.5 to 3.75 miles across, the meteorite is believed to havesmashed into the earth between 600,000 and 700,0

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

see #1. 3. as a luciferian your primary focus is the retention of knowledge that through experience it becomes wisdom, with that the assumption of power first internally and then externally as you see fit. the vampyre magickian is indeed luciferian, there is no difference in the ideological foundations. lucifer in the grimoire tradition of the middle ages is considered a spirit of the air, as his element is air just as his bride lilith, additionally he is the bringer of light as his direction is the east. lucifer as a vampyric spirit 9 is ahriman the prince of darkness. his wisdom is infernal and is hidden. all symbolism of vampyrism or vampirism as it is spelled is reflective of the spirit and astral plane. the name lucifuge means fly the light and reflects the nocturnal nature of many lu

5 minutes or so. allow the astral body of the servitor to flow back into you and with it the energy it drained from the chosen person. feel part of the life force making you stronger. allow the servitor to return to the object of what you have made for it. 32 astral vampirism from the material body astral flight is a powerful state in vampiric development. the luciferian spirit is centered in the element air, thus relating to the astral body itself. the witches sabbat in the luciferian witchcraft tradition is founded in the dreaming or astral conclave, the subjective experience from which a level of initiation occurs. the sabbat is a reality, yet it lies behind a veil found. as tiamat is the goddess of vampires, the method of sorcery of draining astral energy should be practiced in everyda

what people want to believe, the mind is directly affected by the body and its state therein. if you resist food during the day and retire to sleep without eating, hunger will run its course in your body, affecting the subconscious. if focused on 39 someone around a vampiric rite, your mind will go active therein. leaving the physical body as you will rise from your body, there is a focus of the element of which you will raise. the astral body is in direct control of the consciousness, the mind itself. the element of air is attributed to lucifer (samael) and lilith, the spirit of night and vampires. recite quietly with a candle for working: lilith, satrina, abyzou and all of thy names, mother of night and vampiric hunger, bless my spirit with the gift of flight. lilith, mother of air spir

n the solar plexus. 44 devouring- drains from ego and builds the essence of self from a conscious level. non-devouring (self work- consciousness and empowerment of self. understanding the sense of i. chakra two: the sacral charka- aeshma water, emotional identity and instinct, oriented to selfgratification the second chakra, located in the abdomen, lower back, and sexual organs, is related to the element water, and to emotions, wrath and sexuality. devouring- draining through sexual contact or from the elevation of the black and red serpents sexual vigor and dreaming projection i.e. succubus. focus on your sexual attraction towards your target, think of the horrifying form you will take before visitation. once you have done this, visualize this before sleep and imagine yourself flying out

ill take before visitation. once you have done this, visualize this before sleep and imagine yourself flying out in that form. non-devouring (self work- vigor and prowess, instinctual drive, knowledge of the self and emotions therein. chakra one: the root chakra- taromati earth, physical identity, material body. located at the base of the spine, this chakra forms our foundation. it represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts, and to our sense of grounding and connection to our bodies and the physical plane including our ability to rebel against monotheistic or enslaving principles mentally and spiritually. devouring- draining through touch and grasping objects, this type of vampyrism is the easiest as it 45 stimulates the nervous system early on. this i

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

hird is demons, the fourth is larvae, and the last is angels. elementals are those who, unlike many spirits, have etheric bodies; these etheric bodies allow them to interact with the material world by their own volition. the occult recognizes 5 elements; fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. occultists recognize 4 types of elementals, and each--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 32 is assigned an element: undines, salamanders, sylphs, and gnomes. undines are elementals of the element water. they are graceful, sensual, often pale and prefer the female form and watery habitations like river, lakes, and the ocean. salamanders, associated with the element of fire, are known for being emotionally unstable. their actions are rapid and explosive. when conjured, a salamander may prefer to arrive a

bitations like river, lakes, and the ocean. salamanders, associated with the element of fire, are known for being emotionally unstable. their actions are rapid and explosive. when conjured, a salamander may prefer to arrive as a male with glowing eyes. sylphs, the elementals of air, are intelligent, subtle, and, like salamanders, make rapid movements. gnomes are the elementals associated with the element earth. these beings are said to live underground and in caves. contrary to popular folklore, gnomes are not short, funny little men. they can be overly emotional and even dangerous. they are more solid than the other types of elementals, and may often arrive with dark hair, dark eyes, and olive-colored skin. the standard spirit has only an astral form, but no etheric or physical body. thes

ualities lent themselves to jupiter. many people believe that things like rabbit s feet have a natural occult essence of luck( i have not heard an occultist comment on this, but it s no more absurd than spitting into a frog s mouth. the metal copper, for instance, is inclined to the influence of venus. therefore, copper is a venereal metal (venereal..venus. the goddess of lust and sex, go figure) element color direction nature elementals ruler air yellow east separation sylphs paralda water blue west union undines nichsa fire red south energy salamanders djin earth green/brown north stability gnomes ghob sprit white center balance n/a n/a planet color day# characteristics saturn black saturday 3 death; limitation; decay jupiter blue thursday 4 growth; prosperity; luck; justice mars red tue

igned to mars, the second triangle is drawn, also in a clockwise fashion. and, being an odor of venus, ideally the room should smell of rose. the spirits associated with the 7 planets are invoked and banished with the hexagram; for spirits of the 5 elements, the pentagram is used. satanists tend to draw the pentagrams up-side down, which is symbolic for the material elements being higher than the element of spirit, which often represents god (the light. it isn t uncommon for names of power, such as the names of god, arch-angels, and angels to be uttered while these symbols are drawn. like in the middle pillar ritual in chapter 2, these special names are often vibrated, rather than spoken in a plain manner. although opening rituals can come loaded with needless pageantry, the core of the op

. the major implements of ritual magic are relatively few, and even more impressive is the fact that they aren t truly necessary at all (with perhaps the exception of the scrying mirror. the main tools of the magician include: the wand, the dagger (or sword, the cup, the alter, and the scrying mirror. the first of these, the wand, is used to direct energy and draw invoking symbols in the air. the element associated with the wand is fire, and fire represents the spark of life; in other words, the ability to give life. the wand is a phallic symbol and represents the active force; the male s ability to jump-start life. fire, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the lion, the south, the color red, and arch-angel michael. fire also represents the will (desire. th

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

ee forms- naturally the number of hecate, mother of the path. the circle from which the sorcerer stands is the binding sigil, representing black magical transformation in the circle to an isolate consciousness. one smaller circle is of nas, the necromantic shade of ahriman, the initiator unto the gates of the dead. the third is mitrokht, being a vampyric shade of the voice of command. this is the element of control the vampyric essence brings, close to the divinity of the nephilim, those of the watchers who drink the blood of the land. the vampyric fetish as created by the sorcerer should be made of a human skull, animal skull or pot. one should relire to the graveyard which houses spirits which one silently communicates and senses about. sleep for an amount of time in the grave(sunken gra

such implements, fetishes and elements of ahriman, lilith, dracul or any night born ghost or image which relates therein. one should dress in the black robe of passing through shadows, a crimson lining if possible to indicate ones rebirth in the bloodied caul of lilith. the sigil of binding should be placed upon the altar, as the object of focus. the formula of forming the shadow as the vampyric element of self enchantment zrazza, zo i ao alusha impredia i ka lil aka umpesha usha barruzu shu i aktet hekak, hekak, zabbatium arcanum hkaru lil kal ika usha zrazza zo druj umpesha hear me forms of shadow which that gate i have opened let no night go undiscovered before my being hear me darkest spirits of the abyss come forth from your mansion within the moon and the grave i open now the left g

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

he above narrative is not meant to be a representation of any one person's experience. rather, it is a "model" a composite of the common elements found in very many stories. i introduce it here only to give a preliminary general idea, of what a person who is gyring may experience. since it is an abstraction rather than an actual account, in the present chapter i will discuss in detail each common element, found in very many examples. before doing that, however, a few facts need to be set out in order to put the remainder of my exposition of the experience of dying into the proper framework (1) despite the striking similarities among various accounts, no two of them are precisely identical (though a few come remarkably close to it (2) i have found no one person who reports every single comp

nto the proper framework (1) despite the striking similarities among various accounts, no two of them are precisely identical (though a few come remarkably close to it (2) i have found no one person who reports every single component of the composite experience very many have reported most of them -hat is, eight or more of the fifteen or so) and a:;v have reported up to twelve (3) there is no one element of the composite experience which every single person has reported to me, which crops up in every narrative. nonetheless, a few of these elements come fairly close to being universal (4) there is not one component of my abstract model which has appeared in only one account. each element has shown up in many separate stories (5) the order in which a dying person goes through the various sta

several persons who were actually adjudged clinically dead on separate occasions years apart, and reported experiencing nothing on one of the occasions, but having had quite involved experiences on the other (8) it must be emphasized that i am writing primarily about reports, accounts, or narratives, which other persons have given to me verbally during interviews. thus, when i remark that a given element of the abstract "complete" experience does not occur in a given account, i do not mean necessarily to imply that it did not happen to the person involved. i only mean that this person did not tell me that it did occur, or that it does not definitely come out in his account that he experienced it. within this framework, then, let us look at some of the common stages and events of the experi

arious subjects include a mist, a cloud, smoke-like, a vapor, transparent, a cloud of colors, wispy, an energy pattern and others which express similar meanings. finally, almost everyone remarks upon the timelessness of this out-of-body state. many say that although they must describe their interlude in the spiritual body in temporal terms (since human language is temporal, time was not really an element of their experience as it is in physical life. here are passages from five interviews in which some of these fantastic aspects of existence in the spiritual body are reported first-hand (1) i lost control of my car on a curve, and the car left the road and went into the air, and i remember seeing the blue sky and saw that the car was going down into a ditch. at the time the car left the ro

bit different. it was not exactly like a human body, but it wasn't any big glob of matter, either. it had form to it, but no colors. and i know i still had something you could call hands. i can't describe it. i was more fascinated with everything around me-seeing my own body there, and all-so i didn't think about the type body i was in. and all this seemed to go so quickly. time wasn't really an element-and yet it was. things seem to go faster after you get out of your body (3) i remember being wheeled into the operating room and the next few hours were the critical period. during that time, i kept getting and out of my physical body, and i could see from directly above. but, while i did, i was still in a body-not a physical body, but something i can best describe as an energy pattern. if

MORALS AND DOGMA

labor a blinded and chained cyclops, in the mine, at the forge, in the workshop, at the loom, in the field, over poisonous fumes, in miasmatic cells, in unventilated factories, founds public power upon private misery, and plants the greatness of the state in the suffering of the individual. it is a greatness ill constituted, in which all the material elements are combined, and into which no moral element enters. if a people, like a star, has the right of eclipse, the light ought to return. the eclipse should not degenerate into night. the three lesser, or the sublime lights, you have heard, are the sun, the moon, and the master of the lodge; and you have heard what our brethren of the york rite say in regard to them, and why they hold them to be lights of the lodge. but the sun and moon do

ld and the moral world into the same light. phenomena are perpetually folded back upon themselves. in the vast cosmical changes the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, enveloping all in the invisible mystery of the emanations, losing no dream from no single sleep, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding in curves; making a force of light, and an element of thought; disseminated and indivisible, dissolving all save that point without length, breadth, or thickness. the myself; reducing everything to the soul-atom; making everything blossom into god; entangling all activities, from the highest to the lowest, in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism; hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth; subordinating, perhaps, if on

of the populace, its passions, its heroic impulses, its enthusiasms. woe to the statesman who does not estimate these as values! even music and song are sometimes found to have an incalculable value. every nation has some song of a proven value, more easily counted in lives than dollars. the marseillaise was worth to revolutionary france, who shall say how many thousand men? peace also is a great element of prosperity and wealth; a value not to be calculated. social intercourse and association of men in beneficent orders have a value not to be estimated in coin. the illustrious examples of the past of a nation, the memories and immortal thoughts of her great and wise thinkers, statesmen, and heroes, are the invaluable legacy of that past to the present and future. and all these have not on

distress, poverty, or misfortune, that breaks down one man, builds up another and makes him strong. it is the very attribute and glory of a man, that he can bend the circumstances of his condition to the intellectual and moral purposes of his nature, and it is the power and mastery of his will that chiefly distinguish him from the brute. the faculty of moral will, developed in the child, is a new element of his nature. it is a new power brought upon the scene, and a ruling power, delegated from heaven. never was a human being sunk so low that he had not, by god's gift, the power to rise. because god commands him to rise, it is certain that he _can_ rise. every man has the power, and should use it, to make all situations, trials, and temptations instruments to promote his virtue and happine

ecame fashionable to do so; and even poor lost women, whom god alone loves and pities, tend the plague-stricken with a patient and generous heroism. masonry and its kindred orders teach men to love each other, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the sick, and bury the friendless dead. everywhere god finds and blesses the kindly office, the pitying thought, and the loving heart. there is an element of good in all men's lawful pursuits and a divine spirit breathing in all their lawful affections. the ground on which they tread is holy ground. there is a natural religion of life, answering, with however many a broken tone, to the religion of nature. there is a beauty and glory in humanity, in man, answering, with however many a mingling shade, to the loveliness of soft landscapes, and

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

y 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. aleph is attributed to the "element (in the old classification 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 vultu

e poisons which shook the bourgeois are not indulgences, but purifications; the brute whose furtive lust demands that he be drunk and in darkness that he may surrender to his shame, and that he lie about it with idiot mumblings ever after, is hardly the best judge even of phryne. how much less should he venture to criticize such men and women whose imaginations are so free from grossness that the element of attraction which serves to electrify their magnetic coil is independent of physical form? to us the essence of love is that it is a sacrament unto nuit, a gate of grace and a road of righteousness to her high palace, the abode of peerless purity whose lamps are the stars "as ye will" it should be abundantly clear from the foregoing remarks that each individual has an absolute and indefe

ttage overlooking lake pasquaney in new hampshire. i lost consciousness of everything but an universal space in which were innumerable bright points, and i realized this as a physical representation of the universe, in what i may call its essential structure. i exclaimed "nothingness, with twinkles" i concentrated upon this vision, with the result that the void space, which had been the principal element of it diminished in importance; space appeared to be ablaze, yet the radiant points were not confused, and i thereupon completed my sentence with the exclamation "but what twinkles" the next stage of this vision led to an identification of the blazing points with the stars of the firmament, with ideas, souls, etc. i perceived also that each star was connected by a ray of light with each ot

can find no good but in "cessation" of all things, its creations no more than its own tendencies to create. it therefore sighs for nibbana. but there is one other solution, as i have endeavoured to show. we may accept (what after all it is absurd to accuse and oppose) the essential character of existence. we cannot extirpate or even alter in the minutest degree either the matter or manner of any element of the universe, here each item is equally inherent and important, each co-substantial and coherent, each aequipollent, independent, and interdependent. we may thus acquiesce in the fact that it is apodeitically implicit in the absolute to apprehend itself by self-expression as positive and negative in the first place, and to combine these primary opposites in an infinite variety of finite

in the charter of spiritual sovereignty it is written that the charcoal-burner is no less a subject than the duke. the structure of the state includes all elements; it were stupid and suicidal to aim at homogeneity, or to assert it. spiritual experience soon enables the aspirant to assimilate these ideas, and he can enjoy life to the full, finding his true self alike in the contemplation of every element of existence. some technical aspects of the verse had better be touched upon. first, note that to worship hadit one is to take 'wine and strange drugs, for which see liber aleph, chapters 93-94. this is because you are hadit; alcohol and such drugs temporarily release your inhibitions, your complexes and the brainwashing you have been subjected to since your birth in a slave-culture, and l

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

iana of the romans was identified with the greek artemis, with whom she shares that peculiar tripartite character, which so strongly marks the individuality of the greek goddess. in heaven she was luna (the moon, on earth diana (the huntress-goddess, and in the lower world proserpine; but, unlike the ephesian artemis, diana, in her character as proserpine, carries with her into the lower world no element of love or sympathy; she is, on the contrary, characterized by practices altogether hostile to man, such as the exercise of witchcraft, evil charms, and other antagonistic influences, and is, in fact, the greek hecate, in her later development. the statues of diana were generally erected at a point where three roads met, for which reason she is called trivia (from tri, three, and via, way

d in her temple on this spot, was always a fugitive slave, who had gained his office by murdering his predecessor, and hence was constantly armed, in order that he might thus be prepared to encounter a new aspirant. hephastus (vulcan. hephastus, the son of zeus and hera, was the god of fire in its beneficial aspect, and the presiding deity over all workmanship accomplished by means of this useful element. he was universally honoured, not only as the [98]god of all mechanical arts, but also as a house and hearth divinity, who exercised a beneficial influence on civilized society in general. unlike the other greek divinities, he was ugly and deformed, being awkward in his movements, and limping in his gait. this latter defect originated, as we have already seen, in the wrath of his father ze

the twelve great gods of olympus, whose gilded statues were arranged consecutively along the forum. his roman name, vulcan, would seem to indicate a connection with the first great metal-working artificer of biblical history, tubal-cain. poseidon (neptune. poseidon was the son of kronos and rhea, and the brother of zeus. he was god of the sea, more particularly of the mediterranean, and, like the element over which he presided, was of a variable disposition, now violently agitated, and now calm and placid, for which reason he is sometimes represented by the poets as quiet and composed, and at others as disturbed and angry. page 110 page 111 in the earliest ages of greek mythology, he merely symbolized the watery element; but in later times, as navigation and intercourse with other nations

where there were whole groves of dark purple coralline, and tufts of beautiful scarlet-leaved plants, and sea-anemones of every tint. here grew bright, pinky sea-weeds, mosses of all hues and shades, and tall grasses, which, growing upwards, formed emerald caves and grottoes such as the nereides love, whilst fish of various kinds playfully darted in and out, in the full enjoyment of their native element. nor was illumination wanting in this fairy-like region, which at night was lit up by the glow-worms of the deep. but although poseidon ruled with absolute power over the ocean and its inhabitants, he nevertheless bowed submissively to the will of the great ruler of olympus, and appeared at all times desirous of conciliating him. we [104]find him coming to his aid when emergency demanded

stinct classes, viz, water, mountain, and tree or wood nymphs. water nymphs. oceanides, nereides, and naiades. the worship of water-deities is common to most primitive nations. the streams, springs, and fountains of a country bear the same relation to it which the blood, coursing through the numberless arteries of a human being, bears to the body; both represent the living, moving, life-awakening element, without which existence would be impossible. hence we find among most nations a deep feeling of attachment to the streams and waters of their native land, the remembrance of which, when absent in foreign climes, is always treasured with peculiar fondness. thus among the early greeks, each tribe came to regard the rivers and springs of its individual state as beneficent powers, which broug

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

their ornamentation, however, all kinds of animals and motifs derived from byzantine and eastern sources, proof of their contacts with the roman collegia and the byzantine regions of italy. they made particular use of the endless cord, woven into complicated designs and known as the comacine knot. the houppe dentelee [serrated tassel] of the freemasons is strangely reminiscent of this decorative element. the comacines did not, however, take advantage of other byzantine teachings in the art of building. the collegia in regions of italy free from lombard rule in those regions on the italian peninsula that were dependencies of the eastern empire, roman laws remained in effect. craftsmen were still trained in collegia and were governed as they had always been. in time, the name collegia was c

e sciences. until the tenth century, churches were primarily built of wood. the art or science of framework construction, although complicated, is still less difficult than that of cutting and constructing with stone. the progress of this latter method brought about the overall advancement of architecture. stonecutting in fact leads to statics, the science of balance, and mathematics is the basic element of this discipline. toward the end of the tenth century, a man renowned for his position, character, and worth, the benedictine gerbert (a native of aurillac ecclesiastical and monastic associations 39 and, under the name of sylvester, the first french pope) brought about great progress in science and mathematics through his broad knowledge, which contributed greatly to architecture's abil

y the apse and tribunes of notre dame du port in clermont ferrand and the cloister, transept, and chapels of the cathedral notre dame du puy, provide some characteristic examples that have inspired several imitations in the surrounding areas* other examples include the triforium of the meridional transept of the cluny* bands, archivolts, modillons a copeaus [the console figures that have a design element. copeaux, resembling wood shavings, multifoil porches, and polychrome stonework give notre dame du port and notre dame du puy a resemblance to the mosque in cordova, which left such a strong impression on emile male (arts et metiers du moyen age, 33 ff. the crusades and the templars 77 abbey; the bell tower, the tower of the crossing of the transept, the triforium of the nave, and the choi

ts where there is mention together of freemasons, masouns hewers, masoun setters [stone cutters, and masoun legers [stone setters. it is these legers with whom they relate the ligiers cited above. it appears their intention is to show the professional distinctions between the first group freemasons and the others. in actuality, though, by opposing these terms in this way, the authors introduce an element of confusion to the names of these workers relative to their status and their legal position within their specialization and type of work. it is a bit like referring today to "unionized masons" in one part of a text and in another "cement layers" and "tilers" in such a way that each term appears opposed to another. along with this misleading opposition, we should be wary of etymologies. fo

934, 162. 208 from the art of building to the art of thinking whose purpose was to obtain religious glory through the construction of churches and to give service through their labor to whoever asked for their services. their renown spread throughout the church; france, england, and germany enviously requested their support. of course, this hypothesis is merely based on legend; not one historical element nor even any probability exists to accredit it. the same can also be said of similar theories suggesting that in connecting the templars to the freemasons, the alleged heresies of one group are imputed to the other. yes, the builders associations were subject to templar influence; this was clearly demonstrated in chapters 6 and 7. but there is no sound supporting evidence that these influe

ONYX TABLET OF SET

praised, against a circular field of gold. section 9.09. insignia of honorary setian shall be a silver pentagram, two points upraised, against a circular field of green. section 9.10. no member of the temple of set may wear or otherwise use the distinctive insignia of a degree other than that which he currently holds. article 10. orders section 10.01. the term "order" designates an organizational element of the temple of set supervised by one or more iv+ members as grand master/co-grand masters of that order. any iv+ member may create an order, but may not serve as grand master/co-grand master of more than two orders at a time. section 10.02. the grand master/co-grand master of an order exercises complete authority over that order subject to these by-laws. section 10.03. orders will accept

and masters of that order and any proposed additional order(s) agree that additional order membership is acceptable. section 10.04. order insignia may be worn either together with temple of set insignia or alone. when worn together with temple insignia, the order insignia must not conflict with, displace, or cover it. article 11. pylons section 11.01. the term "pylon" designates an organizational element of the temple of set supervised by one or more ii+ members as sentinel/co-sentinels of that pylon. any iii+ member may create a pylon and serve as sentinel, but may not serve as sentinel of more than one pylon at a time. if a ii member is to serve as sentinel, the pylon must be sponsored by a iii+ member. section 11.02. the sentinel/co-sentinel of a pylon exercises complete authority over

is exemption is issued on the condition that a federal exemption will be applied for and a copy of the final determination letter is furnished to this office /s/ albert d. lebel albert d. lebel supervisor exempt organizations cc: secretary of state (corp) ftb 4206 (4-74) high priest of set: policy statements section 1. temple section 2. orders hp 2.1. the term "order" designates an organizational element of the temple of set supervised by a master of the temple iv. an order is not normally geographically concentrated. hp 2.2. any master of the temple may create an order as an official element of the temple of set. an order may be dissolved by decision of its supervisory master, or by decision of the high priest. if the high priest is considering dissolving an order, he will normally seek t

hp 2.2. any master of the temple may create an order as an official element of the temple of set. an order may be dissolved by decision of its supervisory master, or by decision of the high priest. if the high priest is considering dissolving an order, he will normally seek the approval of the council of nine before doing so. section 3. pylons hp 3.1. the term "pylon" designates an organizational element of the temple of set supervised by an initiate of the priesthood of set iii. a pylon may be geographically concentrated but need not be. hp 3.2. any initiate of the priesthood may create a pylon as an official element of the temple of set. the presiding initiate of the priesthood shall be known as the pylon sentinel. a pylon may be dissolved by decision of its sentinel, or by decision of a

ld like to see in the temple, and then ask how they are going to help bring it about. have them design the ceremony. let's get rid of the tradition of the "surprise recognition" that was common in the temple seven years ago. cultural change although it is not necessary for an adept to own a computer, do mention the advantage in terms of access to informational resources. you should advise that an element of adepthood is attending at least one international conclave. the adept might consider that keeping a diary to work on improving oneself is a good aid for lifelong initiation. let's all emphasize the idea of the power and potential of the ii. a ii has great adventures, learns amazing things, does great magic. when you hear of a ii going to china on a cultural exchange program, get that in

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

to onyankopon. they only needed one more mortar. so the old woman told them to take the mortar from the bottom, and put it on the top. when they did so, the whole pile collapsed, killing them all. so the lesser gods, the abosom, act as intermediaries between the sky god and humanity. often, as with the yoruba god of fate, eshu (see pp. 86 87, such intermediaries may be tricksters who introduce an element of chance, play, and humor into humanity s relationship with the gods. obatala, the creator, is hymned by the yoruba as the father of laughter, who rests in the sky like a swarm of bees. the mandans believe that first creator actually turned into the trickster god coyote. such tricksters, whose mischief may lead them into wickedness, are found throughout mythology, from the greek dionysus

ne. by the time of the french prose tristan, the character of king mark has become blackened. now a villain, and enemy of king arthur, he murders tristan as he plays his harp to isolde, and she also perishes. fated lovers isolde clasps the dying tristan, and dies heartbroken. the fact that tristan and isolde have no choice in their passion, being bound together by the love potion, is an important element of their story. even after death, the potion retained its power. trees sprang up from their graves and intertwined, and although king mark cut them down three times, they always grew again. tristan and isolde are the archetypal lovers of medieval romance. although the story has become entwined with that of king arthur (in some stories tristan becomes a knight of the round table) it is esse

PHOSPHORUS

for the order of phosphorus members only. the purpose and intent of the order of phosphorus/toph. magick is elevation to ascend. the entire focus of magick is to initiate, strengthen and develop the self. work (capitalized) is defined as practice which advances and develops the consciousness, the continual process of self-initiation. the witches sabbat is one of individualized practice, that any element of practice must be a focus of sharpening and bringing forth consciousness. any practice which is irrelevant to magickal advancement i.e. self-initiation should not be regarded as magick. this is the very essence of magick regardless of any other title black magick, dark witchcraft, sorcery, etc. luciferian and the witches sabbat are constantly evolving, do not hold to traditions which nei

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

fruit. a vessel void of its light is an empty shell. the broken vessels of the sefirot of tohu, which broke because of their excessive selfhood and judgement, fall and became the gevil h embedded in the worlds of tikun. these elements were not gevil h in the sense of being sinister; they simply expressed non-g-d-consciousness and selfhood. as such, they became an absolutely necessary and crucial element in the creation of the subsequent worlds, for in order for there to be free choice, there must be an element of gevil, h i.e, non-g-d-orientation available as an alternative to holiness. this aspect of reality became more pronounced with each successive world, until, in our physical world, it became the dominant consciousness: the physical world is a given, g-d must be proven. in this sens

sidered preparatory phases in the developmental process that leads to z feir anpin (and nukva, the emotions, which is the main partzuf through which divinity is manifest on earth. abraham and isaac personified [respectively] the chesed and gevurah of the yesod of ima as it is enclothed in the da fat of z feir anpin. yesod of ima is the drive of binah for self-actualization. this drive contains an element of chesed, or love, as part of its motivation, as well as an element of gevurah, or power. yesod of ima becomes enclothed in the da fat of z feir anpin, meaning that z feir anpin fs ability to empathize (da fat) is taken from his gmother h (ima. da fat contains within it the twin faces of empathy, chesed and gevurah, which later emerge as the primary emotions. jacob personified the yesod o

immature and mature mentalities, descending below the level of the chest [of z feir anpin. the mature mentality of z feir anpin is vested in its head, while, as we said, its immature mentality has descended to the level of its throat. however, the yesod of abba extends further than either state of mentality. the initial insight, although a primarily intellectual experience, contains within it an element of consciousness that transcends intellect, and therefore is not limited to it. now [the combined numerical value of] havayah and elokim is the same as that of jabok, and this yesod [of abba] extends further than both. havayah (yud-hei-vav-hei= 10+ 5+ 6+ 5= 26; elokim (alef-lamed-hei-yud-mem= 1+ 30+ 5+ 10+ 40= 86; 26+ 86= 112; jabok (yud-beit-kuf= 10+ 2+ 100= 112. 1 genesis 32:23. the ariz

the male principle. in the book of chronicles, chusham is written with a vav c [the rest of this thought is missing in the manuscript. the letter vav of the name havayah indicates the midot, or z feir anpin. it thus signifies the male principle (in this context, the letter hei signifies the female prinicple) the fact that in the torah, chusham is written without a vav would indicate that the male element of this evil chesed is lacking in some way. in the next installment, the arizal will continue his exposition with a discussion of the fourth king .translated from sha far ma famarei rashbi, sefer halikutim, and likutei torah 181 parashat vayishlach [sixth installment] in the previous installments, we began to explain the shattering of the vessels, the mystical significance of the eight kin

him. as we have seen, the dispute between joseph and his brothers centered on the sefirah of yesod, the vessel of peace. joseph felt that he was the guardian of yesod, that he was the long-term peace-maker, while his brothers felt that he was an obstacle to peace. they, of course, were wrong; peace is meaningful only if it is predicated on submission to g-d fs will. otherwise.i.e, if there is any element of self-orientation or egocentricity in the so-called peace.it cannot be true peace and will fall apart sooner or later. this egocentricity will eventually surface, and as soon as it does, petty self-interests will outweigh the motivation for peacefulness. thus, although the brothers were correct in their vision of peace as being crucial to the perpetuation of the divine ideal, they were w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

arks an entirely different order of things. here we enter the elemental sphere, where nature's forces have their sway. it is also the region in the human sphere of what we may term the unconscious. the magical tradition classifies this unconsciousness into several strata, and to each of them is attributed some one of the four elements, fire, water, air and earth. netsach is attributed <27> to the element of fire, and so far as concerns the classification of man's principles, it represents his emotional life. its opposite pole on the tree of life, is hod, which means splendour, which receives the attribution of the planet mercury. its element is water, and its action represents fluidic mind, the thinking, logical capacity in man, as well as what may be called his magical or nervous force- w

l attribution is that of air, ever flo-g, shifting, andin a constant flux- yet because of that flux, in perpetual stabilitv. lust as the tremendous speed of the particles insures the stabilitv of the atom, so the fleeting forms and motio; of yesod* all its implications constitute the permanence and surety of the physical world. pendant to these three triads ismalkufh, the kingdom, referred to the element of earth, the synthesis or vehicle of the other elements and planets. malkuth is the physical world, and in man represents his physical body and brain, the temple of the holy ghost- the actual tomb of the allegorical christian rosenkreutz. these sephiroth are not to be construed as ten different portions of objective space, each separated by millions and millions of miles -though of course

fied <48' they may be consecrated to the great work, in order that they may become worthy vehicles for the indwelling of the light. first, however, it ishecessary that they be awakened. for, psychological truism that it is, until their presence is realised their transmutation cannot be accomplished. in symbolic form and pageantry, the ceremony of each grade calls forth the spirits of a particular element. and as a steel placed in ciose to a magnet receives soie degree of its magnetism, and comparable to the electrical phenomenon of induction, so the presence of power induces bower. contact with tge appropriate type of elemental jorce prodices an identical type of reaction within the sphere of the neophyte, and it is thus that growth and advancement proceeds. the speeches of the officers de

soie degree of its magnetism, and comparable to the electrical phenomenon of induction, so the presence of power induces bower. contact with tge appropriate type of elemental jorce prodices an identical type of reaction within the sphere of the neophyte, and it is thus that growth and advancement proceeds. the speeches of the officers deal almost exclusively with the knowledge pertaining to that element and grade, and excerpts from fragmentary remains of the ancient mysteries and from certain of the books of the qabalah do much towards producing an impressive atmosphere. the element offered for the work of transmutation in the grade of zelator is the introduction 29 earthy part of the candidate. the ritual symbolically admits him to the first rung of that mighty ladder whose heights are o

element offered for the work of transmutation in the grade of zelator is the introduction 29 earthy part of the candidate. the ritual symbolically admits him to the first rung of that mighty ladder whose heights are obscured in the light above. this first rung is the lowest sphere of the conventional tree of life, malkuth, the sanctum regnum. to it are ascribed the first grade of zelator, and the element of earth. herein, after the earth elementals are invoked, the candidate is ceremonially brought to three stations, the first two being those of evil and the presence divine. at each of these stations the guardians reject him at the point of the sword, urging him in his unprepared <49> state to return. hi third attempt to go forward places him in a balanced position, the path of equilibrium

REGARDIE TALISMANS

s assume that in the critical analysis of my characterstructure, i find that i am on the whole sombre, serious and reserved, and that i have not but little capacity for pleasure. in other words i am not capable of getting much fun out of life. having arrived at this conclusion, magical study informs me that these character defects can best be remedied by the invocation of the higher powers of the element of water, to which joy and happiness are attributed. the effect of such invocation can best be prolonged or perpetuated by making a talisman deicated to water. by making it carefully and artistically, by charging it in due ceremonial form, and wearing it on my person at all times, the intention is that the constant sensory stimulus it affords may evoke out of the unconscious depths of my p

e ceremonial form, and wearing it on my person at all times, the intention is that the constant sensory stimulus it affords may evoke out of the unconscious depths of my psyche the latent potencies of the pleasureprinciple which have been suppressed by virtue of early puritanical training. we could also say that it will act as a constant reminder of the prescence and power of god. water being the element required to remedy the character defect, i select a large piece of heavy silver paper on which to paint names and symbols in peach water-colours or poster paints. the size of the silver crescent, apas, will be determined mostly by convenience, first in working with it on the drawing board, and secondly as to whether it will fit into my wallet. a four inch diameter circular talisman is perh

awn documents as a radiant white angelic hand issuing from clouds and supporting a cup. from it rises a fountain of clear calm water below, in which grow lotus and water lilies. the great letter heh of the supernal mother is traced in the spray of the fountain, symbolizing fertility, productiveness, beauty, pleasure, happiness, etc. the next step is to assemble the divine names pertaining to this element, and a sentence or so which will express and formalize my basic intention. instead of selecting a verse from the bible as previously might have been the case, i am reminded of two separate verses which would be considered appropriate. the first one is adapted from one of the golden dawn rituals reading: blessed be thou, father, of the undying, for thy glory flows out rejoicing, even to the

d as the rituals describe them, empeh arsl gaiol, are printed on the upper portion of the circumference, while the divine king s name (based on the central whorl) is printed below ra agiosel. they could have been lettered in the angelic tongue, but i have decided to do this in english script in order to complete my total break with tradition. in the centre, the appropriate hebrew god-name for the element is written in. instead of using classical hebrew script, i decide once more to use capital romans which create an equally good effect, one in line with my avowed intention of departing from blind tradition and innovating a more simple procedure. these names, yhvh tzabaoth, i arrange on side one, around the cup design of the tarot pack, instead of on side three as originally contemplated, a

laetitia is thus: and its emblems may be drawn so: these symbols therefore may be placed around the circumference of the circle, together with the traditional symbol of water, the inverted triangle. we would also include what the golden dawn called the kerub of water, the eagle s head, representing the sublimation of the intrinsic energy of scorpio as the active power of god operating through the element water. thus: all of these symbols, including the silver crescent of apas, should be placed on side four of the talisman. incidentally, i suggest several rough drafts should be attempted first, until one is gradually evolved that is entirely pleasing to the student. then it should be painstakingly copied on to the final parchment, vellum, or coloured paper which will be the finished talisma

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

t?2nd ancient:let him that bath wisdom find it: yet i give you a password 'ignigene (burn by fire).music as the zelator is conducted to the west point off the compass, where presides the 3rd ancient,guarding a glass vessel containing pure water.3rd ancient:zelator, at the south gate, the venerable 2nd ancient informed you of the innate fire of all things: iimpress upon you that water is an active element, it is the menstruum of the world: without it manwould cease to exist, the blood to flow in his veins, or sap to move in vegetation. water forms thelargest portion of the blood, without it there could be no corruption, fermentation or dissolution. inits ordinary state, it is a combination of all the other elements, containing fire, air and earth,sufficing for vegetation alone. seek for the

our secrets.sign: place left forefinger upon the lip, cross it with right forefinger.token: join right hands and cross them with left arms.password: f.i.a.t.sacred word: zaph-nath-paan-cab (revealer of secrets).battery (cardinal points).you will now in charge of your conductor retire to the outer porch, and be clothed in the colour ofdivine truth and eternal friendship, emblematic of the ethereal element that surrounds us, whichrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliahymn to chymia20 through the blessing of god, he breathed into the nostrils of man when he imbued him with a livingsoul. for now that we have witnessed your spirit of ardour and fervency, it is becoming that yourscarlet attire should give place to the symbol of truth and hope, a raiment of blue. this colour alsoaccords

in brief, armies of hungry demons in their wildcareer are seen it. their brilliancy, and then by an invisible agency are extinguished. behold aloft theglowing sky with myriad stars, a brilliant sea of reflecting flame. this latent heat or generic fire isfound in the coldest flinty stone, in the thinnest purest air, oxygen, azoth, ozone, in every and allthings, supernaturally magnificent, a royal element. this is natural or physical fire: all-powerful,when not under due restraint. lead on. my pass is incensus (inflamed).the conductor repairs with the theoricus direct to the west, where sits the 2nd ancient, facing theeast with a plain mirror reflecting the light of a burning taper by his side.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus27 2nd ancient:my purpose is to direct you

ised in many theological or theosophic forms. lead on. my pass is 'gloria ignis embra (glorythe shadow of flame).the conductor repairs with the theoricus direct to the centre of the hall, then to the south, to the3rd ancient, who has a vestal lamp burning in front of him.3rd ancient:in the performance of a wise duty, i require your thought as to the celestial fire, when it ceases to beterrestrial element and partakes of the ethereal qualities, the pure ethereal fire which burns forever isrepresented under the egyptian doctrines as ptah, who is the emblem of the eternal spirit out ofwhich everything is created. thus, the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian school ofethics, formed of ether, at death return to it again.the celestial fire is here represented by the vestal lamp h

f the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus30 impalpable texture; firing them into cloud, mist, gas, into nothing. men of science cannot tell. uswhat is fire, but simply say, it is a phenomenon; they cannot tell whence it comes, or whither itgoeth. they tell us it is the evolution of light and hear in the combustion of bodies.conductor:what knowledge can you impart upon the effect of the fire element upon the production of preciousmetals?3rd alchemist:we may advise you, that gold and silver are the chief metals of the alchemists, and the two chiefmystic symbols of the rosicrucians. fire, light, vitality exists in everything, metal, stone and timber,when the 'life' of which is gone, it becomes unfit for service. in the combination of the metals whichwas explained to you as a theoricus

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

ater, earth and fire. but in magical science we know that water is not ordinary water, fire is not simply fire, etc. these expressions conceal a more recondite meaning. modern science has decomposed the four elements of the ancients and reduced them to a number of so-called simple bodies. that which is simple, however, is the primitive substance properly so-called; there is thus only one material element, which manifests always by the tetrad in its forms. we shall therefore preserve the wise distinction of elementary appearances admitted by the ancients, and shall recognize air, fire, earth and water as the four positive and visible elements of magic. the subtle and the gross, the swift and slow solvent, or the instruments of heat and cold, constitute, in occult physics, the two positive a

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

o take 18 the ritual of transcendental magic pleasure in impressing others so that they may impress themselves, and are the first to be deceived when playing their neurotic melodramas. are the true black magic of magnetism. so is it for ever impossible that magnetizers who are uninitiated in the supreme secrets and unassisted by the lights of the kabalah should govern this refractory and fugitive element. to be master of woman, we must distract and deceive her skilfully by allowing her to suppose that it is she who is deceiving us. this advice, which we offer chiefly to magnetic physicians, might find its place and application in conjugal polity. man can produce two breathings at his pleasure, one warm and the other cold; he can project also either active or passive light at will; but he m

ndicular mountain during a storm, swimming through a dangerous whirlpool or cataract. a man who is timid in the water will never reign over the undines; one who is afraid of fire will never command salamanders; so long as we are liable to giddiness we must leave the sylphs in peace and forbear from irritating gnomes; for inferior spirits will only obey a power which has overcome them in their own element. when this incontestable faculty has been acquired by exercise and daring, the word of our will must be imposed on the elements by special consecrations of air, fire, water and earth. the conjuration of the four 29 this is the indispensable preliminary of all magical operations. the air is exorcised by breathing towards the four cardinal points and saying: the spirit of god moved upon the

week which we term sunday without knowing why, the day of the sun among the ancients. the seven magical planets correspond to the seven colours of the spectrum and the seven notes of the musical octave; they represent also the seven virtues and by contrast the seven vices of christian ethics. the seven sacraments correspond equally to this great universal septenary. baptism, which consecrates the element of water, is in analogy with the moon; ascetic penance is under the auspices of samael, the angel of mars; confirmation, which imparts the spirit of understanding and communicates to the true believer the gift of tongues, is under the auspices of raphael, the angel of mercury; the eucharist substitutes sacramental realization of god made man for the empire of jupiter; marriage is consecrat

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

true situation at present, such matters may be traced back to at least as early as rd john dee,[7] who was cartographer, seer, astrologer and cryptographer for queen elizabeth i. kirk, however, was not remotely interested in militaristic applications, for he was a deeply religious and mystical man, and a hard-working, active clergyman devoted to the betterment of his flock. but there is a further element to kirk, for in addition to recording fairy lore and celtic belief, he undoubtedly lived through such belief himself. kirk was a seventh son, such as were widely believed to be susceptible to magical and spiritual dimensions. despite his important role as a churchman and literary figure, he became wrapped in the otherworldly traditions. robert kirk is said, to this day, to be entrapped in

the manuscripts preserved today are not in kirk's original hand, as he was fluent in speaking and writing gaelic. even if we had kirk's own original copy or copies, the orthography and grammar of gaelic or irish at this period was very varied indeed, and we have no way of judging the idioms or dialects prevailing in kirk's region at the time of writing. fortunately for this new edition the gaelic element of the text is small and the important but highly academic argument concerning the language is not relevant to our present purpose. the illustrations kirk's original text is unillustrated, but he discusses two techniques, and reiterates variants of a typical holistic cosmology, which lend themselves to graphic form. the illustrations are not intended as dogmatic assertions of kirk's 'meani

an, or the shape of the same man in two places; that is, a superterranean and a subterranean inhabitant perfectly resembling one another in all points, whom he [the seer] could easily distinguish one from the other by some secret tokens and operations, and so go [directly to] speak to the [real] man his neighbour, passing by the apparition or resemblance of him. they [the seers] avouch that every element and different state of being, has [in it] animals resembling those of another element [just] as there be fishes sometimes caught at sea, resembling monks of [a] late order, in all their hoods and dresses. so as [a result of this resemblance] the roman [catholic] invention of good and bad daemones and guardian angels [is] particularly assigned [and] is called by them [that is, the seers] an

airy bodies, or crazed bodies coacted by foreign spirits seem to have some pleasure [or] at least to assuage some pain of melancholy, by frisking and capering like satyrs or whistling and shrieking, like unlucky birds in their unhallowed synagogues and sabbaths. if invited and earnestly required, these companions make themselves known and familiar to men, otherwise, being in a different state and element, they neither can nor will easily converse with them. they [the seers] avouch that a heluo or great-eater has a voracious elve to be his attender, called [a] geirt coimitheth, a joint-eater, or just-halver, feeding on the pith and quintessence of what the man eats, and that therefore he continues lean like a hawk or a heron, notwithstanding his devouring appetite. http//www.dreampower.com/

more swift and pragmatic people [that is, the fairies, which [people] recreate themselves [that is, entertain or find recreation] in offering secret intelligence to men, though generally they http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (5 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) are unacquainted with that kind of correspondence, as if they lived in a different element from them. 5. though my collections were written long before i saw [those of] my lord tarbett, yet i am glad that his descriptions and mine correspond so nearly [that is, closely. the maid my lord mentions who saw her image [standing] still before the secret commonwealth 46 her suiteth [that is, corresponds] with the co-walker named in my [earlier] account [see page 23. which [co-walker, s

RUBY TABLET OF SET

s "not merely to live in virtue, but rather through virtuous life to attain to the enjoyment of god" since natural human virtue is insufficient to attain this, it is not the task of secular rulers but rather that of christ through his church, to whose pope "all kings in christendom should be subject" in addition to the aristotelian/teleological content of aquinas' thought, there is the legalistic element: the universe is obedient to laws. aquinas defined "law" as "an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has the care of the community, and promulgated" but as nature is hierarchically organized into forms and organisms of greater and lesser complexity, so are the universal laws. at the top is eternal law, which more or less equates with the mind of god. accordingly it is i

tuitive classical philosophy. aquinas is an example of medieval scholasticism in that he is "reasoning" towards a preaccepted and pre-determined conclusion. instead of using logic as an investigative device to address questions open-mindedly, he uses it as a vehicle to justify dogma. while it is easy to see this in aquinas and other scholasticists, one must also bear in mind the "intuitive truth" element to be found in classical logic as applied by plato, aristotle, etc. these elder philosophers were not defending institutional dogma, but they were using the device of argumentative logic. the dialectic. to illustrate and substantiate concepts which they had essentially grasped intuitively, i.e. supralogically. hence one cannot question aquinas in this area without questioning them too. mac

bible (2) denial of the authority of the church bureaucracy to interpret the bible (3) repudiation of reason and affirmation of faith instead (4) condemnation of the use of force for religious conversion, and (5 "the two realms [spiritual grace and political power] concept, which licenses unchristian acts if commanded by secular authority. to these essentially lutheran points calvin adds a strong element of church coercion of the individual and intolerance of alternative religions "god makes plain that the false prophet is to be stoned without mercy. we are to crush beneath our heel all affections of nature when his honor is involved" luther and calvin believed that mankind is totally depraved. that even "good works" fall short of god's standards of righteousness. the reason for ethical be

py is boring, as well as dead(ly. negentropy's extreme would be total structure, with no randomness at all. while other examples can be thought of, one which comes to mind would be a universe where on our left you'll find a block of solid hydrogen. under it is a sphere of liquid helium. look right, and you'll find a plasma of pure lithium. and keep looking, and you'll find each and every possible element, gathered together unto itself, without a molecule anywhere. interesting perhaps, but certainly not utopia. 1b1 negentropy- entropy b 1 o i is balance desired then? balance would imply that once that balance point were reached, there would be no increase in entropy nor negentropy; we would reach total stability and change would end. that doesn't sound desirable to the grand master (it soun

into the framework of a system. the "world order" and "set order" are two very different systems, and setian knowledge turns topsy-turvy when looked at in these different contexts. thus even ouspensky's "objective consciousness" may be seen to be only a relative consciousness, thus implying the existence of a yet higher order of consciousness in which each of the possible frameworks is merely an element in a higher order. footnotes 1. commentary by m.a. aquino vi: the above correspondence of the setian degrees to ouspensky's man-1/7 reflects a specialized concept of the setian degrees developed during the high priesthood of ronald k. barrett v, when it was proposed that the entire system be reoriented towards an increasing appreciation of the concept of xem, barretts v word. since then th

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

he is the inter-mediary between man and god and he opens possibilities. in addition he is a playful vortex of sorcery and children is sacred to him. often easily offended and just as often easy to give rewards. it is interesting to take notice by the use of the void or jagrata in relation to the atu 0 and atu 11 of the tarot-deck, the fool and adjustment. both aspiring to air. the void is of the element air and is ruled by venus and justice. the house of balancing powers or equal dynamic. a hidden formulae to this is revelaed on the pages 110- 114. an interesting point is the use of the witches ladder, a vakra (crooked) ladder in the void. your instrument of empowerment in this cell is this ladder. without the ladder you will be stuck in the same point of the void. the spell using the wit

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

e evil thing might creep into the apartment: foreignness, abroad, the alien nation. the harsh fact that he is here and not there, upon which all his thoughts are fixed. on those rare occasions when the imam goes out to take the kensington air, at the centre of a square formed by eight young men in sunglasses and bulging suits, he folds his hands before him and fixes his gaze upon them, so that no element or particle of this hated city- this sink of iniquities which humiliates him by giving him sanctuary, so that he must be beholden to it in spite of the lustfulness, greed and vanity of its ways- can lodge itself, like a dust--speck, in his eyes. when he leaves this loathed exile to return in triumph to that other city beneath the postcard-mountain, it will be a point of pride to be able to

hamcha was getting to be true. stories rushed across the city in every direction: a physiotherapist sold a shaggy--dog tale to the sundays, was not believed, but _no smoke without fire, people said; it was a precarious state of affairs, and it couldn't be long before the raid on the shaandaar caf that would send the whole thing higher than the sky. priests became involved, adding another unstable element- the linkage between the term _black_ and the sin _blasphemy--to the mix. in his attic, slowly, saladin chamcha grew. o o o he chose lucretius over ovid. the inconstant soul, the mutability of everything, das ich, every last speck. a being going through life can become so other to himself as to _be another, discrete, severed from history. he thought, at times, of zeeny vakil on that other

ok. o o o elena at twenty had taken london by storm. her feral six-foot body winking through a golden chain-mail rabanne. she had always carried herself with uncanny assurance, proclaiming her ownership of the earth. the city was her medium, she could swim in it like a fish. she was dead at twenty-one, drowned in a bathtub of cold water, her body full of psychotropic drugs. can one drown in one's element, allie had wondered long ago. if fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? in those days allie, eighteen--nineteen, had envied elena her certainties. what was her element? in what periodic table of the spirit could it be found- now, flat-footed, himalayan veteran, she mourned its loss. when you have earned the high horizon it isn't easy to go back into your box, into a na

esdropping poet, myopic and hard of hearing as he was, a better insight into contemporary affairs than he could possibly have gained if he'd still been free to wander the newly puritanical streets of the town. the deafness was a problem sometimes; it meant that there were gaps in his knowledge, because the customers frequently lowered their voices and whispered; but it also minimized the prurient element in his listenings--in, since he was unable to hear the murmurings that accompanied fornication, except, of course, at such moments in which ecstatic clients or feigning workers raised their voices in cries of real or synthetic joy. what baal learned at the curtain: from the disgruntled butcher ibrahim came the news that in spite of the new ban on pork the skin-deep converts of jahilia were

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

d my vision, and will now need to fulfill it (parts of the vision are all around this writing. an additional thread is my work with gurdjieffian methodologies. i am running a project within the kalevala pylon("beelzebub's workshop) to fuel this interest (and i am also discussing gurdjieffian concepts with adept alex burns, who seems to be knowledgeable in them. perhaps some sort of a gurdjieffian element will be founded within the temple; perhaps this interest will simply dive into the "context paradigm" project (i am currently discussing these things with adept burns, who has an interest in founding some sort of a gurdjieffian element) so, i will (a) work in my geographical location to adequately manifest and sternly protect the on here. i will (b) utilize my linguistic roots to create a

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

d my vision, and will now need to fulfill it (parts of the vision are all around this writing. an additional thread is my work with gurdjieffian methodologies. i am running a project within the kalevala pylon("beelzebub's workshop) to fuel this interest (and i am also discussing gurdjieffian concepts with adept alex burns, who seems to be knowledgeable in them. perhaps some sort of a gurdjieffian element will be founded within the temple; perhaps this interest will simply dive into the "context paradigm" project (i am currently discussing these things with adept burns, who has an interest in founding some sort of a gurdjieffian element) so, i will (a) work in my geographical location to adequately manifest and sternly protect the on here. i will (b) utilize my linguistic roots to create a

SATANGEL

ley. alloces (goetia, 52nd spirit. duke commanding 36 legions. a soldier with a red face and flaming eyes, with a huge and course voice, riding a horse. teaches astronomy and liberal arts, gives good familiars. the name possibly has its roots in the greek allecto, meaning she who is unremitting, a cthonian goddess who arose from the spilt blood of kronos father. amaimon (goetia. demon king of the element of earth, and of the north. possibly traceable to ammonium, the oracle site of the egyptian god amun. alternatively, the celts had an agricultural god named amaethon. amdukias, amdusias (goetia. duke commanding 29 legions. appears as a unicorn. bends trees and gives good familiars. amon (goetia, 7th spirit. marquis commanding 40 legions. appears as a wolf with a serpent tail, vomiting flam

thirty aethers. lucifuge (latin, running from the light. servants of lucifer who hunt for souls to damn. they are the henchmen who come to collect when a pact has been fulfilled, who tear the soul from the body with their sharp beaks and talons. lug, lugus, lamfada (celtic. irish god of light, sometimes associated with lucifer. god of war and the magick arts. mahazel (hebrew. demon prince of the element of earth. malibrance (latin. who torment hell s worst sinners. who have snakes coming out of their noses and ears, and who have hooves and tails. when a doomed soul takes its last breath, it is they who collect. malphas (goetia, 39th spirit. president commanding 40 legions. appears as a crow, although assumes human form on command. speaks hoarsely. builds houses and high towers, reveals th

SATANIC BIBLE

s! it is time to set the record straight. false moralisms and occult inaccuracies must be corrected. entertaining as they might be, most stories and plays about devil worship must be recognized as the obsolete absurdities they are. it has been said "the truth will make men free. the truth alone has never set anyone free. it is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation. without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the most strenuous poundings of a thousand lucifers. how understandable that holy scripture should refer to the infernal monarch as the "father of lies- a magnificent example of character inversion. if one is to believe this theological accusation that the devil represents falsehood, then it surely must b

n makers of heavenly persuasion? it has often been said, and rightly so, that all of the books about the devil have been written by the agents of god. it is, therefore, quite easy to understand how a certain breed of devil worshippers was created through the inventions of theologians. this erstwhile "evil" character is not necessarily practicing true satanism. nor is he a living embodiment of the element of untrammeled pride or majesty of self which gave the post-pagan world the churchman's definition of evil. he is instead the by-product of later and more elaborate propaganda. the pseudo-satanist has always managed to appear throughout modern history, with his black masses of varying degrees of blasphemy; but the real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such. it would be an over

ach man and woman, still motivated byt sound and unclouded minds, resides the potential of the satanist, as always has been. the sign of the horns shall appear to many, now, rather than the few; and the magician will stand forth that he may be recognized (earth) the book of belial the mastery of the earth the greatest appeal of magic is not in its application, but in its esoteric meanderings. the element of mystery which so heavily enshrouds the practice of the black arts has been fostered, deliberately or out of ignorance, by those who often claim the highest expertise in such matters. if the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, then established occultists would do well as maze-makers. the basic principles of ceremonial magic have been relegated for so long to infinite

veryone believes in falsehoods? many, of course, do believe in falsehoods, but still act according to natural law. it is upon this premise that satanic magic is based. this is a primer- a basic text on materialistic magic. it is a satanic mcguffrey's reader. belial means "without a master, and symbolizes true independence, self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment. belial represents the earth element, and herein will be found magic with both feet on the ground- real, hard-core, magical procedure- not mystical platitudes devoid of objective reason. probe no longer. here is bedrock! the theory and practice of satanic magic (definition and purpose) the definition of magic, as used in this book, is "the change in situations or events in accordance with one's will, which would, using normal

SATANIC RITUALS

s practice. the basic ingredients in the casting of a spell can be categorized as desire, timing, imagery, direction, and balance. each of these is explained in the author's prior work, the satanic bible. the material contained in this volume represents the type of satanic rite which has been employed in the past for specialized productive or destructive ends. it will be observed that a pervasive element of paradox tuns throughout the rituals contained herein. up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity, etc. in keeping with the very semantic and etymological meanings of satan, situations, sensations and values are often inverted and reversed. this is not intended solely to serve as blasphemy-on the contrary, it is used to make it apparent that th

satanic license" there are virtually no satanic rites over one hundred years old that elicit sufficient emotional response from today's practitioner, if the rites are presented in their original form. when the rites were initially conceived, they were amply provocative to the wizards who practiced them, of course. in short, one no longer reads a victorian romance for sexual titillation. no single element of a magical rite is quite as important as the words which ate spoken, and unless the litany of a ritual is stimulating to the speaker, silence is far more desirable. the celebrant or priest conducting a rite must serve as a sounding board for the emotions of those in attendance. through the strength of his words, his listeners' potential charge of magical energy can be inspired to peak in

host "vanish into the void of thy empty heaven, for thou wert never, nor shall thou ever be" the possibility that christ was a total invention has occurred to investigators with increasing frequency. many once existing social ramifications might have made this feasible. perhaps the recent last ditch "christ, the man" stand is an attempt to sustain a dying myth through use of a single reinforcing element- one with which all can identify-that shows him a fallible human being! requirements for performance participants consist of a priest (celebrant, his immediate assistant (deacon, a secondary assistant (subdeacon, a nun, an altar, an illuminator who holds a lighted candle where needed for reading, a thurifer, a gong-striker, an additional attendant and the congregation. hooded black robes a

erence, become a surrogate for members of the congregation who may harbor the same propensity. he suffers a fate worse than death when, within the coffin, instead of experiencing the hoped-for spiritual reward, he is confronted with unexpected passions from which he has long abstained (if a homophile portrays the celebrant, the coffin should contain another male. in all aspects of the ritual, the element of pleasure should be whatever would most likely be denied in the celebrant's life) the gravest punishment is always incurred by one whose abstinence has become his indulgence. thus be warned: to the chronic lover of distress, ruin arrives through the bestowal of indulgence. this, then, can function as a literal interpretation of the phrase "to kill with kindness" when a "man of god" is po

d: to the chronic lover of distress, ruin arrives through the bestowal of indulgence. this, then, can function as a literal interpretation of the phrase "to kill with kindness" when a "man of god" is portrayed by the celebrant, as in the later commemorative version of l'air epais, the ritual will serve to weaken the collective structure of the organization he represents. this factor introduces an element of the messe noir into the rite, as mentioned by lewis spence and other writers. the title stifling air refers both to the tension produced by the contrivedly oppressive atmosphere during the early segments of the ceremony, and the closeness within the coffin. when the performance of l'air epais was resumed in 1799, it served as a celebration of the successful curse placed upon philip and

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the antichrist religion: purely for arguments sake, let s say that the judao-xian devil, satan, literally exists as a being. by subscribing to this idea, a believer is saying this is biblical truth. moreover, a consequence of this belief is also an acknowledgement of the existence of his creator, who is called god by its followers (the other god is the satanic theist believes in. another supposed element of biblical truth. of course xian belief maintains that these two beings are not the same and are opposed to each other in morality, objective and purpose. these differences are acceptable and serve to outline satan s evil and god s moral good. as the acknowledged creator of the devil, god, in the biblical context, is certainly superior to satan in his nature and power, and it is even writ

ll its various forms, making love to one s mate (or love object) involves the expression of intimate feelings toward him, her or it; and it s truly a beautiful aspect of human experience; an artform of natural desire for those involved and it s conducive to overall happiness and it s meaningful. moreover, if the object of your desires is universally considered taboo, all the better for this added element of the forbidden actually adds to the excitement, pleasure and orgasmic climax one would experience. examples of sexual taboos beyond man s basic orientations generally accepted by this religion are those practices restricted or even forbidden by xianity, for example: masturbation (self-love; pornography (sexual love felt towards another; fornication (love without a contractual vow; sodomy

atan s blackstar of the air the invocation of infernal power the invocation formalizes the celebrant s alliance and regression to satanic dominion, and it further serves to inspire all who are present. whenever the invocation of infernal power is recited in the black chapel, all shall face the satanagram. creative darkness this is the most important part of the satanic ritual. maximizing the dark element within is paramount to the success of the working (refer to book iii: creative darkness. the evocation of demons in satanic magick, the evocation and direction of demonic forces adds power and support to the potential of the working. legend: invisible angles of the pentagonia -24- each demon has a specific function and nature. therefore, evoke the appropriate demons for each ritual. demons

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

naked male who serves as the altar. three further participants and a congregation complete the number of celebrants. as opposed to the accepted understanding of a black mass where the participants are all adorned in black robes, the three leading participants wear white (priestess, scarlet (mistress of the earth) and purple (master of the temple) and whilst the church of satan exclude the sexual element that seems to have been prevalent in many of the previous versions of the black mass, the order of nine angles have included two specifically sexual elements, the first being the masturbation of the priest by the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 4 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 priestess, who then ejacula

xual congress in whatever manner the individual desires. the orgy takes place, according to the tradition of the order of nine angles, after an external magical ritual, the black mass being one of the more common. the second function of sex within the orgiastic sphere is that concerning the direction of the energies raised through unrestrained sexual indulgence. with the inclusion of an orgiastic element within traditional satanic rites, the energy that the ritual would have produced is naturally expanded to include the sexual energy which is then directed towards a specific intent according to the preset aims of the master and mistress of the temple. an alternative method is for the energy to be stored in a crystal for use at a later date. although the above are the balanced expressions o

vey, anton szandor. the satanic bible avon books: new york, 1969. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic rituals avon books: new york, 1972. lurker, manfred. dictionary of gods and goddesses, devils and demons routledge: london, 1988. man, myth& magic. 12 volumes. bpc publishing ltd: london. 1971. newton, toyne, the demonic connection blandford press: poole, 1987. o'grady, joan. the prince of darkness element books: shaftesbury, 1989. order of nine angles. hostia. secret teachings of the o.n.a. volume i thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. order of nine angles. hostia. secret teachings of the o.n.a. volume ii. thormynd press: shrewsbury, 1992. parker, john. at the heart of darkness sidgwick& jackson ltd: london, 1993. rhodes, h.t.f. the satanic mass rider& company: london, 1954. robury, conrad. th

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

pe. such hope involved several aspects: a desire for immortality or life after death, for a kind creator who would watch out for humanity, and for an ultimate meaning to life. there are several other theories as to why religion is such a universal concern. humans are social animals, and religion in practice brings people together. in fact, for many modern people who profess a religion, the social element may be even stronger than the spiritual element. many attend religious services for the sense of community they might receive from this experience. they take strength in sharing a commonly held belief system with others and also enjoy the weekly, sometimes daily, routine that religious services provide. for many believers, in fact, the simple act of attendance at church or temple and parti

any attend religious services for the sense of community they might receive from this experience. they take strength in sharing a commonly held belief system with others and also enjoy the weekly, sometimes daily, routine that religious services provide. for many believers, in fact, the simple act of attendance at church or temple and participation in ritual is religion, rather than its spiritual element. there are also scientific approaches. psychologists, scientists who study the mind, argue that religion answers emotional and psychological needs in humans, such as the fear of death, or a need for a higher spiritual experience than is provided in the everyday world. religion can thus give meaning and direction to a person s life. neuroscientists, those who study the brain and the nervous

as not an atheist. he believed in certain gods, just not the right ones to save him from such a charge. early christians and pagans (followers of the greek and roman state religions) also accused each other of being atheists because they each believed the other had denied the existence of their gods. the greek philosopher democritus suggested that all matter in the universe was made of an eternal element he called an atom. because atoms were eternal, democritus reasoned, there was no need for a creatorgod. bettmann/corbis. 24 world religions: almanac agnosticism and atheism the western concept of monotheism( belief in one god) began with judaism. while earlier cultures, including ancient egypt, had concepts that shared characteristics with monotheism, judaism was the first major religion i

elves within this cycle of continual change and evolution and recognize baha u lla h as one messenger among many that have come before, including moses, the buddha, jesus christ, and muhammad. according to the kitab-i-aqdas, another new messenger will reveal a better way to live a spiritual life, but this will not take place before a thousand years. this sense of continual transformation is a key element to the baha faith and one that is unique to the religion. spiritual growth and social conscience baha s believe that the purpose of human life is to know god and to develop one s spiritual foundation in order to better advance civilization and bring about world peace. concepts such as heaven and hell are, for baha s, only a matter of distance from god. when a person dies, his or her soul w

ther is the eastern church the primary religious teaching authority, as it is in catholic tradition. moreover, priests in the eastern church are not required to be celibate, although their bishops are. members of the church who are not clergy also have more power and responsibilities in the eastern orthodox church. salvation is more of a group concern in eastern church tradition, and the mystical element of the religion is emphasized. eastern orthodox tradition is the dominant religion in bulgaria, belarus, cyprus, georgia, greece, romania, russia, serbia, and the ukraine and is also found in albania, china, the czech republic, estonia, finland, japan, latvia, lithuania, poland, and the united states. the roman catholic church after 1054 solidified its standing in europe and then spread to

SECRET TEACHINGS OF THE ROSICRUCIANS IN THE 16 17C

god's life giving air. then, too, air brings to iife everything within the elements. the fire warms all things, the water refreshes, delights and saturates all things: and the nitrous earth, mother-like, nourishes and sustains all things; the air was born out of fire, and in turn makes the fire burn, that it may live, but air in the form of water is food for the fire, and the fire burns into this element: water and dew of the ground, the greasy fat dew of the ground, the earth as keeper of nitrous salt nourishes it. for the womb of the earth is the sulphuric nitrous salt of nature, the one good thing god has created in this visible world. the same salt-mother of the elements is the nitrous, aluminous and spiritual gumosic water, salt earth or crystal, which has nature in its womb, a son of

SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

creation, postulates two things, the universe and god, as two substances absolutely distinct one from the other "in fact, in the 'sepher yetzirah' god considered as the infinite and consequently the indefinable being, extended throughout all things by his power and existence, is while above, yet not outside of numbers, sounds and letters--the principles and general laws which we recognise "every element has its source from a higher form, and all things have their common origin from the word (logos, the holy spirit. so god is at once, in the highest sense, both the matter and the form of the universe. yet he is not only that form; for nothing can or does exist outside of himself; his substance is the foundation of all, and all things bear his imprint and are symbols of his intelligence" he

t in three directions is pointed out, namely in the macrocosm or universe; in the year or in time; and in the microcosm or man. 35. the importance of equilibrium is constantly reiterated in the kabalah. the "siphra dtzeniouta" or "book of mystery" opens with a reference to this equilibrium as a fundamental necessity of stable existence. 36. heavens. the hebrew word heshamaim hshmim, has in it the element of aesh, fire, and mim, water; and also shem, name; the name is ihvh, attributed to the elements. shma is in chaldee a name for the trinity (parkhurst. shmsh is the sun, and light, and a type of christ, the sun of righteousness. malachi iv. 2. 37. were produced. the hebrew word bra, is the root. three hebrew words are used in the bible to represent the idea of making, producing or creating

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

nter of antiquity is said, in a picture of hades, to have represented the monsters that glide through the ghostly river of the dead, so artfully, that the eye perceived at once that the river itself was but a spectre, and the bloodless things that tenanted it had no life, their forms blending with the dead waters till, as the eye continued to gaze, it ceased to discern them from the preternatural element they were supposed to inhabit. such were the moving outlines that coiled and floated through the mist; but before glyndon had even drawn breath in this atmosphere for his life itself seemed arrested or changed into a kind of horrid trance he felt his hand seized, and he was led from that room into the outer one. he heard the door close, his blood rushed again through his veins, and he saw

en must be sharpened by intense enthusiasm, purified from all earthlier desires. not without reason have the so-styled magicians, in all lands and times, insisted on chastity and abstemious reverie as the communicants of inspiration. when thus prepared, science can be brought to aid it; the sight itself may be rendered more subtle, the nerves more acute, the spirit more alive and outward, and the element itself the air, the space may be made, by certain secrets of the higher chemistry, more palpable and clear. and this, too, is not magic, as the credulous call it; as i have so often said before, magic (or science that violates nature) exists not: it is but the science by which nature can be controlled. now, in space there are millions of beings not literally spiritual, for they have all, l

ture herself appears to supply what science would refuse. space cannot separate the father's watchful soul from the cradle of his first-born! i know not of its resting-place and home, my visions picture not the land, only the small and tender life to which all space is as yet the heritage! for to the infant, before reason dawns, before man's bad passions can dim the essence that it takes from the element it hath left, there is no peculiar country, no native city, and no mortal language. its soul as yet is the denizen of all airs and of every world; and in space its soul meets with mine, the child communes with the father! cruel and forsaking one, thou for whom i left the wisdom of the spheres; thou whose fatal dower has been the weakness and terrors of humanity, couldst thou think that you

is concentrated on the objects of their professional ambition, and leaves them, therefore, apathetic to the other pursuits of men. but where those objects are denied, where the stream has not its legitimate vent, the energy, irritated and aroused, possesses the whole being, and if not wasted on desultory schemes, or if not purified by conscience and principle, becomes a dangerous and destructive element in the social system, through which it wanders in riot and disorder. hence, in all wise monarchies, nay, in all well-constituted states, the peculiar care with which channels are opened for every art and every science; hence the honour paid to their cultivators by subtle and thoughtful statesmen, who, perhaps, for themselves, see nothing in a picture but coloured canvas, nothing in a probl

SIX ANGLED RITE OF THE ROYAL SUN OF THE GOAT LORD

to perform this rite, paying attention chiefly to the "two bits of advice- the two main understandings that have to be brought to bear on the every word, thought, and action of the operant(s) who undertake this rite. i will proceed in good faith that my reader is familiar, through and through, with the "witches dance" rite, and the simple yet exacting instructions that accompany it, chie fly the element of awareness, and how it is to be used in the performance of these rites to summon the old one himself. to begin with, this rite does not require an altar, but does use a circle with a triangle in it, with one tip of the triangle pointing east. the circle is to be 9-13 feet in diameter, a fine, comfortable size. along with the circle and triangle, six sigils, shown in the two charts accomp

SOLOMON

ss into possession of another shape. and be not desirous therefore to know all that concerns me. but since thou art before me for this much, hearken. i have my abode in the moon, and for that reason i possess three forms. at times i am magically [1] invoked by the wise as kronos. at other times, in connexion with those who bring me down, i come down and appear in another shape. the measure of the element [2] is inexplicable and indefinable, and not to be frustrated. i then, changing into these three forms, come down and become such as thou seest me; but i am frustrated by the angel rathanael, who sits in the third heaven. this then is why i speak to thee. yonder temple cannot contain me [1. mageyom ne. 2. perhaps "the place or size of the heavenly body] 65. i therefore solomon prayed to my

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

wo is also the number of the quinaries or sets of five degrees in the 360 degrees of the zodiac.21 the number of triangles in the mural are difficult to count. there are 22. isosceles, equilateral, scalene, right-angled. triangles. there are also 22 numbered letters in the ancient hebrew alphabet, with values of 1 to 400. the triangle is an ancient emblem of deity; it is also a sign of the female element. however, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down it becomes the male element; thus inverted it may also represent lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. the spiral figure intertwined with the mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caduceus of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed b

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

at are inherent in and native to the life of the soul itself. evidently it is the soul-force that precedes the coming of wisdom that socrates represents with the figure of a wise woman: the mother-principle, which gives birth to wisdom, the son of god, the logos. the woman stands for the power that is active unconsciously in the soul, that brings about the raising into consciousness of the divine element in humanity. the soul, which has not yet found wisdom, is the mother of that experience of divinization. here we come to one of the central conceptions of mystery-teaching, which acknowledges the human soul as the mother of the god, leading human beings unconsciously and with the inevitability of a natural force to their union with the divine.68 all this casts light on the mystery-interpre

ath but to the glory of god, since it serves to bring about a divine revelation. it is the eternal word that is raised in lazarus; thus the whole process serves to bring about the manifestation of god in lazarus. through the process lazarus is completely transformed. previously the word, the spirit, was not alive in him. now it lives in him. the spirit has been born within him. every birth has an element of sickness, the birth pangs of the mother. it is a sickness, however, that does 116 christianity as mystical fact not lead to death but to new life. that part of lazarus becomes ill that is to give birth to the new man the one who is united with the eternal word. how are we to understand the grave out of which the word is born? we need only recall the expression of plato, who calls the bo

ave behind the inner foundation that carries them. their strength easily fades and then they take refuge in a revelation that comes from outside of them. they then present teachings, such as was the case with nicholas cusanus, that are brilliant and are brought in a way that is in keeping with dogmatic christianity. this particular characterization of nicholas cusanus contains an autobiographical element; for the path that cusanus could not take is precisely rudolf steiner s own path, on which he clearly rejected any sort of refuge in a revelation that comes from outside himself. when rudolf steiner speaks concerning christianity, he does not refer to tradition. traditional ideas are not his source but rather ideas that he himself has discovered. only inasmuch as he finds such self-discove

al being. the deepest 9. an autobiography, p. 292. 10. intuitive thinking as a spiritual path, p. 147. 196 christianity as mystical fact form of this knowledge, or encounter, becomes knowledge of christ. this path to knowledge of christ can also be understood as a path of awakening. it begins with the statement: hence, the first observation that we make about thinking is that it is the unobserved element in our normal spiritual life. 11 later, as we have seen, we read, the i is to be found within thinking. this statement can be seen as the result of a growing ability to observe thinking that is, to wake up to one s own being. it is like an awakening within the activity of knowing, which unleashes both knowledge of christ and knowledge of the true i in thinking; it is a step on the path tow

n an entirely new situation. he had devoted himself with complete selflessness to the methods of thought of other people. this became for him a path of thought leading to knowledge of christ, to christ himself. solemnly standing before the mystery of golgotha as foundation, steiner could now immerse himself also in the ecclesiastical, the church stream, with understanding. this is an entirely new element in his biography, and it opens unusual and wonderful perspectives through which the church can understand how it was born from pre-christian mystery religions. such an understanding is new and unprecedented in the history of christianity. immersion in this stream signified a complete turn-around for rudolf steiner. on this path forged by steiner, the experience of christ shows us that the

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

the a it contains many of its qualities. the oldest example of such usage can be found during the kassite period between 1746-1171 bc, of an equilateral cross on a cylinder where a sun god was seated. it was also found in many of the assyrian artifacts in america before the arrival of columbus. even though these crosses may not have meant crucifixtion, we still see that it contains a very similar element, for it also means, victory, heaven, a, life, etc. through the understanding of the mysteries, we find that only through sacrifice can all of these be obtained. it almost could be said that the symbolism of the crucifixtion left the last key to the formula of the cross or lvx. the formula is victory, life= sacrifice of the lower unto the higher. the word lvx could almost be said to contain

figure naked, except for a k-shaped scarf, dancing within a wreathed oval. her attitude, with arms extended downwards and outwards, and her legs forming a cross, suggests the triangle over a cross, the sign of q. having taken a look at correspondences of the cross with the feminine principle of both h and h final, we need to look at w. w is the letter attributed to the world of hryxy, and to the element of m, and the sephira of trapt. one of the most important symbols of trapt is the cross, whether in its form of the calvary cross of black with three black 5 steps leading up to it, or the gold equal armed cross with a rose of red blooming at its center. the calvary cross represents the way of self sacrifice for the benefit of others, and it is the only way by which man can return to his s

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or someone a mere 20 or even 200 years old to understand, regardless of whether we look at set as an actually existing being or instead as a master symbol. so rather than try to encompass all of set, intellectually or emotionally, rather than try to understand all of set, we can work with neters which are facets of set's being, facets of set's symbolism. each neter can be thought of as a specific element of set. as examples, shu is one set of symbolism, one set of ideas, that an initiate can work with to "get somewhere" with, to accomplish certain initiatory goals. tefnut is another set of ideas, as is geb, isis, etc. rather than trying to encompass and work with the entire universe simultaneously, grab whatever you can hold onto, work with that handful, study that symbol or symbols, and s

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inked to paramilitary groups "these people will also be completely dedicated to their cause. the illuminati firmly believes that it can easily overcome the other 99% of the population, most of whom are untrained, or poorly trained, such as "weekend hunters" even the local military will be overcome as the illuminati will have regional cell groups with highly trained leaders. they also count on the element of surprise helping them during their takeover. many of the highest leaders in the militia branch of the illuminati are or have been officers in the military, and so already have a good knowledge of which techniques will work best to overcome a region's or locality's defenses "after the military takeover, the general population will be given a chance to either espouse the illuminati's caus

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

al level and then acting. this is the key, this is the path. the left hand path has nothing to offer to those who are satisfied. this is the essential condition necessary for starting the alchemical procedure. an echo of objective conscience within the mind that says to the self: what i have been given does not feel right. this is then followed by a search for the miraculous, for the transforming element, to find individual rightness. this type of transformation leads to the path of thetwo ways- the path of unity, or the path of separation. this book is for those whose way is the path of separation, and the transforming element is the cold icy vision of a desert night where the stars becomes as gates. this is the book of salt. xxx magister roger whitaker 09/08/1997 the year 32 chapter 0. t

ignificance to the aforementioned psyop procedures are directly related to social conditioning. more importantly, it is how the individual themself has accepted these religious and social/cultural structures for themself that empowers the psyche to change behaviours. personal significance is what gives the psyop technique its power over the individual. but, this personal significance is a mutable element and varies from culture to culture. in this light we can see that god did not change joe smith from a drunken bastard to a pillar of strength, but rather, it was the psyop technique and the religious and spiritual significance joe smith found in god that has provided the impetus and energy to direct the will to create change. this is why these psyop techniques are just as valid for the chr

a personal spiritual transformation is made. true evil is that which empowers us to individuality and to the antinomian this is true good as well. chapter- 1+ 1) atum this small volume details those lines of thought that specifically affect the antinomian nature of the left hand path (lhp. in the sense of transformation, this book is an alchemical text influenced by the symbolism found within the element of salt. salt is the antinomian element, it purifies and preserves, it destroys and makes noxious, it is found in both water and earth- it is often an element of protective magic. most important of all, it is the element that represents the inscripting of transformative knowledge through the principle of resistance. there is a mystery connected to the human being, a mystery so dark and dee

ie within. it is one of the components of the psyche that integrates the right hand path into a homogenous entity, it is the state of the psyche that is singly unified. the birthed self is not stupid, it does not lack the spark of a genius, it does not refute love, art, compassion, lust, jealousy or anger or virtuosity. it has all of these things which make life an adventure. the crucial dividing element that the birthed self lacks (in terms of lhp thought) is recognition, and recognition is one of the vital conditions necessary to "see more "seeing more" is our goal, it is a method of extension beyond the first person perspective of the birthed self "seeing more" is that mechanism which allows for a greater vision of who and what one is. seeing more creates a state of consciousness that c

pect therein? because it is through this self that useful information towards the activity of transformation through expansion is obtained. in order for these transformative moments to be recognized, a consciousness observing a different platform of consciousness must be present. there must an observer. resistance involves two very important factors; the first is self awareness, the second is the element that is offended by conscious exploration- thus resulting in resistance. however, to place this in perspective, it is necessary to define two very important perceptual components of this higher self. these two manifestations delineate very clearly the fork in the road between the right hand path and the left hand path. the first of these components can be found within the experience of mys

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ch. this will allow you to fine tune your operation. step 2 in general, hebrew names represent the offices of certain forces. enochian names and the tablets are a representation of a species or a more specific idea. hebrew may be employed without enochian, but seldom is enochian employed without hebrew. 5 step 3 first, formulate the supreme ritual of the pentagram as taught, toward the quarter or element you wish to attempt. step 4 next, invoke the divine names and turn toward the quarter of that element. step 5 standing in the direction and looking in the direction you wish to invoke, take several deep breaths, close the eyes and hold the breath, and mentally pronounce the letters of the force you wish to invoke. you may wish to formulate the letters before you as you do the above. repeat

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on in new jersey's star-ledger newspaper following the 9/11 world trade center attack, sent to the author by a friend. ever wondered why "uncle sam" wears the satanic goatee beard? johannes kepler (1571-1630, a german astronomer and mathematician who taught the numerological philosophies of plato and pythagoras that were adopted by the illuminati (from the book, sacred architecture, by a.t. mann, element books, 1993) 92 codex magica russian president boris yeltsin was known to be a dupe of jewish illuminati interests. following the fall of the iron curtain, these illuminati jews carved up russia, seizing every asset of value and leaving the everyday soviet citizenry in desperate economic straits. yeltsin, a hopeless drunk, shows his loyalty to illuminist interests with his clenched fist ma

out the occult world by many other individuals and groups. 228 codex magica "cross my heart and hope to die" 229 the papacy often uses the "x" as is demonstrated in the dagon fish-hat of pope john paul ii on the cover of the pope speaks journal. 230 codex magica the x symbol on the robe worn by pope john paul ii is telling, as is the silver metal torch with its black flame. silver is the metallic element of the ancient goddess, which the pope would recognize in the form of mary, mother of jesus. the x, of course, represents the father deity. not the father god of the old and new testament, but of babylon and egypt "cross my heart and hope to die" 231 georges darboy, archbishop of paris in 1870. observe the crossed hands (x) and the il cornuto horned devil sign given with the left hand as i

swallowing its own tail. this symbolizes perpetual movement (hegelian dialectic) and the occult conception of the "circle of life" the slogan that disney's movie, the lion king, made famous. the book of revelation in the holy bible calls satan "that old serpent" and for good reason! the triangle inside the serpentine circle represents the unholy trinity, which the occult teaches is the spiritual element soon to manifest, already operating at the very center of the material universe. 386 codex magica (from the book, satan wants you, by arthur lyons, the mysterious press, new york, 10019) in this 17th century alchemical drawing, the antichrist king and his unholy trinity (three crowns over earth) worship the transforming fire from their sun deity, symbolized by the triangle within a circle

inati. 418 codex magica twenty-one magical signs of the jewish cabala the six-pointed star, babylonian witchcraft, and the hollywood perdition of jerry seinfeld and associates he said furthermore unto me, son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of israel committeth here. ezekiel 8:6 kabbalism is a system of jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were kabbalists. william j. schnoebelen, in the dark side of freemasonry in the decades of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the hottest spiritual trend was the new age movement. as we move forward through the first decade of the 21st century, the latest cure-all spiritual phenomenon seems to be the jewish cabala (

, publisher the dove kabbalah: the sacred books of black magic of orthodox judaism which form a large part of the basis of the western secret societies, from rosicrucianism to freemasonry and the oto. kabbalism is itself derived from the sorcery of ancient babylon and..pharaohic egypt. craig heimbichner blood on the altar kabbalism is a system of jewish mysticism and magic and is the foundational element in modern witchcraft. virtually all of the great witches and sorcerers of this century were kabbalists. william j. schnoebelen, the dark side of freemasonry the hebrew cabala is a series of occultic writings that are as demonic as any incantation ever uttered in witchcraft. webster's dictionary tells us the cabala (sometimes spelled kabbala) is "an occult religious philosophy developed by

THE BLACK LODGE

be unable to develop control of certain planes of consciousness, and therefore will never become balanced initiates- that is to say, adepts. they even run the risk of becoming "black brethren, that is, of withdrawing completely from the evolutive wave of mankind and falling under the influence of what the qabalah calls choronzon. this is the "prince of evil of this world" which corresponds to the element of spirit, or akasha; but its nature and influence are such that they can only really be understood by masters of the temple of the a .a, and therefore we will not further discuss the subject here. the work of the black lodge shows itself under these main aspects: they incite hierarchic indiscipline in aspirants. we cannot insist too much on the point that the whole process, once aspiratio

is neschama as the qabalists would say and if that voice from binah would caution prudence then there is no shame in abstaining from a sexual act (or any other act for that matter. to the men of thelema; you must be responsible and cautious as well; do not think that you will not fall victim due to the construction of your sexual anatomy. i speak now to the heterosexual among you (the homosexual element of men must attend to the advice in the paragraph concerning women for the same dangers and risks attend anal intercourse) to be a true human you must be aware of and sensitive to the dangers of the plague called aids and you must use precaution in all situations. it is your responsibility; men are too often willing to pass this responsibility to the women; i tell you plainly this is an ol

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

non also calls upon the power of these guardians to aid in the ritual working. the elements in magick are not the same elements that you find in chemistry class, or your back yard, although they are symbolic of each other. it is this symbolic relationship that we employ in the art of magick. the qualities of the physical reflect the power of the occult. as above, so below! earth is the foundation element. it is solid, dependable and stable. in magick its color is green or black, and it is used in spells for employment, money, fertility, and prosperity of any kind. the celtic goddess, dana is associated with earth. in the tarot it is the suit of pantacles, or coins. it is also know as assiah, the material world. page 8 elements and watch towers continued( grimoire of eclectic magick air is

lid, dependable and stable. in magick its color is green or black, and it is used in spells for employment, money, fertility, and prosperity of any kind. the celtic goddess, dana is associated with earth. in the tarot it is the suit of pantacles, or coins. it is also know as assiah, the material world. page 8 elements and watch towers continued( grimoire of eclectic magick air is the intellectual element. it is clear and uncluttered. in magick its color is bright pale yellow, and it is employed in spells for visualization, inspiration, learning, and freedom. the celtic god, dagha is associated with air. in the tarot it is the suit of swords (sometimes wands. it is also know as yetzirah, the formative world. water is the creative element. it is emotional, fluid, and forever changing. in mag

, the formative world. water is the creative element. it is emotional, fluid, and forever changing. in magick, its color is deep blue, and it is used in spells for friendship, fertility, creation, and emotional healing or purification. the celtic goddess, cerridwen is associated with water. in the tarot it is the suit of cups or chalices. it is also known as briah, the creative world. fire is the element of change and passion. it is full of energy and is the essence of magick and life. its color in magick, is red, and it is employed in spells of passion, energy, purification and healing. the celtic god, lugh is associated with fire. in the tarot it is the suit of wands (sometimes swords. it is also known as atziluth, the archetypal world. the elements so far have been presented in what is

r the lord and lady, and to work your magick. basic ritual tools are, the chalice, the athame (pronounced, ath-ah-may, the pentacle, and the wand. chalice this tool, more then any other, represents the creative aspect of the goddess. it is the symbol of the womb. in ritual, it is used for the sharing of wine, juice, or herbal potions. it can also be employed for scrying. it is associated with the element of water. athame this tool represents the active principle of the god. usually it is black handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it is associated with the element of air. pentacle often made of wood, stone, ceramic, wax, glass, or metal, this tool represents the goddess in a passive, supporting role. in ritual

ck handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it is associated with the element of air. pentacle often made of wood, stone, ceramic, wax, glass, or metal, this tool represents the goddess in a passive, supporting role. in ritual, it is used to support, protect, and contain the energies being used. it is associated with the element of earth. wand the most personal of the basic tools. traditionally made of wood, and a cubit in length (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, it frequently has in its construction a drop of its owner blood. modern wands are often fashioned of copper tubes, covered in leather or cloth, and tipped with crystals or semi-precious gem stones. this tool is viewed as having

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reports of passing through a darkened tunnel to emerge into a place of light, and therein, meeting beings of light. such near-death experiences (ndes) demonstrate the inherent desire for a conscious life beyond the grave and for an endless continuation of spiritual opportunities. this longing for an unobstructed life, for life in the fullest sense that the individual can conceive, is an essential element in the earnest desire for immortality. a belief in an afterlife may be essentially humanity s belief in itself. within the vast majority of human beings exists a fundamental longing for the continuance of conscious and rational life. in centuries past, a desire for a future life was confined to affirmations of faith in the teachings or the scriptures of one s religious belief. today, the h

tans who devoured dionysus zagreus; therefore, the physical bodies of humans are formed from the evil of the titans, but they also contain within them a tiny particle of the divine essence. within this duality a constant 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 34 afterlife mysteries war rages, so it is the duty of each human to repress the titanic element and allow the dionysian an opportunity to assert itself. the final release of the divine essence within, the redemption of the soul, is the utmost goal of the orphic process. this process may best be obtained by the soul reincarnating in a number of physical bodies in different life experiences. while other schools of reincarnation see the process of rebirth as an evolving of the soul ever

ginning. the christian philosopher st. augustine (354 430 c.e) asked the eternal question in his confessions: say, lord did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it? was it that which i spent within my mother s womb? and what before that life again, o god was i anywhere or in any body? even though the majority of eastern cultures maintain a belief in reincarnation as an integral element in their religious faiths, people young children, in particular are not encouraged to remember past lives. regardless of such admonitions against pursuing 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 afterlife mysteries 41 pope john paul ii places a signed note into a crack in the western wall in israel (ap/wide world photos) reincarnation i

bable somehow flowed into the process of germination of the seed of the spirit beings within, something that could be accessed by human consciousness and directed by the christ principle. steiner emphasized that the path to such contact might best be attained by a proper application of meditation. when human consciousness had been raised to the spiritual level, where it can experience the eternal element that is limited by neither birth nor death, then it can comprehend its own eternality and its ability to be born again in subsequent life existences. steiner taught that the process of spiritual evolution enabled those who died in one period of history to be reborn in other epochs to experience various levels of earth-existence. in lecture v, earthly and cosmic man (1948) steiner stated th

from lifetime to lifetime is fundamental to conducting past-life regressions. whether one chooses to call this eternal part the soul or the higher self, it is the very core of the person that is accessed during the experience and in which is stored that collective awareness of what is and what was. over the years, i have come to call this the part of us that knows and understands, and it is this element of the person that i address during the regression experience. in essence, in conducting a past-life regression, this part [of the subject] which knows and understands, the higher self, is asked to reveal to the client s conscious awareness information and understanding about a past life (or lives) and what its meaning is to the present. m delving deeper binder, bettye b. discovering your

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om the hermitage accompanied by a professional witch-layer and several servants. as his party approached the bell place, jackson was startled when the wheels of his coach suddenly froze and the full strength of the horses could not make them budge an inch. a voice from the bushes cackled a greeting to jackson and uttered a command that unfroze the wheels. the general and his men realized that the element of surprise was lost. the witch knew they were coming. that night the witch-layer fled in terror when the witch attacked him, and general jackson s men followed him out the door. according to the old stories, jackson told john bell that fighting the witch was worse than having faced the british at the battle of new orleans. old hickory wanted to stay for a week and face down the spirit, bu

repressed for decades for fear of being ridiculed. not to be outdone, canadians began telling of their own startling encounters with sasquatch, a tribal name for bigfoot, that had been circulating in the accounts of trappers, lumberjacks, and settlers in the northwest territories since the 1850s. long before the frontier folk discovered the giant of the woods, the sasquatch had become an integral element in many of the myths and legends of the native people. perhaps the most remarkable and most thoroughly documented account of a sasquatch from those early days in canada occurred in 1884 and was recorded in the daily british colonist, july 4, 1884. in the immediate vicinity of number 4 tunnel, 20 miles from yale, british columbia, a group of railroad men captured a creature that could truly

ole of the gnome is that of a supernatural guardian who can release the treasures of the earth to the earnest alchemist or magician. the gnome, according to the alchemists of the renaissance, had the ability to move through the earth in a manner similar to a human moving through air or a fish through water. the alchemist would seek to invoke the energy of the salamander, a lizardlike entity whose element was fire, and the gnome, whose element was earth, and combine their energies with air and water to create gold from base metals. the name applied to the guardian of the earth s treasures is thought to be derived from the greek genomos, earth-dweller. popular images of little men and women with pointed hats who inhabit flower gardens and forests have most likely confused gnomes with elves

upanishads says that man in his dreams becomes a creator. there are no real chariots in that state no blessings no joys, but he himself creates blessings, happiness and joys. psychologists montague ullman, joseph adelson, howard shevrin, and frederick weiss have done much to advance the thesis that dreams basically are creative. psychoanalyst ullman cites four creative aspects of dreaming: 1. the element of originality; 2. the joining together of elements into new patterns; 3. the concern with accuracy; 4. the felt reaction of participating in an involuntary experience. ullman concedes that the final product of a dream s creativity may be either dull or ecstatic, but he insists that it is an act of creation to have the dream in the first place. lucid dreaming is simply the technique of dre

ien and his colleagues at the department of molecular biology at princeton university reported their discovery that the generation of new neurons is important for the memory-clearance process and suggested that chronic abnormalities in the clearance process may contribute to the memory disorder associated with alzheimer s disease. although numerous anecdotal accounts claim that dreams are a vital element in the process of encoding information absorbed during the waking hours as memories, dr. jerome siegel, a neuroscientist at the university of california, los angeles, released his findings to the contrary in 2002. he argued that there is no solid evidence to indicate that dreams are needed to consolidate memories. in addition, siegel contested the hypothesis that the prevention of rapid-ey

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ation was offended by the manner in which the juries were stacked in favor of those masons who were accused of having murdered william morgan. the general population demanded justice, and they were shocked by the power of a secret society that could stonewall three special prosecutors. after 20 trials for murder and kidnapping, the local sheriff, who was a mason, and who was obviously an integral element in morgan fs abduction and disappearance, received the most severe judgment of all the defendants when he was sentenced to 30 months in jail. not only did an anti-mason sentiment swell within the country, but the anti-mason party was founded that elected governors in pennsylvania and vermont and won seven electoral votes in the 1832 election. it was no longer prestigious to be a mason. in

ne] http//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ articles/a61372-2001nov20.html. goeringer, conrad. gfreemasons.from the 700 club to art bell, an object of conspiracy thinking. h american atheist, may 1998 [online] http/ www.americanatheist.org/supplement/conspiracy. html. lomas, robert, and christopher knight. the hiram key: pharaohs, freemasons, and the discovery of the secret scrolls of jesus. boston: element books, 1999. macoy, robert. a dictionary of freemasonry. new york: gramercy books, 2000. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: pantheon books, 1948. the garduna the origins of the garduna begin in a legend not dissimilar from that of el cid (c. 1043.1099, the heroic knight 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 12 secret societi

istory of secret societies. new york: pocket books, 1969. heckethorn, charles william. secret societies of all ages and countries. kila, mont: kessinger publishing, 1997. howard, michael. the occult conspiracy: secret societies. their influence and power in world history. rochester, vt: inner traditions, 1989. the tongs according to the internet movie base, the chinese tongs have been an integral element of violence and mystery in 140 motion pictures in china and the united states. interestingly, the first american film on the subject,the war of the tongs, was released in 1917. in 1985, year of the dragon provoked a great deal of controversy in its portrayal of a racist white cop (mickey rourke) battling hordes of evil chinese gang members. the greatest flaw in the motion picture was blend

acist white cop (mickey rourke) battling hordes of evil chinese gang members. the greatest flaw in the motion picture was blending chinese gangs, the tongs, and the triad into one massive gchinese mafia h kind of amalgamated crime organization. in actuality, although the gangs exist, they are separate from the tongs, a survivor of the protective societies of ancient times, and the triad, a recent element of organized crime that grew out of the tongs. the first tong in america is believed to have originated in san francisco in 1874. essentially, the tong (which originally meant gparlor h) was a merchants f protective association created to defend themselves against brutal treatment directed at them by the white inhabitants of the city. eventually, the tong became powerful enough to sell gpr

cirlot, j. e. a dictionary of symbols. new york: barnes& noble, 1993. 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 prophecy and divination 135 gibson, walter b, and litzka r. gibson. the complete illustrated book of the psychic sciences. garden city, n.y: doubleday& co, 1966. karcher, stephen. the illustrated encyclopedia of divination. rockport, mass: element books, 1997. louis, anthony. tarot plain and simple. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1996. petrie, jodra. tell fortunes and predict the future. new york: award books, 1968. waite, arthur e. a manual of cartomancy and occult divination. kessinger publishing, 1997. dowsing dowsing, scientifically known as radioesthesia, is the interaction of the mind of the dowser and the energy of t

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

inquisitors of the roman church and the ministers of thereformed church express an extreme of sanctimonious horror, coupled, however, with a surprisingly prurientdesire to learn all the most intimate details. the ceremonies may have been obscene, but they are renderedinfinitely worse by the attitude of the ecclesiastical recorders and judges.magic ceremonies. in the trials of witches the magical element plays a large part. in all studies of witchesand magic, one point must be kept in mind, that when anything regarded as out of the ordinary course ofnature is brought about by human means it is called a miracle if the magician belongs to the beholder's ownreligion, but it is magic2424often black magic2424if the wizard belongs to another religion. in grimm's words,"miracle is divine, magic i

times onwardwas so peculiar that it suggests a closer connection between the two offices than appears at first sight. the the god of the witchesthomas 340 becket[2]63most remarkable instances are edwy and dunstan, william the conqueror and lanfranc, rufus and anselm,henry ii and becket. the quarrels between king and archbishop were not always politico -religious, therewas often a strong personal element; such bitter quarrels never occurred with the archbishop of york, whoseimportance in the north was as great as that of canterbury in the south. in the dissensions between rufus andanselm as well as in the disputes between henry and becket most of the bishops sided with the king. it ispossible that, as wherever there had been a flamen of the pagan religion a bishopric had been founded and a

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

this substance will be distilled out of this chain of forms into its pure stateit will be all that remains, just as it was in the beginning. this goes a long way towards esoterically explaining why practically all pagan (and many non-pagan) mythologies believed that in the end, fire would consume the universe, leaving behind the purified world of renewal. this cunning fire/substance is the common element that runs through all things, from beginning to end, and which at the end, returns to the source or the beginning, making a great circle, completing the universal cycle, and leading to a new, regenerated and perfected world, ready for a new cycle. this is the serpent swallowing its own tail; this fire is the first and the last, and it brings regeneration and renewal. a person who became aw

e being. as the source of life and the place of death, she was depicted as half- fair and half dark and decaying; the outward life of the earth can also be seen as her fair face and the darkness below as her dark face. the original darkness that she embodies, which is the darkness of the mystery of fate, also links her to the figures of sophia or dame wisdom, which as we will see, is an important element in her theology, as her presence acts as a kind of final and necessary factor in the regeneration and realization of the cunning people, just as the ancient gnostics saw sophia as being the source of the wisdom that liberated the soul. we will discuss more of her liberating wisdom function later on. she is of a power and a time older than gods. she was the first being. she is the mirror in

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

with it, mankind was capable of great wonders, and great horrors. innocence was gone once mankind began the awakening process, that is, once he had command of a new and abstract awareness brought by the awareness of the fire, because after that point, mankind was no longer held bound and balanced purely by the forces of instinctual nature. call it growing pains, if you will- but there is another element, which will be expanded upon. as i said above, these sons and daughters of the parents refer not only to the daughter of fire and the light bringing son; all humans are also sons and daughters of the parents. in mythology, the light bringer becomes an image of the human soul, which has undergone its own fall into mortal experience, complete with its vicissitudes and sufferings. we will als

the transcendent. there is a great mystery here. now, before we begin to wind this discussion down to our final points, we can make these observations: we have firmly established the many deep levels of the symbolic relationships of the housle components and the key spiritual icons of the old craft, and even to key ancient mythological patterns. how do we bring it all together? what is the final element? how does this all tie smoothly into to the actual, ground level performance of the housle itself? this brings us all back to where we started: in the notion of the culmination of the world-cycle, and of the universe, and its purification by fire and re-birth. the housle sacrament is doing nothing less than showing the pattern of the universe reach its culmination and renewal. an elemental

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

he exactitude which is the character of the highest reason. unity demonstrates the analogy of contraries; it is the foundation, the equilibrium, and the end of numbers. the act of faith starts from unity, and returns to unity. illustration on page 13 described: this is titled below "the sign of the grand arcanum g. a" the figure is contained within a rectangle of width about half height. the main element is a circle, bottom half shaded, pierced through on the vertical diameter from below by a vertical sword or baton. the "sword" has a right hand holding the pommel below, issuing from a cloud to lower right. the hilt is not evident simply, but suggested by two tails of serpents crossing just below the lower limit of the circle. to either side of the pommel beneath the snake tails are the le

ransmutation of metals, according to the secrets of abraham the jew, of flamel, and of raymond lully. all these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the hebrew calls od, as did the chevalier de reichenback, which we, with the school of pasqualis martinez, call astral light, which mr. de mirville calls the devil, and which the ancient alchemists called azoth. it is the vital element which manifests itself by the phenomena of heat, light, electricity and magnetism, which magnetizes all terrestrial globes, and all living beings. in this agent even are manifested the proofs of the qabalistic doctrine with regard to equilibrium and motion, by double polarity; when one pole attracts the other repels, one produces heat, the other cold, one gives a blue or greenish light, th

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

at may be called energy plays here, but as crowley notes "it is also referred to venus in aries, which indicates that one cannot establish one's work without tact and gentleness. at the level of briah, it can be noted that the number four, the number of chesed, is also a number of limitation and restriction. the equal-armed cross is not the cross of the four elements redeemed by spirit, the fifth element, and is in some ways a full-stop to progress in the creation process. it is only once the process continues that chesed can function as a source of power. in yetzirah, the astral world, chesed functions as the archetype of authority and religion, with again the danger of stagnation as dogma, convention and compromise. in assiah, chesed is the establishment of the universe in the dimensions

and determination alone are omnipotent. crowley's phrase saying that "work alone has ultimate value" can also be allocated to the sephirah of hod. it is here that the work is performed, to counter the inertia that the ego (symbolised in this instance by the moon on the other side of the tree) can summon. the mercurial qualities of the sephirah are as numerous as the symbols denoting that elusive element. it is as sturzaker states "the sphere of intrigue, and also of the diplomat, the thief, the scientist and the magician. the sciences are rooted here, as they seek knowledge by division and mechanisms, and by strict definitions of qualities, events, and behaviours. these are all the processes of hod. it might be noted here that the "classical sciences" are now being transcended by the "new

malkuth, except through yesod, our "measuring. the new sciences are also based in a more holistic model, where systems theory replaces reductionism, and events are seen in the light of their relationships to the rest of the system, and not as isolated functions. the deities of yesod relate to varying characteristics of the sephirah itself. thus: air: the middle pillar having attributed to it the element of air, yesod is the realm of skygods such as the greek zeus. foundation: by its meaning and placement on the tree, yesod as foundation has such gods as ganesha and shu, like atlas, supporting the world, or heavens. the grade-sign of the golden dawn for this sephirah is that of shu supporting the firmament. moon: as its primary symbol is that of the moon, yesod has attributed to it such lu

uch gods as ganesha and shu, like atlas, supporting the world, or heavens. the grade-sign of the golden dawn for this sephirah is that of shu supporting the firmament. moon: as its primary symbol is that of the moon, yesod has attributed to it such lunar deities as diana. also, in its generative aspect (merging to netzach, diana-artemis of epheseus, the many-breasted. threshold: as the connective element between the nephesch (animal instinct) and ruach (reasoning principle, such gods as hermanubis (hermes the guide and anubis the guardian) and ganesha (as breaker-down of obstacles, the juggernaut) can be placed here, as well as the "guardian of the threshold. this latter entity is encountered as the first "fear" on the new initiate's path, and usually manifests as the "shadow" in terms of

(4) finds its purveyor in the maternal waters (40) where all life originates. tau (400) is the exaltation of the entire cosmic existence in its utmost capacity to resist life-death. the root dm is "blood" in hebrew, and the root mth is "death. thus the two together express the complete cycle of existence" the extensions of the letters composing malkuth and their meanings are as follows; mem: the element of water lamed: the process of learning, defining kaph: the concept of hollowness (as in weighing in the hand) vau: the objects of fastening, pin, hook tau: the making of a mark, a cross from this one might deduce that the kingdom begins symbolically and actually in the primal waters (and the kingdom of the conscious self is but an island in the sea of the unconscious) and completes as the

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

confusion we have italicized the word it throughout the text to indicate where regardie was referring to the freudian id. 9. on the qabalistic tree of life, yang energy can also be attributed to the masculine right-hand pillar called yachin, while yin energy corresponds to the feminine left-hand pillar of boaz. 10. this is similar to the golden dawn teachings concerning the sub-elementsthat each element contains a mixture of the other elements as well. 11. again, a mixture of the elements. 12. logos is greek for "word" it represents the creative principle. 13. the supernals are the three highest sephiroth of kether, chokmah, and binah. these three are considered to be on a higher level than the rest of the sephiroth. 14. from the voice of the silence by h. p. blavatsky. 15. to clanfy, the

e circumference of the temple. he would only need to stand in the center of the room whenever performing the qabalistic cross and the invocation of the archangels. 23. the pentagrams could also be visualized in flaming white light. white light has a tendency to be seen on the astral as bluish light by clairvoyants. 24. each is a "tetragram" the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 67 25. the element of fire corresponds to our will and feeling faculty, water to our creativity and intuitive faculty, air to ow intellect and thinking faculty, and earth to our faculty of sensation. 26. see part two, chapter nine for an explanation of why these names are used in the pentagram ritual. 27. or the center of the room. refer to endnote 22. 28. a telesmatic image is an image constructed according

rrespondences. this image is then consecrated and charged to achieve a specific purpose. and the charged image becomes a sacred icona living symbol of the force it represents. 29. the archangel of earth. also called uriel (raphael, michael, and gabriel are the archangels of air, fire, and water, respectively) 30. these four colors are the usual colors given for the sephirah malkuth, which has the element of earth generally assigned to it. these are also the colors of elemental earth in the king scale. 31. these last two lines refer to visualizations in steps 11 and 12 in the lbrp (refer to endnote 20) regardie's suggested visualization of a pentagram on the chest and a hexagram on the back results in a total of 31 points on the five pentagrams and the single hexagram, the number of the div

e. the latter consists of ten spheres only and it was with these ten spheres that the ancients occupied themselves and provided the necessary correspondences. the philosophy circulating the light and the formula of vibration 91 appertaining to daath is almost entirely a modem one. but there is another mediaeval system which, attached to ths qabalistic system, provides us with an invocation of the element spirit. a great deal of research on this was done by dr. john dee and his skryer edward kelly, both of whom called it the angelic or enochan system. my experience confirms that the archangelic names contained in one of these very potent magical invocations are very sympathetic to the nature of daath, which is described as a link between the ego and the hgher self. these names may very logi

. among the physical advantages are a decrease in blood pressure, a slowdown in respiration and heartbeat, and a noticeable decrease in muscular tension (along with the "aches and pains" that accompany the art ofrelaxation 141 such tension. the psychological effects are even more profound. through deep relaxation, the student can aheve a state of pure consciousness in whch the physical or somatic element is completely removed. eventually the body is able to relax so completely (as if all its needs have been fulfilled) that all body consciousness disappears. ths has a very healing effect. regardie suggested that a new point of view is needed, a scientific approach to metaphysics. ths psychological approach will accomplish two t h g s: 1) the complete relaxation of the rnindlbody mechanism

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

long enough another form of so-called intelligent life will crawl out from under a rock and they can begin their games again. iv. back in the 1920s, charles fort, the first writer to explore inexplicable events, observed you can measure a circle by beginning anywhere. paranormal phenomena are so widespread, so diversified, and so sporadic yet so persistent that separating and studying any single element is not only a waste of time but also will automatically lead to the development of belief. once you have established a belief, the phenomenon adjusts its manifestations to support that belief and thereby escalate it. if you believe in the devil he will surely come striding down your road one rainy night and ask to use your phone. if you believe that flying saucers are astronauts from anoth

he planet lanulos. mrs. derenberger was frightened of them and felt they were engaged in something evil. they were just like us, she told me, traveled about in ordinary automobiles, and were probably infiltrating the human race in large numbers. woodrow derenberger's story troubled me from the outset, and for many reasons. it did not fit the mold of the usual ufo contact tale. while the telepathy element was common enough, the total physicality of his experiences seemed too real. they defied easy classification and would not fit into any of the pigeonholes i had constructed. either he was the world's most convincing liar, and had somehow trained his wife, children, and friends to back up his lies, or he had had a very special set of experiences beyond the limits of ufology. by march 1967 t

ers, dusky complexions, pointed features. the flying saucer lore of the past twenty-seven years has been built on three main components (1) the sighting reports, usually poorly investigated by amateurs and believers, or based entirely on fragmented and often inaccurate newspaper stories (2) the testimony of the contactees (3) messages received through spirit mediums and esp. in recent years a new element has been added by the few scientists pulled into the controversy. this is the tiresome use of probabilities to explain that there must be zillions of other planets and therefore there must be uncounted numbers of inhabited places in the universe. in the early 1960s exobiology became the new scientific rip-off. various foundations and nasa poured millions of dollars into the study of extrat

s if. she were dead" jane said. when asked if she lived around babylon, the woman laughed in a strange hysterical way "like an emotionally disturbed person (this weird laugh has been described by many contactees "is there any a-u here" the woman asked. jane didn't know what she meant. just that week i had been pondering the significance of gold in ufo and religious lore. gold is the seventy-ninth element and the chemical symbol for it is au. jane offered to give the woman a lift but she declined and wandered off. unable to sleep at night, jane got up at the crack of dawn the following morning and went for a walk on an impulse. the dark-skinned woman stepped out of an alley and approached her shyly "peter is coming" she announced. this statement shook jane. she remembered that catholic lore

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

g is probably the simplest method of attaining results in "rousing leviathan, and has been used by societies as diverse as the dervishes in the middle east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives

feated, old religions of the world for the basis of his new philosophy and, some say, his new "religion. he raised the female aspect back up to one of equality with the male, as it was in the rites of egypt, and of eleusis "our lady babalon (his spelling) became a theme of many of his magickal writings, and he received he credo, the book of the law, through a woman, his wife rose kelly. the lunar element, as well as the venusian, are certainly accessible in his works. it has even been said in occult circles that he had a hand in putting together the grimoire of one gerald gardner, founder of a contemporary witchcraft movement, called the book of shadows. the moon has an extremely important, indeed indispensable, role in the tantrick sex magick rites that so preoccupied crowley and the o.t

seal is this: the thirty-seventh name is pagalguenna possessor of infinite intelligence, and determines the nature of things not yet made, and of spirits not yet created, and knows the strength of the gods. his word is arrababaal and his seal is this: the thirty-eighth name is lugaldurmah the lord of the lofty places, watcher of the skies and all that travels therein. naught traverses the starry element, but that this power is aware. his word is arataagarbal and his seal is this: the thirty-ninth name is aranunna giver of wisdom, counsellor to our father, enki, knower of the magickal covenant and of the laws and of the nature of the gates. his word is aramanngi and his seal is thusly: the fortieth name is dumuduku possessor of the wand of lapis lazuli, knower of the secret name and the se

THE PATH OF KABBALAH

world that cannot be divided into smaller particles but only in the spiritual root of that object or phenomenon. the kabbalistic names of the elements are: fire, wind, water and earth. the earth elements, for example, refer to dust, or ashes. something that can never melt, disintegrate or be turned from solid to liquid. that is the reason for the commandment of covering blood with ashes. over the element of earth there is the element of water, which consists of gas despite its liquid appearance. the element above the water is the wind, which consists of several types of gasses and is always in the form of gas. over the wind element there is the element of fire, which is above all other elements. it never disintegrates and never changes. the earth (dust, ashes) is the lowest element of all

its liquid appearance. the element above the water is the wind, which consists of several types of gasses and is always in the form of gas. over the wind element there is the element of fire, which is above all other elements. it never disintegrates and never changes. the earth (dust, ashes) is the lowest element of all, since earth is the foundation of all four elements. because the water is the element above the earth, there is water above the earth in our world too. the water is above the earth, the wind above the water and fire above all. q: what is the connection between the four directions and the four elements of matter? a: there are four directions to the earth: east, west, south and north, and there are four respective elements: fire, wind, water and earth. in terms of sefirot it

ge can be attained only if the researcher equalizes his own properties with those of the subject of study. 194 of 273 therefore, if we wish to understand the structure of the world in the degree where these events are formed, where our souls dwell before they come down to this world and where they ultimately return, if we want to see the picture of reality as it is, without being dependent on the element of time that controls our lives (it is the dream of many physicists, then we must come to be like that upper reality by ourselves. kabbalah teaches us how we can acquire a sensation of the upper layers of reality. a light of wisdom can be felt only by a vessel that has been made ready for it, by progress in a state called faith above reason. the interesting and beautiful thing about this e

own to and from our world with a variety of forms we call phenomena and physical, chemical and biological processes, as well as moral and other conceptual processes. because of our inability to learn all those processes as one collective, we study them as separate sciences, divided to specific sciences. however, the truth is that everything is connected and interdependent on every other force and element of nature. after all the subject matter is one, and we just dissect the research to pieces to make it easier on us. the wisdom of kabbalah ties all these phenomena of spirit and matter together. this means that from the point of view of kabbalah, music, astronomy, biology and medicine form an external expression of a unique law of the inner makings of nature. a kabbalist who feels the uppe

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

satire castigating with no little severity the menial servility of modern society, as scathing as a beverland, as cynical as a carlyle, and as satirical as a butler. its great theme is the contest gof age and sense with flatulence and youth. h we have already shaken hands with percy, molly, and lady baird (angela; we have still to be introduced to lord glenstrae. the first two form the flatulent element, the latter two the constipated substance of this drama. angela, the female quantity; glenstrae the male: both are outwardly highly moral; both are ready to lay their morality aside with skirt and shirt when opportunity should offer. when percy fell in love with molly, we saw how lady angela enticed him from her by her maturer wisdom. utterly false, the social hag of sixty totally eclipses

t she intends going into service, saying: gand so you shall, my dear, so you shall. come and live with my wife as her companion, and we will try and find your lover for you. no doubt the arts of this. er. designing female will soon lose their power. there, there, no thanks, i beg! i never could bear to see a pretty wench cry. there, there! h* we have now thoroughly grasped the quality of the male element, and the two together, the harlot and the lecher, produce the social code and seven-eighths of the social woes *why jesus wept, vol. iii, p. 39. vide, the martyrs of hell fs highway. gmust i, must i? oh, sir, have pity! h sobs the poor disillusionized molly, as the male element who has enjoyed her, now shoves her aside gwith the dishes and the wine, h a thousand a year, and a flat in mayfa

eiving the antinomies of reason, dismisses alike the data and conclusions of all the sciences with an all-embracing scepticism, while he devotes life to the perfecting of an instrument by whose aid we may eventually be able to make a fresh start. in gpentecost, h crowley writes: you know for me the soul is nought save a new phantom in the thought, that thought itself impermanent, save as a casual element with such another may combine to form now water and now wine; the element itself may be changeless to all eternity, but compounds ever fluctuate with time or space or various state (ask chemists else) so i must claim spirit and matter are the same or else the prey of putrefaction *sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 170. and we intend to take it as such, otherwise, like mysticus, we, if

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well worn. the falling flesh is all ecstasy- that by casting the circle and going forth into the sabbat of spirit can we then begin to learn of ourselves and the very potential we hold. the four flying witches is a gateway of lust and deep set desire; this would belong to the instance of the celestial or luciferian sabbat; the spirit does not regress to therion form, rather remains and seeks the element air to guide inspiration. this is the aethyr of the liberated spirit, the luciferic guide to the emerald crown of the lion serpent. when thy seed spills, invigorate it in the name of the moon and the sun. when one goes forth to the sabbat, allow no restrictions to hinder you, listen to your guide and familiars which are the very messengers of the luciferic angel. death posture preliminary

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

aments of the twelve patriarchs the septuagint follows a specific hebraic consideration that belial, being beli ol is the one who has thrown off the yoke of heaven and is thus without a master. the luciferian finds connections in the path of history and mythology and seeks to make them work for he or she in the modern world. the spirit of belial is of the mastery of the earth, identified with the element of earth and the north, from which ahriman is identical. consider the four elements however and their association with the adversary as a spirit of self-deification and self-mastery. samael is known in the talmudic texts as being the same as satan, the chief of evil spirits who is known as the venom of god. samael is said to have twelve wings rather than the six of normal angels, a favored

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books and by pictures of a nature consonant, so that all causes may work together for the defence and sustenance of the spirit, and for its true development. vii and let the delivery of the woman be retarded or advanced so far as possible to secure a rising sign proper to such a child. viii the child being born must be dedicated, purified and consecrated, according to the formulae of the planet, element, or sign, of which it is the incarnation. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c4.html (4 of 5 [12/28/2001 2:05:49 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. ix now then thou hast a being of perfect human form, with all powers and privileges of humanity, but with the essence of a particular chosen force, and with all the knowledge and might of its s

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

ure for nature worship. ancient pagans did not `worship' nature; to a large extent they were afraid of it, as has been pointed out to me by folk practioners. their "nature rites" were to propitiate the caprice of the gods, not necessarily to honor them. the first neopagan revivalists, gardner, crowley and dr. murray, well understood this. neopagan wiccans usually do not. in introducing a "goddess element" into their theology, crowley and gardner both understood the yin/yang, male/female fundamental polarity of the universe. radical feminist neopagans have taken this balance and altered it, however unintentionally, into a political feminist agenda, centered around a near-monotheistic worship of the female principle, in a bizarre caricature of patriarchal christianity. bigotry, i submit, cut

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

larly, we are obliged to pass over gently, and often to conceal; but, nevertheless, if we neglect or suppress these facts altogether, we injure the truth of history itself, almost in the same manner as we should injure a man s health by destroying some of the nerves or muscles of his body. the superstitions which are treated in the two essays which form the present volume, formed a very important element in the working of the social frame in former ages, in fact, during a very great part of the existence of man in this world, they have had much influence inwardly and outwardly on the character and spirit of society itself, and therefore it is necessary for the historian to understand them, and a part of the duties of the arch ologist to investigate them. the dissertation by richard payne k

ence the use of water in baptism, which was to regenerate, and, in a manner, new create the person baptised; for the soul, supposed by many of the primitive christians to be naturally mortal, was then supposed to become immortal. 4 upon the same principle, the figure of pan,5 is represented pouring water upon the organ of generation; that is, invigorating the active creative power by the prolific element upon which it acted; for water was considered as the essence of the passive principle, as fire was of the active; the one being of terrestrial, and the other of thereal origin. hence, st. john the baptist, who might have acquired some knowledge of the ancient theology, through its revivers, the eclectic jews, says: i, indeed, baptise you in water to repentance; but he that cometh after me

agvat geeta says, i am the fire residing in the bodies of all things which have life.4 upon the forehead of the gonnis is a 1 see plate xiii, fig. 11, from a medla of seleucus i. beloning to me. 2 page 26. 3 see plut. de orac. defect. 4 page 113. of priapus 59 crescent representing the moon, whose power over the waters of the ocean caused her to be regarded as the sovereign of the great nutritive element, and whose mild rays, being accompanied by the refreshing dews and cooling breezes of the night, made her naturally appear to the inhabitants of hot countries as the comforter and restorer of the earth. i am the moon (says the deity in the bagvat geeta) whose nature it is to give the quality of taste and relish, and to cherish the herbs and plants of the field.1 the light of the sun, moon

nd are sharp and pointed, like those of goats, which the greeks gave to pan, and his subordinate emanations, the fauns and satyrs. hence i am inclined to believe, that the brahma of the indians is the same as the pan of the greeks; that is, the creative spirit of the deity transfused through matter, and acting in the four elements represented by the four heads. the indians indeed admit of a fifth element, as the greeks did likewise; but this is never classed with the rest, being of an therial and more exalted nature, and belonging peculiarly to the deity. some call it heaven, some light, and some ther, says plutarch.3 the hindoos now call it occus, by which they seem to mean pure therial light or fire. this mode of representing the allegorical personages of religion with many heads and lim

prefer to any other, because he had an opportunity of conversing with them before they had adopted any foreign superstitions. 2 as they worshipped the therial fire without any medium of personification or allegory, they thought it unworthy of the dignity of the god to be represented by any definite form, or circumscribed to any particular place. the universe was his temple, and the all-pervading element of fire his only symbol. the greeks appear originally to have held similar opinions; for they were long without statues;3 and pausanias speaks of a temple at sicyon, built by adrastus,4 who lived an age before the trojan war; which consisted of columns only, without wall or roof, like the celtic temples of our northern ancestors, or the pyr theia of the persians, which were circles of ston

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the cross exhibits itself in the warp and woof of all woven fabrics. each indi- vidual thread has its strength along its length, but no power to resist force applied against it to the side. but when two threads are crossed and locked into each other, their force vectors are balanced. the whole cloth will resist tearing not only at right angles but from all directions. just as christ is the third element in the divine trinity and reconciles the other two, so the juncture of the cross is the balance point between the powers represent- ed by the arms. this point is outside time and space. raised up on the cross, jesus became immortal, no longer subject to change and decay. the cross is symbolically separate from the constantly shifting forms of being. thus, the host is blessed with the cross

r, and air. water puts out fire by smothering it; air triumphs over water by evaporating it; and fire consumes air to feed itself. a model of this circular motion can be observed in the lower seventh, eighth, and ninth sephiroth of the kabbalistic tree, where the motion proceeds in a clockwise direction: each of the three principles triumphs over another, yet no principle is exalted over all. the element that defeats another is itself overcome by the element defeat- ed by the vanquished. this can be considered in relation to the three faces of god, when viewed within freud's paradigm of psychosexual development. the child born of sexual union grows up to become either man or woman. if a man, he sym- bolically slays his father and weds his mother to produce a new generation. if a woman, she

ntial quali- ties based on its kinds of motion. they are not physical elements as science under- stands them but the locus upon which the physical elements are based. for example, elemental fire is not the fire that springs from a match-it is the preva- lent inner quality of that fire. all material things are mixtures of the four elemen- tal principles, with one being dominant. n fire is the male element. its motion is linear and it originates action. v water is the female element. its motion is circular; it receives and trans- forms the impulse of fire. air, the element of the child, contains both male and female within it in potential. it partakes of the mingled qualities of fire and water, being both volatile and cool, and is the product of their union. its motion is vibratory. 0 earth

bratory. 0 earth is the crystallization of the three preceding elemental principles in the sphere of matter. although it has no pure essence, its compound nature is perceived by the human mind as separate and unique. it is a reflection of the first three elements. according to aristotle, the elements have four powers that describe their active natures and the ways in which they can interact. each element has two powers: however, according to plato, there are six powers. each element has three powers that describe its action and its interaction with other elements. plato gave these sets of powers a mathematical relationship: plato used geometry to describe the nature of the four elements. he believed that each element is made up of combinations of triangles. fire, air and water are composed

mposed of a set of the 45-45-90 degree triangle, and cannot be transformed into the other three elements; nor can the other three elements be changed into earth. plato's understanding is important for two reasons. first, it explains the con- nection between three and four, the triangle and the square. second, it shows why the three elements fire, air, and water are separate and different from the element earth. this same understanding of the elements is expressed in a different form in the letters of the hebrew name for god, ihvh, which is called tetragrammaton. this name has both three and four letters (because two of the letters are the same: it is the nature of religions, with their inherent mystical bent, to overlook the fourth emanation of the unmanifest. considered as three, god is a

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

g the practice of scrying and astral travel, the golden dawn employed various 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 thems

ce 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 receptive field of the main element, and mingled their qualities, with the main element still predominating. since a smaller tattwa symbol upon the same larger tattwa does not show up, its physical placement may be omitted, but it should be understood to reside there. au twenty-five tattwa cards are compound and none are simple: as no element on our plane can exist in an

re. au twenty-five tattwa cards are compound and none are simple: as no element on our plane can exist in an unmixed form, but contains within itself the constituents of all the others, or possesses several grades or planes of its own substance, so each tattwa is subdivided into five divisions, currents or planes. akasa of akasa, spirit of spirit, would be the most tenuous and purest form of that element, the integral nature of spirit-its highest essence. vayu of akasa would refer to its airy quality; tejas of akasa to its fiery and dynamic aspect; apas of akasa, its fluidic and watery phase, while prithivi of akasa, its most terrestrial phase, or that aspect of its power which more nearly than the others contacts the earth. the same five-fold division, in the same five-fold order, applies

the lower levels. elementals and nature spirits are less malicious than infernal spirits, but can be capricious and may try to deceive, as mathers observed in the quotation by regardie, given above. regardie went on to write: it is but rarely that there will be necessity to resort to anything so drastic as the pentagrams in these tattwa visions, for the vibration of the hebrew name either of the element, or of the archangel will restore order and harmony. the true form, colour, clothing, even adornments such as jewels and embroideries are consonant to the element and character of the beings under discussion. and unless they are, the seer may be sure he is being imposed on, and should act accordingly-at once.233 regardie does not mean that you should browbeat or attempt to intimidate the s

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

hing .50 exercise 15 outward concentration 11: candle burning .53 exercise 76 outward concentration 111: water boiling .55 exercise 17 visualization i: geometric shapes .57 exercise 18 visualization 11: leaving the body .61 exercise 19 visualization 111: astral temple .64 contents ix exercise 20 projection of the will i: affecting an object .68 exercise 2 1 projection of the will 11: affecting an element. 71 exercise 22 projection of the will 111: affecting a living being .74 exercise 2 3 aura awareness .81 exercise 24 groundng and centering .86 exercise 25 vibrating names of power .90 exercise 26 charging an object -97 kercise 27 the kabbalistic cross. 105 exercise 28 the middle pillar. 111 exercise 29 projecting the lesser circle. 121 exercise 30 projecting the greater circle. 125 x cont

ly associated with the four directions. in this exercise, the golden dawn arrangement of the elements upon the points of the compass is used because it is the generally accepted arrangement in modern western magic: air-east, fire-south, water-west, earth-north. this arrangement is neither correct nor incorrect-it is merely the most common. it is important to intuitively feel the qualities of each element dynamically flow forth from the four directions of space, not merely to visualize them in a mechanical way. for example, rather than telling yourself that you will now imagine the sensation of warmth, you must accept that the sensation of warmth is already present by becoming conscious of it. you do not pretend to feel warmth begin on the soles of your feet-you become aware that your feet

ter 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 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

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 your imagination with the element associated with the symbol in order to link the two firmly in your subconscious. on monday after passing through the gateway of the silver crescent and opening your astral eyes to a beautiful blue that surrounds you on every side, focus your imagination on

ws of your closed eyes and draw your hands down your face as though sliding off a skin-tight mask. open your eyes, stretch gently, and when you feel ready, rise and go about your day. 26 reclining exercises commentary the five eastern tattwa symbols were used in the hermetic order of the golden dawn to graphically represent the five elements: fire, water, air, earth, and the quintessence or fifth element, known in the golden dawn system variously as akasa (akasha, aether (ether, spirit, or light. the elemental colors of the tattwa symbols do not agree with the common golden dawn colors for the elements. no attempt was made to reconcile this conflict, and it often causes confusion in the minds of students. the tattwa symbols were used mainly as astral gateways during scrying in order to acc

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

. the addition of a fourth leg makes the stool less perfect, because it introduces the third dimension of space into its pattern, the dimension of matter. the tips of three legs always lie in a single plane-the fourth may or may not occupy that plane. into the divine realm of certainty, the fourth factor introduces doubt, thereby contaminating it and rendering it profane. yet it is precisely this element of uncertainty that permits choice and human free will. four is the number of the real world of human misery, and human potential, into which the human race fell when it was cast forth from paradise. the dynamic interrelationship of three and four was a central puzzle of medieval alchemy. one of the foremost authorities on this subject, the psychiatrist carl jung, writes "the number three

new magus* from the underlying numerical pattern of the banners. very likely the true arrangement was known but was concealed from the vulgar to prevent its misuse. the key to the correct arrangement lies in the letters that begin each banner. the letters of ihvh are linked to the four elements: i= fire, h= water, v= air, and the second h= earth. each letter begins three banners. similarly, each element is related to three signs of the zodiac. clearly a parallel relationship may be established between these triplets, and it is logical to begin such a series with ihvh, the base form of tetragrammaton from which the others are derived, by linking it to aries, a fire sign and traditionally the first sign of the zodiac *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, w

name. when projecting the sigils upon the air, they are distinguished by the motion of their formation. when writing or inscribing them upon the magic circle, or upon amulets or talismans, this motion of formation is indicated by marking the beginning of the sigil with a small cross and the termination with an arrowhead. each group of three banners beginning with the same letter is related to the element of that letter. for example, the banners ihvh, ihhv, and ivhh are all banners of elemental fire. the three banners in each elemental group have very distinct forms that are based upon their cardinal, mutable, and fixed energies. the tracing of a cardinal sigil creates a circular, or spiraling, energy flow. the tracing of a mutable sigil creates a linear zig-zag like a lightning bolt. the t

ry troubled in his mind about how to protect the jews of prague against the malicious libels of a priest named thaddeus, who preached their destruction, rabbi loew used his knowledge of kabbalah to obtain a dream oracle from god, who ordered him to create a golem of clay to defend israel. loew called to him two disciples with the qualities he required. one had been born with the power of the fire element. the other had been born with the power of the water element. loew himself had been gifted at birth with the power of air. it was necessary, he told the disciples, that all four elements be provided if such a creation was to succeed. he further informed them that he had been given ten words containing a combination of names by which a golem might be formed. the three prayed and meditated f

a combination of names by which a golem might be formed. the three prayed and meditated for seven days. then, at "four after midnight" they went to the riverbank and used wet clay to fashion the figure of a man three cubits (about five feet) long lying on its back. the three stood at the feet of the golem facing it. loew ordered the disciple who had been gifted at birth with the power of the fire element to walk around the golem seven times clockwise while reciting a "combination of letters" loew had given him. immediately, the clay figure began to glow like a bed of live coals. then the second disciple gifted with the water element walked seven times around the golem reciting a different combination of hebrew letters. steam issued from the body and cooled it. hair grew from the head of th

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

-development of discourse about sexuality" which was now classified and categorized in endless detail "paradoxically, it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded. far from the age of silence and suppression, sexuality became a major issue in victorian social and political practice."xxxiv the categorization, classification and control over sexuality was a critical element in the regulation of society as a whole "the array of sexual discourses. exploited sexuality's secrets. sex began to be managed..perversion became codified..sexuality proliferated as power over it was extended."xxxv however, as peter gay points out, discussions of sexuality had to take place in the proper contexts, either privately, in the closed realms of secrecy or, publicly, through sci

as crowley suggests, this secret is so powerful and "of such tremendous import" that it "cannot be used indiscriminately" or revealed to the unworthy.lviii as he described it in his confessions "if this secret which is a scientific secret were perfectly understood there would be nothing which the human imagination can conceive that could not be realized in practice..if it were desired to have an element of atomic weight six times that of uranium that element could be produced."lix in crowley's revised system, however, the o.t.o.'s nine degrees were expanded to eleven. the eighth, ninth and eleventh of these focused on more explicitly transgressive sexual rites of auto-erotic and homosexual intercourse. as peter koenig summarizes the upper degrees, crowley's viiith degree unveiled. that ma

; when mentioned at all, it is often taken in purely symbolic terms, and, when practiced literally, is but one of many ways of awakening the divine power or shakti. as georg feuerstein observes "there is nothing glamorous about tantric sexual intercourse."xci but in most contemporary western interpretations- and above all, in the wake of crowley- tantra has been re-defined primarily by its sexual element, and often simply equated with "spiritual sex" the goal of which is not spiritual development but heightened orgasm and optimal physical pleasure.xcii in the end, it seems there is little concrete evidence that crowley had any extensive knowledge of indian tantra, apart from the common association of tantra and sex in the western imagination. so how, then, did crowley's work come to be so

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

78 the number eleven is kabbalistically disarranged as follows: 1 plus 1 equals 2. number 1 is masculine and number 2 is feminine. the pair of opposites of holy alchemy positive= negative active= passive osiris= isis baal bel= astarte ishtar shiva= parvati husband= wife father= mother sun= moon fire= water heat= cold volatile= fix sulfur= mercury chinese alchemy heaven is masculine, yang and its element is fire. the earth is feminine, yin and its element is water. in the taoist doctrine, we find white tantrism. the yin-yang, the dragon and the tiger are the axis of taoism. according to taoist interpretation, the yin- yang is the outcome of t ai chi, the prima matter of the universe and creation emerges from the sexual union of this pair of opposites. maithuna (sexual magic) exists within

ompletely open to all types of influences. thus, the state of purity of the parents and their willpower used in order not to spill the cup of hermes, is all that can protect us against the terrible danger that the spermatozum and the ovum face regarding the infiltration of subhuman substances of the bestial egos which want to reincorporate. adultery since a woman s body is a passive and receptive element, it is clear that her body collects and stores more of the results of the sexual acts than all of those men who commit adultery with her; those results are atomic substances from the men with whom she has had sexual intercourse. therefore, when someone has sexual intercourse with a person who has been with another partner or other partners, both then absorb the atomic essences of the other

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

t of any magical working of this kind is: does this operation involve another person? if so, they should be made aware of your intentions and you should certainly have their permission.even in healings. this is a cosmic law. first one must clarify one's intention in making the talisman. in the qabalistic tradition, as in any true spiritual tradition, this intention should include a very important element: how can this desire incorporate in some way the element of service? if you think about this carefully, it will act as a safeguard to desires the ego may feel are paramount, but which may not benefit it so well in the end. this is because this intention incorporates work with your higher self. if one's true goal is god (the kingdom of heaven) or simply the highest good, then all other thin

red indigo attributions of the hebrew letters sign, planet letter tarot# air mercury moon venus aries taurus gemini cancer leo virgo jupiter libra water scorpio sagittarius capricorn mars aquarius pisces sun fire saturn aleph beth gimel daleth heh vav zain cheth teth yod kaph lamed mem nun samekh ayin peh tzaddi qoph resh shin tau figure 2-b 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 element air air, earth water earth, air fire earth air water fire earth fire, water air water water fire earth fire, water air water fire fire earth, air hebrew letters in this chart with the ones in figure 2-a to find the correct correspondences between the letters. imagine your h. g. a. with the first color emanating from his or her head. if it is a dark color, like purple, imagine it a bit ligh

ness and greed. exorbitant and self-righteous. mars: positive: dynamic action and energy. ambition, physical strength, courage. willpower, vitality, and anger (constructive. enthusiasm, resolution, self-assurance. efficient and valiant. negative: haste, aggression, hostility. anger (destructive, cruelty, resentment, manipulation. self-doubt. planet sun moon mars mercury jupiter venus saturn pluto element best place for working fire water fire planet (also rules water sign) air planet (also rules earth sign) fire planet (also rules water sign) earth planet (also rules air sign) earth planet (also rules air sign) water (rules scorpio, replacing mars) leo, aries, sagittarius, sunday cancer, taurus, monday, nighttime aries, capricorn, tuesday gemini, virgo, wednesday sagittarius, pisces, cance

and demonstrate that each of these signatures.even the most simple two-letter combinations.has its own specific energy. the arrow going up (hm) is from the root which means "the vital power of the universe (de 'olivet, p. 331, implying an outgoing, more masculine principle, while the mh root, signified by the arrow going down, means "female generation. essentially passive and creative (it is) the element from which everything draws nourishment (p. 387. one will note from these simple examples that there are many complements, both in the hebrew roots and in the hebrew gematria. these are consistent themes in qabalistic study of the kameas. we see this very principle of complementarity in the archetypal expression of binah/saturn herself, for this is traditionally thought of as a contracting

ircle on the vault of the legendary founder of the rosicrucian order, brother c. r. c. it was written around the figure of a man's head, which case said represented aquarius. case's interpretation of the motto is that (it) refers to the occult conception that the real inner man is identical with and inseparable from the pure essence of the life power. that essence is correctly associated with the element of air, to which the sign aquarius (the man) is referred, because spirit and breath are correlated in all ancient philosophies. furthermore, the adjective intacta, which i have translated as undefiled, means even more than this. the inner glory that is the essence of the real man is not only untouched by the action of its outer vehicle of personality. it is truly untouchable. it can never

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

se in the satanists' circle. the sacrificial victims, who have been bred from birth for the role, are ritually killed by slashing the throat from left to right. this is the origin of the freemasonic sign of pulling the flat hand across the throat from left to right, a movement which means "you're dead. the blood from the victims is collected and mixed with arsenic, which appears to be a necessary element for those of the human-reptilian bloodlines. this is poured into goblets and consumed by the satanists, together with the liver and eyes. this is supposed to provide strength and greater psychic vision. fat is scraped from the intestines and smeared over the bodies of the participants- like the fat of the 'messeh' in ancient egypt the corpse is then suspended from a tree and the satanists

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

y moral and spiritual significance and exercised great influence on lofty souls such as heraclitus, pindar and plato, and when christianity spread it was orphism that gave the fundamentals to the pauline theology 'orphism soon came in contact with the rural cult at eleusis whose celebrated mysteries were without ecstatic and orgiastic elements. contact with orphism transformed the cult adding the element of redemption; from the fusion were born the eleusinian mysteries as known throughout antiquity. these consisted of two parts, the orphic centring round zagreus and celebrated at agrai, a suburb of athens, and termed "the lesser mysteries, and the eleusinian centring round demeter and kore, celebrated at eleusis itself and termed "the greater mystery. the former were the necessary preparat

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

the sage of tarentum. the school of pythagoras has several peculiar characteristics. every new member was obliged to pass a period of five years of contemplation in perfect silence; the members held everything in common, and rejected animal food; they were believers in the doctrine of metempsychosis, and were inspired with an ardent and implicit faith in their founder and teacher. so much did the element of faith enter into their training, that autos epha- he said it was to them complete proof. intense fraternal affection between the pupils was also a marked feature of the school; hence their saying, my friend is my other self, has become a byword to this day. the teaching was in a great measure secret, and certain studnumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tc

gods zeus, jupiter and apollo, the sun god, have the same numerical relation. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott# 33. part four numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter four the individual numerals the monad, one, 1 he number one or the monad has been defined by the mathematician theon of smyrna as the principal and element of numbers, which while multitute can be lessened by subtraction, is itself deprived of every number and remains stable and firm. hence as a number, it is indivisible, it remains immutable, and even multiplied into itself remains itself only, since once one is still one, and the monad multiplied by the monad remains the immutable monad to infinity. it remains by itself among numbers, for n

erring to marriage. and androgynia, being odd and masculine, yet containing an even female part. also, a demi-goddess, because it is half of the decad, which is a divinity. and didymus, because it divides numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the decad into two equal parts. but they called it pallas, and immortal, because pallas presides over the ether, or 5th element (akasha) which is indestructible and is not material to our present senses. and cardiatis or cordialis, because like a heart it is in the middle of the body of the numbers, thus- 1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 the ancients had a maxim, pass not above the beam of the balance, that is be not the cause of injury; for they said, let the members in a series form a balance beam. thus when a weight depresses

they are rupa, form; vidana, perception; sanina, consciousness; sanskara, action; and vidyana, knowledge. in china, 5 means shangti or thian, the god in heaven. the chinese speak of 5 blessings--longevity, riches, health, virtue and a natural death. the ancient chinese spoke of 5 elements--earth, wood, fire, metal and water; and of 5 primary colors yellow, red, white, green and black. 65. the 5th element, the quintessence of the alchymist, was derivable from the four, by progression--at first the ens, then the two contraries, then the three principles, then the four elements. separate the pure from the impure, gently and with judgment, and so you obtain the quintessence, the son of the sun. similarly, note the progression; stone, plant, animal, man, god. the old authors added--talia si jun

ces female nocturnal aquarius male diurnal capricorn female nocturnal sagittarius male diurnal scorpio female nocturnal libra male diurnal virgo female nocturnal leo male diurnal cancer female nocturnal gemini male diurnal taurus female nocturnal aries male diurnal 104. and, again, there are other characters which astrologers deem of importance, thus- table of zodiiiac& diiirectiiions zodiac sign element direction pisces water northern common fruitful numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott zodiac sign element direction aquarius air western fixed- capricorn earth southern cardinal- sagittarius fire eastern common- scorpio water northern fixed fruitful libra air western cardinal- virgo earth southern common barren leo fire eastern fixed barren cancer water

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

t exist without a relation of continuity [kontinualrelation] to what is earlier or later and it is thereby connected with things which are separated from it, some by a greater and some by a lesser interval. having a finite far-ranging connection of this sort with other things is part of the concept of the present. without this relational character it could not be conceived nor could it ever be an element of something with temporal duration and development.153 according to brentano, the temporal modes of presentation are acquired in an original experience of association, an inner perception that he calls proteraesthesis, described in a brief excursus (dictated in 1914) on the temporally continuous nature of the real a term that alludes to brentano s reism, the doctrine that the object of th

sness, as husserl insisted; rather, it indicates the prenoetic manner in which human beings are ontologically situated in the world.200 yet in spite of this crucial shift, heidegger, like husserl, emphasizes time as the distinguishing feature of the human comportment. recently, alejandro vallega has made an impressive attempt to consider more seriously the figure of spatiality as a deconstructive element in heidegger s discourse on temporality, that is, to view the experience of space as the decisive interruption (ent-scheidung) of thought s claim to metaphysical and transcendental principles as the ground and root of the question of being that this very question will begin to be experienced in its alterity. 201 the marginality of space accords it special significance as it punctuates the

hought s claim to metaphysical and transcendental principles as the ground and root of the question of being that this very question will begin to be experienced in its alterity. 201 the marginality of space accords it special significance as it punctuates the development or delimitation of heidegger s discourse on temporality. throughout heidegger s book spatiality appears as a constant aporetic element in his discourse, which ultimately proves to be insurmountable. spatiality appears not only explicitly and thematically, but also implicitly through various interruptions of the main discourse that point to di culties that later will lead heidegger to abandon his attempt in being and time to articulate spatiality in terms of the essential temporality of the question of being. spatiality th

mporal becoming.334 in the essay das neue denken, published in 1925 with the aim of offering readers pointers on how to read der stern, rosenzweig writes that time is entirely real for the one who embraces the new thinking (neue denken, which he also calls speech-thinking (sprachdenken, in contrast to the philosopher interested in immutable essences who wants to know nothing of time. the critical element of speech, therefore, is the verb, which in german is zeitwort, literally, timeword, the part of language that conveys knowledge of the tenses (zeiten) of reality. 335 rosenzweig thus expresses the secret of the wisdom of the new philosophy encapsulated in goethe s phrase understanding at the right time (verstehen zur rechten zeit):336 understanding always occurs in the present, time in th

tained fully in the male; to be even more specific, it is located ontically in the corona of the phallus (ateret berit),269 not the phallus of the genital area but the phallic potency situated in the head, sometimes identified as the yod in the brain that corresponds to the yod inscribed on the circumcised phallus.270 thus far there is nothing exceptional about dov baer s teaching. the innovative element surfaces in his explication of this motif in terms of time and eternity. the aforementioned eschatological teaching is part of a lengthy account of judaism s monotheistic declaration, shema yisra el yhwh elohenu yhwh ehad, hear, o israel, the lord is our god, the lord is one (deut 6:4, and the utterance that immediately follows it, barukh shem kevod malkhuto le olam wa ed, blessed be the n

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nes magical ability. this takes instinct, desire and focus, not to mention passing the many tests presented by the guardians of the path. one must be strong to walk the sabbatic path, but even more strong upon the daemonic essence of the path, wherein one becomes a living circle of both darkness and light. the astral body and separation of the astral from the physical is essential in the emerging element of the nightside covenant of the luciferian. the most challenging and perhaps dangerous element of the path is the development of the astral body. to build, one must focus and meet the challenges, and the fulfillment of desires upon the dreaming path. the ritual of luciferian transference: let the magician approach the altar, decorated in the elements of seth and the illuminated archon who

f each card, and then envision the self clearly reflecting these attributes via the mind. allow the consciousness to move through them. ascend in the direction of each plane. it is possible to use a mask to reach a agreed meditative state of bringing forth the angel of light, to focus and visualize the features of the mask as a face of the light. the ascending and rising pentagram..represents the element air and the aethyr, the element of lucifer in his form of azal ucel and lumiel. lucifer in this solar based form represents separation from the material world, from which the essential self may be revealed and focused upon. later in ones initiation into the ahrimanic and yatuk-dinoih methods of sorcery is the body of light reunited and to recreate the body of shadow, the darkness and chtho

of asmoday or ashamdon, a yezidic archangel. samael is considered to some extent connected with the roman light bearer, lucifer whom brings wisdom to mankind. when lucifer becomes the shadow bringer (noctifer) he is revealed as the ancient prince of darkness, set. the hidden gateway within the order of phosphorus is the sabbatic light and union of opposites. samael is the center resulting in the element fire, movement and manifestation. as this is the same as asmodeus, both unite in clarification ascertained through the medium itself. the alchemical formula of self transformation and initiation is through asmodeus, the lord of witchcraft. as the hidden one, asmodeus is the fountainhead for the art of encircling energy, the very act of sorcery itself. samael is the fallen angel, the god of

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

a very complete system of magic. this system involved ceremonial ritual as well as skrying (astral projection. it also included a four-handed chess game with divination as a subsystem. the basis for the golden dawn's enochian system were the four great watchtowers which were subdivided into the four elemental tablets and a smaller one called the tablet of union, which is associated with the fifth element, spirit. it was related in the paper concourse of the forces that within the inner order of the golden dawn, at the zelator adeptus minor grade [this is a subgrade of the adeptus minor grade eds, adepts were introduced to another part of the enochian system. this dealt with the four elemental kings whose names were derived from letters on the circumference of the holy seal the dei aemeth

f the greatest circle: and so proceed towards the right hand. in the middle now of the pentacle, make a cross like a crucifix and write the last of those seven names, levanael thus" the seven names are those of the planets, given earlier. th cross of levanael is shown in figure 15. on the back of the seal i the sigil shown in figure 16. in the golden dawn, the word agla describes the nort and the element of earth. agla is notariqon for "thou ai mighty forever, 0 lord" agla is an angel in its own right and i 17 the rites of exorcism; the vibration of it is used for the exorcising of demons and any negative spirits. its place here, though, should not be associated to earth, but to its powers of exorcism in keeping any unwanted force out of the crystal that was placed on top of the seal. pr a

numbered sides, is shown in figure 52. the sides of each pyramid are colored as follows: 1. this is made up from the color of the planetary section you are working on, from the paths of the king scale, and has the sigil of the planet in the complementary color on it. 2. this is the color of the planet by way of column. 3. this is the color of the planet by way of rank. 4. this is the color of the element the planet is in. the truncated pyramid square, given in figure 53, shows the full pyrami d associations for baligon, the king of the planetary hour of venus. figures 54 through 58 are five examples of the construction of these pyramid tablets. the remaining two can easily be worked out and are left as an exercise. 91 92 93 94 95 96 egyptian god-forms of the bonorum over each pyramid squar

tform and ascends to it, be165 coming a shining luminous platform. the cross and sign becollie a doorway above the disk becomes a revolving sphere where the enochian letter appears. there are seven characters and they are from the so-called theban alphabet. could it be shol alcm? there was also written "nahusa calls" and "n" was afterwards said to be daemon" both visions undoubtedly relate to the element of earth. this is shown in the vision of the sphere group by venus and by the kabbalistic sephirah of malkuth. the interesting fact in the first vision is a name given in the enochian language which i had never consciously heard of before. i had to look it up in my enochian dictionary to find out what it meant. the next section of visionary experiences comes from the pyramid squares of the

in and risen, and relates to autumn and all of its characteristics. by uttering this initial keyword, the invoker of this force calls forth and links the power of the sun into his aura. yod nun resh yod! virgo, isis, mighty mother! sol, osiris, slain and risen! isis, apophis, osiris! i-a-o! the letters iao compose a synthetic name relating to the sun entering virgo and the introduction of the air element, which in itself represents spirit or unification with the part of the kabbalistic soul called the ruach or "breath" the sign of orisis slain! this represents the forces of the equinox. l the sign of the mourning of isis! 183 the hands here are in a semi-arc position which shows the sun at summer solstice and links with the life force of osiris. v the sign of typhon and apophis! the hands

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) 29. lecture on astrological associations to the serviant squares 30. notes on ritual of invisibility 31. notes on ritual of transformation workings for this level and records of these visionary workings to be sent to the praemonstrater. all phases of the below must be completed before advancing to the next level (a) the adept will do projection work into thte main tattwas and then into each sub-element (b) do a path working of the 22 trumps starting at the world (c) project into one pyramid square of each elemental enochian tablet. for example take the serviant square with the zodiac attribution of aries in the watery part of air tablet. its corresponding squares will be: the aries square in the watery part of fire, the aries square in the watery part of earth, and the aries square in th

the student on his way" the date of publication was 1616, the year following the appearance of the confessio frateritatis. i should mention that an english translation of the fama was done in london by eugenius philalthes, in 1652. at that time he was supreme magus in anglia, or chief adept in charge of our phraseology. in conclusion, it only remains for me to point out that while the historical element has a unique interest for every member of the 5=6 grade of the second order, this in itself is a minor consideration as compared with the mystic symbolism involved therein. the 120 years has other references, as the 5=6 ritual itself testifies. this was the number of princes, which darius set over his kingdom; that daniel was a magus among the chaldees, while another hint as to its meaning

m together as he brings down the power of the order which could be classed as the neschamah. while this entire principle is inherited in us as living beings (with the neschamah as our soul or disassociated state of awareness, we have in fact learned to extend this faculty via group ritual working. as one advances through the ranks of the order, the aura is impregnated with the vital forms of each element grade. this forces a link between your own aura and the ruach or order. it is power which binds the two together in a positive manner, the link being stronger with each grade you undertake. this makes it easier each time for the power of the neschamah to give the divine spark and bind to the ruach, to come through during ceremony. it is not unusual, if this is done correctly, for the aura

n the four subsequent elemental grades that follow, the link established in the 00=00 is then opened up to receive an impetus of energy tailored to, and in empathy with, the corporeal elements. at this point the aura must be continually charged through ritual practise and meditation exercise, so that the power-flow through the link does not close or seal off, which it will do if left in the outer element grades for too long a period (for example, spending a couple of years on each element grade) if an individual is expelled or leaves the order in the outer grades, the link will, automatically seal itself off, as it cannot be sustained without impetus from the second order, no matter how much study is done. from the portal onwards the link undergoes a definite change. being parasitic by nat

ion. at the equinox, as one particular influence is fading out, so each officer voluntarily relinquishes his emblem of office, the symbol of a power of his soul. the last action he performs under the influence of the current password is a willing sacrifice offered up at the centre of his own being. the four officers who symbolize the two great opposites, always find the symbol of their respective element in balanced disposition on the altar, as each one of us finds them eventually in our own heart. the four in one are in perfect unison. this whole action of turning inwards is symbolic of a change of consciousness; they cease to function as officers on the earth plane, and become representatives of a higher power on the cosmic plane. one point must be noted here: all the officers come to th

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wave of the sensual world" hierophant (faces east, forms himself in a cross "glory be to thee, father of the undying for thy glory flows out rejoicing to the ends of the earth" hierophant (turns back around "the red cross above the white triangle represents the unfolding of light. at its east, south, west, and north angles are a rose, 36 fire, cup of wine, and bread and salt. these allude to the elements of, air, fire, water, and earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht-are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek words- konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be 'light rushing out in one ray, and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things are

nitiate in his own words and asks if anyone else has anything to say (kerux brings forth the special solution and water) kerux "nature is harmonious in all her workings, and that which is above, is also that which is below. thus also, the truths which by material science we investigate are but special examples of the all pervading law of the universe. so, with the pure limpid fluid, is hidden the elements bearing the semblance of blood, even as within the mind and brain of the initiate lies concealed the divine secrets of hidden knowledge. yet if the 38 oath be forgotten and the solemn pledge be broken, then that which is secret shall be revealed, even as this pure fluid reveals the semblance of blood (mixes them together "let this remind thee forever, o neophyte, how easily by careless or

mbol of fading light. let us adore the lord of the universe. all face east (all face east including the hierophant) all "holy art thou lord of the universe. holy art thou which nature has not formed. holy art thou the vast and mighty one, ruler of the light and the darkness" hierophant "nothing now remains but to partake together in silence of the mystic repast composed of the symbols of the four elements, and to meditate on our pledge of devotion to secrecy (hierophant puts down sceptre and now goes to the west of altar facing east. he gives the saluting sign but not sign of silence. he picks up the rose) hierophant "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smells the rose; to feel the warmth of the sacred fire (spreads hands over lamp; to eat with me th

e choice of the candidate. if it is the candidate's will to elevate spiritually and closer to the higher self, the whole action will be strengthened by the initiation and the badge of the neophyte which is a potent symbol of the "light that shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not" the sash is black and represents the black pillar the feminine current. it also represents the elements of which the candidate will be attempting to master in higher grades. the sash with the white triangle is worn from the left shoulder across the body to the right hip. it should be worn with a robe, nemyss and red slippers. even members who work alone and are not near the temple should strongly consider investing in a robe, and the above attire to do the ritual work outlined in the grade

blic this greeting may be done. below is a diagram of this greeting and a list of some of its symbology. the symbols of this greeting the tetragrammaton vibrating in the four qabalistic worlds. the bonding link and vow we each took. the love and support given and received from each of us on our solo trek. the horizontal position represents the horizon that the sun eternally emerges from. the four elements. the warmth is spirit. the three shakes referring to the three supernals and pillars. kether, chokmah, binah father, son, holy spirit love, truth, knowledge the triangle of the two opposing forces and one reconciler. 45 (the arms form the symbol of the opposing forces and yourself as the reconciler) each individual as the banner of the west. the two greeting in this way as the banner of t

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world. hiero: stands in the form of cross, saying: hiero: glory be to thee, father of the undying. for thy glory bows out rejoicing, to the ends of the earth! hiero: he reseats himself. hiero: the red cross above the white triangle, is an image of him who was unfolded in the light. at its east, south, west and north angles are a rose fire, cup of wine and bread and salt. these allude to the four elements, air, fire, water, earth. the mystical words- khabs am pekht- are ancient egyptian and are the origin of the greek konx om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be light rushing out in one ray and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things, art the pillars of

it evil to exist unchecked, thus making itself as it were the accomplice of that evil. lastly, do not be daunted by the difficulties of occult study and remember that every obstacle can at length be conquered by perseverance. hiero: before you can pass on to the next higher grade of this order you will have to make yourself perfect in the following: 1) the names and alchemical symbols of the four elements. 2) the names, astrological symbols and elemental attribution of the twelve signs of the zodiac. 3) the names and astrological symbols of the seven planets, also their houses, exaltation and triplicity in the zodiac. 4) the names, characters and numerical values of the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet. 5) the names and english meanings of the ten qabalistic sephiroth. a mss. lect

l: directs neophyte to rise and face east. hiero: faces east. all together say saluting. holy art thou, lord of the universe! salute holy art thou, whom nature hath not formed! salute holy art thou, the vast and the mighty one! salute lord of the light and of the darkness! salute hiero: nothing now remains but to partake together in silence of the mystic repast composed of the symbols of the four elements and to remember our pledge of secrecy. all are seated. hiero: puts down his sceptre and returns the banner of the east to its place. he goes to the west of the altar as hierophant goes to west of altar all turn west hierophant west of altar facing east gives the saluting sign but not the sign of silence taking up rose says hiero: i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose, as

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

a^ dporum nimiero eos solos ducimt, quos eernuiit, et quorum opibus aperte juvantur, solan et vulcaiuim et lunam; reliquos lie fania quideiii acceperuiit. li.g. g, 21. compare witli this b.g. 4, 7 where the uisiiietes and tenchtheri say to cjesar: sese iinis suevis concedere, quibus no dii quideia imiiwrtales pares esse possint. 104 gods. doubt on other gods, much less to prove a bare worship of elements among the germani. all the accounts that vouch for the early existence of individual gods, necessarily testify at the same time to their great number and their mutual relationship. when procopius ascribes a ttoxu? oewv o/xixo'i to the heruli, this' great host' must also be good for the goths, just those of whom we know the fewest particulars, and for all the germans together. jornandes wo

he beneficent deities rather to hurtful demons and malignant spirits, we have here an easy transit to the only god whom the teaching of the edda represents as wicked and malevolent, though it still reckons him among the ases. 5 (loki, grendel, saturn. lofji, as we have seen, was a second son of forniotr, and the three brothers hler, logi, kari on the whole seem to represent water, fire and air as elements. n"ow a striking narrative (sn. 54. go) places logi by the side of lohi, a being from the giant province beside a kinsman and companion of the gods. this is no mere play upon words, the two really signify the same tiling from different points of view, logi the natural force of fire, and loki, with a shifting of the sound, a shifting of the sense: of the burly giant has been made a sly sed

svantovit with a horse to ride on. some few divinities made use of a ship, as may be seen by the stories of athene's ship and that of isis, and frey's skisblasnir, the best of all ships. stem. 45^ but whichever way the gods might move, on earth, through air or in water, their walk and tread, their riding and driving is represented as so vehement, that it produces a loud noise, and the din of the elements is explained by it. the driving of zeus or thorr awakens thunder in the clouds; mountains and forests tremble beneath poseidon's tread, ii. 13, 18; when apollo lets himself down from the heights of olympus, arrows and bow clatter (ekxay^av) on his shoulder 1, 44, betvr) se kxajyr] yiver' dpyupeoio ^lolo, dreadful was the twang of his silver bow 1, 49. in the lays of the edda this stirring

means judge (fem: the eussians even adopt the word parka. we must at least notice the lichoplezi in hanka's glosses 21% who are said to be three, like the sirens and mermaids- the bulgarian samodiva or samovua corresponds to the servian vila. when the wounded pomak cries to his 'sister' samodiva, she comes and cures him. the samodivy carry off children; and mischief wrought by the wise women. 437 elements, by storms &c, is ascribed to them. like the fates, they begift the newborn: three samodivy visit the infant jesus, one sews him a shirt, another knits him a band, and the third trims a cap for him. some stories about them closely resemble those of the swan-maids. stoyan finds three samodivy bathing, removes their clothes, restores those of the two eldest, but takes the youngest (mariyka)

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icus, and i have duly received a dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the second order, to advance him in due form. honoured hegemon, superintend the preparation of the theoricus and give the customary alarm. heg: rises, salutes the hierophant, quits the temple and sees the theoricus is thus prepared. wearing sash of theoricus, hoodwink and with the solid triangular pyramid formed of4 elements in right hand, hegemon takes theoricus by left hand and gives an alarm of 8 knocks. heg: his throne was like a fiery flame, and the wheels as burning fire. hiereus: opens door and admits them, returns to his place. heg: conducts theoricus to the north west facing the seat of hiereus. hegemon takes pyramid. hiereus: give me the sign, grip or token, grand word, mystic number and password of

to and typhon. the right hand figure below is anadl, the ruler of the astral light. she is also axiokersa, the third kabir, ceres and proserpina, isis and nephthys. she is therefore represented in a duplicate form and rising from the water. around both these figures dart flashes of lightning. these 3 principal figures form the fire triangle, and further represent fire operating in the other three elements of air, earth, and water. the central lower figure with his back turned and his arms extended in the sign of theoricus is arel the ruler of latent heat, he is rising from the earth, as if to receive and absorb the properties of the other three. he is also kasmillos the candidate in the samothracian mysteries, and the horus of egypt. he rises from the rock hewn cubical tomb, and also allud

d above the shoulders of that great goddess is nature in her vastness exalted. thus far the voice of the kabiri. heg: conducts theoricus to hierophant's throne and hands to theoricus the solar creek cross. hiero: the solar creek cross is formed of 13 squares, which fitly refer to the sun's motion through the zodiac. these signs being further arranged in the arms of the cross according to the four elements with the sun in the center, represent that luminary as the center of the the 30th path of the sepher yetzirah. which answereth unto the letter resh is called the collecting intelligence, and it is so called because from it astrologers deduce the judgement of the stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science according to the rules of their revolutions. it is there

whole creation in its rays. the 7 hebrew yods on each side falling through the air, refer to the solar influence descending. the wall is the circle of the zodiac and the stones are its various degrees and divisions. the two children standing respectively on water and earth, represent the generating influence of both brought into action by the rays of the sun. they are the two inferior or passive elements, as the sun and the air above them are the superior and active elements, of fire and air. furthermore, these two children resemble the sign gemini, which unites the earthly sign of taurus with the watery sign of cancer and this sign was by the greeks and romans referred to apollo or the sun. hiero: returns to place. heg: leads theoricus to west. hiereus (showing 1st tablet) the astrologic

erein? heg: by the peculiar emblem of the stolistes, which is the cup of water. hiereus: the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former the apex the latter the base. like the caduceus it further represents the 3 elements of water, air and fire. the crescent is the water which is above the firmament; the circle is the firmament and the triangle the consuming fire below, which is opposed to the celestial fire symbolized by the upper part of the caduceus. heg: places admission badge aside and leads theoricus to hierophant and then returns to his place. hiereus: heg: rise and face inwards towards the altar. h

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ding to the horizon, and in the foreground, water, with a crayfish crawling through it towards land. the moon is in the increase on the side of gedulah, and from it proceed sixteen principal and sixteen secondary rays, which together make 32, the number of the paths of yetzirah. she is the moon at the feet of the woman of the revelation, ruling equally over cold and moist natures, and the passive elements of earth and water. the four hebrew yods refer to the four letters of the holy name reconstituting the destroyed world from the waters. it is to be noted that the symbol of the sign pisces is formed of the two lunar crescents of gedulah and geburah bound together, and thus shows the lunar nature of the sign. the dogs are the jackals of the egyptian anubis, guarding the gates of the east a

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

e the three supernals. the first course is sacred, but in the midst thereof another, the third aerial which cherisheth earth in fire and the fountain of fountain, and of all the fountains. the matrix containing all, thence abundantly springing forth the generation of multifarious matter. heg: conducts practicus to foot of the hierophant's throne and hands to the practicus the solid pyramid of the elements. hiero: this pyramid is attributed to the four elements. on the four triangles are their names, asch, fire; mayim, water; ruach, air; aretz, earth; on the apex is the word eth, composed of the first and last letters of the alphabet and implying essence. the square base represents the material universe, and on it is the word ohlam, meaning world (places pyramid aside) the 28th path of yetz

embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and the mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of hermes as above, so below. hiero: resumes his place. hiereus: heg: pract: move to the tablets in the west. hiereus: this tablet represents the trinity operating through the sephiroth, and reflected downwards in the four triangles of the elements, through the tree of life. notice that air is reflected from kether through tiphareth to yesod. water is reflected from binah through chesed to hod; and fire is reflected from chokmah through geburah to netzach. while malkuth is earth, the receptacle of the other three. on this second tablet is the image of nebuchadnezar, whose head was of gold, the breast and the arms of silver, the bell

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

mbership of an established pagan organisation, yes, but these tend to ask for remarkably little. even a full druidic or goddess training, for example, costs no more than a few hundred pounds over several years. most covens and healing groups expect you only to pay for your expenses. i hope that, one day, joining a coven will be totally open, like joining any other organisation, and then the nasty elements who hide behind the name of magick will be exposed for the frauds they are. children and wicca many people are suspicious of witches and all the more so if the practitioner has young children. they seem to fear that witches will exert some kind of evil influence on innocent minds. in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. children of wiccans are almost invariably kind to

place and the rituals you hold there are limited only by your own desires and ingenuity. setting up your altar you will need a large, flat surface for your altar; a table or a cupboard will do- you can use the drawers for storage and cover it with a cloth. it does not really matter what shape the surface is- circles and squares are both sacred shapes and easy to divide into quadrants for the four elements, earth, air, fire and water, that are central to traditional magic and play a part even in informal rituals. a round altar, the shape of the sacred circle, works especially well. if you do not have a suitable piece of furniture, a piece of uncut stone or unpolished wood, such as hazel, ash, rowan or oak supported on stones or bricks will do. ensure that it is high enough, so that you are

are performing rituals. in formal magick, the guardians, or devic lords of the watchtower, are invited to guard the four directions of a magical circle. the term deva in sanskrit means 'shining one, and the devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, who watch and direct the natural world. they communicate with people by psychic 'chanelling' and rule over the beings associated with the four elements, fire, air, water and earth. in less formal practices, either archangels or pillars of light may be visualised in the corners of the room to offer protection at a time when a person is opening then-psyche to the cosmos, to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the

, you will need a supply of candles in a variety of colours. i will list here astrological significances, the magical colour meanings and the elemental correspondences, so that even if you are new to magick you can begin work at once. if you are an experienced practitioner, some of the ideas may suggest new directions for your personal and coven work. the elemental candle colours each of the four elements- air, fire, water and earth- is represented by a single candle colour- yellow, red, blue and green. a coloured candle representing each of the elements can be placed at the four main compass points around the circle to mark the quarters- east, south, west and north. you can place the elemental candles either on the edge of the circle in sturdy floor-standing holders, or on small tables or

ly in running water to keep their energies clear. if you have been in touch with a particularly negative influence, first wash the stones, then sprinkle them with salt and pass over them an incense stick or oil burner in a fragrance such as lavender, pine or rose. finally pass them over the flame of a purple, silver or pink candle; in this way your crystal absorbs the healing energies of all four elements. leave the crystals to dry in natural light, then wrap them for a few days in a dark cloth with a large piece of unpolished amethyst wrapped separately so it will not scratch the smaller crystals. amethysts have great powers of healing for other crystals, but they need frequently to be rested and anointed very gently with diluted lavender oil or a lavender infusion. you can also cleanse c

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lairvoyance. among the highlanders of scotland, the faculty, as is well known, is of common manifestation; and the english it is usually spoken of as by second-sight. unfortunately, like far too many modern occultists, abraham the jew shows a marked intolerance of magical systems differing from his own; even the renowned name of petrus di abano4 is not sufficient to save the heptameron or magical elements from condemnation in the concluding part of the third book. works on magic, written conjurations, pentacles, seals, and symbols, the employment of magical circles, the use of any language but one's mother tongue, appear at first sight to be damned wholesale, though on a more careful examination of the text i think we shall find that it is rather their abuse through ignorance of their mean

cret forces of nature, and can therefore act beyond them, though their classification and qualities will cause them to be more sympathetic with certain among these forces than with the rest, and this in varying degree. also that they are superior in power to men, spirits, elementals, and devils. the elementals on the other hand, though consisting of an infinitude of classes, are the forces of the elements of nature, the administrators of the currents thereof; and can therefore never act beyond and independently of their own particular currents. in a sense, therefore, they are irresponsible for the action of a current as a whole, though responsible for the part thereof in which they immediately act. therefore also they are at the same time subject to the general current of the force, wherei

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he most convenient time, and the end falleth just at the (feast of) tabernacles.20 our predecessors have thus observed it, and the angel21 also hath approved it; and also it is more advisable to follow good counsel and example, than to be obstinate and follow one s own caprice; and also to treat the election of a particular day as a pagan idea, paying no regard. whatever either to time nor to the elements; but only (having respect) unto him who granteth such a period. thus then will we be found men in the fittest condition of grace and reconciled with god, and purer than at another period; and this being an essential point ye ought well to consider the same. it is, however, quite true that the elements and the constellations do perform of themselves certain operations22 but this is to be u

it therefrom so as to operate with judgment. 7 of abramelin the mage 51 the sixth chapter. concerning the planetary hours and other errors of the astrologers. t is true that the wise in astrology do write of the stars and of their movements, and that these attaining thereto do produce divers effects in inferior and elemental things; and such are, as we have already said, natural operations of the elements; but that they should have power over the spirits, or force in all supernatural things, that is not, neither can ever be. but it will instead be found that by the permission of the great god it is the spirits who govern the firmament. what foolishness then would it be to implore the favour of the sun, of the moon, and of the stars, when the object would be to have converse with angels and

n its horizon, that the moon riseth also together with him, and that she setteth also together with him? they cannot answer this. wherefore then do they apportion unto the second day of the week and unto its first hour the moon? they can tell you no reason, except a likeness to the name (of the day).24 o! how gross an error! hear and tell me when it is that a planet hath the greatest force in the elements; whether when it is above or when it is below your horizon or hemisphere? we must however avow that it is more powerful when it is above, because being below it hath no power save according unto the will of god. why then, even further than this, should we attribute unto a planet a day and hour, if during the whole period of such day it appeareth not above the horizon! abramelin as a most

apocalypse. 3 this whole passage about the signification of these numbers is very obscurely worded in the original. i take the meaning to be the following: the arts or methods of magical working are twelve, if we class them under the twelve signs of the zodiac. the second number mentioned above, 5, is perfect because of its analogy with the pentagram that potent symbol of the spirit and the four elements; 6 is the number of the planets (as known to the ancients, without the recently discovered herschel and neptune. as the chaldean oracles of zoroaster say" he made them six, and for the seventh, he cast into the midst thereof the fire of the sun. 2 operates in the stars and planets as representing their good or evil influence in the heavens, in other words their dual nature. 3 consists in

'humanit. 105 entitled: how we may retain the familiar spirits bond or free, in whatsoever form. 106 viz: lucifer, leviathan, satan, and belial. 107 viz: ashtaroth, maguth, asmodeus, and beelzebub; oriens, paymon, ariton or egyn, and amaymon. 108 for not only does constraining them to visible appearance require reiterated conjurations, but also they must be in some way provided with the necessary elements wherefrom to build up a body to manifest in. 109 in the original "sanspourtant crier comme unfou. 110 i have by this phrase translated the expression in the original: le vice de crapule. 111 this also seems like mere prejudice on the part of abraham. 112 remember that this present day means of course the period when abraham was writing this work, ie, 1458. in this particular of curiosity

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pteth to make them submit to his commands, and this is why it is most necessary to be upon one s guard and to distrust oneself, the true commandment will be that which will be given when he who commandeth shall have maturely reflected and considered who he is in himself, and who he is who should serve and obey him. and if a mortal 7. i cannot possibly see that the well-known heptameron or magical elements of peter of abano in any way counsels pacts, or deserves the above severe speeches of abraham the jew. the sacred magick 213 man not having on his side the support of the power and will of the lord shall have sufficient force to command the spirits and to constrain them to obey him (they, namely) who have the same virtue and power, which god hath granted unto them, they having lost nothin

ADDTLS

planets to the seniors on the tablets) are constant and the same on each tablet. thus, the three holy names of god, the name of the great king and the six seniors are extracted from the great cross and always painted in black lettering on white background. lesser angles thou shall note that the great cross divideth the tablet into four sections. these four sections are referred to as the four sub-elements or lesser angles. likened to the top point of the pentagram, the great cross acts as the spiritual agent that binds the four sub-elements together. the order of the lesser angles as they relate to the four elements is the same on each tablet.*important note: the great cross has been darkened in the diagram to better illustrate the four lesser angles. 8 in the center of each lesser angle i

lesser angle of d in the tablet of c.(permutations include both kerubic and sub-servients) the consecration of the four elemental weapons give excellent examples of the spirit or archangelic names formed from the kerubic squares by the addition of letters from the tablet of union. the attribution of the name hwhy. the name is the key to the whole of the enochian attributions of the squares to the elements: the letters are thus referred: y yod d wands h he c cups w vau a swords h (final) he b pentacles the letters of the great name attributed to the four tablets in order together: insert diagram 12 not only are the letters of tetragrammaton attributed to the tablets themselves, and to the lesser angles of the tablets, but they are so arranged that even the squares of the tablets come under

n a double attribution to the letters of the name. they were seen to be ruled by a letter governing the rank, and also by a letter governing the column. in order to work out the astrological attributions of this allocation, note that the columns go by the triplicity of the kerubic square at the top, the ranks by quality. by this method there results a highly intricate and ingenious subdivision of elements in the sub-elements of the lesser angles. y d are referred to the cardinal signs,(a,d, g, and j) h c are referred to the kerubic or fixed signs,(b, e, h and k) w a are referred to the mutable signs,(c, f, i, and l) h (final) b are referred to the elements,(d, c, a, b) as to the reasons of this latter attribution, s.r.m.d. says that the four cardinal signs are called the most fiery bec

ays that the four cardinal signs are called the most fiery because they are most solar in nature. that is, the 19 equinoxes and solstices occur when the a is in these signs. the kerubic or fixed signs are considered watery because they are the most shining and glittering in nature. the remaining four mutable signs are called the most airy because they are the most subtle in nature. while the four elements are the most earthy because their operation is mainly terrestrial. incidentally, instead of the usual bsymbol, the planet l is used in the enochian system, because, to quote s.r.m.d. though one of the seven lords who wander (planets) l is yet here classed with those who abide because he is the heaviest of the seven and thus formeth a link between the wanderers and abiders. the following d

ing the hebrew letters, but must under no circumstances be confused with the order of the angelic names on the tablets, which always read from left to right. in the 4 7 grade the admission badge for the 28th path was a pyramid. it was described as having a square base, and four sides composed of equilateral triangles cut off so as to leave a flat top. these four sides were attributed to the four elements, and the flat top was conceived to be the throne of eth, the m. hitherto, the squares of the enochian tablets have been treated as a single whole, and as being flat. in reality, however, they are represented as being pyramids like that described above. the practical magical significance of this will be shown hereafter, but for the moment we must consider the method of producing the sides

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

what is the emblem that we bear in our left hand" third "it is a form of the rose and the cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tau cross, the lower four, that answer unto the four elements" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it is the key of sigils and rituals, and represents the force of the 22 letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve. many and great are its mysteries" 6 chief "associate adeptus min

ymbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated force of m and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one "associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb, and how is it guarded (wands of the 3 chiefs) 7 third "post centum viginti annos patebo. after 120 years i shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the kerubic emblems" chief "to 120 years are referred symbolically the five grades of the fi

st order, to the revolution of the powers of the pentagram, and also the five preparatory examinations for this grade. it is written 'his days shall be 120 years' 120 divided by 5 equals 24, the number of hours in a day and of the thrones of the elders in the apocalypse. further, 120 equals the number of the 10 sephiroth multiplied by that of the zodiac, whose key is the working of m and the four elements typified in the wand which i bear (chief, second, and third adept enter the vault consecutively, chief passes to the east of the pastos facing west. second adept goes to the south facing north. third adept goes to the north facing south (officers all raise their wands to form a pyramid over the pastos and altar) chief "let us analyze the keyword. i" second "n" third "r" all "i" chief "y"

shall be an hundred and twenty years' associate adeptus minor, unto what do those 120 years of the aspirant's symbolic age correspond" third "to the five grades of the first order through which it is necessary for the aspirant to have passed before he can enter the tomb of the sacred mountain. 12 for the three months interval between the grades of practicus and philosophus are the regimen of the elements; and the seven months between the philosophus and the portal symbolize the regimen of the planets; while the elements and the planets both work in the zodiac; so that three plus seven multiplied by twelve yieldeth the number 120. second "o aspirant, ere thou canst enter the tomb of the adepti of the rose of ruby and the cross of gold, it is necessary to take a solemn obligation of secrecy

, which he afterwards brought back with him to europe. after three years, he went on into egypt, where there was another temple of the order. there he remained for a time still studying the mysteries of nature. after this, he traveled by sea to the city of fessa, where he was welcomed at the temple there established, and he there obtained the knowledge and the acquaintance of the habitants of the elements, who revealed unto him many of their secrets "of the fraternity he confessed that they had not retained their wisdom in its primal purity, and that their qabala was to a certain extent altered to their religion. nevertheless, he learned much there. after a stay of two years he came to spain, where he endeavored to reform the errors of the learned according to the pure knowledge he had rec

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

students of yoga in england do nothing but gossip over endless libations of lyons' 1s. 2d (4) yoga means union. in what sense are we to consider this? how is the word yoga to imply a system of religious training or a description of religious experience? you may note incidentally that the word religion is really identifiable with yoga. it means a binding together (5) yoga means union. what are the elements which are united or to be united when this word is used in its common sense of a practice widely spread in hindustan whose object is the emancipation of the individual who studies and practises it from the less pleasing features of his life on this planet? i say hindustan, but i really mean anywhere on the earth; for research has shown that similar methods producing similar results are to

ite with a molecule of its own kind. add hydrogen to hydrogen: nothing happens to its quality: it is only its quantity that changes. it rather seeks to enlarge its experience of its possibilities by union with atoms of opposite character, such as oxygen; with this it combines (with an explosion of light, heat, and sound) to form water. the result is entirely different from either of the component elements, and has another kind of 'true will' such as to unite (with similar disengagement of light and heat) with potassium, while the resulting 'caustic potash' has in its turn a totally new series of qualities, with still another 'true will' of its own; that is, to unite explosively with acids. and so on (11) it may seem to some of you that these explanations have rather knocked the bottom out

etely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the be-all and end-all of its existence. for instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. we must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true will which is the proper orbit of any star. a human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of training. evolutionary processes have set up a higher order of yogic action by which we have managed to subordinate what we consider particular interests to what we consider the general welfare. we are communities; and our well-being depends upon the wisdo

nd deliberately concealed, though much in their writing suggests that this may be the case. i refer to the planet herschel, or uranus, and neptune. whatever may have been the knowledge of the ancients, it is at least certain that they left gaps in their system which were exactly filled by these two planets, and the newly discovered pluto. they fill these gaps just as the newly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in mendelejeff's table of the periodic law. 17. herschel represents the highest form of the true will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the true will is the sphere which transcends them 'every man and every woman is a star' herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. but

estroy the control, and so to release the pain-producing energies. we cannot enter into a metaphysical discussion as to what it is that controls, or before we know where we are we shall be moonstruck by hypotheses about the soul. 5. let us forget all this rubbish, and decide what is to be done. we have seen that to stop existing processes by an act of violence is merely to release the undesirable elements. if we want peace on dartmoor, we do not open the doors of the prison. what we do is to establish routine. what is routine? routine is rhythm. if you want to go to sleep, you get rid of irregular, unexpected noises. what is wanted is a lullaby. you watch sheep going through a gate, or voters at a polling station. when you have got used to it, the regularity of the engines of a train or st

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

d its round button of a nose, and its curious deep rose flush, and its red little mouth, impudently smiling. around these islands seems to flow as a general tide the more stable life of the quarter. here are honest good-wives seriously discussing their affairs, and heaven only knows if it be love or the price of sugar which engages them so wholly. there are but a few commonplace and uninteresting elements in the cafe; and these are without exception men. the giant big business is a great tyrant! he seizes all the men for slaves, and leaves the women to make shift as best they can for--all that makes life worth living. candies and american beauty roses are of no use in an emergency. so, even in this most favored corner, there is dearth of the kind of men that women need. at the table next t

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

it was that nature should no longer be the centre of man s worship, but man himself, man in his suffering and death, man in his purification and perfection. and he recited the formula of the osiris as follows, even as it hath been transmitted unto us by the brethren of the cross and rose unto this day "for asar un-nefer hath said: he that is found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is the repressed sigh of my suffering; the flame-red fire is the energy of my undaunted will; the cup of wine is the outpouring of the blood of my heart, sacrificed to regeneration; and the bread and salt are the foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i

vised a cunning to match the cunning of them that had blasphemed osiris, who had at last become my god. yea! bitterly would i avenge him on the morrow. chapter ix page 38 gulf.txt now this was the manner of my working, that i inspired the high priestess to an oracle, so that she prophesied, saying that osiris should never be content with his servants unless they had passed the four ordeals of the elements. now of old these rituals had been reserved for a special grade of initiation. the chapter was therefore not a little alarmed, until they remembered how shamefully all the true magic was imitated, so that the rumour went that this was but a device of the high priestess to increase the reputation of the temple fore sanctity. and, their folly confirming them in this, they agreed cheerfully

elf into trance; and, lastly, his wrappings protect him against the fire, though all thebai went to feed the blaze. but it was not so with this bastard priesthood of osiris. for of the three hundred only nine were found worthy. the high priestess, however, i brought through by my magic, for she had amused me mightily, and i took great pleasure in her love, that was wilder than the rage of all the elements in one. so i called together the nine who had survived, all being men, and gave them instruction and counsel, that they should form a secret brotherhood to learn and to teach the formula of the osiris in its supreme function of initiating the human soul. that they should keep discipline in the temple only for the sake of the people, permitting every corruption yet withdrawing themselves f

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

al constellations are after budge's renderings) table vii [a.c] table xxv [s] 0. anu (tiamat) 1. sphere of the primum mobile enlil (absu) 2. sphere of the zodiac or fixed stars enki; lumashi (igigi) 3. sphere of saturn adar 4. sphere of jupiter marduk 5. sphere of mars nergal 6. sphere of the sun utu 7. sphere of venus inanna 8. sphere of mercury nebo 9. sphere of the moon nanna 10. sphere of the elements kia 11. air anna 12. mercury gudud 13. moon sin 14. venus dlibat 15. aries agru (xubur) 16. taurus kakkab u alap shame (kingu) 17. gemini re'u kinu shame u tu'ame rabuti (viper) 18. cancer shittu (snake) 19. leo kalbu rabu (lakhamu) 20. virgo shiru (whirlwind) 21. jupiter umunpaddu 22. libra zibanitum (ravening dog) 23. water badur 24. scorpio akrabu (scorpion-man) 25. sagittarius pa-bil

ce, the following recommendations. the religion of the ancient sumerian peoples seems to have been lunar-oriented, a religion- or religion- magickal structure- of the night, of darkness in a sense. invocations using solar formulae have proved thus far effective in successfully banishing necronomicon demons and intelligences. for instance, the kaddish prayer of the jewish faith contains some solar elements that have proved resilient to inimical genii, and the vibration of the lord's prayer for christians is also a workable method. we suggest that individual operators utilise an equivalent solar (i.e, positive light) invocation from their own religion or the religion of their ancestors, should the no longer have a religion or should they have changed it in their lifetime. for best practical

always be hid. know that gelal and lilit are quick to come at calling, and invadeth the beds of man, robbing the water of life and the food of life in which to quicken the dead, but their labours are fruitless for they do not have the formulae. but the priest has the formulae, and the food of life and the water of life may be brought to call many, for after the passage of one-tenth of a moon the elements are dead. and gelal invades the bed of a woman, and lilit that of a man, and sometimes evil beings are born of these hauntings, and as such must be slain, for the children of gelal are workers natural of the ancient one, having his spirit; and the children of lilit are likewise, but are born in secret places which may not be perceived by man, and it is not until the time of their maturity

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

e-issue with the author's own commentary gives occasion for a few notes. we have so much material by crowley himself about this book that we can do no better that quote some passages which we find scattered about in the unpublished volumes of his "confessions" he writes..none the less, i could point to some solid achievement on the large scale, although it is composed of more or less disconnected elements. i refer to the book of lies. in this there are 93 chapters: we count as a chapter the two pages filled rerespectively with a note of interrogation and a mark of exclamation. the other chapters contain sometimes a single word, more frequently from a half-dozen to twenty paragraphs. the subject of each chapter is determined more or less definitely by the qabalistic import of its number. th

da-gamma) 33 is the number of the last degree of masonry, which was conferred upon frater p. in the year 1900 of the vulgar era by don jesus de medina-sidonia in the city of mexico. baphomet is the mysterious name of the god of the templars. the eagle described in paragraph 1 is that of the templars. this masonic symbol is, however, identified by frater p. with a bird, which is master of the four elements, and therefore of the name tetragrammaton. jacobus burgundus molensis suffered martyrdom in the city of paris in the year 1314 of the vulgar era. the secrets of his order were, however, not lost, and are still being communicated to the worthy by his successors, as is intimated by the last paragraph, which implies knowledge of a secret worship, of which the grand master did not speak. the

ire is the foundation, the central core, of things; above this forms a crust, tormented from below, and upon this condenses the original steam. around this flows the air, created by earth and water through the action of vegetation. such is the globe; but all this is a mere strain in the aethyr, alpha-iota-theta-eta-rho. here is a new pentagrammaton, presumably suitable for another analysis of the elements; but after a different manner. alpha( alpha) is air; rho( rho) the sun; these are the spirit and the son of christian theology. in the midst is the father, expressed as father-and-mother. i-h (yod and he, eta( eta) being used to express "the mother" instead of epsilon( epsilon, to show that she has been impregnated by the spirit; it is the rough breathing and not the soft. the centre of a

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

d cries why, invoking because, then will stops& does nought. ii,31: if power asks why, then is power weakness. ii,32: also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite& unknown& all their words are skew-wise. ii,33: enough of because! be he damned for a dog! ii,34: but ye, o my people, rise up& awake! ii,35: let the rituals be rightly performed with joy& beauty! ii,36: there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. ii,37: a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride! ii,38: a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. ii,39: a feast for tahuti and the child of the prophet-secret, o prophet! ii,40: a feast for the supreme ritual, and a feast for the equinox of the gods. ii,41: a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a grea

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, material world b ben 52 hh ww hh dwy 31 bis. lxvii. the parts of the soul. lxviii. the demon kings. lxix* the alchemical elements. lxx. attribution of pentagram. 11 jwr ruach oriens h left upper point 23 jmcn neshamah ariton g right upper point 31 hyj chiah paimon f right lower point 32 bis cpn nephesh amaimon g left lower point 31 bis hdyjy yechidah. topmost point table of correspondences 19 lxxi. the court cards of the tarot, with the spheres of their celestial dominion wands. lxxii. the court cards of the tarot

b to 20 c the lord of the wide and fertile land. the king of the spirits of earth. 20 e to 20 f 32 bis the princess of the rushing winds. the lotus of the palace of air. rules a 3rd quadrant. the princess of the echoing hills. the lotus of the palace of the earth. rules a 4th quadrant 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. 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 seme

ng creatures ynda 2 layxr ratziel \ynpwa auphanim wheels nyda 3 layqpx tzaphkiel \ylara aralim active ones, thrones dyna 4 layqdx tzadkiel \ylmcj chashmalim brilliant ones dnya 5 lamk kamael \yprc seraphim fiery serpents ndya 6 lapr raphael \yklm malakim kings aynd 7 laynah haniel \yhla elohim gods yand 8 lakim mikael \yhla ynb beni elohim sons of god anid 9 layrbg gabriel \ybrk kerubim angels of elements nayd 10 wpldns( wrffm) sandalphon (metatron \yca ashim flames ynad nyad ynda la ciii* the ten divisions of the body of god. civ. the ten earths in seven palaces. cv. english of col. civ. 0. 1 skull 2 right brain 3 left brain ra aretz earth (dry) 4 right arm hmda adamah red earth 5 left arm ayg gia undulating ground 6 the whole body from the throat to the holy member hycn neshiah pasture 7

shachath clay of death \wrtca ynmyt mch husham of temani 6 wyhfyf titahion pit of destruction belphegor awyj tywu ddh hadad of avith 7 twmyruc shaarimoth gates of death yadmca hqrcm hlmnc samlah of masrekah 8 twmla tzelmoth shadow of death adramelek laylb tybhr lwac saul of reheboth 9 tylyl nh lub baal-hannan 10 \nhyg gehinnom hell hmun wup rdh hadar of pau cix (continued* the dukes of edom. cx. elements and quarters (sepher yetzirah. cxi. sephirothic colours (dr. jellinek. 0. 1 \yyj \yhla hwr concealed light 2. air sky blue 3. water and earth yellow 4 hmbylha aholibamah fire white 5 hla elah height red 6 kyp pinon depth white-red 7 znq kenaz east whitish-red 8 myt teman west reddish-white 9 laydgm and rxbm mibzar and magdiel south white-red-whitsh-red-reddish-white 10 \ryu eram north the

ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and c. the waxing moon in 4; waning in 5; full in 6. col. xi. the elements, of whose nature the signs of the zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol against them. col. xii. let 45 be a straight line. on 45 erect the equilateral bs 451, 459. from 4 and 5 draw straight lines 247, 358^ 45, and the straight lines 25^ 14, 43^ 15, 48^ 59, and 57^ 49, the points 2, 3, 7 and 8 marking the intersections. join 19, 12, 13, 23, 78, 79, 89. let 6 be the point of intersection

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-viii. he symbolized the four-dimensional universe in two dimensions as a square surrounded by 30 concentric circles (the 30 thyrs or aires) whose radii increase in a geometrical proportion. the sides of the square are the four great watch-towers (plates iv.-vii) which are attributed to the elements. there is also a black cross (or central tablet according to the arrangement shewn compare the black cross bordering the tablets in plate iii. with plate viii).6 plate iii gives the general view [the reversed letters which form the word paraoan are written in enochian for convenience, as our a and o are not distinguishable reverse from forward] plate iv. gives the complete attribution of

led linea spiritus sancti. this great cross divides the tablet into four lesser (sub-elemental) tablets, the left-hand top corner being air of air, the right-hand top corner water of air, the lefthand bottom corner earth of air, the remaining corner fire of air. each of these lesser tablets contains a calvary cross of ten squares, which governs it. plates v, vi, and vii. are similar for the other elements. this is the way in which the names are drawn from the great tablets [examples taken from water tablet] 1. linea spiritus sancti gives the three holy names of god of 3, 4 and 5 letters respectively. mph. arsl. gaiol 2. a whorl around the centre of the tablet gives the name of the great elemental king, raagiosl [similarly for air bataivah, for earth iczhhcal, for fire edlprnaa. 3. the 3 li

son, and holy ghost give the names of 6 seniors [thus the 4 tablets hold 24 elders, as stated in the apocalypse] they are drawn of seven letters, each from the centre to the sides of the tablet. saiinov soaiznt linea patris laoazrp ligdisa linea filii slgaiol lsrahp linea s.s. these three sets of names rule the whole tablet, and must be invoked before specializing in the lesser angles of the sub-elements. liber lxxxiv 7 the four great watch-towers and the black cross within general view7 the symbolic representation of the universe 8 the great watch-tower of the east, attributed to air. plate iv. liber lxxxiv 9 the great watch-tower of the west, attributed to water. plate v. the symbolic representation of the universe 10 the great watch-tower of the north, attributed to earth. plate vi. li

ice, however i take full responsibility for any errors in the above or in the following notes. love is the law, love under will. t.s. notes 36 bibliography works used, consulted or mentioned in passing in my notes, and other useful sources: abano, petro di (spurious attribution: heptameron: seu elementa magica. in agrippa, opera, vol. i (lyons, n.d (ca. 1600; english translation as heptameron, or elements of magick by robert turner in henry cornelius agrippa s fourth book of occult philosophy and of geomancy &c &c &c, london, 1655. modernised and corrected edition of turner s translation at http//www.geocities.com/nu_isis/heptameron.pdf agrippa von nettesheim, heinrich cornelius (1992: three books of occult philosophy. st. paul, mn: llewellyn publications. english translation of de occulta

f xi strength water h rubeus n xiii death air k tristesia x xvii the star water (fixed signs) earth b amissio w v the hierophant fire i acquisitio s xiv temperence water l laetitia q xviii the moon air c albus z vi the lovers air (mutable signs) earth f conjunctio y ix the hermit fire b cauda draconis c xx the last judgement water c via m xii the hanged man air d fortuna minor a 0 the fool earth (elements) earth (e) caput draconis t xxi the universe (if using the book of thoth attributions, exchange h and x and change titles of tarot trumps accordingly. the remaining six trumps and hebrew letters are referred to the upper six squares of the calvary crosses as noted above. 18: rather than reproduce the version of the alphabet which appeared in the equinox publication i have substituted a fa

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

nature, it is a constitutional sovereignty rigorously limited in its scope and exercised in exact conformity with ancient usage. thus the analogy between the magical and the scientific conceptions of the world is close. in both of them the succession of events is perfectly regular and certain, being determined by immutable laws, the operation of which can be foreseen and calculated precisely; the elements of caprice, of chance, and of accident are banished from the course of nature. both of them open up a seemingly boundless vista of possibilities to him who knows the causes of things and can touch the secret springs that set in motion the vast and intricate mechanism of the world. hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerfu

ccess, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions. let us make an analogy. a nation must become aware of its own character before it can be said to exist. from that knowledge it must divine its destiny. it must then consider the political conditions of the world; how other countries may help it or hinder it. it must then destroy it itself any elements discordant with its destiny. lastly, it must develop in itself those qualities which will enable it to combat successfully the external conditions which threaten to oppose is purpose. we have had a recent example in the case of the young german empire, which, knowing itself and its will, disciplined and trained itself so that it conquered the neighbours which had oppressed it for so many

only attained by the destruction of the god and the magician in samadhi. the world of angels is under the numbers four to nine, and that of spirits under the 3 number ten<paths" in this condensed sketch. they should be studied in view of all their attributes in 777, but more especially that in which they are attributed to the planets, elements and signs, as also to the tarot trumps, while their position on the tree itself and their position as links between the particular sephiroth which they join is the final key to their understanding. it will be noticed that each chapter of this book is attributed to one of them. this was not intentional. the book was originally but a collection of haphazard dialogues between fra. p. and sor

also, that, once the language is mastered, one can divine the unknown by study of the known, just as one's knowledge of latin and greek enables one to understand some unfamiliar english word derived from those sources. also, there is the similar case of the periodic law in chemistry, which enables science to prophesy, and so in the end to discover, the existence of certain previously unsuspected elements in nature. all discussions upon philosophy are necessarily sterile, since truth is beyond language. they are, however, useful if carried far enough- if carried to the point when it become apparent that all arguments are arguments in a circle<equinox i, i. the apparatus of human reason is simply one particular system of coordinating impressions; its str

h have evoked the divine force. such conjurations as those of the "goetia" leave one cold, although, notably in the second conjuration, there is a crude attempt to use that formula of commemoration of which we spoke in the preceding chapter. 21 chapter iii the formula of tetragrammaton<<yod, he, vau, he, the ineffable name (jehovah) of the hebrews. the four letters refer respectively to the four "elements, fire, water, air, earth, in the order named> this formula is of most universal aspect, as all things are necessarily comprehended in it; but its use in a magical ceremony is little understood. the climax of the formula is in one sense before even the formulation of the yod. for the yod is the most divine aspect of the force- the remaining letters are but a solidification of the same thin

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

like that of most other folk. you pick out one or two of the figures from which the alexandrines concocted "jesus (too many cooks, again, with a vengeance) and neglect the others. the zionist christ of matthew can have no value for you; nor can the asiatic "dying-god- compiled from melcarth, mithras, adonis, bacchus, osiris, attis, krishna, and others- who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. rightly you ask "what can i contribute" answer: one book. that is the idea of the weekly letter: 52 of yours and 52 of mine, competently edited, would make a most useful volume. this would be your property: so that you get full material value, perhaps much more, for your outlay. i thought of the plan because one such arrangement has recently come to an end, with amazingly ha

including some not in the series of "natural numbers, is an individual. the other numbers with perhaps a few exceptions (e.g. 41817) are composed of their primes. each of these ideas may be explained, investigated, understood, by means very various. firstly, the hebrew, greek and arabic numbers are also letters. then, each of these letters is further described by one of the (arbitrarily composed "elements of nature" the four (or five) elements, the seven (or ten) planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. all these are arranged in a geometrical design composed of ten "sephiroth (numbers) and twenty-two "paths" joining them; this is called the tree of life. every idea soever can be, and should be, attributed to one or more of these primary symbols; thus green, in different shades, is a qu

sometimes we have a demiurge, a creative god behind whom is an eternal formless greatness- anything to confuse the issue! sometimes the universe is supported by an elephant; he, in turn, stands on a tortoise. by that time it is hoped that the enquirer is too tired and muddled to ask what holds up the tortoise. sometimes, a great father and mother crystallize out of some huge cloudy confusion of "elements- and so on. but nobody answers the question; at least, none of these god-inventing mules, with their incurably commonplace minds. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 68 h. serious philosophy has always begun by discarding all these puerilities. it has of necessity been divided into these schools: the nihilist, the monist, and the dualist. i. the last of these is, o

ed the yang by an unbroken, the yin by a broken, line (the first manifestation in nature of these two is th i yang, the sun, and the th i yin, the moon) this being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four hsiang. they then took them three at a time, and got the eight kwa. these represent the development from the original oe s.b. cap "i" to the natural order of the elements. i shall call the male principle m, the female f. m.1- khien "heaven-father" f.1- khw n "earth-mother- m.2- loe the sun f.2- kh n the moon- m.3- k n fire f.3- tui water- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 77 m.4- sun air f.4- k n earth- note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. m.1. and f.1. are perfection. m.2. and f.2. still keep balance in the

ll the male principle m, the female f. m.1- khien "heaven-father" f.1- khw n "earth-mother- m.2- loe the sun f.2- kh n the moon- m.3- k n fire f.3- tui water- magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 77 m.4- sun air f.4- k n earth- note how admirably they have preserved the idea of balance. m.1. and f.1. are perfection. m.2. and f.2. still keep balance in their lines. the four "elements" show imperfection; yet they are all balanced as against each other. note, too, how apt are the ideograms. m.3. shows the flames flickering on the hearth, f.3, the wave on the solid bottom of the sea; m.4, the mutable air, with impenetrable space above, and finally f.4, the thin crust of the earth masking the interior energies of the planet. they go in to double these kw, thus reaching th

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

d trying to check them; and sooner or later one proceeds to the next stage, dharana, the attempt to restrain the mind to a single object. before we go on to this, however, we must consider what is meant by success in pratyahara. this is a very extensive subject, and different authors take widely divergent views. one writer means an analysis so acute that every thought is resolved into a number of elements (see "the psychology of hashish" section v, in equinox ii. others take the view that success in the practice is something like the experience which sir humphrey davy had as a result of taking nitrous oxide, in which he exclaimed "the universe is composed exclusively of ideas" others say that it gives hamlet's feeling "there's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so" interpreted as li

by over-eating. it is difficult to say whether so definite a result would come to all, or even to most people. the matter is one of no very great importance. if you have acquired the power of checking the rise of thought you may proceed to the next stage. 27 chapter v dharana now that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the result of gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point. we know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. we have the popular phrase "revolving a thing in the mind; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long

verse all at once" is the description bhikku ananda metteya gives of it. the root of the tongue gives the "ideal sound; and the pharynx the "ideal sight<tiger, the student acquires that strength. conquer "the nerve udana" and you can walk on the water "samana" and you begin to flash with light; the "elements" fire, air, earth, and water, and you can do whatever in natural life they prevent you from doing. for instance, by conquering earth, one could take a short cut to australia; or by conquering water, one can live at the bottom of the ganges. they say there is a holy man at benares who does this, coming up only once a year to comfort and instruct his disciples. but nobody need believe this

es up in order to give light to that which is without. for these lights are only apparently hostile to intrusion; they serve to illuminate the circle and the names of god, and so to bring the first and outmost symbols of initiation within the view of the profane. these candles stand upon pentagrams, which symbolize geburah, severity, and give protection; but also represent the microcosm, the four elements crowned by spirit, the will of man perfected in its aspiration to the higher. they are placed outside the circle to attract the hostile forces, to give them the first inkling of the great work, which they too must some day perform. 59 diagram on this page: a double cubic altar with universal sigil on top, sigils of the 4 enochian elemental kings around sides in top half and enochian watch

technica historia, based on a renaissance copy of vitruvius' 1st century "de architectura" as interpreted by cesariano in 1521, minus fludd's rope, clouds and winged fawn+hourglass, with the caption beneath "design suitable for top of altar, and below that a geometrical figure of the planets and stars from "the cannon" fig. 3, p. 30, chap. ii. with the under caption "the holy oblation" 62 of the elements, and the sigils of the holy elemental kings, as shown in the equinox, no. vii; for these are syntheses of the forces of nature. yet these are rather special than general symbols, and this book purports to treat only of the grand principles of working. 63 diagram on this page: inside a dashed equilateral triangle are a scourge, chain, dagger and a wide, low perfume bottle shaped like a wom

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

the god had (spelt in full :d):h 556 mark, vestige, footstep wmy#r restoration nwqt 557 first, former, primary nw#)r 558 to initiate *knx 560 waters of quiet twxwnm ym a point, prick, dot tdwqn dragons mynynt sorceress r#km sought my#wrd crowd *ks 561 cain nyqt) concealed mystery )twyncd 562 primordial hnw#)r 563 a washing of the hands mydy tly+n 564 the breaker of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 632) twdwsy mlx the cap-stone (or perhaps impl. a cornerstone, as ps. 118:22) h#)rh nb) and the adam was formed into a living nephesch (i.r.q. 941) hyx #pnl md)h yhyw enoch *kwnx 565 small things, insignificant things twn+q officers (esp. judicial or military) myr+w# 566 a valley; a plain (from gsharon h; see 1091) nwr#y points, pricks, dots twdwqn a secret (spelt in fu

life *myyx 629 the great trumpet lwdg rpw# nations; gentiles *myywg 630 the holy spirit)#ydq )xwr seraphim, flaming ones: the angelic choir of geburah mypr# hairy ones; he-goats; demons myry# drill, coarse linen; a triad #l# adam and eve *hwxw md) thine eye( gis h written. see 160& i.r.q. 652 *kny( 631 concealed mystery )tw(yncd silence; silent *ml) 632 the world of foundations: the sphere of the elements (i.e. malkuth; see 564) twdwsy mlw( 633 light (spelt in full, vau= ww; cf. 628 and 643 :r:w) male and female created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb hbqnw rkz a day of feast *bw+ mwy 634 worn-out; beggars *mykd 635 son of the dawn: the morning star, lucifer rx# nb llyh three h#l# unto them *mhl adonai the king: a divine name of malkuth (cf. 65& 361 *klm ynd) 638 the breaker; dream (n& v *mlx b

mybn( the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3*)bhd mlc 733 the white head: a title of kether hrwwh)#yr 734 to bring forth dlt# torches *mydypl 736 contortions, convolutions (cf. 1351) twlqlq( to eternity *mlw(l 737 blaze, flame (live coal) tbhl) vain pride, or the basis of vanity lbh t# oak; oak-wood *nwl) 738 the lower part, the loins *myclx 740 manna; portion *nm 741 the four letters of the elements; hence a concealed hwhy #tm) a tree *nly) firm, faithful; amen: so be it: a title of kether *nm) 742 the ark of the covenant (lit. gof tremblings h, scil. gvibrations h) twd(h nwr) 743 a disc, round shield; a defender *ngm 744 the valley of vision *nwyzxyg a window *nwlx footprints (foot fs breadth (deut. 2:5 *krdm 745 the great stone *hldg nb) multitude, abundance *nmh 746 the names twm

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

d cultured people. it was therefore during my exile in america that the doctrines of lao tze developed most rapidly in my soul, even forcing their way outwards until i felt it imperious, nay inevitable, to express them in terms of conscious thought. no sooner had this resolve taken possession of me than i realized that the task approximated to impossibility. his very simplest ideas, the primitive elements of his thought, had no true correspondences in any european terminology. the very first word 'tao' presented a completely insoluble problem. it had been translated 'reason' the 'way 'to on' none of these covey the faintest conception of the tao. the tao is 'reason' in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements

eing to be the natural course of events. 21 chapter xviii the decay of manners. 1. when men abandoned the way of the tao, benevolence and justice became necessary. then also was need of wisdom and cunning, and all fell into illusion. when harmony ceased to prevail in the six spheres((the solar system) it was needful to govern them by manifesting sons((dhyana- buddhas) when the kingdoms and races((elements, signs, etc) became((selfconscious and therefore) confused, loyal ministers((archangels. it is hard at first for the student to grasp the disdain of laotze for what we call good qualities. but the need for this 'good' is created by the existence of 'evil, i.e, the restriction of anything from doing its own will without friction. good is then merely a symptom of evil, and so itself a poiso

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LAW OF LIBERTY

and rapture: fear not that any god shall deny thee for this" again and again, in words like these, he sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. here is the calendar of our church "but ye, o my people, rise up and awake! let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty" remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals "there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride! a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the children of the prophet- secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual and a feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! a feast eve

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

p10. the scene is so real to me that i find it impossible to avoid using the historic present here and elsewhere, inadvertently. p10. there are six other pieces of apparatus to insulate and carry to the basin the six subtler principles of sweat. p11. only the smallest quantity is required, and it is unchanged, its function being purely catalytic. this form of phosphorus is one of the most stable elements. it combines (so far as is known) only with zro. but if thrown out of such a combination, it becomes ordinary yellow phosphorous. p12. in spite of the absolute promiscuity of the atlanteans, this was never in doubt, owing to the special mark of each man, whose stigma or variation was infallibly transmitted. p13. this item is loosely used, as equivalent of 'life' the sacrifice is described

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

planation of how a being could create a world in which war, evil "etc. exist. evil is only an appearance because, like "good, it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. this is something the same as mystic monism, but the objection to that theory is that god has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. if we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. it is no objection to this theory to ask who made the elements- the elements are at least there; and god, when you look for him, is not there. theism is "obscurum per obscurius. a male star is built up from the centre outwards, a female star from the circumference inwards. this is what is meant when we say that woman has no soul. it explains fully the differen

but this is not to assert samadhi, that unity with the universe which brings relief and joy by "love, as an "absolute good. it is only good relatively to our present condition as beings divided by illusion from nuit. when one returns to the 'simple' state, one soon begins to think out a new route through the universe, and devise new combinations in the great game called seeing life. in nature few elements are lone wolves. most of them are being thrown in and out of combination constantly; on suns this occurs with lordly vehemence. note that nuith, although she is infinite space, speaks as an individual might do, often enough. this is not that she is 'talking down to our level; it is a fact. in the cosmos almost any aggregation can think and act as an ego. for instance, the cells of our bod

become one, and none; and create, in the manner shortly to be described, a new finite. this finite will evidently be an expression of the particular mood of its father and mother at the moment of its conception. obviously, this "child" cannot add to the universe; it is therefore inevitably twin (horus and harpocrates, osiris and typhon, jesus and barabbas) in nature, formed of equal and opposite elements. when the operation is mystical in character, the "child" does not appear at all in this manifested form as two, but as naught. in the consciousness of the adept, this is called samadhi. he has united himself with, and lost himself in, nuit. when the "child" appears as two, it is magick, as the other is mysticism. this is the essential difference between these arts. al i,15 "now ye shall

d, and so on ad infinitum. each thought is inevitably itself, although it is related to all other possible thoughts. there are not two thoughts of which we can say that one either merges into, or necessarily begets, the other. any series of thoughts is therefore a true inductive series, exactly as the "natural numbers" are, with the added properties that it is real and omniform. it is atomic, its elements being intrinsically individual; and yet a continuum, since its intervals are susceptible of subdivision indefinitely prolonged without producing any diminution of these properties of the original series. the difference between successive thoughts and successive numbers is that by inserting r terms between p and q- p:p: p 2- p (2 -1: q- we apparently approximate the members, so that p-q (p

e incidents should occur in an apparent disorderly sequence any more than that the coours of a picture, or the words of a story, should not be disturbed according to an a priori classification, as in a lexicon or a colourman's catalogue. his task as a connoisseur is to recognize the idea of the artist, and this he can only do by appreciation of the complete work. he must analyze the assemblage of elements, and assign the correct value to each, comprehending the intention of each relative to the finished design. it will be said that nobody can realize himself so long as the presentation is imperfect, that is, so long as he is incarnated. this is no doubt true in all rigour; but one can obtain an approximation to the intended self-knowledge by withdrawing for a time to the monistic form of s

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

ame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life; yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. i am alone; there is no god where i am. the deacon and all rise to their feet, with the hailing sign. the deacon: but ye, o my people rise up and awake. let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride. a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the children of the prophet--secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual, and a feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death. a feast ev

roism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills; yea, the accomplishment of their wills 'a(c)umgn 'a(c)umgn 'a(c)umgn. the people: so mote it be. all sit. the deacon and the children attend the priest and priestess, ready to hold any appropriate weapon as may be necessary. vi of the consecration of the elements the priest makes the five crosses. 3 12 on paten and cup; 4 on paten alone; 5 on cup alone. the priest: life of man upon earth, fruit of labour, sustenance of endeavour, thus be thou nourishment of the spirit! he touches the host with the lance. by the virtue of the rod be this bread the body of god! he takes the host. to(c)uto'(c)esti t(c)o s(c)oma mou. he kneels, adores, rises, turns sh

thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree (these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise. but even should other anthems be authorized by the father of the church, this shall hold its place as the first of its kind, the father of all others) viii of the mystic marriage and consummation of the elements the priest takes the paten between the index and medius of the right hand. the priestess clasps the cup in her right hand. the priest: lord most secret, bless this spiritual food unto our bodies, bestowing upon us health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and that fulfilment of will and of love under will that is perpetual happiness. he makes with paten and kisses it. he uncovers

e. he rises, takes the lance, and turns to the people. the priest: there is no part of me that is not of the gods (those of the people who intend to communicate, and none other should be present, having signified their intention, a whole cake of light, and a whole goblet of wine, have been prepared for each one. the deacon marshals them; they advance one by one to the altar. the children take the elements and offer them. the people communicate as did the priest, uttering the same words in an attitude of resurrection``there is no part of me that is not of the gods' the exceptions to this part of the ceremony are when it is of the nature of a celebration, in which case none but the priest communicate; or part of the ceremony of marriage, when none other, save the two to be married, partake;

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

e, is still without matter. it is in this angelic world where those intelligent and incorporeal beings reside who are wrapped in a luminous garment, and who assume a form when they appear to man. the fourth is the assiatic world, hycuh \lwu, olahm ha-assiah, the world of action, called also the world of shells, twpylqh \lwu, olahm ha-qliphoth, which is this world of matter, made up of the grosser elements of the other three. in it is also the abode of the evil spirits which are called the shells by the qabalah, twpylq, qliphoth, material shells. the devils are divided into ten classes, and have suitable habitations (see tables in 777).23 the demons are the grossest and most deficient of all forms. their ten degrees aswer to decad of the sephiroth, but in inverse ratio, as darkness and impu

belief. in all conscience, it is easy enough to fake identities by less obviously card-sharping methods! 2. notariqon. the absurdity of this method needs little indication. the most unsophisticated can draw pity and amusement from mr mathers jew, converted by the notariqons of berashith. true, f.i.a.t. is flatus, ignis, aqua, terra; showing the creator as tetragrammaton, the synthesis of the four elements; showing the eternal fiat as the equilibrated powers of nature. but what forbits fecit ignavus animam terrae,35 or any other convenient blasphemy, such as buddha would applaud? why not take our converted jew and restore him to the ghetto with ben, ruach, ab, sheol! ihvh, thora?36 why not take the sacred 'icquj of the christian who thought it meant ihsouj cristoj qeou 'uioj swthr37 and mak

essay. 12. awh, he, a title of kether, identifying kether with the zodiac, the home of 12 stars and their correspondences. see 777. 13. dja, unity, and hbha, love. a scale of unity; thus 13 1= 1; 26= 13 2= 2; 91= 13 7= 7; so that we may find in 26 and 91 elaborations of the dyad the the septenary respectively. 14. an elaboration of 5 (1+ 4= 5, force; a concentration of 86 (8+ 6= 14, elohim, the 5 elements. 15. hy, jah, one of the ineffable names; the father and mother united. mystic number of geburah: 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5. 17. the number of squares in the swastika, which by shape is aleph, a. hence 17 recalls 1. also way, iao, the triue father. see 32 and 358. 18. yj, life. an elaboration of 9. 20. dwy, yod, the letter of the father. 21. hyha, existence, a title of kether. note 3 7= 21. also why

ht by a hook. the most material aspect of animal life; its final doom decreed by its own lust. also \ym, water. 91. 91= 7 x 13, the most spiritual form of the septenary. ma, amen, the holiest title of god; the amoun of the egyptians. it equals ynda hwhy (yhnwdhay, interlaced, the eight-lettered name, thus linking the 7 to the 8. not that ma (recknoning as final, 700= 741= ctma, the letters of the elements; and is thus a form of tetragrammaton, a form unveiled. 100. the number of q, the perfect illusion, 10 10. also [k, kaph, the wheel of fortune. the identity is that of matter, fatality, change, illusion. it seems the buddhist view of the samsara-cakkram. 106. wn, nun, a fish. the number of death. death in the tarot bears a cross-handled scythe; hence the fish as the symbol of the redeemer

f the five letters of severity, those which have a final form kaph, mem, nun, pe, tzaddi. also the number of the squares on the sides of the vault 7 40; see 5= 6 ritual. also [r= terror. 300. the letter c, meaning tooth, and suggesting by its shape a triple flame. refers yetziratically to fire, and is symbolic of the holy spirit \yhla jwr= 300. descending into the midst of hwhy, the four inferior elements, we get hwchy jeheshua, the saviour, symbolised by the pentagram. 301. ca, fire. 314. ydc, the almighty, a name of god attributed to yesod. 325. a mystic number of mars. labxrb, the spirit of mars, and layparg, the intelligence of mars. 326. hwchy, jesus see 300. 333. wznwrvj, see liber 418, 10th thyr. it is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion

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il the supreme moment arrives, and every fibre of the body, every forcechannel of the mind, is strained out in one overwhelming rush of the will in the direction desired. such is the real purport of all the apparently fantastic directions of solomon, abramelin, and other sages of repute. when a man has evoked and mastered such forces as taphtartharath, belial, amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he may be safely be permitted to begin to try to stop thinking. for, needless to say, the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker s thought.1 in yet one other way is magic a capital training ground for the arahat. true symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the eidola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to increas

d better read the lesson of the bible the horrible results to mankind of ill-timed, though possibly well-intentioned, interference on the part of a deity. well, he curled himself up, which was rather clever for a formless abstraction, and began. there was a grave difficulty in his mind an obstacle right away from the word jump! of course there was really a good deal: he didn t know where the four elements ceased, for example:3 but his own identity was the real worry. the other questions he could have stilled; but this was too near his pet chakra.4 here i am, he meditated, above all change; and yet an hour ago i was indra; and before that his flute-girl; and then a nat; and then a parrot; and then a hathi oh, the hathis pilin teak in the sludgy, squdgy creek! sang parameshvara. why, it goes

found a hundred years club, and to include mosquitoes in the membership. in this case to have kept perdu r abu alive was to have played into the hands of his enemies. my first precept is merely a general rule.3 in 1 the buddha had such long ears that he could cover the whole of his face with them. ears are referred to spirit in hindu symbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 here is the little rift within the lute which alienated crowley from active work on buddhist lines; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 a more likely idea that the brilliantly logical nonsense of pansil, supra. the three characteristics 109 the bulk of cases one should certainly abstain from destroying life, that is, wantonly and wilfully: but i cannot d

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meditation. 19 the material act is but the outward expression of thy thought, and therefore hath it been said that "the thought of foolishness is sin" thought is the commencement of action, and if a chance thought can produce much effect, what cannot fixed thought do? 18. therefore, as hath already been said, establish thyself firmly in the equilibrium of forces, in the centre of the cross of the elements, that cross from whose centre the creative word issued in the birth of the dawning universe. 19. be thou therefore prompt and active as the sylphs, but avoid frivolity and caprice; be energetic and strong like the salamanders, but avoid irritability and ferocity; be flexible and attentive to images like the undines, but avoid idleness and changeability; be laborious and patient like the g

he sylphs, but avoid frivolity and caprice; be energetic and strong like the salamanders, but avoid irritability and ferocity; be flexible and attentive to images like the undines, but avoid idleness and changeability; be laborious and patient like the gnomes, but avoid grossness and avarice. 20. so shalt thou gradually develop the powers of thy soul, and fit thyself to command the spirits of the elements. for wert thou to summon the gnomes to pander to thine avarice, thou wouldst no longer command them, but they would command thee. wouldst thou abuse the pure beings of the woods and mountains to fill thy coffers and satisfy thy hunger of gold? wouldst thou debase the spirits of living fire to serve thy wrath and hatred? wouldst thou violate the purity of the souls of the waters to pander

, once to swing the thurible, once to kiss the goat of hell, once to dance the aspen spring, once to croak, and once to sing, once to oil the savoury thighs of the witch with sea-green eyes with the unguents magical. oh the honey and the gall of that black enchanter's lips as he croons to the eclipse mingling that most puissant spell of the giant gods of hell with the four ingredients of the evil elements; 38 ambergris from golden spar, musk of ox from mongol jar, civet from a box of jade, mixed with fat of many a maid slain by the inchauntments cold of the witches wild and old. he had crucified a toad in the basilisk abode, muttering the runes averse mad with many a mocking curse. he had traced the serpent sigil in his ghastly virgin vigil "sursum cor" the elfin hill, where the wind blows

as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune's wheel may be disparaged for its egotism, may be sneered at as unscientific, but it is the one thing that fills up the measure of our concrete actuality, 154 and any would-be existence that should lack such a feeling, or its analogue, would be a piece of reality only half made up "if this be true, it is absurd for science to say that the egotistic elements of experience should be suppressed. the axis of reality runs solely through the egotistic places- they are strung upon it like so many beads. to describe 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 o

e- 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 religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. by being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given

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nner 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 body be in the position of the hanged man, and let him aspire with all his force unto the holy guardian angel. 11. the grace having been granted unto him, let him partake mystically of the eucharist of the five elements and let him proclaim light in extension; yea, let him proclaim light in extension. ii a a a "these loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of osiris, so that the flaming god may rage through the firmament with his fantastic spear- liber lapidis lazuli. vii. iii. 0. be seated in thine asana, or recumbent in shavasana, or in the position of the dying buddha. 1. think of th

aim of our buddhist faith is to be attained, before we can see why particular practices should thus purify the mind, it is necessary that we should first comprehend the nature of this mind itself- this thought that we seek to purify and to liberate. in the marvellous system of psychology which has been declared to us by our teacher, the "citta" or thought-stuff is shewn to consist of innumerable elements which are called "dhamma" or "sankh ra" if we translate "dhamma" or "sankh ra" as used in this context as "tendencies" we shall probably come nearest to the english meaning of the word. when a given act has been performed a number of times; when a given thought has arisen in our minds a number of times, there is a definite tendency to the repetition of that act; a definite tendency to the

he actions that you perform, all the sensations that arise in your body, all the thoughts that arise in your mind, and always analyse each concentration object thus (as in the case cited above, of the bodily action of waling "what is it that walks" and by accurate analysis you reflect that there is no person or soul within the body that walks, but that there is a particular collection of chemical elements, united and held together by the result of certain categories of forces, as cohesion, chemical attraction, and the like: that these acting in unison, owing to a definite state of co-ordination, appear to walk, move this way and that, and so on, owing to and concurrent with the occurrence of certain chemical decompositions going on in brain and nerve and muscle and blood, etc, that this st

on the other hand, subject to pain and grief and weariness of body and mind; that its principal tendency is to form new sets of co-ordinated forces of a similar nature- new sankh ras which in their turn will cause new similar 4 the student should remember that this is only one (illusory) point of view. the idealistic ego-centric position is just as true and as false- a.c. combinations of chemical elements to arise, 57 thus making an endless chain of beings subject to the miseries of birth, disease, decay, old age and death; and that the only way of escape from the perpetual round of existences is the following of the noble eightfold path declared by the s mmasambuddha, and that it is only by diligent practice of his precepts that we can obtain the necessary energy of the performance of con

rength. hb:heh hb:resh hb:vau hb:bet hb:gemel 5 21 s. of sol hb:shin hb:mem hb:shin beauty. hb:taw hb:resh hb:aleph hb:peh hb:taw 6 28 s. of venus hb:heh hb:gemel hb:vau hb:nun victory. hb:chet hb:tzaddi hb:nun 7 36 s. of mercury hb:bet hb:koph hb:vau hb:koph splendour. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:heh 8 45 s. of luna hb:heh hb:nun hb:bet hb:lamed foundation. hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod 9 55 s. of the elements hb:taw hb:vau hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod hb:mem-final hb:lamed hb:chet kingdom. hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem 10 66 air hb:chet hb:vau hb:resh ox. hb:peh-final hb:lamed hb:aleph 11 78 mercury (planets follow house. hb:taw hb:yod hb:bet 12 91 luna sephiroth camel. hb:lamed hb:mem hb:gemel 13 105 venus corresponding) door. hb:taw hb:lamed hb:dalet 14 120 aries hb:heh hb:lamed

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ure upon earth, and the queen of all the sorcerers of hell. i am the daughter of nuit, the lady of the stars. and i am the bride of them that are vowed unto loneliness. and i am the mother of the dog cerberus. one person am i, and three gods. and thou who hast blasphemed me shalt suffer knowing me. for i am cold as thou art cold, and burn with thy fire. oh, when shall the war of the aires and the elements be accomplished? radiant are these falchions of my brothers, 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 sh

hese be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. let thy lips blister with my words! are they not meteors in thy brain? back, back from the face of the accursed one, who am i; back into the night of my father, into the silence; for all that ye deem right is left, forward is backward, upward is downward. i am the great god adored of the holy ones. yet am i the accursed one, child of the elements and not their father. o my mother! wilt thou not have pity upon me? wilt thou not shield me? for i am naked, i am manifest, i am profane. o my father! wilt not thou withdraw me? i am extended, i am double, i am profane. woe, woe unto me! these are they that hear not prayer. it is i that have heard all prayer alway, and there is none to answer "me" woe unto me! woe unto me! accursed am i u

perfectly transparent, as well as perfectly luminous) and now he shows the tablet again, and he says: as there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of god. and there are 49 interpretations of every cosmos, and each interpretation is manifested in 49 ways. thus also are the calls 49, but to each call there are 49 visions. and each vision is composed of 49 elements, except in the 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 up

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 table that he hath made for his altar, and he shall take the call of the aethyr of which he will partake, which he hath written in the angelic character, or in the character of the holy alphabet that is revealed in pop, upon a fair sheet of virgin vellum; and therewith shall he conjure the aethyr, chanting th

rden? and he said: eloi, eloi, lama sabacthani. 14 full title of jesod is tzedeq jesod olahm "the righteous is the foundation of the world" 15 i.s.v.d, jesod= 80, the number of p, the letter of mars. 16 weh note: this drop of blood is an attachment to the images of mortal life, the sensoria and that derived from it in the mind. to pass choronzon one must abandon interpretation and identity of the elements of the vision. such an ecstasy of anguish racks me that i cannot give it voice, yet i know it is but as the anguish of gethsemane. and that is the last word of the aethyr. the outposts are passed, and before the seer extends the outermost abyss. i am returned. bou-saada "december" 5, 1909. 10.10-11.35 p.m. in nomine babalon amen. restriction unto choronzon. the tenth aethyr is called zax

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to call the holy guardian angel, whose knowledge and conversation i have willed, and in greater or less measure enjoyed, since ten years. terrible have been the ordeals of the path; i have lost all that i possessed, and all that i love, even as at the beginning i offered all for nothing, unwitting as i was of the meaning of those words. i have suffered many and grievous things at the hands of the elements, and of the planets; hunger, thirst, fatigue, disease, anxiety, bereavement, all those woes and others have laid heavy hand upon me, and behold! as i look back upon these years, i declare that all hath been very well. for so great is the reward which i (unworthy) have attained that the ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the levers by which i mo

nd flame, acknowledge him. then, the words being duly spoken and the deeds duly done, all is symbolically sealed by the thirty voices, and the word that vibrateth from the silence to the speech, and from the speech again unto the silence. then the pyramid is sealed up, even as it was opened; yet in the sealing thereof the three men partake in a certain mystical manner of the eucharist of the four elements that are consumed for the perfection of the oil. knox om pax.[with these mystic words the mysteries eleusinian were sealed. ed. 10.0. having written out this explanation, i will read it through and meditate solemnly thereupon. all this i wrote in the might of the secret ring committed unto me by the masters; so that all might be absolutely correct. one thing strikes me as worthy of mentio

eeper, and impossible to quench. lord adonai! let the powers of geburah plunge me again and again into the fires of pain, so that my steel may be tempered to that sword of magic that invoketh thy knowledge and thy conversation. hoor! elohim gibor! kamael! seraphim! graphiel! 71 bartzabel! madim! i conjure ye in the number five. by the flaming star of my will! by the senses of my body! by the five elements of my being! rise! move! appear! come ye forth unto me and torture me with your fierce pangs for why? because i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. ol sonuf vaoresaji, gono ladapiel, elonusaha caelazod. i rule above ye, said the lord of lords, exalted in power.[from dr. dee's mss. ed. 11.17. will now try the hanged man again. 11.30. very vigorous and

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he age of twenty-two, p. set out on the quest of the philosopher's stone. visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultam lapidem veram medicinam; this is indeed the true medicine of souls; and so p. sought the universal solvent vitriolum, and equated the seven letters in vitriol, sulphur, 235 and mercury with the alchemical powers of the seven planets; precipitating the salt from the four elements- subtilis, aqua, lux, terra; and mingling flatus, ignis, aqua, and terra, smote them with the cross of hidden mystery, and cried "fiat lux" youth strides on with hasty step, and by summer of this year- 1898- we find p. deep in consultation with the mystics, and drinking from the white chalice of mystery with st. john, boehme, tauler, eckart, molinos, levi, and blake "rintrah roars and sha

the diagram of the paths and the grades" enter upon the ritual of the 0 =0 grade of neophyte. it will be at once apparent to the reader that the diagram of the paths is simply the ordinary sephirotic tree of life, combined with the tarot trumps, the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, the thirty-two paths of the sepher yetzirah, the signs of the zodiac, and the signs of the planets and the elements. the following account of it is taken from s.a.'s copy no. 2 of the "ritual of the 24th, 25th, and 26th paths leading from the first order of the g. d. in the outer to the 5 =6, associate adept speaking "before you upon the altar is the diagram of the sephiroth and paths with which you are already well acquainted, having marked thereon the grade of the order corresponding to each sephira

=7 hod.lord of the paths.in the portal- netzach -of the vault of- practicus..27th..philosophus -the adepts water .dee. 25th. 31st .30th. 28th .29th. 2 =9 .yesod. theoricius .air. 32nd. 1 =10 malkuth zelator spirit 0 =0 neophyte diagram 2. the paths and grades. 243 only be drawn aside by invitation from the second order for the philosophus who has passed the five examinations symbolic of the five elements and the five paths leading from the first order thereto, and who has been duly approved of by the higher powers "the three grades of the second order are entitled: adeptus minor, or lesser adept, 5 =6 answering to tiphereth, the reconciler, in the midst of the sephirotic tree. adeptus major, or greater adept, 6 =5 answering to geburah. and adeptus exemptus, or exempt adept, 7 =4 answering

the all-wandering air receiveth sound" the synthesis of the three chiefs may be said to be in the form of thoth who cometh from behind the veil. yet also the imperator may be referred unto the goddess nephthys from his relationship unto geburah. the praemonstrator unto isis from chesed. and the cancellarius unto thoth in his position as recorder. of the stations of the invisibles. the gods of the elements their stations are at the four cardinal points of the hall without, as invisible guardians of the limits of the temple: and they are placed according to the winds, viz: behind the stations of the hierophant, dadouchos, hiereus and stolistes. between them are placed the stations of the four vicegerents of the elements; and they are situated at the four corners of the temple, at the places

mambulation is intended to formulate the withdrawal of the light of the supernal triad from the altar. the adoration then takes place, after which followeth the mystical repast, or communion in the body of osiris. its mystic name is "the formula of the justified one."23 the "hierophant" saying "nothing now remains but to partake in silence the mystic repast composed of the 260 symbols of the four elements, and to remember our pledge of secrecy (the kerux proceeds to the altar and ignites the spirit placed at the southern angle of the cross. the "hierophant" quitting his throne, goes to the west of the altar, and facing east, salutes and continues "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smelling rose: to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire (sprea

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at wrong, dragging me pitilessly away from the peaceful occupations of my life, cutting and planing my worthy form in order that i should fit his coffin. he had driven me to his ship, and was the cause of my present exile. two young kittens had placed all their hope in me, and i was failing to fill my paternal duty towards them. i was working at my great work, in fifty-two volumes, on the various elements composing the shell of the oyster, and i had almost completed my introduction, when i was thus deprived of my liberty by the man-who-had-lost-his-cover. yet i bore him no grudge. he was right; i feel it more intensely every day. a box so mighty needed a cover. in consequence, knowing that the hour of my death might strike at any moment, i had to find a man-cover to replace me in that even

mall pattern of our race. i decided, in consequence, to slay him, during his sleep, so that a useless impediment be done away with. as the four men, since the wreck of our ship, were sunk in a state of torpor and only stared at me with vacant looks, it proved easy to settle this slight matter. i removed the body; and left to time and the natural dryness of the air the care of dividing its various elements. the man-whose-nose-sings-at-will was the first to notice the absence of the sailor, but he said nothing to me. in fact, i believe him to be mad also. he is continually looking anxiously towards the east, and seems lost to this world, since his friend or master has disappeared in the wreck. from the middle of his face gushed a sad tune, and from his eyes many a bitter tear; but, as i said

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e vedas, the quran, the bible; buddha, christ, joseph smith. to choose between the we must resort to reason, already shown to be a fallacious guide. 5. there is only one rock which scepticism cannot shake; the rock of experience. 6. we have therefore endeavoured to eliminate from the conditions of acquiring spiritual experience its dogmatic, theological, accidental, climatic and other inessential elements. 7. we require the employment of a strictly scientific method. the mind of the seeker must be unbiased: all prejudice and other sources of error must be perceived as such and extirpated. 8. we have therefore devised a syncretic-eclectic method combining the essentials of all methods, rejecting all their trammels, to attack the problem, through exact experiments and not by guesses. 9. for

ine. the first thing observed is the flash; in our analogy, the ecstasy of ananda (bliss) attending the dhyana. and as this flash does not aid us to analyse the hydrochloric acid gas, so the ananda prevents us by startling us from perceiving the true nature of the phenomenon. in higher mystic states, then, we find that the yogi or magician has learnt how to suppress it. but the combination of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. this act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. i think that for the first time of experiencing a dhyana it is necessarily single. certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of t

ween the man who is on the brink of "attainment" and the being who arises in him, annihilating him, and whom he subsequently remembers as his "gemius> the yogi is gone, just as the 77 hydrogen is gone. it is not that the heart has become vishnu, or that vishnu has filled the heart. the heart is gone, just as the chlorine is gone. there is the tube, and it is full of hcl out of all relation to its elements, through the result of their union (i purposely take the "elementary chemistry" view of the matter) samadhi is therefore with the hindu a result, the result of results indeed. there are higher and lower forms. that called nirvikalpa-samadhi, when the trance results from banishing thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, is the highest kind. but, with the buddhist, sama

rincipally owing to his own mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. illustration: this is another by aos, formed this time in an abstract of female primary and secondary sexual attributes in contrast to the male elements in the first. there is a large face suggested in the drawing, to the right and center. 161 the organ in king's chapel, cambridge then silence,and the veil of light is raised and darkness seen behind. now softly sound the angels' herald-trumpets, calling round thunders and mighty winds and powers amazed. now laden with the spirit of man's hand there bursts an awful clarion-shout and brings

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e service of the magic of light! he places the wine upon the altar, the water he leaves at the north, the oil towards the south, and the brazen vessel of milk on the tripod in the midst of the circle. the magus of art silently recites to herself the exhortation of the lords of the key tablet of union,7 afterwards saying silently: i invoke ye, lords of the key tablet of union, to infuse into these elements of water and fire your mystic powers, and to cast into the midst of these opposing elements the holy powers of the great letter shin: to gleam and shine in the midst of the balance, even in the cauldron of art wherein alike is fire and moisture [after the consecration of the water, the magus of waters takes up the cup of water, and scatters water all round the edge of the circle, saying]

ards, as s.s.d.d. names each magical name, i.a. draws in the perfected hellbroth the sigils &c, appropriate thereunto: at which time s.s.d.d. recites the""stronger and more potent""conjuration" come forth! come forth! come forth unto us, spirit of kokab taphthartharath, i conjure thee! come! accept of us these magical sacrifices, prepared to give thee body and form. herein are blended the magical elements of thy body, the symbols of thy mighty being. for the sweet scent of the mace is that which shall purify thee finally from the bondage of evil. and the heat of the magical fire is my will which volatilises the gross matter of thy chaos, enabling thee to manifest thyself in pleasing form before us. and the flesh of the serpent is the symbol of thy body, which we destroy by water and fire

ring me nearer, nearer unto thee! let me aid thee in thy suffering that i may one day become partaker of thy glory: in that day when the son of man is invoked before the lord of spirits, and his name in the presence of the ancient of days! and for this day, teach me this one thing: how i may learn from thee the mysteries of the higher magic of light. how i may gain from the dwellers in the bright elements their knowledge and power: and how best i may use that knowledge to help my fellow-men. and, finally, i pray thee to let there be a link of bondage between us: that i may ever seek, and seeking, obtain help and counsel from thee who art my very selfhood. and before thee i do promise and swear; that by the aid of him that sitteth upon the holy throne, i will so purify my heart and mind tha

e key to the vault, the rose and cross,2 is then explained as resuming within itself the life of nature, and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i. another form of the rose and cross, the crux ansata, is shown to represent the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth, and the tau cross the lower four, answering to the four elements. the complete symbol of the rose and cross, which the chief adept carries upon his breast, is then explained to mean "the key of sigils and of rituals; and that it 209 represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve "many and great are its mysteries" the explanation of the rose and cross being ended, the third adept first explains his

the phoenix, sacred to osiris" on it are marked the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness, which are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. lastly, the chief adept explains his as follows "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibrated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. illustration on page 210 described "diagram 61. the egyptian key of life. the crux ansata" this is a standard shape ankh, but the figure is divided and marked as follows: the loop is divided into six sections, with the bottom extending in a wedge to the enter of the cross intersection. in the sections of the loop are placed hebrew letters in

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der" is there anything to be added? for my part i took the word of mr. scamander for the candid expression of real happenings, without trying to explain any theory. more curious still is the fact that i heard from inspector bennet. he said that the evidence against the arrested man was built on moving sand, utterly impossible and unexistent; and they will have to release him, in spite of apparent elements of certainty which have for so long misled the public_ aye, and even the police. from "to-day's" papers "the man arrested in connection with the brighton murder has confessed. he will be tried at the next assizes" well! maybe he is a new mikolka. but where is the absent relative, the spiritualist? george raffalovich 303 reviews the cloud on the sanctuary. by councillor von eckartshausen

the other, and felt that they were two and yet one, nevertheless one and yet two. and when one said "who art thou" the other answered at the self- same moment "who am i" 2. soon becoming perplexed if i were thou, or if thou were i, it came about that the i mingled with the thou, and 73 the thou with the i, so that six added to ten became sixteen, which is felicity; for it is the interplay of the elements. four are the elements that make man, and four are the elements that make woman. thus was the child reborn. 1. but though the man ruleth the woman, and the woman ruleth the man, the child ruleth both its mother and father, and being five is emperor over the kingdom of their hearts. to its father it giveth four, and to its mother it giveth four, yet it remaineth five, for it hath of its fa

contents_ life of plotinus. ancient and modern methods. neoplatonism. matter. the universe. individuality. the problem of evil. providence and the individual. demons and the demonic faculty. concerning love and emotions. substance or corporeal essence. time and eternity. doctrine of the soul. individuality. incarnation or descension. intelligence, and the intelligible world. primal categories or elements of the notion. universal number. number and unity. time and space in eternity. ideal functions of time and space. universal differentiation. intelligence and the one. the one. potential import of the doctrine of unity "for the professed student of philosophy, plotinus still remains the most important of the neo-platonists, and his theories cannot be neglected. mr. whitby has presented the

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; so that even the thought called god is a denial of god-as-he-is-in- himself. the pupil sees nothing but a blank midnight in this emptying of the soul. he is shown that this is the necessary condition of illumination. distinction is further made between these three dhyanas, and those early visions in which things appear as objective. with these three dhyanas, moreover, are four other of the four elements: and many more. above these is the veil of paroketh. its guardians. the rosy cross lies beyond this veil, and therewith the vision called vishvarupadarshana. moreover, there is the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. the infinite number and variety of these visions. the impossibility of revealing all these truths to the outer and uninitiated world. the vision of the uni

y not be useless conditions; and, further, that love of virtue, of abstract virtue, stoical or mystic, which is set forth in all the books upon which modern childishness feeds as the highest summit to which a chosen soul may attain. if one adds to all that a great refinement of sense_ and if i omitted it it was because i thought it supererogatory_ i think that i have gathered together the general elements which are most common in the modern "homme sensible" of what one might call the lowest common measure of originality. let us see now what will become of this individuality pushed to its extreme by hashish. let us follow this progress of the human imagination up to its last and most splendid serai; up to the point of the belief of the individual in his own divinity. if you are one of these

rough and corrupts this happiness. a suggestion due to the exterior world may revive a past disagreeable to contemplate. how many foolish or vile actions fill the past_ actions indeed unworthy of this king of thought, and whose escutcheon they soil? believe that the hashish-man will bravely confront these reproachful phantoms, and even that he will know how to draw from these hideous memories new elements of pleasure and of pride! such will be the evolution of his reasoning. the first sensation of pain being over, he will curiously analyse this action or this sentiment whose memory has troubled his existing glory; the motive which made him act thus; the circumstances by which he was surrounded; and if he does not find in these circumstances sufficient reasons, if not to absolve, at least t

igs, when she is shaken by a mighty wind. what are suns, and moons, and stars, but the ideas of dreaming children cradled in the abyss of a drowsy understanding? to the blind worm, the sun is as the fluttering of warm wings in the outer 137 darkness, and the stars are not; to the savage, as welcome ball of fire, and the glittering eyes of the beasts of night: to us, as spheres of earth's familiar elements and many hundred million miles away. and to the man of ten thousand years hence_ who knows! and to him a hundred million years after that_ who cares! senses may come and go, and the five may become ten, and the ten twenty, so that the beings of that last far-off twilight may differ from us, as we differ from the earthworm, and the weeds in the depths of the sea. but enough_ become the cha

n saith "pass towards the north shrouded in darkness, o form of. into which i have elected to transform myself" then let him repeat the usual oration from the throne of the east, and then command the mystic circumambulation. l. now bring the form round to the south, arrest it, formulate it there standing between two great pillars of fire and cloud, purify it by water and incense, by placing these elements on either side of the form. m. passing to the west and facing south-east formulate the form before thee, this time endeavouring to render it physically visible; repeat speeches of hierophant and hegemon. n. same as l. o. same as m. p. pass to east of altar, formulating the form as near in the proportion of the neophyte as may be. now address a solemn invocation and conjuration by divine a

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ist, before applying that certain heat which would dissolve all into one. he did not wish to rule by the scptre he had won, but to transcend it; to rule the forces of this world, not by the authority that had been given him, but by his own essential greatness. and just as long before mendeljeff had propounded the law of periodicity, and by it had foreshadowed the existence of several undiscovered elements, so now did frater p, by his law of the correspondences of the ruach, prove, not only historically, philosophically, theologically and mythologically the existence of the everywhere proclaimed jechidah as being one, but in a lesser degree: that when an egyptian thought of ptah, a greek of iacchus, a hindu of parabrahman and a christian of the trinity as a unity, they were not thinking of

eting 336- and clean-minded withal. to say that all end in the lock or the river is to say that you know nothing about the subject; for many marry, as mayhew points out; in fact, mayhew, in his classic "london labour and the london poor" is the only author i know- always excepting charles drysdale- who in any way saw the modern london hetaira as she really is. drysdale in his courageous work "the elements of social science" also points out that the life of the ordinary prostitute is a very much healthier one than that of the average factory girl. the authoress of this work seems to understand this in a way, for in spite of "the awful degradation" which she harps upon, she contradicts herself by writing "i may here remark that the girls i come in contact with, if they marry happily, make ex

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ey 40 the temple of solomon the king iv. the hermit with the seventh stage in the mystical progress of frater p. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. during the last two years he had grown strong in the magic of the west. after having studied a host of mystical systems he had entered the order of the golden dawn, and it had been a nursery to him. in it he had learnt to play with the elements and the elemental forces; but now having arrived at years of adolescence, he put away childish things, and stepped out into the world to teach himself what no school could teach him- the arcanum that pupil and master are one! he had become a 6= 5, and it now rested with him, and him alone, to climb yet another ridge of the great mountain and become a 7= 4, an exempt adept in the second or

titution of the human organism and the six chakkras which constitute the six stages of the hindu tau of life. the constitution of the human organism firstly, we have the atman, the self or knower, whose being consists in a trinity in unity of, sat, absolute existence; chit, wisdom; ananda, bliss. secondly, the anthak rana or the internal instrument, which has five attributes according to the five elements, thus: spirit. atma. air. manas.76 the mind or thought faculty. 1. spirit. fire. buddhi. the discriminating faculty. water. chittam.77 the thought-stuff. earth. ahank ra. egoity. 2. air. the five organs of knowledge. gnanendriyam. 3. fire. the five organs of action. karmendriyam. 4. water. the five subtle airs or pr nas. 5. earth. the five tatwas. 74 besides the 72,000 nerves or veins the

between pillars with white ray descending. 179 heaven 180 an eleven pointed star. the girders of the soul."181 how to do it is the great problem. i am inclined to believe in drugs- if one only knew the right drug. 13th. drew a pantacle. 16th. painted wicked black-magic pantacle. held a magical ceremony in the evening. lesser banishing ritual of pentagram and hexagram. invocation of thoth and the elements by keys 1-6182 and g. d. opening rituals. consecrated lamen crown and abrahadabra wand with great force. 16th. did the seven hb:shin of hb:shin operations. worked at a z for 5= 6 ritual.183 17th. position 1. 12 m. not good. evening invocation of mercury, chokmah and thoth. 18th. completed z for 5= 6 ritual. 117 may 19th. 1. assumption of the god-form of harpocrates: it lasted nine minutes

e elemental instruments also symbol of golden dawn. she was waiting in awe, almost in fear. on my entering she saw me and started. then i heard the words "carry it" or "wish to carry; apparently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. the room was full of incense, 189 the four letters of the air line in the "little tablet of union" which unites the four great watch towers of the elements (see dr. dee's system, also golden dawn ms. entitled "the concourse of the forces" thus the t of nanta represents earth of earth- the empress of pantacles in the taro, and that letter is used as an initial for names of angels drawn from the earthy corner of the earth tablet. for further see the equinox, vol. i, no. 5. which i took to materialize myself. at the time i was very tired and re

mind, knows that at each point upon the surface of the lake the particles of water are only rising and then falling in 136 their place, that each particle in turn is passing on its motion to its neighbours. to the first there is a translation of matter, to the second one of force "the ved ntist has seen substance, an enduring principle, an ens; the buddhist only qualities, themselves in all their elements ever changing, but the sum-total of their doing passing steadily on, till the wave breaks upon nibb na's shore, and is no more a wave for ever" we have not space to criticise this, all we will ask is- what is the difference between force and matter, and if the annihilation of the one does not carry with it the annihilation of the other irrespective of which is first- if either? ananda met

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usion of a dream, that living person conscious and supreme, whom we must curse for cursing us with life; whom we must curse because the life he gave could not be buried in the quiet grave, could not be killed by poison or by knife. this little life is all we must endure, the grave's most holy peace is ever sure, we fall asleep and never wake again; nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, whose elements dissolve and merge afresh in earth, air, water, plants, and other men. we finish thus; and all our wretched race shall finish with its cycle, and give place to other beings, with their own time-doom infinite aeons are our kind began; infinite aeons after the last man has joined the mammoth in earth's tomb and womb. we bow down to the universal laws, which never had for man a special claus

cient and modern science and theology. by h. p. blavatshy. in two volumes. vol. i. science, pp. xiv, 628. vol. ii. theology, pp. iv, 640 and index 52 "pounds"1, 1"s. net" vol. i- before the veil- 1. old things with new names- ii. phenomena and forces- iii. blind leaders of the blind- iv. theories respecting psychic phenomena- v. the ether, or "astral light- vi. psycho-physical phenomena- vii. the elements, elementals, and elementaries- viii. some mysteries of nature- ix. cyclic phenomena- x. the inner and outer man- xi. psychological and physical marvels- xii. the "impassible chasm- xiii. realities and illusion- xiv. egyptian wisdom- xv. india the cradle of the race. vol. ii- i. the church; where is it- ii. christian crimes and heathen virtues- iii. divisions amongst the early christians

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

, tomorrow, be used to make a fith-fath, is now a plaything for his little daughter. alex is barely: five feet seven inches tall. to one who has not seenhim clad only in a loin-cloth, conducting a.midwinter esbat with the frost forming round his bare feet, he might appear excessively frail. indoors he wears polo-necked sweaters and feels the cold, but during witch rites he seems impervious to the elements. his voice in normal conversation is low and lacking in resonance. outdoors it commands attention without its being raised. his eyes are expressive; normally gentle, they can become his dominant feature when he is engaged in mystic rituals. a constant stream of visitors-mostly witches or those seeking initiation-interrupt the interview. they are invited to sit and listene. occasionally al

magic circle and all the other witches are ordered to turn about, facing outwards so they cannot witness the proceedings within the cir le. wearing a veil fastened lightly to her necklace and extending to her knees, the girl must lie on her back with arms and legs outstretched in the pentacle, or five-pointed star position. the five points are her extremities and her head, and correspond with the elements of earth, air, fire, water and the power that rules them all. she is, symbolically, a living cauldron. all the lights are extinguished except for three candles on the altar. in olden times, when the altar was seven foot square, she would lie upon it, but now that the ceremony is usually held indoors, she lies on the floor. after banishing the power that has been invoked to consecrate the

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l be fit to enter into the presence of the gods. start in the dark. ritual leader waits until it feels like time to begin, then rises: lighting of the candle: r: i light this candle (lights presence lamp) in the name of that ancient presence, which is, was, and ever shall be male, female, all-knowing, all-powerful and present everywhere. and in the names of the four mighty ones, the rulers of the elements, may power and blessing descend in this hour upon this place and those gathered here. r lights the two altar candles, the charcoal, and the four quarter candles from the presence lamp. exorcism of the water: r kneels before the altar and places the water bowl upon the pentacle. r purifies the water by plunging the tip of his/her athame into the water, saying: r: i exorcise thee, o creatur

and truth; a shield against all wickedness and evil; a rampart and protection that shall preserve and contain the power that we raise within thee. wherefore do i bless thee, and consecrate thee, in the names of cernunnos and cerridwen (if others are without, a gate is opened, and they are now brought into the circle with a kiss, and the circle is resealed) consecration of the circle with the four elements: r takes up the consecrated water and asperges the circle with his/her fingertips, from north deosil unto north; and then touches each person within with the water, being touched in turn by his/her working partner (or another of the opposite sex to r, if available. water bowl is returned to altar. r then takes up the censer, and likewise censes the circle from north unto north. lastly r t

es, to the words of the horned one, drink, dance and be merry in the presence of the old gods and the spirits of our departed kin. coveners partake of cakes and wine. dances and games follow closing of circle. great rite if at all possible by high priestess and high priest if no other. merry meet, merry part. notes l there are plenty of published samhain rituals, containing at least some of these elements. this is from what witches do by stewart farrar, fleshed out from lady sheba's book of shadows, as usual. l earth goddess aspect: crone astrological rulers: venus, saturn keys: law principle, solidity,auriel("lord of awe) rules: birth& death, body, growth, nature, stones& metals, material things, caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields, sanguine; sensation; calm, imperturbable virtues: str

gnomes under gob (friendly& easy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l water deep body dryness, hotness, mind& body feel seperated, no empathy body puffiness, sinus (etc) flows, mood swings "touchiness, apathy goddess aspect: mother astrological rulers: venus, moon keys: love principle, fer

ephyrus colour: blue symbols: willlow, dolphin, fish, water snakes, sea birds, myrrh, ferns, rushes tool: cup spirits: undines under neksa (elusive at first, flowing& difficult to understand, watch politely and learn) shortage: excess: notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l fire goddess aspect: temptress astrological rulers: sun, mars, jupiter keys: light principle, action, michael (victor over ignorance) rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, des

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

ould ultimately turn out to be) a "vortex ring" or centre of force, and not a particle of what we understand as tangible substance. this ultimate particle of matter is now demonstrated to be composed of a positive nucleus of energy, surrounded just as is the sun by the planets with many electrons or negative corpuscles, thus subdividing the atom of earlier science into numerous lesser bodies. the elements differ according to the number and arrangement of these negative electrons around their positive nucleus, and they rotate or move around this central charge of electricity as our planetary system rotates around the sun. professor soddy, in one of his latest books, has pointed out that in the atom is to be seen an entire solar system, the central sun can be recognised, with the planets pur

e a very definite hypothesis to put before you. when we talk about radium. we are, in all probability, venturing into the realm of etheric substance, the region of ether, or of protyle. protyle was a word coined by sir william crookes, and is defined by him as follows "protyle is a word analogous to protoplasm, to express the idea of the original primal matter before the evolution of the chemical elements. the word i have ventured to use for this purpose is compounded of a greek word `earlier than' and `the stuff of which things are made" we are, therefore, throwing the concept of matter back to where the oriental school has always put it, to primordial stuff, to that which the orientalist calls "primordial ether" though we must ever remember that the ether of science is many, many removes

r's magazine for february 1890, and which is enlarged upon in the scientific american for october 1920. in the earlier instance he is quoted as follows "i do not believe that matter is inert, acted upon by an outside force. to me it seems that every atom is possessed by a certain amount of primitive intelligence. look at the thousands of ways in which atoms of hydrogen combine with those of other elements, forming the most diverse substances. do you mean to say that they do this without intelligence? atoms in harmonious and useful relation assume beautiful or interesting shapes and colours, or give forth a pleasant perfume, as if expressing their satisfaction..gathered together in certain forms, the atoms constitute animals of the lower order. finally they combine in man, who represents th

ich we call substance or matter, and utilising a third factor, which we call the intelligence. in the gradual synthesis of these three component aspects of deity can be seen the evolution of consciousness- 27- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust we next arrived at a more technical discussion of the subject of substance itself, dealing not with the differentiated substances or elements, but with the concept of a primordial substance, and endeavouring to get back as far as possible toward that which has been called by sir william crookes "protyle" or that which lies back of the tangible, or objective. we considered the atom, and found that its latest definition was that it was in reality a unit of force or energy consisting of a positive charge of electricity energising

it became apparent to us that the tiny atom of the chemist and the physicist was within itself a solar system, with the same general conformation as the greater system, demonstrating a similar activity and governed by analogous laws. we found that it had a central sun, and that around this central sun, pursuing their definite orbits, might be seen the electrons. we noted, also, the fact that the elements differ only according to the number and the arrangement of these electrons around the central positive charge. from this we passed on to the consideration of the soul, or the psyche, of the atom, and found that scientists recognise the truth that atoms themselves possess quality, show symptoms of mind or intelligence, and can discriminate, select, and choose. we then proceeded to weave wh

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

aiting for just such a fitting. the fourth, or human kingdom, came thus into being, and the self-conscious, or rational unit, man, began his career- 20- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust another result of the advent of the hierarchy was a similar, though less recognised development in all the kingdoms of nature. in the mineral kingdom, for instance, certain of the minerals or elements received an added stimulation, and became radioactive, and a mysterious chemical change took place in the vegetable kingdom. this facilitated the bridging process between the vegetable and animal kingdoms, just as the radio-activity of minerals is the method of bridging the gulf between the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. in due course of time scientists will recognise that every kingdom

e study of sound and of words, sacred or otherwise, has to be taken up by applicants for initiation. this is something which must be faced more strenuously by all eventuating occult groups. rule 8. when the disciple nears the portal, the greater seven must awaken and bring forth response from the lesser seven upon the double circle. this rule is a very difficult one, and one which holds in it the elements of danger for the man who undertakes too early to tread the final path. literally it can be interpreted thus: the would-be initiate must develop somewhat the vibration of the seven head centres, and thus sweep into increased vibratory activity the seven centres in the body upon the etheric plane; affecting also, through reciprocal vibration, the seven physical centres which are inevitably

archangels, but lesser and greater builders. egoic groups. on the third subplane of the fifth plane, the mental, are found the causal bodies of the individual men and women. these bodies, which are the expression of the ego, or of the individualised self-consciousness, are gathered together into groups according to the ray or quality of the particular ego involved. elementals. the spirits of the elements; the creatures involved in the four kingdoms, or elements, earth, air,fire, and water. except a few of the higher kinds and their rulers they are forces of nature more than ethereal men and women. etheric body (etheric double) the physical body of a human being is, according to occult teaching, formed of two parts, the dense physical body, and the etheric body. the dense physical body is

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

imarily stand for spirit, for quality, for principle, and not so primarily for matter, although matter, being inspired by spirit, conforms. the law of synthesis has a direct connection with one who is still higher than our logos, and is the law of control exercised by him upon the logos of our system. this is a spiritual relationship that tends to abstraction or to that synthesis of the spiritual elements that will result in their conscious return (the whole point lying in that word "conscious) to their cosmic point of synthesis, or of unification with their source. their source is the one about whom naught may be said, as we have earlier seen. therefore, in connection with the first logos, we can sum up as we did with the other logoi: a. his goal is the synthesis of the spirits who are ga

stages of initiation, formulas that control the lesser devas, and which produce results in the merging of the second and third kingdoms are communicated; they work under safeguards and supervision. advanced intellectual man should be able to co-operate in the synthesis of the work, and deal with the transmutation of the metals, as the ratio of their intellectual development to that of the mineral elements, and builders whom they would control, is the same as in the above mentioned cases and grades of consciousness, but owing to the disastrous developments in atlantean days, and the consequent stultification of spiritual evolution for a time until karma has been adjusted, the art has been lost; or rather, the knowledge has been safeguarded until a period is reached in the racial progress wh

t only in knowledge and experience, but strengthened in its own inner fibre. as time proceeds, man will gradually do four things: 1. recover past knowledge and powers developed in atlantean days. 2. produce bodies resistant to the fire elementals of the lower kind which work in the mineral kingdom. 3. comprehend the inner meaning of radioactivity, or the setting loose of the power inherent in all elements and all atoms of chemistry, and in all true minerals. 4. reduce the formulas of the coming chemists and scientists to sound, and not simply formulate through experiment on paper. in this last statement lies (for those who can perceive) the most illuminating hint that it has been possible as yet to impart on this matter- 287- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust it may seem

t has been possible as yet to impart on this matter- 287- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust it may seem that i have not communicated much information anent this conscious manipulation of the fires. that lies in the inability of the student to read the esoteric background of the above communicated statements. conscious transmutation is possible only when a man has transmuted the elements in his own vehicles; then only can he be trusted with the secrets of divine alchemy. when through the latent internal fires of the matter of his own sheaths he has transmuted the chemical and mineral atoms of those sheaths, then can he safely through affinity of substance aid the work of mineral transmutation of the first order. only when (through the radiatory fires of the sheaths) he ha

al to the sphere involved, and produces transmutation through the- 288- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust agency of resolvents (if so i might term it) or through the method of the reduction of the form, rather than through radiation, as does the white magician. these differences of method need to be carefully considered and their reaction visualised in connection with different elements, atoms, and forms. to return to our statement of our five postulates anent the transmutation of substance, the resolution of the life, or the transference of energy into different forms. the five postulates postulate i. all matter is living matter, or is the vital substance of deva entities. for instance, a plane, and forms built of that particular plane substance, is the material form or

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

knowledge of that part in the plan or purpose of the all which is the motivating factor in the form's activity. thus through the part, the whole is contacted and an expansion of consciousness takes place, involving bliss or joy. beatitude always follows upon realisation of the unity of the part with the whole. from meditation upon the tattvas, the energies or principles, or upon the tanmatras or elements composing spirit-matter, a knowledge of the purpose or plan for the microcosmic or macrocosmic manifestations eventuates and with this knowledge comes bliss- 24- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust in these three are to be found correspondences to the three aspects, spirit, soul and body, and an illuminating study for the earnest student. 4. meditation upon the soul, upon the

lear without much explanation. the word "subtle" has a wide meaning, but (from the standpoint of patanjali) is most frequently applied to the essential something which we become aware of after we have employed the five senses; i.e, the rose is the objective tangible form; its scent is the "thing subtle" back of the form. this expresses its quality to the occultist and is the result of the subtler elements producing its manifestation. the grosser elements produce the form; but within that gross form is a subtler one which we can only contact through acute perception or clarified sense. in the commentary found in woods' translation the following words may serve to elucidate, and, if meditated upon by the more advanced students, will be found to be of profound occult significance. the atom of

contacted physically and sensed subtly. this balanced state can well be called unresolvable primary substance, matter united with spirit, undifferentiated yet without form or distinguishing mark. behind these three again is found the absolute principle but these three are all that man can know whilst in manifestation. vivekananda in his commentary says as follows "the grosser objects are only the elements and everything manufactured out of them. the five objects begin with tanmatras or five particles. the organs, the mind (the aggregate of all senses) egoism, the mind stuff (the cause of all manifestation) the equilibrium state of sattva, rajas and tamas (the three qualities of matter. a. b, called pradhana (chief) prakriti (nature) or avyakta (unmanifest) are all included in the category

reefold, producing consequences, anxieties and subliminal impressions. 16. pain which is yet to come may be warded off. 17. the illusion that the perceiver and that which is perceived are one and the same is the cause (of the pain- producing effects) which must be warded off. 18. that which is perceived has three qualities, sattva, rajas and tamas (rhythm, mobility and inertia; it consists of the elements and the sense organs. the use of these produces experience and eventual liberation. 19. the divisions of the gunas (or qualities of matter) are fourfold; the specific, the non-specific, the indicated and the untouchable. 20. the seer is pure knowledge (gnosis. though pure, he looks upon the presented idea through the medium of the mind. 21. all that is exists for the sake of the soul. 22

ich produce the "obstacle-producing forms" then they can be exterminated in the latent stages by right habits of thought resulting in the setting up of the liberty-producing means. ignorance (avidya) must be supplanted by the true vidya or knowledge, and as is well-known, in this fourth race on this fourth globe and in the fourth round, the four vidyas and the four noble truths and the four basic elements form the sum total of this knowledge. the four vidyas of the hindu philosophy might be enumerated as follows: 1. yajna vidya. the performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results. ceremonial magic. is concerned with sound, therefore with the akasa or the ether of space. the "yajna" is the invisible deity who pervades space. 2. mahavidya. the great magic knowledge. it has

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s of mental training. this has already proceeded apace and thinkers in both hemispheres are realizing that this fusion is leading towards some most significant realization. edward carpenter says that "we seem to be arriving at a time when, with the circling of our knowledge of the globe, a great synthesis of all human thought..is quite naturally and inevitably taking place. out of this meeting of elements is already arising the dim outline of a philosophy which must surely dominate human thought for a long period."1(1) herein lies the glory and hope of the race and the outstanding triumph of science. we are now one people. the heritage of any race lies open to another; the best thought of the centuries is available for all; and ancient techniques and modern methods must meet and interchang

the world into which they enter is curiously the same; the instrument of thought which they employ is called the "mind" in the west and "mind-stuff (chitta) in the east; both use the language of symbology to express their conclusions and both reach the point where words prove futile to embody the intuited possibilities. dr. jung, one of the people who is seeking to bring these hitherto discordant elements together, touches on this in the following extract from his commentary on an ancient chinese writing. he says "western consciousness is by no means consciousness in general, but rather a historically conditioned, and geographically limited, factor, representative of only one part of humanity. the widening of our own consciousness ought not to proceed at the expense of other kinds of consc

s commentary on an ancient chinese writing. he says "western consciousness is by no means consciousness in general, but rather a historically conditioned, and geographically limited, factor, representative of only one part of humanity. the widening of our own consciousness ought not to proceed at the expense of other kinds of consciousness, but ought to take place through the development of those elements of our psyche which are analogous to those of a foreign psyche, just as the east cannot do without our technique, science and industry. the european invasion of the east was a deed of violence on a great scale, and it has left us the duty noblesse oblige of understanding the mind of the east. this is perhaps more necessary than we realize at present."3(3) dr. hocking of harvard also bring

sent."3(3) dr. hocking of harvard also brings us the same idea when he says "there seems reason to hope for a better physical future of the race by the aid of a sound mental hygiene. after the era of the charlatans has gone by, and to some extent by their aid, there appears a possibility of steadily enlarging self-mastery, as the spiritual sense of such discipline as the yoga joins with the sober elements of western psychology and a sane system of ethics. no one of these is worth much without the others."4(4) those who have studied in both schools tell us that the mystical imagery of the east (and also of our western mystical exponents) is only a veil behind which those gifted with intuitive perception have always been able to penetrate. the science of the west, with its emphasis upon the

oodwill, and glowing love, together with the acquisition of transcendental powers and virtues, became a self-developed buddha who towered above all conflicting opinions and arguments of the various sects and creeds "he was a being most diligent and persevering in meditation upon the rare path..having acquired full power over the mental states and faculties within, he overcame all dangers from the elements without "he was a being perfect in the practice of the four stages of meditation (analysis, reflection, fondness, bliss. these are the four progressive mental states, leading to complete concentration of mind, producing ecstatic illumination "he was a most learned professor in the science of the mind, having proved the mind to be, beyond dispute, the beginning and end of all visible pheno

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

power (lying concealed within it) which produces movement, activity and change. this is of course putting it crudely, but it suffices to sum up the unintelligent attitude. the orthodox scientist is largely occupied with structures and relationships, with the composition of forms and with the activity produced by the component form parts and their interrelations and dependencies. the chemicals and elements, and the functions and parts they play, and their mutual interactions as them compose all forms in all the kingdoms of nature, are the subject of their investigation. the nature of the atom, of the molecule, and the cell, their functions, the qualities of their force manifestations and the varying types of activity, the solving of the problem as to the character and nature of the energies

on leads to a revelation which makes the present 'unknown god' a recognised reality. let me illustrate. man knows himself to be a living being and calls death that mysterious process wherein something which he commonly designates as the breath of life is withdrawn. on its withdrawal, the form disintegrates. the cohesive vitalising force is gone and this produces a falling apart into its essential elements of that which has hitherto been regarded as the body. this life principle, this basic essential of being, and this mysterious elusive factor is the correspondence in man of that which we call spirit or life in the macrocosm. just as the life in- 19- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust man holds together, animates, vitalises and drives into activity the form and so makes o

orm which in the vegetable kingdom determines whether a rose or a cauliflower, an elm or a watercress shall come into being; it is a type of energy which distinguishes the varying species of the animal kingdom and makes one man different from another in his appearance, nature and character. the scientist has tabulated, investigated and analysed the forms; names have been selected and given to the elements, and the minerals, the forms of vegetable life and the varying species of animals; the structure of the forms and the history of their evolutionary progress have been studied and deductions and conclusions have been reached, but the solution of the problem of life itself still eludes the wisest, and until the understanding of the "web of life" or of the body of vitality which underlies ev

ntals (of earth, water, fire, air) and forcing the lunar lords to abdicate. the personality, which has hitherto been the master, no longer can control, and the soul comes into full domination in the three worlds. the elemental of earth, who is the sum total of the many lives which form the physical body, is controlled and feels the eye of the master (the one master in the head) upon it. the gross elements constituting that body are "driven forth" and better and more adequate atoms or lives are built in. the elemental of the astral or body of water undergoes a similar activity plus a stabilising effect which brings to an end the restlessness and fluidic tempestuousness which have hitherto characterised it. through the controlling magnetic power of the spiritual eye, the soul rebuilds the as

erious power lying concealed within it which produces movement, activity and change. this is of course putting it crudely but it suffices to sum up the unintelligent attitude. the orthodox scientist is largely occupied with structures, relationships, with the composition of form and with the activity produced by the component form parts and their interrelations and dependencies. the chemicals and elements and the functions and parts they play, and their mutual interactions as they compose all forms in all the kingdoms of nature are the subject of their investigation. the nature of the atom, of the molecule and the cell, their functions, the qualities of their force manifestations and the varying types of activity, the solving of the problem as to the character and nature of the energies fo

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

of consciousness, relatively unresponsive and unconscious, as is matter in its early stages in the formative process. the achievement of full awareness is of course the goal of the evolutionary process. again symbolically speaking, the unevolved man emits or manifests no light. the light in the head is invisible, though the clairvoyant investigators would see the dim glow of the light within the elements which constitute the body, and the light hidden in the atoms which constitute the form nature. as evolution proceeds, these dim points of "dark light" intensify their glow; the light within the head flickers at intervals during the life of the average man, and becomes a shining light as he enters upon the path of discipleship. when he becomes an initiate, the light of the atoms is so brig

s has during the past few years materialised on the physical plane through the medium of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the workers of a nation, as set up in russia. this has been subversive of the rule and control of the aristocracy, of the bourgeoisie and of the intelligentsia; it has glorified work and the workers, and has driven out of the country (by death or exile) some of its best elements. yet behind all the mistakes and cruelty, and behind the rank materialism, there lie great ideals, the supply of the need of all, the beauty of mutual service, and the divinity of constructive work. in germany, you have the dictatorship of racial superiority, and the attempt to deify a race. without humour and real understanding, one race is preparing to dictate terms to other races, by t

human beings (the sublimation of domesticity, and the "shedding of blood" or the sacrifice of the life, the expression upon earth (the mineral kingdom) of the devotion and sex life of the vegetable kingdom, plus the sacrifice through blood of the animal kingdom, bring man to the portal of initiation. there the fire awaits him with its purifying uses, and thus earth, air, fire and water (the four elements) prepare him for the great liberation and for the release of that quality of synthetic apprehension of the underlying truth which we call the intuition. this is after all the response of the mechanism to the symbolic appeal of divine quality, expressed in the whole and seen as illumination. thus the qualities emerge and appear in their full glory as man develops himself and unfolds within

d. conclusions cannot be reached, however, and this must be realised. two rays are of prime importance in the life of god as it pours through this basic substance of our planet. in the work of the seventh ray, we have earthy substance, the solid material of our planetary life, organised into the varying mineral forms. these mineral forms, in their turn, hold latent those sustaining and vitalising elements from which other forms draw their sustenance. it must be remembered that each kingdom in nature is dependent upon and draws life from the kingdom which precedes it in the time sense, during the evolutionary cycle. each kingdom is a reservoir of power and of vitality to the next kingdom which emerges under the divine plan. the vegetable kingdom, for instance, draws its vital strength from

planetary kingdom. ajna centre. pituitary. 7. solar kingdom .h ead centre. pineal. a study of these correspondences will be of value if the student will remember that these are the correspondences studied at the first initiation. they differ at the later expansions of consciousness. the influence of the organising seventh ray is best seen in the amazing and geometrically perfect structure of the elements, as revealed by the microscope and by a study of the atom. as this treatise is intended for the reader who has no academic or scientific training, it will suffice to say that the mineral kingdom is a result of the "ritual of rhythm" as are all the basic forms upon which the myriad of structures in manifestation are constructed and founded. the system of numbers demonstrates in its fullest

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

e submerged in the apparent world chaos and thus lose our perspective. one is that each age provides its way out. this, christ meant when he said "i am the way, the truth and the life."8 he knew that he synthesised in himself the soul of the past and the spirit of the future. and what is true of him is true also of the teaching he gave. in christianity the past is comprised and its best religious elements are included- 25- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul of man stands at the gates of revelation, and he must learn that this revelation will come through himself perfected. browning expressed this in the well-known lines "thus he dwells in all from life's minute beginnings, up at last to man the consummation of this scheme of being, the completion of this sphere o

g is both perceived and felt, there is the experience of the soul; and whenever a thought and a feeling become indistinguishable, there is the soul. soul means oneness, unity, union between the inner wish and outer reality. as man moves toward acceptance of the universe, toward compatibility between what he feels as a wish from within, and what he perceives as the arrangement without, and as both elements expand, the soul moves towards greatness (italics are mine. a. a. b.)1 the first initiation has taken place. christ has been born in bethlehem. the soul has come into outer expression, and now this soul christ (as the historical representative of all a soul can be, the individual initiate moves on towards greatness. the mission of the saviour definitely starts- 55- from bethlehem to calva

dy for the task, and thus enabled to give proof of that purification and tension in attitude which would enable him to carry through his mission to a satisfactory conclusion. this he had to prove to god and man through the purification which the baptism could give, and through the subsequent temptations in the wilderness. ready for his work, he possessed what dr. sheldon calls "the three cardinal elements of a great mind, namely, enthusiasm, intuitive insight, and systematized factual equipment" and it is further pointed out- 56- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust that the first two "are the more vital two, for they cannot be acquired if a person has reached adult life without them."4 christ stood thus equipped. it may be of value if we study here for a few minutes the pu

reatises and writings upon the subject are controversial and argumentative, usually defending or attacking the evidence or the theology associated with the theme. or they may be of a purely mystical or sentimental nature in tone and object, concerning themselves with the relation of the individual to the truth or with his personal salvation in christ. but in so doing, it is possible that the real elements of the story and their highest meaning have been lost. two things emerge, however, from the research and the questioning of the past century. one is that the gospel story is not unique, but has been paralleled in the lives of other sons of god; secondly, that christ was unique in his particular person and mission, and that, from a specific angle, his appearance was unprecedented. no stude

d the eternal consciousness of god. its altar is the sun, whose four arms or rays typify the four corners or the cardinal cross of the universe, which have become the four fixed signs of the zodiac, and as the four powerful sacred animal signs, are both cosmical and spiritual. these four are known as the consecrated animals of the zodiac, while the signs themselves represent the basic fundamental elements of life, fire, earth, air and water."6 these four signs are taurus, leo, scorpio and aquarius, and they constitute pre-eminently the cross of the soul, the cross upon which the second person of the divine trinity is crucified. christ personified in his mission these four aspects, and as the cosmic christ he exemplified in his person the qualities for which each sign stood. even primitive

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

tensification of conscious activity, on a developing scale of rapid living, that tends constantly to transcend time as we know it. 4. an expanding realisation of progress from one dimension to another, until today we talk in terms of a fourth dimensional state of consciousness and can grasp the fact that five or six dimensions are beautifully possible. 5. an increasingly scientific control of the elements in which we live, and of the forces of nature. today we talk in terms of air mastery just as five hundred years ago (when such a thing was deemed impossible) they talked in terms of the mastery of oceans. we are offsetting the gravitational pull of the earth so that we can "fly into the face of the sun" 6. from the instinctual life of sense consciousness in material forms, we have progres

oul control, it should not be necessary constantly to affirm the three basic relationships of the soul: 1. the relationship to other souls within the enveloping life of the oversoul. only through an understanding of this relation do we arrive at a practical knowledge that all souls are one soul. 2. the relationship to the hierarchy of governing souls. though this hierarchy has in it all the seven elements which constitute the primary differentiation to which the one life, as consciousness, submits itself, yet it must be borne in mind that this hierarchy is essentially an embodiment of the will aspect of the logos the will to good, the will to love, the will to know, the will to create. this will is served by the universal mind of deity, but it is the expression of a still higher consciousn

re constitute the source of all the trouble. this method (even if the psychologist does not realise it) can carry over into past lives, and thus open doors which it might be well to leave shut until they can be more safely opened. the second method which is sometimes combined with the previous one is to fill the present moment with constructive creative occupation and so drive out the undesirable elements in the life through the dynamic expulsive power of new and paramount, engrossing interests. i would like to point out that this method could be more safely applied if the subjective dream life and the hidden difficulties were left untreated temporarily at least. this method is (for the average ordinary person who is pure atlantean in consciousness but is just beginning to develop mental a

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

y with the spiritual kingdom can teach you the ancient rules and give suggestions to you so that you may travel more rapidly along the path and arrive at greater usefulness to your fellowmen. there is not the slightest suggestion of authoritative pronouncement by a member of the hierarchy who must be obeyed and whose word is infallible. let this be remembered, otherwise work will not be possible, elements of danger may enter in and the present effort come to naught. my anonymity has always been preserved and will continue to be so though members of this group of disciples know me for who i am. you know me as a teacher, as a tibetan disciple and as an initiate of a certain degree what degree being of no importance to you at all. it is the teaching that i shall give you which will matter. i

ts. ponder on this, yet be not rigid on non-essentials. take the tensity of your inner pressure off the work for awhile, my brother. the momentum at this time is adequate to carry the plans forward. therefore, hold steady, brood deeply but drive not. january 1936- 121- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust brother of mine: every perfecting organism must have in it those elements of life and power which embody the energy of the three aspects of divinity. it must likewise have those force channels through which the other four types of divine energy may express themselves. this may be provided by those disciples who are on each of the seven rays indicated, or by those disciples who can, through their purity and consecration, carry any type of energy which the hierar

e way with courage and no fear. stand in strength beside your fellow disciples, intent with them upon the chosen path. they stand unfailingly beside you. finally, my brother, become more definitely a radiant centre of magnetic life, fusing the people with whom you may work through love and understanding. that is a hard and difficult task for it means bringing together in the bonds of service many elements which might not otherwise fuse and blend. this involves an understanding, an analysis of human beings and a slow and patient work. as your work may grow and its boundaries extend, you will be faced increasingly with the perplexities and difficulties incident upon human relationships. these must be handled with- 210- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust imperson

in every balanced production. beauty is, after all, as much of divinity as can be expressed through any one form. remember that form and life are one. there is naught but life in manifestation. your power to intuit, therefore, will aid the group, so regard your work as a service to be definitely rendered. emotional stress and strain and your intense love of beauty have been the principal training elements in your life. oft you have been bewildered and your fellowmen bewilder you at times. seek for one year to bring to bear upon them and upon yourself the light of the intellect, and let the power of a spiritually applied analysis and the consecrated functioning of the concrete mind be deliberately applied. remain ever the observer, using the concrete mind as a divinely organised instrument

tions you would ask me if we stood face to face would be: what is the thing i need most? what must i do in order to be released to greater service and deeper understanding? i would say to you in all earnestness, my brother, that for you will come an increased expansion of consciousness as you learn to conserve energy and rightly to utilise time. you are a good conductor of force and of the pranic elements and through you unimpeded (relatively speaking) soul force can flow. but, as yet, it serves only to intensify the atoms of your body and head, and to make a violent impact upon all those with whom you are associated. it works out in a form of- 311- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust benevolent dominance, and drives you before it, rather than being utilised by

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

red. if it makes him assertive, arrogant, critical of the nationals of other countries and separative in his thinking, he is then contributing to world disunity and, en masse, to international disruption. this menaces the peace of the world. the problem, therefore, becomes one in which all people share. nations can be (and often are) anti-social, and all nations have within them these anti-social elements. self-interest distinguishes most men at this time, with attendant weaknesses. yet, in all countries, there are those who have outgrown these self-centred attitudes and there are many who are more interested in civic and the national good than in themselves. a few, a very few in relation to the mass of men, are internationally minded and preoccupied with the welfare of humanity, as a whol

educated. the nations are reverting to the deep-seated modes of behaviour and thought which have characterized them for generations. we need, in the general interest, to face up to our past, to recognize the new trends, to renounce the old ways of thinking and acting if humanity is not to descend to greater depths than in the last war. the voices of the old order and the demand of the reactionary elements can be heard in every country, plus the demands of certain radical groups. because they have been so long established, the voices of the conservatives carry weight and because humanity is tired, almost any action will be taken to ensure a rapid return to the normalcy, demanded by the conservatives, unless those who have the new vision act with promptness and with wisdom and of this there

aboration and is evidencing a wish for this to be accomplished on her own terms the terms of a general control of other lands, beginning with the smaller nations upon her western frontier. she is lifting the peoples of her own land from a condition of ignorance and poverty into one of knowledge and sufficiency. russia is deeply distrusted by the rest of the world, particularly by its conservative elements, and this for two reasons: first, the cruelty with which the earliest stages of her revolution started the period which we glibly call "bolshevism" and, by a subsequent period of a deliberately chosen and determined isolationism behind her closed frontiers. it was, nevertheless, a creative silence. the- 12- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust war then forced russia to quit her

powers the central triangle at the heart of the coming new world. hence their opportunity to guide mankind at this time and their innate responsibility to act as world leaders. other races have no such inherent capacity. they are not, for instance, successful colonists and are more nationalistic and exploiting in their approach to "subject races. for the three great powers, the fusion of the many elements composing their nationals into a united whole has been a necessary conditioning impulse. the basic intention of the united states is the well-being of all within its national jurisdiction and the "pursuit of happiness" is a familiar citation of this intent; the fundamental principle governing british rule is justice for all; the underlying motive of the u.s.s.r. is right living conditions

ish rule is justice for all; the underlying motive of the u.s.s.r. is right living conditions, opportunity for all and the general levelling of all separative classes into one thriving group of human beings. all these objectives are good and their application to the life of humanity will guarantee a happier and more peaceful world. in every country without exception there are the good and the bad elements; there are progressive and reactionary groups. there are cruel and ambitious men in russia who would gladly exploit the world for the gain of russia and who would seek to impose the will of the proletariat upon all classes and castes throughout the civilized world; there are thinking men in russia and men of vision who are opposing them. there are reactionary and class-conscious people in

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

rmanent. when permanency is reached, evolution will cease and god's plan will be consummated. and then? the greatest revelation of all will come at the close of this world period when the human mind, intuition and soul consciousness is such that understanding will be possible. 5. the idea of a spiritual hierarchy which will govern the people throughout the world and will embody in itself the best elements of the monarchial, the democratic, the totalitarian and the communistic regimes. most of these groups of ideologies have latent in them much beauty, strength and wisdom, and also a profound and valuable contribution to make to the whole. each will eventually see its contribution embodied under the control of the hierarchy of the lords of compassion and the masters of the wisdom. the resto

again emerges in the relationship between england and india; a destiny is there which must be jointly worked out. the static stabilising tendency of germany showed for instance in her futile effort to preserve a racial purity now, as then, impossible. this static quality is due to her first ray personality; her fourth ray energy was responsible for her effort to standardise and harmonise all the elements within her borders to the point of regimentation. this has been the line of least resistance for germany, for though the first ray is not in manifestation at this time, yet the bulk of the people in power in germany during the past world war (1914-1945) were all on the first subray of the seven rays and hence they were inevitably the transmitters of first ray energy. it is for this reason

ll for the attention of- 64- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust archaeologists and travellers; the forms of lesser magic which they produced were dedicated to the magical protection of the physical form and allied matters. in later days, we have the appearance of alchemy in its many forms plus its search for the philosopher's stone and the teaching as to the three basic mineral elements. they were driven esoterically and from the subjective side of life to search for that which could unify the three lower physical levels and this is in its nature deeply symbolic of racial unfoldment. these levels symbolise the integrated man physical, astral and mental. when to these elements the philosopher's stone is added and has done its magical work, then you have the symbolic repre

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

his own feelings or sense of achievement or of non-achievement, the more probable it will be that the work will proceed with effectiveness and the glamour be slowly dispelled. in this work there is no haste. that which is very ancient cannot be immediately dispelled no matter how good the intention or how accurate may be the grasp of the needed technique. it will be apparent to you that there are elements of danger in this work. unless the members of the group are exceedingly watchful and unless they cultivate the habit of careful observation, they may suffer from over-stimulation of the solar plexus until such time as they have mastered the process of rapidly transferring the light of the soul, focussed in the solar plexus, and the innate light of the astral body, also found localised in

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

. the throat centre, the agent of all the three aspects in relation to the three subhuman kingdoms in nature, the expression also of the divine intelligence, humanity. this is the energy of active mind and makes humanity the macrocosm of the microcosm, the three subhuman kingdoms. humanity is to these kingdoms what the hierarchy is to the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom. these are the elements of the occult science and for students such as you contain nothing new. nevertheless, they need to be seen in their triple relationship if the mode of working of the one life is to be grasped more clearly than is now the case. the aim of the entire evolutionary scheme is to bring these three centres into such a close relationship that the synthesis of the divine purpose can work out harmo

chy may be functioning in physical vehicles. some are and some are not. the conditioning lives in both these centres work entirely through etheric means, wielding and controlling energies; the human centre, with its "units of energy" works largely at present upon purely physical levels or in the medium of that type of substance which we call "material; men work with outer forms, with the tangible elements and with material factors. the "units" in the other centres work with substance and not with matter. this is an interesting and vital distinction. the hierarchy is existent upon the buddhic plane, which is the first of the cosmic ethers, and it works from there, impressing mental matter. shamballa works on the levels of the three highest ethers whilst humanity works primarily in the three

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

g upon baptism and purification. the earthly material desires of taurus must in due time be brought under the influence of the purifying water in scorpio. baptism by water (a name for the second initiation) needs a preparatory period of testing and purification, and this the experience in scorpio is intended to give. likewise, fire and air (aquarius and leo) must also be blended and thus the four elements as well as six out of the seven rays must all play their part in conditioning the man in scorpio for the final stages of the path. the place of the planets in this sign is also most revealing, and in line also with the general purpose of the experience in scorpio, as outlined above. uranus is exalted in scorpio; the power of venus is lessened in this sign, whilst the moon falls. what do t

the pronounced attitude of these dictators an attitude which is so often ignored but which has real racial value. it is the attitude which leads to a synthesis of the national life, aims and intentions. a typical instance of this attitude is that of hitler. no matter what may be our personal opinion of him, there is no question that he has unified, produced fusion and blended together the various elements in the german race. this activity is aquarian in nature but in its lowest and most undesirable aspect. it is also of the nature of leo, for the people who can produce these results have necessarily to be intensely self-aware. this is the major characteristic of the leo person. what part leo may play in the personal horoscope of hitler i do not know, for i have not investigated it, but it

e sign, and it is the pre-eminent fire sign at this time. the sons of mind, the self-conscious sons of god, are above everything else the sons of fire, for our "god is a consuming fire" there is in them that peculiar quality which can burn and destroy and so eradicate all that hinders their essentially divine expression. i would have you bear in mind the purificatory nature of fire. there are two elements in nature which are connected in the public consciousness with the thought of purification one is water and the other is fire. it is in this connection that the water signs, cancer scorpio pisces, are interesting, and the fire signs, aries leo sagittarius, warrant study. fire always carries forward esoterically that which water has begun. in cancer, the purificatory waters of experience b

ch the hierarchy is now concerned is to see that the present conflict does not persist unduly long, to awaken all the nations, without exception, to a sense of the dramatic import of the present time and of their right share and their responsibility and thus to engineer a climax wherein the correct world lesson may be learnt; whereby the world may be purified by the elimination of the undesirable elements which hinder the new era and the upspringing of a more spiritual civilisation; and whereby the forces of hate, of cruelty, of materialism and of darkness may be driven back (wherever found) before the sweeping onslaught of the forces of light. it might be here pointed out that just as the aquarian age is coming into manifestation for our planet as a whole, bringing in its wake universal a

s of energy as far as our earth is concerned in the rather arbitrary division of the twelve constellations into four triplicities, covered by such qualifying terms as earthy triplicity or fiery triplicity, composed each of a cardinal, a fixed and a mutable sign. they thus divide up the entire zodiac into a fourfold group of interlacing and interrelated triads, each conditioned by one of the basic elements and thus qualified. these constitute a series of basic triangles with a definite reference to our planetary life. owing to the constant movement everywhere, inherent in the solar system and the zodiac onward, interior and revolving some idea can be grasped of the intricacy of the entire pattern. a further aid to the grasping of this essential beauty of coordinated and organised movement a

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

e physical body the condition or the state of development of the centres. the life, the quality and the energy which they represent are conveyed to every part of the physical vehicle via the blood stream. this, modern science is already recognising as a fact, indicating that the blood stream conveys- 119- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust certain elements released by the glands. it does not yet recognise the fact of the relationship of the glands to the centres, with the intermediate systems of nadis and nerves. the next great move in medicine will be to recognise the fact of the etheric body, the physical substance which underlies dense matter. 8. when the centres are awakened throughout the body, there will then be present a highly elect

t the effects of the energy which they receive and distribute into the physical organism have been largely overlooked. two factors in connection with the centres and the blood stream therefore warrant repetition and attention: 1. the blood stream is the agent of the glandular system as it, in its turn, is an effect of the centres; the blood stream carries to every part of the body those essential elements of which we know so little and which are responsible for making man psychologically what he is, and thus physically control his equipment. 2. the blood stream is also the life, and carries throughout the organism an aspect of the energy stored up by the centres which is not directly related to the endocrine system; it penetrates, by its radiation, into the blood stream and into all the ve

er the influence of the planetary life, however, and to these the physical elemental (the sumtotal of the living atoms of the body nature) is responsive. i would have you note the occult paradox that death is the result of living processes. death, or the death-producing energy emanating from the planet, brings about the complete disruption of the bodily organism and its reduction to its essential elements chemical and mineral, plus certain inorganic substances which are susceptible of absorption into the soil of the planet itself. death, as the result of soul activity produces, therefore, the withdrawing from the body of the "light body and of the subtle bodies" leaving the dense form and its component parts to the benign processes of planetary control. this dual activity produces death as

efore, enjoin upon you the elementary fact that any healing group seeking to work along the new lines must (as a preliminary effort) seek to understand something about the factor of death to which is given the appellation of "the great restorative process" or "the great restitution" it concerns the art of wisely, correctly and with due timing, giving back the body to the source of its constituent elements and of restoring the soul to the source of its essential being. i am wording this with care because i seek to have you ponder most carefully and sanely upon the so-called enigma of death. it is an enigma to man, but not an enigma to disciples and knowers of the wisdom. healing groups and individual healers will find it necessary at times to confront their patients with the fact of death;

life. page 596. e. when all the units or cells in the body of the planetary logos have achieved, he too is set free from dense manifestation and physically dies. page 509. the process of death is occultly as follows: a. the first stage is the withdrawal of the life force in the etheric vehicle from the dense physical body and the consequent "falling into corruption" and becoming "scattered to the elements- 245- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust objective man fades out and is no more seen by the physical eye, though still in his etheric body. when etheric vision is developed, the thought of death will assume very different proportions. when a man can be seen functioning in his etheric physical body by a majority of the race, the dropping of

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

arapsychology, jung's analytical psychology are only a few indications of contemporary inwardly-oriented researches. the re-entry of the spiritual factor in life and education is something more than a recrudescence of some earlier forms of christian ideology. in this education for the new age, the type of east-west philosophy presented by the tibetan will find its proper setting. here we have the elements of a complete theory, as follows (a) subjective planning; a theory of the creative self-development of the individual (b) objective planning; a theory of the good society for human persons to live in. the psychological and social implications of the education for the new age must be stated as explicitly as possible. the next step is to test the validity of the principles in concrete appli

t and the modern west approaches as two mutually exclusive alternatives. in some instances the approaches are merely two "languages" for stating universal truths about human nature and we are not faced with an either-or antithesis. intertranslation may reduce the strangeness of terminology. for example, the tibetan's view that "meditation is thinking things through" is good dewey doctrine. as the elements of unfamiliarity diminish, understanding is facilitated. that the research project so briefly sketched is not some vague philosophical phantasy but an urgent and immediate need is indicated by a document drawn up by the department for cultural activities of unesco which formulated the theme for discussion in these terms "the concept of man and the philosophy of education in east and west"

he is taught to deal intelligently with information coming to him via the five senses to the brain. observation, rapid response, and physical coordination as the result of intention, must be emphasised. the child must be taught to hear and see, to make contacts and to use judgment; and his fingers must then respond to creative impulses to make and produce what he sees and hears. thus are laid the elements of the arts and crafts, of drawing and of music. in the next ten years the mind is definitely trained to become dominant. the child is taught to rationalise his emotional and desire impulses, and to discriminate the right from the wrong, the desirable from the undesirable, and the essential from the nonessential. this can be taught him through the medium of history and the intellectual tr

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

s and should these measure up with adequacy then to proceed with the work of esoteric training. it is the same with groups; these are tested and tried in connection with the group personality, and upon the response depends the future activity of both the group and its master and teacher. but it is the group, as you see, which decides procedure. i have endeavoured to remove out of this group those elements which might perchance have handicapped it, and which the group members as they are at present constituted and motivated are not capable of absorbing. group unity is not dependent upon personal sympathy, personal liking and understanding as it may exist between the group members, but upon capacity to absorb and assimilate, to lift, to change and to transmute those units which seem at first

ound on one or other of the six subsidiary sub-rays; there is also a constant shifting of people as they make true progress from a minor ray to a major ray or (for service reasons) on to a different sub-ray of their own ray; this is a point which is very apt to be forgotten. it is wise to realise that an ashram is composed of disciples and initiates of all degrees. it is this interplay of diverse elements that enriches an ashram and tends inevitably to successful service in the three worlds. i am anxious to see the group, with which i have been undertaking an occult experiment for the hierarchy, hold together. when i say this, i refer not only to the few of you who are now active (and perhaps patting yourselves on the back for your steadfastness, but also to the inactive members, to those

is will necessarily vary according to the ray; the ray it must be remembered determines the quality and the nature of the service to be rendered. gradually the neophyte swings into the rhythm of the ashram, and gradually his meditation changes and falls into line with the instinctual and constant ashramic meditation. it must be remembered that ashramic meditation is entirely devoid of personality elements. it is in the nature of a constant and uninterrupted group meditation upon the plan, and particularly upon that aspect of the plan which must immediately be put into operation; this is the apportioned duty of the ashram or the ashrams in question. this constant attitude of reflective meditation in no way impairs the efficiency of the ashram or of the individual disciple, because two or mo

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

masses a form of wonderful magic. sanitation, hygiene, means of transportation and air machines were developed and of a very high order; these were not the result however of man's achievement but gifts from the hierarchy, developed or constructed under a wise guidance. there was command of air and water because the guides of the race knew how to control and master the forces of nature and of the elements, but none of it was the result of human understanding, knowledge or effort. the minds of men were undeveloped and not adequate to such a task, any more than is the mind of a little child- 80- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the cleavage between the two groups (the one expressing the forces of materialism and the other the energy of light) grew gradually wid

r but on account of age and experience, dearly bought, this is today mellowed by justice and a growing understanding of human need. this, in its turn, is the result of the control for many centuries in the past by the aristocracy, with its paternalism, conservatism and its method of slow adjustment. the u.s.a. expresses the will-to-love, which shows itself in an ability to absorb vastly divergent elements and yet to present equal opportunity to all. this is brought about very largely because the control is, in this federation of states, in the hands of the bourgeoisie, with its financial goals, its power to determine living conditions, and its quick and sympathetic touch upon life. its method is not that of slow adjustment but of quick assimilation. it is in that country also that people a

en brought about through cruelty very often, by a willingness to compromise and to change or lower the original ideal. this, in its turn, is brought about by the activity of the proletariat with its inability to govern, its desire to retaliate, and its ignorance of tradition and of inherited procedures. a most interesting experiment is, therefore, working out in these three groups of interrelated elements and differing national ideals. the u.s.s.r. will eventually place its emphasis and direct its major interest upon asia, bringing about great changes on that continent, as far as the pacific the other, great britain, through its successful demonstration of the principle of federation, can affect major changes in europe if there is an awakened insight, a true and sympathetic justice and wis

ents) which must be evoked, recognised and listened to, and not the voices of the separative exponents of any ideology, of any form of government, religion or party. the objective of those who are entrusted with the straightening out of the world is not the imposition of democracy upon the entire world or to force christianity upon a world of diversified religions. it is surely to foster the best elements in any national government to which the people may subscribe, or which they intelligently endorse. each nation should recognise that its form of government may be suited to it and quite unsuited to another nation; it should be taught that the function of each nation is the perfecting of its national life, rhythm and machinery, so that it can be an efficient co-partner with all other natio

ever taking place and this process of transcendence will call forth increasing recognition. it marks the next major phase in the manifestation of divinity in man; it signifies domination over physical law and humanity's imminent triumph over the forces which have for so long held him to earth. of this transcendence the present mastery over the air is the symbol. man is rapidly mastering the four elements. he cultivates the earth; he rides the waters; he controls the electrical fires of the planet, and he flies triumphant through the air. the question now emerges: what, my brothers, next? another transcendence lies ahead. it is one of the things which the coming avatar will reveal. with the lesser leaders, whom the human spirit evokes to its assistance, i shall not deal. i seek to unfold s

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

when the blazing light of the monad is focussed directly upon the personality, via the antahkarana and not specifically through the soul, it produces a blazing fire which burns up all hindrances in a steady, sequential process. wording it otherwise, when the will aspect streams from the monad and focusses through the personal will (as the mind can grasp and realise it) it destroys as by fire all elements of self-will. as the energy of shamballa streams out and makes a direct contact with humanity (omitting the transmission via the hierarchy, which has hitherto been customary, you have what has been seen in the world today, a destructive conflagration or a world burning ground. when the antahkarana of a group is rightly constructed, then the individualised group-will will disappear in the

the initiate as he moves forward. he does not yet understand all that his group as a whole grasps; he is himself not understood by those on the other side of the door. he has sensed for some time the group with which he is now affiliated, and is becoming increasingly aware of their spiritual impersonality, which seems to him to be almost a form of aloofness and which in no way feeds in him those elements which are- 47- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust of a personality nature; he therefore suffers. those left behind as a part of his old life in no way comprehend his basic (even if undeveloped) impersonality. this attitude of theirs evokes in him, when sensed, a resentment and a criticism which he realises is not right but which

s one of the names given by the masters to the basic mystery of initiation. in due time our educational centres, particularly those concerned with adult education, will take into calculation, normally and customarily, the fact of future initiation where their students are concerned, and will study their graduates from this angle in order to give advice or recommendation. in these institutions the elements of true esotericism will be taught, though they will not be then regarded as esoteric. it will be apparent to you that this long treatise is in the nature of a preparatory thesis covering a vast field or area of information. the first two volumes dealt with the sevenfold nature of man and with the influence of the seven basic energies or rays upon his unfoldment and his history, and (in a

s basically related to what is occurring in the sacral and throat centres, as the transmutative process proceeds and the energies of the sacral centre are gathered up into the throat centre without, however, withdrawing all the energy from the lower centre; thus its normal activity is properly preserved. the two centres in the head then become correspondingly active; the negative and the positive elements affect each other, and the light in the head shines forth; a line of light, permitting free interplay, is established between the ajna centre and the head centre, and therefore between the pituitary body and the pineal gland. when this line of light is present and there is an unobstructed relation between the two centres and the two glands, then the first initiation becomes possible. when

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

merge. connected with each sign of the zodiac will be found three other constellations, which symbolically (and often in a most amazing fashion) embody the disciple's problem and indicate the solution. these we shall have to consider, for the labor, the sign, and the allied constellations with the forces let loose through their combination, constitute a complete story which is full of instructive elements. i would like to point out for the sake of clarity, therefore, that the constellations symbolize the threefold spirit aspect; that the sign gives us the field of activity of the soul, and that the labor portrays the work of the disciple, living on the physical plane and endeavoring to demonstrate on the battlefield of the world his innate divinity and latent powers. in these three we have

owing extract is of interest in this connection "the sky is mystically spoken of as the temple, and the eternal consciousness of god. its altar is the sun, whose four arms or rays typify the four corners of the cardinal cross of the universe, which have become the four fixed signs of the zodiac, and as the four powerful sacred animal signs are both cosmical and spiritual, they represent the basic elements resembling our human principles. the sign leo represents fire or spirit; taurus, earth or body; aquarius, air or mind; and scorpio represents water likened to the soul. leo, as the lion, is the strength of the lower nature, and is the serpent of force which, if directed upward, overcomes. taurus, the bull, is always the symbol of creative force. aquarius, the man, is the light-bearer, or

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

short note of the chief of the old kabalistic treatises. the "sepher yetzirah" or "book of formation" is the oldest treatise; it is attributed by legend to abraham the patriarch: several editions of an english translation by myself have been published. this work explains a most curious philosophical scheme of creation, drawing a parallel between the origin of the world, the sun, the planets, the elements, seasons, man and the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet; dividing them into a triad, a heptad and a dodecad; three mother letters a, m, and sh are referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters are referred to the planets and the sevenfold division of time, etc: and the twelve simple letters are referred to the months, zodiacal signs and human organs. modern critic

l conceptions of the kabalah is that spiritual wisdom is attained by thirty-two paths, typified by the ten numbers and the twenty-two letters; these ten again being symbols of the divine emanations, the sephiroth, the holy voices chanting at the crystal sea, the great sea, the mother supernal, binah; and of the twenty-two occult forces of the nature of the universe symbolised by the three primary elements, the seven planets, and the twelve zodiacal influences of the heavens, which tincture human concerns through the path of our sun in its annual course. i have given the names and definitions of the thirty-two paths at the end of my edition of the" sepher yetzirah" now to show the close connection between the kabalah and orthodox judaism, we find the rabbis cataloguing the books of the old

rth to heaven: these names were often placed on the obverse and reverse of medals or rolls of parchment to form 36 talismans. according to some kabalists both king david and king solomon were able to work wonders with kabalistic magical arts: the pentagram was called the seal of solomon, and the hexagram was called the shield of david; to the points of the former were assigned the spirit and four elements, while to those of the latter were ascribed the planets. the treatise called "the clavicules of king solomon" is of course a mediaeval fraud. the hebrew letters are also associated with the twenty-two trumps of the tarot pack of cards; these cards have been much used for purposes of divination. the gipsies of southern europe use these cards for fortune-telling. the french author court de

ck of cards; these cards have been much used for purposes of divination. the gipsies of southern europe use these cards for fortune-telling. the french author court de gebelin (1773-1782) declared that these trump cards as mystical emblems were derived from the magic of ancient egypt. occult science allots each card to a number, a letter and a natural object or force,-the planets, zodiacal signs, elements, etc "the sanctum regnum of the tarot trumps" edited by myself can be consulted. dr. encausse of paris, who writes under the pseudonym of "papus" has also a work relating to the tarots and gives a kabalistic attribution of the trump cards which rosicrucians consider to be erroneous. so far as is known to me the practice of kabalah as a magical art is now almost restricted to russian and p

iental imagery lavished on the description of god; imagery although grouped and clustered around the emblem of an exalted humanity, yet so inflated, so extravagantly magnified, that the heavenly man is lost sight of in the grandeur and tenuity of the word painting of the divine portrait. divine anthropomorphism it may be, but an anthropomorphism so tenuous by means of its grandeur, that the human elements affording the bases of the analogy quite disappear in the heavenly man of their divine reveries. permit me to afford to you an example of one sublime, deific dream "in this conformation he is known; he is the eternal of the eternal ones; the ancient of the ancient ones; the concealed of the concealed ones; in his symbols he is knowable although he is unknowable. white are his garments, an

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

left hand is the hand in which the ankh is held, the passive hand. with the right hand we project the light and the chiefs hold symbols of the projection of light which is symbolic of their wands. complete symbol of r.c. on the breast is the symbol of balance and equilibrium. it is the lamen of the rose and cross. it consists of twenty-two petals (2+ 2= 4= the tetragrammaton. seven planets, five elements, and three alchemical principles are all formed on the symbol of the perfected self, the cross. 22 paths+ 9 planets (seven ancient plus caput and cauda draconis+ 5 elements+ 3 alchemical principles= 39= 12, 1+ 2= 3, the number of the supernals. it is also a symbol of the triangle, the two con-dividing, the one reconciling. it is the reconciled one that in a mystical sense is buried and al

f m. v the sign of "v" is that of typhon and apophis. it is horus of the pentagram unveiled. thus, it is evil as nature rules over. it is destruction, the sign of a drowning man. in addition, it is duality of force which results in the death of force. no perfection can come from it. x the sign of "x" is that of the pentagram. the point at which they cross is of which should cover all forms of the elements in man. it is a symbol of the triumph of light. it is the descending fire of life. the pentagram is the rise of the perfection of man into an equilibrated force. 7 lvx the light descendeth into hell, and in its rising, is made perfect. the returning light from god to man, and man back to god. the light is fixed in the vault with the sign of lvx. second point of the 5=6 ceremony symbols of

ANTINOMIANISM

osophies and aspects of the ancient egyptian philosophical and religious cults. particularly we see this in the reflections of the ancient setian priesthoods of egypt which have been integrated into other lines of philosophical thought. as previously stated, the differentiation between the lhp and the rhp is one of intent. for instance, in the church of rome (catholic) ritual is utilized. all the elements- altar, bell, candles, incense etc, form the components of ritual. however, if you were to read howard stanton levee's (a.k.a. anton szandor lavey "satanic bible" ritual is also utilized using those same elements. the difference lies within the intention of the participants. therefore, the technology itself does not distinguish one methodology from the other, rather the perceptions and co

ceive the unknown through the known so what was once hidden becomes then revealed. this is an antinomian perception. one seeks the spirit through the vehicle of the flesh for it houses within its finite experience, an infinite (for all purposes) existence. these ideas cannot be understood or approached through oneness, these ideas are approached through division and then an eventual separation of elements within the singularity and individuality of consciousness (another antinomy. given the above description of antinomianism it is possible to understand that it is a proportional construct. it is the perfect reconciliation of opposites not into unity, but rather, into a separate syncretism from which aleister crowley's formulaic conception of 0=2 becomes fully revealed as the antinomian for

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

the male, jehovah, buddha, or brahma,who creates the universe; in witch sorcery it is the female who is the primitive principle. wheneverin history there is a period of radical intellectual rebellion against long-established conservatism,hierarchy, and the like, there is always an effort to regard woman as the fully equal, which meansthe superior sex. thus in the extraordinary war of conflicting elements, strange schools of sorcery,neo-platonism, cabala, heretic christianity, gnosticism, persian magism and dualism, with theremains of old greek and egyptian theologies in the third and fourth centuries at alexandria, and inthe house of light of cairo in the ninth, the equality of woman was a prominent doctrine. it wassophia or helena, the enfranchised, who was then the true christ who was t

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

isdom handed down from past ages. they may have been dreamers also, but they were less or more zealous students after their own manner; within their proper measures, and the templar chivalry drew them because they deemed it not unlikely that its condemnation by the paramount orthodoxy connoted a suspicion that the old knighthood had learned in palestine more than the west could teach. out of such elements were begotten some at least of the templar rites and they grew from more to more, till this particular aspect culminated in the templar dramas of werner, in which an order concealed through the ages and perpetuated through saintly custodians reveals to a chosen few among knights templar some part of its secret doctrine-the identity of christ and horus, of mary the mother of god, and isis

BALANCE J

aunted by the intensity of the maelstrom of images he was receiving. and again in 1954, towards the end of his life there emerges an unsettling sense that the vision was becoming too unsupportable, too vivid and too painful, and something of this experience is reflected in the intense shattered techniques he used to paint the later chaotic series of pastels. in these, the modern world and all its elements flow into highly coloured reconfigurations and juxtaposing patterns. we might compare these to the works of the brilliant artist louis wain whose charming portraits of cats became increasing tessleated and jewel-like, shattering into shards of colour and pure sensation before his schizophrenic universe finally submerged him. there is a feeling in these later works that the senses have bec

BAPHOMANTIS LUCIFERIAN SATANIC MASS

g change to a weaker will whose objective is to enslave you to their particular borg god. love is the law, love under will. in illuminated iconoclasm, panoptebaphomantis luciferian\satanic mass (for 1-2 practitioners) if indoors, preperation of the temple: incense to be burnt (peferably hazel, chalice of strong wine, black candles (if using circle candles may be color coded represenitive of the 4 elements, wafer\bread on the altar two candles, one on the left (black, one on right (white. the paten/with host on it(host can be made of bread or flour, or cracker. to the left place the chailice full of wine(or other spirit, to the right place the daggar (knife,sword (pitcher of water, bowl and aspergian optional) hold mass on the night of perferably a new moon (or on any satanic holiday. dress

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

roduced in the following way. a celestial influence descends from above, by the decree and ordinance of god, and mingles with the astral proper ties. when this union has taken place, the two bring forth a third namely, an earth vlike twelve keys of basil valentine 12 of 95 substance, which is the principle of our seed, of its first source, so that it can shew an ancestry, and from which three the elements, such as water, air, and earth, take their origin. these elements work underground in the form of fire, and there produce what hermes, and all who have preceded me, call the three first principles, viz, the internal soul, the impalpable spirit, and visible bodies, beyond which we can find no earlier beginning of our magistery. in the course of time these three unite, and are changed throu

have twelve keys of basil valentine 15 of 95 much power over it. and if its strength be united to the beauty of venus, i do not say but that a precious and harmonious result may be obtained. for the phlegmatic or humid quality of the moon may be heated with the ardent blood of venus, and the blackness of venus removed with the strong salt of mars. you need not look for our metallic seed among the elements. it need not be sought so far back. if you can only rectify the mercury, sulphur, and salt (understand, those of the sages) until the metallic spirit and body are inseparably joined together by means of the metallic soul, you thereby firmly rivet the chain of love, and prepare the palace for the coronation. these things represent a liquid key, comparable to the celestial influence, and a

ey neither human nor animal bodies can be multiplied or propagated without decomposition; the grain and all vegetable seed, when cast into the ground, must 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 obse

ttles and other weeds spring up where no such seed has ever been sown. this occurs only by putrefaction. the reason is that the soil in such places is so disposed, and, as it were, impregnated, that it produces these fruits, which is a result of the properties of sidereal influence; consequently the seed is spiritually produced in the earth, and putrefies in the earth, and by the operation of the elements generates corporeal matter according to the species of nature. thus the stars and the elements may generate new spiritual, and, ultimately, new vegetable seed, by means of putrefaction. but man cannot create new seed; for it is not in his power to order the operation of the elements and the essential influences of the stars. by natural conditions, however, new plants are generated simply

s air imparted to him a genuine and temperate heat, which was sulphur, or fire. then adam moved and by his power of motion, shewed that there had been infused into him a life vgiving spirit. for as there is no fire without air so neither is there any air without fire. water was incorporated with the earth thus living man is an harmonious mixture of the four twelve keys of basil valentine 56 of 95 elements; and adam was generated out of earth, water, air, and fire, out of soul, spirit, and body, out of mercury, sulphur, and salt. in the same way, eve, our common mother, was created; for her body was built up and formed out of adam s body v a fact which i wish you particularly to notice. to return again to putrefaction, o seeker of the magistery and devotee of philosophy, know that, in like

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

atural deities of the tibetan landscape. this interaction is not wholly unique to tibet and can be found in the development of buddhism in china, japan, sri lanka, and elsewhere in asia. however, what is unique is how such relationships develop, given tibet s particular history, and how the forces involved help solidify the buddhist community along lay and monastic divisions, the two major social elements of the religion. these two divisions have a complex relationship in all buddhist communities; they are symbiotic because the monastic community relies materially on the lay community, while the latter relies spiritually on the former. nonetheless, the goals of these communities are different, with the monastic community concerned with enlightenment and the lay community concerned with mor

ation will provide a number of perspectives on the evolution of tsiu marpo as well as increase understanding of tibetan protector deities and the powerful roles that they play along mythic, ritual, communal, and political lines. aside from providing a full image of this important yet little known protector deity, this study aims to illustrate more broadly how deities like tsiu marpo are necessary elements of the tibetan socio-religious landscape. we will see that deities are instrumental in strengthening social cohesion on multiple levels and in multiple contexts. 2 review of the literature the available research on tibetan deities is scant. to this day, the most comprehensive treatment of tibetan gods, demons, and oracles is oracles and demons of tibet: the cult and iconography of the tib

ed by textual and ethnographic materials. it is impressive for this scope, but bellezza s central arguments are too speculative and rest too heavily on his own personal opinions and beliefs. due to the deficiencies still present in the study of tibetan protector deities, this discussion hopes to contribute to further dialogue on the subject. nonetheless, my methodological approach and the various elements involved in my research have borrowed heavily from the above studies. methodology the methodological approach of this thesis is primarily synchronic with diachronic elements. the synchronic elements consist of four tibetan texts that exclusively concern tsiu marpo. these works are the foundation of my study and include: 1. the warlord s tantra with accompanying s.dhanas (dmag dpon gyi rgy

po exponentially. the second and third texts described above were given to me by tibetan lamas during this time and i was able to conduct a number of impromptu interviews. i also had the opportunity to visit samy monastery along with tsiu marpo s main temple there, the details of which are provided in chapter 2. the information garnered from this trip permeates this work. the secondary diachronic elements of this study have been pulled from the above works and secondary materials. the central goal of this thesis is to provide a detailed description and greater analysis of tsiu marpo, and through him the relationship between protector deities and the tibetan buddhist community. however, this cannot be done without a cursory knowledge of tibetan history as well as an understanding of the his

les that remain in the narrative of tsiu marpo. this thesis will end with a summary of the conclusions reached in these chapters as well as provide an outline for further study. this research intends to shed much-needed light on an obscure but important protector deity. by doing so, i hope to arrive at a greater understanding of tibetan protector deities in general who act as personified cohesive elements within the broader social community. i also hope that the methodological approach and organization used in this study will prove useful in future examinations of other protector deities who have yet to come fully to the attention of scholars. by recognizing, discussing, and expanding on the various natures and aspects of a single deity we develop a vivid image not only of that deity but o

BLACK SERPENT1

he things we do not understand. they provide us the spiritual opportunity to allow our most carnal, instinctive nature to flourish. they do not condemn us for sin, nor do they disallow us earthly pleasures or anger or many of the other so-called "imperfections" that plague mankind. what these demons do provide is knowledge, the constant reminder of the power within ourselves, and the power of the elements and unseen forces around us. many misconceptions of the "black arts" have been conceived over the passage of time. numerous are the allegations that covens murder unborn children and use virgin blood in sacrifice to their infernal legions. these myths, often perpetuated and fed into by our own hysteria, create the basis for what society holds as their own truth regarding these religions

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

animal on earth, large or small, contemporary with the man of that period- if, then, every animal has been transformed save man himself, this fact goes to prove not only his antiquity, but that he is a distinct kingdom. why should he alone have escaped transformation? because, says de quatrefages, the weapon used by him, in his struggle with nature and the ever-changing geological conditions and elements, was "his psychic force, not his physical strength or body" as in the case of animals. give man only that dose of intelligence and reason with which other mammalia are endowed, and with his present bodily organization he will show himself the most helpless of creatures of earth. and as everything goes to prove that the human organism with all its characteristics, peculiarities and idiosyn

, from one end to the other of any manvantara. causes and effects are esoteric, exoteric, and endexoteric, so to say. in isis unveiled we wrote that which we now repeat "we are at the bottom of a cycle and evidently in a transitory state. plato divides the intellectual progress of the universe during every cycle into fertile and barren periods. in the sublunary regions, the spheres of the various elements remain eternally in perfect harmony with the divine nature, he says 'but their parts' owing to a too close proximity to earth, and their commingling with the earthly (which is matter, and therefore the realm of evil 'are sometimes according, and sometimes contrary to (divine) nature' when those circulations- which eliphas levi calls' currents of the astral light- in the universal ether wh

is the characteristic. hence fire, water and air are the primordial cosmic trinity "i am thy thought, thy god, more ancient than the moist principle, the light that radiates within darkness (chaos, and the shining word of god (sound) is the son of the deity("pymander" 6* thus we have to study well the "primary creation" before we can understand the secondary. the first race had three rudimentary elements in it; and no fire as yet; because, with the ancients, the evolution of man, and the growth and development of his spiritual and physical senses, were subordinate to the evolution of the elements on the cosmic plane of this earth. all proceeds from prabhavapyaya, the evolution of the creative and sentient principles in the gods, and even of the so-called creative deity himself. this is fo

all cause, and cannot be referred to as the "first cause- which first cause is called in the brahmanical books jagad-yoni "the womb of the world" mankind emanates from these active agents in kosmos. but men, during the first and the second races, were not physical beings, but merely rudiments of the future men: bhutas, which proceeded from bhutadi "origin" or the "original place whence sprung the elements" hence they proceeded with all the rest from prabhavapyaya "the place whence is the origination, and into which is the resolution of all things" as explained by the commentator. whence also our physical senses. whence even the highest "created" deity itself, in our philosophy. as one with the universe, whether we call him brahma, iswara, or purusha, he is a manifested deity- hence created

(b) the sentence "they were the shadows of the shadows of the lords" i.e, the progenitors created man out of their own astral bodies, explains an universal belief. the devas are credited in the east with having no shadows of their own "the devas cast no shadows" and this is the sure sign of a good holy spirit. why had they "no fire or water of their own* because (c) that which hydrogen is to the elements and gases on the objective plane, its noumenon is in the world of mental or subjective phenomena; since its trinitarian latent nature is mirrored in its three[[footnote(s* it is corroborated, however, as we have shown, by the esotericism of genesis. not only are the animals created therein after the "adam of dust" but vegetation is shown in the earth before "the heavens and the earth were

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

vol. 1, page ix] table of contents- page. introduction. xvii. the need of such a book. xix. the antiquity of documents and mss. xxiii. what the book is intended to do. xxviii- volume first. cosmogenesis. proem. 1 the oldest mss. in the world and its symbolism. 2 the one life, active and passive. 4 the secret doctrine- pantheism- atheism. 6 "space" in all religions and in occultism. 9 seven cosmic elements- seven races of mankind. 12 the three postulates of the secret doctrine. 14 description of the stanzas from the book of dzyan. 20- book i- part i. cosmic evolution. seven stanzas from the book of dzyan. 27- stanza i- the night of the universe. 35 the seven eternities. 36 "time. 37 the universal mind and the dhyan chohans. 38 nidana and maya: the causes of misery. 39 the great breath. 43 b

iverse- the dhyan chohans. 89 the army of the voice. 93 speech and mind. 95 the ogdoad and the heptad. 99 the stellar "sons of light. 103- stanza v- fohat: the child of the septenary hierarchies. 106 the fiery whirlwind and the primordial seven. 106 they produce fohat. 108 the correlation of the "gods. 113 evolution of the "principles" of nature. 119 the mystery of the fire. 121 the secret of the elements. 123 the square of the tabernacle. 125 the planetary spirits and the lipika. 129 the ring "pass not. 130 the sidereal book of life. 131 the soul's pilgrimage and its "rest. 134- stanza vi- our world, its growth and development. 136 the logos. 136 mystery of the female logos. 137[[vol. 1, page] xi contents. page. the seven layu centres. 138 the "elementary germs. 139 the evolution of the e

end. 421- xii. the theogony of the creative gods. 424 the point within the circle. 426 the logos or verbum. 429 the factors of creation. 432 identity of the hierarchies in all religions. 438 difference between the aryan and semitic systems. 444[[vol. 1, page] xiv contents. page. xiii. the seven creations. 445 the gnostic and the hindu versions. 449 the seven puranic "creations. 450- xiv. the four elements. 460 the "gods" and the "elements. 463 the language of the elements. 464 pagan and christian worship of the elements. 467- xv. on kwan-shi-yin and kwan-yin. 470 kwan-shi-yin and phallicism. 471 the real meaning. 472- book i- part iii. science and the secret doctrine contrasted. i. reasons for these addenda. 477 occultism versus materialism. 479 the sabbath of the mystic. 481- ii. modern p

in modern dress. 579 all-potential unity. 583 the "seventh" in chemistry. 585- xiii. the modern nebular theory. 588 forces are emanations. 591 what is the nebula. 595- xiv. forces- modes of motion or intelligences. 601 the vital principle. 603 occult and physical science. 605- xv. gods, monads, and atoms. 610 the gods of the ancients- the monads. 613 the monad and the duad. 617 the genesis of the elements. 621 hermes and huxley. 625 the teaching of leibnitz. 627 the monads according to occultism. 632- xvi. cyclic evolution and karma. 634 karmic cycles and universal ethics. 637 destiny and karma. 639 karma-nemesis. 643- xvii. the zodiac and its antiquity. 647 the jewish patriarchs and the signs of the zodiac. 651 zodiacal cycles. 656 hindu astronomy. 661- xviii. summary of the mutual positi

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. this was the army of the voice- the divine mother of the seven. the sparks of the seven are subject to, and the servants of, the first, the second, the thir

BLUE EQUINOX

omplete study of the origins of christianity. pr monstrance of a.a. 15 liber dclxvi. the beast. this book is an account of the magical personality who is the logos of the present on. liber lxxxi. the butterfly net. an account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet luna, written in the form of a novel. liber dcclxxvii. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, reprinted with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webster or murray is to the english language. liber ccxvi. the yi king (classic of changes) a new translation, with a commentary, by the master therion. confucius said that if his life were to be prolonged by a few years, he would give fi

dhammapada (s. b. e. series, oxford university press. the best of the buddhist classics. the questions of king milinda (s. b. e. series) technical points of buddhist dogma, illustrated by dialogues. liber dcclxxvii vel prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mystic vi explicand, fundamentum hieroglyphicam sanctissimorum scienti summ. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, re-printed with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webster or murray is to the english language. varieties of religious experience (james. valuble as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment. kabbala denudata, von rosenroth: also the kabbalah unveiled, by s.l. mathers. the text of t

tionary of hebrew words arranged according to their numerical value. this is an encyclop dia of the holy qabalah, which is a map of the universe, and enables man to attain its perfect understanding. liber dcclxxvii. vel prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mystic vi explicand, fundamentum hieroglyphicam sanctissimorum scienti summ. a complete dictionary of the correspondences of all magical elements, re-printed with extensive additions, making it the only standard comprehensive book of reference ever published. it is to the language of occultism what webstar or murray is to the english language. liber lxvii. the sword of song. a critical study of various philosophies. an account of buddhism. liber mmcmxi. a note on genesis. a model of qabalistic ratiocination. this course is especial

cxcvii. the high history of good sir palamedes the saracen knight and of his following of the questing beast. a poetic account of the great work, and enumeration of many obstacles. liber ccxlii. aha! an exposition in poetic language of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. liber cccxxxv. adonis. this gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. liber xvi. liber turris vel domus dei. an instruction for attainment by the direct destruction of thoughts as they arise in the mind. liber clxxv. astarte vel liber berylli. an instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, of bhakta-yoga. liber xlvi. the key of the mysteries. a translation b

r not that any god shall deny thee for this. liber dcccxxxvii 51 again and again, in words like these, he sees the expansion and the development of the soul through joy. here is the calendar of our church .but ye, o my people, rise up& awake! let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals .there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. a feast for the first night of the prophet and his bride! a feast for the three days of the writing of the book of the law. a feast for tahuti and the child of the prophet.secret, o prophet! a feast for the supreme ritual, and feast for the equinox of the gods. a feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! a feast every da

BOOK OF JASHAR

of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's speech as a reference to nimrod's justification for his tower. only a few elements of david's lamentation appear in nimrod's epitaph. it is hard to fit joshua's quote with this text, except as a hyperbole derived from the story of sarah stopping the sacrifice at the new moon. the best that can be said for a connection between this text and the original israelite "book of jashar" is that the author might have drawn on some ancient manuscripts and traditions; but he also

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

illages where one or two witches were suspected of living, were put to death with the cry "destroy them all. the lord will know his own" in 1586 the archbishop of treves decided that the local witches had caused the recent severe winter. by dint of frequent torture a "confession" was obtained and one hundred twenty men and women were burned to death on his charge that they had interfered with the elements. since fertility was of great importance fertility of crops and beasts there were certain sexual rites enacted by the wicca, as followers of the nature religion. these sexual rites seem to have been given unnecessary prominence by the christian judges, who seemed to delight in prying into the most minute of details concerning them. the rites of the craft were joyous in essence. it was an

what is termed a palingenesis: a rebirth. you are ending life as you have known it to this point and are being "born again. and reborn with new knowledge* all initiation rituals follow the same basic pattern. and this is worldwide: australian aboriginals, africans, amerindians, eskimos, pacific islanders, witches, ancient egyptians, greeks and romans, to name but a few. all include the same basic elements in their rites. first comes a separation. with many peoples this is a literal separation from friends and especially from family; from all they have known so far. oftimes there is a special hut, cave or building of some sort, where the novices are taken. there they begin their training. a cleansing, externally and internally, is the next important part. with some primitives this might inc

showing a woman going through the various stages of initiation. in this instance the symbolic death was a scourging. part of the revelation of knowledge came from the initiand scrying* with a polished bowl. the final scene shows her, naked, dancing in celebration of her new birth. the scenes are typical of the palingenesis of initiation. the full initiation into witchcraft contains all the above elements. there is not quite the literal separation, at the start, but you will, of course, have separated yourself from others in the sense of absorbing yourself in your studies of the craft. you will also spend much time alone, meditating on what you are about to undertake. you will cleanse yourself, by bathing and fasting only bread, honey and water are allowed for twenty-four hours prior to th

(myself included) frowned on the very idea of a self-initiation. we didn't stop to think of (a) what might have been done in the "old times, for those living miles from any coven, or (b) how did the first witch get initiated? today some of us at any rate are more enlightened. the self-dedication is exactly that it is a dedicating of oneself to the service of the gods. it does not contain all the elements we have mentioned above, but is none the less a moving experience. a full coven initiation may always be taken at a later date, if you so desire of course, but note that it would not be mandatory just a matter of personal preference. a question often asked is "how valid is self initiation" to some traditions it is not valid at all (though one might question the whole "validity" of those t

initiation ceremony, for the sake of completeness on this lesson four: getting started/ 45 46/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft subject. next lesson i will continue from where i here left off. coven initiation as with all of the rituals in this workbook, they are presented as patterns blueprints which you may either adopt or adapt. you will see that this initiation rite contains all of the elements i have previously discussed. if you decide to write your own, i urge you to follow the general pattern. in this ceremony i have written it as for a priest initiating a female. it can obviously be adapted for reversal of the roles (in virtually all traditions male initiates female and female initiates male. it is usual for the initiate to be naked in this rite. if the coven usually works n

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

se of en soph aur, and beth is 2 in the alphabet; but beth is also assigned to the magician, or 1, which is the first of the tarot sequence, because 0, the fool, symbol of pure spirit and the nonumber, really precedes the idea of relative unity represented by 1. yet the no-number, or 0, also follows every number, just as the hindus say that ether, or akasha, intervenes between each two manifested elements. the logical place for 0 in a definite series is before 1, but it is also the reality manifested as 1, or as any other number [46] c o m m e n t ox d a l e t h and that which may be thought of as subsisting between any two consecutive numbers. even in common parlance this is true. if we ask "what comes between 1 and 2" the correct answer is, of course" nothing. 2 the idea that the univers

ower, and esoterically water is the seed-principle out of which all forms are developed. to commemorate this fourfold manifestation of life, the divine names in many languages are four-lettered. this is particularly true in hebrew, and of the divine names in that language the most important is the tetragrammaton, i h v h. each letter of this name represents one of the four aspects of life called "elements. i stands for fire; the first h for water; the v for air; and the second h for earth. since the numeral value of the character mem is 40, it represents 4 x 10, and this is an arithmetical symbol of what the text calls "the fourfold elemental division of my nature, working through the ten sephiroth" the great mother, aima, is also the great sea which is the root of all the waters. that sea

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

mbership of an established pagan organisation, yes, but these tend to ask for remarkably little. even a full druidic or goddess training, for example, costs no more than a few hundred pounds over several years. most covens and healing groups expect you only to pay for your expenses. i hope that, one day, joining a coven will be totally open, like joining any other organisation, and then the nasty elements who hide behind the name of magick will be exposed for the frauds they are [insert pic p029- children and wicca many people are suspicious of witches and all the more so if the practitioner has young children. they seem to fear that witches will exert some kind of evil influence on innocent minds. in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. children of wiccans are almost in

uals you hold there are limited only by your own desires and ingenuity [insert pic p046- setting up your altar you will need a large, flat surface for your altar; a table or a cupboard will do- you can use the drawers for storage and cover it with a cloth. it does not really matter what shape the surface is- circles and squares are both sacred shapes and easy to divide into quadrants for the four elements, earth, air, fire and water, that are central to traditional magic and play a part even in informal rituals. a round altar, the shape of the sacred circle, works especially well. if you do not have a suitable piece of furniture, a piece of uncut stone or unpolished wood, such as hazel, ash, rowan or oak supported on stones or bricks will do. ensure that it is high enough, so that you are

are performing rituals. in formal magick, the guardians, or devic lords of the watchtower, are invited to guard the four directions of a magical circle. the term deva in sanskrit means 'shining one, and the devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, who watch and direct the natural world. they communicate with people by psychic 'chanelling' and rule over the beings associated with the four elements, fire, air, water and earth. in less formal practices, either archangels or pillars of light may be visualised in the corners of the room to offer protection at a time when a person is opening then-psyche to the cosmos, to keep out all negativity, earthly or otherwise. but the greatest protection is a pure heart and pure intent, much harder to attain than learning any complex ritual. the

, you will need a supply of candles in a variety of colours. i will list here astrological significances, the magical colour meanings and the elemental correspondences, so that even if you are new to magick you can begin work at once. if you are an experienced practitioner, some of the ideas may suggest new directions for your personal and coven work. the elemental candle colours each of the four elements- air, fire, water and earth- is represented by a single candle colour- yellow, red, blue and green. a coloured candle representing each of the elements can be placed at the four main compass points around the circle to mark the quarters- east, south, west and north. you can place the elemental candles either on the edge of the circle in sturdy floor-standing holders, or on small tables or

ly in running water to keep their energies clear. if you have been in touch with a particularly negative influence, first wash the stones, then sprinkle them with salt and pass over them an incense stick or oil burner in a fragrance such as lavender, pine or rose. finally pass them over the flame of a purple, silver or pink candle; in this way your crystal absorbs the healing energies of all four elements. leave the crystals to dry in natural light, then wrap them for a few days in a dark cloth with a large piece of unpolished amethyst wrapped separately so it will not scratch the smaller crystals. amethysts have great powers of healing for other crystals, but they need frequently to be rested and anointed very gently with diluted lavender oil or a lavender infusion. you can also cleanse c

CASTING THE CIRCLE

e you would emerge, carry forth our protection to this circle of being, i call to thee angelick spirits of the watchtower: hcoma! utpa, phra, tdim, anaa facing the east, angels of the east, from which by wind you approach, emerge and protect this circle of being, i call to thee angelick spirits of the watchtower: exarp! rzla, boza, taad, dopa hold now the athame and moving widdershins, invoke the elements of lucifer: by the triangle of elemental sight i bless this circle, by the spirit mind of godhood i emerge as one who commands the elements by will alone. move and bless this circle and work! by the image of the falling pentagram and star, from which we dive to achieve the promethean light, i bless this circle, by the spirit mind of the separated psyche, made selfdeified by self- love, to

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

to many of the would be chaos magicians and those who actually do magick, the difference is astonishing and sobering. a significant banishing ritual employed by anon is called the quadriga sexualis banishing ritual and is focused on achieving a point of complete control based within the conscious mind. the quadriga sexualis is considered roughly the four horsemen of sex, being that these are four elements of building, focusing and releasing this powerful force of promethean fire-the mind and will united by dissolution of opposites. kia itself seeks the necessary manifestation by the act of love, considering it seems to incarnate or flow backwards. this can be viewed as an initiation resembling what has been described in my book of the witch moon as the osculum infame, or kiss of shame. the

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

according to this perspective, not only embodies ecclesial formations of faith but also encompasses noninstitutionalized expressions and activities.[6] it is my belief that permutations of the supernatural in practices such as conjuring, the african american tradition of healing and harming, have been resignified as "religion" generally, however, observers have not viewed conjure and religion as elements of a single complex, choosing instead to retain the "magic-religion" dichotomy when looking at african american spirituality. perhaps one reason is that most interpreters set "christian" and "non- christian" traditions against each other, with little regard for the range of relationships that might exist between them. this approach, with its value-laden assumptions, has shaped academic st

h the spiritual life of african slaves in early america, and the traditions that, in african societies, had once encompassed all human relations and institutions. among enslaved blacks, older cosmologies gradually merged with concepts that were extracted from newly formed afro-christian ideas such as a radical monotheism, dualistic notions of good and evil, and concepts of spiritual intervention. elements of the older african worldview also intersected with black magic page 7 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 a network of anglo-american supernatural traditions. the simultaneous emergence of african-based supernaturalism (later identified as conjure and hoodoo) and black americans f embrace of christianity resulted in the reinforcem

at manifested the influences of conjure in the twentieth century. black magic does not purport to be a definitive history of african american magic or religion; rather, it is a selective examination of key themes in african american religious history. it is my contribution to a conversation among students of black religion that provides a more nuanced view of "religion" and "magic" by tracing the elements of these two parallel and sometimes indistinguishable ideas. ultimately, the effacing of these categories may lead to a richer understanding of the myriad black magic page 8 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006\ 9\ dimensions of human spirituality. it is a reminder that as we look at african american religion, certain themes appear t

rgia within seven days f time.[1] this brief episode in the life of one of the first english-speaking, african-born autobiographers sheds light on the convergence of "magical" and "religious" modes of thought in the eighteenth century. to olaudah equiano and his shipmates, the unexpected chaos of a violent squall possessed meanings that went beyond the apparent realities of the visible world. the elements of sea and air bore evidence of forces that were subject to both divine will and human intervention and manifested\ 36\ a wildly dangerous struggle for control over nature. it was an ancient conflict, one in which both africans and europeans had engaged for centuries and addressed in various theological debates and formulations. who governed the forces that could endanger and destroy life

more recent observations of indigenous african religions, mbiti's remarks apply to older african understandings of the supernatural or nonmaterial world. the concept of force vitale, an omnipresent energy, has been articulated in diverse ways in traditional african cultures.as ashe, nommo, chi, and da. the power of this life force was believed to dwell within organic and inorganic objects, in the elements of nature, and in the bodies of all animate beings. through ritual, it was thought that human beings would be able to tap supernatural power for manifold purposes.[4] what came to be seen as "magic" for the africans who lived in\ 39\ america appears to have actually been a fusion of ideas that derived, in part, from older indigenous african religious concepts and the new world perspective

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

istic mithraism and the araimic alphabet. 550- the celts invade the island of britain. 535 bc pythagoras sets up esoteric colony near crotona in southern italy where scholars learn about numerology, astrology and the occult arts, which pythagoras learned during his 20 years of travels in babylon and egypt. 500 bce w.v. gensis, exodus, numbers (o.t) 475 bc empedocles of agrigentum introduces the 4 elements, fire, earth, air and water, into astrology, as the 4-fold root of all things. he discovered the idea that nothing can be destroyed (or created) only transformed. 427-347 plato 400 bce books of proverbs, job (o.t) 384-322 aristotle 370 bc eudoxus of cnidus devises calendars using zodiac with 12 equal zodiac signs. invents geometrical theory of proportion. 360 critias by plato: the origin

is 3 enoch, or the hebrew apocalypse of enoch, supposedly written after his visionary ascension into heaven 132-5: bar kokhba rebellion in palestine. jerusalem is leveled and jews are forbidden to live there, removing any hope of establishing a third temple c.150 n.t. apocrypha. lotus sutra. cyranides(hermetica which catalogues the occult properties of birds, fishes, plants, and stones for the 4 elements of air,water,earth and fire. its first book has 24 chapters each beginning with a letter of the greek alphabet) ptolemy writes the tetrabiblos, the most comprehensive work on astrology to date. already aware of the precession of the equinoxes, ptolemy cautions astrologers to use the tropical spring equinox as the start of the first zodiac sign. other astrologers such as hephaestion of the

ng in milan, accepts baptism into catholic christianity from bishop ambrose of milan. 391 second burning of library at alexandria (by christians. 401 confessions of st. augustine. 404 cod. of the vulgate (latin bible. jerome (345-420) produces a new translation (from both greek and hebrew) of most of the christian scriptures into latin. 410-485 proclus: epistles on alchemy. commentary on euclid's elements. 411: rome is sacked by alaric the the visigoth. 5th century latin text, liber hermetis, translated from the greek, gives special attention to the decans "man is called by the informed, a world, since he is wholly correspondent with the world s nature. indeed at the moment of conception there spurts from the seven planets a whole complex of rays that bear on each part of the man. and the

nst christian (in this case, cathar) enemies and christian lands. the eventual winners are the capetian kings of france, who wind up incorporating the sizeable domains of the count of toulouse into their kingdom. c.1210- 1272 jehan brete. trouv re member of the confr rie des jongleurs d'arras. c.1210 azriel of gerona(student of isaac the blind) commentary on the sefer yezirah promoted neoplatonic elements in kabbalah; aquainted with the ideas of john scotus erigena and ibn gabirol. 1210-1281 guglielma, princess blazena vilemina, daughter of the king of bohemia. guglielmites believed that guglielma of milan was the incarnation of the holy spirit and wished to establish a church with a female pope and female cardinals. 1214 franciscan friar roger bacon, born in somerset 1215 b. yehuda ha-coh

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a vow that if anything through his grace should be revealed to me, i would employ it to neither my own honour nor my own authority in the world, but to the spreading of his name, and the service of my neighbour. and with this vow, and good hope, i departed out of my cell with joy. page 8 page 9 the second day had hardly got out of my cell into a forest when i thought the whole heaven and all the elements had already trimmed themselves in preparation for this wedding. for even the birds chanted more pleasantly than before, and the young fawns skipped so merrily that they made my heart rejoice, and moved me to sing; wherefore with a loud voice i thus began: rejoice dear bird and praise thy maker, raise bright and clear thy voice, thy god is most exalted, thy food he hath prepared for thee t

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agical powers, and the quest for immortality. 7 preface in a.d. 67 buddhism was introduced to china from india. it contributed two powerful religious and mythical figures: the buddha, a real, historical person who later became a divinity, and kuan yin, the goddess of mercy. it also introduced the concept of reincarnation, the idea that a person may be reborn into another life. myths might contain elements and characters from all of these sources, and for this book we have chosen stories that reflect their influences. many of the ancient myths are from the fabled era of the ten legendary kings, a time before the dawn of history. thereafter, the historical period of chinese history is divided into a series of dynasties until the year 1911, the beginning of the period of modern government. a

m can go in and out of vogue, it is important to be aware that many possible spellings exist for chinese words. another difficulty is trying to separate chinese myth and chinese history. before the invention of writing, myths had been passed down through the oral tradition for thousands of years. many of these stories were originally based on actual historical events and people; however, mythical elements were soon interwoven into the tales. like many other groups of people, the chinese used myths to explain their history. to make the task of separating myth from history even more difficult, many history books were burned in 213 b.c. by qinshihuangdi [chin shi wong dee, the emperor of the qin [chin] dynasty. in order to proclaim himself the first emperor of china, he ordered a massive burn

ppears in the han dynasty (206 b.c. a.d. 220, hundreds of years after 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

make them forget about the horrible things they saw. q: what happened to the geography of china as a result of gong s actions? a: china is tilted so that it is high at the northwest corner where the stars and moon pass through, and low at the southeast corner where the rivers run into the sea. 49 expert commentary the five sacred colors mentioned in the story are connected to five important earth elements: green=wood, red=fire, yellow=soil, white=metal, black=water. in their study of chinese festivals, authors carol stepanchuck and charles wong write: the elements, which are five natural forces, work together in a cyclical order to represent periods of rise and decay, production and destruction. wood prevails over earth; metal prevails over wood; fire over metal; water over fire; and earth

o would be a ruler without subjects, a king without a throne. q: what are some special qualities of jade? a: jade is a stone that has opposite qualities. it is a cool stone, but feels warm to the touch. it is heavy, but feels light in the hand. it is dense, but can be carved into light sculptures. its surface is cloudy, but it has depth. it emits comforting sounds when struck. it has yin and yang elements. in this story, it was a gift from the unicorn to cheng and her son. 92 expert commentary to describe china at the time of confucius s birth, professor william edward soothill from the imperial university in shanghai writes: confucius, then, was born into a troubled period. the barons more powerful than their nominal sovereign, encroached and made war upon each other, at the instigation o

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s wand. he, of course, will hold the wand by the white band as he draws the pentagrams (in this instance banishing with the black end symbolized of over matter. the connection and synthesis of the symbolism between the pentagram and the altar is unmistakable. g.h. frater s.r.m.d. writes the following "the pentagram is a powerful symbol representing the operation of the eternal spirit and the four elements under the divine proceedings of the letters of the name hwchy. the elements themselves in the symbol of the cross are governed by hwhy, but the letter c representing the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit, being added thereto, the name becometh hwchy or hcwhy, the latter when the letter c placed between ruling l and the other three letters of the tetragrammaton" it is apparent that the symbolog

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hat wall if you will, and penetrate it like a bullet through paper. so much for the theory. i will give you a bit more as we go along but now it is time for you to build. if you will look at the illustration of the innards, you will see the layout of the most basic radionic device. in this illustration i have drawn a three-dial box, which is the basic design i have found useful for most work. its elements are as follows: the can for holding the sample, the three dials wired in series, and a coil of wire under a plastic or rubber plate. as you can see, dthis is an extremely easy machine to build, and at this point you would do well to put one together for yourself and thus be able to experiment with it as i go along and explain. by doing so, you will find everything will be easier to unders

ny emotion you feel is going to be transmitted along with the message. but the teleflasher can be used in much more interesting ways than merely sending messages to a subject. let us assume that the local librarian makes you horny as hell and you want to bed her. thus far all of your efforts have failed, including thoughtforms, meditation, even the use of the box. the combination of all the above elements can greatly increase your effectiveness in dealing with this problem. set up the equipment as prescribed and determine when she is going to be sleeping by means of the pendulum. now, place a photograph of yourself on the flasher stand and take the rate for the target. know that as you prepare to transmit, the target is locked into your equipment and anything that you send is going to quit

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tical 'right. you need two dogmas to play off against each other. the most effective dogmas over thousands of years have been the religions. one generation takes on a narrow view of life and themselves (a religion) and imposes it on their children, who then do the same to their children, and so it goes on into the modern world. the religious and political dogmas have all been inspired by negative elements from the fourth dimension. the two leading weapons used by religions are those cancerous emotions: fear and guilt. they have been used to suppress the human mind and to destroy its sense of self-worth, thus creating a physical reality to match. religions are the same thought pattern manifesting under different names- the thought pattern called control. even the origins of their myths, sto

lthough it could involve another flood some thousands of years later. over many millennia, the atlantean and extraterrestrial knowledge was passed on through the succeeding generations, and the original clarity was lost in the repeated communication. the knowledge also became a vehicle for control, and it was accordingly changed to suit those in power at any given time. this is why you still find elements of this knowledge in all religions. the original core knowledge has been diluted and diverted in countless directions, to manifest as religions such as christianity, islam, judaism, paganism, hinduism, etc. all have retained the themes of the knowledge to some extent, while often destroying its true meaning with dogma, myth, and manipulated make-believe. ironically, paganism has retained

d to have initiations into different levels of the knowledge. among these organisations were the mystery schools of babylon, egypt, and greece, which guarded their knowledge with enormous secrecy; the smallest violation of the oath of secrecy was punishable by death. from this foundation came today's massive secret society network. these mystery schools of initiation were inspired by the negative elements of the fourth dimension, and have been supervised by them through the consciousness of the highest initiates, the adepts, since that time. in his study fragments of a faith forgotten, professor g. r. s. mead says "a persistent tradition in connection with all the great mystery institutions was that their several founders were the introducers of all the arts of civilization; they were eith

le say the letter is a fake and it may well be, but if you live in america it is worth taking professional advice on your tax liability. the power over political and human events on this planet was increased by leaps and bounds as this funny money system expanded its grip on the world. this gave the elite's bankers the power to manipulate wars and revolutions, almost at will, in league with other elements within the brotherhood network, which expanded and became even more focussed on its goals during the same period that the banking system emerged. another branch of the brotherhood was officially started by the german professor, adam weishaupt, on may 1st 1776, and this sought to infiltrate all the seats of power throughout europe. it was called the bavarian illuminati. the term tlluminati

ruth about the 'glorious' french revolution, and in the strange world of the illuminati/ elite, that meant he had to go. think on that, those of you in the brotherhood who believe you are in control of events. stop now, let me have the information you have about what is going on, and get the hell out of it before you become another robespierre or egalite! from the french revolution we can see the elements of manipulated wars and revolutions that are common to all the 'peoples' uprisings' in europe which ousted the monarchies and to conflicts around the world up to the present day. these are: the financial crisis to create suffering and the desire for change("something must be done; the duping of influential people who support the 'cause' without realising the real agenda; the dumping of th

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y the three main project participants."1 these two races, the blue-eyed blonds and the reptilians, would seem to have been at war in many parts of the galaxy with factions on both sides also joining together to create alliances for their mutual benefit. this reptilian race is the dominating force behind the illuminati (at one level anyway, but with considerable involvement from the greys and some elements of the extraterrestrial white race or "nordics" as they are known in ufo research circles. the rest of the global population are pawns in their battles and alliances. the reptilians and nordics interbred with each other to create hybrid bloodlines. there was also reptilian 32 children of the matrix interbreeding with other races around the world, but the nordic connection would appear to

of the dragons and his helmet (or el-met, named after a reptilian goddess called el) carried a dragon motif. the red dragon symbol of wales comes from the claim by merlin, arthur's "magician, that the red dragon symbolised the people of britain. merlin was described as only half human because he was the child of an underground being and a human woman. the arthurian stories include all the classic elements of the story, including the creation of royal bloodlines through the interbreeding between humans and non-human entities, shape-shifting, the use of holographic images to hide a being's true form, and battles between competing dragons. geoffrey of monmouth, the 12th century historian, said that merlin's earlier name had been ambrosius, thus possibly associating him with the figure 16: the

riginates. it was written by the irish author bram stoker and published in 1897. stoker probably knew the score after years of research into the countless vampire legends. as a history channel documentary about stoker confirmed, there is no part of the world and no era of history that does not have its myths and legends about vampires who feed off other people's energy and blood. look at the main elements of that tale in the light of what you have read so far. his name is dracula (the draco constellation is the alleged home of the royal reptilian bloodlines. he is called "count" dracula (symbolic of the way these draco bloodlines have been carried by "human" royalty and aristocracy. dracula is a vampire (symbolic of the need of the draco reptilians to drink human blood and feed off human e

ppears and disappears (symbolic of the reptilian shape-shifters and i will elaborate on this shortly. he cannot stand direct sunlight (exactly what credo and others say of the reptilians and greys. he comes in through "windows (symbolic of the interdimensional portals through which reptilian entities enter our world. so many famous writers and artists were initiates or dogged researchers who told elements of the story through art and "fiction. stoker's character was largely based on a man called dracula or vlad the impaler, the 15th-century ruler of a country called wallachia, not far from the black sea in what is now romania (rom= reptilian bloodlines. this was the same region that was once called transylvania, the home of the most famous vampire legends, and the danube river valley, whic

er cuts apart other victims. impalement was dracula's favourite technique, but by no means his only method of inflicting unimaginable horror. the list of tortures employed by this deeply sick man included nails in heads, cutting off limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women, scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or wild animals, and boiling alive. no one was immune to dracula's attentions. his victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants. vlad the impaler was the son of vlad dracul, who was initiated into the ancient order of the dragon by the holy roman emperor in 1431. its emblem was a dragon, wings extended, hanging on a cross. vl

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e your breath away. yes, i am talkingabout some of the biggest royal, political, business, banking and media names on theplanet. people like henry kissinger, george bush, the british royal family and manyother presidents, prime ministers and members of royalty. fantastic? of course it is, butsince when did the truth not sound fantastic in a world of such denial and illusion?three of the principle elements of the babylonian religion were fire, serpents and thesun. i should explain their focus on the sun because it is a vital part of the story. most55of the global population worshipped the sun for its obvious gifts of heat and light and theeffect this had on their crops and well-being. however, within the hierarchy of the babylonbrotherhood and other elite groups which had the advanced knowl

brotherhood.reuchlin says that anus calpurnius piso then wrote three of the gospels in thefollowing order: the gospel of matthew (70-75 ad; the updated mark (75-80; and,with the help of the roman writer and statesman, pliny the younger, the updated luke(85-90. the gospel of john, the work of anuss son, justus, followed in 105.3 asreuchlin says, jesus was a composite figure and the stories include elements of thetales of joseph in egypt and other old testament characters, plus some essene writingsand characteristics of various pagan gods. this is precisely what the evidence i havedocumented confirms. the several josephs in the story are all the creation of piso andpart of the code. the letters in the name piso translate in hebrew as y ud, v ov; samech,fey, and they spell the name, joseph. a

arth is cold and dry and drynesspredominates. fire is hot and dry and heat predominates. water is moist and cold andcold predominates. air is hot and moist and moistness predominates. the idea is thatone element can be transformed into another through the bond they have in common, egfire becomes air through the common bond of heat. substances are made from theelements and if you can transform the elements into each other, you must be able totransform the substances the elements are made from. for instance, lead can be changedinto gold. there is, it is believed, a secret powder which is necessary for thistransformation and it has become known as the philosophers stone. the dhautpoulfamily are said to have been holders of such secrets. the document, le serpent rouge,when speaking of the 13th

atknowledge for itself to control and manipulate the religious and political establishment.so the peoples underground was, and is, constantly attacked and pursued by thebrotherhood underground. some 250,000 were murdered for being wizards and witches,16730,000 of them in the british isles alone.27the freemasonic movement was to become a sort of central meeting place andcoordinator for the various elements of the brotherhood network. w. wynn westcott,founder of the hermetic (and satanic) order of the golden dawn, knew the truebackground to freemasonry because of his connections to the esoteric underground. hewrote in his work, the magical mason, that the freemasons originate from the essenes,the pharisee (levite) jews, the ancient mystery schools of egypt and greece, the v ehm-gerichte of w

d in francis bacons work, the new atlantis, published in 1607, in which aninvisible college of elite intellectuals dictated events. one of the leading freemasonsof the british colonies in america was benjamin franklin, who is still revered as afounding father who believed in freedom for the people. his face can be seen on the$100 note. even the christian patriot movement which has understood many elements ofthe global conspiracy, has bought the idea that franklin would have been on their side. ibeg, most strongly, to disagree. franklin was an asset of british intelligence, a satanist,stalwart of the babylonian brotherhood, and sacrificer of children. if americans are notto lose the plot here they need to take a whole new look at the background andmotivations of many of their founding fathe

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mental center of washington, d.c, he planned more than just streets, roads, and buildings. he hid certain occultic magical symbols in the layout of u.s. governmental center. when these symbols are united they become one large luciferic, or occultic, symbol. washington d.c. an untrained eye might not see the luciferic connection in this map. the upper four points of the goathead represent the four elements of the world, fire, water, earth, and air. the bottom fifth point represents the spirit of lucifer. all of which are represented in washington d.c (the united states capital) many people have natural tendencies to want to disbelieve unpleasant or frightening truths. occultists take advantage of this "audacity, always audacity, is a saying the masters of the illuminati have always had. som

the design of governmental center, communicate tremendous power to the occultist while at the same time they hide the true meaning from nonoccultist. these symbols take on a life of their own, in the mind of the occultist, possessing great inherent power to accomplish the plans of the occultist. according to occultic/satanic doctrine, the upper four points of the goathead(left) represent the four elements of the world, fire, water, earth, and air. the bottom fifth point represents the spirit of lucifer. in the above photocopy of the goathead pentagram, the fifth point extends down into the mind of the goat, who represents lucifer. with all that as background, let us now begin our study of governmental center, washington, d.c. the satanic symbol& the masonic layout of washington d.c. in the

scott circle is precisely located at the middle of the goathead, and 16th street proceeds directly north. as you look directly north on 16th street, you will immediately see the house of the temple, which is the north american headquarters of freemasonry. even the number 16 is significant to the occultist; it is 4x4 (remember that the four upper points of the goathead pentagram represent the four elements of which the earth is constructed. number 16 literally means "felicity, which, according to my webster's dictionary, means blissful happiness or anything which will produce such a state. certainly, blissful happiness is the stated goal of any satanic system. a corollary meaning of 16 is love. the number 16 also pops up in an encoded manner. both dupont circle and logan circle, which form

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, crown paperbacks, 201 east 50th street, new york 10022.1995. chapter 8 nuclear structure- basis of shape power this chapter examines the shape power of subatomic structures. 8.1 introduction the atom is the ultimate, original, shape power structure. its perpetual vibration and motion reveals that it operates at the interface of the physical universe with the aetheric realm. all known forces and elements are embedded in the structure of the atom, and probably many more that we don't yet know about. solve how the atom does its perpetual motion miracle and you have solved how the physical universe is constructed. gravity control and free energy will be some of the resulting developments when the atom is understood. in chapter one, the simple atom, as envisioned by john e. w. keely, was depi

r torroid in a triple particle effect. the main torroid is made up of three smaller torroids rotating to form the larger main pattern, with each pattern repeating at each sub-level, possibly ad infinitum. modern physics envisions the atom as a collection of nuclear particles which are held together by the strong force, the weak force, gravity, electricity, and magnetism to form the various atomic elements. their theory is that the center of the atom has a nucleus, a core of these subatomic particles, which is surrounded by a cloud of electrons orbiting the nucleus at tremendous speed. neither keely's model without electrons nor the modernist view with their particle soup is a satisfying concept. electrons exist, at least particles 113 that look like them, smell like then and quack like tho

g to give a partial derivation of the mathematical formulas which describe the new alternate atomic model; however, if the reader wants to see the nitty gritty details, look into the articles listed in the bibliography at the end of this chapter. by and large, i have steered away from mathematical descriptions in preceding chapters and attempted to form a word and graphic depiction of the various elements of shape power to make this fascinating subject appealing, understandable, and usable to the serious researcher who may not have a mathematical background. in this chapter, i am going to show there is a very firm mathematical basis for this new physics. if math isn't your forte, then read the words and study the pictures, they tell the same story and you'll get 80% of the essential concep

hapter. the old idea of electrons rotating around the nucleus has been dispensed with and replaced by a four-basic-particle-structure where the particles are torroids of the aether rotating at the speed of light. the aether is modeled as a superfluid. using these concepts, we can easily derive the atomic constants and account for the atomic structure and derive the basic morphology of the various elements in the periodic table. the current orthodox view of atomic structure cannot do this. by the principle of occam's razor, the simpler model should be the prevalent view. 8.6 bibliography 1 "space is the absolute reality, dr. paramahansa tewari, international conference on space-time absoluteness, genoa, italy, july 1982. 2. bevond matter. dr. paramahansa tewari, printwell publications, 1984

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spirit to the course material world. even the shells or husks (evil spirits) are manifestations of god s power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and therefore beyond description. yahweh, according to the cabalist, is not the name of god but the phonetic pronunciation of the word god spoke at the moment of creation. yhvh, called the divine tetragrammaton or sacred four letter word, represents the elements earth, air, fire, and water. the hebrew god was a god of physical manifestation who appeared to moses in a burning bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night and cloud of vapor by day. it is likely that the hebrew mystical beliefs (which later formed the cabala) developed during the time the israelites lived among the egyptians. prior to the development of the cabala, the je

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the genitals of seth. this storm was the raging of ra at the thunder-cloud which [seth] sent forth against the right eye of ra (the sun. thoth removed the thunder-cloud from the eye of ra, and brought back the eye living, healthy, sound, and with no defect in it to its owner- from the papyrus of ani here we see that set was a sorcerer god, throwing filth and then thunder clouds, he controlled the elements of earth and the air. set although being injured, arose in might again after the battle, and later reached into obscurity to appear again in other cults outside of egypt under different names, all the while possessing the essence of which he created the adversary. set opened the paths of the two eyes (the sun and the moon- from the papyrus of ani the formula mentioned in the book of the d

. andar according to luciferian lore is a demon of the black flame, or isolate consciousness. zairich is a poisoning or testing demon, all of which are featured with invocations in the paitisha and yatuk dinoih. herein beyond the zoroastrian religion, acting outside of any connections with it, the sorcerer may choose this gnosis or current of the adversary in that he or she may seek the dangerous elements to strengthen their own will and separate themselves from those around them. in this act of antinomian rebellion, the sorcerer becomes a daeva or druj. the daeva known as akoman or aka manah is the evil mind, a personified demon of intellect which conspires against the vohu manah or good mind. herein presents a cipher to the reader; that they very essence of the so-called satanic or lucif

rms for material and spiritual are indeed menok and geteh. it is suggested by zaehner that they are from the avestan words mainyu and geathya, mainyu meaning our own mind and gaethya meaning to live thus from the latin roots as mens and mind. the spiritual or mind cannot be viable to any certainty in the physical realm beyond its will to shape its world around it, therefore the mind contains both elements of darkness and light. ahriman himself was born of light but yet chose darkness. in the zurvanite myth ahriman first perceived his own being and chose to exit the womb before his brother, who was born of light. ahriman was called dark and stinking by his father zurvan, who by casting aside his first born, allowed ahriman to go forth from the heavenly realm to choose his own devices within

is fate as it were. akht was said to have been defeated by yavisht and destroyed in physical form. the manichaean myths of creation were rich in their lore of the underworld. according to mary boyce18 who wrote on the manichaean myths, hell was divided into five kingdoms. in details on the underworld she also wrote- hell is divided into five kingdoms, each of the substance of one of the five dark elements. thse are sometimes given the same names as the corresponding light elements (i.e. standing air also for dark air) or sometimes the exact opposite (i.e. darkness for light .the five infernal kingdoms are inhabited by five kinds of devils, two-legged, four-legged, winged, swimmings and crawling. each kind is divided into two sexes, and lives in perpetual lust and strife. the devil, or prin

of demonic imagery from the earliest times of man. manichaean belief, as it developed from the dualistic religion of zoroastrianism, views the creation myth of mankind slightly different from its zoroastrian counterparts. in manichaean concepts adam was engendered by satan with the traits of desire, cupidity and those concepts which religions always have difficulty with. satan gave unto adam the elements of light which he was said to have stolen, so that he may embody that art in 17 translated by e.w. west, from haug and west, the book of arda viraf, bombay, london 1972, made into a digital edition courtesy of joseph peterson. 18 a reader in manichaean middle persian and parthian tehran 1975 17 mankind. it was indeed satan who fathered cain with eve, in luciferian lore as with az or lilit

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ical society (q.v, were primarily responsible with bringing the teachings of eastern occultism to the west. electro-encephalogram; e.e.g: a chart, made by means of electric terminals attached to person's head and connected to a tracing instrument, to track and show changes in electric patterns and potential in the brain. elemental: 1) a non-physical entity composed entirely of one of the magickal elements. these entities should actually be more properly called "elementaries (q.v) according to classic grimoires (q.v. 2) a spirit formed entirely from one of the four magickal elements (q.v) being: fire= salamanders; air= sylphs; water= undines; and earth= gnomes. these attributions were made by the ancient german occultist, paracelsus. 3) a "nature spirit" one of the living beings of the astr

e chain, are often used to communicate with spiritual entities. pentacle: any device which has a pentagram (q.v) on it. usually circular in shape, and made of metal, wood, parchment, or clay material. also, the tool of elemental earth. pentagram: a five pointed star. also called the pentalpha because it can be formed by five capital "a's" it is used to represent spirituality (spirit over the four elements) when it has one point up. with two points up it is said to represent materialism or "evil" some forms of wicca (q.v) do use the pentagram with two points up as a symbol, but for them it has no evil or negative connotation. the two points up represent the second of (usually) three degrees of initiations into wicca. pentagrammaton: five lettered name. yhshvh or yhvshh which is pronounced "

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al and etheric planes which, together, form the background of matter. upon the physical plane the divine emanations manifrst through what may not inapdy be called the ten mundane chakras, likening these centres of manifestation to the centres that exist in the human body, an exact analogy. these chakras are the primum mobile or first swirlings, the sphere of the zodiac, the seven planets, and the elements taken together-ten in all. 19. it will be seen from the foregoing that each sephirah will therefore consist, firstly, of its mundane chakra; secondly, of an angelic host of beings, devas or archons, principalities or powers, according to the terminology used; thirdly, an arch-angelic consciousness, or throne; and fourthly, a special aspect of the deity. god as he is, in his entirety, bein

d, a sevenfold system like theosophy; they are also valuable as indicating functional affiliations among the sephiroth themselves. 24. the final system of classification which we must note is under the presidency of the three mother letters of the hebrew alphabet: aleph, a; mem, m; and shin, sh. these three, according to the yetziratic attribution of the hebrew alphabet, are assigned to the three elements of air, water, and fire. under the presidency of aleph is the airy triad of kether, in which is the root of air, reflecting downward through tiphareth, the solar fire, into yesod, the lunar radiance. in binali is the root of water (marah, the great sea, reflected through chesed into hod, under the presidency of mem, the mother of watei. in chokmah is the root of fire, reflected downwards

however, which is considered the natural sphere of the sephiroth as such, and for this reason it is called the world of emanations. it is here, and here only, that god acts directly and not through his ministers. in briah he acts through the mediation of the archangels, in yetzirah through the angelic orders, and in assiah through those centres which i have named the mundane chakras-the planets, elements, and signs of the zodiac [page 62] 4. we have, then, in these four sets of symbols a complete system of notation for expressing the mode of function of any given power at any given level, and this system of notation is the basis of ceremonial magic with its names of power, and also of talismanic magic and the tarot system of divination. it is for this reason that it is said of the "barbar

rs of the name are allotted any fourfold mystical classification, and by means of their correspondences we can trace all manner of relationships, and these are very important in practical occultism, as will be seen later. 12. four important fourfold divisions find a place under them, thus enabling us to see their relationships among themselves. these are the four worlds of the qabalists; the four elements of the alchemists; the fourfold classification of the signs of the zodiac and the planets into triplicities, employed by the astrologers; and the four suits of the tarot pack used in divination. this fourfold classification resembles the rosetta stone which gave the key to the egyptian hieroglyphs, for on it were inscriptions in egyptian and greek; greek being known, it was possible to wo

such reticence, but gives the system as it is known among initiates. this is the method i propose to [page 74] follow in these pages, for i believe it to be the correct because the correspondences work out without discrepancies, a thing they do in none of the other systems. 8. according to this system, the four suits of the tarot pack are assigned to the four worlds of the qabalists and the four elements of the alchemists. the suit of wands is assigned to atziluth and fire. the suit of cups to briah and water. the suit of swords to yetzirah and air. the suit of pentacles or coins to assiah and earth. 9. the four aces are assigned to kether, the first sephirah; the four twos to chokmah, the second sephirah; and so on down the pack. the four tens being assigned to malkuth. it will thus be s

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rgely in a basis of repression and compromise in order that he may be a citizen at all and take his place in organised society, is upset by the elemental contacts according to the proportion of repression to compromise in his make-up. compromise is the normal lot of humanity; repression is the pathology of compromise. the person who has managed to effect a working compromise between the different elements of his nature can afford to allow himself a holiday with the devas without doing any body any harm; but the person who is repressed will find that they disagree with him actively because they are having the same effect upon him that a drastic psycho-analysis would have. we hear sometimes of the tragedy that results from taking the last dose in a bottle of tonic of which arsenic is one of

of air than in any other, and it is rare to see a ritual of air worked without something being dropped or knocked over. it is a quarrelsome element; when it is being worked, the operators are apt to bicker and squabble. it is also intimately associated with sex, as is revealed by its symbolism. if an occultist is making a magic circle, and for any reason wishes to seal it with the kerubim of the elements instead of the archangels, as is more commonly done, and feels himself unequal to the task of drawing a presentable eagle, the symbolic form of the kerub of air, he will use the zodiacal sign for scorpio. the evolutionary connection between the snake and the bird is well known to biologists; but long ages before darwin, initiates used the serpent and the eagle to represent the unsublimate

ation. suddenly we saw below us a figure bursting through hedges and leaping ditches and running wildly towards it. we presently recognised it as another of our friends, and when he joined us he told us that he had felt the sudden rush of power while in the valley and on an over powering impulse started for the hill-top. then all of us, without any suggestion of leadership, began the dance of the elements, whirling like dancing dervishes upon that hill-top. fortunately nobody was about, but i do not know that it would have made very much difference if they had been, for we were caught up out of ourselves and the air seemed full of rushing golden flames, lying level in the wind. for days afterwards we seemed charged with elemental energy by that extraordinary dance. 39 of 103 it may be inte

seemed full of rushing golden flames, lying level in the wind. for days afterwards we seemed charged with elemental energy by that extraordinary dance. 39 of 103 it may be interesting to note that we danced with a circular movement, each revolving on our own axis at the same time, and that we both danced and revolved deosil, that is, with the sun. all this occurred spontaneously, the tide of the elements catching us up and away. i have never known a more glorious experience. it was indeed the divine inebriation of the mysteries. after this there were no more smashings of crockery. i have already noted my exceptionally bad head for heights. i have found that it is considerably mitigated, temporarily at any rate, by the invocation of air. i am of the opinion that the curious impulse which c

evotee of the god, has for its motive the idea of divine union, not altogether unknown to christian mystics, who seek its achievement by a living death, whereas the adherents of juggernaut escape with one brief pang. the european belief of one man, one life, has imbued us with the idea of death as the supreme evil. therefore the european very often does not go to his death when he unites with the elements, but his higher self withdraws from incarnation, leaving his body ensouled by a curious kind of intelligent automaton, which deteriorates rapidly. what ever may be the status of the soul that withdraws, that which is left behind is not nice. i feel, therefore, that it must seriously delay and distort the evolution of the human monad if it turns aside into the sphere of the deva evolution

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ndering man dumb, unable to speak or comprehend the angelic language- the wellspring that fed understanding (binah) ceased to flow, and as a result, man lost the power of true and considered judgement (geburah. his judgement became unbalanced and reckless, and he fell prey to his lower emotions and impulses. the "four winds" mentioned by gabriel that surround wisdom are the four archangels of the elements, michael (fire, gabriel (water, raphael (air) and uriel (earth. they are winds because the speak with the angelic language, and its power and authority, and of course because they are winged. they are mentioned as a group in the book of enoch in connection with the fallen watchers who sin with the daughters of man, where these four archangels are primary servants and agents of god's judge

meaning for teloc-vovim is the death dragon, or perhaps the slaying dragon. aleister crowley linked coronzon to the tenth aethyr of enochian magic. the aethyrs (or aethers or ethers or airs) are dimensions or worlds of spirit arranged in a series of concentric shells, like ukrainian nesting dolls. the outermost sphere is numbered 1, and the innermost that is next to the earthly sphere of the four elements is numbered 30. one call is used to invoke the spirits of all the aethyrs, but the name of each aethyr is inserted into the first sentence of this invocation to differentiate it. the name of the tenth aethyr is zax. it is unique in that it is associated with the spirit names that lie upon the black cross of the great tablet of the watchtowers. all the other aethyrs are linked to spirit na

the abyss is empty of being; it is filled with all possible forms, each equally inane, each therefore evil in the only true sense of the word- that is, meaningless, but malignant, in so far as it craves to become real (confessions, page 623. to understand this surprising analysis, you must realize that for crowley, the abyss did not lie beneath the lowest sephirah, malkuth, the sphere of the four elements, but was a gulf that divided the tree of the sephiroth just below the three highest spheres, known collectively as the supernals. to reach the supernals in a spiritual sense, it was necessary for the seeker to cross the abyss. the abyss may be entered through the doorway of the eleventh quasi-sephirah, daath, located just below the supernals on the middle pillar of the tree. kenneth grant

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o the touch, and tends to clump together or be found in clods. the element earth is present not only in soil, but in all things heavy, dry and cool. metals embody the earth element. so do crystals. so does wood, although wood also contains latent within it the element fire. no natural substance is a pure element. no heavy, cool, dry matter is composed solely of earth, with none of the other three elements added in. the four elements are perfect, but no physical substance is perfect. fire is hot and dry. air is hot and moist. water is cool and moist. earth is cool and dry. fire and air tend to rise upward, water and earth tend to fall downward. fire and water are opposites and are antagonistic, as are air and earth. fire and air are friendly to each other, as are water and earth. elementals

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fic life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl" the reputation of the necronomicon rests both upon lovecraft's power as a storyteller, and on the fanciful history he concocted for the book, which is interwoven with true elements. for example, there really was an historical figure named "olaus wormius" as unlikely as this name sounds. according to lovecraft's own fictional history, the book was written around the year 730 at damascus by the arab poet abdul alhazred, who had been born at sana in yemen. the original arab title for the work was al azif. in 950 it was translated into greek by theodorus philetas, and r

DONALDTYSON PENTA

ily applied to such a figure with five equal sides and five equal angles. a pentagram contains a pentagon in its center. the significant aspect of the pentagram is that it have five points, and can be drawn with a single continuous line that reflects from point to point until it joins back on itself. this makes it very useful in practical magic. the five points are associated with the five occult elements. because the pentagram can be drawn with a single line, it is simple and elegant to inscribe upon the air during ritual magic. the origins of this symbol are lost in prehistory. it is found on neolithic rock carvings, and was probably always regarded as a symbol of mystical power, along with a limited number of other simple symbols such as the circle, the cross, the spiral, the square, th

h spirit. spirit is invoked by beginning the pentagram at the point of fire (lower-right) and inscribing its line first toward the point of air (upper-left. as in all cases, the reflecting, continuous line of the pentagram ends at the point where it begins. this pentagram, shown above on the left, is known as the equilibriated active pentagram of spirit, because it deals with the two active lower elements, and because it balances the forces of those elements. this is the first half of the invocation of spirit. spirit is further invoked by beginning at the point of earth (lower-left) and inscribing the first segment of a second pentagram toward the point of water (upper-right, then continuing along the line of the figure back to its starting point. this second pentagram, shown above on the

irit. spirit is further invoked by beginning at the point of earth (lower-left) and inscribing the first segment of a second pentagram toward the point of water (upper-right, then continuing along the line of the figure back to its starting point. this second pentagram, shown above on the right, is known as the equilibriated passive pentagram of spirit, because it deals with the two passive lower elements, and balances the forces of those elements. spirit is banished by beginning the pentagram at the point of air (upper-left) and inscribing its line first toward the point of fire (lower-right, then continuing to follow along the line of the pentagram to the starting point. this pentagram, shown above on the left, is known as the closing active pentagram of spirit, because it deals with the

balances the forces of those elements. spirit is banished by beginning the pentagram at the point of air (upper-left) and inscribing its line first toward the point of fire (lower-right, then continuing to follow along the line of the pentagram to the starting point. this pentagram, shown above on the left, is known as the closing active pentagram of spirit, because it deals with the active lower elements, and closes the operation by banishing the forces that were previously invoked. spirit is further banished by beginning the pentagram at the point of water (upper-right) and inscribing the first segment of its line toward the point of earth (lower-left, then going on in the usual way to complete the figure. this pentagram, shown above on the right, is known as the closing passive pentagra

veryday state of mind. sometimes it may be desirable to invoke spirit without banishing it, in order to create a spiritual charge or atmosphere in a particular locality, or to infuse an object or person with spiritual energy. this can be a powerful antidote to demonic possession or obsession, and an effective defense against magical attack. it is important to understand that all pentagrams of the elements are drawn in the same way, with a continuous line that ends at its starting place. it is only that different pentagrams begin at different points, and proceed around the figure either clockwise or counterclockwise. when invoking spirit, first the active, then the passive invoking pentagram is drawn. spirit is never invoked in the golden dawn method by only one pentagram. likewise, when ba

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of solomon, from the lemegeton or lesser key of solomon) a spirit seal is a more polished graphic representation of the spirit. it is often circular or oval in shape, and usually contains the sigil of the spirit inscribed in its center. it may also bear the name of the spirit in latin, greek or hebrew letters around it edge, and other occult symbols such as glyphs of the planets, zodiac signs or elements. by connotative usage, a physical object bearing a spirit symbol, such as a medallion, is more likely to be referred to as the spirit's seal, whereas the drawing of a spirit symbol in a manuscript is more apt to be called the spirit's sigil (occult characters associated with ophiel, spirit of mercury, from the nigromancia of roger bacon) confusion arises because the terms "sigil" and "sea

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er-popular ufo. these things give a convincing illusion of motion when filmed from a moving car or plane. when the fuzzy blob cannot be identified, it survives as a visual record of a ufo, in the literal sense of the term. ufo "fuzzies" may also be generated by light artifacts or defects within the mechanism of the still or movie camera. possible causes are incorrect focus, reflections from glass elements in the camera's compound lens, light infiltration into the body of the camera, dirt on the lens, defects or contaminants on the film itself, and reflections from the camera flash. there are photographs of ufos that clearly show physical objects of an unknown kind. these objects are usually saucer or hubcap shaped. sometimes rivets, windows, doors, colored lights, and other details can be

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

r our knowledge of their earliest conceptions of a future life. the existence in heaven. the life of the osiris of a man in heaven is at once material and spiritual and it seems as if the egyptians never succeeded in breaking away from their very ancient habit of confusing the things of the body with the things of the soul. they believed in an incorporeal and immortal part of man, the constituent elements of which flew to heaven after death and embalmment; yet the theologians of the vith dynasty had decided that there was some part of the deceased which could only mount to heaven by means of a ladder. in the pyramid of teta it is said "when teta hath purified himself on the borders of this earth where ra hath purified himself, he prayeth and setteth up the ladder, and those who dwell in th

, 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 and female. these eight elements were called nu and nut,[1] heh and hehet,[2] kek and keket,[3] and enen and enenet,[4] or khemennu, the "eight" and they were considered as primeval fathers and mothers.[5] they are often represented in the forms of four male and four female apes who stand

ELIPHAS LEVI THE CONJURATION OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS

de premitif analyse. paris 1773-82. volume 8. etteilla or alliette. philosophie des hautes sciences. amsterdam. 1785. etteilla. lecons theoriques et pratiques du livre du thot. 1787. tarots egyptiennes ou grand etteilla. 1830. etteila. maniere de se recreer avec le jeu des tarots. 1783-5. the magical ritual of the sanctum regnum the magical ritual of the sanctum regnurethe conjuration of the four elements, by eliphas levi. the four elementary forms separate and specify by a kind of rough outline, the created spirits whom the universal movement disengages from the central fire. everywhere spirit works and fecundates matter by life; all matter is animated; thought and soul are everywhere. in seizing upon the thought that produces the diverse forms, we become the master of forms and make them

elementary commotions. phenomena ascertained in the processes of magic and all those recently verified by m. eudes de merville have no other causes. elementary spirits are like young children. they torment those more who busy themselves with them, unless one has control of them by means of superior rationality and great severity. these are the spirits which we designate under the name of "occult elements" these spirits are those who often prepare disquieting or fantastic dreams. they are those who produce the movements of the divining rod, and the raps on walls and furniture. but they can never manifest any other thought than our own, and if we are not thinking, they talk to us with all the incoherence of dreams. they reproduce good and evil indifferently, because they are without free wi

loy or abuse them like animals or children. therefore the magus who employs their help assumes a terrible responsibility, for he will have to expiate all the evil which he makes them do, and the greatness of his torments will be proportionate to the extent of the power which he will have exercised through their agency. in order to control elementary spirits, and thus become the king of the occult elements, we must have previously undergone the four trials of the ancient initiations. as these no longer exist, it is necessary to supply their place by analogous actions, such as exposing oneself without fear in a conflagration, of crossing a gulf upon the trunk of a tree or upon a plank, or scaling a steep mountain during a storm, or getting away from a cascade, or from a dangerous whirlpool b

o water! let a fire burn! let air circulate! let earth fall upon the earth, by virtue of the pentagram which is the morning star, and in the name of the tetragram, which is written in the center of the cross of light. amen. the sign of the cross adopted by the christians does not belong to them exclusively. it is also kabalistic, and represents the contrasts, and the quaternary equilibrium of the elements. we see by the occult stanza of the lord's prayer, which we have indicated in our dogma, 9 that there were primitively two modes of making it, or at least two very different formulas to distinguish it. one reserved for the priests and initiated; the other granted to neophytes and the profane. thus, for example, said "to thee" then he added "belong" and continued while carrying his hand to

out being burned; he will walk on the water, and will behold the diamonds through the crust of the earth. these promises which may seem hyperbolical are only so in the minds of the vulgar; for though the sage does not do materially and precisely the things which these words express, he will do many greater and more wonderful. in the meantime it is not to be doubted that individuals can direct the elements by the will to a certain extent, and change or really stop their effects. why, for example, if it is ascertained that certain individuals in a state of ecstasy lose their weight for the moment, could we not walk or glide upon the water? saint medard's convulsionaries felt neither fire nor sword, and begged as a relief the most violent blows and the most incredible tortures. are not the st

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kind of prophetic interest; especially as at that time it could hardly have been possible for the few masons in the territory to have known each other, except as mere adventurers. as a manifestation of the all-pervading affections of masons for the lodge it is worthy of enduring record in our archives. it is one of those facts that will reach forward into our history and seize upon those undying elements which shall transmit it to posterity. the fact will render the spot sacred-and once known among masons it will never be forgotten- that the first lodge in the territory was opened and closed upon the summit of the rocky mountains. i might dilate upon the beauty of the evening upon which we met-the calm radiance of the moon and stars, the 178 on the summit of the rocky mountains grandeur o

EMERALD TABLET MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS

ugh of santalla, perhaps from different sources. the date of the kitab sirr al-asar is uncertain, though c.800 has been suggested and it is not clear when the tablet became part of this work. holmyard was the first to find another early arabic version (ruska found a 12th centruy recension claiming to have been dictated by sergius of nablus) in the kitab ustuqus al-uss al-thani (second book of the elements of foundation) attributed to jabir. shortly after ruska found another version appended to the kitab sirr al-khaliqa wa san`at al-tabi`a (book of the secret of creation and the art of nature, which is also known as the kitab balaniyus al-hakim fi'l-`ilal (book of balinas the wise on the causes. it has been the emerald tablet of herme othe emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

istic perception of satan in addition to the atheistic persuasion also presented in the book. the church of satan s grotto master application requires prospective grotto masters, who are individuals that lead a local chapter of church of satan followers, to perform a self-initiation ritual: 15. before you complete this application when you sense the time is right perform a ritual (using the basic elements described in the satanic bible) to petition satan and the dark legions to accept you as a grotto master. write down the ritual you performed and the results, if any [13] again, this ritual, requesting an infernal mandate, has theistic overtones. part of the church of satan s ideology specifically appeals to people that feel a need to bolster their egos, feeling that they are more importan

perpetuating. the church of satan s solitary rituals thus contribute to a sense of solidarity and community, and they satisfy the followers desire for rituals, if any. 1.4 lacking rituals as of this writing, the church of satan is 36 years old according to its reported foundation date, and obviously the religion has not yet had time to evolve significantly. it is nonetheless striking that certain elements of the religion that are often absent in new religions are still missing. a religion that is more than a generation old should have had its share already of couples desiring to get married or individuals that have passed away. a wedding ritual has been written [2, p. 604, but for all practical purposes it does not exist. in spite of an expected demand, rituals concerning marriage and deat

inspiration from the satanic bible or several of the many sources that anton lavey cited is unescapable seeing that most other sources are christian theology. drawing inspiration from anton lavey is not equivalent to copying the church of satan. split groups are inevitable, because traditionally such groups arise from different interpretations of a religion, or because emphasis is placed on other elements of the religion than in the original organization. the vagueness of the church of satan begs for diversion and individuals focusing on each their understanding. in any religion, individuals that delve deeper into a case that they feel dedicated to usually desire less breadth in the organization s conviction than necessary for the sustainment of the original community. they split off, not

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bduction and the satanism tales have created a new designation of the forgotten memory syndrome. as basic research on abductions occurred, investigators sharply divided over their interpretation. many ufologists, such as historian david jacobs, followed hopkins in arguing for the basic truth of the cases and saw the cases as the best evidence of an extraterrestrial presence on earth. more extreme elements wove increasingly paranoid tales of government conspiracies and compacts with hostile aliens. however, most abductees have only sought to discover what had happened to them, and have been happy to learn that others have had a similar experience. over time, they have sought for some larger meaning in this incident. most investigations have concluded that there is no psychopathology in the

nity in italy. communal studies 16 (1996) 71.84. merrifield, jeff. damanhur: the real dream. london: thorsons, 1998. akasha (or soniferous ether) one of the five elementary principles of nature according to hindu mysticism. akasha is the first of these principles, and out of it the others are created. these subtle principles, or tattvas, are related to the five senses of human beings and to basic elements of matter: earth (prithivi, water (apas, fire (tejas, and air (vayu. the all-pervading akasha is responsible for vibrations of light and sound. sources: prasad, rama. the science of breath and the philosophy of the tattvas, translated from the sanskrit, with introductory and explanatory essays on nature s finer forces. london: theosophical publishing society, 1897. akashic records a theos

phenomena whose distinguishing characteristic is the assumption of a personality changing to that of the medium. 2. under the name animism we include unconscious psychical phenomena that show themselves outside the limits of the medium s body. extra-mediumistic operation of objects without contact and finally materialisation. we have here the highest manifestation of the psychic duplication; the elements of personality overstep the limits of the body up to the point of complete externalisation and objectification. 3. under the name spiritism we include phenomena resembling both personalisation and animism but which we much ascribe to some extra-mediumistic and extra-terrene cause. they differ from the phenomena of personalisation and animism in their intellectual content which affords evi

e, and is typified by sulphur, which is the mercury of the sages, which slowly fructifies under the genial warmth of nature. thus, the alchemist had to be ingenuous, of a truthful disposition, and gifted with patience and prudence, following nature in every alchemical performance. he recalled that like attracts like, and had to know how to obtain the seed of metals, which was produced by the four elements through the will of the supreme being and the imagination of nature. we are told that the original matter of metals was double in its essence, being a dry heat combined with a warm moisture, and that air is water coagulated by fire, capable of producing a universal dissolvent. these terms the neophyte must be cautious of interpreting in their literal sense, for it is likely that alchemist

ich is female, and the crux of alchemy was to obtain their seed .a process the alchemistical philosophers did not describe with any degree of clarity. the physical theory of transmutation is based on the composite character of metals, and on the presumed existence of a substance which, applied to matter, exalts and perfects it. this substance, eugenius philalethes and others called the light. the elements of all metals were said to be similar, differing only in purity and proportion. the entire trend of the metallic kingdom was toward the natural manufacture of gold, and the production of the baser metals was only accidental as the result of an unfavorable environment. the philosophers stone was the combination of the male and female seeds that form gold. the composition of these was so ve

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f occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. the macrocosm 953 macro-pk term used to denote the effects of psychokinesis (paranormal movements) that, like table turning, are large enough to be observed by the naked eye. in contrast, micro-pk refers to psychokinetic effects so minute that they require statistical analysis or special methods to detect. the macroprosopus representing one of the four magical elements in the kabala and probably representing one of the four simple elements. air, water, earth, or fire. macroprosopus means creator of the great world. macumba african-derived brazilian religions that have spirit possession as a central feature. madonna ministry the madonna ministry is a new thought metaphysical ministry founded by bishop arnold michael, formerly a minister with the united c

bles light, as his soul or spirit resembles truth. they condemned all images and those who said that the gods were male and female; they had neither temples nor altars, but worshiped the sky, as a representative of the deity, on the tops of mountains; they also sacrificed to the sun, moon, earth, fire, water, and winds, said herodotus, meaning no doubt that they adored the heavenly bodies and the elements. this was probably before the time of zoroaster, when the religion of persia seems to have resembled that of ancient india. their hymns in praise of the most high exceeded (according to dio chrysostom) the sublimity of anything in homer or hesiod. they exposed their dead bodies to wild beasts. schlegel maintained that it was an open question whether the old persian doctrine and wisdom or

rits were conjured (summoned up) from heaven or hell. the double triangle, or the sign of solomon, is symbolic of the macrocosm, and is formed by the interlacement of two triangles: its points thus constitute the perfect number six. magicians wore it bound on their brows and breasts during ceremonies, and it was engraved on the silver reservoirs of magic lamps. the tetragram, symbolic of the four elements, was used in the conjuration of the elementary spirits.sylphs of the air, undines of the water, and the fire salamanders and gnomes of the earth. in alchemy it represented the magical elements salt, sulphur, mercury, and azoth; in mystic philosophy, the ideas spirit, matter, motion, and rest; in hieroglyphs, the man, eagle, lion, and bull. the pentagram, the sign of the microcosm, was hel

aration and consecration of this sign for use in magical rites was prescribed with great detail. it might be composed of seven metals, the ideal form for its expression, or traced in pure gold upon white marble never before used for any purpose. it might also be drawn with vermilion upon lambskin without a blemish prepared under the auspices of the sun. the sign was next consecrated with the four elements, breathed on five times, dried by the smoke of five perfumes (incense, myrrh, aloes, sulfur, and camphor. the names of five genii were breathed above it, and then the sign was placed successively at the north, south, east, west, and center of the astronomical cross, while the letters of the sacred tetragram and various kabalistic names were prounced over it (see kabala. it was believed to

n.y: university books, 1961. woodroffe, sir john. sakti and sakta. madras, india: ganesh, 1918. magical numbers certain numbers and their combinations were traditionally held to be of magical power, by virtue of their representation of divine and creative mysteries. the doctrines of pythagoras (see greece) furnished the basis for much of this belief. according to his theory, numbers contained the elements of all things, of the natural and spiritual worlds and of the sciences. the real numerals of the universe were the primaries one to ten, and in their combination the reason of all else might be found. magical blend magazine encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 960 to the pythagoreans, one represented unity, therefore god; two was duality, the devil; four was sacred and holy

EVERBURNING LAMPS

ese words engraved- plutoni sacrum munus ne attingite fures, ignotum est vobis hoc quod in urna latet namque elementa gravi clausit digesta labore, vase sub hoc modico maximus olybius. adsit secundo custos sibi copia cornu ne tanti pretium depereat laticis. thieves! grasp not this gift sacred to pluto, ye are ignorant of what it contains hidden, for maximus olybius has enclosed in this small urn, elements digested with heavy toil, let abundance be present in a second vase as a guardian to it, lest the value of so much oil should perish. on the smaller one were these words- abite hinc pessimi fures vos quid vultis, vestris cum oculis emisitiis. abite hinc, vestro cum mercurio petasato caduceato que donum hoc maximum, maximus olybius plutoni sacrum facit. get ye hence, most wicked thieves, w

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

derson writes, it has been inc reasingly evident to re s e a rchers that automatism of whatever kind is neither a psyc h i c ability nor a pathway to higher knowledge. appearances notwithstanding, it is only too clear 60 channeling gerry bowman channeling the spirit of john the baptist, august 15, 1987, shasta national forest, california (roger ressmeyer/corbis) in most cases that all the various elements that go to make up the act of automatism are owe d solely to the automatist and his or her experience in. life (anderson, 1988. on the other hand, a skeptical but sympathetic obs e rve r, brown un i versity anthro p o l o g i s t michael f. brown, defends channeling as, at its best, a lively arena for the free play of the re l igious imagination. it is likely to remain a site of emotional

anuel sananda. gyeorgos ceres hatonn 117 sananda is aboard my command craft from whence he will direct all evacuation and transition activities as regards the period you ones call the end prophecies of armageddon. in contrast to the benign words of most othe rworldly beings who speak through contactees, hatonn and his fellows preach a fie rcely expressed conspiracy theory with openly anti-semitic elements. for example: a n a rchy is something that the jew pro m o t e s re l e n t l e s s l y. while in complete control of the financial powers of the state, they promote internecine strife (ec k e r, 1992. hatonn also denies that the holocaust ever occurred. ha t o n n refers to jews who are working with the anti- christ, satan, and the evil leaders of the new world order to control the world

at he spent some time in a mental hospital, and he may also have served a short prison stretch for bootlegging. on occasion shaver intimated as much, even as he less plausibly claimed to have lived in the caves with the embattled teros( integrative robots; again, like their enemies the deros, beings of flesh and blood. how long he supposedly lived there is also unclear. in any event, out of these elements came a complex, alternate history of the human race. long ago, according to shaver, extraterrestrials known as atlans and titans or the elder races colonized the earth (the atlans lived on atlantis, the titans on lemuria) these beings, who possessed fantastic technologies, lived extraordinarily long lives and never stopped growing, owing to the integrative (positive) energies cast out by

time telling the truth even about the most mundane aspects of his life. bryant died just after buckle s book was published. british ufologist norman oliver, who interviewed bryant s wife around that time, was told that bryant s story was bogus. he had based it on his considerable reading of ufo and occult literature and his extensive knowledge of adamski s claims. oliver exposed the many dubious elements of the case in a self-published monograph. see also: adamski, george; contactees further reading buckle, eileen, 1967. the scoriton mystery. london: neville spearman. leslie, desmond, 1965. obituary: george adamski. flying saucer review 11, 4 (july/august: 18 19. oliver, norman, 1968. sequel to scoriton. london: self-published. y hova according to the extraterrestrialism theories of yonah

FAUST

an ancient hell-lynx there. but now give heed! hover hence, hither hover, under, over, and he soon himself has freed. can ye avail him, oh, do not fail him! for he has already done much to profit us, each one. faust first, to deal with this beast s core, i will use the spell of four: salamander must be glowing, undine self-coiling, sylph vanish in going, kobold keep toiling. who would ignore the elements four, their powers and dowers, no master he over spirits can be. vanish in fiery glow, salamander! gurgling, together flow, undine! in meteoric beauty shine, sylph! bring homely help, incubus! incubus! step forth and end the charm for us. none of the four hides in the beast. he lies quite calmly, grins evermore; i ve not yet hurt him in the least. thou lt hear me longer conjure thee stron

ght. night after night with them to dwell is not, i d say, a pleasant thought; let s spy them, try them, thoughhomunculus the mantle there! come, wrap it straightway round the knight! as heretofore the rag will bear you both upon your novel flight. i ll light the way. wagner [anxiously] and i? homunculus well, you will stay at home, most weighty work to do. open the parchment-sheets, collect life-elements as the recipes direct, with caution fitting each to other. ponder the what- to solve the how still harder try, while through a little piece of world i wander to find the dot to put upon the i. accomplished then will the great purpose be. striving earns high requital: wealth, honour and fame, long life and perfect health, knowledge and virtue too- well, possibly. farewell! wagner [sorrowfu

hitherward wavers, and bright all forms are aglow on the pathway of night, and roundabout all is by fire overrun. now eros be ruler who all hath begun! hail, ye waves! hail, sea unbounded, by the holy fire surrounded! water, hail! hail, fire s glare! hail to this adventure rare! all together. hail, thou gently blowing breeze! hail, earth rich in mysteries! hail, fire, sea, whom we adore, hail, ye elements all four! act iii before the palace of menelaus in sparta helena. panthalis, leader of the chorus. helena enters with a chorus of captive trojan women. helena i, much admired and upbraided helena come from the strand where we but now have disembarked, still giddy from the restless rocking of the waves which with poseidon s favour and the strength of eurus bore us on their high reluctant b

s too do they stand supreme; proudly with their peers are they allied, with persephone most intimate. we, however, in the background of deep, asphodelian meadows, with far-reaching poplars and unfruitful willows joined, what diversion shall we have there? bat-like to squeak and twitter in whispers undelighting, spectral. panthalis who hath not won a name nor wills a noble deed, belongs but to the elements, so fare thy way! hotly i wish to join my queen. not merit alone, faithfulness too preserves our personality. exit. all back to the light of day are we now restored, truly persons no more. we feel it, we know it too, but to hades we go back never; for ever-living nature lays claim to us spirits, we to her lay claim that is valid. a part of the chorus. in these thousand branches quivering

, you will win it; for, in brief, you ll be the general-in-chief. faust a really lofty post for me, commanding in places of which i ve no understanding! mephistopheles you let the general staff provide and the field marshal s safe whate er betide. lack of war-counsel i have long since traced, hence a war-council i have straightway based on primal mountains primal human might; blest he who can its elements unite. faust what do i see there bearing arms? have you stirred mountain-folk with your alarms? mephistopheles no! i have called, like peter quince, of all the lot of quintessence. the three mighty men appear (ii sam. 23, 8. mephistopheles you see my fellows coming there! of different ages are they, surely, in different garb and outfit they appear; with them, i know, you ll not fare poorl

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

ferent in practice than rabbinical judaism. the word rabbi is not to be found in the hebrew torah and only finds limited usage in the entire tanakh (torah, prophets, and writings, where it is used to denote tribal leaders and other authorities.5 master yeshuvah told his disciples not to take the title rabbi, and taught that the lord hvhy is the only true rabbi.6 the anthropological and linguistic elements that shaped the nomadic israelite tribes are topics of much conjecture and dialogue among ancient near eastern scholars from a variety of disciplines. the first book of the torah (called torah b reshith) says that abraham came from ur of the chaldees. what were the history, ethnic composition, and cultural and religious milieus from which abraham came? how was his faith influenced by the

ed in the labors necessary to feed and clothe themselves. it is likely that the religious observances of the hebrews would have involved quintessential spiritual practices dating from antiquity and found in all monotheistic religions. these practices include: ablution, prostration, invocation of divine names, devotional singing, prayer offerings, ritual use of sacraments and sacred regard for the elements, community-building rituals based on the mystical significance of rites of passage and seasons of nature, and the special treatment of guests. in the torah, there are numerous accounts of holy figures ascending to and worshipping at power spots on special mountains. there are also several accounts of the ritual use of a stone lingam, over which was poured a libation of oil or perhaps milk

sacraments of the body and blood of christ in the eucharist have their roots in the sacramental use of bread and wine that goes back to the earliest hebrews and beyond. ablution with water, lighting of candles, prostration, rituals that celebrate the mystical significance of the rites of passage, and rituals associated with 8- f e 3 changes of season, planting and harvesting are other fundamental elements christianity shares in common with its hebrew, judaic, and islamic cousins. a more in-depth look at the core ideas of mystical christianity within the context of the universal mystical qabalah will appear later in the book when the peshitta and the revelation of john are discussed in more detail. starting in the late fifteenth century ce, a movement arose among some jewish converts to chr

ese taoist alchemists.41 unfortunately, the sexual disciplines (which are just one component of the tantric tradition overall) are poorly understood, dangerous, and have long suffered from corruption and exploitation. while there is a plethora of material to compare between the qabalah and the north indian and tibetan buddhist tantra, it is well beyond the scope of this book* 4* 4 '0* a number of elements in the qabalistic teachings regarding the work of the chariot (ma aseh merkabah) and the work of the creation (ma aseh b reshith) provide rich opportunities for comparison with the ideas and models of modern physics and astrophysics. for instance, it has been particularly popular in some recent books to compare the lurianic doctrine of the 0' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% expansion of light in the en

sefer yetzirah, however, presents the star as a three-dimensional, sixpointed form of the tree of life comprised of two interfacing pyramids. the sefer yetzirah provides one of the two vastly different sets of names commonly found in the qabalah for the spheres (called sefiroth) on the tree (the other set comes from the sefer hazohar. the names for the sefiroth in the sefer yetzirah are based on elements (spirit of living elohim, air, fire, water, on four celestial heads of messiah, and on the six directions. these and the other correspondences that the book gives for the spheres and gates on the tree will be discussed in detail later in the book like the three innermost core texts of the sefer hazohar, the sefer yetzirah stands out within primary qabalistic literature for the depth, ters

FOCUS OF LIFE

ideas; the body is subject and suffers. what man can prevent his belief from incarnating? who is free of filth and disease? all men are servile to the great unconsciousness of thier purpose in desire. the i thinks, the self doth. there is no salvation from desire, neither day nor night does it cease its lengthy procreation of cause and effect: penetrating all things inexplicably. endless are its elements and nothing whatsoever escapes its embrace-but its own self-love. should i fear my i" aaos lowering his voice, uttered "what further use shall i give my sexuality? verily it is alway speaking for me! this i, non-resisting to the self, becomes irresistible" when the voice had left aaos went his way muttering and smiling "can it be possible that dead wives resurrect" for he thought that-wom

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

s attached. it is not known when the hermetic framework was first used for philosophy, but the asclepius and the corpus hermeticum, which are the most important of the philosophical hermetica which have come down to us, are probably to be dated between a.d. ioo and 300.3 though cast in a pseudo-egyptian framework, these works have been thought by many scholars to contain very few genuine egyptian elements. others would allow for some influence of native egyptian beliefs upon them.4 in any case, 1 festugiere, i, pp. 67 ff. 2 cicero, de nat. deor, i l l, 22. 3 c.h, i, p. v (preface by nock; festugiere, iii, p. 1. 4 as bloomfield says "scholarship has veered from one extreme to the other on this question of the egyptian elements in hermeticism (see 2 hermes trismegistus however, they were cer

s in his edition of the hermetica have been consulted as well as the prefaces and notes in the nock-festugiere edition. other useful works are a. d. nock, conversion, oxford, 1933; c. h. dodd, the bible and the greeks, london, 1935; r. mc. l. wilson, the gnostic problem, london, 1958. 2 there is general agreement that the first treatise of the corpus hermeticum, the pimander, contains some jewish elements but opinions differ as to the amount of the writers' indebtedness to hellenised judaism. 3 most scholars are of the opinion that there is very little, if any, christian influence in the hermetica. dodd, who stresses the jewish influence, thinks that "features of the hermetica in which christian influence might be suspected, can be accounted for by hellenistic-jewish ideas which lie behind

he sublime, and the air, being light, follows the fiery breath "that light, says pimander "is i myself, nous, thy god. and the luminous word issuing from the nous is the son of god" trismegistus then sees within himself, in his own nous or mens, the light and an innumerable number of powers, a limitless world and the fire enveloped in an all powerful force. he asks pimander "whence then arise the elements of nature" and pimander replies "from the will of god, which received into itself the word. and the nous-god, existing as life and light, brought forth a second nows-demiurge, who being the god of fire and breath, fashioned the governors, seven in number, who envelop with their circles the sensible world" the word united itself with the nows-demiurge, being of the same substance, and the

intellect (not all men have it) can thus know himself. and trismegistus must live a pure and holy life, rendering the father propitious to him through filial love and uttering benedictions and hymns. trismegistus gives thanks to pimander for having revealed all things to him, but wishes also to know about the "ascension. pimander explains that at death the mortal body dissolves into its corporeal elements but the spiritual man goes up through the armature of the spheres leaving at each sphere a part of his mortal nature and the evil it contains. then, when entirely denuded of all that the spheres had imprinted on him, he enters into the "ogdoadic" nature, hears the powers singing hymns to god and becomes mingled with the powers. trismegistus is now dismissed by pimander "after having been

one. you see that the world is always one, the sun, one, the moon, one, the divine activity, one; god too, is one. and since all is living, and life is also one, god is certainly one. it is by the 1 st. john, i, iv, xii. 2 c.h, i, pp. 147-57; ficino, pp. 1850-52. 31 ficino's "pimander"and the "asclepius" action of god that all things come into being. death is not the destruction of the assembled elements in a body, but the breaking of their union. the change is called death because the body dissolves, but i declare to you, my dear hermes, that the beings who are thus dissolved are but transformed. all beings are in god but not as though placed in a place, for it is not thus that they are placed in the incorporeal faculty of representation. judge of this from your own experience. command y

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

when we move, the universe moves. to dance requires skill and movement. with stagnant rites and stuffy old corpses in robes, the modern rave is a prime example of the temple of our lady. i/13a: a infinite cardinal number is a concept of set theory, expressing how many members are in an infinite set. the least infinite cardinal number is 0 (aleph-null. two sets have the same cardinal number if the elements of both sets can be put into a one-to-one correspondence. two implies construction from 1, and a reverse ascension. i/13b: what happens to mind when paradox, feeds in on itself to an infinite degree? i/14a: a prophecy. the spiraling inwards is an allusion to initiation. the word time, causes laughter. i/14b: grendel talks of the quaklephant, and the power of knowledge. the first leap of t

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

tsider and others. since then, many other writers have contributed to the growing annals of the cthulhu mythos, adding their own deities to the pantheon, and creating eldritch tomes to add to the list of blasphemous grimoires. these authors include many of lovecraft s personal correspondents clark ashton smith, robert e. howard, frank belknap long, robert bloch and derleth himself. more recently, elements of the cthulhu mythos have featured in the work of such writers as cohn wilson, ramsey campbell, and brian lumley. the mythos has also been adopted for practical use by a number of contemporary magical and occult groups and organizations. anton la vey, head of the california-based church of satan, published his satanic rituals in 1972, and devoted a whole chapter to the metaphysics of lov

d his satanic rituals in 1972, and devoted a whole chapter to the metaphysics of lovecraft, including detailed descriptions of two lovecraftian rituals, the ceremony of the nine angles and the call to cthulhu. these rituals were transcribed in the original language of the necronomicon, and translated into english by lavey s fellow satanist, michael aquino9. another group which employs lovecratian elements in their workings is the black snake cult, or la couleuvre noire, a voodoo coven which combines the rites of the left-hand path with archetypes from the cthulhu mythos. its leader, michael bertiaux, is one of the chief adepts of the ordo templi orientis antiqua and its offshoot, the monastery of the seven rays, and was initiated as a voodoo-gnostic master in haiti in 1963. in his study of

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

or example, in its rosary litanies, and shamans all over the world are known to work with different forms of mantras. while a sound knowledge of mantra theory can be of help when using mantrica n ecessary. sometimes it may even prove to be an oobstacle if you are for some reason (e.g, cond d special, established system. our sentence of desire has been tuned into a mantra by manipulating its sound elements, and we cannot recognize its meaning anymore (as is also the case with word and pictorial sigils) you can now activate this acoustic will guide you into a kind of gmantra-stupor h (this will follow naturally and may sometim 58/ practical sigil magic only a s: few minutes f chanting; thus, your directive for the unconscious, which is now concealed in the acoustic sigil, can pass the censor

bably is. finally, i should mention that all these emotions and principles have their own sigils or glyphs le: d destruction noncategory/emotion= sex (generic term= lust noncategory/emotion= for further details, please refer to liber null itself. the above notes should illustrate the structure of human emotions. any number of other systems of order may be used and developed. for example, the four elements earth, water, fire and air may be employed as major categories, as well as the ten sephiroth, the 22 paths of the cabbalistic tree of life (an approach may be found in liber null, pp. 77 and 86, the 1 2 energy qualities of the zodiac, timothy leary fs an 68/ practical sigil magic s own, truly origin o the basic structures of the human psyche, i.e, rchetypal patterns which should always im

tially a proof for the existence of dualism, at least when viewed as an ontological problem. the alphabet of desire/ 69 now we understand that the alphabet of desire has developed into a significant instrument of the dawning of consciousness merely by having been created. if you want to construct your own alphabet following the structuring method described above, you will have to figure out those elements which you want to include and which can personify the energies of your own psyche. just listing them is not good enough, however. you will have to find a proper framework for them. let us start with a modest example. for reasons of simplicity, we will experiment with the four elements earth, water, fire and air. this is a system with which most magicians will be at least somewhat familiar

oper framework for them. let us start with a modest example. for reasons of simplicity, we will experiment with the four elements earth, water, fire and air. this is a system with which most magicians will be at least somewhat familiar. as a further framework we will choose dualism for the reasons mentioned. looking for emotional and character qualities which form dualities, we assign them to the elements as follows (this, of course, is but one of many possible examples: 70/ practical sigil magic now i will discuss a sigil language, a canon of symbols, the particular use of which we will come to later. one possibility is to develop the chosen sigil, perhaps by applying the word method (whereby the chosen word itself serves as raw material) and combining it with the glyph of the major categ

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

:51:56 am] industry, to meet the various demands upon him. placed in a position where he holds almost constant correspondence with our masonic brethren of every state and country, upon him devolves, in a large degree, the good name and credit of the masonic family of this state. the fraternity should enable him to maintain it; he should strive that itbe maintained. courtesy and patience are to be elements in his manners and character. vigilance and fidelity must also be necessary qualities. our constitutions, my brother, point out to you fully the duties of your office, and l will not recapitulate them. your capability for their prompt and faithful execution has induced your brethren to confide this trust to you, and i feel assured that it is well placed. in investing you with your officia

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

the force of gravitation; but our bodies being solid, that is to say, of the same density as the material whereof our globe is composed, we are thus prevented from sinking through the earth by displacement as we would sink in water, or by interpenetration as we would pass through ether. when death comes and we shed this so-called mortal coil, we find ourselves in vehicles that are finer than the elements of the earth. a person clothed in these finer vehicles could easily penetrate through the various strata of our globe to the center if there were no other obstacles. having shed the dense body, he is no longer subject to gravitation, but to levitation, and on that account he usually finds it sufficiently difficult to stay upon the surface of the earth. only during the first part of his po

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

anity of that time has now evolved to the glory of archangels; some were more advanced than others, but there was no antagonism among them. our present humanity had advanced to a plantlike stage, and was slightly above the new lifewave started in the sun period, and unity also here prevailed. in the moon period contact of the heated sphere with cold space generated moisture, and the battle of the elements commenced in all its fierceness. the heated ball of fire endeavored to evaporate the moisture, force it outwards and create a vacuum wherein to maintain its integrity and burn undisturbed; but there is and can be no void in nature, hence the outrushing steam condensed at a certain distance from the heated ball and was again driven inwards by the cold of space, to be again evaporated and p

the zone between the heated center of the separate spirit sphere, and the point where its individual atmosphere meets cosmic space, is a battleground of evolving spirits at various stages of evolution. the present angels were human in the moon period, and the highest initiate is the holy spirit (jehovah. as our humanity and the other kingdoms of life on earth are variously affected by the present elements, so that some like heat, others prefer cold, some thrive on moisture and others require dryness, so also in the moon period among the angels, some had affinity for water, others abhorred it and loved fire. the continued cycles of condensation and evaporation of the moisture surrounding the fiery center eventually caused incrustation, and it was the purpose of jehovah to mold this "red ear

of sheba bound his tongue and stayed his arm, for he hoped that when the ambitious plan of hiram failed, the affections of the queen would turn from his humiliated rival to himself. he therefore closed eyes and ears to plot and plotters. when hiram confidently pulled the plugs, the liquid fire rushed out, was met by the water, and there was a roar that seemed to shake heaven and earth, while the elements boiled and battled. all but hiram hid their faces at the awful havoc; then from the center of the raging fire he heard the call of tubal cain, bidding him jump into the molten sea. full of faith in his ancestor, who had gone before him upon the path of fire, hiram obeyed and plunged fearlessly into the flames. sinking through the disintegrated bottom of the vessel, he was conducted succes

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

r, albert g. mackey provides us with the occult explanation in his book, the symbolism of freemasonry [p. 195, 1869 a.d] the triangle pointing downward "is a female symbol corresponding to the 'yoni' and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the 'lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a

phical publishing company, 1951, p. 131] masonic author, albert mackey, tells us of the sexual connotation of this hexagram "the triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam. when the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements [mackey, the symbolism of freemasonry, 1869, p. 195, 219, 361; also albert pike, morals and dogma, 1871, p. 13; also wes cook, editor, did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge for research, 1965, p. 132] to the mason, the interlacing triangles of the hexagram depict sexual intercourse. this symbolism is pure, ancient satanism, period, end of pa

FULL MOON RITUALS

new fallen snow come dance with us this evening tinkle as icicles upon our roofs join us in our songs, laugh with us, fill our hearts with merriment as we celebrate together this night from somewhere there was music. it echoes in the great hall as boudica turns and lights the quarter candle, then step dances a spiral back to the altar and replaces the tortoise shell on the altar. she bows to the elements. she looks up and around at the people gathered in the circle, her blue eyes flashing, and she smiles at all who have gathered. she turns, and to the last echoes of the music, she spirals back to her place in the circle after passing to carielle in the east the castle's modest flame..after meets and greets, carielle had taken her place in circle, and felt the energies begin to rise as dee

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

y to say, for never can being come from non-being, but they understand, by non-being, that which one can conceive of, neither by its cause or its essence; it [the no-thing] is, in a word, the cause of causes; it is it whom we call the primordial non-being, because it is anterior to the entire universe. 19 though the qabalah recognizes but one primordial cause, it also recognizes two complementary elements: the one incorruptible and vital which reveals itself as a spiritual energy, and the other corruptible and inert, always tending to dissolve and return to its original atoms. the first is bliss, the second is hate: the first is symbolized by the angelic hosts, the second by the demon hordes- good and evil; for, as isaiah says: gi form the light, and create darkness: i make peace, and crea

page 18 and 19) in the visible world, man is the centre, just as god is the centre of the invisible world. god created man in his own image. adam was made of the same earth out of which was raised the sanctuary of the earth. and the earth on which was the sanctuary was the synthesis of the four cardinal points of the world. these cardinal points were united at the moment of creation with the four elements fire, water, air, and earth. 33 these elements being od, heh, vau, and heh of the name jehovah. man is consequently the synthesis of gall the holy names h, 34 therefore in man are genclosed all the worlds, both the upper and the lower h, and: since the form of man comprises all that is in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, god has chosen it as his own form. naught could exist bef

fire. 16 kether is also called the white head, the long face, macroprosopos, and adam qadmon or adam illaah- the supernal or primordial or heavenly adam. the remaining sephiroth are the short face. in the angelic order, kether is represented by the beasts of ezekiel, the holy living creatures of the chariot-throne, namely the four kerubim- the eagle, man, lion, and bull- which represent the four elements air (smell, water (taste, fire (sight, and earth (touch. also it includes in its mysterious nature the four letters of tetragrammaton as follows: y (lion, h (man, v (eagle, and h (bull. but as in itself kether is also the shekinah (the glory of god, in it is hidden the shin (w, which symbolizes spirit. as the ain soph is represented by the closed eye, so is kether represented by the open

2 and representing the zodiac (see plate v on page 34, the twelve months of the year, etc, and consequently the entire creative cycle symbolized by two interlaced six-pointed stars or seals of solomon; the one being the great work below and the other the great work above. there are four manifestations- the no-thing, the intellectual world, the sensuous world, and the physical world; also the four elements air, fire, water, and earth, the four living beasts of the chariot throne, and the four letters in the name of tetragrammaton. in the zohar we read: the firmament is imprinted, at the four corners of a square, with four figures, of a lion, an eagle, an ox, and a man; and the face of a man is traced in all of them, so that the face of lion is of man, the face of eagle is of man, and the fa

three series of opposite but, in reality, complementary principles have ever since the beginnings of human thought perplexed the mind of man, and none more so than the second, which has revolved round the problem of good and evil. deeply and searchingly has the qabalist meditated upon this problem, until wisdom revealed to him that the world of action is fashioned of two distinct yet inseparable elements: the positive life-giving principle which reveals itself as energy, and the negative death-giving principle which reveals itself as inertia. to him the first is spiritual and the second material. the one he symbolizes by the hosts of angels and the other by the evil spirits of the qliphoth. isaac myer explains this very clearly when he writes: the qabbalah does not recognize in the good a

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

the evolution of woman it has been shown that the peculiar inheritance of the two sexes, female and male, is the result of the bias given to these separate lines of development during the earliest periods of sex-differentiation; and, as this division of labor was a necessary step in the evolutionary processes, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier age of existence upon the earth, at a time when woman's influence was in the ascendancy over that of man, human energy was directed by the altruistic characters which originated in and have been transmitted through the female; but after the decline of woman's power, all human institutions, customs, forms, and

serves to accentuate the conclusions arrived at in the evolution of woman relative to the inheritance of each of the two lines of sexual demarcation. e.b.g. contents- chapter introduction i--sex the foundation of the god-idea ii--tree, plant, and fruit worship iii--sun worship--female and male energies in the sun iv--the dual god of the ancients a trinity also v--separation of the female and make elements in the deity vi--civilization of an ancient race vii--concealment of the early doctrines viii--the original god-idea of the israelites ix--the phoenician and hebrew god set or seth x--ancient speculations concerning creation xi--fire and phallic worship xii--an attempt to purify the sensualized faiths xiii--christianity a continuation of paganism xiv--christianity a continuation of pagani

macy of man was gained, the god-idea began gradually to assume the male characters and attributes. through scientific research the fact has been observed that, for ages after life appeared on the earth, the male had no separate existence; that the two sex-principles, the sperm and the germ, were contained within one and the same individual. through the processes of differentiation, however, these elements became detached, and with the separation of the male from the female, the reproductive functions were henceforth confided to two separate individuals. as originally, throughout nature, the female was the visible organic unit within whom was contained the exclusive creative power, and as throughout the earlier ages of life on the earth she comprehended the male, it is not perhaps singular

ans of supplying them, began to regard themselves as superior beings, and later, to claim that as a factor in reproduction, or creation, the male was the more important. with this change the ideas of a deity also began to undergo a modification. the dual principle necessary to creation, and which had hitherto been worshipped as an indivisible unity, began gradually to separate into its individual elements, the male representing spirit, the moving or forming force in the generative processes, the female being matter--the instrument through which spirit works. spirit which is eternal had produced matter which is destructible. the fact will be observed that this doctrine prevails to a greater or less extent in the theologies of the present time. a little observation and reflection will show u

and man himself in the form of a potentate or ruler, together with the various emblems of virility, came to be worshipped as the creator. from adorers of an abstract creative principle, mankind had lapsed into worshippers of the symbols under which this principle had been veiled. although at certain stages in the history of the human race the evils, which as a result of the supremacy of the ruder elements developed in mankind had befallen the race were lamented and bewailed, they could not be suppressed. man had become a lost and ruined creature. the golden age had passed away. chapter ii. tree, plant, and fruit worship. when mankind first began to perceive the fact of an all-pervading agency throughout nature, by or through which everything is produced, and when they began to speculate on

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ldincludethemamongthemenwhohave risen, lay chiefly in seeingthedawn;whichdutybecame henceforth amatterofdaily practice (p.11.'after such fashionthenbegan theannusmirabilisor great yearofsorcery, fullofrites and questings'.andthen there weretheladies. at this time also there were givenuntothem two sisters, daughters of thehouseof life, for high priestesses and ministers..these were children of the elements, queens of fire and water, fullofinward magic andofoutwardwitchery, full of music and song, radiantwiththe illusionsoflight. bythemthetwobrothers were served and refected solongas they were proselytesofthe gate, postulants at the door' of the temple, dwellers on the threshold, waiting to be passed, raised, exalted, installed and enthroned.andthetwobrothers proceededthroughmany sub-grades

andmustcome to an inevitable end:meanwhile, this is the passingoflilith andofthe lady of the water.thesororgloriosainignehas takenherwayintothe south under a golden canopy..thesororbenedictain aquahas gone into the west, far over fords and marshes, and the great mists conceal her. she has heard the voicesofthe sea. it has come to pass, even as i foretold, for we are called above the region of the elements, where these children cannot follow us (pp.166-7).at the endofthis letter,numberxxxiii,is an illuminating footnote 'at this point it must be understood that certain records were destroyed' evidently caution was required. waite wasnotalways so discreet about his relationswithdora. in a letterof1936machen remindedhimofone embarrassing occasion:'all sogoodtogether-e-i remember yourcommenton

ceval, and bors) succeed in theirquest-becomingthemselvestheguardiansofthegrail,whichis eventuallywithdrawnfromthisworldintotheheavenlykingdom.themythological originsofthegrail story didnotconcern waite;nordid mere historical studyofthe grail literature.hisconcern waswiththe theological implicationsofits symbolism:after accepting every explanation of modern erudition as to the origin of the graal elements, there remain various features of the romances as things outside the general horizon of research, and they are those which, from my standpoint, are of the last and most real importance. a scheme of criticismwhichfails to account for the claim to a super-valid formula of eucharistic consecrationandto a super-apostolical succession accounts for very little that matters finally. i have there

scheme of criticismwhichfails to account for the claim to a super-valid formula of eucharistic consecrationandto a super-apostolical succession accounts for very little that matters finally. i have therefore taken up the subject at thepointwhereit has been left by the students of folklore and all thatwhichmightterm itself authorized scholarship(hiddenchurch,p. viii).hispurpose was toshow'thatit's elements were taken over intheinterestofa particular formofchristian religious symbolism (ibid, p. xi).thatsymbolism was foundwithina 'secret church, which, so waite argued, had perpetuated the mystical doctrines implicit inthegrail story. bythis'secretchurch'he didnotmean any instituted body,but'themanifestchurchglorified and installed in the spiritualkingdom,as this was first set overthekingdomo

thsthey had gathered together all the obscure masonic rites they could find.notthatwaite had any intentionoffalling foulofthe masonic authorities; hewouldnotencroach on the jurisdictionofgrand lodge, grand 'chapter, great priory, or supreme council, andwouldseek possessionofonly those rites that were moribund, quasi-masonic, or unrecognized in england.theritualsofhisownorderwould utilize suitable elements from thoseofall the ritesthatthe secret council controlled.andby the timethattheconstitutionofthe secret councilofrites had been drafted (see appendix b, in may1903,he was determinedthatthe faction-ridden goldendawnshould be oneofthe rites that it controlled. in march1903waitegotwindofserious dissatisfactionwithinthe order,whenpercy bullock askedhimto a meeting to discusstheorder'sfuture

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1884, the presidentofthe london lodgeofthe theosophical society but resigned becauseofher dislike of the emphasis on eastern ideas and founded instead the hermetic society with the aimofpromoting western esoteric philosophy. this attracted many existing theosophists who agreed with her that the 'power and knowledgeofan unusual kind' displayed inisisunveiledwas due largelytoits western kabbalistic elements and that these more truly represented the theosophyofthe west than did the violently anti-christian esoteric buddhismofthe blavatsky camp.theywere attracted, too, by the ideas of eliphas levi, thefrenchmagus and self-proclaimed kabbalist whose work was both utilized and publicized inisisunveiledand which was known to anna kingsford in the french texts. english rosicrucians already knewofl

pressed:'itcould not be denied that the culminating grade, as the system was then developed, had the root-matter of a greater scheme than had ever dawned in the consciousnessofany makerofmasonic degrees under any grand lodge or chapter, con255 clave or preceptory, in the whole wide world."action37mathers was not content with the christian contentofrosicruciansymbolism and introduced many egyptian elements which were yet extremely effective.thefull testofthe ritual, with a descriptionofthe vault, is given by regardie,"butthe following notes, made by w. a. ayton some time after his initiation in september1892,reflect anunderstanding-ormisunderstand255ing-ofthe ritual at the timeitwas created.theodd conclusion ishomeeclectic aberrationofayton's own: 5=6 ritual important to know by heart.first

t hip whenceitstarted.thisis an exceedingly potent sign.thevalueofthe five-power61pointed star, thesymbolof humanity,iswidelyknown among occultists, but its potency depends upon the manner in whichitis drawn.the method i havegivenis the correct one for banishing: equally important,butmore subjective, 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 di

, 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 vision, was confined to the secondorder,whose members were given the theoretical basis aspartof 'ritual0',thesecretwisdomof thelesserworldormicrocosmwhichisman(see appendix e).sucht

filling a large oblong basin with a certain white water.thisplace is guarded by an angel with a caducean wand, who represents metatron onthisplane. ask him to bring you before thethroneof the governor of hylech. above the pillar is a globe and the birdofhermes human-headed. further on is the throne of the governor of hylech who has rainbow colours abouthim.thereare also nearhimthe 4 angels of the elements, the red king and white queen etc. and many other symbolicforms. ask the governor ofhylech that the divine l vx maybe sent into the matter and give as your symbols (the pyramid) and (the rose cross).alchemical symbolism and correspondences were learned in. the first order,butin the second order practical alchemy was225..pursued by those who desiredit-aytonespecially, but percy bullock and

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ion. men are chided for adhering to short-sighted doctrines, as of aristotle and galen, when the greatertruthlies before them; of those teachersitis added that had they but been offered the knowledge of the rosicrucian initiation they would have accepted it with much joy. it is then explained that christian rosenkreuz on his returnchristian rosenkreuz23trom his travels, offered to the learned the elements of hiseasternlore; he showed them the errors of their church and how thewholephilosophiamoralismight be amended. butitis added 'these things were to them a laughing matter, for being a new thing unto them they feared that their great name should be lessened, if they should now begin to acknowledge their many years' errors, to which they had grown accustomed, and wherewith they had gained

p. 572.for,say they, inasmuch as gold is so pure that it bears repeated meltings without wasting, soifit be dissolved into an oily residuum, such should support fire without being consumed.itmay suitably be explained in this place that the oldest alchemists held peculiar views on flame and fire. fire was to them anelement-oneof four; there were two contraries in nature, three principles, and four elements. fire, as such, should not need what we call fuel to consume;butonly as a means of detaining it in a certainplace.-see'licetus, de lucernis, cap. 20-21, and 'theophrastus. they said there may be a relation between fire and fuel of threesorts--ifthe strength of the fire exceed that of the humour, it presently burns out; if the humour be too strong for the fire, the fire departs;butif the r

ne of silver. ontheouterurnwere these words engraved: plutonisacrummunusneattingitefures,i gnotumestvobishocquodin urnalatet namqueelemeniagramclausitdigestalabore,vase subhocmodicomaximusolybius.adsitsecundocustossibicopiacornune tantipretiumdepereatlaticis.thieves! grasp not this gift sacred to pluto, ye are ignorant of what it contains hidden, for maximus olybius has enclosedin this small urn, elements digested with heavy toil, let abundance be present in a second vase as a guardian to it, lest the value of so much oil should perish. onthesmaller one were these words: abite kinepessimifures vos quiduultis,vestriscumoculisemisitiis.abite hinc,vestrocummercuriopetasatocaduceatoquedonumhocmaximum, maximusolybiuspluumisacrumtacit. get ye hence, most wicked thieves, what do you desire with y

orming or attempting any occult work, for then indeed do the powers of evil assail, and then do horrors appal. as to evil spirits, hark even to the christian hymnbook 'christian, dost thou see them- on the holy ground. how the hosts of darkness compass thee around' they do indeed- yet most orthodox christians will turn on you, and deny their existence, though they sing of them. the spirits of the elements are both good and bad. the astral forms of good men will harm you not, but the elementaries, or astral shells of the wicked, and especially of the self-slain, are fertile sources of evil sensations and suggestions and foul disease. beware thenhowyou enter the immeasurable region. obsession is the nightmare of attack; a whole series of miseries and terrors may pass over the occultist who i

ch more easy is destructive criticism, than the acquirement of real knowledge. let us take a rapid glance at the extant literature on our subject. by common consent the oldest treatise is thesepheryetzirah,or 'book of formation, attributed to abraham the patriach. this is a most curious philosophical scheme of creation, drawing a parallel between the origin of the world, the sun, the planets, the elements, seasons and man, and the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet, dividing them into a triad, a heptad and a dodecad: three mother letters a, m, and sh, referred to primeval air, water and fire; seven double letters referred to the planets and the seven-fold division of time, etc, and the twelve simple letters referred to the months, zodiacal signs, and human organs. modern criticism t

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ther, yet in a secret manner, some particular relations of thearmsofacrossto the aspirant, who standsin thecentreafthatcross,with his arms extended in the form of the same mystic symbol, and is made to say at the same time that he is then standing in the 'centre of the earth; just as the greeks were told thatforthemdelphi represented<>o(lepot'ao,.tljt;yij'.alsothe 4 ancients preside over the four elements of air, fire, water and earth; or as the teaching of occultism would say, over air, fire, water, andtheir synthesis;and, therefore, are their robes of the 2673 primary colours, one the flame redoffire, the second the blue of water, the third the luminous yellow of air, and that of the fourth is black, signifying the earth; and which colour is obtained by the mixture of the three others. b

sis;and, therefore, are their robes of the 2673 primary colours, one the flame redoffire, the second the blue of water, the third the luminous yellow of air, and that of the fourth is black, signifying the earth; and which colour is obtained by the mixture of the three others. but the candidate is clad in the white robe, to point out to him that he should not be led aside by the attraction of the elements, but that he should steadfastly follow that path of spiritual purity which alone willleadhimto the divine light. now astrology points out that the signs of the zodiac partake of the nature of the elements, and that the four most important periods in the year are the respective entries of the sun into the four signs of taurus, leo, scorpio and aquarius, which are represented in the hebrew

or students of the golden dawn isis255 urania temple. transcribed by w.e.h. humphreys, 2 july 1900.]4.theazoth lecturelazothis a word formed: from the initials and thefirial letters of the latin, greek and hebrew alphabets, a; z;253andc>(olong)andmandm:thusazrom.itis used with various meanings by. different writers;butit generally..267 signifies beginning and end; the astral light wherein are the elements and the philosophic mercury extracted from sol; or it may mean essence. 2. the cross with equal arms +represents the equation of theelementsandhence is derived its meaning of corrosion and corruption or resolutionofanything into its component parts, 3.theterms raven or crow, lion and eagle, have various alchemical significations. generally: raven or crow=inhibition through blackness lion=

he seals and names .of'the intelligences should be used onalltalismans for a good effect. those of the. spirits of the planets serve for evil, and should not be employed in any operation for a beneficent end. these latter are subject to the' former;andwhen it is absolutely necessary to employ them, the seals and names of the intelligences.shouldbeinscribed as well. 25.thehebrew names, of the four elements.t>.asch. or esch6,ruachm'm;'v.ophir or.\lmaim267 or26..thehebrew names of thefourcardinal points. east- mezrachmu:i,west--meorebsouth-v-253daromc,,north- tzaphon27.thearchangels of the four elements.t..michael.6.raphael 'y auriel or uriel\lgabriel28. theofthe four elements.t>.arel.'m'm..6.chassanren'y phorlakh\ltaliahad29.therulers of the four elements.t>.seraph:"e-.6.ariel'vkerub\ltharsi

mch225 chs225 n36. this is the symbol ofsalton the tree of life.ky .m36 the sorcererand his apprentice37. the calvary cross of 12 squares refers to the zodiac and to the eternal rivers of eden divided into four heads.naharn38. the four rivers of paradise issuing from the one river are: the spiritnaharthe one river.6pison6hiddekel'i'"1my'phrath\jgmox39. the square pyramid is attributed to the four elements: on the apex is the word ethmnmeaning essence: on the base is olamho'w,meaning world. 40. the calvary cross oftensquares refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition. it is also the opened out form of the double cube and the altar of incense.theazoth lecture3741. the hexagram of tiphereth is formed from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water, in geburah is the fire and ti

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

cott could never have read beswick s correspondence, and yet he created outside the confines of the swedenborgian rite just such a temple filled with symbolic representations as beswick postulates. there is a singular irony in the manner in which it came about. to anyone who has a knowledge of westcott s character there are remarkable parallels between him and beswick. both men injected fantastic elements into the story of their lives; each of them created a rite (an order in westcott s case, with a mendacious pedigree; and both were desperately anxious to convey to their members an understanding of hidden truths. there was also another, purely accidental link between them. when westcott collected mackenzie s swedenborgian rite papers from his widow, he also took some loose papers which we

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ish church where waite claims that the marriage took place. 4[4] waite's education was of the 'dame school' variety, save for two terms at the roman catholic school, st. charles's college in bayswater, in 1874. 5[5] slt, chapter 2, passim after his sister's death in 1874 waite began to lose his faith in roman catholicism, although he retained a great love for its ceremonial, utilizing a number of elements of the roman liturgy for the rituals which he constructed in later life for his various secret orders. he turned instead towards spiritualism but found no spiritual consolation and moved on to the theosophical society, which fascinated him although he disliked the anti-christian bias of works of h. p. blavatsky who was its driving force. in this way he approached magic in general and elip

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inburgh in scotland is recognized as a symbol of the heretical pagan beliefs of the templars. in the course of the construction of this edifice, masons and rosicrucians, the successors of the templars, were employed, and decorated the whole chapel with symbols representative of their pagan philosophy. in a publication of turkish masonry, the magazine mimar sinan, the masonic origins and the pagan elements of the chapel are described in these words: the most convincing proof of the unity of the templars and the masons in scotland is the castle and chapel in the village of roslin, 10 km. south of edinburgh and 15 km. from the ancient templar center at balantrodoch. the templars lived in this region and in this castle especially after 1312 under the protection of the barons of st. clair..the

part of it was decorated with masonic symbols. among the symbols were reliefs on the walls and arches depicting the heads of hiram and his murderer, a relief of an initiation ceremony, the keystones of the arches, and compasses. apart from the fact that the chapel was constructed in a marked pagan style with egyptian, hebrew, gothic, norman, celtic, scandinavian, templar and masonic architectural elements, and that it contains very rich examples of stone work, one of the most interesting aspects of it is that the tops of the columns are decorated with cactus and corn motifs, besides various other plants figures. there are so many pagan decorative elements inside the chapel that a priest, writing an account of the baptism he performed of the baron of rosslyn in 1589 complained "because the

zgen, a turkish freemason, maintains the following in his book, masonluk nedir ve nasildir (what is freemasonry and what is it like: we don't know clearly where the kabbalah came from or how it developed. it is the general name for a unique, metaphysically constituted, esoteric and mystical philosophy particularly connected with jewish religion. it is accepted as jewish mysticism, but some of the elements it contains show that it was composed much earlier than the torah.15 the french historian, gougenot des mousseaux, explains that the kabbalah is actually much older than judaism.16 ef from the templars to ancient egypt eg global freemasonry although the kabbalah developed within judaism, it depends on sources from outside of it. the kabbalah arose out of the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt

rn from their wicked works (nehemiah 9: 2-4, 26-29, 31-35) this passage expresses the desire that a number of jews had in returning to their faith in god, but in the course of jewish history a different segment gradually gained strength, and came to dominate the jews and later thoroughly altered the religion itself. for this reason, in the torah and the other books of the old testament, there are elements that derive from heretical pagan doctrines, as well as those mentioned above which urge a return to the true religion. for example: in the first book of the torah, it is said that god created the entire universe in six days from nothing. this is correct and derives from the original revelation. but, then it maintains that god rested on the seventh day, though it is a completely fabricated

ndag thinks masons should destroy religion on the intellectual level. what he means by "positive science and principles of logic and wisdom" is not really science, logic or wisdom. what he means is merely a humanist, materialist philosophy that uses these catch-phrases as camouflage, as in the case of darwinism. isindag asserts that, when these ideas are disseminated in society "only the humanist elements in religion will gain respect" that is, what will be left of religion will be only those elements approved by the humanist philosophy. in other words, they want to reject the basic truths that lie at the foundation of monotheistic religion (isindag calls them vain beliefs and dogmas. these truths are the ultimate realities such as that man is created by god and is responsible to him. in s

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ish church where waite claims that the marriage took place. 4[4] waite's education was of the 'dame school' variety, save for two terms at the roman catholic school, st. charles's college in bayswater, in 1874. 5[5] slt, chapter 2, passim after his sister's death in 1874 waite began to lose his faith in roman catholicism, although he retained a great love for its ceremonial, utilizing a number of elements of the roman liturgy for the rituals which he constructed in later life for his various secret orders. he turned instead towards spiritualism but found no spiritual consolation and moved on to the theosophical society, which fascinated him although he disliked the anti-christian bias of works of h. p. blavatsky who was its driving force. in this way he approached magic in general and elip

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ld be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating the forces only for those linked to the order and hence joined to its group mind. as we head further into the kali yuga it is the individuals task to use and transform the heavenly energies within him or herself. it is important to realize that energies the zodiac like those of the planets are

e lord said unto moses, make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live numbers 21:8 the serpent clearly is the symbol of gnosis, wisdom and the earliest traditions. again, while we can see remnants of the gnostic faith in the myths and legends of genesis, we can also see clearly the later addition of elements that the fundamentalist priesthood could use to fight against the israelite tradition. while we do not aim to try and summarise the qadesh tradition here, it was an inner esoteric tradition that embodied a special form of technology aimed at transforming man into god (deification. it represented the highest class within the spiritual hierarchy and included forms of shamanism, ritual techn

hough this group traveled from location to location, around approx. 180 bc they formed a secret communal order to sustain the ancient mysteries in the deserts of palestine. this group kept separate from the rest of the local peoples but kept contacts with greek and perhaps even egyptian mystery cults. they were not insular but taught a form of the mysteries with both israelite, greek and egyptian elements. this group was known as the essenes and forms an important link in the survival of the gnosis through the dark time from constantine's rule to the present. the gnostic handbook page 77 if it is true as everyone attests, that moses left an oral law, it is amongst the essenes that it was preserved. the pharisees who flattered themselves so highly on possessing it, only has its outward form

tides of the material world and overcome them. he traveled the world in his "so-called" missing years, studying in both india and britain, bringing the threads of the mystery tradition to a common climax. while at the same time achieving a mastery of himself and the world around him. the baptism of jesus shows clearly his high state of initiation, his energy field has been cleansed of its fallen elements by sophia and in recognition of his achievement, the divine will acknowledges his new state. michael is now jesus the christ, the christ state being the achievement of communication with the mind of god or the logos. the gnostic handbook page 78 as soon as jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. at that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove

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of others. so please be patient, as you study more and learn more about the nature of man, the kabbalah, chakras and other related subjects, you will gain more insight into how all these fields relate and you will slowly be able to appreciate the developing gnostic worldview. now, you will remember that at our last study we drew seven parallel lines, diagrammatical, illustrating the seven kosmic elements, in which work the seven kosmic forces of principles- the energy-consciousness side of being. please note this evening carefully that these elements, the kosmical elements are worlds. call them planes if you like, but really they are worlds. i do not mean globes, necessarily, that is, solid spherical bodies. they are around and in globes, yet they are truly worlds, spheres of action, sphe

inciples- the energy-consciousness side of being. please note this evening carefully that these elements, the kosmical elements are worlds. call them planes if you like, but really they are worlds. i do not mean globes, necessarily, that is, solid spherical bodies. they are around and in globes, yet they are truly worlds, spheres of action, spheres of consciousness; and each one of these kosmical elements, in addition to being a world, is infilled with its own humanities, countless, numberless, innumerable, beyond all human computation. fundamentals of the esoteric philosophy, page 398. dr.de purucker, rider and company, 1938. gnostic theurgy page 30 a scientific model of the seven planes to help explain these divisions further we should consider the research of dr.timothy leary. leary is

lity is still the same. if we decide to use the biblical mythology for its symbolic value, we would arrive at a structure like that seen illustrated in fig 6. what is interesting about this structure is that if we spent a little time and some imagination, it can be readily translated into terms of light and relations between objects. when we undertake such an interpolation we find we have all the elements for the creation of a hologram (fig 7. while i agree our religious imagery may only reveal the holographic elements in fig 6 source michael satanel cosmic battle creates matter the alpha event or cosmic battle in the mythological terms of the old testament and related gnostic traditions. gnostic theurgy page 33 a very simplistic and elementary form, it is nevertheless certainly present. i

e astral shield surrounding the earth far into the spiritual dimensions. the lower world even attempts to duplicate the higher spiritual planes within its own fallen astral realities, offering a false kingdom for the unwary. a superb description of these false seven planes is found in the gnostic gospel of mary, where we read about the inner dimension of the fourth power, or in our terms the four elements. when the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power which took seven forms. the first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of the flesh and the seventh is the wrathful wisdom. these are the seven powers of wrath. it is also in

ere is hope, there is an opportunity for immortality. it is imperative to realise that immortality is conditional, man has no right to live forever. his post fall constitution is by nature mortal and contaminated. only by the power of the treasury of light can man be changed into a immortal form which reflects the majesty and beauty of the pleroma. now you have a fairly clear picture of the basic elements of man. however, as we study further you will find that a more comprehensive and descriptive understanding is required. just like we offered you the kabbalistic structure of the four worlds and these were expanded into seven planes, so too the four bodies can be expanded into seven. these can be easily correlated to the traditional four bodies, but give offer more detail (see fig 12) gnos

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pears as a burning and flaming pentacle, then at the command of the magician takes the shape of a man. decarabia instructs the sorcerer on astral and dream shape shifting, how one may transform into a bird or bat, to fly forth and discover darker places of the earth, as well as coming before the magician and acting in the natural way in which birds do. decarabia teaches also the use of stones and elements in sorceries. he governs 30 legions of spirits and is a mighty marquis. 72* seere seere/sear/seir is the seventieth spirit who is a might and powerful prince, who is under amaymon, the king of the east. seere appears in the form of a beautiful and angelic male, who rides upon a winged horse. he is a powerful angel who brings the sorcerer s will to flesh quickly, and will disappear until y

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he earth in the kingdom of gems, the marvelous seed of the stars! live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of the treasures whereof thou hast made us the wardens! amen. give the zelator sign repeat the qabalistic cross. note: a few of the benefits that may be obtained from this ritual; it will aid in grounding mental and emotional conditions, it will allow the student to call forth the four elements of earth within his/her circle, and the zelator will have the ability to commune with the great archangel uriel. a few basic rules should be kept in mind when performing the ritual. while in the learning stage, it is advisable not to perform it before going to sleep. the energies invoked may be too potent for a novice and therefore may disturb one's peace of mind, making it hard to get an

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r principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the practicus gra fthe lesser ritual of the hexagram after learning to banish the elements, which is the purpose of the lbrp, one should learn to banish the planetary influences. the banishing ritual of the hexagram (brh) serves this purpose. like the lbrp, though, it is a minor banishing for lesser workings. before attempting to consecrate any magical weapons both the supreme ritual of the pentagram and hexagram should be learned. however, with this ritual and the lbrp, ritual

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d dare make its way. it is necessary that the magician make certain that he does not lower the elemental weapon after formulating a pentagram in mid-air. the circle must be complete, continuing in an unbroken line from pentagram to pentagram. the blazing five-pointed star is like the flaming sword which debarred adam from the edenic paradise. the four archangels, the spiritual regents of the four elements, are then invoked to give legitimacy to the working, and spiritual power and protection to both the surrounding pentagrams and the circle wherein the magician is enclosed. the last phrase of the ritual declares the pentagrams aflame about him, and invokes once again the holy guardian angel so that the operation is sealed with the stamp of the divine light (see figure 87, in regardies tol)

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bes of citrine, olive, russet, and black, holding stems of ripened wheat. say "on my left hand uriel (ur-ee-el (say "for about me flames the pentagram, and in the column shines the six-rayed star" repeat the qabalistic cross. note: a few of the benefits that may be obtained from the l.i.r.p; it will aid in grounding mental and emotional conditions, it will allow the student to call forth the four elements within his circle, and the zelator will have the ability to commune with the four great archangels. a few basic rules should be kept in mind when performing the ritual. while in the learning stage, it is advisable not to perform the l.i.r.p. before going to sleep. the energies invoked may be too potent for a novice and therefore may disturb one's peace of mind, making it hard to get any r

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ate colors over the white rays which issue forth from the five corner angles. study the diagram well and let the z.a.m. construct his own full color diagram on a black background. this way, each corridor of the pentagram may be explored by methods of traveling and skrying in the spirit vision. 4 the pentagram ritual 5 (s.b.r.p. and s.i.r.p) the pentagram is under the presidence of hwchy. the four elements form a cross in the pentagram and are governed by hwhy with the point uppermost. it is a fitting symbol of the microprosopic man stretched out in perfect balance and harmony before the divine. the letter c is the symbol of the "fires of life" the \yhla jwr, the divine spirit that hovered over the waters of creation. when the letter c is added to the tetragrammaton, it forms the name hwchy

before any invocational work commences. within the pentagram there are invisible currents. from o to m, and from l to n. the currents are that of as represented by the letter c. it is the currents of that are symbolized by the active and passive pentagrams of. these pentagrams should proceed and close all invocations and evocations. it is the tracing of these important pentagrams that allows the elements to be in a state of equilibrium and harmony. in closing, these currents are reversed. note: herein is a great secret and blind hidden from the uninitiated practitioner of our science. in the watchtower ritual, the invoking pentagrams of should be traced over the altar in the center of the working in the opening and in the closing as well. the uninitiated will be performing a ritual and po

state of equilibrium and harmony. in closing, these currents are reversed. note: herein is a great secret and blind hidden from the uninitiated practitioner of our science. in the watchtower ritual, the invoking pentagrams of should be traced over the altar in the center of the working in the opening and in the closing as well. the uninitiated will be performing a ritual and possibly working with elements not in harmony with each other. the l.b.r.p. is taught in the outer order so it will not be covered in this lesson. the l.b.r.p. is for general work and unimportant matters. 6 the following are banishing and invoking spirit pentagrams, both active and passive. hyha alga hyha alga the sigil of the "wheel of spirit" should be traced in the center. 7 hwhy la ynda \yhla k b e l m n o the foll

bolized by the sign of e. e is the sign when the hot sun is most fiery upon the earth. n is represented by the symbol. it is a symbol of alchemical distillation. l hath the laborious b. the following manner is the correct way to trace the kerubic emblems in the center of their respective pentagrams. 10 symbols: spirit wheel aquarius kerub leo kerub eagle kerub taurus kerub the attributions of the elements in their respective position are derived from the winds: east wind is attributed to m. southern wind bringeth into action the nature of heat and o. west wind bringeth rain and moisture, n. north winds are cold and dry like the l. the natural positions of the elements in the zodiac are different. o is in the east, l is in the south, m is in the west, n is in the north. let the adept be awa

tain hebrew divine names from the angelic tablets. this can be seen in the expanded diagram at the beginning of this lesson. these divine names must be vibrated with the invoking and the banishing pentagram. let the adept again be reminded that the enochian names are not vibrated without the presence of the tablet of union and the four watchtower tablets. remember to invoke the forces of the four elements in the four quarters, begining in the east, then moving to the south, the west and then the north, taking due care to complete the circle in the east. all invocations and banishings are to be opened and closed with the qabalistic cross. in some cases, certain other names that pertain to the quarter may also be vibrated. make certain that the following pentagrams of are utilized in conjunc

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through the use of competent divination, the adept can determine which forms are to be invoked or banished. when performing the b.r.h. or the i.r.h. using the four forms, thou shall trace them beginning at the angle of the planet under whose regimen thou art working, following the course of the sun to invoke and reversing the course to banish. in addition, it is important that the symbols of the elements are not usually traced on as sigils but are represented by the kerubic emblems of k, e, b, and. 17 the lesser ritual of the hexagram (i.r.h./b.r.h) step 1 always begin with the qabalistic cross. according to the work you are doing use whatever magical tool may be necessary. in most cases, the lotus wand or the magical sword is appropriate. step 2 stand facing east. to invoke, trace the fi

endeavouring to heal another from sickness and misfortune and thou art thus obliged to deal with the evil force which is injuring him. and even so, it will be better for thee not to do even this until thou hast arrived at a higher grade than that of z.a.m. remember, also, that the, if the apex is downward, is an extremely evil and hurtful symbol. and for this reason is it that the symbols of the elements are not usually traced as sigils, but are replaced by kerubic emblems of k, e, b, and the" addendum: important points 1. when you desire to attract the force of the zodiac in the supreme ritual, trace in the center of the hexagram the planet that rules the zodiacal force desired and the sign of the zodiac beneath the planetary sign. 2. if the desired force is not sufficient, trace also th

quarter of the respective planets and use the supreme ritual of the hexagram to invoke their forces. remember always to properly banish planetary forces when you are done working, using the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. 12. in all cases, remember to complete the circle of working following the course of the sun. special note on elemental directions take notice that the positions of the elements are different in the zodiac, which equates to the macroprosopus, than that of the four winds. the zodiac is utilized for the hexagram rituals and the winds are used for pentagram rit