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d me, vibrate) gah-bray-el."visualize a figure behind you, dressed in blue with some orange highlights. the figure holds a cup and is surrounded by waterfalls or the ocean. try to feel the moisture in the air. step 4 say: on my right, vibrate) mee-chai-el."visualize the archangel michael dressed in a scarlet red robe with green highlights. he is holding a flaming sword. feel the qualities of fire emanating from him. step 5 say: and on my left, vibrate) oh-ree-el."visualize the archangel auriel dressed in earth tones on a fertile landscape. he holds a bundle of wheat. step 6 after you have invoked the archangels move your feet slightly apart, stretch both arms out to the sides. now visualize yourself within a large pentagram and say: 88 "for before me flames the pentagram."step 7 "and behin

ht and brilliant, visualize a line or beam of light being drawn down from the sphere above your head. move it down through your head to the region of the throat. at this point, visualize another sphere forming, just as bright but not as large as the first. feeling the sphere encompassing the whole region, begin vibrating the god name yhvh elohim. step 4 once again, visualize another beam of light emanating from the sphere in the throat region, moving down into the region of the solar plexus. form another ball of light a little larger than the sphere in the throat, and vibrate the god name yhvh eloah vedaath. step 5 bring another beam down from the sphere in the solar plexus to the region of the groin. form another sphere of light, then vibrate the god name shaddai el chai. step 6 moving do

moving down into the region of the solar plexus. form another ball of light a little larger than the sphere in the throat, and vibrate the god name yhvh eloah vedaath. step 5 bring another beam down from the sphere in the solar plexus to the region of the groin. form another sphere of light, then vibrate the god name shaddai el chai. step 6 moving down once again, visualize another beam of light emanating from the sphere in the groin area and shooting toward the region of the feet. seeing the feet completely engulfed in another sphere, begin vibrating the god name adonai ha-aretz. 95 when this last step is completed, you should have a total of five spheres, each brightly luminated and all connected by one beam of light. each of the spheres are attributed to the sephiroth on the pillar of


A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred method and means that you are within the triangle and can move all round* on the first night, walk three times in circles around the outside of the altar (or the floor candles if you are using them, moving outwards, and pointing the index finger of your power hand behind you almost horizontally. visualise a stream of light emanating from your finger. as you circle, chant: circle one i cast for the light of the earth and her store of rich minerals, gold, silver, copper smelted in forges of volcanic fire. circle two i cast for the moonlit seas, for silver dolphins, seals and cascading rainbow fish. circle three i cast for the sunlit skies, the clouds pure gold and the gilt-tipped eagle soaring high* light the candle i

ergy* after the third chant, let your pendulum swing freely on its chain so it spirals round, catching the candlelight and, perhaps, the moonlight* add the oil to the burner with a little water and light the nightlight under it* take three of the coins from the dish- if possible these should be one gold, one silver and one copper. place them in the money pot and hold this briefly in the fragrance emanating from the burner, saying: venus, morn and evening star, sun and moon that shine afar. i ask in love and not in greed, grant me only what i need* place the lid on the pot and leave it in front of the burner, sitting quietly and visualising money coming to you. at this point you may become aware of money-making possibilities you had not considered* when you are ready, blow out the nightligh

for charging simply accentuates the innate calm energies of the crystal. with the gentle crystals (such as amethyst, rose quartz or smoky quartz, you will experience a gentle warmth and enclosing light of pink, green or purple according to the colour of the crystal. but with the power crystals (such as clear crystal quartz, citrine or carnelian, you may see with your psychic vision sparks of gold emanating and enclosing you in a protective shell. anyone who approaches in a confrontational way may stop and back off. the crystal is not hurting them, it is just strengthening your own boundaries against intrusion. if you cannot visit an ancient site to charge your crystals, hold a crystal pendulum up to bright sunlight, or in front of a fibre optic lamp, and swirl it so that it catches rainbow

heir own way. you can also use this method for empowering amulets and lucky charms or st christopher medallions. st christopher is patron saint and protector of all travellers. protective crystals the following crystals are those that i, in my personal work, and people with whom i have held healing workshops or teaching sessions have found especially protective. they will absorb negative energies emanating from both fears and doubts, and repel external attack, replacing darker feelings with positive emotions and intentions. to benefit from the protective powers of a crystal, you can carry or wear it, or keep it close to you at work, at home or when you travel. you can also add a crystal to your bath water. alternatively, you can soak it in pure spring water overnight and drink the crystall

nd father of abundance and increase* now take the salt to the water and tip a little in it, stirring it once more with the athame, saying: dissolve and disperse, flow far and free to attract rebirth to-[name the town] and its inhabitants* now cast the circle around the elemental candles, with your wand, starting from the north in a single unbroken movement, visualising as you do a stream of light emanating from it that encloses you above, around and beneath (if you are working with a group, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing the ceremony by having people entering the circle separately after it is cast and then having to close the circle after each one) say: i cast this circle of light, of power and of protection. may the circle tha


ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

nn (genies, nephilim (angels, shining ones, spirit guides, the gods of olympus, egypt, babylon, etc. we give them masks and this arises from our human need to idolize them- man creates gods in his own image. the gods of different cultures are similar because they share our human qualities and are projections of our own divinity. it was as if you were standing in a darkened room with a bright halo emanating from behind your head- you point to the shadow cast in front of you and exclaim "i see saint peter. or satan" so the deities we give prayers and thoughts to become part of the tapestry of the universal unconscious and attach themselves to various archetypes, which are impersonal. what i am saying is, archetypes are also a natural conduit to the daemonic resonance we spoke of. and so, whe


ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

curse hllq 166 under penalty of law (esp. a fine) nwmm byyx the most high nwyl( 167 the unnameable one (a demon) nwmys) fetters (job 36:8) myqyz 168 the supernal parents h)ly )m)w )b) to cover; protect ppx 169 the accentuator mym+ 170 wand [david fs] staff lqm cup lps cloud nn( seasons myd(wm fools; the constellation orion mylysk 171 the original seed (lit. gfrom the chief h; scil. groot h) lyc)m emanating from lc)n the face of god: the name of an angel l)ynp 172 cut, divided (qb he affected( gnot h read) bc(y clusters; grapes mybn( the heel; the end bq( qabalist lbqm the golden image [of nebuchadnezzar (dan. 3 )bhd mlc 173 lighten mine eyes yny( lg i am hwhy thy god kyhl) hwhy ykn) 174 torches mydypl the splendour encircling him bybs wl hgwn 175 suction hqyny duplicity hlpkm a slipping, f

is cum iusculo dulci h: g[will be] speaking of a pot with a sweet broth h hrydq yqyc 530 the rose tlcbx voices tlq to thee *kl 533 king of terrors twhlb klm 534 a certain name of god q#dlq 535 to walk *klh 536 the world of assiah (matter; referred to malkuth) hy#(h mlw( orbits [of the stars/planets (another aspect of the name of the sphere of the zodiac. see 483) twlsm a white cloak hnbl tyl+ 537 emanating; nobility; atziluth: the archetypal world twlyc) the marrow, or innermost part of the spine hrd#h +wx the opening of the uterus mxr r+p 538 daughter of the voice: echo (a method of divination by use of the ark of the covenant) lwq tb 540 loins; the upper part myntm creeping thing #mr 541 israel l)r#y towards, to thee *kyl) 542 the world of mevshekal (the intellectual world; referred to t


ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

midst, just above the lower white featherlets. a white light seems to be seen through the backs of the wings just above the dove. for the meaning of the symbolism of these "closed" wings, see the footnote below, page 147 in the equinox. the upper 2/5's of the space contains a large circular device, representing the shasrara. this looks a bit like the head of a thistle and has 72 elongated spikes emanating outward in a circle to define the outer edge of the next inward feature, a white ring. the spikes have rounded bottoms with a dot in the center of each, and there are 72 lines drawn radiating outward between them, one between each pair. five of these spikes touch and pass behind the head. within the white ring are 13 concentric rings of petals, 11 in the innermost and the number of petal

hb:dalet hb:aleph. the rest of the figure is as described in the last note on page 113 "a winged crown radiating white brilliance- three hollow triangles visible with a pair of inverted wings coming up like antlers to either side. the white brilliance is represented by 35 visible shaded beams radiating in all directions from the center of the crown band, behind it and stopping only at the clouds emanating from behind the knees "the head and neck of a beautiful woman with a stern and fixed expression, and hair long dark and waving- as described, but crude features are depicted. the hair comes down in two loose falls resembling braids to the waist on either side of the torso "the arms and hands, which are bare and strong, stretched out to the right and left at right angles to the body, in t


ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

he must see the young witch back to his hotel by nine c/clock the next morning, failing which the police would be informed. the woman smiled slightly, but her husband was willing to. agree to anything so long as alex wo d leave. there was little sleepfor alex that night as he tried to work spells to counteract the evil that .hadenvelope his frie d. but his magic was overpowered by the black magic emanating from the couple and helped by the willingness of their victim. shortly before nine the next morning, however, the young man arrived at the hotel sober, his injuries hidden by his clothes. 106 alex explained to him what he had got himself mixed up with, and then said 'i don't usually order my witches around, but 1 am ordering you now to pack your bag and come home with us. if you don't, w


ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

far in advance of that of an adept as that adept's is in advance of animal man. this will be somewhat elaborated in the next section of our subject. with the ancient of days came a group of other highly evolved entities, who represent his own individual karmic group and those beings who are the outcome of the triple nature of the planetary logos. if one might so express it they embody the forces emanating from the head, heart, and throat centres, and they came in with sanat kumara to form focal points of planetary force for the helping of the great plan for the self-conscious unfoldment of all life. their places have gradually been filled by the sons of men as they qualify, though this includes very few, until lately, from our immediate earth humanity. those who are now the inner group ar

nation in the middle of the atlantean root-race. karmic affiliation with him was one of the predisposing causes, thus making this eventuality possible. his work concerns itself with the fostering and strengthening of that relation between spirit and matter, life and form, the self and the not-self, which results in what we call civilisation. he manipulates the forces of nature, and is largely the emanating source of electrical energy as we know it. being the reflection of the third, or creative aspect, energy from the planetary logos flows to him from the throat centre, and he it is who in many ways makes the work of his brothers possible. their plans and desires are submitted to him, and through him pass the instructions to a large number of the deva agents. thus you have will, love, and

ions, and then the disciples of every grade. the disciples are considered as affiliated with the lodge, but not as literally members of it. finally come those who are on probation, and who hope through strenuous effort to achieve affiliation. from another point of view we can consider the lodge members as existing in seven groups, each group representing one type of the sevenfold planetary energy emanating from the planetary logos. the triple division has first been given, as ever in evolution you have the major three (manifesting through the three departments) and then the seven, these seven showing again as a triple differentiation and a septenary. students must bear in mind that all that is herein imparted concerns the work of the hierarchy in connection with the fourth or human kingdom

l body, by the strenuous and arduous process of controlling the astral body so that it becomes responsive to three vibrations: a. that from the ego. b. that from the master. c. those from his brothers everywhere around him. he becomes sensitive to the voice of his higher self, thus working off karma under the intelligent guidance of his own ego. he becomes conscious, via the ego, of the vibration emanating from his master; he learns to feel it ever more and more, and to respond to it ever more fully; finally, he becomes increasingly sensitive to the joys and pains and sorrows of those he daily contacts; he feels them to be his joys and pains and sorrows, and yet he is not incapacitated thereby- 54- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust chapter x the universality of initiat

increasing degree. cosmic influences and solar initiations. all that can be done here in dealing with this profound subject is to enumerate briefly some of the cosmic influences which definitely affect our earth, and produce results in the consciousness of men everywhere, and which, during the process of initiation, bring about certain specific phenomena. first and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the sun sirius. if it might be so expressed, the energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant cosmic centre via sirius. sirius acts as the transmitter, or the focalising centre, whence emanate those influences which produce self-consciousness in man. during initiation, by means of the rod of initiation (acting as a subsidiary transmitter

, who is the focal point for his life and energy. he holds the world within his aura. this great existence is only contacted directly by the adept who has taken the fifth initiation, and is proceeding to take the other two, the sixth and seventh. once a year, at the wesak festival, the lord buddha, sanctioned by the lord of the world, carries to the assembled humanity a dual stream of force, that emanating from the silent watcher, supplemented by the more focalised energy of the lord of the world. this dual energy he pours out in blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony in the himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and tongues and races. it may not perhaps be generally known that at a certain crisis during the great war[ww i, the hierarchy of our planet deeme

ations, two masters stand, one on each side of the applicant, within the triangle; at the third, fourth and fifth initiations, the mahachohan and the bodhisattva perform the function of sponsor; at the sixth and seventh initiations two great beings, who must remain nameless, stand within the esoteric triangle. the work of the sponsors is to pass through their bodies the force or electrical energy emanating from the rod of initiation. this force, through radiation, circles around the triangle and is supplemented by the force of the three guardians; it next passes through the centres of the sponsors, being transmitted by an act of will to the initiate. enough has been said elsewhere in this book anent the lodge of masters and their relation to the applicant for initiation, whilst the work of


ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

one till all the sons of god acclaimed, and said "the work is done- 15- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust stanza iv in revolution fifth of the great wheel the period set was reached. the lesser wheel, that responded to that fifth great turn, passed through the cycle and entered into peace. the lesser wheels come forth and likewise do their work. the great wheel gathers back the emanating sparks. the five dealt with the work, the lesser two but wrought with detail. the stone had gathered fire, lambent with flame it shone. the outer sheath met not the need till the sixth wheel and the seventh had passed it through their fires. the sons of god emerged from out their source, gazed on the sevenfold work, and stated it was good. the stone was set alone. in dual revolution move

ies all the present. he is the sumtotal of all that is embodied; he is conscious existence. he is the son divine and his life and nature evolve through every existent form. the lord of cosmic will holds hid the future within his plans and consciousness. they are all three the sons of one father, all three the aspects of the one god, all three are spirit, all three are soul, and all three are rays emanating from one cosmic centre. all three are substance, but in the past one lord was the elder son, in the present another lord comes to the fore, and in the future still another. but this is so only in time. from the standpoint of the eternal now, none is greater nor less than- 36- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust another, for the last shall be first, and the first last. ou

planet (or the planetary entity) likewise has his cycles, and in the- 60- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust absorption of planetary prana, and in its correct distribution, lies the secret of fertility and equable vegetation. much of this is hidden in the fabled story of the war between fire and water, which has its basis in the reaction of the fire latent in matter, to the fire emanating outside of matter, and playing upon it. in the interval that has to elapse while the two are in process of blending, come those periods where, through karmic inheritance, reception is unstable and distribution inequable. as the point of race equilibrium is reached, so planetary equilibrium will likewise be attained, and in planetary attainment will come the equilibrium that must mutually

et of his own existence, and to achieve full self-consciousness; secondly to ascertain the position and place of his polar opposite; thirdly to merge and blend with that polar opposite. this is the cosmic marriage of the logos. g. a solar logos is distinguished by his responsiveness to outer stimulation. this concerns itself with: electrical stimulation or his response to electrical fohatic force emanating from other stellar centres, and controlling largely the action of our system and its movements in space in relation to other constellations. magnetic stimulation, acting upon his subjective life, and emanating from certain cosmic centres hinted at in the secret doctrine. these find their source on cosmic buddhic levels. it is their united effect which induces steady development. the sola

th of the son. it covers the enunciation of the second syllable of the sacred word.23(109) electricity as sound. here we have the completed threefold sacred word. on the fourth plane this electrical force shows itself as colour. in these four we have the fundamental concepts of all manifestation; all four have an electrical dynamic origin; all are basically a differentiation or effect of impulse, emanating from the cosmic mental plane and taking form (with intelligent purpose in view) on the cosmic physical. man repeats the process on his tiny scale, dealing only with three planes, and flashing into objectivity on the solar physical. it will be demonstrated later as science attains more and more of the truth that 1. all physical phenomena as we understand the term have an electrical origin

in themselves are fivefold, making the fifteen) are the entifying lives of the particular centre which is involved in the coming initiation of the heavenly man, and to which the human units at this time, and during this greater cycle, belong. another fact that should be noted about these great beings is, that when viewed in their seven groups, they form: a. focal points for the force or influence emanating from the other solar centres or schemes. b. the seven divisions of the occult hierarchy. they exist, as does the heavenly man himself, in etheric matter, and are literally great wheels, or centres of living fire, manasic and electric fire; they vitalise the body of the heavenly man and hold all together as an objective whole. they make a planetary triangle within the chain, and each of t

parent destruction of two-fifths of the human family, and the translation of the indwelling units of consciousness to other spheres, more suited to their stage of evolution. this event will be regarded at the time as a catastrophe, but the knowers will see and know, and three fifths of the human family will understand the reason. third. at the final reabsorption of the perfected monads into their emanating source in the seventh round. this will be marked by obscuration and the destruction of the form. suffering will be practically nil, as the human units involved will have reached a stage where they can consciously co-operate in the process of abstraction. it is evident therefore that as regards the human family (the manasaputras in incarnation, the fourth, fifth, and seventh rounds hold h

anifestation, and the numbers succeeding the names concern the fivefold manifestation of brahma. 1. will or power. rays of aspect: 2. love or wisdom. 3. adaptability or active intelligence..1. 4. harmony, beauty or art..2. 5. concrete knowledge or science..3. rays of attribute: 6. abstract idealism..4. 7. ceremonial magic..5. we must now continue with our consideration of the four types of force, emanating from certain- 251- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust great entities, and the future results that may be expected from their effect upon man, remembering ever that these four influences (with their synthesis, the third ray of aspect) sum up, in themselves, the fifth logoic principle of manas. they are, literally, the radiatory effects of the divine manasaputras. we are

and the manasic permanent atom. v. on buddhic levels: a. discriminative power here demonstrates as ability to distinguish between the abstract and the concrete, and to arrive at conclusions apart from the ordinary apparatus the mental body and the physical brain. b. adaptability to hierarchical enterprise shown by the initiate or master, and his receptivity to life impulses and spiritual currents emanating from the planetary logos of his ray a thing at this stage impossible of conscious realisation. c. in the ordered purpose which guides the choice by a master of one of the seven paths of endeavour. thus choice is based on knowledge and not on desire. d. in the conscious transmutation he undertakes in the work of evolution, and in the gradual transference of his own life, and the life of h

plays through that cosmic heart centre will be the paramount force- 303- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust found in the manifestation of a solar logos, and of a heavenly man; it will likewise produce its microcosmic analogy, and reflective reactions; hence the relative importance of the astral permanent atom within the causal periphery. it is in the direct line of active force emanating from the cosmic existence, and passing to it in ever lessening degree, via the solar logos in his system of love, and the planetary logos within a scheme, the dragon of wisdom-love. this force when rightly directed and properly controlled is the great transmuting agency, which eventually will make of the human unit a master of the wisdom, a lord of love, a dragon of wisdom in lesser degr

d apart from each other. it concerns the mystery of electricity, and the production of light. the three higher planes concern the central forces or lives, the three lower concern the lesser forces or lives. we must bear this carefully in mind, remembering that to the occultist there is no such thing as substance, but only force in varying degrees, only energy of differentiated quality, only lives emanating from different sources, each distinctive and apart, and only consciousness producing intelligent effect through the medium of space. i would point out that the lord agni shows forth his fiery life on the atomic subplane of each plane; he shows forth as solar fire on the second, third and fourth, and as 'fire by friction' on the fifth, sixth and seventh. from the point of view of the micr

gher by a dual process: 1. his polarisation shifts from out of the lower three atoms into the triadal atoms. 2. the force which these atoms generate and embody is merged and blended into the higher force points. a permanent atom is the positive nucleus or germ substance to the sheath wherein it is found. it is that which is the basis of form-building, and it is literally a vibrant point of force, emanating from the second aspect of the monad, which aggregates to itself, and subsequently builds into form, the negative or third aspect. but it must here be remembered that this second aspect is itself dual, and that in considering the permanent atoms we are dealing with the feminine aspect of the second person. the spirillae therefore are but streams of force, or second aspect vitality which c

ind of solar fire (which vitalises the nine petals) becomes equally fierce, and when the electric spark at the innermost centre blazes out and can be seen, the entire causal body becomes radioactive. then the fires of substance (the vitality of the permanent atoms) escape from the atomic spheres, and add their quota to the great sphere in which they are contained; the fire of mind blends with its emanating source, and the central life escapes. this is the great liberation. the man, in terms of human endeavour, has achieved his goal. he has passed through the three halls and in each has transferred that which he gained therein to the content of his consciousness; he has in ordered sequence developed and opened the petals of the lotus first opening the lower three, which involves a process c


ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

inner, and the memory of the orthodox saint, based upon his picture making of a joyous heaven. 3. that memory activity which is the result of mental training, the accumulation of acquired facts, the consequence of reading or of teaching, and which is not purely based upon desire, but which has its basis in intellectual interest. 4. all the various contacts which the memory holds and recognises as emanating from the five lower sense perceptions. 5. those mental images, latent in the memory making faculty, which are the total of the knowledge contacted and the realisations evoked by the right use of the mind as a sixth sense. all these forms of the memory faculty have to be dropped and no longer held; they must be recognised as modifications of the mind, of the thinking principle, and theref

e process of arriving at an understanding of nature, the occultist works inwards from the external form in order to discover the sound which created it, or the aggregate of forces which produced the external shape; every aggregate of forces has its own sound, produced by their interplay. having discovered that, he penetrates still further inwards till he touches the cause, idea or divine thought (emanating from the logos, planetary or solar, which gave rise to the sound, thus producing the form. in creative work, the adept starts on the inside and knowing the idea which he seeks to embody in form he utters certain words or sounds and thus calls in certain forces which produce (through their interplay) a form of some kind. the higher the level on which the adept works the more elevated the

he mental, astral and physical worlds no longer shut him away from the realities or from the true subjective world of causes, and of force emanations. he is no longer deceived and can discriminate between the real and the unreal, between the true and the false, and between the life of the spirit and the world of phenomena. he becomes subject then to the currents of thought, and the world of ideas emanating from great spiritual entities, from spiritual lives, and the great plan of the architect of the universe can unroll itself before him. he is liberated and free and subject only to the new conditions of the life of the man who has made the great at-one-ment. the laws of the three worlds are not superseded but are transcended, for the greater always includes the lesser and though for purpo

expression or manifestation of the life of the spirit. means iv. right control of the life-force. pranayama. suppression of the breath. regulation of the breath. this refers to the control, regulation and suppression of the vital airs, the breath and the forces or shaktis of the body. it leads in reality to the organization of the vital body or the etheric body so that the life current or forces, emanating from the ego or spiritual man on his own plane, can be correctly transmitted to the physical man in objective manifestation. means v. abstraction. pratyahara. right withdrawal. restraint. withdrawal of the senses. here we get back of the physical and the etheric bodies, to the emotional body, the seat of the desires, of sensory perception and of feeling. here can be noted the orderly met

condition, first of rhythmic response to the inner motivating factor (in this case, the ego or spiritual man on his own plane) and then of complete quiescence or stillness. this latter condition of receptive waiting, if one might so call it, is succeeded by one of a form of higher activity. this is literally the imposition of a new rate of vibration on the lower, the sounding forth of a new note, emanating from the inner spiritual man which produces certain definite effects in the three sheaths which constitute the lower self and which veil the divinity which is man. these changes are dealt with in the next two sutras. the work of the average aspirant is most frequently given to preparing the sheaths so that this fourth stage can become possible. his attention is concentrated upon the atta

e or the future is likewise unfolded to him. 26. through meditation, one-pointedly fixed upon the sun, will come a consciousness (or knowledge) of the seven worlds. this passage has been commented upon at length by many writers for many centuries. simply for the sake of clarity let us modernize the statement and reduce its terms to those of modern occultism "by constant steady meditation upon the emanating cause of our solar system will come a realization of the seven states of being" the various terms used here serve frequently to confuse the student and it might be wise if we used only two sets of terms, one conveying the orthodox oriental terminology as found in the best commentaries, and the other the one most easily recognizable by the western investigator. using wood's translation we

plane .m ahendra .w orld of the mind and of the soul. mind consciousness. 4. buddhic plane .m ahar prajapatya .c hrist world. intuitional or christ consciousness. group consciousness. 5. atmic plane. jana. spiritual world. planetary consciousness. world of the third aspect. 6. monadic plane. tapas. divine world. god-consciousness. world of the second aspect. 7. logoic plane .t atya. world of the emanating cause. absolute consciousness. world of the first aspect. it is interesting to note certain comments of vyasa on this differentiation, for they blend in with modern theosophical thought. the earth plane is described by him as "supported respectively by solid matter, by water, by fire, by wind, by air and by darkness. wherein living creatures, having been allotted a long and grievous leng

ectly perceive all this" constraint is a term frequently used in translating phrases which mean "the harnessing or restraining of the modifications of the thinking principle" in other words, perfect one-pointed meditation. by meditation upon the door of the sun full knowledge can be achieved. this means very briefly that through a knowledge of the sun within one's own heart and, through the light emanating from that sun, having found the portal of the path, one enters into relationship with the sun which is at the heart of our solar system and eventually finds that portal which admits a man to the sevenfold cosmic path. of this no more need be said, as the object of raja yoga is to enable a man to find the light within himself and in that light see light. it enables him also to find the do

ar into the kingdom of universals. we are brought face to face with cosmic and solar impulses and the smallness and littleness of our individual problem becomes apparent. every form in manifestation is the result of god's thought; every objective vehicle through which the life impulses of the universe flow is produced and kept in objective manifestation through the steady flow of thought currents emanating from one stupendous cosmic thinker. his mysterious ways, his secret hidden plan, the great purpose towards which he is working in this solar system, is as yet not apparent to man. however, as man's capacity to think in large terms, as his power to visualize the past as a whole, and to unify what knowledge he has of the life of god as it works through the kingdoms of nature, and as his un

cooperation there comes delay and confusion. sometimes there comes much trouble when a tiny part of a big mechanism refuses to function correctly. frequently much adjustment is needed before the complete machine can go forward successfully in its work, and in the realm of human cooperation an analogous situation is apt to occur. the constantly active mind stuff can respond to the lower vibration, emanating from the three-fold lower man and to the higher impulse, issuing from the soul, as the intermediary between spirit and matter. the soul is ever aware of this condition; man on the physical plane is blind to it or just awaking to the dual possibility. the work of the aspirant to union is to swing the mind stuff gradually and increasingly under the higher impulse and away from the lower vi


ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

ow this way only vaguely, as a mere shadowy sentiment culled from religious terminology, and therefore we gladly dispose of eastern 'wisdom' in quotation marks, and push it away into the obscure territory of faith and superstition. but in this way eastern 'realism' is completely misunderstood. it does not consist of sentimental, exaggeratedly mystical, intuitions bordering on the pathological and emanating from ascetic recluses and cranks; the wisdom of the east is based on practical knowledge..which we have not the slightest justification for undervaluing."5(5) it is in the training of the mind that the crux of the situation lies. the human mind is apparently an instrument which we are able to use in two directions. one direction is outward. the mind, in this mode of functioning, register

d as a quality emerging at a high level of evolution that we as human beings deal. it is for us a mode or means of contact, receiving information from various sources, and by different means. through the five senses, information is conveyed, and the man becomes aware of the world of physical phenomena and of psychical life in which he is immersed. not only that, but the mind registers impressions emanating from other minds, and the thoughts of men (both ancient and modern) are conveyed to him through the medium of leading and the spoken word- 44- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust through the drama, through pictures and through music. most of it is simply registered and stored up, finding later expression as memory and anticipation. moods, emotional reactions, feelings

me specific words or a verse from some sacred book for their meditation so as to train them in their power to get behind the form of the words and so to arrive at the true meaning- 51- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust we have penetrated into the world of causes; we have to seek to apprehend the plan as it exists in the mind of god and as it expresses itself through the love, emanating from the heart of god. is it possible for human minds to reach any further than the love and will of god? right at this point, divinity is contacted. the mind ceases to function, and the true student of meditation slips into a state of conscious identification with that spiritual reality we call the indwelling christ, the divine soul. man, at this point, enters into god. chapter six stag

rld-plan is revealed within us..this revelation is only partial since each of us is only an individual instance of that which in full manifestation is universal."5(71) god reveals his purpose through the activity of the form. he does the same through the activity of the mind which impresses in its turn the brain, attuned to receptivity. later again, the mind becomes responsive to an illumination, emanating from the spirit aspect, and this we will shortly consider. this approaches very close to the oriental position which infers a "mind-stuff" which is thrown into activity from the outer world of human affairs by the agency of the senses, by the emotions and by other minds. this intense activity of the mind-stuff has to be definitely offset through concentration and meditation if the mind i

if the mind is to be brought into a condition wherein it can be refocussed and reoriented to another field of perception and another range of ideas. for the esotericists, therefore, the objective of the meditation (carried forward into its later stages) is that the mind should cease to register any form activity whatsoever, no matter of how high an order, but should begin to register impressions emanating from that steadily manifesting factor which we call (for lack of a better term) the mind of god, the universal mind. this mind is distinguished by a sense of wholeness, and of synthesis. the entire history of evolving humanity might be considered from the angle of this plan concept, and the focus of interest might be noted to be that of a growing consciousness in man of a universe which

ints to remember is that in both cases the triplicity of soul, mind, and brain must play their part, but with a differing orientation and attention. it becomes simply a question of focus. the brain is active in practically a subconscious manner towards the instincts and habits which guide our physical plane life and appetites. through right education, it learns to be receptive towards impressions emanating from the mind, and instead of being only a sensory register or recorder, it learns to respond to thought impressions. the mind in its turn has an instinctive tendency to record all outer information, but can be trained to be receptive towards the soul, and to register information coming from that higher source. in time we can acquire facility and practice in utilizing either brain or min

(out of the realm of awareness of the brain and the mind) and the mystic passes into the contemplative state, wherein he functions as the soul, and realizes himself as a knower. the nature of the soul is knowledge and light, and its realm of existence is the kingdom of god. all the time that this identification with the soul continues, the mind is held steady and refuses all response to contacts emanating from other states of awareness, such as those coming from the emotional and physical worlds. absorbed in union with god, transported into the "third heaven (like st. paul) and contemplating the beatific vision of reality, he knows nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing except the phenomena which are appropriate to the world in which he is living. but in that world, he hears, and sees, and

ing and contacts. this mind has recorded and stored up much of which he remains for years totally unaware. then he begins to meditate and suddenly taps the depths of his own nature and penetrates to the resources of his own subconsciousness and to information which has dropped below the threshold of his ordinary consciousness. he begins to write assiduously. why he should regard these thoughts as emanating from the christ, or from some great teacher is a puzzle. it probably feeds his pride again quite unconsciously to feel he is a channel through which the christ can communicate. i am not referring here to the mass of automatic writings which are so popular now. i am supposing that the student of meditation refuses to have anything to do with this kind of dangerous work. no true aspirant


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dication that the race is beginning also to bridge the gap between the objective and the subjective, between the world of form and the world of ideas. this leads inevitably to the emergence of the third branch of knowledge, the intuitive. the intuition is in reality only the appreciation by the mind of some factor in creation, some law of manifestation and some aspect of truth, known by the soul, emanating from the world of ideas, and being of the nature of those energies which produce all that is known and seen. these truths are always present, and these laws are ever active, but only as the mind is trained and developed, focussed, and open-minded can they be recognized, later understood, and finally adjusted to the needs and demands of the cycle and time. those who have thus trained the

he physical plane activities through the medium of the brain. in these three soul, mind and brain we have the analogy and the clue to the understanding of spirit, soul and body, and their mutual functions. this was the subject matter of the book, the light of the sou1. upon the perfecting of the conditions dealt with in that book there follows still another expansion when the spirit aspect, man's emanating source of energy, begins to use the soul (via the intuition) and to impress upon the soul-consciousness those laws, knowledges, forces and inspirations which will make the soul the instrument of the spirit or monad, just as the personal man became, at an earlier stage (via the mind, the instrument of the soul. in that earlier stage the development was two-fold. as the soul assumed contro

ss which is strictly individual and identified. this aspect of the life principle works through the etheric or vital body and, in connection with the solid mechanism of the tangible form, through the spleen. therefore let us remember that the definition of spirit is not possible of accomplishment, nor is the definition of god. when one says that spirit is the inexpressible, undefinable cause, the emanating energy, the one life and source of being, the totality of all forces, of all states of consciousness and of all forms, the aggregate of life and that which is actively manifested of that life, the self and the not-self, force, and all that force motivates, one is in reality evading the issue, attempting the impossible and hiding truth behind a form of words. this cannot however be avoide

t only that which responds to the environment but is the transmitter (from inner sources) of certain types of energy, and the object of the treatise might here be stated to be that of considering the various types of energy transmitted to the form in the human kingdom, the responsiveness of the form to the types of force, the effects of that force upon man, and his gradual responsiveness to force emanating: a. from his environment, plus his own outer physical body. b. from the emotional plane, or astral force. c. the mental plane or thought currents. d. egoic force, a force only registered by man and of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the custodian and which has mysterious and peculiar effects- 29- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust e. the type of energy which produ

some of them can be registered in the subhuman kingdoms, and the apparatus of the vital body in man is so constructed that through its three objective manifestations, the triple nervous system, through the seven major plexi, the lesser nerve ganglia, and the many thousands of nerves, the entire objective man can be responsive to: a. the above mentioned types of force. b. energies generated in and emanating from any part of the planetary etheric web of life. c. the solar web of life. d. the constellations of the zodiac which appear to have a real effect upon our planet and of which astrology is as yet the immature study. e. certain cosmic forces which, it will be recognised later, play upon and produce changes in our solar system and consequently upon our planet and upon all forms upon and

nd there is no short or easy road out of darkness into light. the way of the disciple the white magician is ever one who, through conscious alignment with his ego, with his "angel, is receptive to his plans and purposes, and therefore capable of receiving the higher impression. we must remember that while magic works from above downwards, and is the result of solar vibration, and not the impulses emanating from one or the other of the lunar pitris, the downflow of the impressing energy from the solar pitri is the result of his internal recollectedness, the indrawing of his forces, prior to sending them concentratedly to his shadow, man, and his steady meditation upon the purpose and the plan. it may be of use to the student if he here remembers that the ego (as well as the logos) is in dee

before the light he sees in the distance can be approached, and then enter within him. then he can know himself as light itself, and walk in that light and transmit it likewise to others. it is perhaps well to remember that the stage of discipleship is in many ways the most difficult part of the entire ladder of evolution. the solar angel is unceasingly in deep meditation. the impulses of energy, emanating from him are increasing in vibratory rate and are becoming more and more powerful. the energy is affecting more and more the forms through which the soul is- 38- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust seeking expression, and endeavouring to control. this brings me to the consideration of the seventh point i made in my earlier analysis of rule i. i said "the soul's meditatio

the soul realm, and finds that when he can tread it with steadiness it leads him out of the ever changing world of the senses into the clear light of day and into the world of reality. the form side of life then becomes to him simply a field for service and not a field of sensuous perception. let the student ponder upon this last sentence. let him aim to live as a soul. then the cyclic impulses, emanating from the soul, are known to be impulses for which he himself is responsible and which he has sent forth; he then knows himself to be the initiating cause and is not subject to the effects. looked at from another angle we get two factors, the breath and the form which the breath energises and drives into activity. upon careful study, it becomes apparent that we have, for aeons of time, id

hite magic copyright 1998 lucis trust four words should be pondered upon here: 1. communication 2. response 3. reorientation 4. union the old commentary expresses it in the following terms "when communion is established, words are forthwith used, and mantric law assumes its rightful place, provided that the one communicates the words and the three remain in silence "when response is recognized as emanating from the three, the one, in silence, listens. the roles are changed. a three-fold word issues from out the triple form. a turning round is caused. the eyes no longer look upon the world of form; they turn within, focus the light, and see, revealed, an inner world of being. with this the manas stills itself, for eyes and mind are one "the heart no longer beats in tune with low desire, nor

in the old commentary under the following symbolic terms "when the radiant light of the solar angel is fused with the golden light of the cosmic intermediary, it awakens from darkness the rush light of anu, the speck" the "cosmic intermediary" is the term given to the etheric body, which is part and parcel of the universal ether. it is through the etheric body that all the energies flow, whether emanating from- 63- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul, or from the sun, or from a planet. along those living lines of fiery essence pass all the contacts that do not emanate specifically from the tangible world. the dark light of the tiny atoms of which the physical vehicle is constructed is responsive to the stimulation passing down from the soul into its vehicle, and

es of fiery essence pass all the contacts that do not emanate specifically from the tangible world. the dark light of the tiny atoms of which the physical vehicle is constructed is responsive to the stimulation passing down from the soul into its vehicle, and, when the man is under control of the soul, there eventuates the shining forth of the light throughout the body. this shows as the radiance emanating from the bodies of adepts and saints, giving the effect of bright and shining light. when the radiant light of the soul is blended with the magnetic light of the vital body, it stimulates the atoms of the physical body to such an extent that each atom becomes in turn a tiny radiant centre. this only becomes possible when the head, heart, the solar plexus and the centre at the base of the

he awareness of the state of pure being- 124- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the third direction in which the soul looks and wherein he exercises the faculty of contemplative vision is towards his reflection in the three worlds. the object of the long struggle between the higher and the lower man has been to make the lower responsive to and sensitively aware of the forces emanating from the soul as the soul "contemplates" his triple instrument. there is an interesting relation between these three "directions of contemplation" and the awakening in the three major centres. this cannot be more than hinted at owing to the abstruseness of the subject. so many factors govern this awakening, and each aspirant has to determine for himself the order and mode of his awakenin

plane, yet the sum total indicates a vibratory activity in the world soul, as it expresses itself through humanity, and issues forth from the mental realm. the pioneers of the race, and the foremost thinkers and creative workers of humanity are but the sensitives who respond most readily to the mental impulses. they are in the minority as yet, and most people respond to the forces and vibrations emanating from the plane of the emotions and of desire. more and more however are awakening, and the significance of the six first rules of magic will become increasingly apparent. these fifteen rules are divided into: six rules on the mental plane- 128- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust five rules on the desire or astral plane. four rules on the physical plane. the main thought


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e" or "the divine sparks" can be seen and noted. these unities, within the unity, are coloured by and react qualitatively to, three types of energy, for it is scientifically true, and a spiritual fact in nature, that god is the three in one and the one in three. the spirit of man came into incarnation along a line of force emanation from one or other of these three streams, which form one stream, emanating from the most high. 2. these streams of energy differentiate into a major three, yet remain one stream. this is an occult fact worthy of the deepest meditation. in their turn they differentiate into seven streams which "carry into the light" as it is called, the seven types of souls. it is with these seven that we shall deal. 3. the energies into which the three distribute themselves, th

tantiation and cannot be proved by you. these it would be wise to accept as working hypotheses, in order to understand that whereof i seek to speak. some of the points i may make you may find yourself capable of checking up in your own life experience, and they will call forth from you a recognition coming from your concrete mind; or they may produce in you a reaction of the intensest conviction, emanating from your intuitively aware self. in any case, read slowly; apply the laws of analogy and of correspondence; study yourself and your brethren; seek to link what i say to any knowledge you may possess of the modern theories, and remember that the more truly you live as a soul the more surely you will comprehend that which may be imparted. as you study you must not forget the basic concept

can be practically demonstrated if those who are interested in this treatise on the seven rays can attune themselves to think clearly, and with a poised and illumined mind seek to understand what is relatively a new aspect of truth. in undertaking to reveal something anent the nature of the seven rays, i feel it necessary to remind all of you who take up this study that any speculation as to the emanating source of the rays must remain profitless until there is developed within each student that apparatus of response and that sensitive mechanism which will enable him to register a wider field of contacts than is at present possible. many are as yet in the initial stage of registering an awareness of a field of expression which they know exists the field of soul awareness but which is not

d art. the main function of this being is the creation of beauty (as an expression of truth) through the free interplay of life and form, basing the design of beauty upon the initial plan as it exists in the mind of the solar logos. the body of manifestation- 21- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust of this life is not revealed, but the activity emanating from it produces that combination of sounds, colours and word music that expresses through the form of the ideal that which is the originating idea. this fourth lord of creative expression will resume activity upon the earth about six hundred years hence, though already the first faint impress of his influence is being felt and the next century will see a re-awakening of creative art in

subjective synthesis. man can therefore eventually see, expressing itself through all forms in all kingdoms, a universal septenate, and when this happens, he is then entering into the world of subjective unity, and can proceed on his way consciously towards the one. he cannot as yet enter into the consciousness of that basic essential unity, but he can enter into that of his own ray-life, of the emanating source of his own temporarily specialised life. this triplicity of ideas requires careful study. it might be expressed thus: o. the one life. unity. o o o. the major three rays) o o o o. the minor four rays) making seven o. the unity of appearance with the one life we shall not concern ourselves. we accept it as a basic truth and we realise that we are on our way back from the unity of f

ed even that of the superhuman man, and has become one with the divine. will or the energy of life are synonymous terms and are an abstraction, existing apart from all form expression. the will-to-be emerges from outside the solar system altogether. it is the all-pervading energy of god which informs with a fraction of itself the solar system, and yet remains outside. plan and purpose concern the emanating energies of that central life and involve duality, will or the life urge plus attractive magnetic love which, in its turn, is the response of the vibrating universal substance to the impact of the energy of will. this initial activity precedes the creative process of form building; and the play of the divine will on the ocean of space, matter, or etheric substance produced the first diff

ts will burst upon the awakened vision, and we shall know the true meaning of bliss, and why the morning stars sang together. joy is the strong basic note of our particular solar system. one of the foundational septenate of rays embodies in itself the principle of harmony, and this fourth ray of harmony gives to all forms that which produces beauty and works towards the harmonising of all effects emanating from the world of causes, which is the world of the three major rays. the ray of beauty, of art and harmony is the producer of the quality of organisation through form. it is in the last analysis the ray of mathematical exactitude and is not the ray of the artist, as so many seem to think. the artist is found on all rays, just as is the engineer or the physician, the home-maker or the mu

s legitimate and respectable an investigation as any scientific problem, such as research into the nature of the atom. the investigation of the soul and its governing laws will, before long, engross the attention of our finest minds. the newer psychology will eventually succeed in proving the fact of its existence, and the paralleling intuitive and instinctive response of mankind to soul nurture, emanating from the invisible side of life, will steadily and successfully prove the existence of a spiritual entity in man, an entity all-wise, immortal, divine and creative. but the process would be slow were it not for the work now being done by a group of disciples- 73- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust and initiates working in collaboratio

ankfulness at the growing responsiveness and sensitivity of man. that the first reaction and effect of such an outpouring of communications is oft an increase of spiritual pride and ambition, and that the stepping down of the teaching from the mind to the brain and from the brain into words and sentences often fails in adequacy is sadly true, and that there is frequently misapprehension as to the emanating source of the instructions is also true, for the lack of humility in man and the lack of a true sense of proportion are great. but out of this inflow from the subjective side of life are coming new knowledge, increased devotion to the plan, and those indications which will eventually bring us assurance. men will know, and know soon, that the soul is not an imaginary fiction, that it is n

uce separativeness, and nothing to feed the fires of controversy, antagonism or partisanship. much of value may come along other lines than through this group of communicators, and you may look for an increased flood of inspirational writings of a high order, and for an outpouring of wisdom from the world of souls through the hundreds who are in touch with their own souls; there will also be much emanating from the highest level of the astral plane, of a high order along devotional lines, but none of this will be the work of the band of communicators now in process of forming. only a handful are doing this work as yet, and the true influx of communicators will not start for another fifteen years. to return to our two questions, and particularly to the one concerning the value of studying t

rge or the desire aspect of divinity which lies at the root of the entire evolutionary process. this is recognised as an incentive and is more or less self-directed in the human family; it is blindly followed by the forms in the other kingdoms, who respond according to the nature of their response mechanisms to these varying urges. when we deal with the inflow of mental energy and with the forces emanating from the fifth plane of mind (higher mind, lower mind and the egoic intelligent entity) we enter more entirely into the domain of human evolution itself, and the vague word "consciousness" could well be superseded by the word "awareness" in varying degree man is aware, but only man is aware that he is aware. his response apparatus responds to, and is influenced by, all the contacts to wh

f, and the vague word "consciousness" could well be superseded by the word "awareness" in varying degree man is aware, but only man is aware that he is aware. his response apparatus responds to, and is influenced by, all the contacts to which the subhuman forms respond, but he is also aware of himself, and his response mechanism is capable of reacting, not only to external stimuli but to contacts emanating from within himself, from the self so called, and also from the worlds of introspection and of mystical vision which seem sealed to all subhuman forms of life. in the larger picture, with which we are not to occupy ourselves in this treatise, the planet constitutes the response apparatus of a superhuman life, and that life responds consciously to impacts emanating from the solar system a

al sun of the secret doctrine) and so gain a flash of realisation as to the meaning of the word "life" but they cannot, and they dare not, pass on the knowledge gained. their efforts to convey such information would be futile, and language itself would be inadequate to the task. life is not what anyone has hitherto surmised. energy (in contradistinction to force, and using the word to express the emanating centre which differentiates into forces) is not what idle speculation has portrayed it to be. life is the synthesis of all activity an activity which is a blend of many energies, for life is the sum total of the energies of the seven solar systems, of which our solar system is but one. these, in their totality, are the expression of the activity of that being who is designated in our hie


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emerge into the very light of god himself. st paul perhaps touched this truth when he spoke of christ as the "eldest in a vast family of brothers."21 whether this legend is true or not, christ entered into light because he was light; and the history of man has been a gradually growing illumination, until today radiance is everywhere to be found. in this light, inherent and divine, latent and yet emanating from god, christ saw the vision, and that vision demonstrated to him his sonship, his messiahship and the path of his suffering. this vision is the heritage and the revelation of each individual disciple. this mystical revelation can be perceived, and once perceived, remains a fact inexplicable often, but a definitely clear and inescapable reality. it gives the initiate the confidence an


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the at-one-ment between the soul and its mechanism, man in the three worlds. from the angle of these three ray influences, we have (in the life of the aspirant) a recapitulation of the triple process which we could call the "processes of unfoldment of the lemurian, atlantean, and aryan consciousness" on the path of probation, the ray of the physical body must become subordinated to the potencies emanating from those soul rays which stream forth from the outer tier of petals in the egoic lotus (see a treatise on cosmic fire) these are the- 13- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust knowledge petals. on the path of discipleship, the astral body is brought into subjection by the ray of the soul as it pours through the second tier of petals

discipleship, the astral body is brought into subjection by the ray of the soul as it pours through the second tier of petals, the love petals. upon the path of initiation, until the third initiation, the ray of the mental body is subdued by the force of the petals of sacrifice, found in the third tier of petals. thus the three aspects of the personality are brought into subjection by the energy emanating from the nine petals of the egoic lotus. after the third initiation, the whole personality, composed of the three aspects, becomes sensitive to the energy of pure electric fire or life, as it pours through the "closed bud at the heart of the egoic lotus" the value of the above information consists in the fact that it gives, symbolically, a synthetic picture of man's unfoldment and higher

finally of ultimate withdrawal, consciously or unconsciously, at the moment of death or in the technique of inducing that stage of control known as samadhi. 8. when the directing agent in the head, deliberately and by an act of the will, raises the accumulated energies at the base of the spine, he draws them into the magnetic field of the centres up the spine and blends them with the dual energy emanating from the spleen. the spinal- 41- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust tract with its five centres then awakens into activity, and finally all the forces are gathered together into one fused and blended stream of energy. three things then happen: a. the kundalini fire is raised and immediately burns away all the etheric webs which are

energy body, therefore, of every human being, is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses or streams of force, emanating from some originating source or other. the etheric body is in reality naught but energy. it is composed of myriads of threads of force or tiny streams of energy, held in relation to the emotional and mental bodies and to the soul by their co-ordinating effect. these streams of energy, in their turn, have an effect on the physical body and swing it into activity of some kind or another, a

ld in relation to the emotional and mental bodies and to the soul by their co-ordinating effect. these streams of energy, in their turn, have an effect on the physical body and swing it into activity of some kind or another, according to the nature and power of whatever type of energy may be dominating the etheric body at any particular time. through the etheric body, therefore, circulates energy emanating from some mind. with humanity in the mass, response is made unconsciously to the rulings of the universal mind; this is complicated in our time and age by a growing responsiveness to the mass ideas called sometimes public opinion of the rapidly evolving human mentality. within the human family are also found those who respond to that inner group of thinkers, who, working in mental matter

very human being, in or out of incarnation, is a "fragment of divinity" and an outpost of the divine consciousness, functioning in time and space for purposes of expression. 2. all these souls, selves, or human beings are found, as we have seen, on one or other of the seven emanations of spiritual energy, issuing forth from god at the beginning of an era of creative activity. they return to their emanating source when that particular cycle is brought to a close. 3. in the interim between emanation and reabsorption, these souls pass through various experiences until such time as they can "shine forth in all their exactitude of truth" 4. they are called, as has been stated, in a treatise on cosmic fire (see page 855) 1. lotuses of revelation. 2. lotuses with perfume. 3. radiant lotuses. 4. l

ducing still further distinctions. the sowing of these seeds, their care and nurturing is part of the phenomenal task of the hierarchy, particularly at the inauguration of a new age, as is the case today. the masters have to understand, first of all, what is the meaning which the will of god is seeking to express in any particular world cycle. they must comprehend the significance of the impulses emanating from sources higher than their own field of expression and of dharma, and they must see to it that the seeds of the new forms are adequate to the desired intent. they must appreciate the nature of the reality which any age must reveal in the progressive unfoldment of divine purpose; and then they have the responsibility of so working that the outer reality approximates (in appearance and

other pairs of opposites receive due recognition. etheric energy, focussed in an individual etheric body, passes through two stages prior to the period of discipleship: 1. the stage wherein it assimilates the force latent in the dense physical form the energy of atomic substance, thus producing a definite fusing and blending. this causes the animal nature to conform entirely to the inner impulses emanating from the world of pranic influence, where- 188- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the entirely undeveloped man is concerned, and from the lower astral world where the more developed or the average man is concerned. it is this truth which lies behind the statement frequently made that the dense physical body is an automaton. 2. the

ays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. a capacity to offset time and, therefore, to do more in one hour of so-called time than the average person can do in two or three hours of time. 3. an upheaval in the personality life which leads if correctly met to a clear sighted meeting of karmic obligations. 4. an intensification of all reactions. this includes all reactions emanating from the world of daily living (and, therefore, from the environment, from the world of aspirational life, from the mind and from the soul, the great reality in the life of the incarnated individual (even if he does not know it. 5. a clarification of life objectives, and hence a dominant emphasis upon the importance of the personality and the personality life. 6. a developing process of

forces upon the present mechanism of man. this is not yet being done but is a determining factor in the successful development of the human unit. therefore, it is of vital importance to educators, psychologists, parents and esotericists. there is, however, as yet no real recognition of the fact and the urgency of these incoming forces, nor is there any appreciation of the potency of the energies emanating from 1. the sign of the zodiac into which we are now passing. 2. the effect of the relation existing between the forces emanating from the sign aquarius and the sign leo which is its polar opposite and, therefore, closely related to it. the interplay of the two signs is, at this time, responsible for the appearance of the great and modern human movements, involving vast numbers of men an

the result of the development of a man's personality to the point of integration, can (if the energies involved are not correctly controlled) lead to serious eye trouble, to many aural difficulties, to various forms of neuritis, headache, migraine, and nerve difficulties in various parts of the body. it can produce also many difficulties connected with the pituitary body and psychological trouble emanating from this important controlling gland as well as definite physical trouble. c. the awakening of the heart centre (which is going on very rapidly at this time) is responsible for many forms of heart trouble and for the various difficulties connected with the autonomic nervous system, particularly in relation to the vagus nerve. the prevalence of various forms of heart disease at this time

earnestly as possible in preparation for the work planned in 1942 and its great united effort. upon these two lay the emphasis, for by them the majority of human beings are reached. 8. let each wesak full moon be a period of intensive effort preceded by personal preparation and purification and lay the force of the emphasis upon: a. the producing of sensitivity to the inner spiritual impression, emanating from the hierarchy and the group. b. the achieving of an intelligent appreciation of the steps to he taken during the coming twelve months, and the laying of careful plans so that they may indeed materialise. c. the correct distribution of your time and resources so that you do become an active worker in the cause of good will- 448- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psych


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otten for they are of no moment- 15- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust days may go by and weeks with no record. let this in no way disconcert you. the sensitivity of the mechanism of the soul to spiritual vibration has to be cultivated and existing sensitivity to lower psychic impressions has to be tuned out; so many voices clamour for attention, so many impressions emanating from the physical and astral forms around us register upon our consciousness, that the vibrations and sounds coming from the subjective and spiritual world are lost and not registered and recorded. you will find it interesting to note, at the end of a few years, the difference in the data recorded and the development of sensitivity to the right kind of impression. this can only be realis

cal nature which can identify itself with the reactions of others and a mental stability which will enable you to work as a soul. thus you will learn to avail yourself of the knowledge, gained psychically, and to serve with increased effectiveness. later, i will (if you progress in sensitivity) train you in the art of psychometry, but the time is not yet. that the light of your soul and the light emanating from the master's group may flood your heart and energise your life is the thought which lies in my heart for you. june 1935 brother of old: i seek today to make a somewhat careful analysis of the condition of your psychic centres from the solar plexus upwards. you are passing through a dual process of psychic detachment and, at the same time, of psychic unfoldment. you need to remember

ll be superseded by the inflow of love, working with power through the brain and (incidentally) your general physical health will speedily improve. how shall this be brought about, my brother? the first stage is one of real difficulty, particularly to first ray people. it comes through the power of visualisation. that is why ritual is of value to such as you and masonry being on the first ray and emanating, consequently, from shamballa aids the process of visualisation. it gives colour and performance of a tangible kind to inner, subjective activity. visualisation is a powerful agent in the evocation of the creative imagination. let me here give you a hint. if you use this idea in the planning of the work which you seek to do for the hierarchy and for which we are seeking to hold you respo

in one of the latin countries, to carry out the tibetan's work and doing so most successfully. to s. s. p. may 1934 my brother: we are to work together for a while and i seek to help. your first objective is to set up an understanding relation with your group members and with myself. no groups belonging to the masters or affiliated with their ashrams, such as are now planned under the new impulse emanating from the inner side, can function adequately unless there is willing and voluntary cooperation between the units who compose the group. this is not always easy. you have been asking yourself on what grounds have you been chosen out of the many possible aspirants to do this particular work? partly for karmic reasons, my brother a karma that has touched mine at various points, and partly b

not know, my brother, that the disciple is ever balanced in endeavour and runs not to extremes of any kind? yet balanced effort has not characterised your work the past few months. you have been swept by an emotional thoughtform and the effect of the astral energy has been to increase the emotional devotion and the physical nervousness which have ever handicapped you. the effect of true teaching, emanating from mental levels, is to stabilise, to mentalise and to ground the disciple in spiritual being; to be is for you the goal. it is not the function of the true teacher ever to criticise. it is his function to watch over the chela and in the light of wisdom and compassion to aid him with instruction. i have today a few things to say to you and they must be briefly expressed because your fa

nds of the average intelligent god-accepting men of the world at this time. i would like to emphasise to you the necessity for your definitely grasping the plan as the new group of world servers grasp it, pondering on it and identifying yourself with it. at present, you grasp the plan as the men of goodwill grasp it: your grasp is not that of the new group of world servers who see the group as an emanating point; the man of goodwill sees himself as the emanating point. between these two positions there is a vast difference the difference between a centralised consciousness and a decentralised consciousness. the efficacy and the efficiency of all your future service depends upon your understanding this distinction, for it is vital and real. much of your present difficulty is based on the fa

itely orienting yourself to the life and status of the path of discipleship. this has involved, in your case, the careful training of yourself in selfless service, and the speeding up of the stimulation that your soul was imposing upon your personality and applying to your psychic nature. the first discipline you undertook willingly and understood well. it was definitely self-imposed. the second, emanating more directly from the soul, has caused you at times a certain amount of bewilderment, as all entry into the world of psychic events and psychic phenomena inevitably must. the focus of your attention being upon the soul and its life and world of being, it has been difficult for you at times to interpret other phenomenal happenings. with all this, however, be not unduly concerned. the fit

ed but a sense of futility must not take its place. the thoughtform of power is weakening. the thoughtform of intrigue received a bad blow during the episode of glamour in the early spring. but the forms still persist. you stand before them bewildered, anxious to do the right thing, blinded by the power of your own creations which shine with their own light, and blinded also by the blaze of light emanating from your own soul and from the group soul. but blinded and, seemingly, helpless. no one can help you, my brother. you yourself must let all things go, and become "the little child" spoken of in the bible. it is not for me or any teacher to tell you what to do. for one thing, you would do it, and in doing it learn naught. from within yourself must come the incentive, and from yourself mu

998 lucis trust of the lower nature, developing the instincts and thus laying the foundation of a physical vehicle as the outer garment of the soul. at this stage, intellect is embryonic; the physical appetites and the five senses are dominating factors. all this is due to the activity of prana as it pours through the etheric or vital body. 2. average man is impulsed by desire which is an energy, emanating from world desire and which developing or organising the astral body generates desire-energy. it pours into the vital body and galvanises physical man into those activities which will lead to the satisfaction of desire. this is a parallel process to the work of prana, impelling the animal instinctive nature into activity. these necessarily parallel and produce conflict the first clash (w

or a group and this through the medium of their own astral body. the impact of a truth or of a mental concept and its recognition is an expression of a similar contact, carried forward this time into the realm of the mind. this explains the truth lying behind all so-called "expansions of consciousness" to which the mind of man can respond; he registers a constant succession of vibratory impacts, emanating from spheres of activity; these range all the way from the early stage of increasing awareness through the development of the five senses and the three vehicles of contact in the three worlds of human experience to those recognitions which lead a man into the sphere of influence of a master and later enable him to take what is termed one of the major initiations. these spheres of radiato

roceeds under the impelling force of evolution. i am only here concerned with the fact of a master's sphere of radiatory activity and its peculiar quality and ray colouring (occultly understood. the factor lying behind and thus making possible each of the six stages of discipleship is the existence in the disciple of qualities, radiatory activities and emanatory impulses which correspond to those emanating from some particular ashram. these, when they have evoked a response and drawn the disciple to the periphery of the sphere of activity of such an ashram, gradually intensify their magnetic, attractive quality; they awaken to still greater potency the same qualities in the disciple, occultly pulling him closer to the central point, which is the focus of all the trained ability and the hig

a distortion of the truth; his focus of consciousness has to be shifted from the threefold lower nature into that of the triad and this with the aid of the threefold soul nature. the mode of this progressive shifting is response to an ever higher rate of vibratory activity. just as soon as there exists, in the consciousness of the disciple, the ability to respond to the quality and the radiation, emanating from an ashram, he moves forward into that sphere of influence. that in his own aura which is akin to the quality of the master's aura is trained, intensified and purified. his own radiatory activity is enhanced as the ashramic life plays upon his vehicles until in time he becomes the chela within the aura. in a faint way, his vibration and that of the master tend to synchronise. i would

ther constitute the group aura. when this initial response is made it results eventually in the disciple becoming the chela within the aura. 2. the radiation which comes from the plane of buddhi or of the spiritual intuition. this is an expression of the love nature of the master and is that which enables him to be in touch with the heart of god. it might be noted here that these three radiations emanating from a master and enhanced by the similar, though much less powerful, radiations of the inner members of the ashram are the factors which put the master and the ashram in contact with that which is occultly spoken of as the physical sun, the heart of the sun and the central spiritual sun- 580- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust the line along which this vibr


ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ial truths there are certain keynotes embodying the future of religion which should govern the thinking of enlightened churchmen of all faiths at this time. they are appropriate to both the east and the west. these are: world religion revelation recognition. they will not be accepted by the narrow-minded christian or believer of any faith. the day is dawning when all religions will be regarded as emanating from one great spiritual source; all will be seen as unitedly providing the one root out of which the universal world religion will inevitably emerge. then there will be neither christian nor heathen, neither jew nor gentile, but simply one great body of believers, gathered out of all the current religions. they will accept the same truths, not as theological concepts but as essential to

ill also reveal to them the fact of god immanent in all forms and will enable them to participate in that great planetary movement now slowly taking place whereby god immanent is entering into a closer relation with god transcendent, via the spiritual hierarchy of the earth. the keynote of the new world religion is divine approach "draw near to him and he will draw near to you" is the injunction, emanating in new and clear tones from the hierarchy today. the great theme of the new world religion will be the unifying of the great divine approaches; the task ahead of the churches is to prepare humanity, through organized and spiritual movements, for the fifth imminent approach; the method employed will be the scientific and intelligent use of invocation and evocation and the recognition of i


ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

the evolutionary process has brought him to the point of a fresh orientation to divinity and to the acceptance of the fact of god transcendent and of god immanent within every form of life. these are the foundational truths upon which the world religion of the future will rest. its keynote will be divine approach "draw near to him and he will draw near to you (james iv.8) is the great injunction, emanating in new and clear tones from christ and the spiritual- 81- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust hierarchy at this time. the great theme of the new world religion will be the recognition of the many divine approaches and the continuity of revelation which each of them conveyed; the task ahead of the spiritually minded people of the world today is to prepare humanity fo


ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

of evoking the latent love in human beings which, in its initial and unformed stages, exists in the form of an inchoate goodwill. i call this to your attention as the underlying, motivating idea behind all the work which you are called upon to do. i suggest, therefore that you endeavour to see the three major ideologies with which you have perforce to deal in terms of the three efforts which are emanating from the three major planetary centres at this time: shamballa, the hierarchy and humanity. you will thus gain a more synthetic viewpoint, and a deeper understanding of the slowly emerging world picture. is it not possible that the ideologies which we have been discussing are the response distorted- 11- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust and yet a definite and determin

tutes a similar response to the universality which the love of the hierarchy prompts it to express, and that communism is of human origin, embodying that ideology which humanity has formulated in its own right. thus the three aspects of god's nature are beginning to take form as three major ideas and what we see upon the planet at this time are the distorted human reactions to spiritual impulses, emanating from three different centres, but all equally divine in their essential natures, and in their essences. ponder on this. i have brought this to your attention and discussed these basic modern schools of thought because the potency of their idealism is affecting every person, capable of thought, upon the planet. not one of you is immune from their effects; not one of you but is inclined to

are of paramount importance in all lands. thus, when christ proclaimed (as he assuredly did, along with all world saviours and sun-gods, that he was the light of the worlds, he inaugurated a marvellous period in which humanity has been widely and universally enlightened. this period dates from christmas day, two thousand years ago, in palestine. that was the greatest of all christmas days and its emanating influence was more potent than was any previous arrival of a bearer of light, because humanity was more ready for the light. christ came in the sign of pisces, the fishes the sign of the divine intermediary in the highest sense, or of the medium in the lower; it is the sign of many of the world saviours and of those revealers of divinity who establish world relationships. i would have yo


ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

one, around which are grouped lesser thoughtforms, created by those who respond to these forms, and to their note, quality and tone. similarities are then seen to exist which constitute channels or avenues for the magnetic drawing power of the more potent thoughtforms. ancient theologies in modern garb, fixed presentations of half truth, the wild thinking of various world groups, and many similar emanating sources have down the ages produced the world of illusion and those mental states which have held humanity prisoner to wrong concepts and thoughts. so many are these thought producing illusions that the effect in the world today has been to cause a general division of the human race into varying schools of thought (philosophy, science, religion, sociology, etc, etc, into many parties and

pon the astral plane and the other upon the mental. the glamour of authority is a mass glamour in most cases. it has its roots in mass psychology and is one of the indications that humanity is at the nursery stage as yet, wherein men are safeguarded from themselves by the imposition of some rule, some set of laws, some- 28- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust authoritative dictum, emanating from state control, from the rule of an oligarchy, or from the dictatorship of some individual. it reduces mankind, as far as one can judge, to set forms and standardises men's activities, regimenting their lives and work. it is imposed and ordered through catering to the fear complex, rampant in humanity at this time; and this fear is one of the most fruitful sources of glamour which we

the path. let me now elucidate these glamours for you a little more in detail. the glamour of materiality is the cause of all the present world distress, for what we call the economic problem is simply the result of this particular glamour. down the ages, this glamour has held the race increasingly interested, until today the entire world has been swept into the rhythm of money interest. a rhythm emanating from soul levels has always existed, being established by those who have freed themselves from the control of material requirements, from the thraldom of money and the love of possessions. today that higher rhythm is commensurate with the lower rhythmic glamour, and hence the whole world is thinking in terms of the way out from this present material impasse. those souls who stand in the

this etheric energy, focussed in an individual etheric body, passes through two stages prior to the period of discipleship: 1. the stage wherein it assimilates the second force to which i referred the force, latent in the dense physical form, the energy of the atomic substance, thus producing a definite fusing and blending. this causes the animal nature to conform entirely to the inner impulses, emanating from the world of prana, where the entirely undeveloped man is concerned, or from the lower astral where the more developed or average man is concerned. 2. the moment, however, that an inner orientation towards the world of higher values takes place, then the etheric or vital force is brought into conflict with the lowest aspect of man, the dense physical body, and the battle of the lowe

e curious and unique quality of revelation, of immediate dissipation, and of illumination. the revelation vouchsafed is different to that of the intuition for it is the revelation of that which the glamour veils and hides, which is a revelation unique to the astral plane and conditioned by its laws. this particular utilisation of soul light takes the form of a focussed concentration of the light (emanating from the soul, via the mind) upon the state of glamour particular or specific, or general and world-wide so that the nature of the glamour is revealed, its quality and basis is discovered, and its power is brought to an end by a steady, prolonged period of concentration which is given to the dispelling of the condition. in our next section we will deal in detail with the technique of thi

ritation is exceedingly prevalent these days of nervous tension and it most definitely imperils progress and retards the steps of the disciple upon the way. it can produce dangerous group tension if present in any of you, and this induced group tension can interfere with the free play of the power and light which you are supposed to use, even when the other group members remain unconscious of the emanating source. irritation definitely generates a poison which locates itself in the region of the stomach and of the solar plexus. irritation is a disease, if i might use that word, of the solar plexus centre and it is definitely contagious to an almost alarming extent. so, my brothers, watch yourselves with care and remember that just in so far as you can live in the head and in the heart, you

he illusory presentation, and thus the intuitively perceived revelation becomes a distorted, twisted doctrine. theological interpretations and dogmas fall into this category and there ensues a re-enactment of the ancient drama of the blind leading the blind, to which christ referred as he faced the theologians of his time. the above statements are true of all revelation as it comes forth from the emanating centre of light, whether they concern so-called religious truth or scientific discoveries or the great standard of spiritual values whereby advanced humanity of both hemispheres seek to live and which, from time to time, move on a step in significance and in importance. a. intuition dispels individual illusion today we have reached a crisis in the field of human apprehension and can now

the planetary logos himself. however, a consideration of the analogy existing between the microcosm and the macrocosm may help somewhat. the soul creates a threefold expression in the three worlds of human living. this is an occult truism. the outer form, the dual physical body (dense and vital or etheric) is produced, created, motivated, energised and conditioned by certain energies and forces, emanating from those levels whereon the soul has rightly or wrongly engineered a reaction of identification. note this phrase, my brother. these make the man what he is; they give him his temperament, profession and quality upon the physical plane; they make him negative or positive to various types of impacting energy; they give him his character and make him what he appears to be to others; they

olar plexus leading to emotional satisfaction of some kind? is it to be responsive to the mind and work largely under the impulse of projected thought? is it perhaps to be directed by an energy greater than any of these but hitherto apparently impotent, the energy of the soul as an expression of pure being? is it to be swept into action under the impulse of sentient reactions, ideas and thoughts, emanating from other human beings or is it to be motivated and spurred into activity under the direction of the spiritual hierarchy? such are some of the questions to which answers must be found. the stage of aspiring, dreaming and of wishful thinking must now be superseded by direct action and by the carefully planned use of the available forces, swept into activity by the breath, under the direc

medium of some projected and presented thought, expressing some sensed and determined idea. where this background of idealistic thought is lacking, then the results of the breath will be practically nil or where there are results of any kind under these circumstances they will be in no way concerned with thought but will be psychic in nature. they can then produce lasting psychic trouble, for the emanating source of the activity is astral and the projected energy goes to centres below the diaphragm, thus feeding the lower nature, enriching and strengthening its astral content and thereby enhancing and deepening glamour. the results can also be physiological, producing the stimulation of the etheric body leading to the strengthening of the physical nature; this often leads to serious result

uld do well to avoid any concentration at all upon the physical body and learn gradually to shift their focus of- 156- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust attention into the etheric body. necessarily the physical body is active and potent but increasingly it should be regarded as an automaton, influenced and directed by: 1. the vital body and the forces of maya; or by inspiration, emanating from points of spiritual tension. 2. the astral vehicle and the forces of glamour; or sentient, conscious love, emanating from the soul. 3. the mind and the forces of illusion; or by illumination, coming from higher sources than the life in the three worlds. 4. the soul, as the vehicle of monadic impression, until such time as the antahkarana is built that bridge in mental matter which w

me and space. it is, therefore, a much stronger and vital thing than what is usually meant when the word is used. it is active repudiation without any concentration upon that which is repudiated. that is a statement of moment and warrants your careful consideration. it is concerned with the point of tension from which the observing disciple or aspirant is working. the point of tension becomes the emanating source of some type of energy, and this pours down into and through the etheric body without being in any way affected by maya or by the concentration of diverse forces of which the etheric body is ever composed. indifference, technically understood, signifies direct descent from there to here, without deviation or distortion. the manifesting entity, the disciple, stands steady and firm


ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses, or streams of force, emanating from some originating source or other. the etheric body is in reality naught but energy. it is composed of myriads of threads of force or tiny streams of energy, held in relation to the emotional and mental bodies and to the soul by their coordinating effect. these streams of energy, in their turn, have an effect on the physical body and swing it into activity of some kind or another, ac

eld in relation to the emotional and mental bodies and to the soul by their coordinating effect. these streams of energy, in their turn, have an effect on the physical body and swing it into activity of some kind or another, according to the nature and power of whatever type of energy may be dominating the etheric body at any particular time. through the etheric body, therefore, circulates energy emanating from some mind. with humanity in the mass, response is made unconsciously to the rulings of the universal mind; this is complicated in our time and age by a growing responsiveness to the mass ideas called sometimes public opinion of the rapidly evolving human mentality. within the human family are also found those who respond to that inner group of thinkers who, working in mental matter

k, and the fear of failure, are the surest ways to offset fruitful effort. in all such work as this, an attitude of non-attachment and a spirit of `don't care' are of real assistance. experimenters along this line need to give more time and thought to the recognition of types of force. they need to realise that emotion, and desire for anything, on the part of the receiving agent create streams of emanating energy which rebuff or repulse that which seeks to make contact, such as the directed thought of someone seeking rapport. when these streams are adequately strong, they act like a- 6- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust boomerang and return to the emanating centre, being attracted back there by the power of the vibration which sent them forth. in this thought lie

right 1998 lucis trust b. mind to mind. c. master to disciple. d. groups of disciples to other similar groups. e. subjective groups to objective receptive groups. f. the hierarchy, through its great leaders, to the various ashrams of the masters. g. the hierarchy to the new group of world servers. 5. the major factors which must be considered in all telepathic work are: a. the initiating agent or emanating source. b. the recipient of the ideas, thoughts or energy. c. the medium of revelation. the growth of telepathic rapport will bring in an era of universality and synthesis, with its qualities of recognised relationships and responsiveness. this will be, outstandingly, the glory of the aquarian age. as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarisation through the developing attractive

pathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust a. the medium of transmission. b. the method of transmission. c. the manner of reception. d. the mode of inter-related activity. 2. by the cultivation of sensitive reactions to each other and to the other human units with whom the lot of the disciples may be cast. this involves: a. sensitive physical reaction, via the centres, to the forces emanating from the centres of those with whom the disciples are associated. particularly should the sensitivity of the ajna centre be developed. b. sensitivity to the state of feeling or to the emotional reactions of those around. this is done through the development of compassion and of sympathy, plus that detachment which will enable one to take right action. c. sensitivity to the thoughts of ot

and also after due preparation. b. from one or other of the constellations which are at any particular time astrologically en rapport with our planet. this impression can only be received by the great council when sitting in conclave with a majority of its members present. this, i would have you note, does not entail the attendance of the entire council. c. from a triangle of circulating energy, emanating from the two planets which with our planet- 25- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the earth form a triangle in any particular cycle. this impression is received by the three buddhas of activity for distribution to the hierarchy. d. from the planet venus, the earth's alter ego. this makes its entrance via the lord of the world and three of his council who are ch

ion and is dependent upon both the recipient and the agent. c. that great group of divine contemplatives who are trained to act as an intermediate receptive group between shamballa and the hierarchy. they receive impression from shamballa and transmit it to the hierarchy, thus enabling the members of the hierarchy to receive it as "a sharpened impression" and to register it accurately because the emanating impression has passed through an area within the divine mind where it is enhanced by the trained perception and the determined receptivity of this group. they are called, in the east, the divine nirmanakayas. i only mention their occult name so that you may learn to recognise them when you meet reference to them. d. the buddha at the time when the wesak festival is celebrated. he then ac

happenings (the world of appearances and of exoteric manifestation) and the inner world of reality. this is a point which should be most carefully taken into the calculations of the occult investigators. impressions are received and registered; they form the basis of reflection for those aspirants who are sensitive enough to their impact and wise enough to record carefully in consciousness their emanating source. after due practice, this period of brooding upon the registered impression is followed by another period wherein the impression begins to take form as an idea; from that point it follows the familiar course of translation from an idea into a presented ideal; it then comes under the invocative appeal of the more concrete-minded until it finally precipitates itself into outer manif

that our response is now automatic and, though registered, is not consciously so, unless there is a planned reason and direction intended. we respond similarly and as automatically to emotional stimuli, and rapidly (very rapidly) the race is reaching out towards mental telepathy. some few are beginning to work along the lines of spiritual telepathy. few do more than register occasionally contacts emanating from a high source, and the result is usually also over-mixed with personality reactions. contact, with resultant impact from the soul, is also quite rapidly developing, hence the necessity for my laying the foundations of further knowledge which will clarify still higher contact, emanating from the spiritual triad and opening up areas of interaction hitherto known only to the hierarchy

this science apart from him, as it would include too vast a field) becomes sensitive to his environment, as the forces of evolution play upon him and lead him on from stage to stage, from point to point, from plane to plane, and from height to height, he becomes enriched and increasingly magnetic. as this attractive or magnetic force increases, he himself becomes invocative; this outgoing demand, emanating from or through the aura which he has engendered brings to him a developing revelation. this revelation, in its turn, enriches the magnetic field of his aura so that he becomes a revealing centre to those whose field of experience and aura need the stimulus of his practised assurance. finally, it might be said that the entire human kingdom will eventually be a major magnetic centre upon

ill manifest when present what love in reality is. pure love is a quality or effect of pure reason. the pure reason of the hierarchical response is needed for the grasping and the comprehension of the purpose as it works out through the plan sponsored at any one time by the hierarchy, and the quality of pure love is needed and demanded (even if unrealised) by a waiting humanity. this "impression" emanating from shamballa takes the form of a focussed emanation which employs the higher aspect of the antahkarana as its channel of contact. i refer not here to the thread as built by the disciple between the mental unit and the abstract mind. i refer to its continuation through the buddhic and atmic levels of consciousness into the area of magnetised consciousness (i use this word as we have not

: it is usually self-related and not due to their high point of spiritual unfoldment which warrants their being the custodians of mysterious spiritual messages usually of a most unimportant and platitudinous nature. there are many sources of these messages and it might be useful if i here mentioned some of them; what i have to say may prove to be of value to the general occult public. 1. messages emanating from the relatively nice, well-trained subconscious nature of the recipient. these well up from the subconscious but are regarded by the recipient as coming from an outside source. introspective people frequently penetrate into the layer of subconscious recollection and are quite unaware of so doing. their interest in themselves is so intense. not knowing that they have done this, they r

esult of human understanding) becomes invocative. 2.the self-generated karma of the animal kingdom which is largely being worked off in its relation to mankind today. the karmic entity holding a type of rule within the third kingdom is a part of the planetary dweller on the threshold. planetary sequence of impression you will note, therefore, the amazing planetary sequence of impression all of it emanating from- 45- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the highest possible sources, though stepped down and regulated to the receiving factors; all of it concerned to a greater or less degree (according to the quality of the mechanism of reception) with the will and purpose of sanat kumara; all of it, during the aeons, achieving a group potency and a responding sensitivi


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

man, the seven solar systems, of which our solar system is one, and in their turn the seven energy centres of the one to whom i have referred in my other books as the one about whom naught can be said. much has been given in the occult books of which the average astrologer remains profoundly unaware. it is essential that he learns to think in larger wholes and to be more deeply concerned with the emanating sources and with the eternal persistent causes than with the effects of these sources upon that ephemeral creation, a human being and his temporary existence upon a most unimportant planet. as he seeks to do this, he will discover for himself the signs of the essential divinity of man a divinity which is to be found in the infinite grasp of man's consciousness when illumined by the light

ct) man's body is at all times bathed in the emanations and the radiations of our earth and in the integral quality of our planetary logos as he sends forth and transmits energy within his planetary environment. astrologers have always emphasised the incoming influences and energies as they beat upon and play through our little planet, but they have omitted to take into adequate consideration the emanating qualities and forces which are the contribution of our earth's etheric body to the larger whole. this we will consider later, but i felt the necessity of calling your attention to it at this time. another point which should here be noted is that the influence of the moon is purely symbolic in- 8- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust natu

ay into our solar system. i would like to call attention, at this point, to some comments i made in a treatise on cosmic fire which are apposite and helpful. i am somewhat paraphrasing "astrology is concerned with the effect produced in the substance of the sheaths by the influences, vibrations, etc, of the various planets. these are, esoterically, the influences of the solar centres. the forces, emanating from the solar centres, play upon the planetary centres. this is hidden in the karma of the heavenly man. when true esoteric astrology comes into being, more anent this will be given. astrological students are today only learning the abc of this stupendous subject and are occupied with the exoteric fringes of that great veil which has been thrown wisely over planetary lore (a treatise on

o 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 correct as possible under the circumstances) each of the seven hierarchies of beings, found within the twelve, who are the builders or the attractive agents are (in their degree) intermediaries; all embody one of the types of force emanating from the seven constellations. their intermediary work, therefore, is dual: 1. they are the mediators between spirit and matter. 2. they are the transmitters of force from sources extraneous to the solar system to forms within the solar system. each of these groups of beings is likewise septenary in nature, and the forty-nine fires of brahma are the lowest manifestation of their fiery na

triadal lives by units in the fourth hierarchy, that of the human monads, which precipitates a man eventually into the eighth sphere. he refuses to become a christ, a saviour and remains self-centred. we have dealt with the first three hierarchies which are regarded as ever "seeing the face of the ruler of the deep" or as being so pure and holy that their forces are in realised contact with their emanating source. we now take up for brief consideration two hierarchies which closely concern ourselves, the human self-conscious entities. these two groups are literally three, as the fifth hierarchy is a dual one, and it is this which has led to some confusion and is the occult significance behind the ill-omened number thirteen. they are the "seekers of satisfaction" and the cause of the second

e consequent experiences, and after the triumph of scorpio, the power of the mind lessens steadily till finally (like other aspects of form life in the three worlds) it comes to an end and its meaning and illuminating aspects between soul and physical brain are no longer required. the man, coming definitely into full soul consciousness, requires now no mediator but deals directly himself with his emanating source. mercury is then met with again under another name, this time as the sun, mediating between the higher aspects soul and spirit for mercury and the sun are one. through mercury, the mind is illumined and relation is established between personality and the soul. as mercury, the sun the mediator shifts to a still higher plane and is no longer mediator between two different stages in

e and purpose, and with the resultant effects. when these effects and activities are purely objective (and under that word i place all events and happenings going on in the three worlds of human experience the physical, astral and mental planes) you have personality demonstration. when they are consciously related to the world of causes and are the result of "right and conscious direction" of the emanating centre, the soul, then the personality forces become subject to the diffusion of the soul energies and the personality or form nature becomes magnetic in a different manner, and so attracts to itself energies of a higher and more dynamic plane to the ones with which the man has been concerned hitherto and which he has learned to control and use; in other cases, the soul energies intensif

d gemini, remembering always that the mutable cross governs the wheel in ordinary progress and the fixed cross governs it on the reversed progress during discipleship. the cardinal cross in reality governs both processes but this is only understood when initiation has taken place. 1. aries governs the path of discipleship. the will to return to the source. determination to achieve liberation. the emanating cause of the changes upon the mutable and fixed crosses. 2. taurus the desire to overcome desire. the longing for liberation. transmutation of desire into love. 3. gemini the fusion of the opposites; the intelligent work of at-one-ment; synthesis- 91- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the ordinary wheel, these signs bring about:

uences of three major signs at this time and conditioned by potencies coming from each of the three crosses. these present men with the responsibility of choice, evoking their free will, their trend towards self-determination and their established decision at this time of world crisis. you will note that the world disciples are related to the mass of men through their responsiveness to influences emanating from gemini, and to each other through scorpio. this produces in them the capacity to respond to test, to a sense of the vision (through the illumined eye of taurus) and to use their power of individuality through a developed personality and through the potency of leo. initiates are brought into relation to the world disciples through the constellation scorpio, to the hierarchical centre

y susceptible to the influence of that pointer in the great bear which is the nearest to the pole star. esoterically speaking, the pole star is regarded as the "star of re-orientation" whereby the art of "refacing and recovering that which is lost" is developed. this eventually brings a man back to his originating source. it might, therefore, be correctly inferred that this pointer and the energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is still upon the mutable cross. then the energy of the pointer furthest from the pole star begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the path, and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the hierarc

vidual and group consciousness. a close study of the above ideas will prove fruitful in establishing methods and relationships; they should also indicate the key which astrologers can use when seeking to work with mass horoscopes. as we have studied these various constellations, it will have become apparent to you that the main function of the planets is to be distributing agents for the energies emanating from the zodiac as they converge within our solar system and become attracted to our planet. students need to understand more thoroughly than they do that the basis of the astrological sciences is the emanation, transmission and reception of energies and their transmutation into forces by the receiving entity. the energies of the various signs are attracted by the different planets accor

d after the long and drastic experience upon the cross. 1. taurus. the bull of desire. the light of aspiration and knowledge. 2. leo. the lion of self-assertion. the light of the soul. 3. scorpio. the agent of deception. the light of liberation. 4. aquarius. the chalice of self-service. the light of the world. the fixed cross is the cross of light. and playing through this cross all the time, and emanating from leo, are the "fires of god" cosmic, solar and planetary producing purification, the intensification of the light and eventual revelation to the purified man who stands in light. from aries comes cosmic fire; from sagittarius comes planetary fire; and from leo comes solar fire; and each of these fires "clears the way by burning" for the expression of the three divine aspects: spirit

work under instructions and with energies which emanate from the lord of the constellation aries. in the last analysis and esoterically speaking, fire is the great liberator and aries is the leading fire sign which will eventually "fuse the beginning and the end, blend the opposites and dispel both time and space" at present, the initiator of the mysteries acts under inspiration and with energies emanating from capricorn an earth sign because humanity is, as yet- 180- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust earth-bound. the forces of initiation produce their major effects upon the physical plane, for it is there that the initiate has to demonstrate his liberation, his understanding and his divinity. because of its position upon the fixed cros


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iritual hierarchy on our planet was that a group was in process of formation that had in it the nucleus of the coming world civilisation and was characterised by the qualities that would distinguish that civilisation during the next 2,500 years. these qualities are primarily a spirit of inclusiveness, a potent desire selflessly to serve one's fellowmen plus a definite sense of spiritual guidance, emanating from the inner side of life. this new group of world servers includes two definite divisions. the first part of the group has a close relationship to the spiritual hierarchy. it is composed of aspirants working towards discipleship under the guidance of certain of the masters' disciples who, in their turn, are directed and guided by a few world disciples whose work is on such a large sca

we have the appearance of the scapegoat in jewish history. we have the bible story of the ram caught in the thicket and all this was due to the influence of the passing of the sun through the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram. something apart from the findings of academic astrology, which even at present could only touch a very few people, produced these natural reactions. some influence, emanating from the sign of the bull and the sign of the ram produced the symbology which conditioned the religious life of the people of that era. this becomes still more apparent when the sun transitted into the next constellation, the sign of pisces the fishes. then we had the appearance of christ and the fish symbology which ran so characteristically through the entire gospel story. his discipl

uthority, except that of a life lived as close to the truth as possible, plus the measure of truth which he can present to his group. the obedience developed in his group of students is that of recognising joint responsibility, united loyalty to group intention and purpose, as indicated by the group leader (suggested by him and not presented as a command. the presence of authoritative statements, emanating from the teacher of the group, or any demand upon his part for recognition, or for the unquestioning obedience and loyalty of his followers marks him out as a beginner and as simply an aspirant well-meaning and with good intention. it indicates that he is not a disciple, charged with the work of the hierarchy. 6. an esoteric group is one in which the rounded-out development of the discip


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

from the form consciousness and consequent immunity from the victory of death and those disease-dealing conditions which govern today our planetary manifestation. we will divide our consideration of the causes of disease into three parts, eliminating from our quest for truth the quite understandable but equally futile desire to apprehend the mind of deity. i. the psychological causes. ii. causes emanating from group life. iii. our karmic liabilities, the karmic causes. in all this we shall but gain a general idea (all that is now possible) as to the presence of disease in the human family, and of that to be found also, in part, in the animal kingdom. when this general idea is grasped, we shall have a clearer understanding of our problem and can then proceed with our consideration of the m

may have inherited from their parents. i would like to point out that these inherited diseases are far fewer than is at present surmised; of these, the predisposition to tuberculosis, to syphilis and to cancer are the most important where our present humanity is concerned; they are inherited and also can be imparted by contact. these i will deal with under our second major heading on the diseases emanating from the group. chapter i- the psychological causes of disease- 14- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust the point i would like to make here, before proceeding further, is that i shall seek to avoid, as far as possible, all technicalities. our theme is the esoteric consideration of disease and its forms; it seeks to elucidate the subject of

member is that for the majority of human beings, for the huge majority the influences and impulses which emanate from the astral plane are a predisposing factor in all matters with which the individual concerns himself, apart from those conditions which (being imposed upon him from his environment and the period in which he lives) are, for him, unavoidable. the astral plane is a centre of dynamic emanating force, which is fundamentally conditioning in its effect because of the stage of the individual consciousness at which that majority finds itself. men are swayed by the impulse of desire of a high or low calibre. this is, of course, a broad generalisation, for that basic condition is becoming steadily modified by impulses coming from the mental plane. this necessarily complicates the pro

which is fundamentally conditioning in its effect because of the stage of the individual consciousness at which that majority finds itself. men are swayed by the impulse of desire of a high or low calibre. this is, of course, a broad generalisation, for that basic condition is becoming steadily modified by impulses coming from the mental plane. this necessarily complicates the problem. influences emanating from the soul- 33- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust are also becoming appreciably present, and still further complicate the problem of the advanced human being. this "problem of complication (if i might so call it) constitutes a "hard saying" for the student to understand in relation to his own physical condition or to that of any one w

actions which produce discomfort, disease or death. in the three laws which i have given you and which you now have before you for consideration, it is obvious that the following facts emerge. these should form the basis of your reflection: 1. disease is the result of the blocking of the free flow of the life of the soul. 2. it is the product, or the result, of three influences: a. ancient error, emanating from the past history of the person involved. b. human taints, inherited because one is a member of the human family. c. planetary evil, imposed upon all forms on earth by the basic condition, and by time. 3. it is conditioned by the forces emanating from that plane whereon a man's consciousness is primarily centred. to the above statements should be added a further fact, already mention

substantial form prepares itself for separation from the soul. it must be borne in mind however that where there is illness or discomfort or disease which is not related to the final dissolution, the causes thereof are to be found in many factors; they can be found in the surroundings, for a number of diseases are environmental and epidemic; in the tuning in of the individual to streams of poison emanating from world hate, or from psychological complexes with some of which we have already dealt, and in the diseases (if i might so call them) which are indigenous to the matter of which humanity has chosen to construct its physical vehicle, isolating it and separating it from the general substance of manifestation, and thus creating a type of matter which is consecrated to the task of forming

luences or sources of contamination: a. ancient mistakes, so-called sins and errors of the individual concerned, committed in this life or another earlier incarnation. b. human taints and predispositions, inherited in common with all the rest of humanity. c. planetary evil, incident to the point achieved by the planetary logos and conditioned by planetary karma. 3. it is conditioned by the forces emanating from the plane upon which the man's consciousness is primarily focussed. 4. the five major types of disease, with their allied and subsidiary effects, can and do produce results where the disciple is concerned; he is not immune until after the third initiation. a. the diseases of mystics. however, the disciple is seldom tubercular (except when karmically conditioned, nor is he prone to s

ge is fundamentally good and spiritually conditioning; superficially and in its outer effects particularly where the disciple is concerned difficult situations, apparent cleavages and the emergence of faults as well as virtues upon the part of those affected make their appearance, and often persist for many lives, until the person thus influenced becomes what is called "occultly reconciled to the emanating energy" ponder on this. the adjustment has to come from the side of those influenced, and not from the disciple. let us now consider the four problems from the psychological angle, not the physical: a. the problems arising from the awakened heart centre of the disciple are perhaps the commonest and frequently some of the most difficult to handle. these problems are based on living relati

oft forgotten. it is a victim of personality life or the triumphant expression of soul energy. it is for this reason that the science of psychology will, during the next two centuries, dominate modern- 115- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust medical science, except in the category of those diseases with which we will deal in our next section those emanating from group life, such as tuberculosis, venereal diseases and cancer. until the race is more definitely group conscious (something as yet far distant) it will not be possible to apply broad psychological generalisations to the diseases indigenous to our planet. we can, however, consider the handling of similar difficulties which arise in the individual unit; these are based on the conflic

ffects. these effects will be overcome but in the interim of adjustment whilst they are registering and expressing themselves, there will be much distress, physical and psychological, and all the major and minor difficulties to which humanity seems heir. in undeveloped humanity, the conflict (from the angle of consciousness) is practically nil; you have less susceptibility to the subtler diseases emanating from the three interlocking systems, but at the same time a much greater responsiveness to the three indigenous diseases, to infectious and contagious diseases, and to the great epidemics which sweep through nations and great planetary areas. as humanity develops, diseases become more personal (if i might express it in this manner) and are not so definitely related to the herd or mass co

2. the flow of energy through the head to the centres up the spine is uneven, owing to the fact that the inflow is uneven, and that the etheric web between the centres permits as yet only a very little energy to flow through to all the centres. it must be remembered that the life of the centres is founded, in the initial stage, upon the inherent life of the organism itself, with the focus of the emanating life to be found in the centre at the base of the spine. this is a point oft forgotten by esotericists. this basic centre is the one through which the life of matter itself works; this is the life or energy of the holy spirit aspect, the third aspect. through its life each atom in the body is fed. this process of animating the substance of the physical form is started in the prenatal sta

the major physical conditioning factor, the ductless glands. we can now briefly consider certain far more occult causes and deal with those which emanate from the group life of humanity and from the karmic liabilities of mankind. here we shall enter the realm of occult knowledge and of esoteric information, and this will be far more difficult for the orthodox thinker to accept. chapter ii- causes emanating from group life in considering disease and its basic causes, we have dealt particularly with those which concern our aryan race and modern humanity; these are largely astral in origin and might be described as atlantean in nature. we have briefly considered also the various diseases which originate upon the mental plane; these are more strictly aryan and involve also the ills to which di

of consciousness from the brain and its life thread from the heart, certain life processes still persist; they are now under 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


ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

is twofold: 1. to train the brain to respond intelligently to impressions coming to it via the sense apparatus and so carrying information about the outer tangible world. 2. to train the mind so that it can fulfill three duties: a. deal intelligently with information relayed to it by the brain- 11- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust b. create thoughtforms in response to impulses emanating from the physical planes; to emotional reactions set in motion by the feeling-desire nature; to the thought world, in which the man's environment is found. c. orient itself to the subjective spiritual self, so that, from a condition of potentiality, the self may emerge into active government. in this formulation of the function of the apparatus with which all educators have to deal (the

ent in all forms and is that innate urge or discontent which leads man to struggle and progress and evolve in order finally to make atonement and union with his soul. it is the lowest aspect of that higher spiritual and monadic triad which reflects itself in the soul. it is the consciousness of harmony and beauty which drives the human unit along the path of evolution to an eventual return to his emanating source. education must work, therefore, with this dissatisfaction and interpret it to those who are taught, so that they can understand themselves and work intelligently. 5. the attribute of concrete knowledge whereby man is enabled to concretise his concepts and so build thoughtforms whereby he materialises his visions and his dreams and brings his ideas into being. this he does through

atlantean present two extreme objectives or positions towards which the humanity of the two periods directed and still direct their attention. the atlantean civilisation was definitely religious in its attitudes; religion was the commonplace of life and the raison d' tre of all that was. the world after death was the subject of interest and unwavering, unquestioning belief. the subtle influences emanating from the unseen realms, the forces of nature and man's relation to them through a keen sensitivity, and the entire gamut of his- 32- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust emotional attitudes constituted the life of the race, and coloured all that there was or might have been of embryo thought. the result of all this, inherited by us when history as we now have it arose (fro

r (called god, the christ, the beloved) and therefore, in reality, with that which satisfies the hunger of his soul. the scientist who is now so rapidly dealing with and entering into the world of forces and energies, is in reality a true esotericist even if, in his effort to control the sought-for energies, he denies their source. that is of relatively small moment; later he will recognise their emanating source. the basic approach for all who endeavour to grasp esotericism, or to teach esoteric students, is to lay the emphasis upon the world of energies and to recognise that behind all happenings in the world of phenomena (and by that i mean the three worlds of human evolution) exists the world of energies; these are of the greatest diversity and complexity, but all of them move and work

active forces; he must learn to differentiate between strictly physical energy, which is automatic in its response to other and inner energies, and those which come from emotional and mental levels of consciousness, focussing through the etheric body which, in turn, motivates and galvanises his physical vehicle into certain activities. 2. to become sensitive to the impelling energies of the soul, emanating from the higher mental levels. these seek to control the forces of the threefold man when a certain definite point in evolution is reached. 3. to recognise the conditioning energies in his environment, seeing them not as events or circumstances but as energy in action; by this means he learns to find his way behind the scene of outer happenings into the world of energies, seeking contact

recognised facts of daily life would, a few hundred years ago, have been regarded as equally peculiar, incomprehensible and impossible. what is really taking place is the hastening of the processes of light manifestation, and this has become possible because of the point of attainment of humanity and the increased stimulation which is being applied to the race by the hierarchy, assisted by forces emanating from shamballa. the angle of personality control much that i could say here would simply be a repetition of that which you already know and have been taught. many of you who are reading my words here are steeped in the ideas which i have been seeking to impart to humanity for the past years, for it was in 1919 that i first started writing through the cooperation of a.a.b. in these writin


ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

have only considered the service which disciples, aspirants and men of goodwill can render. v. i shall give you some clear and definite instructions anent the uses of the etheric body. this vehicle of vitality or energy is the ultimate conditioning factor in the activity of the physical body. it is an initiator, for there is no physical activity as we understand it unless impulsed by some energy emanating from the etheric body. an understanding of some of the processes of initiation will come from an understanding of the body of vitality. the etheric body is the organ whereby personality or soul expression becomes evidenced upon the physical plane. its potency is that which evokes the physical form. most of the vehicles have a dual capacity invocation and evocation. they also have a third

urces of inspiration which indicate to the disciple struggling on the physical plane his goal: 1. his own soul .through direct contact, as the result of alignment. 2. the master .through impression, as a result of sensitivity. 3. the ashram group. through service, as a result of interplay. later, as the initiate-disciple makes progress and as he builds the antahkarana, the energy of the one life, emanating from the monad, brings in the fourth type of inspiration. to these spiritual sources of inspiration must be added lesser ones, such as mental impression, telepathically registered and coming from a multitude of thinkers and minds. these work both as individuals and as members of a group. there is also emotional inspiration to which in its most easily recognisable appearance we give the n

, telepathically registered and coming from a multitude of thinkers and minds. these work both as individuals and as members of a group. there is also emotional inspiration to which in its most easily recognisable appearance we give the name of aspiration. all these are, esoterically considered, evocative of desire, to be transmuted into will if (and only if "the energy of the will-to-good is the emanating principle and the actuating result of the inspired impulse; it must constitute the motivating impulse at the centre of the disciple's being" thus spoke one of the masters not long ago to a disciple who sought to grasp the synthetic effect of inspiration. it is the will and its immediate evocation which is the major need of this particular group of my disciples. the hierarchical plan is t

to the world, creating thoughtforms which will make clear-cut contact with other minds and which will bring about definite changes in the consciousness of humanity. this you do not as yet do, nor have you evidenced any desire so to work. i have waited to see if the initiating impulse would come from you without any prompting by me. i have waited in vain. i told you elsewhere that "an ashram is an emanating source of hierarchical impression upon the world. its `impulsive energies' and its inciting forces are directed towards the expansion of the human consciousness, through the magnetic lives of the group members as they carry on their duties, obligations and responsibilities in the outer world; it is aided also by the steady vibratory activity of the members of the ashram who are not in ph

hip are based upon vibratory reaction, and the potency of the united vibration of the disciples and aspirants of the world is today for the first time in human history strong enough to reach shamballa. this is a new and very interesting fact. the hierarchy therefore is: 1. in a position of extreme tension. 2. in a condition of quiescent waiting. it awaits: a. the decision which is on the verge of emanating from the judgment seat of sanat kumara. b. notification as to the period and mode of the coming externalisation. c. the proposed influx into its ranks of disciples and aspirants. d. the reaction, later to be sensed by them, of the massed use of the great invocation. e. the clear sounding of the invocative, though inchoate, cry of the masses of those who are not yet even upon the probatio

the significance of intention and of purpose, whilst an inner programme is slowly conditioning their daily lives. there comes, however, a point a point which it is now your duty and privilege to grasp wherein another source of energy, of inspiration and of light can be made available to disciples and can be used for service. that is the energy of the forces of light, originating in the ashram and emanating thence; you stand as yet upon the periphery of the ashram but can avail yourselves of these energies. the force of the ashram must be "routed" through the soul (if such a word is permissible. the disciple has therefore to learn the esoteric significance of a most familiar symbol that of the triangle and the square. this has hitherto signified to him the threefold soul and the fourfold pe

an when considering the work of the hierarchy in bringing this purpose as fully as possible into expression. in our studies over the years and in the books which i have put before the public with the help of a.a.b. and of f.b. and of all of you who have cooperated with them, we have primarily considered the effect of this divine intention, purpose and plan upon humanity, and this because the plan emanating from the hierarchy has to be implemented by mankind. hence the importance of their grasp and their understanding of the entire proposed programme. what, therefore, will be the quality of their reaction to what their developed understanding will reveal? what can they expect and what aspects or forms can the revelation be expected to take? are they to look for a sudden blaze of light, or s

w be taken in group form; this is something entirely new in the work of the hierarchy. not one by one do candidates stand before the initiator, but many so stand simultaneously. together they can think in complete accord; together they are tested, and together they reach the "point of triumph" which supersedes the "point of tension; together they see the "star shine forth" and together the energy emanating from the rod of initiation fits them for the reception of specialised energy, to be later used in their future world service. this group approach, this group intention, this "group silent reticence and vocal recognition" and this group dedication and vision are no longer in the experimental stage. this group achievement (i refer not here to your particular group which has not been outsta

hierarchy to demonstrate this. the relation of the microcosm to the macrocosm can never be broken, and that relationship is deeply involved in these five points of revelation- 257- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust it has been occultly stated that "the five points of the five-pointed star are pyramids of ascension and, at the summit of each point hidden within the emanating rays lies a point of revelation, offsetting the radiation but preserving the deeply seated magnetism. thus is there symbolised the going forth, the coming back and the point of peace, surrounded by activity" i will endeavour (as we consider these points of revelation) to express as far as may be this relationship of the smaller to the great, of the part to the whole, and of the five poin

ction will be mastered by them, and the first point of revelation will no longer be a revelation; they will be committed to an intelligent implementing of the plan upon the physical plane. the second point of revelation: the will is an expression of the law of sacrifice. the second point of revelation is of peculiar interest. it concerns the first contact of the initiated disciple with the energy emanating from shamballa and transmitted to him via the master of the ashram with which he is at this time associated. he has not yet reached the stage wherein direct contact is permitted, but still needs the ashramic protection 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

and will not enlarge upon it here. the outposts of that kingdom and the vanguard of disciples and initiates is already here. the work or the radiatory activity of the hierarchy is today more potent than at any time in human history. the masters and their disciples (under the guidance of the world teacher of that period) were physically present on earth in early atlantean times, and the radiation emanating from them was protective, guarding and nurturing. later, the hierarchy withdrew into a subjective expression and humanity was under the law of evolution left to its own devices thus to learn the way and tread the path of return through individual experiment and experience. the masters (in this long interim) have not come forth to contact humanity on any large or group scale; many of thei

ught you certain radical changes some of them as a result of the war and your personality reaction to that war, and a few of them as a consequence of soul impulse. these changes and their resultant readjustments have been so many and have been brought about with such relative suddenness that you have not yet had time to know with clarity (within yourself) the distinctiveness of each change or its emanating source. every change in a life condition upon the physical plane is the result of some inner cause. i hinted at this when i gave you the six statements which were intended to aid in the direction of your life. i said to you "learn that your causes are effects. leave them behind and seek the world of causes" these words embody one of the first lessons which a disciple has to master, as yo

to your consciousness. it was the impact of this shamballa force (which you can touch and to which you can intelligently respond) which was the main factor in bringing to the surface all the latent emotion and all the glamour which are today enveloping you. as you considered the theme of shamballa (and later rejected my suggestion to write upon it) you brought yourself in contact with the energy emanating from shamballa. yet, my brother, had you occupied yourself with my suggestion and dealt with the theme the way into shamballa much of that shamballa force would have been- 365- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust transmuted along constructive lines and creative endeavour, and your condition would not be what it is today. you may well ask here: if all this is


ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

y upon the plane of illusion and therefore, as the old commentary says "they who work to bring in light and yet are surrounded by the maya of the senses, work from the point of present being and need not to move out or in, or up or down. they simply stand" the healers of the world upon the physical plane have to work upon that plane and their task is that of bringing through the energies of life, emanating from the soul plane, via the mind, but- 28- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust excluding the emotional. these energies have to be brought through into physical consciousness and, from the physical level, do their necessary and magnetic work. the task of the healers, if successful, involves: 1. the bringing through of healing divine energy. 2. the exclusion of

the intrinsic awareness of man is becoming, during this century, expressively divine. the two other forces which tend to increase the already prevalent tension in the world are: 4. the forces of materialism, streaming out into the three worlds from the so-called "dark forces" or black lodge, and from those groups of lives and workers which are the antithesis of the great white lodge. 5. the force emanating from that section of humanity which is found in every part of the world and which we call the jewish people. what i say here has no specific reference to any individual; i am considering the world problem, centering around the jews as a whole. these two forces greatly complicate the problem by which humanity and the hierarchy are faced, but it should be remembered that they also produce

disturbing. there is little that humanity can do about this except endeavour to balance this first ray display of energy with second ray or hierarchical force. this latter energy working through the world religions and the men and women who respond to the love influence can change methods (though not the purpose or the direction) by pouring in the love force. again, that force which we regard as emanating from the strictly human centre, the third ray type of energy, is of the third or creative order; and in these three energies you have, in reality, the expression of the three major centres of the planetary logos. the first or will energy is, as you know, focussed in sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the christian bible, the lord of shamballa, who is the embodiment of

s world crisis is related to the approach or the relation of the hierarchy to humanity. that great spiritual centre of force, the human kingdom, has now reached a point of such potency and of such a high vibratory activity that it is shaken to its very depths; all its evolutionary grades and groups are responding to the stimulation, generated within the centre itself and also stimulated by forces emanating from the hierarchical centre and from shamballa. this precipitates a crisis which has had no parallel in human history but which finds a faint reflection in the crisis which overtook the animal kingdom and which resulted in the formation of a new kingdom in nature the human. as i have earlier told you, this present world crisis, if met correctly and rightly controlled, will result in the

e law of retribution, an entirely erroneous connotation has become attached to it. today, the karma of humanity is descending upon it. i would remind you, however, that the continuous emphasis laid upon the malevolent aspects of karma conveys a wrong impression and negates the full grasp of the truth. there is as much good karma as there is bad; even in the present world situation, the good karma emanating from the soul of humanity balances the evil which comes from the material aspect and is continuously over-emphasised. it is the rhythm of matter in contradistinction to the rhythm of the soul, and these constitute the initiating causes of the present conflict, both in individual lives and in the general world situation. when this is properly grasped, the true picture may emerge in your h

ction 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 existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. this was the divine plan, emanating from the mind of god and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of his will. at its inception, there took place the original "war in the heavens" when the sons of god who responded to the divine urge to experience, to serve and to sacrifice, separated themselves from the sons of god who responded to no such inspiration but who chose to stay in their original and high st

he spiritual hierarchy exists, with all its potencies of love, wisdom and skill in action, or for ages humanity has suffered from hallucinations; either christ and his group of masters, initiates and disciples are facts in the natural processes of evolution, historically proven and known through their spiritual activity down the ages, or men have been victims during those ages of a gigantic fraud emanating from what and where? either the consistency of the evolving presentation of the spiritual effort of the hierarchy is a witness to a great reality or mankind has developed a mentality which is an instrument for the fabrication of non-existent facts, and this is in itself so paradoxical as to give the lie to the inference. either the spiritual worlds and the three worlds of human endeavour

the last analysis, it is this interference with individual and group freedom which is the worst sin of the evil men who seek at this time to enslave the weaker nations and bend them to the rule of germany, depriving them of their national assets and means of subsistence, and wresting from them by force and fear their dearest possessions, liberty of life and conscience. all great ideas have their emanating sources of life, therefore, and these are called in the ancient invocation with which we are occupied "lords of liberation" they are three in number, and one of them is closer to the earth and to humanity than are the other two, and it is he who can be- 175- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust reached by those who comprehend the nature of freedom and who desir

ack adepts. this started in atlantean times and must now be fought out to a finish. with the details of this struggle (fought on mental levels) you have no concern, except in so far as you and the rest of mankind react to lies or to truth. two streams of mental energy or of thought-directed ideas impinge powerfully at this time upon the human consciousness. one is embodied in the lying propaganda emanating from the axis powers and affecting potently not only their own peoples but the selfish politicians, the intolerant and the racially conditioned people, and the well-intentioned but short-sighted appeasers and pacifists. the second stream is embodied in the idealism, the humanitarianism, and the clear presentation of the factual situation which characterise the best minds in every nation

of spiritual desire and aspiration is phenomenal today, could you but see the indications as the workers on the inner side do. our master, the christ, is also at this time carrying forward three major activities. i can tell you briefly what they are, but only the disciples of the world will grasp the true implications. he is, first of all, occupied with the process of deflecting the will-energy, emanating from shamballa, in such a way that it will not be seized upon and misused by the axis powers in order to stiffen their peoples into increased opposition to the forces of light. it must be rechannelled- 286- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust and used to stiffen the purpose of the united nations to carry the war to a finish of victory and of triumph, to increa

an's attention is normally focussed on the externalities of living. nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those made in connection with astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or involving such a revelation as that of radio-activity or the epoch-making event announced this week concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of cosmic energy, are ever the result of inner pressure emanating from forces and lives found in high places. such inner pressures themselves function under the laws of the spirit and not just under what you call natural laws; they are the result of the impelling work of certain great lives, working in connection with the third aspect of divinity, that of active intelligence, and are concerned with the substance or matter aspect of manifestation. such

tood in silence behind world events, occupied with the following work a work which will eventually be carried on exoterically instead of esoterically: 1. the hierarchy stands as a wall between humanity and excessive evil. forget not that as humanity is thus protected that protection extends to all the subhuman kingdoms, of which the fourth kingdom, the human, is the macrocosm. the excessive evil, emanating from cosmic sources, requires the trained skill of the hierarchy and the fiat of shamballa to prevent it flooding over disastrously. 2. the hierarchy works constantly at the task of awakening the consciousness aspect in all forms, so that it is awakened, expanded and intelligently employed. 3. the hierarchy directs world events, as far as mankind will permit (for the free will and free d

sciples. for aeons and for cycles, the members of the hierarchy have been submitting themselves to the needed training in order to react correctly when fuller contact has been established by shamballa with the hierarchy. i would have you note the phrasing here. that contact has now been established as a result of the inflow of certain extra-planetary forces and by an "act of determined direction" emanating from the council chamber of the lord of the world. misunderstand me not. the hierarchy has always been in touch with the "place of purpose (as it has been called) through the medium of its chohans and its senior directors, such as the christ, the manu and the lord of civilisation. these great beings have steadily revealed this purpose to the members of the hierarchy so that they have bee


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

to labour at this time (october 1942) because the coming few days are exceedingly busy ones for me as they are for all members of the hierarchy. i seek to give you some further instructions anent the hierarchy itself*(1) students at this time would do well to remember that all basic and fundamental changes taking place upon the physical plane are necessarily the result of inner subjective causes, emanating from some level of the divine consciousness, and therefore from some plane other than the physical. the fact that tremendous and unusual upheavals are taking place in the kingdoms of nature is attributed by men to other men or to certain forces generated by human thinking, frailty and ambition. is it not possible that these changes are being brought about as the result of certain profoun

subjective forces and inflaming energies. it is of course not possible for me to give you any true picture of the interior events and happenings in the life of our planetary being. i can only indicate and point out that the world situation is simply an embodiment of the reaction and the response by mankind to great paralleling and originating happenings which involve the following groups: 1. the emanating avatar and his relationship to the lord of the world, our planetary logos. 2. the lords of liberation, focussed in their high place, as they become conscious of the invocation of humanity and become more closely related to the three buddhas of activity. 3. the great council at shamballa and the planetary hierarchy. 4. the buddha and his arhats as they unitedly cooperate with the christ a

hrams of the masters. it is this new approach to life conditions, as a result of the inflow of new energies, which is producing the universal trend towards group awareness, and its highest result in the human family is the taking the first steps towards group initiation. such a thing as group initiation was never heard of prior to the present time, except in connection with the higher initiations emanating from the shamballa centre. group initiation is based upon a uniform and united group will, consecrated towards the service of humanity and based upon loyalty, cooperation and interdependence. in the past, the emphasis was upon the individual, his training and approach to initiation, and his solitary admittance to the temple of initiation. but this individual concentration will, in the fu

ual reality are lost. today, the word of the soul is being found again, and with that finding the little self is lost in the glory and the radiance of the divine self. this discovery is consummated at the time of the third initiation. the initiate and the master, along with those of higher rank who are approaching identification with shamballa, are steadily and ever more clearly hearing the sound emanating from the central spiritual sun and penetrating all forms of divine life upon our planet via our planetary logos who hears it with clarity and with understanding the sound of the lowest syllable of the ineffable name of the- 35- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust one in whom all the planetary logoi live and move and have their b

the seven ray qualities brought into expression. the relation of spirit and matter produced this ordered process which again, cyclically and under law, creates the manifested world as a field for soul development and as an area wherein divine purpose is wrought out through the medium of the plan. again i call your attention to the distinction existing between purpose and plan. this is the aspect, emanating from shamballa, and inherent also in form (as are the other two, which eventually relates the human will, through the right use of the mind, to the organised planning of his separate and individual life in the three worlds, and which eventually relates and reorients that will to the will of god. these three energies are faintly symbolised for us in the life of christ when overshadowing t

pirants and disciples to ponder upon the destructive purpose of god a purpose which is motivated by love, guided by a balanced judgment as to form, and which cherishes and fosters the life and its resultant spiritual values. there is an inherent destructive energy in matter itself and an energy of very great potency; it is with this energy that the axis powers are working. the destructive energy, emanating from "the bright centre" shamballa, is something very different, and i would ask you to remember this. the destroying power of spirit is not the same as that of matter. a human being destroys his own form again and again through the evil which he does and by the material focus of his desires; the following of a life of vice will breed disease, as is well known. the disciple can also dest

ain measure of understanding. the words of importance are: 3. let then the group merged in the fifth be nourished by the sixth and seventh- 84- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust in other words "then let the group which is identified with the soul find its sustenance and vitality by the inflow of the intuition and of the spiritual will, emanating from the spiritual triad" there are, of course, other meanings, but this is the most practical for disciples. a larger but similar concept lies in the realisation that the human family, the fourth kingdom in nature, is absorbed by the fifth or by the kingdom of god and (when this is the case) can become increasingly en rapport with the sixth and seventh kingdoms. to these kingdoms no nam

ll eventually enable the man to achieve perfection. they enable the individual to respond to material forces, to soul energy and spiritual life, and they constitute a complete response apparatus to the planetary life, purpose, intent and form. each of the seven centres is responsive to one or other of the seven rays and their qualities under the conditioning energy of the soul ray and the forces, emanating from the environment. these centres develop progressively and under the impact of circumstances and the law of the supplementary seven, but all will eventually express in some measure the seven types of ray energy. the law of the supplementary seven can be worded as follows "the law demands the entrance of that which can effect a change. the law demands that right direction should then g

ted via the hierarchy. for the first time, and in this century there has been direct impact. the diagram on page 160 may make this clearer. we shall eventually have a free circulation and a veritable vortex of force set up between the three centres; it will be of such an increasing radiatory activity that moving in both directions around the three centres it will eventually contact the radiations emanating from the other four centres of the planetary life, thus completing the interplay and the interrelation between all seven. these four include the three lower kingdoms of nature and a certain basic centre (corresponding to the centre at the base of the spine in man) about which nothing is as yet known nor will be known for ages to come. diagram the importance, therefore, of the centre whic

with no less of devotion to the christ. what the buddha had instituted symbolically and in embryo became factual and existent under the demands of the piscean age. 3. the third great change has been in the relation of the hierarchy to shamballa, and of this you can necessarily know and understand little. i could perhaps express the underlying significance to you in symbolic language. the energy, emanating from shamballa, has been divided into two direct and distinctive streams. one stream, embodying the dynamic of purpose, is now pouring into the hierarchy and into its seven major ashrams; another stream, embodying the dynamic of determination or of enlightened enthusiastic will, is reaching humanity direct, via the new group of world servers. hitherto a blended stream of shamballa force

hannel of communication between the hierarchy and humanity, and the forming simultaneously of the network of goodwill, which is the objective expression of the subjective influence of light. ponder on this statement. 6. the attempt to form an exoteric branch of the inner ashrams. this is evidenced in the work i have done with a special group of aspirants and accepted disciples whose instructions, emanating from my ashram, have been embodied in the book discipleship in the new age (vols. i and ii. 7. teaching upon the new world religion, with its emphasis upon the three major full moon periods (aries, taurus, gemini, falling usually in april, may and june respectively) and the nine (occasionally ten) minor full moons each year. this leads to a consequent relation being established between t

a is now learning, and when that which overshadows him during this incarnation has wrought the needed changes through a process of transformation and transmutation, then a great transfiguration will take place and he will take his place among those empowered to work through a sacred planet. this process is that which implements the evolutionary process. evolution is an effect of this hidden work, emanating from cosmic levels; only when evolution has run its course through all the multiplicity of forms, of cycles, chains and spheres, of rounds and races and of world periods, will we know something of the true nature of the hidden mystery. in the council chamber of shamballa it is being dimly sensed. the buddha and the christ are expressing the qualities which when more universally demonstra

which is peculiarly active today in all human beings; this testifies to the success of the creative work of the buddhas of activity. this, in its turn, has a small symbolic triangle of its own, to which i would call attention: the thyroid gland and the para-thyroids. 3. the centre at the base of the spine. this is galvanised into activity at a certain stage of the evolutionary process, by energy emanating from the buddhas of activity who are the least active at this particular time. it is an energy pouring towards the fourth kingdom but not directed towards any individual. these great lives work through major groups. their potency is such that it would otherwise prove destructive. the purpose of deity is necessarily embodied in a mental proposition; it is through this mental proposition t


ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

t, the world savior, came to an end at the crucifixion [25] when he entered upon greater and more important work. the wisdom that was now realized by hercules because he had made the at-onement with the soul, impressed upon him a sense of vocation. he was pledged to the spiritual life and nothing could deter him. vulcan gave him a golden breastplate, magnetic and protective, the symbol of energy, emanating from high sources of spiritual power, which will enable the aspirant to undertake the twelve labors and go forward unafraid. from neptune, the god of the waters, he received horses. the symbology underlying this gift is very interesting. horses, as well as neptune, the god of the waters and the deity of the watery, emotional nature, stand for the capacity to be carried away by either a l

orses represent the lower mind, with its false ideas and erring human concepts. the brood mares, such as we meet in this first labor, indicate the feminine aspect of the mind as it gives birth to ideas, to theories and to concepts. the thought-form making tendency of the mind is here symbolized, embodying the ideas conceived, and which are let loose upon the world, devastating and destroying when emanating from the lower mind, but constructing and saving when coming from the soul. the exoteric ruler of this sign is mars, the god of war, and so hercules, acting under the right direction of thought and beginning his work on the mental plane, takes his stand as the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diom


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

main statue of tsiu marpo resides (figure 8. several other statues of deities also reside within the room. notably, there are seven deities lined up behind the main statue of tsiu marpo. while these deities do not specifically represent the six horsemen detailed above, they are nonetheless other manifestations of tsiu marpo though one of these statues is actually of pehar. this notion of deities emanating from one another as a means of personifying specific attributes or characteristics of a greater deity is not uncommon in divine pantheons found within both tibetan and indian cosmology. in this instance, some of these figures may simply possess variant names of the seven riders.56 tsiu marpo not only has a strong presence at samy monastery; his influence is widespread. due to the ecumeni

ent of the original, which was destroyed during the cultural revolution. the original statue was supposedly made out of the remains of an oracle who died in a trance.60 the seven riders tsiu marpo s narrative history discusses a group of figures called the "seven attendant riders (ya ba rkya bdun).61 other synonymous titles are the "seven violence demon brothers (gnod sbyin mched bdun, the "seven emanating riders (rol pa rkya bdun, and the "seven radiant brothers( bar ba spun bdun. this is a team consisting of tsiu marpo and the six horsemen who emanated from his body as illustrated above. with tsiu marpo at the helm, this group leads all might demons. surprisingly, the seven riders are well-described in de nebesky-wojkowitz, but he only knows them as the "seven radiant brothers" and simil

s: 285 "bliss-producing vajra woman" 286 an exclamation of wonder and amazement. 287 the time of taming having come. 288 ultimate. 289 incorrect self-perception. 290 this refers to karmic tendencies. 291 the fierce root mantra. the combination of the syllable pha "gathering means" and the letter "cutting knowledge" creates the syllable of knowledge and means. 292 completely. 293 who are the seven emanating riders. 294 tib. reg chod. 295 read as gleng gzhi. 296 in fact, he is the continuum of the secret one. 297 she entreated. 298 manifested might demons. 299 manifested might demons. 155 previously, in the age of perfection,300 at the time when ka.yapa s teachings were about to decline, in the northern region of the southern continent jambudv.pa, in a place301 of jeweled joy and happiness [

ndowed with weapons; on the spokes write the eight fierce syllables;400 on the edge draw the weapons of the three bodies401 and the quintessential vow [recite] the mantra of the wooden402 dagger tamdrin. bind the body [o. tri h. pha. pha] in a rolled up red banner. if it is not suitable even by means of that, reverse the order of the essential syllables [310] even the violent obstacle demons, the emanating seven riders appear403 as manifestations which arise from me. one should know as one s own mind that ultimate non-duality is wholly perfect. the stages of the practice and vow: abandon the flesh of the strong magical emanation;404 do not rely on the chief wooden poker;405 and do not spread out bears and tigers as mats.406 do not conceal the sharpness407 of the sharp-pointed mantra. do no

rse the guardians of the doctrine. having done so, treat the seven haughty riders as your support. this is the seventh chapter, which is transmitted from the heart center tantra of the god of the violence demons, the might demon butcher, the razored one. colophon (312.2-312.3) thus ends the conceptualization of the might demon lineage of the king of the violence demons, tsiu mar,424 and the seven emanating riders. samaya. rgya rgya rgya. this was revealed from a treasure [text] by the venerable ngari pa.chen. may it be virtuous! part ii: accompanying s.dhanas (312.3-332) a. preliminaries sending forth the dogs of the seven might demon attendants (312.3-314.3) thus called "sending forth the dogs of the seven might demon attendant riders" bhyo! the bitch dungdok tselmikma425 sends forth from

b.gavajracarathang cittavajracaratha ra lam lam srog rtsal khrag thibs. 166 the great violence demon accomplishment cycle based on the outer propitiations (315.2-320.1) 1a. introduction: the four scrolls (315.2-315.4) thus called "the accomplishment cycle based on the outer propitiations to the great violence demons" samaya..kin.-script. homage to glorious tamdrin! the violence demons, the seven emanating riders, give as offerings the forms of their own essential life-energies. by means of the outer propitiations, the vow-holders assemble like clouds; by means of the inner cane whip, the vow-holders follow like dogs; by means of the secret life stone and life wheel, the vow-holders are lured like children; and by means of the ultimate red spear lasso, enemies and hindering demons are comp

he tibetan has dbu tshal, which appears to be a clear misspelling of the proper word, dbu rtse, due to their homophonic nature. 170 c. s.dhana of violence demon offerings (320.1-322.6) thus called "the s.dhana of the violence demons offerings..kin.-script "hr. padmacandhamah.krotahayaghr.va hulu hulu h. pha. properly arrange and bless the offering torma. regarding the activity ritual of the seven emanating riders; the haughty ones are autonomous, they do not need to be generated. red rays of light spread out like iron hooks from the syllable of the luminous heart center to the great powerful lord tamdrin. regarding the invitation from each domain; burn incense and powder, and fan it with red silk. regarding crying out with a tormented roar; kyai! regarding those many places over there; in

minous heart center to the great powerful lord tamdrin. regarding the invitation from each domain; burn incense and powder, and fan it with red silk. regarding crying out with a tormented roar; kyai! regarding those many places over there; in the direction where the sun sets, in the red copper fields of the might demon domain, obey the words of the powerful lotus. regarding the high-ranking seven emanating riders; they are usually red in body color and they carry a flag and lasso in hand. they [come] with an assembly of the haughty eight classes [of demons. they depart hither, come hither, and approach this place .ulatritrivajrasamaya ja. ja. bhyo! in the power within the red fortress, the benefit from flesh and blood is inconceivable. shining gifts of the mind are extremely beautiful [321

with an assembly of the haughty eight classes [of demons. they depart hither, come hither, and approach this place .ulatritrivajrasamaya ja. ja. bhyo! in the power within the red fortress, the benefit from flesh and blood is inconceivable. shining gifts of the mind are extremely beautiful [321] sit on the seat of pure vow. together with .ulatrisamaya ti..a.455 kyai! regarding the individual seven emanating riders; it is conceivable to perform enlightened activities. obey the words of the powerful lotus. the vow-holders praise you, treasure lord. offer this pure ablution. thoroughly perform these by means of compassion for me and for the lord of benefits. argham456 vi.uddhe457 sv.h..458 pure incense gathers like clouds. offer bright flowers, perfumed water, food offerings, and pleasant musi

able offerings" 457 sanskrit transliteration "pure" 458 sanskrit transliteration "hail" 459 sanskrit transliteration "incense" 460 sanskrit transliteration "flowers" 461 sanskrit transliteration "light" 462 sanskrit transliteration "perfume" 463 sanskrit transliteration "food" 464 sanskrit transliteration "music offering" 171 regarding the individual lords of the life-energy; the seven classes of emanating, terrifying ones gather. regarding your sacred substances of delight. collect into a little pill465 offerings of red flesh and blood. dam up like a lake the uncontaminated nectar. fill into a pool the oblation liquid of rakta.466 scatter like stars the enjoyment gifts. roar like thunder the drums, flutes,467 and cymbals, accompanied by a collection of pleasant468 songs. may the spiritual

y toward the hateful enemies. send warfare505 and jackals toward the enemy. send darkened [clouds] and sharp knives toward the enemy. send avalanches and wolves to the enemy. send violent suicide to the enemy. complete these entrusted activities" finish speaking thus and invoke the time of killing. this is "the invocation of the horse race of the might demon brigand [327] the s.dhana of the seven emanating riders, the full assault506 of the spiritual master padma[sambhava" regarding the history of these [demons; previously, in the region of the blazing mountain charnel grounds in india, in front of the dark red copper mountain, there are eleven red fierce might demons of the demoness s flame-patterned window that are similar to the rising demoness. because padmasambhava settled there, at m

(27.2-27.6) 1.2. praise and offerings (27.6-28.4) 1.3. reconsecration offerings (28.4-28.6) 1.4. vow amendment (28.6-29.5) 1.5. request (29.5-30.1) 1.1. setting (27.2-27.6) then, regarding the might demon petition: kyai! regarding those various places, over there in the direction where the sun sets, in the red fields of copper in the might demon realm; regarding the great might demons, the seven emanating riders who obey the powerful lotus [tamdrin: usually, they have a red body color, brandish flags and lassos in their hands, and exist together with the assembly of the haughty eight classes of deities. come here! come here! come to this place..latrivajrasam.ja.533 bhyo! in the power within the red castle of the might demons, the inconceivable possessions of flesh and blood and the extrem

within the red castle of the might demons, the inconceivable possessions of flesh and blood and the extremely beautiful deity offerings which are attractive reside on the ground of the pure vow, together with the samayati..ha.534 533 sanskrit transliteration "assembly of the vajra trident" 534 sanskrit transliteration "established vow" 207 1.2. praise and offerings (27.6-28.4) regarding the seven emanating brothers: they obey the powerful lotus [who performs] inconceivable enlightened activities (28) praise to you, masters of the treasure vow. i offer this pure ablution. act completely by the power of compassion for me and the patron. arghamvi.uddhesv.h..535 the poisonous perfume, which is purified, gathers like clouds. offer bright flowers, scented water, food offerings, and pleasant musi


BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

) samael, who is satan, is shown to be identical with st. michael, the slayer of the dragon. how is this? for it is said that tselem (the image) reflects alike michael and samael who are one. both proceed, it is taught, from ruach (spirit, neschamah (soul) and nephesch (life. in the "chaldean book of numbers" samael is the concealed (occult) wisdom, and michael the higher terrestrial wisdom, both emanating from the same source but diverging after their issue from the mundane soul, which on earth is mahat (intellectual understanding, or manas (the seat of intellect. they diverge, because one (michael) is influenced by neschamah, while the other (samael) remains uninfluenced. this tenet was perverted by the dogmatic spirit of the church; which, loathing independent spirit, uninfluenced by th

the heathen, whom his law commanded him to hate* a commandment now gladly accepted by the christian too, in spite of another and later commandment "love each other" both india and egypt had and have their sacred lotuses, symbolic of the same "holy of holies- the lotus growing in the water, a double feminine symbol- the bearer of its own seed and root of all. viraj and horus are both male symbols, emanating from androgyne nature, one from brahma and his female counterpart vach, the other, from osiris and isis- never from the one infinite god. in the judaeo-christian systems it is different. whereas the lotus, containing brahma, the universe, is shown growing out of vishnu's navel, the central point in the waters of infinite space, and whereas horus springs from the lotus of the celestial ni

of their lives and by producing good causes. it has power only on the manifested lower principles- the shadow of the unknown and incognizable deity in space. but in antiquity and reality, lucifer, or luciferus, is the name of the angelic entity presiding over the light of truth as over the light of the day. in the great valentinian gospel pistis sophia( 361) it is taught that of the three powers emanating from the holy names of the three[[tridunameis, that of sophia (the holy ghost according to these gnostics- the most cultured of all, resides in the planet venus or lucifer. thus to the profane, the astral light may be god and devil at once[[footnote(s* says johannes tritheim, the abbot of spanheim, the greatest astrologer and kabalist of his day "the art of divine magic consists in the a

us, since "the union of the two sexes, and the spagyrisation of matter by triads are necessary to develop the generative force, that prolific virtue and tendency to reproduction which is inherent in all bodies* belief in "creators" or the personified powers of nature, is in truth no polytheism, but a philosophical necessity. like all the other planets of our system, the earth has seven logoi- the emanating rays of the one "father-ray- the protogonos, or the manifested "logos- he who sacrifices his esse (or flesh, the universe) that the world may live and every creature therein have conscious being. numbers 3 and 4 are respectively male and female, spirit and matter, and their union is the emblem of life eternal in spirit on its ascending arc, and in matter as the ever resurrecting element

the student will readily understand that jah-noah is at the head of, and is the synthesis of the lower cosmic quaternary. the upper sephirothal[[diagram, triad- of which jehovah-binah (intelligence) is the left, female angle- emanates the[[diagram] quaternary. the latter symbolizing by itself the "heavenly man" the sexless adam-kadmon viewed as nature in the abstract, becomes a septenate again by emanating from itself the additional three principles, the lower terrestrial or manifested physical nature, matter and our earth (the seventh being malkuth, the "bride of the heavenly man, thus forming, with the higher triad, or kether, the crown, the full number of the sephirothal tree- the 10, the total in unity, or the universe. apart from the higher triad, the lower creative sephiroth are seve


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ages an indefinite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written. it is the only original copy now in existence. the most ancient hebrew document on occult learning- the siphrah dzeniouta- was compiled from it, and that at a time when the former was already considered in the light of a literary relic. one of its illustrations represents the divine essence emanating from adam* like a luminous arc proceeding to form a circle; and then, having attained the highest point of its circumference, the ineffable glory bends back again, and returns to earth, bringing a higher type of humanity in its vortex. as it approaches nearer and nearer to our planet, the emanation becomes more and more shadowy, until upon touching the ground it is as black as night[[foo

two standing in relation to each other as matter stands to spirit- the extreme poles of the one substance. as balzac, the unconscious occultist of french literature, says somewhere, the number is to mind the same as it is to matter "an incomprehensible agent (perhaps so to the profane, never to the initiated mind. number is, as the great writer thought, an entity, and, at the same time, a breath emanating from what he called god and what we call the all; the breath which alone could organize the physical kosmos "where naught obtains its form but through the deity, which is an effect of number" it is instructive to quote balzac's words upon this subject "the smallest as the most immense creations, are they not to be distinguished from each other by their quantities, their qualities, their

gores, i.e, the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action" eliphas levi ought to have added that the astral light, or primordial substance, if matter at all, is that which, called light, lux, esoterically explained, is the body of those spirits themselves, and their very essence. our physical light is the manifestation on our plane and the reflected radiance of the divine light emanating from the collective body of those who are called the "lights" and the "flames" but no other kabalist has ever had the talent of heaping up one contradiction on the other, of making one paradox chase another in the same sentence and in such flowing language, as eliphas levi. he leads his reader through the most lovely, gorgeously blooming valleys, to strand him after all on a desert and b

and men and things are thus but the reflections, on the white field, of the realities behind the snares of mahamaya, or the great illusion. this was taught in every philosophy, in every religion, ante as well as post diluvian, in india and chaldea, by the chinese as by the grecian sages. in the former countries these three universes were allegorized, in exoteric teachings, by the three trinities emanating from the central eternal germ and forming with it a supreme unity: the initial, the manifested, and the creative triad, or the three in one. the last is but the symbol, in its concrete expression, of the first ideal two. hence esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this purely metaphysical conception, and calls the first one, only, the ever existing. this is the view of ev

us" vi, xii, from whom thot-hermes received this divine wisdom. while, then, the logoi of all countries and religions are correlative (in their sexual aspects) with the female soul of the world or the "great deep" the deity, from which these two in one have their being, is ever concealed and called the "hidden one" connected only indirectly with creation* as it can act only through the dual force emanating from the eternal essence. even aesculapius, called the "saviour of all" is identical, according to ancient classics, with phta, the egyptian creative intellect (or divine wisdom, and with apollo, baal, adonis and hercules (see dunlap's "mystery of adonis" pp. 23 and 95; and phta is, in one of its aspects, the "anima mundi" the universal soul of plato, the "divine spirit" of the egyptians

bsolute is within oulom* the boundless and termless time, as such, en-soph cannot be the creator or even the modeller of the universe, nor can he be aur (light. therefore en-soph is also darkness. the immutably infinite and the absolutely boundless can neither will, think, nor act. to do this it has to become finite, and it does so, by its ray penetrating into the mundane egg- infinite space- and emanating from it as a finite god. all this is left to the ray latent in the one. when the period arrives, the absolute will expands naturally the force within it, according to the law of which it is the inner and ultimate essence. the hebrews did not adopt the egg as a symbol, but they substituted for it the "duplex heavens" for, translated correctly, the sentence "god made the heavens and the ea

phallus or the phallus and yoni. or male and female. indeed, the words translated by the generalizing terms male and female, in the 27th verse of the 1st chapter of genesis are. sacr and n'cabrah, or literally, phallus and yoni* while the representation of the phallic emblems would barely indicate the genital members of the human body, when their functions and the development of the seed-vesicles emanating from them was considered; then would come into indication a mode of measures of lunar time, and, through lunar, of solar time. this is the physiological or anthropological key to the moon symbol. the key that opens the mystery of theogony, or the evolution of the manvantaric gods, is more complicated, and has nothing phallic in it. all is mystical and divine there. but the jews, beyond c

(5) tairyagyonya, or tiryaksrotas, was that of animals (6) urdhwasrotas, or that of divinities (7) arvaksrotas, was that of man (see vishnu purana) this is the order given in the exoteric texts. according to esoteric teaching there are seven primary, and seven secondary "creations" the former being the forces self-evolving from the one causeless force; the latter, showing the manifested universe emanating from the already differentiated divine elements. esoterically, as well as exoterically, all the above enumerated creations stand for the (7) periods of evolution, whether after an "age" or a "day" of brahma. this is the teaching par excellence of occult philosophy, which, however, never uses the term "creation" nor even that of evolution "with regard to primary 'creation" but calls all s

mahat" or divine mind; the first shadowy outline of self-hood, for "pure" ahankara becomes "passionate" and finally "rudimental[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] creation" also (brucker, i, 240; the orphic triad shows an identical doctrine: for there phanes (or eros, chaos, containing crude undifferentiated cosmic matter, and chronos (time, are the three co-operating principles, emanating from the unknowable and concealed point, which produce the work of "creation" and they are the hindu purusha (phanes, pradhana (chaos, and kala (chronos) or time. the good professor wilson does not like the idea, as no christian clergyman, however liberal, would. he remarks that "as presently explained. the mixture (of the supreme spirit or soul) is not mechanical; it is an influence or

ynonym of fury, and is always handled by an evil spirit; that jupiter fulgur or fulgurans is also called by the christians oelicius, and denounced as the soul of lightning, its daemon; we have either to apply the same explanation and definitions to the "lord god of israel" under the same circumstances, or renounce our right of abusing the gods and creeds of other nations. the foregoing statements emanating as they do from two ardent and learned roman catholics, are, to say the least, dangerous, in the presence of the bible and its prophets. indeed, if jupiter, the "chief daemon of the pagan greeks" hurled his deadly thunderbolts and lightnings at those who excited his wrath, so did the lord god of abraham and jacob. we find in i. samuel, that "the lord thundered from heaven, and the most h

to this day, the most eminent physicists know neither one way nor the other. to know what is light, and whether it is an actual substance or a mere undulation of the "ethereal medium" science has first to learn what are in reality matter, atom, ether, force. now, the truth is, that it knows nothing of any of these, and admits it. it has not even agreed what to believe in, as dozens of hypotheses emanating from various and very eminent scientists on the same subject, are antagonistic to each other and often self-contradictory. thus their learned speculations may, with a stretch of good-will, be accepted as "working hypotheses" in a secondary sense, as stallo puts it. but being radically inconsistent with each other, they must finally end by mutually destroying themselves. as declared by th

nes" occultly this was a far more advanced achievement than the "success" which he anticipates from his "wire" but the results obtained from the fifth and sixth planes of the etheric (or astral) force, will never be permitted to serve for purposes of commerce and traffic. that keely's organism is directly connected with the production of the marvellous results is proven by the following statement emanating from one who knows the great discoverer intimately. at one time the shareholders of the "keely motor co" put a man in his workshop for the express purpose of discovering his secret. after six months of close watching, he said to j. w. keely one day "i know how it is done, now" they had been setting up a machine together, and keely was manipulating the stop-cock which turned the force on

the physicists of the present day, a wild freak of the imagination. possibly, in time, a light may fall upon this theory that will bring its simplicity forward for scientific research. at present i can only compare it to some planet in a dark space, where the light of the sun of science has not yet reached it "i assume that sound, like odour, is a real substance of unknown and wonderful tenuity, emanating from a body where it has been induced by percussion and throwing out absolute corpuscles of matter, inter-atomic particles, with velocity of 1,120 feet per second; in vacuo 20,000. the substance which is thus disseminated is a part and parcel of the mass agitated, and, if kept under this agitation continuously, would, in the course of a certain cycle of time, become thoroughly absorbed b


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ow greenish "amber "orange "red orange "scarlet. the outer ring is interrupted at the bottom by a segment to match the continuation of the sloping lower sides of the lower upright, the base of this segment is defined not by the ring but by the upper portion of two diagonals drawn from the inner angles of the cross. this five-sided semi-regular figure is further divided within by two crossed lines emanating from the upper corners and extending across the center to the midpoints of the lower sides. in the four chambers resulting are these color abbreviations, clockwise from top "blk (for black "russ (for russet "cit'n (for citrine "olive. to either side of this section, on the band itself, is written "white merging into grey. in the top of this outermost ring are these letters in the "theban


CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred method and means that you are within the triangle and can move all round* on the first night, walk three times in circles around the outside of the altar (or the floor candles if you are using them, moving outwards, and pointing the index finger of your power hand behind you almost horizontally. visualise a stream of light emanating from your finger. as you circle, chant: circle one i cast for the light of the earth and her store of rich minerals, gold, silver, copper smelted in forges of volcanic fire. circle two i cast for the moonlit seas, for silver dolphins, seals and cascading rainbow fish. circle three i cast for the sunlit skies, the clouds pure gold and the gilt-tipped eagle soaring high* light the candle i

ergy* after the third chant, let your pendulum swing freely on its chain so it spirals round, catching the candlelight and, perhaps, the moonlight* add the oil to the burner with a little water and light the nightlight under it* take three of the coins from the dish- if possible these should be one gold, one silver and one copper. place them in the money pot and hold this briefly in the fragrance emanating from the burner, saying: venus, morn and evening star, sun and moon that shine afar. i ask in love and not in greed, grant me only what i need. seite 80 wicca01.txt* place the lid on the pot and leave it in front of the burner, sitting quietly and visualising money coming to you. at this point you may become aware of money-making possibilities you had not considered* when you are ready

for charging simply accentuates the innate calm energies of the crystal. with the gentle crystals (such as amethyst, rose quartz or smoky quartz, you will experience a gentle warmth and enclosing light of pink, green or purple according to the colour of the crystal. but with the power crystals (such as clear crystal quartz, citrine or carnelian, you may see with your psychic vision sparks of gold emanating and enclosing you in a protective shell. anyone who approaches in a confrontational way may stop and back off. the crystal is not hurting them, it is just strengthening your own boundaries against intrusion. if you cannot visit an ancient site to charge your crystals, hold a crystal pendulum up to bright sunlight, or in front of a fibre optic lamp, and swirl it so that it catches rainbow

heir own way. you can also use this method for empowering amulets and lucky charms or st christopher medallions. st christopher is patron saint and protector of all travellers. protective crystals the following crystals are those that i, in my personal work, and people with whom i have held healing workshops or teaching sessions have found especially protective. they will absorb negative energies emanating from both fears and doubts, and repel external attack, replacing darker feelings with positive emotions and intentions. to benefit from the protective powers of a crystal, you can carry or wear it, or keep it close to you at work, at home or when you travel. you can also add a crystal to your bath water. alternatively, you can soak it in pure spring water seite 92 wicca01.txt overnight a

nd father of abundance and increase* now take the salt to the water and tip a little in it, stirring it once more with the athame, saying: dissolve and disperse, flow far and free to attract rebirth to-[name the town] and its inhabitants* now cast the circle around the elemental candles, with your wand, starting from the north in a single unbroken movement, visualising as you do a stream of light emanating from it that encloses you above, around and beneath (if you are working with a group, they can stand or sit within a circle while you cast around them. this is better than slowing the ceremony by having people entering the circle separately after it is cast and then having to close the circle after each one) say: i cast this circle of light, of power and of protection. may the circle tha


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ondition. let us use the old adolescent female parlor game of wanting to know if person x really loves person y. do you have any idea how many ouija boards have been worn out with that question? no wonder the spirits get mad. anyway, love, as we know, can take many forms, all of them bad (sorry about that) so you should be certain to use for a witness sample something from someone who you know is emanating the type of love you wish to examine. failing that, it is possible to use the word "love" written on a piece of paper as a witness. put that piece of paper in the witness can and get a rate for it. now take a piece of paper and write the names of persons x and y on it and place that in the can as well. now try the stick plate. if the relationship between the two fulfills the idea placed


DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

european parliament are also members of the alliance grouping known as the european people's party, which openly calls for a united states of europe. this is actually written in its constitution!61 one way the confidence trick has been hidden is by increasing dramatically the numbers of laws being introduced at all levels of government, particularly in europe. by the mid-1980s, the published laws emanating from brussels together with parliamentary legislation, ministerial rules, and orders in council, exceeded in just six months, the sum total of all laws introduced in britain before 1900.62 this tidal wave of legislation is not an accident. it is there to ensure that millions of pages are voted into law without the lobby fodder politicians, or even the government ministers, having time to


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monster. so what could these legends really be symbolicof? aleister crowley, the best known satanist of the 20th century, had a house at lochness and it was to this area that he came to perform some of his most powerful blackmagic rituals. a rock formation near the loch called the rock of curses has been usedby black magicians for hundreds of years and crowley was particularly drawn to theenergy emanating from a nearby mountain known as mealfuorvonie.37 there is muchmore to the legend of the loch ness monster than meets the eye and the same is true ofother unidentified creatures like the so-called bigfoot. some native american shamansbelieve that the entity which manifests as the bigfoot can also appear as an aquaticmonster or a panther because it has the ability to shape-shift.38over and


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tions upon the tree, slopes downwards to the right across the glyph, from binab at the head of the pillar of severity to chesed, which occupies the middle section of the pillar of mercy. then the flash turns and goes horizontally across the glyph back again to the pillar of severity, in the middle section of which is found the sephirab gehurab. down and to the right slopes once more the symbol of emanating force, and indicates the sephirah tiphareth, which occupies the very centre of the tree in the pillar of mildness or equilibrium. these three sephiroth constitute the next functional triangle we have to consider, and although we do not intend to go exhaustively into their symbolism until we have completed our schematic survey of the whole system, it is necessary to say enough to give som

for this reason it has been called the christcentre in the christian qahalah. mystical qabala page 34 23. we now have sufficient material to make a survey of the second triangle. jupiter, the beneficent ruler and lawgiver, is balanced by mars the warrior, the fiery and destructive force, and the two are equilibrated in tiphareth, the redeemer. in the supernal triangle we see the primary sephirah emanating a pair of opposites which express the two sides of its nature, chokmah, force, and binab, form, masculine and feminine sephiroth respectively. in the second triangle we have the pairs of opposites which find their equilibrium in a third, placed upon the middle pillar of the tree. from this we deduce that the first triangle derives its significance from that which lies behind it, and the

m the waters and the firmament appeared. this idea is further borne out in the phrase of the yetziratic text which speaks of chokmah as the splendour of unity, equalling it, thus clearly indicating its affinity to kether, unity, rather than to the planes of dualistic form. the word splendour, as used here, clearly indicates an emanation, or shining forth, and teaches us to think of chokmah as the emanating influence of pure being rather than as a thing in itself. this again leads us on to a truer apprehension of sex. let it be made quite clear, however, that the sphere of chokmah has nothing to do with fertility cults as such, save that maleness, dynamic force, is the primary life-giver and caller into manifestation. though [page 128] the higher and lower manifestations of dynamic force ar

and come to a stop. action and reaction commence again, and the chokmah-phase, a phase in which dynamic force predominates, supervenes upon the static condition which is binah, and the cycle proceeds once more; equilibrium between the pairs of opposites being arrived at in a more complex form-on a higher arc, as it is called from the evolutionary point of view-only to be overset again as the ever-emanating kether weighs down the balance [page 144] in favour of the kinetic principle as opposed to the static principle. 12. it will thus be seen that if kether, the source of all being is conceived of as the highest good, as it inevitably must he, and the nature of kether is kinetic and its influence is for ever inclined towards chokmah, it inevitably follows that binah, the opposite of chokmah

tree is being considered. for instance, as we are considering the tree microcosmically at the moment, daath would be the point of contact with the macrocosm. it is not until we come to tiphareth that we get clear-cut, individualised consciousness. 29. tiphareth is the functional apex of the second triad on the tree, whose two basal angles consist of geburah and gedulah (chesed. this second triad, emanating from the [page 196] first triad of the three supernals, forms the evolving individuality, or spiritual soul. it is this which endures and builds up throughout an evolution; it is from this that the successive personalities, the units of incarnation, are emanated; it is into this that the active essence of experience is absorbed at the end of each incarnation when the incarnating unit dis

is also adam kadmon, the archetypal man, when viewed from beneath-from the side, that is to say, of yesod and malkuth. tiphareth is malek, the king, the husband of malkab, the bride, which is one of the titles of malkuth. 61. it is in tiphareth that we find the archetypal ideas which form the invisible framework of the whole of manifested creation formulating and expressing the primary principles emanating from the subtler sephiroth. it is, as it were, a treasure-house of images on a higher arc; but whereas the astral plane is peopled by images reflected from forms, the images of the sphere of tiphareth are those formulating, and as it were crystallising out, from the spiritual emanations of the higher potencies. 62. tiphareth mediates between the microcosm and the macrocosm "as above, so


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e to thirty feet; the remote magnetic field from a hundred to three hundred yards. powerful holy centres, like glastonbury or lourdes, have a bigger magnetic field than this, extending possibly to a couple of miles; they are also inter-connected among themselves by lines of force. these things have to be taken into account in practical occult work. when we are confronted by a disturbing influence emanating from a focus of power, such as the site of 85 of 103 an old temple, we have got to deal with the remote magnetic field by means of ceremonial. as this is a method that can only be used by a high-grade initiate, we will not consider it here. for all practical purposes in a psychic attack it is the immediate magnetic field that has to be considered. the best method to deal with this is to


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ium b. x (zeitschrift fur parapsychologie, june 1933. one of the more renowned twentieth-century psychics who produced apports was roberto campagni in italy. the genoanese physicist alfredo ferraro stated that he had seen 30 apports materialized by campagni and had established beyond doubt that no trickery was involved. an interesting aspect is that the apports were often preceded by a blue light emanating from the medium s hands. in spite of these passing recommendations, by the midtwentieth century, it became obvious that apports were the apports encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 80 product of mediumistic fraud, and consideration of them dropped completely from the literature of psychical research and slowly moved to the edge of spiritualist claims. sources: d esperance

self belongs to the same category as automatic writing, but neither necessarily involves the other. mrs. william wilkinson, the wife of one of the pioneer english spiritualists, could draw, paint, and play music automatically, but she could not produce automatic writing. her husband developed both gifts. an interpretation of the flowers of joy, love, humility, faith, and the architectural designs emanating from under his wife s hand was forthcoming in his automatic scripts. after many weeks of vain trial, the power of automatic drawing burst forth on william wilkinson in the following way: after waiting less than five minutes it [the pencil] began to move, at first slowly, but presently with increased speed, till in less than a quarter-of-an-hour it moved with such velocity as i had never

, when a child, continually saw shadow people in the house where she lived; bessie williams played with spirit children in the garden; and most other gifted mediums had similar experiences. alfred vout peters experienced a feeling of irritability or excitement before becoming clairvoyant. sir arthur conan doyle suggested that the special atmosphere of clairvoyants might be the result of ectoplasm emanating from the sensitive s body and enabling the spirit to impress it. the cold chill and subsequent fainting in seeing ghosts may be due not only to terror but also to the drain on the body. in the coming of the fairies (1922) doyle proposed a vibrational theory: if we could conceive a race of beings which were constructed in material which threw out shorter or longer vibrations (than ours, t

e and consequently i lost the message; but i heard sufficient to convince me that there was a good morse operator at the other end of the line, wherever it might be. deceiving spirits and the play of the subconscious to anyone seriously pursuing the possibility of spirit communication, the questions that present themselves are numerous. are the communications to be accepted at their face value as emanating from spirits? can they be explained by the subconscious powers of the medium, of the sitters, or of others? as early as 1853 g. h. lewes observed (and exploited for purposes of derision) that suggestion may play an important part in the shaping of the contents of mediumistic verbiage. he described a sitting for raps with maria b. hayden when, by carefully emphasized hesitation at the app

ous spirit entities with the people present. the apparent motive of controls is to do good, to be of service, and to work out their salvation. spiritualists, who view the medium as a bridge to a lively world of spirit entities, believe the control performs a variety of functions during the seance: delivering direct or relayed messages to sitters, keeping order among those who rushed to the light (emanating from the other side, keeping away undeveloped or evil spirits, and occasionally getting out of the way to allow the entity to communicate directly to others. spiritualists claim that the body of the medium is an instrument that requires considerable practice in efficient handling. the control is a communication expert that watches over the fluency of the proceedings and often steps in to

riest was the first to investigate, since witchcraft was suspected. realizing the money-making possibilities in such a mysterious power, angelique s parents soon took her to paris. a dr. tanchou accidentally heard of her curious phenomena, investigated, and found them to be of an electrical nature. balls of pith or feathers hung on a silken thread were alternately attracted or repelled by a force emanating from her body. she could distinguish between the poles of a magnet by touch. a compass was violently agitated in her presence. chairs and tables leapt away from her touch in bright daylight and against strong counterpressure. a bed rocked and shook beneath her. tanchou sometimes noticed a cold wind during the phenomena. he reported to the scientist francois arago, who tested the girl in

rom visions seen in sleep, and articles dealing with other countries include data relating to dreams and dreamlore. this entry addresses some of the more outstanding theories of antiquity regarding the nature and causes of dreams and the manner in which the ancient diviners generally interpreted them. historical views of dreaming dreams were regarded as of two kinds.false and true, in either case emanating from a supernatural intelligence, evil or good. sleep was regarded as a second life by the ancients, a life in which the soul was freed from the body and was therefore much more active than during the waking state. the acts it observed and the scenes through which it passed were thought to have a bearing on the future life of the dreamer, but it is also believed that the dream life was r

, and legal substances, such as ecstasy tobacco-free cigarettes, and preempts the majority of the magazine s advertising space. neither ecstasy nor the center have a webpage, but the temple of ecstasy may be contacted at http//www.templeofecstasy.net, where a page offering subscriptions for the magazine can be found. sources: ecstasy. beverly hills, ca, n.d ectenic force a supposed physical force emanating from the person of the medium and directed by his or her will, by means of which objects may be moved without contact in apparent defiance of natural laws. the existence of such a psychic force was postulated by count agenor de gasparin in the mid-nineteenth century to explain the phenomena of table-turning and rapping, and the term ectenic force was bestowed upon the supposed agency by

s of god, an imparting of his being to unformed matter. by this union a world-soul was created that vitalized and regulated all things he said. claudian, in his idyl of the magnet, uses the concept of emanations as a symbol of the informative spirit of things, the laws of nature, creative and existent. the mysticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mainly depended on ideas of radiation emanating from all things, but especially from the stars, magnets, and human beings. of a force that would act on all things and was controlled by an indwelling spirit. the writings of paracelsus abound with instances of the theory. he asserted that every substance in itself contained something of the nature of the lodestone, that an astral light .one of the finer media of nature, finer than the l

throughout planetary space and especially around the human brain and spinal cord. he wrote that humans are simply organized magnets, each with poles that attract and repel, that our thoughts are magnetic emanations projected from our minds. according to paracelsus, the universe emanated from a great first being and there was a reciprocity in all things. in man too there existed an astral quality emanating from the stars, which, when compared with the physical body, might be considered a spirit. he wrote that this life stood in connection with the stars from which it sprang and drew to it their power like a magnet. paracelsus called this sidereal life the magnes microcosmi and made use of it to explain the manifestations of nature.it glowed in the flower, glided in the stream, moved in the

t on to write a book, this house is haunted (1980. two years later janet was given a test at birkbeck college, and to the surprise of all she was able to move the marker on a weighing machine by a kilogram. explanations of the enfield poltergeist have divided those who accept a paranormal explanation between those who attribute it to a spirit entity and those who attribute it to telekinetic power emanating from one or more of the children, especially janet. a more skeptical perspective was offered by anita gregory, who tried to explain the phenomena away as having been fraudulently produced by the children, though a number of the incidents do not seem to yield to such an analysis. the case remains one of the most spectacular in parapsychological records. sources: gregory, anita. anatomy of

cts. dutch intellectuals, such as drs. h. de grood, j. van velzen, van der loef, and herr schimmel, were among authors who wrote in defense of the same opinions, and the writings of c. f. varley, sir william crookes, and alfred russel wallace were translated into dutch. a mesmerist, signor donata, carried on the practice of animal magnetism in holland and endeavored to identify the magnetic force emanating from the operator with the substance of which disembodied spirits were believed to be composed. progress of the movement was hampered by the many exposures of unscrupulous mediums, but on the whole the mediums, professional or otherwise, were well received. haunted houses and poltergeists were also noted. psychical research and parapsychology some of the pioneers of psychical research in

r to keep a record of their encounters. she shared the account of her experiences with her confessor and with her monastic superiors. they arranged for her to see a psychiatrist, who pronounced her in good mental health. satisfied that she was not simply hallucinating, they arranged for an artist to paint a picture of jesus as he appeared to kowalska. the picture shows christ with a beam of light emanating from his heart. through the remainder of the decade she continued to see and receive messages from jesus until her untimely death from tuberculosis on october 5, 1938. she was buried at the sisters of our lady of mercy convent outside of krakow. eventually a shrine to divine mercy would be erected there. after her death, word of the visions and message received by sister faustina began t


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

s organized, apparitions in varying degrees of form, often possessing human physical characteristics and said to be shaped for a temporary existence from a substance called ectoplasm. materializations were attributed by spiritualists and some psychical researchers to spirit agency, although a few postulated that they might arise from some unknown natural force independent of departed spirits, but emanating from gifted psychics. most modern parapsychologists believe that materializations were simply performances staged by mediums and their accomplices to deceive the people sitting with them, who had hoped to come into contact with the supernatural. for a century psychical researchers investigated claims of materialization and from time to time researchers came forward to declare their belie

ecause all the distinguished investigators professed themselves satisfied that the medium, with her hands, head, and feet controlled by the sitters, could not herself produce the phenomena. credible witnesses asserted that she possessed the ability to project psychic limbs from her person. lodge and myers were so impressed as to posit the existence of a new force, which they termed ectenic force, emanating from the medium. in 1895, however, some seances with palladino were held at myers s home in cambridge, where it became apparent that she habitually freed a hand or a foot.in short, habitually resorted to fraud if not properly controlled. yet even these exposures were not conclusive, for in 1898, after a further series of experiments, myers, lodge, and richet once more declared their beli

nored by the protagonists of od. years later when spiritualism had established itself in america, there remained a group of rational defenders of the movement, who attributed the phenomena of spiritualism as well as those of poltergeist to the action of odylic force. others, such as samuel guppy, regarded the so-called spirit intelligences producing the manifestations as compounded of odic vapors emanating from the medium, and probably connected with an all-pervading thought-atmosphere.an idea sufficiently like the cosmic fluid of the early magnetists. reichenbach s odic force clearly had possible relevance to psychical research, and in 1883 the society for psychical research in london formed a committee to report on reichenbach phenomena. the committee s first report was published in the

otic subject was given in 1787 in the journals of the swedish exegetical and philanthropic society. members of the society inclined to the doctrines of their countryman emanuel swedenborg, who was the first to identify the spirits as the souls of the deceased. until the third decade of the nineteenth century, the explanations of mesmerism concerned themselves almost entirely with a fluid or force emanating from the mesmerist.and even visible to the eye of a clairvoyant. in 1823, however, alexandre bertrand, a parisian physician, published his traite du somnambulisme. in 1826 he published the treatise du magnetisme animal en france, in which he set forth a relationship between ordinary sleepwalking, somnambulism associated with disease, and epidemic ecstasy and advanced the doctrine, now ge

ew jerusalem, the true christian religion, and canons of the new church. of these works, his divine love and wisdom most succinctly presents his entire religious system. god he regarded as the divine man. spiritually god consists of infinite love, and corporeally of infinite wisdom. from the divine love, all things draw nourishment. the sun, as we know it, is merely a microcosm of a spiritual sun emanating from the creator. this spiritual sun is the source of nature; but whereas the first is alive, the second is inanimate. there is no connection between the two worlds of nature and spirit unless in similarity of construction. the causes of all things exist in the spiritual sphere and their effects in the natural sphere, and the purpose of all creation is that man may become the image of hi

y the operators; other movements of the table while the fingers of the sitters rested upon it were ascribed to similar causes. the tilting 1521 of the table on the side furthest away from the operator was explained by muscular action. the vibrations in the wood of the table, its levitation under the fingers, or extent, its rotation without contact of the operator s hands, he attributed to a force emanating from the body. in the latter case, the operator was capable of acting at a distance by means of ether-waves. this force, the result of a cerebral disturbance, was greater than that of the muscles, as is seen by the levitation of tables so weighty that the combined muscular strength of the operators would not suffice to lift them. to the dictating of messages and other intelligent manifes

ong other atrocious acts they are responsible for the aids epidemic (comparable views figure in the writings of salvador freixedo, sometimes called the latin american john keel, and of california ufologist ann druffel) by 1984 creighton s extremism had so alienated more conservative ufologists that one of them, john rimmer, was led to observe, no journal espousing the bizarre beliefs that are now emanating from [fsr s] pages can be considered worthy to be the literary flagship of british ufology. from now on, it seems, it will be of interest largely to paranoid cultists, conspiracymongers, and students of fringe literature. fsr s readership and influence have declined markedly during creighton s tenure. more ufo theories not all proponents of occult ufology and anomalistics went as far as


EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

rom the light asks the observer something like, are you prepared to die? or what have you done with your life? immediately afterward, the dying person experiences a life review in which significant events are rapidly played out either in order of their occurrence or all at once in, as moody puts it, a display of visual imagery. 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, h

imal but which could as easily have come from a baby learning to speak. a bark with a pleading note in it came next. when irving made barking and meowing sounds himself, apparently in an effort to determine whether the animal was a dog or cat, the creature imitated him. 108 gef archangel gabriel painted by pietro vannucci (arte& immagini srl/corbis) the sounds were high-pitched and appeared to be emanating from a very small throat. the knockings continued for the next few weeks. then one day, irving asked his wife, what in the name of god can he be? from the walls a squeaky voice echoed, what in the name of god can he be? these were the first recognizable words from gef, as the animal said it wanted to be called. as time passed, gef, whose voice was said to be two octaves above a normal wo

e and spotted a beam of light going through his chest. he felt intense pain, then had the sensation that he was being pulled out of his body. two shadowy beings, reeking of evil and menace, had him by the arms and were forcing him to a black abyss. this abyss, he thought, was the entrance to hell. he began to pray, and the next thing he knew, a beautiful blue sky surrounded him. a soothing light, emanating apparently from god, gave him a feeling of peace and ecstasy. though he did not wish to return to his body, something told him that he must do so, and he did. he lay awake the rest of the night reflecting on all that had happened to him, and in the morning he vowed to find a hypnotist who could help him fill in the gaps in his memory. while hypnotized, he recounted the 1977 abduction as

tially, as prisoners of the atlanteans even deeper under shasta. doreal was unique in his depiction of the lemurians as evil and dangerous. as sh a s t a s legends continued to expand, it was said that the mountain s interior housed two magnificent lemurian cities, il e t h e l e m e and yaktayvia. the latter, some said, was the s o u rce of beautiful bell sounds, which some had professed to hear emanating from the mountain. the yaktayvians are master bell builders. all the while, occult pilgrims we re arriving in growing numbers to the are a; many would stay. some claimed to have seen and communicated with lemurians and other extraord i n a ry beings. others re p o rt e d ufo sightings on the mountain. be l i e ve r s explained the phenomena as lemurian aircraft or visiting extraterrestri

little doubt that shaver believed what he said, notwithstanding some noteworthy inconsistencies in his testimony over the years. for example, he told at least four mutually exclusive stories about how he learned of the earth s secret past and its subterranean races. in his most frequent telling, however, it occurred first through telepathic messages from a mysterious woman, then as mental voices emanating from depraved creatures known as deros (from detrimental ro- bots, though they were not robots as such; see explanation on next page. these experiences seem to have occurred in the early 1930s. always vague on dates, 224 shaver mystery cover of the hidden world magazine, spring 1961, containing articles on the shaver mystery (fortean picture library) shaver was also vague on what was hap

ground to a rooftop twenty-five feet high. though springheel jack legends are not a part of american folklore, figures very much like him appear in a few curious episodes. in 1938, a century after the london reports, people in and around provincetown, massachusetts, claimed encounters with a leaping man with fierce-looking eyes and pointed ears. they said he stunned his victims with a blue flame emanating from his mouth. comparable stories were told in baltimore in the summer of 1951. on june 18, 1953, three witnesses in a houston neighborhood allegedly sighted a leaping, black-clad figure in a cloak and saw a rocket-shaped ufo zoom away moments after the being s disappearance. at least two other cases link leaping, jacklike figures to ufos, one in gallipolis, ohio, in the early 1960s, an

o be made of a glowing, sun-colored substance similar to plastic and was shaped like two saucers fused together. i judged it was about eighty feet horizontally and thirty-two vertically( centralian tells, 1950. equally peculiar was the sight of tanned, fine-featured, naked children playing on steps that led from the saucer to the ground. excited, thompson approached the craft, feeling a mild heat emanating from it the cause, he would learn subsequently, of its occupants tanned skins. as he came nearer, his presence brought the adults beautiful and nude, with dark blond hair to the door. they seemed frightened of him. he told them he meant no harm, and they relaxed. after asking him in clumsy english to remove his shoes and socks, they invited him inside, where he spent the next forty hours

ht between the planet s nations, until finally its inhabitants established a oneworld government under what amounted to a benevolent dictatorship of a council of wise men. the state raised and educated the children, and there was no serious poverty. people from this planet live undetected among earthlings, reporting on human affairs to their otherworldly superiors. toward dawn the buzzing sounds, emanating from either the helmets or the belts, resumed. the two left the car, with villanueva following. eventually, they came to the ship, a saucer-shaped structure. the men invited him inside the craft, but at that moment he lost his nerve and fled back to the car. from it he saw the saucer ascend and disappear in the direction of the rising sun. when his experience became known soon afterward


FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

now nor comprehend, nor can they apply their rules of science to it. 27 the head (rosh, sar) of above, the holy ancient one, mystery of all mysteries, head of all heads, the head which is not (al, a head which is in not (al, known as not (al; what is knowable in the head is not (al) connected with wisdom and not (al) connected with understanding. 28 figure 6.3 displays the generation of the torah emanating from the unmanifest singularity of yechidah. this diagram shows the ayn(]ya) projecting the unmanifest alef a of unity, from% e2 2 e" 2' 8: h f e 2 5 which emanate the twenty-two supernal letters in the world of atziluth. the names in the world of b riyah subsequently evolute from the twenty-two letters in atziluth. the names in figure 6.3 include all the names in the sefer hashmoth. the

he torah for the first time before the congregation; said to be nachus (i.e. a gift from the youth to his/her parents. battle: a meditation image from the sefer yetzirah depicting a state of tension between the two aspects of each double letter, and between six pairs of simple letters. beard of small face: an image which comes from the sifra detzniyutha involving nine strands of convoluting names emanating from the letter alef. beard of vast face: an image which comes from the sifra detzniyutha involving nine strands of convoluting names emanating from the letter ayin. before-the-world sequence: form of the taoist trigram tree from the shuo qua. correlates with the qabalistic tree of perfection. beyt worlds: worlds of manifestation in small face. bhakti (sanskrit: devotion: unconditional l


FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

he life of an italian in shakespeare's england, cambridge, 1934, pp. 71-2. 292 giordano bruno: second visit to paris would mean that he could no longer count on any royal support, and indeed it accounts for the recall of mauvissiere, and his replacement as ambassador in england by chateauneuf, who was a guisard.1 there would be no more suppers at the french embassy, no more mysterious love poetry emanating from its occupants, and philip sidney, to whom that mysterious love poetry had been dedicated, left england a month after bruno to fight against spain in the low countries, where he was killed in the following year. bruno told the venetian inquisitors that on this second visit to paris he lived for the most part at his own expense and in the society of "gentlemen whom i knew".2 this meag


FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

comment is my ego talking to itself, on being questioned by various individuals as per my techniques and ways. the picture is a representation of the flaming lotus, in a tim burtonesque mockery. i/7b: a reference to the christ. a fish (pisces) nailed on a cross. the eyebrow of the fish resembles a 1. and it s mouth is distinctively reminiscent of the symbolic glyph for aquarius. there are 8 rays emanating from the cross. i/8a: excursion 2. nocturne is a border realm of interaction of dreamscape and void. there are nightmarish images which manifest and come into (and go out of) being. the automatic drawing is an analogy between one painting and another. iao is capitalized. i/8b: the first parable is given here. dyonysis spelled with a y. why? let s go eat! bring your lover while your at it

bring your lover while your at it. if one of those beers just happens to fall i/9a: the kiddies are all would be magicians. grendel comes to the fore and mocks the requirement of a certain grade. the false ego is recognized, and is kicked back into check by it s non-existence. this all sounds like a lot of philosophy, but is actually only represented this way because it needs to be shared. 8 rays emanating from 2 eyes. 2 eyes of e (5 th english letter) and an! which is 1. i/9b: a reference of another force bearing witness and interacting, opening up a gateway, some outer beings take notice. this no longer becomes play, but takes on a more serious edge. godz. i/10a: a number of binah (t3. the author wishes to collect his selves. duality. letters. the 2 lines turn 3 times. i/10b: how we come


FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

ion that they have as yet no life within themselves but are worked upon by the group-spirit from without entirely and it is the group-spirit which generates the life-giving currents responsible for the animation in these creatures; these currents pass inwards to sustain the nascent life until it shall be able to respond and begin to send currents outwards from itself) these radiant lines of force emanating invisibly to the physical sight from our dense bodies are our aura, as already stated, and while the color of each individual's aura differs from that of all other individuals there is nevertheless a basic or ground color showing its status in the scale of evolution. in the lower races this ground color is a dull red like the color of a slow burning fire, indicating their passionate, emo


FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

rms a ring or a palace. the light of the supreme point being of an inconceivable brilliance, the light of the palace which is inferior to it looks like a dark circle round it. but the light of the first palace, though it may seem dark by comparison with the point itself, is yet of an immense splendour which gives off another ring or palace forming a sort of envelope around the first one. so that, emanating from the supreme point, all the degrees of creation are but envelopes, the one for the other. the envelope of the superior degree forms the brain of the degree next to it. 4 here is presented to us a system of worlds within worlds. first there is the world, or expanse, of no-thingness; then the awir, or ether; next the aur, or light; then ten sephirotic rings of light, one grosser than t


GILBERT R A THE MASONIC CAREER OF A

cult sciences was published waite had joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a society of would-be magicians founded in 1887 by westcott, dr. w. r. woodman and s. l. macgregor mathers, on the basis of manuscript rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those


GNOSTIC CATECHISM

cult sciences was published waite had joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a society of would-be magicians founded in 1887 by westcott, dr. w. r. woodman and s. l. macgregor mathers, on the basis of manuscript rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremberg (known within the order as soror sapiens dominabitur astris; each member was obliged to take a pious motto, usually in latin) who gave westcott authority from the german centre of the order to found a temple in london, to be known by the name of isis urania. the hierarchical structure of the golden dawn and its system of grades paralleled those


GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

rience union with the divine and showed little interest in the historical jesus, whom it has always been impossible to know in a concrete sense or even accurately in a historical sense. jesus christ, sun of god. david fideler, quest books. 1993. the state of christhood is a state to which all of us must aim, it is the state by which we return to the pleroma. the logos and sophia are energy fields emanating into the lower worlds and if permitted will transform us into immortal beings. this teaching is the solar tradition and is central to our understanding of the gnosis. the gnostic handbook page 29 that which is not divine will sophia the logos awakened by the mind of god (logos) purified by the wisdom of god (sophia) empowered by divine will the christ-state the gnostic handbook page 30 w

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 ambivalent, they receive and relay forces of both positive and negative nattier. in a more medi


GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

atmosphere of the drele. let it gradually forro a protective spherical shell or wall around you ata distance equal to the circumference of the circle. this mental projection should accompany.your tracing of pentagrams and/or hexagrams to banish all foreign elements and influences from your cirde. a method used in tibetan yoga, which is quite effective, is to imagine millions of tiny rays of light emanating from your subtle body outward in all directions. the length of each ray is equal to the radius of your circle. at the end of each ray you must imagine the head of a fierce demon (a 'wrathful' deity) facing outward and snarling with protective power. let these demon heads form a strong protective shell around you. onl y when you can" fee l" thi s prot e ct i ve wal l surrounding you will

lly, as you accustom yourself to this region you will sense time and destiny flowing together. this o p will take on form in a symbolic way, possibly as an avenue and/or a blowing wind. you will observe that the center of the aethyr contains a throned angel. even if you do not see a throne, the impression of this angel will be one of a ruler, an authority whose word cannot be ignored. the current emanating from this angel will seem cold and masculine. this is also the impression that you will get from staring into his face. this angel will be difficult to talk to. you cannot use words in the normal way. communicat ion wi l l be possible only with pure ideas. as soon as an idea comes into your mind, whether it is simple or complex, he will hear it 216 immediately. similarly you will get qui


H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

ms to be "elastic. in this way, he says, are elastic fluids or gases formed. in figure 4, however, we come to one of the most interesting diagrams and illustrations of the atomic law. in fact, the point which dalton tried to present in a veiled way has not been fully offered to the workers in chemistry before. assuming (and this may not be an assumption at all) that the atoms do have certain rays emanating from them, we can best illustrate these emanations by making them diagrammatic. therefore, we will consider that the rays issue from the center of each atom and go outward from the atom in straight lines. for a very good reason we will assume that these rays form an aura around each atom, and that this aura is in the form of a square.(i must repeat that this may not be an assumption at a

y be said to be a brain that is elongated and made use of by mind. the earthly, material, objective mind makes use of the spinal nervous system and the immaterial, subconscious mind makes use of the autonomic nervous system in order that the soul may function normally on the earth plane through a physical body and so fulfill the demands of the evolutionary plan. nous.that energy, power, and force emanating from the source of all life, possessing positive and negative polarity. it is manifested in vibrations of various rates of speed which, under certain conditions and obeying the dictates of natural law, establish the world of form, be that form visible or invisible. nous possesses within itself all potentialities; that is, all manifestations of any kind are within it, uncreated, awaiting


HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

n and firm belief on the essential subject of salvation.i.thebeliefs and sentiments of lero].2.i believe in three persons and one god, father, son and holy ghost, i recognise the father as creator and sole director of the universe and all the elements it contains. but his son, jesus christ, is the one most essentially necessary for the salvation of mankind.theholy ghost the comfor255ter-thespirit emanating from the two combined who together with them form the supreme being.excerptsfrom thecrystalmssii5god, angels, or man should in the least relieve them from these frightful torments. death is the transition from the corporeal to the spiritual state, but in passing from life into death man only loses hisflesh-themind, faculties and desires are exactly the same as those with which he quitted


HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

described when we speak of an alternate existence on the physical and spiritual planes, and thus picture the soul as page 81 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt a complete entity slipping entirely from the one state of existence to the other. the more correct definitions of the process would probably represent incarnation as taking place on this physical plane of nature by reason of an efflux emanating from the soul. the spiritual realm would all the while be the proper habitat of the soul, which would never entirely quit it; and that non-materializable portion of the soul which abides permanently on the spiritual plane may fitly, perhaps, be spoken of as the higher self. this "higher self" is atma, and of course it is "non-materializable" as mr. sinnett says. even more, it can never b

ate one who believes nothing which cannot be demonstrated by the senses. ahankara (sans) the conception of "i" self-consciousness or self-identity; the "i" or egoistical and mayavic principle in man, due to our ignorance which separates our "i" from the universal one-self. personality, egoism also. page 141 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt ain-soph (heb) the "boundless" or "limitless" deity emanating and extending. ain-soph is also written en-soph and ain-suph, for no one, not even the rabbis, are quite sure of their vowels. in the religious metaphysics of the old hebrew philosophers, the one principle was an abstraction like parabrahman, though modern cabalists have succeeded by mere dint of sophistry and paradoxes in making a "supreme god" of it, and nothing higher. but with the ea

c soul" in the theosophical glossary) pleroma "fullness" a gnostic term used also by st. paul. divine world or the abode of gods. universal space divided into metaphysical aeons. plotinus a distinguished platonic philosopher of the third century, a great practical mystic, renowned for his virtues and learning. he taught a doctrine identical with that of the vedantins, namely, that the spirit soul emanating from the one deific principle was after its pilgrimage on earth reunited to it (see theosophical glossary) porphyry (porphyrius. his real name was malek, which led to his being regarded as a jew. he came from tyre, and having first studied under longinus, the eminent philosopher-critic, became the disciple of plotinus, at rome. he was a neo-platonist and a distinguished writer, specially


HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ever) to be efficacious. what is important, is the focusing of awareness along a particular vector, and the entry into an asc where the practitioner can focus 37 attention intensely towards a single point and project it forth. the relationship between sound and sacred sites is also being researched, again by paul deveraux. the .hill noises. of the dunwich horror have been reported occasionally as emanating from the locality of sacred sites, differing in variety between high- pitched buzzing, humming noises, and .thunderclaps. beneath the earth. in places of power, deveraux notes the suggestion that ultrasound is possibly emitted at some megalith sites, although more work needs to be done to corroborate this elusive finding. of more interest is what deveraux calls .the physics of shamanism


HP LOVECRAFT THE ALCHEMIST

ely affected by that which i had undergone. at the farther end of the apartment was an opening leading out into one of the many wild ravines of the dark hillside forest. filled with wonder, yet now realizing how the man had obtained access to the chauteau, i proceeded to return. i had intended to pass by the remains of the stranger with averted face but, as i approached the body, i seemed to hear emanating from it a faint sound. as though life were not yet wholly extinct. aghast, i turned to examine the charred and shrivelled figure on the floor. then all at once the horrible eyes, blacker even than the seared face in which they were set, opened wide with an expression which i was unable to interpret. the cracked lips tried to frame words which i could not well understand. once i caught th


HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

ion. thoughts are very powerful. thoughts are all we are, all we're made up of. most people have experienced the power of psychic vibration, although many don't realize what it is. it's that feeling of instant recognition that flows between two people, like electricity. sometimes it's mistaken for "love at first sight" many times as a strong sexual attraction. in actuality, it's the psychic force emanating from the individual, not the individual himself, which causes the attraction. two people may be operating on the same wave length, the same level of psychic energy; when that happens, they zing into each other like 'two strangers in a foreign land, drawn to each other by a common bond of nationality. it's not necessarily love, or even sex. it's psychic attraction and should be recognized


INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

he figure in a piece of silk for further use. silk is known to be the best magic insulating material. the figure is to be kept in a favorable spot, inaccessible to anyone else; no foreigner must ever come in touch with the figure. any further work is already a matter of imagination. provided you with to advance, put the figure in front of you, imagine the astral body together with the mental body emanating from the puppet. you have to imagine your elementary very much like a tiny, complete human being. it is entirely up to you to see in your elementary a male or a female being, depending on the kind of task it is expected to fulfill. the same is true for the clothing for it; your fantasy may decide. according to the task ahead, you may link the elementary by imagination to a self-selected

water and you are protected against any magic drawback or reaction. now leave the bath and dry yourself, but leave the puppet in the water until it has cooled down. the silk in which it was wrapped might also have fallen into the water. let the cold water drain off, but make sure that nobody else comes in touch with this water. if your eyes are clairvoyant and you notice that the figure is still emanating an aura, throw it once more into hot water and the fluid condenser will mix with the water. you may perform this experiment in any case even if you don t see the emanation. at least you will be sure that all life in the elementary is extinct. burn or bury the remains of the doll together with the silk. with this last operation the elementary is dead and gone for you. before i terminate t


ISIS UNVEILED

he hirmdf* as john ex- it would be difbcult to escape from the well-adduced proofs that the apocalypse is the production of an initiated kabalist, when this revdo' hon presents whole passages taken from the books of enoch and danid, which latter is in itself an abridged imitation of the former; and when furthermore we ascertain that the ophite gnostics who rejected the old tettameni entirely, as "emanating from an inferior being (jehovah, accepted the most ancient prophets, such as enoch, and deduced the strongest support from his book for their religious tenets, the demonstra- tion becomes evident. we wiu show further how closely related are all these doctrines. besides there is the history of donutian's persecutions of magicians and philosophers, which affords as good a proof as any that

'face' of the sephiroth. this triad emanated 'hesed, tdd, or mercy, a masculine active potency, also called eloah, from which emanated geburah, n"1133, or justice, ijso called pa'had, a femi- nine passive potency; from the union of these two was produced tipher- eth, nimdn, beauty, clemency, the spiritual sun, known by the divine name ioatm; and the second triad 'face' or 'head' was formed. these emanating produced in their turn the mainline potency netza'h, mti. firmness, or yehomh-tze'baoih, who issued the feminine passive potency hod, lin. splendor, or elokirri-tze' booth; from these proceeded yesod, tid, foundation, who is tjie mighty living one el'hay, thus yielding the third trinity of 'head' the tenth sepbira is in tact a duad, and is represented on the diagrams as the lowest circle

e wheeli of creation, c^jfik* from which proceeds binah, intdligence, female and paasive potency, whidi is ydio- mh, rr,n\ whom we find in the bou figuring as the supreme. but this yeho- vah is not the kabalistio yod-heva. ilie binary is the fundamental corner-stone of onotu. ha the binary is the unity mul- tiplying itself and self-creating, the kaba- lista show the 'unknown' passive ain- soph as emanating from himself sephira, which, becoming visible light, is said to produce adam kadmon. but, in the hid- den sense, sephira and adam are one and the tame light, only latent and active, in- vixible and visible. hie sectmd adam, aa the human tetragram, produces in hit turn eve, out of hi* side. it is this second triad, with which the kabaliats have hitherto dealt, hardly hinting at the su- pr


LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

only the creator s will to bestow delight existed. hence, in line with his desire, the will to bestow delight created an equal amount of the will to enjoy; however, it was opposite in property. consequently, the will to enjoy is the only thing that was created and exists besides the creator. moreover, this will is the material of all the worlds and all objects that populate them. and the pleasure emanating from the creator vitalizes and governs it all. in the spiritual worlds, the discrepancy between properties and desires separates two spiritual objects, moving them away from one another just like two corporeal objects separated by distance. in our world, if two people love and hate the same thing, meaning their predilections coincide, we say that they are close to one another. if their p


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eous person does not want to receive pleasure for one s own sake. in earning levels of righteousness, one will, with the help of the creator who replaces our egoistic nature with an altruistic one, truly refuse all egoistic pleasure and aspire only to benefit the creator. but when a righteous person realizes that the creator receives pleasure only when his creations are delighted by the pleasures emanating from him, pleasures that are not belittled or destroyed, that person is once again forced to turn to egoism. this time, however, there is a different goal: to experience pleasure for the sake of the creator. in the end, the creator and the individual completely converge in their intentions and actions as each party attempts to gratify the other, and through this gains pleasure. there are

n this manner. revelation and concealment- 165- on the contrary, the higher the experienced sensation of pleasure, the higher the spiritual level attained. there is also pleasure from the recognition of infinite strength, power and might without any concern for self. therefore, the level of a righteous person is not sufficient to fulfill the goal of the creation. receiving pleasure from the light emanating from the creator is crucial for the correction of our intentions "the reasons for which we seek pleasure" the attainment of the level of the righteous only permits us to rid ourselves of the feelings of shame that we experience when we receive pleasures from the creator. as much as egoism constitutes our nature in this world and altruism is considered to be a utopian notion, they are per

ther worlds without connecting this subject to those who perceive these worlds. without the soul s ability to perceive, the other worlds do not exist. the interfering screens that stand between us and the creator actually present these worlds. olam derives from the word alama, which means "concealment" the worlds exist only for the purpose of transmitting even a small part of the pleasure (light) emanating from the creator to the soul. 3. souls these are entities generated by the creator that perceive themselves as existing independently. this feeling is highly subjective and essentially translates into the soul, that is our individual self, having been specifically made in this manner by the creator. however, in reality we are actually an integral part of him. a person s entire path of de

is incorrect, though enthusiasm, strong conviction and imagination may point to another direction and indicate that we have already reached certain spiritual heights. such an end is common among those involved in amateur studies of kabbalah and "mystical" philosophies. our entire path of spiritual ascension along the stages of the worlds abya can be described as an alternating exertion of force, emanating from each consecutive stage at which we find ourselves at any given moment. each of these forces is denoted by a particular letter of the hebrew alphabet. that is, each letter symbolizes a spiritual force that governs a certain stage in the worlds abya. but only one force is able to save us and free us from the domain of egoistic desires. that force is the blessing of the creator, denote

ough this process, we undergo new corrections, which accumulate until the creator himself gathers them together. all of these negative feelings of ours concerning our distance from the creator, our dissatisfaction with our spiritual path, our complaints about the many deadlocked states we experience all of these to the degree required for us to merit the awareness of the creator and the pleasures emanating from him. it is then that the "gates of tears" are flung open, and it is only through them that we can enter the halls of the creator. even if we become overwhelmed by the powerful reactions and stubbornness of our egos, we should not decide that the creator did not give us sufficient strength to cope with them, or that we were born lacking talent, patience, equanimity and sharpness of m

y a certain other medium that came into contact with the external boundary of the created being (much like the sensation of hearing) is known as "prophetic hearing "prophetic vision" is considered to be the most obvious disclosure (just as in our world, we desire to see an object and consider this to be the most complete perception of the object) because we come into direct contact with the light emanating from the creator himself. on the other hand "prophetic hearing (the voice of the creator) is defined by the kabbalists as incomprehensible, as opposed to prophetic vision. it is similar to our ability to hear sound waves, since what we are really sensing are the signals of the intermediary spiritual object that emanate from the contact of the intermediary object with the external boundar

we are familiar with an individual s various qualities, such as kindness, envy, anger, willingness to compromise and so on, we can assert that we "know" that individual. similarly, after a kabbalist grasps all actions and the divine manifestation in those actions, the creator is revealed to the kabbalist by means of light, in a completely comprehensible way. if the spiritual levels and the light emanating from them do not carry with them the possibility of perceiving the creator "himself" then we consider them impure("himself" implies, just as in our world, that we gain an impression of one through one s actions and do not feel the urge to find out anything else. after all, that which we cannot perceive at all does not elicit in us an interest or a need to be perceived. impure forces such

e an altruistic fear, because it is prompted by a concern of not fulfilling the desire of the creator, out of feelings of love. but despite one s tremendous yearning to fulfill all that brings joy to the creator, it is nevertheless very difficult to observe the commandments of the creator (actions that are desired by the creator) because one does not see the necessity of fulfilling them. the fear emanating from the feeling of love must be stronger than the egoistic fear. for instance, when one anticipates that one will be seen at the moment of committing a crime, or simply a transgression, that person experiences feelings of suffering and shame. similarly, a kabbalist develops in the self a feeling of anxiety, that not enough is done for the creator. this feeling- 370- attaining the worlds


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owever, the substance of that house cannot be compared to the substance of one actually built. this is because in theory, the house is composed of a substance of thought, and is a potential house. yet, when the house begins to turn from thought to action, it takes on a different substance- that of trees and stones. thus, it is possible to distinguish potential and actual in the souls as well: the emanating of the souls from the creator actually begins only at the world of beria. all the changes that occur before the world of beria are considered potential, without any tangible distinction from the creator. it is said that all the souls are already included in malchut of ein sof (infinite, in the middle point of the entire existence. this is because this point in a state of potentiality inc

for him, finally persuade him that the host will enjoy it if he eats. then the guest thinks that if now, after having rejected the pleasure several times, he will agree to eat, it will be considered a favor to the host. in this way, he will become the giver, and the host, the receiver. the hunger and the desire to receive delight and pleasure are referred to in kabbalah as a vessel. the pleasure emanating from the creator is called direct light, and the power to reject it is called a screen. the light that is rejected from the screen is then referred to as returning light. with the power of the screen; i.e, the force to reject enjoying for self and taking pleasure only for the creator, the vessel can face its own will to receive. one might understand that the vessel rejects the light, but


LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed upon abstinence and self-control; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emanating from the divine, the atoning sacrifice, the constant warfare between good and evil and the final triumph of the former, the immortality of the soul, the last judgment, the resurrection of the flesh and the fiery destruction of the universe- these are some of the resemblances at their root lay a common eastern origin rather than any borrowing(*ency. brit (11th edn, art. mithras) 426. the

f. gould, the greatest of our masonic historians(*see gould. hist. freem, vol. i, ch. iv and v, for a complete account of what is known of the french craft guilds and the compagnonnage) 530. the stonemasons of germany 531. another line of survival of the ancient tradition is found among the stonemasons of germany. we have already traced the influence of two streams of tradition into germany, one emanating from britain through the celtic monks, and another coming from italy through s. boniface. the craft guilds of germany developed independently of monastic influence, but according to gould it is probable that in the twelfth century the skilled masons of the monasteries amalgamated with the craft builders in the towns, and together formed the society afterwards known throughout germany as

of the rosy cross, a: e. waite, p. 375) so as early as 1638 masonry was associated both with the rosicrucian brotherhood and with the occult power known as second sight. the connection of the rosy cross with masonry belongs to our next chapter. 570. the mason word is the only secret alluded to in early lodge minutes in scotland. what it was is still unknown, although there are curious indications emanating from two writers who did not belong to the craft. the rev. george hickes, afterwards dean of worcester, describes it about 1678 as a secret signal masons have thro out the world to know one another by. robert kirk in 1691 says that it is: 571. lyke a rabbinical tradition, in way of comment on jachin and boaz, the two pillars erected in solomon s temple (i. kings vii, 21, with an addition


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refer to a demigod who created the world in the timaeus) who also created the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, referred to as the pleroma. according to the gnostic myth of creation, sophia, one of the spiritual beings residing in the pleroma, inadvertently created the demiurge. the demiurge then created the cosmos by emanating a series of different levels, ranging from as few as three to as many as 360. each of these levels is governed by an archon, who acts as a guardian preventing the sparks of light (i.e, the divine essence of individual human beings) from returning to the pleroma. part of the knowledge imparted to the gnostics is information on how to bypass these archons on their journey back to the plero

north america. it is a ritual theurgic body that emphasizes purity of ritual, as well as the eucharist as the center of initiation, through which the invocation of angels and planetary spirits is made. spirit communication often takes place during the mass, when members of the clergy, who are clairvoyant, may have visions. during the mass a mystical language is perceived and spoken. the absolute, emanating the trinity, is viewed as the head of a gnostic hierarchical system. the trinity is the source of lucifer, the morning star, and sophia, the female divine being who is often revered as our lady of mt. carmel. the neo-pythagorean church is subject to a supreme heliophant, and its american jurisdiction is under bishop pierre-antoine saint-charles of boston, whereas michael bertiaux in chic


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egins when these are in harmony. in addition to merely immediate futilities, knowledge aids our ability to conceive desirous abstractions and ideals, to seek development from the contiguous and to join experience with old memory. the only mediator of the soul is automatic anoesis "i am i" only if "you are you. will be a new apperception. being more dependent on instinctivism, inspiration, etc, as emanating from the supernal, needs no knowledge to shape it until its final development. the sense of identity is stimulated by contrasts, because the more undifferentiated the less possible is self-realization. all things appear ephemeral except ego. our spontaneous tribute to continuity. our contact with the soul recedes by articulation: the phraseology of the soul is not ours, but some baffling


MAGIC AND SPELLS

ame bursts from your outstretched hand, scorching any creature in a 5-foot-wide path to the edge of the spell's range. aganazzar's scorcher deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels, to a maximum of 5d8 points of damage. focus: a red dragon's scale. analyze portal divination level: brd 3, portal 2, sor/wiz 3 components: v, s, m/df casting time: 1 minute range: 60 ft' area: a quarter circle emanating from you to the extreme of the range duration: concentration, up to 1 round/level (d) saving throw: see text spell resistance: no you can tell if an area contains a magic portal. if you study an area for 1 round, you know the sizes and locations of any portals in the area. once you find a portal, you can study it (if you find more than one portal, you can only study one at a time) each r


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f the deeper scientific aspects of greek mythology is possible, it is necessary to organize the greek pantheon and arrange its gods, goddesses, and various superhuman hierarchies in concatenated order. proclus, the great neo-platonist, in his commentaries on the theology of plato, gives an invaluable key to the sequence of the various deities in relation to the first cause and the inferior powers emanating from themselves. when thus arranged, the divine hierarchies may be likened to the branches of a great tree. the roots of this tree are firmly imbedded in unknowable being. the trunk and larger branches of the tree symbolize the superior gods; the twigs and leaves, the innumerable existences dependent upon the first and unchanging power. p. 19 of friedrich wilhelm nietzsche it has been sa

on, the flood, and the ark; the representation in art of the fiery chariot, the drawing of water from the rock; the use of bell and candle, holy water and the communion; the sanctification of sunday and of the 25th of december; the insistence on moral conduct, the emphasis placed on abstinence and selfcontrol; the doctrine of heaven and hell, of primitive revelation, of the mediation of the logos emanating from the divine, the atoning sacrifice, the constant warfare between good and evil and the final triumph of the former, the immortality of the soul, the last judgment, the resurrection of the flesh and the fiery destruction of the universe-[these] are some of the resemblances which, whether real or only apparent, enabled mithraism to prolong its resistance to christianity" the rites of m

umber of points extending outward like the rays of the sun, but modern conventionalism has, in many cases, either removed the points or else bent: them inward, gathered them together, and placed an orb or cross upon the point where they meet. many of the ancient prophets, philosophers, and dignitaries carried a scepter, the upper end of which bore a representation of the solar globe surrounded by emanating rays. all the kingdoms of earth were but copies of the kingdoms of heaven, and the kingdoms of heaven were best symbolized by the solar kingdom, in which the sun was the supreme ruler, the planets his privy council, and all nature the subjects of his empire. many deities have been associated with the sun. the greeks believed that apollo, bacchus, dionysos, sabazius, hercules, jason, ulys

ng a little larger than a dinner plate in size, although some of the more powerful are considerably larger. their color is the golden white light of the sun, and from them emanate four streamers of vril. these streamers are often of great length and are in constant motion. a peculiar palpitation is to be noted throughout the structure of the globe and is communicated in the form of ripples to the emanating streamers. the greatest and most luminous of these spheres is the archangel michael; and the entire order of solar life, which resemble him and dwell upon the sun, are called by modern christians "the archangels" or "the spirits of the light. the sun in alchemical symbology gold is the metal of the sun and has been considered by many as crystallized sunlight. when gold is mentioned in al

sted of three parts and the lower of seven. the three uncognizable sephiroth were called kether, the crown; chochmah, wisdom; and binah, understanding. these are too abstract to permit of comprehension, whereas the lower seven spheres that came forth from them were within the grasp of human consciousness. the central panel contains seven triads of figures. these represent the lower sephiroth, all emanating from the concealed threefold crown over the throne. kircher writes "the throne denotes the diffusion of the triform supreme mind along the universal paths of the three worlds. out of these three intangible spheres emerges the sensible universe, which plutarch calls the 'house of horns' and the egyptians, the 'great gate of the gods' the top of the throne is in the midst of diffused serpe

physical body within which human nature is enthroned. from this point of view the entire table becomes emblematic of the auric bodies of man, with the border as the outer extremity or shell of the auric egg. if the throne be accepted as the symbol of the spiritual sphere, the border typifies the elements, and the various panels surrounding the central one become emblematic of the worlds or planes emanating from the one divine source. if the table be considered from a purely physical basis, the throne becomes symbolic of the generative system and the table reveals the secret processes of embryology as applied to the formation of the material worlds. if a purely physiological and anatomical interpretation be desired, the central throne becomes the heart, the ibimorphous triad the mind, the n

raxas in greek is braxav. a= 1, b= 2, r= 100, a= 1, x =60, a= 1, v= 200, the sum being 365, the number of days in the year. this number furnishes the key to the mystery of abraxas, who is symbolic of the 365 ons, or spirits of the days, gathered together in one composite personality. abraxas is symbolic of five creatures, and as the circle of the year actually consists of 360 degrees, each of the emanating deities is one-fifth of this power, or 72, one of the most sacred numbers in the old testament of the jews and in their qabbalistic system. this same method is used in finding the numerical value of the names of the gods and goddesses of the greeks and jews. all higher numbers can be reduced to one of the original ten numerals, and the 10 itself to 1. therefore, all groups of numbers res

s--the supreme symbol of universal forces and processes--are set forth the theories of the greeks concerning color and music. the first three dots represent the threefold white light, which is the godhead containing potentially all sound and color. the remaining seven dots are the colors of the spectrum and the notes of the musical scale. the colors and tones are the active creative powers which, emanating from the first cause, establish the universe. the seven are divided into two groups, one containing three powers and the other four a relationship also shown in the tetractys. the higher group--that of three--becomes the spiritual nature of the created universe; the lower group--that of four--manifests as the irrational sphere, or inferior world. in the mysteries the seven logi, or creat

ing in four streams towards the base. the scandinavian world-tree, yggdrasil, supports on its branches nine spheres or worlds--which the egyptians symbolized by the nine stamens of the persea or avocado. all of these are enclosed within the mysterious tenth sphere or cosmic egg--the definitionless cipher of the mysteries. the qabbalistic tree of the jews also consists of nine branches, or worlds, emanating from the first cause or crown, which surrounds its emanations as the shell surrounds the egg. the single source of life and the endless diversity of its expression has a perfect analogy in the structure of the tree. the trunk represents the single origin of all diversity; the roots, deeply imbedded in the dark earth, are symbolic of divine nutriment; and its multiplicity of branches spre

usness) until at last he returns to ain soph. the process by which this is accomplished is called the fifty gates of light. kircher, the jesuit qabbalist, declares that moses passed through forty-nine of the gates, but that christ alone passed the fiftieth gate. to the third edition of the sepher yetzirah translated from the hebrew by wm. wynn westcott are appended the fifty gates of intelligence emanating from binah, the second sephira. the source of this information is kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the gates are divided into six orders, of which the first four have each ten subdivisions, the fifth nine, and the sixth only one. the first order of gates is termed elementary and its divisions areas follows (1) chaos, hyle, the first matter (2) formless, void, lifeless (3) the abyss (4) origi

e form the first trinity or 'face' of the sephiroth. this triad emanated hesed, or mercy, a masculine active potency, also called el, from which emanated geburah, or justice, also called eloha, a feminine passive potency; from the union of these two was produced tiphereth, beauty, clemency, the spiritual sun, known by the divine name elohim; and the second triad 'face' or 'head' was formed. these emanating, in their turn, the masculine potency netzah, firmness, or jehovah sabaoth, who issued the feminine passive potency hod, splendor, or elohim sabaoth; the two produced jesod, foundation, who is the mighty living one el-chai, thus yielding the third trinity or 'head' the tenth sephiroth is rather a duad, and is represented on the diagrams as the lowest circle. it is malchuth or kingdom, an

ystem as typified by the sephirothic tree. the central pillar has its foundation in kether, the eternal one. it passes downward through the hypothetical sephira, daath, and then through tiphereth and jesod, with its lower end resting upon the firm foundation of malchuth, the last of the globes. the true import of the central pillar is equilibrium. it demonstrates how the deity always manifests by emanating poles of expression from the midst of itself but remaining free from the illusion of polarity. if the numbers of the four sephiroth connected by this column be added together (1 +6 +9+ 10, the sum is 26, the number of jehovah (see chapter on pythagorean mathematics) the column on the right, which is called jachin, has its foundation on chochmah, the outpouring wisdom of god; the three gl


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e most significant to magick itself due to the essence of such. sorcery is the reverse of the solar path, it is of the moon, hereditary of the exploration of atavisms and the hidden aspects of the self. sorcery is the child of asmodeus, demon/angel of flesh made pleasure and drawing towards the sleeping self. lilith and 102 102 hecate are both the mother of witchcraft and sorcery, lunar fountains emanating the witch blood which all flows backwards into form. zos represents and is considered 'the body as a whole, symbolising the mind, body and spirit. zos is represented by the eye or vulva of woman, that which executes the imagination. kia is the atmospheric "i, an astral cosmic self connected to its latent desire and activity. kia is the hand or phallus of man, which makes incarnate the wi

on grant the sorcerer who can traverse such paths 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 rem


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e destruction of the earth and the abodes of the norse demigods (calledasgard. it is said that during ragnarok the world is destroyed with flames by a being called surt, wholives beneath the lower world (appropriately called hel) and was involved in the world's creation. bycomparison, the bhagavata purana (3.11.30) states that at the end of brahma's day, the devastationtakes place due to the fire emanating from the mouth of sankarshana. sankarshana (ananta shesha) isa plenary expansion of krishna who is seated at the bottom of the universe (bhagavata purana 3.8.3),beneath the lower planetary systems.more connections to the v edic tradition can be found in the norse lore, but they go beyond the presenttopic.tibet tibetan buddhist perspective of the nagas comes from cho-yang's year of tibet

demoniac serpents, the masters of nagaloka, such asshankha, kulika, mahashankha, shveta, dhananjaya, dhrtarashtra, shankhacuda, kambala, ashvataraand devadatta. the chief among them is v asuki. they are all extremely angry, and they have many,many hoods- some snakes five hoods, some seven, some ten, others a hundred and others a thousand.these hoods are bedecked with valuable gems, and the light emanating from the gems illuminates theentire planetary system of bila-svarga. divine connectionserpents have their special place in most spiritual traditions (as already shown above) where they sym-bolize either good or evil. in the v edic tradition they are inherently related to some of its most importantpersonages. shiva shiva (auspicious one, is one of the members of the trimurti (brahma, vish


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the ecstasy of becoming. let 68 your astral body outshine from the blackened flame the one who you wish to meet and drain in the dreaming body. allow the black flame to illuminate in the ajna chakra, recite facing now the mirror: let all who look upon me collapse in utter terror! recite 9 times. imagine now your astral tendrils arising from your astral cloak and it transforms into a black shadow emanating the demonic form you have taken. feel the tendrils transform into serpents which are long in fang and venomous. tiamat, mother of serpents who has made me in myself godlike, shall go forth to drink from the astral blood of. it is my will to drink from and become powerful in the night. i am a vessel of the immortal dragon spirit. end of ritual 69 leviathan mastery of darkness object: to s


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epresentative of the human family, he is the protector of men and their shepherd. god gives to man the soul or intelligence, which exists before the body, and which he unites with the body. the reasoning principle comes from god through the word, and communes with god and with the word; but there is also in man an irrational principle, that of the inclinations and passions which produce disorder, emanating from inferior spirits who fill the air as ministers of god. the body, taken from the earth, and the irrational principle that animates it concurrently with the rational principle, are hated by god, while the rational soul which he has given it, is, as it were, captive in this prison, this coffin, that encompasses it. the present condition of man is not his primitive condition, when he wa

r it at a single step. even in the occident, neither plato nor philo could thus impoverish the intellectual world. thus, cerinthus of ephesus, with most of the gnostics, philo, the kabalah, the zend-avesta, the puranas, and all the orient, deemed the distance and antipathy between the supreme being and the material world too great, to attribute to the former the creation of the latter. below, and emanating from, or created by, the ancient of days, the central light, the beginning, or first principle[[greek, one, two, or more principles, existences or intellectual beings were imagined, to some one or more of whom [without any immediate creative act on the part of the great immovable, silent deity, the immediate creation of the material and mental universe was due. we have already spoken of

and that blind soul into a rational principle, a mundane soul, animating the universe. as from the latter proceeds all rational, spiritual life in humanity, so from the former proceeds all that is irrational, all that is under the blind sway of passion and appetite; and all malignant spirits are its progeny. in one respect _all_ the gnostics agreed: they _all_ held, that there was a world purely emanating out of the vital development of god, a creation evolved directly out of the divine essence, far exalted above any outward creation produced by god's plastic power, and conditioned by pre-existing matter. they agreed in holding that the framer of _this lower world_ was not the father of _that higher world_ of emanation; but the demiurge[[greek ?e, a being of a kindred nature with the univ

te spirits that rule over the several portions of the earth, seek to counteract this universal tendency to unity; and from their influence, their laws, and arrangements, proceeds all that checks, disturbs, or limits the original communion, which is the basis of nature, as the outward manifestation of that highest unity. these spirits, moreover, seek to retain under their dominion the souls which, emanating from the highest unity, and still partaking of its nature, have lapsed into the corporeal world, and have there been imprisoned in bodies, in order, under their dominion, to be kept within the cycle of migration. from these finite spirits, the popular religions of different nations derive their origin. but the souls which, from a reminiscence of their former condition, soar upward to the

souls of light purified by christos. when nothing of the spiritual world shall remain subject to ialdabaoth, the redemption will be accomplished, and the end of the world, the completion of the return of light into the plenitude, will occur. tatian adopted the theory of emanation, of eons, of the existence of a god too sublime to allow himself to be known, but displaying himself by intelligences emanating from his bosom. the first of these was his spirit??e? a. pneuma, god himself, god thinking, god conceiving the universe. the second was the word. logos, no longer merely the thought or conception, but the creative utterance, manifestation of the divinity, but emanating from the thought or spirit; the first-begotten, author of the visible creation. this was the trinity, composed of the fa

hose of bardesanes and harmonius, derived his doctrines from zoroasterism, christianity, and gnosticism. he claimed to be the ?a??t [parakletos] or comforter, in the sense of a teacher, organ of the deity, but not in that of the holy spirit or holy ghost: and commenced his _epistola fundamenti_ in these words "manes, apostle of jesus christ, elect of god the father; behold the words of salvation, emanating from the living and eternal fountain" the dominant idea of his doctrine was pantheism, derived by him from its source in the regions of india and on the confines of china: that the cause of all that exists is in god; and at last, god is all in all. all souls are equal--god is in all, in men, animals, and plants. there are two gods, one of good and the other of evil, each independent, ete

tness, the father has joined to himself those fortunate and glorious eons??e. aiones, whose power and number it is impossible to determine. this is spinoza's infinity of infinite attributes of god. twelve chief eons, at the head of all, were the genii of the twelve constellations of the zodiac, and called by manes olamin. satan, also, lord of the empire of darkness, had an army of eons or demons, emanating from his essence, and reflecting more or less his image, but divided and inharmonious among themselves. a war among them brought them to the confines of the realm of light. delighted, they sought to conquer it. but the chief of the celestial empire created a power which he placed on the frontiers of heaven to protect his eons, and destroy the empire of evil. this was the mother of life

uld be confusion and the existence of a god incredible. they are of his _essence, and necessary, as his existence is. he is the living, thinking, intelligent soul of the universe, the permanent, the stationary[?st. estos, of simon magus, the one that always is [to, to on] of plato, as contradistinguished from the perpetual flux and reflux, or _genesis, of _things. and, as the thought of the soul, emanating _from_ the soul, becomes audible and visible in words, so did the thought of god, springing up within himself, immortal _as_ himself, when once conceived--immortal _before, because _in_ himself, utter itself in the word, its manifestation and mode of communication, and thus create the material, mental, spiritual universe, which, like him, never _began_ to exist. this is the _real_ idea o

e only living being possessed of this faculty. adding to it a head, we have the letter p, the sign of paternity, creative power; and with a further addition, r, signifying man in motion, going _iens _iturus. the duad is the origin of contrasts. it is the imperfect condition into which, according to the pythagoreans, a being falls, when he detaches himself from the monad, or god. spiritual beings, emanating from god, are enveloped in the duad, and therefore receive only illusory impressions. as formerly the number one designated harmony, order, or the good principle (the one and only god, expressed in latin by _solus, whence the words _sol _soleil, symbol of this god, the number two expressed the contrary idea. there commenced the fatal knowledge of good and evil. everything double, false

cteristic of death. accordingly, the vital fire that blazes in the sun and produces the heat that vivifies everything, was regarded as the principle of organization and life of all sublunary beings. according to this doctrine, the universe is not to be regarded, in its creative and eternal action, merely as an immense machine, moved by powerful springs and forced into a continual movement, which, emanating from the circumference, extends to the centre, acts and re-acts in every possible direction, and re-produces in succession all the varied forms which matter receives. so to regard it would be to recognize a cold and purely mechanical action, the energy of which could never produce life. on the contrary, it was thought, the universe should be deemed an immense being, always living, always

it the "universal light" which loses a portion of its purity and splendor in descending from the intellectual to the sensible world, manifesting itself outwardly from, the deity; and the kabalah represents that only so much of the infinite light flowed into the circular void prepared for creation within the infinite light and wisdom, as could pass by a canal like a line or thread. the sephiroth, emanating from the deity, were the rays of his splendor. the chald an oracles said "the intellect of the generator, stirred to action, out-spoke, forming within itself, by intellection, universals of every possible form and fashion, which issued out, flowing forth from the one source. for deity, impersonated as dominion, before fabricating the manifold universe, posited an intellected and unchange

or the vital force. paracelsus, the great reformer in medicine, discovered magnetism long before mesmer, and pushed to its last consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the magic of the ancients, who understood the grand magical agent better than we do, and did not regard the astral light, azoth, the universal magnetism of the sages, as an animal and particular fluid, emanating only from certain special beings. the four elements, the four symbolic animals, and the re-duplicated principles correspond with each other, and are thus arranged by the hermetic masons [illustration] the air and earth represent the _male_ principle; and the fire and water belong to the _female_ principle. to these four forms correspond the four following philosophical ideas. spirit: mat

l and immortal portion of man; from the earth his material and mortal portion. the hebrew genesis says that yehouah formed man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. through the seven planetary spheres, represented by the mystic ladder of the mithriac initiations, and it by that which jacob saw in his dream (not with _three, but with _seven_ steps, the souls, emanating from the deity, descended, to be united to their human bodies; and through those seven spheres they must re-ascend, to return to their origin and home in the bosom of the deity. the compass, therefore, as the symbol of the _heavens, represents the spiritual, intellectual, and moral portion of this double nature of humanity; and the square, as the symbol of the _earth, its material, sensu


NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ave a significant mark on the next generation, influencing cornelius agrippa, thomas more, and 242 from the art of building to the art of thinking rabelais. it was ficino's contribution to develop a syncretic philosophy inspired by the systems of zoroaster, hermes, orpheus, pythagoras, plato, the kabbalah, and christian philosophy. he wrote: god appeared in eternity, creating or rather luminously emanating from the center of the circumference, which radiates outward from being and good to nothingness and evil. as men, who are intelligences, finite lights within the abode of time and movement, we aspire toward that motionless light for which we are its mobile emanantions. death, by delivering us from the body, draws us close to it and its other angelic lights, pure spirits whose bliss is fo


PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

in order to balance the holy light. thelema inadvertently supports and provides a significant foundation for the like-minded individual who seeks this light. the vampiric sorcerer is not one who once the image of the self, the facade is stripped away, would simply vanish from lack of substance. the sorcerer would already have developed a strong body of light through astral and earth magick and be emanating this force from within. thus, the self man be still in constant change and flux however the physical appearance could be stripped away no matter what and the core be revealed even more so in this manner. the luciferian character is successful in the method of magick and ascension once he or she would master both black and white magick. chaos magic is of interest in it's diversity, howeve


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

ance of yesod of abba that shines outside of z feir anpin, exactly analogous to this fourth leah (the the arizal on parashat shoftim 751 difference [between jacob and the fourth leah] is that the former is male, originating in the yesod of abba and the latter is female, originating in malchut of ima) this is why they can couple. the first and third leah, which are malchut of abba and the radiance emanating from it, couple with the yesod.the male.of abba. the second leah. which is malchut of ima, couples with the yesod of ima. now, yesod of abba was embodied in abel, the son of adam. he was therefore born together with two twin sisters, who embodied the first and third [partzufim of leah. yesod of ima was embodied in cain, who was born with only one twin sister, who embodied the malchut of


REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

be traced in two ways as a complete symbol: viz, reflected from every 2nd point, when it is called the hexagon, and reflected from every 3rd point when it is called the hexagram. the hexangle as a whole is referred to the 6th' tipharem 60 sephirah tiphareth the hexangle naturally represents the powers of the hexad operating in nature, by the dispersal of the rays of the planets, and of the zodiac emanating from the sun. the number of degrees of a great circle cut off between its angles is sixty, forming the astrological sextile aspect, powerful for good. it is not so consonant to the sun nature as the hexagram, and remember thou, that the %on signifieth dispersion, distribution, and radiation of a force; but the 'gram concentration. hence use thou the %on for spreading, and the 'gram for c


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

o that of the triad we are bought to the tetrad, the first square and perfect number, the source of all numerical combinations and the principle of all forms. affirmation, negation, discussion, solution: such are the four philosophical operations of the human mind. discussion conciliates negation with affirmation by rendering them necessary to each other. in the same way, the philosophical triad, emanating from the antagonism of the duad, is completed by the tetrad, the four-square basis of all truth. according to consecrated dogma, there are three persons in god, and these three constitute one only deity. three and one provide the conception of four, because unity is required to explain the three. hence, in almost all languages, the name of god consists of four letters, and in hebrew thes

physician approached paracelsus in his marvels of healing. but paracelsus arrived at magnetism long before mesmer and had carried to its final consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the magic of the ancients, who better than us understood the great magical agent and did not regard the astral light, azoth, the universal magnesia of the pages, as a special animal fluid emanating only from a few secular creatures. in his occult philosophy, paracelsus opposes ceremonial magic, the terrible power of which he did not certainly ignore, but he sought to decry its practices so as to discredit black magic. he locates the omnipotence of the magus in the interior and occult magnes, and the most skilful magnetizers of our own day could not express themselves better. at the


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

ought to absorb or transplant. these hieroglyphical combinations of letters and numbers belong to the practical part of the kabalah, which, from this point of view, is divided into gematria and themura. such calculations, which now seem to us arbitrary or devoid of interest, belonged then to the philosophical symbolism of the east, and were of the highest importance in the teaching of holy things emanating from the occult sciences. the absolute kabalistic alphabet, which connected primitive ideas with allegories, allegories with letters, and letters with numbers, was then called the keys of solomon. we have stated already that these keys, preserved to our own day, but wholly misconstrued, are nothing else than the game of tarot, the antique allegories of which were remarked and appreciated


ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

d thomas should be seen as two operative variants of the same magical liberation process. in the first, http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (12 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 137 the hero is saved by love from an exterior agency- either human love or divine grace- while in the second he is saved by that same divine power emanating from within himself. for most of us, the first mode of liberation is the most likely, though the second is the true aim and function of the tradition. it would not be too daring to suggest that tam lin and thomas may be taken sequentially for magical purposes. the first ballad represents either a human male-female ritual operation and developed mystery or the action of divine interventio


RUBY TABLET OF SET

an accouterment is acceptable; the dancer is anything but that, however. his movements are magical ones designed to create an environment from which change in accord with the will can be accomplished. it appears to be an evocative series of moves made in order to set in motion the forces necessary to the bringing forth of life. this seems evidenced by the figures taking from in the upward spirals emanating from the pelvic area of the skeleton. the angular dna-like lines moving up within the spirals are highly suggestive of life forming itself into those forces which will end as basic living beings. aleister crowley's firm belief in male supremacy also surfaces in the symbolism of life force forming from the phallus projecting from the skeleton. the male's place in the scheme of life creati

y iv, grand master date: october 1, xix html revision: dec 10, 1998 ce subject: order of the vampyre reading list #7 #8 the vampyre- as opposed to the more popularized vampire- is an ancient creature. as well "it" can be a condition, a set of conditions, or a state of being. it is an intelligent, non-natural phenomenon, and many of its attendant qualities parallel those which setians recognize as emanating from their higher selves. as imperfections in the human condition die and give way to more noble attributes, both the setian and the vampyre become. like man- or, more precisely, like elect man, the vampyre is a dual-natured being. while its lower or more mundane aspects are epitomized by the were-being, our lower aspects are demonstrated in our own animal nature. each of these two major


SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

cquired. what characteristics which? slow down; you think creation happens in a rush? so then, neither does revelation. take a look at the pair of them. notice anything unusual? just two brown men, falling hard, nothing so new about that, you may think; climbed too high, got above themselves, flew too close to the sun, is that it? that's not it. listen: mr. saladin chamcha, appalled by the noises emanating from gibreel farishta's mouth, fought back with verses of his own. what farishta heard wafting across the improbable night sky was an old song, too, lyrics by mr. james thomson, seventeenhundred to seventeen-forty-eight. at heaven's command" chamcha carolled through lips turned jingoistically redwhiteblue by the cold "arooooose from out the aaaazure main" farishta, horrified, sang louder

d at the chance. that was his first hit _ganpati baba, and suddenly he was a superstar, but only with the trunk and ears on. after six movies playing the elephantheaded god he was permitted to remove the thick, pendulous, grey mask and put on, instead, a long, hairy tail, in order to play hanuman the monkey king in a sequence of adventure movies that owed more to a certain cheap television series emanating from hong kong than it did to the ramayana. this series proved so popular that monkey-tails became de rigueur for the city's young bucks at the kind of parties frequented by convent girls known as "firecrackers" because of their readiness to go off with a bang. after hanuman there was no stopping gibreel, and his phenomenal success deepened his belief in a guardian angel. but it also led

physical insignificance she took at an early age to dressing with a certain outrageous, excessive verve. her sari- patterns were dazzling, even garish: lemon silk adorned with huge brocade diamonds, dizzy black-and-white op art swirls, gigantic lipstick kisses on a bright white ground. people forgave her her lurid taste because she wore the blinding garments with such innocence; because the voice emanating from that textile cacophony was so tiny and hesitant and proper. and because of her soirees. each friday of her married life, nasreen would fill the halls of the chamchawala residence, those usually tenebrous chambers like great hollow burial vaults, with bright light and brittle friends. when salahuddin was a little boy he had insisted on playing doorman, and would greet the jewelled an

" hisser moaner popeye turned eagerly towards gibreel "and who might this be" inquired inspector lime "another skydiver" but the words died on his lips, because at that moment the floodlights were switched off, the order to do so having been given when chamcha was handcuffed and taken in charge, and in the aftermath of the seven suns it became clear to everyone there that a pale, golden light was emanating from the direction of the man in the smoking jacket, was in fact streaming softly outwards from a point immediately behind his head. inspector lime never referred to that light again, and if he had been asked about it would have denied ever having seen such a thing, a halo, in the late twentieth century, pull the other one. but at any rate, when gibreel asked "what do these men want, eve

sphemer, fraud. when the future comes such individuals will be judged, he tells his men. water will have its day and blood will flow like wine. such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. who has not dreamed this dream, of being a king for a day- but the imam dreams of more than a day; feels, emanating from his fingertips, the arachnid strings with which he will control the movement of history. no: not history. his is a stranger dream. o o o his son, water-carrying khalid, bows before his father like a pilgrim at a shrine, informs him that the guard on duty outside the sanctum is salman farsi. bilal is at the radio transmitter, broadcasting the day's message, on the agreed frequency, t


SATANGEL

egion of limitless light (ain soph, and as it condenses further it begins to manifest as matter. the world we commonly perceive and experience is merely that which vibrates at those frequencies to which our senses are attuned. beyond this, vibrating at an even lower level than base humanity, are the coarser spirits we call the devils and demons. thus all things may be seen as degrees of vibration emanating from one single source. it is as with light and darkness; which we call opposites, but are in fact the varying vibrations of the same things. the all is mind; the universe is mental. such may be seen in the various diagrams of the tree of life as developed by most of our world s spiritual traditions. all paradoxes are resolved by this knowledge. the first triad vibrate at the highest fre


SEPHER HA BAHIR

ed. it is thus written (ecclesiastes 1:8, the ear is not satiated from hearing. why is this so? because the ear is in the shape of an aleph. aleph is the root of the ten the bahir 21 commandments. therefore the ear is not satiated from hearing. 80 what is the meaning of the letter zayin in the word ozen (ear? we have said that everything that the blessed holy one brought into his world has a name emanating form its concept. it is thus written (genesis 2:19, all that the man called each living soul, that was its name. this teaches us that each thing s body was thus. and how do we know that each thing s name is its body? it is written (proverbs 10:7, the memory of the righteous shall be a blessing, and the name of the wicked shall rot. what actually rots, their name or their body [one must a


SEPHER YETZIRAH WESTCOTT

him all the mysteries of them (59) he drew them through the waters; he burned them in the fire; he vibrated them in the air; seven planets in the heavens, and twelve celestial constellations of the stars of the zodiac- the end of "the book of formation- the fifty gates of intelligence attached to some editions of the "sepher yetzirah" is found this scheme of kabalistic classification of knowledge emanating from the second sephira binah, understanding, and descending by stages through the angels, heavens, humanity, animal and vegetable and mineral kingdoms to hyle and the chaos. the kabalists said that one must enter and pass up through the gates to attain to the thirty-two paths of wisdom; and that even moses only passed through the forty-ninth gate, and never entered the fiftieth. see the


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

other words, black magic. above, the pentagram at far right is simply the same as the star at center turned upside down. in each star, evil is found in the form of the goat-headed god of darkness, baphomet. however, in the star in the center, the baphomet goat has what appears to be his beard pointed downward, and in the star at right (reversed image, the supposed beard becomes the torch of fire emanating from the top of the beast's head. dr (colonel) michael aquino, ipsissimus and founder of the temple of set, with his wife and high priestess, lilith sinclair. the occultic star is dominant in this scene of aquino with all his regalia. every man and woman is a star 543 the media gleefully devoted maximum attention to the killing of a black man in jasper, texas by three white men. the thre


THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

they had seen a flying saucer land behind the hill. finally, a husky teenaged boy found a flashlight and said that he was going to investigate. at the urging of her son, may agreed to accompany him, and the other boys fell in behind them. about halfway up the hill, she began to change her mind about whatever the boys had seen being in their imaginations, for she could see a strange, reddish glow emanating from somewhere near the top. after about half an hour of tramping through the brush, their flashlight beam spotlighted an immense, humanlike figure with a blood-red face and greenish eyes that blinked out from under a pointed hood. behind the monster was a glowing ball of fire as big as a house that grew dimmer and brighter at intervals. the intrepid band of flying saucer-hunters fled in


THE MIDDLE PILLAR

around the periphery of the aura or sphere of sensation at right angles, as it were. the thrd formula is more akin to the motion of a spiral. having returned on each of the former occasions of circulation to the contemplation of kether, imagine the upright column of brilliance, corresponding to the middle pillar, formulated through the center of the body. pass now to the visualization of malkuth emanating its inherent power of stability and equilibrium and fertility. perhaps the easiest way to conceive of the motion of the thrd formula is to imagine the act of swathing or bandaging a leg. you wrap the gauze tightly around the lower part of the limb, gradually ascending the leg in closely wound spirals. this, simply, is the techruque of the formula under consideration. you should imagine a

o a silent vibration. the exhalation of the breath accompanies an audible vibration of the name. it also accompanies a gesture to be made which consists of two movements. the first is the placing of the left foot about six to twelve inches forward. the second is the raising of both hands to the side of the head, on a level with the eyes, and then flinging them forward as though to project a force emanating from within. as the arms are flung forward, the exhalation and powerful vibration aloud of the name takes place. this gesture is called the projecting sign. the visualized name should be perceived as going forward in space until it strikes as it were against the confines of the universe. here it gathers power, from the infinity of the void, as it were, whence it commences to surge backwa


THE PATH OF KABBALAH

f that house cannot be compared to the substance of the house that has been actually built. this is because in theory, the house is composed of a substance of thought, and is a potential house. however, when the house begins to turn from thought to action, it takes on a different substance- that of trees and stones. thus it is possible to distinguish potential and actual in the souls as well: the emanating of the souls from the creator in fact begins only at the world of beria. therefore, all the changes that occur before the world of beria are considered potential, without any tangible distinction from the creator. therefore it is said that all the souls are already included in malchut of ein sof (infinite, in the middle point of the entire existence. it is because this point in potential

t all for him, finally persuade him that the host will enjoy it if he eats. then the guest thinks that if now, after having rejected the pleasure several times he will agree to eat, it will be considered a favour to the host. by that he will in fact become the giver, the host the receiver. the hunger, the desire to receive delight and pleasure, is referred to in kabbalah as a vessel. the pleasure emanating from the creator is called direct light, and the power to reject it is called a screen. the light that is rejected from the screen is then referred to as returning light. with the power of the screen, i.e. the force to reject enjoying for himself and taking pleasure only for the creator, the vessel can face its own will to receive. it might be possible to understand that the vessel rejec


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

me in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it. h .an enquiry concerning human understanding, hume (religion of science library, p. 172. the qabalah, if it may be called a philosophy; for it was never synthetical, or concrete, being a conglomerated mass of ecstatic ideals and exalted desires, evolved in the mind of man as an attempt to grasp all possible quantities emanating from the ain soph, which in itself remained zero. turning now for a short time from the mystic to the idealistic philosophy, we find that though both are closely united, the former founds its system on man fs wondering ignorance in trying to link subject and object esoterically, whilst the latter builds up reality in mind perceptions, treating nothing as illusion but the reality of the m


THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

be read as justice or equilibrium. arcanum viii is figured by a woman, blindfolded and seated upon a throne. she wears a crown of lance-heads, holds in her right hand a raised sword, in her left hand a balance, and from her brow the sacred serpent thrusts its head. this is the ancient symbol of justice, which weighs all acts and opposes to evil as a counterweight the sword of expiation. justice, emanating from god, as symbolized by the overshadowing protection, is the equilibrium between right and duty. justice is crowned with lances to indicate inflexibility, adorned with the sacred serpent to signify she acts with enlightenment, and her throne is placed on a platform or three steps to represent her action in all three worlds. at her side is a lion, symbol of the force over which she rul


TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

n lest the temerity of the magus be punished. whenever something is gained that is not his or hers by right, the magus must lose something equally precious. t he spiral is perhaps the most common of primitive symbols. it finds expression in the art of such diverse cultures as the native american, the pre-buddhist tibetan, the african tribal, and pagan norse. usually it is assumed to represent the emanating power of the sun. this is true in a limited sense, but it should be understood that the sun is only a material expression of manifesting energy and that the spiral refers the mind back to the original princi- ple, even as does the physical sun. both spiral and sun are symbols of the underly- ing reality. sometimes the spiral is drawn with a wavy line, showing that the primitive artists i

objects outside the body to preserve them or to lock in occult virtues that the magus has infused into them. the cross is not a symbol of good but is a syrnbol of protection. it negates force. in bad cinema where the fearless vampire hunter crosses his mallet and wooden stake to ward off the approach of some blood-sucking fiend, he is not so much evoking christ as he is blocking the ray of desire emanating from the vampire. magically, the cross is projected in the same way as the circle of protection. it is visualized in the imagination as a stream of glowing fire that emits from the index finger of the right hand, or from one of the magical instruments held in the right hand, and is astrally painted in the air or on the object to be guarded. to empower the cross, the magus must consider e


TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

aegyptiacus, written by the mystical philosopher and jesuit priest athanasius kircher (1601-1680. very similar trees of the sephiroth, though not in all their details, are older, but there exist numerous symbolic arrangements of the sephiroth that do not resemble trees in the least. one of the more popular arrangements developed by jewish kabbalists was concentric, so that the sephiroth are shown emanating outward in everwidening circles from a central point. 201. knight, vol. 2,278. chapter thirteen: pathworking 223 golden dawn tree of life 224 soul flight the kircher and golden dawn glyph of the tree is somewhat unusual for having three connecting pathways leading up from the lowest of the ten sephiroth: malkuth (the kingdom, the sphere of the four elements that corresponds to the physic


WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

di 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 lighter, or more refined than dense. any color can also be tinged with gold. take the next color-letters for the neck, arms, torso, and clothing, in the order in which the letters appear in the name. the last two letters (if it has an al or el ending) are the yellow wings (a) and the green shoes and scales (l. beg

and in this sense can be compared to the singularity of modern physics, a boundary point beyond which lies a different understanding of reality altogether. the astrological glyph of pluto represents the universalized upreach of soul embracing the circle of spirit while resting on the cross of matter (see figure 12-c. at the singularity matter leaves the physical universe altogether and influences emanating from it are beyond the power of science to predict in any figure 12-c way, even theoretically. it is the closest thing science has discovered to something akin to the supernatural. yet it is this wheel upon which turns all of the others. jacob boehme, the famous mystic, once said "this wheel has seven wheels one in another, and one nave, and all seven wheels turn on that one nave" if any

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