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waist was the image of the threefold bondage of mortality, which amongst the initiated, is called earthly or material inclination that has bound into a narrow place, the once binding soul. the hoodwink was an image of the darkness and ignorance of mortality that has blinded men into unhappiness and the beauty their eyes once looked upon. the double cubical altar in the center of the temple is an emblem of the visible nature or the material universe, concealing within herself the mysteries of all dimensions, while revealing her surface to the exterior senses. it is a double cube because, as the emerald tablet states 'the things that are below are a reflection of the things that are above' the world of men and women created to unhappiness is a reflection of the world of divine beings create

te of the west is the place of the guardian against the multitudes that sleep through the light and awaken at twilight. he carries the banner of the west, which is the banner that symbolizes twilight. the throne of the hegemon between the columns is the place of balanced power between the light and the darkness. the wand of the kerux is the beam of light from the hidden wisdom, and his lamp is an emblem of the ever burning lamp of the guardian of the mysteries. the place of the stolistes at the gate of the north is the place of the guardian of the cauldron and the well of water, of cold and moisture. the place of the dadouchos at the gate of the south is the place of the guardian of the lake of fire and the burning bush" hierophant "frater kerux, i command you to declare that the neophyte

seize if the soul has led an evil life. passing through this ordeal, the soul is then introduced into the presence of osiris by horus. osiris sits in his shrine upon a throne, with the crook and scourge, symbols of mercy and severity, in his hands; behind him are isis and nephthys, the 39 goddesses of nature and perfection, and before him are the four genii of the dead, upon the lotus flower, the emblem of the metempsychosis. thus the whole of the symbols upon the pillars represent the advance and purification of the soul and its uniting with osiris the redeemer in that golden dawn of an infinite light, wherein the soul is transfigured, knows all and can do all, for it has become joined unto eternal god is the veritable 'khabs-am pekht konx om pax light in extension' sign of the enterer th

let it please thee to create the world by me, as i am the final letter of the word emeth (truth) which is graven on thy signet ring. thou thyself art called emeth, and therfore it will become thee, the great king, to begin and create the world by me. said the holy one:'thou, oh, tav, are indeed worthy, but i cannot create the world by thee; for thou art destined to be not only the characteristic emblem borne by faithful students of the law, from beginning to end, but also the associate of maveth (death) of which thou art the final letter. therefore the creation of the world cannot and must not be through thee."after tav had disappeared, shin ascended and said:'i pray thee lord of the universe, as bearing thy great name shaddai (almighty) to create the world by me, by thy holy name that be

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was an image of the three-fold bondage of mortality, which amongst the initiated is called earthly or material inclination, that has bound into a narrow place the once far-wandering soul; and the hood-wink was an image of the darkness, of ignorance, of mortality that has blinded men to the happiness and beauty their eyes once looked upon. the double cubical altar in the center of the hall, is an emblem of visible nature or the material universe, concealing within herself the mysteries of all dimensions, while revealing her surface to the exterior senses. it is a double cube because, as the emerald tablet has said the things that are below are a reflection of the things that are above. the world of men and women created to unhappiness is a reflection of the world of divine beings created t

is the place of the guardian against the multitudes that sleep through the light and awaken at the twilight, the throne of the hegemon seated between the columns is the place of balanced power, between the ultimate light and the ultimate darkness. these meanings are shown in detail and by the color of our robes. the wand of the kerux is the beam of light from the hidden wisdom, and his lamp is an emblem of the ever burning lamp of the guardian of the mysteries, the seat of the stolistes at the gate of the north is the place of the guardian of the cauldron and the well of water of cold and moisture. the seat of the dadouchos at the gate of the south is the place of the guardian of the lake of fire and the burning bush. hiero: honoured frater kerux, i command you to declare that the neophyte

ltar facing east gives the saluting sign but not the sign of silence taking up rose says hiero: i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose, as a symbol of air. smells rose. to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire. spreads his hands over it. to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth. dips bread in salt and eats. and finally to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of elemental water. makes a cross with the cup and drinks. hierophant puts down the cup between the cross and triangle. he comes east of the altar from south and faces west. hiero: replies with the sign of silence hiero: returns to place on dais (if no chiefs on dais go to outer order officers) then the chiefs on dais follow in order of seniority praemonstrator, cancellarius, imperator and

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s practised to this day. hanging up horses' heads was mentioned on p. 47. the grimnismal 10 tells ns, in osin's mansion there hung a wolf outside the door, and over that an eagle; were these mere simulacra and insignia 1 witechind says, the saxons, when sacrificing, set up an eagle over the gate: ad orientalem portam ponuntaquilam, aramque victoriae construentes; this eagle seems to have been her emblem. a dog hung up over the threshold is also mentioned, lex. alam. 102. buildings. 79 sed deprensarum passim capita omo, ferai^m arhoris ohscoenae patuiis haercntia ramis praebebant vano plausum spectacula vulgo. horrebant illic trepidi ramalia ccrvi et dirum frendentis ap)ri, fera spicula, denies, acribus exitium meditantes forte molossis. tunc qiioque sic variis arbos induta tropaeis fundeba

r eerhta, the goose-footed^ queen, may fairly suggest swan-maidens (p. 280).3 if those prophetic 'gallicenae' were able 1 gottschalk's sagen, halle 1814, p. 227- the pentagram was a pythagorean synihol, but also a druitlic; as it goes by the name of elfs foot, elf's cross, goblin-foot, and resembles a pair of goosefeet or swan-feet, semi-divine and elvish beings are again brought together in this emblem; the valkyr thrus is next door to a swan-maiden, and staufenberger's lover likewise had such a foot. 3 the beautiful story of the good woman, publ. in haupt s zeitschr. 2, 350, is very acceptable as shewing yet another way in which this fairy being got linkedvith the hero-legend of\he karlings. the two children born on one day at paske llourie, and brought up in mutual love (77 87, are clea

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grade, from the grade zelator. heg: leads theoricus to n.w. corner of temple (done) hiero: place the theoricus now before the portal of the 30th path by which he has symbolically entered this grade from the grade of theoricus. heg: leads theoricus to s.w. corner of temple (done) heg: leads theoricus s.w. then forward to hiereus. hiereus: by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg: by the peculiar emblem of the stolistes, which is the cup of water. hiereus: the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former the apex the latter the base. like the caduceus it further represents the 3 elements of water, air and f

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crescents of gedulah and geburah bound together, and thus shows the lunar nature of the sign. the dogs are the jackals of the egyptian anubis, guarding the gates of the east and of the west, shown by the two towers, between which lies the path of all the heavenly bodies ever rising in the east and setting in the west. the crayfish is the sign cancer, and was anciently the scarabus or khephra, the emblem of the sun below the horizon as he ever is when the moon is increasing above. also when the sun is in the sign pisces, the moon will be well in her increase in cancer as shown by the crayfish emblem. hiero: leads practicus to tablet of the serpent of brass in east. hiero: this is the serpent nehushtan which moses made when the children of israel were bitten by the serpents of fire in the wi

mits practicus) in the north west are the portals of the 29th and 28th paths by which you have symbolically entered this grade from the zelator and theoricus grades, respectively, while in the north is the portal of the 27th path, by which you have just passed from the grade of practicus. heg: leads practicus forward to hiereus. hiereus: by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg: by the peculiar emblem of the hegemon, which is the calvary cross of 6 squares within a circle. hiereus: this cross embraces as you see tiphareth, netzach, hod and yesod and rests upon malkuth. the surrounding circle includes chesed, geburah and malkuth. also the calvary cross of 6 squares forms the cube, and is thus referred to the 6 sephiroth of microprosopus, which are chesed, geburah, tiphareth, netzach, hod

of the south, and the numberless divine and angelic names which appertain unto the element of fire. the meaning of the other tablets have been already explained to you. hiero: pract: move to the altar. hiero: the triangle surmounting the cross upon the altar, represents the fire of the spirit surmounting the cross of life and of the waters of eden. you will note that it thus forms the alchemical emblem of sulphur. the red lamps at the angles of the triangles are the three fold forms of fire. hiero: pract: proceed to the east. hiero: the portals in the east and north east conduct to the higher. the others are those of the paths you have already traversed. this grade is also related to the planet venus. its kamea or mystical square is formed of 49 squares containing the numbers from 1 to 49

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f purely elemental ones. the former, however, may be found to be the most practical for most circumstances. the method of applying these rules to the great cross may be seen in the following, consisting of the three left hand squares of the linea spiritus sancti of the a tablet, showing the pyramids formed from the squares of the letters oro: diagram p: sephirotic cross: triangle no. 1: elemental emblem of tablet. triangle no. 2: emblem of m. triangle no. 3: elemental emblem of lesser angle. triangle no. 4: sephirah. letter of tetragrammaton. tarot card. coloring: no. 1, color of the element of tablet. no. 2, always white. no. 3 elemental color of lesser angle. no. 4, either white for m, or in color of sephirah. 23 kerubic squares of the lesser angles: triangle no. 1: tarot card of lesser

emblem of m. triangle no. 3: elemental emblem of lesser angle. triangle no. 4: sephirah. letter of tetragrammaton. tarot card. coloring: no. 1, color of the element of tablet. no. 2, always white. no. 3 elemental color of lesser angle. no. 4, either white for m, or in color of sephirah. 23 kerubic squares of the lesser angles: triangle no. 1: tarot card of lesser angle. triangle no. 2: elemental emblem of tablet. triangle no. 3: kerubic symbol answering to letter of name. triangle no. 4: elemental emblem of lesser angle. no. 1 will agree with the coloring of no. 3 always. that is, the color will be that of the element of the court card corresponding to the kerub. no. 2 shows the elemental color of tablet. no. 4, elemental color of the lesser angle. servient squares: triangle no. 1: elemen

e. triangle no. 4: elemental emblem of lesser angle. no. 1 will agree with the coloring of no. 3 always. that is, the color will be that of the element of the court card corresponding to the kerub. no. 2 shows the elemental color of tablet. no. 4, elemental color of the lesser angle. servient squares: triangle no. 1: element of great tablet with astrological attribution. triangle no. 2: elemental emblem of letter ruling the column with tarot trump. triangle no. 3: elemental emblem of lesser angle with geomantic figure. triangle no. 4: elemental emblem of letter ruling rank with hebrew of letter corresponding to tarot trump in triangle no. 2. the coloring of these angles is the simplest because it follows its elemental emblem. it has not been mentioned before, but it is the rule, when drawi

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t is by metathesis abi-genos, born of the father; bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence,'mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this tomb" second "the rose and the cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i. n. r. i" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem that we bear in our left hand" third "it is a form of the rose and the cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tau cross, the lower four, that answer unto the four elements" ch

d "it is a form of the rose and the cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tau cross, the lower four, that answer unto the four elements" chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second "it is the key of sigils and rituals, and represents the force of the 22 letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven and a twelve. many and great are its mysteries" 6 chief "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand which thou bearest" third "a simp

he serpent of wisdom shall be the symbol which shall produce thee admission. return thou then and divest thyself of these ornaments. they are not humble enough to entitle thee to be received. very honored frater hodos chamelionis, clothe him in the black robe of mourning, bind him with his hands behind his back, symbolic of the binding force of his obligations, and put a chain about his neck, the emblem of repentance and humility" hodos "mighty adeptus major, it shall be done (hodos chamelionis salutes and retires with aspirant, strips him of all ornaments, brings him back to the door in a plain black robe, roped and carrying diagram of sword and serpent. gives one gentle knock. third adept opens door) 10 (serpent on the tree of life) third "by the aid of what symbol do ye seek admission"

the divine spirit. inasmuch as we do not find the elements unmixed, but each bound together with each, so that in the a we find not only that which is subtle and tenuous, but also the qualities of heat, moisture, and dryness, bound together in that all wandering element; and further also that in d, c and b we find the same mixture of nature. therefore, the four elements are bound to each kerubic emblem counterchanged with the color of the element wherein they operate; even as in the vision of ezekiel each kerub had four faces and four wings. forget not therefore that the tablets and the \ybwrk are the guardians of the tomb of the adepti. let thy tongue keep silence on our mysteries. restrain even the thought of thy heart lest a bird of the air carry the matter" 18 temple set up at 2nd poi

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

s stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that aiwaz- the solar-phallic-hermetic "lucifer" is his own holy guardian angel, and "the devil" satan or hadit of our particular unit of the starry universe. this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man, but he who made gods of our race, knowing good and evil; he bade "know thyself" and taught initiation. he is "the devil" of the book of thoth, and his emblem is baphomet, the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. the number of his atu is xv, which is yod he, the monogram of the eternal, the father one with the mother, the virgin seed one with all-containing space. he is therefore life, and love. but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is light, and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liber

temple. in the east, that is, in the direction of boleskine, which is situated on the southeastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dias of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the stele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the stele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again i

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

there is some quality inherent which is cognate to that too totally irrational quasimagnetic force which has been responsible not only for innumerable personal tragedies- and comedies- but for the fall of dynasties and even the wreck of empires "christ" is reported as having said "if i be lifted up from the earth, i will draw all men unto me" interpret this in the light of the cross as a phallic emblem, and- how lurid a flash! magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 173 compare al ii, 26 "i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and i and the earth are one" this versicle is deep, devilish deep; and it is chock-a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

tead of the circle, or the circle may be glyphed as a serpent. time and space and the idea of causality are sometimes represented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively nature, god, and man. the duality of consciousness is also sometimes represented; and the tree of life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. an emblem of the great work should be added. but the pantacle will be imperfect unless each idea is contrasted in a balanced manner with its opposite, and unless there is a necessary connection between each pair of ideas and every other pair. the neophyte will perhaps do well to make the first sketches for his pantacle very large and complex, subsequently simplifying, not so much by exclusion as by c

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rder of the temple prepare the renaissance by fusing the mysteries of the east and west? then there burst out on a sudden a whiteness on the chart, as if the stain had been expunged (albeit not wholly by the sweep of steel) and this word writ in curving characters scimitar-sharp mohammed. next was a name sore blurred: sir edward kelly, with one writ in cipher. and in the centre of all, within the emblem of a ruby rose of five petals upon a golden cross was engraved: christian rosencreutz (for so were the brethren discreet to conceal his true name. after whom came three names great and terrible that i write not in this place. lastly appeared this newly-writ hieroglyph of the lion, and the name of that brother was hidden from me. then was i shewn the mystery of the words: how in the first pe

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, the "pure fool" of act i of "parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine; he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, wh

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

temple in the east, that is, in the direction of boleskine, which is situated on the south-eastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the st^ele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the st^ele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again

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the cross. the "hierophant" quitting his throne, goes to the west of the altar, and facing east, salutes and continues "i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose as a symbol of air (smelling rose: to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire (spreading hands over it: to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (eats: and finally to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of elemental water (drinks from cup. the hierophant then goes to the east of the altar and faces west. the hiereus comes to the west of the altar, and salutes the hierophant, receiving the elements from him. all then partake in order of rank: hegemon from hiereus, stolistes from hegemon, dadouchos from stolistes, senior members from dadouchos, and the kerux from the candidate. but the "keru

is pentacle_ h fan. lights shaded_ black white_ kerux hegemon_ tablet of earth_ fan_ hell_ eden/ salt salt/ red lamp) o_ cup_ hiereus_ diagram 20. arrangement of the temple for the 32nd path in the 2= 9 ritual. similarly the zelator passes the lion, the eagle, and the bull. the "hierophant" then explains to the zelator the symbolism of the cubical cross, as follows "the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of twenty-two squares externally, which refer to the twenty-two letters placed thereon. twenty and two are the letters of the eternal voice in the vault of heaven; in the depths of the earth; in the abyss of the waters, and in the all-presence of fire: heaven cannot speak their fulness, earth cannot utter it. yet hath t

ish "she is the moon at the feet of the woman of the revelations, ruling equally over the cold and moist natures, and the passive elements of water 277 and earth" the four yodhs refer to the four letters of the holy name. the dogs are the jackals of anubis guarding the gates of the east and the west symbolised by the two towers. the cray-fish is the sign cancer, the scarabaeus or god kephera "the emblem of the sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the moon is increasing above" the "hierophant" then leads the practicus to the serpent of brass, and says "this is the serpent nehushtan, which moses made 'and he set it upon a pole- that is, he twined it about the middle pillar of the sephiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of geburah (seraphim, fiery serpents) or severit

e his influence only for the honour of god, not to stir up strife; and to uphold the authority of the chiefs of the order. after which he confirms his obligation by saying "i undertake to maintain the veil between the first and second orders and may the powers of the elements bear witness to my pledge" the associate adept then explains to the philosophus the admission badge, which is the peculiar emblem of the hiereus of a temple of the first order. and the hierophant inductor explains the hierophant's lamen and the banner of the east, thus completing his knowledge of the emblems appropriate to the officers of a temple of the first order. the diagram of the paths is then explained to the candidate, after which the hierophant inductor says "before you in the east are represented the five po

and through death to life, is symbolised in the grass which springs from and is nourished by putrefying and corrupting carcasses. the top of the scythe forms the t, tau-cross of life, showing that what destroys also renews. the scorpion, serpent and eagle delineated before the figure of death in the more ancient form of the key, refer to the mixed transforming (therefore deceptive) nature of this emblem. the scorpion is the emblem of ruthless destruction, the snake is the mixed and deceptive nature, serving alike for good and evil, and the eagle is the higher and divine nature yet to be found herein, the alchemical eagle of distillation, the renewer of life. as it is said "thy youth shall be renewed like the eagle's" great indeed and many are the mysteries of this terrible key! after expla

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the numbers is the evolution of the worlds, for as it is written in the clavicula salomonis "the numbers are ideas; and the ideas are the powers, and the powers are the holy elohim of life" that which is behind and beyond all number and all thought (even as the ain soph with its mighty veils depending back from kether is behind and beyond all manifestation) is the number 0. its symbol is the very emblem of infinite space and infinite time<"hidden behind my magic veil of shows, i am not seen at all- name not my name> multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes- sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with-us is declared by th

name not my name> multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes- sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with-us is declared by thoth, 168 the great god, and the material universe sinketh into infinity. the first number, then is one; emblem of the all-father; the unmanifest mind behind all manifestation: the first mind. multiply by it any other number- for the multiplication of the numbers is a generation, as is the multiplication of men and gods- and behold! the "resultant" is a replica of the number taken. so is one the all-father, the all-begetter- generating and producing all. the next step is the division into two. thus w

"red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the hb:shin("see" lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c. in theosophical nomenclature this latter was the m anas or jeheshuah: the third principle\ a--u for the same reason i have drawn the triangle with the 3 uppermost 3 ins

fieth the head or beginning of time and 179 things; and by taro it is glory, life, light, sun. thus read "of the dawning of life and light" hb:aleph is by shape the svastika, symbolically aleph, the ox, as though showing the fearful force of the spiritual "whirling motions" upon the material plane, as a terrible and destructive power. this is also shown by the foolish man, as the material tarotic emblem of that which in its proper and higher manifestation is the spiritual ether. therefore we read "begun are the whirling motions" hb:shin signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the hieroglyph. it is that ruach elohim brooding upon the face of the waters. so read "formulated is the primal fire" hb:yod is the hand<god, always the symbol of his power> symbolising power in ac

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ht, as the flaming sword is a transitory symbol (see opening. the aspirant may now resume his emblems; after which themis commemorates the life and death of osiris under the figure of christian rosenkreutz, as it were "the morning of isis" for aspirant being now "dead" isis mourneth for him. but aspirant also mourneth, that l sign may be formulated in him. she points out rose cross as an external emblem of the completion of the great work. in the life of jesus christ the master, the most notable events are_ he is cloistered at 5; when 30 he takes disciples and begins ministrations. when 32 (paths and sephiroth) he takes 4 others and is the one among the 7 (or the 3 and the 4= 12. at 106 he dies (106 is "attained" and hb:nun-final hb:vau hb:nun scorpio. the symbolism of 120 having been acco

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reatest secrecy possible" it consists chiefly in uniting the linga and yoni, but in restraining the vindu.113 if by chance the vindu begins to move let him stop it by practice of the yoni mudra. after a while let him continue again. and by uttering the sound "hoom" let him forcibly draw up through the contraction of the apana v yu the germ cells. know vindu to be moon-like, and the germ cells the emblem of the sun; let the yogi make their union in his own body with great care.114 i am the vindu, shakti is the germ fluid; when they both are combined, then the yogi reaches the state of success, and his body becomes brilliant and divine. ejaculation of vindu is death, preserving it within is life. verily, verily, men are born and die through vindu. the vindu causes the pleasure and pain of al

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

ume a new importance- 528- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the secret of life lies hidden in the serpent stage, not the life of the spirit, but the life of the soul, and this will be revealed as the "serpent of the astral light" is truly approached, and duly studied. one of the four lipika lords, who stand nearest to our planetary logos, is called "the living serpent" and his emblem is a serpent of blue with one eye, in the form of a ruby, in its head. students who care to carry the symbology a little further can connect this idea with the "eye of shiva" which sees and knows all, and records all, as does the human eye in lesser degree; all is photographed upon the astral light, as the human eye receives impressions upon the retina. the same thought is frequently convey

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

thinkers of the race into the facts of the- 224- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust future educational systems. education and the growth of the understanding of illumination in all fields will eventually be regarded as synonymous ideals. h. the sixth ray taught the meaning of sacrifice, and of this teaching the crucifixion was the outstanding emblem, to the initiates. philanthropy was the expression of the same teaching, to advanced humanity. the nebulous ideal of simply "being kind" is the same motivation, applied to the unthinking masses. the seventh ray will bring to the consciousness of the coming initiates the concept of group service and sacrifice. this will inaugurate the age of the "divine service. the vision of the giving of t

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

symbolic of racial unfoldment. these levels symbolise the integrated man physical, astral and mental. when to these elements the philosopher's stone is added and has done its magical work, then you have the symbolic representation of the control by the soul of the four higher levels of the physical plane, the etheric or energy levels. of this desirable consummation, the philosopher's stone is the emblem. i said "emblem" and i did not say "symbol" a symbol is an outer and visible sign of an inner and spiritual reality, carried out into expression upon the physical plane by the force of the inner embodied life. an emblem is man's formulation of a concept, created by man and embodying for him the truth as he sees it and understands it. a symbol is ever greater in its implications than is an e

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

. iii. 278) b. plato mentioned jupiter-logos, the word or sun (s.d. ii i. 279) c. the true colour of the sun is blue (s.d. iii. 461) d. the sun was adopted as a planet by the post-christian astrologers who had not been initiated (s.d. iii. 461) 28 "this self, the highest, the one and the universal was symbolised on `the plane of mortals by the sun, its life-giving effulgence being in its turn the emblem of the soul killing the terrestrial passions which have ever been an impediment to the reunion of the unit self (the spirit) with the all-self. hence the allegorical mystery. it was enacted by the sons of the fire-mist and of light (s.d. iii. 271- 397- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the planet uranus references in the secret doctrine

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

that we have problems presupposes our harmfulness. talking about oneself, we are always occupied with our own problems, our own affairs. casting pearls before swine: talking about the occult troubles for which the hearers are not ready. if you are a disciple you will know to what i refer. the problem is clear: i am a sagittarian and so are you. we are living with the- 97- the labours of hercules emblem of sagittarius in front of us all the time. we are trying to bring harmony into our lives, trying to lead the "altar" life, seeking to contact the serpent of wisdom. begin with thought and speech, and begin today [169] labor x the slaying of cerberus, guardian of hades (capricorn, december 22nd- january 20th) the myth "the light of life must now shine forth within a world of dark" the great

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

n numbers became representative of several ideas, and were considered to be interpretative one of the other. for example, messiah spelled, mshich, numbered 358, and so does the phrase iba shilh, shiloh shall come; and so this passage in genesis 49 v. 10, was considered to be a prophesy of the messiah: note that nachash, nchsh, the serpent of moses, is also 358. the letter shin, sh, 300, became an emblem of divinity by corresponding with ruach elohim, ruch alhim, the spirit of the living god. notaricon, or abbreviation, is of two forms; one word is formed from the initial and final letters of one or more words; or the letters of one name are taken as the initials or finals of the words of a sentence. for example, in deut. 30 v. 12, moses asks, who shall go up for us to heaven? the initial l

ts in the fourth world of assiah in the shadow of the tenth sephira--the malkuth, or kingdom of the world of shells or material objects. small wonder then at the slightness of the ideal man can form of the divine. at other times we find the metaphysical abstract laid aside, and all the wealth of oriental imagery lavished on the description of god; imagery although grouped and clustered around the emblem of an exalted humanity, yet so inflated, so extravagantly magnified, that the heavenly man is lost sight of in the grandeur and tenuity of the word painting of the divine portrait. divine anthropomorphism it may be, but an anthropomorphism so tenuous by means of its grandeur, that the human elements affording the bases of the analogy quite disappear in the heavenly man of their divine rever

ry powers, thus connecting the kabalah with astrology (w. gorn old has recently published a volume called "kabalistic astrology) to each sephira were allotted in briah an especial archangel, and in yetzirah an army of angels; these connect the kabalah with talismanic magic. there is also a close relation between the old kabalistic theology and alchymy; each sephira of assiah becomes the allegoric emblem of one of the metals: and there is a special rabbinic volume named "asch metzareph" entirely concerned with alchymy; its name in english meaning is "cleansing fires (my english translation can be obtained) a. e. waite in his work on the kabalah states that rabbi azariel ben menachem in his "commentary on the sephiroth" allots a particular colour to each one, but these do not agree with the

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

hat of the madonna was made comparativelysimple. mr. rolfe speaks of the key, rue, and verbena as symbols of diana; of all of these i haveincantations, apparently very ancient, and identified with diana. i have often found ruein houses inflorence, and had it given to me as a special favour. it is always concealed in some dark corner,because to take any away is to take luck. the bronze frog was an emblem of diana; hence the latinproverb, he who loves a frog regards it as diana. it was made till recent times as an amulet. ihave one as a paper-weight now before me. there is also an incantation to the frog.that wherein mr. rolfe tacitly and unconsciously confirms what i have written, and what is mostremarkable in this my own work, is that the wizards in italy form a distinct class, still exerc

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ight of alhim belongs to the world in general, in its allness and general fulness, but the light of jehovah is that pertaining to the chiefest production, man, whom this light penetrated and made" the author of the "source of measures" pertinently refers the reader to inman's "ancient faiths embodied in ancient names" vol. ii, p. 648. there, an engraving of "the vesica piscis, mary and the female emblem, copied from a rosary of the blessed virgin. printed at venice, 1542" and therefore, as inman remarks "with a license from the inquisition, consequently orthodox" will show the reader what the latin church understood by this "penetrating power of light and its effects" how sadly disfigured- applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic conceptions- have become, under christian interp

from the two-fold principle (earth and water) in the abyss of primordial creation: neras (centaurs, men with the limbs of horses and human bodies, and kimnaras (men with the heads of horses) created by brahma in the commencement of the kalpa* see commentary following sloka 18[[vol. 2, page] 66 the secret doctrine. in its cosmic aspect only, the female generative principle, as the sun is the male emblem thereof. water is the progeny of the moon, an androgyne deity with every nation. evolution proceeds on the laws of analogy in kosmos as in the formation of the smallest globe. thus the above, applying to the modus operandi at the time when the universe was appearing, applies also in the case of our earth's formation. this stanza opens by speaking of thirty crores, 30,000,000, of years. we m

ositions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. bentley comments on the hindu "war between the gods and the giants" as marked by the eclipse of the sun at the ascending node of the moon, 945 b.c, at which time was born* or produced from the sea, sri (sarai, s-r-i, the wife of the hebrew a-bram. sri is also venus-aphrodite the western emblem "of the luni-solar year or the moon (as sri is the wife of the moon; vide foot-note, the goddess of increase" therefore "the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was mount sinai- the lord jehovah coming down thereon. paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when

worship based on blind faith- a hint now ignored by the orthodox brahmins- and forthwith the former become a-suras. the first and mind-born sons of the deity refuse to create progeny, and are cursed by brahma to be born as men. they are hurled down to earth, which, later on, is transformed, in theological dogma, into the infernal regions. ahriman destroys the bull created by ormazd- which is the emblem of terrestrial illusive life, the "germ of sorrow- and, forgetting that the perishing finite seed must die, in order that the plant of immortality, the plant of spiritual, eternal life, should sprout and live, ahriman is proclaimed the enemy, the opposing power, the devil. typhon cuts osiris into fourteen pieces, in order to prevent his peopling the world and thus creating misery; and typho

ii, p. 462[[vol. 2, page] 129 the jewish god-name. adam, is written with one letter, jod or yodh; therefore it must not be read jehovah but ieva, or eve. the adam of the first chapter is the spiritual, therefore pure, androgyne adam kadmon. when woman issues from the rib of the second adam (of dust, the pure virgo is separated, and falling "into generation" or the downward cycle, becomes scorpio, emblem of sin and matter. while the ascending cycle points to the purely spiritual races, or the ten prediluvian patriarchs, the prajapatis and sephiroth are led on by the creative deity itself, who is adam kadmon or yod-cheva. spiritually, the lower one (jehovah) is that of the terrestrial races, led on by enoch or libra, the seventh; who, because he is half-divine, half-terrestrial, is said to h

may be found in the book of enoch* if the veiled language of the puranas is not understood- all this should tend to show that the ancients knew something of the "modern discoveries" of science. enoch, when speaking of "the great inclination of the earth" which "is in travail" is quite significant and clear. is not this evident? nuah is noah, floating on the waters in his ark; the latter being the emblem of the argha, or moon, the feminine principle; noah is the "spirit" falling into matter. we find him, as soon as he descends upon the earth, planting a vineyard, drinking of the wine, and getting drunk on it, i.e, the pure spirit becomes intoxicated as soon as it is finally imprisoned in matter. the seventh chapter of genesis is only another version of the first. thus, while the latter read

rown-black. padmapani (daksha) is seated on the column, and forms the apex. in this reference[[vol. 2, page] 179 the birth-days of the dhyanis. compare stanza 39. the dhyan chohan is represented with four arms, another allusion to the four races. for while two are folded, the third hand holds a lotus (padmapani "the lotus-bearer, this flower symbolizing generation, and the fourth holds a serpent, emblem of the wisdom in his power. on his neck is a rosary, and on his head the sign of water[[diagram- matter, deluge- while on his brow rests the third eye (siva's eye, that of spiritual insight. his name is "protector (of tibet "saviour of humanity" on other occasions when he has only two arms, he is chenresi, the dhyani and bhodisatva, chakna-padmakarpo "he who holds a lotus" his other name is

the metaphorical one, when used symbolically. the profane reader, who knows nothing of the mystery language, is likely, whenever he finds one of these words mentioned, to accept it literally. hence, the quid pro quos and unjust accusations. a couple of instances will suffice. sed et serpens? aye: but what was the nature of the serpent? mystics intuitionally see in the serpent of genesis an animal emblem and a high spiritual essence: a cosmic force superintelligent, a "great fallen light" a spirit sidereal, aerial and tellurian at the same time "whose influence circumambulates the globe (qui circumambulat terram, as a christian fanatic of the dead-letter (de mirville) has it, and which only manifested itself under the physical emblem, which was the most convenient "with respect to its moral

ircumambulates the globe (qui circumambulat terram, as a christian fanatic of the dead-letter (de mirville) has it, and which only manifested itself under the physical emblem, which was the most convenient "with respect to its moral and intellectual coils: i.e. under the ophidian form. but what will christians make of the brazen serpent, the "divine healer" if the serpent is to be regarded as the emblem of cunning and evil? the "evil one" itself? how can the line of demarcation ever be settled, when it is traced arbitrarily in a sectarian theological spirit. for, if the followers of the roman church are taught that mercury and aesculapius, or asclepios, who are, in truth, one, are "devils and sons of devils" and the wand and serpent of the latter were "the devil's wand; how about the "braz

was purely physiological and phallic; and no amount of casuistical reasoning on the part of the roman catholic church can give it another meaning, once that the mystery language is well studied, and that the hebrew scrolls are read numerically. the occultists know that the serpent, the naga, and the dragon have each a septenary meaning; that the sun, for instance, was the astronomical and cosmic emblem of the two contrasted lights, and the two serpents of the gnostics, the good and the evil one; they also know that, when generalised, the conclusions of both science and theology present two most ridiculous extremes. for, when the former tells us that it is sufficient to trace the legends of the serpents to their primal source, the astrological legend, and to meditate seriously on the sun

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

mistry and bacteriology. 261[[vol. 1, page] xii contents. page. the watcher and his shadow. 265 earth peopled by the shadows of the gods. 267- summing up. 269 the pith and marrow of the secret doctrine. 273 hermes in christian garb. 285 some occult aphorisms. 289 the seven powers of nature. 293- book i- part ii. the evolution of symbolism in its approximate order. i. symbolism and ideographs. 303 emblem and symbol differ. 305 magic potency of sound. 307 mystery language. 309- ii. the mystery language and its keys. 310 egypt's many religions. 311 the jews and their system. 313 moses copied from sargon. 319 identity of ancient symbols. 323- iii. primordial substance and divine thought. 325 divine thought, or cineritious matter. 327 ether and intelligence. 330 the seven prakritis. 335 the mys

yph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical fall- i.e, when the separation of sexes by natural evolution took place- when the figure became[[diagram, the circle, or sexless life modified or separated- a double glyph or symbol. with the races of our fifth race it became in symbology the sacr, and in hebrew n'cabvah, of the first-formed races* then it changed into the egyptian[[diagram (emblem of life, and still later into the sign of venus[[diagram] then comes the svastica (thor's hammer, or the "hermetic cross" now, entirely separated from its circle, thus becoming purely phallic. the esoteric symbol of kali yuga is the five-pointed star reversed, thus[[diagram- the sign of human sorcery, with its two points (horns) turned heavenward, a position every[[footnote(s* see that sugg

ircle. it brings before the mind's eye the picture of kosmos emerging from and in boundless space, a universe as shoreless in magnitude if not as endless in its objective manifestation. the simile of an egg also expresses the fact taught in occultism that the primordial form of everything manifested, from atom to globe, from man to angel, is spheroidal, the sphere having been with all nations the emblem of eternity and infinity- a serpent swallowing its tail. to realize the meaning, however, the sphere must be thought of as seen from its centre. the field of vision or of thought is like a sphere whose radii proceed from one's self in every direction, and extend out into space, opening up boundless vistas all around. it is the symbolical circle of pascal and the kabalists "whose centre is e

r, the sphere must be thought of as seen from its centre. the field of vision or of thought is like a sphere whose radii proceed from one's self in every direction, and extend out into space, opening up boundless vistas all around. it is the symbolical circle of pascal and the kabalists "whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere" a conception which enters into the compound idea of this emblem. the "mundane egg" is, perhaps, one of the most universally adopted symbols, highly suggestive as it is, equally in the spiritual, physiological, and cosmological sense. therefore, it is found in every world-theogony, where it is largely associated with the serpent symbol; the latter being everywhere, in philosophy as in religious symbolism, an emblem of eternity, infinitude, regeneration

osophy, recognizing neither good nor evil as a fundamental or independent power, but starting from the absolute all (universal perfection eternally, traced both through the course of natural evolution to pure light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming matter or evil. it was left with the early and ignorant christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "devil" they took it from the later zoroastrians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised

n a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; moses, initiated in the wisdom of hermes, following suit in genesis; the gnostic's serpent with the seven vowels over its head, being the emblem of the seven hierarchies of the septenary or planetary creators. hence, also, the hindu serpent sesha or ananta "the infinite" a name of vishnu, whose first vahan or vehicle on the primordial waters is this serpent* yet they all made a difference between the good and the bad serpent (the astral light of[[footnote(s* like the logoi and the hierarchies of powers, however, the "serpents" have

and infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the universe from that fiery mist. the universe, as well as the earth and man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. the serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the greek emblem of psyche, the human soul. the "dragon" was also the symbol of the logos with the egyptians, as with the gnostics. in the "book of hermes" pymander, the oldest and the most spiritual of the logoi of the western continent, appears to hermes in the shape of a fiery dragon of "light, fire, and flame" pymander, the "thought divine" personified, says: the light is me, i am the nous (the mind or

114 the secret doctrine. is identical with kronos, in his aeolian form, that of a circle. for the circle is sar, and saros, or cycle, and was the babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible, while the sun was the one circle from which proceeded the cosmic orbs, and of which he was considered the leader. zero-ana, is the chakra or circle of vishnu, the mysterious emblem which is, according to the definition of a mystic "a curve of such a nature that as to any, the least possible part thereof, if the curve be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon itself, and form one and the same curve- or that which we call the circle" no better definition could thus be given of the natural symbol and the evident nature of deity, which having its

our cardinal points and the four terrestrial elements. the whole was an allegorical symbol. it is through the four high rulers over the four points and elements that our five senses may become cognisant of the hidden truths of nature; and not at all, as clemens would have it, that it is the elements per se that furnished the pagans with divine knowledge or the knowledge of god* while the egyptian emblem was spiritual, that of the jews was purely materialistic, and, indeed, honoured only the blind elements and the imaginary "points" for what was the meaning of the square tabernacle raised by moses in the wilderness, if it had not the same cosmical significance "thou shalt make an hanging. of blue, purple, and scarlet" and "five pillars of shittim wood for the hanging. four brazen rings in t

d all-penetrating fluid, this ray detached from the (central or 'spiritual) sun's splendour. fixed by the weight of the atmosphere) and the power of central attraction. the astral light, this electromagnetic ether, this vital and luminous caloric, is represented on ancient monuments by the girdle of isis which twines round two poles and in ancient theogonies by the serpent devouring its own tail, emblem of prudence and of saturn- emblem of infinity, immortality, and kronos "time- not the god saturn or the planet "it is the winged dragon of medea, the double serpent of the caduceus, and the tempter of genesis; but it is also the brazen snake of moses encircling the tau lastly, it is the devil of exoteric dogmatism, and is really the blind force (it is not blind, and levi knew it, which soul

BLUE EQUINOX

temple in the east, that is, in the direction of boleskine, which is situated on the south-eastern shore of loch ness in scotland, two miles east of foyers, is a shrine or high altar. its dimensions should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in height. it should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on which may be embroidered fleur-de-lys in gold, or a sunblaze, or other suitable emblem. on each side of it should be a pillar or obelisk, with countercharges in black and white. below it should be the dais of three steps, in black and white squares. above it is the super-altar, at whose top is the stele of revealing in reproduction, with four candles on each side of it. below the stele is a place for the book of the law, with six candles on each side of it. below this again i

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

gla+ vuvh+ on+ adonai. the handle of the knife is to be fashioned using the same wood as was used for the rod of the art. the ceremonial robe: it must be constructed of linen or some such material and is best when it is made by the operator of this work. the robe may be fashioned with a hood and should be no longer than your ankles and the sleeves of which should be no longer than your wrists. an emblem may be appropriate to some actions and as with the holy names of the rod of the art, these will be given to you by god through his ministering angels. the censur and suffumigations: the types of perfumes and incenses and their qualities or purposes have been described in many other books on the royal art of magick, some falsely so and others truely. here follows a list of the incenses and p

BUDGE E

ying along the bottom of the boat is the serpent hetch-nau (see pp. 63, 67. concerning him it is said "he 1 who is in this picture. in his boat great, is the [serpent] which guardeth the aheth chamber; he standeth up at the mouth of the hidden passages of the ahet chamber, and he liveth upon the two voices of the heads of the boat" p. 78 [paragraph continues] under the neck of this serpent is the emblem "life (an ankh. 2. a woman called muthenith, standing (see p. 67. 3. a woman called shatheth, standing (see p. 67. 4. the divine mummy form benni, seated (see p. 71. 5. a lion-headed goddess called hen-kherth (see p. 71. 6. a goddess, with a pair of horns on her head, in a sitting position, but with no throne to sit upon; her name is thest-apt (see p. 71. of these beings it is said "those w

ce of the tuat, and shall know it, shall be a spirit well equipped both in heaven and earth, unfailingly, and regularly and eternally" in the upper register are- 1. the god aper-hra-neb-tchetta, above whose body, at the neck, is a disk from which proceed two human heads, the one wearing the white crown and the other the red crown; in his right hand he holds the sceptre, and in the left the p. 241 emblem of "life" the text reads "he who is in this picture standeth up for ra, and he never departeth from his place in the tuat" click to view the god aper-hra-neb-tchetta. 2. a huge serpent, with two pairs of human feet and legs, and a pair of large wings. by its side stands a god with a disk upon his head, and on each side of his head is an utchat; his hands are stretched out at right angles to

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

s my self-utterance, and therefore is it written of the lights of emanation "ten, and not eleven, ten and not nine [101] comment on yod* yod, pronounced yode. transcribed as" i" or "y. the number 10. meaning: creative hand. the intelligence of will. 1 the letter-name yod means "hand. the ancient pictographic form of this letter was a representation of the extended forefinger, a distinctly phallic emblem. the same idea of masculinity is applied to this letter in qabalistic literature. for example, as the first letter of the tetragrammaton, i h v h, yod is calied the "paternal" letter, and is assigned to chokmah, which is named ab, the father. this idea is elaborated in the meditation, paragraphs 1 to 3. 4 "fluid darkness" or "ink" is dehyo, d i v, in hebrew. the letters of this word are the

by the wise attain to conscious union with the life-power [126] the meditation on nun* 1 i am the fish which swimmeth in the sea of the great waters bearing all things in my belly, even as it is written "he had his dwelling in the great sea, and was a fish therein" 2 this is the great fish wherein the prophet abode three days and three nights. and because of jonah's suffering is the great fish an emblem of all pains and sorrows. for as the prophet's anguish brought him to follow my way, so are all pains and sorrows the portals through which man passeth to the heart of the great mother. verily, the mother is the sea wherein swimmeth the fish, and the fish and the sea are one [129] t h e b o o k of t o k e ns 3 that one is the all, and entereth into all. everything that is, even those things

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

reminder of the world to which she and her people belong, nana peazant has created this charm for her family's protection, even as some of the most destructive forces that they face have emerged from their own conflicts. in its composition, the charm consolidates some of the most significant icons of african american spirituality: the bible, a token of christian redemption; a root, a supernatural emblem and touchstone to an ancient heritage; and the most precious relic that nana owns, the bequest of a slave parent to a child.a twisted cord of her own mother's hair. bound together and made inseparable with twine, each element of the hand illustrates the charm's singularity of spirit. although the scene occurs in a motion picture, the real, historical implications present in it run as curren

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

igure of hermes trismegistus is put into the mosaic pavement in sienna cathedral 1489 ficino's libri de vita published 1492-1555 georg agricola 1492 ferdinand and isabella expel jews from spain, center of cabalistic studies, caused dispersal and spread of jewish and cabalistic manuscripts and scholarship; discovery of the new world. 1492-1550 andres alciati, a lawyer from milan, created the first emblem book 1493 paracelsus (aureolus philippus theophrastus bombastus von hohenheim) born einsiedeln switzerland. swiss physician and philosopher. he was tutored (by his account) by trithemius 1494 reuchlin's de verbo mirifico published. lefevre d'etaples ed. of ficino's pimander in france. 1495-1563 john bale. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore. bale envisioned three laws of

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

his honor. this story introduces the unicorn, the chi-lin [chee leen, an animal sacred to the chinese. it does not 85 resemble the unicorn in european myths, but is a combination of many animals, including the deer, ox, dragon, and horse. a peaceful, timid animal, the chi-lin left the innocent alone, but when angered, gored evil people with its horn. trustworthy soldiers and fair judges wore the emblem of the chi-lin on their clothing to remind them of their duties. in the fourteenth century, a real giraffe was sent to the imperial court, and many observers claimed it was the reincarnation of the mythical chi-lin. chinese mythology 86 once there was a very kind woman named cheng who lived in shandong province in northwestern china. loved and respected by everyone, she longed desperately f

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

you can almost hear the manipulators say. david rockefeller, the kingmaker of america, had met with clinton in the mid-1980s at winrock, the farm built by winthrop rockefeller, a former governor of arkansas.39 the state of arkansas is an elite centre. the southern wing of the scottish rite of us freemasonry is based there and it was from this organisation that the ku klux klan emerged. the klan's emblem is the maltese cross, the same as the knights templar, the knights of malta and the knights of the golden circle, which played a major role in the rothschild manipulation of the american civil war. the ku klux klan is the old knights of the golden circle under another name, controlled by the same force. it is said to be funded today by mossad.40 according to the german magazine neue solidar

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

e founders of this brotherhood had come from mars in ancient times.19 james churchward says that the uigher empire were former lemurians. later a russian archaeologist called professor kosloff found a tomb of ancient artefacts in the same area of the gobi desert. these included a painting of a ruler and his queen and he estimated the work to be some 18,000 years old- at least.20 there was also an emblem of a circle with a cross, and at the centre was a symbol similar to the greek letter, mu. an expedition by the american museum of natural history in 1993 found a mysteriously large number of dinosaur fossils in the gobi desert. they found 40 to 50 dinosaur skeletons in around three hours in an area no bigger than a baseball field.21 researcher and author mark amaru pinkham writes in the ret

in the case of women, scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or wild animals, and boiling alive. no one was immune to dracula's attentions. his victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants. vlad the impaler was the son of vlad dracul, who was initiated into the ancient order of the dragon by the holy roman emperor in 1431. its emblem was a dragon, wings extended, hanging on a cross. vlad ii wore this emblem and his coinage bore the dragon symbol. all the members of the order had a dragon on their coat of arms and he was nicknamed dracul (the devil or the dragon. son vlad signed his name draculea or draculya or the "devil's son" and this later became dracula, a name that translates as something like "son of him who had t

to around 3000bc in king figure 23: the gold statue of prometheus with the flame of illumination at the rockefeller center in new york figure 24: thor/lndara/george fights with balder, whose legs are symbolically depicted as serpents 160 children of the matrix thor/indara/adam's old capital of pteria, which is now bogaz koi in turkey (figure 25 "adam and eve" are depicted exchanging a cross-like emblem and a "globe" object, which waddell says is an apple from the rowan or mountain ash tree. this tree was thor/indara/adam's symbol for his "tree of knowledge" and the apple from this tree could be the one in the garden of eden story, the "forbidden fruit, he says. in the edda, the serpent leader, el, taunts eve for changing sides and becoming a priestess "of the rowan. the edda refers to eve

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continued when these lines expanded into europe. even the british title of sir,conferred by the queen on her selected subjects, comes from an ancient snake-goddess(reptilian) called sir, which relates to the anunnaki goddess, ninlil or ninkharsag, in thesumerian tablets. her husband, enlil, was called the splendid serpent of the shining eyes.his brother, enki, was also known as a serpent and his emblem was two entwined serpents,the symbol of his cult centre at eridu, and of the modern medical profession. the symbolis known as the caduceus (see figure 5. this information comes from the sumeriantablets as translated by zecharia sitchin and described in his books. therefore i found itstaggering that sitchin personally told me there was no evidence of a serpent race and figure 5: the ancient

ieties which created them. the hero of the freemason secret society to this day is themythical hiram abif, the so-called builder of king solomons temple. abif is supposedto have been a phoenician. the grandfather of the famous egyptian pharaoh akhenaten,the father of tutankhamen, was a phoenician high priest. the phoenix, the mythicalbird of egypt, was in fact the sun bird of the phoenicians, the emblem of the sun god,bil or bel, and as it has been later symbolised, a peacock or an eagle.29 evidence hasemerged in recent years about pyramids on mars, when the nasa scientists, vincentdipietro and gregory molenaar, discovered six enormous pyramids like those in egyptin the cydonia region of mars.30 it would make sense that the same martian race withthe same knowledge would also build pyramids

g by the romans, apparently. it was thesymbol of the druid god, hu, and it is still used today by the freemasons in their symbolof the t square. the egyptians crux ansata, the cross of life, added a circle loop to thetop. the crux ansata and the tau cross were found on statues and other artworkthroughout ancient central america. it was associated with water and the babyloniansused the cross as an emblem of the water gods who they said had brought them theircivilisation. the nagas, by the way, the human-reptile gods of the east, were also said tolive in the water. the concept of a saviour god figure dying for humanity is an ancientone. the religions of india had a tradition of the crucified saviour centuries beforechristianity and it originated from the aryans in the caucasus. the hindu chr

r of diana, princess of wales, crashed in the early morning of sunday, august31st 1997. another offshoot of the scythian-sicambrian franks-merovingian bloodlineemigrated from northern france and belgium in the 12th century to become the famousscottish families and some of these were the ancestors of diana, princess of wales.the merovingian king, clovis, had the iris, or fleur-de-lis, as his royal emblem, aflower which grows wild in the middle east. it is also known as a three-pronged lilyand it was used to symbolise nimrod or rather the reptilian bloodline of nimrod. inlatin it means small sword and it became the symbol of the royal bloodline of what isnow france and this was because in ancient sumer the reptilian bloodline, as passed onthrough the female, was symbolised by a lily. hence t

ll these diversions obscure is a simple and devastating truth.the grant of arms or symbol of the dragon bloodine in sumer was called a gra-al,also known as the mark of cain. the biblical cain was one of the early anunnaki-human royal crossbreeds who followed adam. it is this gra-al that became the so-called holy grail and this is why its equvilant in old french means blood royal. thegrant of arms emblem in sumer was. a cup of waters or a rosi-crucis or dew cup.it is described in egyptian, sumerian, phoenician and hebrew records as a cupdecorated with a red cross within a circle. this is the true origin of the grail cup. itwasnt the cup that caught the blood of jesus at the crucifixion because there was nojesus or crucifixion. it was the cup that symbolised the womb and the bloodline of the

ollowed. in 1187, thetemplars lost control of jerusalem to the saracen turks, possibly on purpose, and aconflict followed with their former allies and official masters, the priory of sion. a yearlater they formerly separated in a ritual known as the cutting of the elm at gisors, acity close to the coast in northern france. the order of sion changed its name to thepriory of sion and adopted as its emblem, the red cross used by the templars. thepriory also adopted the title, lordre de la rose-cross v eritas, the order of the truered cross. the two secret societies agreed to operate independently, but the priory ofsion wanted the templar wealth which it believed it rightly owned and it probably usedthe merovingian king of france, philippe the fair, in an attempt to do this.the purge of the te

ewish hierarchy as their symbol with the emergence of the rothschilds and it hasabsolutely nothing to do with king david as the jewish leaders well know. it is on theflag of israel because israel is not the land of the jews, it is the land of the rothschildsand those who dictate to them from even higher up the brotherhood pyramid. theycreated israel and they control it. the red shield used as the emblem of the salvationarmy was inspired by the rothschilds, by the way.frankfurt, the home of the rothschild dynasty, was where paper money becamepopular and the new european central bank is based there. this bank allows a few210unelected bankers to set the interest rates for all the european union countries using thesingle european currency. as mayer amschel rothschild is quoted to have said: gi

he ancient symbol of the circle and the cross i described a few chapters back, isstill used today in the secret language. it is the one symbolising the suns progressthrough the 12 months and the 12 signs of the zodiac, the cross and circle with the sunon the cross (see figure 35. this has inspired the celtic cross (see figure 36, thelogo of na to, the world-army-in-waiting (see figure 37, and the emblem of the cia(see figure 38. in the city of london financial district opposite st pauls cathedral, ialso found the symbol in figure 39. it is a zodiac circle with a black sun at the centre.this building was designed originally for the financial times newspaper and the faceon the black sun is that of winston churchill. the black sun is more reverse symbolismwhich indicates the negative use of s

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lute darkest part of this heart is phallicism, worshipping the erect male sex organ. the obelisk is the major symbol for this worship, which is why you see obelisks everywhere associated with freemasonry! it is time to stop being deceived, don't you think! listen to albert pike speak of the obelisk "hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of the resurrection by the tomb of buried deity [morals and dogma, p. 393] now, you know why you see so many obelisks atop the graves of freemasons, for it is "an emblem of the resurrection of buried deity; the invisible mason believes he is becoming a god throughout his life, so the obelisk at his grave is simply the visible manifestation of that belief. the obelisk was originally created

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on this cross brings initiation through suffering, sacrifice, and selfabnegation. the crucifix is, of course, an elaboration of the calvary cross. 90. the circle upon the cross is an initiatory symbol, especially when the cross is raised upon three steps, as it should be in this form. the circle indicates eternal life; also wisdom [page 214] mystical qabala page 146 and we see a form of it in the emblem of the theosophical society, which has for its badge the "serpent that holdeth his tail in his mouth" a calvary cross with the circle super imposed means initiation by the way of the cross, and the three steps are the three degrees of illumination. it is this which is the so-called rosy cross. the fanciful oblect with brambles growing over it is not an initiatory symbol at all. the rose ass

thirty-two paths of the tree of life, and this is the key to the understanding of the rosa mundi. the curious scribbles that are called the sigils of the elementary spirits are made by drawing lines from one to another of the letters of their names on the rose. 91. in the light of this exp]anation we are at no loss to understand the value of the claims of those organisations which sport a floral emblem as their symbol. they are on a par with those of the gentleman who demanded of his haberdasher a public school tie with a bit of red in it. 92. the cube is usually said to be assigned to tiphareth because it is a six-sided figure, and six is the number of tiphareth. but there is more than this in the symbolism of the cube. the cube is the simplest form of solid, and as such is the appropria

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ration of the place by the occultist about to perform a ceremony. strictly speaking, there should be a trace of salt in the water thus employed, and both salt and water are blessed with powerful invocations when the priest is preparing holy water, whether for a baptism, or for placing in the holy water stoup for the use of the congregation. as far as the occultist is concerned, salt to him is the emblem of the element of earth. it is also a crystalline substance, and crystalline substances, in their different forms, receive and hold etheric magnetism better than anything else. water, on the other hand, is the emblem of the psychic sphere. these two realms, between them, contain by far the greatest part of occult evil. it is rare indeed that spiritual wickedness in high places will reach up

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eal" are often used indiscriminately. compounding this perplexity, both are sometimes referred to as signatures or characters. this is understandable, when we consider that in past ages, when few common persons could read or write, names were often signed by means of personal marks such as a simple x. the graphic mark and the signature of an illiterate individual were the same (ouroboros, ancient emblem of eternity, from speculum veritatis, 17th century) an emblem is a graphic symbol employed in magic and alchemy to express an abstract idea or principle. an example of an emblem is john dee's famous hieroglyphic monad. other example are the representation of a serpent nailed to a cross, or a green lion devouring the sun. personal symbols of gods, angels, spirits and demons are usually not c

inted upon its surface, might be loosely referred to as a pentacle by some practitioners. properly speaking, a pentacle is not a physical object, it is a symbolic form. you will have a difficult time discovering the subtleties of distinction between these terms in dictionaries, which is why i have taken the trouble to be so precise in defining them. authors of dictionaries often lump sigil, seal, emblem, token, and sign together as possessing some vague and more or less equivalent occult significance. this is not the case. each has its own specific connotation. all spirits may possess their own sigils. using traditional kabbalistic methods, sigils have been constructed from the various hebrew names of god and the names of angels found in the old testament. for example, the letters of a nam

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mid texts shows that already in the vth dynasty monotheism and polytheism were flourishing side by side. the opinion of tiele is that the religion of egypt was from the beginning polytheistic, but that it developed in two opposite directions: in the one direction gods were multiplied by the addition of local gods, and in the other the egyptians drew nearer and nearer to monotheism.[3] the sun the emblem of god. from a number of passages drawn from texts of all periods it is clear that the form in which god made himself manifest to man upon earth was the sun, which the egyptians called ra and that all other gods and goddesses were forms of him. the principal authorities for epithets applied to god and to his visible emblem the sun are the hymns and litanies which are found inscribed upon [1

ems of power, sovereignty, and rule.[3] another form of ptah was ptah-seker-ausar wherein the creator of the world, the sun, and osiris as the god of the dead, were represented. a large number of fa ence figures of this triune god are found in graves, and specimens exist in all museums. he is represented as a dwarf standing upon a crocodile, and having a scarab us upon his head; the scarab is the emblem of the new life into which the deceased is about to break, the crocodile is the emblem of the darkness of death which has been overcome. according to some the element of ptah in the triad is the personification of the period of incubation which follows [1. naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 34, ll. 4, 5. 2. lanzone: op. cit, tavv. 87-91. 3. lanzone, op. cit, tav. 368] p. cix death and precedes

f things which are, creator of what shall be, the beginning of beings, father tefu ma ma of fathers, and mother of mothers. he supported the heaven upon its four pillars in the beginning, and earth, air, sea, and sky are his handiwork. he is depicted in the form of a man having a ram's head and horns surmounted by plumes, ur i with disks, etc; in one hand be holds the sceptre and in the other the emblem of life. occasionally he is hawk-headed, and in one representation he holds the emblem of water, in each hand. on a late bas-relief at phil we find him seated at a potter's table upon which stands a human being whom he has just fashioned.[2] the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (2 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] khepera was a form of the rising sun

d. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (2 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] khepera was a form of the rising sun, and was both a type of matter which is on the point of passing from inertness into life, and also of the dead body which is about to burst forth into a new life in a glorified form. he is depicted in the form of a man having a beetle for a head, and this insect was his type and emblem among ancient nations, because it was believed to be self-begotten and self-produced; to this notion we owe the myriads of beetles or [1. lanzone, op. cit, p. 244. 2. lanzone, op. cit, tav. 336, no. 3] p. cx scarabs which are found in tombs of all ages in egypt, and also in the greek islands and settlements in the mediterranean, and in phoenicia, syria, and elsewhere. the seat of the god kh

moires de la mission, t. i, p. 595; and in the account of the creation found in b.m. papyrus no. 10,188, col. xxvi. 5. naville, todtenbuch, bd. i, bl. 19, 20] p. cxi the "cool breezes of the north wind" for which every dead man prayed, were supposed to proceed from him. he is, as m. lef bure has pointed out, always depicted in the form of a man; he wears the crowns and holds both the sceptre and emblem of life on a mummy case at turin he is depicted in the boat of the the gods of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (3 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] sun, in company with the god khepera; between them are the beetle and sun's disk in later times the egyptians called the feminine form of tmu temt.[2] ra was the name given to the sun by the egyptians in a remote

s.com/egy/ebod/ebod09.htm (3 of 19 [8/10/2001 11:23:58 am] sun, in company with the god khepera; between them are the beetle and sun's disk in later times the egyptians called the feminine form of tmu temt.[2] ra was the name given to the sun by the egyptians in a remote antiquity, but the meaning of the word, or the attribute which they ascribed to the sun by it, is unknown. ra was the invisible emblem of god, and was regarded as the god of this earth, to whom offerings and sacrifices were made daily; and when he appeared above the horizon at the creation, time began. in the pyramid texts the soul of the deceased makes its way to where ra is in heaven, and ra is entreated to give it a place in the "bark of millions of years" wherein he sails over the sky. the egyptians attributed to the s

t, from the earth, seb, and placed it upon the steps which were in khemennu [1. see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 398. 2. ibid, p. 1255- 3. ibid, tav. 78. 4. pyramid of unas, l. 253] p. cxii he is usually depicted in the form of a man, who wears upon his head a feather or feathers and holds in his hand the sceptre. at other times he appears in the form of a man with upraised arms; on his head he has the emblem, and he is often accompanied by the four pillars of heaven, i.e, the cardinal points.[1] among the many fa ence amulets which are found in tombs are two which have reference to shu: the little models of steps typify the steps upon which shu rested the sky in khemennu; and the crouching figure of a god supporting the sun's disk symbolizes his act of raising the sun's disk into the space betw

us were written, and the only important change which took place in the views of the egyptians concerning him in later days was the ascription to him of the attributes which in the early dynasties were regarded as belonging only to ra or to ra-tmu. originally osiris was a form of the sun-god, and, speaking generally, he may be said to have represented the sun after he had set, and as such was the emblem of the motionless dead; later texts identify him with the moon. the egyptians asserted that he was the father of the gods who had given him birth, and, as he was the god both of yesterday and of to-day, he became the type of eternal existence and the symbol of immortality; as such he usurped not only the attributes of ra, but those of every other god, and at length he was both the god of th

the "living one" she is usually depicted in the form of a woman, with a head-dress in the shape of a seat, the hieroglyphic for which forms her name. the animal sacred to her was the cow, hence she sometimes wears upon her head the horns of that animal accompanied by plumes and feathers. in one aspect she is identified with the goddess selk or serq, and she then has upon her head a scorpion, the emblem of that goddess;[3] in another aspect she is united to the star sothis, and then a star is added to her crown. she is, however, most commonly represented as the mother suckling her child horus, and figures of her in this aspect, in bronze and fa ence, exist in thousands. as a nature goddess she is seen standing in the boat of the sun, and she was probably the deity of the dawn. heru or horu

darkness was also at a very early period identified with the combat between horus, the son of [1. 2. chabas, un hymne osiris (in revue arch ologique, t. xiv, p. 65 ff; horrack, les lamentations d'isis et de nephthys, paris, 1866; the festival songs of isis and nephthys (in arch ologia, vol. lii, london, 1891, etc. 3 see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 306 ff] p. cxv isis, and his brother set. the visible emblem of the sun-god was at a very early date the hawk is, which was probably the first living thing worshipped by the early egyptians; already in the pyramid texts the hawk on a standard is used indiscriminately with# to represent the word "god" the principal forms of horus the sun-god, which probably represent the sun at various periods of the day and night, are--heru-ur( greek a?rwh`rei "horus

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nting, he came to his reward by the hand of the man who, on that eventful night, he met as an exile in the louisiana metropolis. while walking along one of the city streets, thinking of the sailing in the morning, the purser was accosted by a friend who introduced a quiet-looking young man whom he asked the purser to make a passenger with him on the morrow. the stranger wore a magnificent masonic emblem "he is a fugitive" said the friend "and must return before it is too late" the man who saved president diaz 169 "but i can't take him. my ship and my cargo might pay the forfeit" said the purser, shaking his head "but you must take him. he is your brother and his very life is at stake" was the stern answer. the purser wavered and then consented, promising to protect to the utmost the strang

nstitution of life saving along our ocean and lake coasts. the vessel was rapidly pounded to pieces. nearly all were washed from the wreck and drowned. when all hope was lost, the father lashed his child to a plank. he had no thought that either would be saved, but he uttered a prayer that the body of his child might be found by some fisherman and given christian burial. he pinned a little golden emblem, the square and compass, to her shawl, and had just time to kiss her good-by when the billows swept her from his sight. a fearful crash followed, and the parent became unconscious. when his senses returned, he found himself in the cabin of a vessel bound for new orleans. he had been rescued at break of day when the fog lifted. upon his arrival at the southern city he read the accounts of a

night of my life, for i lose and you gain a daughter. i am a fisherman, and on that eventful day was repairing my nets, near the inlet, when the waves tossed a plank to shore near me. i saw the unconscious child and the square and compass pinned to her clothing. she was alive; and carrying her tenderly to my home, she speedily recovered under the care and loving attention of my wife. the masonic emblem did not save her life, but it drew me more closely to her. i yield her to you with an overflowing heart; take her, but may i not claim that the happy daughter has gained a new mother and two fathers "indeed you may; you shall be her second parents as long as you live" xv a soldier of fortune captain george b. boynton was born in the city of new york in 1842, at 73 fifth avenue, just below f

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tall discovered an inscription on a coffer in burgundy that he claimed showed that the name baphomet derived from two greek words meaning baptism of metis [wisdom; the inscription exalted metis or baphomet as the true divinity. when karl kellner and other early twentieth century german occultists founded the secret order oto (ordo templi orientis, or order of templars in the east, they adopted an emblem of baphomet taken from richard payne knight s a discourse on the worship of priapus as the seal of the order s grand master. at a later date, when british occultist aleister crowley became head of the british section, he took the name baphomet as his motto. he had previously wrestled with the numerological significance of the name. sources: crowley, aleister. the confessions of aleister cro

rstitions are connected with basil. there are two suggested derivations of its popular name. it was once thought to be an antidote for the poison of the fabulous basilisk or cockatrice. another tradition cites an early greek name, basilikon, implying that the herb was used in a royal ceremony. some traditions believed it sacred, others that it was dedicated to the devil. greeks believed it was an emblem of hatred, italians that it was appropriate to lovers. in both greece and rome there were ancient rituals involving cursing when the herb was planted, which were believed to assist growth. in moldavia it was a folk superstition that a sprig of basil flowers handed by a girl to a wayward lover would ensure the boy s fidelity and love. basil is much prized in india, where it is known as tulsi

lady caithness was quoted by epes sargent as declaring that out of 13 spirit photographs obtained by buguet, we distinctly recognized the spirit forms of five dear ones whom we had never hoped to see again on earth. we were perfect strangers to the medium, who had never heard of us before. that there may be no doubt about the identity of my late husband, he brings in his hand the family crest and emblem. after his liberation, buguet himself agreed, retracted his confession, declared that he was tricked into it, and stated that a promise had been held out that in case of confession he would be acquitted. however, camille flammarion was convinced that buguet cheated. in mysterious psychic forces (1907, he stated that buguet, having allowed me to experiment with him, let me conduct my researc

a tiger. his special office is to guard and support the mansions of the gods, and he is naturally the peculiar symbol of the emperor. a less familiar beast is the chi-lin, which resembles in part a rhinoceros, but has a head, feet, and legs like a deer, and a tufted tail. in spite of his unprepossessing appearance, he is of a benevolent disposition, and his image on a vase or other ornament is an emblem of good government and length of days. a strange bird, having the head of a pheasant, a long flexible neck, and a plumed tail, may often be seen flying in the midst of scroll-like clouds, or walking in a grove of treepeonies. this is the fengbuang, the chinese phoenix, emblem of immortality and appearing to mortals only as a presage of the auspicious reign of a virtuous emperor. the tortois

ars flowing with corruption, and discharging serpents from their nostrils. the devout writer of these verses has even accompanied them from drawings, in which the addition of the cloven feet is not omitted. but this appendage, as sir thomas brown has proved, is a mistake, which has arisen from the devil frequently appearing to the jews in the shape of a rough and hairy goat, this animal being the emblem of sin-offering. the form of the demons described by st. bernard (1090.1153) differs little from that which was no less carefully portrayed by english writer reginald scot 450 years later, and, perhaps, by the demonologists of modern times. in our childhood, says scot, our mother s maids have so terrified us with an ouglie divell having horns on his head, fier in his mouth, and a tail on hi

. the teachers of the gnostic order are now scattered across the united states. headquarters have been established at p.o. box 8660, san jose, ca 95155-8660. the order has a website at http//www.gnostic.net. sources: gnostic order of christ. http//www.gnostic.net. may 13, 2000. goat the devil was frequently represented as a goat, and as such presided over the witches sabbat. the goat was also the emblem of sinful men at the day of judgment (see also baphomet; she-goat; witchcraft) goblin a spirit formerly supposed to lurk in houses. goblins were generally of a mischievous and grotesque nature. hobgoblins, according to junius, were so called because they used to hop on one leg (see also fairies) god (in occult perspective) according to the ancient magical conception of god in the scheme of

t, through guy w. ballard. the i am discourses. chicago: saint germain press, 1935. king, godfre ray [guy w. ballard. the magic presence. chicago: saint germain press, 1934. unveiled mysteries. chicago: saint germain press, 1935. melton, j. gordon. encyclopedia of american religions. detroit: gale research, 1992. iands see international association for near-death studies iao (or i-ha-ho) a mystic emblem said by clement of alexandria (ca. 150.ca. 213 c.e) to have been worn by the initiates of the mysteries of serapis. it was said to embody the symbols of the two generative principles, and is thus similar to aum in india. serapis was an egyptian divinity who, with isis, supplanted osiris and apis and acquired their attributes. as a healing divinity, serapis was a rival of aesculapius in rome

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nform to the above theories. this phantom was a giant. his physical strength was so great that he could lift the archdeacon from his chair to the level of his shoulders apparently without effort. he reminded the archdeacon of a mummy of gigantic proportions he once saw in a museum. colley described the mahedi s first visit through the medium f. w. monck: he wore a kind of metal skull cap, with an emblem in front which trembled and quivered and glistened, overhanging the brow. i was allowed to feel it, but there was little resistance to my fingers, and it seemed to melt away like a snowflake under my touch, and to grow apparently solid again the moment after. for once (february 18, 1878) by daylight, it was arranged, as a most dangerous experiment, that i should grasp the white-attired egyp

agan revival of the late 1960s. it differed from wicca by refusing to turn the horned god into a fertility god. the coven dissolved following sloane s death in the early 1980s. ouroboros (or uroboros) ancient greek alchemical symbol of a serpent eating his tail. the mystical work the chrysopoeia of kleopatra has a drawing of the serpent ouroboros eating his tail, with the text one is all. another emblem illustrates the symbols of gold, silver, and mercury enclosed in two concentric circles with the text one is the serpent which has its poison according to two compositions and one is all and through it is all and by it is all and if you have not all, all is nothing. the symbol of ouroboros has also been interpreted as the unity of sacrificer and sacrificed, relating to the symbolism of the

the crown or tip of the phallus, whether human or representative. it may have had its origin in the rite of circumcision. the real meaning of the bonnet rouge or cap of liberty is obscure, but it has always been regarded as a most important hieroglyph or figure. it signifies the supernatural simultaneous sacrifice and triumph. it has descended from the time of abraham, and it is supposed to be an emblem of the strange mythic rite of the circumcision preputii. the phrygian cap stands as the sign of the enlightened. the heroic figures in most gnostic gems have caps of this kind. the sacrificer in the sculptured group of the mithraic sacrifice, among the marbles in the british museum, has a phrygian cap on his head. he performs the act of striking the bull with a dagger, which is the office o

rtune) or left-handed (female symbol. the right-handed form is sometimes known as gammadion, i.e, formed from joining four gamma letters. the swastika is generally regarded as a symbol of the power of the sun, and it may have been derived from a circle divided into four by crossed lines. a variation of the swastika is the triskele( three-legged) form, often found on sicilian coins and used as the emblem of the isle of man off the coast of britain. the swastika dates back to the neolithic age, when it was engraved on stone implements, but it has also been found in many cultures.in ancient britain, ireland, mycenae, and gascony, as well as among the etruscans, celts, hindus, germanic peoples, central asians, and pre-columbian americans. the buddhists regarded it as a chakra or wheel of the l

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y thought slides down! and inside are great courts and roomy spaces girt by structures roundabout of every kind and use. there ye see arches, archlets, pillars, pillarets, balconies, galleries for gazing out and in, and scutcheons. chorus what are scutcheons? phorkyas ajax used to bear a coiling serpent on his shield, as ye have seen. the seven against thebes, each one upon his shield, a pictured emblem bore, rich in significance. one saw there moon and stars in heaven s nocturnal field, a goddess, hero, ladder, swords, and torches too, and all that fiercely threats good towns with violence. such emblems are borne also by our hero-band, aglow with colour, heritage from primal sires. there ye see lions, eagles, also claw and beak, then horns of buffaloes, wings, roses, peacocks tails, bars

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prophets with the twelve apostles; the christianity foretold by hebrew and gentile prophets has arrived, represented by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with t

humanism is not one which is congenial to the magus and his pretensions. but the atmosphere very rarely was unadulterated and elements from the one tradition infiltrated into the other. perhaps the clearest case of such infiltration is that of the hieroglyphs. the history of the supposed egyptian hieroglyphs of horapollo, of the rage for them in the renaissance, and of their development into the emblem, one of the most characteristic of renaissance phenomena, is the aspect of renaissance egyptology which has been the most fully studied and explored.1 the hieroglyphica of horapollo2 was another of these supposedly ancient but really hellenistic works; it explains the egyptian hieroglyph as being a symbol with hidden moral and religious meanings, of course a misunderstanding of its true nat

"devout and pious reader" before the cabala (dial, ital, pp. 851 ff) on the theme of the choice of the ass for the entry into jerusalem. one of alciati's emblems (no. 7) shows with an egyptian adaptation of the sacred role of the ass an ass with a statue of isis on its back. the ass is being ignorantly worshipped by those who mistake the bearers of holy things for the holy things themselves. the emblem is interpreted by mignault and whitney as a satire on the presumption of the clergy. it is not, however, in this sense, that bruno is using the ass, though there may be a double entendre. on the ass symbol, including its use by bruno and agrippa, see john m. steadman "una and the clergy: the ass symbol in the faerie queene",j.w.c.l, xxi (1958, pp. 134-6. 259 giordano bruno and the cabala tr

which we know from the commentaries accompanying the poems that the aim is mystical are dante's convivio and pico's commentary on the canzona of benivieni, both of which bruno may have used' and the canticle attributed to solomon was so interpreted both in the christian mystical tradition and in cabalist mysticism.2 the eroici furori is arranged in sections, each section usually consisting of an emblem or device which is described in words, this description taking the place of what would be a plate in an illustrated emblem-book3; a poem, generally in sonnet form, using the conceits shown visually in the description of the emblem; and a commentary in which the meanings latent in the emblem and the poem are expounded. the following is an example of the method.4 the emblem consists of two st

torment her lover: but thou, so that thy pride no curb may know. thou dost torment. 1 see j. c. nelson, renaissance theory of love: the context of giordano bruno's "eroici furori, columbia university press, 1958, pp. 15 ff. 2 bruno refers to such interpretations by "gli mistici e cabalistici dottori (dial, ital, p. 932. 3 i have compared some of bruno's emblems with illustrations reproduced from emblem-books in my article "the emblematic conceit in giordano bruno's de gli eroici furori and in the elizabethan sonnet sequences, j. w.c.i, vi (1943, pp. 101-21 (also published in england and the mediterranean tradition, oxford university press, 1945, pp. 81-101. 4 eroici furori, pt. ii, dial. 1 (dial, ital, pp. 1092 ff. 276 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan this leads up to the

to the lady, as to a goddess, to relent and turn her eyes upon the suffering lover even though her glance may kill him: render thyself, o goddess, unto pity! open, o lady, the portals of thine eyes, and look on me if thou wouldst give me death!1 the conceit dominating the whole sonnet, which is a tissue of petrarchist phraseology, is that of the stars-eyes which had already been presented in the emblem. in the commentary, the meanings are explained. the face upon which the story of the lover's woes is written is the soul seeking god. here bruno quotes metaphors from the psalms "my soul thirsteth after thee as a weary land, and "i opened my mouth wide and panted; for i longed for thy commandments".2 the pride of the lady is a metaphor, as god is sometimes said to be jealous, angry or aslee

the bear, where the reform of the heavens begins in the spaccio) brilliantly suggest the atmosphere of the hermetic trance, when the immortal mind forsakes the body, and religiously consorts with demons, that is to say, gains the experience which gives it miraculous or magical powers. the trance is several times described or alluded to in the eroici furori, as for example in the commentary on the emblem and poem on a boat without a pilot, where lamblichus is referred to on the power of contemplation being sometimes so great that the soul leaves the body. bruno here refers the reader to what he has see above, p. 23. 280 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan said about "contractions" in the book of the "thirty seals, on there being different "methods of contraction, of which some

es are attached. those familiar with the memory systems in which bruno tries to unify the universal contents of memory by basing it on magic or talismanic images, will recognise the familiar pattern of his mind in the basing of the eroici furori on the visual emblems. it may be suggested that the petrarcan conceits as emblems are here being used as hieroglyphs (thus reverting to the origin of the emblem, or as images, signs, seals, characters, voices, in living, magical contact with reality in contrast to the empty pedant language. just as the reform of the spaccio really took place within a personality, so too the experiences of the eroici furori are inward experiences. when actaeon had "absorbed the divinity into himself" it was not necessary to search outside himself for it. for "divini

nd a new age of new magical insights dawns for the individual and for the world. such was the reformation propounded by giordano bruno under the image of the return of the egyptian religion. bruno's use of love emblems with mystical meanings in the eroici furori is remarkably similar in its method to the transposition of "profane" love emblems into emblems of "sacred" love in the jesuit religious emblem-books of the early seventeenth century. i have pointed this out elsewhere by studying, in connection with 1 see above, p. 221. 286 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan bruno's emblems, profane love emblems from the vaenius collection, showing lovers wounded by darts from the eyes of the lady, or from cupid's bow, together with sacred love emblems showing arrows of divine love w

hymische hochzeit christiani rosencreutz (strasbourg, 1616, the latter certainly by johann valentin andreae, a lutheran pastor, who may also be the author of the translation from boccalini and the other manifestoes, though this is not certain.1 it would seem that rosicrucianism, as it emerges in germany in the early seventeenth century, has lutheran connections; one explanation of the rosicrucian emblem of the cross and the rose which has been put forward is that it is an imitation of luther's emblem.2 "christian rosencreutz, the founder, seems entirely mythical; perhaps this name, too, is an allusion to luther. but the rosicrucians were magical, hermetic, cabalistic lutherans and particularly addicted to alchemical symbolism of which "the chemical wedding of christian rosencreutz" 3 is an

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il on aaron's head, which to his feet distils;like hermon's dew, so richly shed on zion's sacred hills. iii.for there the lord of light and love, a blessing sent with power; o may we all this blessing prove, e'en life for evermore. iv. on friendship's altar rising here, our hands now plighted be, to live in love, with hearts sincere, in peace and unity. the lambskin, or white leather apron. is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a mason; more ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle; more honorable than the star and garter, or any other order that can be conferred upon you at this or any future period, by king, prince, potentate, or any other person, except he be a mason, and which i hope you will wear with pleasure to yourself and honor to the fraternity. the twentyfour inch gau

uilder's use, but we as free and accepted masons are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of divesting our minds and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us as living stones for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. second section. the badge of a mason. the lamb has in all ages been deemed an emblem of innocence. he, therefore, who wears the.lambskin as a badge of masonry, is thereby continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct which is essentially necessary to his gaining admission into the celestial lodge above, where the supreme architect of the universe presides. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (8 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:54 am] third s

hope ends in fruition, but charity extends beyond the grave through the boundless realms of eternity. furniture of a lodge. the holy bible, the square and the compasses. the holy bible we dedicate to god, the square to the master and the compasses to the craft. the bible we dedicate to god because it is the inestimable gift of god to man* the square to the master, because it is the proper masonic emblem of his office; and the compasses to the craft, because by its use, we are taught to circumscribe our desires, and keep our passions within due bounds. the ornaments of a lodge. the mosaic pavement, indented tessel, and blazing star. the mosaic pavement is a representation of the ground floor of king solomon's temple; the indented tessel, of that beautiful tesselated border, or skirting, whi

by it we learn the use of the globes, the system of the world, and the preliminary law of nature. while we are employed in the study of this science, we must perceive unparalleled instances of wisdom and goodness, and through the whole creation trace the glorious author by his works. outer door* maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (24 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] emblem of plenty* inner door* g* geometry, the first and noblest of sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of masonry is erected. its moral advantages. by geometry we may curiously trace nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses. by it we discover the power, wisdom and goodness of the grand artificer of the universe, and view with delight the proportions of thi

tices, we ought industriously to occupy our minds in the attainment of useful knowledge; in manhood, as fellow crafts, we should apply that knowledge to the discharge ofourrespective duties to god, our neighbor, and ourselves; so that in age, as master masons, we may enjoy the happy reflection consequent on a well spent life, and die in the hope of a glorious immortality. the pot of incense is an emblem of a pure heart, which is always an acceptable sacrifice to maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (32 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] deity; and as this glows with fervid heat, so should our hearts continually glow with gratitude to the great and beneficent author of our existence for the manifold blessings and comforts we enjoy. the beehive is an emblem of indu

t distinguished he erected this when, in the joy of his heart he exclaimed, eureka! signifying, in the grecian language, i have found it; and upon the discovery of which he is said to have sacrificed a hecatomb. it teaches masons to be general lovers of the arts and sciences. maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (34 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] the hourglass is an emblem of human life. behold, how swiftly the sands run, and how rapidly our lives are drawing to a close! we cannot, without astonishment, behold the little particles which are contained in this machine, how they pass away almost imperceptibly, and yet, to our surprise, in the short space of an hour they are all exhausted. thus wastes man! today he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; tomorrow b

imperceptibly, and yet, to our surprise, in the short space of an hour they are all exhausted. thus wastes man! today he puts forth the tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick upon him; the next day comes a frost, which nips the shoot; and when he thinks his greatness is still aspiring, he falls like autumn leaves, to enrich our mother earth. the scythe is an emblem of time, which cuts the brittle thread of life and launches us into eternity. behold, what havoc the scythe of time makes among the human race; if by chance we should escape the numerous evils incident to childhood and youth, and, with health and vigor, arrive at the years of manhood, yet withal we must soon be cut down by the all devouring scythe of time, and he gathered into the land wher

ect the minds of the uninformed in their search after truth, so should you seek to be endowed with that divine truth which is so essential to the faithful discharge of the duties of your station* look well to the south *from cunningham's "craft masonry" the junior warden is conducted to the south by the marshal, and the following words may be sung: o warden, with the plumb upraised, what doth thy emblem teach? maine masonic text book file//c /grand lodge/bluebook/bluebook1.htm (45 of 76 [11/22/1999 11:51:55 am] do all the craft uprightly walk, and practice what they preach? o warden, where the faithful one observed the glorious sun, like him adorn with beauty still the work by him begun. treasurer. my brother:you have been elected treasurer of this lodge, and it is with pleasure that i inv

our brother's death; but remembering the uncertainty of life and the little value of those things for which most men strive, may we the more earnestly endeavor to obey the laws of god and labor to do good to our fellow men (the master now takes the apron and deposits it on the casket (if at the house; in the grave (if at the burial place) and continues as follows: master: the lambskin apron is an emblem of innocence and the badge of a mason. here we have no permanent lodge or place of abode, but we look for one to come. not trusting in ourselves, but in god, who preserveth the living and enliveneth the dead, we hope to pass an everlasting day of blissful brotherhood in a lodge in that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. this evergreen is an emblem of our faith in the immorta

ther when and in what lodge he was made a master mason; what offices, if any, he has held; any special committee service he has rendered; such other items of masonic interest available. this biographical data is especially recommended when this service is used strictly as a memorial service) master when our brother labored with us in masonic attire, he wore a white apron which he was taught is an emblem of innocence and the badge of a mason. by it he was constantly reminded of that purity of life and that rectitude of conduct so necessary to his gaining admission into that celestial lodge above. he will now wear that apron forever as the emblem of the virtues it represents* the evergreen is an emblem of our faith in the immortality of the soul. by it we are reminded of the immortal soul of

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pirit was placed in it. its staves were never taken out of their place, to show that man is a pilgrim on the earth and may never rest until he reaches the goal. there was within it a golden pot with "manna (man "fallen from heaven" together with a statement of the divine laws which man must learn in his pilgrimage through the wilderness of matter. this symbolic ark contained also a magic wand, an emblem of the spiritual powers, called aaron's rod, which are now latent in everyone on his way to the haven of rest--the mystic temple of solomon. the old testament also tells how humanity was miraculously led and provided for, how after the warfare with the world it was given peace and prosperity by the before mentioned king solomon; in short, stripped of all embellishments the story relates the

fishness to a great extent, and gave man a better chance to draw to himself materials which will allow him to form altruistic purposes and desires. thus the age of altruism was there inaugurated. by faith in this blood, and by imitation of the christ life the sons of seth are therefore provided with a means of purging from themselves the curse of selfishness; while the sons of cain were given the emblem of the rose and the cross to teach them to work faithfully to make the molten sea, the philosopher's stone, and to find the new word which shall admit them to the kingdom, for they believe more in works than in faith. the accompanying chart shows graphically the three ages mentioned in this article (1) the first age, when each human being was a complete creative unit, male-female, double se

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freemasons changed the phoenix to an eagle, and began to refer to it as an eagle. however, two masonic authors blow the lid off that change in symbolism. manly p. hall, in his book, the lost keys of freemasonry, states "these were the immortals to whom the term 'phoenix' was applied, and their symbol was the mysterious two-headed bird, now called an eagle, a familiar and little understood masonic emblem [p. 108; emphasis added] albert pike, in magnum opus, writes. the eagle was the living symbol of egyptian god mendes. and the representative of the sun [p. xviii] in one sentence, we see the admission that the phoenix bird of ancient satanic egypt was changed into the masonic eagle and then pike admits that the eagle is the symbol of the sun god and of the god of mendes, both symbols being

actices black magick witchcraft, and so will antichrist! albert pike then reveals that other mysteries' religions throughout the globe and at different times also worshipped the serpent, in various ways. for example [quotes below taken from morals and dogma, p. 496-500] 1 "the phoenicians represented the god nomu (kneph or amun-kneph) by a serpent" 2 "in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of horhat the good genius; the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" means "guardian] 3) in ancient tyre, and india "a serpent was. coiled around the trunk of a tree. python, the serpent deity, was esteemed oracular; and the tripod at delphi was a triple-headed serpent of gold [note: also, pike capitalized a

emphasis added] this symbol is also called "ouroboros" but its meaning is deeper "this snake, sometimes called the ouroboros, is a symbol of time, from which alone wisdom springs. the snake encircles the two symbols of the extremes of created life- the child and the death-symbol of the skull. between them, the child and skull are intended to symbolize the 'beginning and then end' as a whole, the emblem may be interpreted as meaning 'in the end, is my beginning, or 'the end is found in the beginning, which is approximately what the latin around the circle means[ magic symbols, ibid] the pagan belief in reincarnation is spoken of within these statements. this second ouroboros depicts the whole world being surrounded and controlled by the serpent. this is the way the satanist views the entir

ing time, as the second ouroboros indicates. listen to pike explain this briefly but clearly "a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time" ibid, p. 497] as pike is explaining the mason's spiritual belief about the serpent, he mentions the zodiac, bees and honey. listen "the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally victorious [ibid] note that masonry also identifies itself with the pagans who divine the future by studying the entrails of a

kingdom of antichrist. freemasonry depicts the savior as the serpent! on the right is the masonic apron. you will note the all- seeing eye on the left upper corner, the sun worship symbol in the right upper corner, and the beehive with bees toward the bottom, all very typical masonic and satanic symbols. but, note the centerpiece symbol, with the satanic death's head in the middle of the masonic emblem of the compass and square. notice that this symbol is surrounded by an ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail. further, notice that two sprigs of evergreen bough are below the compass and square; the satanist uses the evergreen to depict eternal life. but, now, let us listen to two masonic authors shed even more light on this subject "the serpent is universally esteemed a legitimate symbo

as he eastern philosophical been identified with t religions of confucianism, buddhim, and taoism. in the western world, it has long been adopted into th e symbolism of myth, magic, astrology and witchcraft [claire chambers, the siecus circle: a humanist revolution, 1977, p. v "another ancient magical sign called the yin-and-yang first appeared sometime before the 3rd century, b.c, in china. this emblem became the favorite of sorcerers and mystics throughout the orient because it, too, embodies so many possible meanings [gary jennings, black magic, white magic, the dial press, 1964, p. 50; emphasis in original] does freemasonry adopt and use the symbolism of yin/yang? indeed, they do, but in a way as to hide the meaning form the "profane" listen to albert pike. the black and white pavement

illustrated, p. 19-22] do not be deceived: freemasonry depicts yin and yang a little differently than a traditional new age, or occultist, or satanist. they use the hexagram and the black and white tile floors; but, their belief in yin and yang is identical to the satanist mysteries. but, why should we be surprised, for albert pike told us that freemasonry is "identical to the mysteries" masonic emblem of square and compass depicting sex masonic authors boldly state that the symbolism of the traditional square and compass of freemasonry represents the heterosexual sex act. listen to albert pike explaining this fact to members of the 32nd degree "the compass, therefore, is the hermetic symbol of the creative deity, and the square of the productive earth or universe [morals and dogma, p. 85

f freemasonry represents the heterosexual sex act. listen to albert pike explaining this fact to members of the 32nd degree "the compass, therefore, is the hermetic symbol of the creative deity, and the square of the productive earth or universe [morals and dogma, p. 850-1. therefore, the masons look at the compass as the male phallus and the square as the female vulva. as you look at the masonic emblem here, you can see the obvious penetration of the female square point by the points of the compass. one point of difference here is that the satanist generally reverses the sex roles of the compass and the square. however, whichever way you look at it, the compass and the square are thought of as depicting the heterosexual sex act. a most evil symbol before we leave the subject of the masoni

blem here, you can see the obvious penetration of the female square point by the points of the compass. one point of difference here is that the satanist generally reverses the sex roles of the compass and the square. however, whichever way you look at it, the compass and the square are thought of as depicting the heterosexual sex act. a most evil symbol before we leave the subject of the masonic emblem of the square and compass, i want to show you a particularly evil symbol depicting the square and compass. this scene depicts several unmistakable satanic images, tied in with the masonic emblem, also known as the square and compass. first, note the hexagram to the far left of the picture. remember, the hexagram is the most evil of all black magick symbols. witches have used it for years to

the bible, and for satan of paganism, even though their propaganda machine continues to churn out the opposite claim that they are christian. sex at the end of the masonic rainbow masonic author, george oliver states "it is remarkable that in all the ancient systems of mythology, the great father, or the male generative principle [phallus] was uniformly symbolized by a point within a circle. this emblem was placed by the scandinavian priests and poets on the central summit of a rainbow, which was fabled to be a bridge leading from earth [female vulva] to heaven [great father's pha llus [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, p. 14; also r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure

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y and severity (or justice, whilst free will represents the central pillar of mildness. this mystery of good, will, and evil is the foundation of the symbolical temple of solomon. myer writes: the widow's son, hiram abiff of tyre, cast for the qabalistic temple of king solomon two high pillars or pylons of bronze; their capitals were pomegranates and lily work. the lily, most likely the lotus, an emblem of life, white or male, on the right side, the pomegranate, the emblem of fecundity and plasticity, red or female, on the left side. the first was called yakheen, the latter boaz. these columns represented, understanding, binah, h, and wisdom 'hokhmah, v, and between them was the temple of kether, y, the father. here we see symbols of the former, the harmony, and the to be formed. all energ

s teeth. it is perforated on both sides. when the perfect one [or the archangel metatron] is raised up, the serpent is changed into three spirits. 26 secret wisdom of the qabalah page 43 plate 7: the brazen serpent secret wisdom of the qabalah page 44 it is energy and the order within energy- the balance of the forces. isaac myer writes the harmony is represented by the circle, by the serpent, an emblem of both satan and wisdom, with its tail in its mouth. in the physical universe it is the luminiferous aether, the vital caloric, the electro-magnetic azoth. it is the ambient fluid which penetrates, permeates, vitalizes all things, the ray detached from the glory of the sun, fixed by the weight of the atmosphere, and crystallized by the central attraction, to our earth. in the words of the

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new forms are continuously called into life, embodied the idea of god; and, as this inner force was regarded as inherent in matter, or as a manifestation of it, in process of time earth and the heavens, body and spirit, came to be worshipped under the form of a mother and her child, this figure being the highest expression of a creator which the human mind was able to conceive. not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes. in fact the whole universe was contained in the mother idea--the child, which was sometimes female, sometimes male, being a scion or offshoot from the eternal or universal unit. underlying all ancient mythologies may b

rtain stage in the history of the race was portrayed by a female figure with a child in her arms. from all sources of information at hand are to be derived evidences of the fact that the earliest religion of which we have any account was pure nature-worship, that whatever at any given time might have been the object adored, whether it were the earth, a tree, water, or the sun, it was simply as an emblem of the great energizing agency in nature. the moving or forming force in the universe constituted the god-idea. the figure of a mother with her child signified not only the power to bring forth, but perceptive wisdom, or light, as well. as through a study of comparative ethnology, or through an investigation into the customs, traditions, and mythoses of extant races in the various stages of

oenician theogony "the first gods which were worshipped by oblations and sacrifices were the fruits of the earth, on which they and their descendants lived as their forefathers had done" although, after the art of agriculture had been developed, mankind was gradually relieved from its past dependence on the tree as a means of support, it nevertheless continued to be regarded with veneration as an emblem of creative power or of productive energy. among the traditions and monuments of nearly every country of the globe are to be found traces of a sacred tree--a tree of life. in various countries there appear two traditional trees, the one typical of the continuation of physical life, the other representing spiritual life, or the life of the soul. after the age of pure nature-worship had passe

ts energies, or life-giving properties, existence had long been maintained, and for this reason, as has already been observed, it became an object of veneration; but, after the reproductive power in man had risen to the dignity of a supreme god, the tree, to the masses of the people, became a symbol of the physical, life-giving energy in mortals and in animals. in other words, it became a phallic emblem representing the continuation of existence, or the power to reproduce or continue life on the earth. as a religious symbol it became the traditional tree of life. the tree, like nearly every other object in nature, was and still is, in various parts of the world, either female or male, and all ideas connected with it are sacred and closely interwoven with sex. the extent to which trees have

vidence of the same thing, found in the early literature of various nations, in the customs, and popular usages"[6] as tree- and sun-worship, or the adoration of nature's processes, finally became interwoven with phallic faiths, its history can be understood only after these later developments in the religious stream have been examined, or after the true significance of the serpent as a religious emblem, and the various ideas connected with the traditional tree of life, have been exposed [6] essays on symbolism, p. 84. the palm, the pine, the oak, the banian, or bo, and many other species of trees, have, at different times, and by various nations, been invested with divine honors; but, in oriental countries, by far the most sacred among them is the ficus religiosa, or the holy bo tree of i

e pine, the oak, the banian, or bo, and many other species of trees, have, at different times, and by various nations, been invested with divine honors; but, in oriental countries, by far the most sacred among them is the ficus religiosa, or the holy bo tree of india. something of the true significance of the traditional tree of life may be observed in the ideas connected with the worship of this emblem. the fig, when planted with the palm, as it frequently is in the east, near temples and holy shrines, is regarded as a peculiarly sacred object. when entwining the palm, which is male, it is always female; from their embrace kalpia, or passion, is developed. this union causes the continuation of existence and the "revolutions of time" the whole constitutes the tree of life. in ceylon, there

gaya, one of the three former buddhas who, like sakyu mooni, visited ceylon. under the parent of this tree the great prophet reposed after he had attained perfect rest, or after he had overcome the flesh and become buddha. it was under a bo tree that mai, queen of heaven, brought him forth, and, in fact, very many of the most important incidents of his life are closely connected with this sacred emblem. in an allusion to the bo tree of ceylon, a slip of which is said to have been carried from india to that island by a certain priestess in the year 307 b.c, forlong observes "this wonderful idol has furnished shoots to half asia, and every shoot is trained as much as possible like the parent, and like it, also, enclosed and tended. men watch and listen for signs and sounds from this holy tr

doubt a relic of the idea once entertained regarding the homa tree. certain writers entertain the opinion that from the use of the sacred homa juice have arisen various religious practices and rites, such for instance as offering oblations to the gods, anointing holy stones, and pouring wine on sacred hills, also the custom of pledging oaths over glasses of wine. the may pole, a decidedly phallic emblem, whose festivals until a very recent time were celebrated in england by the old as well as the young, was usually if not always sprinkled with wine. from the accounts which we have of this sacred emblem and its festival, it seems that no royal edict nor priestly denunciation was sufficient to expel it from the country. according to dr. stevenson, the festival of holi or the worship of holik

ther words, that he has a subjective mind and an objective self, which so long as this life endures must co-operate or work together. in the following descriptions of egyptian emblems, will be perceived some of the changes which finally took place relative to the idea of sex in the god-idea. in the museum of egyptian antiquities in berlin is a sepulchral tablet representing the tree of life. this emblem figures the trunk of a tree, from the top of which emerges the bust of a woman--netpe. she is the goddess of heavenly existence, and is administering to the deceased the water and the bread of life, the latter of which is represented by a substance in the form of cakes or rolls. the time at which this tablet was found is not known, but it is supposed to belong to the period of the xixth dyn

f the egyptian tree of life, in which the trunk has given place to the entire body of a woman. this, also, is netpe, who is still spiritual wisdom or the maternal principle. we are informed by forlong that diana was worshipped by the amazons under a sacred tree.[12] from this symbol the tree, which grew first into the figure of a divine woman, and later assumed the form of a divine man, arose the emblem of the cross [12] rivers of life, vol. i, p. 70. on the nineveh tablets is pictured a tree of life which is surrounded by winged spirits, bearing in their hands the pine cone, a symbol indicating life, and which is said to have the same significance as the crux-ansata, or cross, among the egyptians. in later ages, the tree of life, i. e, the divine man, or cross, or both together, furnish i

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

and virtuous existence to the most chaste and starbright soul of israfel,whowill shine in the eternal worldwiththeirnputedmeritofbothour lives(israfel,pp.11-12).israfel is described invariably in terms of sexual purity:'hestandswithface transfigured in a virgin's robe;'heis a white virgin whose spotless maidenhood isour faith,ourpioushope;ourbondofbrotherhood in the charityofthenewlife;'hischief emblem is the unicorn, in which inviolate chastity is typified (pp.13, 28,31).but if waite's soul was transformed, theoldadam was sleeping rather than dead, foritis repression, not sublimation, that is implied by the claim that'thesight of his passionless beauty' has 'frozen all lustwithinus'(p.21).andcelibacy was quite definitelynota state to which waite was called;northere are certain general ch

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

his grade and the natureoftheir offices be proclaimed once again, that the powers whereof they are images may be reawakened in the spheres of those present and in the sphere of this order. honoured hiereus, how many are the principal officers of the neophyte grade?'hiereus:'they are three:thehierophant, the hierus and the hegemon.'hierophant:'what have their names in common?'hiereus:'theletter h, emblem of breath and life.'hierophant:'how many are the lesser officers?'hiereus:'they are 3 also:thestolistes, the dadouchos and the kerux, with the sentinel who stands armed outside, whose duties are to repel intruders and to prepare the candidate.'dadouchos:'my place is in the south with the censer, as an image of heat and dryness. my duty is to see that the lamps and fires of the temple are re

ose multitudes which sleep through light and waken in twilight.thechairofthe hegemon who is seated between the pillars, with mitre-headed sceptre, is the placeofbalanced power betwixt the ultimate light and the ultimate darkness. these meanings are further indicated by our insignia and the colours of our robes.thewandofthe kerux is a beam from the light of the hidden wisdom, and his lantern is an emblem of the ever-burning lamp borne by the guardianofthe mysteries.theseal of the stolistes at the gate of the north, signifyingcold, is the place of the guardian of the cauldron and the well of water.theseal of the dadouchos in the south, signifying heat, is the place of the guardianofthe lake of fire and the burning bush' a pause.hierophant:'frater kerux, i command you to declare that the neop

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

tseems to me, that this book, explanatory of an eastern occultism yet using frequently christian terms, must be read as though the christian allusions were to a gnostic and not to a catholic christ spirit and man jesus; for jesus to the hermetist is the shortened form of yehoshua, which title is formed of the letters of the kabalistic yod, heh, vau, heh, having inter255 posed the letter shin, the emblem of the spark of the divine overshadowing each human soul. this yod heh vau heh, the incommunicable name, being the origin of the common godname;jehovah, but to the kabalist was not the jealous god of the jewish nation,buta glyph of the divine creative forces which emanate from the highest god ideal, yet unmanifested and certainly not individualised. as to the tenets of the order then.thefam

xists in the fourth world of assiah in the shadowofthetenth sephira- the malkuth or kingdom of the world of shells. small wonder then at the slightness of the ideal man can form of the divine.88themagical masonatothertimes we find the metaphysical abstract laid aside, and all the wealth of oriental imagery lavished onthedescrip255 tion of their god; imagery although grouped and clusteredaroundthe emblem of an exalted humanity, yet so inflated, so extravagantly magnified, that the earthlymanis lost sight of in the grandeur and tenuity of the word paintingofthe divine portrait. divine anthropomorphism it may be,butan anthro255 pomorphism so hazy by means of its unapproachable grandeur,thatthehumanelements affording the bases of the analogy quite disappear in the heavenlymanof their divine re

is the peculiar form in which i have combined them, it is the form of the symbol of the heavenly man in one aspect- or of the tree of life in another aspect.90themagical masonkelh(;r"wnoo",hocud'iil""l'!1j,:r-oo.)l<.i"m(;cl>li,u ho01: 11..1,,0om""0 0lieam;,11,"0on""hsr l' j' li, roov",0 0l''i,rnj.li"n0 0\\alk'llh<.o-0 0--0 0 01-'0 0 00o"00>r>"00this diagram resumes all kabalistic ideas, and is an emblem of their views on every subject. every deific conception can be there demonstrated; the constitution of the angelic hosts, the principles of man's nature, the group of planetary bodies, the metallic elements, the zigzag flash of the lightning, and the compositionofthe sacred tetragrammaton.thekabalah91this decad of deific emanations is to be conceived as first formulated on the plane of atz

place of osiris, in the south. note also that there is no light in the north, the type of night,and of darkness, in this also the idea is an ancient one.thethree great, though emblematic, lights compose a bright triangle, the three lesser lights an inferior or darker one, the two combined may be considered in a group as a six-pointed star, the hexapla, or seal of solomon, which was also a notable emblem in all the old initiations. this hexapla was a type of the number six, esteemed a. male number assigned by the kabbalists to microprosopus, the vau of the hebrew alphabet, and of the tetragrammaton, the six middle sephiroth, especially the median 6th, the tiphereth, or beauty of the deity.thepentalpha, or emblem of health, the pythagorean emblem, is the five-pointed masonic star, five is th

for creative power in the narrative of genesis in chapter one, and up to the end of verse four of chapter two, where the jehovist narrative commences.itis a curious coincidence that the acacia referring to the burial ofh.a.,and which the fellow crafts dressed in white, carried in their hands as emblems of their innocence, is the same word as the greekq.kq.kld.which means innocence; it was also an emblem of immortality.theinsistance on a candidate for masonry proving himself free from deformity is a requirement which was common to the selection from among the levites of a priest of the jews (see leviticus xxi, 18, and to the reception of a neophyte in both the egyptian and the eleusinian mysteries, and a further point of resemblance is seen in the refusal to admit a slave, or anybut120thema

ills to strike. colum255 bine, named from columba, the dove, is the human soul; she is constantly at the side of harlequin, is always obedient to his wish, is light, aerial and fairy-like, beautiful and pleasing;butshe herself has no magical power, she shines by his light, and is but a minor reflection of the spirit which overshadows thethe number four161personality.thekabalists used thebirdas an emblem ofthesoul, and bird's-nest as a symbol of heaven.theclown representstheearthly and fallible principleofman, hismind,intellect, desire and action; he is worldy-wise and cunning, often humorous,butoften related to lower thoughts feelings and actions: he has no magical power, and needs to be always supervised and checked, lest he sink into the paths of folly and sin.thepantaloon isthematerial

k should be studied. on the material side countless methods for producing the stoneoftransmutation are recorded; the great problem was always,'whatis the prima materia to use' and that procured, the processes should lead through stages of blackness and whiteness to the red of perfection; such a preparation thrown upon molten silver changed it into gold. in the spiritual aspect the red stone is an emblem of christ.thefreemasons' system of the ballot seems to be a copy of the method of voting used in ancient greece, where small stones(psephoi),some black and some white in colour, were used for voting purposes in their law courts, and at election to several offices.thewhite stone then as now signified approval, and the black rejection. at a later date the romans also adopted this method of vo

nna kingsford, there are several notes upon theeidolon,which has been confused with the low-grade ethereal body, astral form orlingashariraof the hindoos. the religious culture of pharaonic egypt evolved a complex system of human constitution, varying at different periods,butin the main the following elements were recognised: i.thematerial body,khat,which was preserved as a mummy after death; its emblem was a limp, dead fish. 2.theaura or ethereal envelope,khaibu;a shadow form represented by a fan or sun-shade.3. hati,is the emotional element, the passions whose vehicle wasab,the heart. 4.theka,the second personality, thealter egoor the genius.304themagical mason5.thehuman soul,ba,pictured as a bird which is released by death, flying up to the gods. we also find mention of thesahu,pictured

d of any animal was thought to confer something of the nature of the slain animal, and so men of ancient times, and some savages of our own times, have eaten the flesh and have drunk the-blood of their greatest chiefs to secure like powers of courage and dominance: the blood of slain enemies was also drunk to complete the vanquishment. in analogous manner has arisen the drinking of red wine as an emblem of the blood of the revered one, whose spirit and divine principles it is desired to partake of. similarly again to offer voluntary suffering in imitation of the sufferings of a great exemplar has been deemed to confer great spiritual advantage.thechurch fathers have told us that self-sacrifice is converted into heavenly wisdom andman's blood and generation 311earns the beatific vision afte

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

nds readytoseizeifthe soul has ledaneviuife.passing through this ordeal, the soul is then introduced into the presence of osiris by horus. osiris sits in his shrine upon a throne, with the crook and scourge. symbols.of mercy and severity, in, his hands; behind him are isis and nephthys, the goddesses()f nature and perfection, and before him are the four genii ofthedead, upon the lotus flower, the emblem of the metempsychosis.thusthe whole of the symbols upon the pillers.represerit the advance and purification of the soul, and its uniting with osiris the redeemer inthatgolden dawn of an infinite light, wherein the. soul is transfigured, knows all and can do all,forithasbecomejoined unto eternal god in the veritable 'khabs-am pekht konx qm pax lightinextension'[from a manuscript transcriptby

re extended as in giving the sign of benediction. one arm is feminine, the other masculine. the torch of intelligence is placed between its horns, as the magical light of the universal equilibrium. the caduceus which holds the place of the generative organs signifies the eternity of life; the belly is covered with scales to represent water; the circle above it is the atmosphere; the wings are the emblem of the volatile; and the deformed and goat-like feet rest upon the earth. space does not allow me to enter further into the subject, on which, indeed, several volumes might be written without exhausting it. i can only hope that this short treatise will suffice to give my readers some idea of the recondite meaning of the tarot cards, and how to employ them in divination.[reprinted from:fortu

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

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

n equilateral triangle with three points equidistant from one another show that these values are equivalent. this symbol adopted by the masons is known as the star of david; it is a hexagram formed by the imposition of one equilateral triangle on another. today it is known as the symbol of judaism and appears on the flag of israel. but actually, the origin of this symbol is in ancient egypt .this emblem was first created by the templar knights which they began to use as symbolism in wall decoration in their churches. this is because they were the first ones to discover in jerusalem some important facts about christianity. after the templars were dis- ld materialism revisited one of masonry's most important symbols is the six-pointed star. le global freemasonry the six-pointed star is the s

irst ones to discover in jerusalem some important facts about christianity. after the templars were dis- ld materialism revisited one of masonry's most important symbols is the six-pointed star. le global freemasonry the six-pointed star is the seal of a prophet and a holy symbol. however, masons interpret it according to the pagan beliefs of ancient egypt. lf materialism revisited posed of, this emblem began to be used in synagogues. but in masonry, we no doubt use this symbol in the universal sense that it had in ancient egypt. in this sense, we have combined two important forces together. if you erase the upper and lower bases of the two equilateral triangles, you will find this rare symbol that you know very well.69 actually, we must interpret all masonic symbols in relation to solomon

ly political; they confused masonry with the fight against the temporal power of the pope."132 masonry began its struggle against religion in italy by means of another secret society that it founded and controlled. this society was known as the "carbonari" this society, first heard of in naples at the beginning of the nineteenth century, took its name from charcoal burners. as the masons used the emblem of the wall-builder and expressed their ideas with symbols, so the carbonari adopted the emblem of the charcoal burner. but, the society global freemasonry dje djf the masonic war against religion had ulterior objectives. the members of the society sought to initiate a political program, first in italy, and then in france, to destroy the influence of the church, establish a new government a

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL AURIEL

n- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:01 am meditation with the archangel auriel meditation with the archangel auriel for the grade of zelator for this ritual the zelator will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a black candle, a paten of bread and salt, and a talismanic emblem with the archangel name of uriel painted white on a black background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the zelator hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (say the following invocation) stoop not down into t

o you. you may stay in this state for as long as you wish. you may end the meditation here, simply thanking him for coming into your presence. give the zelator sign go to the west of the altar. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram over the bread and salt. place the wand aside. consume the bread and salt. as you consume the repast of earth, meditate on the talismanic emblem for an extended period of time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of adonai ha aretz! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare this temple duly closed. so mote it

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL

den dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:03 am meditation with the archangel gabriel meditation with the archangel gabriel for the grade of practicus for this ritual the practicus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a blue candel, a cup of wine, and a talismanic emblem with the name of gabriel painted orange on a blue background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the practicus hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (facing east, say the following invocation "so therfore fi

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

GOLDEN DAWN MEDITATION WITH THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL

e golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:02 am meditation with the archangel raphael meditation with the archangel raphael for the grade of theoricus for this ritual the theoricus will need a black robe, black and white striped nemyss,and the outer wand of double power. upon the altar should be a yellow candel, a rose, and a talismanic emblem with the archangel name of raphael painted white on a black background in hebrew. the temple is to be arranged in accordance with the theoricus hall (as in the second part of the initiation ceremony) relax and perform the fourfould breath go to the northeast and say "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" with the black end of the wand, perform the lbrp (facing east, say the following invocation "such

nicating to you. you may stay in this state for as long as you wish. you may end the meditation here, simply thanking him for coming into your presence" give the theoricus sign go to the west of the altar. with the white end of the wand, trace the lesser invoking pentagram over the rose. place the wand aside. inhale the fragrance of the rose. as you partake of the rose, meditate on the talismanic emblem for an extended period of time. take as much time as you need. perform the reverse circumambulation (go to the east and say "i now release any spirits that may have been imprisoned by this ceremony. depart in peace to your abodes and habitations. go with the blessings of shaddai el chai! perform the lbrp with the black end of the wand. say: i now declare this temple duly closed. so mote it

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS B

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

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

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS D

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

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS E

s of the arms should not over ride the planetary and zodiacal forces in the rose of creation. in other words, the petals of the elements are on the opposite side of the arm elements. the rose is a perfect symbol. the hermetic rose is a fitting symbol of the entire, manifested universe. in another adept manuscript, we will cover the proper method of extracting sigils from the rose. it is a perfect emblem to extract sigils in that it represents the entire universe. back of the rose cross lamen the back bears the inscription in latin "the master jesus christ, god and man" this is written between four maltese crosses which allude to the exploding or 5 manifesting outwards of the four elements. the adept should place this on the top arm because it affirms the decent of the divine will into trap

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS F

beseech thee to bestow upon this symbol of the rose and the cross, which i have formed to thy honor, and for the furtherance of the great work, in a spirit of purity and love, the most excellent virtues, by the divine name of hwhy, and the great name of tudw hwla hwhy. deign, i beseech thee, to grant that the great archangel lapr, and thy mighty angel lakym may, with their power, strengthen this emblem, and through the sphere of the splendid orb of shemesh, may confer upon it such power and virtue, as to lead me by it towards the solution of the great secret. i invoke lapr, great archangel of trapt and lakym ruling the sun to aid and empower me in this work of art" step 9 let the adept recite the following from the book of genesis "and a river nahar went forth out of eden to water the gar

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS K

f our race, and the four words make the sentence, mountain of the lamb of the father, and the strength of our race. iao. hwchy. such are the words (all salute with 5=6 signs) chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is the key to this vault" second adept "the rose and cross, which resume the life of nature and the powers hidden in the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which we bear in our left hands" third adept "it is a form of the rose and cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tav cross, the lower four, answering to the four

rm of the rose and cross, the ancient crux ansata or egyptian symbol of life" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it represents the force of the ten sephiroth in nature, divided into a hexad and a tetrad. the oval embraces the first six sephiroth and the tav cross, the lower four, answering to the four elements" 8 chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear upon my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "mighty adeptus major, what is its meaning" second adept "it is the key of sigils and of rituals, and represents the force of the twenty-two letters in nature, as divided into a three, a seven, and a twelve; many and great are its mysteries" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the wand

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS SADD

e: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given, consideration is not acceptable to deteriorate the elemental nature of the tablets by painting them in anything other than the prescribed manner. sephirotic cross 25 triangle no. 1 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 2 emblem of m. triangle no. 3 elemental emblem of the lesser angle. triangle no. 4 sephiroth, letter of the tetragrammaton, tarot card. kerubic squares of the lesser angle triangle no. 1 tarot card of the lesser angle. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 3 kerubic symbol answering to letter of the name. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of l

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

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y are: a and k rule the element of d. l and b rule the element of a. c and y rule the element of b. f rules the element of c. while the coloring of the truncated pyramids in other attributed forms has been given consideration is not acceptable to deteriorate the elemental nature of the tablets by painting them in anything other than the prescribed manner. sephirotic cross triangle no. 1 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 2 emblem of m. triangle no. 3 elemental emblem of the lesser angle. triangle no. 4 sephiroth, letter of the tetragrammaton, tarot card. kerubic squares of the lesser angle triangle no. 1 tarot card of the lesser angle. triangle no. 2 elemental emblem of the tablet. triangle no. 3 kerubic symbol answering to letter of the name. triangle no. 4 elemental emblem of l

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

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e attraction into the universe of the forces of divine mercy. the sephiroth and paths are marked only as bands, and owing to its meaning, should be carried by the hegemon in all conducting of the candidate as representing to the latter the attraction of the forces of his higher self. it is called "the sceptre of wisdom" the lamen is explained in part in the grade of philosophus thus "the peculiar emblem of the hegemon is the calvary cross of six squares within a circle. this cross embraces trapt, jxn, dwh and dwsy, and rests upon twklm. also, the calvary cross of six squares forms the cube and is thus referred to the six sephiroth of the microprosopus which are dsj, hrwbg, trapt, jxn, dwh and dwsy" in addition to this explanation, it represents the black calvary cross of suffering as the i

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

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s, born of the father. bia-genos, strength of our race, and the four words make the sentence "mountain of the lamb of our father and the strength of our race. iao. yehashuah. such are the words" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the key of this vault" 4 second adept "the rose and cross which are hidden in the power of the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear on my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "i also carry the wand of the winged globe around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the balanced force of the spirit in the elements behind the wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed above the vault" third adept "post centum viginti annos p

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or 521) had a perpetual fire maintained in honour of her near kildare; a wattled fence went round it, which none but women durst ap proach; it was only permissible to blow it with bellows, not with the mouth.4 the mode of generating it is not recorded. the wonderful amount of harmony in these accounts, and the usages of needfire themselves, point back to a high antiquity. the wheel seems to be an emblem of the sun, whence light and fire proceed; i think it likely that it was provided with nine 1 nee tu aliud vestam quam vivam intellige flammam, ov. fast. 6, 295. 2 ace. to the finnish myth, the fire created by the gods falls on the sea in balls, it is swallowed by a salmon, and men afterwards find it inside the fish when caught. runes pp. 6-22. 3 philostr. heroic, pp. 740. welcker s trilogi

n. the hollanders call it plompe, the frisians pompe: strictly speaking, the broad leaves floating on the sea are pompebledden, and the fragrant white flowers, golden yellow inside, swanneblommen (flores cygnei; which recals the names given at p. 489, nixblume, nackblad, muhme and mummel (i.e. swan-maiden. the frisians put seven sea-blades (zeven plompenbladen) in their escutcheon, and under that emblem looked for victory; 1 our gudrunlied (1373) knows all about it, and furnishes herwic of sewen or sclanden with a sky-blue flag: f sobletcr swebent (float) dar irme/ this sea-flower is the sacred lotus of old egypt, and is also honoured in india; the tibetans and nepalese bow down to it, it is set up in temples, brahma and vishnu float on its leaf; and it is no other than a m. nethl. poem th

g the same as that of st. gallus; they even left the minster stand- 1 annalen der churbr. hannov. lande, 8 jahrg. p. 284. some think the cock referred to peter s denial. cock. eaven. 671 ing for fear of him: monasteries eo quod gallus, deus ejus, ignipotens sit, tandem omisso (ibid. 106. 1 tit. 407: iiz golde ein ar geroetet, gefiuret unde gefunkelt ufjeglich kriuze gelcetet/ true, the cock is an emblem of vigilance, and the watchman, to command a wide view, must be highly placed; 2 but it is quite possible that the christian teachers, to humour a heathen custom of tying cocks to the tops of holy trees, made room for them on church-towers also, and merely put a more general meaning on the symbol afterwards (see suppl. at the head of wildfowl the eagle stands as king, and is the messenger o

rment, starts the query (1, 177, where 692 teees and animals. nhg. webelj wiebel, as. wifel, wefel, engl. weevil, agrees with lith. wabalasf wabalis, lett, wabbols, and i trace it to weben (weave, wave) in the sense of our leben und weben/ vigere, moveri; we say( kriebeln und wiebeln of the swarming of beetles. 1 to the egyptians the beetle (scarabaeus, kavoapos, icdpatbos) was a sacred being, an emblem of inmost life and mysterious selfgeneration. they believed that he proceeded out of matter which he rolled into globules and buried in manure (see suppl. on. literature deals in no prose terms, but at once comes out with the poetic name iotunox iotunoxi (giant-ox; as that giant maiden took the ploughman with his oxen and plough for crawl ing beetles (p. 540, finn, sontiainen, sondiainen, d

i, beside baldr and h63r from the underworld; hcenir is here passed over in silence. vrsar and vali are the two avengers, one having avenged 03in s death on fenrisulf, the other baldr s death on h6$r (hefniass baldrs dolgr hasar, sn. 106. they two, and baldr the pure blameless god of light, are sons of 0$inn, while m63i and magni appear as sons of thorr by a g^gr, and from that time they bear the emblem of his might, the all-crushing miolnir. unquestionably this means, that 0$inn and thorr, the arch-gods of old asgars, come into sight no more, but are only renewed in their sons. baldr signifies the beginning of a mild spring time, p. 614 (see suppl. 1 it is natural that this paradise, past or to come, should have given birth to various tales of an earthly paradise, lying in regions far awa

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pect to this ritual, see "naming" in the rosicrucian dictionary. marriage ceremony for details with respect to this ceremony, see "marriage ceremony" in the rosicrucian dictionary [26] some of the official seals of the a.m.o.r.c. 1. general symbol of the order in the world 2. the great seal of the supreme council 3. the seal and sign of the supreme treasurer 4. the seal of the founder 5. original emblem worn by the fratres and sorores 6. the rosae crucis (official) 7. the seal and sign of the supreme secretary 8. great seal of the grand master 9. the sacred insignia of the imperator [27] part three operating manual we present to our members a manual regarding the work, symbols, and other matters pertaining to our order. this manual will answer many questions continually asked, and will be

r sudden changes in the natural scheme of things; remember the rosicrucian injunction: not by revolution, but through evolution, are all things accomplished in permanency. 29. hold sacred and above all criticism the ideals of the rosicru-[159] cians. permit no slander to affect the good name of your order. live that life which will prove the goodness of your principles. and be ready to defend the emblem of the rosy cross with the might of your life and the light of your being.(members may purchase a very handsome printed card in several colors containing the rosicrucian creed which differs from the above code in brevity and nature. it may be purchased from the rosicrucian supply bureau, san jose, california 95191, at very small cost.[160] part nine glossary the following words are commonly

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ii; karnak stela; kasp; bon; tb; pv; herodotus h ii.120 121; setna cycle deities, themes, and concepts 157 lotus in some versions of the egyptian creation story, the sun god was born from a blue lotus that emerged from the primeval waters. the flower itself could be identified with the great goddess who gave birth to the sun. the blue lotus came to be a general symbol of rebirth. it was also the emblem of the god nefertem. the sweetly scented blue lotus (nymphea caerulea) grows in still water. its flower buds only rise above the water and open their petals when the sun is shining. this lotus is pollinated by beetles, which links it with khepri, the beetle god of dawn. the image of the first sunrise as a lotus emerging from the dark waters and opening to reveal its golden stamens seems to

o, florence, italy (scala/art resource, new york) from the old kingdom onward, maat s presence was thought to be vital to the daily regeneration of the sun god. in underworld books she is often shown standing close to ra in both the day and night boats of the sun. this, or the dual nature of egypt as two kingdoms, may explain why maat can appear as two identical goddesses. maat shares her feather emblem with the air god shu. she was sometimes equated with shu s sister, tefnut. the gods were said to live on maat, and the goddess was identified with the basics of life: air to breathe, bread to eat, and beer to drink. from the fourteenth century bce onward, maat was often shown as a winged goddess. like isis, she could revive the dead with the air generated by her beating wings. another emble

body language. statues of min were carried out to protect and bless the fields, and the first fruits of the harvest were presented to him. from the middle kingdom onward, min was often identified with horus, the son of isis. at thebes, min united with amun to form a creator deity capable of generating all life through his sexual potency. from early times, min could be represented by a mysterious emblem that has been variously interpreted as a lightning bolt, a barbed arrow, a pair of fossilized shellfish, or a door bolt. this symbol appears on the 5,000-year-old colossi of min found in his temple at coptos on the edge of the eastern desert. min was worshipped as lord of the eastern desert by the miners, quarrymen, and hunters who worked in this desolate region. min is mentioned in several

he egyptian word for mother. mut was most commonly shown as a mature woman wearing the vulture headdress of an egyptian queen, but she also had lioness and cat forms. in royal-birth myths, the reigning queen was identified with mut uniting with her consort amun to produce a divine child who was destined to rule egypt. each new king absorbed the power to rule from the milk of his mother mut. as an emblem of sovereignty, mut could be shown wearing the white crown of upper egypt or the double crown of upper and lower egypt and holding royal scepters. a few new kingdom hymns name her as the leader of the gods, the female equivalent of the creator sun god. they praise her for creating the inundation from the sweat of her body and caring for all people. mut could also play the role of the shinin

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med a section of the sekhet-hetepet according to the old theology of egypt. the boat of afu-ra is now under the direction of the goddess of the second hour of the night, shesat-maket-neb-s, and the uraei of isis and nephthys have been added to its crew. immediately in front of it are four boats, which move by themselves; the first contains the full moon, of which osiris was a form, the second the emblem of a deity of harvest, the third the symbols of another agricultural deity, and the fourth the grain-god personified. all four boats contain either forms or symbols of osiris, in his different aspects, as the god of ploughing, sowing, and reaping, and of the p. 112 grain from the time when it germinates to the season of harvest. when afu-ra has come into urnes, he addresses the gods of the

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nx, which wecall the universe, and to wrest completely therefrom the secrets of life and death. though he has never beendeified, we repeat, yet he has nevertheless been recognised by generations in asia as lord of the universe.this is why the conqueror and master of the world of thought and philosophy is represented as seated on a nightmare talesthe legend of the blue lotus20 lotus in full bloom, emblem of the universe thought out by him. in india and ceylon the lotus is generally ofa golden hue; amongst the buddhists of the north, it is blue. but there exists in one part of the world a third kind of lotus- the zizyphus. he who eats of it forgets of hisfatherland and those who are dear to him, so say the ancients. let us not follow this example. let us notforget our spiritual home, the cra

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ders at the strangeness of the rite. there had been an esoteric meaning attached to it from the first establishment of the mysteries, and the eucharistia is one of the oldest rites of antiquity. with the hierophants it had nearly the same significance as with the christians. cerea was bread, and bacchus was vrine^ the former meaning regeneration of life from the seed, and the latter the grape the emblem of wisdom and knowledge; the accumulation of the spirit of things, and the fermentation and subsequent strength of that esoteric knowledge being justly symbolized by wine. the mystery related to the drama, of eden; it is said to have been first taught by janus, who was also the first to introduce in the temples the sacrifices of 'bread' and 'wine' in commemoration of the 'fall into generati

rgic' practice, and the christian clergy themselves using lorcery for ages; hypatia, the glorious maiden-philosopher, torn to pieces by the christian mob; and such as catherine de m dicis, lucrezia borgia, joanna of naples, and the isabellas of spain, presented to the world as the faithful daughters of the church, some even decorated by the pope with the order of the 'immaculate bose' the highest emblem of womanly purity and virtue, a symbol sacred to the virgin-mother of god! such are tiie examples of human justice! how far less blasphemous appears a total rejection of mary as an immaculate goddess, than an idolatrous worship of het accompanied by such practices. in the next chapter we shall present a few illustrations of sorcety, as practised under the patronage of the boman church. digi

ich "are so strongly suggestive of devil-worship" as des mousseaux tells us. we can scarcely be assured that the morality of the pagans would be in the least improved were they allowed a free inquiry into the life of, say, the psalmist-king, the author of those sweet psalms which are so rapturously repeated by christians. the difference between david performing a phallic dance before the holy ark emblem of the female principle and a hindfl vishnavite bearing the same emblem on his forehead, favors the former only in the eyes of those who have studied neither the ancient faith nor their own. when a rehgion which compelled david to cut off and deliver two hundred fore- skins of his enemies before he could become the king's son-in-law(.1 sam, 155. cbm. ccjemmi: the mgfholon of uu bindat. p. 3

would find the model of the papal tiara, we must search the records of the ancient assyrian tablets. we invite the reader to give his attention to dr. imnan's illustrated work. ancient pagan and modem chruhan sfftnmiem. on page sixty-four he will readily recognise the head-gear oi the successor of st. peter in the coiffure worn by gods or angels in ancient assyria "where it appears crowned by an emblem of the [male] trinity (the christian cross" we may mention in passing" adds dr. inman "that as the romanists adopted the miter and the tiara from 'the cursed brood of ham' so they adopted the episcopalian ctook from the augurs of etruria, and the artistic form with which they clothe their angels from the painters and um-makers of magna graecia and central italy" would we push our inquiries

s; aeealmluudy: motmmmt? p. 217; and inmu: anh. pafanmdmod.ckr.s]fmmi*m, p. 27. 195. inmsn: op. cit, p. 29. digitizecoy google h bis dnveiled id aiui. pagan and mod. ckritlian sipamitm the author gives a figure from a medieval woodcut the like of which we have seen by dozens in old psalters in which the virgin marv. with her infant, is repieaented as the queen of heaven on the "crescent moon, the emblem of virginity. being before the sun, she almost eclipses its light. than this, nothing could more completely identify the christian mother and child with isis and horus, ishtar, venus, juno, and a host of other pagan goddesses, who have been called 'queen of heaven 'queen of the universe 'mother of god 'spouse of god' the 'celestial virgin' the 'heavenly peace-makn* etc" such pictures are no

d. 220. niuitntted fisuns "from an ancient rosuy of the blessed virgin mary, printed t venice, 1524, wiui a lieense from the inquijition" in the uluatnttioni given by dr. inmui the virgin is represented in tn anyrian 'grove' the oaominaiton in on tyi* qf hu tiord, kccording to the bible propheta "the book in queition" uys the author "codtniu mimeroua ggurea, all resembling dosety the meaopotainun emblem of i^oar. hie ptewnce of the woman tt rnn identifie* tbe two u symbolic of ids, or ut natare; and a man bowing down b adoration thereof ihows tbe mme idea as ii depicted in asiyrian culptiike, whet males offer to the goddess symaajr of la >i(mbm" set anciml pagan and uod m ckrittian symmww, p. 91: 2nd ed. new york. digitizecoy google 110 isis nnteiled whole roman catholic image-worship the

cations, incantations, and all other things[>ertaining un- to magic* dunlap, on the authority of ijghtfoot, shows that jesus was called naboraiot, in reference to his humble and mean external con- dition "for naaaraiot means separation, alienation from other men* the real meaning of the word naxar, iij, signifies to vow or conse- crate one's self to the service of god. as a noun it is a diadem or emblem of sudi consecratiod, a head so consecrated* joseph was styled a fiosor "the head of joseph, the vertex of the nasar among his brethren" samson and samuel (ttotsv ptmv, semes-on and sem- va-el) are described alilce as naxara. porphyry, treating of ivthagoras, says that he was purified and initiated at babylon by zar-adas, the head of the sacred college. may it not be surmised, therefore, th

book^ nvmberi was a later book; and there the sun-and-aerpeot worship is as plainly traceable as in any pagan story. the tale of the fiery serpents is an sjlegoty in more than one sense. the 'serpents' were the lemiet or ophitet, who were moses' body- guard (see exodiu, xxxii, 26; and uie command of the 'lord' to moses to hang the heads of the people "before the lord against the bun" which is the emblem of this lord, is unequivocal. the tuaotk or prophets, as well as the nazarenes, were an anti> bacchus caste, in so far that in common with all the initiated prophets they held to the spirit of the symbolical religions, and offered a strong opposition to the idolatrous and exoteric practices of the dead letter. hence the frequent stoning of the prophets by the populace under the leadership o

, and so strictly adhered to by his votaries, is incompatible with the lasciviouaneas and gross immorality of the popular rites. the fable of aristaeus pursuing eurydice into the woods where a serpent occa^ dons her death* is a very plain allegory which was in part explained in the earueat timea. aristaeus is bnial power, pursuing eurydice, the esoteric doctrine, into the woods where the serpent (emblem of every sun-god, and worshiped under ita grosser aspect even by the jews) kills het; i. e, forces truth to become still more esoteric, and seek shelter in digitizecoy google 130 isis dnveiled the underworld, which is not the hell of our theologians. moreover the fate of orpheus, torn to pieces by the bacchantes, is another allegory to show that the gross and popular rites are always more w

blema- tlzed hy the hindq lingam: ann, 1; bel, 2; hoa, 3, which makes 6. the triad and mylitta as 4 make the ten. though he is termed the.'primitive man' ennoia, who is like the egyptian pymander, the 'power of the thought divine' the first intel- ligible manifestation of the divine spirit in material form, he is like the 'only-begotten' son of the 'unknown father' of all other nations. he is the emblem of the first appearance of the divine presence in bis own works of creation, tangible and viable, and therefore comprehensi- ble. he mystery-god, or the ever-unrevealed deity, fecundates through his will bythos, the unfathomable and infinite depth that exists in silence sigi) and (for our intellect) darkness, and that represents the d[>stjact idea of all nature, the ever-producing kosmos. a

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nd solemn enough. the general diffusion of these notions regarding the phalli and the ioni, and of the sacred mystic suggestions implied in both, as well as the inflections in design of these unlikely, repulsive figures for serious worship, prove that there was something very extraordinary, and quite beyond belief to the moderns, in the origin of them. the religion of the phallos (and of its twin emblem) is to be traced all over the east. it prevailed not only amongst the hindoos, assyrians, babylonians, mexicans, etruscans, greeks, and romans, in ancient times, but it still forms an integral part of the worship of india, thibet, china, siam, japan, and africa. we cannot, therefore, afford to ignore this grand scheme of ritual, when we discover it to be a religion so widely spread, and rea

are quite plain. in the tombs of thebes, belzoni found scarab ei with human heads. there is hardly any symbolical figure which recurs so often in egyptian sculpture or painting as the scarab us, or beetle, and perhaps scarcely any one which it is so difficult to explain. he is often represented with a ball between his fore-legs, which some take for a symbol of the world, or the sun. he may be an emblem of fertility. the crab on the denderah zodiac is by some supposed to be a beetle (egyptian antiquities. it is for some of the preceding reasons that one of the mystic names of lucifer, or the devil, is the lord of flies, for which strange appellation all antiquaries, and other learned decipherers, have found it impossible to account of the figure of the fleur-de-luce, fleur-de-lis, or flowe

thorns) are gathered upwards in the centre. in fig. 5 there are still the three nails; but a suggestive similarity to be remarked in this figure is a disposition resembling the crux-ansata an incessant symbol, always reappearing in egyptian sculptures and hieroglyphics. there is also a likeness to the mysterious letter tau. the whole first chapter of genesis is said to be contained in this latter emblem this magnificent, all-including tau. three bent spikes, or nails, are unmistakably the same symbol that belus often holds in his extended hand on the babylonian cylinders, afterwards discovered by the jewish cabalists in the points of the letter shin, and by the mediaeval mystics in the three nails of the cross. the gnostics and their remains, ancient and medi val, p. 208. this figure, whic

try itself. obelisks, spires, minarets, tall towers, upright stones (menhirs, monumental crosses, and architectural perpendiculars of every description, and, generally speaking, all erections conspicuous for height and slimness, were representatives of the sworded, or of the pyramidal, fire. they bespoke, wherever found, and in whatever age, the idea of the first principle, or the male generative emblem. having given, as we hope, some new views of the doctrine of universal fire, and shown that there has been error in imagining that the persians and the ancient fire-worshippers were idolaters simply of fire, inasmuch as, in bowing down before it, they only regarded fire as a symbol, or visible sign, or thing placed as standing for the deity, having, in our preceding chapters, disposed the m

r the sidonian crescent, or the lunar horns, or the acroterium of the greek temple, or the pediment of the classic pronaos itself (crowning, how grandly and suggestively, at solemn dawn, or in the spiritlustres of the dimming, and, still more than dawn, solemn 90 the rosicrucians. twilight, the top of some mountain, an ancient of the days. here, besetting us at every turn, meet we the same mythic emblem: again, in the crescent of the mohammedan fanes, surmounting even the latin, and therefore the once christian, st. sophia. last, and not least, the countless churches rise, in the latter-day dispensation, sublimely to the universal signal, in the glorifying, or top, or crowning cross; last of the revelations! in the fire-towers of the sikhs, in the dome-covered and many-storied spires of th

pyramidal) the well-known leading law of egypt s templar-piling mound-like, spiry of the universal flame- faith. place a light upon the summit, star-like upon the sky, and a prodigious altar the mighty pyramid then becomes. in this tribute to the world-filling faith, burneth expressed devotion to (radiateth acknowledgment of) the immemorial magic religion. there is little doubt that as token and emblem of fire-worship, as .indicative of the adoration of the real, accepted deity, these pyramids were raised. the idea that they were burial-places of the egyptian monarchs is untenable when submitted to the weighing of meanings, and when it comes side by side with this better fire-explanation. cannot we accept these pyramids as the vast altars on whose top should burn the flame flame commemora

all have the same meaning. we trace, among the hebrews, the token of the identical mystery in the horns of moses, distinct in the sublime statue by michael angelo in the vatican; as also in the horns of the levitical altar: indeed, the use of the double hieroglyph in continual ways. the volutes of the ionic column, the twin-stars of castor and pollux, nay, generally, the employment of the double emblem all the world over, in ancient or in modern times, whether displayed as points, or radii) or wings on the helmets of those barbarian chiefs who made war upon rome, attila or genseric, or broadly shown upon the head-piece of the frankish clovis; whether emblemed in the rude and, as it were, savagely mystic horns of the asiatic idols, or reproduced in the horns of the runic hammerer (or destr

ese crosses (the ancient irish crosses, as that animal can have no possible relation to christianity; whereas, by the tuath-de-danaans, it was accounted sacred, and its maintenance enjoined by the ordinances of the state, as it is still in the zend books, which remain after zoroaster. o brien's round towers of ireland, 1834, p. 359. i apprehend the word sin came to mean lion when the lion was the emblem of the sun at his summer solstice, 136 the rosicrucians. when he was in his glory, and the bull and the man were the signs of the sun at the equinoxes, and the eagle at the winter solstice. anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 292. figure 23 is an egyptian bas-relief, of which the ex- fig. 23. planation is the following: a is the egyptian eve trampling the dragon (the goddess neith, or minerva; b, a cr

all those referred to in other parts of this work. they were raised in the early religions, as the objects of a universal worship. all antiquaries know of what object the phallus stands as the symbolical representation. it needs not to be more particular here. the fleur-de-lis is a sacred symbol, descending from the chald ans, adopted by the egyptians, who converted it into the deified scarab the emblem of the moon-god; and it is perpetuated in that mystically magnificent badge of france, the female lily, or lis. all the proofs of this lie concealed in our genealogy of the fleur-de-lis (p. 40, pp. 182, 183, et seq; also post, and the flowers-de- luce, or the fleurs de-lis, passim. it means generation, or the vaunt realised of the turkish soldan, donec totum impleat orbem. the prince of wal

l about 400 years afterwards, or about a.d. 1200; and that the third had the term filioque first inserted into it about the time when the athanasian creed was produced, and not sooner, or about a.d. 767. eleanor cross. roman tower in dover castle. chapter the eighteenth. cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics. o indicate god s existence, the ancient sages of asia, and many greeks, adopted the emblem of pure fire, or ether. a rem amplecatur immensus ther, qui constat exaltissimis ignibus (cicero, de natura deorum, lib. ii. c. 36. coelum ipsum stellasque colligens, omnisque siderum compago, ther vocatur, non ut quidem putant quod ignitus sit en insensus, sed quod cursibus rapidis semper rotatur (apuleius, de mundo. pythagoras and empedocles entertained similar theories (brucker, 1, c. i

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le cube of the altar of incense. another badge is the hegemon s cross admitting to the grade of philosophus. this cross embraces tiphareth, netzach, hod, and yesod resting upon malkuth. this cross also refers to the 6 sephiroth of microprosopus and is the opened out form of the cube. finally we have the symbol of venus on the tree of life it embraces all ten sephiroth on the tree. it is a fitting emblem of the isis of nature. since it contains all the sephiroth its circle should be made larger then that of mercury shown in a previous diagram. another arrangement of the tree there are various formats of the sephiroth. the most frequent has already been given, but there is another in common usage and will be seen to have been employed in some of the large altar diagrams of both the practicus

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ree successive manifestations; the first aspect far above our reach, the second and third successively lower, and their conception of these three was very similar to that of the three persons of the blessed trinity in christianity and the trimurti among the hindus; in fact, practically all philosophical religions have recognized the triple manifestation of the deity. in the book of dzyan the same emblem, but without the two lines, was used to denote the same reality, the first logos or word; while in christian mysticism it signifies the christ within the bosom of the father. it was also considered to be a reflection of the blazing star which should be in the centre of the lodge ceiling, it being in this respect the same as the ever-burning ruby lamp. it symbolized his light that gburns eve

them. 148. their original significance, however, dates much further back than this. it is claimed that these two columns originally represented the north and south pole-stars. they were at first the pillars of horus and set, but their names were afterwards changed to tat or ta-at, and tattu, the former meaning gin strength h and the latter gto establish h, the two together being considered as the emblem of stability. tattu is the entrance to the region where the mortal soul is blended with the immortal spirit, and thereby established for ever, as i have already explained in chapter i. it seems strange that so many authors should speak of the north and south pole stars, when the fact is that there is no star of any consequence at the south pole. the southern pole of the heavens is situated

ore called gthe indented tassel h, later corrupted into the gtesselated border h. the french call it gla houpe dentelee h, and describe it as ga cord forming true lover fs knots, which surrounds the tracing board h. the tesselated border refers us, says the masculine ritual, to the beautiful border formed round the sun by the planets in their various revolutions. the co-masonic ritual makes it an emblem of the guardian wall protecting humanity, composed of adepts or men who have attained the perfection of human evolution in past centuries and millennia. they stand around humanity in the spiritual worlds, it is said in a buddhist scripture, to save mankind from further and far greater misery and sorrow. 218. there is a similar dual interpretation also for the four tassels which appear in th

he cause ceases and man the effect begins. h 222. several different kinds of stars are to be seen in the masonic lodge, and it is well to consider the special significance of each of them, for there is nothing in the lodge that is mere ornament, without meaning- on the contrary, even the simplest thing is there for a purpose and has great significance. the six-pointed star is, as we have seen, an emblem of the unity of spirit and matter, of god in manifestation in his universe. the five-pointed star is placed in the east on the wall over the head of the r.w.m. and is called the star in the east, and also the star of initiation. it is the symbol of the perfect man, god manifesting through man, not through the universe as a whole. man is a five-fold being- physical, emotional, mental, intuit

inted and hanging low on the breast, as it is now worn. 235. the square is usually considered to represent morality, the level equality, and the plumb-rule uprightness or justice. it will be seen that in this case the term gsquare h is applied exclusively to the tool, and not to the geometrical figure. in his masonic encyclopaedia, kenning mentions that the square was often seen in churches as an emblem of the old operative builders, and that upon an early metal square found near limerick, in ireland, the following words and the date 1517 are inscribed: 236. i strive to live with love and care 237. upon the level, by the square. 238. this seems to show that our speculative inter-pretations were already known at the early date mentioned. 239. there is also a translation from an ancient pers

ed or rose again. the symbol in the centre- that of the double axe- is that of the most high god; so the complete glyph is thus a kind of symbolic creed, which for those who drew it affirmed their faith in the descent of the deity into matter and his final triumphant ascension from it: gdescended he; ascended he h. if we were to interpret it along lines of christian symbology we might call it the emblem of the crucified and triumphant christ; but it is also a token of the whole method of evolution. 261. this device appears in many places. it is to be seen in the museum of the louvre in paris, engraved upon a chaldaean intaglio made of green jasper. it is also to be found on the walls of some very old churches in devonshire and cornwall in england, where it must have been engraved by the wa

he open lodge; it indicates that the life of the second logos, the christ, is flowing. it is not that the life of the third logos, which is represented by the horizontal line, or by the w.j.w. fs column, has ceased to flow (it is flowing always while an external world exists) but that the second aspect of the divine is also outpouring his life, and causing the evolution of living forms. thus this emblem refers to the two outpourings, and shows that the master presides over all three representations. 263. this figure, called the tau, has another very important meaning, for the upright line signifies the masculine element, and the horizontal line the feminine, in the deity- thus slowing that god manifests as mother as well as father, as we are told in the stanzas of dzyan(*the secret doctrin

i. p. m. stands in the lodge as a watcher to see that all is in order, and test everything by his judgment, so does an architect test the rectangularity of a structure by the triangle of ratio 3: 4: 5. it is he who also declares that ghis light is ever in our midst h, pronouncing his final authority upon the presence of the divine, and opening the v.s.l. 269. the w.s.w. fs jewel is the level, an emblem of the equality and harmony which he must endeavour to preserve among the brn. in the lodge; but, as we have seen, this is also a symbol of the second member of the trinity, the universal christ-principle, the life-force in evolution. the two ideas, are not, however, inconsistent, for in christ all men are brothers, since all lives are part of the one great life in which we have our being

we have our being. the most perfect equality should exist in the lodge, just as in the sight of god, who treats all equally, with the same judgment and according to the same laws. an additional interpretation of this symbol is that it indicates that only those buildings which are erected on a good level can stand firm and strong. 270. the w.j.w. has the plumb-rule as his jewel. it is taken as an emblem of the rectitude which should mark the conduct of the brn. during the time of refreshment, when they are outside the lodge. such conduct at all times leads to a life that is full of grace and beauty. 271. the remaining officers also wear jewels of office. those of the orator, secretary, treasurer and d.c. are respectively a book, crossed pens, crossed keys and crossed wands, of which the me

sage: 285. ye are stones of a temple, which were prepared beforehand for a building of god the father, being raised to the heights by the working-tool of jesus christ, which is the cross, and using for a rope the holy spirit, your faith being a windlass, and love the way leading up to god. 286. sometimes the rose is impressed upon that equal-armed cross, and then we have the rose croix, the great emblem of the rosicrucians, which figures largely in the eighteenth degree. the maltese cross is another form of it, with the arms widening or spreading out, conveying the idea that the force that is pouring out is constantly increasing. again, we find it with flames shooting out from the ends of the cross; and when it is in active revolution, with the flames trailing at right angles to the arms o

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

orking of the law upon the different planes was investigated by the inner sight, and shown to the student. the whole of what we now call black masonry led up to an explanation of karma as divine justice, this having been preserved for us in shadow in what is now the 31, that of the grand inspector inquisitor commander, whose symbol is a pair of scales. in egypt this pair of scales was taken as an emblem of the perfect balance of divine justice; the aspirant learnt that all the evil and horror associated with the working out of karma was indeed based on perfect justice, although it had appeared as evil to the lesser vision of the profane. 176. thus the first stage of the higher instruction, that of the rose-croix or red masonry, was devoted to the knowledge of good, while the second stage

her dominion over air, earth, water and the fire within the earth. 230. as i have written above, the most sacred symbol in minoan worship was the double axe or labrys. this, mounted on a stone column, is found in the shrines of ancient crete, and when depicted on any object or building invariably denotes its sacred character (see plate i, 1 and plate iv, 1, following p. 50) 231. it was always an emblem of the most high god, and is in reality the ancestor of the master s gavel, which he bears because in his humble way he represents the all-commander, ruling his lodge in the name of the spiritual king. in crete we often find it associated with what is called the sacral knot (plate i, 2, following p. 50. when thus combined it closely resembles the egyptian ankh, the token of immortality (pla

is double axe, especially when surmounted by the sacral knot, signified the eternal truth of death and resurrection, which was the central mystery of the religion of crete as it was of that of egypt; and so it was often laid before her to typify the ever-recurring miracle of the rebirth of tree and grain from the death of winter. the very form of the labyrinth in the recesses of which this sacred emblem was concealed was in itself symbolical and full of meaning; it was based upon the cross, and the representations of it on seals and coins sometimes take the shape of the swastika (plate i, 4, following p. 50. 233. connected with this outer religious worship in ancient crete there were mysteries of initiation for the few, and it is in these that we find the main elements of similarity to fre

shrines it. the celebrated scene on the sarcophagus of hagia triada shows raven-like birds brought down by ritual strains and libations on to the sacred double axes, which are thus charged as it were with the divinity. the doves on the gold chalice from mycenae and of nestor s cup repeat the same idea. 245. but it was not only the cult object itself that could be thus sanctified by the descending emblem of spiritual indwelling. in the case of the gold plates from the third shaft grave at mycenae the doves are seen not only perched on the shrine but on the head and fluttering from the shoulders of a nude female personage (plate iii, 2, following p. 50. so too the central clay image from the late shrine of the double axes at knossos shows the dove settled on her head. in these cases we have

ersities, and in addition many were interested in one or other of the systems of philosophy. 358. this inner school was kept secret, so that none even of the initiates knew of its existence until actually received into it. the dress of the mystae was the dappled fawn-skin (nebris(*recherches sur les mysteres du paganisme. par m. le baron de sainte-croix. ed, paris, 1817. tome i, p. 347) a fitting emblem of the uncontrolled astral body, which in this 1 had to be trained and brought into subjection by the will. this dress corresponded with the leopard-skin worn by the egyptian priests, and the tiger or antelope skin so often used by the eastern yogis. 359. the greater mysteries 360. the greater mysteries were held at eleusis in the month of september (boedromion, and in connection with their

wisting serpents and surmounted by the pine-cone. it was the same as the thyrsus; and was said to be hollow and to be filled with fire. in india it is a stick of bamboo with seven knots in it, which represents the spinal column with its seven centres or chakras. when a candidate had been initiated, he was often described as one who had been touched with the thyrsus, showing that it was not a mere emblem, but had also a practical use. it also indicated the spinal cord, ending in the medulla, while the serpents were symbolical of the two channels called in eastern terminology ida and pingala; and the fire enclosed within it was the serpent-fire which in sanskrit is called kundalini. it was laid by the hierophant against the back of the candidate, and thus used as a strong magnetic instrument

also one of the mark degree. king solomon s knot is the traditional name among the italians of to-day for the elaborate interlaced stonework executed by the comacine masters up to the eleventh century. it consists always of a single strand woven and interwoven in the most complex and beautiful designs. leader scott calls it that intricate and endless variety of the single unbroken line of unity- emblem of the manifold ways of the power of the one god who has neither beginning nor end(*the cathedral builders, p. 72) 517. other survivals of the collegia 518. before passing on to the rise of gothic architecture, which marks the climax of operative achievement in the middle ages, it will be well if we indicate certain other survivals of the collegia and their mysteries; for although the great

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

the rules. the exchange then heats up. finally, with the devil still refusing to budge, st. peter storms out the door, exclaiming, o.k. then! i ll see you in court! whereupon satan laughs and retorts, where are you going to find a lawyer! implying, of course, humor 119 that hell has a monopoly on members of that particular profession. the devil s association with sex has also made him a favorite emblem of sensuality. the familiar term horny, for instance, refers simultaneously to satan s horns and to his reputation for high levels of sexual desire. in a similar vein, greeting cards, especially anniversary and birthday cards, will often make use of something traditionally associated with the devil (e.g, a forked tale or a pitchfork) to convey the message, you know what i really want for my

r (often via the internet) to further their goal of the creation of a better self by sharing their knowledge with one another. local groups are referred to as pylons, and larger get-togethers as conclaves. there is an annual international conclave.among other activities, setians gather for both rituals and psychodramas, viewed as the symbolic acting out of their goals and development. the primary emblem of the temple is a variant on the familiar inverted pentagram within a circle used by most modern satanist groups. setians refer to this symbol as the pentagram of set. at formal gatherings, members wear the pentagram as a medallion. different levels of initiation wear medallions of different colors: first degree( setian) white second degree( adept) red third degree( priest) black fourth de

LIBER COLLEGII SANCTI

in an appendix to james eschelman fs book the magical and mystical system of the a a according to this the neophyte robe was plain black with a hood and the symbols added were as follows: zelator: silver eye in a triangle on the forehead; practicus: hexagram of 48 rays (silver) around the triangle; philosophus: calvary cross of six squares (in various colours) on the breast; dominus liminis: rose emblem at the centre of this cross. contra this, it has been suggested that the dark-coloured hooded robes with a rose cross on the breast and the eye in a triangle surrounded by a 48-rayed hexagram on the forehead of the hood, as worn by crowley and leila waddell in a number of contemporary photographs, were in fact one or another of the second order robes; specifically, that in the photograph gt

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

the numbers is the evolution of the worlds, for as it is written in the clavicula salomonis .the numbers are ideas; and the ideas are the powers, and the powers are the holy elohim of life. that which is behind and beyond all number and all thought (even as the ain soph with its mighty veils depending back from kether is behind and beyond all manifestation) is the number 0. its symbol is the very emblem of infinite space and infinite time. multiply it by any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes.sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with- us is declared by thoth, the great god, and the material universe sinketh into infinity. the first

e and infinite time. multiply it by any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes.sinks into the ocean of eternity. so also is the ain soph. from it proceed all things: unto it all will return, when the age of brahman is over and done, and the day of peace-be-with- us is declared by thoth, the great god, and the material universe sinketh into infinity. the first number, then, is one; emblem of the all-father; the unmanifest mind behind all manifestation: the first mind. multiply by it any other number.for the multiplication of the numbers is a generation, as is the multiplication of men and gods.and behold! the resultant is a replica of the number taken. so is one the all-father, the all-begetter.generating and producing all. the next step is the division into two. thus was ma

nd instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of$ and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore symbolised by the c (see lecture on microcosmos in mss. of r.r. et a.c* in theosophical nomeclature this latter was the ad m u anas or jeheshua: the third principle. for the same reason i have drawn the triangle with the 3 uppermost 1d 3 2 instead of 3 c 1

ry. r signifieth the head or beginning of time and things; and by taro it is glory, life, light, sun. thus read .of the dawning of life and light. a is by shape the svastika, symbolically aleph, the ox, as though showing the fearful force of the spiritual .whirling motions. upon the material plane, as a terrible and destructive power. this is also shown by the foolish man, as the material tarotic emblem of that which in its proper and higher manifestation is the spiritual ether. therefore we read .begun are the whirling motions. c signifieth mighty in flame, whereof it is also the hieroglyph. it is that ruach elohim brooding upon the face of the waters. so read .formulated is the primal fire* as it is written .thy youth shall be renewed as the eagle.s [psalm ciii, 5] now the eagle is n. fo

ue of the word, we get 10+5+300+6+5= 326 which we can then reduce as 3+2+6= 11 .the characters of heaven with thy finger &c. is from an english translation of the .rosicrucian prayer. which appeared in the second part of geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer (an eighteenth century german alchemical- rosicrucian work, as used in the adeptus minor ritual of the r.r. et. a.c. the latin motto on the final emblem translates as .may the lord our god, who gave unto us the signs, be blessed. it is a slight adaptation of a latin motto which appeared on the figure of the .golden and rosy cross. in geheime figuren (which design was in turn borrowed by mathers for the reverse of the .complete symbol of the rose cross. in the r.r. et a.c. ta.liber mmm the studentship syllabus of the 4 iot liber mmm this cou

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

--the music of the spheres--the use of color in symbolism--the colors of the spectrum and the musical scale--zodiacal and planetary colors. 81 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds jonah and the whale--the fish the symbol of christ--the egyptian scarab--jupiter's fly- the serpent of wisdom--the sacred crocodile. 85 fishes, insects, animals, reptiles, and birds, part ii the dove, the yonic emblem--the self-renewing phoenix--the great seal of the united states of america--bast, the cat goddess of the ptolemies--apis, the sacred bull--the monoceros, or unicorn. 89 flowers, plants, fruits, and trees the flower, a phallic symbol--the lotus blossom--the scandinavian world tree, yggdrasil--the sprig of acacia--the juice of the grape--the magical powers of the mandrake. 93 stones, metals

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

a sword. the slaying of the bull signifies that the rays of the sun, symbolized by the sword, release at the vernal equinox the vital essences of the earth--the blood of the bull- which, pouring from the wound made by the sun god, fertilize the seeds of living things. dogs were held sacred to the cult of mithras, being symbolic of sincerity and trustworthiness. the mithraics used the serpent a an emblem of ahriman, the spirit of evil, and water rats were held sacred to him. the bull is esoterically the constellation of taurus; the serpent, its opposite in the zodiac, scorpio; the sun, mithras, entering into the side of the bull, slays the celestial creature and nourishes the universe with its blood. click to enlarge the birth of mithras. from montfaucon's antiquities mithras was born out o

eing, with the five emanations marked out by appropriate symbols. from the human body, the usual form assigned to the deity, spring the two supporters, nous and logos, expressed in the serpents, symbols of the inner senses, and the quickening understanding; on which account the greeks had made the serpent the attribute of pallas. his head--that of a cock--represents phronesis, that bird being the emblem of foresight and of vigilance. his two arms hold the symbols of sophia and dynamis: the shield of wisdom and the whip of power" the gnostics were divided in their opinions concerning the demiurgus, or creator of the lower worlds. he established the terrestrial universe with the aid of six sons, or emanations (possibly the planetary angels) which he formed out of, and yet within, himself. as

tian and greek gods, and became the supreme deity of both religions. his power continued until the fourth century of click to enlarge the alexandrian serapis. from mosaize historie der hebreeuwse kerke. serapis is often shown standing on the back of the sacred crocodile, carrying in his left hand a rule with which to measure the inundations of the nile, and balancing with his right hand a curious emblem consisting of an animal with the heads. the first head--that of a lion--signified the present; the second head--that of a wolf--the past; and the third head--that of a dog--the future. the body with its three heads was enveloped by the twisted coils of a serpent. figures of serapis are occasionally accompanied by cerberus, the three-headed dog of pluto, and--like jupiter--carry baskets of g

torch race, on the sixth a procession led by a statue of iacchus, and on the seventh an athletic contest. the eighth day was devoted to a repetition of the ceremonial for the benefit of any who might have been prevented from coming sooner. the ninth and last day was devoted to the deepest philosophical issues of the eleusinia, during which an urn or jar--the symbol of bacchus--was exhibited as an emblem of supreme importance. p. 30 ceremonies were performed at midnight. some of those sleeping spirits who had failed to awaken their higher natures during the earth life and who now floated around in the invisible worlds, surrounded by a darkness of their own making, occasionally slipped through at this hour and assumed the forms of various creatures. the mystics of eleusis also laid stress up

s a composite creature, the upper part--with the exception of his horns--being human, and the lower part in the form of a goat. pan is the prototype of natural energy and, while undoubtedly a phallic deity, should nor be confused with priapus. the pipes of pan signify the natural harmony of the spheres, and the god himself is a symbol of saturn because this planet is enthroned in capricorn, whose emblem is a goat. the egyptians were initiated into the mysteries of pan, who was regarded as a phase of jupiter, the demiurgus. pan represented the impregnating power of the sun and was the chief of a horde rustic deities, and satyrs. he also signified the controlling spirit of the lower worlds. the fabricated a story to the effect that at the time of the birth of christ the oracles were silenced

chitects and builders, the great pyramid of gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion. eloquent in its silence, inspiring in its majesty, divine in its simplicity, the great pyramid is indeed a sermon in stone. its magnitude overwhelms the puny sensibilities of man. among the shifting sands of time it stands as a fitting emblem of eternity itself. who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts and dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone? the earliest and best-known account of the building of the great pyramid is that given by that highly revered but somewhat imaginative historian, herodotus "the pyramid was built in steps, ba

anet mercury. relating hermes to the pyramid emphasizes anew the fact that it was in reality the supreme temple of the invisible and supreme deity. the great pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the mysteries, the first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and sciences. it was the perfect emblem of the microcosm and the macrocosm and, according to the secret teachings, the tomb of osiris, the black god of the nile. osiris represents a certain manifestation of solar energy, and therefore his house or tomb is emblematic of the universe within which he is entombed and upon the cross of which he is crucified. through the mystic passageways and chambers of the great pyramid passed the i

re is as much an exact science as astronomy, medicine or jurisprudence. to accomplish this end religions were primarily established; and out of religion have come science, philosophy, and logic as methods whereby this divine purpose might be realized. the dying god shall rise again! the secret room in the house of the hidden places shall be rediscovered. the pyramid again shall stand as the ideal emblem of solidarity, inspiration, aspiration, resurrection, and regeneration. as the passing sands of time bury civilization upon civilization beneath their weight, the pyramid shall remain as the visible covenant between eternal wisdom and the world. the time may yet come when the chants of the illumined shall be heard once more in its ancient passageways and the master of the hidden house shall

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

magical instrument which is par excellence emblematic of the powers of divination or prophecy. the staff of the prophet, the divining rod of the water witch, or dowser (as opposed to the pendulum, and the wand of the necromancer are all variations on the same theme. in the witch processes that i enumerate here, a wand or wands in the plural all play a primary part. the rod is obviously a phallic emblem and has always been associated with divine wisdom whether it is presented in the tibetan pantheon as a dorji or thunderbolt sceptre or as the classical mercury's winged rod, the caduceus. all the legendary wizards from biblical times on have carried rods wherein their powers were often vested. jannes and jambres of the egyptians, moses, aaron and elijah, merlin, virgilius, roger bacon: the

ned, say that it is an abbreviated version of the alchemical rose cross, whereas others see it as being a type of the crux ansata, or egyptian ankh, symbolizing divine life. in this particular instance, however, the symbol connotes a different history altogether, being derived from the same source as that old pirate device familiar to all readers of treasure island, the skull and crossbones. this emblem makes its appearance in more serious context in both templar and masonic symbolism, alongside that of the witch tradition. it is the sign of osiris. its proper import is that of death (sometimes accompanied by resurrection, and most necromantic processes make use of it. it is also used in laying curses on people, as you will find out in chapter 6, which deals with magical warfare and such m

nsidered most germane to matters of love, and a symbolic attribute of the lady. cabalistic legend has it that balkis, queen of sheba, was a witch, and that the wisdom she came to question solomon, king of israel, about was magical in content. i am the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valleys, as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. the rose has been preserved as the lady's emblem in the annals of courtly love and among the symbols of alchemy. the lily, however, passed directly into christian catholicism and became an attribute of the madonna, which is only right and proper, as the virgin mary is but a christian echo of an aspect of the lady herself. however, due to this association, it is more to be considered a symbol of cool chastity rather than love or passion. h

ha and omega" is one of the many titles bestowed upon jesus by the early christians, meaning the "first and the last" a reference to his attributed divinity. these words were sometimes formed into an equal-armed cross, which symbol though pagan in origin, as has been already mentioned, became a suitable stock on which to graft the newly arrived cult symbol, the latin or cross of crucifixion. this emblem was then used as a code sign among early converts. however, prior to the formation of the holy roman empire, the early christians themselves were subject to great persecution, and someone hit on an ingenious method of continuing the use of the pater noster code sign and still utilizing all the letters comprising the cross, but cunningly forming them into an acrostic which was at the same ti

e. in order to raise a tempest or wind, whether it be used to split clouds or tear up trees, contact has to be made with the powers of the air, using as many magical images congruent with the airy principle as appeal to you. the square of mercury may be of use and herne invoked. the kerubic eagle, or great bird, from the watchtower of the east should be called upon. the wand should be used as the emblem of power in your ritual, and you should seek to call up all the stormy, howling, blustering, wind-swept memories of gale and hurricane within your experience, and augment them by rhyming spell within a circle properly cast with mercurial incense. for a benevolent zephyr, invoke on a wednesday with the moon waxing at 8 a.m, 3 p.m, or 10 p.m; for a destructive storm, conjure at one of the sam

invoke on a wednesday with the moon waxing at 8 a.m, 3 p.m, or 10 p.m; for a destructive storm, conjure at one of the same hours on a thursday with the moon waning. for an electrical storm, call upon cernunnos and all the powers of fire on a tuesday with the moon waning. the great lion from the watchtower of the south must be invoked, and your fiery athame or sword must be brandished as a magical emblem; burn an incense of wrath and chastisement. thunor and all the storm gods must attend on you! finally, for mist, cloud, or rain, invoke the lady habondia as ruler of the great waters, and that serpent of old, mighty tiamat, from the watchtower of the west. burn your lunar incense from chapter 3, and use your chalice of salt water as the magical weapon of invocation, performing the operation

ophies has been recognized by many, so i will not enlarge upon the subject. the basic magical practices of both east and west, however, appear to derive from a common prehistoric shamanic stock, and remain in many cases similar, if not identical. finally, whatever your coven's inclination, frazer's golden bough and robert graves's white goddess will be invaluable source books. the "logo" or coven emblem itself, should be designed in the same manner as a heraldic crest, incorporating the symbolism you have elected to use into a single composite design; the design should be simple enough to engrave or embroider upon your witch jewels and to be visualized easily in meditations. your coven hierarchy similar to the priesthood, from very primitive times down to the present day, secret magical so

MEANING OF MASONRY

omised inheritance of him who endures to the end, let us never forget that if we never do anything to disgrace the badge of flesh with which god has endowed each of us, that badge will never disgrace us. brethren, i charge you to regard your apron as one of the most precious and speaking symbols our order has to give you. remember that when you first wore it was a piece of pure white lambskin; an emblem of that purity and innocence which we always associate with the lamb and with the new-born child. remember that you first wore it with the flap raised, it being thus a five-cornered badge, indicating the five senses, by means of which we enter into relations with the material world around us (our" five points of fellowship" with the material world, but indicating also by the triangular port

e it with the flap raised, it being thus a five-cornered badge, indicating the five senses, by means of which we enter into relations with the material world around us (our" five points of fellowship" with the material world, but indicating also by the triangular portion above, in conjunction with the quadrangular portion below, that man's nature is a combination of soul and body; the three-sided emblem at the top added to the four-sided emblem beneath making seven, the perfect number; for, as it is written in an ancient hebrew doctrine with which masonry is closely allied" god blessed and loved the number seven more than all things under his throne" by which is mea nt that man, the seven-fold being, is of the most cherished of all the creator's works. and hence also it is that the lodge h

reater lights has theoretically become achieved. the interlaced triangles of lights surrounding the central altar in that supreme degree imply the union of perceptive faculty with the object of their contemplati on; the blending of the human and the divine consciousness. what then do the three greater lights emblematize, and what does their intimate conjunction connote (1) the written word is the emblem and external expression of the unwritten eternal word, the logos or substantial wisdom of deity out of which every living soul has emanated and which, therefore, is the ground or base of human life" in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god; without him was not anything made that was made; in him was life and the life was the light of men; and the light sh

lematized by the increased blue adornments of the apron, as also by its silver tassels and the silver serpent used to fasten the apron-strings. in the first and second degrees no metal has appeared upon the apron. the candidate has been theoretically divesting himself of all base metals and transmuting them into spiritual riches. with mastership he has attained an influx of those riches under the emblem of the tassels of silver, a colourless precious metal always associated with the soul, as gold by reason of its supreme value and warm colour is associated with spirit. the silver serpent is the emblem of divine wisdom knitting the soul's new-made vesture together. 7. the pale blue and silver of the master mason's apron become intensified in the deep blue and gold ornamentation worn by the

everal stages, at each of which he is told he is approaching more nearly to that central essence, that holy ground of his being upon which only the humble can walk, that" earth" which only the meek shall inherit. it is in this state that the introverted mind, groping for its own foundation and centre, reaches at length the bedrock of its being. as the symbolic ceremony exhibits the grasping of an emblem embodying the word of life, so literally and in fact the questing mind, in coming upon the vital and immortal principle animating it" lays hold on eternal life" it discovers the lost word, the divine root of its being, from which it has hitherto been so long dissociated. it fails to realize the fact at first, for" the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not" presentl

agination beyond the visible level and fitting the mind for the apprehension of ultra-physical form and beauty. even athletic exercises were made to subserve the same purpose; wrestling and racing were not vulgar sports; they were regarded sacramentally, as the type of combats the soul must engage in against the competition of the fleshly desires; and the victor's crown of laurel or olive was the emblem of wisdom and illumination resulting to him in whom th e spirit conquers the flesh. thus every intellectual and physical interest was made subservient to the one idea of separating the soul from material bondage and was purposely of a purifying or "cathartic" nature that should cleanse the thoughts and desires of the aspirant and make him white within and without even as the modern candidat

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

candidates madeit into the inner sanctum to learn the truth. the skull and bones of y ale university istheir satanic majestys request94atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation one such faustian fraternity. many presidents, politicians, and industrialists belong toit.a yale is a strange hybrid animal, often seen on royal heraldry. another enclave is called thebohemian society and whose emblem is the owl. this creature, appears in miniature, on theamerican one-dollar bill and is described as an appropriate secret society totem, because itcan see things in the dark. for more on this controversial subject, see the works of jordanmaxwell, anthony sutton, lyndon la rouche, and eustace mullins (see bladerunner andthe brotherhood of the bell) the government of this country has not only

e winds, and was hurled to earth by zeus or horus. set was figured as a hugecelestial serpent with a hundred writhing heads and various fearsome voices, all of which imageryappendix b: book abstracts258atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation pointed to the comet, a fearful god who rained down rocks and stones, and hence the myth of thedragons bones sown by cadmus (p. 63)mizpahcentral emblem of israel, as the place of the sacred stones, can surely be identified as the same stonedragon as the theban round temple, or as manethos serpent typhon (p. 64)lambs skinwas originally worn by the priests of ammon, of which abraham was one.scotathe irish have definite records of jeremiah dwelling in their island, of his burial place, and of the twoprincesses, one named scota, who played a l

ular narrative. naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first universal language. in buddhism,wisdom has always been tied, symbolically, to the figure of the serpent. in the western tradition it canbe found as used by the christ in the gospel of saint matthew (10:16, be ye therefore wise as ser-pents, and harmless as doves.in all mythological language the snake is also an emblem of immortality. its endless representationwith its tail in its mouth (ouroboros, and the constant renewal of its skin and vigor, enliven the sym-bols of continued youth and eternity. the serpent's reputation for positive medicinal and/or life-preserving qualities have also contributed tothe honors of the serpent as still seen by the employment of the caduceus [staff around which twosnakes a

MORALS AND DOGMA

reed. the square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. it is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed to be a plane. the compass describes circles, and deals with spherical trigonometry, the science of the spheres and heavens. the former, therefore, is an emblem of what concerns the earth and the body; the latter of what concerns the heavens and the soul. yet the compass is also used in plane trigonometry, as in erecting perpendiculars; and, therefore, you are reminded that, although in this degree both points of the compass are under the square, and you are now dealing only with the moral and political meaning of the symbols, and not with their ph

"thy sun" says isaiah to jerusalem "shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever" such is the type of a free people. our northern ancestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, a

y which creation is said to have been effected" the ornaments of a lodge are said to be "the mosaic pavement, the indented tessel, and the blazing star" the mosaic pavement, chequered in squares or lozenges, is said to represent the ground-floor of king solomon's temple; and the indented tessel "that beautiful tesselated border which surrounded it" the blazing star in the centre is said to be "an emblem of divine providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the east to the place of our saviour's nativity" but "there was no stone seen" within the temple. the walls were covered with planks of cedar, and the floor was covered with planks of fir. there is no evidence that there was such a pavement or floor in the temple, or such a bordering. in england, anc

the author of the seasons, and the god of time; son of isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings. it was hermes, also, the master of learning, whose name in greek is that of the god mercury. it became the sacred and potent sign or character of the magi, the pentalpha, and is the significant emblem of liberty and freedom, blazing with a steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of revolutions, and promising serene skies and fertile seasons to the nations, after the storms of change and tumult. in the east of the lodge, over the master, inclosed in a triangle, is the hebrew letter yod [hebrew] or [hebrew. in the english and american lodges the letter g. is substitute

nifested deity, the absolute, who has no name. our french brethren place this letter yod in the centre of the blazing star. and in the old lectures, our ancient english brethren said "the blazing star or glory in the centre refers us to that grand luminary, the sun, which enlightens the earth, and by its genial influence dispenses blessings to mankind" they called it also in the same lectures, an emblem of prudence. the word _prudentia_ means, in its original and fullest signification _foresight; and, accordingly, the blazing star has been regarded as an emblem of omniscience, or the all-seeing eye, which to the egyptian initiates was the emblem of osiris, the creator. with the yod in the centre, it has the kabalistic meaning of the divine energy, manifested as light, creating the universe

us not into the hands of its enemies_ but khaled_"the sword of god_ who had marched from victory to victory, exclaimed to his wearied soldiers_"let no man sleep! there will be rest enough in the bowers of paradise; sweet will be the repose never more to be followed by labor_ the faith of the arab had become stronger than that of the christian, and he conquered. the sword is also, in the bible, an emblem of speech, or of the utterance of thought. thus, in that vision or apocalypse of the sublime exile of patmos, a protest in the name of the ideal, overwhelming the real world, a tremendous satire uttered in the name of religion and liberty, and with its fiery reverberations smiting the throne of the c sars, a sharp two-edged sword comes out of the mouth of the semblance of the son of man, en

in which an ass figures largely, was called "the golden ass" the pagans accused the christians of worshipping an ass, and they did not invent this reproach, but it came from the samaritan jews, who, figuring the data of the kabalah in regard to the divinity by egyptian symbols, also represented the intelligence by the figure of the magical star adored under the name of _remphan, science under the emblem of anubis, whose name they changed to _nibbas, and the vulgar faith or credulity under the figure of _thartac, a god represented with a book, a cloak, and the head of an ass. according to the samaritan doctors, christianity was the reign of _thartac, blind faith and vulgar credulity erected into a universal oracle, and preferred to intelligence and science. synesius, bishop of ptolema s, a

nd accepted scottish rite, who have not by study and application made themselves familiar with masonic learning and jurisprudence. the degrees of this rite are not for those who are content with the mere work and ceremonies, and do not seek to explore the mines of wisdom that lie buried beneath the surface. you still advance toward the light, toward that star, blazing in the distance, which is an emblem of the divine truth, given by god to the first men, and preserved amid all the vicissitudes of ages in the traditions and teachings of masonry. how far you will advance, depends upon yourself alone. here, as everywhere in the world, darkness struggles with light, and clouds and shadows intervene between you and the truth. when you shall have become imbued with the morality of masonry, with

the universe. it is the especial symbol of duty and of faith. to it, and the seven that continually revolve around it, mystical meanings are attached, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be permitted to advance, when you are made acquainted with the philosophical doctrines of the hebrews. the morning star, rising in the east, jupiter, called by the hebrews tsadoc or tsydyk _just, is an emblem to us of the ever-approaching dawn of perfection and masonic light. the three great lights of the lodge are symbols to us of the power, wisdom, and beneficence of the deity. they are also symbols of the first three _sephiroth, or emanations of the deity, according to the kabalah _kether, the omnipotent divine _will _chochmah, the divine intellectual _power_ to _generate_ thought, and _binah

eadly feud with the demons of ignorance, brutality, baseness, falsehood, slavishness of soul, intolerance, superstition, tyranny, meanness, the insolence of wealth, and bigotry. when despotism and superstition, twin-powers of evil and darkness, reigned everywhere and seemed invincible and immortal, it invented, to avoid persecution, the mysteries, that is to say, the allegory, the symbol, and the emblem, and transmitted its doctrines by the secret mode of initiation. now, retaining its ancient symbols, and in part its ancient ceremonies, it displays in every civilized country its banner, on which in letters of living light its great principles are written; and it smiles at the puny efforts of kings and popes to crush it out by excommunication and interdiction. man's views in regard to god

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, and "pure fool" of act i of parsifal, and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. but to be 'saviour' he must be born and grow to manhood; thus parsifal acquires the sacred lance, emblem of virility. he usually wears the 'coat of many colours' like joseph the 'dreamer; so he is also now the green man of spring festivals. but his 'folly' is now not innocence but inspiration of wine: he drinks from the graal, offered to him by the priestess. so we see him fully armed as bacchus diphues, male and female in one, bearing the thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, wh

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

phrodite of the greeks. the worship of this divinity was only established in rome in comparatively later times. annual festivals, called veneralia, were held in her honour, and the month of april, when flowers and plants spring forth afresh, was sacred to her. she was worshipped as venus cloacina (or the purifier, and as venus myrtea (or the myrtle goddess, an epithet derived from the myrtle, the emblem of love. helios (sol. the worship of helios was introduced into greece from asia. according to the earliest conceptions of the greeks he was not page 67 only the sun-god, but also the personification of life and all life-giving power, for light is well known to be an indispensable condition of all healthy terrestrial life. the worship of the sun was originally very widely spread [62]not onl

rties presented mankind with the most useful gift, should obtain the privilege of naming the city. upon this poseidon struck the ground with his trident, and the horse sprang forth in all his untamed strength and graceful beauty. from the spot which athene touched page 116 with her wand, issued the olive-tree, whereupon the gods unanimously awarded to her the victory, declaring her gift to be the emblem of peace and plenty, whilst that of poseidon was thought to be the symbol of war and [107]bloodshed. athene accordingly called the city athens, after herself, and it has ever since retained this name. poseidon tamed the horse for the use of mankind, and was believed to have taught men the art of managing horses by the bridle. the isthmian games (so named because they were held on the isthmu

cury, which took place on the 25th of may, it was the custom for merchants to sprinkle themselves and their merchandise with this holy water, in order to insure large profits from their wares. the fetiales (roman priests whose duty it was to act as guardians of the public faith) refused to recognize the identity of mercury with hermes, and ordered him to be represented with a sacred branch as the emblem of peace, instead of the caduceus. in later page 138 times, however, he was completely identified with the greek hermes. dionysus (bacchus. dionysus, also called bacchus (from bacca, berry, was the god of wine, and the personification of the blessings of nature in general. page 139 page 140 the worship of this divinity, which is supposed to have been introduced into greece from asia (in all

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

corporations in france 161 the magnificat where it says "deposuit potentes de sede" the chairman who was stepping down from his post would leave his seat, which was located in the center of the choir, and find himself a new seat among the elders. at the same time and continuing through the end of the verse "et exaltavit homilies" the newly elected chairman would take possession of the baton, the emblem of his station, and sit down on the chair vacated by his predecessor."18 every year the brotherhood sang a solemn mass, which was followed by a procession in which one member carried the candle and baton of the trade. the following day, another service was celebrated and a novena was begun for the souls of deceased masters. in addition to this annual ceremony, the divine service with solemn

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

their use was spread by the god sraosha( obedience, who is present at every religious ceremony. he is embodied in men s prayers and hymns, which he takes to heaven in a chariot drawn by four white horses with golden hooves. maturity these figures represent mature human beings. when the world is recreated at the end of time, all adults will be brought back to life at the age of 40. ahura mazda sun emblem this glazed brick relief from the sixth or fifth century bce was found at susa in iran. it shows the winged sun emblem of ahura mazda placed above two winged sphinxes, who appear to be standing guard. ahura mazda ahura mazda (also known as ohrmazd) was the culmination of zurvan s desire. he is an all-knowing creator whose plans for a perfect world are frustrated by ahriman. youth this figur

seduced all of dionysus maenads, as well as the moon goddess selene (luna, he was often rejected. his least dignified pursuit was of hercules lover, omphale, queen of lydia. climbing into her bed, pan tried to embrace her, only to discover the couple had exchanged clothes in their loveplay and he was embracing hercules. hercules kicked pan out of bed and across the floor. caduceus, a messenger s emblem in ancient greece to ensure safe passage winged sandals for swift travel hermes hermes, shown here on a greek red-figure cup dating from the late 5th century bce, is depicted as an athletic young man. beautiful nymph syrinx was so beautiful that she was often mistaken for her mistress, the goddess artemis. the only way to tell them apart was that syrinx carried a bow made of horn and artemi

e shown embarking in their canoes; on the left, they kill lumaluma; his skeleton and those of two wives are shown bottom left. various sacred objects are depicted to the right of the skeletons. sacred objects when lumaluma died, the men gathered up his clapping sticks and ritual basket and other sacred objects that were released from his body to be used in religious ceremonies. this sacred rangga emblem is carved by dua clan members to represent a yam. also shown are a stone ax, a yiridja dilly bag (with handle, a dua dilly bag (without handle, and between the dilly bags, a bondok, or spear-thrower. dilly bag dilly bags are baskets made of woven treefiber and are used to carry sacred objects. the contents of the bag are secret, but the bag itself is worn openly, and is sometimes held betwe

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

clear light of the void, and this also is represented by the number of the circumambulations about the confines of the temple. the white cord bound thrice about the waist has reference to the same set of ideas. even upon the altar of the temple are symbols indicating the rise of light. a red calvary cross of six squares as symbolic of harmony and equilibrium is placed above a white triangle -the emblem of the golden dawn. they form the symbol of the supernal sephiroth which are the dynamic life and root of all things, while in man they constitute that triad of spiritual faculties which is the intrinsically pure essence of mind. hence the triangle is a fitting emblem of the light. and the place of the cross above the triangle suggests not the domination of the sacred spirit, but its equili

the lion, the eagle, bull and man- and place these in the proper stations, they will be found together with the tablets to impart a considerable amount of magical vitality and atmosphere to the temple. what actually they do bestow is rather subtle, and perhaps indefinable. they are not absolute essentials, however, and may be dispensed with. but since magic works by the intervention of symbol and emblem, the surrounding of the student's sphere with the correct forms of magical symbolism, assists in the imvressiner of those svrnbols within the aura or sphere of sensation, the true magical e a tl he-is. may be 6ft to the ingenium and the sonvenience of the-student himself to discover after having made a close examination of the documents involved <91> another matter upon which brief comment

this is highly suggestive, and students both of yoga and magic will find in this curious indications of the universality of cogent sym601s. agi c aplr ocesses and symbols are, in short, receiving confirmation at the hands of experimental psychology. it remains for the reader to benefit thereby <94> the rose-cross is a lamen or badge synthesising a vast concourse of ideas, representing in a single emblem the great work itself- the harmonious reconciliation in one symbol of diverse and apparently contradictory concepts, the reconciliation of divinity and manhood. it is a highly important symbol to be wom over the heart during every important operation it is a glyph, in one sense, of the higher genius to whose knowledge and conversation the student is eternally aspiring. in the rituals it is

e cube of the altar of incense. the cross of the hegemon's badge admits to the grade of philosophus. this cross embraces tiphareth, netzach, hod and yesod, and rests upon malkuth. the calvary cross of six squares also refers to the six sephiroth of microprosopus and is the opened out form of the cube. the symbol of. venus on the tree <158> of life embraces the whole ten sephiroth. it is a fitting emblem of the isis of nature. as it contains all the sephiroth its circle should be made larger than that of mercury. 80 the golden dawn: volume i book one names especially connected with the four elements- earth: hebrew name aretz or ophir 1'9u: r l h great name adonai ha-aretz yln7 i7n cardinal point north. tzaphon ]19x archangel auriel- 71n angel phorlakh 7 5119 ruler kemb 3173 king ghob elemen

an image of the three-fold bondage of mortality, which amongst the initiated is called earthly or material inclination, that has bound into a narrow <33> place the once far-wandering soul; and the hood-wink was an image of the darkness, of ignorance, or mortality that has blinded men to the happiness and beauty their eyes once looked upon. the double cubical altar in the centre of the hall, is an emblem of visible nature or the material universe, concealing within herself the mysteries of all dimensions, while revealing her surface to the exterior senses. it is a double cube because, as the emerald tablet has said "the things that are below are a reflection of the things that are above."the world of men and women created to unhappiness is a reflection of the world of divine beings created

s the place of the guardian against the multitudes that sleep through the light and awaken at the twilight. the throne of the hegemon seated between the columns is the place of balanced power, between the ultimate light and the ultimate darkness. these meanings are shown in detail and by the colour of our robes. the wand of the kerux is the beam of light from the hidden wisdom, and his lamp is an emblem of the ever-burning lamp of the guardian of the mysteries. the seat of the stolistes at the gate of the north is the place of the guardian of the cauldron and the well of water- of cold and moisture. the seat of the dadouchos at the gate of the south is the place of the guardian of the lake of fire and the burning bush <36' frater kerux, i command you to declare that the neophyte has been i

nd facing eastgives the saluting sign but not the sign of silence, and taking up the rose says: i invite you to inhale with me the perfume of this rose, as a symbol of air (smells rose) to feel with me the warmth of this sacred fire (spreads his hands over it) to eat with me this bread and salt as types of earth (dips bread in salt and eats) and finally to drink with me this wine, the consecrated emblem of elemental water (makes a cross with the cup and drinks) hierophant puts down the cup bemeen the cross and triangle. he comes east of the altar and faces west <42> the praemonstrator then comes to the west of the altar and makes the aiuting sign. hierophant replies with the sign of silence and then hands the elements, beginning with the rose which praemonstrator smells and returns; then f

n accompanies them with banner of west, which he hands to hierophant to replace on stand. hegemon now hands up banner of east which zelator has been holding. this is also replaced. hegemon hands cubical cross to hierophant. kern collects the fan, lamp, cup and salt and replaces them in their right places on the altar, round the diagram. hiero (holding cubical cross) the cubical cross is a fitting emblem of the equilibrated and balanced forces of the elements. it is composed of 22 squares externally, thus referring to the 22 letters that are placed thereon. twenty-two are the letters of the eternal voice, in the vault of heaven; in the depth of earth; in the abyss of water; in the all- presence of fire. heaven cannot speak their fullness- earth cannot utter it. yet hath the creator bound th

rdians are represented, and the palm trees or trees of progression in the garden of eden. honoured hegemon, conduct the zelator to the west, and 162 the golden dawn: volume i1 book two place him thus before the portal of the 32nd path of tau by which he has symbolically entered (done. zelator faced to west, kerux returns to place) hiereus by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg by the peculiar emblem of the kerux, which is the caduceus of hermes. zelator hands it to hiereus, who turns it towards zelator, and reads: hiereus the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on kether, and the wings stretch out to chokmah and <84> binah, the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the s

11 1 111 place the theoricus before the portal of the 31st path by which he <113> has symbolically entered this grade from the one equals ten of zelator (done) practicus ritual 177 place the theoricus now before the portal of the 30th path by which he has symbolically entered this grade from the two equals nine of theoricus (done) hiereus by what symbol dost thou enter herein? heg by the peculiar emblem of the stolistes, the cup of water. hiereus the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life, it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former the apex, the latter the base. like caduceus, it further represents the three elements of water, air, and fire. t

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st to men has invariably been in a glory,a halo, or surrounded by flame, brightness and fire, whether on an occasion of beneficence ordispleasure: wonder not then that the eastern nations were lead to look on god as embodied in fire,and finally as the vivid symbol of the divine presence. when in solemn convocation, they swore notby the altar, but by the flame or fire which was upon the altar, the emblem of the deified fire,disguised in many theological or theosophic forms. lead on. my pass is 'gloria ignis embra (glorythe shadow of flame).the conductor repairs with the theoricus direct to the centre of the hall, then to the south, to the3rd ancient, who has a vestal lamp burning in front of him.3rd ancient:in the performance of a wise duty, i require your thought as to the celestial fire

direct to the centre of the hall, then to the south, to the3rd ancient, who has a vestal lamp burning in front of him.3rd ancient:in the performance of a wise duty, i require your thought as to the celestial fire, when it ceases to beterrestrial element and partakes of the ethereal qualities, the pure ethereal fire which burns forever isrepresented under the egyptian doctrines as ptah, who is the emblem of the eternal spirit out ofwhich everything is created. thus, the souls of men are, according to the oldest egyptian school ofethics, formed of ether, at death return to it again.the celestial fire is here represented by the vestal lamp having a tapering flame, indicative of god sinfluence and continued activity. it is the everlasting light, that like the incense conveys theunknown and uns

mortal fervour, into whichthe world evolves. lead on. my pass is 'immortalis (immortality).rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus28 the conductor now returns to the celebrant in the centre of the sacred hall, with the theoricus incharge, and faces him to the east. the veil is removed.celebrant:thus far hast thou carried the rose transfixed upon the cross, that cross which is the emblem of life,the protector, the redeemer, the salvator, while the scarlet rose symbolises the ardent desire forrefreshing life, the birth of knowledge, the expansion of the intellect, the dawn of new light upon thespirit, that you may be enabled to receive and comprehend a new existence which unfolds, as weapproach the presence of the omniscient. therefore, the successive instruction that has be

g man's benefactor, to assist and minister to the unfortunate from disease, or cruel accident,or the greater sufferings from man222s inhumanity to man through conflicting passions.you will, therefore, remove the raiment of blue of hope, of the science of chemistry, and replace itwith that of the higher class: of the science of alchemy and hermeticism, of which, yellow throughall time has been the emblem, and that of a nobler grade of wisdom.for we now proclaim, that having entered upon a more active sphere of duty to you fellow man, yoube entitled to be recognised as practicus.when duly invested, be obedient to the instructions of your faithful guide, who will introduce you tothe laboratory of your future companions, philosophers in alchemy, by the battery of 4 and 3,significant of the 4 p

ge in material substances and immaterialshadows?5th alchemist:have you not already witnessed them, or does not your intellect present them possible? may therenot be faculties in man beyond those of perception through hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling andseeing? it is not necessary for the eyeless cave-fish have orbs end fitting sockets, to give itperceptive sight. give me your scarlet rose, the emblem of our love, the symbol of our darningfaith in eternal life.5th alchemist takes the rose from the cross, and holds it in the fumes of flour of sulphur, whichflour is taken from a jar, and sprinkled on the chemical flaming tripod dish: thechemist then continues: behold this beauteous rose of scarlet colour and brilliant hue, emblematicof the blood that washes away the sins of the world, note

liant hue, emblematicof the blood that washes away the sins of the world, note its contact with the fumes of this simpleyellow mineral and the effect; how gradually end yet certainly it conceals its collar, when thesulphurous gases, as of an evil spirit, dare to approach it.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus32 the colour of the rose turns to a pallor, or white.our expressive emblem of man222s redemption, blushing in its pride, fails not to hide its beauty andscorning the distasteful union, exhibits its defilement through every part; as the soul grows pallid bycontagion with the influences of the evil one, whose symbols are sulphur in contact with fire. sohere sulphur and fire work their fearful sickly curse.but be ye ever so impure, the crystal waters of life by repen

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ns of rousseau and the illusions of cagliostro. science, notwithstanding, is at the basis of magic, as at the root of christianity there is love, and in the gospel symbols we find the word incarnate adored in his cradle by three magi, led thither by a star the triad and the sign of the microcosm and receiving their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, a second mysterious triplicity, under which emblem the highest secrets of the kabalah are allegorically contained. christianity owes therefore no hatred to magic, but human ignorance has ever stood in fear of the unknown. the science was driven into hiding to escape the impassioned assaults of blind desire: it clothed itself with new hieroglyphics, falsified its intentions, denied its hopes. then it was that the jargon of alchemy was create

e chain of analogies. hence the initiate knows no doubtful hopes, no absurd fears, because he has no irrational beliefs; he is acquainted with the extent of his power, and he can be bold without danger. for him, therefore, to dare is to be able. here, then, is a new interpretation of his attributes: his lamp represents learning; the mantle which enwraps him, his discretion; while his staff is the emblem of his strength and boldness. he knows, he dares and is silent. he knows the secrets of the future, he dares in the present, and he is silent on the past. he knows the failings of the human heart; he dares make use of them to achieve his work; and he is silent as to his purposes. he knows the significance of all symbolisms and of all religions; he dares to practise or abstain from them with

ely dogmatic explanation we shall already understand the kabalistic alphabet of the tarot. thus, figure i, entitled the juggler, represents the active principle in the economy of divine and human autotelia. figure ii, vulgarly called pope joan, represents dogmatic unity based upon numbers, and is the personification of the kabalah or the gnosis. figure iii represents divine spirituality under the emblem of a winged woman, holding in one hand the apocalyptic eagle, and in the other the world suspended from the end of her sceptre. the other emblems are equally clear, and can be explained as easily as the first. turnthe kabalah 49 ing now to the four suits, namely, clubs, cups, swords, and circles or pantacles, commonly called deniers all these are hieroglyphics of the tetragram. thus, the cl

cal and moral alchemy. as a fact, the strong and resolute will can arrive in a short time at absolute independence, and we are all in possession of the chemical instrument, the great and sole athanor which answers for the separation of the subtle from the gross and the fixed from the volatile. this instrument, complete as the world and precise as mathematics, is represented by the sages under the emblem of the pentagram or five-pointed star, which is the absolute sign of human intelligence. i will follow the example of the wise by forbearing to name it: it is too easy to divine. the tarot symbol which corresponds to this chapter was misconstrued by court de gebelin and etteilla, who regarded it as the blunder of a german cardmaker. it represents a man with his hands bound behind him, havin

an admirable allegory a naked woman, typifying truth, nature and wisdom at one and the same time, turns two ewers towards earth, and pours out fire and water upon it. above her head glitters the septenary, starred about an eight-pointed star, that of venus, symbol of peace and love; the plants of earth are flourishing around the woman, and on one of them the butterfly of psyche has alighted. this emblem of the soul is replaced in some copies of the sacred book by a bird, which is a more egyptian and probably a more ancient symbol. in the modern tarot the plate is entitled the glittering star; it is analogous to a number of hermetic symbols, and is also in correspondence with the blazing star of masonic initiates, which expresses most of the mysteries of rosicrucian secret doctrine. 86 the

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of zoroaster, conducted by the blazing star to the cradle of the microcosmic god, are themselves a full demonstration of the kabalistic and magical beginnings of christian doc-trine. one of these kings is white, another black and the third brown. the white king offers gold, symbol of light and life; the black king presents myrrh, image of death and of darkness; the brown king sacrifices incense, emblem of the conciliating doctrine of the two principles. they return thereafter into their own land by another road, to show that a new cultus is only a new path, conducting man to one religion, being that of the sacred triad and the radiant pentagram, the sole eternal catholicism. st. john, in the blazing pentagram 37 the apocalypse, beholds this same star fall from heaven to earth. it is then

al magical power; it is the igneous spiritual motor; it is the od of the hebrews and the astral light, according to the expression which we have adopted in this work. there is the secret, living and philosophical fire, of which all hermetic philosophers speak only under the most mysterious reservations; there is the universal sperm, the secret of which they guarded, representing it only under the emblem of the caduceus of hermes. here then is the great hermetic arcanum, and we reveal it for the first time clearly and devoid of mystical figures: that which the adepts term dead substances are bodies as found in nature; living substances are those which have been assimilated and magnetized by the science and will of the operator. there-fore the great work is something more than. chemical oper

orquemada and alexander vi; thou hast become the sport of children, and thy final place is at the side of polichinello. henceforth thou art only a grotesque figure in our travelling booths and a means of instruction in a few so-called religious markets. after the sixteenth key of the tarot, which represents the downfall of satan's temple, we find on the seventeenth leaf a magnificent and gracious emblem. a naked woman, a young and immortal maid, pours down on earth the water of universal life from two ewers, one of gold and one of silver. hard by there is a flowering shrub, on which rests the butterfly of psyche; above shines an eightpointed star with seven other stars around it. gi believe in eternal life! h such is the final article of the christian symbol, and this of itself is a full p

rimitive kabalistic alphabet, and here follows a table of the variants of this alphabet according to divers hebrew kabalists: a being, mind, man, or god; the comprehensible object; unity mother of numbers, the first substance. all these ideas are expressed hieroglyphically by the figure of the juggler. his body and arms constitute the letter aleph; round his head there is a nimbus in the form of, emblem of life and the universal spirit; in front of him are swords, cups and pantacles; he uplifts the miraculous rod towards heaven. he has a youthful figure and curly hair, like apollo or mercury; the smile of confidence is on his lips and the look of intelligence in his eyes. b the house of god and man, the sanctuary, the law, gnosis, kabalah, the occult church, the duad, wife, mother. hierogl

ds of heaven, and beasts differing one from another come out of the depths of the ocean. the empire of all things on earth was given them for a time, two times, and the dividing of time. they were four who so came forth. the first beast, symbol of the solar race of seers, came from the region of africa, resembling a lion and having eagle's wings: the heart of a man was given it. the second beast, emblem of the northern conquerors, who reigned by iron during the second age, was like unto a bear; it had three rows of sharp teeth, images of three great conquering families, and they said unto it: arise, devour much flesh. after the apparition of the fourth beast, there were thrones raised up, and the ancient of days, the christ of seers, the lamb of the first age, was manifested. his garment w

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rystal tablet of set. with the years my pentagram was corrupted, yet time has not the power to destroy it. its position was restored by the church of satan, but its essence was dimmed with a moorish name, and the perverse letters of the hebrews, and the goat of decadent khar. during the age of satan i allowed this curious corruption, for it was meant to do me honor as i was then perceived. as its emblem the church of satan used the sigil of baphomet, an inverse pentagram decorated with a goat's head and surrounded by the hebrew letters lamed/vav/yod/tav/nun= lvytn= leviathan, the sea monster mentioned in job #41 of the judaic/christian bible. the goat was the goat of mendes, the devil's form of manifestation in traditional satanism.54 the term "baphomet- the "moorish name- came into promin

d of the profane. concerning the "gift of set's own essence to the elect" see also the diabolicon, specifically the statement of azazel. note again the phrase "majesty of set" behold, it is i who call you, because you are the guardians of the aeon of set, zealous in what you do. this is a salutation to the council of nine, the highest officials of the temple of set and guardians of the aon. their emblem is the sacred tcham sceptre. they carry forward the tradition and name of the nine unknown, the basis of the church of satan's council of nine and now of the temple's council. the legend of the nine unknown, as recounted by louis pauwels and jacques bergier in their morning of the magicians, began with asoka, emperor of the maurya kingdom of india from approximately 274 to 236 bce. he becam

say that when the names are known, the things are equally well known (plato "the sages of egypt appear to me to have shown a consummate knowledge or a marvelous instinct when in order to reveal their wisdom to us, they did not resort to letters to express words and statements representing sound and expressions but portrayed objects by 'hieroglyphs' and in their mysteries symbolically assigned an emblem of its own to each of them. so each hieroglyph constituted a type of knowledge or wisdom and presented the thing visually as a synthesis without discursive conception or analysis. this synthetic idea was then reproduced in other signs that developed it, expressed it discursively, and enunciated the reasons why these things are made as they are when their beautiful arrangement arouses admira

perspective. in aspective representation, position and size pertain to meaning rather than visual appearance. while this may take crude forms, such as is found in drawings where the size of a person indicates their importance rather than their height, aspective representation may conceal some information from those unfamiliar with the graphical conventions involved. when interpreting a geometric emblem both systems of representation must be kept in mind. finally, neurological factors may be important in perceiving the meaning and intent of geometric and mathematical symbolism. while a general cross-sensory mapping of spatial orientation takes place in the thalamus, an ancient part of the brain, discrimination of angles and construction of perspective from visual cues takes place in the ce

ts later design in the church, the 6's and the flames now gone. i saw its first design in the temple of set: the tcham scepter with the head and forked tail of set replacing the satanic trident. i saw ronald barrett's subsequent concept: a simple pentagram with the four upper points connected. so now the principle should be completed- the law of the trapezoid finally and completely fused into its emblem. there appeared then the sigil of the order as reproduced here. it is a return to the initial sigil, with the following changes: the curved-line fires of hell are replaced by the black flame, whose emanations are rays, not flickering tongues. there are nine rays, each in strict mathematical proportion to the pentagram or trapezoid. the sourcepoint of the black flame completes the pentagram

the ace's meaning. crowley describes a path of xeper which extends from the fool (0) to the universe (xxi. a similar path can be traced between the ace of disks and atu xxi. this latter path is the road which the querant wishes to follow. many people (especially those we discussed in the previous section) would view this path as heavy, stolid, and dull. but as crowley says, the disk is a whirling emblem. every star, every true planet, is a whirling sphere. this path can be joyous, symbolizing an earthly indulgence, indulgence within the suit/theme of disks/earth. while this path is not for everyone (it is totally unsuitable for the author, this path can be quite suitable for the querant, as it would be for a magician with close ties to the neter geb. note that although the kaballistic path

ght before us is ours. song of nepthys reading list: hear the call of set as it plays atop the waves of trafficking seas. see the tides, diving inwardly and outwardly, like knives glimmering in the night. his beauty casts long shadows in the hearts of all who seek him. listen to his words and caress them. embrace his presence, for he has known you long before you could know yourself. you bear his emblem; now it is yours. reach out to him where no one else may find you: in your hidden self. you will feel lost at first, for you see a sight no one will share with you; and never shall you be the same. this is you awakening. as i speak dearly to you, my dear friend, so do i weep many tears; for i know the battles that must be fought and the choices that must be made; for i have known them so lo

significant contributors to and representatives of the satanic tradition, within or without the formal church and priesthood. again there were no meetings, functions, or publications of this order. from x to xiv the order was again used as an alternate designation for all degrees within the priesthood of set, and at the set-i conclave in xiv the council of nine replaced the satanic trident in its emblem with the tcham sceptre of set. at the set-iii conclave in xvi the order was once again reconstituted, this time as an honorary designation for all present and past members of the council of nine, and its emblem was condensed to a pentagram within a trapezoid. in the walhalla or "hall of the dead" at castle wewelsburg, westphalia- the subterranean sanctum sanctorum of the german castle which

motto of the order) in addition to its primary reference. in the topmost three gaps between the pentagram and the trapezoid are the numbers 666, symbolic of the prince of darkness and of the first and second beasts revealed of him. the three sixes add to xviii, the first working year following the creation of the church of satan, and the year in which the o..t. was returned to life. in the entire emblem there are no curved lines, signifying the black magical power of angular relationships and the law of the trapezoid. the emblem is further mathematically keyed to the phi-ratio. colors of the emblem are normally silver against a black field, though the design may be represented in black against a silver/white or red background. membership there are two levels of membership in the o..t: the

are among those that cannot be ignored as tools for visualizations. such music as is presently considered to be "vampyric" by the grand masters includes albinoni's adagio (which, is included on the album greatest hits of 1720) and leonard roseman's helm's deep. there are of course others, but the above two succinctly capture both aspects of the vampyric being. the order will have the distinctive emblem of the vampyre bat. this will be made available to members at a nominal cost, which will cover materials and production only. working in concert with members, the grand masters will develop specific rituals and/or ceremonies for the order. what is to come- or become- as the order evolves shall be a matter for all members of the ov to work on. the order of the vampyre will accept application

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flame pot. general illumination is provided through controlled starlight or moonlight, or via concealed ultraviolet devices. above and behind the altar platform should appear the outline of a regular trapezoid. the celebrant and participants all wear masks or headpieces to blur or distort the true facial features. all participants assemble in a half-hexagonal formation facing the large trapezoid emblem. the celebrant stands before the altar, facing the participants. he raises his left hand in the sign of the horns] celebrant: n'kgnath ki'q az-athoth r'jyarh wh'fagh zhasa phr-tga nyena phragn'glu. let us do honor to azathoth, without whose laughter this world should not be [participants answer the gesture] participants: ki'q az-athoth r'jyarh wh'fagh zhasa phr-tga nyena phragn'glu. honor t

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

f or altar in a private home. kara: a steel bracelet, worn by sikhs as a symbol of god. karma: the result of good or bad actions in this lifetime that can affect this or later lifetimes. kasha: the white shorts worn by sikhs as a symbol of purity. kesh: uncut hair, a symbol of sikhism. kevalnyan: enlightenment. khalsa: the militant brotherhood of sikhism, founded by guru gobind singh. khanda: the emblem of sikhism. kirpan: a sword or dagger worn by sikhs as a symbol of their willingness to fight to defend their faith. kojiki: the chief text of shinto, a work that combines history, myth, and folk belief. kosher: dietary laws, referred to in hebrew as kashrut. kungha: the wooden comb used to groom hair, a symbol of sikhism. kushti: the sacred cord, or belt, that zoroastrians wear. kusti: the

to god or spirits. supreme being: the central god responsible for creating the cosmos. sura: any chapter in the qur an. susano-o: the shinto god of violence and the ruler of the oceans. svetambara: literally, white-clad; one of the two main sects of jainism. swastika: a pictorial character that symbolizes the eternal nature of brahma because it points in all directions; also used as the official emblem of the nazi party during world war ii (1939 45. takhts: seats of spiritual authority in sikhism. the five takhts are gurdwaras located in india. talmud: traditions that explain and interpret the torah. tanakh: the chief jewish scripture; the hebrew bible. tawba: repentance. theism: belief in the existence of gods or god. theocracy: a form of government in which god or some supreme deity is

the object of ashe, the direction in which the energy of the universe moves. in addition, santeros honor a number of orishas. the orishas are spirits that represent the forces of nature. each of the orishas is associated with a christian saint, as well as with an important number, a principle (such as sensuality, war, money, roads and gates, illness, or thunder and lightning, a dance posture, an emblem, a color, and food. it is believed that for an orisha to remain effective, it must be offered animal sacrifices, as well as prepared food dishes. orishas are not distant from or inaccessible to humans. on the contrary, they are intimately involved with human life, acting as messengers for olo du`mare. accordingly, santeros take part in animal sacrifices. these sacrifices are an important pa

located in the city of amritsar in india; more formally, the sri harmandir sahib. gurdwara: a sikh temple or place of worship. guru: a religious teacher. kara: a steel bracelet, worn by sikhs as a symbol of god. kasha: the white shorts worn by sikhs as a symbol of purity. kesh: uncut hair, a symbol of sikhism. khalsa: the militant brotherhood of sikhism, founded by guru gobind singh. khanda: the emblem of sikhism. kirpan: a sword or dagger worn by sikhs as a symbol of their willingness to fight to defend their faith. kungha: the wooden comb used to groom hair, a symbol of sikhism. langar: a free community kitchen maintained by a gurdwara. naam karam: the naming ceremony for children. rehit maryada: the sikh code of ethical conduct. takhts: seats of spiritual authority in sikhism. the five

to islam. in the following decades, sikhs took up arms and conducted military training to defend their faith. violent battles between sikh and muslim armies erupted. the sikhs were determined to defend the principle of religious toleration, not just of sikhs but of hindus as well. did you know. strict sikhs continue to exhibit the five emblems of sikhism, sometimes called the five k s. the first emblem is kesh, or uncut hair, which is seen as a gift from god. male sikhs can typically be recognized by the turban that is wound tightly around the head to potency: strength. austere: strict. 94 world religions: primary sources sri guru granth sahib contain the hair. the second emblem is kungha, or a wooden comb to keep the hair neat. the third is kasha, or an undergarment, like shorts, that wa

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is a tone in that man's voice that i never can mistake; so clear, and so commanding, when i hear it i almost fancy there is such a thing as conscience. however, we must rid ourselves of an impertinent. mascari, signor zanoni hath not yet honoured our poor house with his presence. he is a distinguished stranger, we must give a banquet in his honour "ah, and the cyprus wine! the cypress is a proper emblem of the grave "but this anon. i am superstitious; there are strange stories of zanoni's power and foresight; remember the death of ughelli. no matter, though the fiend were his ally, he should not rob me of my prize; no, nor my revenge "your excellency is infatuated; the actress has bewitched you "mascari" said the prince, with a haughty smile "through these veins rolls the blood of the old

im? though mentally irresolute, no man was more physically brave. he would repair at once to the palace of the prince himself; and if zanoni failed in the trust he had half-appeared to arrogate, he, the humble foreigner, would demand the captive of fraud and force, in the very halls and before the assembled guests of the prince di. chapter 3.xvi. ardua vallatur duris sapientia scrupis. hadr. jun "emblem" xxxvii (lofty wisdom is circled round with rugged rocks) we must go back some hours in the progress of this narrative. it was the first faint and gradual break of the summer dawn; and two men stood in a balcony overhanging a garden fragrant with the scents of the awakening flowers. the stars had not yet left the sky, the birds were yet silent on the boughs: all was still, hushed, and tranq

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priests whose duties consisted as much in making copies of religious books and in keeping alive the "divine traditions" as in ministering to the god in their appointed seasons. the members of these companies who wrote the copies of the book of the dead which were buried with kings and queens and personages of royal or exalted rank declared the power and omnipotence of almighty god, whose visible emblem to mankind was the sun, and his sovereignty over things celestial and things terrestrial with no uncertain voice, and we should expect them to believe what they proclaimed, i.e, that god was sufficiently powerful to protect his emblem in the sky. yet the priests of thebes made copies of works which contained texts to be recited at specified hours of the day and night, and gave directions fo

are most commonly found in the tombs and on mummies, but a few others are also known, e.g, the white crown of the south, the red crown of the north, the horizon, or place where the sun rises, an angle, typifying protection, the horns, disk, and plumes, or the plummet, etc. besides these, any ring, or pendant, or ornament, or any object whatsoever, upon which was inscribed the name of a god or his emblem, or picture, became an amulet with protective powers; and it seems that these powers remained active as long as the substance lasted and as long as the name, or emblem, or picture, was not p. 64 erased from it. the use of amulets was common in egypt from the earliest times to the roman period, and when the egyptians embraced christianity, they, in common with the gnostics and semi-christian

enat is connected with the root from which the word for "nurse (menat) is derived; see the article by lefebure "le menat et le nom de l'eunuque" in proc. soc. bibl. arch, 1891, p. 333 f. 61:1 see papyrus of ani, 2nd edit, plates 33, 31. 62:1 see papyrus of ani, 2nd edit, plate 35. 63:1 see lanzone, dizionario, p. 853. p. 65 chapter iii. magical figures. it has been said above that the name or the emblem or the picture of a god or demon could become an amulet with power to protect him that wore it, and that such power lasted as long as the substance of which it was made lasted, if the name, or emblem, or picture was not erased from it. but the egyptians went a step further than this, and they believed that it was possible to transmit to the figure of any man, or woman, or animal, or living

or it was universally believed that glimpses of the future were revealed to man in dreams. as instances of dreams recorded in the egyptian texts may be quoted those of thothmes iv, king of egypt about b.c. 1450, and nut-amen, king of the eastern sudan and egypt, about b.c. 670. a prince, according to the stele which he set up before the breast of the sphinx at gizeh, was one day hunting near this emblem of ra-harmachis, and he sat down to rest under its shadow and fell asleep and dreamed a dream. in it the god appeared to him, and, having declared that he was the god harmachis-khepera-ra- temu, promised him that if he would clear away from the sphinx, his own image, the drift sand in which it was becoming buried, he would give to him the sovereignty of the lands of the south and of the nor

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

ny in new york city.11 the five men recommended that the reverse sjde of the seal not be cut and not be used as an official document seal. professor norton wrote that "it is greatly to be regretted that the device adopted by congress in 1782 is of go elaborate and allegorical a character. as to the reverse. it can hardly (however artistically treated by the designer) look otherwise than as a dull emblem of a masonic fraternity."12 justin winsor described the reverse side as "both unintelligent and commonplace. if it can be kept in the dark, as it seems to have been kept, why not keep it so" t. f. dwight also felt that "it has been so long kept in the dark, a few months more of shade will do it no harm" william whitmore considered it "a thankless task to arrange it, as professor norton says

f stones in the pyramid and 13 letters in annuit coeplis.18 he noted that the number 13 occurs twice in one of the forms of the tetragrammaton: jehovah: jhvh: j(10) h(5) v(6) h(5: 26: 2 x i3.19 another source2" claimed that the seal is a symbol of the rosicrucians and that the clouds represent the "white roses" of the order. the federation of british israelites adopted the reverse side as its own emblem.21 one of the dies of the face of the seal shows the dexter wing of the eagle with 32 feathers and the sinister (left) wing with 33 feathers, which supposedly establishes its connection with the scottish rite order.22 none of these claims are substantiated by any evidence which can be considered conclusive. the crest: the seal of solomon the controversy which has swirled around the symbolis

f these claims are substantiated by any evidence which can be considered conclusive. the crest: the seal of solomon the controversy which has swirled around the symbolism of the great seal for over 180 years has by no means been limited to the reverse side. the crest heraldically is an independent device; it is correctly considered apart from the eagle and from the reverse side of the seal. as an emblem of arms -27- selected for special dignity the crest represents america herself. the eagle represents the people. the crest is composed of the stars, around which is disposed a circle of clouds, and the glory, a halo or corona of light. totten wrote that "the glory has not been correctly realized upon a single die used for great seal purposes. the primary significance of a glory was to denot

ty the crest represents america herself. the eagle represents the people. the crest is composed of the stars, around which is disposed a circle of clouds, and the glory, a halo or corona of light. totten wrote that "the glory has not been correctly realized upon a single die used for great seal purposes. the primary significance of a glory was to denote the presence of god" heraldry borrowed this emblem directly from the scriptures (ps. lxiii, 2; 1 kings viii, 11, etc. yet, as totten pointed out, not a single ray of light breaks through the clouds. god thus becomes a captive within the circle (which can represent the serpent, as jehovah is a captive of the cabalists (see sephiroth, part 1. totten discovered that the state department had the constellation of stars. by its arrangement. const

of this celebrated blazon is the fact that its artist (name unknown. conceived aright the natural arrangement of the crest or constellation. the stars in this blazonry, which by the way are correctly five-pointed, are arranged irregularly over the field, and not circumscribed or confined in a circle. the clouds which surround the group. roll back and break away in a marked circular form. thus the emblem of eternity. the circle. does not in any way limit the group. its very arrangement implies the future growth of the new constellation, as rolling further back the clouds shall let in other stars until a form results whose stellar distribu -29- tion we cannot even dimly yet discern. the marked avoidence, too, of their arrangement in the form of a six-pointed constellation of sixpointed stars

amid on the s50.00 bill of 1778.35 the nova constellalio colonial coins, 1783-85, showed on their obverse sides the radiant eye;36 and the 3 cent silver piece in use from 1851 to 1873 was engraved with the seal of solomon.37 it is also very important to know that congress ordered the preparation of a smaller seal for the personal use of all the presidents of the confederation. it consisted of one emblem only: the seal of solomon crest.38 the kentucky penny of 1791 was adorned with a triangle of 15 stars.39 the use of these symbols on the coins, currency and the small seal provides us with conclusive proof of the existence of a directing influence behind the adoption of these occult signs at the time of the founding of our nation -31- the heraldry of american heroism never used the solomoni

0, 1942. the degrees of chief commander, commander, officer and legionnaire are awarded to the personnel of the armed forces of friendly foreign nations, and of the u. s. and the philippines. this decoration was the first specific award in u.s. history to foreigners, and the first to have different degrees, as in the secret orders. the commander award has the motto, annuit coeptis, along with the emblem. the designer of these decorations, colonel townsend heard, also placed the motto, novus ordo seclorum, on the obverse side of the medal for merit, awarded to civilians of the united states and her allies by act of congress 7/20/42.41 the all-seeing eye a symbol of osiris we now arrive at the point when we must consider that all-important key symbol, the all-seeing eye. mr. totten traced th

tainty that a hidden hand blazoned the heraldry of this great people."47 george rawlinson;s massive three-volume history of the seven great monarchies o/ the ancient eastern world48 provides us with vital and pertinent data concerning the symbols with which we are dealing. the babylonians of the 7th century b.c. attached to each god in their pantheon "a special mystic number, which is used as his emblem and may even stand for his name in an inscription" further, each god had an emblematic sign "thus a circle, plain or crossed, designates the sun-god, san or shamas; a six-rayed or eight-rayed star the sun-goddess, gula or anunit" the altar was represented by an emblem surmounted by a triangle.49 the use of the simple circle and the quartered disk as a divine symbol of the sun traced back fr

head. both serpent and sun were emblems of the celestial father. as the solar deity, kneph became the cristos of the gnostics. was regarded as the spiritual sun of enlightenment, or wisdom."61 in the egyptian pantheon "osiris himself was said to have been the son of kneph. and he was essentially identical with kneph" the worship of isis, the moon-goddess, was equally entwined wilh ophiolatry. her emblem was the horned viper'"in the british museum there is a head of isis wearing a coronet of them" the egyptians often represented isis and osiris together, as two serpents "about the commencement of the christian era the cult of osiris was extended over asia minor, greece and rome" cicero tells us that he was known as ob-el, from whence we derive the obelisk.62 the identity of hermes-mercury

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e of country, home, and family; perhaps deep appreciation for our country's founders, its constitution, and for the soldiers and servicemen who have died to protect and keep us free. all this bound up in just one symbol. to the masons and other illuminists, their occult symbols also embody a deep and varied set of meanings. alex home, in sources of masonic symbolism, distinguishes between a mere "emblem" and a "symbol" an emblem is something that stands for something else, he says, while "a symbol has a moral and spiritual meaning."15 that "moral and spiritual meaning" is, of necessity, reserved as secret in nature by these corrupt cultists, because, if their secrets should be exposed to the light, their great work and grand plan would be vulnerable to destruction, as it should be. but kep

the hand of the mason who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, the god who reigns for all eternity in heaven. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 59 60 codex magica george washington in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, indicates that washington had taken the vow of vengence to all enemies of the order of the illuminati. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun m 61 the marquis de lafayette of france presented george washington with this

the marquis de lafayette of france presented george washington with this masonic apron which is now preserved in the library of the grand lodge of pennsylvania, in philadelphia. it contains many occultic symbols, the meaning of which presumably is reserved for higherlevel masonic brethren. many, however, are outed and explained in this book, to the chagrin, i am sure, of the masonic brotherhood. emblem of the exclusivist order of cincinnati (also called the society of cincinnati) worn by elite members. the secret society met in private and was headed by george washington. artwork from a china set which displays symbols important to the society of the cincinnati, a secret order of elitist rich men begun after the revolutionary war, headed by george washington. the symbols include a strange

ring the world war ii conflict against the nazis. crowley's adoption of the hermaphroditic, horned goat-god baphomet as his own magical name indicates how powerful is this idol to illuminists. crowley certainly knew who baphomet represents. in his book, magic in theory and practice, he states: this serpent, satan, is not the enemy of man. he is 'the devil' of the (egyptian) book of thoth, and his emblem is 'baphomet' the androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection..but moreover his letter is ayin, the eye; he is baphles me! 99 light and his zodiacal image is capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is liberty.4 no doubt the inner circle of the illuminati have specific objectives in mind that are being met by men like crowley, lavey, hubbbard, and kinsey. these men and their

ly or brotherly grips, by which one mason may know another in the dark as well as in the light (duncan's masonic ritual and monitor, p. 42) 146 codex magica the illuminist is signifying allegiance to a deity other than the christian god. for example, dr. burns quotes albert mackey, 33, former sovereign grand commander of the scottish rite, who admits: the right hand has in all ages been deemed an emblem of fidelity, and our ancient brethren worshipped deity under the name of fides or fidelity, which was sometimes represented by two right hands joined. numa was the first who erected an altar to fides under which name the goddess of oaths and honesty was worshipped.1 burns points out that this reference to the worship of the roman pagan goddess is literally repeated by the initiate in the ve

. the latter, who was born louis eugene wolcott in 1933 in new york city, changed his name to louis x after his conversion to islam by black muslim leader elijah muhammed. today, he is known as louis farrakhan. it is well-known that farrakhan is a 33 prince hall mason. x as symbol for the sun god according to dr. c.j. koster, head of the institute for scripture research in south africa, x was the emblem of the chaldean (babylonian) sky god. koster says that x was an ancient symbol of the sun deity and that the letter carried with it sexual connotations. in the old semitic languages, x represented the cross.1 freemasonry early-on latched onto this letter exactly because of its paranormal significance as a sign of lucifer, the solar (sun) god. the masonic lodge also uses x because of its sex

th a bold red "x" superimposed on it. her majesty, queen elizabeth of great britain, has a fortune of some $18 billion and a crown with an "x" in its centrum (majesty magazine, volume 25, august, 2004 "cross my heart and hope to die" 211 ehud barak, a freemason chosen prime minister of israel in 1999, with his wife, nava. this is a very staged "x" also significant is nava's earring, which has the emblem of the masonic double-headed eagle (photo: time magazine, may 31, 1999, p. 64) 212 codex magica larry summers, secretary of the treasury in the second term of the bill clinton administration, signals to his associates in the illuminati elite the strength of their order. we see first his crossed "x" hand position, the left hand path dominant. then there is the pillar of strength of jaquin an

niversity, a prime center of illuminist instruction, got ginsberg's "papers" which reportedly included" 300,000 utility bills, newspaper clippings, paper napkins, concert tickets, and anything else the gay poet chose to save "cross my heart and hope to die" 219 symbols galore adorn feminist gloria steinem's apartment decor in new york. she's wearing a black outfit with belt with a huge, round sun emblem and, naturally, her handsign is "x" now 70-years-old, ms. steinem, like so many other "chosen ones" is not at all what she seems. a former playboy club bunny, steinem was covertly working for the cia. she "founded" the radical agenda ms magazine reportedly with illuminist funding and traveled widely in india. her elitist role: foster the anti-christian, culture-destroying feminist movement

elical theological seminary, a liberal institution in illinois. 234 codex magica the japanese army occupying the philippines in world war ii issued their own local currency. this 10 peso bill was found by american soldiers on the body of a dead japanese soldier. the "x" is apparently the roman numeral for "ten" the "cross of burgundy" was two crossed sticks, in the form of an "x" which became the emblem of the nazi wallonien waffen ss division, a group of french volunteers, led by leon degrelle, that fought on the russian front against the communists. its advocates claim the x design of the old confederate flag (the "stars and bars) is adapted from the ancient and historic saint andrew's cross. this is far from certain. the confederacy was secretly supported by jesuits, masons, and jews (r

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

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ork may have been directed by a shaman, for it appears from the presence of fire pits in some of the mounds that religious ceremonies were conducted and funeral rites were observed. in pike county, ohio, on the banks of the scioto river, there is a mound consisting of a circle and square, constructed with great geometric accuracy. in native american pictography, the ring or circle is generally an emblem of the sun, the stars, and the great spirit, the divine being. the oval also represents the creator or the act of creation. the square designates the four cardinal directions. if it is assumed that the ancient mound builders had similar religious philosophies, then some insight may be gained into their beliefs about destiny and life after death. one of the largest of the effigy mounds is a

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e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 207 amongsemitic people, a kiss on the cheek has been considered a traditional form of blessing or greeting for centuries. wear flowers in full bloom to indicate a love newly awakened. once the lovers had exchanged their engagement vows, they wore the same kind of flower in their hair as a public emblem of their betrothal. in indonesian timor, a woman bestows the highest mark of attachment upon her lover when she gives him the flower garland from her hair. among the polynesians, men and women alike wear flowers behind their ears when they are in love. the flower, it seems, has been the quintessential gift between lovers in many cultures for many centuries, and it is the considerate suitor

for her, or, in some circumstances, when a stubborn father refused to give his daughter her dowry because he did not approve of the marriage. in such situations, friends of the woman would gather together and bring her gifts that would compensate for the dowry and allow her to marry the man of her choice. the bridal dress. the bride in the western world traditionally wears a gown of white, as an emblem of purity. in many asian countries, however, the bride may wear a black bridal dress. even before it denoted purity, white represented the color of joy. the early romans always wore white on occasions of rejoicing, such as birth and feast days. the white rose t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 208 superstitions, strange customs, taboos

ore it denoted purity, white represented the color of joy. the early romans always wore white on occasions of rejoicing, such as birth and feast days. the white rose t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 208 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends flowers have been the quintessential gift between lovers in many cultures. was an emblem of joy among the greeks. the aboriginal inhabitants of patagonia in southern argentina painted their bodies white on every joyous occasion. the whole bodies of the bride and groom were covered with white paint on the eve of their wedding ceremony. some social historians believe that the tradition of the bridal veil originated in the covering of the bride in ancient times to show her submiss

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were satanists who sought only to delude europe into sin. in spite of entreaties, threats, and demands, no rosicrucian stepped forward to identify himself, and the society remained secret.the most secret of all secret societies. it is interesting to speculate that the symbol of martin luther, the protestant reformer and founder of the lutheran church, was a red rose and a cross, which remains the emblem of lutheranism. could luther also have sought to reform the whole societal structure of europe, as well as the roman catholic church? unlikely, for luther would not have used the language of the alchemist and the magus. another member, according to some, is the great francis bacon (1561.1626, whose unfinished manuscript, the new atlantis (1627, describes an earthly utopian paradise, a secre

an amulet with a heart on it was often placed with the dead to help represent them in judgment about their fate in the afterlife. likenesses of scarabs (a kind of beetle) were also prominent. a scarab encloses an egg in mud or dung and rolls it along to a spot where it can be warm and safe. egyptians considered this a metaphor for the journey of the sun each day. the scarab amulet became a common emblem for regeneration and was placed with the dead. sumerians, who inhabited mesopotamia (present-day iraq) and were contemporaries of the egyptians, had amulets inscribed with images of animals and gods. they also inscribed such images on seals for everything from pottery to vaults to doors: the emblem on the seal represented a guardian spirit that would bring bad luck to those who opened the s

english writer sir thomas malory (fl. 1470. in this most famous collection of arthurian tales, the grail becomes the object of a quest among the knights of the roundtable at king arthur fs castle, camelot. sir galahad, who is completely without sin, eventually realizes the grail quest. he is in the company of sir bors and sir percival (parzeval, two other virtuous knights, but sir galahad, as an emblem of christian virtue, alone achieves the grail. arthurian legends and the grail may be based to some extent on celtic lore. the holy grail might well have been developed from references to magic cauldrons that appear in many celtic myths and practices. in her book from ritual to romance (1920, jessie weston traced some similarities between celtic myths and grail legends. some celtic fertilit

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ze that phantom to the point of seeing and touching it, is it not necessary to be without conscience and without judgment? there is doubtless the secret of this incredible perversity, of this murderous fury, of this unwholesome hate against all order, all ministry, all hierarchy, of this fury, above all, against the dogma which sanctifies peace, obedience, gentleness, purity, under so touching an emblem as that of a mother. this wretch thought himself sure not to die. the emperor, thought he, would be obliged to pardon him; an honourable exile awaited him; his crime would give him an enormous celebrity; his reveries would be bought for their weight in gold by the booksellers. he would become immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. it is by such promis

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considered immutable laws which are in effect merely habits of nature. it is this very principle that has helped examine, and at the same time, confound the "greenhouse effect" and global warming. the magician must remain open to possibilities and opportunities that those blinded by expectation cannot see, and this is depicted by the "fool" of the tarot deck, who should be considered the esoteric emblem of the new physics. another extension of the lattice idea is that of the link between macrocosm and microcosm, the "greater" world and the "lesser" world. it can be seen that if the whole universe is modelled as a latticework of reflective spheres, each point in the universe reflects everything else. thus, if a change occurs within one sphere, the whole is equally changed, and if a change o

inversion and is involved with the upper sephiroth and the experiences and states that transcend the personality construct. further, the rose (taken as a symbol of tiphareth) and the lamp (a symbol of kether and the ain soph aur) are both attributed to netzach, which may reflect its sevenfold nature of completion. the seven-petalled rose alludes to the sevenfold pattern, and was used by bosch as emblem dccxxiii of the ars symbolica, and by fludd in the summum bonum. it is to this rose of completion that the golden dawn aim in their elemental initiations, as a preshadowing of the rose cross of tiphareth and the rose of light in kether. charles harness uses this symbology in his magnificent short story "the rose, where the next stage of human progression is embedded in the ballet of the "ni

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entagram is drawn. eheieh, meaning "i am" is the divine name of kether. the west is the place of sunset, the completion of the sun's journey across the sky. it represents rest and peace. to the ancient egyptians, ra, the sun god died each night when he entered amentet (the west. the west is a symbol of the completion of the soul's journey and the goal of spiritual growth. therefore the west is an emblem of kether, the goal which we seek throughout our incarnation on earth and which we hope to reach at the end of life, when we (like ra) journey to amentet. the name eheieh vibrated in the west suggests that the goal of all esoteric work is the magician's complete identification with the true and eternal self of kether. after the northern pentagram is drawn, the word agla is vibrated. this is

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the blushing bosom of dawn: we lay in naked chastity, caressed child-like or dreaming, till the dawn repressed our sighs: that nuptial yet hath never ceased *alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 79. still the future rises up before them, as a serpent, gprescience of next year h; the minotaur, gprodigious offspring of the fatal graft? h but the present is a sublime kiss, and the future as hollow as the emblem of two parted lips, gwhile love was hovering and our lips were fain? h soon the parting draws nigh, he attempts to detain her; but he knows he must inevitably fail, as he knew his first kiss must inevitably lead to their great love and surrender. they spend the last melancholy day together: strong kisses that had surfeited a score of earthly bridals in an hour we squandered *alice, an adult

to divine contentment; around it lie the bones of the gquesting slain h unburied, unremembered, unconfessed; gereth fs name is cried aloud, and the king bids him godspeed, girding on him his own true sword, whilst the queen draws from her finger a ring and places it on his. then when he has left their presence he notices for the first time: there was no jewel in the ring she gave! for it was the emblem of her total surrender: oh my pure heart! adulterous love began so subtly to identify the man with its own perfumed thoughts. so steals the grape into the furtive brain. a spirit shape kisses my spirit as no woman can. i love her. yes; and i have no escape *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 188. on the quest he goes, ever tormented by the cry of the inner self, ever striving to overc

n of the same idea as held in exodus, xxxiii, moses was unable to look at god face to face; it was also the same idea as held by charles darwin. the theory of evolution. the growth of the protoplast into man, of evil into good. khephra, god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night. above us flames the zodiac, the sign of the balance lies between virgo and scorpio, the eagle is the emblem of good, the scorpion of evil, the eaglewinged serpent of good and evil; and it is with this doctrine of good and evil that we shall now deal. as there was darkness before syhla formed the light, and as knowledge is the outcome of ignorance, so is also virtue the outcome of vice. eritis sicut deus, scientes bonum et malum. it was satan, the lucifer of milton, the devil of blake, and the ser

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. he is seated upon a cubic stone; his right hand raises a scepter surmounted by a circle, and his right leg bent, rests upon the other, forming with it a cross. the cubic stone, image of the perfect solid, signifies labor which has reached completion. the cat, pictured on the side of the stone, indicates that the vision of the soul penetrates the illusions of matter. the sovereign's helmet is an emblem of force conquered by power. the ruler is in possession of the scepter of isis, indicating that he has knowledge of the spiritual use of the creative energies; and he points downward with his left hand to indicate that he uses these energies in the subjugation of the physical. the sacred serpent at his brow indicates enlightenment; and the hawk, sacred to the sun, indicates his ambition to

is brow the sacred serpent thrusts its head; and at his feet kneel two men, one dressed in red and the other dressed in black. the hierophant, supreme organ of sacred science, represents the genius of good inspiration, of mind, and of conscience. the column at the right symbolizes divine law, that on the left symbolizes the liberty to obey or to disobey. the triple tau, or cross of three bars, is emblem of divine fire penetrating the three worlds, spiritual, astral, physical, in order that all manifestations of universal life may have their birth. the left hand of the hierophant on the triple tau indicates his receptivity to the divine force; and the gesture of his right hand--making the pentagram- indicates his use of this divine energy to command the obedience of all sub-mundane atoms of

ll three worlds; physical, astral and spiritual. a t-square and two try-squares are traced upon the cuirass. the t-square, or tau, symbolizes virile force, and the two try-squares indicate the rectitude of judgment that enables the conqueror to direct this force either to right or left, into mental or physical power as occasion demands. the cuirass signifies resistance; the high held sword is the emblem of physical victory; and the scepter indicates mental conquest. this scepter is surmounted by a square, a circle, and a triangle. the square is the emblem of matter, the circle indicates the realm of spirit, and the triangle is the emblem of mind; together denoting the perpetual dominion of intelligence over all realms and forces of nature. two sphinxes, one white and the other black, are h

taff and carrying before him a lighted lamp which he half conceals behind his mantle. this sage personifies experience gained in the journey of life. the cloak is of square form, symbolizing the physical world in which man may acquire knowledge of good and evil. that this knowledge has been gained is signified by the man having partially removed the cloak of material limitations, and by the lamp, emblem of intelligence, shedding its rays over the past, present and future. the lamp being concealed by the mantle symbolizes discretion, and also expresses the truth that if we are ever to know the real nature of anything we must delve deep beneath the cloak of external appearances. the staff, which in form is the sixth letter of the egyptian and hebrew alphabets, indicates that man progresses t

ther person through whom they find suitable and more complete expression. the reaper--arcanum xiii. in divination, arcanum xiii may be read as death or transformation. arcanum xiii is figured by a skeleton reaping human heads, hands and feet. on the blade of the scythe wielded by time is a serpent and a scarabeus, and back of all is seen a rainbow. the progression of the scythe in its work is the emblem of the perpetual destruction and rebirth of all forms of being in the domain of time. the serpent on the scythe represents the virile energy that has carried the soul, symbolized by the scarab, in its pilgrimage of births and deaths through the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom up to the estate of man. the skeleton mowing human heads, hands and feet signifies tha

xv. in divination, arcanum xv may be read as fatality or black magic. arcanum xv is figured by typhon, genius of evil, standing triumphantly over the ruins of a temple. in his right hand he holds a scepter surmounted by a circle resting between two divergent bars. these spreading bars signify the inversive forces that hem in and hamper the influence of spirit, represented by the circle. it is the emblem of hatred and division. in the other hand this creature holds the torch of destruction, whose blaze has been applied to the ruins of the temple. he is crowned with flame to indicate he is not of this world, and he has the wings of a bat, to indicate he is a denizen of the realm of darkness. the horn on his nose signifies stubborn rebellion. he has the breasts of a woman and the organs of a

n the other hand this creature holds the torch of destruction, whose blaze has been applied to the ruins of the temple. he is crowned with flame to indicate he is not of this world, and he has the wings of a bat, to indicate he is a denizen of the realm of darkness. the horn on his nose signifies stubborn rebellion. he has the breasts of a woman and the organs of a man, and is thus hermaphrodite, emblem of selfcenteredness and a being devoid of love. the body is that of a hog, to denote greed. the feet are those of a goat, to indicate the sign capricorn, the home sign of saturn, or satan; the sign most devoted to material ambitions. and the beings chained at the feet of this master of chaos also have goat heads, indicating that their intelligence has been used exclusively to further materi

its base to a black trine with its point downward. this star is surrounded by seven other stars. it hovers over a nude young girl who has one foot upon the sea and one foot upon the land, and who pours the fluid of universal life from two cups, one of gold, the other of silver. near the girl is a flower of three blossoms, and above the upper one a butterfly opens its wings. this young girl is the emblem of truth. she is nude, signifying that truth can be perceived only when stripped of the preconceived ideas and dogmatic opinions with which it has been clothed by the artificialities of civilization. she rests partly upon the land and partly upon the sea to denote that truth is dual, the truth of reality and the truth of appearances, the truth of the practical and the truth of the ideal. th

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y five gods, but here the figures of the gods are wanting, and it is only the legend "children of horus" that tells us the chains represent the gods. 3. four apes, each holding up a huge hand and wrist. p. 284 4. the goddess of upper egypt, wearing the white crown, and styled amenti. 5. the goddess of lower egypt, wearing the red crown, and called herit. 6. the bearded god sebekhti, who holds the emblem of "life" in his right hand, and a sceptre in his left. p. 285 of the gods of the tuat who tow the boat of ra it is said 1 "the gods of the tuat say, behold the coming forth [of ra] from ament, and [his] taking up [his] place in the two divisions of nu, and [his] performance of [his] transformations on the two hands of nu. this god doth not enter into the height of heaven, p. 286 [paragraph

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

this sun is in the midst of the 6 other letters of the word; and the general knowledge of correspondences which you have derived from the study of the books appointed for your instruction will at once show you that j is virgo the virgin moon a is the fool or antic, the antique or ancient one saturn h is the letter of aries the house of mars b is the letter of mercury v is the hierophant or pope, emblem of jupiter l is libra the house of venus such, my brother, are the letters taken singly. in combination we reach beyond the simple facts of nature to divine mysteries. iii first of all, consider the descending triangle. it reads ihv, the first three letters of the ineffable name of four letters. they refer to father, mother, son, as your earliest studies in the qabalah acquainted you. you w

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

some curious gem, or pebble. we have a proof of the hand above described having a connection with priapus, in a most elegant small idol of bronze of that divinity, now in the royal museum of portici, and which was found in the ruins of herculaneum: it has an enormous phallus, and, with an arch look and gesture, stretches out its right hand in the form above mentioned; 2 and which probably was an emblem of consummation: and as a further proof of it, the amulet which occurs most frequently amongst those of the ancients (next to that which represents the simple priapus, is such a hand united with the phallus; of which you may see several specimens in my collection in the british museum. one in particular, i recollect, has also the halfmoon joined to the hand and phallus; which half-moon is s

eral specimens in my collection in the british museum. one in particular, i recollect, has also the halfmoon joined to the hand and phallus; which half-moon is supposed to have an allusion to the female menses. the shell, or concha veneris, 1 see plate ii, fig. 1. 2 this elegant little figure is engraved in the first volume of the bronzes of the herculaneum. sir william hamilton 5 is evidently an emblem of the female part of generation. it is very natural then to suppose, that the amulets representing the phallus alone, so visibly indecent, may have been long out of use in this civilized capital; but i have been assured, that it is but very lately that the priests have put an end to the wearing of such amulets in calabria, and other distant provinces of this kingdom. a new road having been

tood. it represented the act of generation, which was considered as a solemn sacrament, in honour of the creator, as will be more fully shown hereafter. the male organs of generation are sometimes found represented by signs of the same sort, which might properly be called the symbols of symbols. one of the most remarkable of these is a cross, in the form of the letter t,4 which thus served as the emblem of creation and generation, before the church adopted it as the sign of salvation; a lucky coincidence of ideas, which, without doubt, facilitated the 1 plate ii. fig. 2, engraved from one in the british museum. 2 august. de civ. dei, lib. vi. c. 9. 3 see plate ii, fig. 1, from one in the british museum, in which both symbols are united. 4 recherches sur les arts, lib. i. c. 3. of priapus 2

uire until after the time of homer,2 when their theology was entirely corrupted; but because they had thus the means of expressing their ideas more fully, by combining several forms together, and showing, not only the divine attribute, but the mode and purpose of its operation. for instance; the celebrated bronze in the vatican has the male organs of generation placed upon the head of a cock, the emblem of the sun, supported by the neck and shoulders of a man. in this composition they represented the generative power of the erwj, the osiris, mithras, or bacchus, whose centre is the sun, incarnate with man. by the inscription on the pedestal, the attribute this personified, is styled the saviour of the world (swthr kosmou; a title always venerable, under whatever image it be represented.3 t

ormer sacred to jupiter, and the latter to bacchus; for pan, being the principle of universal order, partook of the nature of all the other gods. they were personifications of parti-cular modes of acting of the great allruling principle; and he, of his general law and pre-established harmony by which he governs the universe. hence he is often represented playing on a pipe; music being the natural emblem of this physical harmony. according to plutarch, the jupiter ammon of the africans was the same as the pan of the greeks.2 this explains the reason why the macedonian kings assumed the horns of that god; for, though alexander pre-tended to be his son, his successors never pretended to any such honour; and yet they equally assumed the symbols, as appears from their medals.3 the case is, that

hat the ram expressed the same attribute.1 in a gem in the museum of charles townley, esq, the head of the greek pan is joined to that of a ram, on the body of a cock, over whose head is the asterisk of the sun, and below it the head of an aquatic fowl, attached to the same body.2 the cock is the symbol of the sun, probably from proclaiming his approach in the morning; and the aquatic fowl is the emblem of water; so that this composition, apparently so whimsical, represents the universe between the two great prolific elements, the one the active, and the other the passive cause of all things. the creator being both male and female, the emanations of his creative spirit, operating upon universal matter, produced subordinate ministers of both sexes, and gave, as companions to the fauns and s

stage; that is, immediately after it was released from chaos, and before it was animated by a participation of the ethereal essence of the creator. in a beautiful gem belonging to r. wilbraham, esq.,3 one of these androgynous figures is represented sleeping, with the organs of generation covered, and the egg of chaos broken under it. on the other side is bacchus, the creator, bearing a torch, the emblem of ethereal fire, and extending it towards the sleeping figure; whilst one of his agents seems only to wait his permission to begin the execution of that office, which, according to every outward and visible sign, he appears able to discharge with energy and effect. the creator himself leans upon one of those figures commonly called sileni; but which, from their heavy unwieldy forms, were p

the worship she is frequently represented licking a calf, which is sucking her.1 this is probably meant to show that the creative power cherishes and nourishes, as well as generates; for, as all quadrupeds lick their young, to refresh and invigorate them immediately after birth, it is natural to suppose, according to the general system of symbolical writing, that this action should be taken as an emblem of the effect it was thought to produce. on other medals the bull or cow is represented licking itself;2 which, upon the same principle, must represent the strength of the deity refreshed and invigorated by the exertion of its own nutritive and plastic power upon its own being. on others again is a human head of an androgynous character, like that of the bacchus difuej, with the tongue exte

central and most interior recesses of their temples or pagodas; and is also worn, attached to bracelets, round their necks and arms.3 in a little portable temple brought from the rohilla country during the late war, and now in the british museum, this composition appears mounted on a pedestal, in the midst of a square area, sunk in a block of white alabaster.4 round the pedestal is a serpent, the emblem of life, with his head rested upon his tail, to denote eternity, or the constant return of time upon itself, whilst it flows through perpetual duration, in regular revolutions and stated periods. from under the body of the serpent springs the lotus or water lily, the nelumbo of linn us, which overspreads the whole of the area not occupied by the figures at the corners. 1 bagvat geeta, p. 81

d by the horns of the one being placed on the head of the other.4 the later greek also sometimes employed the elephant as the universal symbol of the deity; in which sense he is represented 1 page 113. 2 ibid. 3 plate xiii fig. 10, from one belonging to me. 4 see plate xiii. fig. 9, and gesner, num. reg. syr. tab. viii. fig. 23. 60 on the worship on a medal of antiochus vi. bearing the torch, the emblem of the universal agent, fire, in his proboscis, and the cornucopia, the result of its exertion, in his tail.1 on another corner of the little indian pagoda, is a figure with four heads, all of the same pointed form as that of the gonnis. this i take to represent brahma, to whom the hindoos attribute four mouths, and say that with them he dictated the four beads, or veads, the mystic volumes

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

an interesting union in this lyric of cynewulf, an anglo-saxon poet who lived around a.d. 750. this descrip- tion is taken from the dream of the rood: methought on a sudden i saw a cross upreared in the sky, and radiant with light. brightest of trees, that beauteous beacon was dipped in gold, and bedight with jewels: four at the base, and five on the beam glistened on high 'twas no gallows tree, emblem of shame, but the souls of the blest were gazing upon it, god's bright angels, the glorious creation, all kindreds of men 'twas a tree of triumph; but troubled was i stained with sin, as i stood and gazed on the cross of glory, aglow with light. layers of gold, and glittering jewels covered its bark, and buried the wood. still through the gold that garnished its side, i was 'ware of wounds

(air; 4) bull (earth. it would be difficult to trace the origin of these kerubic figures; they go back to ancient babylon, in whose ruins archaeologists have found their effigies, and doubtless their genesis is even earlier. they may have arisen not long after the human race began to favor agriculture over the nomadic lifestyle. on first look it appears that the eagle would be a more appropriate emblem for the element air than the angel, but upon deeper consideration this is not so self- evident. no one who has seen an eagle catch a fish could fail to connect it with water. water is the medium of transmission, the element of formation, and the eagle has long been a symbol for the messenger or herald. air is the element of thought, the product of the impulse begun with fire, and angels are

this sounds obvi- ous, but the reason it has not been done is because the signs in the heavens must be inverted before they can be applied to the earth. imagine that you are looking at the zodiac in the sky, and further imagine that the zodiac is not an arc across the heavens, but is elevated high enough above the earth so that it becomes a circle. if the zodiac is rotated so that leo, the lion, emblem of fire, falls to the bottom (equivalent to the south) and the beasts are applied to the compass, then the eagle, emblem of water, will touch the east. but this is clearly wrong: the west is accepted as the quarter assigned to elemental water. however, if you imagine the zodiac shrinking and falling flat onto the earth and yourself viewing it from the back, the eagle touches the west while

rituals. it can be traced con- tinuously from start to finish in a way similar to the pentagram: when the unicursal hexagram is analyzed, it is seen to be made up of two sowelu (sigel) runes overlapped and joined at the top and bottom. runes were the magical alphabet of the teutonic peoples before the coming of christianity. the sowelu- which means "sun"-was the rune used by the nazi ss as their emblem: 11 4. the sowelu is in the form of a lightning stroke and is a powerful symbol of creative force. it could be written right to left( 1\1) as in the old norse alphabet, or left to right( m) as in the old english. if the two sides of the unicursal hexagram are separated, they will reveal themselves to be a sowelu rune and its mirror reflection: with this in mind the unicursal hexagram become

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

you" as early as the fourth century before christ, its use was suppressed. the reason for the restriction of the name is not known. possibly it was to avoid profanation of the name by heathen lips, or to prevent its abuse in vulgar magic. i tend to believe it was connected with a growing social gulf between the priest class and the people. the priests reserved the name exclusively as the supreme emblem of their authority, in very much the same way that the catholic church of the middle ages bitterly resisted the translation of the bible into the common tongues of europe. knowledge is power. several generations before the fall of jerusalem to the romans in a.d. 70, the priests had ceased to speak the name openly even within the confines of the temple. under the veil of holiness, they adopt

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

has just been said, and be assured that nothing of what is thus told you is really true, or ever happened in fact. for can it be imagined that it is the dog[fn#290] itself which is reverenced by them under the name of hermes[fn#291? it is the qualities of this animal, his constant vigilance, and his acumen in distinguishing his friends from his foes, which have rendered him, as plato says, a meet emblem of that god who is the chief patron of intelligence. nor can we imagine that they think that the sun, like a newly born babe, springs up every day out of a lily. it is quite true that they represent the rising sun in this manner,[fn#292] but the reason is because they wish to indicate thereby that it is moisture to which we owe the first kindling of this luminary. in like manner, the cruel

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

ch n tiene que hacer siete grandes trabajos que culminan en la coronaci n de la gran obra. 48 the face of a venerable elder appears in the center of the septenary star of alchemy according to the illustration of viridarium chymicum. such a venerable face in the septenary star of alchemy symbolizes the sophic mercury (the ens seminis. listen pigeons of alchemy, listen to how estolsio explains this emblem: that which was enclosed within many forms, now you see it included in one thing; the beginning is our elder and he has the key; sulfur with salt and mercury give wealth. if you do not see anything here, there is no reason for you to keep searching, for you will be blind even in the midst of the light. those students of occultism who think that they can acquire in depth self-realization wit

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iritual experience called vision of beauty triumphant. it combines the ideas of power (mars) with beauty (venus, and hints at their proper relationship. the virtue which naturally results from this proper relationship is unselfishness. as we said earlier, the rose is a symbol of venus, and when it is pictured as centered on a cross of six squares, formed by opening out a cube, it reveals the true emblem of the rose-cross (see figure 9-k. it is a symbol of the perfect coordination of desires (the rose) with the basic pattern of creation (the cross. the rose in the center represents equilibrium and balance of all the forces of nature. an ancient rosicrucain motto was "my victory is in the rosy-cross" the figure of brother c. r, because he represented true adeptship, or one who had conquered

ive relationship because each face has three sides and the pyramid itself has five corners, if the apex is included. this apex or cap-stone has been shrouded in mystery and written about by many intrigued by its meaning. this pinnacle stone is, according to case, another symbol for christ, the stone rejected by the builders. this capstone is sometimes called the triangle of fire "which is a stone emblem of the eternal flame (case, 1985, p. 83. john michell tells us that the pyramid has often been the scene of mysterious apparitions in the form of a light "which local bedouins see at certain seasons hovering over its peak (michell, 1983, p. 160. this was also witnessed by a mr. william groff and other members of the egyptian institute, who saw a flame rising from the top, but could discover

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

the church as thinking they had no hope of salvation through christ, or rather, that it was possible to obtain a happy after-life and regeneration without his aid. if you were shown a head or death's head later, told it represented the same god and to do reverence to it, that might be termed adoration of an idol by the church. if another novice were shown the same skull and told it was simply an emblem of mortality or the head of a saint, the most orthodox churchman could not object. there is some evidence that these skulls existed. some were found, one in paris. there is a curious templar story of a skull that brought good luck or fertility. a noble lady of maraclea was loved by a templar, a lord of sidon; but she died and was buried. such was the force of the knight's love that he dug u

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

orward and never turn back, and continue to press forward until i have finished, and i would have you do the same. though you may hear the birds singing on this side and that side, you must not take notice of that, but hear me when i speak to you, and take it to heart, for you may always depend that what i say shall be true. teedyuscung delaware crowned leadership we now crown you with the sacred emblem of the deer s antlers, the emblem of your lordship. you shall now become a mentor of the people of the five nations. the thickness of your skin shall be seven spans- which is to say that you shall be filled with peace and goodwill and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy. with endless patience you shall carry out your duty, and your firmness shal

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

alone among animals erect. on adding a head we make of it p, the sign of creative power (paternity, phallus, pan, the greek gods and priapus, all commencing with the vocable p. another dash added, and we have man walking, advancing, with foot set forward, in the letter r. which signifies iens, iturus, or advancing. compare unity, solus, alone, the unique principle of good; with sol, sun god, the emblem of supreme power; and they are identical. the hebrew word for one is achd, achad, and it is often put for god; god s one voice to man is the bath kol, the echo or daughter of the divine voice. the talmud in berachoth vi. i says that the shekinah shall rest even upon one who studies the law. one pang of remorse is of more avail for reformation than many stripes. one thing obtained with diffi

ll their adoration on the great mother. even in trinities of coequal males, each has his own special worshippers. note this especially among the hindus, where for example, the followers of vishnu are called vaishnavas. to complicate matters too, in this case, each deity has his female potency or sakti, and these also have their own adherents. 44. under this notice of the triad we may refer to the emblem of the isle of man, three legs united at the hips. this is supposed to have been derived from sicilian mariners at an early date, for the same emblem is found at palermo in sicily, and this design is there to be seen on an old public building. sicily was anciently named trinacria, from its three promontories. three is a notable number in the mythology of the norseman. the great ash-tree ygd

a bishop in benediction makes the sign of the cross 3 times. in roman catholic churches, the angelus bell is rung three times a day, a peal of 3 times, 3 for the heavenly hierarchies of angels. pope john xxii ordered that the faithful should say 3 aves on each occasion. in civil life the usher of a court 3 times repeats the warning oyez, oyez, oyez, which word means hear or listen. note also the emblem of the irish nation, the shamrock, which has a three-lobed leaf, the oxalis acetosella. the trigrams of fo-hi should be studied in the yi- king, a book of ancient china said to have been the production of king wan and his son, kau. the great confucius wrote a supplement to it. this book is a mystical work on symbolism referring to cosmogony, to man, and to the purposes of life. the initial

ecessary which is effected by addition and subtraction. plutarch, in his treatise on the generation of the soul according to plato, states that the pentad is called trophos, which equals sound, because the first of the intervals of a tone, which is capable of producing a sound, is the fifth. it is also a type of nature. the pentalpha or 5-pointed star, an endless of complex set of angles, was the emblem of health, hygeia. it numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott forms 5 copies of the capital letter a. it is also called the pentagram, and the seal of solomon, and is said to have been the device on the signet-ring of this ancient grand master of the mysteries. 61. kenneth mackenzie remarks that, being formed by the union of the first odd and even numbers

cally called the 5th science. in masonry the grand scheme is the 5 points of fellowship and note also 5 brethren can hold a fellowcrafts lodge. it is also called the pyramid, from the arrangement of monads, thus three below, then two, then one above them. note the system of 5 regular euclidean bodies, tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. the pentagram was the emblem of safety. the pentacle, the masons signet mark (according to stukeley, was the device borne by antiochus soter on a war-banner, to which was ascribed the signal victory he obtained. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott the ancients esteemed this number as a measure for drinking. they mixed 5 parts of water with their wine, and hippocrates added 1/ 5 of

mber of temptation and sin, for at the 6th hour of the 6th day the first temptation came into the world. six is the number of toil and work, for 6 days, the israelites had to collect manna; at the 6th hour of the 6th day jesus was sentenced to death, and in the revelations, the 6th seal, trumpet and vial were all emblematic of woe. the flood came when noah was 600 years old. the number 666 was an emblem of the great wicked one, still without identification, but he is implied in a prototype, schechem ben hamor, whose name is 666 by gematria, shkm bn chmvr, he was the corrupter of dinah. see genesis xxxiv. verse 2. the jews expected that the end of the present dispensation of the world would arrive after 6000 years, and st. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes

vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott period between noah and david as could reduce human life by eleven-twelfths. 122. 974. there were this number of generations from the writing of the law by the holy one before he created man in the world. 999. at the judgment, although there be 999 who condemn a man, he shall be saved if one plead for him. 1000. the 1000-headed serpent is sesha of ananta, the hindu emblem of eternity. 1000. the daughter of pharaoh, whom solomon married, told him of 1000 forms of musical instruments and taught him the chants for all the idols. 1000 is the cube of ten, a symbol of perfection--potiphar s wife tempted joseph with 1000 talents of silver, when her personal charms failed to move him. the thickness of the earth s crust is 1000 ells, below this is an abyss of 15,000

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

nd 2nd ads. open door of vault and enter ch. awes to east, 2nd remains at west, 34 remains without (one bell ring) chad "0 death, where is thy sting" 2nd ad "0 grave, where is thy victory" ch& 2nd"thanks be to god which giveth us the victory' they place their wands with the ends resting within the pastos and raise their ankhs, joining them above the wands. ch.ad "say then, my brother, what is the emblem which we raise above the graver 2nd ad "it is the ancient symbol of life; the union of the girdle of the great mother with the tau cross of death; it is the emblem of that eternal life of the spirit which the divine ones pour forth upon men, delivering him from the body of death" ch.ad "merrily, thou halt answered well, my brother. let us then entrust the great mother thus to raise us all f

edion. ch.ad "behold then, my prater, thyself submerged, even as of old the postulant was held beneath the waters of baptism until he entered the gates of death, emerging then, and then only, purified from the stains of earth. thus must thou also purify thyself, body and soul, in darkness and in silence before thou canst pass along the path of purgatorial fire (of which the southern pillar is the emblem, to that resurrection which we in patience hope for. no man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself; rather each gathereth in the life of his fellows, even as a mirror gathereth images of all around it. the still mirror reflects truly, and the living mirror perfects the unequal image. no troubled image finds therein its rest; for it restores that which was broken and that which it sen

which links his aura with that of the vibrational pitch of the 6=5 grade. the wands are joined above the pastos. the chief adept's wand is yechidah=28=unity or union. the 2nd adept's wand as chia=23=separated. the 3rd adept's wand is neshamah=390=firmament or heaven. this equates to "unity of the separated heavens" when all the divisions are added up they are 28+ 23+ 390= 441= truth. emblems the emblem is the three ankhs touching above the pastos which is associated to the three mother letters: aleph, shin, and mem. the formula of the first manifestation, 1+ 400+ 300= 701= the world. this is all of creation in a composite form. applied to the archetypal world of the tarot, a complete story is formed from the three tarot cards with the mother letters on them. aleph as the fool is the divin

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