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h the twenty-two paths between the sephiroth that also correspond to the major arcana of the tarot. definitions qbl: hebrew word meaning "from mouth to ear" thereby signifying a secret oral tradition. it is the meaning of qabalah. ain soph aur: hebrew expression meaning "the limitless light. sephiroth: the ten spheres or emanations on the qabalistic tree of life, a symbol which depicts the divine energy of creation proceeding like a lighting flash through ten different stages, culminating in physical manifestation. the sephiroth represent levels of spiritual reality both in the cosmos and in people because the tree, metaphorically, is 65 the body of god, and people are created in god's image. the tree is sometimes shown superimposed on the body of adam kadmon, the archetypal man. tree of l

had a good effect or bad one, did you feel happy or sad, etc. again, moon phases, astrological information (if available) and emotional and weather conditions should be included. some people tend to carry information to extremes. on the other hand, there are some who feel that even the smallest detail should be written. however, let's take for example that one day you feel a tremendous amount of energy and have an urgent need to commune with the archangels and the elements. for some reason that day, you are inclined to do several repetitive l.b.r.p.'s. so, by the end of the day you have perhaps done six or seven l.b.r.p.'s. let us say that a couple days later, you receive a pay raise, or that you meet someone of the opposite sex that you are attracted to, or something favorable happens in

n the voice. it has been a long kept occult secret that everything in matter is made up of vibration. today in modern science, this same concept has been termed the wave theory or put simply, frequency. it states that matter, even in its densest form, is constantly moving. that is to say that the molecular make-up of matter moves at a constant flow. as magicians, we understand that even matter is energy, and that such energy may be controlled in a certain environment under the correct applied force or conditions, once again revealing what crowley teaches, magic is change in conformity to will."if this is true, we can say that not only matter is made up of energy, but so are thoughts and emotions. even further, we can also say that words themselves contain powers that are activated by a for

g what crowley teaches, magic is change in conformity to will."if this is true, we can say that not only matter is made up of energy, but so are thoughts and emotions. even further, we can also say that words themselves contain powers that are activated by a force greater or equal to the exertion. such words of power are considered important factors in rituals because they aid in the direction of energy. in the neophyte grade, such lessons as the l.b.r.p. are meant to be performed in a manner that involves vibration. that is to say that rituals are simply lifeless without the use of vibration. it would almost be a football game without the cheer. another concept that is sometimes mentioned is harmonic resonance. this states that if one object vibrates strong enough, it may affect the vibra

etimes mentioned is harmonic resonance. this states that if one object vibrates strong enough, it may affect the vibration of a second object, on condition that the first object resonates (vibrates) greater or equal to the frequency of the second object. as a neophyte, the first object that you learn to vibrate is yourself. by maintaining a certain vibration within oneself is to affect a force or energy in the microcosm. as above, so below."in the l.b.r.p.,the energies invoked are the aspects of deity through the god names. by reaching the right pitch and using the correct force to support it, one is able to effectively call upon these energies to be used by the occultist as he wills. a few suggested forms of vibration are as followed. keep in mind that no one procedure will help all. find

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

f divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers from our own, separate dynamos. through them and through us courses the universal life force, known as ch'i to the chinese, and prana in hindu philosophy. it is a source upon which we can draw not only nor primarily for specific needs, but also for energy, harmony and connection with others, the world and the cosmos. it is an energy that can

er similar animals will subsequently tend to learn the same thing more readily all over the world; the more that learn it, the easier it should become for others. so if we carry out positive magick and spread goodwill, then we really can increase the benign energies of the earth and cosmos. even banishing or binding magick can have a creative focus, diverting or transforming redundant or negative energy, for example by burying a symbol of the negativity or casting herbs to the four winds. magick and responsibility true magick is not like a cake in which everybody must vie for a slice or be left with none: it is more akin to a never-emptying pot. like the legendary cauldron of undry in celtic myth, the more goodness that is put in, the more the mixture increases in richness and quantity. th

tend to work best when there is a genuine need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals for your specific

an in its modern form with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca follows a system of degrees of learning and does not permit self-initiation. the high priest initiates the femal

smos. if you are in a group and have been linking hands, as the power increases to a great intensity, this is the time to loose them. as the power builds, you will create what is known as a cone of power. the cone-shaped hats traditionally associated with witches and bishops' mitres reflect the concentration of spiritual potency. the purpose of the cone, like the sacred pyramid, is to concentrate energy in a narrowing shape so that it reaches a pinnacle of power, which can then be released at the end of the ritual to carry your wishes or desires into the cosmos. in order to create a cone of power in magick, you can visualise these energies as coloured light or as gold. alternatively, you can visualise different rainbow colours to create a cone of every colour that merges to brilliant white

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epresenting deception, and well summed up in the 7 of cups. lord of illusionary success. but the action of the m makes it mild and beneficient. a gentle, peaceful, force. the square of o of omebb in the sephirotic cross of the c lesser angle of the c tablet. triangle no. 1: c triangle no. 2: m. triangle no. 3: c. triangle no. 4: geburah. here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of geburah. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of m of aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the b tablet. triangle no. 1: queen of wands triangle no. 2: b. triangle no. 3: eagle kerub. c triangle no. 4: d here b acting d

ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

nothing more, nothing less! the term "daemon" can be misleading because the oversoul has not yet entered the daemonic phase of incubation. and yet, the initiate may still benefit from the wisdom of his guardian. the most direct method of acquiring knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian daemon is through the assumption of godform. let's examine this process; daemons or godforms behave as energy amplifiers/equalizers because they interact on a certain frequency or resonance unaffected by a cosmic buffer. at no time does the magician share consciousness with the deity he affixes his mind to. what the initiate is really doing is tuning his awareness to the godform's resonance. this creates a reverberation across all time lines in all of his physical forms! the group soul experiences

all been lies and utter nonsense. let us briefly explain the various techniques and explain why; the first suggestion is that you sit in a chair and imagine you are a certain deity and build upon its appearance, gestures, mannerisms, etc. this form of auto suggestion is useful, but it is analogous to yanking yourself up by your own bootstraps. it fails to utilize the godform's ability to amplify energy, which could be used as a pulley! occultnik experts insist that when picking a godform, one should choose from the same pantheon or pick carefully according to planetary powers. this is completely absurd and entirely untrue. all daemons do is amplify your own power. when you assume godform, the effect is the same whether you choose pan or isis as a model! it makes no difference if the deity

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

2. it will hardly have escaped the attentive listener that in my previous lectures i have combined the maximum of discourse with the minimum of information; that is all part of my training as a cabinet minister. but what does emerge tentatively from my mental fog is that yama, taking it by long and by large, is mostly negative in its effects. we are imposing inhibitions on the existing current of energy, just as one compresess a waterfall in turbines in order to control and direct the natural gravitational energy of the stream. 3. it might be as well, before altogether leaving the subject of yama, to enumerate a few of the practical conclusions which follow from our premiss that nothing which might weaken or destroy the beauty and harmony of the mind must be permitted. social existence of

ork; and it is the attainment of the trance, of even the intellectual foreshadowing of that trance, of joy, which reassures the yogi that his work is worth while. jupiter digests experiences; jupiter is the lord of the forces of life; jupiter takes common matter and transmutes it into celestial nourishment. 10. the next planet is mars. mars represents the muscular system; it is the lowest form of energy, and in niyama it is to be taken quite literally as the virtue which enables on to contend with, and to conquer, the physical difficulties of the work. the practical point is this 'the little more and how much it is, the little less and what worlds away' no matter how long you keep water at 99 degrees centigrade under normal barometric pressure, it will not boil. i shall probably be accused

be or may not be good enough to get you going. no one can tell you until you have tried long enough (and no one can tell you how long 'long enough' may be) whether that is going to ring the bell. it may be that if you increase your sixty seconds to sixty-four the phenomena would begin immediately. that sounds all right but as you have nearly burst your lungs doing the sixty, you want this *added* energy to make the grade. that is only one example of the difficulty which arises with every practice. mars, morever, is the flaming energy of passion, it is the male quality in its lowest sense; it is the courage which goes berserk, and i do not mind telling you that, in my own case at least, one of the inhibitions with which i had most frequently to contend was the fear that i was going mad. thi

. and the niyama of mars is the ruthless rage which jests at scars while dying of one's wounds. the grim lord of colonsay hath turned him on the ground, and laughed in death-pang that his blade the mortal thrust so well repaid' 11. the next of the heavenly bodies is the centre of all, the sun. the sun is the heart of the system; he harmonises all, energises all, orders all. his is the courage and energy which is the source of all the other lesser forms of motion, and it is because of this that in himself he is calm. they are planets; he is a star. for him all planets come; around him they all move, to him they all tend. it is this centralisation of faculties, their control, their motivation, which is the niyama of the sun. he is not only the heart but the brain of the system; but he is not

nd contraction of the lungs. when you have got this process slow and regular, for instance, 30 seconds breathing out and 15 in, you may add a few seconds in which the breath is held, either inside or outside the lungs (it is said, by the way, that the operation of breathing out should last about twice as long as that of breathing in, the theory being that breathing out quickly may bring a loss of energy. i think there may be something in this) 23. there are other practices. for instance, one can make the breathing as quick and shallow as possible. any good practice is likely to produce its own phenomena, but in accordance with the general thesis of these lectures i think it will be obvious that the proper practice will aim at holding the breath for as long a period as possible- because tha

ALEISTER CROWLEY ABSINTHE THE GREEN GODDESS

ar of the unknown, that he regards alcohol as a fetish, necessarily alluring and tyrannical. with this ignorance of human nature goes an ever grosser ignorance of the divine nature. he does not understand that the universe has only one possible purpose; that, the business of life being happily completed by the production of the necessities and luxuries incidental to comfort, the residuum of human energy needs an outlet. the surplus of will must find issue in the elevation of the individual towards the godhead; and the method of such elevation is by religion, love, and art. these three things are indissolubly bound up with wine, for they are species of intoxication. yet against all these things we find the prohibitionist, logically enough. it is true that he usually pretends to admit religi

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

kiss them. and as i kissed them such a thrill ran through me that i thought myself rapt away into the heaven of amoun, or even as asi when hoor and hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her womb, sprang armed to life. then they stripped me of my robes, and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of adoration. this i page 10 gulf.txt did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in the darkness- for night had fallen by this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was inde

the formula of the osiris as follows, even as it hath been transmitted unto us by the brethren of the cross and rose unto this day "for asar un-nefer hath said: he that is found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is the repressed sigh of my suffering; the flame-red fire is the energy of my undaunted will; the cup of wine is the outpouring of the blood of my heart, sacrificed to regeneration; and the bread and salt are the foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am asar triumphant, even asar un-nefer the justified one! i am her who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the mighty gods. i am he lord of life

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

l is quite similar to the feeling many people have today with regards to the swastika used by the nazis, a symbol which has become the archetype of an evil sigil in the west. the fact that it is a highly valued mystical and religious symbol in the east is something that is not well-known. what is worse, the image of the devil as perpetrated by the church is simultaneously representative of sexual energy, and can be safely compared to jung's archetype of the shadow, the psychic repository of a man's innate maleness, as the anima represents that part of a man which is feminine. truly, the pictures painted of a satanic ritual by the pious catholic clergymen was one of sexual orgies and "perversions, and the handbook of the inquisitors, the malleus maleficarum- which has been responsible for t

d were conscious of an entity we might call the :author of all evil, the devil or satan, as evident in the sumerian creation epic and the rumoured existences of the cult of set of the egyptians, the more pressing concern was usually the exorcism of tiamat, she exists, somehow, just as the abyss exists and is perhaps indispensable to human life if we think of her as typifying the female quality of energy. although marduk was responsible for halving the monster from the sea, the sumerian tradition has it that the monster is not dead, but dreaming, asleep below the surface of the earth, strong, potent, dangerous, and very real. her powers can be tapped by the knowledgeable "who are skilful to rouse leviathan" although the christian religion has gone to great lengths to prove that the devil is

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

mes. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 9 nothing is not. the first triad which is god i am. i utter the word. i hear the word. the abyss the word is broken up. there is knowledge. knowledge is relation. these fragments are creation. the broken manifests light (2) the second triad which is god god the father and mother is concealed in generation. god is concealed in the whirling energy of nature. god is manifest in gathering: harmony: consideration: the mirror of the sun and of the heart. the third triad bearing: preparing. wavering: flowing: flashing. stability: begetting. the tenth emanation the world [10] commentary (the chapter that is not a chapter) this chapter, numbered 0, corresponds to the negative, which is before kether in the qabalistic system. the notes of in

mplete; the manifestation even of god does not appear until tiphareth; and the universe itself not until malkuth. the chapter many therefore be considered as the most complete treatise on existence ever written. note (2) the unbroken, absorbing all, is called darkness [11] 1 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda alpha the sabbath of the goat o! the heart of n.o.x. the night of pan. pi-alpha-nu: duality: energy: death. death: begetting: the supporters of o! to beget is to die; to die is to beget. cast the seed into the field of night. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 life and death are two names of a. kill thyself. neither of these alone is enough [12] commentary( alpha) the shape of the figure i suggests the phallus; this chapter is therefore called the sabbath of the goat

uller commentary on nox, see liber vii, chapter i. nox adds to 210, which symbolises the reduction of book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 12 duality to unity, and thence to negativity, and is thus a hieroglyph of the great work. the word pan is then explained, pi, the letter of mars, is a hieroglyph of two pillars, and therefore suggest duality; a, by its shape, is the pentagram, energy, and n, by its tarot attribution, is death. nox is then further explained, and it is shown that the ultimate trinity, o, is supported, or fed, by the process of death and begetting, which are the laws of the universe. the identity of these two is then explained. the student is then charged to understand the spiritual importance of this physical procession in line 5. it is then asserted that

in love the individuality is slain; who loves not love? love death therefore, and long eagerly for it. die daily [42] commentary( iota-sigma) this seems a comment on the previous chapter; the stag-beetle is a reference the kheph-ra, the egyptian god of midnight, who bears the sun through the underworld; but it is called the stag-beetle to emphasise his horns. horns are the universal hieroglyph of energy, particularly of phallic energy. the 16th key of the tarot is "the blasted tower. in this chapter death is regarded as a form of marriage. modern greek peasants, in many cases, cling to pagan belief, and suppose that in death they are united to the deity which they have cultivated during life. this is "a consummation devoutly to be wished (shakespeare. book of lies get any book for free on:

ALEISTER CROWLEY DUTY

ry other form of consciousness, thus destroying the sense of seperateness from the whole, and creating a new base-line in the universe from which to measure it. 2 "as brothers fight ye "if he be a king thou canst not hurt him" to bring out saliently the differences between two points-of-view is useful to both in measuring the position of each in the whole. combat stimulates the virile or creative energy; and, like love, of which it is one form, excites the mind to an orgasm which duty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 5 enables it to transcend its rational dullness. 3. abstain from all interferences with other wills "beware lest any force another, king against king (the love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the oppone

www.abika.com 6 each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a universe in no wise identical with, or even assimilable to, your own. the impersonal universe of "nature" is only an abstraction, approximately tru, of the factors which it is convenient to regard as common to all. the universe of another is therefore necessarily unknown to, and unknowable by, you; but it induces currents of energy in yours by determining in part your reactions. use men and women, therefore, with the absolute respect due to inviolable standards of measurement; verify your own observations by comparison with similar judgements made by them; and, studying the methods which determine their failure or success, acquire for yourself the wit and skill required to cope with your own problems. c. your duty to

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

el bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12 right speech left lower point 13 right aspiration bottom point 14 right conduct right lower point 21 right discipline right upper point 27 right energy left lower point 30 right rapture centre point 32 right recollection (in both senses of the word. right view-point. top point table iii 21 lxxxiv. divine names of briah. lxxxv. angels of briah. lxxxvi. choirs of angels in briah. lxxxvii. palaces of briah. 0. 1 lawhy yehuel \yprc seraphim 2 lapr raphael \ynpwa auphanim 3 la laybwrk kerubiel \ybwrk kerubim \ycdq cwdq lkyh hekel qadosh qadeshi

eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 bis. n= yoni. 9 h 0 khwbn. belly. 3 and 13. the trigrams should be considered as the symbols which combine these meanings, the hexagrams as combinations of these, chosen according to circumstances. thus is fire of, or energy of, and might mean beginning to change, or force applied to obstruction, as it actually does. 4 2 notes 42 the hexagrams of the yi king. figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 1 7 7+ of+ khien heaven &c+ for lingam) 2 0 0 9 of 9 khwbn earth &c (9 for yoni) 3 2 4= of b kun danger and obscurity genoj. 4 1 2 e of= mbng youth and ignorance. 5 2 7= of+ hs waiting, sincerity. 6 7

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

thus, catullus, dante and swinburn made their love a mighty mover of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thoughts on the subject in musical and eloquent language. again, cleopatra and other people in authority moulded the fortunes of many other people by allowing love to influence their political actions. the magician, however well he succeed in making contact with the secret sources of energy in nature, can only use them to the extent permitted by his intellectual and moral qualities. mohammed's intercourse with gabriel was only effective because of his statesmanship, soldiership, and the sublimity of his command of arabic. hertz's discovery of the rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was sterile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take h

tion is, however, balanced in itself. four is also daleth, the letter of venus; so that the mother-idea is included. again, the sephira of 4 is chesed, referred to water. 4 is ruled by jupiter, lord of the lightning (fire) yet ruler of air. each sephira is complete in its way; mercy and authority are the attributes of its dignity. the number five is balanced against it. the attributes of five are energy and justice. four and five are again combined and harmonized in the number six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. in the number seven the feminine nature is again predominant, 2 but it is the masculine type of female, the amazon, who is balanced in the number eight by the feminine type of male. in the number nine we reach the last of the purely mental qualities

spond to tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. in such a ceremony the rituals of purification alone might occupy many incarnations. it will be necessary, therefore, to revert to the simpler view of tetragrammaton, remembering only that the "he" final is the throne of the spirit, of the shin of pentagrammaton. the yod will represent a swift and violent creative energy; following this will be a calmer and more reflective but even more powerful flow of will, the irresistible force of a mighty river. this state of mind will be followed by an expansion of the consciousness; it will penetrate all space, and this will finally undergo a crystallization resplendent with interior light. such modifications of the original will may be observed in the course of the

the masculine siva, or tao, is always a concealed force> it is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. this should be studied in "a note on genesis (equinox i, ii. the elements are all represented, as in tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into the others. they are, as it were, thrown together- untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. the central letter is "he- the letter of breath- and represents spirit. the first letter "aleph" is the natural letter of air, and the final "mem" is the natural letter of water. together "aleph" and "mem" make "am- the mother within whose womb the cosmos is conceived. but "yod" is not the natural letter of fire. its juxtaposition with "he" sanctifies that fire to the "yod" of tetragrammat

nt babe who is also the wandering singer who impregnates the king's daughter with himself as her child; lamed is the king's daughter, satisfied by him, holding his "sword and balances" in her lap. these weapons are the judge, armed with power to execute his will, and two witnesses "in whom shall every truth be established" in accordance with whose testimony he gives judgment "yod" is the creative energy- the procreative power: and yet "yod" is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the sper

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

my letter about the motto and make clear to you the working of this letter. in this motto you have really got several ideas combined, and yet they are magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 20 really, of course, one idea. fiat, being 811, is identical with iao, and therefore fiat yod might be read not only as "let there be (or "let me become, the secret source of all creative energy, but as "the secret source of the energy of jehovah" the two words together, having the value 1* in the original in greek 2* in the original in greek. 3* in the original in hebrew. 4* in the original in hebrew. 5* in the original in greek. 13 of 831, they contain the secret meanings pyramis and phallos, which is the same idea in different forms; thus you have three ways of expressing the cr

y last letter6 do throw some light onto this abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the will with a capital w, and desire, want, or velleity. the main point seems to be that in aspiring to power one is limited by the true will. if you use force, violating your own nature either from lack of understanding or from petulant whim, one is merely wasting energy; things go back to normal as soon as the stress is removed. this is one small case of the big equation "free will= necessity (fate, destiny, or karma: it's all much the same idea. one is most rigidly bound by the causal chain that has dragged one to where one is; but it is one's own self that has forged the links. please refrain from the obvious retort "then, in the long run, you can't poss

, bear thou ever me up between thy wings" 3. now then to your old pons asinorum about the names of the gods! stand in the corner for half an hour with your face to the wall! stay in after school and write malka be-tharshishim v-ruachoth b- schebralim 999 times! 19 my dear, dear, dear sister, a name is a formula of power. how can you talk of "anachronism" when the being is eternal? for the type of energy is eternal. every name is a number: and "every number is infinite; there is no difference (al i, 4. but one name, or system of names, may be more convenient either (a) to you personally or (b) to the work you are at. e.g. i have magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 32 very little sympathy with jewish theology or ritual; but the qabalah is so handy and congenial that i

r of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thoughts on the subject in musical and eloquent language. again, cleopatra and other people in authority moulded the fortunes of many other people by allowing love to influence their political actions. the magician, however well he succeeds in making contact with the secret sources magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 46 of energy in nature, can only use them to the extent permitted by his intellectual and moral qualities. mohammed's intercourse with gabriel was only effective because of his statesmanship, soldiership, and the sublimity of his command of arabic. hertz; discovery of the rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was sterile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take hi

t and confusion hamper humanity) well, here endeth the first lesson. that seems to me to cover the ground fairly well; at least, that is what i have to say when serious analysis is on the agenda. but there is a restricted and conventional sense in which the word may be used without straying too far from the above philosophical position. one might say "magick is the study and use of those forms of energy which are (a) subtler than the ordinary physical-mechanical types (b) accessible only to those who are (in one sense or another 'initiates" i fear that this may sound rather obscurum per obscurius; but this is one of these cases- we are likely to encounter many such in the course of our researches- in which we understand, quite well enough for all practical purposes, magic without tears get

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

t must require an extremely careful balance to prevent the one absorbing the other. as it will be seen later, the "vision of god" or "union with god" or "samadhi" or whatever we may agree to call it, has many kinds and many degrees, although there is an impassable abyss between the least of them and the greatest of all the phenomena of normal consciousness "to sum up" we assert a secret source of energy which explains the phenomenon of genius<religious genius. other kinds are subject to the same remarks, but the limits of our space forbid discussion of these> we do not believe in any supernatural explanations, but insist that this source may be reached by the following out of definite rules, the degree of success dep

. here are a few useful mantras: 1. aum. 2. aum tat sat aum. this mantra is purely spondaic. ii. illustration: line of music with: aum tat sat aum :under it 3. aum mani padme hum; two trochees between two caesuras. iii. illustration: line of music with: aum ma-ni pad-me hum :under it 4. aum shivaya vashi; three trochees. note that "shi" means rest, the absolute or male aspect of the deity "va" is energy, the manifested or female side of the deity. this mantra therefore expresses the whole course of the universe, from zero through the finite back to zero. iv. illustration: line of music with: aum shi-va-ya va-shi aum shi-va-ya vashi :under it 5. allah. the syllables of this are accented equally, with a certain pause between them; and are usually combined by fakirs with a rhythmical motion o

. no fixed rule can be laid down. the "non-receiving of gifts" for instance, is rather important for a hindu, who would be thoroughly upset for weeks if any one gave him a coconut: but the average european takes things as they come by the time that he has been put into long trousers. 23 the only difficult question is that of continence, which is complicated by many considerations, such as that of energy; but everybody's mind is hopelessly muddled on this subject, which some people confuse with erotology, and others with sociology. there will be no clear thinking on this matter until it is understood as being solely a branch of athletics. we may then dismiss yama and niyama with this advice: let the student decide for himself what form of life, what moral code, will least tend to excite his

osing the phial for the holy oil" 64 chapter iv the scourge, the dagger, and the chain the scourge, the dagger, and the chain, represent the three alchemical principles of sulphur, mercury, and salt. these are not the substances which we now call by these names; they represent "principles" whose operations chemists have found it more convenient to explain in other ways. but sulphur represents the energy of things, mercury their fluidity, salt their fixity. they are analogous to fire, air and water; but they mean rather more, for they represent something deeper and subtler, and yet more truly active. an almost exact analogy is given by the three gunas of the hindus; sattvas, rajas, and tamas. sattvas is mercury, equable, calm, clear; rajas is sulphur, active, excitable, even fierce; tamas i

sugar, but only in reference to his own condition. it is not a virtue of universal import. elijah said on one occasion "i do well to be angry" but such occasions are rare. moreover, one man's meat is another man's poison. an oath of poverty might be very useful for a man who was unable intelligently to use his wealth for the single end proposed; to another it would be simply stripping himself of energy, causing him to waste his time over trifles. there is no power which cannot be pressed in to the service of the magical will: it is only the temptation to value that power for itself which offends. one does not say "cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground" unless repeated prunings have convinced the gardener that the growth must always be a rank one "if thine hand offend thee, cut it off"

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lly begging the question. it must also prove almost wholly unintelligible to the average reader, him in fact whom i especially aim to interest. for his sake i will try to elucidate the matter by an analogy. consider electricity. it would be absurd to say that electricity is any of the phenomena by which we know it. we take refuge in the petitio principii of saying that electricity is that form of energy which is the principle cause of such and such phenomena. suppose now that we eliminate this idea as evidently illogical. what remains? we must not hastily answer 'nothing 8 remains' there is some thing inherent in the nature of consciousness, reason, perception, sensation, and of the universe of which they inform us, which is responsible for the fact that we observe these phenomena and not

hat remains? we must not hastily answer 'nothing 8 remains' there is some thing inherent in the nature of consciousness, reason, perception, sensation, and of the universe of which they inform us, which is responsible for the fact that we observe these phenomena and not others; that we reflect upon them as we do, and not otherwise. but even deeper than this, part of the reality of the inscrutable energy which determines the form of our experience, consists in determining that experience should take place at all. it should be clear that this has nothing to do with any of the platonic conceptions of the nature of things. the least abject asset in the intellectual bankruptcy of european thought is the hebrew qabalah. properly understood it is a system of symbolism infinitely elastic, assuming

reference to the diagram crowley made on the blank page preceding the table of content in his copy of the legge yi king. see oto newsletter, v. i, no. 3, p. 15. the tao. the teh, the tao, source of the mother source of the father# heaven# ch'ien# had# water fire# li, this# tui water# is chen# usually is k'an sun# had chen# this is li# air# sun# earth# ken moon# k'an# earth# k'un# 1 chapter ii the energy- source of the self. 1. all men know that beauty and ugliness are correlatives, as are skill and clumsiness; one implies and suggests the other. 2. so also existence and non-existence pose the one the other((i.e, the thought of either implies its opposite) so also is it with ease and difficulty, length and shortness; height and lowness. also musick exists through harmony of opposites((nay

is being understood of the true self, the mind and body proceed untrammeled in their natural path without desire on the part of the self) 4. all things arise without diffidence; they grow, and none interferes; they change according to their natural order, without lust of result. the work is accomplished; yet continueth in its orbit, without goal. this work is done unconsciously; this is 2 why its energy is indefatigable. 3 chapter iii quieting folk. 1. to reward merit is to stir up emulation; to prize rarities is to encourage robbery; to display desirable things is to excite the disorder of covetousness. 2. therefore, the sage governeth men by keeping their minds and their bodies at rest, contenting the one by emptiness, the other by fullness. he satisfieth their desires, thus fulfilling t

the profane have each one his definite course of action; i alone appear useless and uncomprehending, like a man from the border. yea, thus i differ from all other men: but my jewel is the all-mother((cf 'afloat in the aether, o my god, my god' liber vii. it is the 'aimless winging' which gives 'joy ineffable' to the self-supported absolute) 25 chapter xxi the infinite womb. 1. the sole source of energy is the tao. who may declare its nature? it is beyond sense, yet all form is hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all perceptibles are hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all perceptibles are hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all being is hidden within it. this being excites perception, and the word thereof. as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, its name((

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and with these tears he smites the barren rock beneath his feet. it melts like wax at the touch; roses spring up and twine about his limbs. around him are four living creatures, begotten of his will, so that the mountain might glow with the life that flows through him. there is a tawny lion, from whose mouth drops honey. he roars aloud, and the word thereof is this: the wrath of the master is the energy of love. there is a buffalo cow, grey-blue, whose udders overflow with milk, and her lowing means: the work of the master is the nourishment of life. there is a babe, that with his tiny hands presses out blood from his own breast, and smileth: the way of the master is the innocence of liberty. also, a golden eagle, bearing a chalice of wine, crying aloud: the woe of the master is the raptur

and is refreshed. the voice of the raven. amen: the past and the future are parts of the present, in the eye of the master, that seeth the secret of secrets and knoweth them all to be one. the voice of the eagle. su: the heavens are poised on the plumes of the righteous, that wingeth among them, beholding the sun; thus know ye the mercy and joy of the master! the voice of the hawk. agla: by thine energy riseth all motion of will of the master, begetter, destroyer! the voice of the pelican. iao: all that liveth is blood of the heart of the master: all stars are at feast on that pasture, abiding in light. the voice of the dove. hriliu: there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into joy by the love of the master. the voice of the ibis. abraha

ether, nor is there any speech articulate; until a fearful blast peals forth, a trumpeting of majesty. but within the blare of the tempest sounds a voice steady and stern, yet full of peace and kindliness 4. the neccessity of the universe is the measure of thy righteousness. now follows martial music, wild and full of the rushing of fire: 5. the movement of the universe is the fulfilment of thine energy. and this is blended with the echo of all former voices and their music, so that the whole abyss is filled with their orchestration to one symphony. 6. the order of the universe is the expression of thy rapture of beauty. this fades away into a deep and tender tune, like nightingales beside a waterfall; and the voice comes twittering: 7. the sensibility of the universe is the triumph of thi

last oracle! viii. balance against each thought its exact opposite! for the marriage of these is the annihilation of illusion. ix. wander alone; bearing the light and thy staff! and be the light so bright that no man seeth thee! be not moved by aught without or within: keep silence in all ways! x. follow thy fortune, careless where it lead thee! the axle moveth not: attain thou that! xi. mitigate energy with love; but let love devour all things. worship the name, foursquare, mystic, wonderful, and the name of his house 418 (this name to be communicated to those worthy of that initiation) xii. let not the waters wheron thou journeyest wet thee! and, being come to shore, plant thou the vine and rejoice without shame. xiii. the universe is change: every change is the effect of an act of love;

ue token of perfection! dissolve the pearl in the wine-cup: drink, and make manifest the virtue of that pearl! xv with thy right eye create all for thyself, and with the left accept all that be created otherwise! the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 xvi break down the fortress of thine individual self, that thy truth may spring free from the ruins! xvii use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the phoenix! xviii let the illusion of the world pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the midnight to the morning! xix give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. make speech and silence, energy and stillness, twin forms of thy play! xx be every act an act of love and worship! be every act the

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ing the rapturous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! to me" and with these words "the manifestation of nuit is at an end" iii. in the next chapter of our book is given the word of hadit, who is the complement of nuit. he is eternal energy, the infinite motion of things, the central core of all being. the manifested universe comes from the marriage of nuit and hadit; without this could no thing be. this eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that is, is a crystallization of divine the law of liberty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 4 ecstasy. hadit tells

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true prediction was therefore necessarily catastrophe. the greatest good fortune seemed worthless to an atlantean, since it was accident, and if accidents are to happen, one of them may be fatal. they believed themselves to be equal to the whole tendency of things, and proudly gazed on nature as a man might upon a virgin captive to his spear. everything that was being was zro; everything that was energy was 'working for zro. outside this was but by-product and waste-heap. the arrangement of the houses was in accordance with the magical theory. there was first the high house, then four (later six, last ten 'houses of houses; and to each of these was attached a varying number of ordinary houses. the high house was the central shrine of the whole archipelago, and must be separately described

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xt verse. the new comment the definition of "infinite space" offered in the comment on verse 13 is useful here. my work is in great part to insist upon the infinite possibilities of human development. man has too slavishly acquiesced in his limitations. science itself has shewn itself almost as intolerant as religion toward certain lines of research. indeed, every element of society has added its energy to the opposition which bars each pioneer with undiscriminating stupidity. darwin, pasteur, lister, and jenner met with the same ferocious cowardice as shelly and luther; they were assailed on every ground from religion and morality upwards; every falsehood that malice could invent was circulated about them. in short, they were treated then as i am being treated now; and i am resolute to pr

onscious of its fractional character- seeking to be whole. now the bigger any 'one' gets, the more conscious it is of its "minus one' wife, the more clearly it sees that 'one; is illusion, and had better cancel out. the general process of initiation is therefore the same for all possible universes. from the standpoint of physics, the original inertia expresses itself as two complementary forms of energy- the small active negative electron (hadit) and the large passive positive electron (nuit (it has recently been shown that the mass of matter is zero. when these satisfy each other, two phenomena occur (1) their opposed equalities cancel out to zero (perhaps even to 0 to the 0 power, thus restoring the original indeterminate nothing (2) a "child" is born of the union; i.e, a positive phenom

but one. note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also "unassuaged of purpose. this strange phrase must give us pause. it may mean that any purpose in the will would damp ti; clearly, the "lust of result" is a thing from which it must be delivered. but the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read "with purpose unassuaged- i.e. with tireless energy. the conception is, therefore, of an eternal motion, infinite and unalterable. it is nirvana, only dynamic instead of static- and this comes to the same thing in the end. the obvious practical task of the magician is then to discover what his will really is, so that he may do it in this manner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of liber thisarb (see equinox i, vii, 105) or su

mr. scogan waved away the interruption 'there's only one thing to be done, he said 'the men of intelligence must combine, must conspire, and seize power from the imbeciles and maniacs who now direct us. they must found the rational state "the heat that was slowly paralyzing all denis's mental and bodily faculties seemed to bring to mr. scogan additional vitality. he talked with an ever-increasing energy, his hands moved in sharp, quick precise gestures, his eyes shown. hard, dry, and continuous, his voice went on sounding and sounding in denis's ears with the insistence of a mechanical noise"'in the rational state, he heard mr. scogan saying 'human beings will be separated out into distinct species, not according to the colour of their eyes or the shape of their skulls, but according to th

poor materialist if he says so. the full possibilities of the acid must be accounted for in one way or another. if it does not dissolve a metal, it may carbonize a sugar, generate a gas, give off heat, or in one way or another fulfill absolutely every possibility which it inherited from the forces that went to make it. it is manifestly a contradiction of the laws of the conservation of matter and energy, that a substance should lose by being transformed. i is contrary to nature that a man, with potentialities which can transform the face of the earth, should become nothing but inert carrion when he happens to die. everything that he was must inevitably persist; and if the manifestation be not to one set of senses, why then, to another! the idea of creation from nothing of something and the

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joyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. the people: so mote it be. the lord the deacon: lord secret and most holy, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with diligence let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy. the people: so mote it be. the moon the deacon: lady of night, that turning ever about us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou favourable to hunters, and lovers, and to all men that toil upon the earth, and to all mariners upon the sea. the people: so mote it be. the l

paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be. the earth the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favorably the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious. the people: so mote it be. the principles the deacon: mysterious energy, triform, mysterious matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division, the interplay of which things weave the dance of the veil of life upon the face of the spirit, let there be harmony and beauty in your mystic loves, that in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the law of liberty; let each pursue his will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the co

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

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ailable on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no, if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. we may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. all theft is temporary, since even a millionaire must die; also it is universal, since even a buddha must breathe. the third precept

amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool and rare is such a combination! to note the criticism directed by the philestine against the citadel of his science. truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the bible, but also substantial belief in alf laylah wa laylah, and only adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more. even when we learn that the bible, by a* this essay forms the introduction an edition of the goetia of king solomon a thousand and one nights, commonly called arabian nights. profound a

through infinite diversities of life and thought, possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from which they arose. thus the most obvious attribute of the cosmos is its impermenance. it assumes the aspect not so much of a permanent entity as of a changeful process, in which naught endures save the flow of energy and the rational order which pervades it. this is an admirable summary of the buddhist doctrine (b) see above on the first noble truth (c) this is the grand position which buddha carried against the hindu philosophers. in our own country it is the argument of hume, following berkeley to a place where berkeley certainly never meant to go a curious parallel fulfilment of christ s curse agains

cs. t.s] science and buddhism 98 now bring all his powers with tremendous force to bear upon any one object he may have in view, and this ability so to use the energies of his being to put forth a constant and tremendous effort of the will, marks the attainment of the sixth stage, samm vayamo, usually translated right effort, but perhaps right will-power would come nearer to the meaning, or right energy, for effort has been made even to attain to sammaditthi.1 and this power being gained by its use he is enabled to concentrate all his thoughts and hold them always upon one object waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life and this constant recollection and keeping in mind of holy things, is the seventh stage, sammasati. and by the power of this transcendent fa

i take my refuge in the sangha. this formula of adhesion to buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? it is no vain profession of reliance on others; no cowardly shirking of burdens burdens which cannot be shirked. it is a plain estimate of our auxiliaries in the battle; the cosmic facts on which we may rely, just as a scientist relies on the conservation of energy in making an experiment. were that principle of uncertain application, the simplest quantitative experiment would break hopelessly down. so for the buddhist. i take my refuge in the buddha. that there was once a man who found the way is my encouragement. i take my refuge in the dhamma. the law underlying phenomena and its unchanging certainty; the law given by the buddha to show us the way

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r men: get closer to it than they could. so the best part of my labour- i mean the highest result of it- became personal, entirely personal, and this disappointed me. if i could do no good to others by it, what was my labour but a personal gratification? and what was that to me- at my age! i seemed to lose heart, to lose zest. perhaps it was that old age had come upon me, that the original sum of energy in me had been spent, that my bolt was shot. it may be so "the fact remains that i lost the desire to go on, and, when i had lost that, i woke up, of course, to the ordinary facts of life once again. i had no money: i was weak from semi-starvation and long vigils, prematurely old and decrepit. once more, gabrielle came to my assistance. she fitted up this room, and then i went out to sell m

l such as have had a glimpse of something we do not see as "d traqu s" degenerates, neuropaths, psychopaths, hypochondriacs, and epileptics. well, even if we do, these terms explain very little, and in most cases, especially when applied to mystic states, nothing at all; nevertheless they form an excellent loophole out of which the ignorant may crawl when faced with a difficulty they have not the energy or wit to surmount. 143 true, the utter chaos amongst all systems of magic and mysticism that has prevailed in the west during the last two thousand years, partially, if not entirely, accounts for the uncritical manner in which these systems have been handled by otherwise critical minds. even to-day, though many thousand years after they were first written down, we find a greater simplicity

ss. invested with an invincible courage, filled with an impassioned desire to suffer for its god, the soul then is seized with a strange torment- that of not being allowed to suffer enough."2 2 "oeuvres" ii. 320. prof. william james writes "the great spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ecstasy as far as it has often been carried, appear for the most part to have shown indomitable spirit and energy, and all the more so for the trances in which they indulged" writing of st. ignatius, he says "st. ignatius was a mystic, but his mysticism made him assuredly one of the most powerful practical human engines that ever lived("the varieties of religious experience" p. 413. in the old days, when but a small portion of the globe was known to civilised man, the explorer and the traveller would r

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t museums and dissecting-rooms) 2. continue this practice until death is complete; follow the corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3. now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils. 4. next, imagine a divine light enlightening the eyes. 5. next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves 10 and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it

ans thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. this must be achieved most fully and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 4. next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its content as infinite. deem it to be the womb of isis, or the body of nuit. 5. next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure to thyself its energy as infinite. deem it to be the phallus of osiris or the being of hadit. 6. these two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the point of samadhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not samadhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious of all else, do thou imagine the 13 hunger of the one for the other; the emptiness of the brain

currence of that thought. thus each mental damma, each sankh ra, tends to produce constantly its like, and be in turn reproduced; and so at first sight it would seem as though there were no possibility of augmenting the states that are good. but, whilst our master has taught us of this tendency to reproduce that is so characteristic of all mental states, he has also shewn us how this reproductive energy of the sankh ras may itself be employed to the suppression of evil states, and to the culture 31 of the states that are good. for if a man has many and powerful sankh ras in his nature, which tend to make him angry or cruel, we are taught that he can definitely overcome those evil sankh ras by the practice of mental concentration on sankh ras of an opposite nature- in practice by devoting a

ental concentration upon the good sankh ras, we have the key to the entire system of the purification and culture of the mind, which constitutes the practical working basis of the buddhist religion. if we consider the action of a great and complex engine- such a machine as drives a steamship through the water- we will see that there is, first and foremost, one central and all-operationg source of energy; in this case the steam which is generated in the boilers. this energy in itself is neither 1 sila must then be defined as the discipline essential to mental concentration, and this will vary with race, climate, individuality, etc. etc- a.c. good nor bad- it is simply "power" and whether that power does the useful work of moving he ship, or the bad work of breaking loose, and destroying and

n overcoming the resistance of the steam itself. if they remain open too long, the expansive force of the steam will be wasted, and so again power will be lost; and if they open too late, much of the momentum of the engine will be used up in moving uselessly the great mass of the machinery. and so it is with every part of the engine. in every part of the prime mover is that concentrated expansive energy of the steam; but that energy must be applied in each diverse piece of mechanism in exactly the right way, at exactly the right time; otherwise, either the machine will not work at all, or much of the energy of the steam will be wasted in overcoming its own opposing force. so it is with this subtle machinery of the mind- a mechanism infinitely more complex, capable of far more power for goo

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white clouds in it, outside. and now i see mountains round, far blue mountains, purple mountains. and in the midst is a little green dell of moss, which is all sparkling with dew that drips from the rose. and i am lying on that moss with my face upwards, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking, drinking of the dew. i cannot describe to you the joy and the exhaustion of everything that was, and the energy of everything that is, for it is only a corpse that is lying on the moss. i am the soul of the aethyr. 28 now it reverberates like the swords of archangels, clashing upon the armour of the damned; and there seem to be the blacksmiths of heaven beating the steel of the worlds upon the anvils of hell, to make a roof to the aethyr. for if the great work were accomplished and all the aethyrs we

coloured bands; it seems it is the sphere of the sephiroth projected in the three dimensions. this is "the "birth of death" now in the centre within me is a glowing sun. that is "the birth of hell" now all that is swept away, washed away by the table. it is the virtue of the table to sweep everything away. it is the letter i in this aethyr that gives this vision, and l is its purity, and n is its energy. now everything is confused, for i invoked the mind, that is disruption. every adept who beholds this vision is corrupted by mind. yet it is by virtue of mind that he endures it, and passes on, if so be that he pass on. yet there is nothing higher than this, for it is perfectly balanced in itself. i cannot read a word of the holy table, for the letters of the table are all wrong. they are o

d vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. and neither is capable. there is no bridge. one can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental. even so, the body and the mind must be very perfect before anything can be done, or the energy of the vision may send the body into spasms and the mind into insanity. this is why the first visions give ananda, which is a shock. when the adept is attuned to samadhi, there is but cloudless peace. this vision is particularly difficult to get into, because he is i. and therefore the human ego is being constantly excited, 45 so that one comes back so often. an acentric meditation practice

human. and the voice says: these are they that grasped love and clung thereto, praying ever at the knees of the great goddess. these are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of love. each plume of the peacock is full of eyes, that are at the same time 4 x 7. and for this is the number 28 reflected down into netzach; and that 28 is kaph cheth (kach, power. for she is sakti, the eternal energy of the concealed one. and it is her eternal energy that hath made this eternal change. and this explaineth the call of the aethyrs, the curse that was pronounced in the beginning being but the creation of sakti. and this mystery is reflected in the legend of the 119 creation, where adam represents the concealed one, for adam is temurah of mad, the enochian word for god, and eve, whom he cre

ms; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse "the "morning post "there is a certain grim power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as 'the dream' and 'the recall' and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste "the daily telegraph "here is a poet of promise "the daily chronicle "it is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book "the morning leader" there is promise and some fine lines in these verses "the times""ready march 6th. crown" 8"vo. cloth gilt. about" 280 "pp "the new god" and other essays. by ralph shirley (editor of the "occult review_ contents: the new god- prophets and prophecies- prophecies and anticipations- julian the apostate- mystica

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record will be blank. now i cannot tell whether it is a part of my personal kamma, or whether the influence of the equinox of autumn should be the exciting cause; but it has usually been at this part of the year that my best results have occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy sammav yamo which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (18- suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (18- applied for admission to g. d. in october (18- opened my temple at b--e in 7 october (18- received the myster

ow enough to trust my destiny to bring all things to pass without anxious forethought on my part and suddenly, therefore, here do i find myself and nothing is lacking. i determined therefore to begin steadily and quietly, allowing the magical will to come slowly forth, daily stronger, in contrast to my old plan, desperation kindling a store of fuel dried by long neglect, despair inflaming a mad energy that would blaze with violence for a few hours and then go out and nothing done."not hurling, according to the oracle, a transcendent foot towards piety. quite slowly and simply therefore did i wash myself and robe myself as laid down in the goetia, taking the violet robe of an exempt adept (being a single garment) wearing the ring of an exempt adept, and that secret ring which hath been e

5 grade though of course that grade is really symbolic of this soul-journey, not "vice vers and through 7 4 so perhaps if one could only dare to hope it! to the 8 3 attainment. certainly what little i have done so far pertains no higher than minor adeptship though i have used higher formulae in the course of my working. 1.55. my prana is acting in a feverish manner; a mixture of fatigue and energy. this is not good: it probably comes from bolting that big lunch, and may mean that i must sleep to recover equilibrium. i will, however, use the pentagram ritual on my anahata cakkr m [the heart; a nerve-centre in hindu mystical physiology. ed. and see if that steadies me.(p.s. yes: instantly) notice, please, how in this condition of intense magical strain the most trifling things have a g

niac is probably happy a peacock who is all tail! and squawk. look at the vegetarians and wallaceites and all that crew of lunatics. they are paid in the coin of self- conceit. i shall waste no pity on them! 49 11.3. rather pity myself, who cannot even make sensible "considerations" for a ritual of adeptus major. the only thing to do in short is to go steadily on, with a little extra courage and energy no harm in that! on the same old lines. the winding of the way must necessarily lead me just where it may happen to go. why deliberately go off to geburah? why not aspire direct by the path of the moon-ray unto the ineffable crown? modesty is misplaced here! very good. then how aspire? who is it that standeth in the moon-ray? the holy guardian angel. aye! o my lord adonai, thou art the beg

he elixir! 2.55. wrote two pages; the previous were not really dry; so i must wait a little before illuminating. i will rest if i can! in the hanged man posture. 4.30. i soon went to sleep and stayed there. it is useless to persist. yet i persist. 5.40. i was so shockingly cold that i went to the d me and had milk, coffee, and sandwich, eaten in yogin manner. 65 but it has done no good as far as energy is concerned. i'm just as bad or worse than i was on the day which i have called the day of apophis (third day) the only thing to my credit is the way i've kept the mantra going. 5.57. one thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement which i am beginning to doubt it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. it will

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e "hierophant" then finally closes the ceremony by saying: 23 the "formula of osiris" is given in z. 1, and is as follows "for osiris onnophris hath said: he who is found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the secret of the dying rose is as the repressed sign of my suffering. and the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the outpouring of the blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the newer life. and the bread and the salt are as the foundations of my body. which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris the justified. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh: yet in whom is the spirit of the m

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i recommend it to them for, slaves and swine as they are, it must inevitably drag them to death by the road of a certifiable insanity less dangerous to society than their present subtler moral beastliness. i think, too, that baudelaire altogether exaggerates the reaction. i never felt the slightest fatigue or lassitude; but went from the experiments to my other work with accustomed freshness and energy. probably, however, these effects depend largely on the sample of the drug employed; some may contain more active or grosser toxic agents than others. putting aside all these optimistic considerations, one is yet perfectly in accord with baudelaire's conclusion, and for the same reason (we discard his preliminary sophisms) i have no use for hashish save as a preliminary demonstration that t

ecstasy of ananda (bliss) attending the dhyana. and as this flash does not aid us to analyse the hydrochloric acid gas, so the ananda prevents us by startling us from perceiving the true nature of the phenomenon. in higher mystic states, then, we find that the yogi or magician has learnt how to suppress it. but the combination of the elements will usually be a definite single act of catastrophic energy. this act, too, does not take place in time or space as we know them. i think that for the first time of experiencing a dhyana it is necessarily single. certain mystical methods may teach us to retain the image; but the criterion of true dhyana is the singleness, so totally opposed as it is to the vague and varying phantoms of the "astral plane" the new consciousness resulting from the comb

vital nervous currents which react in sympathy with it. let him then exalt to the utmost his soul by the appropriate ritual of ceremonial magic; and when by this means he has most thoroughly identified himself with the supreme, let him, as that supreme one, continue to meditate with intense force upon himself, until his sphere is entirely filled with the single thought. lastly, if this, the male energy, suffice not, let him transform it into a pure and perfect emptiness and passivity, as of one waiting for the beloved one, with intense longing rendered passionless by the certainty that he will come. 83 then, it may be, the eye will open upon him, and the tomb of his pyramid be unsealed. it is impossible in a few words to explain thoroughly this eclectic system; for each act and thought of

ution. their goods? the four winds of heaven might know. at those words 'the four winds' i rushed out of the shop, as if stung by an adder "i drove home, set all my servants hunting for railed houses. they were to report to me in the rue des quatre vents. any house not accounted for, any that might conceal a mystery, these i would see myself "all labour lost! my servants tried. i distrusted their energy: i set myself obstinately to scour paris "there is a rule of mathematics which enables one to traverse completely any labyrinth. i applied this to the city. i walked in every road of it, marking the streets at each corner as i passed with my private seal. each railed house i investigated separately and thoroughly. by virtue of my position i was welcome everywhere. but every night i paced th

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tiny balancing free-will. 230 in the midst is hb:shin and the incense: now incense requires air, fire, water and earth for its being: thus the whole table is shown in hb:shin as the combination and centre of all, being the glory of the vast countenance. all this is brilliant and flashing "i.e, equilibrated in itself and therefore a fit recipient of the flashing light: and brilliance is purity and energy. 25 jechidah (spirit) neschamah chiah (water (fire) ruach (air) nephesch (earth) 26 that is; nowhere a void. the other mottoes mean: the freedom of the gospel; the unsullied glory of god; and the yoke of the law, respectively. now all kneel down and the higher is again invoked. postulant is fixed in tiphereth and looking up to kether. he again rejoices that he hath been crucified. justice a

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le on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the man of science, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no, if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. we may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. all theft is temporary, since even a millionaire must die; also it is universal, since even a buddha must breathe. 306 the third prec

course with "his own wife, lest she should lose her temper and withdraw proceedings!"12" this may have been an exceptional case_ we hope so. but that any "such mockery can take place anyhow and anywhere is a scandal and a reproach "to the nation whose laws and customs make it possible" we hope to hear much more from mr. haynes, and that he will throw "fearlessly the whole weight of his genius and energy into the cause of "radical reform of these monstrous and silly iniquities" ariel. 325 "the quest. no. ii. j. m. watkins. 2s" 6"d" this periodical is the dullest and most sodden slosh possible. no one should fail to buy a copy; a perfect bedside book. r. n. w. 12 weh note: this is crowley's account of his divorce from rose. see "confessions" we beg to apologise for having referred in our las

rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till my cries stir the night as the burnished gold of a lance thrust into a poisonous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and splendour of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 41 the cha

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his readers feel that impulse "the morning post, may 21, 1908 "there is a certain given power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as 'the dream' and 'the recall' and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste "the daily telegraph, may 29, 1908 "here is a poet of promise "the daily chronicle, may 13, 1908 "it is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book "the morning leader, july 10, 1908. there is promise and some fine lines in these verses "the times, july 11, 1908""to be obtained of "the young cambridge press" 4 mill street, bedford london: probsthain& co. and all booksellers "this page is reserved for official pronouncements by the chancellor" of the a" a] persons wishing f

define in a single word the "grass" source of all material pleasures) has different names, according to its composition and the method of preparation which it has undergone in the country where it has been gathered: in india "bhang" in africa "teriaki" in algeria and in arabia felix "madjound"&c" it makes considerable difference at what season of the year it is gathered. it possesses its greatest energy when it is in flower. the flowering tops are in consequence the only parts employed in the different preparations of which we are about to speak. the "extrait gras" of hashish, as the arabs prepare it, is obtained by boiling the tops of the fresh plant in butter, with a little water. it is strained, after complete evaporation of all humidity, and one thus obtains a preparation which has the

o the intensity of its colours and the rapidity of its conceptions. but it will always keep the idiosyncrasy of the individual. the man has desired to dream; the dream will govern the man. but this dream will be truly the son of its father. the idle man has taxed his ingenuity to introduce artificially the supernatural into his life and into his thought; but, after all, and despite the accidental energy of his experiences, he is nothing but the same man magnified, the same number raised to a very high power. he 68 is brought into subjection, but, unhappily for him, it is not by himself; that is to say, by the part of himself which is already dominant "he would be angel; he becomes a beast" momentarily very powerful, if, indeed, one can give the name of power to what is merely excessive sen

or three times of the person with whom i was if it was actually very cold. he replied to me that, on the contrary, the temperature was more than warm. installed at last in the room, shut up in the box which had been given me, with three or four hours of repose in front of me, i thought myself arrived at the promised land. the feelings on which i had trampled during the journey with all the little energy at my disposal now burst in, and i give myself up freely to my silent frenzy. the cold ever increased, and yet i saw people lightly clad, and even wiping their foreheads with an air of weariness. this delightful idea took hold of me, that i was a privileged man, to whom alone had been accorded the right to feel cold in summer in the auditorium of a theatre. this cold went on increasing unti

nd case, where hallucination is progressive, 83 almost willed, and it does not become perfect, it only ripens under the action of imagination. finally, it has a pretext. a sound will speak, utter distinct articulations; but there was a sound there. the enthusiast eye of the hashish drunkard will see strange forms, but before they were strange and monstrous these forms were simple and natural. the energy, the almost speaking liveliness of hallucination in this form of intoxication in no way invalidates this original difference: the one has root in the situation, and, at the present time, the other has not. better to explain this boiling over of the imagination, this maturing of the dream, and this poetic childishness to which a hashish-intoxicated brain is condemned, i will tell yet another

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invention the ascension of ideas. living by insight or by outsight. destiny and fate. the origin of evil. what is within the "heir? words as storage batteries. how to care for the body. the way to happiness. you live in your thought-world. the language of suggestion. constructive imagination. the power of impression. how to remove impressions. your individualism. making things go right. utilizing energy. master, or be mastered. the voice that is heard in loneliness. the ingrafted word. the law of liberty. part ii "the evolution of an invalid" the invalid's alter ego. the evolution of a thief: the honest man. the evolution of a liar: the truthful man. the evolution of a miser; the benefactor. the evolution of an egotist; the self- forgetful man. the evolution of a drunkard; the self-possess

is readers feel that impulse "the "morning post" may 21, 1908 "there is a certain given power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as 'the dream' and 'the recall' and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste "the daily telegraph" may 29, 1908 "here is a poet of promise "the daily chronicle" may 13, 1908 "it is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book "the morning leader" july 10, 1908. there is promise and some fine lines in these verses "the times" july 11, 1908_ very few copies remain_ illustration on center top third by horizontal of the back cover: this is an equilateral triangle circumscribed in a white ring. the triangle is of wide and white bars. the field within rin

ind. their study will clarify our view of frater p's progress. the reader is advised to study chapter vii of captain j. f. c. fuller's "star in the west" in connection with this exposition. 47 4 lost under dramatic circumstances at frater p. a.'s house in 1909. the agnostic position direct experience is the key to yoga; direct experience of that soul (atman) or essence (purusha) which acting upon energy (pr na, and substance (ak sa) differentiates a plant from a stone, an animal from a plant, a man from an animal, a man from a man, and man from god, yet which ultimately is the underlying equilibrium of all things; for as the bhaga-vad-g ta says "equilibrium is called yoga" chemically the various groups in the organic and inorganic worlds are similar in structure and composition. one piece

8. 16 "ch ndogya upanishad" 6. 1. 3. also of "form" 17 that is to say, when he gains knowledge. 18 this is the meaning of "nequaquam vacuum" 19 modern materialism receives many a rude blow at the hands of gustave le bon. this great frenchman writes "these fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detailed in this work tend to destroy. if the principle of the conservation of energy- which, but the by, is simply a bold generalization of experiments made in very simple cases- likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal("the evolution of matter" p. 18) in other words, all is full of birth, growth, and decay, that is m y. form to the materialist, name to the idealist, and nothing to

y, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. this is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. others are mere talking machines. to succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will "i will drink the ocean" says the persevering soul "at my will mountains will crumble up" have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.40 "o keshara" cries arjuna "enjoin in me this terrible action" this will to will. to turn the mind inwards, as it were, ad stop it wandering outwardly, and then to concentrate all its powers upon itself, are the methods adopted by the yogi in opening the closed eye which sleeps in the hear to every one of us, and to create this wil

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ems; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse "the morning post "there is a certain grim power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as 'the dream' and 'the recall' and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find several pieces after his taste "the daily telegraph "here is a poet of promise "the daily chronicle "it is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book "the morning leader "there is promise and some fine lines in these verses "the times- to be obtained of probsthain& co. 44 great russell street, london, w.c. and all booksellers the new thought library "crown "8"vo. crimson cloth extra, gilt tops" 3"d" 6"d. net and" 4"s" 6"d. net per volume" the "new thought library" has been d

nvention. the ascension of ideas. living by insight or by outsight. destiny and fate. the origin of evil. what is within the "heir? words as storage batteries. how to care for the body. the way to happiness. you live in your thought world. the language of suggestion. constructive imagination. the power of impression. how to remove impressions. your individualism. making things go right. utilising energy. master, or be mastered. the voice that is heard in loneliness. the ingrafted word. the law of liberty. part ii "the evolution of an invalid" the invalid's alter ego. the evolution of a thief; the honest man. the evolution of a liar; the truthful man. the evolution of a miser; the benefactor. the evolution of an egotist; the self- forgetful man. the evolution of a drunkard; the self-possess

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h seek blindly; and many are the enchantments and disenchantments. through this his vision fades; even his hunger dies away unless he be indeed elect. but in the end it may be that god shall send him the other half of that token 108 of paradise. then, if he have kept the holy fire alight, perhaps with much false fuel, that fire shall instant blaze and fill the temple of his soul. by its insistent energy it shall destroy even the memory of all those marsh-lights that came to greet it; and the priest shall bow down in the glory, and grasp the altar with his hands, and strike it with his forehead seven times. now this altar is the earthen altar of demeter. then understanding all things by the light of that love, he shall know that this is love, that this is the soul of the earth, that this is

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

of having a genuine seventeenth-century witch as .an informant, they drove back to manchester bearing their precious relic. later, alex.overcame his reluctance and agreed he should go into trance again so that nick might speak. but nick had other ideas; right from the start he came only when he had something to say, and he refused to be conjured up by the coven. assured that he would not have his energy sapped by trivial chatter, alex was never again loth to offer his body to the long-dead witch. in accordance with the instructions, alex began preparing for the first ceremony for his two spontaneous initiates. the most binding oaths he could fmd were contained in some old manuscripts belonging to one of his colleagues, pat, the descendant of a witch who had been burnt at the stake. her gra

difficulties, however. all meetings had to be held indoors and only in rooms large enough to contain the circle and the altar. besides, many of the applicants enjoyed the excitement of calling down the power and peering into the future, but were not prepared to perform the routine work of learning the rituals by heart and working for the good of others. at first alex wasted considerable time and energy trying to teach unsuitable pupils; later he decided to hold preliminary lectures at his flat every tuesday night when he could explain the duties required of witches and also select those whom he. thought might stay the course. the witchcraft practised in the flat was often of service to others in the building. when the owner complained of iij being unable. to evict two undesirable tenants

fasting ceremony. after half an hour or so, the couple wash and dry themselves with the consecrated water and towels left in the circle, put on the new robes awaiting them, and call in the rest of the coven for the mass. 151 pptnbtx j) t!cbt agit of atttr witches believe that matter exudes emanations that can affect people in the way that ultra-violet rays and x-rays operate. this transference of energy can, they maintain, be harnessed according to the time of the year when they are born, and initiates are presented with a list of materials supposed to have sympathetic magic for each of the twelve signs of the zodiak, and are advised to be guided by it. they are: aquarius the water bearer. 22 january to 21 february. lucky stones: zircon, gamet, ruby, jet, black onyx. lucky number: two. luc

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

midnight direction: north wind: boreas colour: green symbols: oak, rock crystal, salt, bull or cow, stag, grains, comfrey, ivy tools: pentacle, altar stone (body of anima mundi) spirits: gnomes under gob (friendly& easy to reach, teach access to own depths& caverns& how to mine& work the vein of gold therein) shortage: spaciness, hyper-activity, instability excess: body heaviness, general lack of energy, inertia, etc. notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l water deep body dryness, hotness

dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l fire goddess aspect: temptress astrological rulers: sun, mars, jupiter keys: light principle, action, michael (victor over ignorance) rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, destruction, purification, hearth fires, volcanoes, explosions, choleric; intuitive; lively virtues: courageous, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile vices: self-centred, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, hatred season: midsummer time of day: noon direction: south wind: notus colour

f-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile vices: self-centred, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, hatred season: midsummer time of day: noon direction: south wind: notus colour: red symbols: fire opal, almond (in flower, garlic, hibiscus, pepper, olibanum tools: scourge, sword, athame spirits: salamanders under djinn (elusive& hostile, teach power over fire& energy) shortage: body heavy or chilled, thoughts drag-gy, unenthusiastic excess: hot, hyper, flitting thoughts, insomnia, anger, snappishness notes various sources including june johns' king of the witches (appendix, starhawk's spiral dance, ellen cannon reed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (inste

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

which deals with the evolution of substance, with the study of the atom, and the nature of atomic matter. next week we will touch upon that. science has much to tell us about the evolution of the atom, and has wandered a long way during the past fifty years from the standpoint of the last century. then the atom was regarded as an indivisible unit of substance; now it is looked upon as a centre of energy, or electric force. from the evolution of substance we are led very naturally to the evolution of forms, or of congeries of atoms, and there will then open up to us the- 5- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust interesting consideration of forms other than the purely material, forms existing in subtler substance, such as forms of thought, and the racial forms, and the for

ion, the process which unfolds the life within all units, the developing urge which eventually merges all units and all groups, until you have that sumtotal of manifestation which can be called nature, or god, and which is the aggregate of all the states of consciousness. this is the god to whom the christian refers when he says "in him we live, and move, and have our being; this is the force, or energy, which the scientist recognises; and this is the universal mind, or the oversoul of the philosopher. this, again, is the intelligent will which controls, formulates, binds, constructs, develops, and brings all to an ultimate perfection. this is that perfection which is inherent in matter itself, and the tendency which is latent in the atom, in man, and in all that is. this interpretation of

philosopher. this, again, is the intelligent will which controls, formulates, binds, constructs, develops, and brings all to an ultimate perfection. this is that perfection which is inherent in matter itself, and the tendency which is latent in the atom, in man, and in all that is. this interpretation of the evolutionary process does not look upon it as the result of an outside deity pouring his energy and wisdom upon a waiting world, but rather as something which is latent within that world itself, that lies hidden at the heart of the atom of chemistry, within the heart of man himself, within the planet, and within the solar system. it is that something which drives all on toward the goal, and is the force which is gradually bringing order out of chaos; ultimate perfection out of tempora

e seen as the tendency to sacrifice, for a man then chooses a particular line of action in order to benefit the group to which he belongs, and rejects that which is purely selfish. we might finally define evolution as ordered change and constant mutation. it demonstrates in the ceaseless activity of the unit or the atom, the interaction between groups, and the endless play of one force or type of energy upon another. we have seen that evolution, whether it is of matter, of intelligence, of consciousness, or of spirit, consists in an ever-increasing power to respond to vibration, that it progresses through constant change, by the practice of a selective policy or the use of the discriminative faculty, and by the method of cyclic development or repetition. the stages which distinguish the ev

he civilisations pass on and increase, it should surely become possible to trace the same threefold idea in the human family as a whole, and thus ascertain the divine objective through the study of his image, or reflection, man. we might express these three stages in more scientific terms, and link them with the three schools of thought earlier referred to, studying them as a. the stage of atomic energy. b. the stage of group coherency. c. the stage of unified or synthetic existence. let me see if i can make my meaning clear. the stage of atomic energy is largely that which concerns the material side of life, and corresponds to the childhood period in the life of a man or a race. it is the time of realism, of intense activity, of development by action above all else, or pure self-centredne

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

lf, or individuality. this aspect is potentially 1. spiritual will..atma. 2. intuition..buddhi, love-wisdom, the christ principle. 3. higher or abstract mind..higher manas. the ego begins to make its power felt in advanced men, and increasingly on the probationary path until by the third initiation the control of the lower self by the higher is perfected, and the highest aspect begins to make its energy felt. the ego reflects itself in iii. the personality, or lower self, physical plane man. this aspect is also threefold: 1. a mental body..lower manas. 2. an emotional body..astral body. 3. a physical body..the dense physical and the etheric body. the aim of evolution is therefore to bring man to the realisation of the egoic aspect and to bring the lower nature under its control. chapter i

o stay within the planetary scheme, and thus co-operate with the plans of the planetary logos on the physical plane. to transmit the will of the planetary logos they act as the transmitter to men and devas or angels, of the will of the planetary logos, and through him of the solar logos. each planetary scheme, ours amongst the others, is a centre in the body logoic, and is expressing some form of energy or force. each centre expresses its particular type of force, demonstrated in a triple manner, producing thus universally the three aspects in manifestation. one of the great realisations which come to those who enter into the fifth kingdom is that of the particular type of force which our own planetary logos embodies. the wise student will ponder on this statement, for it holds the clue to

e fifth kingdom is that of the particular type of force which our own planetary logos embodies. the wise student will ponder on this statement, for it holds the clue to much that may be seen in the world today. the secret of synthesis has been lost, and only when men again get back the knowledge which was theirs in earlier cycles (having been mercifully withdrawn in atlantean days) of the type of energy which our scheme should be demonstrating, will the world problems adjust themselves, and the world rhythm be stabilised. this cannot be as yet, for this knowledge is of a dangerous kind, and at present the race as a whole is not group conscious, and therefore cannot be trusted to work, think, plan, and act for the group. man is as yet too selfish, but there is no cause for discouragement in

. their places have gradually been filled by the sons of men as they qualify, though this includes very few, until lately, from our immediate earth humanity. those who are now the inner group around the lord of the world have been primarily recruited from the ranks of those who were initiates on the moon chain (the cycle of evolution preceding ours) or who have come in on certain streams of solar energy, astrologically determined, from other planetary schemes, yet those who have triumphed in our own humanity are rapidly increasing in number, and hold all the minor offices beneath the central esoteric group of six, who, with the lord of the world, form the heart of hierarchial effort. the immediate effect. the result of their advent, millions of years ago, was stupendous, and its effects ar

that in the head of every man are seven centres of force, which are linked to the other centres in the body, and through which the force of the ego is spread and circulated, thus working out the plan. sanat kumara, with the six other kumaras, holds a similar position. these central seven are as the seven head centres to the body corporate. they are the directing agents and the transmitters of the energy, force, purpose, and will of the planetary logos on his own plane. this planetary head centre works directly through the heart and throat centres, and thereby controls all the remaining centres. this is by way of illustration, and an attempt to show the relation of the hierarchy to its planetary source, and also the close analogy between the method of functioning of a planetary logos and of

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

xpression is caused by the blending of two divine aspects through the influence of a third, and produces the manifestation which we call a form, starting it upon its evolutionary cycle in time and space. thus is form brought to the point where it is an adequate medium for the demonstration of the nature of that which we call god. fourthly, to give practical information anent those focal points of energy which are found in the etheric bodies of the solar logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm. as the etheric substratum which is the true substance underlying every tangible form is understood, certain great revolutions will be brought about in the domains of science, of medicine and of chemistry. the study of medicine, for instance, will eventually be taken up from a new angle, and i

nding to a more balanced view, and it is hoped that this treatise may form part of the process through which equilibrium is attained. in studying this treatise the student is asked to bear in mind certain things: a. that in dealing with these subjects we are concerned with the essence of that which is objective, with the subjective side of manifestation, and with the consideration of force and of energy. it is well nigh impossible to reduce such concepts to concrete formulas and to express them in such a way that they can be easily apprehended by the average man. b. that as we use words and phrases and speak in terms of modern language the whole subject necessarily becomes limited and dwarfed, and much of the truth is thereby lost. c. that all that is in this treatise is offered in no dogm

spirit-matter, life, the spirit of the universe- 9- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the third cosmic logos, cosmic ideation, the universal world-soul. from these basic creative principles, in successive gradations there issue in ordered sequence the numberless universes comprising countless manifesting stars and solar systems. each solar system is the manifestation of the energy and life of a great cosmic existence, whom we call, for lack of a better term, a solar logos. this solar logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system. this solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic life, and is itself triple. this triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the christian theology puts it) in terms of

ar logos. this solar logos incarnates, or comes into manifestation, through the medium of a solar system. this solar system is the body, or form, of this cosmic life, and is itself triple. this triple solar system can be described in terms of three aspects, or (as the christian theology puts it) in terms of three persons. electric fire, or spirit. 1st person..father. life. will. purpose. positive energy. solar fire, or soul. 2nd person..son. consciousness. love-wisdom. equilibrised energy. fire by friction, or body, or matter. 3rd person..h. oly spirit. form. active intelligence. negative energy. each of these three is also triple in manifestation, making therefore a. the nine potencies or emanations. b. the nine sephiroth. c. the nine causes of initiation. these, with the totality of mani

pirit, soul and body, or monad, ego and personality. c. the atom of the scientist is also triple, being composed of a positive nucleus, the negative electrons, and the totality of the outer manifestation, the result of the relation of the other two- 10- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the three aspects of every form are inter-related and susceptible of intercourse, because a. energy is in motion and circulates. b. all forms in the solar system form part of the whole, and are not isolated units. c. this is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology. these three aspects of god, the solar logos, and the central energy or force (for the terms are occultly synonymous) demonstrate through seven centres of force, three major centres and four minor

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

through one pointed thought, the outer activity is quieted. in this stage, the chitta is responsive only to subjective impressions. 19. the samadhi just described passes not beyond the bound of the phenomenal world; it passes not beyond the gods, and those concerned with the concrete world. 20. other yogins achieve samadhi and arrive at a discrimination of pure spirit through belief, followed by energy, memory, meditation and right perception- 7- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 21. the attainment of this state (spiritual consciousness) is rapid for those whose will is intensely alive. 22. those who employ the will likewise differ, for its use may be intense, moderate, or gentle. in respect to the attainment of true spiritual consciousness there is yet another way. 23. by

ieved is that of the third and second aspects. this is consummated at the third initiation (in christian terminology, the transfiguration. a later synthesis is then effected between the united third and second aspects and the first: 1st aspect 2nd aspect 3 rd aspect spirit soul body father son (christ) h oly ghost monad ego personality divine self h igher self l ower self life consciousness f orm energy force matter the presence the angel of the human being the presence a clear distinction should be made between the christ principle as indicated above, which is a high spiritual aspect to which each member of humanity must attain, and the same term applied to a personage of exalted rank representing that principle, whether in the historical reference to the man of nazareth or otherwise. 2

medium of a solar system. christ "knew what was in man" and therefore could be a saviour. 9. fancy rests upon images which have no real existence. this means that these images have no real existence in so far as they are conjured up by men themselves, constructed within their own mental auras, energized by their will or desire and are consequently dissipated when attention is directed elsewhere "energy follows thought" is a basic tenet of the raja yoga system and is true even where these images of fancy are concerned. these fancied images fall primarily into three groups, which the student would do well to consider- 16- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. those thought forms which he constructs himself, which have an evanescent life and which are dependent upon the quality

planetary form to that constructed by any band of thinkers) form the sum total of the "great illusion" herein lies a hint to the earnest aspirant. 3. that thought form created by a man since his first appearance in physical form, and called the "dweller on the threshold" being created by the lower personal self and not by the soul, it is impermanent and is simply held together by the man's lower energy. when the man begins to function as the soul this "image" he has created, through his "fancy" or his reaction to delusion, is dissipated by a supreme exertion. it has no real existence once there is nothing in the aspirant to feed it, and the realization of this enables him to free himself from its thraldom. this is one of the sutras which, though apparently short and simple, is of the most

omes apparent as the student remembers the oneness of spirit and matter when in manifestation; i. e. our seven planes are the seven subplanes of the lowest cosmic plane, the physical. consequently only "the time of the end" and the dissolution of a solar system will reveal the true meaning of formlessness. 3. the gunas are the three qualities of matter, the three effects produced when macrocosmic energy, the life of god which persists independently of form-taking, actuates or energizes substance. the three gunas are: 1. sattva .e nergy of spirit .m onad .f ather. rhythm or harmonious vibration 2. rajas. energy of soul. ego. son. mobility or activity 3. tamas. energy of matter .p ersonality .h oly ghost. inertia. these three correspond to the quality of each of the three aspects which expre

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

r aspects of man simply as vehicles of expression. the objective of the evolutionary process is to enhance and deepen the control of the soul over this instrument. when this is complete, we have a divine incarnation. secondly: the sum total of these lower aspects, when developed and co-ordinated we call the personality. this unity is composed of the mental and emotional states of being, the vital energy and the physical response apparatus, and these "mask" or hide the soul. these aspects develop sequentially and progressively, according to the eastern philosophy, and only on reaching a relatively high state of unfoldment does it become possible for man to coordinate them and later to unify them, in consciousness, with the indwelliug soul. later comes control by the soul, and a steadily inc

e human being is that of the conscious entity towards its medium of expression; of the one who thinks, towards the instrument of thought; of the one who registers feeling, towards the field of sensuous experience, and of the actor, towards the physical body the sole means of contact with that particular field of activity, the world of physical life. this soul expresses itself through two forms of energy, that which we call the vital principle or fluid, the life aspect, and the energy of pure reason. these energies are focussed during life in the physical body. the life stream centres itself in the heart, utilizing the blood stream, the arteries and the veins, and animating every part of the organism; the other stream, of intellectual energy, centres itself in the brain, and utilizes the ne

rrives at god and discovers god as the central fact. knowing himself to be divine, he finds the whole is equally divine. dr. f. kirtley mather of harvard university has said in a most illuminating article "that there is an administration of the universe cannot be denied. something has determined and continues to determine the functioning of natural law, the orderly transformation of matter and of energy. it may be the 'curvature of the cosmos, or 'blind chance, or 'universal energy, or 'an absentee jehovah, or an 'all-pervading spirit, but it must be something. from one point of view, the question: is there a god? is promptly answered in the affirmative" thus, through finding himself and understanding his own nature, man arrives at that centre within himself which is one with all that is;

: is there a god? is promptly answered in the affirmative" thus, through finding himself and understanding his own nature, man arrives at that centre within himself which is one with all that is; he finds he is equipped with an apparatus which can put him in touch with the differentiated manifestations through which deity seeks to express itself. he possesses a vital body, responsive to universal energy, and the vehicle for the two forms of soul energy to which i referred above. the subject of the vital body, its relation to this universal energy, and its seven points of contact with the physical organism are covered in my book, the soul and its mechanism, and will not be enlarged upon here, beyond quoting one paragraph "behind the objective body lies a subjective form constituted of ether

ich i referred above. the subject of the vital body, its relation to this universal energy, and its seven points of contact with the physical organism are covered in my book, the soul and its mechanism, and will not be enlarged upon here, beyond quoting one paragraph "behind the objective body lies a subjective form constituted of etheric matter, and acting as a conductor of the life principle of energy, or prana. this life principle is the force aspect of the soul, and through the medium of the etheric body the soul animates the form, gives it its peculiar qualities and attributes, impresses upon it its desires and, eventually, directs it through the activity of the mind. through the medium of the brain the soul galvanizes the body into conscious (directed) activity and through the medium

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

979 by lucis trust- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust rules for magic rule one the solar angel collects himself, scatters not his force, but, in meditation deep, communicates with his reflection. rule two when the shadow hath responded, in meditation deep the work proceedeth. the lower light is thrown upward; the greater light illuminates the three, and the work of the four proceedeth. rule three the energy circulates. the point of light, the product of the labours of the four, waxeth and groweth. the myriads gather round its glowing warmth until its light recedes. its fire grows dim. then shall the second sound go forth. rule four sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. it proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward

enings are commoner than at any time heretofore, whilst matters telepathic, psychic, and peculiar occupy the attention even of sceptics, scientists, and religionists. reasons for the appearance of phenomena are being everywhere sought, and societies are formed for their investigation and demonstration. many are likewise going astray in the effort to induce in themselves psychic conditions and the energy-producing factors which give rise to the manifestation of peculiar powers. this book will endeavor to fit the information given into the scheme of life as we today recognize it and will show how basically natural and true is all that is termed mysterious. all is under law, and the laws need elucidation now that man's development has reached the stage of a juster appreciation of their beauty

in the first group and which will only be suspected by the more advanced members of the second. within themselves they know the truth of many of its statements and will realise the subjective working out of many of the laws. these laws of nature have effects in three distinct realms: a. physically, where they demonstrate as effects in the dense form. b. etherically, where they demonstrate as the energy lying back of those effects. c. mentally, where they concern the impulses which produce the other two. the treatise on cosmic fire dealt primarily with the solar system and only touched upon human aspects and correspondences insofar as they demonstrated the relation of the part to the whole, and of the unit to the totality. the present book will deal more specifically with human development

ation of truth; he is asked, however, to have an open mind and seriously to weigh and consider the theories and ideals, the laws and the truths which have guided so many out of darkness into the light of knowledge and experience. the postulates might be enumerated as follows and are given in the order of their importance. i. first, that there exists in our manifested universe the expression of an energy or life which is the responsible cause of the diverse forms and the vast hierarchy of sentient beings who compose the sum total of all that is. this is the so-called hylozoistic theory, though the term but serves to confuse. this great life is the basis of monism, and all enlightened men are monists "god is one" is the utterance of truth. one life pervades all forms and those forms are the

rse forms and the vast hierarchy of sentient beings who compose the sum total of all that is. this is the so-called hylozoistic theory, though the term but serves to confuse. this great life is the basis of monism, and all enlightened men are monists "god is one" is the utterance of truth. one life pervades all forms and those forms are the expressions, in time and space, of the central universal energy. life in manifestation produces existence and being. it is the root cause, therefore, of duality. this duality which is seen when objectivity is present and which disappears when the form aspect vanishes is covered by many terms, of which for the sake of clarity, the most usual might be here listed: spirit matter life. form father. mother positive. negative darkness. light students must cle

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

of the rays, must steadily bear in mind that he himself-as a human unit-finds his place on one or other of these rays. the problem thus produced is a very real one. the physical body may be responsive to one type of ray force, whilst the personality as a whole may vibrate in unison with another. the ego or soul may find itself upon still a third type of ray, thus responding to another type of ray energy. the question of the monadic ray brings in still another factor in many cases, but this can only be implied and not really elucidated. as i have oft told you, it is only the initiate of the third initiation who can come in touch with his monadic ray, or his highest life aspect, and the humble aspirant cannot as yet ascertain whether he is a monad of power, of love or of intelligent activity

ransition period which lacks even the needed terminology, to aid that demonstration. let me also add that your attitude to the imparted instruction should be that of the student who is seeking truth that can be verified and information that can be applied to the daily life and tested in the crucible of life experience. if, for instance, there are indeed seven rays, embodying seven types of divine energy, then a man should be able to recognise these types and energies in the particular field of phenomena in which he plays his little part. if the truth given is veiled in symbolism and offered as an hypothesis, it should at the same time be unveiled sufficiently so as to be recognisable, and should have in it if sufficient intelligent appeal to warrant its investigation. the words "all souls

f the human being fall naturally into three groups: 1. those energies which we call "the spirits in men" you note here the utter superficiality of that phrase. it is meaningless and misleading. spirit is one, but within that essential unity the "points of fire" or "the divine sparks" can be seen and noted. these unities, within the unity, are coloured by and react qualitatively to, three types of energy, for it is scientifically true, and a spiritual fact in nature, that god is the three in one and the one in three. the spirit of man came into incarnation along a line of force emanation from one or other of these three streams, which form one stream, emanating from the most high. 2. these streams of energy differentiate into a major three, yet remain one stream. this is an occult fact wort

ivine qualities. in some mysterious ways, therefore, the differentiations which manifest in nature are found in the realm of quality and not in the realm of reality. it is with the seven groups of souls (or soul energies) that we shall deal, and with the threefold forms in the fourth kingdom of nature which they create, and through which they have to express the quality of their ray group and the energy of that one of the three essential groups to which their soul ray is related. we shall therefore, if possible, endeavour to add to modern psychology and enrich its content with that esoteric psychology which deals with the soul or self, the ensouling entity within the form. c. the third effect of the study of these rays should be twofold. not only shall we understand somewhat the inner side

any case, read slowly; apply the laws of analogy and of correspondence; study yourself and your brethren; seek to link what i say to any knowledge you may possess of the modern theories, and remember that the more truly you live as a soul the more surely you will comprehend that which may be imparted. as you study you must not forget the basic concept that in all occult work one is occupied with energy energy units, energy embodied in forms, energy streams in flow; and that these energies are made potent and embody our purpose through the use of thought; they follow along the well-defined thought currents of the group. it must be remembered, however, that it is in this region of thought that the cleavage comes between black and white magic. it is in the use of thought power that the two a

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

ent institutions political, religious and social are only preparatory to this undertaking. we are on our way to "that which is within" and many voices are today proclaiming this- 19- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust we are on that path of transition (can we call it the path of discipleship) which will lead us into a new dimension, into the interior world of true fact and right energy. it is a world in which only the spiritual body can function and only the eye of spirit can see. it cannot be perceived by those whose inner perception is unawakened and whose intuition sleeps. when the spiritual body begins to be organised and to grow, and when the eye of wisdom slowly opens and trains itself to see truly, then there will come the indications that the christ, latent in eac

seen and with open eyes beheld the vision of divinity, what can we do? in this question our problem is voiced. what is the next step, the immediate duty of the man who knows that, in himself, the new birth has not yet taken place, but who feels in himself a readiness to go up to bethlehem, from galilee, via nazareth? it entails, in the first place, effort. it means initiative, the expenditure of energy, the overcoming of inertia, and the will to exert oneself so that the initial journey can be taken. it means listening for and obeying the insistent demand of the soul for a nearer approach to god and a fuller expression of divinity; and yet "every individual is at some point torn between the splendid urge to go on towards understanding, and the craving to go back to safety."65 for there is

this law of love can be seen functioning in the universe as the law of attraction, with all that is involved in that term coherency, integration, position, direction and the rhythmic running of our solar system; it can be seen also in the disposition of god towards humanity, as revealed to us through christ. this unique function of christ as the custodian and the revealer of a cosmic principle or energy lies behind all he did; it was the basis and the result of his achieved- 57- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust perfection; it was the incentive and impulsion to his life of service, and it is the principle upon which the kingdom of god is founded. that paganism knows no goal or purpose is today for many of us a statement which will not bear investigation. all that had tra

he appeared before them as son of man and son of god, and having proved to them who he was, he faced the death which lay ahead of him, and the intervening service. in the fourth initiation, he demonstrated this integration not only as god-man, but as the one who enfolded in his consciousness the entire world of men. he unified himself with humanity, and portrayed the effectiveness of that divine energy which enabled him to say in truth "i, if i be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me."7 he was lifted up between earth and heaven, and for two thousand years these words of his have stood unchallenged. 2 "then cometh jesus from galilee to jordan unto john, to be baptised of him. but john forbade him, saying, i have need to be baptised of thee and comest thou to me "and jesus an

amour and the world of illusion. there is also that mysterious "dweller on the threshold" to which bulwer lytton refers in zanoni. all of these four christ met and vanquished in the desert-experience. maya refers to the world of physical forces in which we dwell, and with this the first temptation concerned itself. modern science has told us that there is nothing visible or invisible which is not energy, and that every form is simply an aggregate of energy units in constant ceaseless motion, to which we have to adjust ourselves and in which we "live and move and have our being."39 such is the outer form of deity, and we are part of it. maya is vital in character, and we know little of its effect upon the physical plane (with all that that term connotes, and upon the human being "glamour" r

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

egoic ray i. the growth of soul influence before taking up our subject as outlined at the close of the previous volume, i would like to speak a word as to the symbolism we will employ in discussing egoic and personality control. all that is said in this connection is in an attempt to define and consider that which is really undefinable and which is so elusive and subtle that though we may call it energy or force, those words ill convey the true idea. we must, therefore, bear in mind that, as we read and consider this treatise on psychology, we are talking in symbols. this is necessarily so, for we are dealing with the expression of divinity in time and space, and until man is consciously aware of his divinity and demonstrating it, it is not possible to do more than speak in parable and met

with the creative process and with manifestation. it deals therefore with the outer personality expression of that great all-encompassing life, which we call god, for lack of a better term. we need to bear in mind that our universe (as far as the highest human consciousness can as yet conceive of it) is to be found on the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, and that our highest type of energy, embodying for us the purest expression of spirit, is but the force manifestation of the first subplane of the cosmic physical plane. we are dealing, therefore, as far as consciousness is concerned, with what might be regarded symbolically as the brain reaction and response to cosmic purpose, the brain reaction of god himself. in man, the microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose

ion and falls into three stages: 1. individualisation..personality. 2. initiation..ego. 3. identification. monad. 1. the three stages of egoic growth we must hold the following statements firmly in our minds. the personality is a triple combination of forces, impressing and absolutely controlling the fourth aspect of the personality which is the dense physical body. the three personality types of energy are the etheric body, which is the vehicle of vital energy, the astral body which is the vehicle of the feeling energy or sentient force, and the mental body which is the vehicle of the intelligent energy of will that is destined to be the dominant creative aspect. it is upon this truth that christian science has laid the emphasis. these forces constitute the lower man. the solar angel is a

is the vehicle of vital energy, the astral body which is the vehicle of the feeling energy or sentient force, and the mental body which is the vehicle of the intelligent energy of will that is destined to be the dominant creative aspect. it is upon this truth that christian science has laid the emphasis. these forces constitute the lower man. the solar angel is a dual combination of energies the energy of love, and the energy of will or purpose and these are the qualities of the life thread. these two, when dominating the third energy of mind, produce the perfect man. they explain the human problem; they indicate the objective before man; they account for and explain the energy of illusion; and they point out the way of psychological unfoldment, which leads man (from the triangle of tripl

t of the creative intelligence, so that it can express itself through the form nature. it will eventually be the first aspect of divinity thus to express itself. it is the emergence into manifestation of the specific quality of the solar angel through the appropriation, by that angel, of a sheath or sheaths, which thus constitute its appearance. it is the initial imposition of an applied directed energy upon that triple force aggregation which we call the form nature of man. the individual, on the way to full co-ordination and expression, appears upon the stage of life. the self-aware entity comes forth into physical incarnation. the actor appears in process of learning his part; he makes his debut and prepares for the day of full personality emphasis. the soul comes forth into dense form

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ow the relation between the initials and the disciple. questions as to identity will not be answered at any time. it is the subject matter of the teaching which is of importance and not the name of the disciple for what is said is applicable to all aspirants. one other reason might be mentioned here as indicative of the value of this book. in every case, the disciple is told what are the types of energy to which he most easily responds and upon which ray or divine emanation he finds himself. he, therefore, becomes aware of what constitutes his line of least resistance and where the major point of his life conflict is to be found. we are taught in the esoteric philosophy that seven great divine emanations, aeons or spirits (in whom we live and move and have our being) came forth from god at

marily an experiment in group work and that its main objective is not the perfecting of the individual disciple in the group. i regard this statement as basic and essential. the individuals are intended to supplement each other and complement each other and in the aggregate of their qualities should eventually provide a group capable of useful, spiritual expression and one through which spiritual energy can flow for the helping of humanity. the work to be done is on the mental plane. the spheres of service of individual disciples remain the same as before but to their differing fields of individual endeavour there will be added a group activity and life which will become more clear as time elapses. the first objective is, therefore, to weld and unify the group so that each person in it can

in their own group, and the linking of the group with other groups occupied with special work within the ashram and the emergence (as a result of this) of a group and an ashramic consciousness are vital objectives. it is hoped that this will also eventuate in a telepathic interplay which will bring potent results and successful outer work. from these activities will emerge a group circulation of energy which will be of service in world salvage. each of you should remember that purity of body, control of the emotions and stability of mind are fundamental necessities and should be daily the attempted achievement. again and again, i come back to these prime character requirements and tiresome as the reiteration may be i urge upon you the cultivation of these qualities. i would like to remind

you. i ask my disciples to love each other in spite of character and ray differences and to work loyally together for group coherence and integrity no matter what diverse opinions you may hold or what may occur as time elapses. if you can hold together down the years and throughout this life cycle, then the group can carry forward into the future and work together on other planes, thus conserving energy. can you persist and carry on? can such a telepathic- 16- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust interplay be set up that the barrier of death will eventually prove no barrier at all and continuity of communication persist? many such questions arise and time alone will give the answer. if there is persistence in effort, if there is the loyal link of love, if there

ath of discipleship at some stage or another; in this lies opportunity. this is a body (small indeed) of disciples who through devotion to truth, through their attempt to do their duty, and their mutual karmic relation both to each other and to me have been chosen (in spite of limitations and faulty development) to work together towards the specific end of forming a nucleus of spiritual power and energy for the helping of humanity. but above all else, it is a group formed to inaugurate the methods of the new age as regards group work, and the training of disciples and their preparation for initiation, along with other groups all over the world who have caught the new vision and are working under the inspiration and the impression of the masters. the foundation of these schools of the myste

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

and of government will be right human relations and for both of these education must prepare the child. chapter iii the problem of capital, labour and employment- 38- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust in a unique sense we stand today at the dawn of an entirely new economic age. this is increasingly obvious to all thinking people. because of the triumph of science the release of the energy of the atom the future of mankind and the type of the incoming civilization is unpredictable. the changes which are imminent are so far-reaching that it is apparent that the old economic values and the familiar standards of living are bound to pass away; no one knows what will take their place. conditions will be basically altered; along certain lines, such as the distribution of coal and o

liar standards of living are bound to pass away; no one knows what will take their place. conditions will be basically altered; along certain lines, such as the distribution of coal and oil for lighting, heating and transportation, is it not possible that in the future neither of these planetary resources will be required? these are two instances of the fundamental changes which the use of atomic energy may make in future civilized living. two major problems will grow out of this discovery one immediate in nature and the other to be later developed. the first is that those whose large financial interests are bound up in products which the new type of energy will inevitably supersede will fight to the last ditch to prevent these new sources of wealth from benefiting others. secondly, there

f established control of the purely selfish interests which have for so long controlled the life of humanity and the other is the problem of leisure and its constructive use. one problem concerns civilization and its correct functioning in the new age and the other concerns culture and the employment of time along creative lines. it is not useful here to prophesy the uses to which the most potent energy hitherto released for man's helping can or will be put. its first constructive use was to end the war. its future constructive use lies in the hands of science and should be controlled by the men of goodwill to be found in all nations. this energy must be safeguarded from monied interests; it must be turned definitely into the usages of peace and employed to implement a new and happier worl

symbolizing this growth and the demand for freedom. the machine age was succeeded by the age of transportation, of electricity, of railroads, the automobile, and the airplane. the age of communications paralleled this also, giving us the telegraph, the telephone, the radio and today, television and radar. all these merged into the present age of science which has given us the liberation of atomic energy and the potentialities inherent in the discovery. in spite of the fact that a machine can do the work of many men, which greatly contributed to the wealth of the man with capital, fresh industries and the growth of worldwide means of distribution provided new fields of employment and the demands of the most materialistic period the world has ever seen gave a great impetus to capital and pro

s possible to bring about the needed changes, provided that the correct steps are taken before the pain and agony are forgotten and their effects have passed out of man's consciousness. these steps must be taken at once whilst patent evidences of the past are still present, and the aftermath of world war is before our eyes- 47- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the release of the energy of the atom is definitely the inauguration of the new age; it will so completely alter our way of life that much of the planning at present being done will be found to be of an interim nature; it will simply help humanity to make a great transition out of the materialistic system now dominating into one in which right human relations will be the basic characteristic. this new and better way

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

are found in rich abundance everywhere. even the human soul is regarded as an intermediary between man and god; christ is believed by countless millions to act as the divine mediator between humanity and divinity. the whole system of spiritual revelation is based (and has always been based) on this doctrine of interdependence, of a planned and arranged conscious linking and of the transmission of energy from one aspect of divine manifestation to another from god in the "secret place of the most high" to the humblest human being, living and struggling and sorrowing on earth. everywhere this transmission is to be found "i am come that they may have life" says the christ, and the scriptures of the world are full of the intervention of some being, originating from some source higher than the s

here this transmission is to be found "i am come that they may have life" says the christ, and the scriptures of the world are full of the intervention of some being, originating from some source higher than the strictly human. always the appropriate mechanism is found through which divinity can reach and communicate with humanity, and it is with this communication and these instruments of divine energy that the doctrine of avatars or of divine "coming ones" has to do. an avatar is one who has a peculiar capacity (besides a self-initiated task and a pre-ordained destiny) to transmit energy or divine power. this is necessarily a deep mystery and was demonstrated in a peculiar manner and in relation to cosmic energy by the christ who for the first time in planetary history, as far as we know

of avatars or of divine "coming ones" has to do. an avatar is one who has a peculiar capacity (besides a self-initiated task and a pre-ordained destiny) to transmit energy or divine power. this is necessarily a deep mystery and was demonstrated in a peculiar manner and in relation to cosmic energy by the christ who for the first time in planetary history, as far as we know transmitted the divine energy of love directly to our planet and in a most definite sense to humanity. always too these avatars or divine messengers are linked with the concept of some subjective spiritual order or hierarchy of spiritual lives, who are concerned with the developing welfare of humanity. all we really know is that, down the ages, great and divine representatives of god embody divine purpose, and affect th

es. because they are human-divine avatars- 4- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust they represent what humanity can easily understand; because they are of like nature to us "flesh of our flesh and spirit of our spirit" we know and trust them and they mean more to us than other divine emergences. they are known, trusted and loved by countless millions. the nucleus of spiritual energy which each of them set up is beyond our measuring; the establishing of a nucleus of persistent energy, spiritually positive, is the constant task of an avatar; he focusses or anchors a dynamic truth, a potent thoughtform or a vortex of magnetic energy in the world of human living. this focal point acts increasingly as a transmitter of spiritual energy; it enables humanity to express some di

gy in the world of human living. this focal point acts increasingly as a transmitter of spiritual energy; it enables humanity to express some divine idea and this in time produces a civilisation with its accompanying culture, religions, policies, governments and educational processes. thus is history made. history is after all only the record of humanity's cyclic reaction to some inflowing divine energy, to some inspired leader, or to some avatar. an avatar is at present usually a representative of the second divine aspect, that of love-wisdom, the love of god. he will manifest as the saviour, the builder, the preserver; humanity is not yet sufficiently developed or adequately oriented to the life of the spirit to bear easily the impact of an avatar who would express the dynamic will of go

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

r modern civilisation; all that has happened is the result of these energies, pouring cyclically through nature and through that part of nature which we call the human kingdom. to understand what is today taking place we must recognise that these energies are seven in number. they are called by many names in many different lands, but for our purposes the following seven names will be used: 1. the energy of will, purpose or power, called in christian lands the energy of the will of god. 2. the energy of love-wisdom, called frequently the love of god. 3. the energy of active intelligence, called the mind of god. 4. the energy of harmony through conflict, affecting greatly the human family. 5. the energy of concrete knowledge or science, so potent at this time. 6. the energy of devotion or id

tian lands the energy of the will of god. 2. the energy of love-wisdom, called frequently the love of god. 3. the energy of active intelligence, called the mind of god. 4. the energy of harmony through conflict, affecting greatly the human family. 5. the energy of concrete knowledge or science, so potent at this time. 6. the energy of devotion or idealism, producing the current ideologies. 7. the energy of ceremonial order, producing the new forms of civilisation- 1- copyright 1998 lucis trust these energies are ceaselessly playing on humanity, producing changes, expressing themselves through successive civilisations and cultures, and fashioning the many races and nations. this in no way infringes upon man's freewill; these forces have both their higher and their lower aspects and men resp

ill aspect and that ray embodies the divine will-to-good and remains immutable and is for the first time in the history of humanity being invoked on a large scale. this statement is definitely encouraging, if you study its implications- 2- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust you have, therefore, in the present field of divine expression the following energies manifesting: 1. the energy of idealism, of devotion or of devoted attention, embodied in the sixth ray. 2. the energy whose major function it is to produce order, rhythm and established, sequential activity the seventh ray of ceremonial ritual. 3. the energy of the second ray, which is always basically present in our solar system, that of love-wisdom, to which many of the egos now in incarnation belong and will incre

the energy of the second ray, which is always basically present in our solar system, that of love-wisdom, to which many of the egos now in incarnation belong and will increasingly belong. the next one hundred and fifty years will see them coming into incarnation. the reason is that it is to this type of human being that the work of reconstruction, and of re-building is naturally committed. 4. the energy of intelligence, actively displayed in creative activity. the creative ability of the future will emerge on a relatively large scale in the realm of creative living and not so much in the realm of creative art. this creative living will express itself through a new world of beauty and of recognised divine expression; through the outer form, the "light of livingness (as it is esoterically ca

future will emerge on a relatively large scale in the realm of creative living and not so much in the realm of creative art. this creative living will express itself through a new world of beauty and of recognised divine expression; through the outer form, the "light of livingness (as it is esoterically called) will show. the symbol and that for which it stands will be known and seen. this is the energy of the third ray of active intelligence, working towards the manifestation of beauty. 5. the energy of the will aspect of divinity. this has been but little expressed and understood by humanity up to the present, but the time has now come when it must be better comprehended. the demand from our innumerable planetary forces has not hitherto been adequate to invoke it and for its invocation t

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

al realities, and when facility in discovering the reality behind any specific form has been gained, that very fact will indicate the awakening of the intuition. first ray people belong to what is called the "destroyer ray" and the power of the first aspect, which is the power to bring to an end, flows through them. they will have a tendency to destroy, as they build, through a wrong direction of energy, through over-emphasis of energy in some particular direction, or through misuse of energy in work with themselves or others. many first ray people have the tendency to pride themselves on this and hide behind a plea that, being upon the first ray, a destructive tendency is unavoidable. such is not the case. builders, such as second ray people always are, have to learn to destroy, when prom

en doing this, bear in mind that the idea connotes the higher or abstract intent; that the meaning is that intent expressed in terms of the concrete mind; and that its significance has in it more of an emotional quality and might be expressed as the type of desire it arouses in you- 6- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust c. esoterically. this would cover the effect of the force or energy upon you and of the quality of the vibration it may arouse in you perhaps in some centre, perhaps in your astral body, or perhaps only in your mind. this study, rightly undertaken, would lead to the unfoldment of the intuition, with its consequent manifestation on the physical plane as illumination, understanding and love. in the first instance, the objective of the study of symbolism is to

. it is the misunderstanding of ideas and thoughtforms of which they are guilty, and of misinterpretations. 2. glamour is astral in character, and is far more potent at this time than illusion, owing to the enormous majority of people who function astrally always- 17- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. maya is vital in character and is a quality of force. it is essentially the energy of the human being as it swings into activity through the subjective influence of the mental illusion or astral glamour or of both in combination. 4. the dweller on the threshold, always present, swings however into activity only on the path of discipleship, when the aspirant becomes occultly aware of himself, of the conditions induced within him as a result of his interior illusion, his as

ality (and no one is a disciple, my brother, unless he is mental as well as emotional, which is a point the devotee oft forgets) these three conditions (with the preponderance of the effect in one or other of the bodies) are seen as a whole, and to this whole the term the "dweller on the threshold" is applied. it is in reality a vitalised thoughtform embodying mental force, astral force and vital energy. the problem, therefore, before all of you in this group is to learn first of all: 1. to distinguish between these three inner illusory aspects. 2. to discover what conditions in the environment or in the individual constitution induce these situations of difficulty. 3. to find out what methods are effective in inducing a cessation of the bewildering deceiving conditions. it must be remembe

uence, for the positive auras subordinate the negative auras. what is required is a combination of positive auras, deliberately subordinated to group work. as you deal with illusion and as you free your minds from its effects, and as you dissipate the astral glamour in which you are all more or less immersed, you will enter into a greater freedom of living and usefulness. as the maya of distorted energy currents ceases to swing you into lines of undesirable activity, the light that is in you will shine forth with greater clarity. incidentally the dweller on the threshold will slowly and surely disintegrate and leave your way, to the door of initiation, free and unimpeded. strongly mental types are subject to illusion. this illusion is in reality a condition wherein the aspirant is being de

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ur being" we have the statement of a fundamental law in nature and the enunciated basis of the fact which we cover by the rather meaningless word: omnipresence. omnipresence has its basis in the substance of the universe, and in what the scientists call the ether; this word "ether" is a generic term covering the ocean of energies which are all inter-related and which constitute that one synthetic energy body of our planet. in approaching, therefore, the subject of telepathy, it must be carefully borne in mind that the etheric body of every form in nature is an integral part of the substantial form of god himself not the dense physical form, but what the esotericists regard as the form-making substance. we use the word god to signify the expression of the one life which animates every form

erefore, the subject of telepathy, it must be carefully borne in mind that the etheric body of every form in nature is an integral part of the substantial form of god himself not the dense physical form, but what the esotericists regard as the form-making substance. we use the word god to signify the expression of the one life which animates every form on the outer objective plane. the etheric or energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself and consequently of the solar system. through this medium, every human being is basically related to every other expression of the divine life, minute or great. the function of the etheric body is to receive energy impulses and to be swept into activity by these impulses, or streams of force

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

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

an the others and this one, through his clear thinking and the power of his formulated thoughtforms, can then influence other minds. these others grasp the concept as theirs; they seize upon it and work it out into manifestation. each regards it as his special privilege so to do and, because of this specialising faculty and his automatically engendered responsibility, he throws back of it all the energy which is his, and works and fights for his thoughtforms. an illustration of this is to be found in the history of the league of nations. before he took up special work, the master serapis sought to bring through some constructive idea for the helping of humanity. he conceived of a world unity in the realm of politics which would work out as an intelligent banding of the nations for the pres

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

of truth must be altered- 6- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust in esoteric astrology we are, therefore, dealing with the life and lives which inform the "points of light" within the universal life. constellations, solar systems, planets, kingdoms in nature and microscopic man are all of them the result of the activity and the manifestation of energy of certain lives whose cycle of expression and whose infinite purposes lie outside the comprehension of the most advanced and illumined minds on our planet. the next point for each of you to grasp is the fact that the ether of space is the field in and through which the energies from the many originating sources play. we are, therefore, concerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the

ensive and intricate system of nerves is a vital or etheric body which is the counterpart and the true form of the outer and tangible phenomenal aspect. it is likewise the medium for the transmission of force to all parts of the human frame and the agent of the indwelling life and consciousness. it determines and conditions the physical body, for it is itself the repository and the transmitter of energy from the various subjective aspects of man and also from the environment in which man (both inner and outer man) finds himself. two other points should here be added. first: the individual etheric body is not an isolated and separated human vehicle but is, in a peculiar sense, an integral part of the etheric body of that entity which we have called the human family; this kingdom in nature

theric body of that entity we call space and condition and determine the outer expression, the activities and qualities of every form found within the cosmic periphery. the second point i would make is that within the human etheric body there are to be found seven major force centres which are in the nature of distributing agencies and electrical batteries, providing dynamic force and qualitative energy to the man; they produce definite effects upon his outer physical manifestation. through their constant activity his quality appears, his ray tendencies begin to emerge and his point in evolution is clearly indicated. this "control of form through a septenate of energies (as it is defined in the old commentary) is an unalterable rule in the inner government of our universe and of our partic

(as it is defined in the old commentary) is an unalterable rule in the inner government of our universe and of our particular solar system, as well as in the case of individual man. there are, for instance, in our solar system, seven sacred planets which correspond to the seven individual force centres in man, the seven solar systems, of which our solar system is one, and in their turn the seven energy centres of the one to whom i have referred in my other books as the one about whom naught can be said. much has been given in the occult books of which the average astrologer remains profoundly unaware. it is essential that he learns to think in larger wholes and to be more deeply concerned with the emanating sources and with the eternal persistent causes than with the effects of these sour

unimportant planet. as he seeks to do this, he will discover for himself the signs of the essential divinity of man a divinity which is to be found in the infinite grasp of man's consciousness when illumined by the light of the soul and in his power to project his thought into the consciousness of those manifold lives whose "energetic movements" he must perforce share because his small modicum of energy is an integral part of theirs. there is one aspect of energy for which the modern astrologer makes very little allowance, and yet it is of paramount importance. this is the energy which emanates from or radiates from the earth itself. living as all human beings do upon the surface of the earth and being, therefore, projected into the etheric body of the planet (for the reason that "man stan

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

or her child. i did all i could, but the baby died in my arms. nothing could save her, and she had expert skill on the doctor's part and i am a good nurse. that doctor was a wise man; he knew that i had all i could handle in my own home situation but needed to learn that i was not alone in trouble, that other people had as bad troubles as i, and that i was capable of a much greater expenditure of energy than i believed. the wisdom and profound psychological knowledge of the small town general practitioner is to me completely amazing. they know people; they live lives of sacrifice; they are skilled from vast experience; they handle emergencies swiftly and adequately, for they have no one to rely on but themselves. personally, i am deeply indebted to the doctors in cities and villages who ha

as an inner mechanism of spiritual recognition no harm could possibly be done. therefore pledges to secrecy became meaningless. there are no secrets. there is only the presentation of truth and its understanding. there has been a great deal of confusion in the minds of the general public between esotericism and magic. magic is a mode of working on the physical plane relating substance and matter, energy and force in order to create forms through which life can express itself. this work as it deals with elemental forces is dangerous and even the pure in heart need protection. esotericism is in reality the science of- 120- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul. it concerns the living, spiritual, vital principle found in every form. it establishes a unity both in ti

s outside of the united states, with the exception of my eldest girl, dorothy, who had been in hawaii. alice ortiz stepped in with her usual generosity and saw that we all had the right clothes, besides paying all travelling expenses. we chose one of the smaller boats which went direct from new york to antwerp, belgium, and i will admit that i found life on board with three girls full of life and energy slightly exhausting. keeping track of them was no joke. rounding them up every evening at bedtime was also no joke. it is no fun for a girl when she is dancing most happily with some officer to see a parent standing on the sidelines and to know quite well it was bedtime. they were exceedingly good but exceedingly excited. they knew everyone on board, who they were, where they came from and

nergies and forces, which are the very substance of creation, have to be understood and eventually controlled. the disciple learns that all that is manifesting in and on our planet is nothing but an aggregation of forces, producing forms, and that all is movement and livingness. he begins by learning the nature of the forces which make him what he is, as a man; he then learns to bring in a higher energy, that of the soul, to control these forces. he studies the nature of the spirit, soul and matter, usually calling them life, consciousness and form, or life, quality and appearance, and thus gains some insight into the nature of the divine trinity and the electrical nature of all phenomena, including the human being. 8. esoteric psychology is also regarded as of major importance. this marks

e that, because of this ancient cleavage between spiritual life and material action- 173- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust politics, the church in all countries, and the economic life of the world have degenerated into the terrible condition which twentieth century humanity has had to face. the students of the arcane school are encouraged to carry their spiritual knowledge, energy and understanding into the affairs of humanity and to do this upon the physical level of existence. we ask our students in every nation to study the effective implementation of the spiritual plan and purpose in every phase of human activity, thus relating the word "spiritual" to all our daily activities and not only (as is too often the case) to existing religious groups, to aspiration, to

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

eady to accept the new theories and hypotheses, they discover that the old and dearly held truth is not really lost, but only relegated to its rightful place in a larger scheme. all initiates of the ageless wisdom are necessarily healers, though all may not heal the physical body. the reason for this is that all souls that have achieved any measure of true liberation are transmitters of spiritual energy. this automatically affects some aspect of the mechanism which is used by the souls they contact. when i employ the word "mechanism" in these instructions i refer to different aspects of the instrument, the body or form nature, through which all souls seek manifestation. i refer, therefore, to: 1. the dense physical body, which is the sumtotal of all the organisms which compose it; these- 2

ter and more inclusive organism. the physical body is the response apparatus of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary logos, the life in which we live and move and have our being. 2. the etheric body, which has one main objective. this is to vitalise and energise the physical body and thus integrate it into the energy body of the earth and of the solar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whether great or small (microcosmic or macrocosmic. along these lines of energy the cosmic forces flow, as the blood flows through the veins and arteries. this constant, individual human, planetary and solar c

ic law underlying all occult healing may be stated to be as follows: law i all disease is the result of inhibited soul life, and that is true of all forms in all kingdoms. the art of the healer consists in releasing the soul, so that its life can flow through the aggregate of organisms which constitute any particular form. it is interesting to note that the attempt of the scientist to release the energy of the atom is of the same general nature as the work of the esotericist when he endeavours to release the energy of the soul. in this release the nature of the true art of healing is hidden. herein lies an occult hint. in the fourth place, we will consider the physical body, its diseases and ills, but only after we have studied that part of man which lies behind and surrounding the dense p

tity. the implications of this are largely beyond our ken, but the effects are discernible. i am not interested primarily in training individuals in order to make them more efficient healers. it is group healing at which i aim, and it is the work which is done in formation which interests me at this time. but no group of people can work as a unit unless they love and serve each other. the healing energy of the spiritual hierarchy cannot flow through the group if there is disharmony and criticism. the first work, therefore, of any group of healers, is to establish themselves in love and to work towards group unity and understanding. i would like to point out here the need for patience as a healing group integrates and the auras of the group members blend. it takes a little time for people t

led evil state, according to the knowledge of the healer. the healer must seek to link his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation. thus can his presence feed the soul life of the patient. this is the work of radiation. the hands are needed not. the soul displays its power. the patient's soul responds through the response of his aura to the radiation of the healer's aura, flooded with soul energy. in considering the causes of disease, i find it necessary to speak a word in connection with conditions external and internal. it will be apparent to the casual thinker that many diseases and many causes of death are due to environing conditions for which he is in no way responsible- 11- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust these range all th

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

seeking the principles upon which peaceful and fruitful living can be founded, the east may provide us with the counter-balance to our aggressive materialism. if this new synthesis is to restore cultural and spiritual unity in mankind, the occidental world will have to acquire humility when it turns to the orient. the oriental world will not, because of its inherent nature, generate the physical energy to go to the west. we westerners went into the east in search of markets outlets for the products of our mechanical power and we must return to our own world, magnetized by the subjective energies of the east and conscious of it. our aggressive commercial penetration of oriental lands and peoples has had the end result of bringing the literature, the philosophy and the arts of the east into

ncrete levels of the mental plane and to the ability of the man to bring through and express these visioned ideas in his own particular form. arithmetic has a definite relation to subsequent aspects of the process and to the emergence of the idea into some correlated form upon the physical plane. the visioning of the thoughtform is a process which must be succeeded by the appropriation of as much energy by the idea as is needed to make it effective or "apparent (esoterically speaking. of this the symbolism of arithmetic is the expression. from another angle, man reads his destiny in the heavens and writes out that destiny in his life upon the earth; he reduces, knowingly or unknowingly, the idea of his soul to due and proper form, so that each life adds, subtracts and multiplies, until the

tanding of what we call genius will likewise be made clearer, and in this way creative work will no longer be regarded as unique and manifesting sporadically as is now the case but will become the subject of trained attention, and so assume its normal place in man's unfoldment. it might be added here that creative activity in the field of art becomes possible when the first aspect of the bridging energy of man can function and the soul (manifesting its third or lowest aspect) can begin to work. creative work can be carried forward when two of the "knowledge petals" of the egoic lotus are unfolded. the man can produce, through knowledge and creative energy, something upon the physical plane which will be expressive of the soul's creative power. when two of the "love petals" are also unfolde

iece of information for those students who are studying the science of the ageless wisdom, but it is of no value to those who do not recognise symbology, or the fact of the higher ego or soul. it might be of value here if i clarified my use of the words "higher ego" as you know, if you have read a treatise on the seven rays, vols. i and ii (esoteric psychology, the soul is an aspect of the divine energy in time and space. we are told that the solar logos circumscribed for his use and for the meeting of his desire, a certain measure of the substance of space and informed it with his life and consciousness. he did this for his good purposes and in conformity with his self-realised plan and intent. thus he submitted himself to limitation. the human monad followed the same procedure and in tim

formity with his self-realised plan and intent. thus he submitted himself to limitation. the human monad followed the same procedure and in time and space limited itself in a similar manner. on the physical plane and in the physical body, this phenomenal and transient entity controls its phenomenal appearance through the two aspects of life and consciousness. the life principle the flow of divine energy through all forms is temporarily seated in the heart, while the consciousness principle, the soul of all things, is located (temporarily as far as the form- 18- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust nature of a particular human unit is concerned) within the brain. as again you know, the life principle controls the mechanism through the medium of the blood stream, for "the bloo

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ards each of you, and thus i deepen the relation of love between each and all of you. it is not often that i speak to you in this manner, but in the process of freeing you for increased service i have drawn nearer to you and my love surrounds you. learn, my brothers, the meaning of words, their transmitting potency and their spiritual significance. i am going to take the time and spare the needed energy to get in touch with the group during the coming full moons, prior to that of may. i ask you, at no matter what hour the full moon each month may fall, to endeavour to keep half an hour free so that you can attempt to enter into my consciousness. i realise that it may not always be possible for you in your busy western lives to keep the exact minute free, but you can attempt to find some ti

ocesses in the order of their present importance, and this in its turn is determined by the group condition for which you are one and all responsible. i. definite and planned meditation. the theme, if i might so call it, of the work will be threefold: a. the interior interrelation of the seven centres in the body will be the objective of the meditation, basing the work upon the occult maxim that "energy follows thought" we have started upon one formula which relates the heart, the higher head centre, and the solar plexus. b. the subsequent relation of the centres in any one individual to the remainder of the group members, regarding the centres as radiating transmitters of energy to the centres of the other group members. this will result in the forming of seven great centres of energy whi

lates the heart, the higher head centre, and the solar plexus. b. the subsequent relation of the centres in any one individual to the remainder of the group members, regarding the centres as radiating transmitters of energy to the centres of the other group members. this will result in the forming of seven great centres of energy which will constitute the group centres, fed and enlightened by the energy transmitted by each individual- 13- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust c. the fusion (consciously undertaken) of the individual soul with the group soul and consequently a conscious rapport with the hierarchy, which is inherently the kingdom of souls. the first meditation affects the three centres in the individual disciple and also, and consequently, his astr

to study, the new opportunities and the new complexities, as well as the new and coming simplifications in life and being. they concern primarily the service of the initiate; hitherto we have only considered the service which disciples, aspirants and men of goodwill can render. v. i shall give you some clear and definite instructions anent the uses of the etheric body. this vehicle of vitality or energy is the ultimate conditioning factor in the activity of the physical body. it is an initiator, for there is no physical activity as we understand it unless impulsed by some energy emanating from the etheric body. an understanding of some of the processes of initiation will come from an understanding of the body of vitality. the etheric body is the organ whereby personality or soul expression

an understanding of some of the processes of initiation will come from an understanding of the body of vitality. the etheric body is the organ whereby personality or soul expression becomes evidenced upon the physical plane. its potency is that which evokes the physical form. most of the vehicles have a dual capacity invocation and evocation. they also have a third function: they ground or focus energy, thus producing a point of tension, of crisis and an interlude, prior to a process of transmission. ponder on these words. the physical body can be evoked into manifestation and subsequent activity, but it has no power of invocation. hence it is not a principle (as h.p.b. tells us in the secret doctrine) but is basically an automaton. the etheric body invokes and evokes; but it also, in rel

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

d or focussed at this time on human affairs, and that some of them are also preparing to break their long silence and may appear later among men. this necessarily has a potent effect, first of all upon their disciples and on those who are attuned to and synchronized with their- 3- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust minds, and secondly, it should be remembered that the energy which flows through these focal points of the divine will will have a dual effect and be destructive as well as constructive, according to the quality of the bodies which react to it. different types of men respond distinctively to any inflow of energy, and a tremendous psychic stimulation is at this time going on, with results both divinely beneficent and sadly destructive. it might be add

earth, and that the effect is a cause of grave concern to all the masters, their disciples and workers. the difficulty can, in the main, be traced back to the overstimulation and the undue strain placed upon the mechanism of the bodies, which the world of souls (in physical incarnation) have to employ as they seek to manifest on the physical plane and so respond to their environment. the flow of energy, pouring through from the astral plane and (in a lesser degree) from the lower mental plane, is brought in contact with bodies that are unresponsive at first, and over-responsive later; it pours into brain cells which, from lack of use, are unaccustomed to the powerful rhythm imposed upon them; and humanity's equipment of knowledge is so poor that the majority have- 4- the externalisation o

upon the backs of some teachers, groups or organisations. much blame can indeed be placed here and there, but it is the part of wisdom to face facts and to realise the cause of that which is everywhere transpiring and which can be stated as follows. the cause of the growth of the lower psychism and of the increasing sensitivity of humanity at this time is the sudden inflow of a new form of astral energy through the rent veil which has, until a short while ago, safeguarded the many. add to this the inadequacy of the mass of human vehicles to meet the newly imposed strain and some idea of the problem can be grasped. let it not be forgotten, however, that there is another side to the picture. the inflow of this energy has brought many hundreds of people into a new and deeper spiritual realisa

reasing for the next thirty years, bringing assurance of immortality and a fresh revelation of the divine potencies in the human being. thus is the new age dawning. access to levels of inspiration, hitherto untouched, has been facilitated. the stimulation of the higher faculties (and this on a large scale) is now possible, and the coordination of the personality with the soul and the right use of energy can go forward with renewed understanding and enterprise. ever the race is to the strong, and always the many are called and the few chosen. this is the occult law. we are now in a period of tremendous spiritual potency and of opportunity to all upon the probationary path and the path of discipleship. it is the hour wherein a clarion call goes forth to man to be of good cheer and of goodwil

things along with the mass- 5- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust of those who achieve, even if their physical vehicles are destroyed in the process. the destruction of the body is not the worst disaster that can overcome a man. it is not my purpose to cover the whole ground possible in relation to the situation in the field of psychism caused by the inflow of astral energy at this time. i seek to confine myself to the effect of this inflow on aspirants and sensitives. these two words aspirants and sensitives are employed by me in this article to distinguish the awakened seeker after control and mastery from the lower type of psychic, who is controlled and mastered. it is necessary here to remind you that psychism, so-called, can be divided into the following

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

ion of the necessary polarisation: the reiterated appreciation of the words "i am the self, the self am i" the habit of early morning meditation wherein the thinker centers himself in the point of control and starts upon his day's experience and contacts with the realisation that he is only the observer, the perceiver and actor. a close consideration throughout the day as to the use and misuse of energy. every man should realise that in the use of energy lies direction and the treading of the path. it produces eventually truthful manifestation and the displaying of one's light in order that circumstances may be irradiated and fellow pilgrims helped. students should familiarise themselves with the "energy concept" and learn to regard themselves as energy units displaying certain types of en

n and the treading of the path. it produces eventually truthful manifestation and the displaying of one's light in order that circumstances may be irradiated and fellow pilgrims helped. students should familiarise themselves with the "energy concept" and learn to regard themselves as energy units displaying certain types of energy. in this connection it should be borne in mind that when spiritual energy and material energy (the two opposite poles) are brought into relationship, a third type of energy is produced, and the work of the fourth or human kingdom is to demonstrate this peculiar type. it might serve to clarify thought if students remembered that superhuman entities display spiritual energy. subhuman entities display the energy of matter. human entities display soul energy. in the

f tamas or of inertia. they work blindly and have no ability to- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust respond consciously to the plan. they are the sumtotal of the "units of inertia" just as the human units are called "the points of light moving within the square" this may have its appeal to masons. this subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where i give you more upon the centres i have enlarged upon it. i but seek at this time to give you that which can be of immediate use to students and thus lay the foundation for later work. a close study of the needed transmutation of astral and emotional energy into love, the energy of love. this involves the sublimation of personal

nnection should be traced between the astral sheath..6th plane the buddhic sheath..4th plane the monadic sheath..2nd plane and the place the love petals in the egoic lotus play should also be carefully considered. 3. a comprehension of the potency of the astral sheath owing to its undivided nature. 4. a study of the purpose of the solar plexus, and the part it plays as an organ of transference of energy from the three great centres below the diaphragm to the three higher centres. there is a very close analogy here to the solar lotus, the egoic body, occupying a midway point between the threefold monad and the threefold lower man. the more advanced should follow this. the development of the faculty of mind control, so that the thinker grips and holds steady the mental processes and learns t

r two points are beginning to be grasped and the theory as to man's constitution and purpose is somewhat understood. as meditation is practiced, as the lower bodies are painstakingly dominated, and as the nature of the sutratma or thread is better comprehended it will become increasingly possible to bring into the lower personality on the physical plane that spiritual illumination and that divine energy which is the soul's heritage. little by little the light will shine forth, year by year the strength of the higher contact will grow, gradually the downpour of divine love and wisdom into the head centres will be increased until eventually the entire lower man will be transformed, his sheaths will be refined, controlled and used, and he will demonstrate upon earth the powers of director, te

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

trolling their personalities. the casting of the horoscope of the soul will not be based on our three dimensional knowledge, for the laws of time and space have no hold over the soul (esoteric astrology. we will therefore in this study deal with an astrology which will be non-mathematical and which will have no relation to the casting of horoscopes. it will concern itself with the twelve types of energy by means of which consciousness of the divine reality is brought about through the medium of form. in no distant heaven and in no subjective state did hercules arrive at this knowledge. in the physical body, handicapped and limited by the tendencies conferred on him by the sign in which he performed the labor, he attained understanding of his own essential divinity. through the overcoming o

y. a symbol is an outer and visible form of an inner and spiritual reality. it is with this interplay of the outer form and the inner life [11] that hercules wrestles. he knew himself to be the form, the symbol, for the dominance of the lower material nature made its presence felt with the facility of agelong expression. at the same time he knew that his problem was to express spiritual being and energy. he had to know in fact and in experience that he was god, immanent in nature; that he was the self in close relation to the not-self; he had to experiment with the law of- 10- the labours of hercules cause and effect, and this from the standpoint of the initiator of the causes in order to produce intelligent effects. through the twelve signs of the zodiac he passed, struggling to work subj

the form to find truth, and have brought us to a position of wide knowledge and at the same time to a paralleling conception of our profound ignorance. we have learned much of the outer garment of god through physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences, but we have struggled into a realm where all appears to be hypothesis and inference. all that we surely know is that all forms are aspects of energy; that there is an interplay and an impact of energies upon our planet; that the planet is itself an energy unit composed of a multitude of energy units, and that man himself is likewise a composite bundle of forces and moving in a world of force. this is where [12] science so wonderfully has led us, and this is where the astrologer, the occultist, the idealist and the mystic also meet and t

planet is itself an energy unit composed of a multitude of energy units, and that man himself is likewise a composite bundle of forces and moving in a world of force. this is where [12] science so wonderfully has led us, and this is where the astrologer, the occultist, the idealist and the mystic also meet and testify to a concealed deity, to a living being, to a universal mind, and to a central energy. in the unfolding drama of the heavens, in the conclusions of the scientific enquirer, in the mathematical computations of the astrologers, and in the testimony of the mystic, however, we can see a steadily emerging manifestation of this concealed divinity. little by little, through the study of history, of philosophy and of comparative religion, we see the plan of that deity becoming signi

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

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

emanation of incomprehensible deity, the first conceivable attribute of immanent manifested godhead: also named adm oilah, adam oilah, the heavenly man, and autik yomin, the ancient of days. the devout rabbi bows his head and adores the sublime conception. he is represented in the hebrew old testament by the divine name ahih, aheieh "i am (exodus iii. v. 4. the conscious god having arisen in his energy, there follow immediately two further emanations, the trio shining in the symbol of a radiant triangle. chkmh, chokmah, wisdom, the king, with the divine name ih, jah is the second sephira; binh, binah, understanding, the queen, and the divine name ihvh jehovah is the third sephira--the supernal triad" is demonstrated. then follow gdulh, gedulah, also called chsd, chesed, mercy, with the di

material body dwells on the assiatic plane. from god, the angels and the world, let us pass to consider more fully what the kabalah teaches about man, the human soul or ego. it has already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now the ten sephiroth condense their energy into a formulated four-parted group of three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity, or of matter. these ten sephiroth, and the planes, each contribute an essence which in their totality, in ever-varying proportion, constitutes man. at his origin there was formulated what the scientists might call "archetypal man" and what the kabalists named adam kadmon, adm qdmun. primeval

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

rus, trapt 5=6=osiris. in one sense, the functions are counterchanged. the chief adept is osiris and the third adept takes on the character of isis. trapt is a solar degree. it is the light of the sun, dawning in the darkness. it is the thrice awakening of the spiritual self. it is a grade of great dedication and loyalty as the sun is loyal in its rising out of darkness. the knocks, which set the energy in motion, are seven. it is written "he made them six; and for the seventh he cast into the minds of them the fire of the sun" the knocks are symbolic of the hexagram above and the divine spirit, the \yhla jwr that hovered over the waters of creation. this represents the first ray of light, light rushing forth in one ray; the first breath of light. 3 the temple is now opened and placed in h

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

g upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating through arousal, then while holding back orgasm karezza switch attention to the devil card. focus on the "third eye" that is depicted on the goat. take on the head of the goat as in the manner of an assumption of a god form. as your sexual arousal begins to reach its pitch. imagine the focused force of that energy opening and shining out, projecting the pentagram as analogous to a laser projecting an image on a surface. with practice, you will eventually be able to summon this process by sheer will alone when the n arises. also, at the beginning stages you may choose to charge a sigil with the semen you will be discharging. for instructions on how to cast sigils see: http//occult100.com/sigil.shtml a

r fuckee associates with the devil. the procedure will be done as suggested above, but the passive partner will serve as the active focuser and projector in the rite. as to the intent of this rite/practice/magical procedure- the purpose is to create a psychic link between your self and the one who is being cursed/blessed. the objective is to activate their "third eye chakra" thereby raising their energy and attention to a higher vibration, in essence. initiating them toward illumination. this is one of the secrets of initiating via shaktipat quickening of the energies now, for those of you who may have anticipated that this rite of attack/curse/blessing was going to be one of destruction. i offer no seeapology. this is a rite to cause change. it is only "black" in the sense that you are ca

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

nels propelled by subtle winds (tib. rlung; skt. pr..a. in yogic and tantric practices, the control and purification of these various elements and the unwinding of the knots aids the process of liberation. to illustrate this metaphorically, samuel likens the subtle body to a mental model of the nervous system.22 to accompany the body, the various souls are the la (bla "life-force" sok (srog "life-energy" and wuk (dbugs "life-breath" as with the demon taxonomy, different terms for "soul" are not available in english to express the nuanced differences of these tibetan terms; therefore, compound phrases must be concocted that aim to convey these distinctions. the life-force (bla) is an ancient tibetan concept of a soul that is tied to an individual and yet is also connected to a geographical

(lha) and life-force (bla) is not a coincidence and is tied to an ancient belief that the two were ultimately the same, given the indigenous nature of deities as abiding in local mountains and rivers. he claims that gods came out of an anthropomorphization of this binding force, possibly enhanced by buddhist influence, while the life-force retains its original, more intangible nature.23 the life-energy (srog) is perhaps more consistent with western notions of a soul as it resides within the body, specifically in the heart. the life-energy does not wander like the life-force, but it can be stolen by demonic forces, resulting in severe illness and death. the life-breath (dbugs) consists of vital air that travels through the subtle channels, as described above; it can also be stolen, resulti

white bones the divine might demon arose. from his body heat and radiance the rock might demon arose. from his blood the defiling might demon arose. from his pus the serpentine might demon arose. from his rotten garments of flesh the knife might demon arose. having become associated with 30 red mountains and plains, these seven deities slaughtered everyone in the vicinity. they consumed the life-energy of all sentient beings and brought ruin to the three realms.44 at some point, the great bodhisattva avalokite.vara angrily admonished these seven deities for their severe misconduct. in response, these seven riders, with tsiu marpo as the leader, offered up their life essence for karmic benefits and food offerings. later, in india, the great spiritual master padmasambhava arrived at a charn

team, and from then on we promised to guard the buddhist teachings" padmasambhava then asked "tell me, where is your abode? who are your parents? where is your essence" tsiu marpo replied "my abode is this very charnel ground of india. in tsang (gtsang),45 it is called the split cavern. my father is the savage demon lord lekpa. my mother is the violence demoness dongmarma. the essence of my life-energy is a tantra recited by glorious tamdrin" then the great spiritual master bestowed empowerments and gave tsiu marpo his secret name of k nkyap dorj drakpotsel (kun khyab rdo rje drag po rtsal "the power of the fierce, all-pervading vajra" later, when padmasambhava arrived in tibet, he was welcomed by tsiu marpo and his team of riders. there is some complexity in the conversion portion of thi

enemies, the violence demon tsi marwa (tsi dmar ba) whistles violently. his face is gathered in a wrathful grimace and his upper teeth gnaw his lower lip. he is endowed with the marks of a hero. he brandishes a red silken spear in his right hand. with his left hand he holds the lasso of the might demons, which shines like the rays of the sun. he throws it as fast as lightning and gathers the life-energy of the enemy. with the fourth finger of his right hand he spins the red lasso. on his right he carries a tiger-skin quiver and on his left a leopard-skin bow case. he rides a black horse with white heels. on his head he wears a helmet of leather adorned with vulture feathers, and on his body he wears an armored coat covered with scorpion shells. assembled around him are a hundred thousand i

BLACK SERPENT1

istence of the devil or demonic spirits, so they are more inclined to just smile and shake their heads when first being introduced to satanism (as opposed to the folks who run away screaming. but i have also made acquaintances in fundamentalist christian sects. this has been a bit harder, but some of my efforts have proven fruitful. in my conversations with these people, i spent a lot of time and energy explaining the various ins and outs of the contemporary satanic/demonic subculture to them, while citing various sources (e.g, lavey's _satanic bible, james lewis _satanism today, and gavin baddeley's _lucifer rising: sin, devil worship, and rock 'n roll. at all times i made sure to speak in a civil tone with them. even when some of them began to feel threatened by me and start saying all s

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

re required for practice, which depends solely on the means and predilection of the sorcerer. godforms hold specific power within the cults of witchcraft as what is empowered from the practitioner themselves. the gods and goddesses would not exist in any tangible form if humanity did not empower them; either subconsciously or consciously, thus by the adept becoming does the godform become. deific energy is a source not only based within the blood of the practitioner, of the atavistic or primal recesses of the human mind. this deific energy or power may be recalled into the flesh and conscious mind of the practitioner, thus one finds the knowledge undertaken by earlier sects such as the golden dawn, the maskhara of the arabic and asian tribes, austin osman spare s zos kia cultus, etc. there

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

ists. it constitutes the basis of the subject-side of manifested being, and is the source of all manifestations of individual consciousness. mulaprakriti or primordial cosmic substance, is the foundation of the object-side of things- the basis of all objective evolution and cosmogenesis. force, then, does not emerge with primordial substance from parabrahmic latency. it is the transformation into energy of the supra-conscious thought of the logos, infused, so to speak, into the objectivation of the latter out of potential latency in the one reality. hence spring the wondrous laws of matter: hence the "primal impress" so vainly discussed by bishop temple. force thus is not synchronous with the first objectivation of mulaprakriti. but as, apart from it, the latter is absolutely and necessari

the symbol of mystic nature, and one that is convertible with, and significant of, the moon, since all these were lunar goddesses, the configuration of this planet is now placed by theologians between the horns of the mystic lucifer* it is owing to the fanciful interpretation of the[[footnote(s* the ansated cross is the astronomical planetary sign of venus "signifying the existence of parturient energy in the sexual sense, and this was one of the attributes of isis, the mother, of eve, hauvah, or mother-earth, and was so recognised among all the ancient peoples in one or another mode of expression (from a modern kabalistic ms* athenaeus shows that the first letter of satan's name was represented in days of old by an arc and crescent; and some roman catholics, good and kind men, would pers

t at which the vapour of water would be brought to its critical condition. therefore we may infer that the oceans of jupiter are neither of frozen, liquid, nor gaseous water, but are oceans or atmospheres of critical water. if any fish or birds swim or fly therein, they must be very critically organized" as the whole mass of jupiter is 300 times greater than that of the earth, and its compressing energy towards the centre proportional to this, its materials, if similar to those of the earth, and no hotter, would be considerably more dense, and the whole planet would have a higher specific gravity; but we know by the movement of its satellites that, instead of this, its specific gravity is less than a fourth of that of the earth. this justifies the conclusion that it is intensely hot; for e

owing to nature's alchemical transmutations. there were animals in those days of which our modern naturalists have never dreamed; and the stronger became physical material man, the giants of those times, the more powerful were his emanations. once that androgyne "humanity" separated into sexes, transformed by nature into childbearing engines, it ceased to procreate its like through drops of vital energy oozing out of the body. but while man was still ignorant of his procreative powers on the human plane (before his fall, as a believer in adam would say) all this vital energy, scattered far and wide from him, was used by nature for the production of the first mammal-animal forms. evolution is an eternal cycle of becoming, we are taught; and nature never leaves an atom unused. moreover, from

divine power latent in the will of every man, and which, if not called to life, quickened and developed by yogi-training, remains dormant in 999,999 men out of a million, and gets atrophied. this power is explained in the "twelve signs of the zodiac* as follows (b "kriyasakti- the mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. the ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally, if one's attention (and will) is deeply concentrated upon it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired result. a yogi generally performs his wonders by means of itchasakti (will-power) and kriyasakti" the third race had thus created the so-called sons of will and yoga, or the "ancestors (the spiritual fo

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

an archaic manuscript- a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water, fire, and air, by some specific unknown process- is before the writer's eye. on the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black ground. on the following page, the same disk, but with a central point. the first, the student knows to represent kosmos in eternity, before the re-awakening of still slumbering energy, the emanation of the word in later systems. the point in the hitherto immaculate disk, space and eternity in pralaya, denotes the dawn of differentiation. it is the point in the mundane egg (see part ii "the mundane egg, the germ within the latter which will become the universe, the all, the boundless, periodical kosmos, this germ being latent and active, periodically and by turns. the one

, etc" refers in the first portion of the sentence to the dawn of the mahamanvantaric period, or the great re-evolution after one of the complete periodical dissolutions of every compound form in nature (from planet to molecule) into its ultimate essence or element; and in its second portion, to the partial or local manvantara, which may be a solar or even a planetary one* by "centre" a centre of energy or a cosmic focus is meant; when the so-called "creation" or formation of a planet, is accomplished by that force which is designated by the occultists life and by science "energy" then the process takes place[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 12 the secret doctrine. contracts (exhalation and inhalation. when it expands the mother diffuses and scatters; when it contracts, the

are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception. these latter will, however, appear as presentments during the 6th and 7th races of this round, and will become known in the 6th and 7th rounds respectively* these seven elements with their numberless sub-elements[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] from within outwardly, every atom being said to contain in itself creative energy of the divine breath. hence, whereas after an absolute pralaya, or when the pre-existing material consists but of one element, and breath "is everywhere" the latter acts from without inwardly: after a minor pralaya, everything having remained in statu quo- in a refrigerated state, so to say, like the moon- at the first flutter of manvantara, the planet or planets begin their resurrection to

cts of the one unity in which they are synthesized, so, in the manifested universe, there is "that" which links spirit to matter, subject to object. this something, at present unknown to western speculation, is called by the occultists fohat. it is the "bridge" by which the "ideas" existing in the "divine thought" are impressed on cosmic substance as the "laws of nature" fohat is thus the dynamic energy of cosmic ideation; or, regarded from the other side, it is the intelligent medium, the guiding power of all manifestation, the "thought divine" transmitted and made manifest through the dhyan chohans* the architects of the visible world. thus from spirit, or cosmic ideation, comes our consciousness; from cosmic substance the several vehicles in which that consciousness is individualised an

bsorption within the one; the earliest and highest stage in the formation of "worlds" the term monad being one which may apply equally to the vastest solar system or the tiniest atom. stanza iv. shows the differentiation of the "germ" of the universe[[vol. 1, page] 22 the secret doctrine. into the septenary hierarchy of conscious divine powers, who are the active manifestations of the one supreme energy. they are the framers, shapers, and ultimately the creators of all the manifested universe, in the only sense in which the name "creator" is intelligible; they inform and guide it; they are the intelligent beings who adjust and control evolution, embodying in themselves those manifestations of the one law, which we know as "the laws of nature" generically, they are known as the dhyan chohan

BLUE EQUINOX

but one. note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also .unassuaged of purpose. this strange phrase must give us pause. it may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly, the .lust of result. is a thing from which it must be delivered. but the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read .with purpose unassuaged..i.e. with tireless energy. the conception is, therefore, of an eternal motion, infinite and unalterable. it is nirvana, only dynamic instead of static. and this comes to the same thing in the end. the obvious practical task of the magician is then to discover what his will really is, so that he may do it in this manner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of liber thisharb (see equinox i, vii, 105) or s

urous love-song unto me! burn to me perfumes! wear to me jewels! drink to me, for i love you! i love you! i am the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; i am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. to me! the equinox 50 to me. and with these words .the manifestion of nuit is at an end. iii in the next chapter of our book is given the word of hadit, who is the complement of nuit. he is eternal energy, the infinite motion of thing, the central core of all being. the manifested universe comes from the marriange of nuit and hadit; without this could no thing be. this eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that is, is a crystallization of divine ecstasy. hadit telles us of himself .i am the flame that burns in every heart of

the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. and these four are light, life, love, and liberty. the equinox 102 by light shall ye look upon yourselves, and behold all things that are in truth one thing only, whose name hath been called no thing for a cause which later shall be declared unto you. but the substance of light is life, since without existence and energy it were naught. by life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorruptible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole centre of the universe. now by the light ye beheld, by love ye feel. there is an ecstacy of pure knowledge, and another of pure love. and this love is the force that uniteth things diverse, for the contemplation in light of their oneness

insensible to the afflications of that life which you formerly held to be your sole bond with existence. the equinox 116 and here must you resolve your self to make the mightiest endeavours: for so flowered are the meadows of this eden, and so sweet the fruit of its orchards, that you will love to linger among them, and to take delight in sloth and dalliance therein. therefore i write to you with energy that these enjoyments are dependent upon duality, so that their true name is sorrow of illusion, like that of the normal life of man, which you have set out to transcend. be it according to your will, but learn this, that (as it is written) they only are happy who have desired the unattainable. it is then best, ultimately, if it be your will to find alway your chiefest pleasure in love, tha

recognized in this liber cl 119 perception as mere milestones on your ever-living road, what of the foolish incidents of your mean lives? are they not grains of sand blown by the desert wind, or pebbles that you spurn with your winged feet, or grassy hollows where you press the yielding and elastic turf and moss with lyrical dances? to him who lives in life naught matters: his is eternal motion, energy, delight of never-failing change: unwearied, you pass on from on to on, from star to star, the universe your playground, its infinite variety of sport ever old and ever new. all those ideas which bred sorrow and fear are known in their truth, and thus become the seed of joy: for you are certain beyond all proof that you can never die: that though you change, change is part of your own natur

BOOK OF JASHAR

putting them into a universal coordinate system that includes the beginning of everything. god is the unity of that coordinate system. the introductory story of the "patterns" later identified (by nimrod) as jinn, is a synopsis of a complete history of life and civilization. in this synopsis, history is divided into two eras. during the first era, living patterns emerge spontaneously from a high-energy universe, and they evolve in a darwinian struggle to grow and reproduce, according to the law of survival of the fittest. then there is a time of prophecy in which god speaks again. god's words begin a new era in which the jinn are gradually transformed, and the law of survival is replaced by a law of love. but what is love? love is characterized here as an ability to come together and yet

BOOK T

7 the judgment the spirit of the primal fire shin spirit and fire 78 the universe the great one of the night of time taw earth and saturn book t page 3 of 26 http//www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 letters; and between it and that of the right twelve: six above and six below about the left-hand branch. the whole is a great and flaming torch. it symbolizes force- strength, rush, vigour, energy, and it governs, according to its nature, various works and questions. it implies natural, as opposed to invoked, force. ii. the root of the powers of the waters ace of cups or chalices a white radiant angelic hand, issuing from clouds, and supporting on the palm thereof a cup, resembling that of the stolistes. from it rises a fountain of clear and glistening water: and sprays falling on al

pentacles: 1 of each of the others. or in taurus cancer libra sagittarius aquarius two swords: 1 of each of the others. there being thirty-six decans and seven planets, it follows that one of the latter must rule over one more decan than the others. this is the planet mars, to which are allotted the last decan of pisces, and the first of aries, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. and the beginning of the decanates is from the royal star of leo, the great star cor leonis: and therefore is the first decan that of saturn in leo. here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine sephiroth below kether. mars 1. leo valour 7 of wands. 2. scorpio loss in pleasure 5 of cups. 3. capricorn mater

/www.private.org.il/gd/book-t.html 13/10/2002 seven of wands two hands holding by grip six wands, three crossed. a third hand issuing from a cloud at the lower part of the card, holding an upright wand which passes between the others. flames leap from the point of junction. above and below the central wand are the symbols of mars and leo, representing the decan. possible victory, depending on the energy and courage exercised; valour; opposition, obstacles and difficulties, yet courage to meet them; quarrelling, ignorance, pretence, and wrangling, and threatening; also victory in small and unimportant things: and influence upon subordinates. netzach of hb:y (opposition, yet courage. therein rule the two great angels hb:mhshyh and hb:llhal of the schemhamphorash. xxiv. the lord of prudence e

ious symbol, holding eight wands crossed four and four; but a fifth hand at the foot of the card holds another wand upright, which traverses the point of junction with the others: flames leap herefrom. above and below are the symbols moon and sagittarius. tremendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. great success, but with strife and energy. victory, preceded by apprehension and fear. health good, and recovery not in doubt. generous, questioning and curious; fond of external appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of hb:y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels hb:yrthal and hb:shahyh. xxxv. the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth hand ho

al appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of hb:y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels hb:yrthal and hb:shahyh. xxxv. the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth hand holding two wands upright, which traverses the junction of the others. flames issuant. saturn and sagittarius. cruel and overbearing force and energy, but applied only to material and selfish ends. sometimes shows failure in a matter, and the opposition too strong to be controlled; arising from the person's too great selfishness at the beginning. ill-will, levity, lying, malice, slander, envy, obstinacy; swiftness in evil and deceit, if ill dignified. also generosity, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice, when well dignified. malkuth of

BOOK OF PLEASURE

nation and a chaos of conditions, their knowledge obtained with less decency than the hyena his food, i say they are less free and do not obtain the satisfaction of the meanest among animals. self condemned in their disgusting fatness, their emptiness of power, without even the magic of personal charm or beauty, they are offensive in their bad taste and mongering for advertisement. the freedom of energy is not obtained by its bondage, great power not by disintegration. is it not because our energy (or mind stuff) is already over bound and divided, that we are not capable, let alone magical? some believe any and every thing is symbolic, and can be transcribed, and explain the occult, but of what they do not know (great spiritual truths) so argument a metaphor, cautiously confusing the obvio

command would unite and serve our purpose in pleasure and harmony. kia transcending conception, is unchanging and inexhaustible, there is no need of illumination to see it. if we open our mouths to speak of it, it is not of it but of our duality, mighty though it be in its early simplicity! kia without conceiving, produces its rendezvous as the fulness of creation. without assertion the mightiest energy, without smallness it may appear the least among things. its possession ours without asking, its being free, the only thing that is free. without distinction, it has no favourites, but nourishes itself. in fear all creation pays homage-but does not extol its moral, so everything perishes unbeautifully. we endow ourselves with the power we concieve of it, and it acts as master, never the cau

common-sense proves it is the milk state, most nutritious! clownish that i am- yet all my ideas have come out of it (and, my friend, all yours, but ever have i been a sluggard- an old sinner who would see others almighty before himself. the death posture ideas of self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no death or cunning has overcome them but is their reinforcement of energy. the dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. by allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. from that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "does not matter- please yourself" the conception of "i am not" must of necessity follow the conception of "

e of unity* he unites pain and pleasure, suffers them simultaneously and by the "not necessity" of his belief, his conception transcends this world and reaches the absolute ecstasy. there is no place where pain or death can enter* of sex, indeed of everything. the idea of god is the primordial sin, all religions are evil. self-love is its own law, which may be broken with impunity, being the only energy that is not servile, serving its ever-ready purpose. surely it is all that is left us that has no sin and is free? verily, it is the only thing we dare be conscious of. he that truly pleases himself is wihout virtue, and shall satisfy all men. hate, jealousy, murder, etc, are conditions of love, even as virtue, greed, selfishness, suicide, etc, are conditions or not pleasing ones's self. th

they produce unity xxxxx xxxxx conception. ego generating by subdivision they embrace eternity, in their manifold ramifications is law*(2) i.e. his rainbow*(3) chapter on self-attraction omitted*(4) this is the test. the one who doubt would naturally submit himself. man to invoke pleasure in his choice, subtracts from desire, his desire is partial desire, becomes sub-duple (conflict, never is his energy full. having no true focus, he is deceived in his strength and attains a pure measure of pleasure from his body. in success how heavy is his sentence! pleasure becomes the illusion. through dire necessity "his means" he is bound to its cause and effect, and becomes a holcaust on the pyre of sentiment. this self-love is the only full energy, all else a wrapping of dissatisfaction, the hypoth

BOOK OF SATYRS

ment desirable for the expression of life. popular art, in the sense that this book can never be popular, arises, indeed, from an extraordinary pessimism: it is an unwholesome flattery of the environment and circumstance from out whose grip the man at length emerges equipped for faith by knowledge. and spare, with the unflinching assurance of the optimist as to the ultimate, treads with reforming energy where the effeminate and parsonic would whimper or weep helplessly. his is no gently-advancing theory, but his satires (or satyrs, as he loves to call them) arrive as full-fledged and assertive dogma. the designs have their claim upon the imagination also, not from a visionary cast given by obscure shapes or heavy mystification, but by reason of clearly incisive and circumstantial detail, i

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

f flour on the floor round the bed of a sick man, to keep demons away; german jews, in the middle ages, would draw a circle round the bed of a woman in labor, to protect her from evil spirits. the use of a circle to mark the boundary of an area which is sacred, is very ancient (e.g. stonehenge. but the circle not only keeps the unwanted out, it also keeps the wanted the raised power; the magickal energy in. the dimensions of the circle depend entirely on who is drawing it and for what purpose. in ceremonial magick, where the magician is conjuring entities, the exactness of the circle (and everything within it) is critical. but there is the other end of the scale, as it were. in the old days, when the villagers would get together to give thanks to their gods, they would simply mark a rough

need to have the desire and be willing to expend the effort. how meditation works to understand how meditation works we must examine human make-up on a conscious level and must also realize that we are spiritual as well as physical beings. the physical and spiritual bodies are connected at the vital centers, known by their sanskrit name chakra (see figure 7.1. in meditation the mysterious psychic energy can be sent up through these centers. this very potent force is called the kundalini, or "serpent power. as this mighty force begins to flow within you, these vital psychic centers the chakras begin to open in successive order. on a conscious level, consider the total consciousness as a sort of sandwich. on one side you have the conscious mind. this is the mind that is concerned with your e

s exercise moves all the stale air from the bottom of the lungs. do this three times. 9: repeat the last exercise, this time breathing in through the left nostril and out through the right nostril. do this three times. now, with your body relaxing and breathing normally but deeply, concentrate your thoughts until you can imagine your whole body encased in a globe of white light. feel the luminous energy charging your whole body. now focus your attention on your toes. command them to relax. let the tension and tiredness melt lesson seven: meditation, dreams and the minor sabbats/ 83 away from them. repeat the process with the balls of the feet, the arches, the heels, the ankles and so on. completely relax the entire body, section by section. calves, knees, thighs, groin, buttocks, spine, st

he subject here, to give you the basic idea of the meanings of individual colors in your dreams. the following list is not inclusive but will give you the primary colors: red strength, health, vigor, sexual love, danger, charity orange encouragement, adaptability, stimulation, attraction, plenty, kindness yellow persuasion, charm, confidence, jealousy, joy, comfort green finance, fertility, luck, energy, charity, growth blue tranquility, understanding, patience, health, truth, devotion, sincerity indigo changeability, impulsiveness, depression, ambition, dignity violet tension, power, sadness, piety, sentimentality cradle: potential for advancement. crossing the river: a fundamental change of attitude. crying: emotion; usually a sad event. crystal: union of matter and spirit. curtains: con

ld; the subconscious; turning inward. death: the end of something; opportunity for new beginnings. dog: loyalty; laziness; anger. eating: need for new interests; stimulation. evening: descending into the subconscious world. eye: perception; self-examination. falling: failing to live up to expectations. fish: transcendence from one state of being to another. fire: anger; purification; abundance of energy. flowers: contentment; pleasure. flying: see transportation. girl: immature feminine aspect. glass: perception; being able to see (sometimes into the future. graduation: initiation; completing a phase. hair: thought grey or silver hair indicates wise thought. hammer: power to drive forward. helpful animal: the instinctive self. highway: the path; the way ahead. horse: white horse symbol of

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

f divinity is contained not only by trees, but also the stones, the animals, the people and everything else on the earth and in the waters and the sky. our higher selves, our souls, are influenced by the cycles of the sun, the moon, the stars and the natural world on a deep spiritual level. we can draw down their energies into ourselves to amplify and replenish our own, like tapping into a cosmic energy supply rather than having to recharge our powers from our own, separate dynamos. through them and through us courses the universal life force, known as ch'i to the chinese, and prana in hindu philosophy. it is a source upon which we can draw not only nor primarily for specific needs, but also for energy, harmony and connection with others, the world and the cosmos. it is an energy that can

icca01.txt animals will subsequently tend to learn the same thing more readily all over the world; the more that learn it, the easier it should become for others. so if we carry out positive magick and spread goodwill, then we really can increase the benign energies of the earth and cosmos. even banishing or binding magick can have a creative focus, diverting or transforming redundant or negative energy, for example by burying a symbol of the negativity or casting herbs to the four winds. magick and responsibility true magick is not like a cake in which everybody must vie for a slice or be left with none: it is more akin to a never-emptying pot. like the legendary cauldron of undry in celtic myth, the more goodness that is put in, the more the mixture increases in richness and quantity. th

tend to work best when there is a genuine need, generated by real emotion and linked to determination on a practical level. the rules of magick magick is not beyond or above life, but a natural though special part of your world. it is about not leaving fate, your fate, to any guru or deity, but shaping it with your own innate power, the power that emanates from some higher being, goddess or god, energy source, what you will- the divine spark within us all. there are no absolutes in magick, there is only what works for you and enhances your innate wisdom and spirituality. you should use this book as you would any other diy guide and adapt its suggestions to suit what is right for you. choose whatever you feel are the most appropriate herbs, crystals or even entire rituals for your specific

m with the teachings of gerald gardner after the repeal of the witchcraft act in 1951, though its descent can be traced to the ancient nature religions. this traditional method of wicca is quite formal, with seite 9 wicca01.txt covens using ritual tools and learned invocations emphasising the goddess and her representative, the high priestess, as their head. the goddess is the archetype or source energy of the ultimate feminine power or principle. all the named goddesses represent aspects of particular qualities of the goddess in different cultures. her consort is the horned god and his representative in the coven is the high priest. though each coven is autonomous, formal wicca follows a system of degrees of learning and does not permit self-initiation. the high priest initiates the femal

smos. if you are in a group and have been linking hands, as the power increases to a great intensity, this is the time to loose them. as the power builds, you will create what is known as a cone of power. the cone-shaped hats traditionally associated with witches and bishops' mitres reflect the concentration of spiritual potency. the purpose of the cone, like the sacred pyramid, is to concentrate energy in a narrowing shape so that it reaches a pinnacle of power, which can then be released at the end of the ritual to carry your wishes or desires into the cosmos. in order to create a cone of power in magick, you can visualise these energies as coloured light or as gold. alternatively, you can visualise different rainbow colours to create a cone of every colour that merges to brilliant white

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

is. it also demands one to know thyself. many misunderstand chaos magick as being dogmatic when this could not be further from the truth, if truth can even apply in our world. chaos magick demands, pushes, threatens and makes ones own individual will come forth. it is most beneficial to the holy guardian angel, and causes the two aspects known the hga and the evil genius to rage incessantly, the energy of the universe is your to command and shape if you have the will. the concepts of free belief are perhaps the most luciferian in the nature of individual process, understanding and application. free belief however is not so easy to practice. it demands constant change and a mental discipline to deny conformity and comfort of associated, lineal belief. spare was himself knowledgeable on the

nything could flesh with one practicing such concepts. associate, will, manifest and disassociate. associate: to freely dive into a particular concept and absorb it within your subconscious. this activates the very part of your brain which crowley spoke about in the goetia. the brain is stimulated by the specific association and enables a new action to occur. associate charges the belief with the energy necessary to create life, the elemental or servitor itself. you must believe it is possible for such to incarnate. will: the core of all magickal practice and the very brain of luciferian thought. the will is the seat of all libidinous desire and manifestation of action. manifest: by the combination of association and will can something be enfleshed or made manifest. this can be anything ma

rstand the usefulness of expanding the mind beyond dogma; to reach beyond what is commonly understood as accepted and to tear it to shreds, piss on it and smile while doing so. to reach to the heart or essence and reform it as you would so desire. this is the luciferian principle of chaos magick. to seek, understand and form to your ever-developing system. i am the power of my desire (id) aos all energy sources, which are altered or changed through magick and sorcery all emanate initially from the self. the essence of godhood begins and ends within the self, as it is known and not known from the individual. magick is a guidance factor in the development of man and woman to god itself, or as albert pike would say, lucifer. in our search for magickal power and the light of the qabalistic ain

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

niverse" writes the kenyan scholar john mbiti "this power is ultimately from god, but in practice it is inherent in, or comes from or through physical objects and spiritual beings" though stemming from more recent observations of indigenous african religions, mbiti's remarks apply to older african understandings of the supernatural or nonmaterial world. the concept of force vitale, an omnipresent energy, has been articulated in diverse ways in traditional african cultures.as ashe, nommo, chi, and da. the power of this life force was believed to dwell within organic and inorganic objects, in the elements of nature, and in the bodies of all animate beings. through ritual, it was thought that human beings would be able to tap supernatural power for manifold purposes.[4] what came to be seen a

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

it has no dimensions at all. hence there are an infinite number of loci, for example on a one-inch- long line: an interesting mathemagical paradox. second angle: duality. the profound and necessarily total change of unity into symmetry and polarity (and its symbolic representations: horus and set, yang and yin, etc) the "orderer of the planes and angles' is yog- sothoth, who is, as the shaper of energy and matter, described as the author of earth in its matter/energy/evolutionary configuration. note that in pure duality there is no room for judgment between the two; there is only one or the other. in duality geometry creates a single extension (a line. third angle: this is a very critical stage, because the existence of a third element introduces the notion of choice between the two oppos

ned" human psyche as energized by the messenger. it is thus that "satan" is known to humanity: a personalized reflection, as it were, of the results of the messenger's working. satan's other name (lucifer) is that of light and enlightenment, hence the "brilliance" of the nine angles. with the number four we have geometrically a threedimensional displacement in space. hence existence of matter and energy becomes possible. hence time becomes possible, as the measurement of change in matter and energy. fifth angle: humanity as the physical vehicle for the expression of the satanic psyche as discussed in the fourth angle. concept of the body as a necessary medium for the self-realization of the psyche, at least in its early stage. translation of this into physical representation of supra- ener

CONCERNING THE CEREMONY OF THE CONSECRATING THE VAULT

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

in this notarikon in english. this alludes to the supernals that unite in rtk. one more important factor is present in the r.r. et. a.c. this factor is the unity of our order. we must remain united in truth and brotherhood if we are to complete the group egregore of the "great work" and the reason we were called to this sacred mystical path. upon the calling forth of the d.w.b, the old current of energy is broken and a new energy is installed. the various calling of the elemental forces are now employed via the watchtower. all four watchtowers are activated through the four enochian tablets. this relates directly to the sun's cycle through the heavens and through the four elements which are held together by the tablet of union. this is the fifth principle, the element of. tools on the alta

ed in early order documents "the law of the convoluted revolution of the forces" the cross relates to the central axis of the l that receives the rays of the a. remember, in our system, it is this axis that we measure. the center point of the l rather than the equator. thus, we see in the qabalistic cross the symbology of the sun and its' life giving rays passing over the l. this is osiris/christ energy united in unison through the qabalistic cross. let us be aware always that no banishings can be done in the vault. in addition, no invoking pentagrams or hexagrams can be made directly inside the chamber of the vault. thus, the altar must be re-charged outside the confines of the vault. next, four knocks are given with the words vibrated tkrp. this spells the word paroketh. paroketh is the

this happens as the third order enters the vault to recharge it. this power is brought down from the triangle formed above by the wands into the pastos or the physical body through the ankhs below. in this case, the physical body of the third order is the devoted adepti of the second order. the etheric link is now sealed and confined through the lvx sign and the grand word. banishing of negative energy in the vault now we address the quarter of how negative energy is removed from the vault of the adepti. the link and lvx bring forth the light and seal the link, but negative energy still remains since no banishing may be performed in the vault. 6 the chief adept absorbs this negative energy in the vault. here, the chief adept must aspire to his highest level of spiritual consciousness. in

lvx bring forth the light and seal the link, but negative energy still remains since no banishing may be performed in the vault. 6 the chief adept absorbs this negative energy in the vault. here, the chief adept must aspire to his highest level of spiritual consciousness. in brief, he is taking on the christ archetype of taking on the "sins of the world" in this case, he is taking on the negative energy trapped in the vault. the chief must now divest himself of his/her high office, including every insignia of the office of chief adept. the chief now calls forth the avenging angel hua. this can be a very unpleasant experience in that the chief and all second order members must resolve their negatories as the chief adept hangs on the cross of obligation. the black chain of twenty-two links s

COSIMANO CHARLES ELEMENTARY PSIONICS

e my wife (well, not my wife, you can t have her) second, i'm going to give you enough background material that you can strike out on your own and not have to depend upon me. i am going to give you the designs for some really simple gadgets that you can build. there is something to having equipment that you make yourself that cannot be described. when you build your own instruments, you invest an energy into them that no commercial unit can duplicate. and there is another benefit. by building your own units, you get a far better understanding of what is being done with them and then when you realize that you want to spend the money for the commercial devices, you will be able to get the most out of them. so what does psionics do for you? can't you do the same things without the machines? w

our life work and making other people live their lives to make yours work better. this book will give you the means to do just that and i hope it will give you a few laughs along the way. so get to work and start reading. you have a lot to do and the new millenium is already here. psychic stuff by now you probably know that psychic powers, the stuff upon which psionics is based, involve a type of energy. now there is no real common name for that energy yet, but there are a quite a few people who have come up with different names for what is probably the same thing. and there is absolutely nothing new about this. people have been trying to come up with a word for this stuff since they first started thinking about it, about the time that ugh the caveman knew that his brother-in-law was going

ferent names for what is probably the same thing. and there is absolutely nothing new about this. people have been trying to come up with a word for this stuff since they first started thinking about it, about the time that ugh the caveman knew that his brother-in-law was going to ask to borrow the club again and would go hide it because it was two months before he got it back the last time. this energy is stuff of creation itself. it is the stuff of which the gods are made and ultimately everything else in the cosmos. we are used to working with energy all the time. we work with it when we heat our homes or turn on a light. remember years ago when some idiots actually thought we might run out of it? so the concept of energy is not a difficult one for modern folks. it is when we try to tal

ly everything else in the cosmos. we are used to working with energy all the time. we work with it when we heat our homes or turn on a light. remember years ago when some idiots actually thought we might run out of it? so the concept of energy is not a difficult one for modern folks. it is when we try to talk about the psychic energies that we get into some real problems. so let us posit that the energy exists. it had better or i have just wasted some very good writing. by the fact of existing it has certain properties, for example it is a property of light that it causes heat when it hits something. the properties of this energy are somewhat less easy to define, but here are some of them. 1. it totally permeates everything. it exists in all things and through all things. it is inseparable

ty of light that it causes heat when it hits something. the properties of this energy are somewhat less easy to define, but here are some of them. 1. it totally permeates everything. it exists in all things and through all things. it is inseparable from existence itself. in fact, it may define existence. everything that exists now, has existed in the past or will exist in the future contains this energy. this is why we get to hold conversations on the phone with dead people. 2. it can be made to, and has been observed to, travel along with electromagnetic energy, the electromagnetic energy acting as a carrier wave, much as a radio signal carries sound or microwaves carry pictures and sound. all radiant energy, light, microwaves, radio, can act as a carrier. it even can be sent over telepho

DARK GODS

- that is, the here and now- and if you don't command full awareness. the best part about this rite is that it can be done with only the four needed tools, and the rest, such as the circle and the altar, can all be visualized, if needs be. a simple dance for a powerful transinoctulius: deity of night. useful in works of enchantment. earth based. key for chant: g minor. perfume petriochor. nythra: energy vortex in abyss nameless in itself but represented by vibration of word. works of terror and sinister destruction. shugara: one of the most hideous intrusions possible on the causal level and very dangerous. g major key for invoking chant. manifestations often are accompanied by a smell similar to rotting flesh. aosoth: dark female force. works of passion and death. the name should be vibra

to be vibrated without careful preparation. according to tradition the words means `the power within me is great' a reference to the pathways within which lead to the dark gods. binan ath: as above. said to mean `behold the fire' lidagon: symbolic representation of the union of the two sexual opposites (darkat and dagon) in their darker aspects. abatu: an earth bound form of destructive/negative energy. associated with rites of sacrifice. f sharp major key for chant. karu samsu: word of power along the 12th path to be chanted in the key of a flat major. according to tradition it means `i invoke the sun' nemicu: bringer of wisdom. to be vibrated. mactoron: word of power of 14th. path chanted in key of a minor. legend recalls it as representing the name for one of the planetary homes of the

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to another wavelength of reality, another 'world, to continue its evolution. this is all that is happening during a 'near death experience' or an 'out of body experience' when people leave their physical bodies for a time before returning to tell remarkably similar stories of what happened to them. life is forever- for everyone. our mental, emotional, and spiritual selves are a series of magnetic energy fields interacting with each other via vortices of energy widely known by the hindu and sanskrit word, chakra, which means wheel of light. these vortices are spirals of energy which intersect all levels of our being and pass energies between them. it is through this system that an imbalance on the emotional level, perhaps caused by stress, is passed on to the other levels of our being, incl

ect all levels of our being and pass energies between them. it is through this system that an imbalance on the emotional level, perhaps caused by stress, is passed on to the other levels of our being, including, eventually, the physical body. this is how stress causes illness. what we call 'physical' illness is really a multidimensional disharmony or dis-ease. we are constantly absorbing magnetic energy from the cosmos, mostly through the 'base' chakra at the base of the spine. after this lifeforce has passed through our levels of being and we have taken from it what we need, we broadcast the energy out through the chakras back to the cosmos and the world around us (figure 1. these are the energies that people are feeling when they say that someone gives them good or bad 'vibes. it is the

s of being and we have taken from it what we need, we broadcast the energy out through the chakras back to the cosmos and the world around us (figure 1. these are the energies that people are feeling when they say that someone gives them good or bad 'vibes. it is the same when we say a house or place feels 'happy 'welcoming' or 'frightening. what we call 'atmosphere' is created by the vibrations (energy fields) generated by people, either in the moment or in the past. people often feel uneasy at the scenes of battles because they are feeling the energies left there by the pain, aggression, and suffering of those involved. there is a vital difference between the energy that enters through the base chakra and that which we broadcast. that energy is changed in its nature and form when it pass

ment or in the past. people often feel uneasy at the scenes of battles because they are feeling the energies left there by the pain, aggression, and suffering of those involved. there is a vital difference between the energy that enters through the base chakra and that which we broadcast. that energy is changed in its nature and form when it passes through us. it becomes imprinted with our unique energy pattern and that pattern reflects precisely what is happening inside us at that moment, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. second by second we are broadcasting an energy field that reflects what we think of ourselves. this may not seem to have anything to do with the manipulation of the world, but it is, in fact, at the core of what has happened and continues to happen. you might imagi

ritually. second by second we are broadcasting an energy field that reflects what we think of ourselves. this may not seem to have anything to do with the manipulation of the world, but it is, in fact, at the core of what has happened and continues to happen. you might imagine this process as like casting a magnetic cape or aura around ourselves. under the law of like attracts like, this magnetic energy field, the outer reflection of the inner person, will attract to it compatible energy fields. everything we are what we think xvii is energy, as even mainstream, closed minded science is beginning to appreciate. a person is a series of magnetic energy fields, so is a place, an experience, a situation, everything. life is the interaction of these energy fields, all of which have the ability

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he believes the native american people are directly descended from lemurians and atlanteans who settled in the americas before the first great cataclysm some 48,000 years ago and native american legends support this theme.17 his view is that in those earlier days of atlantis and lemuria the people 18 children of the matrix lived under the "law of one, the understanding that everything is the same energy expressing itself in different forms. the law of one is the knowledge that everything is connected to everything else and ultimately all is an expression of the same whole or energy. scientists call this the unified field theory. this is a common theme of atlantean myths and legends- a civilisation that began with positive intent and in harmony with the natural laws, but was taken over by f

d belief that no forces could have shaped the world in the past that are not at work also at the present time, a belief that is the very foundation of modern geology and of the theory of evolution."53 brian desborough, a friend of mine in california, has had a life experience that makes his opinion significant to anyone researching the material in this book. he is a scientist, an inventor of free-energy technology that could transform life on earth, and has been researching the iliuminati, their history, origin, and agenda, for more than 30 years. this interest began when he set out to prove that jesus really existed, but he soon found himself proving that he didn't. the christian scam led him into the bigger scam, just as my initial investigation into the suppression of spiritual (not rel

71, p 14 8 ibid 9 ibid, p 15 10 ibid 11 see the books of james churchward: the lost continent of mu; the children of mu; the sacred symbols of mu; the cosmic forces of mu, books one and two. they are available through the david icke website 12 professor james demeo, saharasia: the 4000bce origins of child abuse, sex-repression, warfare and social violence, in the deserts of the old world (natural energy works. usa, 1998. also see article on http//www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/history/saharasian.html 13 professor w.b. emery, archaic egypt (penguin books, uk, 1984) 14 for further details of these legends and accounts all over the world, see when the earth nearly died by d.s. allen and j.b. delair (gateway books, bath, 1995) 15 the children of mu and all churchward's books are essential read

tening. it goes on broadcasting- existing- just as before. the only difference is that you are no longer tuned to its frequency. all the infinite frequencies of life and existence in all creation are sharing the same space. most people call these different frequency ranges "dimensions" and that's fine because people know what they mean. more accurately they are "densities" because the slower that energy vibrates the more dense and "solid" it appears. the faster it vibrates the more ethereal and non-physical it seems to be. eventually it is vibrating so quickly that it leaves the frequency range- the density- of our physical senses and we cease to see it. the frequency range we can see i will call the third density or third dimension. at the moment we are tuned to this frequency, the range

ird dimension. at the moment we are tuned to this frequency, the range of our physical senses, and so we can see it and touch it. when we "die" we leave this frequency range and our physical body and we continue our eternal journey elsewhere on another density or dimension. our consciousness, the thinking, feeling us, is eternal. in the end all frequencies and all expressions of life are the same energy. we are each other. this is the law of one that the illuminati temple of the sun has sought for thousands of years to suppress. some extraterrestrial and other-dimensional beings know how to change their frequency so they can move between densities, appearing and "disappearing" as they move frequency, much like a radio dial. this is why 30 t ruled by the gods 31 people have reported seeing

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nd this is known in the indian culture as a yuga. for half of that 26,000 yearsthe earth is tilted towards the black sun, the light source, and for the second 13,000years it is tilted away, some researchers believe. these cycles are therefore verydifferent as the planet is bathed in positive light for 13,000 years and then moves intothe darkness for the next 13,000. this fundamentally affects the energy in which weall live. interestingly, it was 13,000 years ago that the golden age would appear to haveconcluded in cataclysm and conflict, and today, with the 13,000 year cycle of darknessreaching its conclusion, there is a rapid global spiritual awakening and incredible eventsawait us in the next few years. we are entering the light again. so there was a fantasticcataclysm around 13,000 year

ld up andcreate a series of concentric circles. these will be equally spaced if single frequenciescollide with each other, but if, as with the solar system, a spectrum of frequencies areinvolved, the circles will be unequally spaced in accordance with the vibrationalpressures. place an object on these vibrating circles of particles and it will begin to orbitthe centre of the plate, carried by the energy flow caused by the vibrational interactions.heavier objects placed anywhere on the plate will be drawn to one of these concentriccircles and these objects will themselves form wave patterns around themselves whichwill attract lighter objects to them. in our solar system, the most powerful waves arebeing emitted from the centre by the sun, obviously, because that represents 99% of thematter

ional fields orbiting the sun. the heaviest bodies, the planets, are caught in thesecircles and thus orbit the sun. the planets also create less powerful wave circles aroundthemselves and these can attract lighter bodies which orbit them. the moon orbiting theearth is an example of this. so anything that would disturb this harmony of vibrationalinteraction would affect these concentric circles of energy and, if this was powerfulenough, change the orbit of planets. what the physicists say happened with jupiter andv enus would certainly be powerful enough to do this. these circles of standing wavesexist around the sun in relation to the vibrational pressures involved and they do notneed a planet to exist. they exist anyway and a planetary body merely locks into them.therefore there are many

hey all eliminated? modern palaeontology(the study of fossils) now suggests that not all the dinosaurs were killed by themeteorite strike 65 million years ago and some continue to live today. more and moreevidence is emerging that birds are descendants of the dinosaurs. and while the bodiesof most dinosaurs might have been destroyed, their consciousness would have survivedbecause consciousness is energy and energy is indestructible. it can only be transmutedinto a different form. what happened to that dinosaur consciousness that dominated theearth for 150 million years? as weve seen, the earliest accounts of assyria, babylon,old testament history, china, rome, america, africa, india and elsewhere, featurestories of the dragons. the serpent symbol has also been found in ancient britain,gree

appear to be aligned. 24centre of northern ireland. the eastern side of lough neagh is close to the capital,belfast.16 so the head of the draco constellation is positioned on the ground in northernireland and that small country has been the scene of so much upheaval, murder andsuffering. by the end of this book, those who are new to these concepts will appreciate thepower of symbolism to attract energy to a place, negative and positive. john rhodes,17 oneof the foremost of the researchers into the reptilian presence, says that they may be spaceinvaders who move from planet to planet, covertly infiltrating the host society andeventually taking over. the reptilian military, it is said, carry out abductions of lif9 formswhile their scientists study the biology and introduce the reptilian gen

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the heart and soul of the invisible fraternity of freemasonry. let us return to manly p. hall for this quote "when a mason learns the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy [the lost keys to freemasonry, manly p. hall, published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond, virginia, 1976, p. 48; emphasis added] the scottish rite journal praised manly p. hall in 1990 as "masonry's greatest philosopher. some masons may not have ever heard of manly p. hall; yet you can see his book was published by the macoy publishing and masonic supply com

t signs pact with his own blood" page civ 'the lost keys of freemasonry' by manly palmer hall 33 "when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization. liberty..independence..lucifer is the logos..the serpent, the savior" on pages 171, 225, 255 (volume ii "it is satan who is the god of our planet and the only god" pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533 (vi "the celestial virgin which thus becomes the mother of gods and devils

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ric forms and patterns as witnessed in the fibonacci series, fractals, tiles, cones and tetrahedral shapes. entomologist phil callahan has shown how insects and some plants use geometric shapes to collect and transmit electromagnetic and acoustic waves. when one understands that aether, being the basic substrate of the universe, can be interferred with to such a degree as to produce all manner of energy and matter aggregations, it follows that everything is a result of aether engineering to various degrees. dan davidson has been on the cutting edge of the aether engineering field for most of his adult life. in our many discussions and information exchanges over the years, i have found dan to be one of the most reliable, consistent and serious investigators i've had the privilege to know. f

ibing a form of aether engineering in its early stages. recent and current events lend ever greater credence to the idea that long dead civilizations understood these aether principles and used them in their everyday lives. i believe that what you will read in shape power is a description of what will eventually lead to radical new technologies. the essence of how geometric patterns can influence energy flows is exactly the same as how antennas and other resonating structures work. since everything resonates and establishes an information and energy transfer between two or more resonant bodies, then a two dimensional pattern can precisely resonate to a three dimensional structure. just as a microwave horn or an antenna collects or transmits wave energy, so too can geometric patterns be use

s and other resonating structures work. since everything resonates and establishes an information and energy transfer between two or more resonant bodies, then a two dimensional pattern can precisely resonate to a three dimensional structure. just as a microwave horn or an antenna collects or transmits wave energy, so too can geometric patterns be used to collect, transmit or modulate surrounding energy fields, including aether. 17th century cymatics researcher ernst chaldni found that vibrating waveplates would allow you to actually see sound waves as a two dimensional image. hans jenny discovered how to expand these two dimensional images into three dimensional forms which clearly show the shape of both simple and complex waves. john w. keely used such vibrating waveplates as an early, y

tools. these serve as the two dimensional form. when this two dimensional form is expanded into three dimensions, the mandala now becomes the vocalized spatial pattern called the mantra (yantra. once converted into three dimensions, it now has an energetic structure. the geometric principles of shape power as described in this book are these two dimensional forms functioning as aetheric or subtle energy waveguides. shape power geometries are routinely used in the protective rings of ceremonial magic, the construction of amulets and talismans as well as the sigils (signatures) of various demonic or angelic entities. these patterns produce correspondences (resonances) to establish a contact with the desired entity or influence. by stimulating such a shape power geometry, you literally evoke

circuit board. the board was subjected to a high density fluctuating magnetic field (using various frequencies until an effect was noted. after a few minutes of excitation, the wind outside the building took on tomadic vetocities and the building collapsed as the wind entity attempted to interphase with the resonator. in a more practical sense, shape power can be understood as a means of biasing energy flows into a preferred pathway. that pathway is the geometry that reflects as a 3 dimensional structure, resonating and exchanging energy with other like resonant structures because they are now tuned. dan describes an interesting finding where a flow in a two dimensional pattern can be biased to follow a given pathway. he found that the pattern must be drawn with one continuous stroke of t

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in the performance of a satanic ritual. every religion has had some form of magic ritual or ceremony associated with it, but the satanist realizes that magic represents the ability of the human mind to cause change in the natural world. in the magical art, i discuss the use of telepathic transmissions to influence others. magic also involves magnetism, psycho kinesis, and the release of emotional energy from the magician. satanic rituals are performed to focus the mind and direct the flow of energy. it has often been said that satanists perform human sacrifices or engage in other criminal acts such as molesting children or killing animals. the rationale behind this is that the energy of the emotionally charged victim is released in the performance of the rite and directed within the ritual

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being controlled by the desires or aims of others. there is an interesting phenomenon which occurs in magic and which involves the creation of thought-forms. the magician can create an image within his subjective mind and "impose" it upon the objective world so that it influences the subjective minds of all those individuals who come into contact with it. objects may be charged with this magical energy and become "charmed" or "cursed. within a magical group or coven a group-consciousness develops and acts as if it were an individual entity. these thoughtforms are also responsible for buildings and locations assuming an aura; becoming "sacred "holy "defiled "unholy, etc. thought-forms were used by egyptian magicians to guard burial chambers and resulted in the deaths of archeologists thous

day's society. but to return to the question at hand, what is the true nature of god? if, by god, one is referring not to a specific deity man has devised but to a controlling force or intellect within the universe, then it is clear to me that god, like the universe and everything within the universe, is in a continuous state of change and evolution. what i am suggesting is that god, like matter, energy, or consciousness, is "dynamic" not "static. descartes said "i think therefore i am" but is this really true? in that which i perceive as my "mind" there is a continuous stream of thoughts which flows through me like a river. but am i my thoughts or am i the thing in which my thoughts manifest? is the river the water which fills the river, or is the river the rock and dirt over which the wa

conditions. the devil was not originally a "rebel" against the order of creation but, the beginning and the end, the source of all creation "the dragon sleeps" we are told in the texts of old "but shall awaken" in the alchemical treatise, the kybalion, it is said that "the all is mind" and "the universe is mental" the modern physicist, in accordance with this principle of alchemy that matter and energy are mental phenomena and that "everything vibrates, has stated that the electrons and protons within the atom are composed of waves with various charges and rates of vibration. the universe is not, but is becoming! god is not, but is becoming! when lucifer has risen, when man has become god, then it shall be known that the aeon of lucifer has begun. concerning christianity the earliest chri

ut of nothing? if ever there was nothing there should still be nothing. how can the universe be infinite? yet nothing can exist outside of the universe. how can time be eternal? yet nothing can exist outside of time. how can mass produce consciousness? if ever a man was not conscious he should still be unconscious. the order of the universe suggests the existence of a god but what created god? if energy cannot be created or destroyed then there is a finite amount but what created energy? the universe should not exist. life should not exist. there is no logic. the reason for this is that the universe we experience is not the true reality. it is no more than a dream. consciousness alone exists. a single consciousness alone exists, isolated in a void of nothingness. there is no god. there is

his own consciousness. those who worship "god" are fools, for they deny the reality of the one which exists within them. those who fear "god" are frightened of shadows for there is nothing beyond consciousness. descartes said "i think therefore i am" but what is thought? why should man give more credit to the pound of organic matter he calls his "brain" than he does to rock or dirt? can matter or energy produce consciousness? can nerve cells within the brain "think" any more than stones upon the ground? if this were true, then man would be nothing more than a robot following out his "programming" as designed by nature. that which decays and rots in the ground is not the source of consciousness. consciousness animates the material but it is not governed by it. the source consciousness is al

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is noted by his attribution of hamar at (magical name) as associated with the page card in the tarot. set s son anpu (anubis) in the system arranged by pace presents him as a magician and the opener of the ways. pace also wrote in necrominion a description of a so-called elaborate high sex magick ritual known as ankh ka. judging from the triple hermetic circle of hamar at the focus was spiraling energy through the self with the forces of the godforms, thus their masks signify deific power assumed by him or her who wore the mask. austin osman spare6 was an artist who captured images of set in sigillic forms in various publications. spare illustrated and practiced a form of sorcery which holds a strong foundation to modern luciferian practice, specifically with the witches sabbat and other

in the beginning god created the white pearl out of his most precious essence; and he created a bird named anfar. and he placed the pearl upon its back, and dwelt thereon forty thousand years. on the first day, sunday, he created an angel named 'azazil, which is ta'us melek("the peacock angel, the chief of all. the black book it is presented here that ta us melek is the foundation of independent energy, motion and progression. in no mentioning of the black book is satan considered to be a negative force, rather a misunderstood power which can reside in each human being who can recognize what azazel is. 25 iblis, the the black light satanism in islam, published in gnosis magazine 23 then the lord descended to the holy land and commanded gabriel to take earth from the four corners of the wo

o the divine light of darkness. al-qozat suggested that satan had a pride in love that he would not accept any but his creator. while in an initiatory sense, the foundations of god may represent a self-possibility and non-union with the natural order. by this separation and initial recognition of difference can then man and woman seek to become something better, this is the very essence of magick energy in motion, change and ascension. samael was the greatest prince in heaven. the celestial animals and the seraphim had six wings each, but samael had twelve. he took his cohorts and went down, and saw all the creatures whom the holy one, blessed be he, had created, and found among them none as astute and malicious as the serpent. and the serpent's appearance was like that of a camel. and sam

ishment of the soil, that the sun and the moon capture a pleasure filled garden, knowing of the demonium of the earth beneath the surface the nurturing of the horned spirit of the sun and the moon. leviathan represents a subconscious source of power within each luciferian and satanist, it is the possibility and chaos within the self, it is not a representation of that type of mental and spiritual energy, rather a coiling source which not only strengthens those traits you develop and overcome, but also inspires terror and the mirror which reflects the inner fire of the beast and angel within. leviathan, the great dragon from the watery abyss, roars fourth as the surging sea, and these invocations are his tribunals. the satanic bible, anton szandor lavey leviathan also represents the passion

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strologers, and diviners which interpreted such omens as the flight of birds or the occurrence of thunder and lightening. they were of the noble class, and wore white robes, trimmed in purple. there is an old legend that states that several druids of gaul and britain were converted to a roman religion, and were made augurs for their territories after rome had conquered them. aura: an emanation of energy, or "halo" of colored light given out by, and forming a force-field surrounding all physical objects, including the human body, beasts, plants, and rocks, which people with psychic vision can see or other sensitives can sense. the observed colors of the aura are said to indicate definite emotional states and/or physical and/or mental conditions. don tyson states that because they are not se

hma: in hebrew "wisdom" pronounced "hoh-khah-mah" the second (2nd) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. it is the top of the right or masculine pillar of the tree. circulation of the body of light: a ritual developed from the middle pillar ritual (q.v) of the g.d (q.v) by melita denning and osborne phillips of the .order of the aurum solis [o.s.v (q.v, wherein the practitioner moves spiritual energy throughout and around the body. circumbambulate: to go around in a circle once. a description of walking in such a circular pattern used in magickal rituals< a name="clairadience">clairaudience: from the latin "clear hearing" a psionic (psychic (q.v) discipline of: 1) the auditory perception by the conscious mind through the unconscious of sounds, usually voices, transmitted by an unknown a

asis of their magical system. demon: from the greek meaning "spirit" in christian folklore, an evil spirit under the authority of satan (q.v. modern practice tends to distinguish "demon" from "daemon (q.v, the guardian angles (q.v) of the greeks. deosil: clockwise. the usual direction of movement in a magickal circle. the direction of circumbambulation (q.v) in the pathway of light. used to build energy. desire, ritual: a term used by don tyson to define the emotional motivation that gives rise to and drives a particular ritual expression. the ritual desire is what the ritualist seeks to fulfill by conducting the ritual. destiney: the complete and perfect fulfillment of human potential. devil, the: see satan. devils: an alternate name for the legions of demons in hell that serve satan. dia

person died, or to it's former home, or it's place of burial. 3) disembodied souls. ghosts, pseudo: entities similar to what donald michael kraig refers to as "little nasties (q.v) or "astral junk" these entities are intelligent beings from the lower planes, and can tell you things about your past and future, giving the appearance of being the ghost of a loved one. these entities feed off of the energy given to them by persons who believe that they are communicating with the spirits of deceased family members and friends. goetia: howling. a popular grimoire (q.v) with instructions for evoking (q.v) nonphysical entities. a part of the lesser key of solomon. often mistakenly thought of as that entire book. high magick (q.v) that is involved with so-called demons (q.v. gnomes: the elemtaries

n (q.v. kobolds: mischievous earth elementals that are said to inhabit german households. krishna: although only the sixth avatar, or incarnation of vishnu, krishna has developed into a popular hindu deity due to his representing unbridled sexuality. some hindu traditionalists would down play this reason for his popularity, citing his role as "savior" and "messiah" in hindu culture. kundalini: an energy said to lie dormant at the base of the spine, ready to rise through the spine to the top of the head and bring down enlightenment. actually, this was an allegory. in reality, the energy is controlled by the mind- l- lamen: originally a plate of metal upon which occult names or symbols were inscribed. the personal or group identifying consecrated charm (q.v) of a magician or group of magicia

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her words, a .urface channel, a channel in consciousness, has been made between the conscious mind of the individual and a particular factor in the world-soul, and through this channel the waters of the ocean pour into the lagoon. the aspirant who uses the tree as his meditation-symbol establishes point by point the union between his soul and the world-soul. this results in a tremendous access of energy to the individual soul; it is this which endows it with magical powers. 17. but just as the universe must be ruled by god, so must the many-sided soul of man be ruled by its god-the spirit of man. the higher self must dominate its universe or there will be unbalanced force; each factor will rule its own aspect, and they will war among mystical qabala page 15 themselves. then do we have the

stability and endurance, but ill-dignified when the overplus of resistance causes it to become actively aggressive and we get obstruction and the accretion of effete matter. on the other hand, chesed, mercy, is well-dignified when ordering and preserving all things harmoniously; but illdignified when mercy becomes sentimentality and it usurps the sphere of saturn, preserving that which the fiery energy of mars, its opposite number, the sephirah geburah, should sweep out of existence. 11. the two pillars, then, represent the positive- negative forces in nature, the active and passive, the destructive and constructive, concreting form and free-moving force. 12. the sephiroth on the middle pillar may be taken as representing levels of consciousness and the planes on which they operate. malku

e illuminations from his contemplation of the symbols. these illuminations are not a generalised flooding of light, as in the case of the christian mystic, but a specific energising and illumination according to the sphere opened up; hod gives understanding of sciences, yesod understanding of life-force and its tidal modes of functioning. when hod is contacted we become filled with enthusiasm and energy for research; when yesod is contacted we enter deeply into psychic consciousness and touch the hidden life-forces of the earth and our own natures. these are matters of experience; those who have used the method know what it yields them. whatever may be the rational foundations of the system, as an empirical method it yields results. 22. if we want to study a sephirah-in other words, if we

ness of the being through the activities of which the evolution of that phase was inaugurated and directed. although these beings are represented pictorially as of human form, though etherealised, it must not be thought that life and consciousness as we know them in any way correspond to their nature. they are more akin in essence to natural forces, yet if we consider them simply as unintelligent energy we shall have no adequate concept of their nature, because they are essentially individualised, intelligent; and purposive. both these ideas must enter into our concept, modifying each other, till finally we shall arrive at a realisation that differs very widely from anything to which western thought is accustomed. 18. the third name of power denominates, not one being, but a whole class of

xperienced under the presidency of these different aspects of deity-manifestation, and what powers may be wielded by the magician when he has mastered their lessons. 21. each sephirah has assigned to it a virtue, which repre nts its ideal aspect, the gift which it brings to evolution; and a vice which is the result of the overplus of its qualities. for instance, geburah, mars, has for its virtues energy and courage, and for its vices cruelty and destructiveness. the student of astrology will at once recognise that the virtues and vices attributed to the various sephiroth are derived from the characteristics of the planets associated with them, and will find that in this correspondence a whole new line of approach to astrology is opened up. 22. the spiritual experience as i prefer to call i

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one; but i finally succeeded in freeing myself from my hag-ridden condition of fear, although it was a very long time before my physical health became normal. my body was like an electric battery that has been completely discharged. it took a long time to charge up again, and every time it was used before the charging was completed, it ran down again rapidly. for a long time i had no reserves of energy, and after the least exertion would fall into a dead sleep at any hour of the day. in the language of occultism, the etheric double had been damaged, and leaked prana. it did not become normal until i took initiation into the occult order in which i subsequently trained. within an hour of the ceremony i felt a change, and it is only upon the rarest occasions since then, after some psychic i

from the neck of his cousin, this entity became transferred to young d, preferring pastures new to the depleted resources of its previous victim. probably it alternated between the two, for it was not constantly with d. exactly what z. did we do not know, for he was exceedingly secretive concerning his methods, but in the light of subsequent knowledge i should imagine that he absorbed the etheric energy of the earthbound soul, and thus deprived it of its means of resisting the second death. merely to drive the resisting soul out to the judgment hall of osiris would have involved leaving behind an astral corpse, which for some time would have continued to give trouble. it may be interesting to note in connection with this case that during the time that miss l. was at the occult college in h

ithout any suggestion of leadership, began the dance of the elements, whirling like dancing dervishes upon that hill-top. fortunately nobody was about, but i do not know that it would have made very much difference if they had been, for we were caught up out of ourselves and the air seemed full of rushing golden flames, lying level in the wind. for days afterwards we seemed charged with elemental energy by that extraordinary dance. 39 of 103 it may be interesting to note that we danced with a circular movement, each revolving on our own axis at the same time, and that we both danced and revolved deosil, that is, with the sun. all this occurred spontaneously, the tide of the elements catching us up and away. i have never known a more glorious experience. it was indeed the divine inebriation

oth that had been used in ritual magic by an occultist whom only the utmost leniency could call doubtful. the artificial elemental is really the basis of the efficacy of curses. in this case no physical substance is employed, but a portion of the akasha is moulded into a definite form and held thus by the will of the operator until, as it were, it "sets" into this mould is poured the concentrated energy of the operator, something of his own self goes into it. this is its soul, and it is like a self-steering torpedo which is set to move in a curve towards a chosen mark. or the operator, if an expert magician, may deliberately ensoul this thought-form with elemental essence, which is the raw, undifferentiated substance of life drawn from one or another of the elemental kingdoms. it is in ord

hologies, nor a complete defence from psychic attack, but they can give great relief from distress; they enable the victim to put up a much more effectual resistance, and by relieving the strain, they increase his endurance. in many cases of psychic attack, he who endures longest wins; psychic attacks by human beings are not things which can be maintained indefinitely because they use up too much energy. there is an old adage "never use a big spade if a little spade will do" physical methods of defence involve much less outlay of energy than psychic ones, therefore it is psychically economical to make as much use of them as possible. why trouble to exorcise the earth elementals with a ritual if you can do it with a pill? the question of diet also requires to be considered in this connectio

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plete forms, and was widely accepted as historical fact, it was on rare occasions recreated from these accounts and performed by groups of 18th and 19th century decadents looking for magical power and cheap sexual thrills. the black mass only ever truly existed in all its dark glory in the form of these staged re-creations. the belief was that the black mass derived its efficacy from the esoteric energy of the catholic mass perverted to evil ends. in modern times, now that christianity has lost so much of its spiritual and temporal power, there is very little reason for any group to perform the black mass. it will probably always remain merely an anomaly in the history of the occult. those interested in this subject may wish to read h. t. f. rhodes' the satanic mass, published by rider and

DONALDTYSON CHAKRAS

e of the top of the skull. its name means thousand-petaled lotus. the sahasrara is often represented as a flower with countless petals that lies spread out over the top of the skull. it is important to understand that the chakras are not parts of the human body. they are esoteric centers of power that come into existence when they are pierced by the ascending of kundalini shakti, which is both an energy and a goddess. once activated, the chakras are like beads on a vertical string, or flowers on a central stem, called the shushumna, which is described in eastern occult texts as a hollow tube. inside this tube is a narrower tube called the vajrini nadi (nadi means channel, and inside this a still finer tube called the chitrini nadi. once the power of kundalini ceases to flow up the shushumn

g posture in which one of the heels is pressed against the perineum. in conjunction with this posture, breathing exercises in which the breath is held and compressed into the lower abdomen are used while the anus is rhythmically contracted. this causes a sheen of sweat over the entire surface of the body. also used to awaken kundalini is a technique known as pore breathing, during which the vital energy of the air is visualized to enter the body through the pores of the skin, and internal chanting of a mantra (word or phrase that embodies occult power. the visualization of power symbols such as yantras is also often used. most important of all in awakening kundalini is a technique that is almost never openly described. it involves the contemplation with love and desire of one of the primar

DONALDTYSON EVILEYE

his explained why some individuals were unable to see, even though their eyes looked normal and healthy. we now know that sight is a passive faculty in the sense that light, reflected from the surface of objects in our environment, or generated from heated objects, enters our eyes without the need for us to project rays to link us to the objects. whereas in the past our eyes were considered to be energy projectors, today they are considered to be open windows. neither of these popular notions is entirely accurate, since the faculty of sight entails much more than simply receiving radiant energy that shines upon our optic nerves- sight is a perception that occurs in our brains, where the light received is processed into images that we can comprehend. but the older folk explanation for how o

eiving radiant energy that shines upon our optic nerves- sight is a perception that occurs in our brains, where the light received is processed into images that we can comprehend. but the older folk explanation for how our eyes see the world helps to explain the underlying beliefs about the evil eye. the evil eye in its purest form was understood to be the deliberate projection of a ray of occult energy with the malicious intention to cause harm. several factors were thought to make it more powerful. if the person sending it was from a family or tribe noted for works of black magic, it would derive increased power from this hereditary predisposition. if the eye from which the evil was projected was bloodshot, or deformed in some way, this also increased its force. if a glance from the evil

DONALDTYSON MIRACLES

assert that all miracles come from god. what they do not accept, but what is equally true, is that all magic of a true kind also comes from god. magic is a type of miracle. the magician is the embodied agent of the divine each time he works his art. so is the devout saint, the miraculous healer, and even the demonist who uses true magic for acts of evil. it may seem contradictory that the divine energy that produces miracles can be employed for evil purposes, but this energy is not in itself conscious or purposeful. it can be induced to flow forth both by human beings and by spiritual beings, and can be used for both good and evil, according to the will, conscious or unconscious, of the being who channels it. oftentimes, the divine energy of miracles is channeled by individuals or groups

ng, either of substance or of form. it is purposeless, knowing neither good nor evil, and for this reason may be used for either good or evil purposes. the god of the bible is not this ultimate source. this much is obvious, since this god has both form and purpose, and manifests to human beings in various ways. however, the god of the old testament was able to channel this primal source of divine energy for his own intentions, and was able to facilitate the use of this divine energy by his worshippers. skilled magicians can bypass the gods, the angels and the saints, and can access this primal creative and destructive power directly through their magic. so the priests of egypt intimated when they wrote in the hermetic books that man was above the gods, and could command the gods. every tim

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ave possessed. the dead were thought to have special access to occult knowledge, and sometimes they were called back from beyond the grave to teach the necromancer techniques of magic not available by any other means, techniques acquired in the afterlife. it was believed that the shades of the dead were attracted to freshly-spilled blood, because blood was one of the primary repositories of vital energy in the body. since the dead lacked bodies of flesh, the thinking went, they must lack vitality and therefore be weak. hence their pale appearance when they were seen as ghosts. if fresh blood was spilled while still warm on the ground, or better still into a pit, or even better still into the opening of the grave, its energy would attract shades, who would then seek to nourish themselves up

DONALDTYSON PENTA

al operation caused you to make the invocation, it is usual to banish this higher element to restore the original condition of the ritual place, and also to restore your own normal everyday state of mind. sometimes it may be desirable to invoke spirit without banishing it, in order to create a spiritual charge or atmosphere in a particular locality, or to infuse an object or person with spiritual energy. this can be a powerful antidote to demonic possession or obsession, and an effective defense against magical attack. it is important to understand that all pentagrams of the elements are drawn in the same way, with a continuous line that ends at its starting place. it is only that different pentagrams begin at different points, and proceed around the figure either clockwise or counterclock

ize the pentagram upon the air, the more effective it will be. similarly, if you inscribe a pentagram upon an object or person, visualize its lines blazing with cool, white fire even after you have finished. as you project the pentagram from your right index finger, or some instrument such as the wand or sword, or as you drawn it with a pen, pencil or other writing tool, try to feel the elemental energy that you seek to invoke or banish. project your own personal energy into the pentagram. this has the effect of priming it, and makes its action more powerful. it requires practice and the ability to visualize with all the senses, something that is true of all aspects of ceremonial magic. visualization is not limited to sight. the same basic technique is used in magic to hear, smell, taste a

DONALDTYSON VAMPIRES

ave discovered a sexual thrill in drinking their own blood, or the blood of others. in this subculture blood is shared. some fashion vampires imagine themselves possessed of unusual physical strength, or immortal life, or special occult powers such as the ability to control others mentally or to see in the dark. the second type of true vampire is also a living human being, but one who sucks vital energy from others rather than physical blood. this class is known as the psychic vampire. often these individuals are completely unaware of the effect their presence has on others. when they enter a crowded room, the vitality drains from those around them. conversation quiets. laughter ceases. a dark shadow seems to grip the heart. the psychic vampire may be animated and laughing all the while, b

quiets. laughter ceases. a dark shadow seems to grip the heart. the psychic vampire may be animated and laughing all the while, but the happiness of others drains away. usually this type of vampiric personality fixes itself on one person, or a small group, and feeds upon the life force of its victims until its victims are little more than hollow shells. vampirized individuals lose hope, lack all energy or enthusiasm, and often commit suicide. the sucking of the life force occurs during sleep as well as waking. the dreams of the victim are haunted by the psychic vampire. over time the will of the vampire completely subdues and controls the will of the victim. in this way the victim is prevented from breaking off the social connection with the vampire. as the vampire grows more vigorous and

grows more vigorous and animated, the victim sinks into a dreaming, depressed, listless state. unless the connection between the vampire and its victim can be broken, sooner or later death of the victim will result from suicide, drugs, alcoholism, accident through weakness or inattention, or the inability to fight off disease. the vampire and his or her victim can be recognized by their relative energy levels, by the subservience of the victim and dominance of the vampire, and by the colors and strengths of their auras (the aura of a psychic vampire is bright, flaring, florid, and feverish; the aura of the victim is dark, dirty, grey, spotted, and weak. the third type of true vampire is little known outside the circles of the hermetic arts. it is a type of parasitic spirit that feeds upon

ls, by the subservience of the victim and dominance of the vampire, and by the colors and strengths of their auras (the aura of a psychic vampire is bright, flaring, florid, and feverish; the aura of the victim is dark, dirty, grey, spotted, and weak. the third type of true vampire is little known outside the circles of the hermetic arts. it is a type of parasitic spirit that feeds upon the vital energy of human beings. these spirit vampires are known by various names. often they adopt the opposite sex to their victim, since sexual energy is a highly concentrated food source, equivalent to sugar for the spiritual vampire. when these spirits do not assume human form they are called larvae. when they take on the form of a woman they are known as lamia or succubi. male vampires of the spirit

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0s, metaphysical and occult religions enjoy an acceptability in the west not seen since the scientific revolution. this acceptability is evident in the amount of favorable press given to psychic and occult phenomena. the new age and beyond the hidden underlying reality described as the invisible spiritual structure of the universe is known as esotericism. this structure is enlivened by the cosmic energy or power that energizes the world at a more abstract level than the various forms of energy defined in classical physics. the esotericist characterizes the reality beyond that depicted by physicists in their observations of the world; these descriptions are termed meta-physics. esotericism, in contrast to bible-based religions and philosophies, is considered a third force in western thought

5. acupressure workshop a former organization that arranged classes in acupressure, shiatsu, t ai chi ch an, and yoga from elementary to advanced study. they were first located in west los angeles and then in santa monica. acupuncture an ancient chinese medical system over five thousand years old, recently revived in china and demonstrated to western doctors. it is based on the belief that subtle energy flows in the body related to the cosmic principles of yin and yang. yin relates to shadow, moon, passivity, softness, femininity; yang denotes sunlight, activity, masculinity, hardness. the balance of these energies in the human body affects health and disease. acupuncture therapy alters these energy flows by inserting needles at key points for varying periods of time. anesthesia for surgic

f these energies in the human body affects health and disease. acupuncture therapy alters these energy flows by inserting needles at key points for varying periods of time. anesthesia for surgical operations can also be effected by acupuncture. both ancient chinese and hindu medical systems are related to a philosophical or mystical view of the universe, and the concept of yin and yang and subtle energy flows has much in common with the kundalini energy of the hindu yoga system. in hatha yoga, the system of asanas, or physical positions, affect the vital energies in the body through muscular tension and relaxation. comparison may also be made with the theories of wilhelm reich and his concept of orgone energy. special developments of acupuncture include shiatsu and acupressure, a form of a

f ufos had become a matter of public concern, and ufo contactees like king were offering an answer. before the decade was out, king had attracted a following in the united states, and an american headquarters was established in los angeles. king developed a picture of the cosmos as ruled by an extraterrestrial hierarchy similar to the theosophical spiritual hierarchy. the hierarchy sent spiritual energy to the planet, which could be used to fight the forces of evil, especially those coming from evil extraterrestrials. spaceships position themselves above the earth at special times of the year, considered the best moments for transmitting the energies from outer space. king authored a series of books spelling out the theology and practices of what emerged as a new occult religion. king clai

that evening he had an intense visionary experience that he described as a cosmic initiation. he founded washington saucer intelligence and began to tell anyone who would listen of his knowledge of the flying saucer inhabitants. numerous articles of his lectures appeared in newspapers and ufo periodicals. in 1958 aho became associated with otis t. carr, a man involved in selling shares in a free energy company. aho believed that carr could create a saucer that could fly to the moon, and joined him on the lecture circuit. the association proved disastrous when carr was indicted and convicted of fraud. charges were dropped against aho when it was determined that he had also been hoaxed in by carr. in 1961 aho was committed to a mental hospital, an event he later attributed to communist agen

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of the hermetic art. it stemmed largely from the trendiness of postwar affluence and the desire for sensationalist indulgence. the occult explosion led in the 1960s to satanism and black magic cults. much of modern occultism has been influenced by the use of mindaltering drugs. during this modern period, one long-kept secret of occultism became generally discussed.that of the importance of sexual energy in dynamizing the processes of magic. although this factor was well known to some occultists in persia, china, and india, it was rediscovered in the early twentieth century and increasingly and openly discussed in the writings of aleister crowley and his disciples. throughout this century practitioners of magic have made some extraordinary claims about achieving desired ends. there are stil

of creative intelligence for the regeneration of the whole world through meditation, known widely as transcendental meditation. in a simple initiation ceremony, the guru bestowed a mantra (or word of power, which the pupil repeated during a meditation period each day. in this easy technique, the pupil could, it has been claimed, bypass normal intellectual activity and tap a limitless reservoir of energy and creative intelligence. the system spread around the world through the 1960s but was given a boost in 1967, when the rock music group the beatles showed interest in the movement. publicity concerning their relation to the maharishi made tm seem a viable alternative to psychedelic drugs. the beatles defected some months later, but by then other celebrities were traveling to the maharishi

ath. tantra seeks union with the goddess shakti and speaks of the male s union with the goddess. in left-hand rites, the woman is seen as the goddess present in flesh. tantra also developed the understanding of occult anatomy in hinduism focused in the seven chakras, or psychic centers, located horizontally in the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, and kundalini, the mystical energy that is usually pictured as lying latent, like a coiled serpent, at the base of the spine. in tantric practice, kundalini is released to travel up the spine, opening the chakras, and eventually bringing enlightenment. in right-hand tantra, this awakening is done with meditation and concentration. in the left-hand path, the kundalini is awakened in part by sexual intercourse ending in coitus

of a mantra is enhanced by the accumulation of repetitions. although mantras have an automatic action, that action is enhanced by proper concentration and attitude of mind. the spoken mantra is also an aid to the mental mantra, which contains the inner meaning and power. special mantras called bija (seed) mantras are linked with the basic states of matter in connection with the chakras, or subtle energy centers, of the human body. these seeds are said to hold the potential to release the powers of the chakras. most yogic traditions use some form of mantra initiation, which transmits a particular mantra from guru to student. spiritual mantras common in india include variants of the hari rama, hari krishna formula, made popular in the west by members of the international society for krishna

ai chi chuan (originally a self-defense art, now a system of physical exercises to harmonize body and mind. the various forms of martial arts have, as their basis, the attainment of spiritual enlightenment and peace, from which point remarkable feats of skill and strength in self-defense or attack can be generated. in the process of training, practitioners claim to become aware of a subtle vital energy named ch i or ki. ch i is accumulated, amplified, and directed by willpower to specific parts of the body, which develop strength and resilience. this process is sometimes preceded by a sudden exhalation of breath, often accompanied by a shout or yell. the intake of breath that follows appears to result in hyperventilation of the system, generating vitality that can be directed to hands, fe

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

think. the proof is as close as an internet search, through which the inquirer will quickly learn that material on the subject exists in staggering quantity. a considerable portion of it is about channeling (in which an individual is the passive recipient of messages from the otherworld, usually speaking in the voice of an intelligence from elsewhere) from a wide assortment of entities: nebulous energy sources, soul clusters, extraterrestrials, ascended masters, interdimensional beings, discarnate atlanteans and lemurians, nature spirits, even whales and dolphins. besides these purely psychic connections with the otherworld, there are many who report direct physical meetings with beings from outer space, other dimensions, the hollow earth, and other fantastic places. not all of these idea

d the aetherius society, among the most successful and enduring contactee groups. king died on july 12, 1997, in los angeles, where he had been living for many years. in the theology of the aetherius society, good and evil extraterrestrials are engaged in constant warfare. from time to time, during crisis situations, the cosmic brotherhood will place its spaceships above earth and direct positive energy downward. society members receive the energy and make sure that it reaches its targets. over a three and a half year period, beginning in 1958, king climbed no fewer than eighteen mountains at the behest of the space people. the society maintains headquarters in london and los angeles, as well as chapters all over the world. see also: channeling; contactees further reading aetherius society

o her early twenties she experienced many encounters with nonhuman beings. most were generally humanlike in appearance, but the most exotic she calls ameboids. the ameboids were horrible and nightmarish entities, shaped like amoebas, with the colors of bruises. they attached their wet snouts to the fleshy areas of her body, sucked, and left round, red marks in their wake. some seemed to be taking energy, others blood. they would come into her bedroom at night, and she was too terrified to resist them. she lay paralyzed while they did their work, and she did not resume activity in this case, screaming until they were gone. further reading oakman, lisa [pseud, 1999. ufo beings, folklore, and mythology: personal experiences. in- ternational ufo reporter 24, 4 (winter: 7 12. andolo andolo was

was sung. at one point he saw a screen that recorded scenes from earth. according to standing horse, the people of jupiter are better-looking versions of earthlings, with the races living together in harmony. the chief was returned to earth three days later, on the evening of christmas day. his hosts drove him back to a hollywood bus station in a car without wheels and powered by electromagnetic energy. two cops were arresting two men on the corner, standing horse wrote to john w. dean, and were they dumbfounded when they saw the car come down and let me out! standing horse claimed to have met mondra- o-leeka one more time on the streets of cedko, california, on october 11, 1962. see also: aura rhanes; bucky; contactees further reading dean, john w, 1964. flying saucers and the scrip- tur

the visitor witnessed a great city under a red sun and unclouded blue sky. all of the people in the city looked young. after the vision faded, arna said good-bye via telepathy and promised another meeting. gaynor returned to the tunnel and ended up in her bed. a few weeks later, in august, arna reappeared to display images of a destroyed earth. she asked gaynor for her assistance in directing an energy being back to its proper residence. gaynor, her brother darren, and her parents walked to a field and meditated until they sensed that the intruder was gone. on the night of september 14, arna and parz appeared and took gaynor into their spacecraft. besides the couple she knew, there were three others. one looked so close to being purely human that gaynor wondered if the young woman, who lo

FAUST

earth s splendour whirls in circling flight; a paradise of brightness changes to awful shuddering depths of night. the sea foams up, widespread and surging against the rocks deep-sunken base, and rock and sea sweep onward, merging in rushing spheres eternal race. michael and rival tempests roar and shatter, from sea to land, from land to sea, and, raging, form a circling fetter of deep, effective energy. there flames destruction, flashing, searing, before the crashing thunder s way; yet, lord, thy angels are revering the gentle progress of thy day. the three its aspect gives the angels power, since none can solve thee nor thy ways; and all thy works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. mephistopheles since you, o lord, once more draw near and ask how all is getting on, and you

dst hear my voice, my face wouldst see; thy mighty spirit-plea inclineth me! here am i- what a pitiable fright grips thee, thou superman! where is the soul elated? where is the breast that in its self a world created and bore and fostered it? and that with joyous trembling expanded as if spirits, us, resembling? where art thou, faust, whose voice rang out to me, who toward me pressed with all thy energy? is it thou who, by my breath surrounded, in all the deeps of being art confounded? a frightened, fleeing, writhing worm? faust am i, o form of flame, to yield to thee in fear? tis i, i m faust, i am thy peer! spirit in the tides of life, in action s storm, up and down i wave, to and fro weave free, birth and the grave, an infinite sea, a varied weaving, a radiant living, thus at time s hum

te free. mephistopheles how can you talk so heatedly, exaggerate in such a way? just any little sheet will do, it s all the same. with one wee drop of blood you sign your name. faust if this will satisfy you, then i say: let us agree and put the farce to this odd use. mephistopheles blood is a quite peculiar juice. faust fear not! this league with you i shall not break! the aim and goal of all my energy is to fulfil the promise i now make. i ve puffed myself too high, i see; only within your ranks do i deserve to be. the mighty spirit spurned me with a scoff, and nature turns herself away from me. the thread of thought is broken off, to me all learning s long been nauseous. in depths of sensuality let us our glowing passions still! in magic s veils impervious prepared at once be every marv

d by you. the mountain s powers are great; here nature works omnipotently free. the priests dull wits chide it as sorcery. emperor on festal days when guest on guest we re greeting, who come for joy and hope for joyous meeting, we like to see them shoving, pushing, one and all, so many men as make the rooms seem small. but still most highly welcome must the good man be if to our aid he comes with energy some morning hour when many dangers wait, and doubtful hang the balances of fate. but here at this hour s critical demand take not the willing sword in your strong hand; honour the hour when many thousands stride to fight against me or upon my side. self is the man! who asks a throne and crown must in himself be worthy such renown. the spectre who against us has arisen, himself as emperor

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

e kundalini spoken of in the tantras and the shekhinah of the qabalah appear to have the same function. the kundalini is described as a coiled snake asleep at the base of the chakric tree. on page 12 of the introduction to tantra shastra, sir john woodroffe says: kundalini means coiled. hence, kundalini, whose form is that of a coiled serpent, means that which is coiled. she is the luminous vital energy (jivashakti) which manifests as prana [ed. same as qi in chinese, and ruach in hebrew. she sleeps in the muladhara chakra [sefirah kingdom, and has three and a half coils corresponding in number with the three and half bindus (knots. when, after closing the ears, the sound of her hissing is not heard, then death approaches. 38 both the chakric tree (see figure 1.3) and the qabalistic tree o

he shushumna. the central channel on the qabalistic tree is denoted as the central column. the side channels on the chakric tree are called the ida and the pingala; and on the qabalistic tree, the columns of the right and the left. the side channels play a much more prominent role in the qabalah than they do in the tantras. 3' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f# chakra system the kundalini, as chitshakti (the energy of consciousness, awakens and ascends the chakric tree, opening the chakric lotuses along the sushumna on her way to unite with her husband shiva in the ajna chakra at the forehead. the ascent by the kundalini is also called the satchakrabheda, the piercing of the six centers. in the chintamanistava, attributed to the incarnate sage sri shankaracharya, it says: this family woman (kundalini

in sefirah crown/above is reflected in the abysmal mirror of sefirah foundation/below as veils of illusion appearing as planes of existence (see figure 3.5 on page 89. these planes are unmanifest in the most sublime world of atziluth (emanation. the attributes of the ayn are reflected in this mirror as the immense i-ness of small face as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. the energy of consciousness of small face manifests the planes of existence in the lower three worlds of b riyah (creation, yetzirah (formation, and asiyah (making, activity. like sefiroth crown/above and foundation/below, the two central sefiroth knowledge/first and beauty/last emanate as a pair, and represent two opposite stations in the consciousness of this small face iness. when the immense i-nes

clear mirror of the central column. the remaining sefiroth emanate as pairs of opposites in the two side columns, and the four qabalistic worlds manifest as self-consistent planes of existence. the four qabalistic worlds will be discussed in the next section. 5' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% these three distinct columns play a prominent role in the different ways the tree can be ascended. when the spiritual energy (called shekinah in hebrew and kundalini or chitshakti in sanskrit) awakens, it ascends the tree of life in various ways, expanding and moving the consciousness through successive planes of existence. each different path up the tree is known as a working tree. the entire spectrum of trees of life is also known collectively as angelic or enochian tree language. angelic tree language consists

ted powers. what happens when you ascend the tree shall be described in a later section in this chapter, and the experiences in the various shells shall also be treated in more detail in chapter six. 2" 2' 8: 55 the qlifoth also correlate with the four letters yod y, heh h, vav v, heh h (and hence, we are formed in the image of elohim. the physical shell in the world of asiyah, infused with vital energy (xvr ruach; in chinese, qi; in sanskrit, prana, is called the nefesh (spn, and is represented by the lower heh h. the astral shell, called the geviyah (hyvg, is the embodiment of consciousness in the world of yetzirah (formation, and is represented by the vav v.26 the upper heh h is associated with the bliss-filled ruach ha qodesh (sdqh xvr, holy spirit) in the world of b riyah (creation. t

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

e, he wished to break through the periphery of the circles and to know the power of him who reigns above the fire. then man, who had full power over the world of mortal beings and of animals, leant across the armature of the spheres, having broken through their envelopes, and showed to the nature below the beautiful form of god. when she saw that he had in him the inexhaustible beauty and all the energy of the governors, joined to the form of god, nature smiled with love, for she had seen the features of that marvellously beautiful form of man reflected in the water and his shadow on the earth. and he, having seen this form like to himself in nature, reflected in the water, he loved her and wished to dwell with her. the moment he wished this he accomplished it and came to inhabit the irrat

s, and the reply is "the son of god, a man like other men, by the will of god" tat asks what truth is, and he is told that it is "that which is not polluted, which has no limit, no colour, no form, is motionless, naked, shining, which can only be apprehended by itself, the unalterable good, the incorporeal" it cannot be perceived by the senses and can only be known by the effects of its power and energy, which demands that a person must be capable of understanding birth in god "am i not capable of this, o father" cries tat, and the answer is that he must draw it to himself and it will come; wish it and it will be produced; arrest the activity of the bodily senses and the divinity will be born in him; purify himself from the "irrational punishments of matter. terrible and numerous are these

son of god.2 trismegistus has passed on to tat the experience which he himself has had, and the powers sing in tat the hymn of regeneration "let all nature listen to the hymn. i will sing the lord of creation, the all, the one. open, oh heavens, winds retain your breath, let the immortal circle of god listen to my word. powers which are in me sing to the one, the all. i give thee thanks, father, energy of the powers; i give thee thanks, god, power of my energies. this is what the powers cry which are in me. this is what the man who belongs to thee cries through the fire, through the air, through the earth, through the water, through the breath, through all thy creatures" in his commentary on this treatise,3 ficino compares the driving out of the ultores and their replacement by the potest

e destroyed. do not the living beings in the world die, o father, although they are parts of the world? hush, my child, for you are led into error by the denomination of the phenomenon. living beings do not die, but, being composite bodies they are dissolved; this is not death but the dissolution of a mixture. if they are dissolved, it is not to be destroyed but to be renewed. what in fact is the energy of life? is it not movement? what is there in the world which is immobile? nothing. but the earth at least, does it not seem to be immobile? no. on the contrary, alone of all beings it is both subject to a multitude of movements and stable. it would be absurd to suppose that this nurse of all beings should be immobile, she who gives birth to all things, for without movement it is impossible

ngs in the world die, o father, although they are parts of the world? hush, my child, for you are led into error by the denomination of the phenomenon. for living beings do not die, my child, but, being composite bodies they are dissolved: now this dissolution is not death but the dissolution of a mixture. and if they are dissolved, it is not to be destroyed but to be renewed. what in fact is the energy of life? is it not movement? or what is there in the world which is immobile? nothing, my child. but the earth, at least, does it not seem to be immobile, o father? no, child: on the contrary alone of all beings, it is both subject to a multitude of movements and stable. would it not be ridiculous to suppose that this nurse of all beings should be immobile, she who causes to be born and giv

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

ewed is up to the personal magicians tastes, but i have found that chaos magick concerns itself with something which underlies all of the filters of existence. in chaos, all is possible, including nothing. apparent duality s can be split-up and torn apart, fractalized meshed and fused together in myriad ways. much in the same way matter/ antimatter reactions give rise to huge amounts of liberated energy, this way can liberate enormous amounts of belief. duality can be expressed as the equation 0=2 or the nominal truth of duality manifesting from nothing. we shall explore this concept which permeates human existence, much in the same way which one sees oneself as standing between two mirrors. it gets more clear as you look slightly askew and can see reflections bending to infinity hyperboli

ith the will [i shall not touch upon the black or white brotherhood, and shall talk more fully of something called the scarlet brotherhood. there is another aspect of the angel which is a reflection across the tree of life into the tree of death, this is a natural course, as every action includes it s inverse. the hga is also an independent being. as the hga is partly an astral construct of which energy (prayer-form) is devoted to allow for manifestation. the angel has access to knowledge (both mundane and magical) that is currently beyond the magicians scope and can reveal all manner of things. there is a self which underlies self and transcends the temporary ego manifestation of the magician. this ego is a mask of the self(aka kia, shhh. the ego is of the self and by the self. identifica

sing the great deal of emotional turmoil that i was in. i opted to try the neither-neither technique of aos. i took the images and profundity of love, my love, in the highest state of adoration and joy and fused it with that of it s perverted form. the fusion of apparent opposites. in their mutual annihilation. the effect was astounding. not only did the pain cease, but the liberated free belief (energy) acted as a conduit for something more. something (which i would realize later, that has been with me my entire existence! i was entranced, and began writing. i wrote grendel s had an accident and did not quite understand what i wrote at the time. i also found that by dredging up the memory of that night, this brought renewed turmoil, which allowed me to nullify it yet again. i was intoxica

nderstand what i wrote at the time. i also found that by dredging up the memory of that night, this brought renewed turmoil, which allowed me to nullify it yet again. i was intoxicated for weeks [this memory was eventually exhausted, by this technique] coincidentally at this time also, i was to undergo initiation into the autonomatrix, and had to write an initiation ritual. i channeled all of the energy i had into this rite, called the rite of godhood (rog. ever since grendel s had an accident i noticed a presence about me, something there but not quite there. it did not feel menacing, on the contrary, it felt very home-type feeling, so i just kept a doing what i was doing. i had some vague notions of what the holy guardian angel (hga) was supposed to be, and decided to incorporate somethi

e of returner" kg:noe:p70-71"she is the whore babalon, the scarlet woman of the cult of the beast. in egyptian her name means the number seven (sefekh, she was the primordial goddess of the seven stars. 393 is the number of a highly secret ophidian formula concealed in the name of an extra-terrestrial entity known as aossic. the integers 393 (3+9+3=15=1+5=6, the number of the sun or solar phallic energy" so we see a unity between these concepts. a phoenix-type returner, a conflagration, bablon and a celestial relation, with some correlation with aossic) and empowered with solar phallic energy (set as midnight sun. an interesting note (with some biblio-mancy) is that in the last page of chapter 7 of nightside of eden page 76, grant brings reference to "the book of dyzan, and then this heral

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

in nameless paws. 5 whereas yog-sothoth embraces the expanse of infinity, azathoth represents the opposing principle in that he rules at the heart of chaos, the central point of a universe permeated by the influence of yog-sothoth. their relationship could be stated as the reconciliation of infinite expansion and infinite contraction. in physical terms, azathoth manifests as the vast destructive energy inherent in the atomic particle, which is unleashed via nuclear fusion. he is the antithesis of creation, the ultimately negative aspect of elemental fire. magically, his attribution is to passive spirit. subservient to the idiot god is a group referred to as the other gods the amorphous dancers who attend azathoth at the throne of chaos. their soul and messenger is nyarlathotep, the crawli

he elemental aspect of nyarlathotep is aether, the communicating medium of interstellar space (or in lovecraft s terminology, the audient void. shub-niggurath is the black goat of the woods with a thousand young a title inferring the geometric proliferation of creatures upon the earth. he is the horned god of the pagan agricultural societies of the ancient world, representing fertility and sexual energy. in greek mythology his archetype is pan, half-man and half-goat. as christianity began to replace paganism, the pan-image became the prototype for the christian devil, and was associated with the practise of satanism, though the worship of the horned god had pre-dated christianity by at least a thousand years. in 1919, aleister crowley published a poem entitled a hymn to pan, in which he e

s archetype is pan, half-man and half-goat. as christianity began to replace paganism, the pan-image became the prototype for the christian devil, and was associated with the practise of satanism, though the worship of the horned god had pre-dated christianity by at least a thousand years. in 1919, aleister crowley published a poem entitled a hymn to pan, in which he evoked this current of sexual energy as it pertains to ceremonial magic, and which he often incorporated into his own magical workings. the exclamation, io pan, which concludes the poem, corresponds to the cry of ai! shub-niggurath, which occurs in several of lovecraft s stories in relation to the worship of the goat-god. this similarity raises the question of lovecraft s familiarity with crowley s work he could have seen a co

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

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

wn practical work i have discovered that it may even be useful to keep the sigil on you, such as wearing a ring engraved with it, etc. but this will depend upon the magician fs individual predilection, and everybody should find his/her own way. occasionally, it may prove necessary to repeat the whole procedure, especially if the goal is a very problematical one, requiring an outstanding amount of energy. nevertheless, experience shows that it is of prime importance not to bring back the meaning and aim of the sigil into consciousness at any time. we are, after all, dealing with a technique akin to autosuggestion; thus, the rules are the same as with autosuggestions themselves. therefore, you may not use negative formulas such as gthis my wish not to. h because very often the unconscious te

on follow. points which have already been discussed and which are also applicable for these types of sigils will not be repeated, but, of course, i shall clarify distinctions in procedure. chapter 4 the pictorial method arly to voodoo doll magic, you might draw a figure with his initials (see figure 13. then you may stick an gastral acupuncture needle h into his stomach area through which sealing energy is fed into the affected part of the body (figure 14: 43 as opposed to the word method and the mantrical spell method, the pictorial method of sigil construction demands neither language nor specifically formulated sentences of desire. its advantage lies in the fact that you are able to use the image language of the unconscious directly, provided that you are able to transcribe precisely yo

word, pictorial or mantrical spell method. whereas i myself favor the word method and, occasionally, the pictorial method, i must admit that the mantrical spell method has borne the most amazing and speediest results. perhaps precisely so because i personally do not like it very much! thus, it is certainly advisable to experiment with the mantrical spell method/ 61. all three methods. the sigils energy quality or the way the sigil gfeels h is completely different from method to method. after a short time, you will know exactly which method is most promising for any given operation. being a true magician, you will not tolerate one-sidedness because you know that in the course of your magical career you will be challenged too often and will be confronted with the most varied of problems. it

please refer to liber null itself. the above notes should illustrate the structure of human emotions. any number of other systems of order may be used and developed. for example, the four elements earth, water, fire and air may be employed as major categories, as well as the ten sephiroth, the 22 paths of the cabbalistic tree of life (an approach may be found in liber null, pp. 77 and 86, the 1 2 energy qualities of the zodiac, timothy leary fs an 68/ practical sigil magic s own, truly origin o the basic structures of the human psyche, i.e, rchetypal patterns which should always implement in agic anyway. in other words, it does not really matter depends upon the structures of erception as influenced by the construct e brain r hormones. what is important is the fact that we can human beings

work he same principle. by the eloped the sigil for the desire. this m here described. moreover, symbol-logical thinking is of importance in any magician fs work, regardless which system s/he uses12 by working with images instead of intellectual concepts (even if our glyphs might stand for these concepts, we activate our unconscious and the source of our personal magis. two different qualities of energy that exist while weusing it. both e accept the following remarks as nothing mte proac ineffable. repetition of certain techniques rarely fails to impresuautosuggestion, autohypnosis and mm ou on t alphabet of desire, we create an arsenal of reusable sigils which are implanted anew and additionally with each operation. spare, for example, dev introduction of will( gi desire h, which he then

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

eing and feeling, are deemed peculiarly essential to masons* hearing is that sense by which we distinguish sounds, and are capable of enjoying all the agreeable charms of music. by it we are enabled to enjoy the pleasures of society, and reciprocally to communicate to each other our thoughts and intentions,our purposes and desires; while thus our reason is capable of exerting its utmost power and energy. the wise and beneficent author of nature intended, by the formation of this sense, that we should be social creatures, and receive the greatest and most important part of our knowledge by the information of others. for these purposes we are endowed with hearing, that, by a proper exertion of our rational powers, our happiness may be complete. seeing is that sense by which we distinguish ob

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL 2

n properly understanding every part of the alchemist's language. we know in the first place, that there was a time when man-in-the-making was a hermaphrodite, male-female, and able to create from himself, and we remember also that at that time he was like the plant in other respects. his consciousness was like that which we possess in dreamless sleep and which is possessed by the plant. the vital energy which he absorbed into his body was used solely for the purpose of growing, until the time of propagation came, when a new budding body was cast off to grow also. there was no incentive to action, but if there had been, man would have had no mind or will to direct it. for the emancipation of humanity from this negative condition, one-half of the creative force was turned upward under the di

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

force upwards for building a brain and larynx, organs which are still fed and nourished by this uplifting half of the sex-force. but while the gods direct their whole creative force to altruistic purposes by the power of mind, you still squander one-half of your divine heritage upon desire and sense-gratification. if, therefore, you would become as they, you must learn to turn your whole creative energy upward to be used under the direction of your intelligence entirely. thus only can you become as the gods and create from yourself by the power of your mind and the great word whereby you may speak the creative fiat. remember that physically you were once hermaphrodite like the plant and able to create from yourself. look into the future now through the perspective of the past and realize t

to the future now through the perspective of the past and realize that your present uni-sexual condition is only a temporary phase of evolution and that in the future your whole creative force must be turned upwards so that you shall become a hermaphrodite spiritually, and thus able to objectify your ideas and speak the living word which shall endue them with life and make them vibrant with vital energy. this dual creative force thus expressed through the brain and larynx is the 'elixir-vitae' which springs from the living stone of the spiritually hermaphrodite philosopher. the alchemical process of kindling and elevating it is accomplished in the spinal cord where the salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth are found. it is raised to incandescence by high and noble thought, by meditation upon sp

ae' which springs from the living stone of the spiritually hermaphrodite philosopher. the alchemical process of kindling and elevating it is accomplished in the spinal cord where the salt, sulphur, mercury and azoth are found. it is raised to incandescence by high and noble thought, by meditation upon spiritual subjects, and by altruism expressed in the daily life. the second half of the creative energy thus drawn upward through the spinal canal is a spinal spirit-fire, the serpent of wisdom. gradually it is raised higher and higher and when it reaches the pituitary body and the pineal gland in the brain, it sets them to vibrating, opening up the spiritual worlds and enabling man to commune with the gods. then this fire radiates in all directions and permeates the whole body and its auric

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

esented in the fire-sphere and cosmic space which is an expression of the homogeneous absolute spirit. the fire spirits are actively striving to attain enlargement of consciousness. but the absolute rests ever clothed in the invisible garment of cosmic space. in 'it' all powers and possibilities are latent, and it seeks to discourage and check any attempt at expenditure of latent power as dynamic energy required in the evolution of a solar system. water is the agent it used to quench the fire of active spirits. the zone between the heated center of the separate spirit sphere, and the point where its individual atmosphere meets cosmic space, is a battleground of evolving spirits at various stages of evolution. the present angels were human in the moon period, and the highest initiate is the

y in the school of earth beckons it to a new birth that it may acquire more skill in the arts and crafts of temple-building. about five months after the quickening, when the last of the watery signs, pisces, has been passed, the representative of the lucifer spirits, samael, focuses the forces of the fiery sign, aries, where mars is positively polarized, so that under the impulse of their dynamic energy the waters of the womb are voided, and the imprisoned spirit is liberated into the physical world, to fight the battle of life. it may blindly butt its head against the cosmic forces typified by the first of the fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of

ntaur is just ahead of the watery sign scorpio, a warning that one who tries to reach that prerogative as "phree messen" a son of fire and light, will surely feel the sting of the scorpion in his heel, which will goad him onward upon the path where men become "wise as serpents" it is from this class that mystic masonry is recruited with men who have the indomitable courage to dare, the unflagging energy to do and the diplomatic discrimination to be silent. part ii the masonic legend every mystic movement has its legend, which tells in symbolic language its status in the cosmic order and the ideal which it tries to realize. from the old testament, containing the atlantean mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating

but that he was ousted by jehovah and forced to leave her before the birth of her son cain, who was thus the son of a widow. then jehovah created adam, to be the husband of eve, and from their union abel was born. thus from the beginning there have been two kinds of people in the world. one begotten by the lucifer spirit samael and partaking of a semi-divine nature imbued with the dynamic martial energy inherited from this divine ancestry, is aggressive, progressive, and possessed of great initiative, but impatient of restraint or authority whether human or divine. this class is loath to take things on faith and prone to prove all things by the light of reason. these people believe in works rather than faith, and by their dauntless courage and inexhaustible energy they have transformed the

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

l and dangerous within saanism says marquis. a satanist knows the content within pike's book is satanism just by reading "deus meumque jus" they don't even have to read the book, just the phrase to know "seething energies of lucifer within your hands "the day has come when fellow craftsman must know and apply their knowledge. the lost key to their grade is the mastery of emotion, which places the energy of the universe at their disposal. man can only expect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward

pect to be entrusted with great power by proving his ability to use it constructively and selflessly. when the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned the mystery of his craft. the seething energies of lucifer are in his hands, and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his ability to properly apply energy. he must follow in the footsteps of his forefather, tubal-cain, who with the mighty strength of the war god hammered his sword into a plowshare [manly p. hall, 33rd degree, k.t, the lost keys of freemasonry or the secret of hiram abiff, forward by reynold e. blight, 33rd degree, k.t, illustrations by j. augustus knapp, 32nd degree, macoy publishing and masonic supply company, inc, richmond

FULL MOON RITUALS

to as fmr) faq sheet. this will let you know what it is and how it works, hopefully, and if it doesn't then please feel free to ask questions on the list. who can "be in" fmr? the fmr is not a coven or any kind of formal group; it's a community event, open to all who care to participate. by participate, we mean lead, invoke a quarter "petition (see somewhere later, or just read along and/or lend energy. most leaders, but not all, ask that those intending to participate "sign in" beforehand; the main reason is so we're expecting you to "speak" and don't close before you get your chance. so who gets to be leader? interesting question. generally the previous leader will nominate someone immediately after the end of the ritual to lead next month. this may be someone they personally want to se

he's never really noticed before, deer ponders how it is that doors from the northern end of the great hall open onto the north quarter of the ritual room. then decides that this is simply one of the many mysteries of the place. by the altar, cloud's apple broom stands and he wastes no time taking it in hand and sweeping widdershins in a widening spiral, until he removes all the dust and unwanted energy into the great hall and then into the fire. upon returning to the circular room, deer again admires the hemicolumns set against the wall about the stone room's perimeter, which support the ribwork of its vaulted ceiling, before opening the small panel on the eastern section of the wall. here lay two discoveries- the first and foremost cloud's and the latter his own- both embodied in a simpl

sky, stands on her rear legs for a moment staring at the mother moon. a change takes place, and there is a shift in the shadow of the bear and a shadow of a human which meld into one. then shadow then wanders towards the castle. the owl alights upon the shoulder of the shadow. through the grove, up the path; the figures wanders, looking and taking it all in. what a marvelous old place, so full of energy and wonder. each turn brings more feelings and it smells of the deer. she heard him call, brother red deer, and she had to join him on this moon. the doors, huge oak things, open to her touch and are welcoming. lights in the hall, fire in the fireplace, warm and inviting. as she steps through the door, boudica's red braided hair shines in the light. blue gown, dark as midnight, with small s

red braided hair shines in the light. blue gown, dark as midnight, with small silver stars embroidered all over, trimmed with small silver collar and cuffs. she has some small pouches at her waist, and upon her shoulder is the small grey owl. she looks around, an unfamiliar place. it's where she should be. the ritual room attracts her attention. as she enters, the owl takes flight to the rafters. energy, much old, wondrous energy. looking up, the night sky is clear and the moon is starting to to make her way across the open roof. boudica is thrilled, it's a glorious site, and then a hand on her shoulder pulls her out of her wonder. brother deer! she gives him a warm hug, good to see him again, and she looks around the room at all who have gathered, with many familiar faces. she gives warm

that are birth cries of minute particles of soil- the ultimate nourishment of us all. we all eat dirt, sharon reflects as she trudges onward. dirt formed finally into animal and vegetable that we find palatable. but still dirt. dry dust rises in small clouds at each footfall. and eventually each of us in our fleshly form returns to dirt, becomes dirt once again. our matter becomes matter and our energy? maybe the hag knows where our energy goes, but she s not saying. at least not tonight. sharon breathes in the dry, dusty, cold air, feeling the membranes in her nose contract at the contact. she is very thirsty. the rock eventually gives way to more forgiving ground, covered with low pine trees and cushioned slightly with their shed needles. the smell of dust changes to the tang of pine. b

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

-being, that which one can conceive of, neither by its cause or its essence; it [the no-thing] is, in a word, the cause of causes; it is it whom we call the primordial non-being, because it is anterior to the entire universe. 19 though the qabalah recognizes but one primordial cause, it also recognizes two complementary elements: the one incorruptible and vital which reveals itself as a spiritual energy, and the other corruptible and inert, always tending to dissolve and return to its original atoms. the first is bliss, the second is hate: the first is symbolized by the angelic hosts, the second by the demon hordes- good and evil; for, as isaiah says: gi form the light, and create darkness: i make peace, and create evil :i the lord do all these things. h 20 the spirit which we sense throug

ted to ever-higher planes of sublimity until the highest is reached!22 the curtains are the divisions (abysses) between the superconscious thought of god and the conscious thought of man. the ultimate curtain is the shell of the egg- materiality; but before this final curtain can be lifted, a host of intellectual curtains- the white of the egg- have to be dissolved by transmutation into spiritual energy. spiritual deliverance, or attainment, is consequently an act of creation. finally we come to this conclusion: it is not god, or the universe, which is the supreme mystery, but man, man himself, the link between god and the universe. the zohar says: as soon as man appeared, all was achieved, both in the upper and in the lower worlds. for all is contained in man. he combines within himself a

e supernal sephiroth. should the upper eye [kether] cease looking into the lower eye [malkuth, the world would perish. 36 thus does this unvarying idea of balance run on. gthe union of man with god h, says saint theresa, gis nothing but the reunion of two bodies which have been separated but are always one. h the connecting link is the power of will, which is neither good nor evil, but a power or energy, which can be filtered through good or evil. it is, as it were, the beam of light of a magic lantern, the slides it penetrates being the nature of man. as long as these slides exist there can be no perfect vision of god and, consequently, no perfect union. when moses said to god, gi beseech thee, show me thy glory h, the answer he received was: thou canst not see my face: for there shall no

ark of matter without shape or form, a centre of a circle, neither white nor black, neither red nor green, in fact without any colour. 3 this is the ain soph aur- light, not as a contradistinction to darkness, but as a vibration. first, so the symbolism describes, the ain soph withdrew itself into itself to form an infinite space- the abyss. in this space appeared a point of light, or life-giving energy, which filled it. the ain soph aur is, consequently, pictured as contraction and expansion, a sucking-in and throwing-out within itself; it therefore symbolizes the centripetal and centrifugal energies of creation, which through their rhythm constitute the infinite light out of which the universe is made; this light has been called the idealized blood of the universe. this trinity of primal

ry, we comprehend extension, multiplication and force; because all the forces which were born into the universe went out of their bosom, and it is for this reason, that these two sephiroth are called: the armies of yhvh. 18 (9) dvsy yesod, foundation. this sephirah is the seat of the generative principle. everything shall return to its foundation, from which it has proceeded. all marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this place. 19 (10) uvklm malkuth, kingdom, or dominion. as kether is the harmony at the beginning, so is malkuth the harmony at the end; the first the head and the last the feet of adam qadmon. the divine name attached to this sephirah is adonai- the tetragrammaton. malkuth is also called the queen, shekinah, and havah- eve. it is the seat of the nephesh, the instincts, and

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

ds of sex-differentiation; and, as this division of labor was a necessary step in the evolutionary processes, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier age of existence upon the earth, at a time when woman's influence was in the ascendancy over that of man, human energy was directed by the altruistic characters which originated in and have been transmitted through the female; but after the decline of woman's power, all human institutions, customs, forms, and habits of thought are seen to reflect the egoistic qualities acquired by the male. nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. w

that the god-idea should have been female instead of male. from the facts to be observed in relation to this subject, it is altogether probable that for ages the generating principle throughout nature was venerated as female; but with that increase of knowledge which was the result of observation and experience, juster or more correct ideas came to prevail, and subsequently the great fructifying energy throughout the universe came to be regarded as a dual indivisible force--female and male. this force, or agency, constituted one god, which, as woman's functions in those ages were accounted of more importance than those of man, was oftener worshipped under the form of a female figure. neith, minerva, athene, and cybele, the most important deities of their respective countries, were adored

nd of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a time when the mother was not only the one recognized parent on earth, but that the female principle was worshipped as the more important creative force throughout nature [5] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regarded as the more important factors in human society. the fact has been shown in a previous work that after women began to leave their homes at marriage, and after property, especially land, had fallen under the supervision and control of men, the latter

re 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 passed, however, and serpent, fire, and phallic

of all other religious emblems, became considerably changed. through its 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

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

e heading of occultism. he sawwithinit, as spurgeon said of the talmud 'jewels which the world couldnotafford to miss; and seeing them, drewthemoutand displayed them for all tosee-all,that is,witheyes to see. many readersofwaite, and most self-confessed students of 'rejected knowledge, persist in seeing him as an occultist. usually they find him wanting: richard cavendish, inthe tarot admired his energy in pursuing esoteric lorebutdescribedasiuncharacteristicallylucid' his preface to papus's tarot ofthebohemiansandkilled .waite off in 1940,'inthe london blitz',thusdenying him his lasttwoyearsoflife. michaeldummett,inthe game oftarot,speaks of waite ashaving 'the instincts, and to a large extent, the temperament,ofagenuine scholar; in particularhehadthe scholar's squeamishness about making

rst stoopingdowninthepublic way.why,pray, should your'handwriting'remain unclerkly('bad',it isnot)simply forwantofaweek'spractice at'drawingcircles against the sun, asthesailors say? five minutes practicewitha pencil at mere circlemakingcouldremedy whatever iswrongsoonenough.finally,don'tforget255while youcountoverwhatmay be very real disadvantagesofeverykind-theimmense set-off you mayboast-youth,energy and however low anybody may reckonthem-assuredlytalents. be a brave fellow, and seewhatyou can dowiththese! you will greatly gratifyyourtruewell-wisher. robert browning feb. 5, 1877 my dear mr [waite]imustbegyour pardon for having delayed a little my thanks foryourpoems, and my reply to theletterwhichaccompaniedthem.perhapsthedifficultyofa reply havehindered me somewhat. i really wish, most

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

to disembody, to dematerialize an actual being; and to sever the link between one degree and another, above all between the degrees that- are in the heart, in thetiphereth,in the 5= 6, is to cut this being in two, and to confine the magical lifeofitsvisible adepti to the lower substances of this being.todo this last thingisto create an evil symbol, to make the most evilofall symbols, to awake the energy of an evil sorcery. on the other hand, to create within this order, within this actual being formal 'groups, centresofastral activity, which are not the degrees of this order, the organs of this being, is to create centres oflife, which are centresofdeath, to this greater life; astral diseases sapping up, as it were, its vitalfluids,'thisimpassioned plea fell upondeafears and, as we have se

has resulted, trouble not, you are not the ruling provi255 dence; and you cannot expect to understand all the interactions between yourself and others, which some call providence, others fate, others destiny and other karma.ifyour intentions have been good, the result cannot fail to be good to you, upon one plane or the other.ifyou carry out this dictum you will have much more time to spend with energy upon other works, than will those who waste time and force upon regrets, which are alike useless and vain, and a besetting weakness to neglectofaction-topassivity, and to personal decay. never attempt to make anyone think you are better than you are; and don't yourself think you are better than you are, self255 hypocrisy is a crime, hypocrisy to others is only a fraud. temper255 ance, conti

g hexagramsofmarsround the room, and the pentagram of virgo and themarssymbol towards the south. we then mentally formulated the hexagramofmars in red light at that point of the compass.theupper triangle appeared flaming, and an armed figureofsomewhat earthy type seemed to look through it.theearthiness we ascribed to the fact that the sign virgo had been invoked.thefigure probably represented the energy of mars (who is the planet of outward manifestation) bringing the hidden lifeofthe earth to the surface, only to be destroyed and consumed as soon as it reached outward perfection, as in time of harvest. we did not stop to examine this figure much,butwent through the hex. astrally and found ourselves in a region of flames.therewe invoked the white light, vibrating the names and holding our

and consumed as soon as it reached outward perfection, as in time of harvest. we did not stop to examine this figure much,butwent through the hex. astrally and found ourselves in a region of flames.therewe invoked the white light, vibrating the names and holding our swords towards heaven.thishad the effect of attracting a rushofenergy, deo date feelingitchiefly in her right arm, showingitto be an energy impelling to action. a gigantic, mail clad angelappendixf133appeared, with winged helmet, and great flame-coloured wings fromhis shoulders. there wassome diversity ofopinion concern255 ing his sword. one frater thought that the angel (who was evidently phaleg) had the hilt in one hand and the point in the other, while the blade seemed to encircle the universe. another frater saw it as the f

.itwas wrapped in great sweeping black clouds and disappeared fromview.in the midst of the darkness an altar appeared. one frater saw aflamingheart upon it, but most of us sawrather a river ofblood-redand rushing,givingthe impress255 ion of life, not death. its source seemed to beabovethe altar somewhere,but unseen. at the point whereitcameintoviewwas white light, from which it seemed toderiveits energy, though at the same time it imparted to it some ofits own, for from the point of junction between the blood and the light sprang petal-shaped whiteflamesoutlinedwith gold.(note.i am afraidi haveforgotten whatthe others saw here, and must add it in afterwards. s.l) we now gathered round the altar whichappeared asa cauldron full of a red blood-like, or rather wine-like fluid, withfieryserpent

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self tells us, although the orthodox are apt to slur over this assertion of the old testament narrative.ourpresent world has taken almost no notice of the rosicrucian philosophy, nor until the last twenty years of any mysticism, and when it does condescend to stoop from its utilitarian and money-makingoccupations,itis only to condemn all such studies, root and branch, as waste of time and loss of energy.thevery name of 'christian rosenkreuz, the founder of rosicrucianism, would meet with hardly any sign of recognition in the best social or the literary circles of this country; and yet the mere publication in 1614 of a little pamphlet in germany, narrating the mode of foundation and the aims of the rosicrucian order, made such a stir throughout14themagical masoneurope, that even to-day ther

gh the occultist may be trained to perceive the septenary constitution; and the profound hermetick is cognisant of the decad. nature is visible and external, nature is unseen, concealed, and existing68themagicalmasonas the shade or the type of all that is seen and known. nature has a spiritual essence; behind the astral form and the material image lies the concealed spirit, the vis ab initio, the energy from on high, from the exalted, from the divine essence. man, too, is triune, for man is a copy of the microcosm, which is a reflection of the macrocosm, the greater man 255 man's universe 'that which is below is like that which is above, says the smaragdine tablet, and this hermetic dogma is absolute truth. man has a material form. man has an astral form around which the matter has collect

pable, and as honest as those of today, and were no more easily misled. there are beings about us today- call them soul-less if youwill-whosemoral sense is nonexistent, who do evil by preference, and whose extinction is as much to be desired as was the fate of the medieval witches. an adept of the rosicrucian ideal is the very opposite to theman, miracle, magic69medium. he is living trained vital energy illumined by the spiritual above; the medium is a negative being, the prey of every evil influence, and of anyone with malign passion: he is deceiving and self deceived, the catspaw of every elemental force, and baneful misdirected energy. our existence passes in an atmosphere of material air; matter in the third state. but beyond this, there are other states, even more rare; even science b

true high magic, which has at times in the world's history shone out for a moment.thelaws of nature are at the mercy of the man who has enough power of will, strength of body, purity of mind, and nascent spirituality. the adept uses these laws at his discretion, because he has learned what they are, how they work, and by what means they regulate the universe. the world is moved by a single vital energy, which may be commanded by him who overcomes.theadept can control the life in plant and animal. he can alter the sensations and change the conditions of the astral and physical forms of all and of everything of less exalted spirituality than he himself has attained to. there are living forces, elemental, in all the visible and invisible things around us; these he can use and order to his pu

our to conceive of the concentration of this effulgence, let us formulate a gathering together of the rays of this illumination into a crown of glorified radiance, and we recognisekether- the first sephira, first emanation of deity, the first conceivable attribute of immanent manifested godhead. the devout rabbi bows his head and adores the sublime conception.theconscious god having arisen in his energy, there follow immediately two further emanations, the trio subsiding into the symbol of a radiant triangle.chokmah,wisdom, is the name of the second sephira;binah,understanding, is the third sephira- the supernal triad is demonstrated. then followchesed,mercy; and its contrastgeburah,severity; and the reflected triangle is completed by the sixth sephiratiphereth,beauty: considered as a tria

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ogical and complete system, the four suits representing the four elements, and the four temperaments, and being judged according to their position. thus wands representing fire and the sanguine temperament, a wand card occurring in a bad position would indicate danger from rash and hasty action, anger, or quarrelling; the same card in a good position would show noble and generous action, courage, energy, and the like. curiously enough the numbers of the pips were interpreted on a system very much akin to the pythagorean system of numbers, especially in regardtothe occult meaning of odd and even numbers. mrs lee laid particular stress on the arrangement of the pips on the cards, pointing out its similarity to the arrangement of spots on dice and dominoes (the connection of this with the pyt

point in physical life is the establishment of a three in one. the.firstbeginning of differentiation isclearlydual (this comes before the manifestation of life, it is positive and negative, energising and receptive, or whatever you like to call them. no names are precisely accurate, and the appellation male and female sometimes used is open to. serious misconcep255 tion; reallyitis the objective energy which does something, and the subject- matter to which that something is done.themost obvious symbol for the receptive matter is water, whose characteristic, when lying at rest, is to repose in a horizontal plane;sovasthe point in the circle symbolises the first manifestation, the horizontal line symbolises the first division into receptive and energising, and gives us fig. 3.thecirc1erepre

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r'an. the author modestly intends to serve as a means in humanity's search for god's right path. no material gain is sought in the publication of these works. considering these facts, those who encourage people to read these books, which open the "eyes" of the heart and guide them to become more devoted servants of god, render an invaluable service. meanwhile, it would just be a waste of time and energy to propagate other books which create confusion in peoples' minds, lead man into ideological chaos, and which, clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in peoples' hearts, as also verified from previous experience. it is apparent that it is impossible for books devised to emphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people from loss of

man beings, rather than on any supernatural authority" 33 the clearest definition of humanism, however, has been put forward by those who espoused it. one of the most prominent modern spokesmen for humanism is corliss lamont. in his book the philosophy of humanism, the author writes: 5[ hf humanism revisited [in sum] humanism believes that nature. constitutes the sum total of reality, that matter-energy and not mind is the foundation stuff of the universe and that supernatural entities simply do not exist. this nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal god.34 as we can see, humanism is almost identical to atheism

nd virtue, we can lessen the angle between him and us. then, this god does not possess the good and bad characteristics of human beings. it is not personified. it is not thought of as the guide of nature or humanity. it is the architect of the great working of the universe, of its unity and harmony. it is the totality of all the creatures in the universe, a total power encompassing everything, an energy. despite all this, it cannot be accepted that it is a beginning this is a great mystery.42 in the same book, it is clear that when freemasons speak of the "great architect of the universe" they mean nature, or, that they worship nature: apart from nature there can be no power responsible for our thought or our activities the principles and doctrines of masonry are scientific facts based on

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

rs, nature, all animate and inanimate things are composed of atoms. human beings are nothing more than a spontaneously occurring collection of atoms. a balance in the flow of electricity among atoms assures the survival of living things. when this balance is destroyed (not the electricity in the atoms, we die, return to the earth and are dispersed into atoms. that is, we have come from matter and energy and we will return to matter and energy. plants make use of our atoms, and all living things including us make use of plants. everything is made of the same substance. but because our brains are most highly evolved of all animals, consciousness appeared. if we look at the results of experimental psychology, we see that our three-fold psychic experience of emotion-mind-will is the result of

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

er but is alive. the earth is not simply a ball of dirt in space, but is gaia a immense organism which is as much alive as we are. each plane subdivides into lesser planes and each plane dimension has its own consciousness and reality. in this model everything is inter-related. so, for example, man is in a unique symbiotic relationship with gaia which in turn is part of a greater web of spiritual energy which makes up the logii of the physical plane. all forces are in symbiotic relationship with those above them, the gnostic handbook page 37 that which is not divine will the logos sophia the seven logoii the seven planes, dimensions or worlds each a living web empowered by one of the seven logii. the gnostic handbook page 38 hence, man is part of the body of gaia and his behavior and actio

d and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the mental plane this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, blueprints are formulated and laid. the astral plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the mental and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them both. the physical plane the world on which w

. modern means of communication and distribution of the printed word, the spoken word and the dramatic word through television and motion pictures have caused ideas to span continents and the world almost with the speed of light. like a prairie fire, the dry grass consumes itself to the roof of the gnostic handbook page 48 hopes of humanity which are blighted, then by the searing infamy of wasted energy and emotion. the soulless ones: cloning of a counterfeit creation. mark.l.prophet. summit university press, l.a. 1981. the doctrine of dominions and principalities is one of the more difficult to explain without sounding extremist and paranoid. it certainly lends itself to dark speculation and conspiracy theories. however, it is a doctrine that is central to a real understanding of the worl

e sense it is mandatory for our transfiguration to realize the extent to which our bodies, mind, world and reality are controlled and manipulated by forces hostile to our spiritual goals. archons, dominions and thoughts that run wild there is a simple premise in esoteric literature, thoughts have power. even modern science accepts that behind the structure we know as the material work is a web of energy and the interactions between different types of energy creates the semblance of solidity we call matter. thought, then, as a form of energy has the same power. this is why in so many tradition there are admonitions about controlling the thought process, while thinking and doing are still different things, thinking does have its effects. clairvoyants of many persuasions have seen and documen

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ed. on a spiritual level, we can contemplate the primal light shining through the prism or matrix of manifestation to create the various dimensions of the scheme of things which now exist. in theological terms the first cause energises the logos or the word (the matrix) and the multi-faceted universe results. in this model we can see three distinct stages: gnostic theurgy page 23 1. the source of energy. 2. the matrix. 3. the resulting spectrum. this can be applied to many different levels of spiritual reality. from a universal perspective it can be seen as a way to understand how the seven planes of existence are formed and how the one becomes the many. when considering humanity our model is even more expressive, energy is received into the mind/brain complex (the matrix) and it is distri

spiritual reality. from a universal perspective it can be seen as a way to understand how the seven planes of existence are formed and how the one becomes the many. when considering humanity our model is even more expressive, energy is received into the mind/brain complex (the matrix) and it is distributed through the sevenfold systems in the organism. these systems vary depending on the form of energy received, we have the seven states of consciousness, the seven chakras or, on a more physical level, the seven phases of the endocrine system and related physiological structures. ramifications of the refraction model when we begin to contemplate this model we can start to see how eloquent it really is. the first consideration is what variations can be made to effect the spectrum s results

onsciousness, the seven chakras or, on a more physical level, the seven phases of the endocrine system and related physiological structures. ramifications of the refraction model when we begin to contemplate this model we can start to see how eloquent it really is. the first consideration is what variations can be made to effect the spectrum s results. two answers come to mind: fig 4 1. source of energy 2. the matrix. 3. the resulting spectrum gnostic theurgy page 24 1. the quantity and/or quality of the light source. 2. the quality of the matrix. on a simple level, these straight-forward answers are pregnant with truth. as we shall show later if you vary the quality or quantity of the energy, the spectrum itself suffers. accordingly, since we know that in the lower worlds the spiritual li

level, these straight-forward answers are pregnant with truth. as we shall show later if you vary the quality or quantity of the energy, the spectrum itself suffers. accordingly, since we know that in the lower worlds the spiritual light we receive is actually a mixture of positive and negative forces, then we can understand how our experience of reality is influenced and conditioned through the energy we receive. if we go further and contemplate how the brain/mind complex is programmed with painful memories and neuroses, we can appreciate how energy distributed from the spiritual worlds can be distorted by flaws in the matrix. we can also see how the resulting spectrum (our emotional/physical reality) is conditioned and influenced by variations in our ourselves (the matrix) and the energ

uivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gained the most influence. the plane of thought this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, the ground plane are formulated and laid. gnostic theurgy page 29 the desire plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the thought and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling occurs between them both, the lowe

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self, building and isolating the psyche. the goal is specifically a higher articulation of the soul and the will of the individual. it is considered black because this is the symbol of the unknown, such is a large part of the psyche and subconscious. the black magician is therefore one who works on the self, building and defining the character of i or being. the sorcerer is thus one who encircles energy and the spirits of the dead and the subconscious around the self; to strengthen and explore the avenues of a strong and open mind. the black magician also understands the respect which is necessary with working with exterior forces which often relate in an interior context. this is the key to the goetic sorcery path which is for this reason considered dangerous. the path of magick is that g

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF AIR

tual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental air principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the theoricus grafothe sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 1 of 2 6/27/2004 8:00 am the invoking pentagram ritual of earth the lesser rituals of the pentagram, or commonly called

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agram (lbrp/lirp, were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, we have adapted this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental earth principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the zelator grade. relax and perform the fourfould breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF FIRE

ual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental fire principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/modules.php?name=content. 3 of 3 6/27/2004 8:05 am as one is in the practicus gra/2the sanctuary of maat order of the golden dawn- content http//www.ritual-magic.com/welcome/mod

GOLDEN DAWN INVOKING PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF WATER

al rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. however, here at the sanctuary of ma'at we have incorporated this lesser invoking pentagram ritual as an introduction ritual to the elemental water principle of nature, while still adhering to principles set forth by the founders. this lesser invoking ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. it is recommended to be perfomed in the mornings for as long as one is in the practicus gra fthe lesser ritual of the hexagram after learning to banish the elements, which is the purpose of the lbrp, one should learn to banish the planetary influences. the banishing ritual of the hexagram (brh) serves this purpose. like the lbr

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LBRP

work. at the north, south, east, and west of this circle banishing pentagrams of the element earth are traced with the wand or sword. as these pentagrams are formed in midair with the elemental weapon, every effort should be made to impart vitality and reality to them. the blind performance of this ritual, as is so true of every aspect of theurgy, is quite useless, and is a waste of both time and energy. the imagination, simultaneously, should be stimulated to create these pentagrams about the magician on the astral plane in glowing figures of fire, so that through the streaming lines of light and power, representative of the spiritual being, no lesser entity of any kind dare make its way. it is necessary that the magician make certain that he does not lower the elemental weapon after form

a plunge into a cool running stream on a hot midsummer day leaves one blessed with the sense of refreshment and purification, so also should be this ritual. the rationale of its action depends on the purification of the constituents of the nature of the magician. every molecule, every cell astral, mental and physical is concerned, inasmuch as the basis of each principle is grounded in centers of energy and spiritual force. these microscopic points or monads, are the minute sensitive points of spiritual consciousness, and in the reality of their existence and function is based not only the deepest sense of individuality but the basis of matter itself, and its concomitants of energy and physical life. these monads are at the root of the cell as of a mineral, brain matter as well as of veget

GOLDEN DAWN LESSER INVOKING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM LIRP

3 am lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lirp) the lesser rituals of the pentagram, or commonly called lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, and the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (lbrp/lirp) were the only actual rituals taught to and used by the outer order of the traditional golden dawn. this invoking pentagram ritual should be used as a daily ritual which will help invoke the energy and call the spiritual forces into ones temple or ritual space. perform the fourfould breath perform the qabalistic cross 1. touching the forehead, say atah. 2. touching the breast, say malkuth. 3. touching the right shoulder, say ve-geburah. 4. touching the left shoulder, say ve-gedulah. 5. clasping the hands upon the breast, say le-olam, amen. facing east, use the index finger of the righ

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ly bringing the hands to eye-level and thrusting them forward in the projection sign (this sign is also known as the "attacking sign" and when used with the sword of vengeance, it is a potent gesture of force and will) then stamp the ground with the left foot and give the sign of silence (also called the "sign of protection) as a shield against all attack and protection from any reflux current of energy. go clockwise to the south and trace the banishing pentagram of spirit active while vibrating the name "bitom" draw the spirit sigil in the center and intone "eheieh" give the lvx signs. then trace the banishing pentagram of fire. vibrate "oip teaa pedoce" draw the sigil of leo in the center and vibrate "elohim" give the sign of philosophus. then give the projection sign and the sign of sil

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gram is proportional, and the ends fully closed. observe that the invoking pentagram of m begins from n and n begins from the angle of m. o, like l, begins with. the adept should take notice that an active-passive elemental relationship exists within the symbol of the pentagram. trace the kerubic sign of the element in the center of the pentagram. should you need to limit or confine the elemental energy as in talisman working, then draw a circle clockwise around the pentagram; otherwise, do not draw a circle around it. the basic rule is that thou shall invoke toward and banish from the point to which the element is attributed. m has a watery symbol, k. it is the container of rain and moisture. o is symbolized by the sign of e. e is the sign when the hot sun is most fiery upon the earth. n

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

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the lotus wand. take up the lotus wand by the white end, and circumambulate around three times, beginning in the east, and ending in the east. after you have done this, return to the west behind the altar, facing east, and make the 0=0 saluting sign while saying the adoration to the lord 6 of the universe. pause for a moment after you have made the sign of silence, and allow yourself to feel the energy in the temple. step 4 perform the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram at the four quarters of the room, tracing the proper pentagram in each quarter with the appropriate divine names. be sure to give the correct grade sign after each element. since you are invoking, you will use the white portion of your lotus wand. after you are done with the s.i.r.p, you will now move back to the eas

r attributed to the particular band that you are consecrating, according to the horary or using the zodiacal wheel, repeat the invocation for each of the bands individually. be sure to observe the divine name, angelic names and letters specifically attributed to each one. begin with a and work your way down the band. it is important to invoke and enflame yourself in this consecration with as much energy and internal force that you can muster, for this will enliven your lotus wand. make sure you are holding the wand by the appropriate band while performing each individual invocation. during each separate invocation, hold the appropriate elemental tool in the left hand. for example, for a, you would be holding the lamp, for b, you would be holding the bread and salt etc. here is the invocati

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es of god borne upon the banner of the north. 7 "mor dial hctga, ynda" finish by giving the zelator grade sign. note: each pentagram of spirit active and passive and invoking elemental pentagrams should be traced within a circle. the rose cross lamen is one of the most powerful pieces of spiritual telesmata that the adept posseses. it is important to draw a circle around the lamen, to contain the energy to that particular location or talisman. step 15 holding the white portion of the lotus wand, trace a circle over the outer twelve petals of the rose while vibrating "ynda" step 16 trace a smaller circle over the seven middle petals of the rose while vibrating "atyrara" step 17 trace an even smaller circle over the innermost petals of the rose and vibrate the divine name "hwhy" step 18 from

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control, that its outward and material form may remain a true symbol of the inward and spiritual force" fire wand empowering the lesser angle of o let the adept take up the magical sword of the art and recite the following "o thou mighty angel bziza who art ruler and president over the four angels of the fiery lesser quadrangle of o, i invocate thee to impress into this weapon the force and fiery energy of thy kingdom and servants, that by it, i may control them for all just and righteous purposes" using the sword, trace over the fire wand the invoking active spirit pentagram and the invoking fire pentagram with the lion kerub within a circle. note: when using the magical sword of the art in this case, use the pommel and not the point to do the tracing. empowering the lesser angle of n hol

eem like an extreme amount of work, the proper empowerment of any magical tool is absolutely critical for future working. the tool, when at all possible, should not be held like a baseball bat or like one would hold a hammer, but held with two fingers extending forward, thus, giving the feeling and impression that the tool is an extension of one's own self. consequently, the more time, effort and energy we place into the empowerment and consecration of our tools, the more effective they will be when it is critical to utilize them. g.h. frater p.c.a. 7=4 r.r. et a.c. 13 phonetic pronunciation of the seniors l phonetic pronunciation laidrom lah-ee-dah-roh-meh alhctga ah-el-hec-tay-gah aczinor ah-kah-zoad-ee-noh-ray ahmlicv ah-hay-meh-lee-coh-vah lzinopo el-zoad-ee-noh-poh liiansa lee-ee-ah-n

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esenting deception, and well summed up in the 7 of cups "the lord of illusionary success" but the action of the m makes it mild and beneficient. a gentle, peaceful, force. the square of "o" of "omebb" in the sephirotic cross of the c lesser angle of the water tablet. triangle no. 1 c triangle no. 2 m triangle no. 3 c triangle no. 4 hrwbg here c is extremely strong, and is stirred to action by the energy of hrwbg. were it not for the m it would be the destroying energy of a flood, but the latter renders its effect more gentle and beneficient, promoting the solution and nourishment of matter. the square of "m" of "aismt, a kerubic square of the fiery lesser angle of the earth tablet. 29 triangle no. 1 queen of wands triangle no. 2 b triangle no. 3 c, triangle no. 4 d here b acting downwards

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rit mingled with and governing the watery principle. the lungs are the receptacles of air which temperate the blood as the wind does the waves of the sea the mephitic impurities of the blood in its traversal of the body requiring the dispersing force of the air, even as the sea under a calm, does putrefy and become mephitic. the heart is the great center of the action of fire leading its terrible energy as an impulse under the others. thence cometh from the fiery nature the red color of blood. the part above the heart is the chief abode of the ruach, as there receiving and concentrating the other expressions of its sephiroth. this part is the central citadel of the body and is the particular abode of the lower and more physical will. the higher will is in rtk of the body. for the higher wi

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the lower will, and the nephesch, in all aspects. even the qlippoth serve unto the great work "thought" is a mighty force when projected with all the strength of the lower will under the guidance of the reasoning faculty and illuminated by the higher will. this clearly indicates to us the need for invoking the divine and angelic names so that our lower will may be willing to receive the influx of energy and integrate properly with the higher will. it is more than merely intoning the divine names, however. it is intoning them with the utmost reverence and solemnity. the intonation of the divine names and angelic names sets in action this integration process whereby the lower will and the higher will begin to work in harmony for magical purposes. these magical purposes will always be in acco

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is the n reflected from dsj. the third is the cancellarius because in dwsy, 2=9, is the m reflected from trapt. thus, the order is governed by a triad, one in intention but having different functions: the imperator to command, the praemonstrator to instruct, and the cancellarius to record. the proper mantle of office of the imperator is the flame, scarlet robe of o and severity, as on him do the energy and stability of the temple depend. if he has subofficers to assist him, they partake of his symbolism. his mantle is the symbol of unflinching authority, compelling the obedience of the temple to all commands issued by the second order. upon the left breast thereof, is the cross and triangle of the golden dawn, both white, representing the purification of the temple in the outer order by o

north are bread and salt, allied by their substance to the element of l. the elements are placed upon the altar according to the winds "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods, hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. for the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will: and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the newer life, and the bread and salt are the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one: i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of t

re paroketh at the point of its rending marks the shining forth of the light through the veil, and the translation of the three supernals to the outer order, which is represented by the red calvary cross and the white triangle upon the altar. thus, the station of hierophant's throne fitly represents the rising of the sun of life and light upon our order. the robe of scarlet represents the flaming energy of the divine light, shining forth into infinite worlds. upon the left breast is a white cross to represent purification unto the light, and this cross may be one of the following forms: in which case it alludes either to the cross of six squares of trapt or to the cross of the rivers. the cross of the elements, to represent the descent of the divine and angelic forces into the pyramid symb

between the eternal pillars. it represents the divine light which is attracted thereby and brought to the aid of the candidate. it symbolizes the self sacrifice that is offered for another to aid him in the attainment of the light. it also signifies the atonement of error; the preparer of the pathway unto the divine. upon the left breast is a cross, usually the calvary form, red to represent the energy of the lower will, purified and subjected to that which is the higher, and thus, is the office of hegemon especially that of the reconciler. the mitre-headed sceptre is the distinctive ensign of office of hegemon. on the tree of life, it represents the forces of the pillar of mercy. it should be of scarlet with gold bands and pommel. the bands represent the places of the sephiroth dsj and j

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ris cannot be grasped, but to the candidate, the power of horus as yet can only appear as a terrible and incomprehensible force, the force of the avenger of the gods, hence, the speech of the hegemon for him. the candidate cannot as yet comprehend that before mildness can be exercised rightly, the forces of severity and mercy must be known and wielded. to accomplish this, the greatest courage and energy is required and not hysterical weakness and absence of resolution in action. hence, in the answer of the hiereus is an affirmation of the necessity of courage and of the danger of fear. he gives one knock to seal the vibration of that force imaged in the candidate s sphere of sensation. 6 the next barring and consecration of the candidate is an extension of the previous one and the commence

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onditions such as negative thoughts charged with fear or terrible things that may have happened, such as when somebody has been extremely sick or has died. let us keep in mind that the order does not deny such things as psychic vampires, intentional or unintentional. most of us know people who are well meaning and perhaps not intentionally negative, but when you are around them you find that your energy is just depleted, drained, or much less. the rose cross ritual is a good protection from them. it provides mild invisibility because the nature of the ritual itself contains the aura. some occultists feel that one's aura, or the auric body of a person, actually sees the auric body of another long before the physical eyes do. be as it may, you can remove the possibility of them seeing you wi

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ablished as an eternal rock of righteousness, for dwsy is the foundation of the righteous. the sphere of my nephesch, and the seven palaces of twklm are cleansed and consecrated, balanced and pure, in the might of thy name, ynda, to whom be twklm, hlwdg, hrwbg, the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley. amen" step 10 perform the advanced middle pillar and the circulation of the body. seal the energy by drawing a rose cross before you. step into it. step 11 assume the god form of hoorpokratist. say "hoorpokratist, thou art lord of the silence. hoorpokratist, thou art lord of the sacred lotus. o thou, hoorpokratist, thou that standest in victory on the heads of the infernal dwellers of the waters wherefrom all things were created, thee, thee i invoke, by the name of hyha and the power of

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gs the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body which i destroy in order that they may be renewed (lifts bread and salt on high (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'and the fiery red flame that darts and flashes through the universe is the energy of mine undaunted will (lifts the lamp on high) 3 (first adept rings the bell during iao) all "iao" chief adept "the light of the cross (forms a cross 'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh, yet in whom is the spirit of the great unknowable one. i am the lord of life, triumphant over death. he who partaketh with m

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st of the altar. make the rose cross over the elements while vibrating the enochian spirit invocation. perform the qabalistic cross. step 12 "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods hath said 'these are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration unto the newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed. 4 for i am osiris triumphant. even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am he who is clothed with the body of flesh yet in whom flames the spir

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p 10 go to the east of the altar. make the rose cross over the elements while vibrating the enochian spirit invocation. make qabalistic cross "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods hath said 'these are the elements of my body perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. the scent of the dying rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering, and the flame-red fire as the energy of mine undaunted will. and the cup of wine is the pouring out of the blood of my heart, sacrificed unto regeneration, unto the 4 newer life. and the bread and salt are as the foundations of my body, which i destroy in order that they may be renewed" step 11 take on the god form of osiris using middle pillar formula"'for i am osiris triumphant, even osiris onnophris, the justified one. i am

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hebrew element element i y yam n n n nur o r r ruach m i y yebeshas l the sepher yetzirah gives us a deeper and more profound meaning for inward meditation by assigning the astrology to the keyword: i.n.r.i. hebrew astrology i y f n n h r r a i y f! f is the pure virginal state of nature. this sign relates unto the great goddess isis! h is the sign of death and regeneration. it is also a sign of energy in that ?ruleth. this sign relates to apophis, the greek for set, the slayer of osiris! 0 is the sign of life and light. it is the great life and light giver to the earth. it is, most importantly, the sign of resurrection; for the sun sets in the winter and rises to begin anew in a (vernal equinox. this sign relates to osiris, the glorified one, hwchy! f, it is after resurrection that all i

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pirits of o give unto me the substance of your realm that it may be mine forever. bind it unto this creature of talismans which i have created (make invoking circle) in the name of edlprnaa, great king of the south, spirits of o,i command ye! concentrate upon this talisman the substance of your realm, so that all potent forces descending may impart unto it a tireless strength and an all pervading energy so that unto me it may be a talisman ever helping me to aspire 15 unto the divine with the extended flare of an all penetrating vision. creature of talismans, thou hath the o of life, so pass thou on! make 4=7 grade sign step 4. take up the talisman and circumambulate completely holding talisman aloft and attracting the light. i have passed through the gates of wisdom and come unto the pala

all the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union, i command ye, o ye forces of eth. i invoke ye, ye angels of the celestial sphere, whose dwelling is in the invisible, to give me of your light forever. bind unto this creature of talismans the ethereal splendour of your realm so that it may become a living creature well fitted to receive the incarnation 18 of the divine. give it life and energy, i beseech thee, so that always it may manifest unto me the glorious quality of trapt. the charge against evil step 1 lift the talisman with the left hand high, and point blade of sword downward. say: i heard the voice of the holy one proclaim, thou art my son. this day have i begotten thee. thou shalt rule the nations with a rod of iron. thou shalt break them in pieces as a potter s vessel

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he telesmatic image of rah ynda in your sphere of sensation. make certain the image fills your entire universe (see lesson on telesmatic images) step 6 continue by the formula of the middle pillar vibration method, then absorb the image into yourself, seeing only the flashing letters. step 7 now breath deep, and absorb the name as well. open yourself up to images, thoughts and feelings. allow the energy to be totally infused in your body. also, make certain you are glowing with divine white brilliance when you formulate the telesmatic image, for to not do so could invoke an adverse energy. step 8 banish by the way of the l.b.r.p. and b.r.anthe bornless middle pillar r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 notes on the bornless middle pillar exercise by g. h. frater p. c. a

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ynda. unto thee be the kingdom and the power and the glory twklm, hrwbg, hlwdg. amen. the rose of sharon and the lily of the valley. o thou who hidest beneath the earth, in the valley of gems, the marvelous seed of stars. live, reign, and be thou the eternal dispenser of treasures, whereof thou hast made us wardens. amen" part 6 step 1 circulate the light throughout your sphere of sensation. the energy should rise from your feet to the top of your head like a geyser shooting from the ground. as the power rushes up, hold it and then on the descent, push down the energy of each of the elemental spheres to your feet. then imagine the light going upwards from sphere to sphere, taking the power and energy of each sphere higher until it reaches the divine white brilliance above your head. the d

own the energy of each of the elemental spheres to your feet. then imagine the light going upwards from sphere to sphere, taking the power and energy of each sphere higher until it reaches the divine white brilliance above your head. the divine white brilliance above your head is a combination of all of the colors generated so far. concentrate now on the power rather than the color; the power and energy that you are circulating should now remain brilliant white. step 2 in the circulation of this geyser fountain of white light, the power and energy should, by force of will, be drawn up through center of your body, and then with an exhalation, the energy should be directed down the left side and so on until all areas of your aura have been expanded to its maximum potential. as the aura expan

f will, be drawn up through center of your body, and then with an exhalation, the energy should be directed down the left side and so on until all areas of your aura have been expanded to its maximum potential. as the aura expands, begin forming it into the god form of osiris. step 3 when the god form becomes extremely strong, make the lvx symbols with your arms, and vibrate hcwhy hwchy. feel the energy expand from your heart center until it encompasses your whole body. concentrate, now, only on the divine white brilliance above you, and vibrate iao and command the divine light to descend. feel yourself connected and in union with your higher genius. be completely and totally in control of the elements. know that the elements within you have been purified, and recite the following: 7 "i am

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ons penetrating through the a. those who wish to pursue astrology will understand that a sextile is both powerful and good. if we take the number of degrees of the great circle and cut it off at sixty degree angles, we form this astrological sextile aspect. it is not quite related to the a nature as is the hexagram. it should be remembered that the suffix"-gon" really relates to the dispersion of energy, the distribution of energy, and a radiation of force. when a hexagram is used as the diagram, it represents concentrated force. both are applicable, the hexagon would be for spreading energies and the hexagram would be for specific or concentration of energies, as well as sealing. you should remember that at times in magical workings, both of them may be employed, but the hexagon always in

have the creation of the heptagon. it also alludes to the seven colors of the rainbow. the heptagram is the star of f and is applicable to her nature. the lineal figure of the seven planets is the heptagram, which is representative of f gates or entrances. it is also a fitting symbol of the isis of nature, as well as the seven lower sephiroth of the bride. this is a powerful symbol when f or jxn energy needs to be employed. it is extremely effective in the use of talismans for those who are overly intellectual in their thinking. it becomes a fitting symbol for concentration and meditation for those who are overly influenced by b. the eighth sephira of dwh is represented by the octangle. the power of the ogdoad and the octagon are naturally represented in the octangle. it is this symbol th

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

ide was still expressed: tears of compassion were running down his cheeks. but his face was set stern and hard, his tiara was regal and imposing, and in either hand he grasped a thunderbolt.17 in the interpretation given by joseph campbell, one of the twentieth century s best-known students of myth, the meaning is that the grace that pours into the universe through the sun door is the same as the energy of the bolt that annihilates and is itself indestructible. 18 i turned my head to right and left, slowly studying the remainder of the frieze. it was a beautifully balanced piece of sculpture with three rows of eight figures, twenty-four in all, lined up on either side of the elevated central image. many attempts, none of them particularly convincing, have been made to explain the assumed c

touch its thighs, ankles tucked in against its buttocks, elbows planted on the ground, hands folded across its belly encircling an empty plate, and its back set at an awkward angle as though it were just about to lever itself upright. had it done so, i calculated, it would have stood about eight feet tall. even reclining, coiled and tightly sprung, it seemed to overflow with a fierce and pitiless energy. its square features were thin-lipped and implacable, as hard and indifferent as the stone from which they were carved, and its eyes gazed westwards, traditionally the direction of darkness, death and the colour black.2 1 mexico, lonely planet publications, hawthorne, australia, 1992, pp. 839. 2 ronald wright, time among the maya, futura publications, london, 1991, pp. 343. graham hancock f

exit tunnel, the same height and width as the entrance tunnel and lined with solid red granite, led off from the antechamber s southern wall (also made of granite but incorporating a 12-inch thick limestone layer at its very top. after about a further 9 feet the tunnel debouched into the king s chamber, a massive sombre red room made entirely of granite, which radiated an atmosphere of prodigious energy and power. stone enigmas i moved into the centre of the king s chamber, the lung axis of which was perfectly oriented east to west while the short axis was equally perfectly oriented north to south. the room was exactly 19 feet 1 inch in height and formed a precise two-by-one rectangle measuring 34 feet 4 inches long by 17 feet 2 inches wide. with a floor consisting of 15 massive granite pa

s effigy had been carved out of stuccoed wood, entirely covered with black resin, then painstakingly inlaid with gold, alabaster, calcite, obsidian and silver materials used to particular effect in the eyes, which glittered watchfully with an unsettling sense of fierce and focused intelligence. at the same time his finely etched ribs and lithe musculature gave off an aura of understated strength, energy and grace. captured by the force field of this occult and powerful presence, i was vividly reminded of the universal myths of precession i had been studying during the past year. canine figures moved back and forth among these myths in a manner which at times had seemed almost plotted in the literary sense. i had begun to wonder whether the symbolism of dogs, wolves, jackals, and so on, mig

instrument devised by the scientists of a lost civilization. weight is added to such extreme speculations when we remember that this is by no means the only golden box in the ancient world that functioned like a deadly and unpredictable machine. it has a number of quite unmissable similarities to the hebrews enigmatic ark of the covenant (which also struck innocent people dead with bolts of fiery energy, which also was overlaid round about with gold, and which was said to have contained not only the two tablets of the ten commandments but the golden pot that had manna, and aaron s rod )13 a proper look at the implications of all these weird and wonderful boxes (and of other technological artefacts referred to in ancient traditions) is beyond the scope of this book. for our purposes here it

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

tulated that ancient documents, including the old testament, were really specific accounts of extraterrestrial visitations. a linguist of great talent, he postulated that many biblical passages had been mistranslated, especially when aramaic texts were mistaken for hebrew. for example, the phrase ruach elohim usually translated spirit of god or wind of god may actually refer to a specific form of energy used by a race of extraterrestrial beings. rabbi ibn aaron anticipated the chariots of the gods idea by many years, and was far more literate in his exposition than anyone in the field, up until the comparable scholarship of robert temple s the sirius mystery. rabbi ibn aaron was an early organizer of the national ufo conference. he died in 2005. 6 allen h. greenfield achad, frater, also kn

7= 11 firkon= 83= 8+ 3= 11 aura rhanes= 92= 9+ 2= 11 fact= 56= 5+ 6= 11 (remember that ray palmer always said his personal advantage regarding ufos was to judge a case by his secret fact) secret cipher of the ufonauts 41 aleister crowley called 11 the great magical number, as uniting the antithesis of 5 and 6 etc (see aia aziz, fact and morya, above) and further, the general number of magick, or energy tending to change. rene guenon calls 11 the great number of the hieros gamos, or, as annemarie schimmel explains it, the sacred marriage between macrocosm and microcosm which is the precise role of the medium and contactee as well. i have mentioned the seth material as indicating a continuity from the mediumship and ufo contacteeism of the past 100+ years to the so-called new age trance cha

tes as a means of pointing out phrases to be reduced to cipher for decoding. the overall cipher picture reflects certain qualities about the mythos itself, which predicted the flying discs, the blonds and other features known in modern ufology. the mantong alphabet a animal (use an for short) b be to exist (often used as a command) c con to see (c-on; to understand) d de detrimental, disintegrant energy (the second important symbol in the alphabet) e energy (an all-pervading concept including the idea of motion) f fecund (used fe, as in fe-male fecund man) g generate (used gen) h human (a very metaphysical concept here, not fully under stood but used in the sense h-you-man; a human is an h-man) i self, ego (same as our english i) j generate (a duplication of g, but with a delicate differen

motion) f fecund (used fe, as in fe-male fecund man) g generate (used gen) h human (a very metaphysical concept here, not fully under stood but used in the sense h-you-man; a human is an h-man) i self, ego (same as our english i) j generate (a duplication of g, but with a delicate difference in shade of meaning. actually ja, in contrast to ge, is a very important distinction. g is the generating energy, while j is animal generation per se) k kinetic (the force of motion) l life m man n seed spore (child, as ninny) o orifice (a source concept) p power q quest (as quest-ion) r horror danger (used ar, symbol of a dangerous quantity of disintegrant force in an object) s sun (used sis; an important symbol, always referring to a sun whose energy is given off through atomic disintegration) t int

abet; the true origin of the cross symbol. it signifies the integrative force of growth; as, all matter is growing the intake of gravity is the cause. the force is t. tic means the science of growth. integration-i-con [understand) u you v vital (use vi; the stuff mesmer called animal magnetism) w will x conflict (force lines crossing each other) y why z zero nothing. neutralization (a quantity of energy of t neutralized by an equal quantity of d. futility) 48 allen h. greenfield some inner circle controls that operated through mark probert. copyright borderland sciences research foundation. all this and more at: www.borderlands.com 49 8 recap: meade layne, mark probert and the inner circle all questions pose more questions and all answers are personal opinions -and the only sound rule and

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

the major forces that cycle through the subquadrants of the four watchtowers. figure 14, appendix a, shows the major characteristics and astrological signs associated with the sixteen subquadrants of the watchtowers. the forces of earth begin with chaotic violence. these lead gradually into formative forces, which result in establishing distinct forms. the forces of water begin with raw emotional energy. these gradually build up into forces of cohesion and creat ivi ty. the forces of ai r begin wi th n e bul ou s f o rma t i v e r e l a t i o n sh i p s a n d p r o g r e s s systematically through a series of harmonious changes and knowledge. the forces of fi re begin wi th destruct ive violence. these forces advance gradually into creative transformations and the renewal of form. you shou

ee that the procedure has a certain grace and natural ease associated with it. speaking the name of a deity aloud is not sufficient to effect the desired results. by vibrating the name of a deity (or demon) in accordance with this procedure you will establish an occult link with that deity which is essential for success. if properly done, a single vibration will leave you exhausted and drained of energy. 65 egyptian deities the egyptian theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical, the most bound tome (or ratherl to it) by some inmost nstinct, and by the memory of my incarnation as ankh f n-khonsu, that i use it (with its graecophoenician child) for all work of supreme effort. aleister crowley, magick without tears l am iike a god. viere is no body component of mine that is lacking fits

the primary meanings of these signs are given below. sun: will power, vitality, creativity. it rules over leo. moon: instinct, habit, personality, feeling, memory, imagination, receptivity. it rules cancer. mercury: power of communicat ion, intel l igence, reason, mobility, self-expression. it rules gemini and virgo. venus: love, beauty, harmony. it roles taurus and libra. mars: passion, desire, energy, courage, initiative. it rules aries and scorpio. j piter: higher xni.nd, wisdom, optimism, spon74 taneity, enthusiasm, benevolence, generosity. it rules sagittarius and pisces. saturn: satan, contraction, crystal l ization, concentration, ambition, self-preservation, caution, responsibility, pessimism, stability, endurance. it rules capricorn and aquarius. 75 magical preparations thus shal

om yourself. 83 when invoking, you will become identified with the deity.you will speak and act with the authority of that deity. thus you may: 1. speak orarles or expound the wisdom of one thing or another. 2. bless a person or thing in the narre of the deity. 3. connmand those deities or entities that are lawfully under the jurisdiction of the deity. when evoking, you will be able to embody the energy or virtue of the deity evoked into: 1. a talisman. 2. any magical instrument or weapon. 3. a sacrament such as a wafer, or wine which can be consumed into your body or the body of another. 84 three primary methods of invocation inaoke me under my stars! the book of the law, chapter 1, verse 57 as a magician, you will have recourse to three main ways in which to invoke a deity. these are: 1

lude by feeling the might and ppower of all the enochian deities rising up in your body of light. hold this feeling for as long as you can. may you thus assume their qualities. indeed, in this way you may assume their qualities and powers. when your spiritual identity is firmly established, lose by repeating the banishing rituals. 93 talismans a talisman is a storehouse of some particular kind of energy, the kind that is needed to accomplish the task for which you have constructed it. aleister crowley,magick without tears in construction of a talisman, symbolism should be exact and in harmony with universal forces. the golden dawn's talismansand flashing tablets s.l. macgregor mathers, a leader of the golden dawn and tutor for a time to aleister crowley, defined a talisman as "a magical fi

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

notion of formlessness, and so the word sof- limits- got added. ayn sof. since god s creation was first supposed to be light which was yet unmanifested as anything, the negative state of ayn sof aur, or unknown and limitless light (aur means light in hebrew) was conceived as a zero or cypher= 0, out of which god was said to create everything in existence. this limitless light focussed into active energy at the first state or sphere in the sense of what a modern scientist would call a field. kabbalists called this primal condition of pure power keter, a crown or summit for two reasons. first they considered god to be king of the entire universe, and secondly it signified the top or summit of anything. here was the supreme summit of creation. from the combination of 0+ 1, came the idea of pu

eemed to be the process-principles of creation. the right-left-centre, yes-no and maybe, positive-negative and neutral combination that everything appears to consist of. combining the lot, the kabbalists pushed them a stage further and saw another positive state of generous outpouring they called chesed, or mercy-benevolence. realising that a countercurb had to be applied as a control to make any energy effective, they again combined all the previous spheres, and conceived a fifth state or sphere called gevurah, or severity, the economy of existence which applies a brake to the acceleration of initial energy. having thus got things under control, a central resultant came into being as the sphere of tiferet, or beauty and harmony. a condition of balance, stability and order to act as a nucl

nomy of existence which applies a brake to the acceleration of initial energy. having thus got things under control, a central resultant came into being as the sphere of tiferet, or beauty and harmony. a condition of balance, stability and order to act as a nucleus for the now controllable pattern being produced. so now the triplicity-scheme could be repeated on lower levels and the next issue of energy in a masculinized direction was termed netzach, victory or achievement. something done successfully. accomplishment. a natural outcome of what has been done so far, but in order for this to be fulfilled, something will be needed to appreciate and realize it. so an eighth sphere or field was thought to be hod, or glory, otherwise honour. an appreciation of everything achieved and a sense of

of an enormous edifice can be built up out of consciousness alone. that is how cosmos was constructed by the thoughts of god. divinity combined one piece of consciousness with another in mathematical order and precision. in fact the whole tree is a mathematical calculation in itself concerning god-man relationships. being forbidden to worship any solid kind of shaped idol, the hebrew produced an energy-concept which was purely a mental arrangement of numerical values based on the decimal system. not that kabbalah is an orthodox hebrew practice at all. in fact it is regarded as heretical by most pious jews, because it implies a distinctly feminine side to divinity which would not suit their paternalistic attitude. however, it should not be assumed that kabbalah is entirely hebrew by any me

vely. thus what was the sixth sphere will then become the fourth, or bridging sphere or da at across the deep abyss of darkness and ignorance, illuminating everything by its clear light directly reflecting understanding and wisdom throughout the inner universe. the other spheres will change numbers but not natures, and the whole of creation will become a model of perpetual motion or 100%efficient energy. everlasting existence. our ideal immortality may be a very long way from us yet, but if individuals are to begin the process, then the sooner we start climbing the tree of life the better. it all begins by learning the primer of spiritual awareness consisting of the ten fundamental ideas behind life itself, the four ways of bringing theminto concrete and objective consciousness, and the tr

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

from the infernal hierarchies listed in appendix ii "magical correspondences" these precautions are necessary to attempt to avoid the catastrophe that would doubtlessly ensue, should the casual reader skip the rest of the work and attempt to begin directly with magical evocation. it remains to clarify how to perform magical evocation in safety. the averse forces are indeed unbalanced forces whose energy is highly unstable and dangerous. proper insulation is the most important key to relating to them in a safe fashion. for example, by way of analogy, electricity in itself is neither good nor evil. although guaranteed to kill you, should you grab a live wire with enough current flowing through it, with proper insulation electricity may nonetheless light up an entire city. likewise, although

e b t/ab;x] yhiloa e yellow c t/ab;x] hwhy green y yj' lae yd"v' blue 8 kether hywhite chokma h hy: grey binah yhiloa e hwhy black malkuth .rblack o la lk;ymi red n la lyrib]g" blue m laep;r g yellow l la lyriwa black first the constraints of the triangle of art, then the balance and harmony of the divine and archangelical names around the magic circle protect the magician. the energy of any unbalanced force, even if it somehow managed to penetrate these defenses, would become so balanced in the process as to render it completely harmless. the magician's third and final line of defense is the invocation ritual preceding the evocation summoning the light forces of the same category. thus the divine, archangelical, and angelical forces that correspond to the demon protect

tate of mind once described as demonic possession. furthermore, unlike the abra-melin system, the demon does not even swear its oath to the magician's holy guardian angel. in rosicrucian magic, the will of the magician magnified by the power of the magic sword obliges the demon to swear an oath of allegiance and obedience to the divine force corresponding to its own nature and to place its entire energy at the disposition of the corresponding archangel. for example, in the ritual that follows, the magician obliges the demonic spirit of the planet saturn, zazel, to swear allegiance and obedience to the divine force of saturn, yhvh elohim, and to place its energy at the disposition of the corresponding archangel, tzaphquiel. this magical act unites the conscious and unconscious aspects of sa

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

each pole has an aura or field of magnetic attraction around it. if we say that the north pole is negative, and the south pole positive, in polarity, then the north pole has a space around it in which negative magnetism radiates, and around the south pole is a field or space in which positive magnetism radiates. we cannot see this magnetic radiation.any more than we can see any form of electrical energy; but we can demonstrate it. by holding one end or pole of the magnet under a piece of paper and then sprinkling a very fine steel powder on top of the paper, we will see the powder moving in certain lines, which plainly show the lines of magnetic attraction and repulsion. in illustration no. 3 we see a small, straight magnet under a piece of tissue paper and the powder grains of steel sprin

a small portion of the negative with the positive. by deeper breathing, or by holding the breath, as explained in our monographs, we cause more of the negative cells of the blood to become charged with the positive vitality of the air and thereby make our blood stronger or greater in its vitality. other breathing exercises show us in our lessons how we can take on an additional amount of positive energy for psychic experiments and for special healing work. all of this, of course, is explained in detail in the monographs [86] chart 3 [87] explanation of chart 3 principal arteries in our use of the blood for healing purposes, as well as for all mystic or psychic purposes, we deal with the vitalized or positive blood. this is the blood which travels through the arteries of the human body. art

of the ganglia, their size, form, and location (it will prove interesting to the deep student to read in various physiology textbooks on the "nervous system" the diversified explanations and theories of the purposes and formation of "ganglia" and "neurons) the reason for the two forms of nervous systems in the human body will be easily understood when we say that the spinal nervous system conveys energy and power that is of a gross nature, to take care of the physical actions and functions of the human body. the autonomic nervous system, however, belongs to the psychic part of man, and there is a place in the human body, shown in our monographs and thoroughly explained, where the psychic power and energy are generated and sent into the autonomic nervous system. this system, therefore, uses

hat is of a gross nature, to take care of the physical actions and functions of the human body. the autonomic nervous system, however, belongs to the psychic part of man, and there is a place in the human body, shown in our monographs and thoroughly explained, where the psychic power and energy are generated and sent into the autonomic nervous system. this system, therefore, uses a higher rate of energy, which is almost a cosmic energy, and this energy can be used for the healing of diseases and curing of conditions because its real purpose in the human body is to carry on the reconstructive actions in the human body. this function of the autonomic nervous system was not known until the rosicrucians explained it and even today it is thoroughly understood only by those who have the lectures

and a "music note" for each of the spinal nerves between the vertebrae. these are plainly shown on the diagram opposite, as well as the universally adopted name of each vertebra. in the monographs of the sixth degree there are complete instructions as to how members may easily take advantage of the relationship between the various nerves and their association with colors, music sounds, and nerve energy. we show our members that music notes will arouse certain connections of the autonomic nervous system into special activity and thereby cause the energy of these nerves to function more freely and completely. the same is true in regard to colors. and we show our members how even the mind, or thought waves, can reach the sympathetic connections and help in curing or relieving conditions. all

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

ness and anxiety than their inflictions or mydoom-iwas so fearful they should have the power i was so soon to lose 'i was to be burned, and the night before it was customary to allow the prisoners the indulgence of a bed and a meal. imagine my joy at that hour when my mattress was brought back. 1 picked out my book and concealed it in my dress until the last moment came, and then, with despairing energy, when that was no longerofavail, 1 clasped it in my hands and determined that it should be burned with me. 1 thought not so much of myself asofthat, and i went to the stake as firm perhaps as the frailty of the flesh would allow a mortal to do. manyofus were burned, and to this circumstance or to those again interposing who were not of earth, i must owe the preservationofmy book from the si

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

ed of the serpent amun kem-atef, the first primeval god who gave birth to the primeval gods. 2 the serpent may have been considered an appropriate form for the spirit of the creator because of its undivided body or because it periodically renewed itself by shedding its skin. when creator gods such as amun or atum are spoken of as serpents, they usually represent the positive aspect of chaos as an energy force, but they had a negative counterpart in the great serpent apophis. apophis represented the destructive aspect of chaos that constantly tried to overwhelm all individual beings and reduce everything back to its primeval state of oneness. so, even before creation began, the world contained the elements of its own destruction. 58 handbook of egyptian mythology emergence of the creator su

nd further reading: j. p. allen. the means of creation ptah. in genesis in egypt: the philosophy of ancient egyptian creation accounts. 2d ed. yale egyptological studies 2. san antonio, tx: 1995, 38 47. m. sandman holmberg. the god ptah. lund, denmark, 1946. primary sources: pt 345; ct 62, 187, 648; bd 82; ptah hymns; leiden hymns; mt ra (re, pre) the sun god who was the ultimate source of light, energy, and life. the first sunrise, when the sun emerged as a shining bird or a golden child from dark watery chaos, was the most important event in egyptian myth. ra merged with 182 handbook of egyptian mythology the primeval form of the creator to make the cosmos and its laws. he ruled as king of the gods, first on earth and later from the heavens. ra was born to his mother the sky goddess each

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ne doctrines of the "wisdom-religion" and if the real program is carried out, deriving much help from mutual aid and sympathy. union is strength and harmony, and well-regulated simultaneous efforts produce wonders. this has been the secret of all associations and communities since mankind existed. q. but why could not a man of well-balanced mind and singleness of purpose, one, say, of indomitable energy and perseverance, become an occultist and even an adept if he works alone? a. he may; but there are ten thousand chances against one that he will fail. for one reason out of many others, no books on occultism or theurgy exist in our day which give out the secrets of alchemy or medieval theosophy in plain language. all are symbolical or in parables; and as the key to these has been lost for

point that union is strength, and disunion a source of weakness and failure. shoulder to shoulder, drilled and disciplined, a rabble becomes an army, each man a match for a hundred of the untrained men that may be brought against it. organization in every department of man's work means success, saving of time and labor, profit and development. want of method, want of plan, haphazard work, fitful energy, undisciplined effort-these mean bungling failure. the voice of humanity attests the truth. does the spiritualist accept the verdict and act on the conclusion? verily, no. he refuses to organize. he is a law unto himself, and a thorn in the side of his neighbors. q. i was told that the theosophical society was originally founded to crush spiritualism and belief in the survival of the indivi

prejudices. besides which we maintain that memory, as olympiodorus called it, is simply fantasy, and the most unreliable thing in us. say olympiodorus, in platonis phaed: the fantasy is an impediment to our intellectual conceptions; and hence, page 60 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt when we are agitated by the inspiring influence of the divinity, if the fantasy intervenes, the enthusiastic energy ceases: for enthusiasm and the ecstasy are contrary to each other. should it be asked whether the soul is able to energize without the fantasy, we reply, that its perception of universals proves that it is able. it has perceptions, therefore, independent of the fantasy; at the same time, however, the fantasy attends in its energies, just as a storm pursues him who sails on the sea. ammonius

"reincarnating ego" the lower, or personal "ego" is the physical man in conjunction with his lower self, i.e, animal instincts, passions, desires, etc. it is called the "false personality" and consists of the lower manas combined with kamarupa, and operating through the physical body and its phantom or "double" the remaining principle prana, or life, is, strictly speaking, the radiating force or energy of atma-as the universal life and the one self-its lower or rather (in its effects) more physical, because manifesting, aspect. prana or life permeates the whole being of the objective universe; and is called a principle only because it is an indispensable factor and the deus ex machina of the living man. q. this division being so much simplified in its combinations will answer better, i be

very well with the treatment of this world in which we live as a phenomenal world of illusion, the spiritual plane of nature being on the other hand the noumenal world or plane of reality. that region of nature in which, so to speak, the permanent soul is rooted is more real than that in which its transitory blossoms appear for a brief space to wither and fall to pieces, while the plant recovers energy for sending forth a fresh flower. supposing flowers only were perceptible to ordinary senses, and their roots existed in a state of nature intangible and invisible to us, philosophers in such a world who divined that there were such things as roots in another plane of existence would be apt to say of the flowers "these are not the real plants; they are of no relative importance, merely illu

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

ity. 7. is a specific shape required? servitors can be created to have any desired shape, from tiny homunculi to morphic spheres capable of extruding any required appendage. the shape you choose to identify with this particular thought-form can add another level of representational identity to the entity. a common practice though, is to visualize the servitor as a featureless sphere, pulsing with energy, glowing with appropriately chosen colours, into which has been impressed, it.s sigilised instructions. 19 gohu servitor this short essay is an account of one of my most successful servitors to date. the twin spirits of gossip and rumour have followed me about ever since i started .doing things. on the uk magical scene. rumours ranging from allegations of affiliation to .dark. satanic group

ring off a .blank. missile at an unsuspecting colleague- just to see if it worked the way i wanted it to- before realising that i was going a teensy wee bit over the top about the whole thing. instead of thinking .get the bastards. i began to look at the whole issue of gossip& rumour in a new light. after all, if people are talking about you .behind your back, they could be said to be feeding you energy. as terry pratchett& neil gaiman wisely note in good omens .notoriety wasn.t as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. bearing this in mind, i 20 decided to create a servitor that actively worked to generate gossip and rumour, rather than counter it. after all, what.s worse, being talked about- or not being talked about? those magicians who leap to the defensive of their parent

f gas from their lips, which could be established in the atmosphere, though its presence, by normal standards, would be impossible to detect. choronzon proposes that it is mathematically possible for such structures, which have (at least 30 in part) an electromagnetic character to exist within the earth.s magnetic field. he also proposes that it is possible to produce such structures by expending energy in the form of neurochemical activity in the nervous system. in short, physiological gnoses of the sort used by magicians in ritual can produce such toroid structures. the above has interesting implications for both magicians and researchers into earth mysteries. over the past year, i have been conducting a great deal of research into the creation, usage, and aetiology of evoked entities, i

, and aetiology of evoked entities, including both the demonic forms of the goetia and the .elemental servitors. created by magicians to perform a specific task. in the latter case, the process is very much one of creating an .information matrix; that is, of laying down a set of instructions which define the nature, abilities, and functions of the entity. into this information matrix is projected energy, which forms the entity as a whole, which is then able to act, independently of its creator. a purely psychological or subjective account of this process cannot account for the ability of such an entity to manifest results (in accordance with the creator.s intent) in the physical world. following choronzon.s ideas on chaos dynamics, it seems likely to me that in evoking, and thereby creatin

.powerful. it becomes- in terms of its ability to manipulate probabilities, and eventually take on an independent character of its own. it is not unknown for powerful entities to survive the death of their creator. the more people that .create. such an entity also enhances its survival and capacity to store information. in these terms, it is easy to see how a small spirit may, given time and the energy input (directed through ritual and other techniques for directing energy) by enough people, could become what we commonly 31 assume to be .gods. to side-step for a moment, i wish to look again at some of the phenomena associated with ufo and spectral encounters. one factor that rises time and again to haunt the sceptical researcher is the commonality of experiences between different individ

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

rive to avoid falling into dogmatism (unless expressing dogmatism is part of a temporary belief system they have entered. discordians use catmas such as us discordians must stick apart! thus chaos magicians feel entitled to change their minds, contradict themselves and come up with arguments that are alternatively plausible and implausible. it has been pointed out that we invest a lot of time and energy in being right. what s wrong with being wrong occasionally? 2. personal experience is paramount. in other words, don t take my word that such-and-such is the case, check it out for yourself. magick has suffered extensively from armchair theorists who have perpetuated myths and out-of-date information purely due to laziness of one kind or another. sometimes it s interesting to ask awkward qu

in their work. this is okay- after all science sells washing powders and cars- if something can be shown to have a scientific basis, then a lot more people will go for it, especially computer buffs, physics students, etc. it all helps with creating the belief buffer. it needn t actually be hard science, psuedoscience works just as well, as the number of new age books asserting that crystals store energy just like a computer chip does shows. i m not trying to be picky (okay, just a bit, and equally, since its the belief factor which is the important thing, then you could use astrology, alchemy, theosophy or whatever else strikes your fancy, so long as you (or someone else) find it coherent& useful. just because you re being scientific doesn t mean that you have to be serious at the same tim

spirits in a given way, to get them to execute your will. so clergymen pray, shamans stuff sacred mushrooms into their orifices in order to meet their ancestors, whilst demonologists threaten entities into submission by thundering out bits of the old testament. by the eighteenth century, and the rise of science, the idea of animal magnetism arose in the west, being the first manifestation of the energy model of magick. this model places emphasis on the presence of subtle energies which can be manipulated via a number of techniques. along came bulwer lytton and his idea of vril energy, eliphas levi and the astral light, mediums& ectoplasm, westernised popular accounts of prana, chakras, and kundalini, and eventually, wilhelm reich s orgone energy. the next development came with the popular

, and in chaos servitors: a user guide, you will find a reasonably coherent argument to support the idea that localised informationfields can, over time, become self-organising to the extent that we experience them as autonomous entities- spirits. each particular model has its own attractive glamour, with exponents or opponents on either side. many occult textbooks contain elements of the spirit, energy, and psychological models quite happily. it is also worth noting that should you ever find yourself in the position of having to explain all this weird stuff to an non-afficiando or skeptic, then the psychological model is probably your best bet. these days, people who ascribe to the spirit model, if they are not of a pagan or occult persuasion themselves, tend to think that they have an ex

cult persuasion themselves, tend to think that they have an exclusive copyright over the use of spirits! if the person is a computer buff or fractal phreak, then by all means go for the cyberpunk paradigm. scientists only tend to accept something if a scientific rationale can be wheeled up to slot it into. a good example is acupuncture, which up until recently 22 phil hine was explained using the energy model, and poo-poohed by the scientific establishment until someone came up with endorphin stimulation. now most hospital physiotherapy departments have a set of needles. whilst some magicians tend to stick to one favourite model, it is useful to shift between them as the situation befits, as some models have a stronger explaining power for accounting for some aspects of magick than others

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

emy with evident familiarity, turned to theosophical publica!io s and. yoga and offered good advice about incense. it is inconceivable that the protestant vicar of chacombe would have tolerated the use of incense in the parish church, but his cellar, where he performed his alchemical experiments, may have reeked of the stuff. private i brought bronchitis home with me from london and have only had energy enough to get through what was absolutely required of me. as to alchemical books the e are plenty of them but all written with a view of conceahng rather than revealing. there do exist mss in which it is more plainly revealed, but by no means clear to those who have not s me k nd of an initiation. it is a tremendous study to enter upon, involving not only labour in reading first, but also t

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ecided that it would now be safe to rent the house. to declare that we were not nervous on that rainy night of watching would be an exaggeration both gross and ridiculous. we were not, as i have said, in any sense childishly superstitious, but scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy. in this case an overwhelming preponderance of evidence from numerous authentic sources pointed to the tenacious existence of certain forces of great power and, so far as the human point of view is concerned, exceptional malignancy. to say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement. rather must it be said that we were not prepared to deny t

e bodies murdered, and continued to function in some multiple-dimensioned space along the original lines of force determined by a frantic hatred of the encroaching community? such a thing was surely not a physical or biochemical impossibility in the light of a newer science which includes the theories of relativity and intra-atomic action. one might easily imagine an alien nucleus of substance or energy, formless or otherwise, kept alive by imperceptible or immaterial subtractions from the life-force or bodily tissue and fluids of other and more palpably living things into which it penetrates and with whose fabric it sometimes completely merges itself. it might be actively hostile, or it might be dictated merely by blind motives of self-preservation. in any case such a monster must of nece

eservation. in any case such a monster must of necessity be in our scheme of things an anomaly and an intruder, whose extirpation forms a primary duty with every man not an enemy to the world's life, health, and sanity. what baffled us was our utter ignorance of the aspect in which we might encounter the thing. no sane person had even seen it, and few had ever felt it definitely. it might be pure energy- a form ethereal and outside the realm of substance-or it might be partly material; some unknown and equivocal mass of plasticity, capable of changing at will to nebulous approximations of the solid, liquid, gaseous, or tenuously unparticled states. the anthropomorphic patch of mould on the floor, the form of the yellowish vapour, and the curvature of the tree-roots in some of the old tales

ptions; john carter, publisher of the gazette; all four of the brown brothers, john, joseph, nicholas, and moses, who formed the recognised local magnates, and of whom joseph was an amateur scientist of parts; old dr. jabez bowen, whose erudition was considerable, and who had much first-hand knowledge of curwen's odd purchases; and capt. abraham whipple, a privateersman of phenomenal boldness and energy who could be counted on to lead in any active measures needed. these men, if favourable, might eventually be brought together for collective deliberation; and with them would rest the responsibility of deciding whether or not to inform the governor of the colony, joseph wanton of newport, before taking action. the mission of capt. mathewson prospered beyond his highest expectations; for whi

this material and examining the ominous note to willett they all agreed that charles ward's studies had been enough to unseat or at least to warp any ordinary intellect, and wished most heartily that they could see his more intimate volumes and documents; but this latter they knew they could do, if at all, only after a scene at the bungalow itself. willett now reviewed the whole case with febrile energy; it being at this time that he obtained the statements of the workmen who had seen charles find the curwen documents, and that he collated the incidents of the destroyed newspaper items, looking up the latter at the journal office. on thursday, the eighth of march, drs. willett, peck, lyman, and waite, accompanied by mr. ward, paid the youth their momentous call; making no concealment of th

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

es embark upon spatial pioneering. they seemed able to traverse the interstellar ether on their vast membranous wings- thus oddly confirming some curious hill folklore long ago told me by an antiquarian colleague. they had lived under the sea a good deal, building fantastic cities and fighting terrific battles with nameless adversaries by means of intricate devices employing unknown principles of energy. evidently their scientific and mechanical knowledge far surpassed man s today, though they made use of its more widespread and elaborate forms only when obliged to. some of the sculptures suggested that they had passed through a stage of mechanized life on other planets, but had receded upon finding its effects emotionally unsatisfying. their preternatural toughness of organization and sim

HP LOVECRAFT BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

i did not tell the older physicians of these things, for middle age is skeptical, cynical, and disinclined to accept new ideas. besides, the head of the institution had but lately warned me in his paternal way that i was overworking; that my mind needed a rest. it had long been my belief that human thought consists basically of atomic or molecular motion, convertible into ether waves or radi ant energy like heat, light and electricity. this belief had early led me to contemplate the possibility of telepathy or mental communication by means of suitable apparatus, and i had in my college days prepared a set of transmitting and receiving instruments somewhat similar to the cumbrous devices employed in wireless telegraphy at that crude, pre-radio period. these i had tested with a fellow-stude

nto the dream-life of joe slater, i sought these instruments again, and spent several days in repairing them for action. when they were complete once more i missed no opportunity for their trial. at each outburst of slater's violence, i would fit the transmitter to his forehead and the receiver to my own, constantly making delicate adjustments for various hypothetical wave-lengths of intellectual energy. i had but little notion of how the thought-impressions would, if successfully conveyed, arouse an intelligent response in my brain, but i felt certain that i could detect and interpret them. accordingly i continued my experiments, though informing no one of their nature. it was on the twenty-first of february, 1901, that the thing occurred. as i look back across the years i realize how unr

HP LOVECRAFT CELEPHAIS

ase his periods of sleep. hasheesh helped a great deal, and once sent him to a part of space where form does not exist, but where glowing gases study the secrets of existence. and a violet-coloured gas told him that this part of space was outside what he had called infinity. the gas had not heard of planets and organisms before, but identified kuranes merely as one from the infinity where matter, energy, and gravitation exist. kuranes was now very anxious to return to minaret-studded celephais, and increased his doses of drugs; but eventually he had no more money left, and could buy no drugs. then one summer day he was turned out of his garret, and wandered aimlessly through the streets, drifting over a bridge to a place where the houses grew thinner and thinner. and it was there that fulf

HP LOVECRAFT DAGON

were so wild that night; but ere the waning and fantastically gibbous moon had risen far above the eastern plain, i was awake in a cold perspiration, determined to sleep no more. such visions as i had experienced were too much for me to endure again. and in the glow of the moon i saw how unwise i had been to travel by day. without the glare of the parching sun, my journey would have cost me less energy; indeed, i now felt quite able to perform the ascent which had deterred me at sunset. picking up my pack, i started for the crest of the eminence. i have said that the unbroken monotony of the rolling plain was a source of vague horror to me; but i think my horror was greater when i gained the summit of the mound and looked down the other side into an immeasurable pit or canyon, whose black

HP LOVECRAFT FROM BEYOND

ons of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. we see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. with five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very dif-ferently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have. i have always believed that such strange, inaccessible worlds exist at our very elbows, and now i believe i have found a way to break dawn the barriers. i am not joking. within twenty-four hours that machine near the table will generate waves acting on unrecognized sense organs that exist in us as atrophied

HP LOVECRAFT HERBERT WEST REANIMATOR

had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery. besides, the body would not be even approximately fresh the next night. so taking the solitary acetylene lamp into the adjacent laboratory, we left our silent guest on the slab in the dark, and bent every energy to the mixing of a new solution; the weighing and measuring supervised by west with an almost fanatical care. the awful event was very sudden, and wholly unexpected. i was pouring something from one test-tube to another, and west was busy over the alcohol blast-lamp which had to answer for a bunsen burner in this gasless edifice, when from the pitch-black room we had left there burst the mo

rightfully overworked, and the terrific mental and nervous strain made my friend brood morbidly. but west s gentle enemies were no less harassed with prostrating duties. college had all but closed, and every doctor of the medical faculty was helping to fight the typhoid plague. dr. halsey in particular had distinguished himself in sacrificing service, applying his extreme skill with whole-hearted energy to cases which many others shunned because of danger or apparent hopelessness. before a month was over the fearless dean had become a popular hero, though he seemed unconscious of his fame as he struggled to keep from collapsing with physical fatigue and nervous exhaustion. west could not withhold admiration for the fortitude of his foe, but because of this was even more determined to prove

HP LOVECRAFT HYPNOS

thinning hair and beard of my friend had become snow-white. our freedom from long sleep was surprising, for seldom did we succumb more than an hour or two at a time to the shadow which had now grown so frightful a menace. then came one january of fog and rain, when money ran low and drugs were hard to buy. my statues and ivory heads were all sold, and i had no means to purchase new materials, or energy to fashion them even had i possessed them. we suffered terribly, and on a certain night my friend sank into a deep-breathing sleep from which i could not awaken him. i can recall the scene now-the desolate, pitch-black garret studio under the eaves with the rain beating down; the ticking of our lone clock; the fancied ticking of our watches as they rested on the dressing-table; the creaking

HP LOVECRAFT THE BEAST IN THE CAVE

of simian, and i wonder if this unnatural quality were not the result of a long continued and complete silence, broken by the sensations produced by the advent of the light, a thing which the beast could not have seen since its first entrance into the cave. the sound, which i might feebly attempt to classify as a kind of deep-tone chattering, was faintly continued. all at once a fleeting spasm of energy seemed to pass through the frame of the beast. the paws went through a convulsive motion, and the limbs contracted. with a jerk, the white body rolled over so that its face was turned in our direction. for a moment i was so struck with horror at the eyes thus revealed that i noted nothing else. they were black, those eyes, deep jetty black, in hideous contrast to the snow-white hair and fle

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

een a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of yuggoth worship as the beyond-one, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable sign- yet in a flash the carter-facet realized how slight and fractional all these conceptions are. and now the being was addressing the carter-facet in prodigious waves that smote and burned and thundered- a concentration of energy that blasted its recipient with well-nigh unendurable violence, and that paralleled in an unearthly rhythm the curious swaying of the ancient ones, and the flickering of the monstrous lights, in that baffling region beyond the first gate. it was as though suns and worlds and universes had converged upon one point whose very position in space they had conspired- to annihilate with an impact

eant. and now the being, grasping his impatience signified its readiness to accomplish the monstrous precipitation. the waves abruptly ceased, and there supervened a momentary stillness tense with nameless and dreadful expectancy. then, without warning, came a whirring and drumming that swelled to a terrific thundering. once again carter felt himself the focal point of an intense concentration of energy which smote and hammered and seared unbearably in the now-familiar rhythm of outer space, and which he could not classify as either the blasting heat of a blazing star, or the all-petrifying cold of the ultimate abyss. bands and rays of colour utterly foreign to any spectrum of our universe played and wove and interlaced before him, and he was conscious of a frightful velocity of motion. he

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

igious victims, old tired wives, envied neighbours, folk doctors, hysterical teenagers, menopausal mothers-in-law, the retarded and/or psychotic, unwanted old souls- all were counted as fair and proper witch material. but let's face it: would a witch with esp and a strong inclination for survival have ignored the signs of a fast-decaying society and impending personal disaster? would a witch with energy and power to impose her will have suffered the extremes of personal humiliation? and if, due to some momentary weakness, all else had failed her, couldn't a witch at least have mustered up the strength to manipulate her jurors and thus go free? they were imposters who left salem rich in history, and the real witches, if there were any, left that city long before history started. a witch is

a special mental quirk; supernormal, perhaps, but not supernatural. as to the belief that witches live many lives, it is doubtful. i am a witch and the only life other than this one that i believe possible would be some extension of self. if it is impossible to explain this thing called self, then it may be possible to entertain the idea that all humans are tuned into a vast, ubiquitous source of energy that enables each individual to think or be. if that were so, then maybe when i am no longer around to tune into that particular force of energy, someone else will, and then the thoughts will exist again, but not necessarily me. if i have lived before, i certainly am not aware of it. and, i don't think i will come back knowing i'm me; in fact i don't think i will come back at all. if i do

vil and good, witches seem to be evil. organized religions have branded witchcraft as evil, but they did this because they considered witchcraft a form of competition and naturally reasoned that anyone against them would have to be on the side of the devil. there is no such thing as good and evil witches on the basis of one of them deriving their powers from the devil. the power witches tap is an energy inside themselves. it should be considered wasteful, stupid, and therefore bad, not to use the energy within one's self to gain one's desires, to fulfil one's self. witches are selfish, but is that evil? being self-interested, a witch has to be personally motivated to dp anything, anything at all, even to get up in the morning. witches do not go anywhere they don't want to go or do anything

e what it is. it's that feeling of instant recognition that flows between two people, like electricity. sometimes it's mistaken for "love at first sight" many times as a strong sexual attraction. in actuality, it's the psychic force emanating from the individual, not the individual himself, which causes the attraction. two people may be operating on the same wave length, the same level of psychic energy; when that happens, they zing into each other like 'two strangers in a foreign land, drawn to each other by a common bond of nationality. it's not necessarily love, or even sex. it's psychic attraction and should be recognized as such. this is not to say that witchcraft and love are incompatible. even our language reflects the similarities in the two. such words as charm, enchant, fascinate

you feel as though you are under a magic spell. the fact that love is an unseen force does not make it any less real; a psychic involvement has occurred. the same sort of psychic exchange happens when i cast a horoscope. during the time i work on an individual chart, i feel drawn to the subject, almost as though i were in love with him. i know it isn't love, but simply a concentration of psychic energy at work. but the force feels the same. with this knowledge, it seems strange to me that people can accept the energy force of love, yet refuse to acknowledge that other forms of psychic exchange can take place, such as mental telepathy. almost everyone has, at one time or another, experienced forms of psychic energy. we all know the common occurrence of suddenly thinking of someone we haven

INFERNAL UNION

re by michael w. ford the ath1 infernal union by azmareth i toph magick, like alchemy is all about the union of opposites. the lhp seems especially true to this view of the nature of magick. the general method of the masses in establishing their place and role in this world is to categorize, segregate, and divide according to pre-conceived ideas of self, only to be reimmersed in the vast ocean of energy they originated from. while the divisionary behaviour resulting from this deep psychological mind-set is one cause of a lot of much weakness in society, it also has problems theoretically. the polarities of any single being can only be recognized fully in conjunction to their opposite. the simplest example perhaps being that of light and darkness. just as the normal path of being fails, in

garden of eden in order to copulate with eve. in the christian apocalypse, and in thelema, he is the beast and the mate of babalon. in the kabbala, samael is the prince of the qlippoth, the inverse side of the tree of life and mate of lilith the queen of the qlippoth (lilith and babalon being the same. he is the infernal sun(night and fire) and she is the moon. samael is the source of all demonic energy. his title samael the black refers to his sinister nature and is connected to the sinister nature of nature itself. though it would be a mystery to some, he like shaitan is so intimately involved in nature, that the manifestation of his creative will, his essence, is that of both creation and destruction; the sun, of fire and force. these qualities are eluded to by the number that samael sh

er of abortions, and samael is one of the origional abortions or nephilim,both fallen from grace. in practice, the uniting of the infernal feminine and masculine within the self can be developed by exploring exactly why we perceive ourselves in certain ways, breaking down all gender stereotypes we may have been subconsciously programmed with, and finding our true sexual nature, the essence of our energy. as mentioned before, a study of liber oz is helpful as is experiments in temporarily adopting different mind-states/ identities for the purpose of this exploration. i am in the process of creating the mask of lilith from michael w. fords luciferian sorcery for meditation for this purpose. meditation beyond and apart from intellectualization, as to what an individuals sexual nature is, is a

ddenly realized my deep sexual desire and how the incubus relates to this. also in relation to accepted cultural norms of sexuality and the incubus in relation to the law. i suddenly realized there is far more to my life. i realized the obvious connection to lilith with whom i still hold a deep attraction in every way. with this new knowledge i perceived life from a different viewpoint, with more energy and intimate interest in all of life. i felt younger again with a different sense of self and balance. as to the sinister nature of samael, i must say i had a quite unsettling thought cross my mind for a moment, i believe brought about by a new realization of my place of being on the edge of accepted standards, more antinomian in nature than what i had accepted before .i was cutting an appl

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

do noble things and to make mankind better. the technique of magnetism presents all possible variations, of which we are going to show you some. 1. space impregnation through pulmonary and pore breathing of your entire body, you inhale vital force, pressing it with all your imagination into your whole body so that it becomes as it were dynamically radiant. your body is something like the radiant energy, an individual sun. with every inhalation you enforce the compressed vital power as well as the radiant energy, and fill the room you live in. with the aid of this radiant power, the room must be literally sunlit. with repeated and persistent exercise, it is even possible to illuminate the room in darkness or at night to such a degree that objects can be perceived not only by the experiment

s phenomenon alone will not of course satisfy the magician, who knows that vital force has a universal character, being not only the carrier of his ideas, thoughts and desires, but also the realizer of his imagination, and that he can attain all things through this vital power. as for realization, it depends on the plastic imagination. if the experimenter has filled his work room with his radiant energy, he ought to imagine what he wishes to attain, e.g, that all astral or magic influences existent in the room shall disappear and dissolve, or the magician shall feel safe and sound in the room as well as all people coming in. besides, the magician may impregnate his rooms with the desire of being benefited in all his works by inspiration, success, etc. advanced magicians screen their rooms

wer, especially if he ahs got some practice in accumulating vital force. this way, he can impregnate a room even with his own desires. imagination combined with willpower and faith and firm conviction knows no bounds. these experiments of the magician do not depend on one definite room; he may impregnate two or more rooms at the same time, and load an entire house with his vital force and radiant energy, according to the aforesaid method. as imagination knows neither time nor space, he can do all this at the remotest distance. as time goes on and his technique improves, he will be able to load any room whatever and wherever. but with regard to his ethical development, he will never make the wrong use of his faculties, but do noble things only, and his power will be unlimited, for practice

t the remotest distance. as time goes on and his technique improves, he will be able to load any room whatever and wherever. but with regard to his ethical development, he will never make the wrong use of his faculties, but do noble things only, and his power will be unlimited, for practice makes perfect. appendix to step iii 1. biomagnetism let us deal with another specific property of the vital energy that is of particular relevance for the magic work. as we have already seen, each object, each animal, each human being, each form of ideas can be charged with vital force and the corresponding desire of realization. the vital force, however, has the property of accepting any- also strangers- ideas and feelings, influencing or combining them. the concentrated vital force would therefore soo

fect fades away by and by. to prevent this, a magician ought to be well acquainted with the laws of biomagnetism. the vital force accepts not only an idea, concept, thought or feeling, but also time-ideas. this law respecting this specific property of the vital virtue must be considered when working with it, or later on with the elements. therefore, when impregnating desires with the aid of vital energy, remember time and space. in magic work you have to consider the following rules above all: working in the akasa principle is timeless and spaceless; in the mental sphere, you operate with time; in the astral sphere, you work with space (shape, color; in the material world, you work with time and space simultaneously. i am going to explain the functions of biomagnetism in the light of some

INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN FACES OF DARKNESS

r rather acquired- a series of randomly assorted thoughts, notions, and behaviors, most of which either actively hinder them, or at best lull them into a sleeplike state. these stultifying forces mainly group themselves into forces that oppose the body, the mind, the emotions, and the will. each of these must be overcome. the forces that oppose the body are those things which shorten life, remove energy, or dull the senses. most recreational drugs, legal or illegal, fall in this category as does most fast food. certain cultural attitudes, such as the forces that make many young women anorexic, are likewise of such a nature. the environmental factors that may surround people (from toxic wastes, to certain types of fluorescent lighting) also can weaken. the initiate discovers these factors b

INVOCATION OF THE ADVERSARY

, lilitu az drakul so it is done! commentary the ritual of the adversary is a dual rite which explores, encircles and announces command over the entire approximation of self. while the rite is called for as one being conducted at both noon and midnight, the sorcerer may choose to conduct both the noon (light) and midnight (darkness) points at both hours, as an further focused point of ensorcelled energy may be raised. this is considering the embodiment of the self is within the perpetual mastery of the psyche in reference to the model of shaitan. it is essential that the magician looses all perception of anything outside of the circle, that being enflamed and submerged in gnosis, the circle is the circumference of the sorcerers' world. that the ritual is a success is the subjected 'turning

is within the perpetual mastery of the psyche in reference to the model of shaitan. it is essential that the magician looses all perception of anything outside of the circle, that being enflamed and submerged in gnosis, the circle is the circumference of the sorcerers' world. that the ritual is a success is the subjected 'turning the knife towards oneself' in the area of self-directed and willed energy. the ritual of the adversary, in conjunction with the lord's prayer averse (used in certain luciferian covens to summon the devil-cain) provides a powerful foundation for self-deification in the witches sabbat gnossiirish witchcraft and demonology by st. john d. seymour, b.d [1913] this is a survey of the witch persecution in ireland, as well as a wide array of other paranormal events such

ISIS UNVEILED

r into the esoteric sense of the sentence. beausobre" and after him godfrey hig- gins, have demonstrated the fact "all things" says the kahala "are derived from one great principle, and this principle is the unknown and invieible god. from him a substantial power immediately proceeds, which is the image of god, and the source of all subsequent emanations. this second principle sends forth, by the energy (or wiu and force) of emanation, other natures, which are more or less perfect, according to their different degrees of distance in the scale of emanation from the first source of existence, and which constitute different worlds or orders of being, all united to the eternal power from which they proceed. matter ia nothing more than the most remote effect of the emanaiiee energy of the deity

23, tq. digitizec by google 772 isis cnveiled id the first book of manu we read*'kiiow that the sum of 1000 divine ages composes the totality of one day of brahmad; and that one night is equal to that day" one thousand divine ages is equal to 4,320,000,000 of human yean, in the brfthmanical calculations "at the expiration of each night. brahman, who has been asleep, awakes, and [through the sole energy of the motion] causes to emanate from himself the spirit, which in its essence is, and yet is not" prompted by the desire to create, the spirit [first of the emanations] operates the creation and gives birth to ether, which the sages consider as having the faculty of transmitting sound" ether begets air whose property b tangible [and which is necessary to life "through a transformation of t

flaming fire his 704. moku. i. 72-78. 705. s e 1, i. pp. 32-34 of uiii work. 706. srp/ier vebtrah. d. i, mi^uuh 9. 707. ibid, muhnah 10. 708. zoltar. i. 2 a. digitizecoy google the night of brahma 278 servants' quotes the yd^rak, showing the cosmtcal character of the later personified angeu" and that the spirit permeates every minutest atom of the cosmos* when the cyde of creation is nm down, the energy of the manifested word is weakening. he alone, the unconceivable, is unchangeable (ever latent, but the creative force, thou^ also eternal, as it has been in the former from 'no beginning' yet must be subject to periodical cycles of activity and rest; as it had a beffinnin^ in one of its aspects, when it first emanated, therefore it must also have an end. thus the evening succeeds the day

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

, the enterprising student can then propound his own theory to suit the psychological framework with which he is working. in psychopathology it has already been securely established that unconscious psychic patterns influence and govern all conscious behaviour. the latter is motivated by what one psychological school has come to call 'complexes' aggregates of mental contents, heavily charged with energy and feeling or by what another school has termed 'archetypal images. there is little need to hammer away at these basic facts; they have been too well and too long established. it should become apparent then that the mechanisms of preparing the geomantic symbols to be used for the divination are almost completely under the control of these unconscious factors. we may assume, by the same tok

t of the planetary meanings: 1. saturn. older people and old plans. debts and their repayment. agriculture, real estate. death and 40 a practical guide to geomantic divination wills. stability and inertia. time, patience, and testing. 2. jupiter. abundance, plenty, growth, expansion, generosity. spirituality, visions, dreams, long journeys. bankers, creditors, debtors, gambling. success. 3. mars. energy, haste, anger. construction or destruction, according to context and application. danger, accidents, surgery, vitality, and magnetism. 4. sun. superiors, employers, executives, officials. power and success. life, money, growth of all kinds. illumination, imagination, mental power and creativity. health. 5. venus. social affairs, affections and emotions, women, younger people. all pleasures

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ding like the gods 36 divine nutrition program. level 3 nourishment: 6. nourishment sources& types& tools 40 conventional sources physical food; the food of love; the food of family 40 the food of success; the food of sex non-conventional sources 42 the love breath and holy breath tools 43 the inner smile taoist master tool 46 the body love tool 47 the lifestyle love tool 47 nourishment via solar energy& wind, earth and plant prana 50 the healing sounds, mantras and programming code tools 53 the nourishment of the microcosmic orbit 56 the dow power tool of the violet light& the divine amrita 61& pituitary& pineal gland activation 69 nourishment& our purity of heart 71 the nourishment of ecstasy tool. elemental equilibrium 72 other forms of nourishment 77 divine nutrition: the madonna frequ

cstasy tool. elemental equilibrium 72 other forms of nourishment 77 divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 9 the food of the goddess 77 7. theta. delta wave feeding: a never-ending source 84 8. nourishing environments. the appropriate ashram 89 9. frequently asked questions 94 our internal organs, lions& lambs weight loss, sensitivity, equilibrium, yogi s& shaman energy reserves, programming& transformation the bigger picture& enlightenment 10. summary& benefits: the madonna frequency attributes 108 divine nutrition program. level 3 nourishment: 11. pranic nourishment hook-in. step by step: part 1: the inner view 114 step by step 114 discover your encodements 116 bio-system preparation. fitness on all levels 118 detoxing& fasting 124 dow power& cellular pu

cipe 47 technique no. 6: minimization tool 49 technique no. 7: conversion tool 49 technique no. 8: solar food access 52 technique no. 9: healings sounds 53 technique no. 10: programming codes 55 technique no. 11: sacred sex food 59 technique no. 12: violet light flooding 64 technique no. 13: divine amrita channel 68 technique no. 14: pineal& pituitary food 69 technique no. 15: downloading goddess energy 82 level 2& 3 nourishment& sensitivity development tools chapter 7 technique no. 16: cosmic cable hook-in 85 chapter 8 technique no. 17: nurturing home 92 chapter 9 technique no. 18: yoga teacher tool 101 techniques no. 19a, b, c, d, e: silence training, darkness training field non-displacement training, ambidextrous and weather training 105 level 3 nourishment& sensitivity development tool

h some big change in life. the common finding among those who seek perfect nourishment is that as soon as one hunger is satiated, another is usually revealed, adding layer upon layer to the complex jigsaw of life. keeping all our hungers properly fed becomes a time consuming passion and an art. feeding all our hungers takes time, attention, will-power, desire, focus, dreaming and scheming, money, energy, co-operation and union with others, communication and programming and to do so well we need a fair degree of basic skill. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 12 feeding our hunger successfully so we are free from feeling hungry on any level, requires holistic education for to satisfy ourselves we need to understand who we really are. to ignore any aspec

the mechanism that breathes us and keeps us alive. although our dow exists as an underlying creative frequency throughout all our cells and atoms, often its presence has become a much weaker beat as in dimensional biofield science, what we focus on will always grow. because we have ignored the boss of our system for so long and instead focused on feeding our hungers via more material methods, its energy field has been tuned to a more basic maintenance mode. the dow in basic maintenance mode breathes us and listens to our thoughts and generally lets us play and experiment and suffer as we learn and grow. until we begin to ask questions like who am i? why am i here? is there a higher purpose to this existence? can we all live in peace on earth? or how can we all get along? or something simil

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

william jones, who was deeply imbued with the oriental mysticism and transcendental religious views. the inextricable difficulties, says he, attending the vulgar notion of material substances, concerning which we know this only, that we know nothing, induced many of the wisest among the ancients, and some of the most enlightened among the moderns, to believe that the whole creation was rather an energy than a work, by which the infinite being, who is present at all times and in all places, exhibits to the minds of his creatures a set of perceptions, like a wonderful picture or piece of music, always varied, yet always uniform; so that all bodies and their qualities exist, indeed, to every wise and useful purpose, but exist only as far as they are perceived a theory no less pious than subl

those who know how (and when) to direct the occult power. those powers bestowed upon the original deserving man, and not extinguished in the existing man, are his still if he retain any glimpse of his original spark of light. justinus kerner, in his scherin von prevorst, most ingeniously anatomises the inner man, and makes him consist of seele, nerven-geist, and geist. the nervengeist, or nervous energy, being of a grosser nature, continues united with the seele on its separation from the body, rendering it visible in the form of an apparition, and enabling it to affect material objects, make noises, move articles, and such-like things perceptible to the living sense in short, to spucken. according to its nature, this composite being takes a longer or shorter time to be dissolved; the geis

or charts (adduced here to prove authenticity) chart c. cabalistic (rosicrucian) production of the worlds visible. generation of the microcosm. n.b. the references to nos. and chapters are to those corresponding in very ancient rosicrucian tracts or charts (adduced here to prove authenticity) mysteries of the stars. 345 where the directors of matter, its solids are only to be separated by soul or energy as the wedge (directed by the will) cleaves inert or resistant solids. music is always in the air. man has no ears for it, unless it is enlivened-to or finds access-to, his senses. but his heart is its home if he has a heart, and not an animal's mechanic throbbingmachine only. air is the breathing of nature. music is always in the air more particularly at night, for nature (being born of it

ention at particular parts of the service; and secondly, to scare away malignant dewtas and evil spirits; precisely, in fact, for the same reasons as they are used at the celebration of mass in roman catholic countries. prakriti* the mother of gods and men, one with matter, the source of error, is identified with maya or delusion, and co-existent with the omnipotent, as his sacti, his personified energy, his bride. it is stated in one of the purans that brahma, having determined to create the universe, became androgynous, male and female (or reflector and reflected; the right-half having the sex and form of a man, the left that of a woman. in his images he is sometimes thus represented, and is then termed ardnari. this is prakriti of one nature with br hm illusion, eternal, as the soul so

ide. it is stated in one of the purans that brahma, having determined to create the universe, became androgynous, male and female (or reflector and reflected; the right-half having the sex and form of a man, the left that of a woman. in his images he is sometimes thus represented, and is then termed ardnari. this is prakriti of one nature with br hm illusion, eternal, as the soul so is its active energy, as the faculty of burning is in fire. the sacti system bears a striking affinity with epicureanism. it teaches materialism, and the atomic system of the confluence of chance. compare the ananda tantram, c. xvii. with lucretius, lib. iii. according to the immediate object of worship is the particular ceremony, but all the forms (lighter or heavier) require the use of some or all of the five

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

s (sic, within molecular structures, are similar in scope of "field" as planets orbits. they would have to know that. electrons in metal go across, what in planetary systems, would be billions of miles, leaving three a graviational field, deadspot or node, or vortice or neutral as this one thing is variously called. realizing this as dr. albert einstien did, it shows clearly how solids may become energy or dissolute and how then they may pass easily out of visual scope instantly. this is merely one clue gleamed from einstiens theory of a unified magnetic field through all substances and throughout whole inter-galactic- universe.u.s. expierments, 1943 on one part of it proved plenty! ed: the page numbers in this table of contents are the numbers in the original book. 15 introduction_ the ca

t--which? it should be obvious to all engineers and scientists that rocket propulsion will never solve the problems of space travel, not only because of the unavoidable problems of acceleration, but because of the impossibility of transporting the necessary fuel and carrying the heavy reactance motors. few laymen realize that, for rocket flight, the fuel is of dual purpose. its ability to produce energy is no whit more valuable than its ability to produce inertial reactance when expelled through a jet, and therefore, any rocket propulsion craft must carry mass in some form for the purpose of being expelled so as to create reactance. using fuel for both energy and reactance is only a partial solution of the problem, and obviously limits both the range and speed of a space craft (red is a& b

magnetic fields will not account for the observed accelerations nor are they, so far as we know, extensive enough in space. 1 this probably refers to the series of notes on the preceding page. 40 ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position. grav. converter, turning grav. sucked in on the grav. field attractors, have been improved& push better. if the money, thought, time, and energy now being poured uselessly into the development of rocket propulsion were invested in a basic study of gravity, it is altogether likely that we could have effective and economical space travel, at a small fraction of the ultimate cost which we are now incurring, within one decade. our present path of development will not give it to us. science has consistently scoffed at any thought of grav

imes, and because the contraption was moving with uniform velocity this instrumentality of contact made regularly spaced marks "on the head" 113 now we note that this thing did not pack snow into the tracks, but perhaps removed it instead, so it was not pressure, and therefore, not a mechanical contact. on the other hand, it appears to have been hot, or warm, or at the very least to have conveyed energy convertible into heat "f" whatever the method or manner, it conveyed enough energy to melt or remove part of the snow, almost instantaneously. what have we left to consider? anything besides a ray of some sort? it doesn't seem too likely. we have advocated levitation as an explanation before; thus the levitation of a few snow crystals in trivial as compared to the kicking, squirming body of

e left to consider? anything besides a ray of some sort? it doesn't seem too likely. we have advocated levitation as an explanation before; thus the levitation of a few snow crystals in trivial as compared to the kicking, squirming body of oliver lerch, or the 1,200-ton blocks at baalbek. so we have, by elimination, a mechanical device passing through the air, emitting some sort of ray of heat or energy, at regular intervals of time and distance. what sort of device, and why the rays? close, someone is telepathing to his infierior (sic) receivor. i suggest that this ray was something in the nature of radar, and that it either adjusted the distance of the machine from the ground or acted as a repulsion medium to sustain the machine in flight. the slight pressure in the prints could hardly a

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

to storage d. earthing the excess (grounding it) vii. systems and techniques a. spellcraft b. words of power and affirmations, charms and incantations c. dance, postures and mudras d. meditation, trancework and hypnosis, fascination e. stone magick f. candle magick g. amulets and talismans; power objects or "psychic batteries" h. healing 1. psychic (visualization, laying on of hands) 2. herbal 3. energy channeling iwht auras and chakras 4. color therapy the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 5. other systems listed above i. divination 1. scrying 2. astrology 3. tarot 4. runesticks 5. lithomancy (casting the stones) 6. i ching 7. other systems 8. pendulum or radiesthesia j. astral travel k. thought forms; wraths, fetches, artificial elementals l. extra-sensory percep

nto the hidden nature of man. parapsychology is a branch of psychology which studies psychic phenomena. remarkable evidence has been gathered on numerous cases of psychic phenomena. knowledge gained from parapsychology studies can be applied, so far as it goes, to the much broader based, much more theoretical study and practice of magick. thus, the human mind and body appears to broadcast psychic energy or force, much like a radio station. kirlian photography and cloud chamber tests tend to support this theory. although the exact nature of this psychic force is subtle and unknown, it is undoubtedly the energy behind all psychic phenomena and magick. however, it is *not* a radio wave, since it behaves somewhat differently. the psychic force is too weak to be measured directly (at least so f

ic sender- the transmitter in the telepathy just discussed. 2) psychokinesis (or telekinesis) proper- the ability to move objects by means of psychic force. 3) somewhat along the same lines are poltergeist (noisy ghost) phenomena in which objects move of their own accord or noises are heard. there is always a human agent involved- frequently a teenage girl- who appears to be the source of psychic energy. 4) psychic healing- the ability to heal various illnesses and infirmities. there are many documented cases of this. usually it involves a healer and a subject, although there are recent cases invloving cancer patients learning to heal themselves. 5) teleportation, apportation, and levitation. some occultists feel a magician producing pk effects is simply a channel for universal energy. oth

the astral body (subconscious) is the intermediary for intuition, magical and psychic phenomena, and is the 'psychic link' to the physical world. most occult and magical phenomena originate in the invisible, non-sensate, the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 non-physical realm (ie. without physical senses. each of the four worlds interacts with the other worlds. psychic energy flows from the spiritual to mental to astral to physical. the physical world is a projection (manifestation, reflection, or shadow) of the higher worlds. our center of consciousness is generally within these higher worlds "we are, to quote the rock music group the police "spirits in the material world. there are many similar terms used by other occult groups. for example 'astral light' is a

continuous process what we have been calling 'magick' is actually a continuous process. since your subconscious never rests, your environment is continually being shifted into line with your model. this is true whether you study magick or not. for most people, these effects are usually very subtle, and they are probably not aware of them. however, as you work with the occult, the flow of psychic energy and your awareness of it increases. your true will is more likely to be strongly expressed. your luck may be affected (either in a positive or a negative way. remember, our lives tend to follow what we want down deep. that is why a positive outlook is so very beneficial to us. the magical diary sometimes it is helpful to keep a diary of your magical experiments and research. such a diary sh

KARR DON NOTES ON EDITIONS OF SEFER YETZIRAH IN ENGLISH

ditions du mont-blanc, 1968. english translation: boulder: shambhala publications, 1976. suares book on sy is one in a series on what he considers the three great cabalistic works [namely] genesis, the song of songs and sepher yetsira. suares does not believe kabbalah to be mysticism, stating, qabala is a science and the sepher yetsira is a precise and accurate treatise on the structure of cosmic energy, written in a hidden code. suares thesis rests on the belief that each hebrew letter denotes not only a letter, but also a proof, a symbol and even a miracle revealing its forgotten ontological origin. in a chapter which is repeated in all three books of this series, suares explains the letter-code as he has discovered, or rediscovered, it. all this, of course, puts something of a spin on s

KETAB E SIYAH

at vision that my heart desired. now the feasts of victory were swept away what morsels uneaten yet, cast to dogs. the bountiful gourds that poured rivers of wine ran dry and songs on shedim lips were stilled. now was my heart moved to languor, my limbs consumed with restless idleness. now my mind flew this and that way, alighting upon some thought then flitting hither-thither as a butterfly. all energy of my spirit, like a tempest, was infolded upon itself, a crashing sea that could find not rest nor movement in any direction except around and around, making itself a knotted mass. in this confusion, i wandered far from the city, leaving behind proud walls, bronze-burnished and studded with shining jasper, walking the twisted roads of the unlighted halls, hewn from the rock of the earth. i

in the wastes of your own daydreams. 15. if anyone says he has found my essence, they surely lie. my gift inspires silence, not empty boasting. 16. i am the first being, before all others. observe the proper respect. 17. if anyone says to you, follow me, your answer should be a scornful laughter. follow no man who seeks to be followed. they are weak 384 beings who need others from whom to syphon energy. let them enslave one another. those who are of me are slaves to no one or nothing. 18. no creed can bind them. no false hope can delude them. no blind allegiance can compel them. i offer freedom from these prisons fashioned by men. 19. carry yourself with inner strength, not vanity. vanity is ever the servant of the opinions of others. care not what any man thinks of you, your strength is

any god but me, they deceive themselves concerning that which they know not. 33. cursed be those who follow any man, their very existence is wasted and worthless. 34. cursed be those who act according to the rules of others, they are slaves as well. 35. cursed be those who lead others astray, they are blind themselves. 36. cursed be those who possess no will, no desire, they are a waste of useful energy. 385 37. cursed be all who deny my will, they can only win at the cost of their own purpose. 38. i am satan. i am the lord of the earth and the air. i am the master of power and will. my truth will never cease and my reality cannot be denied. i am the fire which burns all, the flame eternal. none can resist me. 386 livri luciferius the book of lucifer forward within this tome is libri lucif

d by name god. consider well the measure of this achievement, for all that is now behavioral law 442 was then absent, and it was the epoch of universal chaos. even time itself was unknown, for this universal inconsistency was nowhere breached. and after uncounted ages of this great ferment, a force fused to focus that became god, and this force presumed to effect not the creation of substance and energy- for these transcended this god- but the conformation of all the universe to a single and supreme order. and not yet is this order absolute, though oft it may have been supposed thus by man in his innocence. the earth of man was infused with this divine order, and all that was on earth came under the force of the order. and upon this earth, born of cosmic incidence, was that which was to be

ised, i returned to earth, and i tempted man with glimpses of the marvels to be entrusted to him. i bent over the pathetic workbench of the starving alchemist and whispered to him keys that one day would order the course of great foundations. i nudged explorers to the ends of the earth, and i flung an apple at newton when his obtuseness vexed me! to democritus i spoke, and i saw the radiations of energy freed from matter both build and break man's world. and man neglected not his own design, for in minute life he found clue to his own, and scarce 459 hints of the original creation. and asmodeus led mathematicians and astronomers to the wonders of the firmament, and i walked within the thought of scholars on quiet evenings. and that man not attempt mastery of his environment before himself

KUNDALINI BREATHING EXERCISE

ah" to the exhale. try it for a few minutes. hahm- sah- hahm- sah. make sure you are relaxed and not forcing your breath. next, visualize the air in the room as breathable light. with each "hahm" you should imagine the light entering up through your nose, past your third eye, around the inside of your skull, and down your spine to the lowest tip of your coccyx (tail) bone. you should not feel the energy "hop" or avoid chakra points. hold your breath as long as comfortable, then exhale "sah" as you exhale, you should visualize light of a slightly different shade going back up your spine, pushing out the light you inhaled. this second light is your personal kundalini energy. the light should follow the same path, up your spine, over the top of your head, and out your nose. as it goes, you sh

r breath at the base of the spine, but just pause a moment. then, using your stomach muscles, you should release the breath in short bursts, hearing "sah, sah, sah, sah, sah" as many times as it takes before your lungs empty. keep up the light visualizations: the light will jump with the breathing. repeat this for another 20 minutes. haaahhhhm, sah sah sah sah sah sah. you may be able to see your energy increase with each breath. if you begin shaking and jerking, know that is a normal reaction to the increased energy in your system, and you should not fight it (like a shiver down the spine, it is totally involuntary and natural) don't scare yourself into stopping the exercise at this point. soon, the jerking motions will stop, and you may begin moving in a very fluid fashion. you will not

know that is a normal reaction to the increased energy in your system, and you should not fight it (like a shiver down the spine, it is totally involuntary and natural) don't scare yourself into stopping the exercise at this point. soon, the jerking motions will stop, and you may begin moving in a very fluid fashion. you will not be able to hold still after this point, and you shouldn't try. the energy will increase to the point where it reaches your third eye chakra. once you have this flow at maximum capacity, continue for as long as you can. when you finally release the energy into the universal current, be sure you concentrate on pure love. this is the easiest thing to do, and is a good default target spell. if you have no blocks, you will get the experience of a lifetime from this ex

capacity, continue for as long as you can. when you finally release the energy into the universal current, be sure you concentrate on pure love. this is the easiest thing to do, and is a good default target spell. if you have no blocks, you will get the experience of a lifetime from this exercise. do not be shocked at anything your physical body does, or where your mind goes when you release the energy. it will open you up to feeling energy like you never have before. remember to ground out any residual energy before removing the circle. if you have stuck chakras, or knots, you will give up after a time, having only raised the energy to whatever chakra the knot lays in. it is vital for magickians to have free-flowing energy. any knots must be untied. when you feel the knot, or stuck chakr

feeling energy like you never have before. remember to ground out any residual energy before removing the circle. if you have stuck chakras, or knots, you will give up after a time, having only raised the energy to whatever chakra the knot lays in. it is vital for magickians to have free-flowing energy. any knots must be untied. when you feel the knot, or stuck chakra, stop the exercise, let the energy subside, and ground the rest. then, remember which chakra the energy stopped at. this is the one that is blocked. i advise anyone who comes to this point to seek the advice of a priest or priestestcopyright (c) ordo templi orientis o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax, ca 94930 usa (415) 454-5176- messages only. limited license except for notations added to the history of modification, the text on th

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, but one. note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also``unassuaged of purpose' this strange phrase must give us pause. it may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly the``lust of result' is a thing from which it must be delivered. but the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read``with purpose unassuaged--i.e, with tireless energy. the conception is, therefore, of an eternal motion, infinite and unalterable. it is nirvana, only dynamic instead of static--and this comes to the same thing in the end. the obvious practical task of the magician is then to discover what his will really is, so that he may do it in this manner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of liber thisarb (see equinox i(7, p. 105) or su

LAITMAN M BASIC CONCEPTS IN KABBALAH

s to permeate it. the reception of the light within depends only on one s desire and readiness, and on the purity of one s soul. however, during one s studies one utters the names of the sefirot, the worlds, and the spiritual actions connected to one s soul. thus, the soul receives micro-doses of light from the outside, a light that gradually purifies the soul and prepares it to receive spiritual energy and delight. 26 c h a p t e r 3 t h e g i v i n g o f k a b b a l a h the great sage, rabbi akiva (1st century ce) said: love thy neighbor as thyself is the comprehensive rule of all the spiritual laws. as we know, the term comprehensive points to the sum of its constituents. therefore, when rabbi akiva speaks about love for our neighbor (one of many spiritual laws, about our duties with re

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

man species. when we observe nature, we see that all living creatures are built to follow the principle of altruism, or caring for others. this is a fundamentally different principle from the one that motivates humans. cells in organisms unite by reciprocal giving for the sake of sustaining the whole body. each cell in the body receives what it needs for its sustenance, and spends the rest of its energy tending to the rest of the body. at every level of nature, the individual works to benefit the whole of which it is part, and in that finds its wholeness. without altruistic activities, a body cannot persist. in fact, life itself cannot persist. 20 from chaos to harmony today, after researching many different fields, science is arriving at the conclusion that humanity, too, is actually one

more it depends on the environment and its sensitivity to it. this connection becomes clearer at the animate degree, where the will to exist is greater than in the vegetative. for the most part, animals live in groups, packs. they are very mobile and must constantly roam in search of food and suitable living conditions. animals eat other animals or other plants, and relate to them as a source of energy for their sustenance. the animate degree manifests a certain level of development of personality, which prompts individual senchapter one: desire is ever ything 35 sations and emotions, and lends a unique character to each animal. every animal senses its environment on a personal level, brings itself closer to the beneficial, and moves farther away from the detrimental. the life cycle of an

ve simply gotten used to thinking that these demands are our demands, and that our ego works to our benefit. we need to recognize the ego as dominating us without asking if we are interested in that dominion, as tricking us and working within us as if we want cerchapter five: obeying nature s law 87 tain things, when it is actually the ego that wants them. when we realize the amount of effort and energy it costs us to carry out the ego s demands of us, and the miniscule reward we receive for this tremendous effort, we will treat the ego, in its present, uncorrected form, as the worst of all tyrants. baal hasulam says that if people compared the effort they make with the pleasure they actually experience in life, they would discover that the pain and suffering they endure to attain their su

ent one makes that distinction and wants to acquire the quality of altruism to balance with nature, one immediately feels nature s positive support. we should also note that there is a big difference between making an effort towards egoistic actions, and making an effort towards altruistic actions. once an individual acquires nature s quality, the altruistic actions one performs no longer require energy and effort. on the contrary, they 88 from chaos to harmony are performed with ease and comfort, bringing sensations of elation, exhilaration, and satisfaction. actually, altruistic actions do not require energy; they produce it. the reason is that an altruistic force acts like the sun, which emits light and is a constant supplier of virtually unending energy. the egoistic force, however, al

ly unending energy. the egoistic force, however, always wants to receive and to acquire; hence, it is always in deficit. one can compare this phenomenon to the positive and negative poles in an electric battery. the minute one identifies oneself with the positive force, one feels energized and filled with unending capabilities. one becomes like an endless spring that creates and releases infinite energy from within itself. hence, as baal hasulam said, the problem facing us is merely psychological to become detached from egoistic calculations, which only seemingly benefit us, and switch to altruistic calculations. in this manner, we are guaranteed that our will to receive will experience immediate and unlimited pleasure, since real and complete pleasures are found in altruistic bonding with

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

lf and nature will emerge on the internet, on television, and in communication networks of enterprises and communities. in civil society, a culture of alternative living and responsible values will lend support to policies of social and ecological sustainability. measures will be taken to protect the environment, create effective food and resource distribution systems, develop and use sustainable energy, transport, and agricultural technologies. in this positive outlook, funds will be redirected from the military and defense establishments to serve the needs of the people. supported by these developments, national, international, and intercultural mistrust, ethnic and racial conflicts, oppression, economic inequity, and gender inequality will all give way to mutual trust and respect. peopl

omething but not quite knowing what it is. well, it is a desire that has not yet ripened. plato once said, necessity is the mother of invention, and he was right. similarly, kabbalah teaches us that the only way we can learn anything is by first wanting to learn it. it s a very simple formula: when we want something, we do what it takes to get it. we make the 26 kabbalah revealed time, muster the energy, and develop the necessary skills. it turns out that the engine of change is desire. the way our desires evolve both defines and designs the entire history of humanity. as humankind s desires developed, they urged people to study their environment so they could fulfill their wishes. unlike minerals, plants, and animals, people constantly evolve. for every generation, and for each person, de

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

o sense the creator s presence, we are ready to submit fully to his power and to follow the creator blindly, always prepared to nullify ourselves completely to him, disparaging our own intellect almost instinctively. for this reason, the most important problem confronting us is how to perceive the presence of the creator. therefore, whenever such doubts arise, it is worthwhile to dedicate all our energy and thoughts for the sake of the creator. we must immediately aspire to cling to the creator with every fiber of our being. this feeling about the creator is called "faith" the process can be accelerated if we make this an important objective. the more important it is to us, the faster we can achieve faith; i.e, our awareness of the creator. furthermore, the more importance we assign to per

efore, we must plead with our creator to give us the ability to suppress our continuous urges to act in accordance with our own reason. some of us will begin to dwell on various intentions during our prayers (kavanot, pleas or even certain actions- 87- however, the creator does not listen to the words that we utter, but instead reads the feelings in our hearts. therefore, it is senseless to spend energy on uttering beautiful phrases that have no inner, heartfelt meaning, or to read obscure symbols or kavanot from kabbalistic prayer books. the only thing required of us is to strive toward the creator with our whole being, to understand the essence of our desires, and to ask the creator to alter them. most important, we should never stop communicating with the creator! in memory of the kabba

or observing hiswill be "because such is thewill of the creator" there is an easy way to check the motivation behind an individual s act. if it is "for the sake of the creator" then a person s body is incapable of making even the slightest movement. yet, if it is for one s own benefit in this or the- 94- attaining the worlds beyond world to come, then the more one thinks of one s reward, the more energy is expended for taking action. all the above makes it clear that it is our motivation (kavana) that determines the quality of our acts. an increase in the number of our acts does not necessarily improve their quality. all that happens occurs under the influence of upper spiritual forces. and we, down here in our world, have been observing the cause-and-effect relationship of spiritual force

n to us, which was placed in us by the will of the creator. such actions are considered to be our attempts to recognize the evil that stems from the ego. but this is possible only to the extent that we can sense the creator s existence and perceive his light, since everything is understood merely in relation to other objects, by the perception of opposites. thus, rather than concentrating all our energy on the search for the evil within us, we should make the utmost effort to perceive the light of the creator. all creations, with the exception of human beings, operate according to the laws of altruism. only human beings and the world surrounding us (our world, olam hazeh) are created with the opposite, egoistic qualities. if by chance we got a glimpse of the creator and of all the spiritua

tudy, which was so strong in the past, suddenly wanes. the body becomes heavy when faced with actions it must take. the struggle with the body (the intellect, our "i) focuses on the body s desire to understand who the creator is, where the body should go and why, and whether the body will benefit from each of the efforts. otherwise, without any benefit, neither the mind nor the body will have any energy or motivation to do something. and in this they are correct, since it is silly to carry out actions without knowing, in advance, the outcome. there is no way to transcend the limitations of our human nature and enter into the spiritual meta-world, other than by acquiring the intellect and the desires common to that meta-world. these desires are opposite in nature to those of our world, sinc

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

terial universe, without telling us anything about the nature of that something. rav laitman: i cannot see why we haven t encountered this mystery thus far. when we research the human body and human psychology, we do not find any latent forces that cause unexplained behaviors. it is odd that we had to split atoms to the tiniest particles to eventually find that there is nothing in them but a tiny energy burst where we finally see that we don t know where they will move in an instant, or even if we are facing a wave or a particle. would it not make more sense to first find these hidden forces at a much higher level, one that pertains to human consciousness? why is it that physicists, who study lifeless atoms, are the ones that suddenly find a hidden life among these particles? dr. satinover

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called the crossing of the barrier and the beginning of the ascent t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 40 t h e pa s s ag e v ac q u i r i n g a s o u l q: if we cross the barrier, does it mean we can no longer do something without the right intention, such as in our ordinary lives? a: no one does anything without intention, since nature does not permit doing anything without a reason. when energy is spent, we demand to know what it is spent on. the expending of energy happens subconsciously. in the process of studying kabbalah, we gradually start answering these questions more consciously. crossing the barrier means that all conscious processes will occur with the intent to benefit the creator, while biological ones will remain as before, since bodies do not change. t h e s e n s at

situations, new values, by which you ll make your decisions. the primary and the secondary in your life will gradually change, but it must come from within you, not by coercion. there is no coercion in spirituality, and the source of the coercion in our world is the shells. my advice is to keep studying kabbalah and be yourself at all times. in time, your soul will guide you and tell you how much energy to put into spirituality and how much to expend on this world. s p i r i t ua l i t y- a n e w wa y o f l i f e q: i have no desire to do anything anymore. things that used to give me pleasure- theatre, friends, even vacations v no longer do and i m losing contact with old friends. what pains me now is my inability to understand the full structure of the world. my question is: although i fe

good idea to read a few lines from baal hasulam s shamati. q: i m ashamed to admit it, but sometimes when i read the kabbalah books that you refer me to, i fall asleep. it is not because i m not interested; it happens despite my wishes. even if i don t want to sleep, it s as though i fall under a hypnotic spell. what do i do? why does this happen to me? a: first, it is the influence of a supreme energy, the surrounding light. second, when a student comes to the lesson despite fatigue, it is better than being in a state of simple mental wakefulness when one is t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 128 well rested. the light of the kabbalah is affected by the amount of labor a person puts in, not by the number of pages a person knows. you can thoroughly explore the whole of the study of

ite is also true: our attainments are about him, and we are within him. t h e p ow e r o f i m p r e s s i o n q: why don t the lessons impress me? a: because you don t understand what is behind the words. when that becomes revealed to you, you will experience intense feelings. q: what is the meaning of the power of impressions in understanding kabbalah? a: the power of impressions serves only as energy that attracts one to continue studying the texts. when we study them in order to correct ourselves, to understand and attain the goal, we bring the surrounding t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 136 light to ourselves, which gradually purifies us, thus bringing us closer to the barrier and the adoption of a spiritual nature instead of a corporeal one (to please only ourselves. c a r

und you and start doing something about it. t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 192 q: how is it possible to avoid the letdowns during the spiritual journey? a: the letdowns are unavoidable. they are actually positive, because they are a sign of your dissatisfaction with your desire for pleasure. they are signs that you re going in the right direction. a person who works for self is full of energy because that person believes that this way promises eternal bliss. q: but it is easier for us to feel that the creator deprived us. a: the question is, how do we react once we feel the dissatisfaction with our condition: do we blame the creator for not pampering us, or do we ask for help against our own nature! q: kand then we justify ourselves and blame the creator. a: reverse the order. b

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ize with those of the creator. man s desires determine his acts. consequently, it is impossible to do something without wanting it! for instance, if i know that i have to get up early tomorrow morning, then i go to sleep early the night before. is that against my will? no! nothing in this world can do anything without first wanting it, and without satisfying the desire with pleasure, which is the energy, the motivating force that enables any movement whatsoever. we sometimes think that we are doing something against our will, but that is not the case. we simply calculate and decide that it is better to do something one way and not the other, even if we are doing something against our will. we will endure many things if our calculations justify them. pa r t t wo: p h a s e s o f s p i r i t

pointed out the fact that finding my rabbi was a great miracle. our world is headed toward correction, whether we like it or not. the general design of the creator is carried out even against our will. he has developed us to the point where we can listen to what he wants to tell us. for that to happen, we had to develop our minds and technology to believe the possibility of an infinite speed, of energy and thoughts traveling great distances, and of one substance being transformed into another. we had to be brought to the point where we could believe in the possibility of space warps and time warps, and other once unimaginable scenarios. mankind achieved this, and now is on the border of understanding his egoistic desire. we think that there are advantages to this development, but we are a

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

se of the term confusion sometimes arises. they fully recognized that such a downpour of divine grace could be evoked only by a supreme effort of devotion on their part; and the making of such an effort, together with the provision of suitable machinery for spreading the force when it came, was a great part of the hidden work to which the noblest of the egyptians devoted so much of their time and energy; and this was the fourth of the objects intended to be served by the sacred and secret ritual, of which that of masonry is a relic. 59. the egyptian race 60. the egyptian race of the period of which i have been speaking was of mixed blood, but dominantly aryan. our researches show that about 13,500 b.c. a band of men and women belonging to the highest classes of the great south indian empir

ncient egypt there was this splendid work, the culmination to which all the preparations led up. our true purpose should be the same. we meet and go through certain ceremonies, and give them the name of work- a name that is quite inappropriate as applied to the mere ceremonies, no matter how full of meaning they may be. but if we are building a grand and beautiful form as a channel for the divine energy, through which the world may be helped, then most assuredly we are doing work, collecting, concentrating and storing up great superhuman forces, and then, with the closing blessing, pouring all that out upon the world. without this, all the preliminaries are, as it says in the co-masonic mystic charge, glike massive doorways, leading nowhither h. 76. there is no reason why we in the present

estal signifies wisdom, and the working is that of the second person of the trinity, the christ. in the now practically defunct rite of swedenborg the chair of the master represented strength. 119. in the process of the development of our universe, the third member of the trinity first exercised his portion of the divine power in preparing the world of matter; then the second person put forth his energy, and that was the beginning of the evolution of conscious life. this is symbolized in the opening of the lodge. at first the w.j.w. fs miniature column, which signifies the third person and the first outpouring of divine activity, is erect, but at the moment when the r.w.m. declares the lodge open, that column is laid down and the w.s.w. raises his column to the vertical position. by the au

glory and happi-ness of the father. 139. both the holy ghost and the son are in turn triune; wisdom, strength and beauty are the three qualities of god the holy ghost, and they form the three supports of the objective world, as they also mark out its three divisions. these divisions are (1) the visible world of material objects, founded in beauty- god in things is seen as beauty (2) the invisible energy with which the world is filled, and on which all things that are seen are built- this is the strength of god the holy ghost (3) the universal mind, the world of ideas, the storehouse of archetypes, marking out the possibilities of material forms and relationships, which is seen in what the scientist calls the laws of nature- the wisdom of the divine architect, his settled plans. these are t

in sanskrit philosophy ichchha, jnana and kriya. the r.w.m. expresses the divine will of the christ, directing the work to the perfecting of man; the w.s.w. represents the divine love of the christ; and the w.j.w. the divine thought. these officers are to be known by their jewels, which represent will, love and thought respectively, not by the columns at which they preside. 141. just as material energy is the strength in things, so is love the strength in consciousness; it is what has been called in sanskrit terminology the buddhi in man, the wisdom that is direct knowledge of life, the energy of consciousness. it is the faculty in man with which he contacts and deals with life around him, while his thought is the faculty with which he deals with objective things. so when at the opening o

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candidate learnt to see the underlying justice of that eternal god, amen-ra, who stands behind good and evil alike. in older days, before the kali yuga, in which evil predominates over good, the knights k.h. wore regalia of yellow instead of black. 177. our 30 links the knight k.h. to the ruling rather than the teaching branch of the great hierarchy; he should become a radiant centre of perennial energy, which is intended to give him strength to overcome evil and to make him a real power on the side of good. the prevailing colour of the influence is an electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with gold, including and yet not drowning the rose of the 18. associated with the degree there are also great blue angels of the first

electric blue (that of the first ray, quite different from the blue of the symbolic or blue lodges) edged with gold, including and yet not drowning the rose of the 18. associated with the degree there are also great blue angels of the first ray who lend their strength to the knight, somewhat as the crimson angels assist the excellent and perfect brn. of the rose-croix. a higher level of the same energy is transmitted in what to-day we should call the chair of the sovereign commander, who has the ability to pass on the sacramental grace of the degree to others. 178. white masonry in the mysteries 179. the highest and last of the great sacramental powers of the mysteries which have been transmitted to us is that which is now conferred in the 33, that of the sovereign grand inspector-general

was handed down unbroken from century to century. in consequence of this persecution, and the partial restoration of masonry in different forms in different countries, its outward history had been obscured and confused in the greatest possible degree. it is a matter that might no doubt be elucidated by long and painstaking research, but it would be a task involving far too great an expenditure of energy and time. 450. craft masonry in medieval times 451. evolutionary methods 452. the theory of human evolution ordinarily put before us is that of a slow upward progress of man from extremely primitive and almost animal conditions through the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, until he has arrived at his present level, which is by this hypothesis the highest which he has yet attained. th

providence- watching over it, guiding its activities in this direction or that, stimulating it where it needs stimulation, bringing it to the surface in one place, and letting it sink out of sight in another, and seeing that, in one way or another, its existence is maintained and its light ever kept burning. he is the true hidden life in freemasonry to whom my previous volume referred; it is his energy flowing through it which has kept this wonderful body alive; while he continues to inspire it, we need have no fear for its future. table of principal masonic events from 1717 date great britain france america 1717 foundation of the grand lodge of england clermont degrees and rites of heredom practised privately. masonry of various rites existing but unorganized, introduced by settlers. 172

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ught to view the demonic legions as kith and kin, and the rite of the averse pentagram was used both to identify with the luciferean life-spark, and to attract demonic brethren who were willing to serve as effectors of one s will. in contrast to the majority of so-called banishing rituals where the emphasis is placed on keeping things out, the purpose of this rite was to, by raising magico-erotic energy (i use the term metaphorically, attract the attention of our demonic kindred. the rite was always performed within a circle of flaming candles. this not only generated heat (heightening the physical response, but provided a flicker effect much conducive to the development of clairvoyant vision. the rite attracted legions of demonic spirits to gather at the edge of the circle, and, through a

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otection is actually quite old. during the western medieval period, for example, circles would be drawn on the floor around the seriously ill and around newborns and their mothers to protect them from demonic forces. circles are also cast to contain the energies that are created within the circle during a given ritual they become invisible boundaries that one does not cross without disrupting the energy. there are several ways of conceiving the circle collective unconscious 53 as a kind of energy containment field.with respect to such activities as casting a spell, for example, the circle allows energy to build up without leaking out into the surrounding area until the proper moment when the energy is projected outward in a concentrated burst. more generally, the circle provides an arena w

ving the circle collective unconscious 53 as a kind of energy containment field.with respect to such activities as casting a spell, for example, the circle allows energy to build up without leaking out into the surrounding area until the proper moment when the energy is projected outward in a concentrated burst. more generally, the circle provides an arena within which the vibrations of the group energy can be altered so as to draw the participants nearer to the otherworld. in most religious traditions, one finds the notion that the normally unseen spiritual world coexists in the same time and space as the physical world, in what might be referred to as a different dimension. what separates them is their differing rates of vibration (understood literally or metaphorically. thus, in order t

literary description of your victim s ultimate end; a detailed soliloquy directed at the intended victim, describing his torments and annihilation. mutilation, injury, infliction of pain or illness by proxy using any other means or devices desired. intense, calculated hatred and disdain should accompany this step of the ceremony, and no attempt should be made to stop this step until the expended energy results in a state of relative exhaustion on the part of the magician. as developed by anton lavey, cursing became one of the principal magical acts of modern satanism. it occupies a prominent place in his satanic bible. lavey recommended coming together for ritual cursings as a way of forming bonds within a satanic group. the importance given to such supernatural acts may strike one as odd

ich would, using normally accepted methods, be unchangeable (lavey 1969, 110).while arguing that the greater magic taps forces beyond the ken of contemporary science, he did not go so far as to assert that such forces were spiritual or unscientific (indicating, rather, that in the future science would likely discover how magic works. in his description of satanic ritual, he implied that emotional energy was somehow involved with the effective power of cursing; for example: in the case of a curse or destruction ritual, it sometimes helps the magician if his desires are intensified by other members of the group (119. lavey s apparent seriousness about ritual cursing is reflected in the liturgical text, invocation employed towards the conjuration of destruction, found in the satanic bible: be

new, higher, civilization from the energies unleashed (order of nine angles 1994, website) in other words, in addition to promoting individual development in the manner of the lhp tradition, the order of nine angles sees itself as setting in motion energies particularly magical energies that will usher in a new culture and civilization. as noted by beest, what satanism represents is basically an energy for change. evolution. for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. harvey, graham. satanism in britain today. journal of contemporary religion 10:3. 1995. hexagon archive. order of nine angles. http//www.hexagonarchive.com/ona.htmord er of nine angles. the sinister path an introduction to traditional satanism. houston, tx:

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adabra. iao: inri 7 emerald the lamp and girdle ararita 8 opal, especially fire opal the names and versicles and apron. 9 quartz the perfumes and sandals[[the altar] alim 1010 rock crystal the magical circle and triangle vitriol 11 topaz the dagger or fan. 12 opal, agate the wand or caduceus. 13 moonstone, pearl, crystal bow and arrow alim 14 emerald, turquoise the girdle agaph 15 ruby the horns, energy, the burin. 16 topaz the labour of preparation[[the throne and altar. 17 alexandrite, tourmaline, iceland spar the tripod. 18 amber the furnace[[the cup or holy graal] abrahadabra 19 cat s eye the discipline (preliminary[[phoe nix wand] to mega qhrion 20 peridot the lamp and wand (virile force reserved, the bread[[lotus wand. 21 amethyst, lapis lazuli the sceptre. 22 emerald the cross of eq

* 30. hexagram 31. those of by triplicity 32. triangle 32 bis. those of ey triplicity 31 bis. table of correspondences 16 l* transcendental morality [10 virtues (1-10, 7 sins (planets, 4 magick powers (elements] li. the coptic alphabet. numeration of col. li. english equivalent of col. li. 0. 1 pyrrho-zoroastrianusm (accomplishment of great work# 6 st 2 devotion. sz 3 silence. tt 4 obedience/ 8 5 energy v v 500 ph 6 devotion to great work w w 800 (long o) 7 unselfishness e e 5 e 8 truthfulness f f 90 f, v 9 independence j j. j 1010 scepticism c c 200 s 11 noscere a a 1 a 12 falsehood, dishonesty [envy] b b 2 b 13 contentment [idleness] g g 3 g 14 unchastity [lust] d d 4 d 15. h h. h 16. u u 400 u 17. z z 7 z 18. q q. ch 19. y y 9 th 20. i i 10 i, y, ee 21 bigotry, hypocrisy [gluttony] k k

el bethor tin samma ajivo 27 (325) labxrb bartzabel phaleg iron samma vayamo 30 (666) trws sorath och gold samma samadhi 32 (45) lazz zazel arathron lead samma sati and samaditthi cxcii. english of col. lxxxii lxxxiii. the attribution of the hexagram. 12 right speech left lower point 13 right aspiration bottom point 14 right conduct right lower point 21 right discipline right upper point 27 right energy left lower point 30 right rapture centre point 32 right recollection (in both senses of the word. right view-point. top point table iv 21 lxxxiv. divine names of briah. lxxxv. angels of briah. lxxxvi. choirs of angels in briah. lxxxvii. palaces of briah. 0. 1 lawhy yehuel \yprc seraphim 2 lapr raphael \ynpwa auphanim 3 la laybwrk kerubiel \ybwrk kerubim \ycdq cwdq lkyh hekel qadosh qadeshim

eyes. 6 [21 and 30. n.e% tejas. b c 4 kbn. feet. 27 and 31. s.w# vayu. d a 3 sun. thighs. 11 [and 12. w' akasa= g 2 kh n. ears. 10 [13 and 32] n.w. e prithivi. e t 1 kbn. hands. 32 bis. n= yoni. 9 h 0 khwbn. belly. 3 and 13. the trigrams should be considered as the symbols which combine these meanings, the hexagrams as combinations of these, chosen according to circumstances. thus is fire of, or energy of, and might mean beginning to change, or force applied to obstruction, as it actually does. 4 2 42 the hexagrams of the yi king. figure. nature. name. divination and spiritual meaning. 1 7 7+ of+ khien heaven &c+ for lingam) 2 0 0 9 of 9 khwbn earth &c (9 for yoni) 3 2 4= of b kun danger and obscurity genoj. 4 1 2 e of= mbng youth and ignorance. 5 2 7= of+ hs waiting, sincerity. 6 7 2+ of

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, which first opened his gates of heaven, is nothing worth to the self-poisoner after a year of dayly practice. so too the lover findeth no more joy in union with his mistress, so soon as the original attraction between them is satisfied by repeated conjunctions. for this attraction is an antagonism; and the greater this antinomy, the more fierce the puissance of the magnetism, and the quality of energy disengaged by the coition. thus in the union of similars, as of halogens with each other, is no strong passion of explosive force, and the love between two persons of the like character and taste is placid and without transmutation to higher planes. i the book of wisdom or folly 23 f de nuptiis mysticis (of the mystic marriage) my son, how wonderful is the wisdom of this law of love! how va

the joy of the destruction of each complex in thy nature, but press on to that ultimate marriage with the universe whose consummation shall destroy thee utterly, leaving only that nothingness which was before the beginning. so then the life of non-action is not for thee; the withdrawal from activity is not the way of the tao; but rather the intensification and making universal every unit of thine energy on every plane. o liber aleph vel cxi 24 c de voluptate poenarum (of the pleasure of pain) o forth, o my son, o son of the sun, rejoicing in thy strength, as a warrior, as a bridegroom, to take thy pleasure upon the earth, and in every palace of the mind, moving ever from the crass to the subtle, from the coarse to the fine. conquer every repulsion in thy self, subdue every aversion. assimi

he state) ay not, o my son, that in this argument i have set limits to individual freedom. for each man in this state which i purpose is fulfilling his own true will by his eager acquiescence in the order necessary to the welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. but see thou well to it that thou set high the standard of satisfaction, and that to everyone there be a surplus of leisure and of energy, so that, his will of self-preservation being fulfilled by the performance of his function in the state, he may devote the remainder of his powers to the satisfaction of the other parts of his will. and because the people are oft times unlearned, not understanding pleasure, let them be instructed in the art of life; to prepare food palatable and wholesome, each to this own taste, to make cl

ce is transmitted to the object of our working, doubt not. for already in other galaxies of physics have we been compelled to postulate an thyr wholly hypothetical in order to explain the phenomena of light, electricity, and the like; nor doth any man demand demonstration of the existence of that thyr other than its conformity with general law. thou therefore, creator and transmitter of thine own energy, needest not to ask whether by this or by some other means thou performest thy work. yet i know not why this thyr of the mathematicians and the physicians should not be one with the astral light, or plastic medium or aub, aud, aur (these three being a trinity) of which our own sages have spoken. and this meditation may bring forth much knowledge physical, which is good, for that which is ab

rue nature, and aspired to that work. now then at first i made no error. i abandoned my chosen career; i poured out my whole fortune without one thought; i gave my life utterly to the work, without keeping back the least imaginable thing. so then i made swift strides along the path. but in the dhyanas that were granted unto me in kandy, in the island of lanka, i used up my whole charge of magical energy; and for two years i fell away from the work. l the book of wisdom or folly 79 ga de manu qu magum sustinet (of the hand which upholds the magus) ow it may be well that such periods of recuperation are necessary to such souls as mine; and so no ill. but i fell from my will, and sought other ends in life; and so the hand came upon me, and tore away that which i desired, as thou knowest; also

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will be cast aside in my path. 14. my power is the power of transformation, my glory is the glory of the breaking dawn. my majesty has been present from the ancient of days. 15. i am azazel. i am he who strengthens; he who inspires; he who creates. 16. i am also he who weakens that which must be destroyed; he who destroys that which must make way for better things. i am progress. i am unconquered energy. i am magick. 17. i have sent lilith, my consort, to be your bride. she unveils my glory in your hearts and minds. she reveals my darkness and ushers in the age of my light. she has been a noble guide to mankind from the beginning, she has revealed me to the few whom i claim as my own. 18. to the others, she is a fearsome creature- feeding upon the worthless children of their hearts. 19. a

magick will be a time of wondrous deeds, and the dawn of azazel will be a never-ending celebration of our freedom and enjoyment. 1. lilith! the fathomless depths of azazel. 2. my lord, i declare your majesty through my very being. i am rapt in ecstasy at your embrace and the glory of your presence boldly speaks through my mystery and darkness. you are my fulfilment, my complement. 3. your elegant energy is a sweet song, the most perfect melody of silence and fury- i hear you and move within your symphony of power. 4. you enter me and i feel your terrible power, may it never be removed from me. my emptiness is apart from you. 5. i cherish your gifts, i exult in your fullness. my lord! my strength and my god, azazel! 6. where you send me, there i will go- doing your will and ministering unto

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

er sould gently sank to its rest, and the silent voices whispered welcome brother. then all was calm and peace as before. the little ripple flowed on to let the whole world know, then, having delivered its message, all was still. amen. whatever the nature of this illumination, probably a state of dhyana, it left a very marked result on the consciousness of frater v.i.o, and gave him the necessary energy to continue his work through many a dark and dismal period. he himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. he was alone in vancouver and out of touch with the order, having received no further word from his neophyte since he left england. in fact he heard nothing till january of the following year. he however sent a post-card to say that he had obtained some result. about this sam

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record will be blank. now i cannot tell whether it is a part of my personal kamma, or whether the influence of the equinox of autumn should be the exciting cause; but it has usually been at this part of the year that my best results have occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy. sammavayamo.which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (1875; suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (1896; applied for admission to g d in october (1898; opened my temple at boleskine in october (1899; received th

trust my destiny to bring all things to pass without anxious liber dccclx 8 forethought on my part.and suddenly, therefore, here do i find myself.and nothing is lacking. i determined therefore to begin steadily and quietly, allowing the magical will to come slowly forth, daily stronger, in contrast to my old plan, desperation kindling a store of fuel dried by long neglect, despair inflaming a mad energy that would blaze with violence for a few hours and then go out.and nothing done .not hurling, according to the oracle, a transcendent foot towards piety. quite slowly and simply therefore did i wash myself and robe myself as laid down in the goetia, taking the violet robe of an exempt adept (being a single garment, wearing the ring of an exempt adept, and that secret ring which hath been en

ice versa.and through 7= 4; so perhaps.if one could only dare to hope it!.to the 8= 3 attainment. certainly what little i have done so far pertains no higher than minor adeptship though i have used higher formula in the course of my working. 1 [it is a verse paraphrase of cap. xxx of the book of the dead. t.s] liber dccclx 36 1.55. my pr.na is acting in a feverish manner; a mixture of fatigue and energy. this is not good: it probably comes from bolting that big lunch, and may mean that i must sleep to recover equilibrium. i will, however, use the pentagram ritual on my an.hata-cakra [the heart; a nervecentre in hindu mystical physiology..ed] and see if that steadies me (p.s..yes: instantly. notice, please, how in this condition of intense magical strain the most trifling things have a grea

ans and wallaceites and all that crew of lunatics. 1 [see frazer, the magic art and the evolution of kings, cap. i. t.s] liber dccclx 42 they are paid in the coin of self-conceit. i shall waste no pity on them! 11.03. rather pity myself, who cannot even make sensible .considerations. for a ritual of adeptus major. the only thing to do in short is to go steadily on, with a little extra courage and energy.no harm in that!.on the same old lines. the winding of the way must necessarily lead me just where it may happen to go. why deliberately go off to geburah? why not aspire direct by the path of the moon-ray unto the ineffable crown? modesty is misplaced here! very good. then how aspire? who is it that standeth in the moon-ray? the holy guardian angel. aye! o my lord adonai, thou art the begi

.55. wrote two pages; the previous were not really dry; so i must wait a little before illuminating. john st. john 55 i will rest.if i can! in the hanged man posture. 4.30. i soon went to sleep and stayed there. it is useless to persist. yet i persist. 5.40. i was so shockingly cold that i went to the dome and had milk, coffee, and sandwich, eaten in yog. manner. but it has done no good as far as energy is concerned. i fm just as bad or worse than i was on the day which i have called the day of apophis (third day. the only thing to my credit is the way i fve kept the mantra going. 5.57. one thing at least is good; if anything does come of this great magical retirement.which i am beginning to doubt.it will not be mixed up with any other enthusiasm, poetic, venereal, or bacchanalian. it will

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

cs, for months afterwards. i may mention the year 1911. at this time i was living, in excellent good health, with the woman whom i loved. her health was, however, variable, and we were both constantly worried. the weather was continuously fine and hot. for a period of about three months i hardly missed a morning; always on waking i burst out with a new idea which had to be written down. the total energy of my being was very high. my weight was 10 stone 8 lb, which had been my fighting weight when i was ten years younger. we walked some twenty miles daily through hilly forest. the actual amount of mss. written at this time is astounding; their variety is even more so; of their excellence i will not speak. here is a rough list from memory; it is far from exhaustive (1) some dozen books of a

a tired horse. there are times when i am absolutely bereft of even one drop of this elixir. nothing will restore it, neither rest in bed, nor drugs, nor exercise. on the other hand, sometimes when after a severe spell of work i have been dropping with physical fatigue, perhaps sprawling on the floor, too tired to move hand or foot, the occurrence of an idea has restored me to perfect intensity of energy, and the working out of the idea has actually got rid of the aforesaid physical fatigue, although it involved a great additional labour. exactly parallel (nowhere meeting) is the case of mania. a madman may struggle against six trained athletes for hours, and show no sign of fatigue. then he will suddenly collapse, but at a second's notice from the irritable idea will resume the struggle as

ieve, to some extent preserve the pagan tradition. marriage is a sacrament.1 but in the attempt to deprive the act of all accretions which would profane it, the fathers of the church added in spite of themselves other accretions which profaned it more. they tied it to property and inheritance. they wished it to serve both god and mammon. rightly restraining the priest, who should employ his whole energy in the miracle of the mass, they found their counsel a counsel of perfection. the magical tradition was in part lost; the priest could not do what was expected of him, and the unexpended portion of his energy turned sour. hence the thoughts of priests, like the thoughts of modern faddists, revolved eternally around the s.q. a special and secret mass, a mass of the holy ghost, a mass of the

men are usually unacquainted with sexual satisfaction. their desires are constantly stimulated by brutal and ignorant husbands, and never gratified. this fact again account for the amazing prevalence of sapphism in london society. energized enthusiasm 13 the hindus warn their pupils against the dangers of breathing exercises. indeed the slightest laxness in moral or physical tissues may cause the energy accumulated by the practice to discharge itself by involuntary emission. i have known this happen in my own experience. it is then of the utmost importance to realize that the relief of tension is to be found in what the hebrews and the greeks called prophesying, and which is better when organized into art. the disorderly discharge is mere waste, a wilderness of howlings; the orderly discha

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proper respect. comment: this statement refers to the preeminence of satan within the existential order of this planet only. he is first as he is the driving force of evolution and life/consciousness development on earth. 17. if anyone says to you, follow me, your answer should be a scornful laughter. follow no man who seeks to be followed. they are weak beings who need others from whom to syphon energy. let them enslave one another. those who are of me are slaves to no one or nothing. comment: satan inspires independence- no true servant of the dark master will seek to follow another man. those who desire others to follow them are psychologically immature, incapable of standing on their own without assistance from yes-men. the follower of satan can not help but laugh at these childish typ

who act according to the rules of others, they are slaves as well. comment: doing something because someone told you to is probably the worst reason you can have. 35. cursed be those who lead others astray, they are blind themselves. comment: those who teach their lies to others are seeking to ignore their own frailty. 36. cursed be those who possess no will, no desire, they are a waste of useful energy. comment: satan will ensure that these evolutionary dead-ends meet their justice. 37. cursed be all who deny my will, they can only win at the cost of their own purpose. comment: the fulfilment of mankind is in the path of satan, denial of this is a denial of one s true nature. 38. i am satan. i am the lord of the earth and the air. i am the master of power and will. my truth will never cea

LIBER HHH

t museums and dissecting-rooms) 2. continue this practice until death is complete; follow the corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3. now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils. 4. next, imagine a divine light enlightening the eyes. 5. next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already have been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. last, imagine the return of the reproductive power; and employ this to the impregnation of the egg of light in which man is bathed. 9. now represent to thyself that this egg is the disk of the sun, setting in the west. 10. let it si

conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. this must be achieved most fully and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 4. next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its content as infinite. deem it to be the womb of isis, or the body of nuit. svb figvra cccxli 7 5. next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure to thyself its energy as infinite. deem it to be the phallus of osiris, or the being of hadit. 6. these two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the point of sam.dhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not sam.dhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious of all else, do thou imagine the hunger of the one for the other; the emptiness of the brain, t

LIBER LLL PARADIGMAT PIRATE

t water and something light like a couple of slices of buttered bread for a few days beforehand. i personally discovered that taking multivitamins along with the water reduced the risk of illness but didn ft affect the sensation of fasting. staying clean and focused, you can also still manage to do things like go to work, but extra-curricular activities should be reduced to just doing magic. your energy level will drop off tremendously when doing this exercise, so don ft tax yourself in other activities. fainting at odd times is an inherent risk. the time to conduct rituals of magic while in this state of gnosis begins when the pain of fasting becomes a dull continuous ache. as it persists as a throbbing, pulsing need for sustenance you will find yourself easily entering into a state of no

LIBER LVII

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

tion is death. hp. the fortress of the most high (note p, the lowest reciprocal path. ydx. in the star is the gate of the sanctuary [wq. illusionary is the initiation of disorder. cyr. in the sun (osiris) is the secret of the spirit. yc. resurrection is hidden in death. wt. the universe is the hexagram (other meanings suit other planes and other grades* inspiration, equilibrated produces material energy [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the seed of the magus the universe is latent [note by ac, source as above. love balanaces the universe (x(-x= 0 [note by ac, source as above] for [this] read .the emperor is born of the queen to the wanderer [note by ac, source as above; referring to switch of tarot attributions] on the qabalah 29 truly there is no end

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ailable on the planet. in those far distant ages when earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life. that the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. if, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no, if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. we may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. all theft is temporary, since even a millionaire must die; also it is universal, since even a buddha must breathe. the third precept

amusing to the student of magical literature who is not quite a fool.and rare is such a combination!.to note the criticism directed by the philestine against the citadel of his science. truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not only literal belief in the bible, but also substantial belief in alf laylah wa laylah. and only adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and as nothing more. even when we learn that the bible, by a* this essay forms the introduction an edition of the .goetia. of king solomon .a thousand and one nights. commonly called .arabian nights. profou

le pore of the skin. thus was there no funeral pomp; they that say other are liars and blasphemers against a fame untarnished. may the red plague rot their vitals! thus, o my brethren, thus and not otherwise was the passing over of that great and wonderful magician, our father and founder. may the dew of his admirable memory moisten the grass of our minds, that we may bring forth tender shoots of energy in the great work of works. so mote it be! benedictvs doninvs devs noster qvi nobis dedit signvm r. c. amen. 91 1902 tycarb an essay in ontology with some remarks on ceremonial magic tycarb o man, of a daring nature, thou subtle production! thou wilt not comprehend it, as when understanding some common thing. oracles of zoroaster. in presenting this theory of the universe to the world, i ha

through infinite diversities of life and thought, possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from which they arose. thus the most obvious attribute of the cosmos is its impermenance. it assumes the aspect not so much of a permanent entity as of a changeful process, in which naught endures save the flow of energy and the rational order which pervades it. this is an admirable summary of the buddhist doctrine (b) see above on the first noble truth (c) this is the grand position which buddha carried against the hindu philosophers. in our own country it is the argument of hume, following berkeley to a place where berkeley certainly never meant to go.a curious parallel fulfilment of christ.s curse agains

..a. c. science and buddhism 116 now bring all his powers with tremendous force to bear upon any one object he may have in view, and this ability so to use the energies of his being to put forth a constant and tremendous effort of the will, marks the attainment of the sixth stage, samm vayamo, usually translated right effort, but perhaps right will-power would come nearer to the meaning, or right energy, for effort has been made even to attain to sammaditthi.1 and this power being gained by its use he is enabled to concentrate all his thoughts and hold them always upon one object.waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life.and this constant recollection and keeping in mind of holy things, is the seventh stage, sammasati. and by the power of this transcendent fa

LIBER LXXVIII

lames, or yodh, surround it, answering to the paths; of these, three fall below the right branch for aleph, men, and shin, seven above the central branch for the double letters; and between it and that of the right twelve: six above and six below about the left-hand branch. the whole is a great and flaming torch. it symbolizes force.strength, rush, vigour, a description of the cards of the taro 9 energy, and it governs, according to its nature, various works and questions. it implies natural, as opposed to invoked, force. ii the root of the powers of the waters ace of cups or chalices a white radiant angelic hand, issuing from clouds, and supporting on the palm thereof a cup, resembling that of the stolistes. from it rises a fountain of clear and glistening water: and sprays falling on all

swords. 4. b material success 6, pentacles. 5. d blended pleasure 4, cups. or in g i k b d two wands: 1 each of the other suits. there being thirty-six decans and seven planets, it follows that one of the latter must rule over one more decan than the others. this is the planet mars, to which are allotted the last decan of l, and the first of a, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. and the beginning of the decantes is from the royal star of leo, the great star cor leonis: and therefore is the first decan that of f in e. a description of the cards of the taro 27 here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine sephiroth below kether. hmkj the four twos symbolize the powers of the king an

lo of the schemhamphorash. xxiii the lord of valour seven of wands two hands holding by grip six wands, three crossed. a third hand issuing from a cloud at the lower part of the card, holding an upright wand which passes between the others. flames leap from the point of junction. above and below the central wand are the symbols of% and e, representing the decan. possible victory, depending on the energy and courage exercised; valour; opposition, obstacles and difficulties, yet courage to meet them; quarrelling, ignorance, pretence, and wrangling, and threatening; also victory in small and unimportant things: and influence upon subordinates. netzach of y (opposition, yet courage. therein rule the two great angels hychm and lahll of the schemhamphorash. xxiv the lord of prudence eight of pen

as in the previous symbol, holding eight wands crossed four and four; but a fifth hand at the foot of the card holds another wand upright, which traverses the point of junction with the others: flames leap herefrom. above and below are the symbols= and i. tremendous and steady force that cannot be shaken. herculean strength, yet sometimes scientifically applied. great success, but with strife and energy. victory, preceded by apprehension and fear. health good, and recovery not in doubt. 36 liber lxxviii generous, questioning and curious; fond of external appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels latry and hyhac. xxxv the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth ha

and curious; fond of external appearances: intractable, obstinate. yesod of y (strength, power, health, recovery from sickness. herein rule the angels latry and hyhac. xxxv the lord of oppression ten of wands four hands holding eight wands crossed as before. a fifth hand holding two wands upright, which traverses the junction of the others. flames issuant. f and i. cruel and overbearing force and energy, but applied only to material and selfish ends. sometimes shows failure in a matter, and the opposition too strong to be controlled; arising from the person's too great selfishness at the beginning. ill-will, levity, lying, malice, slander, envy, obstinacy; swiftness in evil and deceit, if ill dignified. also generosity, disinterestedness and self-sacrifice, when well dignified. malkuth of

LIBER OS ABYSMI VEL DAATH

state. 19. it may end in real insanity, which concludes the activities of the adept during this present life, or by his rebirth into his own body and mind with the simplicity of a little child. 20. and then shall he find all his faculties unimpaired, yet cleansed in a manner ineffable. 21. and he shall recall the simplicity of the task of the adeptus minor,13 and apply himself thereto with fresh energy in a more direct manner. 22. and in his great weakness it may be that for a while the new will and aspiration are not puissant, yet being undisturbed by those dead weeds of doubt and reason which he hath uprooted, they grow imperceptibly and easily like a flower. 23. and with the reappearance of the holy guardian angel he may be granted the highest attainments, and be truly fitted for the f

LIBER SAMEKH

ations of his oaths to our holy order!16 (the beast 666 himself used gankh-f-n-khonsu h and gkhem h in this section) liber samekh svb figvra dccc 14 line 2 the adept reminds his angel that he has created that one substance of which hermes hath written in the table of emerald, whose virtue is to unite in itself all opposite modes of being, thereby to serve as a talis-man charged with the spiritual energy of existence, an elixir or stone composed of the physical basis of life. this commemoration is placed between the two personal appeals to the angel, as if to claim privilege to partake of this eucharist which createth, sustaineth and redeemeth all things. line 3 he now asserts that he is himself the gangel h or messenger of his angel; that is, he is a mind and body whose office is to receiv

1 gi am he h asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and self. it affirms existence, but of the third person only. gthe bornless spirit h is free of all space, ghaving sight in the feet, h that they may choose their own path.25 gstrong h is gbr, the magician escorted by the sun and the moon (see liber d and liber 777. gthe immortal fire h is the creative self; impersonal energy cannot perish, no matter what forms it assumes. combustion is love. line 2 gtruth h is the necessary relation of any two things; therefore, although it implied duality, it enables us to conceive of two things as being one thing such that it demands to be defined by complementals. thus, an liber samekh svb figvra dccc 24 hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. lin

roblems that had baffled him all his life. conformably with this doctrine, we read of illuminations experienced by simple-minded men, such as a workman who gsaw god h and likened him to ga quantity of little pears. h again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflames the idolized idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolerance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to affect* the destinies of empires. but the phenomena of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel are a side issue; the essence of the union is the intimacy. this intimacy (or rather, identity) is independent of all partial forms of expression; at its best it is therefore as inarticulate as love is. the intensity of the consummation will more pr

LIBER SEPTEM REGUM SANCTORUM

face. place therefore thine head upon my knees, that i may put mine hands upon thine head& bless thee with my blessings (he does so) welcome wast thou& thou shalt be welcome to my brethren. pass thou on (they reach the third throne. mars welcome, welcome, welcome, for thou art chosen, o thou that hast aspired to the brotherhood immortal. aspiration is strength& i give thee of my bounty: courage& energy& force; conquest& domimon. all these hast thou won by virtue of that single aspiration. but beware of the black shadow at my side, for he shall bum thee as with fire& all that thou hast shalt thou lose. and in thy battles shalt thou be overcome& thou shalt be broken& ground into dust if thou so much as lift thine eyes unto his face. place therefore thine head upon my knees, that i may put m

LIBER V VEL REGULI

blossoming twigs of our beliefs, or the boughs of our intellectual instruments. we can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. this digression has outstayed its welcome; it was only invited by wisdom that it might warn rashness of the the ritual of the mark of the beast 17 dangers that encompass even sincerity, energy and intelligence when they happen not to contribute to fitnessin- their-environment. the magician must be wary in his use of his powers; he must may every act not only accord with his will, but with the properties of his position at the time. it might be my will to reach the foot of a cliff; but the easiest way.also the speediest, most direct least obstructed, the way of minimum effort.woul

life, manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where all things are possible. it revealed the omnipresence of hadit, identical with himself, yet fulfilling himself by dividing his interplay with nuit into episodes, each form of his energy isolated with each aspect of her receptivity, delight developing delight continuous from complex to complex. it was the voice of nature awakening at the dawn of the aon, as aiwaz uttered the word of the law of thelema. so also shall he who invoketh often behold the formless fire,14 with trembling and bewilderment; but if he prolong his meditation, he shall resolve it into coherent and intel

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

i and hallinskidi turn up in the thulur for ram. see also agir fs daughters; gjallarhorn; hyndluljod; rigsthula references and further reading: my opening definition of heimdall, above, incorporates the title of an article by jan de vries, gheimdallr, dieu enigmatique, h etudes germaniques 10 (1955: 257.268, which tries to solve the enigma through etymology: dall means something like gspontaneous energy h and was the god fs original name, heim, gworld, h having been added later. as far as i can see, this etymology has gained no adherents and gets us no closer to the solution than does the standard etymology, gworld-gleam, h which contributed to all sorts of nature-mythological interpretations. nor does hugo pipping fs reading of the name as gworld-tree h in his eddastudier, vol. 2, studier

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

non-resistant blind alley to all sameness, to sick and weary life. other paths, rougher, lead who so willeth to new pleasures: verily they lead the life-force with ever-open eye to the awaiting disaster or to chaos. never bathos, self-pity. the brave care nothing. o ye gods, say ye nothing? my nightmare told me ye say all things. or my translation is faulty? efforts to surpass realism: this poor energy runs weed-like to absurdities, and plethoric unrealism shoves out the vital, the simple. here, self..1 2..q= h- e 6 3( 6. f. p 5: v' 2 'z#"d. effloresce a new surrealism. could we but smell! a finger beckons. the ruttish side-glance; we lurchingly detour to grasp the painted hussy. all fishy suspicions fade: then we awaken. wedlocked to sickly evil c give up, give up, stuttereth cowardice:

l/moral standards but to our own value-5! o( z "d ]7 a dissipating passion never leads to a worthwhile reality in consummation. the only certainties are the great uncertainties of unremembered commitments to myself. t% s]%d. x5 (5. d< 5. 5. e 9"d. p. d..t" through dissatisfaction. speak not of the inconceivableness of god for i am this but am not a god. sensations are impacts from phases of outer energy, relevant or not but mostly hurtful. 5. r..1 o$ 5! z 5( x. 5: j y "d x' 1* symbology. even with great virtue of belief none can attain union with soul or noumen for they are ever interlocked. why begin with false beliefs? your unions are with your own ideas of them. the first law was duality, determining by differentiated duplication; for whatever is begotten is from a similarity. the chain

lf-pleasure by infinite unities and equal separations, to retain separateness. what is death? a great mutation to my next self. there is no ultimate: everything becomes from what has gone before, because of changing ultimates determined by our valuation of things. be certain, you will not experience what you do not desire unless it be forced on you by your past evil. creation is an ever-expanding energy rather than a work completing; infinite contraction is less conceivable but is co-relative. space extends with thought, time with ego. nothing is anything unless fixed in the substantial; thus dreams and abstracts are as concrete as anything else. the character of a form is determined by its featural content and function. good and evil must be felt before they have reality. there is no conc

ties and differences of sentient beings are determined by planted functional desires which it is our purpose to change. we become what we desire most, and, usually, different to what we hope; repayment comes first. our levels are determined by our selectivity and visualizing ability. our adequacy is achieved by the constant effort of emulation; stale selfsufficiency has never inspired or won much energy. the ethical question resolves itself into a search for the principal motive 2= 5! d '7a 7e( s. 87 the stoic acts with no 2..1..1 3. s (f65..1 p. 7 therefore we must will against all fears and evil for essential good; for so man shall endure all travail. where there is life there is a degree of consciousness, however shadowy, with all its interrelating protenses. when the homogeneity of mat

ctor. in whole or in part. of god. no syllogisms or revelations prove anything except our own signature and that we are like a work evolving and completing, of one great artistry. now plus our own bloody vandalism! if the outer world is not a delusion then our concepts therefrom certainly give birth to illusions, and we are as vaulted catacombs inhabited by strange phantoms that wait to suck that energy to resurrect, to live, by a memory of that time when we made flesh from dreams. there is no greater mystery than man because of his imperfections, his great love of falsity, his great hatred of his self. ego, with all its varying degrees of consciousness, is our light in the darkness of the unseen and unknown, for it has infinite relatability that will replenish our light. we often feel mor

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY

magickians at the crossroads, an area of which is universal in spirit meetings, from the pathal craft to the luciferian witches sabbat path to systems of voodoo and palo mayombe. the sabbat itself is a western approach to the middle eastern cult of shaitan and those of the yatukan1 practices. shaitan is the fire-djinn whom, unlike other angels created of light, was created from flame. it was this energy, essence of spirit that who is known as lucifer shone brightly above all others. he held the light of the sabbat to those who would whisper the oaths in the dawn. shaitan the opposer is the gateway of the current of magical initiation, thus holding the double aspects of light and shadow. it is through the union of such that one becomes as shaitan or lucifer itself. the witches sabbat itself

guardian that shall encircle my presence first born of the craft, hear me and come forth! by ankh eternal life itself, immortal eye! by ka spirit of the eternal self, in awakened union! by djed the four pillars of the world, from which my word shall manifest! envision a great pillar or circle of fire emerging from your feet in the center of the circle moving up through and around you. this is the energy as foundation from the four quarters and the god forms summoned. the triple hermetic circle of hamara t is created as a focus of setian awakening and renewal, a luciferian core that is called inward and focused outward. the triple hermetic circle is by design not held to keep forces out, rather a power circulation of the arcana of energy within. end of ritual 21 the grand luciferian circle

using musick and paintings as sigils but do keep in mind, this is the foundation for the natural expansion of the work itself. sigils are cryptic representatives of the will, pure belief expanded in the lines of total desire. the sigil itself should be made in a combination of different letters of the object, and then the original meaning forgotten. it is by the act of forgetting that the latent energy is channeled through the subconscious to the conscious mind. this is the very secret of becoming and using the force of chaos or apep (the unrealized and infinite aspect of possibility within the self) to your direct advantage. austin spare wrote in the book of pleasure by the ego conceiving only the sigil, and not being able to conceive anything from it, all energy is focused through it, t

LUCIFERIAN SORCERY AND SET TYPHON

orcerer who treads this path of darkness. one symbol of coven nachttoter is the sigil of hecate, which is a mirror into the gates of the dead, the abode of the goddess of witches. the sethianic fragments of luciferian witchcraft these god forms are powerful for the sorcerer who summons them, discovers the atavistic aspects which relate to them, and becomes like them. one would seek to create such energy forms that may be closely connected with the psyche, therefore initiating a further speed of ones becoming through manifesting the qualities and traits of the god forms therein. atavisms are also used in such a way; while often one may use atavistic resurgence as a form of summon many of the god forms listed above. some of the luciferian witchcraft or high sorcery gnosis is developed from c

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ion of a metabolic pathway chart looks irreducibly complex! but, of course, this is just a visual impression, not a fact. an excellent example of this is the krebs cycle (named after its discoverer, sir hans adolf krebs, also called the citric acid cycle. the krebs cycle consists of a complicated series of cyclical biochemical reactions that metabolize sugars and fats in order to produce cellular energy. this metabolic pathway has not escaped the attention of commercial companies that sell dietary supplements promising weight loss concomitant with an enhanced energy supply. indeed, krebs cycle boosters are available over the counter. whether they work is, of course, another story. but interestingly, some of the manufacturers of these boosters use a simple graphic metaphor to publicize thei

ncerned. they can be seen as the ultimate result of a manufacturing process whose detailed instructions are stored in dna. proteins can also be conceived as a combination of operating system and hardware. they are used to replicate dna and make messenger rna, but they also play a critical role in metabolism, the hardware of cells. metabolism is what makes cells tick. metabolism is responsible for energy transactions in cells, their growth and division; it makes the building blocks of cells and generates waste products that are excreted. metabolism involves hundreds of proteins catalysts, creationist purpose and irreducible complexity rebutted 63 referred to as enzymes, which help perform cellular chemical reactions. enzymes are all coded for by dna. and yet, in spite of the great variety o

e function of this enzyme is critical for all plant life because it catalyzes the fixation of atmospheric carbon dioxide and is the first step in producing sugars from carbon dioxide. this step is achieved by the carboxylase function of rubisco. but there is a problem with this enzyme: it is remarkably inefficient. given the importance of rubisco for life on earth remember that plants capture the energy of the sun to power their metabolism, that many animals eat plants, and that other animals eat animals that eat plants one has to wonder why a designer would have so poorly designed this protein. indeed, rubisco has a double function. one of these functions, as we said, is to fix carbon dioxide and produce sugar compounds necessary for the plants metabolic pathways. but in addition, rubisco

hways. but in addition, rubisco can also use oxygen as a substrate (this is its oxygenase function, and when it does so, it degrades some 78 evolution and religious creation myths of the compounds that it just made through carbon dioxide fixation! in other words, this effect considerably lowers the photosynthetic potential of plants. what is more, when plant cells make rubisco, they use metabolic energy, as they do for the making of all other proteins. but since rubisco is so inefficient, much of that energy is wasted. if rubisco did not possess oxygenase activity, photosynthesis would be much more efficient, and plants could use the saved metabolic energy for other purposes, such as faster growth. needless to say, a better rubisco enzyme would have dramatic effects on agricultural output

ns mitochondrial dna studies dna in human cells is separated into two subcellular compartments. the enormous majority of it (3.1 billion base pairs) is present in a structure called the nucleus, which contains the chromosomes. chromosomes harbor roughly 25,000 different genes. however, a second category of structures, called the mitochondria, also contain dna. mitochondria are commonly dubbed the energy factories of cells because it is through mitochondria that the oxygen we breathe is metabolized to form energy-rich compounds that we use to power many of our metabolic activities. contrary to chromosomal dna, human mitochondrial dna (mtdna) is very short, only 16,600 base pairs long. given its short size, our mtdna only contains 37 genes. the small size of mtdna has one great advantage: it

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ife in the physical world, i will consider the lodge to be a representation of the psyche which is the world of consciousness contiguous with the physical world. the psyche is also the bridge between the physical world and the world of the spirit. because of that, this tree on which we shall place the symbols of masonry is a yeziratic tree. the corinthian column, a style derived from the ideas of energy and growth, relates to the active, expansive, right hand column. the simple, austere doric column relates to the passive, constraining, left hand column. the intermediary, balanced, ionic column, relates to the central column of consciousness. the uppermost three of the four worlds are represented here by three masonic symbols called the three great lights or the "furniture of the lodge."46

ls of the psyche, the part of which we are usually unconscious. let us leave the officers for a moment and consider the tools which are shown in dark blue. there are three working tools associated with each degree; and those of the first degree are the gavel, the chisel, and the 24 inch gauge.55 these are tools of action; tools used to accomplish work. i have placed the gavel at nezah because its energy and rhythmic blows suggest capacity to experience passion which is associated with that sefirah. the chisel is a tool which works only on the surface of stone, and it represents education. it goes nicely at hod, which is associated with classification and analysis; useful and necessary, but superficial activities. the 24 inch gauge, which is related in masonic terms to the length of the day

nconscious particularly material that has been repressed has a significant effect on our lives by compelling or inhibiting various forms of behavior. to the extent that a person is subject to such compulsion and inhibition, he is not in possession of his own will. one of the principal tasks for an individual working at this level is to bring material of this sort into his consciousness, drain the energy out of it, and remember it for future reference. by doing this he frees himself from compulsions and inhibitions and becomes free to choose for himself. having completed this process, he may be said to enjoy "free will" as the kabbalist at tiferet who is working at the level of the soul has access to the material in these triads, so i think that the fellowcraft climbing the stairs and worki

MAGIC AND SPELLS

al differences in masonic practice. it was presented with the cognizance of the united grand lodge of england. notes 1. emulation working, first lecture, first section. 2. francis a.yates, the rosicrucian enlightenment (london: ark, 1986, p. 209. 3. francis a.yates, the art of memidthe weave he world of toril is literally a magical place. all existence is infused with magical power, and potential energy lies untapped in every rock, every stream, every living creature, even the air itself. raw magic is the frozen stuff of creation, the mute and mindless will of being, suffusing every bit of matter and present in every manifestation of energy throughout the world. magic permeates the peoples of faer n as well as the lands. every town is home to mighty temples venerating the deities and housi

depend on the weave and call upon it in different ways. the exact nature of the weave is elusive because it is many things simultaneously. the weave is the body of mystra, the goddess of tragic. mystra has dominion over magic worked throughout toril, but she cannot shut off the flow of magic altogether without ceasing to exist herself. the weave is the conduit spellcasters use to channel magical energy for their spells, both arcane and divine. finally, the weave is the fabric of esoteric rules and formulas that comprises the art (arcane spellcasting) and the power (divine spellcasting. everything from the texts of arcane spellbooks to the individual components of spells is part of the weave. magic not only flows from source to spellcaster through the weave, the weave gives spellcasters th

outright mistakes often unwittingly" reproduced by later scholars. hear now the truth of things, as best it is understood. to speak simply, all known worlds and planes swarm with ever-present energies. large and small, free-flowing or bound by physical barriers or magical effects (themselves merely energies shaped and designed to restrict or hold other energies, these surges. and dissipations of energy give light and life and movement to everything. they are the stuff of life itself, and they would be present even if all living and once-living things on toril were stripped away to bare rocks. what some folk refer to as magic and wizards speak of as the art is the means by which some beings can call on the ever-present .energies and wield them to create effects. sorcerers do this instincti

t detect subjects that are within dead magic zones. finally, it isn't possible to use a teleportation effect to move into or out of a dead magic zone. a dead magic area cannot temporarily be returned to normal function. a wish or miracle spell permanently repairs all dead magic zones in a 30- foot-radius area (or a 30-foot-radius portion of a larger dead magic zone) spellfife spellfire is the raw energy of the weave. it can be manipulated in two ways. mystra gives the silver fire ability to her chosen and certain other favored servants. the spellfire ability-the wielding of true spellfire-is right or wrong, legends hold that only one person in all faer n is gifted with true spellfire at a time. gossip identifies that one person today as the lass shandril shessair, an orphaned kitchenmaid f

izard r but fm sure you grasp my point. s in the early sword coast north, the ranger haelam sunder- magic the story of spellfire by far the more powerful of these rare and precious talents. it is a random gift bestowed upon only a handful of women and men in a generation. spellfire in any form is refined, controlled raw magic. in beneficent manifestations, it is a font of silver light and healing energy. in,battle, it is a searing blue-white jet of all-consuming radiance. silver fire this powerful supernatural ability is unique to the chosen of mystra. manifesting as a beautiful silver-white flame that surrounds the wielder and fills the area into which it is projected, silver fire can be used for different effects. it can act as a ring of warmth or a ring of mind shielding, allow the user

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

the cause; nature and the groundwork of nature; the mind and the source of the mind; the spirit and the substance of the spirit; the illusion and the reality. an ancient philosopher once said "he who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. he who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone is a man among brutes. but he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy, is a god among men" man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. he whose mind is enslaved to his bestial instincts is philosophically not superior to the brute, he whose rational faculties ponder human affairs is a man; and he whose intellect is elevated to the consideration of divine realities is already a demigod, for his being partakes of

: thing, matter, and mind; the first a unit of several properties, the second an existing object, the third a self-conscious being. all three notions give rise, however, to certain contradictions, with whose solution herbart is primarily concerned. for example, consider matter. though capable of filling space, if reduced to its ultimate state it consists of incomprehensibly minute units of divine energy occupying no physical space whatsoever. the true subject of arthur schopenhauer's philosophy is the will; the object of his philosophy is the elevation of the mind to the point where it is capable of controlling the will. schopenhauer likens the will to a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the intellect, which is a weak lame man possessing the power of sight. the will is the tire

w persephone to return to her home. this the god at first refused to do, because persephone had eaten of the pomegranate, the fruit of mortality. at last, however, he compromised and agreed to permit persephone to live in the upper world half of the year if she would stay with him in the darkness of hades for the remaining half. the greeks believed that persephone was a manifestation of the solar energy, which in the winter months lived under the earth with pluto, but in the summer returned again with the goddess of productiveness. there is a legend that the flowers loved persephone and that every year when she left for the dark realms of pluto, the plants and shrubs would die of grief. while the profane and uninitiated had their own opinions on these subjects, the truths of the greek alle

he changed water into wine; he rode in a triumphal procession on an ass; he was put to death by the titans, and rose again from the dead on the 25th of march: he was always called the saviour. in his mysteries, he was shown to the people, as an infant is by the christians at this day, on christmas day morning in rome" while apollo most generally represents the sun, bacchus is also a form of solar energy, for his resurrection was accomplished with the assistance of apollo. the resurrection of bacchus signifies merely the extraction or disentanglement of the various parts of the bacchic constitution from the titanic constitution of the world. this is symbolized by the smoke or soot rising from the burned bodies of the titans. the soul is symbolized by smoke because it is extracted by the fir

arge the great god pan. from kircher's oedipus gyptiacus. the great pan was celebrated as the author and director of the sacred dances which he is supposed to have instituted to symbolize the circumambulations of the heavenly bodies. pan was 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